I don't know if I don't ask, but I'm shocked when I ask!

Li Xiuwen didn't realize until today that Sihailou had been able to bring an average of more than 30,000 taels of profit to himself every month in the past few months. In other words www.biquge.info according to the current booming business, it is not too much of a problem to earn more than 300,000 taels a year.

You must know that Sihailou is just a restaurant, and now the business may be better than that of women, but it is far inferior to an industry like a gambling house.

According to Li Xiuwen's guess, the profit of the gambling house is estimated to be several times that of the restaurant. In other words, the total amount of money that these three buildings can earn each month should be more than 100,000 taels.

At present, there are more than 10,000 people in the Shenji Battalion, and the monthly military salary is only more than 30,000 taels, which is the cost of the soldiers and horses in the Beijing camp, and the money to raise the elite is always more. If you calculate it according to the standards of the local health center, you will definitely not need so much money.

Of course, Li Xiuwen made so much money selling smuggled salt, and he posted it all in. This is mainly not in terms of military salaries, but because in the early stage, it is necessary to improve the armament and equip it with new firearms such as bird guns, which will cost more money.

According to this momentum of making money, if these three buildings are in operation for a few years, it will be more than one million taels per year, and five million taels in five years, my God!

Li Xiuwen feels that he can operate like this for five years at most.

Of course, there will inevitably be many imitations in the future, and the market will slowly be preempted.

But even so, an average of one million taels a year, which is a quarter of the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty.

It's not that he made too much money, but the tax system of the Ming Dynasty has already had big problems.

Not to mention the fact that the feudal kings, gentry and landlords in various places were encroaching on the people's tuntian.

Those who can afford to pay taxes have tried their best to evade and avoid taxes. And the ordinary people who can't afford to pay taxes really can't pay when the grain harvest fails. Even in good years, after they pay their taxes, it's really good that they can barely make ends meet.

How can the rich evade taxes and the poor bear heavy taxes?

Li Xiuwen understands some of these things, but he is powerless to change them. This will touch the interests of too many people, and it will be difficult to do so through reform.

Even if he was the son of heaven, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen knew this, and he couldn't change the status quo.

Thinking that he might have to earn one million a year, Li Xiuwen was very excited: "It turns out that I am so rich?!! ”

He couldn't wait to confirm his conjecture, and walked straight in the direction of Wang Bing's room. The income of "women's flowers" should be less than that of "Sihailou", and the casino is the big one, as long as you know the profits of the "cornucopia", it is almost the same.

Dong Xiaowan couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed when she saw his excited expression. But Li Xiuwen left in a hurry in a blink of an eye, which made her a little dissatisfied, looked at his back and said to herself: "You came to me, is it just for this?" ”

"Ahh

There was a sigh behind him, Dong Xiaowan turned around, only to find that her mother had come over at some point.

Dong Baishi stepped forward, stroked her hair and said, "My silly girl, you like him, why don't you tell him?" ”

Dong Xiaowan is usually very strong, and when she saw her mother, she couldn't help but think about the grievances in her heart. Tears overflowed his eyes at some point, and his voice was a little choked: "Mother, he knows, he understands his daughter's mind." Maybe...... Maybe he doesn't like me. ”

When Dong Bai heard this, he couldn't help but feel distressed. She hugged her daughter into her arms, and said with red eyes: "Qinglian, it is not very convenient for our mother and son to live here like this, or ...... Why don't we move out? ”

Li Xiuwen has an easy-going temperament, even if he treats the maids at home, he is also soft-spoken. Dong Bai's can occasionally see the picture of him and the two ladies being very affectionate, how can he not know that this is a rare son-in-law?

The problem is that marriage always has to be done in the right place. Even if Li Xiuwen wants to take a concubine, he shouldn't choose his daughter, right?

The Dong family was in the limelight back then, and it was far inferior to Li Xiuwen's current status, not to mention that now the family is in the middle of the road, and her daughter is going out to perform because of herself?

How can a woman from a happy background be able to climb high to Li Xiuwen?

Thinking of this, she blamed herself again, she had harmed her daughter for a lifetime!

"Mother, I don't want it, as long as I can see him often, my daughter will be satisfied." Dong Xiaowan shook her head and stretched out her hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes.

"Silly boy, you live in the Li family so namelessly, how can you marry in the future?"

Dong Baishi gently persuaded: "Listen to my mother's words, let's move out, it's good to marry an ordinary family." Lord Li is good, but we don't deserve ......."

"Mother, please don't say it." Dong Xiaowan stubbornly interrupted.

"Ahh

Dong Bai sighed again, she understood her daughter's temperament, so she didn't persuade again.

The next morning, Zhu Youzhen brought up the matter of King Zhou's invitation to restore Sanwei, most of the courtiers expressed opposition, and a small number of people supported it.

Among the seven Qings, four were against it, and three were supportive.

Xue Guoguan was the most positive, and after Qiqing expressed his opinion, he immediately came out in favor of this matter, and also reasoned and justified several reasons for supporting Fu Sanwei.

Subsequently, some officials spoke out in favor, more officials spoke out against it, and the rest of them had a wait-and-see attitude. Do not approve or oppose, maintain a neutral position.

In fact, in most people's minds, this is just a trivial matter. How many soldiers and horses can Sanwei have, and how much does it have to do with himself? Even if King Zhou restored the three guards, how much impact would it have on the imperial court?

As a result, the pros and cons were at a stalemate, and a long debate ensued. The two sides were justified at first, but in the end it was pure bickering.

Zhu Youzhen saw that they were fighting for a red face, but they couldn't get a result, so he had to stop it, put the matter on hold for the time being, and changed it to other matters.

After the dispersal of the court, Zhu Youzhen subconsciously wanted to call Wen Tiren to stay, only to realize that Wen Tiren was no longer in the court. After thinking about it, he asked Cao Huachun to go out and stop Xue Guoguan.

Xue Guoguan was depressed in his heart, to help Li Xiuwen, he had to do his best, and he had to deal with the emperor.

Sure enough, Zhu Youzhen called him to stay, just to ask about King Zhou. Xue Guoguan had no choice but to talk eloquently, the main thing was that the extra soldiers and horses did not need to be paid by the imperial court, and they could also assist the imperial court to quell the chaos, so why not?

As for concerns, what are there to worry about? A small vassal king, with three guards and horses, can he fight against the imperial court?

What Zhu Youzhen is actually worried about is that once this case is opened, the same thing will happen in the future, how should he deal with it?

You can't say yes to them all, can you?

In that case, it will be in danger of the community, and the future troubles will be endless!

Xue Guoguan couldn't answer his question, so he had to leave in disgrace. (To be continued.) )