Tan Jing said: "In addition to robbery and extortion, there is only deception. ”

Apocalypse shook his head and said, "Why do I feel like I'm in a den of thieves?" Are the people around you all bad things who only steal and cheat? But I don't think about cheating, my plan to sell the title is the biggest deceptive plan, and I don't know if I can cheat the money when it starts to be implemented next year. ”

Wang Tiqian said: "If you take the right path, you can only do business, but doing business requires capital, the palace now counts all the inputs that can be thought of and then sells things, plus the other three seasons of discounted silver, it will be 3.4 million, in addition to the cost of 400,000 a year, there are only 3 million, what can 3 million do?" Small business is boring, and big business can't compete with those big business groups. ”

Yang Gongchun said: "Your Majesty, if you can't fight, we won't fight, the slave thinks that any business can make money, but the most profitable is the exclusive business, the price or anything is up to you, and it is difficult to get rich or not." ”

It's just a monopoly! Apocalypse nodded and said, "Then what kind of exclusive business do I do?" Do you know what types of exclusivity there are? ”

Wang Tiqian said: "There is a bully in the slave's hometown, his family has opened a big restaurant on a street, and he is the only one in the whole street, which is very good. The slave remembered that there was once a store that had just opened for three days, and on the morning of the fourth day, he found that dozens of large feces had been poured in front of the door, and the stench was so bad that the owner of the store only closed the door and left. ”

This is a monopoly by force! Apocalypse pondered for a moment and said, "This idea is good, you can learn from it, but you can't use it directly. ”

Yang Gongchun said: "There is a pharmacy on the West Street, the doctors sitting in the hall are very skilled, and the general disease is to be eliminated by medicine, and there are people lining up every day to see the doctor. ”

This is a technological monopoly! Tianqi said: "We can develop in this direction in the future, but this doorway has a large investment, and we will not consider doing this for the first pot of gold." I have a good idea, how about I set up a card to collect tolls in a place where there are many pedestrians and vendors in the past? ”

Wang Tiqian said: "Isn't that a ringing horse that cuts the path?" Find two more people like the palace maid in the queen's palace in the morning and shout, 'I drove this road, I planted this tree', and it doesn't seem appropriate for people to come and go." ”

Yang Gongchun said: "This road is accessible in all directions, blocking one road will lead others to another road, even if all the roads are blocked and others go to other places, it will not last long." ”

Tan Jing said at this time: "Your Majesty, the servants think that raising some commercial taxes is a way. ”

Tianqi said: "It's useless, last time I also felt that the thirty tax was too low, and I mentioned the idea of raising the commercial tax between ten taxes and one to five taxes, but those ministers were very vehemently opposed as if they had taken the wrong medicine, saying that competing with the people for profit would cause chaos in the world, and I didn't mention it again when I saw that they were very united." It was still to increase the income of the imperial court, and now if you raise the commercial tax for your own pocket, you will not find a person in favor of it, and the purpose of my work is not to go against the vast majority of people, it will be very tiring. ”

A while ago, the Apocalypse did mention that it was necessary to increase commercial taxes, and it was indeed opposed by the vast majority of ministers, at first I thought they had a heart for the people and were very moved, but later I inquired and learned that the reason why these people were opposed was because their families were doing business, of course, there were stupid birds who purely relied on Yulu to be officials, but they were all poor ghosts.

Tan Jing said: "Your Majesty, the servants feel that there is a problem here, the emperor just wants to increase the commercial tax to increase the income of the imperial court, and he doesn't say that he wants to level their family's ancestral grave, why are they so excited?" Besides, if it is really thirty taxes, the people can also do some business to make up for it if they are poor, but the people seem to be relatively poor, and many of them are still poor to death, are they fools? ”

Tianqi thought for a while and said, "In this way, what I mean is to put these three million into it as soon as possible to give birth to a few, and prepare to let Tan Jing take charge of this matter." The affairs of the three of you have also changed slightly, Yang Gongchun is responsible for the control of more than 2,000 internal guards, and the public information from Jinyiwei and Dongchang is also reported to you through the internal guards, and you no longer care about sending people out to concentrate on collecting intelligence. The other celebrant supervisors are in charge of more than 20 other departments such as the Shangyi Supervisor and the Shangshan Supervisor, and Wang Tiqian is in charge of the overall situation. For example, if Tan Jing wants manpower, he will be allocated to Tan Jing through Wang Tiqian to the eunuchs who are in charge of the specific people; The Metropolitan Procuratorate asked the internal guards to cooperate, so they transferred the internal guards from Yang Gongchun through Wang Tiqian. Those who manage people are not responsible for doing things, and those who do things are not responsible for managing people, and everyone is relaxed with each other in the division of labor and cooperation, so as not to make things out of line if they have great power. ”

