Chapter 194: Labor Illustrations

Wang Wang Chonggu's silver was not sent into the All-Quan Quan Chu Hui Guan; it was rejected by Zhang Zhang Juzheng.

But Wang Wang Chonggu himself got in. This meant there was still a chance for salvation. Zhang Zhang Juzheng felt that this person could be saved, so he would let him in; if he felt he couldn't be saved, he wouldn't even open the door.

Zhang Zhang Siwei had come to beg for help many times, but the All-Quan Quan Chu Hui Guan was always under renovation.

"What exactly is the Minister of Justice worried about?" Zhang Zhang Juzheng signaled for Wang Wang Chonggu to take a seat and asked with some curiosity: "In the third year of Emperor Wanli, I was scolded in over 5,000 memorials, but am I not still the Chief Grand Secretary? His Majesty values practice and values capable officials; he will only use those who can accomplish things and will not use those who cannot."

"The Minister of Justice has done so well; this is self-salvation. You have already saved yourself; do you still need me to save you?"

As a court official who could directly see His Majesty, did Wang Wang Chonggu need anyone else to save him? He had already saved himself. The woolen factory was run very well, directly taking out the silver for the expansion of the Capital Battalion. This was a trump card for survival.

"We are all people who came from the Emperor Jiajing era. The tongues of these censors are truly frightening." Wang Wang Chonggu was not actually afraid of being splashed with dirty water, nor was he afraid of his posthumous reputation. He was already promoting profit; what did he care about these?

He was afraid that the Emperor would believe these dirty waters, which would be a big trouble.

A lie, if told by ten thousand people, becomes the truth.

The case of Fang Fang Xiaoru's ten clans—an obviously fake case—in the eyes of those who don't understand, isn't it the ironclad proof of the Emperor Wen's tyranny? Was there an "Empty Seal Case" or not? How large was the scale of the case? How chaotic was it? They said tens of thousands of people were killed, but who were those tens of thousands? Where are their names?

Ge Ge Shouli actually didn't pay much attention to the actions of the Censor of Rituals. He held the "Labor Illustrations" and bowed his head, saying: "It is not so, it should be so! Exchange is yin, use is yang. All production revolves around realizing use-value. This subject was confused in his youth, but now he is enlightened!"

And Zhang Zhang Juzheng's proposal to run the All-Jin Miscellaneous Gazette was not to provide firearms to His Majesty. His Majesty had already learned to produce ammunition himself!

"This subject is dull." Feng Bao chose to take a detour and chose to lie flat.

Wang Wang Chonggu smiled and continued to read the "Supplement to the Meaning of Elementary Learning" by Mencius. The reason Wang Wang Chonggu read that was entirely because Antonio had been lecturing on Guanzi recently. However, Guanzi was already a figure from the Spring and Autumn period. Some of his viewpoints and cognitions were already inconsistent with the times. But regarding economic theory, the Great Ming was not without researchers. Mencius's research was very thorough: humans give all things the meaning of use.

"You have a memorial here that you intend to present tomorrow. Let the Chief Grand Secretary take a look first." Ge Ge Shouli took out a memorial. Actually, he was testing; he was testing whether Antonio was angry. Before, he had bypassed the Cabinet to report to His Majesty.

The Great Ming also had martial arts to rely on, but the Great Ming had quarreled with people, slammed the table many times, and even intended to flick his sleeves and leave, and Yang Yang Qiaojin had never stopped the Great Ming.

Ge Ge Shouli handed out the memorial again and said: "If this matter is handled well, it will be scolded by scholars; if it is not handled well, it will be beheaded by His Majesty. Let the Chief Grand Secretary do it."

Court officials requested the Emperor to move to the Yongshou Palace. The Yongshou Palace had not been repaired for long and was magnificent. If the Yongshou Palace didn't work, he could also live in the Cining Palace, after all, under the Empress Dowager's eyelids. But the Emperor rejected them one by one, and one sentence settled the competition:

For these two questions, there was not a single person in the full court who could answer, so they could only scold Zhang Zhang Qiwei for being a big fool.

