"I want money again! I'm asking for money again! The little silver of the city division was wiped out by him sooner or later. Lao Zhu threw the fold on the table unhappily, "Yuansheng served tea and let me suppress the fire." ”

"Prince, please take a seat!" Yuan Sheng put the brocade stool behind Zhu Biao, "What kind of tea does the prince drink?" The slaves and maids were sent together. ”

Zhu Biao sat down after a while, "It's good to be the same as my father." ”

Lao Zhu leaned on the back of the chair and stretched his arms to stretch his sore shoulders and neck, "Your uncle is such a bastard, he was scared a few days ago, and now he is looking for me all day long to ask for money and people, which is not worry-free at all." ”

"Don't worry about my father, my mother said that my uncle is young and it is inevitable that he will be frivolous, and my father will teach him more." Zhu Biao got up and said: "As far as the child knows, Penghu is a barbaric and remote place that is poor and white, and it is not easy for my uncle to start a business over there, and it is inevitable to spend money." ”

In fact, Zhu Biao felt a little upset for Ma Du, some time ago, Lao Zhu flipped through the account books of the city and was so happy that he didn't see his teeth and didn't praise Ma Du, but when he asked for money, Lao Zhu immediately changed his face, and he even blushed for his father.

"No stranger sat down to speak." Lao Zhu stretched out his hand and pressed down, and when Zhu Biao sat down, he said, "I heard that you had a quarrel with the crown princess last night?" Do you still sleep in separate rooms? ”

"Indeed, I didn't expect this little thing to alarm my father, but Chang went to the queen mother to complain?"

"No, there is something in this palace that I don't know. Chang is a good boy, and he is the person chosen by your mother, a woman, it is normal to be a little small, you are a man who should have some mind. Husband and wife two bedside fight bed and, how good are you to see with a woman. ”

"What my father taught me was that the child knew that he was wrong, and he turned around and made peace with Chang. It's just that what to do with the money that my uncle wanted? ”

"My son doesn't know that firewood and rice are expensive, and now he needs money everywhere to use soldiers, and where do I have money to allocate to him."

Shen Wansan's heart was unbalanced, and he fooled the maritime merchants that the imperial court was very dissatisfied with their previous tax evasion, and asked the maritime merchants in the chamber of commerce to pay a year's taxes, plus a few heavily fined, there were a total of more than 500,000 taels of silver on the books of the city.

Of course, it's only on the books, and the soldiers in charge of guarding the treasury are from the pro-army Governor's Mansion, that is, the former Gongwei Division, in short, there is no warrant from Lao Zhu, and he doesn't want to take a copper coin out.

These accounts are supervised by Zhu Biao knows best, he took the tea that Yuan Sheng lowered, took a sip and said helplessly: "My father and uncle built the harbor, not for personal gain, in the final analysis, it is for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, and the harbor can also make money." ”

"Don't listen to him, you can make a lot of money by building a harbor on a wild island, and the islands in the Ming Dynasty are not counted, and when the time comes, everyone will build a harbor, and I won't tax the people."

Seeing that his father was dead and didn't give money, Zhu Biao put down the tea bowl and got up and said: "The child has checked the map, although this Penghu is deserted, it is not small at all, and it is worth half of the province."

Located between the South China Sea and the East China Sea, it is the place where merchant ships must pass through, and the existing tax reduction policy given by the imperial court and the protection of the navy will definitely have a large number of merchant ships docked in the future.

The child himself carefully calculated, the cost of a year's boat stop can be more than 100,000 taels of silver, and there may be more in the future, the uncle is not a mouthful. ”

Seeing that the father was still silent, Zhu Biao continued: "If the father and the emperor refuse to allocate the money, the uncle will also be able to make up the money. ”

"Well, what my son said is somewhat reasonable, how can my silver be cheaper than others, and I have approved the matter of allocating silver to build a seaport." Lao Zhu picked up the brush and approved it on the note, "Let's go there." ”

"Thank you, Father!" Zhu Biao took it with joy on his face, "The child also has a suggestion, the father should set up a county in Penghu, which shows the attention of the imperial court." ”

"Well, I know, tomorrow morning I will discuss with the hundred officials." Lao Zhu waved his hand and said, "If you have time, go to your uncle's house to have a look, and by the way, go to the academy to supervise your brother's studies." Remember not to mess with Chang anymore, I still want to report my grandson as soon as possible, hehe......"

"The child knows, and he retires." Zhu Biao gave a deep salute and turned to retreat.

Lao Zhu looked at it with a smile, and didn't retract his gaze until Zhu marked out the palace gate.

Yuan Sheng smiled and asked: "The prince is thin-skinned, why should the emperor deliberately embarrass him." ”

"A thin-skinned person can't be an emperor, he should take advantage of his youth to polish it, if he has half of the thick skin, I don't have to worry about it."

Yuan Sheng complimented: "The prince is kind and courteous, and he is talented and hardworking, and he will be a generation of Ming Jun in the future." ”

Lao Zhu laughed, "My seed will naturally not be bad, your kid heard that his grades in the academy are not bad, this monthly exam is better than the fourth, haha......"

With the efficiency of the imperial court, when they bring the money to start building the port, Ma Du doesn't have to go back for a year or two, but fortunately he has a big financier who can advance the money first. The port in Songjiang was basically built by Shen Wan and three people, and he had the money, experience and manpower, so it was perfect to contract him.

There is no shortage of manpower in Penghu, and there are more than 10,000 immigrants on the west bank, of which more than 3,000 are now working here in Madu, taking care of food and housing, and paying wages, and giving them land deeds in the future, so that fools will not come.

Ma Du looked at the hot construction site, and then looked at Shen Wansan beside him, "Old Shen, how long will it take to fix this?" ”

Shen Wansan stretched out three fingers, "This is much bigger than the port in Songjiang, and it will take at least three months to complete." ”

"It's only seventy or eighty trestles, and it takes three months, isn't it too long?"

"This underwater reef is not easy to pile up, it is much more difficult to repair than the port of Songjiang, if you think it will not be able to be built in ten years."

Madu originally wanted all the big ships to dock directly on the shore, so that he could make the most of the port and dock more ships. But this requires blocking the entrance, draining the seawater, blowing up the reef, and then repairing it with concrete.

"Master Hou can dock seventy or eighty big ships at the same time, which is already a large port, and the three kingdoms of Ryukyu together are at most twice as many as here."

"It's me who is too anxious for quick success, and it seems that the business of the three kingdoms of the Ryukyus will not be snatched up at once, and they will go to the emperor to complain, and those civil servants are afraid that they will say that I am competing with the vassal for profit, but it is troublesome."

As the two spoke, they saw several more large ships slowly approaching the port, "Hey, is that our fat sheep here?" ”