Zhu Houzhao originally wanted to go and find out first, but after thinking about it, he forgot it. After all, he was going to the city in two months, so he still understood the reason of wanting to refuse and welcome, and wanting to get away with it.

If it is two months, it will make her miss herself to an extreme, and to put it more elegantly, there is a good person, and she will not be crazy for a day.

Therefore, Zhu Houzhao chose to return to Beijing first. Wait two months to come out, everything is in your own plan.

Zhu Hou returned to the palace in a hurry, Hongzhi Emperor Zhu Youzhu and Empress Zhang were all surprised, this kid didn't just find a confidante, how did he come back so quickly, this seems to be a bit inconsistent with his temperament!

"What's wrong? Having fun going out and coming back so soon? Hongzhi Emperor Zhu Youzhu asked with concern, actually curious about why he came so quickly.

"The sons miss their father, the emperor and the queen mother, so they returned to the palace early!" Zhu Houzhao's face is not red when he lies, this is hateful!

"Oh? I heard that you met a girl in Yangzhou, and I heard that you two fell in love with each other! Hongzhi Emperor Zhu Youzhu smiled and looked at Zhu Houzhao with an embarrassed face.

Zhu Houzhao waved his sleeves and said with a small face, "Father, what else do you say?" Are you sending someone to follow your sons? ”

"What do you mean by stalking you, I am ...... This is to keep you safe. Hongzhi Emperor Zhu Youzhu raised his mouth slightly, took a deep breath and exhaled, looked at Zhu Houzhao with narrowed eyes, and said, "You are the capital of the country and the son of me, if I can't even guarantee your safety, then what face do I have?" ”

"Okay, okay, anyway, you have a reason for what you say, just listen to it!" Zhu Houzhao sat down and drank the tea ceremony.

"I'm still angry!" Hongzhi Emperor Zhu Youzhu was amused by Zhu Houzhao.

"That's right, Queen! The salt you said a few days ago is accurate! To the two uncles of Houzhao, each person has 20,000 salt leads! Hongzhi Emperor Zhu Youzhu said.

"Salt lead? What is Salt Induction? Zhu Houzhao didn't understand at first, so he whispered, "It's so generous, I gave a total of 40,000!" ”

"What's wrong? What are you talking about? Hongzhi Emperor Zhu Youzhu saw Zhu Houzhao muttering quietly on the side, so he stepped forward and asked.

"Father, what is this salt lead?" Although Zhu Houzhao is the crown prince, he really doesn't know this, let alone what the salt induction does.

"Salt introduction is salt introduction, with salt introduction, you can go to the salt factory to sell salt! Got it? Hongzhi Emperor Zhu Youzhu wrote lightly.

"Oh?" Zhu Houzhao walked away by himself, he was going to find out what the salt lead was, although his father Zhu Youzhu answered his question, but he still didn't understand!

Zhu Houzhao felt that this question should be asked by the household department, but if he asked the salt introduction directly, wouldn't it be equivalent to telling the official of the household department that the prince didn't know anything about the salt introduction and didn't know anything, wouldn't it be very embarrassing!

"So, you can't go! Then I'll have to check it out for myself! "Zhu Houzhao is going to pick up the books, what is the salt introduction, what is the role to be recorded in the small book, if this is a method that can be exchanged for money, then the palace also has to ask the father to get some, so that he is not afraid of not enough money.

Besides, give his two uncles 20,000 salt quotes each, it's not too much to ask for 100,000 for yourself, Zhu Houzhao counted with his fingers, and pondered carefully, "I want 100,000." Isn't it a bit much. Is it much? Not much? No matter what, let's figure out what the salt quote is first! ”

So, after Zhu Houzhao returned to his dormitory, he asked the eunuchs to prepare things for him about salt administration, especially salt introduction. As a result, a group of eunuchs tinkered for a long time, and finally found out for Zhu Houzhao.

"Salt citation, one of the important sources of finance for the imperial court. Salt citation, also known as "salt banknote", is a salt voucher in the Song Dynasty, and "citation" refers to negotiable securities, which can also be circulated as "tokens". According to the "History of the Song Dynasty, Food and Goods", "each piece of salt is quoted, 116.5 catties of salt are received, and the price is 6 yuan." Zhu Hou remembered.

"Salt is valuable, because the sale and transportation of salt cannot be done without it. The key to the use of salt quotation is that if the merchant sells salt legally, he must first purchase the salt quotation from the government. Each "citation" number is divided into two volumes before and after, divided into two parts from the middle after stamping, and the back roll is given to the merchant, which is called "threading paper", and the front volume stub is called "introduction root". Zhu Houzhao continued to watch, he wanted to know what was the situation of Daming's salt introduction.

"It turns out that the salt quote is a voucher used to go to the salt farm to get salt, and this voucher can be exchanged for money! So the father gave his uncles a total of 40,000 salt, which is a lot of money! Zhu Houzhao took a bite of his hand in surprise and said, "Why is my father so generous, this is a lot of money!" Let this palace continue to flip through the book to see what else is greasy about this salt lead! ”

I Daming is the "Gang Salt System", the merchants who hold the salt quote are divided into 10 classes according to the region, each gang salt quote is 200,000 leads, and each lead is 300 catties of salt, or six coins and four cents of silver, which is called "Woben", and the tax is three taels of silver, and the minister (transportation) is three taels of silver. Named after "Shengde is over the ages, the emperor has nine enclosures", those who have not entered the program have no right to operate the salt industry.

"In other words, the profit is not small!" Zhu Houzhao pulled his fingers and said, "One by one, the second dragon raises its head in the first month of February, and the lanterns are ...... on the fifteenth day of the first month."

"Anyway, just make a lot of money!" Zhu Houzhao analyzed with his cheeks on his own.

"The palace continued to take a look, it turned out that Emperor Taizu implemented the law of Shangtun, that is, he could exchange grain for salt. In this case, many salt merchants will have to transport grain to the border, which is a good method! This can solve the problem of grain and grass at the border! Zhu Houzhao continued to look down, "Why did you change it to replace Shangtun with silver when you got to my father?" ”

Zhu Houzhao was a little puzzled, "Then wouldn't it be possible to exchange for salt without using grain, then the grain originally supplied to the border will be greatly reduced." ”

Zhu Houzhao continued to flip down, and as Zhu Houzhao expected, "change the old system to merchants to replace rice with silver, pay it to the transportation department, solve it to Taicang, and then distribute it to all sides, and each salt is transferred to three or four dollars, resulting in more than one million dollars of silver in Taicang, and the country's financial revenue has increased sharply." Therefore, most of the salt merchants in the border areas moved their families inward, and the Shangtun was rapidly destroyed, and the grain reserves of the border army were also greatly reduced. ”

"Although this directly got the silver, but this soldier and horse did not move the grain and grass first, wouldn't this destroy the grain reserves of the border army?" Zhu Houzhao thinks it's not good, but if you think about it, why change it to silver, it doesn't make sense at all?

"It must be a lack of money, a word of poverty!" Zhu Houzhao held his thumb and index finger on his cheeks and took a deep breath.