Ming Dynasty: The Rampant Crown Prince

"Back to Your Highness, now in terms of the level of my Ming craftsman, the imitation Hongyi cannon is still a little worse, whether it is power, range, or accuracy, it is a little lower.

Bi Maokang thought for a while, and then said: "And now there are not many craftsmen who can make Hongyi cannons, so if Your Highness wants to make Hongyi cannons, it will take a long time for the minister to teach those craftsmen." "

Then if there are drawings, will it be faster?"

Zhu Cihong said.

"If there are manufacturing drawings, the minister will ensure that a group of skilled craftsmen can be taught in a short time.

Bi Maokang showed a confident look, but said: "But drawings are such things, and those Westerners probably won't sell them." "

This palace has it, I didn't give it to you last time.

Zhu Cihong smiled, pointed to the two drawings on the table and said, "There is also a drawing of a clairvoyant mirror."

Bi Maokang was startled, and hurriedly stepped forward and carefully picked up the two drawings and looked at them carefully.

"His Highness is a god!" After a

while, Bi Maokang said excitedly, to be honest, his love for firearms is sincere, and he is naturally ecstatic when he receives these two drawings.

"Your Highness, rest assured, the minister will definitely make the best firearms for Daming!" Bi

Maokang knelt down and kowtowed heavily to Zhu Cihong, swearing.

"Your Highness, the homes of Kang Chun and other eunuchs have been copied, and all the family property obtained is converted into two or eight hundred thousand taels of silver, and twenty small mansions.

At this time, Li Ruolian came in to report.

Listening to Li Ruolian's report, Zhu Cihong was even more annoyed in his heart, a eunuch in a military war bureau can actually embezzle millions of silver taels, and even a house can be a house, so what about the other twelve prisons, four divisions and seven bureaus, I dare not imagine.

"Bi Aiqing, Liu Rong's 200,000, a total of one million taels, should be enough.

Zhu Cihong said with a smile.

"At present, it is enough, but the minister plans to recruit a large number of craftsmen, expand the factory, and improve the quantity and quality.

Bi Maokang hurriedly said, originally every year there is a household department to allocate funds to the War Bureau, although the money is getting less and less every year, but it is not money, but the more it develops, one million is not enough.

"It doesn't matter, when the time comes, you just need to make an account, and then, in the name of the War Bureau, you will go to the craftsmen's settlements to distribute the settlement silver, and each family will have ten taels of silver, and you will come out of these silvers, and if you have embezzled so much, you should also pay some back.

Zhu Cihong said, looked at Li Ruolian again, and said, "You send some brocade guards to follow Bi Maokang to maintain it." "

By the way, the floor is also covered with tiles. After

thinking about it and saying, Zhu Cihong wrote a will and handed it to Li Ruolian.

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Beicheng slum artisans live in alleys.

These alleys in the slums are also differentiated, for example, these craftsmen, who work together in the military war bureau, will be arranged into a living area, so that they can be summoned at any time.

Soon, Li Ruolian took people to the mouth of the alley, and ordered someone to call out every household, at this time there were obviously a lot more people, it was dinner time at the moment, and the men from all families were back.

One by one, they were called out by the Jinyi guard, and when everyone saw the officials, they all looked panicked, and a look of confusion flashed in their eyes.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ordered!" Li

Ruolian shouted loudly.

"The grass people are waiting to listen to the order!" The

crowd heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince actually came to give orders to them, the untouchables, their eyes showed a look of shock, someone has lived here for decades, let alone seen, this kind of thing has never even been heard.

"Lord Bi, Your Highness is a favor to the War Bureau, now that you are in charge of the War Bureau, it is better for you to read out His Highness's will.

Li Ruolian said with a smile, the favor is for the War Bureau to win over these craftsmen, he naturally wants Bi Maokang to read it, after all, he will personally lead this group of craftsmen in the future, and this is the time to establish prestige for Bi Maokang and the War Bureau.

"Good.

Bi Maokang did not say kind words, took the order, and read it out loud: " His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ordered that the palace now serve the Military War Bureau, and seized the palm print eunuchs and a number of stewards and eunuchs who were corrupt and deducted the wages of craftsmen, and all of them were arrested and imprisoned

After Bi Maokang finished reading it, the scene suddenly fell silent, and all the craftsmen were stunned in place, as if they had heard it wrong.

