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Zhong Jinwei then introduced the eight major traitors and the forms of the border to Emperor Chongzhen, and then said: "Such a large-scale act of collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country, if it is said that the general army of the Xuanfu has nothing to do with it, even the ministers who killed him would not believe it."

Emperor Chongzhen was already furious, and after hearing Zhong Jinwei's speech, he said to Sun Chengzong: "Master Sun, the general soldier of Xuanfu is in King Qin's army, right? Take him to me!"

"Your Majesty, I think it's better not to touch him for the time being." Sun Chengzong persuaded.

"Why, even if he has nothing to do with him, and such a shocking thing happened in his jurisdiction, he must be taken down." Emperor Chongzhen said angrily.

"Your Majesty, after all, the chief soldier of the Xuan Mansion has King Laiqin, and he is also a hero who recovered Zunhua and other places. If he is arrested in this way, it will have a bad impact on other general soldiers. Therefore, the meaning of the minister and Lord Sun is to send him as soon as possible." People have to find out how deep the frontier army's involvement is, and then punish the general soldier of the Xuanfu." Zhong Jinwei also persuaded him.

When Emperor Chongzhen saw that the two ministers said so, he had to think deeply, and then said: "Forget it, let him go first. But to punish the traitors severely and thoroughly investigate the affairs of the frontier army, two masters must go. Don't worry. But Master Sun is going to sit in the capital, so we can only trouble Master Zhong with this matter."

According to what Master Zhong said, the wealth of those traitors must be huge. If someone else goes there, it is really uncertain whether they will fill their own pockets.In the selection of Emperor Chongzhen, Zhong Jinwei was selected from the beginning.

"It's no problem for me to go. I have sent my guards to check the situation before. It's just that when I go to the border, I need to have the discretion to punish the traitors and the number of participants in the frontier army." Zhong Jinwei made a request.

"I gave Master Zhong a Shangfang sword, and another copy of the imperial decree. He has the right to act arbitrarily at the moment, and to cut first and play later." Emperor Chongzhen said directly without thinking. [

After he said this, he immediately thought that the frontier army was involved, and Zhong Jinwei's safety could not be ignored, so he said: "Master Zhong has to bring an army to go."

Therefore, after discussing with the two courtiers, Emperor Chongzhen decided that Zhong Jinwei would take a thousand white-armed troops to Zhangjiakou to deal with traitors and investigate the frontier army under the pretext of escorting the previously promised frontier army salary.

Sun Chengzong was in the capital, assisted by Qin Liangyu, to carry out the reorganization of the Beijing infantry.

In fact, it is not an excuse. Hong Chengchou has sent people back to Beijing many times to ask for food and money, and even revealed that if there is no food or money, he has to focus on suppression.

Later, Emperor Chongzhen sent a messenger to explain to the frontier soldiers that they had prepared military salaries, and the military salaries would be delivered as soon as the Battle of Gyeonggi was over.If this matter is promised, it must be done, otherwise the frontier army will retaliate more violently.

After discussing this matter, it was finally Emperor Chongzhen's turn to talk about his affairs: "Master Zhong, there is a shortage of money everywhere, and the affairs of state-owned enterprises must be implemented as soon as possible. These are the various reports you have made while you are not in the capital. Take a look first."

The servant standing on the side listened to what Emperor Chongzhen said, and rushed over to forward the information on the imperial case to Zhong Jinwei.

Sun Chengzong looked at the servant and handed the information to Zhong Jinwei, then smiled and said to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, a lot of money has been seized from Jianlu this time, which may alleviate the court's lack of money."

In fact, Emperor Chongzhen was just talking. There is still a lot of atonement money from last time, and tax money from various places will be escorted to the capital soon.But there are too many places to spend money, and there must be more ways to make money.

Now hearing Sun Chengzong say that money is coming again, I am really overjoyed. Money is a thing that is not too much for the current Ming Empire.

