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@@ The monstrous waves caused by mining and selling mines in the court have come to an end for the time being.

Tang Yin was still in charge of the Xishan Coal Mine, and the use of private capital had shifted from the open to the private. In any case, the private merchants knew that the imperial court would make some changes in mining, and not many people were afraid of being taxed more. The method of the new mining tax proposed by Zhu Hao is very "handy".

If you don’t buy the mines of the imperial court, there will be no problem of taxation. Now the efficiency of the imperial court’s mining is still unknown, and others are more likely to regard the Huizhou merchants who invested in the imperial mines as fools.

You dare to spend tens of thousands of taels of silver to buy the newly opened mine. You really have money to burn.

After this matter.

Yang Tinghe's reputation in the court was severely damaged, Zhu Si came out of the gloom, and the monarch and his ministers entered a period of relative harmony. It was also because Zhu Hao warned Zhu Si not to fight with Yang Tinghe for the time being. We have to wait until Yang Tinghe retreats.

Zhu Si heard this in his heart.

Being threatened by Yang Tinghe in the courtroom left Zhu Si with a huge psychological shadow. Even if he didn't tell outsiders, he was actually afraid that he would make too many changes and would annoy the civil servants. If the throne is abolished, or if he finds a way to kill him, the loss outweighs the gain.

Now that both sides have a step down, it is better to live in peace first, as long as they don't provoke Yang Tinghe, it is expected that Yang Tinghe will not come to violate his emperor's majesty.

Fast forward to March.

For Jiangnan, March is already full of green willows and dikes, and fireworks are everywhere, but in the capital, March is still a bit cold, but it is still warm and cold. The temperature is just above freezing in the morning, and it can reach more than ten degrees at noon. It can go back to below zero at night, and occasionally there will be sleet one day.

Zhu Hao works in the Imperial Academy, so he is free, but he will be busier after the year than before.

The main problem that Zhu Si is worried about recently is that the Tatars are still harassing the northwest border. Fortunately, Dayan Khan is dead, and the power of the grassland itself is no longer a climate, and large-scale wars will not break out. This is for the Ming court. That's good news.

Then there is the issue of coastal defense in the southeast.

The Japanese pirates attacked and harassed one after another, causing several major killings in the local area. The imperial court wanted to send troops to suppress it, but suffered from the relaxation of the southeast coast defense, and the soldiers were exhausted, making it difficult to fight...

In the past few decades, although the problem of coastal defense in the southeast has always been there, it was only during the Zhengde period that the Frangji and Japanese began to gradually harass, and it became a major security risk. There has been a shortage of soldiers and food for a long time. It is difficult for soldiers to raise even basic armaments. Moreover, the high-level officials of the Central Guard wantonly embezzled land and exploited excessively. The situation of military households fleeing is becoming more and more serious.

Suddenly the coastal defenses became tense, and the guards couldn't mobilize soldiers and horses to fight the bandits. Even if they assembled a few guards, they were incapable of fighting the bandits due to slack training and lack of armaments.

Moreover, since the Ming Dynasty has been in peace for a long time, there are basically no warships in the guards. Even if the land combat officers and troops can rely on their superiority in numbers to defeat the bandits, as long as they retreat to the seaside, they can directly return to the island by boat. , The official army has nothing to do with them.

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On this day, Zhu Si was very troubled in the court hall because of the southeast coastal defense issue.

The coastal defense has not been properly resolved. When Yang Tinghe prevented Zhu Si from opening the mine, he took out money, food and military equipment equivalent to [-] taels of silver from the household department and allocated them to the southeast coastal guards.

But obviously a drop in the bucket.

It is not bad just to maintain the normal operation of the guards. If you want to use this to rectify the armaments and even achieve the results of the battle, it is estimated that even Yang Ting and himself have no confidence.

Over the past few decades, Ming's strategy against Japanese pirates was more similar to "using barbarians to control barbarians", which roughly meant to strengthen the defenses of coastal guards and county towns, and let Japanese pirates fight each other for territory. Every year, there will always be an uneven distribution of spoils among the pirates, or the rise of another powerful force, and they will attack each other and die.

So this time Yang Tinghe adopted the same strategy.

The southeast coastal defense is short of soldiers and food. If you want to ensure the stability of the guard post and ensure that the interests of the army and the people are not damaged, you must spend at least [-] taels of silver.
Money, food and military equipment are only allocated [-] taels now, which does not help the overall situation.

Zhu Si is a serious person. In this matter, Zhu Si asked the officials of the household department and the governor's warehouse to find a way to raise funds.

"Zhu Hao, you don't know, they can make jokes, and the official speech in the court meeting is one after another. When I asked them what to do, they said to try their best, saying that they can wait for the salt class and summer grain to be ready. , and said that the Nanhu Department has been ordered to transfer money and food... Isn’t this nonsense? It’s clearly giving me a sloppy eye.”

When the emperors, including Zhu Youtang, who is praised by the world as Emperor Hongzhi, often turned a blind eye to the chaos of the court.

