"In addition, the wealth of the Great Song Dynasty lies in business and in the future shipping! Beyond the vast sea, there are countless wonderlands, full of endless riches, and no one has yet set foot in them. Prince Ben estimates that the generation that first went overseas to seek wealth has no problem with the wealth they have obtained to support a prosperous life for three or five generations. ”

Overseas?

Cao Diao and Cao Shi looked at each other.

There were indeed merchants in the Great Song Dynasty who shipped overseas spices, famous woods, and jewelry back to the Great Song Dynasty to sell, and I heard that the business was not small and very profitable.

But they have not been exposed to the specifics, and they do not know how high the profit is.

And now Zhao Huan actually said that the wealth accumulated in one generation is enough for three or five generations to spend, which really scares them.

But there are also some who will be skeptical: are the profits really so high? It's not a fool, is it?

Zhao Huan looked at their appearance and shook his head secretly.

In the course of business, there has never been a steady profit or loss, but it has always been a starving coward.

Being so suspicious like the two of them is not material for big business at all.

But think about it, the Cao family is a general, and the focus of the past dynasties has been on serving in the army, and it is understandable that they do not understand business.

After all, the change of the concept of an era is never an overnight thing.

Zhao Huan was wondering if he should hand over the expansion of overseas business to Li Ying to take the lead, let the royal family and nobles participate, form a huge overseas caravan, and first go to the Wa Kingdom, Luzon, Zhenla and other relatively close places to make a profit.

When the first batch of maritime merchants makes money, they don't have to bother to go to sea next time, and naturally some people will squeeze their heads to participate.

Zhao Huan thought about it for a while, and felt that it was feasible, so he said: "The imperial court is now building sea ships, and it is expected that a caravan of more than 1,000 people will be formed to go to sea within half a year, and it will be able to return at the end of the year." Why don't the Cao family discuss with other nobles and send their own personnel to participate, whether it is profitable or not. ”

Cao Tiao and Cao Shi were in high spirits, I didn't expect Zhao Huan to move so fast, if the maritime merchants can really make the noble family earn money, it is much better than getting a chicken rib official in the imperial court, even if they follow Zhao Huan down the road, what does it matter?

The two stood up and saluted Zhao Huan: "Thank you, Your Highness, for reading me and waiting for the old!" His Royal Highness the Crown Prince rest assured! My Cao family must contact this matter, if the benefits are really considerable, I Cao Diao can completely guarantee that all the old generals will obey the orders of His Royal Highness the Prince! ”

Next, Zhao Huan discussed some details with the Cao family, talked about homely things, and then went to the backyard to talk to Zhao Jinnu for a while, and then it was time for dinner.

The Zeng family was hospitable, and Zhao Huan was embarrassed to refuse, so he took Yu Baosi and Jiao Ting to the banquet happily.

But after the first bite, I began to regret it.

The taste of this Cao family's food is similar to that of the restaurant outside, which is too strange!

If you want to say that there are oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and sugar, but it just doesn't feel right, compared with the meals made by the chefs who have trained themselves in Zhu's Restaurant, it is 108,000 miles worse.

Zhao Huan secretly swore in his heart that he must completely change the food, transportation, education, finance, and medical care of the Great Song Dynasty as soon as possible.

Reluctantly ate a meal, Zhao Huan took Yu Baosi and Jiao Ting to bid farewell to the Cao family, and rushed to the palace on foot.

I originally thought that after yesterday's bloodbath, few people in Tokyo dared to come out on the streets, who knew that early in the morning I heard people beating gongs and drums and making noise, in addition to celebrating that he, the prince, became a prisoner, and more importantly, when he learned that the traitorous party of the Manchu Dynasty was eliminated, everyone was full of hope for the future.

Zhao Huan enjoyed this environment very much.

Two days ago, although the city of Tokyo was populated, there were few people with smiles on their faces, but on the contrary, most of them were emotionally depressed.

It was only now that Zhao Huan felt that the people in Tokyo were really "alive".

In the distance, Shi Jin was patrolling the street on horseback with forty or fifty people, and he saw Yu Baosi protruding from afar, and got off the horse and came to Zhao Huan's side.

"General Shi has worked hard! How did it feel to be a Captain of the Kings on your first day? ”

Shi Jin scratched his scalp and said with a smile: "I just got familiar with the twelve city gates in the inner city in the morning, and thanks to General Yang Cunzhong's subordinate Zhong Jing, I told me a lot of strange things that happened under the Tokyo city gates, so I finally have a number in my heart." The last general put a hundred soldiers at each gate, fifty to guard the gates, and fifty to patrol the walls, changing shifts every six hours. There were still five or six hundred people, and the last general would let them patrol the streets in a team of twenty people, and the last general would also take people around. ”

"Very good!" Zhao Huan boasted.

He is still more optimistic about Shi Jin, and his talent for martial arts is very high, which can be seen from the fact that he can rank twenty-third on Liangshan after following Wang Jin to practice martial arts for half a year.

The most important thing is that Shi Jin has an upright personality and is very righteous, and it is more reassuring to hand over the inner city to Zhao Huan to him.

The only flaw is that he is a little reckless, but there are Wu Yong, Gongsun Sheng, Yan Qing and others in the inner city, how can he be fooled by others.

Similarly, another Yulin general who guarded the outer city, Zhu Tong, also favored Zhao Huan, Zhu Tong was modest, benevolent, and knowledgeable, and even more rare was the wisdom and bravery, and he was a rare good person on Liangshan.

