History of Cannon Fodder Struggle [Qing]

In a blink of an eye, it was Hiroshi's wedding day, and the garden was very lively.

After Hongshi got married, he temporarily lived in the garden.

The fourth master has already ordered the Ministry of Internal Affairs to build a mansion for him. The mansion is next door to Hongyun, and now he is preparing to move the mansion next door away.

After Minning handed over the affairs of Australia to the fourth master, he disappeared again.

In the summer, the queen suddenly fell ill. She thought it was just a minor illness, but she didn't expect to become unconscious soon.

Then the imperial doctor didn't work. The queen drank bowl after bowl of medicine, but it turned out to be useless.

In the end, hundreds of doctors were invited from the hospital to examine the queen's pulse one by one, but the diagnosis results were quite unexpected.

The queen is not sick but poisoned!

As for the poison in it, no one can tell.

It was like a novel poison that no one had seen before.

Hundreds of doctors worked together to develop the antidote, and before it could be developed, the queen died of the poison within a short period of time.

The fourth master was furious and immediately ordered people to track down the murderer.

He linked this incident with Minning's poisoning incident a few years ago, and wondered if a spy had sneaked into the Old Summer Palace again.

However, this time it was beyond his expectation, the murderer was easily found out, not the so-called spy but the Mao concubine Song.

No one thought that the Song family would suddenly kill the queen, even Minning couldn't believe it when he heard the news.

You must know that Mrs. Song is the most loyal person around the queen, and she has been the knife in the queen's hand since she was in the hidden mansion.

Even if the empress loses power, the empress is still the mother of a country. It is reasonable that the concubine should not betray her, or even lay a poisonous hand on her.

Minning thought that someone had planted the blame on the Song family, and helped to investigate.Not only Minning didn't believe it, but other people in the harem didn't believe it either.

But with the facts in front of them, even Mrs. Song himself admitted it, and everyone was surprised.

The fourth master asked Song why she wanted to poison the queen, and Song had a trace of hatred on her face, "The queen coaxed me into taking the birth pill, if I hadn't taken the opportunity to give birth prematurely, I would have lost my life. Why don’t I hate this? I’ve been lingering on my last breath all these years, and it’s not long before I die, so naturally I want the queen to be buried with me. Haha, it’s enough to have the queen accompany me to hell!”

Fourth master said angrily: "Are you not afraid that this matter will implicate Si Gege?"

A bleak look flashed across Mrs. Song's face, "This child doesn't want to recognize me at all. She is not my daughter, but that concubine's daughter!"

When he heard that his daughter didn't work, Fourth Master asked coldly. "Aren't you afraid that my anger will be transferred to your family?"

Mrs. Song knelt on the ground, her arms were caught behind her, "My family, huh, since I entered the palace, the family has never asked me, but kept begging for benefits from me. Since they took me, then What a benefit, being buried with me together is also the reward for these years."

Fourth master never thought that there would be such a cold-blooded concubine in his harem, who only cared about his own happiness, and ignored his family and his children.

"Give me a foot of red, and she will die suddenly in a few years!" Fourth Master turned his back and said.

The eunuch took Song Shi out immediately.

The fourth master stood still in the hall without saying a word. He thought that although the queen had done all kinds of wrong things, it was not a reason for the Song family to poison her.

After a while, Fourth Master continued to give orders, "Order people to clean up this matter, and only say that the queen died of illness. The Ministry of Rites will handle the funeral for the queen."

The empress suddenly died of a serious illness, and the court did not react much. After all, the empress has often complained of illness over the years, like pills and soups, and has never been stopped.

The vast majority of officials thought that the queen had suffered an emergency this time, and went there before receiving effective diagnosis and treatment.

Apart from sighing from the bottom of my heart, there was no other reaction.

After all, the queen is the mother of a country, and the people also have to wear mourning. Fortunately, this time they only need to wear three months.

