Chapter 358 – The Imperial Grandson’s Might

Zhu Di looked at Zhang Anshi with a smirk.

Zhang Anshi was a bit weak, so he added, “Your Majesty, the young soldiers are mostly recruited soldiers, do they have silver?”

Zhang Anshi is really short of silver now.

Nowadays half of Zhili are all in ruins, many railroads, and a large number of bridges have to be built, which is almost the whole world’s largest one big construction.

This kind of big construction, can be said to spend money like water, and even the Zhang family took advantage of this opportunity, also made a large-scale investment, the hands also almost do not have much spare money.

But Zhang Anshi still needs to face the problem of continuing to spend money.

Zhu Di said: “The young army has ten thousand people, will not let the ordinary soldiers spend? Since this up and down military ministers as a number of silver just. Just such a thing, can not be two, Zhang Qing …… you can not pit people.”

Zhang Anshi couldn’t help but be happy when he heard this.

The so-called military ministers, in fact, the composition is relatively homogeneous, often the descendants of the military honors or shade officer to serve.

After the military ministers, it is understandable that the descendants of many of the honored ministers tend to join the military and serve as officers.

The situation of the shade of the official is more complicated, from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, all the civil officials above the seventh grade, as long as the official for a period of time after the examination period, all have to shade a son, in order to inherit their salaries.

This relatively loose system of the early Ming dynasty, then gradually restricted, and there are incidental provisions: the shade of these children must first be enrolled in the State Children’s Palace, and must first pass a special examination before being appointed to an official. Soon, the special examination was canceled, but the shade of the official is limited to the direct heirs of officials above the third grade.

These people do not need to participate in the imperial examinations, can be an official, but these official positions, most of them are casual positions, or more leisurely such as the Taishang Temple, Shangbao Division and other positions, but also some people to become a military position, or selected to enter the forbidden army.

After all, the difficulty of the imperial examination is too high, and for the highly decorated civil ministers, once their children and grandchildren can not imperial examination, basically become commoners, if they can not shade their children and grandchildren, I am afraid that not many people are willing to do their best.

Just shade official after all, in the eyes of the minister of the main course of science and technology, is not considered a serious official position, but is to receive a salary, there is a fairly decent errand only.

Because of this, in order for these children and grandchildren who have no hope for the imperial examinations to still have some talent in the future, the general heavy ministers will try to find a way to stuff them into places where they have a ‘future’.

For example, the Shangbao Division, or the Taishang Temple, the Guanglu Temple, or something like that, and, of course, the pro-army is also a good place to go.

Now His Majesty has set up a young army, and let this young army act as the guard of the royal grandson, and this …… obviously lets a lot of people take advantage of the loophole.

This grandson, but the future of the real future son of God ah, if the children and grandchildren into the young army, as a military position, the future grandson of the throne, even if you can not be entrusted with the important task, this life has the grandson of the blessing, but also can not worry about food and clothing.

So Zhang Anshi barely had to think about it to know what kind of military officials this young army had.

At this time, his eyes glowed, and he couldn’t help but think: Zhanji knows me.

So Zhang Anshi coyly promised, his heart was much more cheerful, and he immediately resigned and went out.

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Eastern Palace.

At this time, Zhu Gaoqi’s face was ironic.

He said: “Once upon a time, the most worried is your uncle Anshi, now, Anshi grew up, people do things steadily a lot, originally thought that can save some heart, who would have thought that, you are so unintelligent. Historically, only those who live in the upper position to give grace to their subjects, how come those who live in the upper position to ask for the reasoning of their subjects? Junji, how dare you do such a thing? Now this up and down, are full of complaints ……”

Zhu Gaoqi’s face showed a pained look.

Zhu Zhanji, after all, is still a child and is standing in the corner, hanging his head in fear, not daring to make a sound.

Zhu Gaoqi then said: ”Father established the young army. The original intention is to select the virtuous for you, this is the meaning of valuing you. But you are treating them as an artifact for generating wealth, even forcing them to teach them to purchase land, what kind of reasoning is this?”

Zhu Zhanji hesitated for a moment, but still summoned up the courage to say, “But …… but …… Imperial Grandpa didn’t get angry either.”

