The sky is clear in the morning.
Zhu Gaoxu neither went to the north of the imperial city nor went to court, so he went straight to Rouyi Hall to work.
During the Northern Expedition, Zhu Gaoxu did not ask about the government affairs; at this time, he had to read the files roughly to understand the government affairs recorded by the cabinet over the past few months.
The eunuch who is responsible for serving Zhu Gaoxu today is Hou Xian, the young supervisor of the Sili Supervisor.He is a castrator with clear facial contours and square appearance.
As soon as Zhu Gaoxu walked into the Rouyi Hall, he glanced at the back door yard.But Hou Xian is not Cao Fu, and he doesn't seem to know much about some things.Hou Xian brought a few eunuchs to deliver the latest memorials.
Since a stack of memorials had been placed on the table, Zhu Gaoxu was ready to take a look at it casually and then send it to the Wuying Hall in the north to let the cabinet and Dianbao first handle it.
He opened the top memorial and saw that he couldn't understand the first two sentences; and the words were written very poorly, and each stroke reminded Zhu Gaoxu of a child who had just learned to write!
But this aroused Zhu Gaoxu's interest, because the court officials could not be so uneducated.
He immediately looked through the place where the signature was to see whose memorial was.
A line of strange letters came into view, which made Zhu Gaoxu realize: this was the memorial of a foreign envoy.
Chinese characters are also added next to the letters, envoy of the King of Manoba Xiedong.
The country of Manobahe is on the island of Java, Indonesia. After Zhu Gaoxu ascended the throne, he read the charts left by Zheng He and some records of Yonglechu's files, and he learned about it.
Zhu Gaoxu continued to read the memorial and finally understood the content.The Java envoy wrote a letter hoping that the court would agree, and that the State of Manobahe (Java Island) would be incorporated into the Ming Dynasty and become a province!
ha!Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help laughing after reading it, subconsciously thinking that this envoy was simply weird.
Zhu Gaoxu rubbed his forehead and looked up at Hou Xian. Suddenly I thought of a question: Why is this memorial at the top?
When Zheng He went to sea, Hou Xian and Wang Jinghong were also in the fleet as deputy envoys; and Hou Xian and Wang Jinghong were eunuchs with nostrils.
Zhu Gaoxu immediately speculated that eunuchs such as Hou Xian and Wang Jinghong also had political demands.
Zhu Gaoxu handed the memorial to Hou Xian to read.
Hou Xian bowed to take it, and after reading it, he clasped his fists and said: I reported to the emperor, the Eastern and Western kings of Manobaxie had an internal strife.The Eastern King mentioned in the memorial was defeated and lost all his territory. His envoy probably wanted the court to send troops to help them regain their territory.
So that's it... I remembered it, I seemed to have read the file and it was indeed true.That Western King seemed to have murdered our navy soldiers by chance?Zhu Gaoxu said.
Hou Xian hurriedly said: What the emperor said is very true.At that time, the official troops on the ship went ashore to do business. They were mistakenly considered by the West King of Java as reinforcements hired by the East King, and their words were not very clear, so our people were killed more than 100 people.Later, the King of Western Republic wrote a letter to apologize and wanted to pay 60,000 taels of gold, but when the memorial was sent to the capital, the late emperor had already passed away.Later, the prince was deposed as power and no fleet was sent to the south, so the matter was left to the present day.
Sixty thousand taels of gold?Zhu Gaoxu was surprised. He didn't know that there was anything. The king of Java is so rich?
Hou Xian said: To the northwest of Manobache, the Sanfoqi Kingdom (near Malaysia and Sumatra Island) produces gold; Manobache Kingdom also has traded with Western Hui and Hui Muslims, and has accumulated a lot of wealth. It is really rich.
At that time, our Ming Dynasty giant ship was on the sea. After the Western King discovered it, he was very afraid of the destruction of the country, so he promised a lot of gold!The King of Eastern took the opportunity to send envoys to Beijing with the fleet, and promised to use the entire territory of the Manobahei country, but it made an empty promise.The emperor's clarification.
Zhu Gaoxu glanced at Hou Xian again, and Hou Xian immediately bent his waist lower.This eunuch is luring Zhu Gaoxu and restarting the fleet to go out to sea!Hou Xian should know that the emperor is very short of money now.
Sixty thousand taels of gold!
Zhu Gaoxu calculated in his heart that the currency of the Ming Dynasty was not the gold standard or the silver standard. Except for the treasure banknotes, copper coins are still the main ones.