When the three of them agreed, they said: "Tomorrow, Wang Tiqian will transfer 500 people from Yang Gongchun to Tan Jing, and send them out every day to check whether the merchants' taxes are high or low, and it is best to ask them themselves." ”

After eating at noon, Tianqi slowly walked to Kunning Palace, the queen was giving a lecture to the ten palace maids who had just been selected, and when she saw that Tianqi was coming, she asked: "The emperor is still satisfied with these ten people?" ”

Apocalypse nodded and looked over one by one, only to see that all of them were ruddy, and I didn't know if it was because of excitement or cold, anyway, none of them were sick seedlings and lamp grass beauties. There is no stunning beauty that makes people feel excited when they see it, of course, there will be no one who pierces the eyes when they look at it, and the crooked melon and cracked dates themselves can't enter the palace. Apocalypse coughed lightly and said, "The most taboo thing in the palace is mutual jealousy, you have to remember this. From today onwards, you are all five-grade candidates, and at the age of twenty you are a fourth-grade talent, beauty or noble, at the age of thirty, you can be named a concubine for the third grade, and at the age of forty, you can be a concubine for the second grade, and if you haven't made a mistake at the age of fifty, you can be named a first-grade concubine, so you don't have to fight because it's useless to fight. Of course, if anyone has a child, they will directly add a product and take advantage of the opportunity. ”

The queen said at this time: "The emperor's method is fresh, but if they reach the age of sixty, what will they do?" ”

Apocalypse said, "What else is a sixty-year-old woman fighting for? At most, you will be crowned an imperial concubine until she dies, anyway, you are the only queen. ”

The queen smiled: "Since this is the case, let them live in Kunning Palace temporarily, and those who have slept will move to live in the East and West Sixth Palaces, and each person will be equipped with four palace queens, okay?" ”

Tianqi said: "It's good, it's good, but I have to let them do something every day, I will listen to the arrangement if I have an arrangement, and I can play by myself if there is no arrangement." Every day, female officials should be sent to teach them to read, write, play the piano, sing, etc., and not to cause trouble when they are idle. ”

The queen agreed, and then said to the ten palace maids: "You guys go, if you have something, come to the palace, and if it is inconvenient to tell the palace directly, tell Chunying and Sanlang." ”

After the ten people left, the queen asked Tianqi: "Your Majesty, the concubines have never understood what the emperor is going to do to settle accounts?" ”

Apocalypse asked, "Who among them will settle accounts?" ”

The queen said: "The concubines saw that the emperor asked carefully, so they specially added this article, and they will settle accounts." ”

Tianqi thought for a while and said, "I am very poor now, and I want to let the eunuchs help me come forward to do business, so that my women will not be afraid of those people deceiving me." ”

The queen asked, "Isn't the Huangzhuang Huangdian enough?" ”

Apocalypse said, "How many can you earn?" Besides, most of the money that those people made went into their pockets, and I didn't know it. ”

The queen leaned forward and asked with a low smile, "What big business is the emperor going to do?" The concubine may not be able to help. ”

Tianqi looked at the queen, and when he saw that there was a little bit of meaning in her eyes, he asked, "What does the queen want?" Lack of flowers in the palace? ”

The queen said, "Where is it?" The concubine just wanted to help the emperor with snacks. ”

Tianqi said: "I have been thinking about it for a long time, I feel that I am too tired to do business, and I am going to send Jinyi Wei to collect protection money from those merchants, what do you think, queen?" ”

The queen asked in surprise, "Will those people be willing?" If you make trouble, the emperor will lose his dignity. ”

Tianqi said: "Some things can't be said directly, you say that others will definitely disagree with the collection of protection fees, if you change it to say that it is a management fee, even if you have an opinion, it is not easy to say, for example, Sanlang's father is a bodyguard, why are those people willing to give money if they don't make trouble?" ”

The queen said: "This concubine doesn't know, ask Sanlang." After speaking, he turned his head and shouted: "Sanlang, come here, the emperor has something to ask you." ”

Sanlang heard the queen shouting outside, so he came in and asked, "What does the emperor want to ask the slave?" ”