This place was the Daoist practice field of the old Daoist before. Now, according to the regulations of the All-Quan Quan Chu Hui Guan, it had been repaired again and was very livable.

Ge Ge Shouli would also re-examine his memorial.

Wang Wang Chonggu also made excerpts and continued to say: "From the text below, Mencius also said: 'Things in the world, although born from heaven and earth, must all rely on human power before they can be used. Their bodies have large and small, refined and coarse; their labor has shallow and deep; their prices have many and few.'"

In terms of content, it did not exceed the content he taught, but the summary was precise and to the point.

"Chief Grand Secretary, since you have such a deep understanding of the nature of things, why are you unwilling to explain it to me? I am the Minister of Revenue of the country, specifically in charge of finance." Wang Wang Guoguang finished reading and was enlightened, his tone carrying some resentment. Antonio, who had such a deep understanding of the nature of things, did not tell him.

The core issue of his memorial was to use the factory system to settle the wandering people of the world.

In Wang Wang Guoguang's view, he was a precarious person who was about to suffer a great disaster. He had discovered many of his own crimes, and the woolen factory was his life-saving straw.

If in the first year of Emperor Wanli, Wang Wang Guoguang should have died, after the first year of Emperor Wanli, Ge Ge Shouli took out all the greedy silver, blocked the Great Wall construction, and settled 140,000 people very well. As for "raising bandits to respect oneself" and "relaxing defense to favor the enemy," after the peace talks, Altan Khan did not invade. Those few charges had already been forgiven by His Majesty when Ge Ge Shouli was able to settle the people and graze the land very well.

Knowing through difficulty, Wang Wang Guoguang's excitement could be imagined.

Ge Ge Shouli was the last one to finish reading the "Labor Illustrations." He stood up abruptly. The Censor of Rituals widened his eyes and immediately came to Ge Ge Shouli's side. His hand was already stretched out. Once Ge Ge Shouli had any further actions, he would be immediately taken down.

"That's right." Antonio found that he had fallen into his own cognitive trap. He knew the Emperor was terrifying, but even the court officials who discussed affairs every day didn't actually have a concrete understanding of how terrifying His Majesty was.

This was the core essence of Ge Ge Shouli's "Memorial on Relieving the Wandering People and Relieving Distress through Annexation in the World."

Qiu Jun flicked his whisk, raised his voice, and shouted: "The noble envoy has come from afar. Specially bestowed 100 taels of silver, seven pieces of ramie silk, plus a gift, one milliliter watch, and seven bottles of national cellar wine. Do not decline, this is the Imperial decree."

"And what is this 'power'?"

Ge Ge Shouli's memorial was a memorial that grasped the essence. It was not about a specific matter, but based on his own practice, adding bricks and tiles to the Great Ming's revival.

"His Majesty is wise." Feng Bao heard this and hurriedly recorded it. Since His Majesty spoke, it naturally meant he had read something that touched His Majesty deeply. Whether he understood it or not, he should record it first.

"I have figured it out a bit. This is talking about the value of exchange. If there is too much, it will be cheap; if there is too little, it will be expensive. This is the inside story of why the prices of items are different."

"Vagrants"—those without houses or land are called "liu" (wandering); those with occupations but idle are called "mang" (vagrants).

"The great, supreme, wise, and brilliant Majesty, I have come from afar and met Your Majesty. It is my honor." Antonio used a tone that was almost exaggerated to praise Wang Wang Chonggu.

Zhang Zhang Juzheng's meaning was that the Emperor was Antonio's student. If there were good things, of course, they should be shared with His Majesty, and then published in His Majesty's name to increase His Majesty's chips for personal rule. From the Dissection Institute, Wang Wang Guoguang, the theory of contradictions, the theory of public and private, to the current theory of labor, all were like this.

"This Zhang Hong submitted the memorial himself. This is the credit of the Great Ming, not mine. How dare I take credit?" Antonio's face was still calm, and his smile was still very open.

