The Reborn Duke of Ming Dynasty

Following the eunuch's voice, Zhu Yijun sat on the dragon chair, and the morning court had just begun. Feng Bao still stood beside Zhu Yijun's dragon chair as usual, and followed Zhu Yijun to accept the civil and military pilgrimage of the Manchu Dynasty.

At first, this feeling was indeed very unpleasant, but now, after such a long time, although people still feel uncomfortable in their hearts, it is not as disgusting as before. It is not that the officials are already It is absolutely impossible to admit this matter, they just understand that this situation cannot be changed now, the tone is so disturbing every morning, they might as well just let him go, basically, the people in the hall, No matter what the relationship with Feng Bao is, it's all as if Feng Bao didn't exist.

In fact, the same is true. If Feng Bao didn't want to discuss something that Feng Bao really cared about, he would generally not be able to speak. How does it feel to stand there, even Feng Bao enjoys this feeling, but if he is asked to tell the reason, I am afraid he may not be able to tell.

Although it is said that Ge Shouli has already helped Zhang Juzheng to promote the "Testing Method" in the court, today is the first day after all, no matter how prestigious Ge Shouli is in the court, I am afraid that he cannot let those old-fashioned Some people changed their minds in such a short morning. This matter should be pursued gradually, so don't be impatient.

Therefore, although this matter has been spread in the court, as long as people who know this matter can look around the hall for a while and see the expressions on the faces of the officials, they can see it. It came out, but now it's not the final time, and no one will say anything.

In short, today's morning court is no different from the past.

Take Zhu Yijun as an example. Now Zhu Yijun is used to sitting on it to accept the worship of all officials, but he also understands one thing. Although he is the emperor, he does not have the right to be an emperor. It was almost silent there, unless there was really something to make him speak, otherwise he would never say a word.

So, basically every morning, Zhu Yijun sat there, and then the eunuch shouted: "If there is something to do, go to court, if there is nothing to do, go back to court,"

Then, some ministers would stand up and speak, and then Zhu Yijun didn't care about what was going on, or thought about what to do. At the beginning, he would talk about the last round and ask: "Which Aiqing There is a good way to solve it," and then stopped talking, waiting for someone to speak up, and finally said: "Then do it this way,"

Up to now, I am afraid that even the ministers below can see that Zhu Yijun is lacking in interest every morning, so now, as long as an adult speaks up, other people will not listen to Zhu Yijun's orders at all, and directly stand up to solve the problem up.

And Zhu Yijun also acquiesced in this situation without any objection.

There was another time when someone asked Zhu Yijun to make a decision, and the matter was not small, and it was not something that other people could speak at will, but Zhu Yijun just sat on the dragon chair with his head tilted without saying a word. As if dozing off, he did this, and no one below dared to stand up and speak, so the entire hall fell silent for a long time, knowing that some people stood until their backs ached and their stomachs were sore. Hungry, this is someone who can't stand it and speaks up.

So now, in order to avoid that kind of situation from happening, the officials are no longer pretentious. Whenever there is a problem, they will definitely stand up and speak up. After finishing speaking, they can end the morning court as soon as possible and go home.

It was also from that time that the early courts of the Ming Dynasty became extremely efficient. The emperor sat on the dragon chair without saying a word, but it was more efficient than the early courts of the diligent emperors at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty. It must be called a miracle, of course, if you don't care about the quality of the solution.

Today, things are fine. It is now halfway through midsummer, and most of the ships that go out to sea for business every year come back at this time. The remaining small part are people who want to make more money. The ship went to a farther place, and it would be almost the end of the year when they came back.

Now this matter is a little different from previous years. The goods brought by these sea ships are indeed a lot of money, which is gradually and steadily increasing compared with previous years. The court is quite happy to collect taxes from it. After all, this item alone is more than the agricultural tax collected by the Ming Dynasty every year.

As a result, the national treasury will be abundant, and the money-loving little emperor's internal treasury will also be abundant. Naturally, everyone is happy, but this year is a little different from previous years.

