It was the fifteenth day of March in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Chen hour.

The calligraphy inside the palace is quiet, with only the father and son facing each other in silence.

Emperor Zhu Youjian of the Ming Dynasty looked intently at the familiar yet unfamiliar son in front of him, while Zhu Cixiang also opened his eyes wide and stared at the sage emperor Zhu Youjian of the Ming Dynasty in front of him.

I don't know how long it took before I heard Zhu Youjian cough and speak: "Are you...still my brother Chun?"

Zhu Cihong was not too surprised when he heard this. He just smiled and asked, "Are you still my original father?"

Zhu Youjian was stunned for a moment, then looked at his son who was silent for a while, and then said: "Brother Chun, did your ancestors send you here?"

Zhu Cixiang smiled bitterly: "Father, besides our ancestors, who else can have such great abilities?"

Zhu Youjian nodded and said, "I think so too..."

Zhu Cixi smiled and said, "Father, you were also sent by our ancestors, right?"

When he said this, he felt relieved - it was good that the person who came was not the ancestor himself!

Zhu Youjian was noncommittal, and Zhu Cixiang did not continue to ask... This is obvious. If this Chongzhen was not sent by his ancestors, Ming Dynasty would be closed down now!

"Brother Chun," Zhu Youjian looked at his rebellious son Zhu Cihong, who was gradually entering the state of mind, "I'll ask you again... when did you come?"

"I've been here a long time ago..." Zhu Cihong said, "I was just a little dazed. I only became fully awake today."

Zhu Youjian believed his son's story a long time ago, because he had long discovered that there was something wrong with Zhu Cihong... He was born wrong, and he had been extremely cunning and cunning since he was a child. He was completely different from the rebellious son in his previous life when he was a child.

Zhu Youjian said again: "But this time I am a rare wise king in history. Li Chuang is a loyal minister. There are only a few remnants of slave thieves. The fate of the Ming Dynasty is almost over. Why did our ancestors send you here?

"

Yes, why are you here? The ancestors have already sent me, and the Ming Dynasty has been rescued. What are you still here for? Are you here to pick peaches and become a traitor? This is impossible! Because my father, the emperor, is the best in the world in martial arts!

Zhu Cixi smiled and asked: "Father, you are so wise, you can't possibly not know where the dangers of the Ming Dynasty will be in the future, right?"

Zhu Youjian is so wise, of course he knows that the future danger of Ming Dynasty will be lack of money!

Still short of money!

The Ming Dynasty in the previous life was actually short of money, but it was a low-level lack of money. For example, when later generations went to the Demon City, the "drifters" in the Imperial City were short of money to buy a house and settle down, and they were short of millions. But now the Ming Dynasty is short of money.

Lack of money is a high-level lack of money, which is equivalent to a real estate company that owes a lot of debt. Its book assets are tens of billions, but it doesn't know how it still owes a few hundred million to the bank...

In his previous life, Zhu Youjian was short of tens of millions. As long as he mastered the skills of confiscating homes, he could do so at will in Beijing.

And in this life, Zhu Youjian's loss expansion is simply a bottomless pit of loss. Not to mention millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions are not enough! This can't be counted on corrupt officials, because officials in the Ming Dynasty are really not that corrupt!

Of course, high-level lack of money will not kill the Ming Dynasty immediately, just like people who are short of hundreds of millions in future generations will definitely be happier than those who are short of several million.

Therefore, no matter how short of money Zhu Youjian was in his life, he could maintain a glorious and prosperous life. Today, there are people inside and outside the Ming Dynasty who are dissatisfied with him, but no one dares to covet his empire.

His enemies can only linger in the mountains in the northeast of the Korean Peninsula, can only tremble on the Japanese islands, can only live in the dense forests of Southeast Asia, and can only issue powerless curses in distant places.

But Zhu Youjian knew that the crisis of lack of money would eventually cause his empire to lose its enterprising spirit, and that a hundred years after he became the great emperor, the Ming Dynasty would once again experience the "Rule of Renxuan", that is, a drastic shrinkage in exchange for

A brief period of prosperity and ease.

