Ming Dynasty: The Rampant Crown Prince

"Your Highness, Gao Yi outside the palace, Li Ruolian, and Ni Yuanlu are already waiting.

Qiu Zhizhong came in to report.

"Let Gao Yi come in first.

Zhu Cihong sat down and picked up a brush to write a will.

"Subordinates, see His Royal Highness the Prince.

Gao Yilong walked in and saluted.

"Send 1,000 elite soldiers to the Agricultural Affairs Department to garrison, there are 5,000 gold guards, but these 5,000 people are a bunch of waste, you pick a capable general to go over and train these 5,000 people, those who do not obey military orders will be dismissed from their posts and sold as people, and the court will not raise waste. "

Damn, I always feel that there is a group of young master soldiers, a special waste of money and food, and it will be broken when you touch it on the battlefield, in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, this huge capital, tens of thousands of guards in the palace, run and run, and fall, otherwise Li Zicheng would not have been able to break the city so quickly.

Zhu Cihong muttered and complained, went straight to the point, didn't talk nonsense, and after writing the will, he handed it over to Gao Yi.

"When the subordinates find a ruthless man, they will shoot him over, and they will definitely train the five thousand weak.

Gao Yi also took the booklet happily, and then strode out.

After Gao Yi left, Zhu Cihong asked Qiu Zhizhong to pass on Li Ruolian.

"The minister Jin Yiwei commanded Li Ruolian to see His Royal Highness the Prince. (Those who have only certain gifts do not need to report their official names when they see them.)

Li Ruolian walked in and knelt directly on one knee.

Zhu Cihong raised his hand and did not speak, but continued to handwrite the letter of appointment.

"Your Highness, all the property of the eight families in Shanxi and the nine clans and the property of the nine clans of Zhou Yanru are huge in number, and they are still being counted.

Seeing that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince didn't speak, Li Ruolian consciously reported it.

"Nanzhen Fusi's envoy was promoted to commander, vacate the position and keep it, and then you will bring Yang Si over to see the palace.

Zhu Cihong wrote one and began to write one again.

He added: "In this Shanxi case, 100 households Jiang Ting have meritorious, promoted to 1,000 households, 100 households Lu Jian was promoted to 1,000 households, and other rewards will be given later." "

Thank you, Your Highness, for your kindness.

Li Ruolian took the booklet, bent down and respectfully retreated, thinking in his heart, Yang Si leaked his face once in front of His Royal Highness the Prince, and did something once, it was really great luck, and he actually went directly from the general banner to the test hundred households, and then directly skipped to the town to calm the envoy.

There is no need to guess, the position of the Nanzhen Fusi Zhenfu envoy is left to Yang Si.

"Minister Ni Yuanlu see His Royal Highness the Prince.

After Li Ruolian left, Ni Yuanlu walked in.

"Sit down.

Zhu Cihong smiled and spread his hands, and Qiu Zhizhong moved a stool.

"Your Highness.

Ni Yuanlu sat down with half of his buttocks.

"How many poisonous salt mines are there in the country?" asked

Zhu Cihong directly.

"Returning to Your Highness, the poisonous salt mine now occupies eight or nine out of ten of all the salt mines in the Ming Dynasty, but these poisonous salts are inedible, and the household department has tried repeatedly, but it still can't eliminate the toxicity of the poisonous salt.

As soon as Ni Yuanlu heard His Highness's words, he knew that His Highness was probably in the idea of poisoning the salt mine, so he explained.

"Mark all the poisonous salt mines in the country, send an order to all the government offices, send troops to guard them, and then mine them immediately, and all the poisonous salt mined will be transported to the capital.

Zhu Cihong knew what the other party meant, but he didn't want to explain it to Ni Yuanlu now, and when the first batch of poisonous salt ore was refined, he was making the next plan, and he was explaining it to Ni Yuanlu in detail when the time came.

"Your Highness, this poisonous salt ......"

Ni Yuanlu was very puzzled, he thought that he had explained it very clearly, why did His Highness still want this poisonous salt for something.

"Needless to say, this palace will tell you why then.

Zhu Cihong directly interrupted the other party, then stared at Ni Yuanlu with cold eyes, and said: "Tell your subordinate salt administration, patrol the salt imperial history, do things seriously and responsibly, and behave a little bit, but if it is found by this palace, who dares to fornicate with salt merchants, use power for personal gain, sell salt privately, and take bribes, this palace must be beheaded all over the house, is it clear?"

Ni Yuanlu was taken aback by this look and tone, and hurriedly got down from the stool and knelt down to receive the order, only then did he suddenly wake up, although His Highness did not lose any temper with their ministers, but there were many ministers who died, and His Highness did not seem to have lost his temper with them.