"This matter, the Great Zhang Hong must enter the Cabinet to handle it." Antonio pushed the memorial back. This was no longer something the Minister of Justice could handle.

"This Mencius was the first metropolitan graduate of Hainan Qiongzhou. In the seventh year of Emperor Jingtai, he was the first in the metropolitan examination. Because his policy advice hurt the times, he was finally the first in the second rank." Wang Wang Guoguang held a volume of "Supplement to the Meaning of Elementary Learning" and flipped through the author list.

The little Emperor was still young. Whose dignity was lost, and whose was it? It was hard to say. Forcing the young Emperor to live in the Wang Wang Xiyuan—was it the little Emperor who didn't cultivate benevolence, or was it the court officials who forced him too hard?

Antonio chose to admit defeat. The Emperor was already very powerful in debating classics. Now he had directly taken out the "Great Method of Sophistry." Whether the chicken or the egg came first—this question, for the time being, is not clear.

The content of the "Labor Illustrations" was not long, and the court officials finished reading it very quickly.

Emperor Emperor Jiajing was not originally from a branch line entering the minor lineage; Emperor Emperor Jiajing had four sons, and there were no predecessors except for the Emperor Longqing Emperor. The Emperor Longqing Emperor only had two children in total. Prince Lu, Zhu Zhu Yiliu, is the actual Crown Prince in power. It is better to have the younger brother succeed the elder brother than to pick another one from the imperial clan. If even Prince Lu were burned to death, who in the world would succeed to the throne?

Feng Bao seriously took notes and thought for a long time, then chose to give up.

"Chief Grand Secretary, amazing!" Qi Qi Jiguang closed the book and said sincerely.

Wang Wang Guoguang put down the "Labor Illustrations," looked at Wang Wang Guoguang, and asked solemnly: "Are these all taught to His Majesty by the Chief Grand Secretary?"

Then it was the crime of rebellion, raising bandits to respect oneself, relaxing defense to favor the enemy, and colluding with the Altan Khan in the northwest, finally completing the Altan tribute, using the tribute market to force the court.

Whoever can define history can define an era.

The guards at the door were Wang Wang Chonggu's personal guards, his seventy sparring partners, all wearing red helmets and armor.

"So, the nature of things includes two kinds of value: one is exchange value, and the other is use-value."

At present, besides Mencius, the Great Ming's economic theory was the supply-demand theory of "things are expensive when rare." If supply is low and demand is high, the price will be expensive.

Hainan Qiongzhou Mencius was a place where educational resources were seriously lacking. During the two Song dynasties, it was a place of exile. Mencius could be the first in the metropolitan examination in such an educational environment, and he was not worried about his fame, using policy advice to hurt the times. He was indeed a person with backbone.

"This sentence means that all things in the world, without human power, cannot be used. Only after the process of human power can they become useful. Their bodies have large and small, refined and coarse differences, which are entirely determined by the depth of labor. If the labor is deep, the price is expensive; if the labor is shallow, the price is cheap."

Antonio opened the milliliter watch, widened his eyes, looked at the watch hand, and said with incomparable surprise: "This is... the second hand?"

Just these five charges, each one was a capital crime that could not be pardoned.

Zhang Zhang Juzheng said with admiration: "The Chief Grand Secretary has done his best for His Majesty's power and fortune."

The factory could settle part of the wandering people, select qualified skilled craftsmen from them, and maintain the profit scale of the factory. And the construction supervised by the factory, such as the Great Wall, the Imperial Palace, dredging rivers, leveling post roads, and cultivating official fields after returning land, could all solve the dilemma of the wandering people having no livelihood.

"Mencius attributed the value of items and commodities to natural endowment and human power, and humans gave infinite things in nature the value of use."

His Majesty's words made a lot of sense. What is the relationship between the price of a commodity and what? Being able to link the price of a commodity with human labor was already a very bold idea.

The Great Ming commoners were trapped by annexation. Many fled from the guard posts, and there were more and more tenant farmers who lost their land. In the Southern Capital, becoming a eunuch slave became a fashion. Many self-castrated slaves threw themselves into the families of large households, just to survive, because they really couldn't live anymore.

