In Zhu Hao's view, at least so far, Zhu Si has maintained the style of combining work and rest with a certain degree of relaxation when he was in the palace. He just plays and does not delay his studies and work. His self-discipline is also the same as before, but he wants to make people more relaxed and relaxed.
It would be very difficult for an emperor with uncontrolled power to behave like this all the time.
In the first few years after he ascended the throne, Zhu Si's self-discipline was very necessary when fighting against die-hard veterans such as Yang Tinghe.
Before reviewing the memorial, Zhu Hao told Zhu Si about finding Su Xigui to cooperate with merchants to open a bank and bank account, and explained to him the importance of using finance to control the imperial court's financial resources.
Zhu Si asked in confusion: "Since opening a bank is so important, then just let the court run it. Why do we need to find merchants? Can they be trusted?"
Next to them, Zhang Zuo and Tang Yin both acted as assistants to help sort out the memorials. To put it bluntly, they selected the memorials that had no important content and handed them over to Zhang Zuo, who approved them in the name of the Supervisor of Ceremonies. Zhang Zuo was now also serving as the Supervisor of Ceremonies at the same time.
Eunuchs and eunuchs have two important powers.
After listening to the conversation between Zhu Hao and the new emperor, they all looked at Zhu Hao, wanting to hear Zhu Hao's explanation.
Zhu Hao shook his head: "There are two risks. The first one is that as the king of a country, His Majesty cannot participate in competing for interests with the people. This is the most contradictory point in Confucianism. If you want to participate in the name of the court,
We will encounter resistance from courtiers. This is a policy risk."
Zhang Zuo said from the side: "Yes, Your Majesty, now let alone the imperial court, even if the palace wants to open a shop to do some business, the ministers will not allow it. If they hear the slightest rumor, they will go to court and impeach. The imperial court cannot take the lead.
This is the first of its kind. Didn’t Huangzhuang have Mr. Yang Ge disbanded before?"
Zhu Sidao: "That means that the person in front...has already thought about making money?"
Zhu Hao smiled and said: "The late emperor not only thought of making money, but also developed many royal houses and businesses, and appointed many people to take care of them. Although the harvest was not much... After all, the people below were bent on corruption and perverting the law, and they really contributed to the imperial court and the inner treasury.
The benefits brought are minimal, but it cannot be said that open source was not taken into consideration."
Zhu Si nodded: "It's a pity that my cousin only knows how to increase revenue, but doesn't know how to reduce expenditure, and his level of open source is really not high."
Hearing the emperor's evaluation of Wu Zong, everyone present couldn't help but smile knowingly.
Zhu Hao said: "There is still a risk when the court comes forward, that is, the credibility is not high and the people are unwilling to accept it."
Now Zhu Si was puzzled: "The credibility of the imperial court is not high? So what is more trustworthy than the imperial court?"
Zhu Hao shook his head: "Your Majesty, you must understand that there is no power to supervise and restrict the court. There are huge policy risks. The court can suddenly confiscate private wealth without any legal restrictions. In addition, the status of the common people, merchants and the court is not right.
Wait, no one is willing to store money representing wealth and life in the hands of the court. If it were you, wouldn't you be afraid that the court would confiscate your hard-earned money and not return it?"
Zhu Si thought about it seriously, and although he didn't want to admit it, he still nodded with his eyes widened.
"In fact, starting from the Song Dynasty, the imperial court organized the issuance of banknotes to replace copper coins. The dynasty even issued treasure banknotes. However, the results were obvious. Because of the unequal value and incomplete recycling mechanism, the imperial court was indiscriminately issuing banknotes without establishing equivalent physical objects.
, resulting in the treasure banknotes now becoming like useless paper.”…
Hearing this, Zhang Zuo asked hurriedly: "Mr. Zhu, those merchants... are probably even more untrustworthy than the imperial court? They are the most cunning in business. If they get other people's money, will they repay it? Who believes it!"
Zhu Haodao: "This involves the issue of social status. You must know that most people who deposit money in banks have government backgrounds. Do you think people with official endorsements will worry about a group of merchants without social status when depositing money?
Deadbeat?"
"this……"
Zhang Zuo originally wanted to have a good discussion with Zhu Hao, but unexpectedly, he became silent as soon as he came up.
Zhu Si said angrily: "Listen to Zhu Hao, don't pretend to understand if you don't understand!"
Zhang Zuo lowered his head angrily, not daring to say anything anymore.
Tang Yin looked at Zhang Zuo with sympathetic eyes, as if to say, if you compete with a boy like Zhu Hao in crooked ways, no one in the world can beat him, so you'd better stop trying.
Zhu Hao continued: "Moreover, merchants are subject to multiple factors such as integrity and goodwill. Doing business in any world requires integrity as a support. Therefore, even if there is no business, there is no need for fraud, but when doing so, they must also consider the impact of goodwill on them."
The influence of his own business, coupled with the fact that Huizhou merchants have gradually developed into the backbone of Ming Dynasty merchants in the past 20 to 30 years, if they can be recruited and share the shares to open a bank account together... they can make full use of their business territory to quickly expand the bank account.
Grow and grow.”
Zhu Sidao: "Didn't they make that money off?"
Zhu Hao smiled and said: "In terms of shareholding, even if we don't have the manpower and material resources, we still have to account for at least 50%. And even if we have to tighten it, we will use buyout to deprive them of their shares, and finally they will be owned by the imperial court. Is it possible?
Are they really qualified to fight against the imperial court?"
Zhu Hao has instilled knowledge about shares, dry stocks, etc. in Zhu Si over the past few years, and it has penetrated into Zhu Si's heart. He feels that this is the best way to do business as a partnership.
