My Daming New Empire

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Just as it is only natural for Zhu Di to embezzle bank funds, it is only natural for ministers to think that they are taking advantage of themselves.

The money in the world cannot be taken by the old Zhu's family, and they, the heroes, should also take a small amount of money.

It would be wrong for Zhu Zhanji to pursue debts from them for money.

However, Zhu Zhanji is not without means to deal with them. If they really dare not pay back the money, he can deal with them with other reasons without the need for debt.

In today's era of privilege, who doesn't have some private affairs!If you really dare not pay back the money, Zhu Zhanji has a way to deal with them.

Take Mu Xin as an example, although he pays more attention to his image because he is the captain-in-law, he doesn't have many illegal deeds.

However, the Mu family has a big business, and there was a life lawsuit because of the fight for water and weapons in the farm, and because the housekeeper bullied others, he took a beautiful woman and became his daughter-in-law.

Zhu Zhanji only needs to use the topic to play, and it can make him unable to eat.

However, it is generally better not to use this kind of outside tricks. As long as they can honestly repay the money, these people still have to protect them in the early days of his power.

The power of the emperor needs to be stable and needs to be reflected, and these people are an important way to extend the power of the emperor.

Zhu Zhanji is just a person. It is impossible for him to control everything in his own hands.

For the emperor's will to be implemented, in addition to establishing rules, the key is to control people.

Mu Xin actually didn't care about 3 taels of silver. Their Mu family now controls Yunnan and Guizhou.It was the largest copper mine in Daming before Beimingshan Copper Mine.

The Mu family has guarded for decades, and has already made a lot of money.

Sensing Zhu Zhanji's determination, he pondered for a moment and asked, "Does Your Highness need money urgently?"

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "This army is going out to build water conservancy projects in the world, build roads and bridges, where does it not need money? If you want to use cement roads to connect all the counties in Daming, the cost will not be small!"

Everyone was shocked...

In the four or five years since the invention of cement, Zhu Di has always focused on developing his roads to the north.At present, the cement road to the northwest has been built to Hami, and the road to the north has been built to Beimingshan.

But in Daming, there are still most of the state capitals that don't have concrete roads.

Especially in the southwest direction, cement roads have only been repaired to the Dazhou capitals of Hubei and Hunan, and further into the mountains, there are no cement roads.

Now Zhu Zhanji said that he will build cement roads for all counties in the world. This project is astonishingly large.

Mu Xin asked: "Your Highness, are you also building a cement road to Yunnan?"

"Of course, not only do you want to go to Yunnan, but you also want to go to Bagu and Dacheng."

Bagu refers to Myanmar, and Ayutthaya refers to Thailand.Zhu Zhanji said this, which means that there will be countless projects to start in the future.

Although these projects are led by the Ministry of Industry, in the past few years, many big families have made a lot of money because of the supporting services of road construction.

Whether it is sending sand, stones, food to the project, or directly participating in the construction of the project, you can get stable income.

When Zhu Zhanji said this, many people immediately moved.

Mu Xin said rather excitedly: "If the imperial court builds a concrete road leading directly to Yunnan, I will not only return the [-] silver loaned immediately, but also contact the southwestern chieftain to provide more manpower for the imperial court."

Although the Mu family has gained a lot of profits from guarding Yunnan, but because the mountains are high and the roads are far away, the benefits they get can't bring much benefit.

To give a simple example, in the capital, ordinary people can spend [-] Wen every now and then to watch a big show.

But in Yunnan, if you want to watch a big play, you need to raise a troupe, which costs hundreds or even thousands of taels of silver.

In the capital, eating rice noodles for one tael of silver, but in Yunnan, it is impossible to buy it for dozens of taels of silver.

No matter how much gold and silver there is, it cannot be converted into actual benefits, which means that the Mu family doesn't actually get many benefits.

But if all the roads are repaired and you can enjoy everything in the capital in Yunnan, then even if the actual benefits are a little smaller than now, it is still a good deal.

Mu Xin's words caused many people to curl their lips. You will benefit at that time, and you readily agreed to pay back the money, and you became a good person.

But it made the situation of other people even more embarrassing. Some people who use money to do business can say that they can get money out after all.

But some dudes never thought about paying back the money, and had already spent the money. Now asking them to pay back the money would be a pain in the ass.

The butler of the Zhang residence came in quietly and whispered something in Zhang Fu's ear.Zhang Fu said with a smile: "It's getting late, everyone, please take a seat...Your Highness, please come inside."

Zhu Zhanji's goal has been achieved, he got up quickly and entered the West Garden first.

A stage has been set up there, and everyone can eat and watch the show at the same time.

Everyone followed behind them, each with a lot of thoughts in their hearts.

Shandong.Qingzhou Prefecture.

In the past month, Chu Song has been traveling around half of Shandong with Lin San and Tang Sai'er and his wife.

It reaches Linyi in the south, Jimo and Laiyang in the east, Cangzhou in Hebei in the north, and Heze in the west.

In the course of this month, Chu Song also had a deep understanding of the deep-rooted influence of the White Lotus Sect among the people.

On the surface, although the White Lotus Sect does not have strict canons, nor does it have much binding force, it does not belong to that kind of cohesive reactionary force.

It is precisely because of this kind of loose religious rules and the doctrine of being considerate of ordinary people that the White Lotus Sect has been repeatedly banned among the people.

But in fact, there are many sects of the White Lotus Sect, and patriarchal rule is implemented within each sect, with orderly respect and strict hierarchy.

The composition of their leaders is very complicated, and their attitudes towards the Ming court are also very inconsistent.Some deceived believers by prospering religion and amassing money; uprising.

Lin San was originally the godson of a branch of the White Lotus Sect, belonging to the upper class.

After marrying Tang Sai'er, with the help of the local influence of the Tang family, he even used various methods to promote Tang Sai'er, who is highly skilled in martial arts and heroic, as the Holy Mother, which greatly increased their power in the White Lotus Sect.

Maybe it's because the benefits His Highness promised are too great, maybe it's because of being able to become a knight, expanding the territory and giving Lin San more expectations.

So now he is putting all his eggs in one basket, and he is not afraid to reveal his secrets at all, just to take out a bigger bargaining chip to gain more support from the court.

According to Chu Song's statistics, although their direct lineage is not large, and there are only a few hundred young people, the scope of their influence is astonishingly large.

They alone can bewitch a team of at least 2000 people.

In addition to them, there are bandits everywhere, and other branches of folk associations, which can easily pull out a team of tens of thousands.

These are just what Chu Song saw.

Many ordinary people don't know that there is an imperial court at all, and they don't seek justice from the government when they encounter problems, but rely on their folk forces to seek justice.

Seeing this, Chu Song was secretly startled. If he hadn't carried the sacred order this time, if it wasn't for this force being able to be used by the court, he would have wanted to write a letter to the court to wipe out all these forces.

Even so, he still explained everything clearly in code words in the secret letter to Feng Xiaonian.