But Zhu Si is an emperor with ideals and ambitions, and he really wants to make achievements. In addition, Zhu Hao is around him, which makes him have a sense of responsibility and wants to lead Ming Dynasty to prosperity, so he can't listen to those official words. Those officials have made achievements, but officials are all engaged in politics. It is considered good if they can do something at ordinary times. Bureaucrats are never born to solve problems.

Zhu Haodao: "It's their responsibility to deal with things, or to deal with His Majesty. What can His Majesty expect them to do?"

Zhu Si asked puzzledly, "Shouldn't they devote themselves to Daming?"

"Ha ha."

Zhu Hao said with a smile, "That's what you said, but your Majesty put yourself in the shoes of others, if the imperial treasury really can't afford that much money, what will your Majesty do if you encounter urging from above?"

Zhu Si said angrily: "You can't think of a solution, but just think about how to deal with the higher-ups?"

Zhu Hao nodded with a narrow smile on his face.

"How could this be?"

Zhu Si still didn't understand.

Young people have a pure ideal, and always feel that everything should be resolved in the most correct way, instead of thinking about perfunctory and prevarication.

Zhu Haodao: "The problem is caused by the locality. The local officials can't think of a solution, so they throw the problem to the court, and then it comes to His Majesty. If His Majesty wants to solve it, he will entrust the ministers of the court. If the ministers do nothing, they will Perfunctory His Majesty... In fact, the ministers are often the ones who care the least about success or failure."

"Why?"

Zhu Si asked.

Zhu Hao sighed: "People below, local accidents will directly threaten their vital interests, so they will try their best to solve them but there is no way. For the stability of the country, His Majesty will also start to solve the problem... Only those officials who are not at the same level, the problem Whether it is resolved or not has nothing to do with their interests..."

"People are selfish. If all the ministers of the DPRK and China have their own fields on the southeast coast, then their work efficiency will be much higher than it is now... It's just that the problem is not imminent, and they all think about how to deal with it hastily. "

Zhu Si was taught another lesson alive.

Zhang Zuo leaned over and asked, "Then Mr. Zhu, is there no way to solve it?"

Zhu Haodao: "In a year or two, it is very difficult to make progress. In order to ensure the stability of the court, Mr. Yang Ge even directly vetoed when we raised hundreds of thousands of taels of silver, which is enough to show that civil servants don't care about solving problems. , but to maintain the so-called balance. Under this premise, it is good to ensure that no major incidents occur in the defense of the southeast coast..."

"Ugh!"

Zhu Si sighed, "That is to say, if the surname Yang is alive, I won't be able to do anything, right?"

Zhu Hao smiled and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, it's not bad if you can maintain the stability of the court. Thinking about it from another angle... In this way, Your Majesty will save your worry and effort. In fact, we have been able to raise some money and food for this mine, but we can't get it. On the one hand...my idea is to increase mines, especially iron ore mines, and to go to the natural and excellent seaports along the Bohai Sea to build shipyards, so as to build warships that can strengthen coastal defense.”

"That...is it expensive?" Zhu Si said.

"Um."

Zhu Hao nodded, "I have calculated that the initial investment in shipyard repairs is more than [-] taels, and each qualified warship will need about [-] taels of silver in the future. Small ships cannot cope with large-scale naval battles at all. ... Anyway, it still takes time."

Zhu Si's eyes were firm: "Then hurry up, if you wait until later to rebuild, or
It takes the same time, and starting now, it may not be possible that all the warships will be sailing at sea by then.This matter... is Mr. Tang still in charge? "

"Yes."

Zhu Hao is very straightforward.

Tang Yin was none other than Tang Yin in this matter, and Tang Yin didn't need to go in person, but Tang Yin had to be responsible for the overall planning of all matters, Tang Yin was equivalent to the deputy commander in chief of this matter.

After all, Tang Yin got permission from the imperial court to be in charge of the mine development as a member of the Ministry of Industry, which is tantamount to dispatching by imperial order.

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In the Imperial Academy.

This day, Yang Shen came to look for Zhu Hao. This was the only time Yang Shen had a serious discussion with Zhu Hao in more than a month. Obviously, Yang Ting and his father and son had a grudge against Zhu Hao because of the mine opening earlier. time.

This is exactly what Zhu Hao wanted.

As long as he is still in the capital, it is not a bad thing to be able to go a little farther away from Yang and his son.

"...The household department is responsible for the management of the official land. It was originally said that it would be abolished, but it was discussed in the court that it should be retained. My father asked who was suitable for this job, and I recommended you to him. I don't know if you have one. What's your opinion?"

After Tang Yin stepped down as the head of Huangzhuang in the household department at the beginning of the year, this position has been vacant.

Yang Tinghe originally wanted to cut this position directly, and then sell Huangzhuang, or divide it up.

But with Queen Mother Zhang intervening, Yang Tinghe didn't want to have another conflict with the emperor, and this matter remained unresolved for the next month.

But with the end of the spring plowing, and less than two months away, it will be the harvest season of summer grain, Yang Tinghe wants to completely control this position under the civil service system.

Zhu Hao was a little surprised, and immediately said: "I have no objection. It's okay not to go, and it doesn't matter if I go, anyway... I don't have the right to choose, do I?"
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