Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 724, Emperor Hongzhi's eyes are red

In the imperial palace of the capital, Emperor Hongzhi was reviewing memorials in his study.

In the past two years, his small life has been very comfortable, the country is prosperous and the people are safe, and the weather is going well. The key is that all internal and external troubles have been wiped out.

Not only does he have money to spend and has the military power, but now the court also has money, the treasury is full, and there is so much money that he doesn't know how to spend it.

All walks of life are thriving, and the development of various places in Ming Dynasty is also very rapid. Even if there are floods, droughts and locust plagues in some places, a lot of money is scattered, and a large amount of grain is continuously transported, and nothing happens.

"Silver is really a good thing~"

Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help sighing after reading the memorial.

The memorandum just now was sent from Shaanxi. There was another severe drought in Shaanxi this year. There has been no rain in many places for several months. The land is dry and there is no harvest.

In the past, the imperial court had no money and could only mobilize food to help the victims. Often before the food arrived, Shaanxi might already be in chaos.

The phenomenon of starvation everywhere, and the phenomenon of changing children and eating may appear.

At that time, there will inevitably be many mountain kings, peasant uprisings and so on. In short, it may take two or three years for the turmoil to subside slowly.

But it's different now.

Despite such a severe drought, judging from the reports from various sources, everything in Shaanxi is very stable. The imperial court has money, and the money is allocated in time.

The grain transported by the imperial court, the grain purchased from the grain merchants, and the Ming Morning Post called on everyone to donate money and materials to support Shaanxi. A major drought that should have caused trouble and killed many people disappeared invisibly. .

The imperial court has money, so things are done differently. Even if there is corruption, it can still fall on the heads of the common people below.

What's more, the money for disaster relief is basically used to buy food, and the food is transported to the disaster area for disaster relief. The situation of corruption has also improved.

The Ming Dynasty Morning Post also plays a certain role in supervision. Many members of the Ming Morning Post remember to go deep into the disaster area to collect news materials. If any local officials embezzle money or food for disaster relief, they will report it, and they will definitely die soon. Land, this also made many people converge a lot.

Secondly, Daming is building cement roads, and there are also planned cement roads in Shaanxi. This road construction requires a lot of manpower, and it also recruits many victims who happen to have nothing to do because of the drought.

Let them have things to do, work to do, food to eat, and money to take, and they will naturally settle down.

The construction of the road also made the speed of the imperial court's disaster relief very fast. With the cement road, the four-wheeled carriage could transport a large amount of grain to Shaanxi very quickly.

In the past, it may take ten days and a half months, and only half of the ten catties of grain can be transported there. Now it is different, two or three days is enough, and ten catties of grain will be fully transported for you.

In addition, Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Henan are now also the places where the imperial court focuses on relocating people. Last year, [-] people were relocated to Liaodong.

In Shaanxi, hundreds of thousands of people were relocated last year alone, which has greatly reduced the pressure on Shaanxi. With a smaller population, the pressure to survive is less.

Under the influence of many conditions, the severe drought in Shaanxi that should have given Emperor Hongzhi a headache, nothing happened. Everything in Shaanxi is in order, and the victims in various places are at home eating good rice and white noodles with peace of mind. I lived such a leisurely life that many people said that this is not a year of famine.

Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Silver is really a good thing.

Even if he is the emperor, he has to sigh like this.

Thinking about the hard times in the past, and thinking about the present, Emperor Hongzhi has a deep understanding.

In the past, there was a famine, and the imperial court was poor. Let alone money, it would be good to have food relief in the past. If you can put together a few tens of thousands of taels of silver, it is not enough for the officials below. Woolen cloth.

Now, this time, the imperial court directly allocated [-] taels of money, and Emperor Hongzhi took out another [-] taels of silver from his internal funds. The Ming Morning Post also claimed that donations from all walks of life, food donations, etc., made another [-]-odd taels Ten thousand taels of silver add up to more than one million taels of silver.

Coupled with the large amount of food allocated, such a huge amount of money and food was thrown down, and the victims in Shaanxi would not be able to eat it all for a year even if they sat at home and ate.

This is money, money is easy to do.

"Concrete kilometers will continue to be repaired. Anyway, there is money now, and there has just been a drought in Shaanxi, so we should repair more, and repair the roads to Sichuan and Henan. Instead of work, let them build roads and repair roads. Reservoir."

"With concrete roads, everything is convenient, and there is almost too much food to transport."

"Not only in Shaanxi, but also in all parts of Ming Dynasty. The more repairs, the better."

When Emperor Hongzhi came to the huge map, he couldn't help but nodded when he looked at the standard red line on the map.