“Asshole!” Zhu Gaoqi was furious: “If your royal master can indulge you, can I, as a father, indulge you?”

“I …… I …… I was wrong.”

“How much land did you actually sell?”

“No …… not much …… more than 3,700 acres ……”

“What is the price?”

“Five hundred taels ……”

Zhu Gaoqi plummeted and was about to faint.

“The land on the market is only priced at ten or twenty taels, you might as well rob it!”

“It can’t be robbed.” Zhu Zhanji said, “A uncle said ……”

Zhu Gaoqi exasperatedly interrupted him, “Don’t mention your uncle, your uncle doesn’t know any better, could it be that you don’t know any better either?”

Zhu Zhanji: “……”

Zhu Gaoqi said heavily, “Three thousand seven hundred mu ah, five hundred taels of silver, thanks to you to open this mouth! Among the young army, there are only more than four hundred military officials, you are not left behind, catching them forcefully selling ah.”

Zhu Zhanji said pitifully, “They …… they ……”

Zhu Gaoqi roared, “You’re teaching them to smash pots and pans, you’re asking for their lives!”

Zhu Zhanji said, “Poor ones buy two or three mu, and there are rich ones that buy thirty or forty mu ……”

“Thirty or forty acres, do you know how much silver? It’s tens of thousands of taels, you’re asking for their lives!”

“Can …… can borrow ……” Zhu Zhanji said, “Purchase land …… Can go to the money bank to borrow, so …… so ……”

Zhu Gaoqi is going to jump up at once: “You are okay to say ……”

“This …… this is what Uncle taught me ……” Zhu Zhanji tears in his eyes, tears in his eyes are spinning, his appearance looks aggrieved.

But apparently Zhu Gaoqi was furious and said, “You rebellious son …… rebellious son ……”

At this time, a eunuch outside said, “The Empress has arrived ……”

Zhang, however, had come in in style.

Zhu Zhanji was even more frightened because many times, his mother consort was even more strict than his father.

At this time, Zhang was smiling sweetly, “Your Highness the Crown Prince, what’s going on here?”

“Ask him what he has done, how could I have such a son, this son does not resemble me.”

Zhang, however, only glanced lightly at Zhu Zhanji and said, “Your Highness, why don’t you ask about the original cause of the matter? Things, my concubine also roughly know some …… In my opinion …… there is nothing wrong with what Junji did.”

Zhu Gaoqi heard, do not understand: “Such a ridiculous, even also ……”

Zhang, however, had already sat down and gave a wink to the eunuchs who had accompanied her, who tiptoed out of the room.

Zhang said, “And not to mention, Junji did this for his own pro uncle, since the family …… should have to watch out for each other.”

“Hey …… you don’t know, if this goes on, it’s going to be the hearts and minds of the people ……”

Zhang’s gaze fell on the tealight on the tabletop, she picked it up and handed it to Zhu Gaoqi before she gently said, ”What I am going to say is this question. Your Highness, Anshi is now exhausting himself in Zhili, for what? Isn’t it for the sake of my Great Ming’s kingdom and mountain? In the end, isn’t it for Your Highness and Zhanji? Once upon a time, he ruled Taipingfu, the achievements are there for all to see, and now …… is going to be bold, and now needs silver, not to mention other things, we, the East Palace, can not contribute?”

Zhu Gaoqi heard, a moment of speech, he took the tealight, subconsciously bet on the mouth of tea, warm tea under the belly, seems to have slightly calmed the thick anger that he just burned up.

Only after half a day did Zhu Gaoqi say, “That said, but such behavior, isn’t it tantamount to taking by force and plundering the people?”

Zhang shook her head and said, “The young army is father established for Zhu Zhanji, the top and bottom of the inside, will be Zhanji’s class in the future, not to mention …… that now that the imperial grandson is in trouble, it’s time for them to serve. Retreat think …… they purchased the land, with the implementation of the new policy of Zhili tethered to a rope.”

“What your highness is thinking about is only the issue of means, and means is essentially just art, and by looking at the issue with the eyes of art, there is a limited amount of things that can be seen. But my concubine thought that since Your Highness is the Crown Prince, you should look at this matter from the height of the ‘Dao’.”

