The winter sun is warm and warm.

On this day, after Zhang Lingyang inspected several key scientific research projects being developed by the Royal Academy of Sciences, he fell asleep not long after returning to the palace.

"Hooray!"

Xiao Fuzi came to the Chen'an Palace, looked at the time on the clock, and came to the bed to wake up Zhang Lingyang softly.

"What's the matter?"

Zhang Lingyang squinted his eyes and asked as he looked at the somewhat dim sky outside the window.

Little Fuzi replied: "Long live Lord, the little Jewish Moses sent someone to send the first batch of gold and silver. ”

"Oh?" At this moment, Zhang Lingyang completely sobered up. The smuggling proceeds of the Jewish consortium are related to the key to the development of the Great Zhou, Zhang Lingyang hurriedly asked: "Have you counted it?" How much money did you get? ”

Xiao Fuzi said: "This year, I got a total of 1,387,652 taels of gold and 23,456,331 taels of silver. ”

"But after all the costs?" Zhang Lingyang asked again.

"It's not!" Xiao Fuzi shook his head and said, "After the opening of the trade route, the commercial supervisor only transported goods to Little Moses for half a year. If the cost is removed, the profit is 632,117 taels of gold and 11,319,575 taels of silver. ”

Hearing this, Zhang Lingyang frowned, because the data in Xiaofuzi's mouth was far from meeting Zhang Lingyang's expectations.

You must know that before European countries raised tariffs, the annual trade volume between Da Zhou and European countries was as high as more than 10,000 taels of silver.

And now?

Today, the profit is less than 20 million taels of silver.

But soon, Zhang Lingyang was relieved.

The reason is very simple, although the trade volume between Da Zhou and Europe was as high as more than 10,000 taels of silver, the profit obtained by Da Zhou was actually about one-tenth of it.

Now, through the means of smuggling, the profit obtained in half a year alone has exceeded twice that of the previous year, no wonder many businessmen want to smuggle, the profits are too rich.

You must know that this is still the case that Zhang Lingyang gave 20% of the profits to the Jewish consortium, otherwise, the silver money obtained by Da Zhou would be higher.

Therefore, Zhang Lingyang hurriedly instructed Xiao Fuzi: "Inform the commercial supervisor that the goods must be prepared sufficiently, and the quality must be guaranteed." ”

"Yes, long live the Lord!" Xiao Fuzi replied, did not leave the Chen'an Palace, but said to Zhang Lingyang: "Long live the lord, the Jews have a few requests, I hope the long live lord can agree." ”

"What request?" Zhang Lingyang asked.

"It's just that several Jewish consortia want to transfer their property from Europe to our side of Da Zhou, and they hope that you can agree to it."

"That's a good thing!" Zhang Lingyang originally thought that something was embarrassing, but as soon as he heard it, Zhang Lingyang was happy, and instructed Xiao Fuzi: "You go and reply to the Jews, and say that I have agreed to this matter, and they can be allowed to transfer their property to the Royal Bank, and charge them the lowest interest." ”

"One more thing!" Xiao Fuzi said again, "The Jews are worried that our Great Zhou may go back on their word in the future, so they want to marry our Great Zhou." ”

"What kind of marriage law?" Zhang Lingyang frowned slightly.

Xiaofuzi said: "The Jews said that they are going to select a few of the youngest and most beautiful women from their tribe to enter the palace to serve Long Live Lord, and I hope that Long Live Lord you can agree." ”

"It turns out that they want to bind me to me through marriage!" Hearing this, Zhang Lingyang nodded noncommittally, "You go to reply to the Jews, and I agree to this matter!" ”

Alliances between nations, perhaps the least reliable form of marriage, are the most common means of nations, both in the East and in the West.

Take the imperial concubines Victoria and Alice in Zhang Lingyang's harem, who are the victims of England and France.

Originally, when the relationship between Da Zhou and European countries was relatively friendly, Victoria and Alice's status in the palace was naturally unshaken.

But as the relationship between Da Zhou and European countries fell into tension, the life of the two in the harem was not so easy.

Outside, neither England nor France cares whether their princess is dead or alive. Among them, the rest of the concubines regard the two as threats, although they can't say that they want to get rid of them quickly, but crowding out and suppressing them is still a common thing.

But fortunately, Zhang Lingyang is not a heartless person, and his attitude towards the two is still the same as in the past.

But even so, the two of them still had a hard time in the palace.

Today, Zhang Lingyang is in his thirties, and he is far from the human being who can't walk when he sees a beautiful woman. Therefore, Zhang Lingyang's attitude towards the matter of Jews offering beautiful women is noncommittal.

If it weren't for the purpose of appeasing the hearts of the Jews, Zhang Lingyang did not want to accept a few Jewish women into the palace. After all, there are already some undercurrents in the harem now, and if there are a few more women, then the harem will be really wonderful.

After thinking about it for a while, Zhang Lingyang suddenly thought of a 'good' idea, so he called out to Xiaofuzi and instructed: "You tell the Jews to prepare a girl who is younger, preferably fourteen or fifteen years old, to enter the palace and serve as a maid for the princes." ”

As for the Jews, whether they praise or criticize, there is one thing that cannot be denied, and that is that the Jews have a special talent for money.

Zhang Lingyang thought that by selecting personal maids for the princes, he could teach the princes by word and deed. At least, these princes will not worry about money in the future.

Even, Zhang Lingyang thought that when the princes became adults one by one, he would hire some Jews to manage the prince's finances.

However, the oldest prince Zhao Hao is only thirteen years old, and there are still several years before he leaves the palace to open the mansion, so Zhang Lingyang is not in a hurry.

Now Zhang Lingyang is most anxious not about anything else, but to see how rich the Jews are now. Zhang Lingyang had also heard about the moves of the Jewish consortium in Europe, so Zhang Lingyang preliminarily judged that the wealth of the Jews had now reached an unimaginable level.

Of course, this is only for Europe. For the Great Zhou, in fact, the Jews were still not rich. The reason is simple, because in this era, Da Zhou holds more than forty percent of the world's wealth.

According to the investigation of the Royal Academy of Sciences, since the opening of the trade route between Europe and the Great Zhou, more than half of the silver in Europe has flowed into the pockets of the Great Zhou.

It is also because of this that the Great Zhou has the confidence to use silver as its common currency.

On the European side, because of the massive outflow of silver, they had to use the more expensive gold as their currency.

Although gold has the function of currency, it can be said that it is not cost-effective to use gold as currency, because the value of gold is so high that many ordinary people have never even seen gold in their lives.

This was true in the Great Week, where gold was scarce, and it was also true in Europe, where gold was used as currency......