armyinform Chapter 545 The country is rich, and the annual income has increased to 5!
Chapter 545 The country is rich, and the annual income has increased to 5!
Chapter 545 The country is rich, and the annual income has increased to 5000!
Qi Changguo replied, "I'm going to Jiangzuo Temple."
"What are you going to do?"
Qi Jiguang asked.
Qi Changguo hesitated for a moment, and then answered truthfully:
"I talked to Zhao Houhu about the steam engine, because the emperor said that there would be such a machine, so my son wanted to build it for the benefit of the country."
Qi Jiguang frowned after hearing this.
"Father, calm down!"
Seeing him frowning, Qi Changguo hurriedly cupped his hands and said something.
Qi Jiguang didn't get angry, he just waved his hands and said:
"That's all! Since it's the holy will, it's up to you."
"It's just that His Majesty decreed today to set up a national highest technical achievement award system, with a limit of three awards per year, generous silver rewards, and promotion of officials."
"Your Majesty has appointed you among the three because of your creation of a four-wheeled carriage, and your younger brother is also on the list for his creation of a battery with salt water."
After speaking, Qi Jiguang said: "There are two people in my Qi family who are honored by this. I don't know if there will be Confucian scholars who think that it is my Qi family that made His Majesty use strange skills and tricks. He thinks that I, the Qi family, are all jesters."
"Then father, will the child go to the book and refuse when the time comes?"
Qi Changguo replied.
"Why do you refuse! We are loyal to His Majesty, not the people of the world, who cares what the people of the world think!"
After Qi Jiguang replied angrily, he went to the back room.
Qi Changguo clapped his hands and said yes, and couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly.
"Your Majesty, the Ministry of Rituals has proposed to invite His Royal Highness King Zheng and his son-in-law Duwei Qi Xingguo to be the Minister of Zhengzhi, Qi Changguo, the right servant of the Ministry of Industry, to be the Minister of Zhengzhi. The royal relatives are expensive."
On this day, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, Minister of Rites Shen Yiguan reported to Zhu Yijun about the canonization of those who had made outstanding contributions in the field of science and technology in the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yijun nodded after hearing this: "Very good! But in the future, those who have made great contributions to the culture and craftsmanship of hundreds of schools will be awarded a separate lord, and the treatment will be determined according to their grade."
"In addition, set up Chongli Academy and Chongli Academy academician officers."
"For the first time, King Zheng, Concubine Qi, and Minister Qi were knighted for their great achievements in knowledge and skills. They are also academicians of the Chongli Academy. In the future, those who have made great contributions to the knowledge and skills of hundreds of schools will be recommended by the three of them. Yu Zhen will no longer be pushed by the officials of the Ministry of Rites, lest laymen guide experts, and will be pushed once a year, and must be finalized before the Mid-Autumn Festival every year."
After Zhu Yijun gave this order, Shen Yiguan bowed his hands and said yes, and said:
"Your Majesty! This is great!"
Zhu Yijun smiled slightly, and then asked Wang Lin, Minister of the Household Department:
"It is now the end of the new year. What is the expected increase in national revenue this year? In addition, what is the population count for this year's census?"
"Your Majesty!"
"Since the pacification of Burma and the recovery of Haojing, due to the huge increase in trade volume going out to Burma, Siam, Goa, etc., the current tariffs for exporting to the South China Sea have increased to more than 620 million taels of silver dollars;"
"In China, due to the exemption of corvee in Shaanxi and Shanxi, the exemption of horse price silver, fodder silver, and the issuance of subscription coupons to benefit the people, the people have become rich, and after the business has become more prosperous, the business tax has also increased by more than 570 million taels of silver;"
"Combined with domestic and foreign investment in mining and business operations, the dividend income increased by more than 790 million taels of silver;"
"A total of 2000 million taels of silver dollars has been added to the annual revenue, and the annual revenue has reached more than [-] million taels of silver dollars."
At this moment, Wang Lin stepped forward to report back.
"It has reached a scale of more than [-] million yuan. In this way, the previous reform and implementation of the new rituals are indeed correct."
Zhu Yijun said at this time.
"Your Majesty said yes!"
"I congratulate Your Majesty, because of Your Majesty's good governance, the wealth of the country today has far surpassed that of previous generations."
At this time, Shen Shixing got up and answered with cupped hands.
Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "All the ministers have done a great job!"
Immediately, Wang Lin, Shangshu of the Ministry of Household Affairs, said: "As for the population, after the reports of the chief ministers and the chief ministers, the total number of people in this dynasty is between [-] million and [-] million."