Zhu Gaoqi froze as he paced back and forth with his hands behind his back.

Zhang, however, said, “Your Highness, that Shang Yang’s change of law, why was it successful?”

Zhu Gaoqi said, “Is it because of Duke Qin Xiao’s full support?”

Zhang smiled and said, “My concubine is an ignorant woman, shallow knowledge of the scriptures and history, naturally far from your highness profound, but …… your highness’s words, I dare not agree.”

Zhu Gaoqi froze for a moment, “Tell me.”

Zhang smoothed the disheveled silk in front of her forehead before calmly saying, “If Your Highness only believes that it was the support of Duke Xiao of Qin that made Shang Yang’s change of law successful, then why, after the death of Duke Xiao of Qin, did his son hate Shang Yang so much that he had Shang Yang car-cassed and split him up in the city, and Shang Yang died with no body, but why was his new law left in place anyway?”

“This ……”

Zhang said: “This is because, even if the new King Hui of Qin hated Shang Yang who changed the law, and those old nobles hated to eat his flesh, but in the process of changing the law, many new nobles with Shang Yang’s change of law have been appointed as lords and prime ministers, and they have already had a great influence in the Qin army and the court, at this time, the King Hui of Qin, in addition to killing Shang Yang to vent his anger, but he would not dare to change the law change of Shang Yang. The king of Qin Hui, in addition to killing Shang Yang to vent his anger, but never dare to change Shang Yang’s He also knew that once he changed back to the old system, he would surely offend the countless new nobles, and would certainly trigger a backlash. This is the key point of the problem, a change of law, if only harm to the old nobles, but no one gained real benefits, such a change of law can not be long-lasting.” ‘

“The only way for someone to benefit from it and change the way they seek fame and fortune, then …… once the new law has obstacles, there will be a group of people, firm with the old noble check and balance, this is where the success of the Shang Yang change of law lies.”

Zhu Gaoqi listened, pondered, and said under his breath, “Quite reasonable.”

Zhang went on to say, “The gain here, in fact, let the people and the new law bundled together, may not necessarily be able to make any profiteering. Let’s say that this time, these young military ministers, they had no choice but to take out their family’s wealth for the sake of the imperial grandson, and all of them went to purchase commercial land in Zhili.”

“No matter what, they are also with the new policy of Zhili one glory, one loss. If one day, the new law fails, back to the old time, these lands, only can be used to cultivate food, your highness think about it, this five hundred taels to buy the land, is not it worthless, and now what …… as long as the new law is still in place, no matter whether it is a surplus in the future, or a loss, there is always a hope, is not it?”

When Zhu Gaoqi heard this, he couldn’t help but smile bitterly, “Hey …… how things are not discussed with me.”

Zhang pursed her lips and smiled: “The child has grown up and has his own opinion, how can he ask his parents about everything all day long, Zhanji is going to take on a big responsibility in the future, he has made a decision, so why not let him try, whether it is a success or a failure, if it is a success, since my family Zhanji is wise, if it is a failure, at least it can also let him eat a lesson. Just like a child learning to walk, do not teach people to always be on the side of the support, if not a few falls, how can it become?”

Zhu Gaoqi was speechless for a moment.

Zhu Zhanji instantly felt godly as well.

Zhu Gaoqi glared at him before he obediently drooped his head again with a pained expression.

“Hey …… this more than three thousand acres of land, but more than one million taels of silver, the heavens ah …… more than one million taels ……” Zhu Gaoqi shook his head and was heartbroken.

But nothing more was said.

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At this time, in the Xia Mansion.

Natsubara Yoshi was looking at his family’s accounts and just felt his brain buzzing.

He is the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, although the salary is not low, but in the capital as an official, the expenses are not small.

The good thing is that the Xia family is a large family in Jiangxi, quite rich, the day can also go.

He this household minister, guarding the wealth of the world, just anyone is clear, his majesty will be silver staring at the tighter, not to say Xia Yuanji this person is still clean, even if he really dare to reach out, I’m afraid that Zhu Di can also cut him.

But now …… Xia Yuanji only felt dizzy.