Sixty thousand gold is equivalent to about 300,000 stag of copper coins!
In order to support the Southern Railway Factory, Zhu Gaoxu allocated 200,000 yuan from the inner government and the Ministry of Revenue, which made tens of thousands of people in the imperial city save money and also arrested the Minister of Revenue Xia Yuanji and the Imperial Prison.
Three hundred thousand coins of real money are considered a huge sum of money for the huge Ming Dynasty court.
Zhu Gaoxu stopped reading the memorials and files, stood up from the chair, and paced back and forth thoughtfully.
Hou Xian's voice said again: Emperor, envoys of Chameng, Boni, Siam, Zhenla and Java, have lived in the capital for several years and are still unable to return to China.Hu Butang, the Minister of Rites, complained many times that he wanted to provide them with food and drink...
I know.Zhu Gaoxu said.
Hou Xian hurriedly stopped and bowed and said: Yes, the emperor.
Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while and decided to learn more about the situation in Southeast Asia and plan a reasonable and effective long-term strategy, it is best to get the support of the ministers before making a decision.
Anyway, those envoys from various countries in Southeast Asia have lived there for several years, so it doesn’t matter if they live for one or two months.
Thinking of this, he sat back on the chair.
After obtaining various information since he ascended the throne, Zhu Gaoxu made some speculations and judgments in his mind.
The Confucian cultural circle is mainly in East Asia. In addition to the Ming Dynasty, the North Korean, Japan and Annan have a relatively large influence.
The countries in the South China Sea, including Myanmar and Siam (Thailand), which have contact with Yunnan border toasts, are likely to be more influenced by Indian religions and the U.S.
Moreover, before the rise of Portugal and Spain, European religious civilization seemed to be relatively backward; on the contrary, the Hui and Islamic clan was very strong, with strong force, wealthy and wealthy, and many believers.
What made Zhu Gaoxu feel the most was the Tatars and Wats far away in Mongolia, who actually believed in the Hui and Huili Sect.
The woman who was rescued by peace once said: The Tatar nobles dealt with the pagans (Tartars who were unwilling to believe in the Hui Muslim Sect), so they nailed them into their heads with horseshoes.
Because Europe dominated the world in modern times, Zhu Gaoxu had to forcefully reverse his concept: in this era, it was actually more powerful and wealthy than Western European religions and the Hui and Islamic Sects.
Zhu Gaoxu put his affairs far away in Nanyang for the time being and continued to read the recent memorials.He turned out Xia Yuanji's memorial.
Xia Yuanji, Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, submitted a memorial on the content of salt quotes.Xia Yuanji suggested that the salt was stopped and rewarded to the vassal kings and nobles, and emphasized that it could not be given to the merchant Shen family.
Xiabutang used a lot of space to explain the shortcomings.
(It probably means that the court could have gained huge benefits through the official business of salt and iron. It not only increased the income of the Ministry of Revenue, but also the five military governor's office and other yamen can also use salt to exchange with merchants, allowing merchants to transport grain, or summon refugees to directly farm at the border to supply the border army's needs; it greatly saves the expenses of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue.)
However, the royal family's excessive distribution of salt to the vassal kings, royal relatives and nobles disrupted the rules and caused huge losses to the court.
Zhu Gaoxu felt that Xia Yuanji’s statement made sense, but these ills were not caused by Zhu Gaoxu, and they had already existed.
And the involvement is quite complex, which is an important means for the royal balance to compensate the powerful and powerful parties.
Once cancelled, the conflict may intensify!
Xia Yuanji may have thought that last year Zhu Gaoxu captured the Dai King, weakened the military power of the kings, and led a large army to expedition to shock the north... So can we start to take back the interests of the court central government?
Zhu Gaoxu felt that Xiabutang did a good job in the Ministry of Revenue, but he could not consider the overall interests.Of course, Xiabutang may just make an offer and did not force it to be implemented immediately.
But what is mentioned in the memorial is that what is going on with the businessman Shen Jiayan?
Zhu Gaoxu looked through the government records a long time ago, and then he found out that a few months ago he had issued an order to arrange and enthrone Chen Baoyan, the daughter of Chen Xu, as Zhuangpin.
The eunuchs in the Silijian added salt invoices to the betrothal gifts, perhaps because Chen Xu was a merchant; the salt in the Ming Dynasty was monopoly, and as long as there was salt invoice, it would be huge profits, so all merchants wanted to get involved in the salt trade.