"My lord, is this true?" one

of the men in his thirties raised his head resignedly, and cautiously asked everyone's thoughts.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's will, can it still be fake!" Li

Ruolian shouted.

After receiving the affirmation, the craftsmen and their families and children all jumped up and cheered and cried with joy.

They all shouted long live the prince, wise and martial, and then thanked Bi Maokang, saying that under the reform of the military war bureau, they also gave these untouchables the kindness to live and live.

Then, Li Ruolian ordered people to start distributing Anjia silver, and then began to arrange people to pave floor tiles on the ground.

What His Royal Highness the Crown Prince explained, Li Ruolian did not dare to slack off in the slightest, otherwise there would be a feeling of uneasiness in his heart.

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East Palace.

"The slave and maid knocked on the prince.

As soon as he saw Zhu Cihong coming back, Qiu Zhizhong, who had been waiting for him for a long time, immediately knelt forward to greet him.

"How's things going?" Zhu

Cihong pointed to his shoulder, and then asked with his eyes closed under Qiu Zhizhong's massage.

"Back to His Royal Highness, the slaves and maids have opened up the heaven and earth line in the palace, selected a group of reliable eunuchs and palace maids, and arranged them in various palaces and yamen, except for the emperor.

Qiu Zhi whispered: "Dongchang has also selected dozens of eunuchs who are not important, and secretly train secret guards every night.

"Well, how much does it cost, you can report the number when the time comes, and go and get the money yourself."

Zhu Cihong said lightly: "You go and call the Shangshu of the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Punishment and Li Ruolian now." Suddenly

, Zhu Cihong waved his hand, then picked up and ate some pastries casually, thinking that he could build a small kitchen in the East Palace, otherwise the things of the monk and the food supervisor of Guanglu Temple really didn't dare to eat, at least not at present.

"Minister Li Ruolian see His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Chitose. After

a while, Li Ruolian was the first to rush over.

"Li Ruolian, you have seen everything today, Jinyiwei is investigating officials large and small in the world, this is how you investigated?"

Zhu Cihong suddenly picked up the teacup on the table, smashed it at Li Ruolian, and said angrily.

"The minister is guilty...... It's just that at that time, Jinyiwei reported that it was an official who collected taxes, so he didn't think much about it, thinking that this was a normal errand for the imperial court, so he ......"

Li Ruolian was frightened by this, and immediately knocked his head on the ground and said in fear.

"At the feet of the Son of Heaven, there are still people who dare to openly use power for personal gain in the name of collecting taxes, if they accept gifts, they will accept bribes, and they dare to collect taxes in the name of collecting taxes

Zhu Cihong was directly scolded angrily, he sat in the capital division, and he killed so many ministers in the court and the central government in just over a month, and there were still people who dared to be so rampant, this was simply a blatant challenge to him!"

"This palace asks you to clean the brocade guards and monitor the world, whether you are Li Ruolian incompetent, or take the words of this palace as a deaf ear!" Zhu

Cihong was furious, his face burst into blue tendons, and he roared angrily:" You Jinyiwei is so incompetent, so do you want the palace to build a special yamen to monitor your Jinyiwei's affairs, or do you want the palace to directly abolish the Jinyiwei

......!" The minister is guilty...... Recently, the minister has been negligent in management...... "

Li Ruolian knelt on the ground, his whole body was trembling, his whole face was extremely pale with fright, his tongue began to knot even when he spoke, he didn't even dare to breathe loudly, and his heart was pounding in his chest as if he was about to fly.

"It's just three things, this palace will give you a second chance, Jinyiwei will be cleaned again, from the capital to the national health center, this palace does not need to eat public food, but thinking about people who eat white food and do nothing, this time they must see blood, they must die!" Zhu

Cihong calmed down, sat down slowly, and said: "If the knife of Jinyiwei is not sharp, then the palace will change the knife, do you understand?"

"Minister, thank Your Highness for your grace, the minister must live up to His Highness's high expectations!"

Li Ruolian raised her heart to her throat.

"Your Highness, the three Shangshu have arrived.

At this time, Qiu Zhizhong walked in and whispered, he was also startled by the prince's anger outside, this was the first time he saw his master so angry, and he thought that he must do things with his heart, otherwise he angered the master, and it would be over.