Zhu Youxiao, who has returned to the capital after the Wang Gongchang explosion, has lived a comfortable life at this time. With the progress of external expansion, various kinds of rare treasures are constantly sending them to the capital.&1t;/p>

There are a lot of things like tiger skin, ivory, gems, jade, spices, and there are more delicacies and seafood. All of them are sent to Guanglu Temple.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao and the queen couldn't use these things, so they were basically sent everywhere. The empresses in the harem and ministers in the court often received rewards from Zhu Youxiao.&1t;/p>

External expansion has allowed the official to obtain a lot of overseas luxury goods. These natural luxury goods were not so many in the past and were relatively expensive. Now that these are in the hands of the official, there is naturally no pressure to reward them.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao has always been generous with rewards for officials who are willing to do things, but he didn't have so many resources before, so he mostly rewards money. Now it's different. With a lot of luxury goods, the reward style is much higher.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao had more money to use at this time, especially after using paper money, this thing can avoid market deflation, and of course it cannot mess up money. So now the rewards for ministers and other things have been reduced. This money must be passed through construction projects and then entered into the hands of ordinary people, so that it can be used in the right place.&1t;/p>

After banknotes are shipped, the value of the banknotes must be ensured. This not only requires silver as support, but also gold reserves. Although the Ming Dynasty is currently a country with exports greater than imports, precious metals rarely flow out, and silver flows in a large amount, so although gold reserves are not in a hurry to prepare, they are generally prepared for any eventuality.&1t;/p>

If there is enough gold, silver can be used as currency at all. After all, silver is in the hands of Europeans. They can mine a large amount of silver from the Americas. Such trade is not very beneficial to the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

Judging from the reporting situation of gold troops sent to various places, the scale of gold mining in the sixth year of the Tianqi period should be able to reach 800,000 taels, which is 28.8 tons.&1t;/p>

This kind of gold mining volume is not very large. However, the scale of gold mining can expand rapidly next year, because gold mines have been found in the Northeast, Australia, and Alaska, and the mining next year will be able to expand several times.&1t;/p>

The advantage of official gold mining is that it will not make individual private groups get rich quickly, resulting in a gap between the rich and the poor. Therefore, gold must be mined by the official, and those small gold mines that are more difficult to mine can be handed over to private capital for mining. However, gold mines that are easier to mine must be mined by the official.&1t;/p>

Gold can be used as currency in the next three to four hundred years. Even if it has no currency value, it is still a precious metal. This thing is still very beneficial to reserve.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao sent a memorial on the Yangxin Palace aBc Novel Network.&1t;/p>

Generally, ordinary memorials will not be sent to Zhu Youxiao, and the queen and the others can deal with them.&1t;/p>

This memorial was reported by the new Shandong Governor Gao Bangzuo. The memorial stated that Shandong had completed official reforms and township governments had been formed in most areas, and requested Shandong to carry out comprehensive reforms. The cabinet assistant wrote an approved handling opinion on it, and waited for the emperor to approve the prize.&1t;/p>

"Since the Shandong officialdom has been reformed, it is necessary to carry out comprehensive reforms." Zhu Youxiao thought to himself. Shandong's economic development potential is greater than that of Northern Zhili. Later, Shandong was the strongest economic province among the northern provinces and was the main province for heavy industries such as machinery manufacturing.&1t;/p>

The reason why Shandong has strong economic potential is that the geographical environment in Shandong is relatively superior, and there are many sea outlets on the Shandong Peninsula, which is more convenient to conduct marine trade than in Zhili in the north. In addition, Shandong has a large population and the local area has the habit of hard work and thrift.&1t;/p>

If Shandong completes reforms, the potential for developing heavy industry is huge.&1t;/p>

Then Zhu Youxiao passed Gao Bangzuo's request and let the cabinet continue to implement it. In order to ensure the smooth progress of Shandong's reform, Zhu Youxiao also sent two infantry divisions to Shandong to deal with possible unrest at any time.&1t;/p>

Those who will hinder reform are those vested groups. And ordinary people are looking forward to reform every day! Shandong is next to Northern Zhili, and Shandong people have a great understanding of the changes in Northern Zhili over the years. Basically, all ordinary people are envious of the new policy system that Northern Zhili has adopted now, and with the comprehensive reform in Shandong, the attitude of Shandong people is obviously supported.&1t;/p>

Shandong's administrative reform has been completed at this time, the number of local civil servants has increased greatly, and township-level governments have been added. The central government's control over local areas has been greatly improved, and there are sufficient reform conditions.&1t;/p>

During the autumn harvest season of the sixth year of Tianqi, the court officially announced the news that Shandong had entered a comprehensive reform, which suddenly caused a thousand waves, causing a certain amount of turmoil in the provinces of the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

Shandong's comprehensive reform and incorporation into the new policy area illustrates a very serious problem, that is, the scale of reform is constantly expanding. For those vested interest groups, it means that they will not be able to enjoy a tax-free system in the future, the aristocratic agriculture cannot be tax-free, and businessmen cannot be tax-free, which has shaken their interests.&1t;/p>

This is different from what Zhu Youxiao had shown before, only including Northern Zhili in the new policy and the Xinzeng provinces to carry out new policy reforms. The facts prove that the previous attitude was just a delaying strategy. Now the emperor finally showed his fox tail, which is known to everyone.&1t;/p>

In the previous Ming Dynasty, the emperor was more like a banner. When the productivity was not yet sufficient, rulers from all over the country held high the emperor's banner to demonstrate the legitimacy of their own ruling interests. During this rule, the imperial court obtained pitifully few resources, and more national wealth was actually seized by the aristocratic families, merchants and powerful people.&1t;/p>

Now the emperor suddenly changed his face and was about to start to turn over the table and create a new policy that harmed the interests of the ruling class. After seeing Shandong being included in the new policy area, those powerful and merchants began to be disloyal from the emperor.&1t;/p>

However, the emperor is not easy to mess with now. He has tightly grasped military power, and has also eliminated Jiannu and defeated Mongolia. He has also extinguished the ethnic minority rebellion in the southwest region and the Wenxiang Rebellion in Shandong.&1t;/p>

No one wants to jump out of the way at this time to be the first. But they all hope that someone can stand up and sing against the emperor and resist the new policy implemented by the emperor.&1t;/p>

With the hope of the vested interest groups, the Confucius family in Shandong lived up to expectations. Confucius' 64th generation grandson, Kong Yinzhi, stood up and secretly contacted the Jiangnan gentry. Then, under the operation of these gentry, they worked together to create a joint memorial.&1t;/p>

Thousands of scholars from Jiangnan signed this memorial and jointly opposed the new policy of the court. For a momentum, they caught Zhu Youxiao off guard.&1t;/p>

When Zhu Youxiao saw Kong Yinzhi's joint memorial, his face turned dark on the spot. The problem facing Zhu Youxiao was very difficult.&1t;/p>

Kong Yinzhi and Jiangnan scholars jointly wrote a letter. If he had surgery on Kong Yinzhi, the result would have a great social impact.&1t;/p>

Nowadays, Confucianism is still the mainstream of social values. Although this value has been taken seriously by many scholars, if you really want to deny this set of values, you will be attacked by scholars all over the world. (To be continued.)&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!