I am the king of the dead

Li Chengwen's feeling was not wrong. His thin shoulders indeed carried the hopes of the entire Nanyang diaspora. His performance directly affected the attitude of the Ming emperor, the imperial court, and all officials towards the diaspora.

Fortunately, Li Chengwen did nothing wrong.

Compared with Ryukyu King Shang Taijiu, Tatar Khan Tutuobuhua and his two sons, Annan King Li Sicheng, the treatment of Sanfoqi King Li Chengwen is much better. Li Chengwen lives in the capital, and the others live in Siyi Pavilion in Tianjin Wei.

Li Chengwen is a native of Ming Dynasty. His father defected to Liang Daoming from Dianbai Port to Songsang Port during the Yongle period.

"They are all the pioneers of Daming Kaihai." Zhu Qiyu looked at Li Chengwen's back and said with a smile.

After Zhu Qiyu kicked open the door of steam, the productivity of Ming Dynasty was growing rapidly at a speed that Zhu Qiyu could not understand. The problem of overproduction appeared in front of Zhu Qiyu's case for the first time in the form of memorials. If there is a lot of liquid assets, there will naturally be a market to sell them.

Establishing an effective system to expand domestic demand, accelerating the cultivation of a complete domestic demand system, strengthening demand-side consumption willingness, and promoting internal circulation are one direction. Cultivating a mature and stable overseas market and efficiently using overseas trade to bail out Daming’s excess liquidity are also one direction. .

The development of domestic market and overseas market is extremely unbalanced. If the domestic market is one hundred, then Jingtai's overseas market at the end of 11 is only one.

The Ming Dynasty is an out-and-out kingdom of the heavens. Whether it is economy, culture, politics, or military affairs, it is unique. As the world's largest producer and consumer country, after kicking the door of the industrial revolution, what will happen? It is a new challenge for Daming to adjust the conflicts of interests and contradictions among various classes.

During the transformation of the Ming Dynasty from a small peasant economy to a commodity economy, Zhu Qiyu, as the emperor, must unite all forces that can be united to break this shackle.

To open up overseas markets, Li Chengwu, Li Chengwen, Chen Shouyan, Liu Tian and the luxury households represented by them are all pioneers, and they are the kind of pioneers who bring their own dry food.

For example, the Liu family of Chen Ping, with a family of 72 Dingkou, bought 500 hectares of land directly with [-] silver ingots after arriving in Luzon, and then bought [-] eunuchs at the price of [-] Wen per Ding from the Baofeng Wang family. people, and then hired three hundred wandering people from Dianbai Harbor, Xingang, Yuegang and other places, and opened palm gardens and coconut gardens with whips.

Most of these wandering people are villains, and the Liu family and the Wang family did not dare to be too harsh. In Daming, these extravagant households can act recklessly relying on the court's laws. When they go overseas, there is no king's law. The wandering people have been tortured too much, and the whip in their hands can not only beat eunuchs, but also these extravagant households. The wicked have their own way.

The Ming Dynasty’s opening of the sea was carried out in an orderly manner, and it was not without discordant voices. King Said of Luzon was ready to attack the expatriates again. The Nanyang countries have long formed a kind of path dependence. diaspora.

With the continuous advancement of opening up the sea, breaking the path dependence of the Southeast Asian countries so that they dare not and cannot attack the overseas Chinese is also one of the important tasks of opening up overseas markets.

It is Zhu Qiyu's responsibility to eliminate King Said of Luzon, appoint a new governor of Luzon, and ensure the overseas interests of Ming Dynasty.

Chapter 933 As long as I live, I will never surrender!

When Yang Hong and Chen Mao left, they didn't like His Majesty's funeral. This was not to make the emperor extravagant and wasteful, but to hope that the emperor could raise the flag.

The meaning of erecting the flag can be roughly understood as cultivating a group of fans and vested interests who are completely loyal to the emperor's beliefs. After the emperor's dragon rides on the guests, he can continue to maintain the emperor's policies and prevent people from dying.