In the past, the tax money collected from the maritime merchants was not recorded in the public account, but was recorded in another account. Therefore, at the end of each year, the actual tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty was still as much as before. , and there is no improvement.

In fact, this is unfair to those merchants. Although they are also willing to pay taxes, and the court has changed the way it used to be, it even escorted the merchant ships they do business with. It is natural for these merchants to pay taxes. .

However, at the end of each year's inventory, the taxes they pay will never be made public, which makes them quite critical.

Originally, the imperial court would not have cared about these things. After all, things are just like this. Although the Ming Dynasty has improved a lot, the view of merchants has not been so easy to change since the millennium. Besides, those merchants didn’t say anything Well, although there are some complaints, since you don't talk or make trouble, then there is nothing wrong.

But Zhang Fan didn't think so. After all, he didn't record or take inventory, but just recorded it in another account. Not only was it unfair to those businessmen, but it was also beneficial for some people to manipulate and enrich their own pockets. So he told Long Qing about this before.

As for Long Qing, he agreed very much with this, but not long after what Zhang Fan said, Long Qing fell seriously ill before he came to announce the matter, so this matter has been dragged down.

After Zhu Yijun came to the throne, he was very concerned about the matter Zhang Fan mentioned, but at that time he had just succeeded to the throne, and he was young, and he had no power in his hands, so he kept putting it down, but letting go Let it go, Zhu Yijun has never forgotten about it.

This year, when the name of the country was changed to Wanli, Zhu Yijun, for the first time, did not care whether he had power or not, nor did he care about other people's opposition, and announced the matter in public.

Although there are many disagreements among the officials, and although Zhu Yijun is not yet an emperor with real power in his hands, this is what he said. No matter how he is a puppet, he is still an emperor. The emperor's words must be counted. of.

Now, this one has also been settled.

This made those businessmen straighten their backs. In fact, when you think about it, as a businessman, knowing that you have your own share of the taxes collected by the country every year, and that you can let people all over the world know, this is the right thing to do. A thing to be proud of.

Although, even so, the social treatment of businessmen has not improved to a higher level, but it is definitely different from the past. This makes these businessmen happy, but they will not be ashamed of doing business, but they are still enthusiastic up.

But Zhu Yijun would do this. Zhang Fan told him about this matter, which had a great influence on him. This is only one aspect. What’s more, Zhu Yijun remembered what Zhang Fan said. , someone will enrich their own pockets from it, which is absolutely unacceptable to Zhu Yijun. Whether it is the treasury of the Ministry of Households or his own internal treasury, in Zhu Yijun's view, they are all his own things, and if he is asked to spend them, he is willing, even As for asking him to reward him, he would not even frown, but if someone wants to take it without saying anything, this is something Zhu Yijun can't allow at all.

So, in general, Zhu Yijun would stare at such huge pressure to announce this matter, not for anything else, but for himself.

But it doesn't matter, after all, since the effect is already there, the process and the reason are not important.

This year, the merchant ships returning to the sea brought back a lot of money, but as mentioned above, the situation this year has changed a lot from previous years.

In fact, things that have changed cannot be seen, and even the Ming Dynasty is separated by hundreds of thousands of miles.

According to the merchants who returned to Haihai, Europe began to use foreign troops. Many of the small countries in the south of the Ming Dynasty were attacked by Europeans. People, but those countries that were attacked, mostly hoped to buy some weapons from these Ming merchants to resist foreign lands.

However, weapons can be regarded as contraband in Ming Dynasty, and the merchants naturally understand, but this does not mean that the merchants do not want to do this business, and now it is the intention of the court to pass this news back.

As soon as this matter was mentioned, the hall immediately became like a boiling pot. Discussions arose, with those who agreed and those who opposed it. What they agreed with meant that those places had nothing to do with Daming. And those who opposed it were naturally the same old stuff, but in general, the number of people who opposed it was very large.

Looking at the somewhat chaotic scene in front of him, Zhang Fan didn't intend to join in. It wasn't that he didn't want to, but that he was thinking about something else, something that was agreed last year.