I am the king of the dead

"Yu Shaobao once told me that the imperial court's expenditures are taken from the people. The government uses one, and the common people donate a hundred. The 250 million silver coins are included in the account. I feel uneasy. Take a look, I can hardly sleep or eat."

There are many reasons for losing the world twice in the Song Dynasty, but it has a lot to do with the fact that the officials are rich and the people are poor.

Dispossession must exist, because classes last forever, how to open up the upward channels between classes, and how to coordinate the contradictions among the various classes so that such contradictions do not get out of control are the prerequisites for the existence of the imperial court.

From the fourth year of Jingtai to the seventh year of Jingtai, in less than three years, Sun Bingfu not only turned losses into profits for Baoyuan bureaus in various places, but even made a surplus that exceeded the previous year's regular payment of silver. How could Zhu Qiyu be able to sleep.

Yu Qian asked a little strangely: "Did you understand the accounts of Wang Hu, the doctor of the household department of the Du branch, Lin Xiu, the eunuch of the internal money, and others? Where did the money come from?"

Zhu Qiyu looked at Yu Qian and said helplessly: "The books are impeccable, this is what worries me."

"Now the assets controlled by Baoyuan bureaus in various places are all on the ledger."

Nearly [-]% of the tung gardens, tung oil workshops, and tung oil distribution in Daming;

In addition to the official factories in Daming, nearly [-]% of the shipyards, coal frying factories, and grain stores;

In addition to the government-run weaving bureau in the Ming Dynasty, nearly [-]% of the silk shops;

Nearly [-]% of the cotton spinning, brocade weaving, butchery, meat shops, seafood, sauces, flowers and fruits, palace powder, ready-made clothes, medicine shops, weaving, coffins, ancients, clay, drums, leather, etc. , are all under the accounts of these Baoyuan bureaus.

In the past few years, Baoyuan Bureau has carefully selected projects, determined by the Ministry, and invested in exchange for returns. After the investment, the director of Baoyuan Bureau will conduct a comprehensive review of the entire project, and it involves specific management issues. middle.

Baoyuan Bureau has achieved many successful projects, among which Sun Bingfu is personally responsible for tung oil, shipyards, silk and cotton spinning companies, and so on.

According to Sun Bingfu’s memorandum, in Jingtai’s eight-year settlement period, it will be able to hand over a profit of more than five million yuan, and this growth rate will reach ten million within five years, and will increase at a rate of about [-]% every year thereafter.

Currently, about 200 million taels of silver are flowing into Daming each year, mainly from the Wa Kingdom and Borneo. The inflow of silver cannot satisfy the appetite of Baoyuan Bureau at all, and private wealth is rapidly concentrated in Baoyuan Bureau.

Moreover, Baoyuan Bureau is still carrying out large-scale deposit absorption. This kind of deposit absorption is trusted by merchants from all over the world with the acceptance of interest.

"Uncle Huang once wrote an editorial on the theory of sharpness in the second edition of the Dibao. I read it and approved it for publication. Sun Bingfu is a practitioner of the theory of sharpness." Zhu Qiyu characterized Sun Bingfu's behavior.

Investing in all walks of life in Daming through Baoyuan Bureau is what Zhu Qiyu did after he asked Baoyuan Bureau to absorb reserves.

He originally thought that Sun Bingfu would do it slowly, and at least a few years later, it would be effective, but Sun Bingfu only took more than two years to do it.

The financial investment is very profitable, and public finance, road administration, education, medical care and other industries that are closely related to the people can increase investment, which is naturally a good thing.

Yu Qian didn't know why and asked: "Your Majesty, "Xunzi · The Way of the King" says that it is taken from the people and used for the people. As long as these money and goods are used well, the money of Ming Dynasty is like a clear stream in a ditch. to worry?"

The major projects of the Ming Dynasty, such as the water conservancy in Jing'an, the treatment of the Yellow River in Kaifeng, Henan, the dredging of the Wujiang River in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Guizhou, the 20-mile waterway involving several provinces, the hardening of 40-mile roads, the construction of official factories, etc., will all spend these silver coins. In the end, it reached the hands of the people.

This is the continuous flow of financial affairs of the Ming Dynasty, and the initial formation of the internal cycle of the Ming Dynasty. Why should His Majesty be so worried.

The rapid development of Baoyuan Bureau made Zhu Qiyu quite worried. He was very worried that Sun Bingfu was exhausting his resources.

Zhu Qiyu looked at Yu Qian, and said very solemnly: "Why am I worried?"

