In the past few days, Zhang Yong has been involved in the matter of his good brother Gao Shixin entering the Jinyiwei. In fact, if not through Zhang Yong, Gao Shixin can also enter the Jinyiwei, but after entering, he can only be a small flag. Zhang Yong hopes that his brother can have a hundred household identity as soon as he enters the Jinyiwei.

The governor of the East Factory, Lu Shou, handed over the archives of Gao Shixin: "Emperor, you should know that this person has made meritorious service in Kaiyuan after making meritorious service in the battle of Sarhu. The Liaodong war report has been delivered, but the cabinet has not yet approved it."

Concubine Zheng sneered: "The people in the cabinet will not see anyone making contributions! The defeat in the Battle of Sarhu is unrelated to the people in the cabinet! They are eager for the defeat of the Ming Dynasty! But at this time someone jumped out to slap them in the face, so they were naturally unhappy."

If it weren't for the obstruction of the cabinet, Concubine Zheng would have called Empress Zheng now. Wanli favored Concubine Zheng and was stopped by the cabinet every time, so Concubine Zheng hated the cabinet very much. He heard that the cabinet had been suppressed by the rewards for the Gaoshi's envelopes, Concubine Zheng happened to find an excuse to attack those civil officials.

Of course, Wanli knew the name of Gao Shixin. He was defeated in the Ming Dynasty in the Battle of Sarhu before, but such a hero appeared. He shot and killed 35 Jiannu in a row and helped his brother Zhang Yong kill a Jiannu. Wanli was deeply impressed by such a hero. If everyone in the Ming army was such a hero, would he still worry about the immortality of Jiannu?

"Yongwazi, are you also a hero from the battlefield of Sarhu?" Wanli turned to look at Zhang Yong kneeling on the ground.

Zhang Yong quickly kowtowed and said, "Emperor, I am not a good man? I just killed a Jiannu who was shot by my elder brother. He is the real hero who killed Jiannu."

Concubine Zheng looked at Zhang Yong with beautiful eyes and liked him very much, so she said, "Yongwazi, get up quickly! I didn't expect you to be a hero who killed Jiannu! Come here and let me take a closer look."

Zhang Yong stood up and walked forward with his head down drooping respectfully.

Concubine Zheng kept praising: "I didn't expect that Yongwazi, you look so pretty, but you are a good man who killed Jiannu! This child is really good!"

Wanli asked, "Yongwazi, I heard that you were injured on the battlefield and then entered the palace?"

Zhang Yong quickly knelt down: "The emperor is wise, and I was injured by Jiannu on the battlefield, and I don't want to be an unknown white from now on, so I went to the palace to find a way out."

Wanli smiled and leaned back and forth: "You are honest. If you were a different person, you would definitely say that I was injured on the battlefield and was already a useless person, so I went to the palace to serve Your Majesty. How many people in the court, as well as the palace maids and eunuchs in the palace, can you be as honest as you, and you don't even have a lie in front of me? I just like someone like you!"

Zhang Yong secretly felt ashamed in his heart. In fact, he was full of bad water. He had rich experience in political struggles brought back from his previous life. Even Wanli was confused by his appearance.

Lu Shou said: "The Emperor, but a few days ago, no one told me that Yongwazi not only did not persuade the emperor's grandson to study, but instead followed the emperor's grandson's preferences and won the emperor's grandson's favor with his skillful and lustful skills."

"I have heard of this, but my grandson does whatever he wants. Since he is unwilling to read the books of sages, why should I force him?" Wanli said, remembering when he was young, he didn't like studying at that time, but Zhang Juzheng and his mother kept forcing themselves to study. Thinking of the situation at that time, it was a nightmare that was difficult to take away.

The Empress Dowager had repeatedly threatened to depose herself and replace Zhu Yiliu with the emperor.

In fact, Wanli is a very smart person. He can understand books at the age of four, and is proficient in arithmetic calculations. It is precisely because he is proficient in arithmetic calculations that he saw the problem of the Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue. The Ming Dynasty's financial income was not enough and the commercial tax was too low, so he sent the mining supervisor and the tax supervisor to collect taxes everywhere.

