My uncle is Zhu Di

Chapter 152 Dealing with civil officials?

When Zhu Di heard what Xu Qin said, he was extremely happy. After all, using those noble princes to accomplish this task would be simply invincible, especially with Xu Qin leading the way.

"Okay, let's do as you say. I'll give you whatever you need. We'll set up a separate trade bureau directly under me. If you have any problems, just come to me directly." Zhu Di said very happily.

Xu Qin leaned back and crossed his legs. Zhu Di immediately handed Xu Qin his teacup and said with a smile, "Come on, have some tea. Let's discuss this in detail and see how to handle this matter. How can we handle it well? Also, how many people do you need, how many sons of nobles do you need? Let's come up with a charter today."

Xu Qin took the teacup, opened the lid, took a sip and said, "I recommend Yao Guangxiao to be the head of the Trade Bureau, is that okay?"

Zhu Di was stunned when he heard this. He looked at Xu Qin and asked, "What do you mean? Aren't you going?"

"I'm busy, you know, I'm not lying to you, I'm getting married in December this year, and I need to build a mansion and set up workshops outside, do you think I have that much time?" Xu Qin said to Zhu Di.

Zhu Di frowned, thought for a moment and said, "It's okay. Let your aunt take care of the wedding. Anyway, you just need to show up at the time. If you don't show up, let your aunt take care of it. I'll talk to your aunt. Isn't your father watching over the construction of the mansion? Why are you so worried? It's just a workshop outside the city, but a workshop is not a big problem. Besides, Yao Guangxiao doesn't know anything about that."

Xu Qin heard it, sat up and stared at Zhu Di and said, "Do you really want me to go? Do you want me to offend those civil officials? Are you my uncle?"

"That's for sure, Sakya Bao, think about it, my eldest brother can't do anything about those civil officials, they talk about propriety, righteousness, integrity, ancestral teachings and the words of saints every day, and you still can't do anything about it. The so-called imperial power does not extend below the county level, think about it, the people don't know whether the emperor is good or not, they can only learn from the scholars, and the scholars learn from the officials.

So this group of civil officials are very powerful, and they have no reason to unite to deal with me. Yao Guangxiao, you really don't have the ability or the courage to do so. I have seen through the entire Ming Dynasty. Only you have this ability. Just now you said to use the children of nobles to go to the Trade Bureau, which will break the deadlock. I have been thinking about it for several months, but I never thought of it.

"Sakyabao, you have to help me this time. I cannot treat you unfairly. Since you don't want the 20%, I will give you another 1 million taels every year. Of course, make it clear that I will give it to you. If I am gone one day, you don't have to think about it." Zhu Di continued to say to Xu Qin.

"Isn't this money mine yet?" Xu Qin said to Zhu Di depressedly.

"Can't you just complain less about me? Just bear with it!" Zhu Di said to Xu Qin with a smile.

Xu Qin looked at Zhu Di depressedly. If he could bear it, he would still be fined so much.

"Don't worry about going. This is the Trade Bureau now, not the Weaving Bureau. What's more, I will grant official positions to the head of the Weaving Bureau and several other key people in charge. You decide how many official positions you need. In addition, if the children of nobles are granted official positions, you need to consider whether they will be impeached by the civil officials." Zhu Di continued to persuade Xu Qin.

"Are we still afraid of impeachment? We can't kill them?" Xu Qin said to Zhu Di proudly.

"Okay then, I'll grant them official positions. The person in charge will be of the third rank, the deputy will be of the fourth rank, and you can appoint the people below as you see fit. However, they will all be considered military generals. After all, those children of military merit are all military generals, isn't that okay?" Zhu Di looked at Xu Qin seriously and said.

"Eh!" Xu Qin sighed.

Seeing Xu Qin like this, Zhu Di immediately asked, "What are you worried about?"

"Before coming here, I had planned that I would never go to the Trade Bureau, but I didn't expect that you are Mr. Wu, and you cheated me and made me lose my temper. No, I have never suffered such a big loss before." Xu Qin sat there and sighed again.

After hearing this, Zhu Di smiled smugly, and then persuaded Xu Qin, saying: "What's the big deal? I didn't do anything to you. Besides, you have to go. I have made plans this time. If you don't go, I will go to your house, find your father, fight with your father, and then force you."

"This is what a human being did. This is what my uncle did? Do you have any humanity?" Xu Qin immediately turned his head and stared at Zhu Di.

"Hey, isn't fifty thousand taels a little less?" Zhu Di said with a sigh.

"Go if you want, but make it clear to me, I will help you make money, but when those civil officials want to deal with me, you have to help me. Besides, if you help me, I will give you advice so that those civil officials will no longer have such great control. Moreover, the people will also know about the imperial power and will not listen to those civil officials in everything." Xu Qin said to Zhu Di with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Di immediately arrested Xu Qin.

"Let's talk next time!" Xu Qin knew what Zhu Di was going to say.