After understanding the process in the middle, Zhu Gaoxu immediately guessed that most of the matter was done by Wang Gui, and somehow passed the approval of the cabinet and the Dianbao Department.
Because Wang Gui had contact with the Shen family, it was mostly due to the favor Chen Xu entrusted to him.
Because Zhu Gaoxu did not directly manage the government for a long time before, so some things were not decided by him.
Zhu Gaoxu also remembered the Luo family. The eunuch Cao Fu once asked Luo about Huang Yan's whereabouts... Is this to please Huang Yan's enemy?
Wang Gui and others showed signs of wanting to form an alliance with Hou Xian and Wang Jinghong!
Zhu Gaoxu was immediately unhappy. He picked up the red pen and wrote on Xia Yuanji's memorial: Among the Shen family's betrothal gifts, salt quotations were changed to other property.
After he finished writing, he threw the memorial on the table with a snap and said to Hou Xian: Look at my approval and then tell the people from the Silijian.
Hou Xian carefully held up the memorial and kept nodding: I obey the order, I obey the order!He glanced at the memorial, his face turned pale, and he quietly wiped his forehead with his sleeve.
Zhu Gaoxu said again: Huang Yan, the eunuch who escaped from the Zhao royal palace, was indeed with the Tatars.I can ask the three Dharma officials to issue a huge gap, and there must be Tatars seeking profit and arresting Huang Yan.
Hou Xian knelt on the ground and kowtowed: Huang Yan was involved in the case of rebellion in the Royal Palace. The life and death of this thief depends entirely on the emperor's will.After the emperor ascended the throne, he still trusted and used slaves and other people. The great kindness was like a rebirth of his parents. The slaves and others were heartbroken and could not repay the emperor's kindness in case!I will never dare to have personal gains and will swear to be loyal to the emperor in this life!
Zhu Gaoxu calmed down and said: I also believe that you can understand the importance of it.Get up.
Thank you for your kindness.Hou Xian said.
Zhu Gaoxu breathed a sigh of relief and said kindly: Hundreds of sea ships have been built before, and shipbuilding and training are expensive, so you must not give up halfway through going to sea.However, I will change some strategies, and from then on, I will definitely choose a truly loyal eunuch as an envoy to continue this matter.
Hou Xian said: The emperor is wise!
Zhu Gaoxu neither went to the north of the imperial city nor went to court, so he went straight to Rouyi Hall to work.
During the Northern Expedition, Zhu Gaoxu did not ask about the government affairs; at this time, he had to read the files roughly to understand the government affairs recorded by the cabinet over the past few months.
The eunuch who is responsible for serving Zhu Gaoxu today is Hou Xian, the young supervisor of the Sili Supervisor.He is a castrator with clear facial contours and square appearance.
As soon as Zhu Gaoxu walked into the Rouyi Hall, he glanced at the back door yard.But Hou Xian is not Cao Fu, and he doesn't seem to know much about some things.Hou Xian brought a few eunuchs to deliver the latest memorials.
Since a stack of memorials had been placed on the table, Zhu Gaoxu was ready to take a look at it casually and then send it to the Wuying Hall in the north to let the cabinet and Dianbao first handle it.
He opened the top memorial and saw that he couldn't understand the first two sentences; and the words were written very poorly, and each stroke reminded Zhu Gaoxu of a child who had just learned to write!
But this aroused Zhu Gaoxu's interest, because the court officials could not be so uneducated.
He immediately looked through the place where the signature was to see whose memorial was.
A line of strange letters came into view, which made Zhu Gaoxu realize: this was the memorial of a foreign envoy.
Chinese characters are also added next to the letters, envoy of the King of Manoba Xiedong.
The country of Manobahe is on the island of Java, Indonesia. After Zhu Gaoxu ascended the throne, he read the charts left by Zheng He and some records of Yonglechu's files, and he learned about it.
Zhu Gaoxu continued to read the memorial and finally understood the content.The Java envoy wrote a letter hoping that the court would agree, and that the State of Manobahe (Java Island) would be incorporated into the Ming Dynasty and become a province!
ha!Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help laughing after reading it, subconsciously thinking that this envoy was simply weird.
Zhu Gaoxu rubbed his forehead and looked up at Hou Xian. Suddenly I thought of a question: Why is this memorial at the top?
When Zheng He went to sea, Hou Xian and Wang Jinghong were also in the fleet as deputy envoys; and Hou Xian and Wang Jinghong were eunuchs with nostrils.
