open sea

Chapter 1141 Interest
At the gate of Tsinghua Garden, the Wanli Emperor, wearing a winged crown, rarely took off his military uniform. He wore a robe with a bright yellow twelve chapter pattern, with his hands on his hips and a jade belt around his waist. .

On the left and right of the gate, there are exquisitely carved stone tiger-headed horse-holding posts lined up, tethered with high-headed mixed-breed war horses from the Imperial Forest Army wearing armor, and the Guards Military Academy carrying Imperial Forest Swords and Bird Guns on their shoulders blocked the intersection and opened the guard. Carriages full of crates parked one after another in the clearing.

Crates are also used to ship goods in China today, mainly goods loaded and unloaded from Beiyang, because there are too many prefabricated wooden boards shipped back from the New World.

For the convenience of shipping and transportation, the Dongyang Military Mansion has square and boards when it is shipped, and different specifications and different uses. A considerable part of the timber that is not mature is directly made into wooden box prefabricated panels for mortise and tenon and nailing. The government can only use this.

The embarrassment of Mr. Zhang Ge holding his buttocks has long been forgotten by the emperor. He was very happy yesterday, and he is also very happy today. It is foreseeable that he will be very happy tomorrow, because just a few days ago, the royal family was in the temple in the southwest last year. For the first time, the abbots transported the paid special products, land rent, interest, and taxes to Beiyang by sea, and then sent them to Beijing by land.

These abbots are not the group of people who followed Tianshi to the west to fight, but the emperor invested money from the inner treasury and handed it over to Master Tianshi to select people. The temples set up in Myanmar, etc. Chances are big for land mergers, hiding people, collecting temple property, being diligent in lending money, and collecting rent on the ground.

Let's put it this way, Emperor Wanli invested in 74 temples in batches in the name of "Yijun" to raise funds, and invested in nine additional temples in the name of Empress Dowager Li to give Feng Bao, the governor of Dongchang in his later years, a temple that could recite sutras. Great place, 85 temples in total.

This is different from the temples established by the Wanzi Army. The emperor clearly distinguished those temples from Daming and his temples.

He, the emperor, has no control over what happened in Daming's overseas temples. The military government has the final say, but his temples have strict regulations.

Except for the abbot, the other main figures in the temple may not know a little bit of Buddhism. Except for the obvious characteristics that the temple produces more than domestic products and lends more money than domestic ones, there are also knives, guns, swords, halberds, axes, hooks, and forks in the temple. Everything is ready.

At the beginning of investing in them, each abbot walked with one or two Jinyiwei, and a hundred households leading banner troops from the best-armed traditional guards in Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian were brought along with them.

These people used to change administrative divisions for others.

Perhaps after the temple gathered Buddhists with these core banner troops, each of their temples had more people than each other's city, and that temple naturally became a local center.

The emperor has been standing at the gate of Tsinghua Garden in various postures for a whole day.

When he gets up early, he just stands like this. When he gets tired, he sits on the stone steps. When his butt gets cold, he asks someone to move a chair for him. Now that his legs are numb from sitting, he stands up again. Even lunch is at the door. Eating outside... Anyway, this private garden is several miles away from the nearest official avenue, and no one has seen the emperor's unseemly behavior.

Those abbots are really capable. Since seeing the list of Beijing goods they handed over to Beiyang yesterday, the emperor was so happy that he couldn't sleep well at night in the Qianqing Palace. Show a smirk.

The abbot with the worst business ability raised 220 taels of gold and 700 taels of silver in four months; the two best temples were in the barren land near Mengmi Xuanwei Sibaojing, and they each handed over 4000 taels to the emperor. Taels and 7000 taels of silver.

It's not that Meng Mi Xuanweisi is rich, but that their temples have jade. Even the chieftain of Mengmi Xuanweisi didn't know that they produced jade, but these great monks discovered it.

Moreover, these two abbots were smart enough. They took jade on board, stopped at Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Nanzhi along the way to sell it, and finally sent silver to the emperor.

Among other things, even the nine temples of Empress Dowager Li earned her back more than [-] taels of silver.

Master Wanli accidentally found a job with an annual income of nearly 90 taels for himself, how could he not be happy?

What's more, he only has more than a hundred temples, and he has this income. How much should the monks have in hundreds or even thousands of temples?
"I've found the boat now."

The emperor felt that he had found the key to solve the problem. Not to mention the gold and silver collected directly by these temples, the jade, gemstones and other special products sold in the country alone were shipped back. Ordinary people might not buy much of these things. In the end, it was the dignitaries who flowed in. In the hands of noblemen, wealthy merchants and wealthy businessmen.

So he was very proud with his hips on his hips, watching the soldiers unload the carriages and push the carts into the newly built inner warehouse in Tsinghua Park. Who can think of the hemorrhoids on Zhang Ge's old buttocks?

Master Wanli said to Xu Guangqi who was standing beside him with a contemptuous expression, "This is the boat. I have found the boat before I even read Jing Haibo's reply."

"I want to re-spend the money earned from the wealthy merchants to the poorest people in the empire. They don't need much, and I can't give much, but each person can use one or two a year. Millions of poor people have benefited."

The emperor turned his head, raised his hand and grinned, thinking about money all night, the lying silkworms with swollen eyes and puffy eyes squeezed together, and added: "There is also the Wanli Steel Casting Factory in Baoding Prefecture and the Wanli Coal Factory in Shanxi. It’s still small now, but it can help millions of people in the future.”

"Your Majesty's generosity, benevolence and fraternity are indeed the blessings of the world."

Xu Guangqi bowed his head and bowed his hands. The emperor's reasoning was very good, but obviously he didn't understand the rules. Where would the emperor send money directly to the people? This is probably not a good way.

Then he heard the emperor's broken thoughts: "The teacher's hemorrhoids came well, thanks to the teacher's bed rest, the court was able to unanimously pass the royal family's imperial family's establishment of the Wanli Coal Factory in Shanxi Meishan. The teacher is indispensable what."

"Now that everything is done, Beiyang's doctor Chen Shigong came at the right time. When he delivered the things, I asked him to see the teacher."

For the emperor, it was all good things coming together. Qi Jiguang won two battles outside the Great Wall after the Spring Festival, and Zhang Juzheng, the chief assistant of the cabinet, was so angry that he refused to let him treat his illness that he couldn't sit and sleep. He opposed the royal family's franchise of coal mines, but he was scolded by the emperor and the elders did not help him. The courtiers were also frightened by this incident, and no one dared to sing the opposite.

He did everything he should and wanted to do, and the omnipotent and omniscient Emperor Wanli felt that Zhang Ge's hemorrhoids could be cured.

At this moment, Chen Shigong, who was surrounded by apprentices, came late, his face was full of excitement of riding the Daqinglong steam locomotive on the road, Wanli did not greet him, and directly opened his hand to ask for Chen Mu's reply, and he couldn't wait to face him. After walking in the garden, I started reading.

"Everything in the future of the empire is education?"

(End of this chapter)