"No, tell me now!" Zhu Di said as he stuffed all the money Xu Qin had just given him to Xu Qin. Xu Qin looked at the money, then looked up at Zhu Di.

"I'll give you all the money to buy your ideas!" Zhu Di said excitedly.

Xu Qin was very surprised.

"Not enough, wait a moment!" Zhu Di said as he stood up and started looking in the study.

Then he picked up a pile of your calligraphy and paintings and threw them in front of Xu Qin. Then he took some exquisite porcelain and jade and threw them all at Xu Qin's feet.

"Are you crazy? What are you doing?" Xu Qin stood up confused and shouted at the very excited Zhu Di.

"I'm not crazy. Just tell me the way. Whatever you like in this study, no, in the entire palace, just take it. I'll give it all to you. If you want the palace, that's fine too, but it will take a few years. Once I build the palace in Beijing, I'll give it to you." Zhu Di shouted to Xu Qin with great excitement.

As soon as Xu Qin saw that something was wrong, he went over and grabbed Zhu Di. If he hadn't grabbed Zhu Di, Zhu Di would probably have emptied out the study for himself.

Zhu Di looked at Xu Qin.

"Okay, okay, I surrender to you. I surrender to you. Let me tell you. Isn't it enough for me to tell you? Is it that important?" Xu Qin said helplessly to Zhu Di.

"This is more important than the Trade Bureau! Money can be earned slowly, but as for those civil officials, I am the one who has to deal with them. You don't know that I have to look at their faces when I want to get rid of them. I am the emperor, and I still need to look at their faces. I am afraid that they will write nonsense and say that I am a tyrant and I don't care about the lives of the people.

For example, in this trade bureau, they blocked it. I could kill them, but it was useless. They kept coming one after another. If I killed too many, the people would not know the truth and they would think I was a tyrant. What do you think I should do? Do you think I would not get angry when I saw them? You think I want to use them? There is no other way. The Ming Dynasty needs them to govern, otherwise, the world will be in chaos. "Zhu Di said to Xu Qin very excitedly.

Xu Qin frowned, and Zhu Di continued to complain, "We are one family, and you know what the Jingnan Campaign was all about. I don't deny that I have ambitions, but how did Zhu Yunwen deal with our vassal kings? Even if you were gentler and discussed it with our uncles, would I still fight this war? You forced me to have no choice? It was Qi Tai and his group of civil officials who instigated Zhu Yunwen and gave him all kinds of stupid ideas, forcing King Xiang to death!
I won the Jingnan Campaign, but those civil officials didn't have a good impression of me. Even the people of the world thought I was a traitor and a tyrant who massacred the royal family. I had no choice but to do it. Sakyabao, you tell me, just tell me what you want, and I will give it to you. "

"Okay, okay, sit down and talk. It's not a big deal. I'll tell you." Xu Qin went over and helped Zhu Di sit down.

Zhu Di still looked at Xu Qin very excitedly.

"Okay, I'm telling you to remember this. I can't help you with this matter. You need to do it yourself. Establish the Daming Daily, which is a newspaper. What is a daily newspaper? It means that what happens in the court every day, including what happens in the Ming Dynasty every day, can be published in the newspaper and distributed throughout the country. For example, the court can publish the establishment of a trade bureau in the newspaper to tell the people of the world the benefits of establishing a trade bureau and what the trade bureau mainly does.

How does a workshop owner sell goods to the Trade Bureau? What is the money raised by the Trade Bureau used for?
For example, if the Ming Dynasty wanted to exempt a certain place from taxes, it also needed to place an advertisement in the newspaper to let people all over the world know that there was a disaster in that place and the court was trying to provide relief. For example, it would specify how much food and grass had been sent there, how many people there were in that place, and how much each person would get. In this way, it would be difficult for those officials to engage in corruption.

For example, what policies should be implemented by the court, such as dredging the canal. What are the benefits of dredging? Why dredging is needed? How much does it cost? Where does the money come from? How to manage it? And so on.

Another example is that if the court arrests an official, why he was arrested, how much money he embezzled, how much benefit he transferred to his family, whether he sold out the country, and whether he is qualified to be an official can all be published in the newspaper.

In this way, the mouthpiece of the Ming Dynasty is in the hands of Your Majesty. It is not so easy for those civil officials to spread rumors about the faults of the Emperor and the royal family of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, this newspaper is also cheap, only one cent per copy, and the court has to pay for it.

But normally you have to make money, and newspapers can also publish promotions of some businesses, such as my Xu family cloth. I want the whole Ming Dynasty to know about my Xu family cloth, so I paid the Ming Daily to publish it and use the money to subsidize the expenses of Ming Daily.

I believe that those literate people in Ming Dynasty will buy Ming Daily.

Plus their propaganda, tell me, can those civil officials still control the mouthpiece of our Ming Dynasty? "Xu Qin said to Zhu Di, who could no longer hold back his excitement.

(End of this chapter)