The money that Sun Chengzong mentioned is only a small part of the money lost in the whole city of Yongping, but even so, there is already a lot.

Zhong Jinwei quickly finished reading the several reports in his hand. He thought for a while, and said to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, the cement production can be sold for the time being. I will write an operation plan later, and let people operate it."

"How much money can I get?" Emperor Chongzhen was more concerned about this.

"Your Majesty, the current cement still needs to meet the needs of road construction. Only if this road is repaired, firstly, it will have a demonstration effect, and secondly, the road from the cement factory to the capital will not be afraid of rain. Both are killing two birds with one stone."

Emperor Chongzhen heard Zhong Jinwei's words mean that there would not be a lot of cement to sell right now, and he was a little disappointed. However, because Sun Chengzong suddenly made a fortune here, although he was disappointed with Zhong Jinwei's words that road construction was the priority, he was still disappointed. Not against it. [

"As for glass, most of the production capacity can be allocated for sale. The sales method is different from that of cement, and I will write a copy in advance." Zhong Jinwei is not very satisfied with the production capacity of glass, but because most of the output of cement is used by himself, so We can only use this glass production capacity.

Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen hurriedly said, "Master Zhong, what is the strategy for selling cement and glass?"

Whenever Sun Chengzong encountered economic problems, especially this kind of new things, he couldn't speak, so he listened to Zhong Jinwei with admiration.

In the past, Sun Chengzong believed that Hou Zhongxing should focus on this content and make more money for Daming.But after the Battle of Gyeonggi, he felt that it would not be too bad if Hou Zhongxing was thrown on the battlefield.Because he is good at listening to other people's opinions, and even he can come up with some strange ideas, but he will not limit the display of generals' talents.

Sun Chengzong didn't know who Zhong Jinwei's teacher was, who could teach such a comprehensive talent.I have taught students for so many years, but I have never had a student with Zhongxinghou's talent.

Thinking of this, Sun Chengzong secretly sighed in his heart, one mountain is still higher!

Of course Zhong Jinwei didn't know that Sun Chengzong, who was sitting next to him, thought a lot about himself. He replied to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, this is what I think. Cement and glass are not like table salt. People are indispensable. Therefore, selling The target is the wealthy family in Daming, and let them pay for it.”

"Oh, okay, I'll read it later when I finish writing it." Emperor Chongzhen thought it was very good when he heard Zhong Jinwei's thinking, so he stopped asking.

Zhong Jinwei took out a report from his hand and said: "Your Majesty, according to the bank report, I am not very satisfied with the exchange of banknotes for silver. Therefore, I thought of a way to speed up the issuance of banknotes."

Upon hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen slightly stretched his neck towards Zhong Jinwei, and quickly asked, "Master Zhong, what can we do?"

"It is the sale of cement and glass. If you buy it with Daming Jiusibao banknotes, you can give a discount on the price." Zhong Jinwei introduced.

"Marquis Zhongxing, aren't you going to take back the banknotes?" Sun Chengzong couldn't help asking when he heard this.

In their minds, the idea that banknotes are not as good as silver taels after all cannot be completely changed in a day or two, even for Sun Chengzong.

Zhong Jinwei looked at Sun Chengzong and said with a smile: "Yes, it is to take back the banknotes. Let them know that the benefits of using banknotes are more than silver taels."

"Master Zhong, isn't the imperial court going to issue banknotes? Is it counterproductive?" Emperor Chongzhen asked with a slight frown.

Zhong Jinwei looked back at Emperor Chongzhen, shook his head and said, "It didn't go against our wishes at all. The banknotes they used to buy could only come from two sources. One was the salary issued by the imperial court, and the other was to exchange banknotes with silver taels at the Daming Royal Bank. The salary issued by the imperial court is extremely limited. If you want to buy cement and glass, you have to exchange silver taels from your home for banknotes. In this way, the circulation of banknotes will increase. Correspondingly, the silver tael reserves in the Daming Royal Bank It will increase. In this way, it will be faster to reach the line where the silver reserves are sufficient, so that the imperial court can issue additional banknotes."