Zhu Gaoxu immediately speculated that eunuchs such as Hou Xian and Wang Jinghong also had political demands.
Zhu Gaoxu handed the memorial to Hou Xian to read.
Hou Xian bowed to take it, and after reading it, he clasped his fists and said: I reported to the emperor, the Eastern and Western kings of Manobaxie had an internal strife.The Eastern King mentioned in the memorial was defeated and lost all his territory. His envoy probably wanted the court to send troops to help them regain their territory.
So that's it... I remembered it, I seemed to have read the file and it was indeed true.That Western King seemed to have murdered our navy soldiers by chance?Zhu Gaoxu said.
Hou Xian hurriedly said: What the emperor said is very true.At that time, the official troops on the ship went ashore to do business. They were mistakenly considered by the West King of Java as reinforcements hired by the East King, and their words were not very clear, so our people were killed more than 100 people.Later, the King of Western Republic wrote a letter to apologize and wanted to pay 60,000 taels of gold, but when the memorial was sent to the capital, the late emperor had already passed away.Later, the prince was deposed as power and no fleet was sent to the south, so the matter was left to the present day.
Sixty thousand taels of gold?Zhu Gaoxu was surprised. He didn't know that there was anything. The king of Java is so rich?
Hou Xian said: To the northwest of Manobache, the Sanfoqi Kingdom (near Malaysia and Sumatra Island) produces gold; Manobache Kingdom also has traded with Western Hui and Hui Muslims, and has accumulated a lot of wealth. It is really rich.
At that time, our Ming Dynasty giant ship was on the sea. After the Western King discovered it, he was very afraid of the destruction of the country, so he promised a lot of gold!The King of Eastern took the opportunity to send envoys to Beijing with the fleet, and promised to use the entire territory of the Manobahei country, but it made an empty promise.The emperor's clarification.
Zhu Gaoxu glanced at Hou Xian again, and Hou Xian immediately bent his waist lower.This eunuch is luring Zhu Gaoxu and restarting the fleet to go out to sea!Hou Xian should know that the emperor is very short of money now.
Sixty thousand taels of gold!
Zhu Gaoxu calculated in his heart that the currency of the Ming Dynasty was not the gold standard or the silver standard. Except for the treasure banknotes, copper coins are still the main ones.
Sixty thousand gold is equivalent to about 300,000 stag of copper coins!
In order to support the Southern Railway Factory, Zhu Gaoxu allocated 200,000 yuan from the inner government and the Ministry of Revenue, which made tens of thousands of people in the imperial city save money and also arrested the Minister of Revenue Xia Yuanji and the Imperial Prison.
Three hundred thousand coins of real money are considered a huge sum of money for the huge Ming Dynasty court.
Zhu Gaoxu stopped reading the memorials and files, stood up from the chair, and paced back and forth thoughtfully.
Hou Xian's voice said again: Emperor, envoys of Chameng, Boni, Siam, Zhenla and Java, have lived in the capital for several years and are still unable to return to China.Hu Butang, the Minister of Rites, complained many times that he wanted to provide them with food and drink...
I know.Zhu Gaoxu said.
Hou Xian hurriedly stopped and bowed and said: Yes, the emperor.
Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while and decided to learn more about the situation in Southeast Asia and plan a reasonable and effective long-term strategy, it is best to get the support of the ministers before making a decision.
Anyway, those envoys from various countries in Southeast Asia have lived there for several years, so it doesn’t matter if they live for one or two months.
Thinking of this, he sat back on the chair.
After obtaining various information since he ascended the throne, Zhu Gaoxu made some speculations and judgments in his mind.
The Confucian cultural circle is mainly in East Asia. In addition to the Ming Dynasty, the North Korean, Japan and Annan have a relatively large influence.
The countries in the South China Sea, including Myanmar and Siam (Thailand), which have contact with Yunnan border toasts, are likely to be more influenced by Indian religions and the U.S.
Moreover, before the rise of Portugal and Spain, European religious civilization seemed to be relatively backward; on the contrary, the Hui and Islamic clan was very strong, with strong force, wealthy and wealthy, and many believers.
What made Zhu Gaoxu feel the most was the Tatars and Wats far away in Mongolia, who actually believed in the Hui and Huili Sect.
The woman who was rescued by peace once said: The Tatar nobles dealt with the pagans (Tartars who were unwilling to believe in the Hui Muslim Sect), so they nailed them into their heads with horseshoes.