"Take the Great Song Dynasty as an example. The Great Song Dynasty was rich, and the burden of the people should be reduced. However, in the Second Song Dynasty, the shackles on the people were stacked on top of each other, making the people breathless. The people in the history books of the Two Song Dynasty There were more than [-] civil disturbances that broke through county and state capitals."

"Take what is taken from the people's ease, and use it for the people's distress."

Zhu Qiyu and Yu Qian were talking about distribution.

During the Song Dynasty, the tax revenue of the imperial court exceeded 3000 million yuan a year, and when converted into silver taels, it also exceeded 2000 million yuan, and it increased year by year. However, the income growth of the people could not even increase inflation, and the high taxes could not be paid. The township government set up several projects for private reasons, the people suffered unspeakably, and the chaos continued. In the end, the people were destitute and the world was exhausted.

When Zhu Qiyu practiced the money law at the beginning, he didn't want to make Daming look like the Song Dynasty, and he didn't want his own policies to really become a policy of subjugation.

Zhu Qiyu didn't want to see this situation, so he was worried.

Regarding financial affairs, Yu Qian is indeed inferior to Zhu Qiyu, and he can only discuss a few words with His Majesty when Mu Yangbo Jin Lian was alive.

Yu Qian was silent for a long time before he said with certainty: "Your Majesty, Daming is Daming, and Ming is neither Song nor Tang."

"Da Ming is Daming."

"Since your Majesty is worried, why not go on a southern tour and take a look. Hearing is believing, seeing is believing."

Yu Qian finally agreed with Zhu Qiyu's idea of ​​making a southern tour, and thought it was necessary.

"After Jingtai's eight-year examination, let's talk about the southern tour." Zhu Qiyu thought that Yu Qian would strongly object, but he didn't expect Yu Qian to be so easily persuaded.

Yu Qian thought for a while and explained: "I think from the perspective of the country's system. In the entire public power system, the Nanya has just been divided into four parts, and people are panic. Your Majesty has been away from Nanjing for a long time. Nanjing has not been sanctified for decades. It is not a long-term one. count."

"Even if there is no Baoyuan Bureau in the Southern Yamen, His Majesty should still tour the South, examine the people's situation and military affairs, ask about the sufferings of the people, give gifts and rewards, patrol the river to check the working conditions, observe the people's inspection of the government, and parade the army to worship the ancestor's mausoleum."

Jiangnan is the most prosperous area in the entire Ming Dynasty, and it is also the most important granary in the Ming Dynasty, accounting for [-]% of the rice and grain in the entire Ming Dynasty.

Among the imperial court's taxation, the Nanya Fourteenth Mansion alone accounted for [-]% of the Ming Dynasty's silver tax, [-]% of the grain tax, and [-]% of the salt tax. point.

Such an important place, but the emperor didn't even look at it. It's strange that there were no problems in the Ming Dynasty's north-south dispute, court and local dispute.

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty was known to be indifferent to the world, and one of them was that the ancestral tomb of Emperor Gao of the Ming Dynasty was in Nanjing. However, since the emperor moved the capital, he no longer offered sacrifices in person.

Governing the world with filial piety is the foundation of all dynasties. The emperor of Ming Dynasty was also called Junfu, but Junfu never personally offered sacrifices to the ancestral mausoleum.

Especially today, His Majesty is killing the king and brother, killing the three princes and the front of the Heaven and Earth Altar in disregard of the friendship of relatives. Although His Majesty doesn't care, it is indeed true.

Yu Qian drank his saliva and continued: "Your Majesty will not mention it. After the situation in Tatar is stabilized, I will also propose to Your Majesty to tour the world south to reassure the people of the world."

"I have also communicated with Hu Shangshu. Hu Shangshu said that during the years of Yongle and Hongxi, there was a custom that the emperor guarded the northern office and the prince supervised the southern office. However, Emperor Renzong and the first emperor Xuanzong died early, and King Jili did not appoint a prince for a long time. It's over."

Although the capital was moved in the 19th year of Yongle, since Emperor Taizong Wen left Nanjing in the sixth year of Yongle, the practice and basic pattern of the emperor guarding the northern office and the prince supervising the southern office formed. This is also an important reason why Zhu Di decided to move the capital.

Emperor Renzong Zhu Gaochi died, and the prince Zhu Zhanji at that time was in Nanjing Jiannanya. It took him [-] days to rush back to Beiya. Wang Zhuzhanqian supervised the country for the first time.

After Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne, Zhu Qizhen was born in the second year of Xuande, and Zhu Qiyu was born in the third year of Xuande. Only then was established as the prince.

