During this period, Nanjing has been lively and people from all walks of life have been attracted by the debate on new and old ideas. The remaining small part is paying attention to the immigration bill that the cabinet has just officially issued. There are not many local people in Nanjing who have the idea of ​​immigration, but the merchants have a very sensitive sense of smell. In Nanjing, there are many businessmen engaged in overseas trade, and they are also considering whether they have claimed a piece of land in Nanyang and carried out development and farming. After all, this opportunity is rare and can be passed on to future generations.

Because they have a certain understanding of Nanyang, and as the Chinese army won military victory, the confidence of these merchants has also increased. Some people have also begun to calculate how much land they claim, how much investment will be invested in the early stage, how much profit will be, and how long will the investment be recovered. In addition, some businessmen with insufficient strength are running around, recruiting people to form gangs, and jointly claiming the land and developing in Nanyang.

In the Forbidden City in Nanjing, Shang Yi's concubines talked about the most in addition to handling charity associations and taking care of their own affairs every day.

Now the Charity Federation has been operating for two years, and has established a total of 132 orphanages, orphanages and schools, which have rescued more than 16,700 orphans, orphans, and elderly, and poor students. In addition, it has supported more than 100,000 poor people. The total funds have been paid in total, totaling 15.57 million silver dollars. The income and expenditure of each fund are clearly recorded, and the financial situation is insisted on announcing it to the public every month, which has also dispelled many people's doubts about the establishment of the Charity Federation. At the same time, it has won a very good social reputation for the royal family. Many areas and families who have received assistance have also spontaneously offered plaques to the royal family.

At the same time, under the demonstration and leadership of the Charity Federation, many rich people have begun to do charity in various places. Although the scale and scope of influence are much smaller than that of the Charity Federation, they have also formed a good momentum among the people.

On this day, everyone gathered in Kunning Palace again and listened to Lin Fengwu reporting on the financial situation of the Charity Federation in April. After listening to Lin Fengwu's statement, Ye Yaoying nodded and said, "I think it's OK, let's announce it tomorrow."

Lin Fengwu agreed, took out another account book and said, "Empress, this is the royal investment plan in Luzon, everyone will take a look."

Ye Yaowang took the account book, smiled and said, "Did you come out so soon?"

It turned out that after the cabinet officially announced the [Collection Act], Shang Yi also decided to discuss in the name of the royal family, investing in and developing land in Luzon, Kalimantan and Java respectively. On the one hand, it was to take the lead in the people and on the other hand, it was to purchase industries for the royal family.

Because the inner and outer treasuries of the new empire were absolutely separated, the power of the royal family to intervene in finance has been reduced to a very low level, and many interests have been given up, such as mines, salt and wine, so some investment is needed in other fields to increase the royal family's income. It is obviously not enough to rely on normal fiscal revenue alone. Although the royal family is not large now, it is difficult to predict that it will develop to that point in the future. At the beginning of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang set the royal family's salary very high in order to ensure the prosperous life of his descendants. As a result, by the end of the Ming Dynasty, the population of the royal family had grown to nearly one million, which became a huge expenditure, and the court's fiscal revenue could not afford it at all.

Although Shang Yi would not take care of all the descendants of his grandsons, the number of members of the royal family will definitely increase greatly in a hundred years, and expenditure will also increase accordingly. Therefore, it is necessary to purchase more industries for the royal family and invest in overseas land. This is obviously a good way to avoid making excuses for profit with the people. Moreover, as a long-term investment, it is definitely a business that can make a profit without losing money. Of course, the royal family cannot come forward in person, so they still choose to cooperate with the Lin family. Of course, the current royal family can still enjoy some privileges.

Just then, only the footsteps outside the hall heard the sound of footsteps, Li Huamei also came in from outside and said, "Empressions, it turns out that you are all here, that's great."

Ye Yaoying looked at her and smiled and said, "Have the procedures been completed?"

Li Huamei sat on the chair brought to her by the palace maid and said, "I finally finished everything. From now on, I have officially retired from the army, but I am so exhausted."

During this period, Li Huamei was the busiest person. She went to the United Front Work Department every day to go through the discharge procedures. In fact, as she was in her capacity, she didn't have to do these procedures personally. However, she was not the one who had to discharge the army. She also had more than 200 subordinates when Li Huamei surrendered to the Chinese Army. Before they were officially incorporated into the Chinese Army, they also worked as a royal pirate for a period of time, and their personnel were expanded to more than 800. When they were officially reorganized, a total of 553 people joined the Chinese Army.

