Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 910 Flicker, see Flicker again

"You think my internal money is your family's cornucopia, and you can get it out of six or seven million taels?"

If this sentence was placed between other monarchs and ministers, the ministers would probably be scared to pee, but Gao Yushi is obviously not afraid. He is indeed rich, but his money comes from clean sources, and Zhu Yijun knows it well.And with their current relationship, there is no need to worry that Zhu Yijun will think about slaughtering sheep.

So Gao Wushi laughed, and said: "The emperor wants to treat King Lu generously, and he also said that there is no money in the internal funds, so it seems that this money is going to force the Ministry of Households to admit it?"

Zhu Yijun felt that he was wronged, and said resentfully: "Zhen...cough! To be practical, let me tell you the truth... You also know that I just took office this year, and the two palaces are still watching closely, especially the queen mother. She has always doted on Yilu, if I, the emperor's brother, were stingy in this matter, I'm afraid it would be a little bad."

Gao Wushi curled his lips slightly and asked, "So?"

"So?" Zhu Yijun raised his eyebrows and said, "So there's nothing you can do about it. First, spend more money to make the queen mother happy. When the country of Yiliu leaves the capital, the queen mother will gradually take care of things, and then Say it again."

Gao Wushi spread his hands: "What about the household department? This year, the household department had a bad luck. First, there were floods in the south of the Yangtze River, and then floods and windstorms in the east of Liaodong. It took a few 10 taels to barely settle it, and the minister brought it back. There are so many heads of Mongolian Tartars, the Ministry of War has no money, and the Ministry of Households has no choice, so they have to put in another sum... Now that King Lu is getting married, the Palace of King Lu alone will cost nearly 70 taels, what do you think? Can Hubu take it out?"

Zhu Yijun sighed, and said with an ugly face: "I don't want to, but I can't do anything about it! Before you said that Huangzhuang is easy to do bad things, I listened to you and cut almost half of Huangzhuang last year. Zhong Xungui also handed over some land, and these fields have been handed over to the Ministry of Households for disposal, and now King Lu's matter is imminent, if they don't help me, where can I get money?"

Gao Wushi smiled and said: "I am willing to lend money to the emperor..."

Zhu Yijun was stunned for a moment: "You lend me money?" Then he immediately shook his head: "What kind of trick is this? There is no reason for the emperor to ask his courtiers to borrow money. It must be possible."

"The emperor and his ministers belong to the emperor and his ministers, but the emperor has heard that his friends have the righteousness to spread wealth, and they help the urgent rather than the poor." Gao Yushi said: "It is good that the emperor is rich in the world, but now it is urgent, and it is difficult to raise funds for a while. Although the minister is a minister, after all You have been classmates with the emperor for ten years, how can you turn a blind eye and hear but not hear? Is the emperor afraid that his ministers will give you loan sharks?"

Zhu Yijun was amused by his last sentence, and scolded with a smile: "Give me loan sharks? How dare you say it!"

However, Gao Wushi has already talked to this extent, Zhu Yijun really thought about it carefully, and then said: "Speaking of which, the royal family's gold flowers and silver are not small, even if I borrowed this money, it's not like I can't afford it... But it’s unprecedented, and it always sounds weird.”

Gao Wushi didn't answer immediately, Zhu Yijun paused for a moment, then continued to frown and said: "What's more, now that Huangzhuang has been reduced by half, I'm afraid I won't have a lot of money in the future, so you can lend me this money , I really can’t figure out how many years it will take to pay back.”

Gao Wushi answered this time, with a very indifferent tone, and said, "Does your majesty still remember the minister's palace examination strategy?"

Zhu Yijun was stunned for a moment, nodded and said: "Naturally I remember, 'The great trouble in the world today is poverty: officials who are poor will be arrogant, people who are poor will steal, soldiers who are poor will make trouble, and the country will be weak when it is poor.' I remember it very clearly, and I can even recite it backwards."

Gao Yushi bowed slightly to express his gratitude, and then said: "In this article, I said: 'The old saying is poor, but the first word is not frugal. I think that thrift makes you rich, and rich makes you safe. I don't think so'."

Zhu Yijun nodded thoughtfully.

Gao Yushi said again: "Since ancient times, people who are good at managing money have always praised frugality. A single minister is not good at frugality, but spends money..." He pointed to the Baiyu Tower where he was, and said: "This Baiyu Tower is a clear proof. Although this Baiyu Tower It is not as expensive as Prince Lu's Mansion, but it also cost a few 10 taels, and it is just another courtyard of the minister."

Zhu Yijun couldn't help being a little envious, and sighed: "You are really rich, but you can also really make money."

Gao Wushi clapped his hands and praised: "Your Majesty, you have hit the point. I am willing to spend money, but the premise is that I can make money."

Zhu Yijun nodded.

Unexpectedly, Gao Wushi said again: "But the emperor may not have thought about it carefully, why don't I like to save money like some people, but just spend it when I earn it."

Zhu Yijun also felt strange, and asked, "Yes, why?"

"Because things like money are meaningful only when they are spent." Gao Wushi said, "The golden mountains and silver seas are placed there. They can neither be eaten nor worn. What's the use of them? Is it just for fun?"

These words conflicted a bit with Zhu Yijun's values, but they seemed to make sense, so Zhu Yijun just frowned, but didn't speak immediately, but fell into thinking.

Gao Pragmatism continued, "Besides, the purpose of spending money is sometimes to make more money."