The steward on the side rushed to assist him.

Xia Yuanji gasped for breath, and then ruthlessly threw this account on the ground, huffing and puffing angrily, “The rebellious son ……”

“Dad ……”

Xia Yuanji’s eldest son died early, and as Xia Yuanji was usually busy, the one who took care of the family business became his second son, Xia Xuan, who was also a shade official in the capital.

Looking at his father’s angry red face, Xia Xuan has been shivering, said: “The imperial grandson first looked for dozens of home solid martial arts ministers, let them purchase land, after that then called us a few to go in for an audience, and then taught us to purchase land, of course, the son refused, five hundred taels of silver an acre of land, this is not robbing it? What’s more,…… even want our Xia family to purchase twenty acres, our Xia family even if we smash pots and pans to sell iron, may not be able to come up with so much silver to ah.”

“But …… but Huang Sun said …… he has calculated …… that the Xia family can barely afford to buy, our Jiangxi home, there are not a lot of good land? Plus those who have already purchased the land of the colleagues, are listening to the emperor Sun command, desperately persuade, but also implicitly threaten, if not purchased, then …… then ……”

“Son immediately said, really can not take so much silver, can only buy three or five acres of …… royal grandson that let the son …… loan, son …… although all kinds of Refused, can not hold those who have purchased the land of the military officials, and the threat of the emperor’s grandson lure ah. This world, who can be offended, but who dares to offend the royal grandson?”

Natsubara Yoshi waved his hand with a heartbroken expression and said, ”Don’t say it, don’t say it.”

Xia Xuan was anxious: ”Father, can you blame me for this? At first, I was in the Shangbao Division as a post, but Dad himself said, now His Majesty has set up the infant army, the infant army guards the imperial grandson, once you can enter the infant army, it is the same as entering the Zhanzhi House. As long as can serve the imperial grandson, future prospects will be unlimited, but dad …… you see ……”

“Don’t say it, don’t say it ……” Natsubara Yoshi continued to shake his head and wave his hands.

He slowly sat down, his eyes staring vacantly into the void.

“Father …… are you alright.” Xia Xuan looked at Xia Yuanji worriedly.

Natsubaruyoshi sits upright, but doesn’t move a muscle.

Xia Xuan still wanted to say something, but was afraid of irritating him, so he had to worship on the ground, not daring to utter a single breath.

Ryoko.

Xia Yuanji suddenly clapped his hands: ”They are robbing in the open! I did not get much for my …… salary as an official, but even my life and family were taken captive. Now lifted so much debt, this …… this …… still let people live?”

Xia Xuan cried and said, “The interest rate of the money bank, but also said to give concessions, three percent interest per year, than the interest rate …… of borrowing on the market to be a lot lower than the outside are more than five percent interest it.”

“You still think we took advantage?” Xia Yuanji was so angry that he stomped his feet, “And you’re using our mansions and fields as a counterweight?”

Xia Xuan warily said, “Not only that …… but also …… also ……”

“Still what?”

“And took his father’s salary and said …… said ……”

Yoshi Natsubara: “……”

Natsubara Yoshi was completely convinced.

“Father, this up and down the military ministers, in fact …… actually purchased, and not just our summer family, the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, Jin Chun’s son, he bought more than forty acres it. I heard that their family has been practicing medicine for generations, is famous for having a Taoist family, relying on the treatment of people, earned a large family business ……”

“All right, all right. ” Xia Yuanji said, “Shut up, shut up! I want to petition, I want to impeach ……”

Natsubaruyoshi said this, but suddenly deflated.

Impeach who?

Impeach the grandson?

The imperial grandson was now the monarch that Natsubara Yoshi considered the most desirable of the three generations of the Joo family’s ancestors.

At least …… the grandson of the emperor he is not to the mouth cursing mother, or like the prince, too indecisive, right?

“Hey ……” Xia Yuanji settled down and said quietly, “Careless, or careless! Blame me, blame the old man ah! I only thought of making a career for you, but pushed you into the fire pit. Had I known this, I should have put you on duty in the Shangbao Division.”

Natsubaruyoshi shook his head, but he wanted to cry.