In the battles over the years, more than 200 people were killed, and the rest basically became the backbone of the navy. After Li Huamei decided to retire and go on a sailing adventure, 37 people in the original department were willing to resign from their military positions and sailed with Li Huamei. So this time, they even handled their retirement procedures. However, because the positions and positions of these 37 people were different, and they had to be handed over, the settlement of the Fenglu, and those who have merits and demerits had to be calculated clearly. Therefore, it was very troublesome to handle the retirement procedures. As a result, it took nearly a month to complete it. It was only for Li Huamei's sake that they had to handle the special matters. If they followed the normal procedures, it would take at least two or three months.

After Li Huamei sat down, Lin Fengwu handed over another account book and smiled and said, "Huamei, this is your account. Except for you and the royal family's rental, you have prepared everything you wanted before, see what else you want."

Li Huamei hurriedly took it over and opened it to see it. Lin Fengwu explained on the side: "This time the total planned cost is 1.2 million silver dollars, of which you personally invested 300,000 yuan and the royal family invested 900,000 yuan. In terms of the distribution of shares, because you are the leader of this voyage, it is calculated to be 35% of the shares, and the royal family calculates 50%. In addition, Lin's shipping company invested three ships and dismantled 15% of the shares. Now the early expenses have already cost 578,200 silver dollars, and another 400,000 is expected to pay the employees' expenses, so there is still about 220,000 yuan."

Li Huamei stuck out her tongue and said, "I spent so much money all at once. I didn't expect that sailing really cost money. But I was born and died and beat the waves. In the end, I could only lose 35% of the stocks. You can do nothing and just invest money to account for 50% of the stocks. It seems that my life is really hard."

Yalisandra smiled and said, "The sailing activities are already money-burning activities, and everyone has a royal fee. After you enter the palace, you will have one of your shares. Now the shares you own are just your own private money. Besides, you have even paid for the entire person, will you still have this share?"

When the others heard this, they couldn't help laughing. Although Li Huamei had always been bold, she was also a little red from laughing. She looked at the account book simply and said, "Empress Concubine, the matter of shares has been settled like this, but I don't have the energy to read this volume carefully now. I'll take a closer look at it in the evening. Can I give it to you tomorrow?"

Lin Fengwu smiled slightly and said, "Of course, if you don't understand, just ask me if you don't understand."

In fact, Alisandra is not wrong. In any era, sailing activities are a money-burning thing. Several major sailing experiences in Europe in the 15th century, such as Dagama's departure from a new route, Columbus' discovery of the United States, Magellan's global sailing, etc., were all invested by royal families from various European countries. Moreover, before these sailings began, Dagama, Columbus and Magellan had all tried their best to get funding, and Zheng He's sailing in China was organized entirely by the court, so it was difficult to organize large-scale sailing activities with personal strength alone.

But the difference is that the royal families of European countries invested in navigation for profit, while the Ming Dynasty organized Zheng He's navigation to show off their national prestige. Therefore, European navigation adventure activities developed into a globalized large-scale navigation. After the national strength of the Ming Dynasty weakened, China finally stopped sailing activities and withdrew from the competition in the ocean.

As everyone was talking, they saw a waiter coming in and said, "Empress, Empress, the emperor is busy with official duties today, so he had lunch with the adults in the cabinet. You don't have to wait."

After hearing this, Ye Yaoying nodded and said, "As it is, then I will order the meal in the imperial kitchen."

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If something major had not happened, Shang Yi would usually go back to the palace to have lunch with the concubines, rather than staying in the cabinet to have dinner with the cabinet ministers. However, this morning, the cabinet received two consecutive urgent reports, both major events, so Shang Yi had to stay in the cabinet to have lunch, and then discussed countermeasures with the cabinet officials in the afternoon.

Both of these things happened in the northeastern region. The first thing was news from the northeastern border. Russia sent reinforcements from Moscow to Nibchu City and began to invade and plunder the Chinese territory along the Heilongjiang River basin, robbing two villages in a row. The Shenyang Military Region of the Chinese Army has been paying attention to the situation on the northeastern border. The Chinese army stationed on the border immediately attacked and met a Russian army in the area of ​​the Zhuorna River, a tributary of the upper tributary of the Heilongjiang River. The two sides fought fiercely. The Chinese army killed more than 100 Russian troops and won a victory.

Moreover, after receiving the report, Tong Dayong, the commander of the military region stationed in Chenyang, immediately led his army to the front line to command the battle.

But just a few days after Tong Dayong attacked, another more important thing happened in the Northeast, far more important than the border. Someone raised the flag and rebelled in Liaodong.
Chapter completed!