Zhu Qiyu has always been frugal, but regardless of the funerals of Yang Hong, Chen Yi, Wang Zhi, Chen Mao, or even Chen Xun, Zhu Qiyu went to the official funeral according to the highest regulations of the Ministry of Rites, especially Chen Mao, and Zhu Qiyu even regarded the funerals of Qing Weiwang The specifications of the Great Ming Zhushi were buried.

When Chen Mao talked about the issue of erecting the flag, he just touched the surface and only said one sentence. After hearing His Majesty's affirmative answer, he did not discuss it in depth.

Zhu Qiyu's placement of Junguo's mansion in Jiaozhi is a vertical flag, and some plots against Lu Song are also vertical flags. The Farm Law is a vertical flag, and the Craftsman City and Craftsman Jue Law are also vertical flags.

You can't shout that the important affairs of the country are in the army, and at the same time, you are only willing to resolutely uphold the etiquette, but you don't care about the military affairs, and you can't even pay the food and salaries on time, ignoring or even indulging in private labor and greed for military salaries.

You can’t call the workers and peasants the cornerstone and the second of the four pillars of the Great Ming Dynasty, and at the same time be stingy and refuse to share even the slightest benefit to the workers and peasants, and even exhaust all means to deprive the workers and peasants of social status. , control of wealth, justice, means of production.

It was late at night, and the snowflakes were still fluttering, and the sky was filled with broken jade, and the earth was covered with silver, the capital was covered with white snow, and the lamps in the city were extinguished one by one, everything was quiet, The lamps carried by the sergeants patrolling the Nine Gates were still faintly visible in the snow curtain, while the lights in the Imperial Study Room of the Jiangwu Hall illuminated the snow in front of the Juxian Pavilion as usual.

The supreme emperor of the Ming Dynasty, as usual, only finished processing the memorials for the day when he was approaching Zizi.

Seeing that His Majesty closed the pen in his hand, Xing'an hurriedly stepped forward and bowed his head and said, "Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to Your Majesty, a happy event, Concubine Ran Ning is happy again."

Zhu Qiyu frowned and said with a smile: "Good thing, good thing, this little lady is advocating many thieves every day, starting tomorrow, let Ran Siniang live in the backyard of the martial arts hall, and will not go back to Tai'an Palace for the time being."

"Then Miss Ran's Que'er, will she be replaced by a nobleman who just entered the palace?" Xing'an asked tentatively.

"Let Yunyan come over." Zhu Qiyu was talking about Tang Yunyan, the third prince's mother, Tang Guifei.

If the most unruly person in this palace is Tang Yunyan, apart from Ran Siniang, Tang Yunyan is the most favored. Tang Yunyan is a small character. When Tang Xing named Tang Yunyan, it meant Yanyun, which means Yanyun sixteen prefectures.

Before Tang Xing became a relative of the emperor, he had already been promoted to the official position of commander of Jinyiwei by virtue of his merits. After becoming a relative of the emperor for so many years, it was only this time when he went south to the west that he was dispatched by the imperial court. He didn't do anything before. (140 chapters)

Tang Xing's command was not only because he was a relative of the emperor, but also because of his ability.

Tang Yunyan's temperament followed her father's, loves to be noisy and has many tricks, and the third prince Zhu Jianjun followed his mother's temperament. Among the emperor's heirs in Tai'an Palace, Zhu Jianjun was beaten the most, and his skin would itch if he didn't beat him every day.

Xing'an is helpless, the clothes are not as good as the new ones, and the people are not as good as the old ones. His Majesty has never even asked their names for the two newcomers to the palace. Since entering the palace for half a month, they have not even been able to wait in line. .

In fact, the reason is very simple. There are three hardships in the world, blacksmithing, punting, and grinding tofu. All punters know that it is much more comfortable to walk the dredged waterway than the undredged waterway. First, you know the hydrology. Knowing the hidden reef saves effort, knowing when to push the pole hard, and knowing what to go down the current. Only the young boatman felt that taking the new waterway was more challenging and exciting.

It is probably attributed to one word, Run.

