My Daming New Empire

Zhu Zhanji went to sea for three years, and in the first year he had a general understanding of the situation in Nanzhou. In the 16th year of Yongle, news about the many gold mines in Nanzhou spread in Daming.

But Zhu Di has never had a clear proposition. He has never come up with an effective plan on how to manage Nanzhou and how to develop the gold mine.

This has led to the fact that no matter what class they want to get a share of this matter.And in the past two years of planning, a complete set of plans has been formed.

The honorable class, the general class, the civilian class, and the servant class all have their own demands, and they can also complement each other in this plan and become natural allies.

The nobles and the low-level generals in the army can form a powerful development force. They pay more attention to the interests of the mines, which is opposite to the eunuch class.

Civil officials want to control the development of the entire South Continent, linking the development of the entire South Continent with the development of the gold mines, and are unwilling to form an uncontrolled force outside of Daming.

On the contrary, they don't pay much attention to the interests of the mine, because the greatest interests must belong to the royal family, and what they value is management rights.

They formed antagonism with nobles and military generals, but they did not conflict with the eunuch's interests, so they also formed a natural alliance.

The eunuch class does not pursue power very high, they value personal interests more, or in other words, they value the operation of the mine during the development process.

After all, the entire Ming economy is now controlled by them, and they don't want this fat piece of meat to be swallowed up by nobles.

Now that Zhu Zhanji has returned to Daming, this incident has completely exploded.

Everyone has been planning for this matter for nearly two years, and now it is not something Zhu Di can suppress if he wants to.

Because this is not a benefit, but also involves the division of power in the future court.

Civil officials and eunuchs hold high the banner of righteousness, push the imperial power to the forefront, and occupy an absolute advantage in competition.

However, they have a natural shortcoming, that is, the development of Nanzhou is absolutely inseparable from the contribution of the army at the beginning.

Now there is no such thing as a tree being moved to death and a person being moved to live.

All ordinary people, as long as they still have a mouthful to eat, are absolutely unwilling to leave their homes.

Daming's desire to immigrate to Nanzhou on a large scale is definitely not something that can be accomplished in a short period of time.

No one, everything is empty talk.

Seeing that everyone was fighting at the court meeting, Zhu Di was helpless. Apart from feeling very lively, Zhu Zhanji could feel that all walks of life today are actually very trustworthy.

A large number of Xungui were killed by Zhu Yuanzhang. Although these people have some small thoughts, they are still loyal to the royal family.

The generals at the bottom rely on honorable endorsements and want to gain benefits, but they are all within the range of the river.

The civil servants have not yet formed a solidified class. Although they have always wanted to strive for greater national management power and curb military power, they are currently tightly attached to the imperial power to suppress military power. At present, they have no dissent.

As for the eunuchs, they are the most trusted personal forces of the royal family, and it is impossible to survive without the big tree of imperial power, let alone doubt their loyalty.

Although there are disputes and struggles, these are all within the controllable range.Seeing this scene, Zhu Zhanji was actually very relieved.

This is a thriving Ming Dynasty, this is a Ming Dynasty that is united as one, and this is the best Ming Dynasty.

At the end of this day's quarrel, there was still no conclusion, but seeing that Zhu Di was still undecided, everyone was very satisfied with the result.

Zhu Di's dilemma shows that Zhu Di did not favor any side.

Zhu Zhanji actually has no right to speak on such an occasion, let alone his grandson, even Zhu Gaochi, the prince, has no right to discuss matters unless Zhu Di asked him to speak.

He was also happy and leisurely. After watching the excitement for two days, he voluntarily asked to withdraw from the court meeting, because he wanted to count the harvest of this trip to sea.

This time, Daming's voyage to the West was the largest one. When it departed from Daming, there were nearly [-] cargo ships.

Some of the transactions were carried out in Nanyang, and then traded in India, and finally arrived in Europe with the fleet, and there were 220 cargo ships.

In the trade between Nanyang and India, the profit exceeded 500 million taels, and the harvest was all gold and raw materials.

For Zhu Di's expedition to the west, he did not waste the strength of Ming Dynasty except manpower, and relied on the trade with Nanyang.

This time Zhu Zhanji went directly to Europe. Although less than half of the ships were traded, the profits far exceeded the trade with Nanyang.