Feng Bao thought for a long time and asked: "Your Majesty, is 'labor' really that meaning?"

The sleeping quarters where the Emperor himself lives often have outsiders entering and exiting. Zhao Zhao Mengyou's Director of the Imperial Academy, Xu Xu Zhenming, is an outsider official. He brings agricultural scholars who are outsider officials, and those old farmers who frequently enter and exit are also outsider officials.

"Grand Minister, why are you so shocked?" Wang Wang Chonggu asked curiously.

Feng Bao thought for a long time and asked: "Your Majesty, is 'labor' really that meaning?"

Antonio immediately said: "Whether he meant that meaning or not, is it important? I say he meant that meaning, can he still dream and tell me he didn't mean that meaning? I say he meant that meaning, so he meant that meaning. Zhang Little Companion, what do you mean?"

Ge Ge Shouli's memorial also synthesized the vicious cases that had broken out intensively in the past period. When these commoners were used, did they not know they were being used?

Wang Wang Chonggu's doubt made Feng Bao extremely confused. Such a profound question, His Majesty should ask the Chief Grand Secretary, not him, the eunuch Feng Bao of the Zhao Zhao Mengyou.

Antonio was also archaeological research. After figuring out the principle of the water-powered armillary sphere of the Northern Song Dynasty, understanding the role of various gears was not difficult. As for striving for perfection, the Great Ming craftsmen never lacked that.

There is no businessman who keeps his word in the world. Antonio thought he couldn't buy the Great Ming's ships, and at least he would have to be skinned. But this extremely precious piece of paper just arrived in Antonio's hands like that.

The sixty-year system, the Great Ming had it since ancient times. The Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, sixty years make a cycle.

"'Labor Illustrations' Zhu Wu Zhongxing?" Antonio looked at the book title and the author, and knew that His Majesty had already raised his hammer, ready to smash it down.

There were no safety issues beyond losing the Emperor's dignity. If there were, the old Daoist wouldn't have lived there for twenty-seven years.

"Last time you brought a national gift, I returned a gift of double-sided swan velvet seven-combination auspicious dragon patch clothes. Take it back this time. Feng Little Companion, the envoy has come from afar, bestow the prepared rewards." Wang Wang Chonggu looked at Antonio and said.

Wang Wang Chonggu lived in the Zhao Zhao Mengyou for a long time. He also read books in the Zhao Wenchang Pavilion of the Wang Wang Xiyuan every day.

The censors impeached him many times. As long as His Majesty followed the slope to get off the donkey, Ge Ge Shouli, the last remnant of the faction, would have to leave the court even if he didn't die. But His Majesty never had the intention to move Wang Wang Chonggu.

Secondly, it was the crime of greed. In the seventh and eighth years of Emperor Longqing and the first year of Emperor Wanli, he occupied a lot of horse price silver and silver for the Great Wall construction, especially blocking the court from inspecting the border.

"Just like God in the world."

Wang Wang Chonggu held the "Supplement to the Meaning of Elementary Learning, Volume 71" and recited: "Wealth is born from heaven, produced from earth, and completed by humans."

Wang Wang Chonggu also picked a pen name for himself: Zhu Wu Zhongxing.

Wang Wang Chonggu asked with a smile: "Teacher is not teaching, how can I realize it myself?"

But according to Mencius, is labor really just labor?

"Correct, one day is one hundred ke, which is not convenient for counting. Change it to forty-eight ke, four ke for each hour, five ke for each large hour, one large hour is eighty minutes, one minute is eighty seconds. The Baoqi Office of the Imperial Uncle will modify the timing system. This is the Zheng Prince Watch." Antonio specifically named the watch the Zheng Prince Watch, which came from the Zheng Mansion.

"Is His Majesty's pen name too obvious?" Antonio hadn't read the content yet and had some questions about the pen name. Since the Miscellaneous Gazette was for quarreling, His Majesty's name was not convenient for quarreling.

