"Repent..." Guang Haijun heard this, repeated a while, and seemed to be asking himself, looking at the roof with a little unconsciousness.

When I remembered my life experience, I had no time to go smoothly. At the beginning, I was not valued by my father. Later, I finally took power. The Qing Dynasty rose from Liaodong, and it was nothing. As a result, I was defeated in the Battle of Sarhu in the Ming Dynasty. Since that battle, I felt that I had seen the Ming Dynasty's external strength and the middle force, and thought that the Ming Empire was already at the end of the road.

It was precisely based on this judgment that I had a choice. But... but... who would have thought that the Ming Dynasty was attacked by the Qing Dynasty, but it was still able to revive the dead. It defeated the Qing Dynasty and even drove it out of the sea, fleeing to Japan like a dog with a family...

Seeing that Guanghai Jun was silent, Wu Daji asked coldly again: "DPRK was angry and resentful by His Highness. If the country is not a country, his ancestors' foundation will not be protected. Do you regret it?"

"Hahaha..." Guang Haijun suddenly burst into laughter when he heard this, but instead of the weak he spoke before, he seemed to have used all his strength.

After a while, he looked at Wu Daji and stared at his eyes and replied decisively: "If you do it again, Gu's decision will not change. Regret? Is it useful to regret? It's just a king who succeeds and defeats. If the Qing Dynasty defeats the Ming Dynasty, you probably will add Gu's toes again. It should be said that Gu Yingming is right? Hahaha..."

Wu Daji heard it and looked angry, and he took a few steps forward, grabbed Guang Haijun's neckline, staring at him angrily, as if he wanted to eat Guang Haijun.

However, Guang Haijun was not afraid at all. He looked back at Wu Daji's eyes with a cold face and stared at him speechlessly.

Wu Daji finally did not move any further. He relaxed his hand and let go of Guanghaijun, turned around and left without any hesitation.

The moment he stepped out of the door, a loud laugh suddenly came from the room, with pride, with rampantness, with madness...

When Wu Daji heard this, his steps paused, as if he wanted to turn around and go in. However, he did not turn around in the end, but instead took a big stroll. He didn't know whether it was far away or something else, but he felt that the laughter behind him quickly became weaker.

That night, someone came to report that Guanghaijun was dead.

After hearing this, Wu Daji was not surprised. He should do whatever he should do. It seemed that the dead man was not the king of North Korea before, but the reaction was similar to the dead man.

The news that Komaki Jun was dead also reached Toyotomi Kōsun's ears. He sighed, but did not express further.

Toyotomi Kōtsuki's current situation is like Mitsuhiko, who is under surveillance and has lost his freedom, but his living conditions are better than Mitsuhiko. At this time, he actually regrets bringing the wolf into the house. He is not sure if Japan is really defeated by the Qing Dynasty, will his sign be useful to the Qing emperor? If it is useless, isn't it just like this now? But if the Qing Dynasty was suppressed by the Tokugawa shogunate, he can at least be sure that he will never be able to survive!

How great it would have been to know that today would have been living quietly!

Whether these two people in Japan really regret it or not, it actually doesn't matter. However, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty was sure that he would never regret it.

The eighth year of Chongzhen is about to pass in a blink of an eye. This year is good or not for Emperor Chongzhen!

Through the chat group, I learned that the Chinese New Year is coming, but there is no snow in Shanxi and Shaanxi. This means that in the spring of the next year, there will be natural disasters in Shaanxi and Shanxi, and it is necessary to prevent them in advance.

Because of this, Emperor Chongzhen went to Xu Guangqi's mansion in person, read his recuperation, and then consulted the agricultural affairs situation in Qin and Jin. After all, Xu Guangqi was at least an authority in agriculture. Of course, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there was a disaster relief system. Emperor Chongzhen began to prepare first based on the current situation.

In the original history, in February of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Shanxi suffered years of drought and insect disasters, and in March, a great famine occurred. At that time, the hungry people had no food and had to eat bark and grass leaves. The bark and grass leaves were gone, and people ate each other.

