Ming Dynasty: The Rampant Crown Prince

In the backyard of the Tai Hospital, Zhu Cihong sat on a wooden table under the beams of the room, with three or four stoves next to him, and Zhang Huaibin and others were standing next to him.

"Your Highness, the minister has just returned from an inspection in Nanjing.

Fang Haiyang stood next to him and reported his work, holding the booklet in his hand and said: "The business of the Tai Hospital in Nanjing is also very good, not much worse than that in the capital. "

What about profits?" Zhu

Cihong asked the question he was most concerned about, and it stands to reason that the profitability of the hospital is okay.

"The profit of the capital last year was about 260,000 taels, and then the imperial examination of the Tai Yi admitted 200 people, and put it in the Tai Hospital outside the real Xi, at present, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Yangzhou have built the Tai Hospital, and the business is OK.

Fang Haiyang handed the booklet in his hand to His Royal Highness the Prince, and said: "Last year's income was 1.3 million taels, but after deducting labor, purchasing medicinal materials, and building the Tai Hospital, there are still 700,000 taels left. "

Will you send this money to the treasury of the Ministry of Household Affairs or directly to the East Palace?" he

said, thinking for a moment and asking in a low voice.

"Let's go to the treasury of the Ministry of Households.

Zhu Cihong thought about it, so many people in the Tai Hospital are paid by the household, and this Tai Hospital is not very good as the private money bag of the East Palace, and there is no need for a mere income of one or two million.

He also said: "You go and communicate with the household department, in the future, the money of the hospital will go directly to the household department, and if you want to expand the hospital in the future, you can also go to the household department to get the approval of the appropriation." "

The Lord's Decree.

Fang Haiyang picked up the booklet on the table, and then retreated.

Zhu Cihong looked at the busy figures around, most of them were sorting out and transporting medicinal materials, and then took them to the house to be chopped and sorted.

In fact, the medicinal materials of this Tai Hospital are also purchased wholesale from the Longmen Chamber of Commerce, and some of the money still enters the East Palace, but this is a process that must be followed, to ensure the circulation of money, and to take accounts and taxes, and he can't mess around just because the Longmen Chamber of Commerce is his industry.

After a while, Qian Qianyi and Sun Chengzong walked into the backyard, and trotted over as soon as they saw Zhu Cihong.

"Ministers and grandsons Chengzong, Qian Qianyi see His Royal Highness. The

two of them stood next to the table, their bodies were still shivering, and they involuntarily leaned closer to the stove, it was too cold this day, walking around outside, the cold wind was blowing bitingly, and it hurt.

"Two things.

Zhu Cihong looked at their cold and shivering appearance, and didn't want to talk nonsense, so he said directly: "First, the Ministry of War ordered Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Jiliao, and Mao Yuanyi, the chief soldier of Shanxi, to let them block the border passes, and not allow Mongolian merchants to enter the customs to do business, and not to allow Ming merchants to go out of the customs to trade with Mongolian departments. "

Let Mao Yuanyi seal the Zhangjiakou Trade City, lock all the Mongolian merchants in the territory and take them to prison, and confiscate all their goods and goods.

As he spoke, he pointed at Qiu Zhizhong, who immediately took out a booklet and pen and ink, and began to sharpen the ink.

"Your Highness, if you do this, will it cause dissatisfaction among the Mongolian tribes, and I am afraid that it will unite to be unfavorable to our Ming Dynasty.

When Sun Chengzong heard this decree, he couldn't help but feel a little worried.

"Originally, I was with Jiannu, and I was used to what they did.

Zhu Cihong smiled indifferently, picked up the pen and wrote, while saying: "The palace will give Lu Xiang firearms support, don't ask to go out and destroy Mongolia, but it's no problem to defend the border."

"Later, you will take the edict of the palace, go to Beijing to fetch fifty Hongyi cannons and transport them to Lu Xiangsheng, and ask him to send ten cannons to Mao Yuanyi, and set them on the Zhangjiakou city wall to strengthen the border defense line. After

writing it, he handed the booklet to Sun Chengzong.

"Qian Qianyi, after those Mongolian merchants are arrested, you will send someone to ask which tribes they are, and then ask the local government to post a notice, saying that now the Mongolian tribes are allied with Jiannu, which is the enemy of the Ming Dynasty, and all caravans are not allowed to enter the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming merchants are not allowed to trade with the Mongols. "

Don't stick to focus on the illegal salt out of the customs, whoever dares to sell the illegal salt out of the customs, immediately destroy its nine tribes!" Zhu

Cihong pointed his finger on the table, and said: "Then you send someone to write to the Mongolian ministry, telling them that the 50,000 army of Jiannu was completely annihilated in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the prince, and how Beyler was killed, at this time, if there is any reply from the Mongolian side, peace talks, and send envoys to redeem people and goods, don't pay attention to them, wait for half a year." "

Half a year later, I wrote back to them, saying that they were allowed to send an envoy to communicate.

