Although there was a tumult in the hall and the ministers yelled and attacked each other, Chen Zizhuang was still sitting there, closing his eyes to rest.

When Ma Mingyuan saw Chen Zizhuang like this, he hurried forward and said, "Yuan Fu, you have to say something!"

Actually, can Chen Zizhuang not know the situation of the country? As the Prime Minister, he knows it very clearly. Now that Zhu Hongsan’s group has been greatly strengthened by the rapid expansion this year, he should stop and digest it, but Chen Zizhuang dare not say this, and he can’t say it!

Thanks to the wisdom of Zhu Yuanzhang's peasants, the Ming Dynasty established a strange system of service at the beginning of the founding of the country, and found some young and energetic scholars to serve as the six subjects, giving them great power, but the official position was only seventh rank. These young people have not been smoothed out by the officialdom. Seeing that the old official in the officialdom were bribed and corruption, they had to speak out for justice. The rights given to them by Zhu Yuanzhang were basically endless, and they could even return the emperor's imperial edict, which means that the emperor's words could not be counted without them. Of course, this system greatly suppressed the corruption of officials at the beginning of the state, and had certain positive significance.

But don't forget that China is a magical country, and anything can undergo magical changes over time. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, this system of giving the service became a standard for measuring the morality of officials. No matter whether it is right or wrong, as long as you oppose the emperor or oppose power, you are a hero. Even if you resign and go home, you can enjoy reputation. Local officials will come to visit you, and your name will be written in local chronicles. Isn't scholars just for a name? In this way, the system of giving the service and the censor of the Censorate formed a political school, Qingliu. By the Wanli period, the Donglin Party carried the banner of Qingliu, and these Donglin shit stirring sticks carried forward the crackdown on dissidents. If you don't accept it, you will be a slander. Don't say you are the chief minister, even if you establish that emperor, we have the final say. If we say scolding, you can't retaliate. If you have any objections, you will be a fool. In history books, you will have to step on you with ten thousand feet.

Chen Zizhuang was brutally killed by Tong Yangjia in history. He was not afraid of death, but he was afraid of these Qingliu. Chen Zizhuang was also a scholar. If he was a scholar, he would be afraid of these Qingliu slandering him. So a few days ago, when Zhu Hongsan revealed that he wanted to have a peace talk, Chen Zizhuang knew that the crisis related to his life and death had come. However, Chen Zizhuang was also a political old man. After returning home, he thought about it and found the third way, which could not only protect himself but also calm the interests of various factions in the court. Today he would tell it out in the current dynasty.

After hearing Ma Mingyuan's call, Chen Zizhuang stood up slowly. When several other cabinet ministers saw that Chen Zizhuang had something to say, they stopped quarreling to see what tricks the prime minister had!

Chen Zizhuang left the seat and came to the middle, saluted and said, "Your Majesty, our Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty are the enemies of life and death. The war in the north must not be stopped. As for the army's training speed, it can be appropriately slowed down. Only two divisions will be organized next year! As for the Luzon side, the Yangtze River is now under the control of our army, and the navy does not need so many warships to gather in the Yangtze River. You can transfer half of the warships to Luzon to shock the Spaniards!"

Chen Zizhuang's suggestion was basically a compromise, reducing Tong Yangjia's requirements by half. In fact, Tong Yangjia didn't expect to get a budget of 15 million silver dollars next year. He also made a decision to pay the money on the spot for a price. Tong Yangjia heard what Chen Zizhuang said reasonably, and nodded repeatedly to agree with what Chen Zizhuang said.

Zhu Hongsan frowned after hearing Chen Zizhuang's words. This was a treatment of symptoms but not the root cause. Now his side is at the end of his strength, and it is impossible to maintain an offensive state. Even if Chen Zizhuang said that slowing down the training speed of the new army, the new army will need tens of millions of silver next year. Chen Zizhuang's attitude of being mixed with Zhu Hongsan's desire to suspend the development of the army first, so that the Qing Dynasty and Zhu Youlang could kill him and his own strategy of closing the door to develop.

Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and asked, "Mr. Chen, even if you said, 10 million silver dollars will be needed for military affairs next year. This is not enough? What are some good plans for Mr. Chen?"

Chen Zizhuang took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, please hand over the inventories of the silver. This should be enough within two years!"

As soon as Chen Zizhuang said this, the entire hall was silent. None of the officials expected that Chen Zizhuang would be so bold that he would actually ask Zhu Hongsan to hand over his private money.

You should know that Zhu Hongsan started from scratch and built hundreds of factories in Dongguan brick by brick. Although after several free transfers, some light industrial factories were transferred in large quantities, all heavy industries were in Zhu Hongsan's hands. This includes the coal-iron-iron consortium in Changhua. Now there are 200,000 people who are mining the two iron ores in Hotan, Changhua. In addition, there are more than 500,000 people working under Zhu Hongsan's hands at the steel mill, Luzon gold and copper mines, and Annan Hongji Coal Mine. You should know that the population of Qiongzhou Prefecture is less than 300,000, and the industrial workers under Zhu Hongsan are twice as many as one mansion. Among them, there are not even a gunpowder factory, steel pipe factory, musket workshop, artillery workshop, and various ductile iron production workshops in Dongguan. With the large and small caravans under the banner of the royal family, there are nearly one million people in Guangdong who expect Zhu Hongsan to have dinner.