Zhao Huan promised Shi Jin: "3,000 people to guard the inner city, 3,000 people to guard the outer city, although the number is less, but now there is a shortage of people, let's make up for it in the future, make up 8,000 people on your side, and 20,000 people on Zhu Tong's side, it is enough for Tokyo City to protect itself, and the Nine Roads Forbidden Army can be dispatched to sweep the world." ”

Shi Jin was stunned: "Your Highness is going to hand over Tokyo City to Zhu Tong and me?" This ......"

"What? Scared? ”

Zhao Huan smiled, "You don't have to! As long as you bring your soldiers well, don't be like the previous forbidden army, with the sturdiness and height of Tokyo City, 20,000 or 30,000 people are more than enough to defend the city, and the enemy will not be afraid of him even if an army of 100,000 comes to attack! ”

Shi Jin also smiled and said: "The last general is not afraid, but he has never been a master general, and he is a little worried!" But if someone comes to attack the city, keep him and let him die one by one! ”

"In the future, remember to be calm and learn more about the art of war."

Zhao Huan said a few words of encouragement and said goodbye to Shi Jin.

As soon as I arrived at Xuande Gate, I saw that Lehe had been waiting there for a long time.

"What's the matter?"

Zhao Huan asked from afar.

Le He took out a few pieces of paper and handed them to Zhao Huan.

"Yesterday, a total of 728 officials in Tokyo were killed, 877 were thrown into the prison to await trial, and 25,889 family members, staff, subordinates, and servants of corrupt officials were killed or wounded, and more than 890,000 people were arrested.

"So many people?" Zhao Huan was taken aback, although there was a big killing ring yesterday, all the armies were in control, only killing those who should be killed, those who were a little notorious, but could not be confirmed, were arrested and imprisoned, but I didn't expect that twenty or thirty thousand people died in this way.

The court officials in the city of Tokyo are hated by many people!

"Did anyone die unjustly?"

Le He replied: "There should be those who died unjustly, but now I haven't heard anyone cry out for injustice." In fact, after the killing, everyone did a cursory investigation yesterday and today, and found no obvious grievances, which shows that even if someone died unjustly, there are few people. ”

"That's good!" Zhao Huan nodded, "The rest of the people will be tried as soon as possible, it is best to have a public trial, the innocent will be released as soon as possible, and the guilty will be distributed as soon as possible." ”

"Understood!"

Zhao Huan looked at the next page again, and a number startled him.

"So many things copied out?"

What was written on the paper was: more than 5 million taels of gold, more than 10 million taels of silver, 20,000 taels of copper coins, and countless antique calligraphy and paintings. In addition, there are more than 5,400 house deeds, more than 3 million hectares of land deeds, and more than 50,000 shops.

"How big is Tokyo City? How can you copy so many things? ”

Zhao Huan was a little incredible, after all, there were only tens of thousands of farmhouses in Tokyo City.

Le He explained: "Not all of them are in the city of Tokyo, in fact, there are not many houses and shops in the city of Tokyo; Instead, it is spread all over Jiangnan, Xijing, Shuzhong, Daimyo's Mansion and other places, but the contract is placed in Tokyo. ”

"Oh!"

Zhao Huan breathed a sigh of relief, which was understandable.

But Lehe added: "But these are not necessarily the whole story. According to the estimation of experienced Zongda, Li, and Mr. Wen, these should be the recent bribes paid by lower-level officials or wealthy businessmen, and these people who committed crimes must still have a lot of wealth in their hometowns. Other people don't say it, just say Zhu Mian, half of his hometown Suzhou City has the surname Zhu, and there are countless fields, houses, and shops. If you copy them all, you'll have to multiply that number a few times! ”

"How many more flips? What a rich country! ”

Zhao Huan said angrily, "The maximum tax payment in the Great Song Dynasty was just over 10,000 guan a year, and last year it was only more than 50 million guan, and these traitors have 20,000 guan of money in Tokyo!" ”

"Copy! Copy it as soon as possible! Yang Cunzhong, Li Yanxian's Divine Guard, Dragon Guard, and Shi Xiu's Qingfeng Guard are doing this, let them set off tomorrow to go to various places to investigate the lawlessness in the world, and no one is allowed to be missed! ”

"Also, the copied fields are owned by the imperial court, and in the future, the official land of the imperial court can only be increased and not decreased, who dares to resell the official land of one acre of land, the prince will let his whole family lose their heads!"

"The deed and shops are all transferred to the Military Command Department, and half of the copied money is also given to the Military Command Department, so that they can open up the situation as soon as possible, and the six things of inns, restaurants, green buildings, gambling houses, bookstores, and post stations must be monopolized under the Military Command Department as soon as possible, and local officials and wealthy businessmen who obstruct them will be strictly investigated, and those who should be caught and copied should be copied!"

"With the rest of the money, take out 50 million guan to Zhang Shuye and Han Shizhong, let Meng Kang and Ye Chun build sea ships, form maritime merchants to go to sea within half a year, and build Shanghai trade as soon as possible. At the same time, we must also build a strong navy, and in the future, wherever there is water, our Great Song Navy will definitely dominate! ”

"Give another 20 million guan to Ling Zhen, Tang Long, and Hou Jian, and let him develop firearms, knives, guns, and armor, at least to catch up with the cold forging armor of Western Xia. The weapons revolution of the future is king! ”