"Not salty enough!"

The little emperor was eating in front of the deck with chopsticks in one hand, his left big sleeve was quickly pulled up to his shoulder, and he pinched the air-dried beef jerky in his hand and stared at the official document on the sail and said, "Is it that you didn't give me military rations, or did your military rations not do well?" ”

The beef jerky was put back on the food plate, and the little emperor was worried about the country and the people: "When the Beiyang Phase I baggage ship came back, I said that the flag army doesn't like sauce cakes, if you want to take beef jerky as a staple food, you have to be saltier, isn't there already research in the medical academy, there is salt in sweat, and the salt on people's bodies has to be replenished." ”

"Last time, I couldn't stand it when I ran four miles in full armor, my body was sweating like a fight, my heart was beating like a bath, and I felt like I was going to die, and I drank two glasses of salt and sugar water to ease up, and my banner army was all over the world, and the birds and hands had to carry at least thirty-six pounds, how much sweat did I have to sweat that day?"

Wang An lowered his head and said: "Back to grandpa, this beef jerky is a new product ordered by the imperial court last year and in the market this year, Qi Shuai is reorganizing the army in Jizhen, and the governor of the Saiwai Metropolitan and the people are terrified, they will not do it according to the military rations, they will worry that the heavenly army has a standing military rations, and they will go out of the fortress to fight it." ”

As he spoke, Wang An squinted his eyes and smiled with a rare pleasure in the Forbidden City, and said, "This is the first time in recent decades!" ”

The little emperor Bei'er raised his head proudly, waved his hands and said, "That's nature!" ”

The nine sides of the court were bloody and scarred, and the most important thing was finance.

Is Jiajing poor or not? Is Longqing poor or not? What about Wanli year?

The little emperor can pat his chest and say: Grandpa has money!

Pride is pride, raised his hand to take the bowl and snorted two mouthfuls of millet porridge, pushed the bowl aside and looked at it and felt pity, pinched the chopsticks and put the sea cucumber at the bottom of the bowl Jinzhou Wei Shanggong into his mouth and chewed, pushed the bowl and picked up the pen while writing and muttered vaguely: "The jerky is too hard, the king of Shunyi and all the governors of the provinces know the same thing, the city is not allowed to pay tribute jerky in the coming year, the country lacks cattle, tribute cattle, and the court will fold forage cloth, silk, and pearls together...... Wrong. ”

The little emperor crossed out the cloth, silk, and pearls, and thought about it for a long time with a brush, and then chattered while writing: "Finely woven cotton cloth of all colors, fine silk from Suzhou and Hangzhou, and overseas treasure pearls are all worth the price." ”

Wang An didn't understand this operation, these names kept turning in his head, and he subconsciously asked: "Your Majesty, what is the difference between this cloth and finely woven cotton cloth?" ”

When the little emperor heard the words, he unconsciously raised his eyes and pursed his tongue, his entrance was furry, he frowned and looked at the brush in his hand angrily, spewed out with his nose, and complained: "I'm afraid that the problem I fell when I was a child can't be better - respectively?" It's too big to be separated! ”

The brush was put down, and Xiao Wanli raised his chin and asked, "Where did the cloth come from?" ”

"Loom weaving."

"Well, now there are two pieces of cloth in front of you, one is made by a loom, and the other is a finely woven cotton cloth woven by the seven generations of weavers of the Su family, which one do you think is more expensive?"

"Sense, it feels like the back one is a little more expensive?" Wang An's face was full of difficulty, and he didn't know if the little emperor couldn't express it clearly or what was going on, anyway, he felt that there was no difference between the two pieces of cloth: "I don't know why, it seems to be a little more expensive in the back." ”

"That's right."

"Cloth or cloth, satin or satin, pearl is still pearl, besides, there is no joke, the cloth in the mouth market is made of weavers, the weavers of the Ming Dynasty are the least of seven generations, and the eight and nine generations are weavers, but it will sound very good, one horse top two horses in the past is not someone else's preference? Because it sounds good. ”

Wanli said and turned the sail in front of him towards Wang An, pointed to a page of official documents sandwiched on the sail bone for him to look at, and said: "The letter sent back by the ship supervisor of Nanzhili, the pearls of Sulu are sold in Yangzhou like this, only thirty pieces a month, and the condition is not very good. ”

"But someone specifically introduced, saying that this pearl was collected by pearl divers in the pearl pond of Sulu thousands of miles away from the sea, and it is a treasure treasured by the Sulu palace for decades, only thirty pieces are circulated on the market every month, and the remaining half of the beads are paid tribute to me - people are vying to buy, the daily price is high, and the cheapest one is fifty taels, in fact, it is the first thing of money and silver."

Wang An frowned, and cautiously asked Wanli: "Your Majesty, Nanyang hasn't paid tribute to the palace for nearly a year, right?" This, this ......"

The little eunuch knew that Chen Mu loved money, but this kind of method of taking the emperor's deceit was a big crime.

The little emperor didn't care, waved his hand and said: "To tell the truth, half of the beads did pay tribute to me, but when Sulu was just peaceful, I paid tribute to thousands of them at a time when I was in good condition, and I couldn't count them, and the other half was sold on the market. ”

And the most important thing is that the pearl pond under the moon sounds so hard, but there is no winter in Sulu!

"Let me count, this month there are one hundred and one hundred and thirty-two ordnance bureaus in the five provinces that produce flint birds and less than 100 rods; There are seven, eight, nine, and eleven ordnance bureaus with a monthly output of more than 100 rods; The highest output is Xuan, Bei, and the Nanyang Guard Ordnance Bureau - 1,140 strokes? ”

Xiao Wanli also felt that the output of the Nanyang Guard Weapons Bureau was abnormal, other places such as Xuanfu only produced less than 2,000 rods last year, and Beiyang only had more than 700 rods last year because of the lack of iron ingots, and the Nanyang Guards Weapons Bureau topped people for a year in a month?

I specially found the official document and looked at it carefully to understand what was going on, and the Nanyang Guard Ordnance Bureau was only in charge of supervision and assembly, and all other objects, even if they were a small Wangshan crosshairs, were made elsewhere.

South, North, Fujian, Guangdong, and Xuanda can make more than 6,000 flint guns in January, which is the situation that arquebuses are being made in various places, but the Nanyang Guard Weapons Bureau can produce thousands of rods to throw off the second-ranked Xuanfu, which is very gratifying.

"You learn to do this, and in the future, you will count all the output of the Ordnance Bureau of the five provinces, and the same is true for removing the shipyards and shipyards in Xuanda and Zhejiang, and their guns and armor are all counted, so that I can know the situation at a glance."

The little emperor said to Wang An, turned the sail aside with satisfaction, and said: "There is one more thing for you to do, find a few honest and reliable people who are honest and honest, and go out of the palace on my behalf to buy winter clothes and five winter clothes in various places, but I can't afford it...... Let's start with 28,000 sets. ”

"Then take my edict and winter clothes to Xuanda, and distribute the winter clothes on behalf of me in the five guards of Wanquan City, winter is coming, I will reward the sergeants with internal currency, so that they can defend the border with peace of mind."

"The winter clothes issued by the imperial court, they dare to be greedy for ink up and down, and they can't send them to my banner army; You send someone to remember, you have to hand in hand to send it to the flag army, outsiders are greedy for ink, and military law is engaged; You are greedy for ink, what do you say about the military law of the four military governments? That's right, read it for the first offense, and leave a whole corpse. ”