In the past ten years, the common people have become accustomed to the successive funerals of the royal family, and they are even familiar with mourning.

That is to say, meat is banned for three months, and red and white things can't be done.

Three months passed in the blink of an eye, and the court came up with a new task, which was to suggest that the fourth master be appointed as a new queen.

"...The country cannot be without a mother for a day. The next year's persuasion of farmers will have to be managed by the mother of the country, and the Lord Long Live will be invited to register a new queen."

The Fourth Master calmly glanced at the ministers in the hall, and asked, "Which concubine do you think can be a queen in the harem?"

Everyone looked at each other in dismay. Isn't this visible to the human eye?

Right now, the most promising successor to the throne is the third prince, and the third prince's son, mother and concubine are noble concubines.Besides the imperial concubine, who else could this queen be?

Could it be that the emperor is somewhat dissatisfied with the imperial concubine?

Many ministers muttered in their hearts.

A Lengtouqing in the hall suddenly stood up, "Going back to Lord Long Live, I feel that the imperial concubine can be the empress. The imperial concubine has set up schools to teach children free of charge over the years, and has set up orphanages, The Nursing House has made countless meritorious deeds, and I believe that the position of empress must belong to the imperial concubine."

Fourth Master stared at the Lengtouqing for a while, and then asked the others, "You think so too?"

Among them, a few loyal supporters belonging to Minning stood up, "The ministers seconded the proposal to make the imperial concubine the empress."

Fourth Master immediately stood up from the dragon chair, "We'll talk about this later!" After saying that, he turned around and left the hall.

Su Peisheng could only be caught off guard and yell, "Retire!"

Everyone in the imperial court thought that the position of empress must belong to the imperial concubine, and some people even remembered the favor of the imperial concubine. As a child, the second position should not be easy to grasp. What no one thought was that something that was very sure at first had a change in the emperor's place.

Everyone is guessing, could it be that something happened between the emperor and the imperial concubine?

No one wants things to happen between the imperial concubine, after all, the bank and the train are in the hands of the imperial concubine, as well as the business all over the country, and the fleet of ships drifting overseas.

Anyone with insight understands that the imperial concubine has too much power in her hands. Once a problem occurs between the emperor and concubine, no one wants to see the consequences.

Many people felt worried. If there was a real conflict between the emperor and concubine, they only hoped that the government and the people would not be involved.

Fourth Master returned to Siyi Bookstore and kicked out all the maids and eunuchs in the house.

He sat at the table lost in thought, thinking about when he and An Jiashi came to this point.

Did she start to intervene in government affairs frequently, or did she have too much power in her hands, already threatening the emperor's right to rule?

Maybe it's both.

Fourth Master couldn't help closing his eyes. As an emperor, an aspiring emperor, he would never allow others to touch his power as an emperor.

Fourth Master had already restrained his desire enough to not show his grim teeth at An Jiashi. It still depends on the relationship between the two of them.

For the past year, An Jia's family has settled down, so fourth master can relax a little.

Unexpectedly, the queen passed away suddenly, and the court officials recommended An Jia to succeed the queen.

If it was just an ordinary queen, Fourth Master certainly didn't take it to heart.

But is An Jia willing to be an ordinary queen and manage the harem for him?

Perhaps, it was a mistake from the very beginning. It was a mistake when An Jia asked him for a coal mine.

He shouldn't have given it to her, directly cut off her hope of contacting the outside world, and it was just because of a temporary lack of time that it caused her to establish such a large influence outside.

Fourth Master opened his eyes again. At this level, no one in this world can stop An Jiashi.

Unless kill her?

But just thinking about it made fourth master feel heartbroken. He would rather die by himself than hurt her.

It is precisely because he loves her that he only restrained her feet for half a year when she took such a big measure before.

Fourth master was a little annoyed, he didn't expect to compete with his brothers for this position before succeeding to the throne, and to prevent An Jia's from coveting this position after succeeding to the throne.

