How to relieve worries is to get rich. Even the emperor is the same. The emperor cannot get anything at will, and he has to spend money to support soldiers and officials.

Only by raising the army and supporting officials can they serve you. However, Emperor Chongzhen had no money before and lived a tight life. Even when the Liaodong soldiers fought against the Qing Dynasty, they were worried about military pay.

Now, there are more than 30 million taels of white silver in the treasury. That is all cash silver. So much silver does not come from taxes from the people.

Part of it is to search for officials to seize income, part of it is to search for private silver mines, and the long-lasting commercial tax.

Especially the commercial taxation, Emperor Chongzhen never dreamed that there would be so much money.

The rulers in the feudal era all valued agriculture and suppressed commerce. This was the disadvantage of farming culture and was inevitable. In addition, the cause of Confucianism and the theory of business and evil made rulers of all dynasties not have much favoritism for merchants.

Especially those rich merchants who can be rich enough to rival a country will double their disgust from the emperor.

It's not just the emperor, but the ministers you have laughed at are too much disgusted by. They cannot tolerate that a low-ranking businessman can have a status and identity above them. Therefore, all dynasties have suppressed merchants.

They feel that since the people are all based on agriculture, they should be content with themselves and keep their own land well. Only when the people are content with themselves can they benefit their own control.

The specific manifestation of the "focus on agriculture and suppress commerce" policy in different historical periods of ancient China must be determined by economic forms. Focusing on agriculture and suppressing commerce is the most basic economic guiding ideology of the feudal dynasties in China. Its proposition is to attach importance to agriculture, take agriculture as the basis, and limit the development of industry and commerce. Focusing on agriculture and suppress commerce." The "farming is the end of commerce" policy deeply restricts and influences Chinese history.

Before the introduction of new crops, the grain yield was extremely low. When encountering natural disasters and man-made disasters, the people would easily lose food. The emphasis on agriculture is the foundation of a country, and there would be turmoil if there was no food to eat. No matter when, agriculture is the foundation of a country.

The most popular saying is "food is the most important thing for the people". No matter how long it takes, "eating" is the first priority in people's livelihood. Whether a country has abundant food is a major event that concerns whether the society is stable, because when most people are hungry, there will be unrest in society. However, under the governance of the saints of Youdao, there will be no riots among the people, and the people will choose to overcome difficulties together.

"If the people have more than one, they will be lighter, so the king will restrain them to be lighter; if the people are not enough, they will be heavy, so the king will disperse them to be heavy, and when the people are light and heavy, they will be fair." This means that if there is too much food, the court will continue to buy and increase the price of grain; if there is too little food among the people, they will be sold until the price is reduced and the price is stable. The goal is to make more people's livelihood issues, so that "large businessmen will accumulate their families and will not be able to seize our people." This protects the interests of the people.

Suppressing business and cracking down on profiteering business are also a protection for the people of the world. Therefore, all dynasties have adopted a suppressive attitude towards merchants.

Except for the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty always adhered to a tolerant attitude towards business. Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, business was unprecedentedly developed. In the Song Dynasty, its economic size was also the largest in the entire feudal dynasty. Some people even roughly counted that the total GDP of the entire Song Dynasty accounted for 60% of the world's total economic output, which was three times the proportion of beautiful countries today.

The authenticity of specific statistics remains to be discussed, but the economic development of the Song Dynasty cannot be separated from commercial support. This is true.

Now the imperial edicts are one after another. Although the collection of commercial taxes has been resisted by some major landlords and merchants, it is beneficial to ordinary people because the taxes of ordinary people have been reduced.

When Emperor Chongzhen became rich, he would have made great efforts to spend money. First of all, the military pay in Liaodong must be sufficiently guaranteed, which is related to the safety of the court and is the top priority.

With strong military support, the safety of the people is guaranteed. At this time, they can do the rest.

In addition to ensuring the Liaodong military system, what is left is education. We strongly support education and support education with all our strength.

Since his long talk with his son Zhu Cilang, Emperor Chongzhen knew very well that in order to make the Ming Dynasty stronger, education is an indispensable thing. The century-old plan is the same as education.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty has always encouraged education, but later it went a little bit off. The status of scholars is too favorable, and the cultivation of education is not to allow these scholars to receive some excessive preferential treatment.

Let them apply what they have learned, and they cannot simply use studying as an official and become an official. More importantly, they are cultivating those scientific and technological talents.

In addition, anti-corruption and corruption are a long-term national policy. The Ming Dynasty was ruined in this way, and it was not a matter of one or two days to completely eradicate the illegitimate policies of corruption.

Having arrested so many corrupt officials does not completely eliminate the phenomenon of corruption. For example, aren’t there still many officials who are bribing to the West Factory?

Huangji Palace, morning court.

Today's morning court is no different from the past, but the atmosphere in the court seems to be a little wrong. The court officials are all depressed, and even Emperor Chongzhen, who is sitting on the dragon throne, has no expression on his face.

Zhu Cilang, who was in court at His Highness, looked at his nose and his heart, as if everything in front of him had nothing to do with him.

Today's court will be a little dull, and the memorials written by court officials are mostly irrelevant things.

It is no wonder that under the suppression of the East China Factory and the Jinyiwei, the officials were cautious as if walking on thin ice. Even a phenomenon of lazy government and negligence appeared. The ministers below whispered, and everyone was lazy and wandering around.

Emperor Chongzhen finally couldn't help it: "Enough!"

The emperor's loud shout finally made the ministers panic. Everyone cheered up and looked at Chongzhen together.

Emperor Chongzhen still had cold eyes: "Don't think that some people want to live in the court and do it. If you change to do whatever you should do, what I want! You may say that if you do too much, the factory guards will cause trouble for you. But what I want to tell you is that if anyone of you wants to live in the court, I will not spare you!"

The officials still seemed to be as if they were not afraid of boiling water. They felt wronged. The factory guards were staring at every official, and the Western Factory was still accepting bribes on a large scale. It was said that it was anti-corruption and curing corruption, but in fact it was not just about changing the soup or changing the medicine.

In particular, there are many officials like Zhao Wentong, the Ministry of Rites who was humiliated by the Western Factory.

Unexpectedly, at this moment, Chongzhen said, "Yuhua money, stand up for me!"
Chapter completed!