My Daming New Empire

This is just an episode in the process of meeting the soldiers. Zhu Zhanji has been keeping a low profile today, and let Zhu Di show the limelight.

After meeting with the heroes and representatives of envoys, Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji were led by Hou Xian onto the cargo ship carrying gold and silver.The others blamed Honglu Temple for arranging to go to the arena, waiting for Zhu Di's reward.

After coming back last time, Zhu Di liked that arena very much.Not only can it meet 10 people at one time, but it can also let everyone hear their own words.

Moreover, the grandeur of the arena can shock everyone who comes to Daming.

In fact, without going to the arena, most Yi people who came to Daming for the first time were already shocked.

Like those Indians, when they saw the train coming with thick smoke, many people knelt down and kowtowed in fright, which really aroused the smiles of many Ming soldiers.

With the experience of last time, there are fewer people today.Honglu Temple methodically arranged for everyone to go to the arena via train, boat, or horse-drawn carriage. On the other side of the arena, enough food for these people had been prepared.

Zhu Di boarded a cargo ship, and all the cabins here were sealed off. Each cabin was locked with an iron chain by the internal supervisor and the navy. Only when both parties opened it at the same time could they enter.

Moreover, the people on the ship carrying gold and silver are composed of several parties, and no one can get on and off the ship, which prevents the possibility of theft.

He only looked at one ship, and the gold and silver only made Zhu Di happy for a while, and then he became silent again.

Coming out of the cabin, he boarded the deck, stood still in the shadow of a sail, and waved his hands.

Everyone understood his movements and left quickly, leaving only Zhu Zhanji by his side.

At this time, he sighed, looked at Zhu Zhanji and said, "This Dongzhou is so rich, it's hard to calm down!"

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "So grandson is not going to send any nobles, the clan will go to Dongzhou, and Dongzhou will not be entrusted to anyone."

"Won't this make everyone dissatisfied?"

Zhu Zhanji pointed to the natives who had not left on the pier and said: "They are just an excuse. These natives have more than [-] tribes. Sending anyone to conquer will only cause conflicts. It is better to just send troops and officials. Army Responsible for deterrence, officials are responsible for enlightenment, and then encourage the people to immigrate, all immigrant families must have at least one student..."

Zhu Di, the emperor, understood it all at once, and said, "Do you want to draw it slowly?"

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "Dongzhou is vast and there are many people. My grandson plans to leave it to my direct descendants in the future."

"If everyone is dissatisfied, how to deal with it?"

"As long as the development of Dongzhou is not put ahead of Nanzhou...whether it is the clan or the nobles, they will always think that what they get is the real wealth."

The current situation in Dongzhou cannot be concealed, and Zhu Zhanji doesn't want to hide it, but don't expect him to include Dongzhou in the enfeoffment now.

The islands in Nanzhou and Nanyang were divided into feudal areas because they were sparsely populated and needed to be developed by Ming people.

However, Dongzhou now has tens of millions of people, so the important thing is not to conquer after enfeoffment, but to use gentle means to make those tribes recognize Ming's rule.

Excuses are easy to find, how many people can you send before you let those natives return?At most a few hundred thousand people, but there are tens of millions of people there!

On one side is the unreachable Dongzhou, and on the other is the Nanzhou that is within easy reach. Zhu Zhanji does not believe that those clans and nobles will bite Dongzhou.

Zhu Di saw that Zhu Zhanji was confident, so he stopped bringing up this topic, but said again: "The Baoen Temple I built was robbed by you, and the gold and silver on this ship today will be given to me, and I will build another Baoen Temple." Temple."

Zhu Zhanji hesitated for a moment, and said, "Let's not talk about a boat, even if all the gold and silver grandfathers squandered the grandson, he would not say a word. It's just that the grandson would rather the grandfather rebuild the palace, or even build a worthy one." It’s better than the other courtyards of the palace, but don’t build temples anymore.”

"Why?"

"Although Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are now integrated into one, the competition between the three religions is endless. Sun'er wants to lead the people of the world to be of one mind, and the problems of these three religions must be resolved. Now Buddhism is suppressed by Taizu and your old man. It has already declined, and building temples with such a big fanfare will only make the situation more and more complicated."

Zhu Di was a little unhappy, but Zhu Zhanji's reasons were all reasonable.He also knows that the common people believe in everything, and it is difficult to guide them, but in the court, this kind of dispute is even more intense.