So Zhu Si immediately understood and said in surprise: "I just want to fatten them up and then collect them, so that all the benefits will go to the court."
"The truth is almost the same, but it cannot be said that way. At least when taking it back, the merchants must be given certain benefits so that they cannot lose money. Otherwise...if the imperial court comes forward to develop any business in the future, who will actively participate? So the imperial court also wants to
Those who talk about credibility..."
What Zhu Hao talks about is some operating logic of capitalist society, which ordinary people cannot understand at all.
Or how can we say that Zhu Si is a good student trained by Zhu Hao?
After seven years of being influenced by Zhu Hao's brainwashing and education, Zhu Si now fully agrees with Zhu Hao's logic of making money and governing the country.
What Zhu Hao said originally made sense. What he wanted was to "convince people with reason." However, Confucianism is only about how to control people's hearts. It is often idealistic. It is even more unreasonable in the economic field. Everything is based on agriculture.
This curbed the development of the commodity economy.
From the perspective of social progress, a society based on agriculture is not enough to support the bottleneck caused by population development, and sooner or later it will fall into the Malthusian trap.
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In the latter part of the night, Zhu Si was still reviewing memorials with Zhu Hao.
Zhu Hao is in good spirits. Although he will have the imperial examination in two days, he is a typical night owl and he is young, so he does not feel tired.…
Zhu Si forced himself to review the memorial together.
"If your Majesty is tired, please return to the palace early."
Zhu Hao looked at Zhu Si who was covering his mouth and yawning, and suggested.
Zhu Si shook his head: "It's okay. If I'm tired, I'll lie down on the table and sleep for a while, just like when I was listening to the lectures in the Royal Palace... When the morning session is over, I'll go back and catch up on my sleep. As long as you're here, I'll sleep during the day.
I feel much more relaxed, and I will try to sleep more during the day from now on."
It means that I will try to keep in step with you, and I will go out to live a colorful nightlife in the future.
Zhang Zuoqiang held on and said: "Mr. Zhu, it is inconvenient for your majesty to leave the palace during the day, so I want to come out at night, but your majesty... we still give priority to the dragon body."
Zhu Si yawned again, sat down and stretched, shook his head and said: "What's wrong with the dragon body? I was forced to sit on the throne by someone, oh, by the way, Zhu Hao"
, I have always wanted to ask you something... please step aside, I want to talk to Zhu Hao alone."
Suddenly, Zhu Si showed off his imperial style again.
Zhang Zuo, Tang Yin and others didn't know what was going on, so they got up and left.
Then Zhu Si leaned his head and asked in a low voice: "Zhu Hao, let me ask you, how did the late emperor die?"
Zhu Hao asked strangely: "Didn't he contract a lung disease after falling into the water and die after years of unrecovering?"
"Isn't it right? Then how can you deduce it? Is it you..." Zhu Si's thoughts, just as Zhu Hao thought, began to doubt the cause of Zhu Houzhao's death.
Zhu Si had no chance before, but now that he finally met Zhu Hao, he suddenly remembered and naturally wanted to ask clearly.
Zhu Hao shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, I am not familiar with the late emperor and the sycophants around him, so I am incapable of carrying out the act of regicide. This matter has nothing to do with me."
Zhu Si was dubious: "That means you can divine secrets? Who did you learn your skills from? Mr. Tang? I have asked Mr. Tang before, and he said that although he is your nominal mentor, there is something else behind you.
Expert advice..."
Zhu Hao wanted to scold Tang Yin, but he was shaking his head. From what he said, it seemed that Zhu Si had asked Tang Yin about the situation, and things had changed a long time ago, but Tang Yin never mentioned it to him.
Zhu Haodao: "I have a wide range of knowledge and have read many ancient books. In addition to Mr. Tang, the people who gave me guidance include Wang Zhongcheng, the former governor of southern Jiangxi, and others. Oh, by the way, there are also tutors from the royal palace..."
"Is Wang Zhongcheng Wang Shouren? He is very powerful...haven't you been to Anlu before?" Zhu Si suddenly became interested when Zhu Hao mentioned Wang Shouren.
Zhu Hao sighed: "This person is very capable, but he is unruly. He was the first to put down the rebellion of King Ning, but he was hated by the traitor. This kind of person may not be able to take care of himself in the affairs of the ministry, but if he wants to
He is an unparalleled genius who protects borders and protects territory, but no one can surpass him."
Zhu Hao's evaluation of Wang Shouren is also fair.
Wang Shouren was not the kind of minister who was good at maneuvering in the officialdom. Firstly, because of his upright personality, he did not like to flatter others. Secondly, because he was jealous of many capable people, he could not handle interpersonal relationships well. In addition, the relationship between Wang Shouren and Wang Qiong made it difficult for him to do so.
It is difficult for him to get ahead in the officialdom, which is based on seniority.
But if there is any disaster in the place, let Wang Shouren take care of it, or command the three sides to fight foreign barbarians, etc. Who in the world can be stronger than Wang Shouren? Even Wang Shouren's "mentor" Wang Qiong feels inferior to him at this point.
, and what rank was Wang Qiong in the history of the Ming Dynasty?
"Oh. Got it."
Zhu Si nodded after being taught.
He probably understood that Wang Shouren could not be transferred to the capital to serve as a minister or minister, but if there was a rebellion somewhere or a war in the northwest, it would definitely be useful to go to Wang Shouren.
"Your Majesty, take a rest early. I will help you review it and sort it out for you one by one. After your Majesty returns, you can take a few glances at the documents before going to court. As Eunuch Zhang said, your Majesty's dragon body is the most important thing."