Now I can feel the benefits of road construction.

"Immigrants from Shaanxi will continue to move out, and it happens to be a famine year, so they should move more, to Liaodong, to Xianglin, Jiaozhi, and Nanyang."

"It just so happens that there are few people in these places, the more people move out, the better."

Soon, Emperor Hongzhi looked at the two newly acquired provinces in Nanyang, and nodded immediately.

There are many good places, and I am worrying about the small population of these places, and it is just right to move all of you disaster victims out.

"When will Liu Jin come back? Is he planning to stay here in Nanyang until the Chinese New Year?"

Soon, Emperor Hongzhi thought of Liu Jin, and a smile appeared on his face.

"Alright, let him squeeze some more money back from Nanyang. With money, my Ming Dynasty can be more prosperous. As for the other things, it's not important anymore."

Emperor Hongzhi is completely shameless now, is it important to have money in his face?

Can face be used as silver?
So what Liu Jin did in Nanyang was to integrate Emperor Hongzhi's wishes.

Money is the most important thing. Only with money can we do great things. Whether it is military construction, disaster relief, or infrastructure construction, Emperor Hongzhi can do it freely.

When Emperor Hongzhi was looking at the huge map and meditating, a little Huangmen hurried over, handed a secret letter into Xiao Jing's hands, and said something hastily.

"Your Majesty~Your Majesty~"

After Xiao Jing heard this, he couldn't help opening his eyes wide, and then hurried to find Emperor Hongzhi.

"what's up?"

Emperor Hongzhi looked at Xiao Jing and asked.

"Your Majesty, great news, great news, a fleet has returned from the Golden Continent, and brought a great news to His Majesty."

Xiao Jing said with a smile all over his face, and then dismantled the superstition and respectfully handed it over to Emperor Hongzhi.

This superstition was sent to the capital here in Songhu overnight.

"Yeah~ Someone finally came back?"

When Emperor Hongzhi heard it, he laughed immediately, and he took the superstition and looked very quickly.

This superstition is a secret letter brought back by the secret guards sent by Jin Yiwei to the Golden Continent, reporting in detail everything that happened on the Golden Continent.

Emperor Hongzhi allowed the behavior of Tianjin Ocean Trading Company, but it does not mean that he will not be under surveillance. Jin Yiwei is pervasive. In fact, nothing can escape the eyes of Emperor Hongzhi.

"All major commercial firms have made a fortune. Thousands of gold and silver mines, large and small, have been discovered all over the Golden Island. They are constantly mining gold and silver mines. This time, the dozens of ships that came back were filled with Gold and silver."

"Tian Erniu built a lot of colonial strongholds on the Golden Continent, and even sent troops to conquer the Aztec Kingdom and the Inca Empire. The conquest of the Aztec Kingdom alone won more than [-] million taels of gold at one time. Gold and silver?"

Seeing this, Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help opening his mouth.

"Gold and silver worth fifty million taels of silver?"

Emperor Hongzhi couldn't believe it, but after reading it carefully, his eyes turned red immediately.

"Fifty million taels~"

"If it's considered the Inca Empire, wouldn't it be worth hundreds of millions of taels of gold?"

Emperor Hongzhi's breathing became heavier.

Even though he is already very rich, and he is also the Ninth Five-Year Supreme, but seeing the content of this superstition, the whole person can't help being excited and trembling.

Gold and silver worth hundreds of millions.

Build pyramids of gold and silver.

Only [-] people easily conquered the two big countries in the Golden Continent and asked them to pay gold and silver. The key is that every year after that, people in these two countries will use gold and silver to build pyramids to atone for their sins.

So ignorant, so ignorant, so simple.

This made Emperor Hongzhi couldn't help but sigh, it was too easy and simple.

"This Tian Erniu is really talented. With [-] people, he easily conquered two big kingdoms and obtained such a huge wealth. He must be rewarded heavily when he comes back."

Emperor Hongzhi grinned from ear to ear. He and Prince Zhu Houzhao are the major shareholders of Tianjin Ocean Trading Co., and this time he has obtained such a huge amount of wealth.

"The Europeans have already reached the east coast of the Golden Continent~"

"Sure enough, we live on a sphere. From Daming to the west, we can reach Europe. If we go east, we have actually come into contact with Europeans."

After a long time, Emperor Hongzhi's excited mood calmed down slightly, and then he began to carefully read the contents of the superstition.

The content on the superstition is very detailed. It not only explains the situation of Daming on the Golden Continent in detail, but also mentions that this time, descendants of Yin Shang and European Spaniards arrived in Daming with the fleet.

　Ask for tickets, all kinds of requests~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)