Fourth Master knew so much about An Jiashi. Basically, he knew what she was thinking as soon as she blinked.

Don't look at her being honest recently, but the fourth master knows that she just stands still, and maybe she will be able to break through his interception sometime, and stretch out her hand longer.

The fourth master rubbed his painful forehead. Since ancient times, few emperors have lived long. The imperial physician had treated him before. Because the epidemic had damaged his foundation back then, he had a short lifespan. Whether he could live longer than Khan Ama is still a matter of opinion. .

Now he is nearly fifty, how many more years can he live?Now his energy is almost running out, occasionally staying up late once, and the next day he will be groggy, unlike when he was young, staying up for three days in a row was not a problem.

An Jiashi is several years younger than him, so he must be the one walking ahead.

Fourth master couldn't help but thumped his forehead, "It's not a good thing that the mother is strong and the son is weak!" He said this in a very low voice.

Fortunately, there was no one in the room, otherwise, if this word got out, it would definitely cause an uproar.

After fourth master said this, he thought of Hong Jing again.

Although Hong Kyung is said to be a qualified heir, he has a fatal flaw, that is, he listens too much to An Jia's words.

The fourth master couldn't help frowning, he was afraid that after he left, Hong Jing would not be able to control An Jia's family at all, and this huge state power would fall into An Jia's hands.

He could even think, could An Jia's family be the second Wu Zetian?

Immediately, Fourth Master shook his head again, no, An Jia's family was not as cruel as Wu Zetian, he sighed, and finally decided that it was up to God.

God's will is destined to give An Jiashi a helping hand, and he has no way to stop it.

The Supreme Emperor told him back then that if An Jia was not a woman, she would definitely be a hero.

Fortunately, she is not a man, and also fortunate that she finally entered the royal family, otherwise she would have been wiped out by the court long ago.

The imperial court would never allow the people to leave such an uncertain factor. Although the Supreme Emperor was wary of An Jia's back then, he relied more on the endless inventions of her subordinates.

Those endless inventions brought earth-shaking changes to the Qing Dynasty.

For example, deep plows, threshers, cement and so on.

Each of these brought major changes to the Qing Dynasty. The Supreme Emperor was reluctant to destroy the An Jia family. After all, these inventions were brought by the An Jia family, and even most of them were made by the craftsmen instructed by the An Jia family.

Later, An Jia's power became more and more powerful. When the Supreme Emperor and he were not paying attention, she quickly split some inconspicuous departments.Only a part remained on the side of the capital.Those who were released were hidden, and it has not been found where these craftsmen are hidden.

Just from the endless inventions of folks in the past ten years, it can be seen that these craftsmen are still exerting their residual heat.

In the first few years of his ascension to the throne, fourth master never thought that one day he would turn his head and become hostile to An Jia's.

During the years when the Supreme Emperor was still alive, fourth master could say that they were the most comfortable years.

The Supreme Emperor did not restrain him, and An Jia's family also focused on developing folk power.

There were Taishanghuang and An Jia's policies for him. It can be said that during that time, Fourth Master really felt that the king was in the world.

But as soon as the Supreme Emperor left, Fourth Master felt that An Jia's family had changed, and she tentatively tried him.

Later, when he began to get in touch with the government, the fourth master never expected that An Jia would take advantage of his illness and pass on the imperial decree.

This made fourth master feel a sense of crisis, the imperial power was his warning line, no one could touch it except him.

An Jia's doing so is simply breaking ground on Tai Sui's head.

Fourth master must not allow her to act recklessly like this.

So he is bound to cut off her wings, but this can also be clearly confirmed that An Jia's people are definitely more than those he transferred away before. Some people who don't belong to him have a good impression on her.

Fourth master couldn't help but feel vigilant. What does this mean?

It shows that her prestige among the courtiers is enough to threaten him. Once something happens to him, Hong Kyung has no way to restrain her!