The next day, the heavy snow that had been fluttering for several days finally stopped, and the monthly salt and iron meeting was held as scheduled. Zhu Qiyu picked up his memo and went to the salt and iron meeting hall.

The Salt and Iron Conference was held in the twelfth lunar month of the 11th year of Jingtai, and it has become a regular meeting of the Ming Dynasty. It is held regularly every month, and the topics are not fixed. Even if Zhu Qiyu is not in the capital, it will still be held as usual.

The state system in the economic field has been absent for a long time in Ming Dynasty, and even since Zhou Dynasty.

The imperial courts of the Song Dynasty were rich and powerful. Did the Song Dynasty have a state system in the economic field?

No, the Song Dynasty shared the world with the scholar-bureaucrats. Translation and translation means that the imperial court and the scholar-bureaucrats join hands to fight against each other as it should be and with confidence. This is not a national system in the economic field, otherwise the Song Dynasty would not You won't lose your way twice.

"See Your Majesty, Your Majesty's congratulations." Yu Qian led a group of officials to salute.

Zhu Qiyu signaled the ministers to sit down, and he glanced at Yao Kui. In this position, Hu Wei was sitting before. Can Yao Kui replace Hu Wei?

The answer is no.

What Hu Min could do, Yao Kui couldn't do at all.

At the beginning when Zhu Qiyu was on a southern tour, the household department proposed that "the breeder Ding will never add a tax". At that time, Hu Wei threatened the ministers with a thin memorial. Pass it up.

The memorandum is the old story of the eunuchs in the Southern Han Dynasty.

Under the bureaucratic constitution that is completely responsible to the superiors, in order to advance and get promoted, the officials of the Southern Han Dynasty even castrated themselves in order to please the superiors.

Can Yao Kui do this for state affairs?Maybe in the future, but Yao Kui can't do it now.

Yu Qian sat forward and looked at His Majesty and said: "Your Majesty, during the last court meeting, Your Majesty said a little bit that the truth is the foundation. Today's salt and iron meeting, should we discuss it? What variable?"

Zhu Qiyu nodded and said: "Naturally, Shen Shangshu, please briefly introduce the situation of several major official factories."

The Secretary of the Household Department stood up and handed out the thick title books one by one to every courtier who participated in the Salt and Iron Conference, and this thick title book was also stamped with the seal ribbon of Jingtai Zhibao, a blood-red The encrypted characters are particularly eye-catching, obviously they were printed by the Sanjing Factory, and they are not published.

Shen Yi opened his mouth and said: "You can't take this away, after the meeting, you have to put it away."

"Since the first year of Jingtai's court push to set up an official factory, in the past 11 years, up to this time, Daming has a total of Liaodong Factory, Shijing Factory, Daming Factory, Shengzhou Factory, Jingtai Factory, Liuzhi Factory, Jianghuai Factory, Maan Factory, Fujian Zhu A total of [-] coal-rail intermodal official factories, including the Guangzhou Nantang Factory, and a total of [-] official factories under construction in Liaodong, Gansu, Sichuan, Jiaozhi, and Jiugang.”

"This is only an official factory, divided into factory areas, directly under the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households, excluding the local government factories under the jurisdiction of the chief secretaries, prefects, and magistrates. So far, there are a total of 36 craftsmen in official factories directly under the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households. There are more than 460 million tons of coal, more than 40 million tons of iron, and [-] million tons of steel annually."

A jun is about thirty catties, and the unit of measurement of the catty is too small in the face of the ever-expanding scale of the official factory. Even the unit of measurement of the jun is not enough. Two thousand catties is equivalent to one ton for calculation. At present, the official factory statistics of Daming still use the unit of catty and jun. After the output of the official factory is further increased, the unit of measurement of ton will be increased.

After conversion, Da Ming's steel production capacity next year will be 25 tons. For example, Handan Iron and Steel Group, which is not so famous in the future, will produce 967 million tons of steel a year. Daming's current steel production capacity is about ten times that of Handan Iron and Steel Group. The output of the day and one hour is even.

