Chapter 332 Tengxiang
Such an emperor should not appear in the world, especially in the position of Wanli, because he was not the first emperor, nor did he launch a coup that would unify the world again like Emperor Chengzu.
An emperor who grew up in the deep palace should not know how to do it himself, or should not be a dictator.
The dictator is not a derogatory term here.
Because the Ming Dynasty, which developed normally, there would not be emperors who tried to stop the power. Even in history, there were only about three Ming Dynasty, and there were actually four people, but the latter two were only half.
Emperor Taizu of Ming, Emperor Chengzu of Ming, Emperor Wuzong of Ming and Emperor Sizong of Ming.
The first two are because they unified the world and did everything themselves; Wuzong was naturally active and liked to play, while Sizong was extremely frightened, suspicious, and helpless.
If you want to monopolize power, it is not enough to rely solely on the emperor's identity. You only have an identity and even if you are willing to take power, you have no ability. This requires authority. But Emperor Wanli has this authority.
Who asked him to drive a small car called Huode Xingjun in the palace and win the Second War in Mingxi?
The best officers in the world and the rising officials were his disciples, and the empire flourished in his hands and grew stronger and stronger.
It seems that all the serious and old diseases were solved by Emperor Wanli adding coal to the Huode Star Lord again and again.
He has no prestige, who has prestige?
Zhang Juzheng? Zhang Juzheng certainly has prestige, but Mr. Zhang became famous after he seized love.
What's more, the prestige of ministers is different from that of emperors.
In the seventh year of Wanli, Emperor Wanli also made a great attempt.
Another empire was about to fall, and Ma Fang, a veteran general who had been guarding Xuanda for many years, submitted a letter to resign. The root cause of the war in his early years made him unable to put on his horse. A few days after the emperor sent him to the Beiyang Medical Hospital for treatment, an edict sent another count to the Ming Empire - Krupp Ma Fang.
The Ming Empire was extremely cautious in awarding titles. The biggest problem was that the royal family members Lumi. However, when Emperor Wanli mentioned that the title was blocked by the court officials' issue of Lumi, the emperor had a solution: I was too cautious to give me some sloppy, and more than 600 royal families were transferred out. Next year, it would be more. This amount of Lumi was used to give me important officials in the court.
Yin Zhengmao, Ling Yunyi, Wu Dui, Wang Chonggu, Qi Jiguang, Li Chengliang, Chen Lin and others agreed.
Zhang Juzheng thought about it again and again, and also praised it.
However, for Wang Zongyi, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, the amount of the Count's salary of the Empire's re-issuance of titles is irrelevant. As long as the warehouse corruption that is like a rat's cave can be managed, it can be granted hundreds of Counts for the emperor. The change in the income component of the Empire is his most concerned.
The Ministry of Industry has more and more income-generating projects.
This year, Zhang Juzheng strongly recommended the entire line of the telegraph network in Zhili, North and South China. 270 telegraph rooms were put into use on the way, of which 130 were for the three purposes of the officials, military and civilians.
During the process of gradual construction of telegrams for several years, wealthy merchants and merchants have long been accustomed to these novel things. The telegram route between north and south Zhili, which lasts for more than 2,000 miles allows people to receive reply within seven days. The terrain will not be mentioned for the time being. The price of civilians is extremely high just by being separated by the Yellow River.
But, however, there is no shortage of wealthy people at both ends of this telegram route.
Even if there are one or two crosses, there are still many people who write thousands of long letters and telegrams from the north and south.
During the year, the maintenance of various places was deducted, and the Ministry of Industry still had more than 100,000 taels of surplus on the books.
This is just one of them. The second is the Steam Bureau, which is even more of a big income than the Telegram. If you sell more than 40 models of A in a year, you can earn hundreds of thousands of taels, and there are more small and medium-sized models as a foil.
As the Minister of Works, Wang Zongyi, has been arguing with the Ministry of Works, trying every means to put the money under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Revenue. The Ministry of Works argues with reason and would rather let the Nanyang Military Office deliver the science and technology rewards from the Ministry of Works to the Ministry of Revenue in the Chen Mu era than to hand over the money they earned.
The Ministry of Works has tasted the sweetness.
It was not the silver itself, but they had completed a virtuous cycle under the financial supply of the Nanyang Military Office.
Funds are used to develop steam engines, and the steam engine is put into use, and large-scale production is used for counter-trading. After making a profit, it is re-invested. The research and development is successful and more gold and silver investment is invested in research and development.
The various subjects of machinery, materials, mechanics, and electricity have improved due to this cycle.
Any important official of the court can't let go as long as he sits in the position of Minister of Works.
How terrible is the power of capital? Yin Zhengmao doesn't embezzle public funds anymore - corruption is where what he does now, so it makes money quickly? It's also 300,000 taels of military expenditure. If he is greedy, he can only 300,000 taels, but if he wants to use these 300,000 taels, he has to use them to arm the troops, warships, and artillery of the Western Military Palace. At most 300,000 taels a year, it can be turned into 3 million taels a year.
Even if he took more than half of it from the middle, he would still give it to the court with one million. In fact, he would really take more than half every time, and he would only pay one million taels to the court with three million taels.
Or he said that the performance of the Western Military Government was poor, but the money was meaningless to him, so where was there any place to spend? None of the Western countries were sent to him by him, but there was no way, he just liked shiny things.
Anyway, no matter how poor the performance is, Chen Mu's Dongyang Military Mansion is at the bottom.
Chen Mu's Oriental Military Mansion is indeed the one with the largest investment, the most support, but the least profit among the three overseas military mansions.
The Nanyang Military Mansion has hardware, rice, grain, market, population, and has been operating for many years and has the strongest profitability. The Western Military Mansion also has hardware, wood, goods, population, and market. If Yin Zhengmao's greed is not considered, the Western Military Mansion can surpass the Nanyang Military Mansion.
The territory of the Oriental Military Palace is also very large and there are a lot of goods. Although there is less gold and silver, you can get six or seven hundred thousand taels of taels every year by stroke from Spain. The difference is the goods.
The most produced good woods in the Dongyang Military Palace cannot be transported because they are not coastal!
However, during this ordinary year, the little emperor who was sitting firmly in the Forbidden City felt a thrill of heart. The rider in the north braved the biting cold and brought him back from Wangxiazhou to prepare for the war. The Dongyang Military Palace had reached a practical occupation of the entire New Spain. In order to establish the influence of the Ming Empire in Europe and to better assist King Ailan's war in restoration, the Dongyang Military Palace intends to intervene in the French War.
When he read this letter, Emperor Wanli also had a reply from the Minister of War and the Governor of Shaanxi Three Borders Dai Cai on the table to allocate the Three Borders.
The letter said that in the seventh year of Wanli that was about to pass, the three major military weapons bureaus of Beixuanfu, Nanyang Guard and Beiyang have built a total of 7,440 field cannons, city cannons and naval cannons in the fourth year of Wanli, and 31,272 bird cannons were built in the sixth year of Wanli.
At this point, the guards of Jiubian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Shandong and Fujian provinces have completed the replacement of new bird guns and cannons, and the border troops of Jizhen have completed the arming of bird guns, tiger squat cannons, artillery, and chariots. This means... the 300,000 Beijing troops stationed in Zhili, North can be appropriately abolished, selected, and reorganized.
Chapter completed!