Wanli has been reading the secret text for a long time, but there is really no word "I".

After several years of transformation, the telegram network promoted by Zhang Juzheng was changed from the Beijing Shop to the north of Zhili, and then from the Northern Zhili to various places. The telegram secrets of the Ming Dynasty were also changed many times.

From the earliest Qi family army codebook to the three sets of parallel Yin-Yang and Five Elements codebooks of the official, military and civilians, the cipher text covers almost all texts, but there is no ‘I’.

In fact, it has nothing to do with taboo. Sometimes the word "tag" must be used to convey information, but the word "I" is really not needed.

After Xiao Wanli entered the telegraph room for a stick of incense, a telegram that started with "I am Yijun, remember to add my claim to maintain majesty when reading the decree," the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who started with the New Year's greetings to the border army, was telegrams sent to the land of the Ming Dynasty quickly on the land of the Ming Dynasty.

After sending the telegram, the emperor was in a good mood and was about to take King Lu to leave the telegram room. Suddenly he thought of something, and suddenly turned around and asked the eunuch: "Can the telegram be sent so far, is it because the telegram line has been repaired there? If I remember correctly, from Jiayuguan to Jiuliancheng, it is nearly ten thousand miles, not to mention the south. How long is this telegram line? One hundred thousand miles?"

The eunuch didn't know what the emperor meant when asked what he said, and said casually: "Go back to Your Majesty, in the past four years, the court has built more than 100,000 telegraph lines. Each prefecture, big cities and important towns has set up telegraph house branches. The local area also needs to go directly to each county and guard. Where can it be enough to build 100,000 miles?"

The eunuch said with a mysterious expression on his face: "I heard that the cabinet has set up the account of the Ministry of Works next year, and there is a goal of increasing the national telegram line to 370,000 miles."

As he was talking, the eunuch found that the little emperor was actually raising his fingers. Finally, he simply walked out, squatted on the snow and drew his fingers. After a moment, he clapped his hands and said angrily: "Okay, the court has built more than 300,000 telegraph lines. I sent the craftsman-made telegraphs in the palace. I dared to ask me for a price of 1 mile and fifty taels!"

"I am so smart, I dare to deceive me!"

The little emperor's sleeves were already rolled up, and he walked out in a fury manner with big strides. He was pulled and pulled by the eunuchs and stopped him: "Grandpa Emperor, don't be anxious, it's normal to have fifty taels in the palace!"

"Normal nonsense! Do you want to be a Jingjun?" The little emperor turned his head and said angrily: "It is normal for fifty taels in the palace. Isn't it cost 18 million taels to go out after 370,000 miles of telegrams outside the palace? How can my Ming Dynasty have so much money!"

Daming is rich, but Xiao Wanli knows that Daming is not so rich yet, right?

"Your Majesty heard from me, don't be impatient, don't be impatient!"

"Don't be impatient, it's obvious that I have calculated the money from the Ministry of Revenue. It's not that much!" The little emperor was angry. After saying that, he immediately felt that he had revealed some amazing secrets. He quickly shut up and looked around, and then continued: "I paid military salary and rice, and it was at most six million taels left last year. I have to go to disaster relief. It has been like this in recent years. How can telegrams be so expensive!"

"Your Majesty, this telegram is really so expensive. The money the imperial court has spent on it in the past four years has been 11 million taels."

"The cost of digging up the floor and laying circuits in the palace is higher than that in the telephone poles. Outside the palace, there is a section of the Tiger City Elephant House. The cost of one mile is 94 taels and 7 cents of silver. We are all eunuchs in the palace. In the words of Grandpa, the people need to be recruited outside the palace to start construction, and it is all expenses outside the palace."

This is the truth. In this era, such a huge project was built in several years, and all provinces, prefectures and counties started at the same time, so the expenses would not be less. Twenty years ago, even if the court officials knew that telegrams were good things, they would definitely not be laid on such a large area. At most, it would be fine to build one horizontal and one vertical area in the capital.

Only when the prosperous overseas trade provides large tariffs to the court and hangs a sharp knife on every bureaucrat’s head can this huge project that could not be implemented and which would have to be carried out for several years or even decades.

The method of completing the exam is really a sharp blade, not just a tugging behind a person's butt that makes people unable to relax.

As long as Zhang Juzheng wants to do the test, the method of examination is also a good helper to control the court from top to bottom. "Establishing limits on exams and ruling people with matters" can break the disadvantages of the officialdom in the most efficient way under this historical condition, so it is a sharp knife.

However, the so-called "establishing limits to exams and ruling people with matters" Where does the matter come from? The matter comes from the cabinet, from Zhang Juzheng, is like a sieve. Not only officials who have no pragmatic abilities can screen out officialdoms most efficiently by demoting and dismissing officials who oppose reform.

Make a rule and don't take you to play.

Wanli slowly wrapped his arms around his chest and frowned and thought, "It makes sense for you to say this. I heard that Shandong used labor-for-relief this year and used the most powerful telephone poles. It seems that it has specially purchased civilian telegraph rooms, which are charged for each county to convey messages - the wages for digging the land should be the big part of the expenses, right?"

The eunuch in charge nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, and after that, the little emperor made his face green with just one word.

"Eunuchs don't need wages to dig land, and there is no need for a two-way steam engine for the electricity in the palace. Next to the telegraph room is the fire room. So where did these fifty taels come from? Do you dare say that no one is greedy?"

The little emperor held his arms and raised his head, a detective Yijun frowned and said, "I'll think about it and answer. It's not your business. If you say nothing, I'll find out and send you to Xiaolingwei first."

No accidental disaster!

The eunuch in charge dared not speak? To be honest, the greed of ink in the Forbidden City is only divided into greed for the big and the small. The eunuchs are not perfect, so naturally they cannot be perfect. They run around all day and work hard to death. Looking for opportunities, who doesn’t want to make a comeback?

There are definitely some moves of fifty taels per mile, but there is definitely not much money to remove. He wants to protect it because it is at most a mile, so he has to protect it with his head?

The eunuch in charge stopped talking.

Wanli's age is no longer a child, but his invincible growth environment has prevented him from learning the restraint that others have already realized in his youth. At least in front of everyone except Zhang Juzheng and Empress Dowager Li, he does not need to be restrained at all, but he can understand what other people's expressions mean.

"That's what you know is that someone is greedy."

The emperor looked clear and once again secretly admired his wit as an emperor, and he used his temptation to induce: "Tell me, how many taels are you greedy?"

The eunuch in charge had to bite the bullet and tell the truth, but he still hid a little and said, "I guess there are four or five taels."

"Okay, I'm greedy for four or five taels in one li, and I'm greedy for ten taels in two and a half li. I'm not short of this little money, but I can't take what I don't give."

The little emperor grinned, rolled up his sleeve and pointed his left hand at the sky: "Zhu Yiliu, take him with me... It's wrong, you didn't repair it. Go back and send a telegram. Xu Jue, the Funeral Department of the Nans, went to the Qianqing Gate to wait. I went to the sweets room to get two cakes and went to find him!"
Chapter completed!