Chapter 179 Honor
Zhu Cilang could not have raised prices with foreigners carelessly, and these people were not fools, so when the war was fought, Zhu Cilang had already issued an imperial edict to the Lifan Court.
During this war, the adults of Lifanyuan were not idle either. They were all revealing a piece of information to all foreign merchants, that is, the war was going on in the mainland again.
Moreover, due to natural disasters, the harvest in the past two years has dropped sharply.
The imperial court's decrees are on one hand, and the influence of all aspects is on the other hand.
According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, these foreign merchants could only make a short stay in a few coastal ports and would never go directly to inland areas.
When Zhu Cixuan thought of this strategy, he asked the people from Lifanyuan to accompany these merchants every day to prevent them from having the opportunity to contact ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty, which caused a news gap.
What the court says is what it means, and after all the goods are in the hands of the court, what can you do if you know some of the situation in the inland areas?
The goods are in my hands. Do you like to buy them or not? Even if you don’t buy them, there are more merchants from Europe. Can I only do business for your family?
As long as you transport these things back to Europe, the profit you get is ten times or a hundred times, so some people will accept the price increase here.
The high price is for a high price to sell. This is the theory that Zhu Ciyang wants to teach foreign merchants. In the end, the rich people from all over the European countries are all paying for. What does it have to do with you second-hand dealers?
You can follow the Ming Dynasty to raise the price.
Of course, all of this is a prototype in Zhu Cilang's head. Whether it can be realized according to Zhu Cilang's idea still requires the joint efforts of Lifanyuan, the Ministry of Revenue, and many merchants in the Ming Dynasty. It is not that it can be done by one person.
Shi Kefa opened his mouth and said nothing, and he knew that this was not his strength.
Since His Royal Highness has handed over all the matters to the Office of the Internal Affairs, then hand them over to the Office of the Internal Affairs!
Anyway, the ministers in the court were unwilling to deal with these foreign devils. In the eyes of these adults who read the books of sages, these foreign devils have not evolved and are all a group of monkeys. It would be better not to deal with them.
Taking advantage of the time now, Zhu Cilang wrote down all these documents and handed them over to Cao Renli next to him, so that this guy can understand them slowly!
If there is something that cannot be understood, I will explain it to him myself. In the future, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be the Imperial Shang of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Cilang was absolutely confident that under his leadership, the Interior Ministry’s income will never be less than that of the treasury. The treasury supports the operation of the country, and the Interior Ministry’s money will make the entire Ming Dynasty a powerful country.
After doing these things, Zhu Cixuan had to exchange a sum of money from the system first, which would be used to build a monument to the Qufu Battle.
In modern society, it is very normal to build a monument, but in the Ming Dynasty, this was the first time that it was created.
Emperor Taizong of Tang once established the Lingyan Pavilion to worship the heroes of that era.
But Emperor Taizong of Tang probably didn't think so much about ordinary soldiers. Now that Zhu Cixuan has established this monument, the most important thing is to commemorate these ordinary soldiers.
When Zhu Cixuan said this, the two present were stunned again.
Following His Highness the Crown Prince, many of His Highness’s ideas are too advanced and they cannot understand them at all.
What are the valuable things for those ordinary soldiers? They still need to spend huge amounts of money to build a monument to commemorate them?
Zhu Cilang was not surprised by their surprise. Ordinary soldiers have no status these days, and Zhu Cilang has already known about them.
It is definitely not a matter of one or two days to change their view. They can only come slowly by themselves. One day they will understand that these most ordinary soldiers are the cornerstones of the Ming Dynasty.
In the afternoon of that day, the court had already begun to explore the foundation. After many soldiers outside heard about it, they could not believe their ears.
The court actually wanted to erect monuments for ordinary soldiers, and also engrave the names of some people on it for future generations to admire.
How is this possible?
Even some generals must be more famous, at least they must be the same as Wei Qing and Huo Qubing in history.
Nowadays, we all have the chance to go up?
After receiving the reply from some officials of the court, many soldiers were extremely excited.
Maybe their names won't go up, but at this moment they understand one thing: as long as they fight bravely to fight the enemy and make military achievements for the court, they will definitely have the chance to go to such a monument.
Being famous throughout the ages, rewriting history...
What a distant thing this is for ordinary soldiers.
But now Zhu Cixuan put them in front of him. According to the monument designed by Zhu Cixuan, there will be a circle of corridors around the main monument, and there will be dozens of sculptures on the corridor. These are all people who have made great contributions to the battle in the battle.
On the periphery of the sculpture, there will be a round wall, and on the left side of the circular wall, all those who sacrificed their lives for the country will be engraved.
On the right side of the circular wall, the numbers of all participating troops and some people who have made outstanding contributions will be engraved.
After death in battle, he left his name in history.
You will also receive a medal of honor when you are alive.
This is the change in the court after this battle.
Some soldiers couldn't believe all this, but that night, the army had already started counting. All those involved in this battle would receive a medal of honor, and this medal of honor was made of all silver.
A full two taels of silver.
Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that if you have this medal of honor, then your family can not pay land tax and population tax for five years.
In addition, local officials will also send a military sign to their respective homes.
According to the court's policy, the county magistrate must write it himself.
Honor, this is definitely honor!
This is much better than receiving more than a dozen taels of silver directly. In the military camp that night, many soldiers were so excited that they couldn't sleep.
Things that I never dared to think of in my dreams have now become reality.
Even those juren and local rich men in the village would not have a plaque written by the county magistrate, right?
Now we have these things?
If it weren't for their commander falling asleep, they would like to pull the commander up and ask if it was true, although they had asked more than a dozen times.
Chapter completed!