Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 742: The monarch and his ministers plan to revive and destroy the Buddha. The first batch of gold and silver arrives in the capital.

When it comes to mining, Zhu Qiyu starts to get excited. This is really gratifying. Just the two mines of Sado and Iwami can dig out hundreds of millions of taels of silver.

This is much less troublesome than confiscating homes and destroying Buddhas.

Thinking of destroying Buddha, Zhu Qiyu asked Zhang Ning again: "Jingzhi, do you think we should destroy Buddha in Japan? Do the local people support me to destroy Buddha?"

Among the civil servants and generals who participated in the war against Japan, Zhu Qiyu was more willing to listen to Zhang Ning's opinions. The positions of Jiang Yuan, Yue Zheng, Xu Heng and others were too high, and they were more likely to be confused by the authorities.

When it came to destroying the Buddha, Zhang Ning also got excited: "We think the Buddha must be destroyed, because Japanese Buddhism is fundamentally different from our Ming Dynasty.

When the Ming Dynasty was founded, Emperor Taizu had already placed great restrictions on Buddhism.

In Japan, Buddhism not only interferes in military affairs, but also has their shadow in every aspect.

After those generals, daimyo and other powerful people abdicated, most of them became monks, and many built their own Buddhist temples.

Those monks annexed land, lent money to the people, and other illegal things were countless.

It is equivalent to the people being double squeezed by the shogunate and the Buddhist sect. If the Holy One destroys the Buddhist sect, the people will naturally support him. "

Zhu Qiyu nodded and thought to himself: I think so. It is understandable that dignitaries like Buddhism. If the poor people at the bottom like Buddhism, that would be a bit too philanthropic.

Monks don't pay taxes, don't do corvee labor, and don't even have to recite Buddhist scriptures. The common people at the bottom of the class are being squeezed down by taxes and corvee every day, but they still go to empathize with the great monk Shi X. This is really an interesting psychological state.

Zhu Qiyu asked again: "Ai Qing estimates, how much profit can be gained from destroying Buddhism in Japan?"

Zhang Ning replied: "I don't dare to lie. If it's just gold, silver, and copper coins, it's only twenty to thirty million taels. If you include land, jewelry, calligraphy and painting, that's a lot."

The land in the hands of monks alone is probably no less than 100,000 hectares. "

"They have so much gold, silver, and copper coins in their hands?"

Zhang Ning replied with certainty: "The actual amount is only a lot more than Wei Chen's estimate. Think about it, the lending industry is almost entirely in the hands of monks. Of course they have more money."

Zhu Qiyu nodded. Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism were all about to be offended.

After a slight hesitation, Zhu Qiyu asked the last question: "What is the current situation in North Korea?"

This question was much easier, Zhang Ning said with a smile: "North Korea respects the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that North Korea's elite has been exhausted in the past two years of war.

The Holy Spirit moved many Han, Miao, and Yao people there, so there was no need to worry about the unrest in Korea.

Liaodong, on the other hand, has an empty army and insufficient population. Moreover, the civil servants, military generals, and guarding eunuchs in Liaodong often committed illegal activities and needed vigorous reform. "

Zhu Qiyu accepted Zhang Ning's suggestion, and then only talked about the customs and customs of North Korea and Japan. The banquet lasted for more than an hour before it ended.

The guests and hosts enjoyed themselves and dispersed.

Zhu Qiyu stopped Huang Qi and stayed to chat alone. As a supervisor, Huang Qi had to ask him some confidential matters.

Ningxiang stood up and smiled at Xu Yongning: "Little uncle, please stay here for a while. Let's go for a walk to the lake together?"

Xu Yongning was stunned when he heard this. Go for a walk by the lake?

"After we finish chatting in a while, you can walk directly from the Yudi of Kunming Lake to the main entrance of Prince Qi's Mansion, and then take the carriage back to the city."

The two of them left the south hall and walked dozens of steps. Ningxiang turned back to Zhu Wenfang and asked, "What are you and Ruan Zhu doing following us?"

Zhu Wenfang replied with an innocent face: "I don't want to either. Qing'er wants to ask my mother to teach her how to draw. Then I have to follow you, otherwise if you miss the moment, you will run back to Lingyu Palace to stick to your father. Let's go, where can I find you then." When it came to painting, Ningxiang blushed and teased: "Sooner or later, you have to change your surname to Xu. Then we can stroll to the lake and meet my uncle. After chatting, we went to Biyu Fang to teach Qing'er how to draw."

"Why is your face red, my dear? Is it very hot?"

"Hey, I had two more glasses of wine and was blown by the wind, so I felt a little hot."

Several people were walking and chatting.

After a few words, Ningxiang showed her credit to Xu Yongning: "Little uncle, you don't know that among the Enke and Zhengke Jinshi last year, there were only a few who were not married. How many dignitaries in the capital were fighting like crazy? Rob.

Our sisters carried it for you. Look back and see for yourself, Qiao Feng, this year's most beautiful young lady, is really good.

There are so many people trying to snatch her away. Even our sister, Mrs. Dingbei Hou, was tricked by us into leaving. We only kept Qiao Feng for you. "

Although Xu Yongning has been practicing for several years, he is still young after all. Hearing these words, he was deeply moved: "Sister-in-law, I have to give you a kiss."

Ningxiang nodded: "Okay, okay, you can kowtow again when our sister gets married. I have to bear with you."

The two chatted and laughed and discussed the details of the matchmaking. Ningxiang is such a responsible matchmaker that she promised to arrange a blind date for Xu Yongning's sister and Qiao Feng without leaving any trace.

Satisfied, Xu Yongning walked along the jade embankment, went straight out of the main entrance of the palace, got on the carriage and went back to Duke Ding's palace.

Zhu Wenfang smiled and said: "My dear, you are such a good matchmaker."

Ningxiang smiled and said: "The marriage between an honorable noble and a new scholar is a special situation. On the one hand, your father is sure to control the court situation, and on the other hand, your father's accession to the throne is more accidental, and sometimes he can only give away some benefits to North Korea and China were civil and military.

However, these unmarried new scholars are too young, and they are married to nobles. Sooner or later they will become important ministers, and they have a bright future.

It is not a long-term solution for nobles to marry important ministers.

After you take power, you must deliberately suppress it and don't let this kind of marriage become the norm and routine. "

Zhu Wenfang nodded: "I haven't thought about it carefully yet."

"There are some skills of the emperor that your master cannot teach you, and other civil servants either don't understand them, or they understand them but can't teach you them. You still have to learn them from your father."

Zhu Wenfang deeply agrees with this. The positions of the emperor and the minister are different, and sometimes their ideas are very different.

On October 27, dozens of ships of the Shandong Navy docked in Tianjin and brought back more than 50,000 taels of gold, 3 million taels of silver, countless coppers, and countless other rare treasures.

So much so that the front carriage has entered the Imperial City, while the rear carriages are still waiting in Tianjin for shipment.

It took five days to complete the transfer.

The original white marble platform foundations of the three main halls of the Forbidden City were reused, and a reserve warehouse was built at the original site of Jinshen Hall.

The first batch of more than 50,000 gold was all minted into gold coins and stored in the reserve under the joint supervision of six yamen chief officials: Si Li Supervisor, Royal Horse Supervisor, Internal Official Supervisor, Ministry of Works, Ministry of Household Affairs, and Metropolitan Inspectorate. .

Three household ministers, Shen Yi, Geng Jiuchou and Xiao Tan, stood at the original location of Huagai Hall, looking at the newly built treasury made of white marble, filled with emotion.

(End of this chapter)