"Ridiculous, ridiculous!" Xu Xianchun slapped the table and scolded bitterly. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Even if Wang Wenyan scolded the Son of Heaven, Xu Xianchun would not be moved, that is normal. The losers of the infighting in the court, the civil officials will be full of complaints, even if they don't know how to scold the Son of Heaven, there are fewer things to arrange the Son of Heaven in private? What did Emperor Wuzong Zhengde tell the literati to arrange? What is Sister Li Feng? What else is the Son of Heaven, the Son of Bee, are the nicknames of those shameless literati who arrange the great tomorrow, the current emperor already has a nickname, he is called the Carpenter Son of Heaven, these literati have no rules, Wang Wenyan has always been a bold man, death is coming, what does he dare not say?

But Xu Xianchun never imagined that when Wang was dying, he would say such a thing.

"Isn't that ridiculous?" The prison said: "Although we have been in trouble in the past few years, the interior is safe, the wind and rain are smooth, the country is sufficient, and the nine sides are quiet except for Liao Town, and the Dongyu is rampant for a while, where can we really do something great?" It's really a joke to say that our Ming Dynasty will die in the country. ”

Xu Xianchun knows of course more than the prison, the Ming Dynasty is now far from being called a prosperous age, Wanli nineteen years after the emperor and ministers vomited, the government does not repair this is a fact, Wanli three major levies and the treasury silver to a fine light, to Wanli forty-seven years is already a financial deficit, the treasury is empty, Liao affairs come out, only a move, to the apocalypse, the imperial court by increasing the collection of commercial taxes and increasing the field endowment, barely stabilized the situation in western Liao, but there are also disasters everywhere inside, the number of displaced people and bandits in the north increases, this is also the truth, The party struggle is still fierce, but if you want to say that these are signs of the country's demise, Xu Xian will not agree with it even if he is killed.

"Such absurd words must not be reported," Xu Xianchun decisively said: "Who doesn't know that Wang Wenyan has always been jealous of Hutchison, and he has fought with Hutchison several times, but he can't help others, and he has to be framed when he is dying, which is simply a villain." Such a person should have died a long time ago. ”

"Exactly, exactly." Several brocade-clad guards burst out laughing.

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At the end of the afternoon, King Xin heard that the apocalypse did not rest, but made several novel wooden utensils in the Duanben Palace, and he hurriedly ordered the sedan chair to be passed all the way from Dong'an Gate to the imperial city, and then from Donghua Gate to enter the palace.

With the respect of King Xin, of course, it was carried all the way in a soft sedan chair, the weather was cold, King Shin was wearing a big wool coat, and the azure five dragons were covered under the straight robe, and the top of his head was wearing a big hat decorated with Dongzhu, and the hat and collar covered the face of the young prince, so that people could not see King Xin's face and his facial expressions clearly.

There are many officials encountered along the way, before entering the imperial city and the palace gate, most of the people who come and go are low-grade officials and officials, and when they see the prince's sedan chair, they all lead the way and avoid, bow down and salute.

King Shin seemed indifferent, but his eyes kept staring at these officials, wondering whether these officials really respected him, or if they were just superficial.

And among them, how many eunuchs and how many Donglin righteousness remains?

Since Wang Wenyan was suddenly arrested, and then Yang Lian and others, more than a dozen backbone officials who were the most capable of fighting in the Donglin Party were arrested, and a large number of officials were reprimanded out of Beijing, and the political atmosphere in Beijing has become extremely sinister.

The more he was at this moment, the more evident Shin Wang's cautious and cautious character became.

He went to visit the emperor brother of the apocalypse every few days, spoke cautiously and carefully, and tried to say something that made the royal brother feel relaxed, and never involved government affairs, but the apocalypse already felt that it was difficult for him to give birth to an heir, after all, there was no news in the past year, and there were nearly twenty concubines in the harem, but no one conceived in a year, and the apocalypse felt that he was lacking in energy, and even had the appearance of insufficient kidney water. Even if they are like brothers, they grew up together when they were young, and their feelings are deep, and the line of imperial power must not be easily crossed, even if the emperor feels that the heirs are difficult, if the king is the crown prince, if he does not tear the window paper for a day, the king can only be regarded as a foreign domain, but it belongs to the crown prince and the foreign domain recognized by the government and the opposition, and there will never be a civil official who does not open his eyes and persuade the emperor to let go of the king's kingdom.

The sedan chair was put down in front of the palace gate, and there were still one or two hundred steps left, and King Shin could only walk over by himself.

The surrounding area is scattered with eunuchs wearing azure and cyan robes, there are many eunuchs holding copper whisks in their hands, King Xin knows that this is the last close attendant of the emperor's brother, every time the emperor comes to the Wenhua Hall to listen to the government or enter the speech, dozens of eunuchs with dust stand behind the golden platform or on both sides, the Jinyi Guard Hall Shangguan stands on the left side of the golden platform with a knife, the Hanlin Cichen and the cabinet minister stand on the right side, the Han general stands at the foot of the steps with a golden melon, it seems that the brocade guard is the imperial guard to protect the emperor, In fact, the emperor trusts most in this group of eunuchs with copper whisks.

