"Absurd, absurd!" Xu Xianchun slapped the table and scolded him.

Even if Wang Wenyan scolds the emperor, Xu Xianchun will not be touched. That is normal. The losers of the internal strife in the court will complain all over. Even if he doesn't scold the emperor clearly, there is still less matter to arrange the emperor in private? What did Emperor Zhengde of Wuzong call the literati? What is Li Fengjie? What are the cricket emperors and the little bee emperors, all of whom are shameless literati make the nicknames of the Emperor Ming. The emperor now has a nickname, and he is called the carpenter emperor. The following literati have no rules. Wang Wenyan has always been a bold person. When death is approaching, what does he dare not say?

But Xu Xianchun never expected that when Mr. Wang was dying, he said something like this.

"Isn't that absurd?" said the prisoner, "Although our Ming Dynasty has been in trouble in the past few years, the internal security is safe, and the weather is good everywhere, and the country is sufficient. Except for Liao Town, the Jiubian is quiet. The mere Donggu is rampant for a while, so what can really be done? It's a joke to say that our Ming Dynasty will destroy the country."

Of course, Xu Xianchun knew more than prisoners. The Ming Dynasty is far from being a prosperous era. After the 19th year of Wanli, the emperor and ministers were angry. This is a fact. The three major sanctions in Wanli completely wiped out the treasury silver. By the 47th year of Wanli, there was a financial deficit and the national treasury was empty. Once the Liao incident occurred, there was only one move to increase the salary. During the Tianqi period, the court had to stabilize the situation in western Liao by increasing the collection of commercial taxes and increasing land taxes. However, there were disasters everywhere inside. The number of refugees and bandits in the north increased. This is also the truth. The party struggles were still fierce. However, if we say that these were signs of a destruction of the country, Xu Xianchun would not agree with it even if we beat them to death.

"Such absurd words cannot be reported," Xu Xianchun said decisively: "Who doesn't know that Wang Wenyan has always been jealous of Huji. He has fought with Huji several times, but he can't do anything to others. He still has to frame him when he dies. It's so great that such a person should have died long ago."

"That's right, it's right." Several Jinyiwei officials burst into laughter.

...

At the end of the afternoon, King Xin found out that Tianqi did not rest, but created several novel wooden objects in Duanzhuan Palace. He quickly ordered the sedan chair to pass on, and all the way from Dong'anmen to the imperial city, and then from Donghuamen to the palace.

The emperor of King Xin was of course carried in with a soft sedan chair. The weather was cold. King Xin was wearing a big sweater and hid the five sky-blue dragon straight robe under it. The top of his head was wearing a big hat decorated with Dongzhu. The hat and collar covered the face of the young prince, making it difficult to see King Xin's face and his facial expressions clearly.

There were many officials along the way. Before entering the imperial city and the palace gate, most of the people coming and going were low-level officials and officials. When they saw the prince's sedan chair, they all took the lead and avoided them and bowed.

King Xin seemed indifferent, but his eyes were staring at these officials, wondering whether these officials really respected themselves or were just superficial articles.

And how many eunuchs and how many Donglin righteousness remains?

Since Wang Wenyan was suddenly arrested, and then Yang Lian and others, more than a dozen key officials who could fight the Donglin Party members were arrested, and a large number of officials were demoted from Beijing, the political atmosphere in the capital became extremely dangerous. Although King Xin could never interfere in these matters, and even could not ask people to ask for information, from the eunuchs of the royal palace such as Wang Dehua and Cao Huachun, King Xin still had a steady stream of information, and also knew that the atmosphere in the capital was depressing, like a big pot stuck on the head of the capital, the atmosphere was dark and unclear, which made people feel depressed.

The more at this moment, the more obvious the cautious and cautious character of Xin Wang became.

He went to see the Emperor of Heavenly Qi once a few days later, and spoke cautiously and tried to say something about the Emperor of Heavenly Qi. He never talked about government affairs. However, Tianqi already felt that it was difficult for him to give birth to children. After all, there was no news in the past year, and there were nearly twenty concubines in the harem, but no one was conceived in a year. Tianqi felt that he was not energetic and even lacked kidney water. For the sake of the national plan, since King Xin often entered the palace, the emperor would also talk about the country by chance.

In government affairs, King Xin only listened timidly and did not dare to speak casually. Even if he was as close as a brother, he grew up together when he was young and had deep feelings, the line of imperial power must not be easily passed. Even if the emperor felt that his descendants were difficult, King Xin would be like a crown prince, but if he did not tear the window paper a day, King Xin would only be considered an external vassal, but was only a crown prince recognized by both the government and the public. There would never be any civil servant who would not open his eyes and persuade the emperor to let the country of Xin Wang be a vassal.

The sedan chair was put down in front of the palace gate, and there was still a 100 or 200 steps left, so King Xin could only walk over by himself.

