The silver of the Ming Dynasty has always been very strong, especially before the large-scale import of American silver and Dongying silver, which was very valuable.

870,000 taels is not an ordinary family, even in the imperial court, it is a large sum of money that can be used for disaster relief, river governance, people's care, and distribution.

But it's not enough to fight.

Zhu Di's Northern Expedition had to spend at least millions of taels of money every time. And this time, he was ready to fight across the river in one fell swoop, and he still mobilized the most elite army of the entire Ming Dynasty, which was known as 600,000 people.

Although it is said that because of the serious shortage of salaries, the actual number of people is not so large. But the money that should be spent, the food and the cost of anything or something, not a penny is missing.

Zhu Di took the silver ticket and stroked it carefully, "Good boy, you have a heart." ”

Zhu Gaoxu, the angry king of the Han Dynasty, couldn't see Wang Xiao being praised, and immediately said sullenly: "Let's go on this expedition, let alone cost tens of millions of taels to start, and a few hundred thousand taels is too little." ”

Zhu Di glared and was about to get angry, but Wang Xiao had already taken over the conversation directly.

"There's no way to get 10 million taels, but it's still a little sure to get a few million taels of silver."

Wang Xiao's words made everyone in the imperial study not know how to continue. If it weren't for Wang Xiao taking out a silver ticket of 870,000 taels and saying that it was a profit from selling white sugar, someone would have come forward to scold Wang Xiao for talking nonsense.

"Big nephew, you can't talk nonsense." Zhao Wang Zhu Gaosui was gloomy and prepared to dig a pit for Wang Xiao.

"Third uncle, it's the emperor's dereliction again, the promised amount and then the punishment if you can't do it? These tricks of Jinyiwei have long been used up, please find a better idea next time you dig a pit. ”

After Wang Xiao finished speaking, Zhu Gaosui, who did not wait for his expression to change greatly, refuted and spoke directly to Zhu Di.

"The Holy Ming is no more than the Emperor. There are 63 provinces in the south and north of the Ming Dynasty, 140 prefectures, 193 prefectures and 1138 counties. I dare not say that everyone in these places has to eat sugar, after all, this is not salt. But there will still be people who will buy it. ”

Zhu Di looked at him and said, "What do you want to say?" ”

"The minister means that the white sugar will be changed from the current Jinyi Wei distribution model to the auction franchise to the merchants of the whole world according to the region. It can be divided into prefectures, prefectures, and counties. A one-time auction of a ten-year franchise is enough to recover millions of taels. ”

Wang Xiao looked at Zhu Gaosui, "Now it is indeed very fast to use Jinyiwei to distribute goods across the country, but this is not Jinyiwei's own job." And it's good to say that the time is short, but after a long time, Jinyiwei's hands are not beautiful. ”

Zhu Gaosui walked out directly, and accused with righteous words, "What are your intentions?" Actually slandered Jinyiwei! ”

Wang Xiao didn't pay attention to him at all, and his eyes fell on Zhu Di's body, "You can get four or five million taels of silver for selling like this." Although it can't meet the needs of the army, it can be regarded as a slight fill. ”

"Slightly filled?" The smile on the corner of Zhu Di's mouth couldn't hide it no matter what: "Prince!" Tell me if it's useless to have five million taels of silver! ”

Zhu Gaochi saluted and said, "Back to the emperor, if you can really raise five million taels of silver, then the gap in this expedition can be filled." ”

In front of the civil and military officials, Zhu Di personally poured a cup of tea, and then handed it to Wang Xiao, "You did a good job, it was really good." If you want to say anything, I will do it. ”

Zhu Gaoxu and the others all changed drastically, no one expected that the emperor would be so happy, and even said what he wanted directly.

Wang Xiao saluted: "The saint is no more than the emperor." If there is something, there is really one thing. This time, I sent invitations to merchants from all over the country to participate in the auction, and I was worried that someone would take advantage of the opportunity to commit crimes. One is to plunder money, and the other is to secretly cause trouble and destruction. ”

Zhu Di naturally knew who Wang Xiao was talking about. He stood in front of the imperial case with his hands behind his back, "Whoever dares to do such a thing will not be spared!" ”

An emperor who truly understands his family and country must understand the importance of money.

The Ming Dynasty during the Hongwu Yongle period was the period with the highest financial income in the past 300 years.

After the change of the civil fort, the Ming noble system completely collapsed, and after the Wenchen turban absorbed the power, the financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty decreased rapidly.

The highest fiscal income in the Yongle period was about 30 million taels, but only a few million taels remained before Zhang Juzheng's reform.

Obviously, the number of people and the amount of land cultivated are more, but why is the fiscal revenue greatly reduced?

The reason is actually that everyone knows that the corruption of the Wenchen turbans is to lie on Daming's body and suck blood frantically until Daming is sucked to death.

Zhang Juzheng's change is actually to snatch the interests that originally belonged to the Ming Dynasty from the hands of those Wenchen turbans. The result of this is naturally to offend countless vested interests.

As soon as Zhang Jiangling died, their revenge would immediately sweep in.

Zhang Juzheng was whipped to his body, and his family was surrounded and starved to death. Even the Qi family's army, which supported Zhang Juzheng, was hit hard by this, until it was exhausted in the years of conquest, and finally composed the last gorgeous music on the bank of the Hunhe River.

But Zhang Juzheng's changes in the past ten years have accumulated a lot of strength for the Wanli Dynasty. This is the only way to support the three major expeditions of Wanli after that. This shows how powerful the blood sucking of the Wenchen turbans is.

For the Central Plains Dynasty, there has never been a foreign enemy that cannot be defeated. No matter how fierce the foreign enemy is, he can overturn the horse.