Then there may be a female emperor in the Qing Dynasty!

Don't think that fourth master is whimsical, after all, the foresight of the ancestors has restricted the prerequisites for women to become the throne.

However, it is not only by sitting on the dragon chair that one can control state power, but also by listening to politics behind a curtain.

The fourth master deliberately put An Jia in the position of imperial concubine, but unfortunately he did a wrong thing back then, that was to raise An Jia's status in order to get angry with the queen.

As a result, An Jia's family is only one step away from being the queen.No one but her is eligible for that post.

Unless... marry someone else!

However, once another bride is married, Hong Kyung, the heir, will be put in an embarrassing situation.

In the end, Fourth Master thought about it and only came up with a solution that was not a solution, that is to take An Jiashi away with him when he left.

Chao Hongkyung reported the good news to Minning with a happy face. "Emiang, all the ministers in the court have recommended you to be the empress." From now on, he will be able to become the first son and inherit the throne in a legitimate way.

However, there was no joy on Minning's face. She glanced at Hongkyung and poured cold water on him, "Don't be too happy, you Khan Ama won't agree."

The smile on Hongkyung's face disappeared, and then he stared at Minning seriously and asked, "Emiang, what kind of misunderstanding happened between you and Ama Khan? Can't you explain it clearly?"

Minning smiled, "I have no misunderstanding with you and Ama Khan, it's just that we have different positions. This day is bound to happen." The fourth master represents a feudal society, while she represents an industrialized society. Friction, once the society enters industrialization, the fourth master will definitely try his best to stop it. Back then, the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty both had the germination of industrialization but did not enter the industrial society. The most important thing was the obstruction from the upper class.

These rulers will never allow this country to escape from their control. Once the fourth master finds that the country is out of control, the first thing to do is to tighten the reins and control the beast of capitalism.

At that time, all the hard work that Minning has put in for so many years will be in vain, which is naturally not allowed by Minning.

But Minning regretted it a little. She was too hasty in what she did last time, which caused fourth master to rebound. If she had known about it, she would have continued to subtly influence it. Unfortunately, there is no medicine for regret in this world. Be vigilant, right now he is being stared at by the fourth master and cannot move.

And the power in her hands has also been suppressed by the fourth master to varying degrees, Minning can't help but really regret it, if she knew it, she might not be able to bear that tone.

She was really impatient, the country's development was too slow under the hands of fourth master.

If it was her, the world would have been brought into industrial development long ago.

For example, sending scholars to the frontier Ili to support them brought about changes in just over a year. The influx of so many people into the three northeastern provinces brought earth-shaking changes to the three northeastern provinces. The influx of 10 people immediately prospered, and businessmen found business opportunities, which directly promoted the local development.

The Northeast, which originally took decades to build, suddenly shortened the project. Minning believes that according to the current trend, a large number of people can be attracted to move to the Northeast, and the construction of the Northeast can be completed in only a dozen years.

Such a good thing, but because the fourth master was afraid of wolves and tigers, it was delayed. The plan to introduce the population from the Northeast back then, this time the Eight Banners Battalion was transferred to the Northeast, and the people who actually migrated there were only these years The severely affected people here are just a drop in the bucket for the vast land of the three northeastern provinces.

There is no favorable trend at all.

The newly built city in the Northeast is also a dead city because of the small population. Because there are no people, the city can be said to be at a loss, and the businessmen who invested in it can be said to have lost a lot.

Merchants have always been ungrateful for profit. Now that they have lost their profits, it will be difficult to seduce them. Therefore, even for these merchants, Minning has to solve the problem of the dead city. There is only one solution, that is to gather huge population.

Only when the population is large can it be popular, attract businessmen, increase taxes, and use these taxes to build the local area.

This is a circle that cannot be untied. Minning's business empire is still inseparable from the group of businessmen who follow her behind to pick up food.