There were eunuchs wearing sky-blue and Yuan-blue robes standing around. Many eunuchs were holding copper whisks in their hands. King Xin knew that this was the last close servant beside the emperor. Every time the emperor came to Wenhua Hall to listen to politics or speak, dozens of eunuchs with whisks stood behind or on both sides of the Jintai. Shangguan of the Jinyiwei Hall stood on the left side of the Jintai, Hanlin Cichen and Pavilion Minister were standing on the right side, and the Han general stood on the steps with golden gourds. It seemed that the Jinyiwei was the imperial guards protecting the emperor. In fact, what the emperor trusted the most was the group of eunuchs holding copper whisks.

Going closer, I started to hear the sound of people roaring, the sound of axes and saws endlessly, and the sound of eunuchs exclaiming.

When King Xin saw a tall eunuch standing beside the emperor's brother, he kept handing over various tools, and kept picking them up and taking them down. From time to time, he bent down and blew away the wood flowers and hang them straight with ink lines. No one was concerned about King Xin's entry into the hall. The eunuchs were sweating profusely. There was a copper furnace in the hall, and the temperature was much higher than that outside. No wonder they were so busy that they were sweating and heavy clothes were wet.

"My brother is here."

However, when the emperor stood up to drink tea, he saw King Xin first. The emperor said happily: "Today we are building a large warship, which is like a red and barbarian ship. I will still imitate it. Today we build the hull first, then build the keel board, and ask Shangyi Bureau to make sails. Everything must be done as usual, but the specifications are slightly smaller."

Recently, the emperor was indeed particularly interested in making wooden sailboats. This kind of sailboat model first appeared in Tianjin and then became popular in the capital market. I heard that it had been sold in Suzhou for a long time. I heard that there were some merchants who offered rewards. If carpenters could imitate successfully, they would be rewarded. Of course, if the scholars and officials were rich and leisure, they would be fine if they were willing to imitate them. As long as they imitate them according to their original appearance, they would have silver. However, this kind of sailboat structure is very different from Chinese sailboats, and there is no tradition of building sailboat models among the people... At this time, Chinese craftsmen used kung fu to carve, such as carving ivory products, and a piece of ivory could carve a whole landscape painting, tree roots, ivory, and jade, which could be carved. Not many people were interested in making models.

Of course, this thing was made by Yu Sheng.

It is really manpower to build sailboats. In Fujian, there are very few people who build various Chinese hard sailboats, but there are too few people who use Western ships. In the past two years, we have come to search everywhere for craftsmen, but the number of people who use them is still insufficient. After Deszhnev and others arrived in Taiwan, the scale of shipbuilding suddenly increased, but the number of workers was insufficient. Even if the Russians helped with training, it would take time to cultivate people's interests with models and then recruit good people who can build Western warships.

The level of wood creation in Tianqi is really not a false reputation. One is talented, the other is that it has a complete set of craftsmen in the palace and has the highest level of craftsmen to serve at any time. After a few years, the emperor made his skills with all kinds of tools, without fear of waste and with the help of experts. His skills have really improved by leaps and bounds. The Chinese lucky ship he built has already built several models. Although this time, although it was the first time to build a Western-style warship, with the help of everyone, the hull has already made a thick look. It seems that it will not take too long to complete it.

King Xin felt speechless. He was a young man who was addicted to Confucian classics and ambitious. The one who looked down on the emperor's brother the most was his loss of ambition. King Xin later ascended the throne. Although he was in a state of turmoil for seventeen years, there were also peace scenes where he could rest. However, whether it was war or calm, King Xin always focused on governing the country and was not interested in the rest.

At present, King Xin had to make up for his interest and praised the emperor's craftsmanship a few words.

Tianqi was very happy to hear that a palace servant came to send snacks, so he asked King Xin to use snacks with him. Many eunuchs helped, only Wei Zhongxian, who had been standing by Tianqi, also had one.

The dim sum in the palace is because it is exquisite in the ingredients and the taste is over. King Xin really ate with relish and chatted with the emperor's brother while eating. At this time, Tianqi began to test the views of King Xin on some government affairs. King Xin was shocked to realize that although the emperor had not summoned ministers for many days, he had no disconnection with government affairs. On the contrary, Emperor Tianqi was still very concerned about some military major policies and had quite firm views and opinions.

"On the ninth day of the fifth month of the fourth year of Tianqi, there was an edict to add salt courses, Lianghuai, Liangzhe, Changlu, Shandong, Fujian, Guangdong and Sichuan, how much is the total silver increase?"

"I remember that I added 547,993 taels of silver."

"Good." Tianqi praised: "What did my brother think about this?"

Chongzhen felt that after the increase in salt classes, the burden on the people would probably increase greatly, which would lead to public resentment, insufficient national use, and increased Liao levies. Various taxes have increased in recent years. In addition to 26 million stones of grain, the national income also had a considerable amount of miscellaneous income, while the silver income increased from 3 million to 9 million. During this period, the pressure on the people was naturally increased several times.

King Xin said, "My brother thinks that if the country is worth a little, the tax should be reduced first."

Tianqi nodded and said, "Remember the four words "The State Use Slightly Enough" and "Reduce the Tax" first and then "The Tax" is the first. If you only focus on reducing the Tax, and then make the Tax short, it will be unfair."
Chapter completed!