Zhu Qiyu was not very satisfied with this number, but the ministers were still horrified when they heard this number. This is the first time the Ministry of Households has released the data.

In terms of the steel output of Daming official factory, Zhu Qiyu can use one year's steel output to make a set of Mingguang armor for everyone in Daming, regardless of gender, age or child.

What is ignorance of the destiny? Arazhiyuan just doesn't know the destiny. He doesn't know that the emperor of Ming Dynasty can razed Hara and Lin to the ground even if he didn't use artillery and smashed it with steel.

Everyone has a different understanding of what destiny is. The Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry understand that the national power of the Ming Dynasty shown by the data in front of them is destiny.

Shen Yi paused for a long time. There were detailed statistics in the question book that was handed out. The ministers needed time to read it. After seeing that everyone raised their heads, he continued: "If the calculation is based on the official smelting iron during the Hongwu period, today's official The iron produced by the factory is more than 21 times that of the official smelter in the 300st year of Hongwu, and only this figure can be used to measure it. During the Hongwu period, there was no imperial government statistics on steel production."

"Eighteen official factories hand over 280% of their profits every year. Last year, they handed over [-] million silver in total."

A huge interest group with artisans at its core has taken shape, and with the continuous promotion of steam, it is developing at an astonishing speed.

After Shen Yi finished speaking, Zhu Qiyu pointed at the table and said to Chen Youde who was sitting in front of the long table: "Chen Youde, the general manager of Shijing Factory, the last time Shijing Factory and Shuntian Mansion had a scandal, I told you, you You have money, you have food, you have people, you have gunpowder bureaus, you made Ming’s armor, guns, and chariots, and the government bullies you, so make a fuss with them, the bigger the fuss, the better, everyone knows it , it’s best to hang them on the street lamps in your Coal and Steel Park! No one will dare to bully you!”

"Create trouble, and I'll give you all the answers!"

"After talking for so long, I still get bullied every day."

Zhu Qiyu was touring Beijing in the south, and He Zhang impeached Shijing Factory and spent 36 silver to build a memorial archway. Live so much money.

The bullying of the official factory by the government is not just a borrowing. For example, the captains-in-law of the Wucheng Bingmasi used to sit on it to suck blood. Shijing Factory still swallowed their anger and didn't even file a complaint. Zhu Qiyu didn't know there was such a thing until he pulled out the radish and brought out the mud.

"This, this, this..." Chen Youde raised his head, hesitating, he is just a general manager, what can he do.

trouble?What's the trouble?

Your Majesty said it well, even if Chen Youde dared to take the lead, no craftsman dared to follow him. Craftsmen are the most disciplined group, because those who do not obey the rules die in front of the furnace. What is the standard of the official factory? Writing lessons.

The imperial court is His Majesty's court, and the world is His Majesty's world. His Majesty's relatives are asking for some money, and it's not even a drop in the bucket, so it's not worth making trouble at all.

"You, Xu Siqi is in Liaodong, and that Jian slave ran to the official factory to rob, and was beaten all over his head by the craftsmen." Zhu Qiyu said to Chen Youde.

Chen Youde hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, that's different, it's a thief, the craftsmen of the Liaodong factory have strength, and the craftsmen of our Shijing factory also have strength, if there are foreign thieves who dare to knock on the gate, everyone in the Shijing factory can go to battle and kill the enemy. "

"Foreign thieves are thieves, and national thieves are also thieves." Zhu Qiyu knocked on the table, and he was somewhat indignant towards the collective of craftsmen. Chen Youde didn't understand Zhu Qiyu's words at all. He didn't mean that Shijing Factory had no power, or that it was not as powerful as Liao Chen Youde, or the craftsmen in the sinking factory, would not use this kind of power at all.

Chen Youde said in a low voice: "The traitor of the country will be dealt with by His Majesty..."

