At the gate of the Imperial Palace in the capital, many ministers came here in four-wheeled carriages, preparing to wait for the morning court.
This is the last morning meeting before the Chinese New Year.
After the morning service, the annual holiday is officially on. According to past practice, if nothing happens, everyone will not go to the morning service again until the eighth day of the first lunar month to start the work of the new year.
Thanks to the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty, the prosperity of the country and the people, and the Haiqinghe Banquet, the ministers are also relaxed. They don¡¯t need to get up in the middle of the night to go to the morning court like before. They can sleep well and have breakfast at home before going to court. Early morning.
Liu Jian, Li Dongyang, and Zhang Mao are also rare. In the past, Zhang Mao rarely went to the morning court. He was in poor health and took care of himself at home.
Li Dongyang often asks for leave to see a doctor. Liu Jian is also old and often asks for leave. However, this is the last morning court before the New Year, which is a must, and the first morning court after the New Year is also necessary.
"The current system is better, otherwise we would really suffer this morning."
Zhang Mao was wearing a mink coat, with his hands tucked into his sleeves, chatting with Liu Jian and Li Dongyang beside him.
"Yes, I used to have to get up in the middle of the night. In the middle of the winter, the weather is freezing and it's really uncomfortable."
Liu Jian also sighed and nodded.
I have been an official for my whole life, which means my life is much better now.
Not only has there been regular deadwood, but the morning court has also been postponed to a reasonable time. More importantly, the salary of officials is indeed quite good now.
He is the chief minister of the cabinet and a first-class official with many titles. He receives thousands of taels of silver a year, and he can buy several houses here in the capital.
Of course, at this point, a few thousand taels of silver is really nothing. What really makes money is the industry owned by one's own family. Factories, workshops, firms, plantations, pastures, investment stocks, etc., these are the real money. .
This has also become a common phenomenon in the Ming Dynasty. Everyone is keen on setting up factories, workshops, trading firms, etc., and they also have a large number of plantations, pastures, and farms overseas, and they all have numerous establishments in the Tianjin Stock Exchange. Few stocks.
After all, Emperor Hongzhi and the Crown Prince took the lead in doing this, so naturally everyone can follow suit. In this dynasty, from the cabinet ministers to the six ministers and ministers, to the ordinary officials, almost everyone is the same, enjoying the benefits of the capital era and the colonial era. Bonus, every little day is much more comfortable than before.
In the past, I always thought that if I had money and power, I would go to my hometown to occupy more land, and then lease the land to farmers, so that I could harvest more than half of the food just by sitting.
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Silver didn't see much, the imperial court was dying, and Daming was also internal and external troubles. The people were even more poor.
At that time, officials were also poor, and corrupt officials were better off. No matter how poor you were, you couldn't be said to be as poor as corrupt officials. If you were an upright official, you might starve to death. Your salary was too low, and most of your salary was lost. Treasure money for you.
Even if a corrupt official can't compare with what he has now, his legal income can easily reach ten thousand taels, one hundred thousand taels, or one million taels of silver. How much money can that corrupt official get?
Even if everyone empties the treasury, they will not get much money. 强牺 zhuishukan.com 读牺
When you check it, you may lose your head.
"Look at now, the court is rich, the officials are rich, and the common people are also rich.
As for the fields in your hometown, they are now given to you for free. People are not willing to plant them for you anymore, because there are large tracts of land overseas and outside the customs waiting for you to plant them. Once they are reclaimed, it will be your land. Who will give you the land? Do you farm?
But even if no one cultivates the land, Ming Dynasty still cannot finish the food, and the price of food is still very low, so there is no need to worry about food problems.
If you still want to hoard land as you did before, you will probably become a pauper soon.
In addition to the value of land in big cities, land in Ming Dynasty is already extremely cheap, and the price of food is even lower.
The traditional model of farming, reading and inheriting the family has completely collapsed. At this time z*huishukan.com Zhang Si
 At that time, the annual production capacity of 100,000 vehicles will be achieved. "
Liu Jin nodded solemnly and replied, and then whispered: "Only when there are more and more cars, the oil in the Persian Gulf will be truly useful and can be sold at a high price."
This time z.com Zhang Si. "Do cars burn petroleum?"
When Li Dongyang heard this, he immediately became energetic. There is a colony of the Li family here in the Persian Gulf. He didn't know what it was used for before. After being defrauded by Liu Jin and taking half of the shares, he finally knew about the underground treasures on this side of the Persian Gulf. It's oil.
But oil has never been found to be of much use. Now that I heard about it, I immediately became energetic.
"Cars burn gasoline, but gasoline is smelted from oil. In the end, it is inseparable from oil. We don't have much oil in the Ming Dynasty. From now on, we can just wait and collect money."
After Li Dongyang heard this, he immediately laughed happily. There is finally hope that the investment in the Persian Gulf can be recovered.
"Will this car work?"
"Yeah, it looks like it's not as comfortable as a carriage."
Others listened with their ears pricked up, and also asked questions quickly.
Zhida z.com Zhixiao. "Okay, don't you know how to buy one and give it a try?"
"You can only know whether this car is good or not by riding it in person, don't you think?"
Liu Jin looked at everyone and continued to fool around. If these ministers from the DPRK and China took the lead in buying it, the car would become even more popular