Because Europe dominated the world in modern times, Zhu Gaoxu had to forcefully reverse his concept: in this era, it was actually more powerful and wealthy than Western European religions and the Hui and Islamic Sects.
Zhu Gaoxu put his affairs far away in Nanyang for the time being and continued to read the recent memorials.He turned out Xia Yuanji's memorial.
Xia Yuanji, Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, submitted a memorial on the content of salt quotes.Xia Yuanji suggested that the salt was stopped and rewarded to the vassal kings and nobles, and emphasized that it could not be given to the merchant Shen family.
Xiabutang used a lot of space to explain the shortcomings.
(It probably means that the court could have gained huge benefits through the official business of salt and iron. It not only increased the income of the Ministry of Revenue, but also the five military governor's office and other yamen can also use salt to exchange with merchants, allowing merchants to transport grain, or summon refugees to directly farm at the border to supply the border army's needs; it greatly saves the expenses of the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Revenue.)
However, the royal family's excessive distribution of salt to the vassal kings, royal relatives and nobles disrupted the rules and caused huge losses to the court.
Zhu Gaoxu felt that Xia Yuanji’s statement made sense, but these ills were not caused by Zhu Gaoxu, and they had already existed.
And the involvement is quite complex, which is an important means for the royal balance to compensate the powerful and powerful parties.
Once cancelled, the conflict may intensify!
Xia Yuanji may have thought that last year Zhu Gaoxu captured the Dai King, weakened the military power of the kings, and led a large army to expedition to shock the north... So can we start to take back the interests of the court central government?
Zhu Gaoxu felt that Xiabutang did a good job in the Ministry of Revenue, but he could not consider the overall interests.Of course, Xiabutang may just make an offer and did not force it to be implemented immediately.
But what is mentioned in the memorial is that what is going on with the businessman Shen Jiayan?
Zhu Gaoxu looked through the government records a long time ago, and then he found out that a few months ago he had issued an order to arrange and enthrone Chen Baoyan, the daughter of Chen Xu, as Zhuangpin.
The eunuchs in the Silijian added salt invoices to the betrothal gifts, perhaps because Chen Xu was a merchant; the salt in the Ming Dynasty was monopoly, and as long as there was salt invoice, it would be huge profits, so all merchants wanted to get involved in the salt trade.
After understanding the process in the middle, Zhu Gaoxu immediately guessed that most of the matter was done by Wang Gui, and somehow passed the approval of the cabinet and the Dianbao Department.
Because Wang Gui had contact with the Shen family, it was mostly due to the favor Chen Xu entrusted to him.
Because Zhu Gaoxu did not directly manage the government for a long time before, so some things were not decided by him.
Zhu Gaoxu also remembered the Luo family. The eunuch Cao Fu once asked Luo about Huang Yan's whereabouts... Is this to please Huang Yan's enemy?
Wang Gui and others showed signs of wanting to form an alliance with Hou Xian and Wang Jinghong!
Zhu Gaoxu was immediately unhappy. He picked up the red pen and wrote on Xia Yuanji's memorial: Among the Shen family's betrothal gifts, salt quotations were changed to other property.
After he finished writing, he threw the memorial on the table with a snap and said to Hou Xian: Look at my approval and then tell the people from the Silijian.
Hou Xian carefully held up the memorial and kept nodding: I obey the order, I obey the order!He glanced at the memorial, his face turned pale, and he quietly wiped his forehead with his sleeve.
Zhu Gaoxu said again: Huang Yan, the eunuch who escaped from the Zhao royal palace, was indeed with the Tatars.I can ask the three Dharma officials to issue a huge gap, and there must be Tatars seeking profit and arresting Huang Yan.
Hou Xian knelt on the ground and kowtowed: Huang Yan was involved in the case of rebellion in the Royal Palace. The life and death of this thief depends entirely on the emperor's will.After the emperor ascended the throne, he still trusted and used slaves and other people. The great kindness was like a rebirth of his parents. The slaves and others were heartbroken and could not repay the emperor's kindness in case!I will never dare to have personal gains and will swear to be loyal to the emperor in this life!
Zhu Gaoxu calmed down and said: I also believe that you can understand the importance of it.Get up.
Thank you for your kindness.Hou Xian said.
Zhu Gaoxu breathed a sigh of relief and said kindly: Hundreds of sea ships have been built before, and shipbuilding and training are expensive, so you must not give up halfway through going to sea.However, I will change some strategies, and from then on, I will definitely choose a truly loyal eunuch as an envoy to continue this matter.
Hou Xian said: The emperor is wise!
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