Seeing this posture, Yu Qian came out to persuade the fight. As the chief master, it is his duty to reconcile the conflicts and differences of opinions between the monarch and his ministers. He said with a smile: "Your Majesty, don't worry, your Majesty, each performs his duties. The official factory is production, let them do it, and they will do it." Don’t you know who the national thief is?”

Zhu Qiyu still said with a bit of anger: "The street lamps in the official factory and Jiangcheng are used for lighting? Mr. Chen, remember, children who cry have milk to drink."

"Follow the sacred instructions." Seeing His Majesty's admonition, Chen Youde hastily bowed his head and said yes. He actually thinks that the treatment in the official factory is very good now. All the children working in the official factory can get a good grade. If he can take an examination of craftsmanship and learn a craft, he won't be able to cry even if he is made to cry these days, right?

The ministers looked at Chen Youde with extremely complicated eyes, most of them were envious, the officials of the Ming capital, up and down, except for a few Ming dukes, who would dare to talk to His Majesty like that?His Majesty said something, Chen Youde said something, put it on the civil servants, His Majesty has already taken the punishment of non-punishment, and put it on the big disrespectful hat, who can bear it?

There is some fear in this gaze.

"It turns out that the armaments of the Beijing camp were all provided by Shijing Factory and Wang Gong Factory." Zhongguo Gong Shi Heng finished reading the title book, and he didn't understand the data too much, but Shi Heng read the parts for the Beijing camp. Clearly, all the armaments of the Beijing Camp came from Shijing Factory and Wang Gong Factory.

The ballast stone of the Daming Beijing Camp has abundant military virtues, abundant military equipment, and extremely strong combat effectiveness. This is the result, and the official factory plays a vital role in it.

Zhu Qiyu flipped through the memo and said: "Industry is the basic strength of the imperial court. Without entity and industry, there is no foundation, no basic strength, and everything is down. Gunpowder, if there is no one there, how can I build it?"

"Industry is the source of the economy. In layman's terms, the real economy has created the economic income of the people of Ming Dynasty, and it is the source of income for the people of Ming Dynasty. Just like farmers without land, farming is out of the question."

"Industry is the most basic and fundamental unit for producing materials and commodities."

"Lu Laixuan, head of the White Deer Cave Academy, insisted on seeing me before he died, and judged me. He told me that human nature is greedy. Yang Shan also said this. He said that what I did was useless, and one day I would die. When the body dies and the dao disappears, they let me surrender, let me stop, and they will regard me as a holy lord and a wise king, not a king of subjugated countries."

"As long as I live, I will never surrender!"

"However, what they said makes sense. Humans are indeed very greedy. The possessive desire for material and wealth is generally endless, or people's desires can never be satisfied. When they have a certain amount of material and wealth After wealth, the possession of material wealth will change from the possession of material wealth to the possession of quality.”

"If you don't develop industries, how can you satisfy this possessive desire?"

"That's what it means to be fact-based."

After finishing taking notes, Shen Yi bowed his head and said sincerely: "Your Majesty's thoughts and deeds have been sacrificed for thousands of years, and they will last as long as the heaven and the earth. There will be three lights and eternal light."

Zhu Qiyu asked with a smile: "Why don't you say that I will live forever and never die?"

"Ah? This..." Shen Yi was dumb, His Majesty really didn't like slander, but Shen Yi always felt that he was telling the truth, not slander.

Chapter 934 Losing the way, losing the way, that is, losing the way

"Then what is vain karma?" Yu Qian asked the emperor what he was most concerned about.

If it is true to debate the scriptures, Zhu Qiyu can't even argue with the Minister of the Ministry of Finance who is in charge of making money.

Because Shen Yi didn't talk about immortality and immortality. What Shen Yi said was that there would be thousands of sacrifices. What Shen Yi said was what His Majesty thinks, thinks, thinks, and does. Shen Yi really used the theory of eternal life to argue with the emperor about the theory of shaking the past and shining the present, but the emperor really couldn't argue.

Zhu Qiyu never fought against the wind, and he was resolute in rejecting all kinds of flattery. Yu Qian's question quickly shifted the Yantie Conference from discussing the emperor's longevity to the main topic.

