"Ren" is the core of Confucianism. When the Ming Dynasty governed the country with Confucianism, it naturally could not violate this word. .

"Li", the order of the Ming Dynasty all starts with this word, and everything needs to be consistent.

If the Ming Emperor and the court were tough and acted randomly regardless of these words, there might be many unpredictable consequences.

Zhu Xu heard the advice of Bi Zi in his harsh words, and slowly paced, saying, "Then Master Bi said, what should I do? How many members of the royal family were there at the time of Taizu, and how many are there now? If we go through a few decades, I am afraid that my annual tax in the Ming Dynasty will not be able to support the royal family..."

Bi Ziyan frowned, his steps slowed down, and his thoughts flew.

The problem of excessive salary of the royal family has been there since the Wanli period, but the emperor had a problem with his personality and then to the "country between the foundation of the country", almost all the problems of the royal family were indiscriminately raised. Even King Fu was granted a vassal and gave him up to 40,000 hectares of food, so there was no land to be enfeoffed in Shaanxi and western China, so he had to "raise" other identities.

How can this be limited?

During the Tianqi period, a memorial to "limit the salary of the royal family" was published. As a result, after Tianqi ordered the "Ministry of the Ministry", it was left unresolved and had no practical effect.

Although the emperors today "confiscate" the royal family and collected their land and most of their property, they had to keep it. Hundreds of thousands of people, each of ten stones per person a year was millions of stones. In addition to other weddings and funerals, the expenditure was even more terrible, and it was still a huge burden to the court.

Now the imperial court has given the royal family a lot less money and food. In the words of the royal family, it is just "barely survived". In fact, there is really no room for further reduction. Reducing one hundred thousand or eighty thousand will not work. Reducing one million stones will definitely starve to death!

Although Bi Ziyan's words are concise and to the point, they contain a lot of things.

Zhu Xu was also thoughtful about the "reducing title" and could not allow the royal family to expand unlimitedly, absorbing blood from the court, and was raised in captivity like a pig and sheep, eating and waiting to die.

Zhu Xu stopped and said in a deep voice, "I have made up my mind to solve the problem of the clan. If the cabinet cannot think of a better way, I will draw an order first." This matter cannot be done by the emperor Zhu Xu. The blame is either the clan's mansion, the cabinet, or they jointly bear it.

Bi Ziyan looked at the back of Zhu Xu's head, took a deep breath, and said, "I obey the order."

The cabinet must think of a better way, otherwise once the "reduction of titles" is implemented, the royal family and nobles will have to make a fuss. They are not ordinary people, nor are they one or two scattered soldiers.

Seeing that Bi Ziyan did not firmly object, Zhu Xu nodded secretly. The cabinet is not powerful enough now and does not have the courage to force him to force him. It will be hard to say in a while.

Bi Ziyan’s failure to object is equivalent to the cabinet’s agreement. Zhu Xu smiled, took a few steps, and suddenly said, “I heard that my uncle has taken leave?”

After this sentence came to an end, even Xiao Yongning, who had been carefully wrapping his head, raised his head, looked at Zhu Xu, and then at Bi Ziyan.

Don't look at her young age, she knows more about some things than others.

Bi Ziyan's expression also moved slightly, bowed slightly, and said in a cautious tone: "I did something urgent, which may make Fu Shangshu unhappy."

Zhu Xu nodded and said calmly: "Well, be cautious. The cabinet's collection of power is a matter of one thing, and uniting all the ministers is another thing. You cannot just focus on collecting power and offend all the six ministries and nine temples. That power is useless to collect it."

Bi Ziyan could hear Zhu Xu's warning, and there might be some dissatisfaction with him and Fu Changzong. He raised his hand slightly and said, "Yes, I understand."

Zhu Xu did not respond anymore, walked slowly, walked through Zhengyangmen, and walked on the street, gradually becoming crowded with people.

Seeing that the Royal Court was right in front of him, Zhu Xu thought and said, "Sir Bi, what do you think of the Royal Court?"

Although Bi Ziyan was given the title of President of the Royal Court, he actually didn't care. He was a little confused when listening to Zhu Xu's question and said, "I believe that the Royal Court will be of great benefit to popularizing education and promoting literary style."

Zhu Xu shook his head in his heart as he listened to Bi Ziyan's words. Bi Ziyan said concisely, but he didn't touch the core at all.

Zhu Xu chuckled softly, took the lead in crossing Sanlihe, and the Royal Court was right in front of him.

"Go in and take a look." Zhu Xu headed straight to the gate.

Bi Ziyan looked at Zhu Xu's back and suddenly felt a bad premonition.

Perhaps, the emperor asked him to come because he was the president of the Royal Court, and he was afraid that he had other purposes!

Song Yingxing and others were already waiting impatiently. When they saw Zhu Xu, they all rushed over and said, "I will meet the emperor!"

Behind Song Yingxing is a chief of the Royal Court, professors, doctors, etc., several Zhu Xu even knows them, and even a few missionaries with curly hair and blue eyes.

Zhu Xu waved his hand and said with a smile: "Everyone is free. I just come and see. Just keep a few people. Do whatever others should be."

Song Yingxing also felt that Zhu Xu didn't like the show, so he quickly dispersed the people. Only then did he dare to approach. Yu Guang glanced at Bi Ziyan and said, "Emperor, this is the various budgets of the Zhengyuan next year. Please check it out."

Zhu Xu raised his eyebrows, feeling speechless.