The business is endless, she can't finish the business of the whole country by herself, so some things must be shared, and these businessmen have become the first choice.

If Minning still wants to continue to fool them into working hard for her, then she can't break their promise.

As long as there was a hemorrhage that made them lose money, it would not be so easy for these people to trust her the second time.

This is also the reason why she took the risk and falsely preached the imperial decree without telling fourth master.

However, this matter has been concealed by the fourth master, so Minning will not tell it, even Hong Jing can't do it.

"Er Niang, how could Khan Ama refuse?" Hong Kyung laughed in horror.

Impossible, Khan Ama's attitude towards Er Niang has always been in his eyes, although last year he banned E Niang's feet for no reason, but Khan Ama moved to live in the nearest yard of Xinghuachun Pavilion, Just to get closer to my mother.

When Hongkyung heard Erniang say that Khan Ama would refuse her to take the post, Hongkyung's first reaction was that it was impossible.

Besides, besides Er Niang, who else in this garden has the ability to surpass Er Niang?

Hongkyung felt that Er Niang had misunderstood, so he opened his mouth to say good things to Han Ama, "E Niang, although I said that Han Ama taught you to ground your feet before, my son doesn't know why, but my son thinks that Han Ama must It was a lot of painstaking work. If you say that Khan Ama will not let you ascend to the next position, my son will not believe it."

Min Ning said to Hong Kyung seriously, "This matter is between me and your Ama, so you don't have to ask about it." In order to prevent the fourth master from venting his anger on this child.

There was already a knot that could not be untied between her and fourth master. It was impossible for fourth master to back down, and it was impossible for her to hand over the good situation to others.

Hong Kyung opened his mouth and wanted to persuade, but Min Ning stopped what he wanted to say, "Okay, don't come here for a while, spend more time with Hui Hui and the child."

Seeing that Er Niang started to drive him away, Hong Kyung had no choice but to salute and leave.

In the court, more and more people support the imperial concubine to ascend to the position of queen, but some people probably sensed that the fourth master's attitude towards Minning was a little different, so they changed their mouths and changed it to have two princes. Concubine Qi.

In fact, everyone understands that pulling Concubine Qi out is just to round up the number of people.

But such a proposal scared Concubine Qi so much that she ran directly to the Xinghuachun Pavilion, and swore to Minning, "I absolutely have no such unreasonable thoughts." It is impossible to say that Concubine Qi does not want to be a queen of.

It's just that now the imperial court has reached a consensus that the third prince is the candidate for the heir. Although Concubine Qi has that extravagant hope in her heart, she also clearly knows that as long as the imperial concubine is around, she will definitely not be able to ascend to the latter position.

What's more, although she has two sons, one of them is weak and has long been excluded from the heir to the throne. Although the other is alive and kicking, he made a big mistake two years ago and was almost adopted by Long Live Lord It wasn't because of the imperial concubine's intercession that she would have lost her son.

Therefore, she is grateful to the imperial concubine.

Now that someone pushed her out, that would definitely make her and the imperial concubine right.

He only hated Chaozhong, who on earth recommended her to fight with the imperial concubine with evil intentions.

Minning asked Concubine Qi to show her a seat, and said, "Don't worry, I don't take this matter to heart, not to mention who can ascend to the queen's position depends on what Lord Long Live says."

Concubine Qi carefully said with a smile on her face, "That's not true. If you say that our Long Live Lord has nothing to say to you, the imperial concubine, there is really no one who is qualified to sit in this post other than you."

Minning smiled and shook his head, "In my opinion, Lord Long Live has no intention of continuing to be a queen."

"How come?" Concubine Qi opened her mouth slightly.

Minning held the handkerchief and twirled the corner of his mouth, "Our Lord Long Live and the Empress Dowager are deeply in love. How long has it been since the Empress Dowager left? How could Lord Long Live appoint a new Empress so quickly? The biggest possibility is that he is just like the Supreme Emperor. There will no longer be a queen."