Thinking of not being able to trouble his grandson, but being rejected made him feel very uncomfortable.

I was thinking about how to beat him, but I heard Zhu Zhanji say: "Grandpa Huang, my grandson is building a [-] material ship at Xinjiangkou Shipyard. You can go anywhere you want.”

Zhu Di couldn't believe it, looked at Zhu Zhanji suspiciously and asked, "How can there be such a huge ship, don't talk nonsense."

Before the appearance of tonnage, the carrying of ships was calculated in units of materials.The early meaning of material is not the carrying unit of the ship, but the amount of wood used in shipbuilding.

An ordinary ship's wood, under normal circumstances, is about five or six meters in length and about 360 to [-] centimeters in diameter.Due to the buoyancy of such a piece of wood in the water, it can basically carry the weight of three adults, which is about [-] catties.

And because of the limited volume of wood, especially the keel of a ship, a particularly strong wood is required.So even if the treasure ship of Ming Dynasty adopts the splicing method, the current [-] materials have reached the limit.No matter how big it is, the hull will not be strong.

Zhu Di is not an emperor who knows nothing, so he immediately thought that Zhu Zhanji was lying.

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "The grandson made a [-]-meter pure steel keel cast out after a lot of hard work. With this and the fine steel keel spliced ​​with wood, the treasure ship now built is not only stronger than the existing treasure ship. , wider and larger, and it will be smooth on the sea.”

Zhu Di believed it in his heart, but after thinking about it, he asked again: "You don't want to see me, an old man, and want to send me to sea?"

Zhu Zhanji knelt down with a plop, and swore to the sky: "Grandson just wants Grandpa Huang to enjoy more happiness in the world in his later years. He never thinks of going beyond the rules. If he has his heart, the world..."

The ancients believed in this very much, Zhu Di covered his mouth before he finished speaking. "Okay, my good grandson, grandpa just said it casually, so don't swear."

(Thanks to Zixuan Yuchen for becoming the fifth leader, the old demon is very grateful! Today I have enough energy to spare, and I will definitely add more tomorrow.)

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Dongzhou brought back a large amount of gold and silver, except for a small number of rewarding soldiers, farmers, and servants, most of the others were collected in the internal treasury.

This is also very particular, the national treasury and the internal treasury are accounted for separately, the manufacture of ships, the expenses of the fleet, are all money from the internal treasury at the beginning, and most of the harvest will naturally go into the internal treasury.

But the internal treasury cannot take advantage of all the advantages, so even if the external court does not contribute, it must divide part of the national treasury and use it for the people.

However, in today's internal treasury, apart from the physical objects, basically all the gold and silver are deposited in the Daming Bank and credited to the royal account.

It can be said that in today's Ming Dynasty, the internal treasury has always been richer than the national treasury.

Even when the scale of trade was not so large in previous years, the internal treasury was much richer than the national treasury.

Sailing to the west, conquering the Mongolian Yuan in the north, including where there are natural and man-made disasters, the internal treasury has to pay most of the money every time.

Because the treasury of Ming Dynasty has never been enriched.

In the past few years, the large amount of gold and silver that Zhu Zhanji brought back from the sea was regulated by the bank to reduce corruption, and the treasury's funds changed from insufficient to make ends meet to a slight surplus.

If you want to ask who is the most powerful minister in the entire Ming Dynasty, almost everyone thinks it is Jian Yi.

Jian Yi, as Minister of the Ministry of Officials, managed the officials of the world, as the patriarchal order, managed the clans of the world, and as the Speaker of the House of Representatives, presided over court meetings.

No matter from which aspect, no minister can compare with him.

But if you want to ask who is the most powerful minister in Ming Dynasty, everyone will say another name: Chen Xuan.

Chen Xuan was not considered to be Zhu Di's close minister. During the battle of Jingnan, he was a member of Emperor Jianwen.When Zhu Di hit the Yangtze River, he surrendered, and then he was named Pingjiang Bo.

It is equivalent to saying that although he has grasped the tail of Conglong Zhigong, he has been excluded from the close ministers because of his low ranking.

And his luck is not good. He has outstanding ability. He once commanded most of the navy in the world. If he stayed in the navy, when Zhu Zhanji reformed the navy, he would be the governor of the navy.

However, he was transferred to Huai'an in the [-]th year of Yongle to manage the Yellow River and Huaihe River, and the governor of the world's water transport.