Empress Zhang glanced at Zhu Houzhao and saw that her son didn't mean to speak, so she said with a smile: "The eldest brother has just entered the palace, and Zhao'er happened to meet us, and we are talking about the eldest brother's family." ”

Zhu Youzhu nodded, he loves the house and Wu, although his brother-in-law is not very good, but because of the relationship between Queen Zhang, Zhu Youzhu still takes a lot of care of Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling. Now that he heard that Zhang Heling had entered the palace, Zhu Youzhu didn't care. Because he was afraid that Empress Zhang would be bored in the harem, Zhu Youzhu often let the two brothers Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling enter the palace.

"Is there anything wrong with the eldest brother entering the palace?" Zhu Youzhu looked at Empress Zhang, afraid that she would be embarrassed, so he asked first.

"I said something about the salt administration!"

Without waiting for Empress Zhang to speak, Zhu Houzhao said on the side: "Someone went to my uncle's house to ask for a reduction in the salt class, 150,000 yuan." ”

Zhu Youzhu didn't expect it to be this matter, so he said with a smile: "So that's the case, this is a small matter, it's just right." “

Zhu Houzhao raised his head and looked at his father, is this a small matter? Is this accurate? I turned my head to look at my mother again, and my father really loved my mother. Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but sound a sentence from later generations, parents are true love, you are just an accident. But Zhu Houzhao can't let his father do this, if he really does this, it will be really bad, and things will be in trouble.

Glancing at her man, Empress Zhang smiled, but she couldn't ignore her son's thoughts, after all, her son had just said a lot, although she didn't understand much.

"Emperor, tell your father what you just said!" Empress Zhang said on the side, and at the same time encouraged Zhu Houzhao to speak.

Zhu Houzhao was a little helpless, Mom, can't you relay it?

Seeing that his mother didn't mean to convey it, Zhu Houzhao had no choice but to speak by himself: "Father, the child has studied the salt method in recent days and found that our Ming salt method is very interesting. ”

"You studied the salt method?" When Zhu Youzhu heard Zhu Houzhao's words, he immediately became happy, and said with a smile: "Let's hear it, what do you think?" ”

"It's really amazing to pay for the grain, Emperor Taizu is amazing!" Zhu Houzhao came up and patted Zhu Yuanzhang first, of course, this fart came from the heart, Zhu Houzhao said with admiration: "Erchen summed it up, there are several advantages in the grain opening, first of all, the first is to solve the problem of military food in the border towns, and lure the merchants to make them willing to transport grain to the border towns. ”

"The second is to reduce the officials and expenses of the imperial court, if the imperial court is responsible for this matter, then the number of officials will increase, the expenditure will increase, and the corruption problem in this will naturally increase the cost and expenditure will increase greatly."

"In the end, it is conducive to the development of border towns, buying grain and transporting grain, not only difficult, but also time-consuming, high cost, which makes businessmen have to think of other ways, in the border towns to reclaim wasteland, hire people to farm, solve the problem of displaced people, but also make the border town population to be supplemented, compared with the real border, such a subtle development, benefit the country and the people."

"From these three aspects, it is really a great national policy to pay for grain and open it, especially supplemented by officials above the fourth grade and their relatives who are not allowed to profit from salt, Emperor Taizu is really far-sighted!"

Zhu Youzhu listened to Zhu Houzhao's words, nodded with satisfaction, and stroked his beard, but he felt that something was wrong in the back, why did it sound so awkward? If you think about it a little, you will know that the policy of paying for grain is so good, but now that it is gone, why is it gone? Because he was cut off by himself, he turned the grain into the silver.

Under such circumstances, his son is vigorously advocating the opening of grain, how can Zhu Youzhu not feel that something is wrong?

"What about the silver in the middle of the draw?" Zhu Youzhu looked at his son and asked.

"Father, whether it is salt politics or other national policies, it is impossible to be perfect, there is no perfect thing in this world, the policy is your original intention, if your original intention is achieved, then this is a good policy." Zhu Houzhao did not say it directly, but went around in a circle: "The purpose of accepting grain and opening the middle school is to solve the problem of military rations in border towns, reduce the expenses of the imperial court, not increase the burden on the people, and at the same time achieve the effect of immigrating to the real border." ”

"The opening of the grain has reduced the income of the imperial court in the salt administration, which is the imperfection of the grain opening, but from the original intention of the imperial court, it has been achieved, so it is a good policy to open the grain."

"Compared with the Nayin Kaizhong, the income of the imperial court must have increased, and the child checked it, and the salt class of more than one million taels was increased in the first year. It's just that the benefits of grain payment are gone, and the food problems at the border and the real border problems of immigrants are all gone. There is one thing that Erchen has not investigated, but Erchen wants to ask his father, is there a shortage of food in the border town? “

Zhu Houzhao turned his head and looked at Zhu Youzhu with big eyes, this question was very simple, but it was like a knife piercing Zhu Youzhang's heart.

Is there a shortage of food in the border towns? The answer is no, and the fact is indeed as the son said, the beginning of the imperial court's border towns has greatly increased.

"The father and the emperor know that the son knows that it must be lacking, but it can barely be maintained, and it doesn't seem to add a burden to the court, and it also makes the court charge more salt." Zhu Houzhao smiled self-deprecatingly, and then said: "But the expenses have not increased, but the food is less, so what should I do?" Eating empty salaries, cutting back on food and clothing, and squeezing the military households at the bottom, these things are afraid that they will emerge in an endless stream. “

"I'm afraid that the combat strength of the border army has dropped very much, and if you can't eat enough, how can you fight? Let's open up more wasteland and farm! lest you starve to death. “

What Zhu Houzhao said was bloody, which made Zhu Youzhang's face very ugly, and after a moment of silence, Zhu Youzhu continued: "But it is already difficult to continue to accept grain!" ”

"yes!" Zhu Houzhao sighed and said: "It's hard to continue, why? Because of over-hair, because of the nest! ”

"The nobles and gentry, everyone wants to stretch out their hands towards the salt, after all, it's all money, so they stretched out their hands and tried every means to get the salt, the salt reward given by the royal family, but did they go to transport the grain? No, they took the salt and led it to exchange for silver, then the price of salt was naturally high, and these people had to receive salt first, and the merchants who transported the grain had to queue up, so it was not certain when they would be able to receive the salt. ”

"Coupled with the over-issuance of the imperial court, the salt is constantly used to exchange for grain, the salt is backlogged, and the salt is held in his hand but cannot be exchanged for salt, which merchant will transport grain? It's no wonder that the grain is not bad. ”

Zhu Houzhao dared to say this, because the spearhead was directly pointed at the emperor, and the big heads of the nest and the super hair were all royal.