Xu Jing saw that Liu Jian was unwilling to invest in the Royal State Administration of Taxation, so he had to resign, after all, although he was now a close minister of the emperor, he did not force Shoufu to do anything.

And Shoufu Liu Jian didn't send him off when he saw Xu Jing's farewell, so he only smiled coldly: "The old man's silver can't let you spend it in vain!" ”

Xu Jing found Ma Wensheng, the secretary of the ministry, and explained his intention to Ma Wensheng.

Ma Wensheng only sighed and said: "Your Majesty is not easy, the old man understands, but the old man has been an official for so many years, but he has not saved much silver, only five thousand taels, you take it, and there is no need to say anything about investment or anything, although the old man does not understand what investment is, but since Your Majesty needs it, use it directly, don't think about making money, Your Majesty should spend your mind on government affairs." ”

Xu Jing thanked and left Ma Wensheng's place, and found Xu Jin, the secretary of the military department.

Xu Jin directly took 30,000 taels to Xu Jing, and after Xu Jing left, Xu Jin's chief housekeeper couldn't help asking: "Master, directly give the emperor 30,000 taels of silver, although this silver is still yours, but how do I think there is no return, what kind of investment, I think it is to use your silver to do business, what if you lose?" ”

"If you lose, you will lose, as long as Your Majesty doesn't go to the street to sell again, I'll give him another 10,000 to lose!" Xu Jin said helplessly.

Xu Jing found Jiao Fang, the left attendant of the ministry, and Jiao Fang also directly gave 10,000 taels, thinking in his heart: "This silver must have gone and never returned, Your Majesty is not good for business, even the emperor is not good, let alone business, but Your Majesty loses 10,000 yuan to himself, so he owes himself a favor, and he will be promoted in the future." ”

Xu Jing successively found many nobles and officials, and those who were willing to give and those who were reluctant to give, were reluctant to either maintain a skeptical attitude and could only say that they were incorruptible and had no money to give to the Royal Tax Administration, or they really did not want to give a bad reputation for not being honest, and most of those who were willing to give were afraid that His Majesty the Emperor would lose face to the court because he had no money to sell on the street, and he didn't really think that the emperor could make them make money.

It is worth mentioning that Xu Jing later found Wang Hua, the head of the household department.

Wang Hua saw Xu Jing ask him if he was willing to invest in the silver of the Royal State Administration of Taxation, and after listening to it for a long time to understand what Xu Jing meant, he asked with some hesitation: "Isn't the internal money directly under the direct management of Your Majesty, why do you want to ask hundreds of officials to raise funds?" ”

"Master, why do you have to ask again, Squire Xu, I have understood what you mean, this fundraising is not specifically a stock raising, it is His Majesty who wants to give us a fortune, right, it is equivalent to whoever pays more silver will get more when the time comes, I will give it!"

Wang Yangming, who was on the side, didn't wait for Xu Jing to answer Wang Hua's words, and began to ask his family manager to take out his wife's 30,000 taels of dowry and his family's 5,000 taels of cash in Beijing:

"Squire Xu, this is all the silver I can take out now, your way of doing business, it was mentioned in the economic subsidiary handouts of His Majesty's Governing Outline, I am very optimistic, if I can, I want to continue to add silver."

Because Wang Hua is not accustomed to mundane affairs, Wang Yangming is also in his own home in Beijing, so he can naturally directly take out the silver to Xu Jing.

But Wang Hua couldn't help but be shocked when he saw this, if it weren't for Xu Jing and others present, he would have beaten Wang Yangming, but at this moment he could only pat the back of the chair: "You loser, this is all the savings of the family, you gave it all to Xu's attendants, what do we eat!" ”

"Sir! Believe me, this is definitely a good thing, besides, you don't want Your Majesty to go to the street to sell royal treasures again, in that case, you, the newly appointed Hubu Shangshu, will have to resign, so even if the 30,000 taels are spent by Your Majesty, what will happen. ”

Wang Yangming said.

Wang Hua thought about it like this, so he had to wave his hand and say, "That's it!" At the same time, he sighed in his heart: "A loser, a defeated country, my Ming Dynasty's prosperity is really coming to an end!" ”

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"The prosperity of the Ming Dynasty has just begun, and in the future, the empire will be in charge of us, and the empire in our hands will also rule the entire universe! The Royal Tax Administration is not to let me get enough wealth to enjoy, but to let me have more wealth to feed back to the people, to build a strong army, so that the empire will have no borders and no internal worries, and the people will not know hunger and will become richer and richer, including you and myself. ”

Zhu Houzhao was talking to the "Eight Tigers" and Xu Jing at this time about the political significance of his Royal State Administration of Taxation, for the "Eight Tigers" and Xu Jing, it is also a better thing to make the Ming Dynasty strengthen nature while making money, after all, only the Ming Dynasty can enjoy the glory and wealth, so they do not reject and agree with the political vision expressed by Zhu Houzhao.

"Xu Jing, how much silver has been raised from the hands of hundreds of officials now", Zhu Houzhao asked Xu Jing at this time.

Xu Jing hurriedly took the account book out: "Returning to Your Majesty is a total of 236,200 taels", after speaking, Xu Jing smiled a little embarrassedly.

He was deeply afraid that Emperor Zhu Houzhao would be angry because of this, because there were so many officials in the court and Beijing, and he only made up more than 230,000 taels in total, even if he Xu Jing first entered the officialdom, he knew that it was really a little less, after all, as far as he knew, the officials in Beijing just collected no less than this amount every year.

However, Zhu Houzhao was not angry, he only smiled secretly, thinking that he was better than Chongzhen, and he didn't know if the ministers in the last years of the Ming Dynasty were poorer or the ministers in the eighteenth year of Hongzhi had more feelings for themselves as emperors.

"It seems that my ministers are still very clean."

On the surface, Zhu Houzhao still found a step for the officials, and let Xu Jing and the "Eight Tigers" also start to participate in the investment, as for how much they are willing to invest, it depends on their willingness, it is worth mentioning that Xu Jing directly invested a huge amount of 100,000 taels! This made Zhu Houzhao and the "Eight Tigers" couldn't help but be surprised.

"Xu Jing, you have also spent a lot of money before and after, why are you still so rich?" Zhu Houzhao couldn't help asking.

"Wechen doesn't dare to hide it from Your Majesty, Wechen doesn't have anything else in his family, but it's a lot of money, but this is just a second-rate family in Jiangnan", Xu Jing said this, Liu Jin and the other eight tigers showed an unbelievable expression, and Zhu Houzhao also asked:

"You have money, I believe it, I heard that when you and your brother-in-law Tang Bohu went to Beijing to take the exam, he had a tryst with a beauty and you paid for the money, and even the relationship between you and Beijing is the same, but if Xu Jing is a second-rate family, then I am really poor."

"Wechen really didn't deceive Your Majesty, most of the wealth in the world belongs to Jiangnan, and the real big families in Jiangnan can take out millions of millions, Wechen is just some savings accumulated by the ancestors", Xu Jing said with a smile.

Seeing this, Zhu Houzhao had to sigh and said: "It seems that my Ming Dynasty is really the poorest in the imperial court!" ”