Because of the trade with Nanyang, it is difficult to make more than half of the profit. In order to support those countries, many trade goods are given away for nothing, even at small profits.

However, after sailing for tens of thousands of miles and leaving out the middlemen, Daming went directly to Europe to trade. All the profits were several times, dozens of times, and the profits were naturally full.

In his previous letter reports, Zhu Zhanji only said that the profit was no less than that of Nanyang Trade, but the actual profit was much higher.

Just a rough calculation, this time Daming used twelve cargo ships to carry gold and silver, and more than 100 cargo ships to carry wool and horses, with a discount of more than 2000 million taels of silver.

Of course, this huge profit was only once. It wasn't that they didn't need Ming's goods, but that Europe was too poor and didn't have more gold and silver at all.

These 2000 million taels of gold and silver are almost one-tenth of the circulating gold and silver in all their countries combined.Even if Daming shipped the goods over there, they couldn't afford them, so it would only be a steady stream in the future.

With so much gold and silver, there was still more gold and less silver, which made the whole court ecstatic, and Zhu Di was almost fainted by fright.

With so many harvests, the court has paid more attention to overseas trade and overseas interests, which is also an important reason why various classes are now arguing about Nanzhou.

Driven by interests is far more useful than shouting ten thousand slogans.

Zhu Di was also annoyed by the noise, and ordered the development of Nanzhou to be discussed after a year.After the new year, the court's focus was all shifted to counting the harvest and distributing benefits.

There is no objection to this resolution, because the distribution of interests is more important than arguing for future interests now.

For everyone, the current troubles are just troubles of happiness.

Coming out of Fengtian Temple, a gust of cold wind made Zhu Zhanji shiver uncontrollably.Zhu Di was old and frail, and his rheumatism was getting worse. He couldn't bear the cold air, so more than a dozen charcoal basins were placed in the hall.

Coupled with the large number of people in the court meeting, hundreds of people in one hall will not feel the cold.But after all, it was the twelfth lunar month of winter. Although it didn't snow, the temperature was below zero.

As soon as he left the hall, apart from Li Liang and Sun Lin, Guo Liang beside Mrs. Zhang was also waiting for him.Li Liang put on a cloak for Zhu Zhanji, and Guo Liang went up to pay homage and said, "Your Highness, the Crown Princess has made ginseng soup for His Highness, and asked His Highness to go back to Xingqing Palace directly after going down."

"Understood." Zhu Zhanji turned to Sun Lin and said, "You ask Yang Zhangde to meet me at the Jiajiang bank of the inner prison tomorrow, and accept the memorial first, and I will read it at night."

Sun Lin hesitated for a moment, and then said: "The second young master Peng Chengbo came to Donghuamen to hand over the post in the afternoon, but he stayed in the Counseling Department. I'm afraid he has something urgent to see His Highness."

"Is it for me or for my concubine? Forget it, let him come to Xingqing Palace. The concubine also mentioned their two brothers yesterday."

Yang Zhangde is a foreign minister, it is not convenient to enter the palace, Zhang Wu is a relative, as long as he does not often enter the palace, it is not so particular.

When the group returned to Xingqing Palace, Zhu Zhanji smelled a strong fragrance.

After coming back for a few days, Mrs. Zhang used the stove to stew a pot of black-bone chicken and ginseng soup in Zhu Zhanji's study every day.The diet in the palace has its own regulations, and it is generally not allowed to repeat a certain dish every day, so beware of poisoning.

Mrs. Zhang handles everything from fetching water to discharging materials, and does not allow others to touch it.The ginseng soup was stewed in Zhu Zhanji's study, and she watched from the side until Zhu Zhanji drank it into his stomach.

Although Zhu Zhanji didn't think it was necessary, it was Zhang's wish, so Zhu Zhanji pretended to enjoy this kind of care and did not give in to her wish.

Regardless of whether Zhu Zhanji is at home or not, she basically takes Zhu Zhanji's Xingqing Palace as her home now.She only works in the Wenhua Palace except sometimes to receive noble ladies and relatives.

With her in control of the overall situation, Sun Xian is in charge of personnel affairs, Xue Shanggong is in charge of miscellaneous affairs, although Zhu Zhanji has many women, Xingqing Palace does not have much right and wrong.