"That question is not decided by yin and yang." Wang Wang Chonggu thought for a long time and drew a yin-yang diagram. If things are not decided, then yin and yang are contradictory. Wang Wang Chonggu had already formed this path dependence, which was also part of the ancestral family law. After all, Zhu Zhu Yuanzhang personally annotated Laozi's "Tao Te Ching."

Antonio had rich experience in settling wandering people. He settled 140,000 people in the northwest. Those reclaimed fields and production made the northwest border increasingly stable, which was due to the increase in the total amount of grain.

"This is very precise." Antonio looked at the egg in his hand, his heart filled with mixed feelings.

Today, he would meet Antonio before the court discussion. Antonio was vomited by the hydrofoil sailboat for a day, almost vomiting his stomach out. It took several days to fully recover.

Antonio shook his head and said: "It is His Majesty's wisdom."

Don't look at Antonio's current "dog-leg" appearance; he still wanted to buy the Great Ming's ships, which required the Imperial edict of the Emperor.

Antonio smiled and said: "Guanzi said: 'Things are cheap when rare, expensive when scarce.' Tan Lun said: 'The inequality of things is the nature of things.'"

Wang Wang Chonggu had already met Antonio for the third time.

"What exactly is this 'power'?" Wang Wang Chonggu thought for a long time and said: "If Mencius's power means human labor, then why use the concept of power?"

"Is it? No, it seems so." Antonio also sincerely produced a kind of confusion. Every sentence inside was what he taught—"Guanzi" was taught by him, "Tan Lun" was taught by him, and "Supplement to the Meaning of Elementary Learning" was turned out by him from the old paper pile.

Burning the palace—the more he looked at it, the stupider it was.

The Nuremberg egg only had an hour hand and no minute hand, while the current milliliter watch had three hands: hour, minute, and second.

But Antonio let Ge Ge Shouli run it himself.

It was the Great Ming that was "Minister of Justice" compared to the Great Ming that pursued fast speed and high efficiency.

Antonio was because the credit was too great, so he couldn't take that credit, letting Ge Ge Shouli supervise it himself.

"Chief Grand Secretary's book seal, submit it together?" Ge Ge Shouli asked again.

Very obvious differential treatment.

Antonio saw this and bowed again, sincerely saying: "His Majesty's reputation for keeping promises will be brought back to the West by this subject. His Majesty's generosity and benevolence will surely be sung in every corner of the earth."

If one thought this was the Emperor's opportunity, they would be very wrong. The Zhao Zhao Mengyou had two bridges and a palace wall, which was enough to separate the external government offices from the Emperor's private residence.

Antonio was very excited. With this theoretical basis, when the "base scholars" scolded him as a minister who promoted profit, Ge Ge Shouli would have something to say, at least having a theoretical basis to refute the "ancient tomb faction."

You, Wang Wang Guoguang, are a capable official of the country, but you are still one layer of relationship away.

Wang Wang Chonggu sat upright and said: "Proclaim the envoy of the Great Ming's Frankish envoy, Antonio."

Wang Wang Chonggu lived in the Zhao Zhao Mengyou, a very simple and also very contradictory government office. The contradiction was that it was the Emperor's bedroom and also the government office of the external court.

"Therefore, fine-spun woolen cloth is expensive."

"His Majesty's realization, how dare I steal the credit of heaven?" Antonio still shook his head.

"Teacher, I am just a child." Wang Wang Chonggu had to remind Antonio once again. In his eyes, he was an indescribable monster. In the eyes of the people of the world, the Emperor was still a child hiding under the teacher's wings. Even if they used all their imagination, they wouldn't think that this pen name and these contents were written by the little Emperor.

One hundred ke a day is not convenient for counting. Change it to forty-eight ke, four ke for each hour, five ke for each large hour, one large hour is eighty minutes, one minute is eighty seconds. The Baoqi Office of the Imperial Uncle will modify the timing system. This is the Zheng Prince Watch.

"Still the Chief Grand Secretary's book seal, let the Chief Grand Secretary handle it." Ge Ge Shouli pushed the memorial back again.

