Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 650
As the end of the new year approaches, the newly established Bureau of Internal Affairs in the palace is also making big purchases in the market.

Every day from morning till night, vehicles of various sizes flowed between the market shops and Miyagi in an endless stream, moving a large amount of goods to the various warehouses.

It's the Chinese New Year, and when you have money, Zhu Youjian spends a large amount of money from his internal funds to purchase goods, and uses it to reward the eunuchs, maids, firemen, and handymen who have been busy for a year.

This part of the money is rewarded to the palace people in addition to the monthly salary. The form is exactly the same as that of the large-scale state-owned enterprises in the later generations.

Especially the palace people whose families live in the Gyeonggi area, when he (she) received a variety of goods such as rice noodles, oil, salt, meat and eggs, cloth and silk needlework, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, let alone the enthusiasm in their hearts. .

These daily necessities are necessary for every family. Eunuch Liu Chao, who is also in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, has already said that the emperor has an order. After the distribution is completed, all the palace people whose homes are in the Gyeonggi area can state their home addresses and use them for free. The horse-drawn carriage under the name of Four Seas Trading Company transported the benefits distributed home.

Those palace people whose families are in other provinces receive silver money of the same value, and hand it over to the Four Seas Trading Company together with the monthly salary they have accumulated.

For Zhu Youjian's caring and caring act, the people in the palace are all grateful, and all of them voluntarily shouted long live in the direction of Qianqing Palace and kowtowed, sincerely expressing their gratitude to Zhu Youjian .

In the past, the nobles in the palace would of course often give rewards to those around them, but the scope was too small, and the beneficiaries were only a few people. Most of the palace people who worked hard did not receive any rewards .

And this reward covering all the palace people is the first time in the world, and this reward is so genuine, it can even be said to be extremely heavy, even the old people in the palace who have known many secrets for generations have never seen it. There is such a generous and benevolent emperor, and it is worthwhile to serve such an emperor in this life.

The newly established Bureau of Internal Affairs is responsible for the purchase of daily supplies in the palace and the management of daily affairs in the palace. It has further integrated the functions of the twelve supervisors, four divisions and eight bureaus, changing the situation where some divisions and bureaus were independent.

In fact, the Bureau of Internal Affairs is like the logistics management bureau of the later generations. It is in charge of the food and drink of more than [-] people in the palace. This is more conducive to the allocation of various resources and labor, and changes the original management disorder.

In this palace reform, all the functions and craftsmen of the Bingju Bureau in the eight bureaus were assigned to the management of the Military Armament Supervision.

Among the twelve prisons, Zhidianjian and Shangyijian were abolished, and Shangyijian was merged with Clothing and Hat Bureau, Needlework Bureau, Huanyi Bureau, and Inner Weaving and Dyeing Bureau into the Clothes and Hats Department to manage all the things of the original bureaus. and personnel.

Merge Zhidian Supervisor, Xixin Division, Baochao Division, Huntang Division, and Bell and Drum Division to set up a sanitation department, which is in charge of sweeping, bathing, fuel coal procurement and use, etc.

The Shangshan Supervisor, the Wine Vinegar Noodle Bureau and the Siyuan Bureau were merged to set up a Catering Department, which was in charge of catering in the palace.

The Internal Affairs Bureau set up a fourth-rank eunuch, who was appointed by Liu Chao, the eunuch of the former Huangzhuang Administration Bureau.

There are also three admirals and eunuchs, from the fifth grade, who are respectively in charge of various matters in the clothing and hat department, sanitation department, and catering department.

Because of Liu Chao's outstanding performance in the past few years, the grain output of the two Huangzhuang managed by Liu Chao has shown a good momentum of increasing year by year, so this time he was promoted by Zhu Youjian as one of the few powerful figures in the palace, which can be regarded as a tribute to this loyal man. A chance for the Geng Geng eunuch to face the glory alone.

The scale of the Four Seas Commercial Bank is now getting bigger and bigger, and the number of projects it operates is also increasing. The number of employees has reached more than [-], and the industries under its name cover almost all industries and fields of Ming Dynasty.

Now the Four Seas Commercial Bank is no longer based on the business of trafficking from north to south, but has formed a group model integrating production, supply, and sales. Many of its various industries have become overlords in many fields, and it has become a veritable Ming Dynasty. The No. [-] Commercial Firm, which made Zhu Youjian the richest man in Ming Dynasty without knowing it.

However, Zhu Youjian also knows that too much wealth in the royal family is not a good thing for the whole country, so in his vision, the Four Seas Commercial Bank will eventually hand over most of the industry to the imperial court and slowly transform its personal property It is a state-owned asset, and in the future, the main investor will be the Ming court, not the royal family money, when it comes to major matters related to the national economy and people's livelihood.

Last month, Zhu Youjian decreed that the price of table salt be reduced to 35 yuan per catty. Not long after that, he convened a meeting with the cabinet and household officials and announced in public that from now on, the production of table salt The management and sales are all handed over to the Salt Bureau, and the royal family will not participate in the dividends of the profits.

In other words, Zhu Youjian took the initiative to draw out one of the internal funds, and from then on, the world's salt interests belonged to the Ming court.

After hearing the news announced by Zhu Youjian, the cabinet members and several officials of the household department were shocked at first, and then collectively bowed solemnly to Zhu Youjian to express their respect for this wise king. Heartfelt respect.

In the era known and accepted by almost everyone in the home world, every king in the past dynasties who thinks that he has too much money?

Who doesn't try to find money from the world for their own enjoyment?
Especially the Great Ming Taizu, after he ascended the throne, he used the excuse of "the emperor regards the world as his home, and secures the world's wealth for the world's use. Why is there a difference between public and private? Taizong, the Ming emperor of Song Dynasty, is also like this!" The implemented internal treasury system, which is mainly responsible for the country's public affairs and supplemented by the royal family's revenue and expenditure, has become an alternative internal treasury system in which the imperial court's financial power is abolished and all revenue and expenditure are determined by the royal family.

Although the positioning of the inner treasury in the Hongwu Dynasty was to accumulate for the use of the world, and the thought of the world as a public, its function was mainly to make money, not to collect money, but the imagination is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

The luxury goods such as silk, ivory, gold and silver, pearls and jade stored in the inner treasury inevitably set the luxurious tone of royal life.Although in the orthodox years, the outer court and the inner court gradually set up various warehouses, and the civil servants took financial power from the royal family bit by bit, but the later emperors still tried their best to collect money for the palace to satisfy the demands of the harem. Luxuries and pleasures of all kinds.

I am used to seeing and hearing kings who make money, but the officials have never seen an emperor like Zhu Youjian who really treats money like dung.

Over the past few years, the young emperor's various behaviors of distributing money have been really varied. The amount of money that has been thrown out is already astonishing, and there is no sign of this kind of behavior stopping. People are speechless.

This is equivalent to giving up the annual income of 200 million taels of silver. Although the emperor is not short of money now, but, Your Majesty, why are you so prodigal?
If these important ministers knew Zhu Youjian's next plan, they might be able to stare out their eyes.

Who doesn't know that the Four Seas Trading Company is a cash cow?
Don't talk about other places, let's just talk about the capital. The shops of the Four Seas Trading Company are spread all over the four cities. All kinds of goods needed by the people of the capital are inseparable from the supply of the Four Seas Trading Company, not to mention the shops and workshops distributed in the bustling cities of Daming. It brings countless wealth to the Tian family every year, and no one would be willing to hand it over to others.

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