Therefore, don't think that His Highness is a soft-hearted person who cares about fame and fame because during this period of time, His Royal Highness didn't kill many people, and the ministers who summoned them were also kind-hearted, and they often listened to their opinions when the cabinet was deliberating.

Looking at Ni Yuanlu's back, Zhu Cihong fell into deep thought, the salt and iron franchise is a must, and all the salt quotations will be directly withdrawn at that time, all of which will be exclusively issued by the Longmen Chamber of Commerce, and the price will be controlled in a unified manner, so as to prevent the salt merchants from maliciously raising prices and sucking blood on the people.

In ancient times, the people ate a mouthful of salt, how difficult it was for him to know, often eat coarse salt can only be enjoyed by large families, most of the people with unstable income are using vinegar cloth and the like, the people with a stable income are willing to buy a little salt, but also have to find a special salt merchant to buy, the price is still expensive to death.

The most important thing is that this group of vampires, in collusion between officials and businessmen, smuggled salt and iron, either they could not collect taxes, or half of the salt tax went into the pockets of corrupt officials, or the officials engaged in salt trafficking on their own, which was extremely bad.

Then it is the issuance of silver coins, the establishment of the Ming Dynasty money village, unified currency circulation, after the tax all with silver coins, copper coins, no longer collect grain, cloth, in fact, the people, grain is hard currency, which is easy to cause a problem, easy to be grain merchants to store grain, and then sell at a high price, sucking blood at the same time, but also easy to become the problem of national food shortage.

Another point is that the landlords and gentry occupy a large amount of land, and the people cultivate it, pay rent on two portions of grain, keep one part, and pay taxes, and the remaining little may barely eat.

Therefore, he also plans to set up grain reserve departments in all parts of the country to purchase and sell grain at the same price, so that the people's grain will naturally be sold to the state, and he will not be afraid that he will not be able to buy grain, and it will also prevent grain merchants from collecting grain at low prices and selling it at high prices.

He knew that if he did this, he would definitely move the interests of most of the officials and gentry in the country, but this interest had to be moved, otherwise the people would never have a good life.

Only if someone dares to make a ghost, they can only suppress it, anyway, when the time comes, the Qing soldiers will enter the customs, you officials and gentry will also be robbed and killed, it is better to sacrifice for the country and the people now.

However, these can only be planned step by step.

"Your Highness, Li Ruolian and Yang Si are here. When

Zhu Cihong was distracted, Qiu Zhizhong came in to report.

"Pass them in.

Zhu Cihong collected his thoughts and sat upright.

"Minister Li Ruolian, Jinyi Wei tried a hundred households Yang Si, see His Royal Highness the Prince. Yang

Si was nervous when he entered the palace for the first time to meet His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and after saluting, he lowered his head and didn't dare to look up.

"How many people are there in Nanzhen Fusi now?" asked

Zhu Cihong.

"Back to Your Highness, now there are a total of 15,000 Jinyi Guards, 5,000 elites are in Beizhen Fusi, and 10,000 are in Nansi.

Li Ruolian said directly.

"Jans.

Zhu Cihong nodded with satisfaction, Li Ruolian realized this, he asked, and the other party could answer more comprehensively.

"Minister!" Jans

replied aloud at once.

"You go and take over the Nan Division, train these 10,000 people well, and then hand over all the things like repairing sewers to the Five Cities Terracotta Division.

Zhu Cihong said, took a sip of tea, and said: "Then, build two yamen, one is called the Internal Investigation Department, which specializes in investigating the people who violate the law and discipline inside the Jinyi Guard, because the Metropolitan Procuratorate has a royal history, saying that some Jinyi Guards who perform tasks outside will be beaten into tricks for the sake of merit."

After speaking, he also glanced at Li Ruolian deliberately.

"Your Highness!"

Li Ruolian was frightened half to death by this glance, and immediately knelt on the ground, crying with a sad face, and shouted: "Your ...... If the management is not good, please ask Your Highness to punish the crime.

Originally, he wanted to find a reason to excuse himself, but after thinking about it, he immediately changed his words and directly pleaded guilty.

"Forget it, there are so many people, you can't manage them all, and you can't make everyone follow the rules, so this internal investigation department is to help you share this matter.

Zhu Cihong suddenly showed a meaningful smile, then looked at Yang Si again, and said, "Yang Si, do you have the confidence to be a lonely minister?"

"Back to His Royal Highness, everything in Yang Si belongs to the imperial court, everything belongs to His Royal Highness, and it is the duty of the minister to share worries for His Highness.

When Yang Si heard this, he immediately knelt down and swore an oath.

"In addition, another yamen was built, called the Commercial Crime Investigation Division. "