"The income of the national treasury far exceeds the goal set by the old master."
"It's just that the population still hasn't reached [-] million. Now that the country is rich and prosperous, it is still necessary to encourage more births. The more Han people in the country, the more conducive it is to foreign education."
Zhu Yijun said at this time.
At this time, Shoufu Shenshihang handed over and said yes.
Then, Shen Shixing followed suit and said: "Your Majesty Qi Zuo, since His Majesty took the throne, the world has been governed, not only the prosperity of the people, the prosperity of the country, the outstanding military virtues, but also the prosperity of culture and governance. At present, the "Da Ming Hui Dian" has been compiled into the study room for sending documents. Your Majesty, please take a look."
finished.
Zhu Yijun nodded: "Very good. Now that the canon is completed, the next step is to compile the history of the country. You remember that the court will discuss this matter; in addition, the pinyin of the official Chinese must be compiled as soon as possible, and there is also the reprinting project of "Yongle Dadian" and the sequel. It has to be done as quickly as possible.”
"According to the order!"
Right now, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty is booming, unlike in the original history, it took a sharp turn for the worse after ten years of Wanli, and it is even expanding outwards. The country's income is also increasing, and the population is increasing.
Zhu Yijun was very pleased with this.
And because of this, his prestige as the emperor is gradually rising.
Whether it is the ruling class or the ruled class, many people have begun to have more and more self-interests because the country's economy is getting richer, so they have a deeper and deeper affection for the emperor Zhu Yijun, and they have begun to accept the holy will more and more. The idea of providence.
That is to say, he is willing to deify Zhu Yijun, comparing Zhu Yijun to the reincarnation of Yao and Shun, to a sage king who is rare to see through the ages and even knows everything.
This is not something that Zhu Yijun himself can stop, it was chosen by many people on their own initiative.
One is because people are lazy, unwilling to think, and are more willing to admit that a person is particularly smart and powerful, and then rely on a person, so that they can dawdle with peace of mind.
Therefore, people always like to create heroes, especially omnipotent heroes.
This is the same with Zhu Yijun. After the people's lives become more and more prosperous, they are more willing to take the initiative to make Zhu Yijun a generation of holy masters, so that they can have more reasons to enjoy a comfortable life, not to think about danger, but to believe in greatness. God will make them all well.
The second is that people with ulterior motives are willing to consolidate the hierarchical system of the entire society by deifying and infinitely raising Zhu Yijun's status, and then consolidate their own interests. Doesn't it also represent God's will?
Therefore, even if Zhu Yijun used the name of Zhang Juzheng to ask the people of the world to proceed from reality, it is still inevitable that the people of the world will understand that doing things according to his will means correctness, and what is more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people is that "sacred will means God's will", but not "seeking truth from facts".
of course.
Zhu Yijun knew that this was unavoidable, and he couldn't expect that in just a dozen years, people's wisdom would be so great that they would never believe in authority.
He knows that this needs a process, and he needs to correct it slowly in the future.
It may be more than one generation, and it may even take some lessons.
But in any case, the problems caused by this phenomenon are not obvious, but it is more conducive to him to make the current Ming Dynasty move towards a more prosperous era.
Otherwise, pinyin and vernacular Chinese, and not only respecting Confucianism, not belittling science and technology as miraculous skills, but conferring honors on those who have made great achievements in science and technology, will only encounter greater obstacles. It can still be implemented because he is an emperor with great prestige, and many people have actively or passively accepted the idea that the divine will is the will of heaven without raising many objections.
However, it is not without dissent and opponents.
There are still many people from the landlord class who are unwilling to accept the new gift.
Because Xinli treats the people of his own country as human beings too much!
After all, the new ceremony is in the name of Confucian sages advocating "people-oriented", treats common people and scholar-bureaucrats as children with the same dignity, and overemphasizes the difference between Chinese and barbarians, which makes many landlords who are accustomed to the traditional landlord society unable to be Slave owners who enslave the Han people, or as Lu Xun put it, cannot lie down and eat the Han people wantonly by chanting a few words of benevolence, righteousness and morality.
However, even if the traditional landlords want to be a master, they have to be aggressive, and they have to pay a higher price, either spending more money or leaving their homeland to colonize outside.
Therefore, some landlords are still resisting the new rituals.
However, this time it was not bureaucrats or vassals who resisted, but chieftain Yang Yinglong.
"Yang Yinglong turned against him?"
At the beginning of the 17th year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun had just passed a good year, and the eunuch Sun Xin informed him of the situation.
Sorry for the delay today, I just update now
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