Zhang Juzheng's one-whip method once increased fiscal revenue to the Ming Dynasty. However, because of the re-measurement of land, the one-whip method offended many civil servants and gentry and vassal kings. Therefore, after Zhang Juzheng's death, the one-whip method was abolished. In addition, various factors even Zhang Juzheng's home was confiscated.

The one-whip method actually has flaws. For example, all taxes and labor are converted into silver, which gives some unscrupulous merchants an opportunity to lower the price when the grain is harvested; when the green and yellow people are not in charge, they are sold at a high price. Although they did not attend court in the middle of Wanli, Luo Sigong, the commander of the Jinyiwei, had just taken office for a while and had not yet been in sync with the civil service group. Wanli, who did not attend court, was still very familiar with the outside world.

Seeing the treacherous side of the merchants, Wanli sent a tax supervisor to collect their taxes.

However, collecting taxes from merchants was unanimously opposed by the censors. However, Wanli would not listen to those censors and still sent mining supervisors to pay taxes, which gave him financial resources to launch a war known as the three major levies of Wanli.

Of course, only a small part of the income from the mining supervision taxation supervision is paid to the inner treasury, most of which fall into their own pockets, and some are taken to support a group of people. However, it is better to have income than not. Those merchants are so rich that they refuse to pay taxes because they have a civil servant group behind them.

Wanli loves his eldest grandson very much, so no matter what Zhu Youxiao wants to do, Wanli supports him.

Zhang Yong quickly replied: "The emperor, the emperor's eldest grandson likes is not the strange and lewd skills mentioned by civil servants, but the study of things. The emperor, why cannons and guns can fire projectiles to kill enemies cannot be separated from the investigation of things. Similarly, if you want to get more sophisticated weapons and armor, you want better and more steel, you cannot do without the investigation of things. If you want to make the crops in the field high, you cannot do without the investigation of things. The study of things is closely related to the country's prosperity and the lives of the people. The emperor's eldest grandson loves investigation of things, and wants to make the Ming Dynasty stronger and let the people live a good life."

Wanli laughed: "Many officials in the court said that my eldest grandson was not doing his job properly, so he was curious about his tricks. It was just what Yongwazi said! The Red and White Yi was able to use the cannon ships to traverse the ocean and transport ships of gold and silver from the distant overseas. It was also this study of studying matters. I also wanted to restore the prestige of Chengzu and allow the Ming warships to traverse the ocean. Every time this idea was proposed, I was scolded by the censors! I was so angry that I was so angry!"

Emperor Wanli not only sent tax supervision and mining supervision, but also restored the Maritime Bureau, which was abolished during the Jiajing period because he guessed the huge profits of the maritime merchants.

Zhang Yong quickly took the opportunity to say, "Emperor, do you know why those civil servants strongly opposed your resumption of shipbuilding?"

"Why?" Wanli asked hurriedly.

"Many gentry in the south of the Yangtze River have various relationships with maritime merchants, and they have obtained a lot of money from maritime merchants. If the emperor reopened the deposed imperial shipyard, the most affected would be the smuggled maritime merchants. So they would blame the emperor for competing with the people for profit."

Wanli said angrily: "Fight for profit with the people? Don't I know that the so-called people refer to themselves? But what can I do? If my will is not in line with their wishes, the cabinet will directly reject it. The imperial edict without the cabinet's approval of the bonus can only be called the imperial edict, and anyone can refuse to accept it."

"Your Majesty, these problems can only be solved step by step, and I can't be anxious now." Zhang Yong didn't dare to say too much. These problems cannot be solved in one go, and not all civil servants are bad. There are talented people like Sun Chengzong, Xu Guangqi, and Xiong Tingbi, who should be treated differently. Anyway, Tianqi will ascend the throne next year, and it will not be too late to solve them when the time comes.

Wanli asked again: "Yongwazi, I heard that you want to recommend Gao Shixin to join the Jinyiwei?"

"Emperor, my elder brother is like me. He was originally from the Zuo Guard of Tongzhou, the capital. Now he has made military achievements in Liaodong, but he cannot be promoted. I hope the emperor can be kind and give him the identity of the Jinyiwei." Zhang Yong replied quickly.
Chapter completed!