Zhuge Sanhe was really right!

If you only look at the "bankbook", Zhu Heji was indeed the poorest among the Zhou family bosses in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Because Zhu Heji's treasury only had a mere one million yuan in silver deposits... Fortunately, the Customs Department of the Ministry of Household and the Dongyin Coin Factory established last year are two relatively capable yamen. Each of these two yamen

He was able to pay more than 300,000 taels (taels) in customs duties, vehicle and vessel taxes (also collected by the Customs Department), and interest taxes every month. Otherwise, the savings of one million taels would not be enough for the Ming Dynasty's turnover!

After Emperor Kangxi received donations from a group of Eight Banners disciples who had destroyed their families to provide relief, his household deposits had exceeded 18 million taels, a full seventeen times more than Zhu Heji!

He is truly "the richest in the world"!

And Burni, the destined emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, made a huge profit from plundering Beijing, and now he has saved a "huge sum" of seven to eight million taels of silver.

As for Wu Yingxiong, he inherited his father Wu Sangui's savings over the years, and there were three to four million taels of silver in the national treasury.

Zhu Heji, who had just taken a boat trip on the Qinhuai River with Yang Ziyun and Miss Yang, had a meal, listened to a play, exchanged gifts, and even held hands (really holding hands), now realized that he was actually

The poorest person in the world, half of his good mood suddenly disappeared.

Okay, why are you the poorest?

He originally had a lot of fun with Yang Ziyun, so he wanted to come to Zhuge Sanhe, Yu Zhongxian and the others to discuss the matter of proposing marriage. Unexpectedly, he found that he had become "the poorest in the world"!

At this time, he had no intention of talking to Zhuge Sanhe, Yu Zhongxian and others about taking concubines. So he pulled up a chair and sat down in Zhuge Sanhe's study, ready to say goodbye to the three in front of him.

Let’s talk about financial issues.

"Your Majesty," Ma Chenglong, Master Ma, also spoke with a tearful face, "If the imperial court spends strictly in accordance with the budget, then there should still be some money saved by the end of this year, and the national treasury can reach 2.5 million taels. Otherwise.

If so, there will be 2.5 million taels in the national treasury! At that time, there will be no money in the treasury of Hubu, only IOUs... I don’t know how to be the owner of Hubu.

"

Is there a bank in the Ministry of Revenue? Zhu Heji thought to himself: "There is a bank in the Ministry of Households? There is only an accounting room in the Ministry of Households!"

"Your Majesty," Yu Zhongxian said, "if there is a deficit in the Treasury of the Ministry of Revenue, there will be no way to turn around... Either you use the internal funds to lend it to the court, or you stop the major construction in Nanjing.

"

"Internal funds?" Zhu Heji glared at the old man, "Master Qi, don't you know whether my internal funds have any money?

Although I have shares in the Dongchang Guanyin Company, the North Distillery, the Nei Gunpowder Factory, the West Saltworks Factory, the South Equipment Factory, and the Nanyang Trading Company, the dividends from these banks, factories, and companies are not much. And I have to pay for it myself.

Money is needed to repair the Imperial City and the Palace of Heavenly Kings, as well as the Palace of the Weaver Girl, build plaster factories, brick factories, iron factories, open iron mines and coal mines... All this requires a lot of investment!"

Zhu Heji created many businesses, but not many of them were truly his own. Among the factories, companies and factories in which he owned shares, only Bei Distillery produced Daming Chun Liquor, Daming Royal Liquor and Daming Royal Perfume.

In that factory, Zhu Heji took a large share... He took 50% of the shares, and the remaining 50% were "body shares", which are shares that share money with the current management and employees.

Moreover, these businesses have only been open for a few years, and they are still in a period of rapid growth. A large amount of money needs to be invested every year to expand production, and the dividend rate is not high.

In this case, Zhu Heji will not get much dividends.

After he arrived in Nanjing, he immediately started a new entrepreneurial project. This time he targeted industries such as steel, cement, coal mining, masonry and textiles... The stalls were very large and required a lot of investment.

In addition, Zhu Heji also spent his own money to build the Forbidden City and Tianwang Palace in Nanjing.

These are two quite big expenses!