But the strongest fortress is always breached from within, and when the Wenchen turbans begin to seize power, it means the beginning of destruction.

When Wang Xiao was busy selling the sugar franchises in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, the laughter and scolding sitcom between Zhu Di and his three sons was also staged.

When Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, scolded the old man, and when he returned to the palace to lay down the coffin and pretend to be dead, Wang Xiao received businessmen from all over the country.

When Wang Xiao auctioned the franchise rights in one province, one state, one prefecture and one county, Zhu Di and his three sons fought wits and courage.

When the comedy of Zhu Di and his sons finally ended, Wang Xiao's side also ended the ten-year franchise auction.

Prefectures and counties with large populations and good economies will auction more expensively, while those with poor populations and economies will auction less.

Although most of them are only a few thousand taels, and even some impoverished counties have a ten-year monopoly of only a few hundred taels of silver. The land that can't stand the Ming Dynasty is large enough and the population is large enough. The final auction price plus the 870,000 taels given by Wang Xiao before, the total amount has exceeded six million.

This is already nearly a quarter of the income of Yongle years. If it is used in warfare, it can support 600,000 troops to fight outside Cyprus for half a year.

Of course, Wang Xiao's profits collected through handling fees, registration fees, deposits and so on are not counted. He works so hard and always has to get some benefits.

Things are not over here, and the imperial examination will be released over there.

The palace was very lively, and all the civil and military officials accompanied Zhu Di to meet those high school scholars. It's just that no one thought that everyone's limelight was stolen by the drunken Yu Qian.

Yu Qian made a big fuss in front of the emperor, and he didn't have his head cut off under all kinds of magical deaths, which is really unbelievable.

Wang Xiao didn't attend this banquet, and he didn't care when he heard about it later.

Yu Qian is indeed a rare talent, but it has not yet reached the point where Wang Xiao will help him at any cost.

Moreover, Yu Qian's personality is too hot and indulgent, and it is a good thing to be thrown into the barracks and beaten up.

With the support of millions of taels of military funds provided by Wang Xiao, the battle plan for the expedition outside the Saiwai, which had been suppressed before, was finally finalized.

However, before the official dispatch of troops, Zhu Di still had two things on his mind that had not been completed.

The first is the marriage of the grandson, and he is officially canonized as the third generation of heirs.

And the second is to move the capital to Shuntianfu.

There are many reasons why Zhu Di moved the capital recorded in various official histories. What should the Tianfu Imperial Palace sink, what the remnants of Emperor Jianwen gathered, what Shuntianfu is close to the grassland to facilitate the expedition to Saibei, and so on.

In fact, don't look at what has been written so much, there is only one real reason why Emperor Yongle moved the capital, that is, he was the king of Yan before the Battle of Jingyan, and Shuntianfu is the place where he has the deepest roots.

After doing these two major things, Zhu Di will send troops to Saibei without any worries.

After receiving a handwritten letter from Ma Hamu, Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, who had been dragging his feet, finally gave up his resistance and wrote to the emperor to recommend Hu Shanxiang as his concubine.

After making up this last piece of the puzzle, after many twists and turns and troubles, Wang Xiao and Sun Ruowei finally achieved positive results.

In fact, Zhu Di was very curious about how Wang Xiao persuaded Zhu Gaoxu, because with his understanding of Zhu Gaoxu, he would not let go of this opportunity to use Sun Ruowei's identity to attack Wang Xiao.

It's just that no one said anything about the tacit understanding reached on both sides, and the so-called pervasive brocade guard in Zhu Di's hands couldn't find out the specific reason, only that Wang Xiao personally went to find Zhu Gaoxu, and then they reached an agreement.

Since he didn't say it, then he didn't ask. At least this time it was done without a hitch.

After going around and around, the day finally came.

The eunuch read a long list of nonsense in a rambling manner, and only the last two sentences were really useful.

'Awarded Sun as the concubine and Hu as the concubine. ’

Compared with the original book, the identities of these sisters have just changed.

The reason why she did this was because Hu Shanxiang was too capable of tossing, and really gave her the opportunity to peek into the queen's throne in the future, Wang Xiao was not sure what this woman could do.

Wang Xiao has been restricting the two sisters from meeting and recognizing each other, just because he was worried that Sun Ruowei would be soft-hearted and offered to give up his position.

When the decree to the world was read out and the golden book was handed over to the two sisters, everything was a foregone conclusion.

It stands to reason that Wang Xiao should stay in Sun Ruowei's room that night. However, Sun Ruowei said something inadvertently, looking at the familiar look of the concubine.

Wang Xiao followed and said, "She is a little girl who was lost during the Battle of Jingjing, rescued by me and the prince, and then raised in the palace." Because he was raised by Hu Shangyi, the palace priest, he changed his surname to Hu. She used to seem to have the surname Jinglai. ”

Sun Ruowei stood up suddenly, then covered her forehead and fell into Wang Xiao's arms.

This is a sudden irritation that causes congestion in the brain, resulting in black vision and syncope.

"She's my sister." Sun Ruowei spit out this sentence with difficulty.

Wang Xiao's acting skills are online, and he immediately put Sun Ruowei on the bed, "I'll bring her over now." ”

When the crown prince Zhu Gaochi learned that Wang Xiao actually took the concubine and the concubine to a room, he immediately showed a look that all men understand, "Young man, I'm too anxious." ”

Wang Xiao pinched his waist with both hands, stood on the edge of the bed and looked at the sisters who finally recognized each other and hugged each other and cried.

After a few moments, he finally coughed and rubbed his hands to attract the attention of the sisters.

"The Spring Festival is worth a thousand gold, let's not live up to this beautiful scenery. Two little ladies, I'm here. ”