After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 31 Who Said We Are Selling?

"Biao'er, do you think like your mother, you think those wealthy merchants can't make so much money?" Zhu Yuanzhang turned to Zhu Biao and asked, as long as he found an opportunity, he would give him advice and increase his ability to govern the country .

"Erchen also thinks that they don't have that much money." Zhu Biao replied.

"Tell me your reasons." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"The land of Huaxia has just experienced war, and the people and the people are struggling, and the wealthy merchants are not spared. The Yuan court government has collected their wealth after hundreds of years of taxation. Coupled with the burning, killing and looting of various warlords, they I am lucky to live until the new dynasty is established." Zhu Biao said, "So Erchen thinks that they really have no money."

"And after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the ministers and the officials under his command also secretly inspected the wealthy merchants of Yingtian Mansion. They all lived in dilapidated houses, ate poor tea, and even dismissed the family maids."

"Biao'er's analysis is very reasonable, and it is commendable to be able to inspect it in person." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "It is also true that the warlords of various parties have robbed the wealth of merchants and wealthy households. We also did this at the beginning of the rebellion. Let the generals secretly arrest those wealthy merchants and rob them of their wealth as military pay. The rebels cannot survive without production and without plundering their wealth."

The tone changed: "It's just that you only know one thing and don't know the other."

"I also ask the emperor to teach me." Zhu Biao hurriedly stood up and saluted respectfully.

"Why don't you put yourself in the role of wealthy merchants and think about them?" After talking with Qin Yu, Zhu Yuanzhang broadened his horizons and became more active, "Now you can assume that you have assets in your home. Ju Wan, what will you do when the court is completely corrupted in the last years of the Yuan court, and what will you do when you encounter chaos."

"Sister, you can also think about it together."

When Zhu Biao and Queen Ma heard this, they lowered their heads and pondered.

"If I were a wealthy businessman and encountered the situation of local officials becoming corrupt at the end of the Yuan court, I would take out money to bribe the local officials to protect myself. After all, the world is like this. disaster." Queen Ma said, "So at the end of the dynasty, although the imperial court was on the verge of collapse, the impact on the rich was actually very small."

"It is only ordinary people who suffer the most from the corruption of the imperial court."

"Not bad!" Zhu Yuanzhang said solemnly.The situation that Queen Ma said was very painful. At the beginning, several people in his family starved to death. When his parents died, they didn't even have a reed table to wrap their bodies. However, the landlord's family still lived a good life. When he was very young, he gave it to the landlord Over the cattle, I know that the landlord's family is very rich.The poor people did not dare to rebel against the landlords because they had colluded with the government.

"The queen mother said it right!" At this time, Zhu Biao's mind also turned a corner, "When the army is in chaos, the ordinary rich and middle-class rich families will hide their entire families, and the famous families who can't escape will give some of their property to the warlords. Then they will cry poor, saying that their family is only a little bit, and let the officers who arrested them let them go."

"Biaoer is right!" Zhu Yuanzhang said fiercely, "At the beginning when we sent Xu Da to make money, we only caught Lao Cai, the biggest landlord in the area, and the rest of the small landlords hid in the mountains without even seeing their shadows. At that time, Lao Cai, the biggest landlord, took out 50 taels of silver, and Xu Da and we were both farmers who had never seen the world, and we were dazzled when we saw boxes of vain silver.”

"In the end, I really believed his nonsense, thinking that it was all his property. Now that I think about it, 50 taels is probably just a drop in the bucket of his property, which is really cheap for him."

"The wealthy merchants can accumulate huge wealth, and they are extremely smart or cunning people. It is not surprising that they can survive the corruption of the imperial court and the chaos of the army." Queen Ma said, "Chongba, after you reminded me like this. It’s clear that we were all wrong before. The social unrest has not hurt them, and they are still very rich.”

"You're finally enlightened." Zhu Yuanzhang asked Zhu Biao again, "Biao'er, when the new imperial court is established and the world is settled, what will you do if you are a wealthy merchant?"

"I will pretend to be poor for a period of time, so as to avoid the big tree and attract the wind." Zhu Biao said, "Because the world has been settled, and the society is still unstable, the rich merchants must not only guard against the bandits on the mountain coming down to rob, but also guard against the court..."

Suddenly his eyes lit up: "Father, the sons and ministers also understand that the wealthy merchants are all pretending to be poor!"

"Ruzi can be taught!" Zhu Yuanzhang nodded in satisfaction.

"My father's vision is truly unparalleled in the world, and I admire him. If it wasn't for my father's advice, my son would have been kept in the dark and deceived by those cunning merchants and wealthy households." Zhu Biao said.

"I'm afraid it's not your father's unique vision, but that person's unique vision." Queen Ma smiled, "If your father saw it yourself, why don't you have to wait until now?"

"Yes, Mr. Qin told us." Zhu Yuanzhang did not hide it, "Sister, Biao'er, now you should know how powerful that person is? Just because he sees that the rich merchants are rich, he can help me. Daming increased his income by tens of millions of taels of silver, and made the Daming court rich immediately. This man's knowledge has left dozens of streets behind those rotten Confucians who are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality."

"That Mr. Qin is really an amazing person! He has seen things that none of us can see." Zhu Biao looked ahead and was full of admiration for the gentleman he had never met before.

"Biao'er, it won't be long before we send you to his door. You have to teach us all of his knowledge." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Any one of his knowledge is enough to secure the country."

"My son abides by the decree, and my son will definitely live up to the high expectations of the father and emperor. He will study hard under Mr. Qin's door, study hard, and forget to eat and sleep all night."

"As long as you can earnestly study his knowledge, I will become a prosperous country, rich people and strong people, and a prosperous world is just around the corner, and you will definitely be famous in history." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Sister, Biao'er, now you should understand what I wrote. Word, why is it worth millions of taels of silver?"

"The emperor's intention is to sell these fonts to those wealthy merchants, who can afford to buy them?" Queen Ma said, "Although every merchant dreams of the emperor's royal pen, it is now decided at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. , those wealthy merchants will definitely act very cautiously, they are all human beings, and they will not expose their family assets at this time."

"Who said that we are going to sell our characters to them? We are the emperor and not a poor scholar who sells characters." Zhu Yuanzhang sneered, "We want to reward them, and they have to accept what the emperor bestows. ."

(End of this chapter)