Over the past year, I have been silent in more than a dozen newspapers and published no less than a hundred political comments, some targeting land issues, some discussing the relationship between industry and commerce and traditional economy, some criticizing current affairs, and some analyzing the current situation of the Ming Dynasty. Most of them are written articles for Qionglin Society and are inspired by the news in the newspaper. However, because they can always hit the current problems, reach the point of being sharp and have a high perspective, they are suddenly enlightened, so they have already gained a lot of fame in the political and theoretical circles.

However, in the face of Lu Kun's desire for talent, he still respected Wumin, took a sip of tea and said softly: "If you have anything in the future, call me over and do it."

Lu Kun understood what he meant. The dignity of the children of aristocratic families could not tolerate him asking for help in a low voice, so he nodded and said, "Okay, Brother Qin is willing to live such a life of idle clouds and wild cranes, and I can't destroy it." He said, "No, in the future, if you have any questions now, please ask Brother Qin to take a detailed look."

"Please speak." Silently nodded and poured a tea ceremony for Lu Kun.

"Have you seen the "Overview of the Imperial Orders" in the previous daily newspaper?" Seeing the silent nodding, Lu Kun said: "There is an imperial edict on weaving. Can Brother Qin pay attention?"

"Seeing it" nodded silently and said, "It seems that the five prefectures that were originally responsible for the silk weaving task in the southeast were Su, Song, Hang, Jia and Hu. Now it has decided to add more than ten prefectures including Zhejiang, Fujian and Nanzhili, Zhenjiang, Changzhou, Huizhou, Shanghai, Ningguo, Yangzhou, Guangde, etc., and they also divide some of them."

"Qin Fu was really good at remembering Kun nodded in praise: "Shanghai is in the list of glory,

After receiving a task of 50,000 horses, the annual levy of the remaining mansions ranged from 10,000 horses to 50,000 horses. In this way, the Jiangnan Weaving Bureau released the silk from the palace every year from 40,000 horses to 250,000 horses." As he said, he smiled bitterly, "Our emperor has a big appetite. Two years ago, he added 100,000 horses to the pretext of marrying the Nine Concubines. Last year, he issued another 150,000 sets of levys. The wedding of Lu Wang, Princess Shouyang and the Christmas of Queen Mother Cisheng. This year, there is no longer any need to make up names. As long as the lion's mouth opens, it will take more places to solve them. And it is clear that this number is enough, so I want to make a final decision once and for all, so I will form a certain rule!"

"Yes, even if the more than 20,000 people in the palace are all fresh in all seasons, the original amount of relief cannot be used for half of the remaining amount. The remaining enough rewards or other uses." Chen Shen said with a puzzled look: "I really don't know what the emperor wants to do with such silk? Is it just to fill the warehouse?"

"Brother Qin doesn't know that greedy people must be stingy. Our emperor has never rewarded ministers until now. Although the eunuch's concubines are rewarded from time to time, they are only rewarded by a few pieces." Lu Kun revealed the mystery and said: "The emperor's purpose of wanting so much silk is to open an imperial shop for himself."

"All the world is the king's land: the shores of the land are the king's ministers. The emperor takes the land as the riches of the world to make tribute. Why should I set up a village and set up a shop to compete with the people for the benefits of the sword and cone?" Silent shook his head and said, "In this way, how many silk industrymen will be killed?"

"Yes! The cost of a piece of silk is 60 taels of silver, and 250,000 pieces is 15 million taels. Every year, the weaving industries of various governments will vomit blood." Lu Kun said with a worried look: "However, these distributions are sent to Beijing not for consumption but for sale. Without capital, the royal shop will naturally dump at low prices, causing serious secondary damage to the silk industry. If this continues, what will be the way out for the silk industry in the Ming Dynasty?"

At this moment, it was hard to tell whether he spoke from the position of an official or the position of the nine masters.

"Since ancient times, there has never been such a greedy emperor." Lu Kun said angrily: "The emperor should have regarded gold, silver, jade and silk as dirt. Our Emperor Wanli competed for profit with the people in order to accumulate wealth!"

"Don't the minister advise?" asked quietly.

"Why don't you persuade me?" Lu Kun smiled bitterly: "But such memorials have always been kept, and the emperor did not take it seriously at all. For example, this time, the Six-Charge Galleries clearly rejected the order of the weaving and weaving, and the title replied: "The purpose of investigating and discussing the order of the weaving and weaving is poor and the people are already everywhere. Now, once the orders of the orders of the additional orders are passed on to the four directions, the ministers have to punish the officials. All officials may not be virtuous. If they follow the orders of the ungod, they will borrow the orders of the public and punish the officials, and they will be punished by the officials. If they are not good, they will borrow the orders and punish them, and they will be punished by the officials. If they are arrested, the emperor may not be able to save the amount, and they will be trapped in the treasury. Now, there are still more than 100,000 pieces of silk in the inner treasury, and they will be able to transfer them for the current purpose. If they are not allowed to continue in the future, they will be required to transfer them in order to avoid misleading them. The cabinet and the ministry have also made guarantees for this, but the emperor still insists on adding them."

"The ministers are all in this way, and the emperor doesn't care?" Chen Si said in surprise: "Aren't you afraid of breaking up with the minister?"

"Maybe I was afraid at first, but now I am definitely not afraid." Lu Kun said: "The years of investment regardless of cost and unprincipled partiality have quickly expanded the power of the inner court. Now the emperor only regards the outer court as a tool for governing the country. He relies entirely on the middle officials whatever he wants to do. And the eunuchs are not greedy for money and naturally will not miss this opportunity to make a fortune. The day before yesterday, Zhang Zhei, the eunuch in charge of the inner court, and others asked the order to send the inner officials to go there. In the southeast, the weaving matters were supervised. Liu Yan, the engineering department chief, and Jia Rushi, the Shanxi Dao Censor, and others gave the article to dissuade him, saying that the people's strength was short and the supply was extensive. The emperor replied: "The weaving matters were not necessary. Since the weaving officials said that the people's strength was in poverty, they would not increase the amount in the future. I sent the internal officials to supervise the work expenses and asked the two ministries of households to discuss the work. Not only did they agree to the reduction, but they also asked the Ministry of Households to pay the eunuchs for the supervising eunuchs. It was simply a twenty-one history, and I don't know where to start!"

Lu Kun spoke so hard that his mouth was dry. He picked up the teacup and drank it all. After silent, he continued to say to him: "It seems that this matter has been settled."

"Yes," Lu Kun lowered his voice and said, "To be honest, we, the leaders of the state prefecture, took advantage of the opportunity to attend the ministry discussion in Nanjing and held a meeting together and decided to work together. If we cannot complete the task by then, it proves that we are indeed unable to bear such a heavy burden."

"This method is not very good." Chen Si said lightly: "I'm afraid it's an excuse to give the eunuchs their own actions."

"Yes, I have this concern, but I have just entered the officialdom and I can only hear what others say." Lu Kun sighed deeply: "In fact, 50,000 pieces of silk are not a heavy burden for the Shanghai Mansion. If you really don't repeat the mistakes of your ex, you can't be weak and cut off your colleagues. It's really a dilemma."

“It’s indeed a problem.

"Silently, he sipped the tea ceremony: "But there is no way."
Chapter completed!