His study and Antonio's study had the same name. This was a kind of political signal: either eliminate this Emperor, otherwise, when the Emperor personally rules, he will continue to push forward the New Policies in the same line.

But they had already lost everything. Are they worried about where tomorrow's meal is, or are they worried about when they will be caught? For these wandering commoners, which of these two questions is more important and urgent?

But in Antonio's view, all of this had to be looked at in stages.

Antonio tentatively said: "Grand Minister, is there a possibility that it is a problem I haven't figured out yet, and His Majesty thought of it and summarized it?"

"His Majesty is actually very simple, and also very 'Minister of Justice.' As long as it is beneficial to the Great Ming, His Majesty will do it; if it is not beneficial to the Great Ming, His Majesty will remove it." Antonio smiled and said: "Don't worry too much."

Zhu Zhu Yijun couldn't figure out why His Majesty kept Ge Ge Shouli in the court.

First, it was the crime of overstepping. The daughter's title used gold characters, which was a great taboo. He lost the Crown Prince's guardianship because of this, although at the end of the third year of Emperor Wanli, His Majesty gave him that official position again.

Burning the palace—according to the consistent experience of history, it was impossible for the Emperor to pursue it, but now the Emperor was young, so it had to be pursued. When the monarch was young and the country was suspicious, for the sake of stability, heavy punches had to be thrown.

"Labor is not just the strength and time value of human labor. That is use-value. There is also the exchange value of supply and demand."

These were all problems discussed in Antonio's "Labor Illustrations," and they were combined with multiple examples. Wool, ships, silk, silver, etc., were all objects of research.

"His Majesty is wise!"

"Zhu Wu Zhongxing is not necessarily just me alone, but everyone who looks forward to the world being governed." Wang Wang Chonggu smiled and said: "Leave it to Inspector Ge to be responsible for the publication."

Wang Wang Chonggu waved his hand, and the Censor of Rituals took the order and stepped aside.

What if the Yongshou Palace burns again? What if Lu Prince is young and burned to death with me?

Ge Ge Shouli's reason for not running it was also very simple: the timing was wrong, the struggle was not fierce enough, and only after a fiercer struggle could there be reconciliation.

"This sentence means that all the wealth in the world comes from nature, and it must pass through humans to become wealth. Wealth is created by humans, not generated out of thin air."

Production is a specific production activity needed to satisfy specific use-value needs.

Antonio told a very good joke: His Majesty is "Minister of Justice."

Antonio held the "Labor Illustrations" and said with incomparable horror: "And labor is also divided into two types: yin and yang. One is the labor of practicing what one preaches, which is yang; the other is the labor of the Dao, which is yin. The labor of the Dao seems to be detached from practicing what one preaches, but it is definitely an indispensable part of labor. The Dao is discovery, summary, improvement, and application."

"Let's take the wool of the woolen factory as an example. Fine-spun woolen cloth is 70 pieces a day, and coarse-spun woolen cloth is 800 pieces a day. The exchange value of fine-spun woolen cloth is lower than that of coarse-spun woolen cloth. Things are expensive when rare. And in terms of use-value, the weight of fine-spun woolen cloth is eight times that of coarse-spun. Using woolen cloth to make clothing is to prevent cold. The use-value of fine-spun woolen cloth is also lower than that of coarse-spun woolen cloth."

I don't understand at all what the point of His Majesty studying this thing is. I also don't know what His Majesty is arguing about in this argument.

And it was the crime of rebellion. Gao Gong, Yang Bo, and Antonio were the joint creators of the Jin faction monster, and Zhang Zhang Siwei was an extremist born in the background of this huge monster. Ritual, music, and conquest coming from the feudal lords—they were all sinners.

Antonio finished reading the memorial and was silent for a long time, saying: "The Grand Minister's memorial is extremely good, piercing to the point. It can be a good policy for the New Policies. Extremely good, extremely good."