Concubine Qi couldn't help twitching her mouth when she heard Minning say that the fourth master and the queen were deeply in love. If this meant that the imperial concubine and the Long live Lord would still believe it, but the imperial concubine used this idiom to describe the long live Lord and the queen. Concubine Qi just thought it was funny.

In the past, Long Live God only respected the Empress Empress, and the Empress Empress made several moves, which reduced her impression in the mind of Long Live God.

But if you want to say that the flounder is deeply affectionate, it is definitely a joke.

Minning glanced at Concubine Qi, Concubine Qi immediately put away the smile on her lips, she lowered her head slightly to show that she was listening.

Minning continued to say, "Our Lord Long Live is a long-lasting person. Even though the empress has made all kinds of mistakes, once a person dies, those bad things will disappear, and all that remains are some good memories. Just like the Emperor Taishang and Empress Xiaochengren, no matter how much friction in youth, after the precipitation of time, all that is left are some good memories, isn't that how Prince Li was able to be canonized as the crown prince when he was born?"

Not to mention that the crown prince was conferred for the sake of stabilizing the country during the eradication of San Francisco, Minning didn't believe it.At that time, the Supreme Emperor was only in his early 20s, and he already had several sons, and he was definitely not old enough to become a crown prince.

Not to mention that during that period, one child in the harem was born and the other died. No one can be sure whether the prince will die young or not.

Therefore, it must be the request of Empress Xiaochengren that the Supreme Emperor would register Prince Li as the crown prince before the full moon after his birth.

This definitely has the bonus of the death of Empress Xiaochengren.

Concubine Qi was startled suddenly, she didn't know what the imperial concubine meant when she said this to her?

In the end she gave a dry laugh and replied, "Long Live Lord's affection for the empress cannot be compared with the affection between the Supreme Emperor and Empress Xiao Chengren."

Minning smiled, and picked up a teacup to see off the guests.

Concubine Qi bid farewell tactfully, and after going out, she muttered in her heart, is there something wrong between the emperor and the imperial concubine?

Otherwise, how could the imperial concubine say that Lord Long Live will not be canonizing the queen?

Concubine Qi didn't believe what the imperial concubine said at all, yes, it must be the imperial concubine who was fooling him, trying to test if she was careful.

Concubine Qi patted her chest suddenly, she was a little thankful, fortunately she was sober enough, had that self-knowledge, knew that she would never be able to ascend to the second position, otherwise her heart would be moved, and failure would be trivial. Not a good time.

Apart from going to court, fourth master hid in Siyi Bookstore to review memorials during these days.

It's not that he doesn't want to canonize Minning as queen, but he just doesn't want to increase the bargaining chip for her ambition. If he gets sick again, it's very likely that what happened before will repeat. This is definitely not allowed by Fourth Master.

The fourth master wanted to delay the canonization of the queen for a while. After all, Ulanara had only passed away for three months, so there was no need to canonize the new queen so soon.

The reason why the court officials mentioned it was because the emperor loved the imperial concubine and wanted to flatter the emperor and the third prince in advance, but he never thought that the emperor would consider letting the imperial concubine be the empress.

As long as Fourth Master hinted, these courtiers would naturally not mention it again. After all, the lack of people for the position of the mother of the country is not an important matter, but the lack of talents for the position of the emperor is a major matter.

The current emperor is originally a eccentric person. Even the crown prince is unwilling to be canonized, and it is not surprising that the position of queen is vacant.

Hong Kyung is now at court in the morning, and he was immediately surprised when he heard what Sweaty Ama meant. He thought it was just Erniang's wild imagination, but Khan Ama really didn't intend to canonize his Eriang as queen.

This made Hong Kyung so embarrassed, he never expected that the relationship between Han Ama and Er Niang would change so much without knowing it, it was because of their dereliction of duty as children, they didn't even notice this.

