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- In the winter of the eighth year of Guangde, 1633.
At this time, there are still 11 years left before the demise of the Ming Dynasty in normal history.
If history makes no mistakes and develops according to the normal process, then the huge Ming Empire will only have a lifespan of 11 years.
Zhu Shangwu and the courtiers were not clear about this. After all, they were not half-immortals and could not know the development of history.
However, at this time, the Ming Dynasty was already on the verge of collapse.
It¡¯s just that no one wants to believe this.
Moreover, although the post-Jin Kingdom in the Northeast rose, it always harassed the Ming Dynasty.
But with Hou Jin¡¯s small population, it would be a joke to try to shake the foundation of the Ming Dynasty.
After much deliberation, only the peasant uprising in the northwest of the Ming Dynasty is interesting.
"What do you think of this matter?"
After Zhu Shangwu listened to the report of the Minister of Rites, he already agreed with it.
He really wanted to see Zhao Hongyu right away, and then negotiate with him about borrowing money to solve his urgent need.
But, as an emperor, he had to ask the ministers what they meant.
Of course, this is because Zhu Shangwu lacks decisiveness and has become accustomed to leaving everything to ministers during his years in office.
You must know that all his energy and time are usually spent on studying his so-called "calligraphy and painting skills", and not on governing the government at all.
After hearing this, the Minister of Household Affairs came out and said: "Your Majesty, if those Song people are really willing to lend us five million taels of silver, then it would be best for Your Majesty to meet them. As long as you have these five million taels of silver, then Many things can be solved by us. So I suggest that your Majesty go and talk to them."
As soon as the Minister of Hubu opened his mouth, the Minister of Hubu also came out to support his subordinates.
To be honest, the most sad thing now is the officials in their household department.
No matter which yamen it is, they will come to them for money, but the problem is that they have no money to give.
The little tax collected every year has to be used to pay salaries to the armies in various places, and at the same time, it also provides disaster relief to various places. It has long been beyond its means.
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There is a big hole in the account books of the Ministry of Accounts.
Now that something like this happened again in Liaodong, and the capital was besieged, many things began to require a lot of money again.
Therefore, the officials in the Ministry of Revenue are all having a huge headache.
They wish they could grow money in the fields so that they could harvest a crop every day.
And they have basically used all the available methods, and they can't get any money at all.
So now that they have heard about this, how can they continue to remain calm?
Not to mention anything else, as long as they can give them money and let them solve the current problem, then they can really call that person daddy.
Of course, this is just a metaphor.
As the officials from the Ministry of Revenue expressed their unanimous support, officials from other departments also spoke up one after another.
Everyone has the same idea, that is, Zhu Shangwu should talk to the Song people. Five million taels alone is not enough. It is best to borrow more.
??????????????????????????????? It¡¯s the court that borrows money, and it¡¯s also the court that pays back, and it has nothing to do with them personally.
"When it comes time to pay back the money, your Majesty will have a headache."
If they can get more money, they can use all their hands to get money from the Ministry of Accounts to their own personal pockets.
So, how could they not confuse Zhu Shangwu? Why not borrow more if possible.
After listening to the opinions of the ministers, Zhu Shangwu also made a decision in his heart.
Yes, why not!
The ministers are right, why not borrow more money if possible.
Since the other party can borrow five million taels of silver by asking, then it is always okay to borrow dozens more taels or one million taels.
Zhu Shangwu didn't understand this before.
But since Liaodong was corrupted and the Jurchens came to the city, Zhu Shangwu had a deep understanding of this.
These are things he didn¡¯t know about before.
In the past, these matters were handled by ministers.
It¡¯s not that big of a deal anywaySon.
But now it¡¯s different.
??????????????? If one thing is not right, the Jurchens outside the city will attack the capital and massacre it.
Therefore, now he can no longer leave everything to the ministers as he did before.
And under the current situation, it is not easy for the ministers to decide everything.
Therefore, Zhu Shangwu, the hands-off emperor, could only start to come to the front desk.
There is nothing we can do about this.
"After listening to your suggestions, I know what to do." Zhu Shangwu raised his hand and pressed it down, and then said to the courtiers with a deep breath.
When Zhu Shangwu spoke, the ministers all fell silent.
"Pass an edict to summon the people of Song Dynasty to the palace. I will personally negotiate this matter with them."
Zhu Shangwu is willing to come forward to talk about this matter, which is the best for the courtiers.
They are all happy for Zhu Shangwu to take over this responsibility, not these people.
After all, it would not be a good news if word got out that the country was so poor that it wanted to borrow money.
Once the surrounding small foreign countries know about it, how will they treat the Ming Dynasty?
"At least, we can't let them do this. They all want to leave their names in history. Therefore, for things like this that will be written into history books and scolded by the people in the future, it is better for the Emperor to take care of it.
