Ming Dynasty: At the beginning of the game, Lao Zhu resigned and retired.

Chapter 493: Master Hu is forced to seek official position
Chapter 493: Master Hu is forced to seek an official position
This guy Old Zhu is all about "knowing one's mind and seeing one's nature"!
He has never concealed the fact that he is greedy for money and fame!
Because he always felt that this country was like a family.

If you don't save up some money, when you encounter natural disasters or man-made disasters, you can lose everything if you are not careful.

But if the family is financially sound, then what does it matter even if natural disasters or man-made calamities occur?

I remain unmoved!

There is even enough energy to do some other operations.

And these are all the benefits of having a strong family background.

Zhu Yuanzhang was so stingy that he didn't even want to pay more salaries, but in the end the whole country was still filled with poverty.

What can he do?
He is poor!
Everyone knows the four words "increase revenue and reduce expenditure".

But he knows how to save money!

Open source?
I don’t know anything!
Because in his opinion, isn’t opening up new sources of income the same as imposing taxation?
But farmers already pay a lot of taxes.

Zhu Yuanzhang himself had suffered hardships, so how could he allow farmers to suffer the same fate as he did at the end of the Yuan Dynasty?
But he doesn’t know about other open source measures!

He had no idea where he could find other sources of income.

Moreover, because of the officials' dark intentions, they tried hard to coax Zhu Yuanzhang to continue to favor the officials and scholars of the Ming Dynasty.

This resulted in the Ming Dynasty's financial resources going downhill from the very beginning.

Did Zhu Yuanzhang know?
Of course he knows!
It was because he saw the crisis in it, and it was also because of his own bad temper.

Therefore, he set a strict limit on the salaries of officials.

Then, the final result was that during the nearly 300 years of the Ming Dynasty, the most corrupt officials were killed.

But at the same time, in terms of the style and severity of corruption, it is the worst among all dynasties.

To put it bluntly, officials' salaries are so low that even the most conscientious officials cannot support their families without engaging in corruption.

Then corruption becomes a common thing.

But things are different now.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw the money.

Moreover, it was visible to the naked eye, large sums of money.

There is no need to rob money from the poor farmers, nor is there any need to kill people in the court.

It's just a matter of robbing and cheating from foreign countries.

What is this?

When did Zhu Yuanzhang ever treat foreign countries as human beings?

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang burst into unprecedented passion at this moment.

"Hey, hey, Weiyong!"

"Hehehe, how about you take the lead in this matter?"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled in a cunning and obscene way.

But his heart was burning.

Because in his opinion, no one is more suitable than Master Hu.

Let’s not talk about the old-fashioned things like identity, status, and qualifications.

Anyway, even if it is a new government office, everything will be established from scratch.

But as long as Master Hu is in charge, no one will dare to make trouble.

These are only secondary. The most important thing is that Master Hu understands!
He really understands!

There are both legitimate means of making money for the country and strategies to win battles thousands of miles away.

Such a great talent is definitely a beautiful gem.

Unfortunately, Mr. Hu rejected it immediately.

"I thank your majesty for your regard for me, but I am now old and weak, so it would be better for me to return home and spend my remaining years in peace!"

"Your Majesty, please find another wise minister!"

Mr. Hu would never agree to that.

Damn, customs.

Even a fool knows that the customs will be extremely lucrative in the future. Even the Governor of the Canal, who is now the richest in the eyes of the world, will be drooling when he faces the customs office.

After all, the canal transportation has its limit. Its transport capacity determines its capability, and that is all it can do.

But once the customs develops, the flow of funds at hand will increase with almost no upper limit.

If it were any other dynasty, this kind of place would be fine, everyone would just try to make some money together, and as long as it wasn't too excessive, it wouldn't matter.

But that was not possible during the Hongwu Dynasty.

What Old Zhu hates most is other people stealing his money.

In this damn place, even if you don't take any money yourself, you can't help but let your subordinates take it.

If he were to be implicated by his subordinates, wouldn't he be unjustly killed?

So, Mr. Hu refused so decisively.

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard what Master Hu said, he became very angry.

Reject, reject and reject!
Why is Hu Weiyong, such a stubborn guy, so unwilling to work for us?

He has received all the preferential treatment and shown all the attitude he deserves.

As a result, every time I made the request, I was met with rejection.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was somewhat impatient.

He was originally smiling, but unconsciously his eyes half-closed, but between those half-open eyes, there was a hint of coldness and fierceness that was somewhat aggressive.

Looking at the unconscious changes in Zhu Yuanzhang's face, Master Hu was suddenly shocked.

Then I felt very disappointed.

You are so good, Zhu Yuanzhang!
You old boy, don't be fooled by how kind and gentle you are to us on weekdays.

Whenever something doesn't go your way, you start to resent me.

Isn't it just that I didn't work hard for you?
What? Do you really want to kill me?

A feeling of sadness arose in Mr. Hu's heart.

Poor thing, he was only thinking about helping the Ming Dynasty so that the last orthodox dynasty of China could continue for a long time.

As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang, after clearly taking advantage of the situation, turned around and targeted me.

Gan!
It’s so frustrating just thinking about it!

However, Mr. Hu really had no choice but to continue to feel aggrieved.

Because, as long as he hadn't figured out some magical tricks from the system that could chill fifty states with one sword, he would not be able to withstand Zhu Yuanzhang's ruthless hand.

Of course, if he didn’t care about wealth, fame, beauties and the like, and only wanted to survive.

Then you can just leave and go to a remote place or live overseas.

But Master Hu is a man who is used to enjoying life, so how could he be willing to do that?

After thinking about it, Master Hu simply said.

"Your Majesty, this Customs and Maritime Affairs Office involves a large amount of money. Please find someone you trust to take charge."

"As for me, I might as well set up a separate government office to be in charge of overseas exploration, diplomacy, trade and other matters!"

"After all, the affairs at the Honglu Temple are already complicated enough, so we won't ask them for these matters!"

"As for the rank of the government office, it is up to your Majesty to decide!"

That’s right, this is the solution that Mr. Hu came up with.

Since you insist that I become an official!

That works!

I am too lazy to go to other government offices, so I will create a suitable one myself.

When the time comes, we will find some capable subordinates, and we can continue to slack off.

But when Old Zhu heard about this, he thought about it carefully.

Well, it’s no wonder that all of Ming Dynasty’s current foreign maritime trade was proposed by Master Hu.

He's really capable of being in charge of these things!
(End of this chapter)