Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

After giving rewards to the bosses, another group of eunuchs came up.

This team of eunuchs holds jade-gold medals.

This is for civil servants whose merits are second-tier.

In today's Han capital, even though the three thousand officials in the capital have not been fully staffed, due to the opening of many workshops, there are more than 2000 officials in the court today.

Zhu Youjian wore the medal until his hands softened.

As for the silver dollars spent, there were even more.

Today alone, Zhu Youjian sent out 480 silver dollars.

this money...

At first glance, it's scary.

however……

Compared to throwing money into the bottomless pit of Liaodong, this is nothing!

(Let’s talk about the royal family expenses in the Ming Dynasty:

In the early years of Jiajing, the actual amount of Zonglu silver was about 61 taels of silver.

The actual expenditure of silver in the early years of Wanli was approximately 125 taels of silver.

By the time of the Apocalypse, after Zhu Youxiao's "eternal quota", his actual salary and silver expenditure was approximately 156 taels of silver. )

As for Liaodong, the Ming Dynasty spent a total of 6 million taels of silver on the Liaodong battlefield.

This is real silver.

This data does not include other expenses such as food, allocation of armor, weapons, civilian labor, and troop deployment.

As I said before, the total military expenditure in Liaodong alone exceeded [-] million taels of silver.

Now that we have talked about it, let’s talk about the Qing Dynasty:

According to the "Xiaobinlu Protest" records: There are regular state funds, but there is no fixed amount for Zonglu. In the Huidian books, the salary of the general and above is not recorded. In recent years, the annual income is more than [-] million.

What do you mean - not counting the honors and honors of General Fengen and above, more than three million yuan was spent.

Let’s look at another record:

Wei Yuan's "Shengwu Ji": "At the beginning of Shunzhi, more than [-] (people) from the clan entered the pass from the dragon. Recently, there are nearly [-] (people), with an annual salary of millions."

Look at the land again:

Official books such as "Huidian", "Tongkao" and "Tongzhi of Eight Banners" contain:

The royal family estate of the Eight Banners princes covers an area of ​​130 acres.

In fact, this is only a part of the Wanggongzhuang land, which is the tax-free land enclosed in the early Qing Dynasty, rather than the total number of Wanggongzhuang land.

When Shunzhi was liquidating brothers Ajige and Dorgon, he said this:

Prince Azig of England seized more than 80 acres of civilian land just by forcing people to vote for compensation, while Dorgon seized more than 200 million acres...

This is just a robbery, not a normally allowed horse racing enclosure.

During the Kang Mazi period, Kangxi gave 24 acres of cultivated land to the horse farm to Prince Guo at one time...

Because the Qing Dynasty implemented the method of dividing land into acres, its land statistics are slightly more reliable than those of the Ming Dynasty.

If you look at the total amount of cultivated land in the Qing Dynasty, you will know how much land the clan seized:

I forgot who listed this data. I marked it... I'm sorry, I can't mark the original name and source.

……

As long as there is no burden of Liaodong, Zhu Youjian is not afraid of rewards.

This little money is really nothing!

……

Zhu Youjian gave him money, status, and guarantees for future generations.

Coupled with the fiefdoms that have already expressed their stance...

The cohesion of the courtiers has reached its peak.

In fact, the courtiers all thought about pacifying the world as quickly as possible, and then earning an eternal inheritance for future generations.

Zhu Youjian sat back on the dragon throne.

He looked at the ministers who had reached their peak energy and spirit, and said with a smile:

"My dear friends, I have a question——

It has been more than [-] years since China established its political power.

But why do we keep wandering around the continent? "

Zhu Youjian clapped his hands.

Wang Chengen led others to carry a giant map and placed it on the top of Danbi in front of the main hall.

This map is double-sided.

The ministers in the main hall can see it, and the officials in the square outside the hall can also see it.

The map is dyed, which is the rainfall map of later generations.

The green area represents the traditional eighteen provinces of the Han Dynasty, while the surrounding mountains and deserts are colored yellow.

With just one glance at such a map, the officials understood its meaning.

Wang Chengen and Wang Lian, one on the left and one on the right, walked to both sides of the map and pointed at the green area.

All the ministers looked over.

Zhu Youjian said slowly:

"Loves!"

“This is the only part of China that is easy to farm and suitable for living.

Speaking of being big, the land of Kyushu is indeed very large. It would take more than a month to walk from one end to the other, traveling from south to north, east to west.

But there are so many of us! "

The powerful men standing outside the palace loudly spread the emperor's words.

No matter it was the senior officials in the palace or the ministers outside the palace, everyone looked at him sideways.

"Dear gentlemen, I asked Zuo Liangyu to conduct an investigation:

In Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and other places, overseas survivors are all extremely rich, and it is even easier to get rich than ordinary people in China.

Whether it is Nanyang or the New World, every piece of land is a land of fat that is so rich that it makes you want to shed oil. "

In fact, Zhu Youjian asked Zuo Liangyu to investigate this.

It's just using Zuo Liangyu's name.

Zuo Liangyu, who was originally a glove, dare to say that he didn't say that?

Baiguan is not a fool either.

It is not a secret in official circles that the Jiangnan literati group has taken control of navigation.

After thinking about the emperor's attitude towards Jiangnan, the officials already understood Zhu Youjian's thoughts.

Zhu Youjian leaned back and found a comfortable position:

"Over there in Nanyang, how many people are there in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian? You, your ministers, know much better than I do.

I don’t need to explain to you what’s going on there! "

As soon as Zhu Youjian said these words, all the officials in the hall became uneasy.

Zhu Youjian sneered:

"I said that I had written it off in the past.

Regardless of whether you were aware of it before or not, I will not pursue it any further. "

When the ministers heard what the emperor said, they breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, as a member of the New Ming Dynasty, they naturally understand——

When the emperor took advantage of the shortage of officials and secured power...

Today's Ming Dynasty is no longer something that officials can fight against!

In the past, a few people in the palace could have been killed to force the emperor to submit.

however……

In today's imperial palace, the soldiers guarding the palace are refugees, and the generals leading the army are refugees...

The eunuchs in the palace were fully controlled by the emperor's confidants!

Today's Zhu Youjian is already impregnable.

As officials familiar with everything about the new Ming Dynasty, they naturally understood that with the manufacturing capabilities of Handu today——

Whoever dares to go against Zhu Youjian will die!

Even if they have never been involved in overseas trade, if they don't report the information, they still can't escape!

Therefore, when the emperor personally said that he would not pursue the case, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhu Youjian’s words were serious and thoughtful:

"My dear friends!

How much benefit did the Westerners make in the New World? How much gold and silver did the shiploads bring...

Aren’t you excited? "

"I only have one sentence - if the enemy can go, I can go too!

If the Westerners can travel across the sea and bring back entire ships of money, can't you do the same?

Or is being a second-rate dealer so popular? "