Chapter 298: The Emperor was frightened
Zhu Youzhang is impatient, and he belongs to the kind of work that is done today. In the early morning, Zhu Youzhang often had to finish the memorials sent by the Secretary for Administration early in the morning before eating a bowl of rice porridge and stretched his muscles in the Zhengxin Hall.
At this time, a ray of sunlight shone into the hall through the paper window. Zhu Youzhang took a deep breath, then called an eunuch with him and asked, "Is there anything wrong outside the palace recently?"
The eunuch who was with him was confused. What was going on? He didn't know. He said aily: "Your Majesty, I don't know."
Zhu Youzhang curled his lips and said, "Where is Liu Chengfeng? Why did Liu Chengfeng make trouble recently?"
Liu Chengfeng entered Beijing. Although everyone looked at him coldly, his every word and action was actually quite popular. The eunuch who was with him must have heard some rumors in the palace and laughed.
He smiled and said, "Your Majesty, it seems that nothing happened. The Marquis of Lianzhou is at his home every day, either he will have friends for a while or he will stay in the door. But I don't know what the details are."
Zhu Youzhe nodded, couldn't help but smile, and then said, "Just be able to calm down. Only by grinding hard can he become a talent. He is too popular."
After saying that, Zhu Youzing stopped saying anything, took a few steps, and then said, "Step the Kunning Palace."
The eunuch with the servant hurried out to pass Zhu Youzhang's oral order. The chasing was stopped outside the Zhengxin Palace. Zhu Youzhang got on the chasing and led a team of people to Kunning Palace. Zhu Youzhang's work and rest time
It is still punctual now. At this time, most of them have to go to Kunning Palace, so Kunning Palace is also prepared and does not seem panic. When the sage came, there was a eunuch and the palace servant knelt in two ways to greet him.
Zhu Youzhang came down from the stroll and entered the main palace calmly, but happened to run into the Zhang brothers.
It is common for the Zhang brothers to enter and exit the palace. After all, they are Queen Zhang's legitimate brothers. Zhu Youzhang was also afraid that Queen Zhang would be lonely, so he did not prohibit it. When the Zhang brothers saw Zhu Youzhang, they were like mice and cats.
You must kneel down and salute.
Zhu Youzhang seemed to be in a good mood today. Xu helped them and said, "It's all my family, so there's no need to be too polite. Get up and talk. When will I enter the palace?"
Zhang Heling lowered his head and said, "Return to the emperor's words, Chen Shi came in and said a few words with the empress, and then go back."
Zhu Youzhe nodded, couldn't help but smile and said, "I'm sorry, the queen has been feeling unwell recently. You are the queen's closest family. You should be more diligent in going into and out of the palace. I'm busy with documents and can't take care of many things.
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Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling said yes together, and their eyes were rolling around, and they didn't dare to raise their eyes to look at Zhu Youzhang.
Seeing that they were like this, Zhu Youzhe was not interested in saying anything else to them. He waved his hand and said, "Forget it, I'll go in first."
After saying that, Zhu Youtang walked into Kunning Palace. The Zhang brothers looked at each other, and they were worried and hurriedly left the palace without mentioning it.
When Queen Zhang heard the movement outside, as soon as Zhu Youzhang stepped into the threshold, Queen Zhang saluted towards him, blessed her body and said, "Your Majesty is in peace."
Zhu Youzhang helped her up and said in a gentle tone: "Haven't you got cold recently? Don't be too polite. Where is Duoduo? Why aren't you here today?"
Empress Zhang smiled sweetly, let Zhu Youzhang sit down on the couch, and said, "Let Eunuch Zhou take it to supervise learning the piano. Your Majesty, I have something to say now."
Empress Zhang's serious look made Zhu Youting laugh. She moved a golden pun and sat down. She held Queen Zhang's tenderness in her hand and said, "It's natural that husband and wife are all in one's words.
Can you say, why should the queen be so solemn? It makes me feel a little uncomfortable."
Queen Zhang laughed and said, "Your Majesty, my brother has just entered the palace and told me one thing, that Liu Chengfeng is going to do business again."
"Oh?" Zhu Youzhang suddenly became interested. Liu Chengfeng said that he wanted to do business, and the business must be quite large. Zhu Youzhang had already looked at Liu Chengfeng several times, especially Jubaolou, which was a masterpiece.
Zhu Youzhang was deeply impressed and still remembered it freshly. A teahouse business can now receive millions of taels of silver dividends in the palace every month, and this number will increase in the future. It is estimated that it will be 1.5 million taels this month.
This means that there is a dividend of nearly 20 million taels of silver a year, which is ten times the tax on grain. Now there is still a surplus in the palace, and many things are much more convenient to do. This emperor did it,
It's really more interesting than before.
In the past, there were famines. The palace should be worried, not because of the fear that famines will not be controlled. Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there have been no famines in that year? But where did the money come from?
There are also border troops. The military pay of border troops has always been owed. It is better in a good harvest, and it will be owed at most for three months. However, if the year is not good, it is common to owe it for half a year. Therefore, border towns are
There will be mutinies there many times. Although it will not hurt the body, it is impossible to continue like this.