When Zhong Jinwei first explained, Emperor Chongzhen already understood the truth of it, and he also subconsciously thought that the court issued paper money and received two taels of cash, so he just thought about it clearly.

Zhong Jinwei shook his head secretly in his heart, it seems that the process of popularizing banknotes in Daming will take a long time.Then he put the matter aside, and said to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, the bottleneck of steelmaking is now concentrated on refractory bricks, and the quality of steel is still not satisfactory. For my opinion, it may be necessary to solicit more knowledgeable Knowledge craftsmen come together to improve."

Emperor Chongzhen nodded and said: "That's no problem, I ordered to recruit well-known craftsmen from all over the country. Oh, by the way, people before Master Zhong have already arrived in the capital."

Zhong Jinwei was taken aback for a moment, and couldn't remember who he was, so he asked, "Your Majesty, who has arrived in the capital?"

"Song Yingxing."

After hearing this, Sun Chengzong couldn't remember who this Song Yingxing was, but judging from what Zhongxinghou had always said, this Song Yingxing should be a talent.

"Song Yingxing, oh, I remember, Song Yingxing, what about others?" Zhong Jinwei thought for a while, and immediately remembered that he was the author of "Tiangong Kaiwu", and he mentioned it to Xu Guangqi himself, oh, yes, it's been a long time It's been a while since I saw Xu Guangqi, why did this great man go?

"Xu Qing just arranged for him to go to the cement factory." Emperor Chongzhen replied.

"By the way, Your Majesty, where did Master Xu go before? I haven't seen him for a long time." Zhong Jinwei hurriedly asked his question.

"There was a problem with the compilation of the almanac, so Xu Qing passed by for a while."

Zhong Jinwei didn't know the importance of the almanac to ancient society, and secretly complained in his heart that there were so many things now, and he threw Xu Guangqi to repair the almanac.

He said to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, I believe that the focus of Master Xu's work should be shifted to the preparation of infrastructure and various research institutes. In addition, if Master Xu thinks that Song Yingxing is really knowledgeable, he might as well let him manage various factories. , replace An Guiyi and be in charge of state-owned enterprise sales."

"Master Zhong and Xu Qing will discuss this matter, and I trust you." Emperor Chongzhen nodded in agreement.

There is one more thing, it is inconvenient to say it now, Zhong Jinwei said to Emperor Chongzhen: "Your Majesty, I am going to the bank to look at the banknotes."

Emperor Chongzhen knew what Zhong Jinwei was talking about as soon as he heard it. He looked at Sun Chengzong, and said: "Master Zhong, you don't have any guards now, I'll send you another group of guards."

"Your Majesty, don't be so troublesome. Didn't the minister want to lead the white-armed army out to do some errands? I'll ask them for some people. When we get to Zhangjiakou, the original guards will be able to return to the minister." Zhong Jinwei resigned.

Emperor Chongzhen thought about it and thought it was okay, so he agreed.

Just when Zhong Jinwei was about to turn around and leave the palace, he remembered the matter of Concubine Tian Guifei's father Zuo Dudu, so he stopped Zhong Jinwei again, and said to him: "Master Zhong, no matter who is involved in the banknotes, you can deal with it as you want." .”

Zhong Jinwei was taken aback for a moment, not knowing who Emperor Chongzhen was referring to.But no matter who it is, with the words of Emperor Chongzhen, he will not show favoritism.

Then Zhong Jinwei left again, but was stopped by Emperor Chongzhen again unexpectedly.

But this time, Emperor Chongzhen was a little embarrassed.He said to Zhong Jinwei: "Master Zhong, I said earlier that after defeating Jianlu in the capital, it should be your wedding time, but now I have to let you go to the border. It's really hard for you!"