Therefore, no one mentions the basic pattern of the emperor living in the northern yamen and the crown prince in charge of the southern yamen.

In Zhu Di's conception, after the capital was moved, the six yamen of Nanya were actually the prince's hidden residence in the East Palace.

However, it is an indisputable fact that Nanjing has been abolished for more than two hundred years and has become a place outside the law.

Zhu Qiyu frowned and said: "Is this also the method of ancestor cultivation?"

"This is the law of the ancestors." Yu Qian said confidently.

Zhu Qiyu's current Governors Yingtian and Songjiang, and during the Xuande and Zhengtong years, letting Wei Guogong's government monitor Nanjing are not the solution.

The crown prince oversees all affairs in the Nanya, the emperor patrols the south, and the Nanya is separated, so that the end of the Nanya can be effectively alleviated.

"It turns out that Yu Shaobao is considering the system of the country and would like to be taught." Zhu Qiyu thought for a long time and said in agreement.

Yu Qian hurriedly bowed his head and said, "I'm terrified."

"I want to see the Ottoman envoy, Yu Shaobao wait a moment, Xing'an, Xuan." Zhu Qiyu talked about another matter, of course he remembered meeting Kang Chengzhi today.

It is mainly about Constantine XI, the last emperor of Rome, the red apple full of copper green rust, and most importantly, the coronation of Fatih, the Sultan of the Ottoman Kingdom.

Little Steadman, like Kang Chengzhi, wore a Confucian uniform and put on his right lapel as soon as he entered the door, bowed his head respectfully and bowed his head five times, and shouted loudly: "My minister, Kang Chengzhi, pays homage to the ruler of the world, the ruler of all nations. Lord, long live your Majesty, long live, long live."

Zhu Qiyu said calmly: "Pingshen."

"I heard that Fatih is planning to form a Turkic alliance, and under the witness of many Turkic tribal chiefs, he will ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor. Is there such a thing?"

Kang Chengzhi's body was half-stretched, and he immediately collapsed, knelt on the ground, and said tremblingly: "My king must have been deceived and bewitched by villains to act like this. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."

Zhu Qiyu said very easily: "He is thousands of miles away from me, what can I do with him if he calls himself emperor?"

"Can I still send troops to beat him?"

Kang Chengzhi's forehead was really sweating, and he said anxiously: "Your Majesty thinks that the rumors are wrong. My king gathered many Turkic tribes to form an alliance. He should want to be a caliph, not an emperor. Your majesty's translation like this must be someone with ulterior motives. Also please Your Majesty to learn from you."

Kang Chengzhi was also eager to gain wisdom, and even sued Tongshitang, which was presided over by the Roman envoy Nicolaus, so it was reasonable.

Zhu Qiyu sneered, and when he was an emperor, he still covered up the caliphate. The caliphate means successor and prophet, which is roughly equivalent to the spiritual leader.

Roma has no emperor, Roma is really not Roman orthodoxy.

5 Chapter Ninety The Seeds of Doubt Once Sown, Will Take Root

"If you want to be a caliph, you have a lot of ambition." Zhu Qiyu looked at Kang Chengzhi and said bitterly again.

The caliph is the most holy teacher of Islam. If Fatih really wanted to be the caliph, what would he want to do?Where do you put those Islamic countries?

What kind of culture does the Ottoman Kingdom belong to?

Kang Chengzhi never expected that the Emperor Ming seemed to be very clear about the affairs of the Western Regions, and he denied Fatih's legitimacy in one sentence.

Zhu Qiyu looked at Kang Chengzhi, and he suddenly remembered his girlfriend in college, a girl from the Academy of Fine Arts. Of course, this girl is not the point. The teacher of this girl is a painter, a well-known kind.

The artist has been to King's Castle and summed it up precisely.

"I have been engaged in art all my life, but this concept of history has not been established. I didn't know that the place I went to was not this country until I went to Istanbul (Kimburg) a few years ago. It is both Ancient Greece, ancient Rome, Eastern Rome, Ottoman, and the new moon.”

This sentence accurately sums up the current situation and future of the Ottoman Kingdom, that is, Ottoman has no cultural foundation, is confused, and is a country with a confused identity.

When the identity is confused, it will reduce the national identity and have a fatal impact on the centripetal force.

To sum up, Osman is a bunch.

Zhu Qiyu looked at Kang Chengzhi and continued: "I summoned you today because I want you to tell Fatih: Although people also cross the same river, the water flowing beside them is different."

"He's repairing a ship of Theseus."