The folks have recently been attracted by a new thing, that is, the imperial fleet has discovered a new continent, and this new continent is in the south of the Qing Dynasty, not far from the Qing Dynasty.

This discovery once again caused a gold rush among the people. In the minds of all the people, the New World must be full of gold. Now that the population has increased significantly, many people’s burdens are getting heavier, and the grown-up teenagers have become the burden of the family. and the main workforce.

Another new continent has been occupied by various forces, big and small. The new generation who have just grown up can only be coolies if they want to cross the ocean. The same, you can get gold at your fingertips.

Just when these people lamented that they were born at an untimely time, the official fleet of the imperial court discovered a new continent again, which immediately surprised many new generations.

In particular, the vast majority of these young people have read books. Although they have only read books in free primary schools for a few years, they are also literate. Anyone who is literate can read newspapers, and through newspapers, they can persist in going to other places across the country. News can also broaden horizons.

Therefore, these young people are more hardworking than their previous generation. They make good use of their knowledge and their surrounding relationships, so they quickly formed a team, and a large number of them went to the southernmost part and boarded a ship to the New World.

Even further south than Guangzhou, an island with only a few fishermen suddenly became more crowded. A large number of people were crowded here, waiting for the boat to take them to the land of wealth.

Naturally, it attracted a huge team of businessmen. Some of these businessmen also went to the New World, and some of them stayed on this island directly when they saw business opportunities.

This island is quite big and has a high-quality port. It is very suitable for a transfer station at a glance.

In the past, most of the merchant ships going to Nanyang stopped in Guangzhou and stayed in Zhuhai. Now that a more southern continent has been discovered, this island is bound to be developed by the imperial court, and it may even become a new port.

The wealth brought by a new port is definitely not comparable to the gold excavated from the New World. The wealth brought by the new port is continuous. As long as the ship stays, the wealth will never stop.

What's more, this island has advantages over ports such as Guangzhou and Macau. Although it is an independent island, it is very close to Macau and only across the sea from Zhuhai.

The island is surrounded by the sea and has a high-quality port, which can stop more ships. It will be more convenient to go to the Southeast Asia and the West Ocean from here.

There is no lack of discerning people among businessmen, and naturally there is no shortage among officials.

Soon the news spread into the capital, and the fourth master personally approved the addition of a new port.

A large number of businessmen gathered in the capital like the cat that smelled fishy, ​​and the imperial court planned to assign the construction of this port to various businessmen in the form of bidding.

This can reduce the burden on the court and also reduce the burden on the people.

After all, if the imperial court wants to build such a port, it is bound to build a new city, and then it will have to launch corvee labor in the Guangdong area, which is definitely a heavy burden for the people.

Once the construction of the port is assigned to the businessman, the businessman will advance a part of the funds to hire private manpower, and the imperial court does not need so much investment, and can pay in installments.

In this way, the merchants benefit and the people benefit, and the imperial court only needs to wait for the merchants to complete their construction and receive them.

This has become the latest model of the imperial court, like some large-scale construction, such as laying bridges and roads, building dams, and repairing river sections. Loan, pay this sum of money in batches, and then use the tax withheld by the government to slowly repay this sum of money.

No one dares not to repay the money from the bank. No matter whether it is a bully from the government or the people, if the government refuses to repay the loan, the bank will report it. Get a smarter one.

But if the bully borrows money and doesn't repay it, then he can only confiscate his collateral. The bank has its own security personnel, all of whom are good fighters.

Except for some people who were daring in the first few years, everyone knew that the bank had powerful support for the bank. Later, after seeing that the officials of the account department would first go to the bank for internships, many people who had ambitions for the bank silently withdrew their plots.

Since the backer is no match for others, it's better to be honest.

But this time, the imperial court invited bids for the construction of a new port, and certainly did not have such a huge amount of funds to fill this loophole.

So the Ministry of Households came up with the idea of ​​getting a loan from the bank.