Shi Jiang watched the paper slips burn into ashes in the incense burner and tapped the table with his fingers.
The real person in power behind Juhuitong is definitely not Shen Tong.
With the ability of the Shen family, even the middle-class families in this capital, and some slightly more powerful families, could suppress him and make him breathless.
But Shen Tong not only ran the Juhuitong Bank well in the capital, but also opened it all over the counties below major prefectures.
Coupled with what she discovered that day, the water in Juhuitong is very deep!
However, I just don't know whether the person behind this is the one on the chair or the one in the east palace.
If it was the one from the East Palace, Shi Jiang didn't want to get to know Juhuitong in depth.
After all, the person sitting on the chair now is still in his prime.
I don’t know how many years it will take until the East Palace takes over.
If it were the person on the chair, we could cooperate.
After all, what you want to do is make money.
I believe that the person on the chair will control Shen Tong behind the scenes. The biggest reason for opening this Juhuitong is also for money.
In just a few decades after the establishment of the new dynasty, construction was needed all over the country.
However, these constructions require funding from the state treasury.
Today, people born in Cao Mang have no background at all. The money in the national treasury is taxes collected from below.
When the world was first settled, the common people did not have much peace of mind in farming.
Even if there is such a thing, the taxes ordered to be collected today are quite low.
If he were to be given additional gifts, there would be no guarantee that others would not continue to do what he started.
For the sake of stability, he must not add any additional gifts.
But as a result, there was no money in the treasury, and the court needed to spend a lot of money, not only on the construction of state capitals in various places, but also on the soldiers guarding the border towns.
We can't let them go hungry and fight with scraps of metal while they are bleeding out, right?
Food, grass, armaments, which ones do not require large sums of money to support?
At present, there is really no other way, so I came up with the idea of competing with the people and secretly letting Shen Tong open Juhuitong Bank.
In fact, it is convenient for him to collect more money, which can be used by the country.
And Shen Tong did not disappoint him. The originally tight national treasury began to feel better in the second year after Shen Tong opened Juhuitong.
Originally, in the palace, nowadays, people are focusing on how to be frugal when it comes to celebrating their birthdays.
This time, it was the Empress Dowager's sixtieth birthday, and the Minister of Rites sent a memorial, intending to organize it in a big way and enjoy it with the people.
Now thinking that it was the queen mother's birthday, she naturally nodded in agreement.
Chu Ziyue returned to Beijing this time to wish the Queen Mother a happy birthday.
"Your Majesty, Chu Ziyue, pays homage to your Majesty."
After Chu Ziyue took the two elixirs given by Shi Jiang, all the old injuries on her body seemed to disappear without a trace.
Although Wu He said that the other party asked him to forget what happened in the ruined temple, but when he thought of Shi Jiang's face, how could Chu Ziyue agree.
However, countless people have been sent out to investigate, but there is still no news about Shi Jiang.
It has been almost a month since he returned to Beijing. He was injured before and could not go to the palace to see His Majesty. Now that the injury is healed, he naturally has to go to the palace to see His Majesty.
"Get up quickly, Ziyue, how many years have I not seen you? Let me take a good look, you have indeed grown up! How happy I would be if Marquis Wen was still here!"
The emperor stood up from the dragon chair, walked down and helped Chu Ziyue up. After looking at it carefully, he sighed.
"Thank you for your compliment, Your Majesty."
When the emperor mentioned his adoptive father's name, Chu Ziyue lowered his eyelids slightly and pursed his mouth tightly.
At that time, his adoptive father Wen Heng was guarding Jingzhou, but he didn't expect that the court's food and grass had not arrived for a long time. The whole city was pitiful and had to dig up the land to eat it.
In the end, the foster father led the Wen family's army to resist the 100,000-strong army of Emperor Ai outside Jingzhou City.
On the day Emperor Ai's army was defeated, his adoptive father also died in battle due to exhaustion.
Because so many people were involved in the food and grass transportation incident, the emperor only praised Wen Heng and made him Marquis of Yongding, but did not punish those who caused Wen Heng's death in battle.
As Chu Ziyue was Wen Heng's adopted son, over the years, people involved in the grain and grass affairs had often given him obstacles.
However, he has been taking over Wen Heng's old department and staying in Jingzhou.
Even if those people want to take action, they are beyond their reach.
Over the years, Chu Ziyue sent countless people out in order to find evidence of those who killed his adoptive father, and finally got some clues.
The assassination in the ruined temple was because the person who harmed his adoptive father could no longer sit still and wanted to kill him once and for all.
If it hadn't been for Shi Jiang's intervention, I'm afraid Chu Ziyue would really have become an injustice.
However, he finally returned to the capital from the ruined temple, and on the same day he handed a piece of paper to the palace to ask for an audience with His Majesty.
Unfortunately, the emperor just sent someone to convey a message, asking him to rest in peace and recuperate first, and then wait until he recovers.
Now, after entering the palace, the emperor did not mention a word about his assassination. Presumably, during these days, the emperor had already found out the whole story.
This time, I'm afraid he will have to let it go like his adoptive father did!
Sure enough, after the emperor sighed a few words, he said to him.
"I have already checked what happened to you before, but it was just something done by some young people. I have also dealt with all the shameful things. You can rest assured that the same thing will never happen again in the future. The Queen Mother knows
You are coming, but you have been whispered in my ears several times. It is rare for you to enter the palace, so go and pay your respects to the Queen Mother first!"
The reason why the Queen Mother was whispering in the Emperor's ears was because the Emperor's youngest sister, Princess Changle, could not forget Chu Ziyue.
This time, Chu Ziyue was asked to return to the capital, and the Queen Mother wanted to make a decree to marry Changle to Chu Ziyue.
However, the emperor knew that Chu Ziyue was originally raised at home by Marquis Wen. Although he was nominally an adopted son, he was raised as a son-in-law.
After Wen Hou died in battle, Chu Ziyue took care of Wen Heng's daughter Wen Jin as his adopted son.
It was a pity that Wen Jin was in poor health and died of illness on the eve of her marriage to Chu Ziyue.
For this reason, Chu Ziyue swore never to marry again in this life.
If Chu Ziyue had not approved the betrothal of Changle to him, he might have aroused Chu Ziyue's rebellious mentality.
Not to mention anything else, if Chu Ziyue ignores Changle, how will he live in the future?
The emperor still felt very sorry for this sister, and only hoped that Chu Ziyue could marry Chang Le willingly, so that Chang Le would be truly happy.
When Chu Ziyue heard what the emperor said, he was noncommittal.
The Queen Mother only met him once when his adoptive father took him to her.
Where can I talk about my own affairs?
However, since His Majesty said so, Chu Ziyue could only bow her hands and retreat, then turned around and went to the Summer Palace where the Queen Mother lived.
"Dagui, do you think I did something wrong?"
Looking at Chu Ziyue's leaving figure, the emperor took a long time to utter a word.
"Your Majesty, you are also in trouble with this matter. Just make it up to General Chu in the future!"