After Xu Guangqi left, before Zhu Youxiao had time to take a sip of tea, Wang Chengen suddenly appeared in front of Zhu Youxiao like a ghost:

"Your Majesty, the property of the former Right Minister of Rites Wang Jimo and the Imperial College Priest Li Banghua and other traitors of the Donglin Party have been confiscated. So far, the property is equivalent to silver, the property is about 84 million taels, the land is more than 600,000 hectares, and countless mansions and gardens are now sold. Most of the slaves of their families have been acquitted and arranged to enter places like the Imperial Village or the Jiaofangsi."

Wang Chengen said and asked again: "But so far, the officials of the Donglin Party who were interrogated by our Dongchang, such as Chen Xianqing and Xu Biqian, are still constantly revealing the officials of the Donglin Party who participated in the murder of Your Majesty. In addition, Qian Muzhai, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, is still exposing a large number of Donglin officials who are not clean. Your Majesty, do you think we should arrest you again?"

"Stop it. If you continue to investigate, you will only have a few more unjust cases. If so many officials are assassinating me, my throne will not last for so long."

Zhu Youxiao gave an order, then looked at the sunset gradually hidden in the horizon ahead, and couldn't help but think:

Although these Donglin Party officials with businessmen backgrounds violated my will, I could not kill them all, and I had to leave seeds for the development of the Ming Dynasty's commodity economy.

In order to maintain its own rule, the Qing Dynasty had to control scholars too strictly. It is better to guide the remaining young Donglin Party people who did not have very clear political purposes.

When Zhu Youxiao thought of this, he turned around and ordered Wang Chengen: "Tell Wei Zhongxian that his "Da Ming Daily" was well run, but at the same time he had to revitalize other businesses. Jiangnan should not become dead due to the destruction of the Donglin Party. The literary associations that should be had should still be built, the academies that should be built should be built, and the state affairs that should be discussed can also be discussed, but the premise is to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty and loyal to me, and the mainstream trend must be grasped."

"I know," Wang Chengen retreated.

With the confiscation of the Eight Great Shanxi merchants and the complete collapse of the Donglin Party, the two domestic forces that could confront the imperial power were completely disintegrated by Zhu Youxiao.

Therefore, it means that the fierce domestic struggle will come to an end for the time being, but this does not mean that the domestic situation is completely resolved.

Zhu Youxiao knew this well, and the drought in the north was still continuing, although he used the grain he forcibly seized from the eight major Shanxi merchants to calm the high grain prices in the capital and the north.

However, according to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Revenue, the grain production in the north is still decreasing, and the number of refugees is still increasing. Although Zhu Youxiao's imperial village has expanded a lot of land, it is far from meeting the land needs of the people of the Ming Dynasty.

The increase in population and the slowdown in the overall increase in land and total volume leads to the intensification of class contradictions and the risk of national fiscal inadequate income increases, and it collapses directly when encountering natural disasters and man-made disasters.

This seems to be a super difficult problem, a fate that any dynasty has to face.

The Ming Dynasty was not much special than the dynasties of the Han, Tang and Song dynasties, and his own Zhu Youxiao was not necessarily much smarter than other emperors.

Fortunately, I now have a large amount of money, which totals 200 million taels. This is the wealth accumulated by the two major vested interest groups over the past hundred years, which is enough for the Ming Dynasty to deal with it for several years.

Moreover, the current cabinet and the Ministry of Revenue can no longer resist the decision of their king. They can freely control the money to repair the high-rise building that is about to collapse in the Ming Dynasty.

But this money will eventually be used up. Although the king saved a lot of money in Jin Dynasty than Sun Chengzong, he still had to swallow four or five million taels of silver every year. The increasing number of vassal kings also needed millions of silver to provide for each year. Due to the increasing grain production due to the small glacier climate, the north still needed millions of taels of wealth to provide relief every year.

You cannot sit and eat up the mountains and have to open up wealth. The traditional small peasant economy relies too much on land and has inherent disadvantages. The violent distribution of wealth from merchants is undoubtedly the same as the people in dynasty, which is like drinking poison to quench thirst.

The Ming Dynasty in the previous life caused the people to rebel because of the three additional sects, while the Qing Dynasty in the later life caused the complete maritime ban to be backward and beaten. These are real examples.

What Zhu Youxiao had to do was to neither pay taxes nor use robbers to violently seize the wealth of merchants. There were ways to do it. First, the state also participated in the competition of the commodity economy and became the controller of most wealth, and second, it was to plunder from the outside to carry out the original capitalist accumulation.

The latter is undoubtedly the easiest way to offset domestic conflicts and take the fastest results, but he needs a strong military group.

The current ward system of the Ming Dynasty was too backward and obviously could not meet the dynasty's needs for external expansion.

Therefore, the only thing Zhu Youxiao can do now is to continue to develop the commodity economy of the Ming Dynasty, and it must be dominated by the state, that is, it must also impose a comprehensive commercial tax.

Fortunately, he now has absolute control over this wealth worth 200 million taels, which means that he can completely change the business structure of the Ming Dynasty. In the past, the people were rich and the country was weak, but now he has to make the Ming Dynasty rich and the country rich and the people strong.

Soon, Wang Chengen came again: "Your Majesty, the governor of Ji Liao, Wang, in Jin, requested another three million taels of silver to be allocated. Due to heavy snow in Liaodong this year, countless barracks collapsed and need to be rebuilt."

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this. He finally got a lot of money by raiding his house, so the Liaodong military and civilians came to ask for money again. It was so fast.

But now Zhu Youxiao has no other army to replace Guanning Iron Cavalry, so he can only follow it, but he was extremely reluctant to leave. He vowed that one day he would eradicate this group of warlords who were unable to fight against the Qing Dynasty but were self-respecting and consuming the country's money and food.

However, when talking about Liaodong, Zhu Youxiao thought of the Qing Tartars outside the pass, which is now the Later Jin Kingdom. Judging from the incident of his sacrifice to heaven and being assassinated on that day, these Tartars' combat effectiveness should not be underestimated. This increasingly rising force outside the pass cannot be neglected at all.

When Zhu Youxiao thought of this, he suddenly remembered that he had captured Obai, the Tartar alive, and there was also a traitor, Ning Wan, who was also imprisoned in the prison of the East Factory.

Zhu Youxiao suddenly wanted to see them and learn about the Later Jin Dynasty from them.

If Zhu Youxiao remembers correctly, in three years, Huang Taiji of the Later Jin Dynasty, who had quelled the internal struggle, would lead troops south, break through the four cities of Yongping, massacre and plunder countless people, causing significant losses to the Ming Dynasty.

"Wang Cheng'en, take me to your Dongchang Prison. I will personally interrogate Ning Wan and Oboi, as well as the Donglin Party members who are trying to murder me!"

After Zhu Youxiao said that, he couldn't help but clench his fists. Wang Chengen couldn't disobey, so he responded: "Yes!"
Chapter completed!