Now that I have money, everything is easy to say. Even Zhu Youzhang, who has always been saving, has gradually become more generous. The cost in the palace has increased by 50%, and he has a wide range of money and has no troubles.
Queen Zhang saw Zhu Youzhang's thoughts, then smiled and said, "Your Majesty, I have heard that the future profits of Liu Chengfeng's business this time will not be below Jubao Building."
Zhu Youting's eyebrows and eyes couldn't help but jump, and his face changed slightly. Now Jubao Building has added 20 million silver to the inner warehouse in a year. If you do such a business again, wouldn't the surplus in the palace exceed 40 million? Four thousand
Wanna, what a big number!
Queen Zhang laughed again and continued, "Liu Chengfeng has already spoken. Half of the shares in this business are still for Hou Zhao. The rest are all relying on merchants to invest in. Look at them, they are thinking about it.
It is to earn money for the Zhu family and be loyal to the country to this extent. Who in the world can do it? Liu Chengfeng is the lucky star of Kuizhao. With him, we will have a good life for Kuizhao."
Zhu Youzhang fully agrees with this sentence. Zhu Houzhao's life has been so easy since Liu Chengfeng. Think about it, if Zhu Youzhang left once, even if the taxes of the court increased to three million yuan.
But so what? Zhu Youzhang was still struggling to save this point. Zhu Houzhao's temperament knew that he was not the kind of person who was willing to be lonely. Zhu Youzhang used to worry that the world would be handed over to Zhu Houzhao, and something big would happen sooner or later. But now
Zhu Youzhang was completely relieved. The so-called governing the country can never be avoided by the word "money" in any case. There is enough money and food. If foreign enemies invade, they will be hit hard. If there is a famine, they will be relieved on the spot. If there are refugees who cause trouble,
It is just to use the suffrage and comfort. On the surface, it seems easy to say, but these are all worthless.
Liu Chengfeng can make money, which will help the country and the country deeply. Zhu Youtong has a deep understanding of it.
"But..." Empress Zhang couldn't help but smile when she saw Zhu Youling's intentions and said, "It's just that this business has some minor trouble."
Zhu Youzhang smiled and said proudly: "What's the problem? Even if he is loyal to the country, I will certainly have to be sympathetic to him. Will it make him embarrassed?"
Queen Zhang glanced at Zhu Youzhang. In her heart, he strongly supported Liu Chengfeng. For no other reason, what Liu Chengfeng did now is good for the prince. She only has this kind of heart for her mother.
She didn't want Zhu Houzhao to be a resilient monarch like her father, but she hoped that Zhu Houzhao could be a carefree and upright monarch.
It was this thought that she realized the necessity of Liu Chengfeng in business. If the business really needs to be done well, what else should her own children have to worry about?
What's more, whether it is Jubao Building or the business that Liu Chengfeng is preparing to prepare, the Zhang brothers also have one. After all, the Zhang family is Queen Zhang's family, so naturally I hope they can live a good life. She is not
You must do your best.
Queen Zhang looked at Zhu Youzhang with a look in her eyes, and then said, "Emperor, Liu Chengfeng's business is going to be banned from the sea..."
Sea ban...
Zhu Youzhi was stunned for a moment, and his face immediately became a little unnatural.
The maritime ban is really important. In the second year of Hongzhi, a minister wrote a letter to request the maritime ban, but it soon caused an uproar in the court. Not only the six ministries opposed it, but the cabinet opposed it, and even the governors from all over the country wrote letters, Zhu Youleng
Just ascended the throne, I was a little helpless when I saw this attitude for the first time. This incident had a huge shadow on him and made him deeply understand that it was absolutely impossible to open a ban on the sea. There was no room for negotiation on this matter.
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Seeing Zhu Youting's face dark, Queen Zhang looked at Zhu Youting with concern and said, "Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?"
"I...I'm fine..."
Zhu Youzhang shook his head and smiled bitterly.
In fact, with his insight, how could he not know the benefits of opening the sea ban to the court? But he knew that this matter would never be completed. The reason was very simple, and there were too many benefits involved.
In Jiangnan, there are countless aristocratic families, and these aristocratic families have particularly close relationships with ministers in the court. In addition, the relevant famous scholars have already organized a huge interest group. It is precisely because of the forbidden seas,
Ordinary merchants cannot go into the sea. If they go into the sea, they will be punished by treason. For merchants, this is a constraint. However, for these aristocratic families in Jiangnan, the so-called maritime ban is actually empty talk and something that others cannot do.
They can do it, but others cannot go into the sea, but they can only go into the sea with cargo ships that are limited to these aristocratic families, which has led to them completely monopolizing the huge profits of shipping. However, once the sea is opened, the world does not know that merchant ships will go into the water.
, The competition is becoming increasingly fierce, why do they control the price and eat this alone?
These aristocratic families are now connected into huge interest groups, and the entire government and the country are filled with their sound tubes, especially officials from Jiangnan, who are almost closely related to them. In other words, the relatives and friends of these people have already participated and cannot extricate themselves.
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At this time, if Zhu Youzhang wanted to unleash the maritime ban, he would immediately arouse opposition from the whole world.
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Chapter completed!