Although this period of history in the late Ming Dynasty was affected by the Little Ice Age, man-made disasters were the main cause. If the officials and the people were united, what could the Little Ice River be able to do?

The original Emperor Chongzhen actually understood this truth. On the tenth day of the fifth month of the following year, he issued an edict to the world: I respect the way of heaven and obey the world, and remember the military and civilians. Who is not a child? It is just because of the corruption and cunning officials, and the years are famine and famine, and they are forced to do things. I was ignorant and gradually followed the crowd. I have been killed for several years and I don’t know how many of them. I am sad and depressed, and I am so happy that I sleep in my heart...

However, so what he knew? With his ability, he could not turn the tide at all! Only the soul from later generations, with a golden thigh, could he turn the world around in just a few years. Therefore, Chinese civilization will be spared from disasters and will always stand on the top of the world.

On this plane, Nanyang was already the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Although it was enfeoffed in the past, there was nothing in the vassal state, but there was no shortage of food. Nanyang's grain was sent back to the country continuously to exchange for a large number of products produced due to the emergence of steam engines. It can be said to be a mutually beneficial and win-win move.

Having said that, at the end of the eighth year of Chongzhen, except for the possible natural disasters, other aspects were basically good news. The most direct thing was that the treasury revenue had increased significantly. However, the increase this time was a bit beyond everyone's expectations.

Originally, it was thought that there would be a new vassal state, and the scale of overseas trade was further expanded, and the tax revenue of maritime trade will remain the first place in the treasury revenue. As a result, as soon as the statistics were released, after the implementation of the new salt administration, the income of salt tax immediately increased by leaps and bounds, which actually exceeded the tax revenue growth rate of maritime trade!

Seeing this result, Emperor Chongzhen and his loyal ministers all smiled happily. Before this, they had never thought that the salt tax could be collected so much!

"The salt administration that Your Majesty has issued is indeed amazing!" Wen Tiren praised in person without hesitation, "In this first year, the salt tax revenue has reached tens of millions of taels, almost tripled!"

Emperor Chongzhen smiled and was also happy and replied with a smile: "This is actually nothing. I have so many people in the Ming Dynasty and salt is a necessity, so how could it be that little salt tax in the past? My new policy fundamentally impacts private salt. The price of official salt is lower than that of private salt, which directly squeezes out the private salt market. In this way, the income from salt tax will be obvious. I believe that next year's salt tax will be more than this year!"

"Your Majesty, Virtue!" Wen Tiren happily flattered again. At this time, he had this feeling that the emperor could make money. Of course, he really could make money. He, the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, should not be too comfortable!

In Wenhua Hall, the other ministers were almost the same, and they were all happy. Among them, Bi Ziyan, the Minister of Revenue, had the most profound feelings.

In the early years, every time it was the time when the Chinese New Year was about to be celebrated, the Minister of Revenue was the most troublesome. The treasury could starve rats to death, but everywhere wanted money to celebrate the Chinese New Year. I didn’t know how to celebrate the Chinese New Year at that time.

It seems that since the Jianlu invaded the capital, the emperor seemed to be stimulated. From then on, it will be easier for a year to pass, and the end of each year has become an anticipated moment. If the treasury revenue at the end of this year is in the past, I would probably not believe it even if I beat it to death.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at the ministers below and said with a smile: "Although the national treasury has increased a lot, in my plan, the money is not enough, and we must continue to work hard next year!"

Wen Tiren and others didn’t find it strange at all about this. Who would think it was too much money?

The emperor can make money, but he can also spend money!

After receiving the response from the ministers, Emperor Chongzhen said again: "The foundation of our Ming Dynasty's strong country lies in education. Therefore, I decided to continue to invest in education. Compared with the past, I decided to build a new yamen system specifically for managing Ming education..."

When Wen Tiren and others heard this, they were neither surprised nor surprised.

The emperor attached great importance to the education of the people of the Ming Dynasty, and they all knew this. Just by establishing children's schools in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, children of appropriate age can see that they are free to attend school. Such things have never happened before.

In addition, they were not surprised to build another yamen. Because before that, the emperor had built a new Ministry of Transport, which was specially used to manage the national infrastructure, and its status was the same as that of the six ministries. In addition, a new Ministry of Science and Technology Cleansing Office was built under the Ministry of Industry.

