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"Much, how much silver?"

In the Heart Cultivation Palace, when Zhao Junchen reported the income from the auction of pancreas to Emperor Deqing, Emperor Deqing was shocked and confirmed with a slight stump. (The first text is published in the reading room biquge.info)

In fact, not only Emperor Deqing, but also the eunuchs who served around Emperor Deqing were all frightened by the numbers Zhao Junchen said, and their faces were full of shock and sluggishness.

"A total of one hundred and forty-six thousand taels, Your Majesty."

Zhao Junchen looked at Emperor Deqing's face full of incredulity, and couldn't help but feel funny, but naturally he didn't dare to laugh, so he just endured a smile, and replied slowly.

After being confirmed again, Emperor Deqing waited for a long time before finally believing in this fact, and muttered to himself: "One thousand four hundred and sixty-six thousand taels, there are really so many ......."

Listening to the subtle change of the numbers in Emperor Deqing's mouth, the corners of Zhao Junchen's mouth twitched slightly. But he still nodded and said, "Yes, Your Majesty, a total of one hundred and forty-six thousand taels...... If the labor cost is put aside, the profit generated by the inner library with pancreas this year will be no less than 800,000 taels. And this is still the first year, if the pancreatic production of the inner library can be further increased in the future, and the people are slowly accustomed to using pancreas, the profitability of this pancreas can be further improved, according to Chen's estimates, five years later, may eventually reach about 1.5 million taels. ”

Hearing Zhao Junchen say this, Emperor Deqing was silent again, seemingly very calm, but the right hand of the pen on the imperial case trembled slightly.

Emperor Deqing has always paid the most attention to his image, and he has never forgotten to maintain his majestic and honorable imperial demeanor, even when facing Zhao Junchen, a favored minister, his expression is just a little milder.

But after hearing the numbers in Zhao Junchen's mouth, Emperor Deqing couldn't help but lose his temper.

It can be seen that Emperor Deqing is trying his best to maintain his noble image at this time, however, this number is unimaginably huge, so how can Emperor Deqing, who has always been embarrassed by money bags, be calm?

The profit of 800,000 taels seems ordinary, compared with the annual tax income of nearly 10 million taels in the Ming Dynasty, it is only a small number, but the income belongs to the income, and the nearly 10 million taels of silver have their own uses, and the idle silver that can be left every year, the treasury and the inner treasury combined, are only two or three hundred thousand taels.

This is also Zhao Junchen's control of the household and the inner treasury in recent years, and the result of financial management, before Zhao Junchen took power, both the household department and the inner treasury have always been in deficit.

And this 800,000 taels of profit means that from this year onwards, the idle silver available in the hands of Emperor Deqing has more than tripled!

And according to Zhao Junchen, this is only the first year, and in a few years, the profit of this pancreas can even reach as much as 1.5 million taels!

For Emperor Deqing, a poor emperor, this is definitely a big surprise!!

Seeing that Emperor Deqing was still expressionless and silent, but his eyes were constantly fluctuating, Zhao Junchen couldn't help but sigh secretly for this emperor who "had never seen silver": "I have already said before, this pancreas will definitely earn a few days of silver, is it possible that in the eyes of Emperor Deqing, the so-called 'days of silver' is only three or five hundred thousand taels?" ”

Thinking like this in his heart, Zhao Junchen did not delay, and held a thick fold with both hands - the fold is not thick, but there is a thick stack of silver tickets in the fold - he lowered his head and said: "Your Majesty, this is the present fold of today's pancreas source auction, as well as the silver tickets obtained from the auction, please also ask Your Majesty to review and count." ”

Seeing the fold in Zhao Junchen's hand, Emperor Deqing finally came back to his senses and nodded to the eunuch Zhang De beside him.

Zhang De didn't dare to slack off, hurriedly walked down the imperial steps, took the fold in Zhao Junchen's hand, and prepared to hand it over to Emperor Deqing.

Although Zhang De was the eunuch of Emperor Deqing, he had never touched so much silver, and when he took the fold, he looked at the thick stack of silver tickets between the folds, and his expression couldn't help but be a little excited.

And at this moment, Zhao Junchen suddenly said softly: "There are 300,000 taels of silver tickets, please remind your majesty of Gonggong Zhang." ”

Zhang De was slightly stunned, nodded slightly, didn't say anything more, just returned to Emperor Deqing with the fold and silver ticket, and presented the fold and silver ticket to Emperor Deqing.

After Emperor Deqing took the fold, he resisted the urge to count the silver tickets immediately, opened the fold, put the silver tickets aside "casually", and then took the fold to "carefully" review.

It's just that although Emperor Deqing's demeanor when he reviewed the excerpts seemed serious, his eyes from time to time aimed at the silver ticket in his hand revealed his true thoughts.

These silver, aside from the 200,000 taels to be transferred to the household department, the rest is all Emperor Deqing's own silver!!