It made Shen Yi look like he wanted to argue with the emperor, but he couldn't speak anymore. His Majesty and Yu Shaobao knew how to grasp the wind direction of the meeting.

Zhu Qiyu replied succinctly: "An industry whose main method of profit is to make money from money or to make money from power is a false business."

"For example, the transaction of selling one's life, such as Fei Yiying's dismantling of all the three-masted ships of his family to subscribe for shares, such as loan sharks, such as Song Gaozong and Zhao Gou's Cuju team, which was openly sold, such as Wucheng soldiers and horses controlling the city. Going in and out of the door, resulting in the business of collapsed houses, such as hoarding goods and speculating on the necessities of food, clothing, housing and transportation, such as excessively raising the price of some gold and stone things in epigraphy, and then making profits. .”

"I understand!" Yu Qian suddenly realized, carefully wrote down the notes, looked at them again and again, and said in doubt: "What about the brothel, is it real or not?"

Zhu Qiyu thought for a while and said: "Not everything is black and white, and the industry is the same. For example, Li Binyan built a craftsman city in Songjiang Mansion. The houses built in this craftsman city seem to be free of charge and live for free, but In essence, it is still provided to craftsmen in the form of lease and sale, but the price is realized by deducting labor remuneration."

"And the price...a house with five rooms and three shelves, and a family of five, only needs two silver, which is roughly a month's salary for craftsmen."

In the eyes of the craftsmen, the houses in Craftsman City are free, because they only need to wait for the distribution.The cost is paid in advance by the government factory, and then this part of the cost is removed at a fixed rate when the salary is fixed every year. The cost of the house in the craftsman city itself is very low, and the collective building of the house is already extremely luxurious, even street lamps.

You only need to know that there are no street lights in the Daming Palace, and only Tai'an Palace and Jiangwu Hall have street lights.

Moreover, the advance payment for this part of the Craftsman City was completed as early as the second year after the completion of the Craftsman City.

Zhu Qiyu went on to say: "Then Li Binyan's construction of the Carpenter City in Songjiang Prefecture is a business of building houses, and the business of building collapsed houses is also a business of building houses. Their most essential question is whether they are using the public for personal gain and using power to make money. Whether a sharp knife that peels off the people is squeezing the remaining wealth in the hands of the people is the basis for judging the truth."

"The same is true for brothels. If it is just a place where you play, play, sing and listen to music, it is naturally an industry, but if there is a kiln with strong personal attachments and forced to receive customers, it is a virtual industry, which belongs to the category of making money with power, and this brothel The boundary between the kiln and the kiln is extremely blurred, in fact, it can be generally classified as false karma."

Power is relative and a mutual relationship. In many cases, it simply refers to the authority possessed by the court, but in a few cases, such as in a brothel, a bustard has absolute power over prostitutes, even if they are known for elegance, It is an extremely, extremely, extremely common phenomenon for a brothel that claims to only sell art but not to sell itself to force customers.

Which girl does the rich and powerful, the wealthy businessman like, and the owner, shopkeeper, and procuress of this brothel care about the wishes of the woman in the world of fireworks?

Industry is to realize people's possession of wealth and material, quantity and quality, and the long-cherished wish of pursuing a better life, which is the common demand of Ming Dynasty.

They are all building houses, one for the purpose of providing a safe, comfortable and clean living environment, and the other for the purpose of stripping and stripping, reaching out to the last penny in the pockets of the people or even putting loan sharks to make the people heavily in debt, so as to achieve super Economic personal attachment is the goal, which one is industry and which one is false karma?

"I understand, Your Majesty is wise." There were thousands of words in Yu Qian's heart, and finally gathered into one sentence, which was the seemingly polite words of Shengming.

Zhu Qiyu looked at Yu Qian and took a sip of tea. The nectar covered the top, and he was full of sweetness. He looked at Yu Qian and asked: "Yu Shaobao, referring to a deer as a horse, distorting black and white, putting on hats and wearing hats, confusing right and wrong, isn't it causing endless harm?"