Once this kind of "simply" governance appeared, the Ming Dynasty was already on the road to decline.

In today's Zhu Youjian's view, the crisis that the Ming Dynasty has encountered since the end of Wanli is actually the inevitable result of the contraction of national policies that began in the "Reign of Renxuan".

The shrinkage of the Ming Dynasty freed up the land for the enemies of the Ming Dynasty to recuperate and develop, while also losing the land needed by future generations... In Chongzhen's view, there must be more and more future generations, so the current use of

The land that cannot be touched will be put to use when the population of future generations becomes prosperous.

If these "reserve lands" are lost, it seems that the pressure on garrison and management will be reduced in the short term, and the finances will be better, but what will happen when future generations want to farm? If there is no land for them to farm, they can only be tenants.

When poor peasants live a hard life and encounter some catastrophic disaster, don't they have to rebel?

Therefore, Zhu Youjian's current policy is to occupy as much territory as possible... Regardless of whether it is useful or not, occupy it first!

Moreover, if we want to occupy it for real, we cannot pretend to occupy it. We must allow a large number of relocated "refugee military households" to take root, sprout, and spread their branches. Only in this way can we firmly occupy the territory.

But if you do this, the cost will be huge!

First of all, you have to spend money to recruit and relocate military households. Whether they are military households under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of War or military households led by feudal princes, you have to spend money! Now there is no shortage of poor people in the Ming Dynasty. Recruitment is not a problem, but after recruiting, you still have to spend money.

In order to provide food for a period of time, they have to pay for travel expenses when they need to move, and when they move to another place, they have to pay for food and help them settle down.

Secondly, it costs a lot of money to arm and train these military households! Since they are called military households, they must be organized into groups, armed and trained... And the places where these military households go are not peaceful.

, it’s okay if you can’t fight! Therefore, every military household must have a gun, everyone must hold a spear, and they must participate in military training!

Thirdly, the Ming court had to establish local governments or feudal states to govern these military households... This would cost a lot of money! And in order to maintain control over these local governments and feudal states, the court had to send more or less troops

The army must be stationed there. Strongholds or ports must be built along the way to ensure smooth transportation.

Finally, in order to seize territory and protect the territory it seized, the Ming Dynasty had to use troops abroad for a long time... and it also had to maintain troops on multiple battlefields at the same time. For example, the Ming Dynasty now established Nanyang, Burma, Oriental,

Each of the five major governor-general regions, including the Western Region and Northeast China, oversees at least tens of thousands of troops, and their annual military expenditures are astronomical!

In short, Zhu Youjian, the great emperor, now manages a large company that is expanding blindly, with a lot of exaggerated-looking projects in his hands, but each of these projects requires a lot of investment to be completed. And Zhu Youjian's

Big companies simply can't afford that much money to invest...

What's worse is that Zhu Youjian has no idea how these big projects can be profitable?

And in his opinion, it is impossible for these projects to be profitable... But the traitor in his previous life played a bigger game than him and made a lot of money!

Therefore, Zhu Youjian has been hoping for the past two years that his son can take on the responsibility of making money for the country as soon as possible!

In fact, since the 16th year of Chongzhen, he has allowed Nizi to participate in the management and operation of Yumajian Huangzhuang, and Nizi has also shown some talents, but he can't compare with the "awakened version" Nizi in his previous life.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian said to Zhu Cihong: "Since my ancestors sent you to make money for me... then where do you plan to start? When can you make 100 million for me? Half a year? Or a year?

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One hundred million!

Zhu Cixi rolled his eyelids and said with a wry smile: "Father, I cannot turn stone into gold..."

What? There is no way? Zhu Youjian's face became a little serious!

At this time, Zhu Cihong said slowly: "But if you want to borrow 100 million from my son, one year, just give it to my son for one year."
Chapter completed!