After Emperor Deqing finally finished reviewing the excerpts, he was just about to say something, but Zhang De, who was waiting on the side, suddenly took a step closer and whispered to Emperor Deqing: "Your Majesty, the old slave looks at the number of silver tickets is not right, such a thick stack, it seems to be more than 1.46 million taels." ”

Emperor Deqing was slightly stunned, and glanced at the silver ticket in his hand again, but he was embarrassed to count it in front of Zhao Junchen, so he simply handed the silver ticket to Zhang De and said, "You ...... Take an inventory and see how many there are. ”

Zhang De respectfully agreed, then held the silver ticket and counted it carefully, and said to Emperor Deqing after a while: "Your Majesty, the old slave took a look, a total of one hundred and seventy-six thousand taels." ”

Emperor Deqing was slightly stunned, turned his head to look at Zhao Junchen, his eyes seemed to be surprised, and asked in a deep voice: "Zhao Aiqing, what's going on?" Why is this silver ticket nearly 300,000 taels more? ”

Zhao Junchen had been waiting for this sentence, and after Emperor Deqing asked aloud, he quickly knelt down and kowtowed, with a panicked face, and said: "Your Majesty, the minister is guilty......

Emperor Deqing frowned slightly, and said slowly: "Oh? There are nearly 300,000 taels of silver, why are you guilty again? What the hell is going on, let me know. ”

Zhao Junchen raised his head slightly and asked, "Do you still remember the strategy of the southern tour that the minister had told His Majesty when he just returned to Beijing?" ”

Emperor Deqing nodded slightly, his eyes flashed, and said, "Well, with my qualifications to live in private gardens in various places in the south of the Yangtze River, let those garden owners donate some silver...... You mean, these 300,000 taels of silver? ”

"His majesty is wise, and his minister's every move cannot be concealed from His majesty's discernment." Zhao Junchen buried his head again and said in a deep voice: "Although such a plan was blocked by His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince does not know the current financial situation of our court, and only feels that such an act will damage the face of the court, but I don't know how many things can be solved for my court with this money." It is common for His Majesty to be worried about money and food, and he can't share his worries for His Majesty, so that the ministers are always guilty of self-blame. After that day, the minister thought about it, and always felt that this matter was put on hold, which was a pity, so the minister hid it from His Majesty, and still passed on the fact that His Majesty wanted to live in the Jiangnan Garden during his southern tour, and those who were the agents of the garden owners in the capital also understood and donated nearly 300,000 taels of silver to His Majesty's southern tour before and after. ”

After a pause, Zhao Junchen's voice was a little more resolute, and he continued: "Of course, what His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that day, saying that this is the suspicion that the court is asking for bribes from the rich people, which will damage the face of the court, and it is not unreasonable, however, the minister has already made up his mind, as long as he can share the worries of His Majesty, this practice will cause all kinds of infamy, and the minister will bear it, if it happens in the future, please also ask Your Majesty to claim that he does not know, and then attribute all the charges to the minister, and the minister will never shirk it!" ”

As Zhao Junchen's words fell, Emperor Deqing hadn't said anything, and Zhang De next to him had already sighed softly: "No wonder Lord Zhao handed in more than 300,000 taels of silver tickets, but he didn't know how to say it, it turned out that he had such a thought, and it was really well-intentioned......"

Although Zhang De's voice was soft, it was just right for Emperor Deqing to hear.

I saw Emperor Deqing quietly look at Zhao Junchen for a long time, then suddenly sighed and said slowly: "Junchen, you are very good." ”

Emperor Deqing generally called Zhao Junchen "Aiqing", if he called Zhao Junchen "Junchen", it means that he was particularly satisfied with Zhao Junchen at this time, and he was in a good mood.

For Emperor Deqing, he naturally would not refuse the 300,000 taels of silver tickets.

"Get up, you and I are in harmony, don't kneel at every turn, you have done nothing wrong in this matter." Emperor Deqing said slowly, and after Zhao Junchen got up, he continued: "The prince has no experience in governance, and he doesn't know the unspeakable things of the imperial court. ”

Hearing Emperor Deqing say this, Zhao Junchen was moved.

But in private, Zhao Junchen was secretly frowning.

Zhao Junchen's actions, in addition to currying favor with Emperor Deqing, were also a test to test how Emperor Deqing saw himself.

As a result, Emperor Deqing had no intention of refusing Zhao Junchen's idea that if this incident happened in the future, Zhao Junchen would be guilty, and Emperor Deqing claimed to be unaware.

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PS: On the occasion of the Chinese Valentine's Day yesterday, the work was finally done, and in the next period of time, the insects will focus on code words and enter the outbreak period. In addition, when yesterday's work came to an end, the insect was dragged by a colleague to drink and celebrate, but he was drunk and delayed the update, I'm really sorry, three more today, five more tomorrow, forgive me.

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