Therefore, Zhu Heji's own capital chain was also very tight, and he had no spare money to lend to the court.

Zhuge Sanhe's face was solemn, as if he was having an ideological struggle. Now that he heard Zhu Heji said that he had no money, he had no choice but to sigh: "Your Majesty, if it doesn't work out, we can only increase the salary!"

"No!"

"You must not send more troops or recruit more troops!"

Yu Zhongxian and Ma Chenglong immediately raised their objections loudly.

How did Emperor Chongzhen die?

Didn't they send three extra wages to force the Shaanxi people to rebel, causing internal and external embarrassment, exhausting their lives, and finally having no choice but to die in Meishan?

"What's the extra money for?" Zhu Heji waved his hand, "There's no need for it."

"Your Majesty is wise," Ma Chenglong said, "then please spend within your means and maintain a balance of income and expenditure no matter what."

"How is it possible to balance the budget?" Zhu Heji smiled and waved his hand, "Now is war time! Moreover, it is also a war between the four countries, competing for the throne. The fight is so big, how can it be possible to live within one's means?

Now is the time to spend money, whoever spends more and spends more will gain the upper hand!"

Zhuge Sanhe shook his head repeatedly, "But..."

Mr. Yu was very anxious, "Qi Zi, where does the money come from?"

Ma Chenglong looked helpless, "Your Majesty, we can't conjure money out of thin air!"

Zhu Heji laughed: "The imperial court can borrow it!"

"Borrow?" Zhuge Sanhe was stunned, "Borrow from whom?"

Zhu Heji said with a smile: "Borrow from the merchants! Does King Nan of Zhou know that he is heavily in debt? The Gu family is going to learn from King Nan of Zhou and use a strategy to build high debts!"

A plan to build up debt? Does this mean that you have to borrow money and not repay it?

No one can do this!

Zhuge Sanhe, Yu Zhongxian and Ma Chenglong didn't know what to say.

"If we want to give four million to Dengzhou and one million to Wu Yingqi...how much is the deficit of the Ministry of Household Affairs?"

"At least a loss of 3.5 million..." Ma Chenglong said, "This is a loss this year."

"There will be a big enkei program this year!" Zhu He said, "Now the equalization of land in Jiangnan, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang cannot be promoted. In the final analysis, there is still a lack of capable officials. The only way to solve this problem is to open a subject to obtain scholars, or to

You should be generous to others!"

"The deficit will be more than four million!" Ma Chenglong almost gritted his teeth and reported the figure.

Zhu Heji nodded: "Four million is not much...issue five million national bonds!"

"Five million in national debt?"

"This, this, this..."

"Your Majesty, why are the merchants willing to borrow it?"

Zhu Heji smiled: "You don't have to worry about this matter, the Gu family will take care of it... When we hold the small court meeting in Wuying Palace tomorrow, let's discuss how to spend money together!"

...

Zhu Heji's daily court meetings were held in Wuying Hall with the heads of the two mansions, six ministries, and nine ministers, plus a few ministers. Including Zhu Heji himself, there were about thirty people in attendance.

people.

These people sat around a rectangular table. Among them, Zhu Heji sat at the head of the conference table, facing north and south, while the others sat on both sides.

As for the important content to be discussed at the meeting, the Attendant Office will inform the following officials in advance through formal documents.

So everyone already knows that today they are going to discuss with Zhu Heji how to spend the "non-existent" money!

This is really a bit ridiculous!

Therefore, when the meeting began, the people below did not know how to speak for a moment, and the scene was a bit cold.

"Zuo Chunqiu," Zhu Heji was as confident as ever and simply named Zuo Chunqiu who was about to go on an envoy to Wu Yingqi. "The Gu family has prepared a list... There are things on it that can be provided

Give Wu Yingqi a list of supplies and the upper limit of each kind of goods he can get. In total, he can get supplies worth one million taels!"

Zuo Chunqiu stood up and hugged Zhu Heji, "Your Majesty, can Wu Yingqi really get so many things?"

"Of course!" Zhu Heji said, "But the Gu family won't give him cash... and he doesn't need it! The output of Shaanxi and Gansu is limited, and fortunately the price is relatively low. If the money flows in all at once,
Chapter completed!