After speaking, he looked at Qian Qianyi and asked, "Do you know the meaning of this palace, is there anything you don't understand?"

This kind of thing must be explained clearly to the other party, otherwise Qian Qianyi doesn't understand what he means, and if he makes a mistake, the effect will be greatly reduced.

"His Royal Highness wants to cut off the income of the Mongolian ministries, which is equivalent to cutting off a financial route on the Jiannu side.

Qian Qianyi thought about it carefully, then expressed his opinion, and said: "As for writing a letter to the Mongolian ministries, explaining the great victory of my Ming Dynasty, I want them to see clearly the strength of my Ming Dynasty and the weakness of the Jiannu side, and I want the Mongolian ministries to cut off the connection with the Jiannu side." "

But why did he reply half a year later, this minister is a little confused, please Your Highness to explain." He

didn't understand much about this, and he didn't feel embarrassed, so he asked directly.

"In fact, the Mongolian steppe also has a lot of resources, sheep, war horses, not only to split their relationship with Jiannu, but also to use the money of the Ming Dynasty to raise Mongolia, economic control, over time, Mongolia is inseparable from the supply of the Ming Dynasty.

As soon as these words came out, Qian Qianyi and Sun Chengzong were confused, and they used the money of the Ming Dynasty to raise Mongolia and control the economy?

The words of His Royal Highness that the two of them were thinking about in their minds, but they couldn't understand what economic control meant even if they wanted to break their heads.

"Your Highness, please forgive the ministers for being stupid, how can you explain this economic control?"

Qian Qianyi couldn't figure it out, so he simply asked.

"Mongolian nomads have always lived by herding, and most of the merchants who come and go to my Ming Dynasty also sell wool, sheep, mutton, and horses.

"Historically, the Mongolian tribes have plundered my Ming border, but they have nothing to eat and have to come to plunder, so the palace will let the Longmen Chamber of Commerce establish economic trade with the Mongolian ministries, buy a large number of their wool, war horses, sheep, and provide a large number of living materials in the past equivalent exchange, so that the Mongolian side has a large amount of stable income, and then give military support to resist the Jiannu, then the Jiannu side, without the war horses and strong men supplied by Mongolia, it will be broken at the snap of a finger."

"However, before that, starve them for half a year, and the agricultural productivity on the Jiannu side is simply not enough to eat for themselves, and it is impossible to take care of the Mongolian side.

"Therefore, in the past six months, the border defense must be strictly guarded, and I can't let the Ming border be plundered at all, Sun Chengzong, you have to go over to inspect from time to time."

After a brief explanation, Zhu Cihong stood up and walked out, followed by a group of people.

As soon as these words fell, both of them were dumbfounded, and they couldn't come back to their senses for a long time, Your Highness's trick is really wonderful, in this way, after a long time, then the Mongolian side will rely on the money and material supply of the Ming Dynasty, so it is not equivalent to eating the food of the Ming Dynasty, and the wool, sheep, and horses on the Mongolian side are also of great benefit to the Ming Dynasty.

If at that time, Mongolia is going to be chaotic, and the Ming Dynasty will cut off this supply line, then what they eat, what do they use, and most importantly, every Mongolian war horse on the Jiannu side, supplemented by strong men, will slowly die!

But the premise is that the border defense of the Ming Dynasty must be good, so that Mongolia cannot plunder the slightest, and this method will work.

"The minister should instruct Lu Xiangsheng to strictly train all border guards and strengthen the deployment!" Sun

Chengzong's heart was hot, and he couldn't wait to fly to Jiliao immediately and tell Lu Xiangsheng in person.

"Your Highness!"

Qian Qianyi was also shocked in his heart, Mongolia has always been the enemy of the border of the Ming Dynasty, it is not that the Ming Dynasty has not conquered Mongolia before, but it is useless to defeat the other party alone, the plunder is still continuing, there is no way, I didn't expect that this move of His Highness today can solve this problem.

"Go and do your errands.

Zhu Cihong turned his head to look at the two of them, thought about it, and suddenly thought of one thing, that is, running a newspaper, this thing is very important and necessary.

Historically, after the imperial court has set a policy, as soon as the will is issued, the people just follow it, and there is no right to doubt at all, and the imperial court does not feel that it should be explained to these ordinary people, which will also allow some people with ulterior motives to take advantage of this to maliciously spread public opinion to smear the imperial court to the common people, and maliciously resist the imperial court policy in order to achieve personal interests.

Therefore, it is very important to run a Daming Times, so that the people of the world know every policy of the imperial court on people's livelihood, and prevent being deceived by the local government.

After the newspaper is finished, it is time to go down to the south of the Yangtze River, and when the time comes, the newspaper can be used to publicize the evil deeds of all sinners in the world, which can stabilize people's hearts and prevent them from being used by those who have good intentions.