Fortunately, Song Yingxing didn't win the title. If he won, he would probably not last a year or two in the officialdom.

Sure enough, Bi Ziyan frowned, looked at Song Yingxing, and looked at Zhu Xu again, guessing in his heart whether Zhu Xu specially called him over for him to cut off the Royal Court's budget.

Zhu Xu didn't care about anything else, so he went for a look.

Not only did Song Yingxing not reduce his budget, but also increased it to 3.2 million taels, and there was also an "additional" option. In other words, Song Yingxing not only increased the budget that was cut off by Bi Ziyan, but also wanted to increase it at any time.

‘This Song Yingxing is indeed not suitable to be an official…’

Zhu Xu complained in his heart, then closed it with a smile, handed it to Cao Huachun behind him, looking at Song Yingxing and said, "Let's go and take me to see the fruits of your labor."

Seeing that Zhu Xu did not nodded immediately, Song Yingxing was disappointed. When he heard Zhu Xu say this, his expression was thrilled and said, "Yes, Emperor, Master Bi Ge, please come with me."

"Master Bi, go and have a look together."

Bi Ziyan didn't understand what Zhu Xu was going to do, so he nodded and said, "Yes."

Several people were dressed casually, and many people greeted Song Yingxing wherever they passed. However, they didn't know much about Zhu Xu and Bi Ziyan, so they looked at it for a few more times.

"Your Majesty, Master Bi Ge, let's take a look at the telescope we just designed,"

As Song Yingxing said, he led a group of people to an open-air observation deck, with four huge telescopes set up in four directions, aiming at the sky from afar.

Zhu Xu stepped forward with interest, stopped in front of a telescope, and observed carefully.

This telescope has already looked like a later generation, with tripods, monobores, glass mirrors, like small cannons.

Zhu Xu bent down and looked around.

Even during the day, the thick clouds in the sky seemed to be in front of you, and through some light, you could even see further.

Song Yingxing stood beside Zhu Xu and said, "Your Majesty, this is improved by me based on Lord Xu's remaining works, and it is about sixty times now."

Zhu Xu raised his eyebrows, held the telescope and slowly turned, watching in the sky.

Bi Ziyan had no interest in these strange tricks, but at this time, even if he cooperated with the emperor, he had to act a little bit. He was unwilling to learn from Zhu Xu and lie on the telescope to watch.

He had seen the military telescope, and even if it was farther apart, he didn't feel anything new, so he lacked interest.

But Xiao Yongning shouted loudly, hugged him around and called Li Xiangjun: "Look at Xiangjun, look at it, there seems to be an eagle in the sky..."

Li Xiangjun was also very curious, but she quietly said "yes" and looked quietly against the telescope.

Zhu Xu looked at it for a while, looked up at Song Yingxing and said, "Yes, this telescope is not only very important in military affairs, but also in a series of civilian use, monitoring water conditions, disaster conditions, etc., and you cannot relax..."

"Yes, I obey the order." Song Yingxing was overjoyed. As long as the emperor was willing to support him, money would be indispensable.

Bi Ziyan opened his mouth and looked at Song Yingxing, frowned and did not speak. In his opinion, the court is in such a difficult situation now that the silver should not be wasted in such a place.

"Your Majesty, let's go here. This is the test-shooting room for our newly developed crossbow." Song Yingxing glanced at a distance from his left hand, and suddenly said with his eyes lit up.

"Let's go!" Zhu Xu also said happily. The crossbow is now one of the important weapons equipped by the Ming army, so it is naturally the range, and the greater the power, the better.

Zhu Xu and his group turned to the test room not far away, and before they arrived, they heard a series of thick and thick sounds of decisive boards.

"Please, please." Song Yingxing stood at the door and signaled Zhu Xu to advance.

When Zhu Xu entered the room, he saw more than a dozen men lined up, constantly pulling their bows and shooting at the target in the distance.

Zhu Xu visually measured the distance, some were 200 meters, some were 25 meters, some were 300 meters, and some even exceeded 500 meters!

Song Yingxing stood aside and introduced: "Your Majesty, these close-range people in front are for archers, with an effective range of about 60 meters. This kind of bow is fast and powerful. This side is for archers, mainly for long range. Even if gunpowder is added, the range is still one hundred meters away. Whether it is cavalry assault or arrow artillery pushing forward, there is enough killing distance..."

Zhu Xu was even more interested and nodded, "Very good. The Ministry of War will definitely like this. You must continue to study it, and you can't stop!"

"Yes!" Song Yingxing was overjoyed. As long as he kept going, the money would be endless.

"Your Majesty, let's continue to take a look." Then Song Yingxing said hurriedly.

Zhu Xu nodded naturally and turned around and went out after Song Yingxing.

Zhu Xu and Xiao Yongning were both excited, and Bi Ziyan had always had a calm face and no expression. He had no interest in these things, and now he was more concerned about how to cut off the Royal Yuan's budget.

"Your Majesty, here is salt making. We are trying to make better salt, and we have achieved initial results..."

"This is the mechanical science, plough, horse-drawn carriage, water wheel, and windmill are all the key points of current research, and there has been considerable progress..."

"Your Majesty, this is a greenhouse room. As long as you reach the right temperature, you can grow the food and vegetables you want. I believe that if it can be promoted on a large scale, it will be of great use to fight disasters..."

"This is a pharmacy. It is sorting out various prescriptions, researching various medical books, and testing various diseases, and also refining them into medicines..."
Chapter completed!