"Is the money spent to make more money?" Zhu Yijun was stunned for a moment, then hesitated and said, "If you want to say that you spend money to open a mine and set up a factory, I can understand that it is to make more money, but you built this white jade building... ...what does that have to do with making money?"

"It's very important." Gao Wushi smiled mysteriously, and said, "What does your majesty think of this Baiyu Tower?"

"Hmm...it seems pretty good." Zhu Yijun was quite honest and didn't try to belittle it.

Gao Wushi said indifferently: "This building is made of masonry and concrete, with steel bars as beams inside. Even without any maintenance, it can be used for at least a hundred years."

Zhu Yijun was taken aback: "Really? You don't need to worry about anything, and you don't need to change it. It can be used for a hundred years?"

That's not surprising. Many palaces in the West have been preserved to later generations, and many of them have only been slightly maintained or renovated in the past few decades. The ancient buildings that have been hundreds of years old have disappeared.

"So you see, Chen built the White Jade Building and found a new construction method. This method can be vigorously promoted in the next time... and this construction method is currently in Daming, only Chen's Jinghua Infrastructure has mastered it. Is it a way to make money with huge profits?"

Zhu Yijun was stunned for a while, then said in astonishment: "So when you build Baiyulou, it's actually...is...oh, in your words, it's just an 'advertisement'?"

Gao Wushi smiled and said, "Now you know why I invited so many officials and nobles here today, right?"

"Got it, got it..." Zhu Yijun nodded again and again, then was taken aback suddenly: "Then I came here today..."

"Uh... I don't plan to pay the emperor's endorsement fee." Gao Wushi hurriedly said: "At most, no interest will be charged for borrowing money."

Zhu Yijun rolled his eyes, and said angrily: "I'm not that snobbish." After a pause, he continued: "However, your advertisement is still a bit expensive, about 10 taels."

Gao Wushi spread his hands: "You have to calculate this account carefully: the stones used to build the Baiyu Building are all white marble from Fangshan. Such a large amount of white marble can support many masons and many porters, right? The cement is produced by Jinghua itself, but it is also bought at a cost, so that it can support a group of people... It also needs to use steel bars, decorate, and all kinds of masons, carpenters, and gardeners. make money."

Zhu Yijun said inexplicably: "But you are spending money."

"Yes, but they still have to spend the money they make. They are not allowed to patronize the various transactions of the Jinghua Trading Company in the capital? Although they may not spend all the money in Jinghua, it can make the business more prosperous. As long as the business is more prosperous , is a good thing for me, Jinghua, not to mention it is also a good thing for Daming."

Zhu Yijun finally understood this truth, and he suddenly said: "That is to say, you spent these hundreds of thousands, driving a series of industries under your name to make money from it, and after they make money, they still have to spend it again, so you get it back Quite a few, and at the same time mastered new technologies?"

Gao Wushi smiled and said: "That's right, you see, as long as everyone is willing to spend money, Baiyulou will also be established, they will also make money, supplement their household, and I will get a large part of it back, and they can continue to spend money... You know What are the two most critical points here?"

Zhu Yijun hesitated and said: "I seem to feel something, but I don't know how to say it."

Gao Wushi said with a smile: "The two points are: creation and circulation."

"Oh!" Zhu Yijun suddenly realized, nodded, and asked again: "So what do you mean by that?"

"If you want to build Prince Lu's mansion, let's build it, but the creation and circulation in it is temporarily out of the emperor's and ministers' business. It is better to turn your attention to other places, such as Liaodong...you can also create and circulate."

"After thinking about it, there must be creation first, then there will be circulation?" Zhu Yijun blinked: "What can be created in the Liaodong Yuanma Temple area that can be circulated?"

Gao Wushi smiled and said: "There is a business that is sure to make a profit without losing money, does the emperor want to know?"

"Don't hold back, hurry up and talk!" Zhu Yijun urged, his appetite whetted.

Gao Wushi chuckled and said, "Salt."

Zhu Yijun was stunned when he heard this: "You mean Haiyan?" He hesitated and said, "But there is a fixed quota for official salt, and there is almost no profit in these years."

"The problem of official salt lies in the official camp, which is the same reason as the unusable firearms produced by the previous Bingzhan Bureau and Ordnance Bureau." Gao Wushi frowned slightly, and said: "Since the official camp is not good, private ones are fine. For example The emperor and his ministers cooperate to open up and operate new salt farms."

Zhu Yijun was stunned for a moment, and suddenly remembered a big event: "Liaodong is using salt from the Changlu Salt Field. If you open up a salt field in Liaodong, the Shoufu's place..."

Gao Wushi spread his hands: "Then let's sell it elsewhere."

"Elsewhere?" Zhu Yijun said in amazement: "But salt is used everywhere, and you will offend people wherever you sell it."

Gao Wushi shook his head and said, "That's not necessarily the case. For example, if we sell to North Korea, Jurchen or even Chahar, who is in the way?"

Zhu Yijun was taken aback, looked around in fright, and saw that the people around him were still far away, so he lowered his voice and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? North Korea and Jurchen are all that matters. How can Chahar sell it?"

Gao Wushi blinked: "Sell salt to Chahar, can Tumen use salt to start a war with Daming?"

"Uh... that can't be done, but it is the ancestral rule of Ming Dynasty not to trade with Chahar." Zhu Yijun was still very nervous.

"There is this ancestral system to restrict Chahar, but the minister did this to poison Chahar to death... Besides, it has more uses than this."

(End of this chapter)