Um!
The emperor is a good candidate to take the blame.
After the temporary court meeting dispersed, the ministers returned home with their own agendas.
Zhu Shangwu sent his most trusted eunuch to leave the palace, and led a team of guards directly to the Lifan Courtyard to declare the decree to Zhao Hongyu and the others.
However, when the eunuch arrived at the Lifan Courtyard, he found that the Song Dynasty people did not live in the Lifan Courtyard. The Song Dynasty people thought that the Lifan Courtyard was too crude and small, so they found their own accommodation outside.
have to!
"I can't afford to offend these uncles, so I'd better keep going."
As a close eunuch of Zhu Shangwu, the eunuch named Xue Sancai certainly knew very well what these Song people meant to His Majesty the Emperor and the capital.
Leaving the Lifan Courtyard in a hurry, Xue Sancai and Eunuch Xue led the team to the inn street outside the Lifan Courtyard.
However, after a series of inquiries, Eunuch Xue discovered that the Song people living here were not of high status, and most of them were petty officials and soldiers.
They can¡¯t decide on many things.
As for the real owner they were looking for, they bought another house in the capital and lived in that house.
I never thought that these Song people from America could enjoy themselves so much.
It is fundamentally different from those envoys from small foreign countries in the past.
But this is not surprising, my ancestors were once the masters of this country.
Although they seem to be in despair now, they have gone to a wild place.
"However, his background is noble after all, which is different from Lao Zhu.
Therefore, it is not surprising that people should pay more attention to food, clothing and housing.
However, Xue Sancai complained about this in his heart.
People who do n¡¯t even have a country pay attention to what they do.
¡°Now this is not the Zhao and Song dynasties, but the Zhu Ming dynasty.
Do you still think this is a country ruled by your old Zhao family?
Complaints are complaints, because of the importance of Song people, Xue Sancai couldn't have a fit.
"If he offends these Song people and makes His Majesty angry, he will not be able to bear the consequences."
Therefore, it is rare for Xue Sancai to be patient and show no signs of getting angry.
This made some of the young eunuchs who followed him out of the palace secretly curious.
You know, Xue Sancai has a very bad temper.
Although Zhu Shangwu looked very well-behaved in front of him, it would be different once he left the palace.
Xue Sancai expressed that he had not found the rightful owner twice. He was exhausted after walking such a long way.
However, he doesn¡¯t dare to rest now because he doesn¡¯t dare to delay His Majesty¡¯s important business.
Well, he can only find Zhao Hongyu's house again, go there to find the rightful owner and read out the decree.
This time, we were accompanied by a group of Imperial Guard soldiers from the Song Empire, as well as Rhodes.Ni and some mercenaries.
Xue Sancai was amazed when he looked at these Song soldiers in strange costumes.
There is no other reason, just that I am surprised by the non-mainstream clothing of the soldiers of the Song Dynasty.
Their clothing is very different from the mainstream aesthetics of the Ming Dynasty.
However, since he is from another country, it is not surprising that he is different from Mingren.
As for the Portuguese who were traveling with him, the palace eunuch was not too curious.
Because in the late Ming Dynasty, many Europeans arrived in the Ming Dynasty from Europe. Although a large part of them lived along the southeastern coast, they rarely entered the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.
However, some adventurous church personnel came to the capital and met the emperor.
Therefore, Xue Sancai, who was following the emperor, also met some Europeans.
It is precisely because of this that he is not too curious about Europeans.
It¡¯s just yellow hair and blue eyes, it just seems to be weird.
¡°Well, the smell on my body is very strong and smelly.
The others are no different.
They are not really to blame, they also need to eat and drink.
"Compared to these Fo Langji people, the Song people with the same black hair and black eyes are closer to them.
Although their accents are somewhat different and their clothing is also very strange.
¡°But they are also of Chinese blood, Yanhuang ethnic group.
"Compared to foreigners, these Song people accepted it psychologically easily.
Under the leadership of the Song Guards, Xue Sancai and the others quickly arrived at the gate of the house purchased by Zhao Hongyu.
The house purchased by Zhao Hongyu is not far from Lifanyuan.
At the gate, Xue Sancai saw a Japanese warrior who had just walked out of the gate to do something.
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¡°There are really everyone in these Song people¡¯s teams, it¡¯s like a hodgepodge.
I didn¡¯t expect that there were even Japanese warriors.
However, Xue Sancai soon thought of something, about what Jin Yiwei reported about the Japanese country, so he was relieved because Jin Yiwei's secret security mentioned that the Song people seemed to have launched a war against the Japanese. , and also forced the Japanese court to cede Kyushu before stopping the war.
Therefore, it is likely that these Japanese people came from Kyushu, which was already under the control of the Song Dynasty. (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!) - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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