On the afternoon of the first day of the sixth lunar month, Tianqi and the queen were lying on the bamboo couch in the corridor to enjoy the shade. Although the weather is very hot, there is no sun under the promenade to the east, and there are four little palace maids next to them to change the fan, so it is not too hot, and occasionally a cool breeze blows, which makes people feel very comfortable. The latest free chapters of the book can be found here.

There is a table in the corridor, on which several people are settling accounts, and there are several small wooden chairs next to the table, on which Zhang Chunying and a few others are sitting and waiting to listen to the results.

After a while, Zhou Qing Zhou Xuan said: "Your Majesty, Niangniang, the account has been settled, and several imperial stores have opened in January and have made a total profit of nearly 60,000 taels. ”

Apocalypse sat up and asked, "Didn't you miscalculate, did you?" How's that? ”

Zhou Qing said: "There is no mistake, I have calculated this number several times." ”

The queen also sat up at this time, asked the palace maid to open a small wooden box next to her, took out a piece of paper and looked at it, and then took Zhou Qing's account sheet and compared, and then said: "Your Majesty, there is no mistake, our calculation is the same as the number calculated by the eunuchs brought by Tan Jing." ”

Apocalypse nodded and said, "It seems that these minions are not messing around, maybe they have eaten almost enough from it, and they are embarrassed to start again." ”

Feng Siqin and Feng Xuanzhi sat on the wooden chair, looked at the apocalypse and asked with a smile: "The emperor hasn't cared about the affairs of the court for many days, does the emperor really want to let go?" ”

Apocalypse said, "Do you remember what you told me about the Three Kingdoms? At that time, you said that Zhuge Liang was tired to death, and I was scared at that time, and it was not too late to stop after being tired for a year. In the past, I was busy caring because the DPRK and China were very chaotic, and I didn't go to work for me, but now that the division of labor is clear, I am not suitable to meddle anymore. ”

Since Tianqi talked with Liu Zongzhou and Gao Panlong for a day a few days ago, Tianqi has never taken the initiative to ask about the affairs ♀ of the court. Now that I don't have to ask about it, the Holy Academy, the Bo Academy, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Government Affairs Yuan are all running automatically, and within a few days, a lot of new names ♀ have been created, which shows that people have potential, and once they lose their potential, they are forced to discover it by themselves.

First of all, they carried out a pillar project, that is, to store a certain amount of silver, copper coins, grain, and cotton in the grain depots and warehouses of various provinces, and all the silver in the treasury was slowly exchanged for silver dollars. With these stored silver dollars and supplies, the provinces clearly defined the price of grain, silver, and cotton. Once the price of silver dollars is compared with copper coins, grain, and cotton exceeds the rated 10%, the governors of each province will immediately notify the household department in charge of the grain depot and the warehouse to send personnel to open the warehouse to stabilize prices‖ and the Jinyi guards stationed at the side of the treasury will immediately go out to find out the cause of the price fluctuation.

The purpose of this pillar project is to ensure that all the people are not wantonly exploited by large merchants with ulterior motives, coupled with the tax cap announced earlier by the Apocalypse and the guarantee of farmers' grain storage, so that everyone will not be hungry or cold.

Tianqi had already had an idea for this pillar project, but he thought that it would take a while for it to be fully implemented, and who knew that the officials of the DPRK and China would roll it out all at once, and it seemed that they were all very energetic. Apocalypse drew a circle on the newspaper they sent, indicating that he knew that he had no opinion.

The second is that they engaged in a combination of road business bureau and post station project, originally the road business bureau to repair the road is to lose money, after the card fee can be protected in the market from other people, but this fee is not rightly called, because in the past there were no merchants in the Ming Dynasty and there was no commercial tax≡, from the apocalypse decided to set up merchants, the government Council decided to change the merchant while collecting business tax in the market, and the Holy College suggested that the road business bureau should be divided into the highway bureau and the commercial tax bureau.

The meaning of the Holy College is that after the separation, the Commercial Taxation Bureau specializes in managing merchants and collecting commercial taxes, because it is no longer related to investment and operation, so all the shares of the original Road Commercial Bureau are all transferred to the Highway Bureau and are no longer related to the Commercial Taxation Bureau.

