Listening to Zhu Houzhao's words, Zhu Youzhu was suddenly a little embarrassed, he didn't do much about this, and there were a lot of salt citations for rewarding honors and nobles and clans every year, especially in his wife's house last time, every time it was a reward of 150,000 yuan, he didn't take it seriously, but now when he hears his son say this, there is a big problem here.

Although this thing is easy to say, it is in the future generations, and in this era, these things are still ahead of their time.

"There are actually a lot of benefits in sodium grain opening!" Zhu Houzhao didn't stop when he saw his father's appearance, but gritted his teeth and continued.

"The grain is changed to the silver is opened, and the salt represents money, and whoever holds the salt in his hand, these salt leads represent money. Whether it is a noble or an official, as long as there is salt in his hand, the businessmen are willing to pay a lot of money to buy it, of course, the noble and noble relatives must ensure that these people's salt can be brought out of salt. ”

"It's also good for the imperial court, and the salt that is sent out can be exchanged for money directly, how simple it is."

The more Zhu Houzhao talked about the benefits of Nayin Kaizhong, the darker Zhu Youzhang's face became, what are the benefits? This is clearly an opportunity for the nobles and officials to harm the public and private interests.

As for the imperial court's over-issuance of salt, there is obviously a limit to this over-issuance, once there is more over-issuance, the salt introduction will become more and more worthless, the Ming Dynasty is not without precedent, the earliest precedent is the treasure money of the Ming Dynasty. The original treasure banknote is a good thing, and it has not depreciated so much, and it is not because of over-issuance, but now the treasure banknote has completely become waste paper.

Zhu Youzhu just wanted to open his mouth to ask something, but suddenly saw his son smiling, and suddenly felt a little confused.

"Father, the sons and daughters all want to do the salt business!" Zhu Houzhao said and turned his head to look at Zhu Youjiao: "As long as you hold the salt farm, ensure that others cannot withdraw salt from the salt farm, and then buy the over-issued salt on the market, Erchen believes that the price will definitely not be very high, whether it is a relative or a businessman, he will definitely be willing to sell it." ”

"No more, as long as you hold a few big salt farms in Daming, Erchen is the largest salt merchant in Daming, how much money should Erchen have at that time?"

"Other people have salt in their hands, but they can't mention the salt, and when the time comes, the salt of the entire Ming Dynasty will be what the ministers say."

Zhu Youzhu looked at his son, and this time he finally got angry, slapped the table and said, "Nonsense! ”

Zhu Houzhao shook his head: "Erchen thinks it is feasible, as long as he takes down the transfer envoy of Yangzhou and the steward of the salt farm, this matter will not be difficult." Suppress it with power and lure it with force, and nothing will be impossible in this matter. With the opening of the salt field, the retainers can earn a lot of money, and at the same time open the way in the officialdom with silver. ”

"Not to mention other places, in the entire Jiangnan officialdom, Erchen is confident that there will be Erchen's people everywhere within five years."

"When the time comes, whether it is cultivation or spending money to buy, the sons and daughters will be able to insert themselves into the center of the imperial court, or even the cabinet."

Listening to Zhu Houzhao's words, Zhu Youzhu felt chills all over his body, his face changed greatly, and his gaze at his son became very strange. Staring at Zhu Houzhao, Zhu Youzhu didn't speak for a long time.

Zhu Houzhao looked at his father with a wry smile, in fact, the Donglin Party and other Qizhechu parties in later generations did this, tied to economic interests, and then invincible in the officialdom. To put it bluntly, behind these people's friends are actually commercial interests, and everyone is playing with capital.

Why is the Donglin Party strong, because behind him is the capital of the entire Jiangnan, why can't the imperial court take them? How much is the imperial court, how much is it to them?

After arriving in Wanli, the big businessmen of the Ming Dynasty could not be regarded as a big deal by mobilizing millions of taels, but could only be regarded as a routine operation. What about the imperial court? Burning 10 million taels in Liaodong every year is already stretched. You must know that after the Yongzheng reform, the salt class in the Qing Dynasty was 36 million taels a year, how much was that?

What about a salt class burned in Liaodong? There are also land endowments, as well as commercial taxes, how ridiculous it is that such a big country burns more than 10 million taels a year and is actually burned down.

Zhu Houzhao brought a cup of tea to his father, and then said with a smile: "Father, there is more than one smart person in the world, and the son knows that there are already people in the world who have done this." Not to mention the others, how many of the governors of the provinces and the senior officials of the court did this? Just check if there are any salt merchants in their house. ”

"Xun Gui Xun Qi intervenes for money, such as his uncle's family, if he has money, at most he will build a little more garden, marry more women, nothing."

"But what about the officials in the court? What about the officials below? Zhu Houzhao sighed and said, "You don't have to think about it!" ”

Of course, Zhu Youzhu knows that he doesn't have to think about it, but he still thinks it's unlikely, what his son said is too alarmist, are all officials in the world like this? They are all readers, where have they read the books of the sages? This thing should never be like this, it shouldn't be!

"Father, you don't have to check on other people, you go check on the Ye family!" Zhu Houzhao saw that his father didn't believe it, so he added on the side.

Why is Zhu Houzhao so sure, because later these people did so much, there was a Wang Chonggu on the side of the Jin merchants, the governor of the three sides, and the court officials, and the family was the big salt merchant, the head of the Jin merchants. Zhang Siwei, the first assistant of the cabinet, he also did the same, and he was the second assistant when Zhang Juzheng was in the middle.

After Zhang Juzheng's death, he followed the Wanli Emperor to sweep away the new party, and his family was also the head of the Jin merchants, the big salt merchants of Shanxi.

In addition to these two people, how many people in the Qi, Zhejiang and Chu Party stretched out their hands in the salt administration, and how many court officials were rich in their families? said that Yan Song was greedy, Yan Song was a traitor, but after Xu Jie fell, how much land was in his family? What is the wealth? If it weren't for Hai Rui, everyone would still regard Xu Jie as a good official!

If it weren't for Zhang Ju being Xu Jie's student, Xu Jie's fate would have been fine? It can be seen from these people that none of them are good.

All of these people made it to the Cabinet Scholars, and all of them were the best readers of the sages, but in the end? The first Qing official of the Ming Dynasty is Hai Rui, just a person from a raised background, although Hai Rui is not perfect in many places, but he is really dedicated to the country and abides by poverty, many people may say that Qing officials are not as good as corrupt officials will do things, Zhu Houzhao heard only two answers to this sentence: hehe!

Whether an official can do things or not has nothing to do with whether he is a clean official or a corrupt official, but only with his ability, which is divided into capable officials and mediocre officials.

The words corrupt officials and clean officials are opposite, confusing these four words, how funny it is, corrupt officials are not necessarily mediocre officials, and clean officials are not necessarily capable, these are two different things. What if it is honest and capable? Maybe there are few in the world, but shouldn't we work in this direction? No matter how capable he is, the harm caused by a corrupt official cannot be ignored, because what he embezzles is the clothes of the people and the food of the people.