"How is the current sales of the goods? The accounts reported by various bureaus and factories have been checked. Has the country successfully stimulated the economy and allowed various bureaus and factories to reduce production?"

Not long after Zhu Youxiao returned to Beijing, he asked his assistants about the economic status of the Ming Empire.

Whether the economic crisis that the Ming Empire gradually emerged was resolved through foreign wars is his most concerned thing now.

As for the large number of middle-class people, he was eager to reform the court in the system, and the emperor was not interested in caring about it.

Over the years, as Zhu Youjiao grew older and his own learning of Chinese knowledge deepened, he had different ideas about how to govern the Ming Empire, which has now entered another social form.

At the beginning of his ascension, he dared to give in because of the crisis of the country's destiny in the original history of the Ming Dynasty, which only had 24 years of national destiny, and he dared to give it a try and innovate and eliminate the consequences.

But now, he is no longer so anxious about the reform, or even slower.

In the past, the conservatives were bureaucrats and literati, and radicals were the young emperor of Apocalypse.

At that time, Zhu Youxiao often had to overturn the table. At worst, he forced a group of old ministers to either turn into corpses on his way of reforming and eliminating evil deeds, or become a new nobleman he helped up with.

Now the conservative one is the emperor, and the radical one is the bureaucratic scholars and officials.

In the past, the only people who participated in politics in the Ming Dynasty were profit-seeking.

In the current Ming society, in addition to profit-seeking, more ordinary people are involved in political activities. These people have a large number of students, a large number of merchants, a large number of employees, and a large number of farmers who no longer pay taxes for the court.

Therefore, today's Ming society is more complex, with a huge middle class, and it is more like an olive-shaped society.

Moreover, most of them have high cultural popularity.

This has led to a large number of people who have radical political demands due to the dissatisfaction of desires.

Zhu Youxiao now believes in Sima Qian's words, namely: "The ears and eyes want to be very good at sound and color, the mouth wants to lose the taste of food, the body is comfortable and happy, and the heart is boasting and the people are proud of the glory of power. Even if the households say it in a vague way, they will never be able to transform. Therefore, the good ones take it as a result, then benefit them, then teach them, then be neatly, and the lowest ones compete with them."

Now, he is too lazy to take the initiative to do anything, but would rather follow the trend of the world and take one step at a time.

It can be said that he is willing to change something now only when he is waiting for someone to hold a knife on his neck and force him.

Because in that case, Zhu Youxiao determined that his reform was to follow the trend of the world. If he resisted stubbornly, he would become the first emperor to be sent to the beheading stage.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao would not forcibly stop the general trend.

He knew that with the increase of bourgeoisie and handicraftsmen, the whereabouts of the monarchy were inevitable.

Therefore, the emperor Zhu Youxiao, now neither took the initiative to give in or forcefully stopped him. He was gradually separating himself from a group that held various ideas, and like a tinkerer, he was only using the imperial power that still dominated the world to repair the various problems of the empire in terms of economic and people's livelihood.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao, who was less aggressive, also knew that when he faced the industrialized New Ming Empire, he really didn't know how to transform him in the political system.

"When you go back to Your Majesty, your sales have improved a lot. According to the accounts reported by the official industries in various places, the profit situation has greatly improved. The conquest of the Rakshasa Kingdom and the dispatch of troops to Japan have also increased a lot of orders from all the industries in the official industries, especially military orders! The standard for production reduction can be reduced, but it has not yet reached the point where it can increase production, especially some civilian industrial products, mainly because the market has not been completely opened. Whether it is the Japanese or the Rakshasa people, it has not yet completely become a group that can consume our Ming Dynasty industrial products!"

Liu Hongxun replied.

As an auxiliary minister, like Emperor Zhu Youxiao and other auxiliary ministers, when he was in power, he only used power to repair various practical problems of the empire, or to benefit the world, and would not propose any reforms and reforms.

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao nodded, frowned, and said to himself: "It's not yet reached the state of increasing production. The wealth of the Gentiles and our Ming Dynasty is so different!"

Speaking of this, Zhu Youxiao asked again: "What else is important recently."

Lu Xiangsheng stood up at this time and said, "Your Majesty, according to the reports of the governors of various overseas colonies and kings of the vassal states, in recent years, the number of native riots in the Ming Dynasty in the colonial areas of Southeast Asia, India, and Myanmar has increased significantly, and the scale has also increased. The so-called movement to demand independence is surging!"

"This is related to the overall economic downturn in the Ming Empire. Because the income growth of domestic people has decreased, demand has decreased. The various industries in the colonies, such as mining, have to cut local employees, so that the natives began to feel dissatisfied because of the decline in income!"

"In addition, our local powerful bureaucrats and gentry exploited too much, which increased the number of rebels and began to clamor to restore their nation and restore their original dynasty! These colonial areas also affected the local market and thus affected the export of local goods because of the intensification of unrest."

"This is a chain effect. We can only solve it by waiting for the Ming Dynasty to continue to expand from the outside. Try to make fewer people who do not have to produce, at least among the people who do not have to produce, they are only Han people."

Zhu Youxiao said and asked again: "Is there anything else?"

"When I returned to the Emperor, the Dongchang reported from all over the local area that more and more scholars and citizens were secretly organizing to come to Beidu to petition, saying that they were requesting the court to reform, and the contents of the left and right were just to restrict the power of the monarch, giving local autonomy, streamlining institutions, laying off redundant officials, and redundant soldiers, making transactions in all walks of life more free, etc. Many of them said that they would use the method of strikes, strikes, and strikes, so that the emperor and the assistants could hear what the people's true voices are."

Han Zanzhou replied at this time.

"This business growth is not as good as before, and the contradictions are even more prominent. We all want to fight for more benefits for our class within our country!"

After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao said with a smile.

"What Your Majesty said is that over the years, the growth of foreign market demand has slowed down, and domestic competition has become increasingly fierce. Naturally, more and more people have taken the opportunity to demand reforms. This is not an unexpected thing."

Liu Hongxun replied.

"I don't oppose reform, but it depends on how it changes. If this method is not good, it may make our Ming Dynasty country worse!"

Zhu Youxiao said, "Just now, didn't it mean that the war that has been launched has not yet completely opened up the outside market, and it is necessary to continue to reduce production? Since this is the case, I would like to issue an edict. Except for the three types of matters such as transportation, government affairs, and military, all practitioners in other matters will be left to rest for three months! The income and losses of three months of rest will be subsidized by the court! In addition, all kinds of official services are free, and the losses will be subsidized by the court. This can be regarded as giving money to stimulate the economy! Let them all come to Beijing to see me!"

Liu Hongxun was shocked after hearing this: "Production was suspended for three months and he was allowed to enter Beijing. Why is this?"

"Of course, we need to hear more people's thoughts, so as not to say that I can't hear the real people's voices. I'm also worried that they will only hear the people's voices around them!"

"Tell me a decree to Tianjin, Jiangnan, Shuzhong, Jianghan, Jianghuai, Liaodong, and all the densely populated areas of the Ming Dynasty. Tell them that from the octogenarians to the teenagers who have not graduated from elementary school, especially the workers and farmers, they all come to see me and let me listen to their voices."

Zhu Youxiao said, "Since you want to move, everyone will join us! You can't just ask the reformists and businessmen to participate."
Chapter completed!