The affairs of the Highway Bureau are now only left to repair the road and the toll is very weak, and the original post station is a place where public money is spent in vain, so it can no longer be weaker, and the reason why the Holy College thinks that the two weak and weak will become stronger when they join hands is because after understanding that the current freight volume is getting larger and larger, so that the freight toll has become oily. The second is that officials at all levels can sell their titles to get benefits, and they are no longer poor officials who are poor and white, even the poor imperial court will extract one percent of the next year's fire consumption to increase the income ♀ of officials, and once they come to the post station, they will no longer be a place to eat and live for free, and they need to pay, and of course, the quality of service will also be improved.

Everything is good and bad, and the post station will no longer have to be scavenged from the common people if it is charged, which is a good thing for ordinary people. But in the future, as long as you bring goods on the road, you have to pay the fee, and the big forks are guarded by post guards to avoid evading fees, and it is also to protect people's safety. Since the post station can be charged, and the highway must also be charged, it is worth looking forward to whether the highway bureau can make a profit in the future. The road is repaired, at least the imperial court will be very convenient and safe to transport troops, grain, and silver in the future, if the highway bureau is now losing money, the imperial court can subsidize it, and with more and more freight volume, it will definitely make money in the future.

Apocalypse has no objection to the division of the Lu Shang Bureau, but suggests that if there are not enough post soldiers, recruit veterans who have returned from the battlefield, and the Foundation will give them a handout, so that they can support themselves in order to have dignity.

According to their practice, the price of silver and grain should be balanced first, and when the disaster or cold and drought tolerant grain crops were popularized and applied, the roads were also repaired at that time, and the people were enriched through trade. Seeing that he could do it in an orderly manner without participating in others, and that he seemed to be more thoughtful and bold than himself, Apocalypse was also happy to let go.

Apocalypse saw that the emperor store had opened for just a month today, and he was going to see how the harvest was expected to be next, and some people in the public field should find a way to plant their own land, but the current situation is that the land has been planted but the harvest is not good.

Tianqi said: "Whether it is the ingredients in the restaurant or the raw materials in the jewelry store or the ready-to-wear store, they are all tributed from below, which is equivalent to spending no money, plus more than 3 million yuan of land and houses, and the daily income is less than 2,000 taels, which is unreasonable in any case." ”

Seeing that Tianqi didn't seem to be very satisfied with the result, Feng Siqin smiled and said: "Your Majesty, it's actually very good, it doesn't seem to make much, but in fact, there are some hidden incomes that you haven't counted." ”

Apocalypse asked, "What are the hidden incomes?" Tell me about it? ”

Feng Siqin said: "In the past, in Guanglu Temple, the emperor asked them to discount 100,000 taels a year, and now they will definitely get less than 100,000 yuan a year in the imperial store, otherwise they would have made a fuss." And so on, the silver bureau, the needlework bureau, etc., must be the same, the opening of the imperial store is equivalent to putting the hidden benefits in the open, and the emperor should be satisfied. ”

Tianqi thought for a while and said, "That's the reason, I still have a way for you to see if it's feasible, which is to open a fragrant powder shop." ”

The queen asked strangely: "Why does the emperor want to open a fragrant powder shop?" Isn't it possible to buy it from outside? ”

Tianqi said: "This thing can't be explained in a few words, I just heard someone say it, Siqin should understand." ”

Feng Siqin nodded and said, "Yes, the incense powder is said to be bought outside, but in fact, it can't be used in the palace when it is bought outside, and it has to be bought twice." ”

Tianqi said: "I chatted with people yesterday, and when it comes to incense powder, I heard that the incense powder outside contains white lead, which is fragrant and delicate but poisonous, if you accidentally enter your mouth or smell too much, it will hurt your body for a long time." ”

The queen frowned and said, "The emperor means to open a fragrant powder shop by himself, don't want that white lead?" ”

Apocalypse said: "Of course you can't use lead, the palace is so big, there must be a lot of flowers and plants suitable for making incense powder, let people do it by themselves can not only make money, but also use it themselves, but also cancel the use of buying incense powder, what do you think?" ”

Sanang, who hadn't spoken for a long time, said at this time: "Why do I think that the emperor is idle like getting into the eyes of money?" Always thinking about how to make money. ”

Tianqi looked at Sanang and said, "It's not easy to be an emperor without money, this is the difficulty of being a man." ”

Sanang smiled: "What's so difficult about men? At least not to have children. ”