Getting closer, I began to hear the sound of people, the sound of axes and saws, and the exclamations of the eunuchs.

King Xin saw a tall eunuch standing beside the imperial brother, constantly handing over all kinds of tools, axes, chisels and shovels kept taking up and down, and from time to time bent down to blow away the wood flowers, hanging straight with ink threads, King Xin entered the palace and no one cared, the eunuchs were busy sweating profusely, there was a copper furnace in the hall, the temperature was much higher than the outside, and it was no wonder that they were so busy that they were sweaty and heavy clothes.

"My brother is here."

However, when the emperor straightened up and drank tea, he first saw King Xin, and the emperor said happily: "Today's construction is a large warship, which is like a Hongyi ship, and I still imitate it. ”

Recently, the emperor is really particularly interested in building wooden sailboats, this kind of sailing ship model first appeared in Tianjin, and then became popular in the Jingshi market, I heard that it has been sold for a while in Suzhou, I heard that there are also merchants offering rewards, carpenters can imitate the success of the reward, of course, if the scholar has money and leisure, willing to imitate it, as long as it is imitated according to the original appearance, there is silver to take, but this kind of sailing ship structure is very different from the Chinese sailing ship, and the folk do not have the tradition of making sailing ship models...... At this time, Chinese craftsmen used their skills in carving, such as carving ivory products, one ivory can carve a whole landscape painting, tree roots, ivory, jade, can be carved, and make models, but not many people have such an interest.

Of course, this thing is a trick made up by Yusheng.

The manufacture of sailing ships really needs manpower, in the Fujian area, to build all kinds of Chinese-style hard sailing ships are very manpower, but the construction of Western-style ships is too few, in the past two years to visit everywhere to find suitable craftsmen, the number is still insufficient, after Dezhnev and others arrived in Taiwan, the scale of shipbuilding suddenly rose a lot, but the number of workers is insufficient, even if the Russians help train it will take time, to cultivate people's interest in models, and then recruit good people who can build Western-style warships, it is also a way to be regarded as a way.

The wooden level of the apocalypse is really not a waste, one is talented, the other is that the palace utensils are complete, and there are the highest level of craftsmen at any time, a few years down, the emperor is interested in getting started, in the complete tools, not afraid of waste and the premise of the help of the masters, the skills are really advancing by leaps and bounds, the Chinese-style Fu ship built has several models, this time although the first time to build a Western-style warship, but with the help of everyone, the hull has played a rough appearance out, it seems that it does not take too long, It can be completely completed.

King Xin was speechless, he was a young man who was addicted to Confucian classics and ambitious, and the most disdainful of the emperor's brother was his plaything, King Xin later ascended the throne, although he was anxious for seventeen years, but there was no lack of peace to rest, but whether it was war or calm, King Xin always put his interest in governing the country, and was not interested in the rest of the things.

At present, King Xin had to make fun of it, and praised the craftsmanship of the imperial brother very much.

Tianqi was very happy to hear it, and it happened that someone from the palace sent a snack, so he ordered King Xin to use dim sum with him, many helpers and eunuchs, only Wei Zhongxian, who had been standing by Tianqi's side, also had a share.

The dim sum in the palace is better than the materials, the taste is also gone, the king of the letter is really eating with relish, and the royal brother is eating and chatting, at this time the apocalypse began to test the king of the letter on some government affairs, the king of the letter was surprised to find that although the imperial brother has not summoned the minister for many days, but the government affairs have not been separated, on the contrary, for some military affairs, the emperor of the apocalypse is still very concerned, and has quite firm views and opinions.

"On the ninth day of the fifth month of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the ninth edict increased the salt class, two Huai, two Zhejiang, Changlu, and Shandong, Fujian, Guangdong, and Sichuan, how much silver was increased?"

"Brother Chen, I remember that it was an increase of 547,993 taels of silver."

"Good." Tianqi praised: "What does my brother think about this? ”

Chongzhen felt that after the increase in the salt class, I am afraid that the burden on the people will increase greatly, which will lead to the boiling of civil resentment, the state is insufficient, and the levy of Liao salary has been increased, and various taxes have increased in recent years, and the national income in addition to 26 million stone grain, there is also a considerable amount of sundries income, and the income of silver has risen from 3 million to 9 million, during which the oppression of the people has naturally increased several times.

King Xin said: "The courtiers feel that if the country is a little sufficient, they should give priority to reducing the endowment." ”

Tianqi nodded and said: "You must remember the four words that the country is a little sufficient, and the reduction of the endowment is the first and second." If we only care about reducing the levy, get the state insufficient, and then hastily increase the levy, it will not be beautiful. ”