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Emperor Chengde looked at Shu Hongxuan, who came in with a stack of folds, and said with a smile: "Rong Jing, I heard that your grandfather's family has been able to make imitation gold wires recently?" It is said to be a better celestial blue silk than a thousand gold silks. ”

Shu Hongxuan was not surprised that Emperor Chengde would know about this, and bowed slightly, "Yes, my grandfather's family did create a Tiansu Biya that is very similar to a thousand gold silks, and now there is only one kind of azure color, and there should be more materials available in the future." ”

Emperor Chengde shook his head and sighed: "It seems that it's time for a hundred flowers to compete again." ”

Shu Hongxuan smiled slightly, but no longer followed His Majesty's words, since His Majesty already knew that it was enough for the Yan family to be able to make a thousand gold wires, why say so much?

"Your Majesty, this is Wei Chen's statement on the election of the emperor and businessman, you can see if it is feasible." Shu Hongxuan pulled out his fold and put his hands respectfully on the imperial case.

This is the advantage of the Zhongshu Sheren, who can even present his own folds to His Majesty faster than the cabinet.

Emperor Chengde picked up the fold, opened it and looked at it carefully, after a tea time, he raised his head and looked at Shu Hongxuan, and asked, "Rong Jing, do you mean to turn the ten-year competition between the emperor and the merchant into once every five years?" ”

"Your Majesty, if a wolf is put into a flock of sheep, the wolf will eventually lose its aggressiveness to hunt, and the wolf will only permanently maintain its fierce offensive power in the wolf pack."

Shu Hongxuan had a smile like a spring breeze on the corner of his mouth, "Your Majesty, the imperial merchants only run for election once in ten years, and almost every time they are still those imperial merchants, the qualifications of the imperial merchants are equivalent to being monopolized by them, just like the title, passed down from generation to generation, so that the imperial merchants who have no external competition can easily be caught up by other merchants." ”

"It's the same as a restaurant, if the restaurant doesn't innovate, the guests who come to eat will get tired of eating sooner or later, are the current royal merchants really doing the best in their respective fields?

Wechen thinks, I'm afraid not. It's just that why are the current imperial merchants still the same as the imperial merchants of a few decades ago? Because they have the financial resources and connections, they can easily win the qualification of the emperor for the next ten years. Even if other businessmen wanted to compete, they couldn't compete with them.

The choice of the imperial merchant is to give Your Majesty you, to the family for a better use, the royal is not for nothing to take the goods of the imperial merchant, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is the real money to pay the silver, since the silver is paid, naturally it is a guest, to be a guest, always want to spend every amount of money is worth it, not to be fooled.

Your Majesty, in the previous dynasty, there was a matter of the Internal Affairs Office coaxing the emperor, an egg is a tael of silver, and the egg is sold for a few pennies in the countryside, isn't this the royal family slaughtered as a wronged leader? ”

When Shu Hongxuan said this, Cai Sande, who was waiting on the side, sweated in his palms, this Shu Sheren really dared to say anything, is this a satire on the Internal Affairs Office to treat the emperor as a fool to coax him, or is it that the current imperial businessmen are sucking the blood of the royal family to support themselves?

Cai Sande secretly looked at His Majesty, and saw that His Majesty was still smiling slightly, so he said in his heart: Yes, it seems that Your Majesty doesn't mind Shushe people at all, and even agrees with his words very much.

"Your Majesty, Wechen believes that the ten-year election of the emperor should be changed to every five years, and the method of election should also be changed, and Wechen calls this method the auction method.

The first is the qualification ticket, only if you can pay 300,000 taels of silver as a deposit for the admission ticket in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, you are eligible for the next round of bidding, and as long as you can afford to pay 300,000 taels of silver, you can participate.

The second round is divided into all aspects of the election of clothing, food, housing and transportation, and can only choose to participate in one of them, such as clothing, and the businessmen who participate in the clothing campaign can no longer participate in other elections.

The qualifications for running for the imperial merchant are very simple, the first is to show their goods, the first round is selected by the businessmen themselves, the second round is selected by the magnates in the capital, the third round is the royal selection, and the fourth round is your Majesty's personal selection.

And no matter how many merchants pass Your Majesty's selection in the end, the last auction will be held. You give a reserve price, for example, if you want to fight for the qualification of an imperial merchant of 'clothes', the reserve price is 50,000 taels, and you will randomly select people from the household department and the internal affairs government to conduct this auction, and let the merchant write the price of his bidding silver in an envelope, and then personally put it into the auction box, and then open the envelope by the household department and the internal affairs office on the spot, and the one with the highest price will win, which merchant has the highest bid, and this time the imperial merchant qualification is his.

For the next five years, he was in charge of the royal expenditure, and when the Ministry of Internal Affairs paid the money, he provided goods that satisfied the royal family.

Anyone who runs for the qualification of the imperial merchant will have a plaque written by His Majesty, and the imperial merchant can hang this plaque in his own firm, and then the person from the household department will take it back in the five-year election, and the plaque will be awarded to the next imperial merchant again.

Your Majesty, what do you think of Wechen's approach? ”

Shu Hongxuan looked at Emperor Chengde respectfully.

Emperor Chengde slapped his palms and laughed: "Very good!" Rong Jing, I have come up with so many strategies in my life, and only Xiping's thirty-two years of strategies are the proudest and proudest of me! ”

This is a great praise for Shu Hongxuan, Emperor Chengde has been in power for decades, plus Kaienke, the imperial examination has been held more than ten times, but he now says that only Shu Hongxuan's three yuan and the first imperial examination is his proudest, which shows how much he likes Shu Hongxuan and how much he values it.

"First of all, the admission ticket has already selected all the capable merchants, and then the selection of goods, even if those merchants want to buy to pass the selection, it will not work, first of all, peers can not buy, there are many powerful people in the capital, it is impossible to buy them one by one, layer by layer, to I here, those who stay will only be the best batch.

For example, the reserve price is 50,000 taels, and it is very likely that the final auction price is 100,000 taels or 200,000 taels, that is to say, the merchant spent silver to buy the imperial merchant plaque for the past five years, even if the goods provided to the royal family in the end need to be paid by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there are also imperial merchants who gave the auction silver to pay in advance, and in the end it is very likely that not only will not spend much silver from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but there will even be a surplus.

Hahahaha, good, good! Rong Jing's method is really good, just follow your rules, and discuss the details with the Hubu Shangshu again, and then show it to me. ”

"Your Ministers obey." Shu Hongxuan bowed and promised.

"It's just that Rong Jing, your grandfather's family is also one of the imperial merchants, so you are not afraid of being squeezed out of the imperial merchant qualification in the end?" Emperor Chengde looked at his proud courtier with interest and asked.

"Your Majesty, Weichen is very confident in his ancestral family." Shu Hongxuan said with a smile.

"Haha, okay, just like you, I'll see how your grandfather's family wins in the end." (To be continued.) )