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The boost that this huge investment brings to the market as a whole is undoubtedly huge.

The market is hot beyond belief.

A workshop that rises from the ground.

As long as the workshop is open, there are no worries about sales.

A large number of artisans were recruited, who needed food, clothing, ready-made clothes, food and drink, and as soon as the cloth was spun, it was immediately exchanged for silver.

An inn or a restaurant, as long as it is open, there is no worry about not having diners.

Even before the workshop was built, orders were already lined up until the end of the year, especially for steel, wood, and mechanical components, which were in such great demand that they had reached the point of insanity.

Even …… a lot of craftsmen, together with the money, to find ways to go to the money bank to borrow, as long as the workshop will be built up, it can be transformed, waist ten thousand yuan.

The whole of Qixia, or half of Zhili, seemed to have gone mad.

Everyone felt …… as if the ground was full of gold and silver, which could be picked up by stooping down.

As a result, all kinds of workshops sprang up.

All the workshops are desperately recruiting laborers, which governs the right governor’s administration of the prefectures and counties, even more than twice the price of labor in Suzhou Province.

And Suzhou is supposed to be a place of affluence, something that has never happened before.

In the workshop area that Kuang Nuo is responsible for, almost every month, can receive dozens of hundreds of documents about purchasing land to start a workshop.

Although there are some instruments, and not compliant, can be such a pomp, but Kwong鍩滄棤娉曟兂璞＄殑.

It’s just one county in the district, and it seems that every one of them, is dreaming of building a workshop and getting rich from there.

So much so, that Kwong himself found it too intimidating.

A steel workshop, out of the steel, and then prefabricated into a railroad track, and then …… was sent to the site by car and horse, dozens of railroads are opening.

Railroad tracks in this era, not like the latter part of the world that troublesome, leveled the land, paved the roadbed, directly laying tracks can be.

As a result, progress has been extremely fast.

Gaoxiang works with all kinds of data on a daily basis.

Especially with the table, he has a much clearer understanding of the data.

At this time, Gao Xiang sat down in the duty hall of the left governor s mansion and said with a bitter smile, “It s too scary, Your Excellency …… is really unheard of.”

Zhang Anshi looked at him uncertainly and said, “What?”

Gaoxiang said, “Do you know, since the opening of the construction of the railroad so far, more than half a year has passed, how much the steel production of Taipingfu has increased?”

Zhang Anshi didn’t have the patience to guess this, so he said, “Don’t sell the story.”

“Three times, fully three times ……” Gaoxiang’s voice is full of surprise.

Unlike Gao Xiang’s reaction, Zhang Anshi was calm and unimpressed.

Isn’t this normal? When the market is booming, steel can be sold for money, and the gap in the market is so huge that the original steel workshops are desperately trying to expand their production, and more merchants and businessmen are also eyeing on this piece of fat meat, desperately trying to borrow money to finance the construction of new workshops.

If this is not doubled, it would be a waste of Zhang Anshi’s hundreds of millions of taels of money to build the railroad.

“Really the railroad a building ah!” Gao Xiang shook his head and sighed, joyfully continued: “Not only steel, like mining …… and cloth and so on the other industries, the growth is also extremely high, the production of minerals has tripled, and cloth, doubled …. …And ……”

“Well, well.” Zhang Anshi interrupted him and said, “Almost done, now is not the time to be complacent, how much production is this. Just this amount of steel production, don’t be afraid of being laughed at when you say it.”

Gao Xiang, however, still couldn’t suppress the joy on his face and said, “If this continues, it’s really a bit scary.”

Zhang Anshi calmly said, “Don t worry, in the future, the place that lacks steel, there are many …… By the way, I heard that all the provinces under the rule of the left governor’s office, a lot of people have come to us under the rule of the right governor’s office. That His Highness, the King of Shu, didn’t get angry, right?”

“Rather no.” Gaoxiang said, “The next official below, tried a few times, the king of Shu’s mind is now still on the subland.”

Zhang Anshi nodded, then said: ”This is good, now the most urgent or labor shortage. In this regard, you, the governor of Taiping, can think of a way, don’t always be surprised today and feel intimidated tomorrow. It’s better to be single-minded and do something serious.”