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Chapter 1015 Tengxiang
There should not be such an emperor in the world, especially in the position of Wanli, because he is not the first emperor, nor did he launch a coup to reunify the world like Emperor Chengzu.

An emperor who grew up in a deep palace should not know how to do things himself, or should not be a dictator.

Dictator is not a pejorative term here.

Because in the normal Ming Dynasty, there would be no emperors who tried to block the power. Even in the Ming Dynasty in history, there were only about three people, but in fact there were four people, but the latter two were only half of them.

Ming Taizu, Ming Chengzu, Ming Wuzong and Ming Sizong.

The first two are because they dominate the world and do everything by themselves; Wu Zong is naturally active and loves to play, while Si Zong is extremely frightened, suspicious, and helpless.

If you want to monopolize power, you can't rely on the status of the emperor alone. Even if you want to seize power with only one status, you will not be able to do so. This requires authority. However, Emperor Wanli has this authority.

Who made him drive around the palace in a small car named Huode Xingjun, and won the Mingxi Second War?
The best military officers and rising officials in the world are all his disciples, and the empire is prosperous and strong far away from his father and grandfather in his hands.

It seems that all the old diseases were solved in the process of Emperor Wanli adding coal to Huode Xingjun time and time again.

He has no prestige, who has prestige?

Zhang Juzheng?Of course Zhang Juzheng has prestige, but Mr. Zhang's reputation has become bad after he seized his love.

What's more, the prestige of the minister is different from that of the emperor.

In the seventh year of Wanli, Emperor Wanli also made a great attempt.

Another empire's humerus was about to fall. Ma Fang, a veteran who had guarded Xuanda for many years, resigned. The root cause of his early battles made him unable to wear horses. A few days after the emperor sent him to Beiyang Medical Academy for treatment, a letter The imperial edict added another earl to the Ming Empire—Krupp Mafang.

The Ming Empire was extremely cautious in conferring titles. The biggest problem was the patriarchal Lumi. However, this year when the Emperor Wanli raised the issue of conferring titles and was blocked by the courtier Yilumi, the emperor had a countermeasure: don’t give me sloppy eyes, and more than 600 clans have transferred It has been confiscated, and more will be confiscated next year. This is not bad for Lumi to bestow favors on important officials of the court.

Yin Zhengmao, Ling Yunyi, Wu Dui, Wang Chonggu, Qi Jiguang, Li Chengliang, Chen Lin and others agreed.

Zhang Juzheng thought about it again and again, and he also liked it.

However, to Wang Zongyi, Shangshu of the Ministry of Household Affairs, the earl's salary is irrelevant when the empire restarts the knighthood. As long as the corruption in the warehouse that looks like a mouse's den can be cured, the emperor can confer hundreds of earls. The change in the income structure of the empire is his. Top of mind.

The Ministry of Industry has more and more income-generating projects.

In this year, Zhang Juzheng advocated the completion of the telegraph network along with the northern and southern Zhili, and 270 telegraph rooms were put into use on the way, of which 130 were used by the government, military and civilians.

During the gradual construction of the telegraph, which took several years, wealthy businessmen have long been accustomed to these novel gadgets. The telegraph route between the north and the south of Zhili is more than [-] miles long, so that people can receive a reply within seven days, regardless of the terrain. Not to mention, just across the Yellow River, the price for civilian use is extremely high.

However, there are rich people at both ends of this telegraph route.

Even with one or two crosses, there are still many people who wrote thousands of long letters and telegrams to Beijing and Beijing.

After excluding maintenance in various places within a year, there is still a balance of more than [-] taels on the books of the Ministry of Industry.

This is just one of them, and the other is in the Steam Bureau, which is the biggest source of income compared to the telegraph. It sells more than forty Model A units a year and earns tens of thousands of taels, and there are more small and medium-sized ones as a foil.

Wang Zongyi, Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, is approaching the end of the new year, and all his strength is arguing with the Ministry of Industry, trying to find ways to bring the money under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Households. The reward money is handed over to the household department, and they are unwilling to hand over the money they have earned.

The Ministry of Industry has tasted the sweetness.

It's not the silver itself, but they have completed a virtuous circle with the funds supplied by the Nanyang Military Government.

Funds are used to develop the steam engine, the steam engine is put into use, a large number of productions are sold to counterparts, and after the profit is made, it is re-invested in the research and development, and more gold and silver are invested in the research and development after the successful development.

The related subjects of mechanics, materials, mechanics, and electricity are all improved by this cycle.

As long as any important court official sits in the position of Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, he cannot let go.

How terrifying is the power of capital?Yin Zhengmao doesn't embezzle public funds any more—how can corruption be as fast as what he is doing now?The same is 30 taels of military expenditure. If he is greedy, he really can only get 30 taels, but he wants to use the 30 taels to arm the troops of the Western Army, and install large ships and artillery for at most a year. 30 taels can become 300 million taels.

Even if he takes more than half of it from the middle, there are still 150 million taels left to hand over to the court; in fact, he really takes more than half every time, and he will only hand over 300 million taels to the court for 100 million taels.

Or say that his performance in the Western Army is poor, in fact, money is meaningless to him, where is there any place to spend?Any country in the Western Ocean would send him whatever he wanted, but he couldn’t help it, he just liked shiny things.

Anyway, no matter how poor the performance was, Chen Mu's Dongyang Military Mansion was at the bottom.

Chen Mu's Dongyang Military Mansion is indeed the one with the largest investment and support from the imperial court every year among the three overseas military mansions, but the least profit.

The Nanyang military mansion has hardware, rice, food, market, and population, and has been in business for many years, with the strongest profitability; the Western military mansion also has hardware, wood, goods, population, and market. Yin Zhengmao's greed might not allow the Western Army to overtake the Vietnam Army.

The Dongyang Military Mansion also has a large territory and a lot of goods. Although there is less gold and silver, it can get 70 million taels from Spain every year, and the difference is in the goods.

The large timber, which is the most produced by the Dongyang Military Mansion, cannot be transported because it is not on the coast!

However, in this ordinary year, the little emperor, who was sitting firmly in the Forbidden City, felt a surge of emotion - the northern riders braved the biting cold from Wangxia Prefecture to bring him back the news that the Dongyang Army was preparing for war: Dongyang Army The entire New Spain has been actually occupied. In order to establish the influence of the Ming Empire in Europa and to better assist King Alan in the Restoration War, the Eastern Military Government intends to intervene in the French War.

When I read this letter, Emperor Wanli’s desk still had the Minister of War and Dai Cai’s reply to the allocation of armaments from the three sides.

The letter stated that in the coming seven years of Wanli, the Beixuanfu, Nanyangwei, and Beiyang three major military bureaus jointly produced 440 field guns, city guns, and naval guns that were finalized in the fourth year of Wanli, and made birds in the sixth year of Wanli. Gun thirty-one thousand two seventy two.

So far, the Nine Frontiers and the four provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Shandong, and Fujian have completed the replacement of new-style bird guns and artillery. The 30 Beijing troops in Zhili in the north can be properly abolished, selected, and reorganized.

"Quick, Tengxiang Second Guard, contact Beiyang and tell Ye Mengxiong that next year's Beiyang Army, Tengxiang Second Guard will also go to Asia, and now go to the next year to catch up with the big war... I can train four more guards! Well, Practice four more guards."

(End of this chapter)