What surprised them was that the new yamen the emperor was about to establish was actually specialized in managing education. They thought that the emperor had attached enough importance to education than other emperors, but they did not expect that the emperor's emphasis on education was far beyond their imagination.

In the Ming Dynasty, after the founding of Taizu, in the education system, the capital had the Imperial College, and the local area had the Imperial College, the prefecture, the county, and the sanitary school. Although there was school teaching management, it only had the duties of the school, not the institution of education management.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was no full-time organization for education management, but only a specialist. It was that from the first year of Zhengtong, a school-recruiting official was set up to supervise academic affairs. The officials appointed by the officials were briefly used by those who were from the ministers of each department (from the second rank) to the doctors of each department (fifth rank) and so on. Therefore, there was no fixed rank in the academic affairs of each province. If the scholars were given as ministers, it was the second rank, and the scholars of the doctors were given as ministers, it was the fifth rank, but they must be from the Jinshi of the two lists.

In a sense, the position of Admiral and Political Affairs is more similar to the imperial envoy, and is not all educational institutions in later generations.

Of course, the school still has academic rules. In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, 12 academic rules were issued. During the Wanli period, the "Edict of the Admiral School Officials" was issued.

These senior Ming officials in the Wenhua Hall naturally knew these situations clearly. After all, the people standing in the hall are all through the imperial examinations and have experienced them personally. For the situation where the emperor attaches great importance to education, they will not object to the view that "fools are more conducive to rule". Otherwise, when the emperor promotes scientific and technological knowledge, someone will jump out and say something.

Of course, in the final analysis, it is because Emperor Chongzhen's prestige is high enough to be able to firmly control the court, and there are not so many bad things.

I heard Emperor Chongzhen continue to talk about his ideas: "Ten years of trees, a hundred years of cultivation, and an educational plan cannot be overemphasized. The future of the Ming Dynasty I envisioned is impossible without a large number of scholars. I have made a public ambitions before that everyone in the Ming Dynasty had to read books. This is not just a statement, and it must not be overstated. Therefore, I feel that based on the current treasury income, the Ming Dynasty has the ability to set up a specialized yamen to manage education and have full-time education management!"

The ministers below had no say in what the new yamen should do. After all, it was the emperor's new idea, so they could only listen silently with their ears.

"I decided to set up a new Education Department, directly under the Ministry of Rites, led by the Minister of Rites, and is responsible for education management, mainly for the management of teachers across the country, as well as teaching content at all levels of school systems, school expansion and other education-related content..."

In Emperor Chongzhen's idea, this Education Department was an important yamen under the Ministry of Rites, and the first person in charge was directly designated as the Minister of Rites, which also shows his importance to this Education Department.

After hearing this, Sun Yuanhua, the Minister of Rites, was happy. The Education Department was under his jurisdiction, which meant that a new piece of power was added. More importantly, he felt that from now on, he would not be the mentor of all scholars, right?

Of course, he also faintly understood in his heart that the reason why the emperor let him take charge was because he was a strong supporter of promoting scientific and technological knowledge. The emperor's intention should be to be more inclined to the dissemination and learning of scientific and technological knowledge in education.

Other ministers actually understood this. Although Xu Guangqi retired due to illness, there would be no possibility of recurrence with the emperor, the largest promoter of scientific and technological knowledge.

Therefore, after Emperor Chongzhen finished speaking, Wen Tiren and others set up a new education department office and asked several questions about personnel. The Minister of Works and the Minister of Transportation asked several questions that seemed to be involved with them. After receiving the emperor's confirmation and answer, they had no questions.

Emperor Chongzhen was not surprised by this. He knew that if the treasury had no income, the new yamen would easily attract opposition. After all, if there were too many monks and too little porridge, it would be common for monks to fight. But now the treasury income is getting more and more year by year, so there will be no conflict of interest.

After saying this, Emperor Chongzhen decided to send them a big red envelope. Is it the New Year? You must be happy, so that everyone can have a chance!
Chapter completed!