The Ship of Theseus is a Greek myth and legend. Theseus is the hero of Athens. He won the battle. In order to pass on the ship repaired by the hero, the rotten wood of the ship will be replaced, and all the parts will be replaced in the end. Replace it with a new one.

At this time, the question comes, is the ship of Theseus still the ship of Theseus?

Just like the sailing battleship Victory, which is still in service in the 21st century.

In the 21st century, Daiying's navy still has sailing battleships with wooden structures.

Ancient Rome, Romania, Roman Empire, Eastern and Western Rome, and Ottomans are all facing the crisis of the Ship of Theseus.

Li Daitao is stiff and sparrows occupy the dove's nest.

The Ottoman Empire had a very bloody fundamental system called Blood Tribute, which meant that the Ottoman army would arrest a large number of Western Orthodox children, mainly Greeks, Romans, and Armenians.

The oldest of these children was only a teenager.

They bid farewell to their parents and hometown, and were taken to the distant King Castle as slaves.

After being evaluated for appearance, IQ, and ability, the "top grade" was left to serve in the sultan's court, the "middle grade" was assigned to senior official pashas, ​​and the rest were sent to official residences in remote areas of Asia Minor.

All children must be converted, and some of the "top grade" boys will be sent to specialized schools to receive the best education, and they will hold important positions in the administrative system of the Ottoman Kingdom as adults to help the Sultan check and balance the Ottoman nobles.

This is the typical practice of changing wood.

The inheritance system of the Ottoman Kingdom is the inheritance system of the Guards. Whoever controls the Guards can become a Sultan. When he becomes a Sultan, he will kill all his brothers and sisters, plus blood tribute. The Ottoman Kingdom will not change. It will really mess up.

Kang Chengzhi looked at His Majesty inexplicably. He knew about the Ship of Theseus, but he didn't understand what His Majesty was declaring. His Majesty's words were more incomprehensible than the so-called oracles of the cardinals.

Looking at Kang Chengzhi's confused look, Zhu Qiyu shook his head and said, "You just passed on the message, you don't understand, but your Sultan can understand it."

Zhu Qiyu waved his hand, signaling Kang Chengzhi to step back.

There was internal strife in the country of Kang, and the rebels headed by Haihan failed to become a big stone, but Haihan killed Yexian's most successful son, Bo Luo, and Yexian, who was suffering from the loss of his son, ignored government affairs In the military affairs, Wang Fu had to seize power in advance. At this time, Kang Guo was actually very frightened and fragile.

Zhu Qiyu just asked Kang Chengzhi to spread the word, to buy some time for the "expeditionary army".

Zhu Qiyu has no interest in the internal affairs of the Ottoman Kingdom, and has no intention of managing it. He is just sowing seeds.

"Once the seeds of doubt are planted, they will take root and sprout." Zhu Qiyu looked at Yu Qian and explained what he had done.

As the artist said, the Ottoman kingdom, like Kang, is a mess, and they need to establish national identity and national identity.

What Fatih, who has just conquered Junbao, needs to do most is cultural integration, national integration and identity integration, to find out the roots of the Ottoman Kingdom and twist it into a single rope.

If Fatih really listened to Zhu Qiyu's words and began to guard against those Orthodox children, he would be fooled.

Because the generals of the Ottoman Guards were all composed of these children, Fatih was able to control the Guards because of these children.

The identities of the opposing identities who were suspicious of each other, if the sultan became suspicious again, the guards would no longer be Fatih's sharp blade, but Wang Gong's factory next to his pillow, and a big explosion could happen anytime, anywhere.

Will Fatih take this sentence to heart?

Of course, because Zhu Qiyu is the emperor of Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Qiyu signaled Xing'an to bring a pile of cards and blueprints, and said eagerly, "Yu Shaobao, the next game is a board game similar to Bing Pushing the Board."

Yu Qian looked at His Majesty in horror. Has His Majesty, who is diligent in politics, started playing with things?

Yu Qian's horror quickly turned into joy, and he showed a very interested look.

In Yu Qian's eyes, His Majesty has done a good job, the problem lies in the word "very good".

As the most honorable person in the world, all he thinks and thinks about is government affairs and military affairs. Three to five years is fine, but what about ten or 20 years?

Everyone gets tired.

Your Majesty is a bit playful, but in Yu Qian's opinion, it is a great thing. This is why Yu Qian stares at Xing'an's cheating pressure, and occasionally plays chess with His Majesty.

"How do you play this?" Yu Qian asked a little strangely as he looked at the pile of cards he brought.