Chapter 458 Interest
At the gate of Tsinghua Park, Emperor Wanli, wearing a winged crown, rarely took off his military uniform and armor, wore a bright yellow twelve-chapter robe and put his hands on his hips and tied his jade belt around his waist, and looked at his grandfather's clearing of the private garden door with satisfaction.
The stone tiger-headed horse stakes with exquisitely carved stone tiger-headed horses lined up on the left and right sides, tied with mixed-blooded high-headed war horses in the imperial guards wearing armor, and the personal guards carrying long swords and bird guns on their shoulders opened the road blockade. One carriage after another filled with crates was suspended on the open space in the middle.
Nowadays, crates are used to ship goods in China, mainly loading and unloading goods from Beiyang, because there are too many prefabricated wooden boards shipped back from the New World.
For the convenience of loading and transporting, the Dongyang Military Mansion has square and boards when loading the wood. Different specifications and uses, a considerable number of untidy wood are directly made into prefabricated wooden boxes for mortise and tenon and nails. The Beiyang Military Mansion can only use this.
Zhang Ge Lao's butt was covered by the emperor for a long time. He was very happy yesterday and today. It can be foreseen that he would still be very happy tomorrow, because just a few days ago, in the temple in the southwest last year, the abbots transported the specialties, land rent, interest, and taxes paid by the royal family for the first time, first to Beiyang by sea, and then by land to Beijing.
These abbots were not the people who followed Tianshi to fight in the west, but the emperor invested money in the inner treasury and handed over it to Master Tianshi to select people. In Myanmar and other places in the southwest, temples established by Siam vassals took advantage of the opportunity of monk Tianshi to learn about Buddhism to carry out land annexation, hiding population, collecting temple property, diligent in lending, and collecting rent on the ground.
Let me put it this way, Emperor Wanli invested 74 temples in batches in the name of "Yijun" to raise funds, and then invested nine more in the name of Empress Dowager Li to allow Feng Bao, the governor of the Dongchang in his later years, to have a good place to recite scriptures, with a total of 85 temples.
This is different from the temples established by Wanzi Army. The emperor clearly distinguished them. Those temples belonged to the Ming Dynasty and these temples belonged to him.
The Emperor had no control over what the Ming Dynasty had in overseas temples, but the military government had the final say, but his temple had strict regulations.
Except for the abbot, the other major figures in the temple do not understand Buddhism at all. In addition to the fact that the temple produces more than in China and lends more than in China, the obvious characteristics are the swords, guns, swords, halberds, axes, hooks and forks, birds, guns, rockets, mines and cannons, all of which are available.
When they first invested in them, each abbot was surrounded by one or two Jinyiwei, and he transferred a hundred households from Guangdong, Guangxi and Fujian Dushi, which had the best military equipment among the traditional guards, to lead the banner army to go with them with weapons, food and grass.
These people used to change administrative divisions for others.
Perhaps after the temple used these core flag troops to gather Buddhists, there were more people in one temple than others in a city, so the temple naturally became the center of the local area.
The emperor has been standing at the entrance of Tsinghua Park in various postures for a day.
When he got up early, he stood like this. When he was tired of standing, he sat on the stone steps. When his butt was cold, he asked someone to move a chair for him. Now that his legs were numb, he stood up again. Even lunch was eaten outside the door... Anyway, this private garden was several miles away from the nearest official road, and no one saw the emperor's indecent behavior.
The abbots were really capable. Since they saw the Beijing Fortune Fortune Goods Form they handed over to Beiyang yesterday, the emperor was so happy that he couldn't sleep well in the Qianqing Palace at night. He looked at it early in the morning with panda eyes, and his face showed a silly smile from time to time.
The abbot with the worst business ability raised 220 taels of gold and 3,700 taels of silver in four months; the two best temples were in barren land near the Baojing of Mengmi Xuanwei, and they paid the emperor 34,000 taels of silver and 27,000 taels of silver respectively.
It was not that Meng Mixuanweishi was rich and honored, but that their temples produced jade. Even the chieftains of Meng Mixuanweishishishi themselves knew that they produced jade, and they were discovered by these monks.
Moreover, these two abbots were smart enough. They took jade on the boat. They all stopped and sold them along the way in Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Nanzhi. In the end, they sent silver to the emperor.
Not to mention anything else, even the nine temples of Empress Dowager Li earned her more than 30,000 taels of silver.
Master Wanli accidentally found a business that earns nearly 900,000 taels per year. How could he not be happy?
What's more, he only earned this income for more than a hundred temples. How much should it cost for hundreds or even thousands of monks that day?
"I'll find the ship now."
The emperor felt that he had found the key to solve the problem. Not only did the gold and silver collected directly from these temples, they transported back the jade, gems and other specialties sold in China. Ordinary people may not buy much of these things. In the end, they were all in the hands of dignitaries, nobles, and wealthy merchants.
Therefore, he was extremely proud with his waist on his back. He watched the soldiers unload the carts and transported them into the newly built inner warehouse of Tsinghua Park. Who could still remember the hemorrhoids on Zhang Ge Lao’s butt?
Master Wanli said to Xu Guangqi, who was standing beside him with a look of disdain, and said, "This is the ship. I have found the ship before I read the reply from Jing Haibo."
"I want to spend the money I earned from the rich and powerful businessmen again on the poorest people in the empire. They don't need much, and I can not give much, but one or two taels per person per year can benefit millions of poor people."
The emperor turned his head, raised his hand and smiled. He thought about the money he had not slept all night and squeezed his swollen eyes with his bulging eyes together, adding: "There are also the Wanli Steel Factory in Baoding Prefecture and the Wanli Coal Factory in Shanxi. They are still small now, but they can also help millions of people in the future."
"Your Majesty is kind and polite, and it is a blessing for the world."
Xu Guangqi bowed his head and bowed. The emperor said the truth was very good, but obviously he did not understand the rules. Where can the emperor give money to the people directly? This is probably not a good way.
Then he heard the emperor's murmurs: "The teacher's hemorrhoids come well, and it depends on the teacher's bed rest. Only then can the court unanimously pass the imperial consultation on the establishment of the Wanli Coal Factory in the royal family in Shanxi. The teacher has made an indelible contribution."
"Now that everything is done, the Beiyang doctor Chen Shigong is coming at the right time. When he delivers the things, he will ask him to see the teacher."
For the emperor, this was a good thing. After Qi Jiguang started spring, he won two more battles outside the Great Wall. Zhang Juzheng, the chief assistant of the cabinet, was so angry that he couldn't sit and lie down and could not be in charge of the board of directors. Zhang Siwei opposed the royal family's specialty in coal mines. As a result, he was scolded by the emperor but did not help him. The court officials were also frightened by this act and no one dared to sing the stage show.
He had done everything he should do and wanted to do. The omnipotent and omniscient Emperor Wanli felt that Zhang Ge Lao's hemorrhoids could be cured.
At this moment, Chen Shigong, surrounded by apprentices, came late, his face full of excitement about riding on the big Qinglong steam locomotive on the road. Wanli did not politely to him, so he directly asked Chen Mu to reply, and couldn't wait to walk into the garden and read it.
"Everything in the future of the empire is education?"
Chapter completed!