Hundreds of factories and caravans like an economic monster snatched raw materials from South China and the North at low prices or no money, and then transported them to Guangdong by water and land, and then processed them into industrial products, and then sold them back to the Qing Dynasty occupied areas in the north and all parts of the South China Sea to make a lot of high profits. Zhu Hongsan himself didn't know how much money he had. He only knew that his monthly income was around one million taels of silver dollars.

However, this looks a lot, but when you calculate it carefully, Zhu Hongsan has nothing left. All heavy industries serve the war, and those muskets, artillery and warships don’t need silver when handing over to the army. At the same time, in order to drag the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Hongsan used the Jinyiwei to transport a large number of cold weapons to the rebels in the occupied areas of the Qing Dynasty, and these could not be recovered at all. In this way, Zhu Hongsan was busy in one year and could only have surplus of 500,000 silver dollars. Even the more than 1.3 million silver dollars lent to the treasury this year were saved by Zhu Hongsan in several years. After lending it to the treasury, Zhu Hongsan only had less than 500,000 silver dollars left in the treasury.

Today, when Zhu Hongsan heard these stinky old ninths forced him to hand over the factory, he was really angry. These bastards stood and spoke without a pain in their backs. They didn’t know how much I sacrificed for this country. In order to produce an extra musket, I only ate four dishes and one soup for each meal. Perhaps not as hard as the founding emperor. Even his home, Nanjing Palace, had no money to repair it, and now he could only live in such a Wenhua Palace. These bastards are not satisfied and have to force me to hand over the factory. Do they still have to collect six taels of silver a year like Emperor Chongzhen, like all the maritime departments that will be handed over to them?

Zhu Hongsan suppressed his anger and asked without a smile: "What do you guys think? Do you agree to hand over the factory?"

Those who can get into the court meeting are not fools. They have already seen the emperor unhappy and hit the gun? So all the civil and military officials in the room are silent!

Seeing that no one in the room was talking, Coke ruined Tong Yangjia, the old Tong was very unhappy and knew that Chen Zizhuang had poked the emperor's lung tube. Now, when will he not take any harm?

As a typical villain, Tong Yangjia could miss this opportunity, and stood up and said loudly: "Your Majesty, I would like to kill Chen Zizhuang! In order to restore the Ming Dynasty, your Majesty only has four dishes and one soup, and he will not renovate the imperial city when he arrives in Nanjing. Such frugality probably has no emperor who can compete with Your Majesty except the founding Taizu. Even the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, Tang Zong and Song Zu were a few levels worse than Your Majesty! Such frugality was even forced to the palace by Chen Zizhuang, and I thought it would be a pity that I would not kill Chen Zizhuang, but I would be sorry for the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty!"

Tong Yangjia's shameless flattery immediately made people look at each other. Some upright ministers have already started to scold Tong Yangjia. However, Tong Yangjia stood there with a big radish on his face. Anyway, I am the master, so what can you do to me!

Ma Mingyuan saw Tong Yangjia fire at Chen Zizhuang. At first, he was going to take the opportunity to burn the fire, but then he would forget it. Chen Zizhuang would be the prime minister no matter what, and the emperor would not dismiss him for such a thing. If things fail, it would become Tong Yangjia's shield. It would be better to let Tong Yangjia bear Chen Zizhuang's anger.

After hearing Tong Yangjia say this, Chen Zizhuang asked, "Since Lord Tong said that, then I ask you, how can I solve the money you want from the Ministry of War if you don't do this? If you have an idea of ​​the best of both worlds, I am willing to let you, Tong Yangjia, be the chief assistant!"

Tong Yangjia originally wanted to show off and leave a good impression of his own people for the emperor, but he didn't expect Chen Zizhuang to throw the problem to himself. Tong Yangjia didn't know the solution, that is, to completely stop military operations and develop well for several years. However, in this environment where all the courts were shouting and killing the Qing Dynasty, Tong Yangjia didn't dare to say it, so he could only return to his seat with a blushing face.

Seeing that Tong Yangjia didn't dare to say the word "peace talk", Zhu Hongsan cursed the trash in his heart. After looking at Ma Mingyuan who was still standing aside, Zhu Hongsan asked: "Second brother, do you still remember the conversation between us at the tea shop outside Wuchang County?"

Of course, Ma Mingyuan remembered that it was that conversation that Zhu Hongsan that made Ma Mingyuan return. It was also that conversation that Ma Mingyuan established his life goal, which was to be a civil servant who left his name in history like Zhuge Liang and Zhang Juzheng. And Ma Mingyuan also understood the meaning of Zhu Hongsan's words. If you want to leave your name in history, you must be an isolated minister first. Thinking about Zhuge Liang and Zhang Juzheng, who did not abandon their reputation for the sake of the country and the nation (don't think that Zhuge Liang is so famous now (don't think that Zhuge Liang is so famous now).

, has become a typical example of devoted work. After his death, Zhuge Liang's reputation was not good, basically at the same level as Cao Cao. Liu Chan did not even have a temple for him after his death. The Wuhou Temple outside Chengdu City was built in the Tang Dynasty and was first adjacent to Liu Bei's Han Zhaolie Temple. It was only when it was rebuilt in the early Ming Dynasty that the Wuhou Temple was incorporated, forming the current monarch and ministerial sacrifice. As for Zhang Juzheng's reputation in the Ming Dynasty, I don't need to say what Zhang Juzheng's reputation was, anyone who has seen the Ming Dynasty knows).
Chapter completed!