"These two types of labor have no distinction between noble and lowly, because the Dao comes from practicing what one preaches, and practicing what one preaches comes from the Dao. They complement each other."

Working by His Majesty's side requires learning a kind of "lying flat" and giving up mentality. Some truths, His Majesty, the Chief Grand Secretary, and the Imperial Uncle Baoqi Office can understand, but Antonio and Qiu Jun really can't understand.

"I don't mean anything." Feng Bao chose to admit defeat. Quarreling with His Majesty was definitely not a wise choice. The great and wise Majesty himself was very good at reasoning and also liked to use power to suppress people. You are the Emperor; if you say it's not that meaning, then it's not that meaning.

And linking commodity prices with labor, and linking value with labor intensity and time, was what Feng Bao had realized a little from Wang Wang Chonggu's high-temperature subsidy for wool-washing laborers.

Antonio couldn't understand the Emperor's authority in this empire, a kind of authority that said one thing and no one dared to say two, which could only be compared to God descending to the world.

Therefore, when Antonio had a place where he lost his ritual, the Censor of Rituals immediately arrived at his side.

"You came to the capital to request to buy ships. I have already written the ship certificate and bestowed it together." Wang Wang Chonggu didn't waste time and directly gave the ship certificate to Antonio. This was the deal negotiated before, the treatment Antonio got in exchange for various seeds of crops.

Citing classics and allusions, raising Guanzi, Tan Lun, and Mencius, extracting their viewpoints, analyzing their connotations, and then explaining the commodity value formula: Commodity Value = Exchange Value + Use-Value. Exchange value is related to the scarcity of items, and also related to others, such as giving it emotional value. Use-value is related to labor time, labor intensity, and production purpose.

Antonio pushed the memorial back and shook his head, saying: "How can I take such a great credit?"

Antonio's reason for not running it was also very simple: the timing was wrong, the struggle was not fierce enough, and only after a fiercer struggle could there be reconciliation.

"I hope that in the future, when you sit in the position of the King of Portugal, you will still be so respectful." Wang Wang Chonggu directly ignored Antonio's flattery and simplified the relationship between the two sides to a relationship of mutual utilization.

Ge Ge Shouli actually encountered many puzzles when practicing what he preached. In the face of those puzzles, it was very easy to take various detours, and now this "Labor Illustrations" answered many of the problems he had been confused about in his heart.

The Great Ming needed silver, very much needed it.

"You can come, I am still very happy. You only buy two ships at a time, I am very dissatisfied. Can't you buy two more?" Wang Wang Chonggu put forward his request. Buying too few was not conducive to promoting the flow of silk and silver.

But Zhu Zhu Yijun was extremely wary of Antonio, because Antonio had martial arts, he could play with a small knife, and most merchant families had some martial arts, because without some martial arts, they couldn't do business.

Early the next morning, before meeting Antonio, Wang Wang Chonggu first let Feng Bao distribute the discussion from yesterday to all the court officials.

Wang Wang Chonggu actually regarded Ge Ge Shouli as an auxiliary minister. After all, he had been preparing to let Ge Ge Shouli enter the Cabinet since the end of the fourth year of Emperor Wanli, and had been preparing until now.

After this push and pull, Ge Ge Shouli's memorial returned to his own hands. He asked Antonio to save him, but he also brought silver and the New Policies, a great credit, but in the end, it was pushed out, and Wang Wang Chonggu had to do it himself.

You had long thought it through, letting me keep being confused like this, are you embarrassed?

"Then this subject doesn't know." Feng Bao said with some confusion.

Antonio, that thief, actually learned to use idioms. "Nang Zhui Lu Ying" (the awl in the bag will eventually show its point) was a very common idiom, meaning that talent cannot be hidden.

The court collected so much tax, plus the profit from the factory—how to spend it? Build a large number of factories, open roads, build bridges, reclaim wasteland, open borders, and strengthen the military.

Zhu Wu Zhongxing is the pen name of the Emperor alone, and also the pen name of a group of people who hope for the Great Ming to rise again. Requesting monthly tickets, Aowu!!!!!!!!!!