Shanxi, close to Guanwai, is a relatively developed area of commerce in China since the beginning of the dynasties, and the Jin merchants are also one of the most powerful merchants.

After the Wei army entered Hexi, it carried out a purge of the Jin merchants and enriched the Wei treasury, after which the Wei army occupied Xuanda, entered Zhangjiakou, and seized a large amount of money, grain and materials.

However, Fan Yongdou and others were well-informed, and at the beginning of the Hedong Campaign, he began to transfer his family business to Zhangjiakou and watched the situation here.

When Dolgon's army broke through the Yanmen Pass and slaughtered Xinkou, a few families could not hold their breath and immediately organized a return to their hometown, preparing to follow the Qing army back to Hedong, but Fan Yongdou only sent his family to pay attention to the progress of the war and continued to transfer property outside the pass.

The battle of Xinkou, the Qing army was defeated, the Qing army in Xuanfu did not know the news, so there was a fast horse to report to Zhangjiakou, Fan Yongdou learned the news, and immediately took his family wealth out of the customs and went to Haoge outside the customs to join Haoge.

Compared with Fan Yongdou, those who did not calm down were much more miserable, the Wei army suddenly killed Zhangjiakou, some of them lost their family assets and escaped, and some such as Wang Dengku and Jin Liangyu were killed by the Wei army, and both people and family assets fell into the hands of the Wei army.

Gao Yihuan did not hand them over to the Three Law Divisions for trial, but ordered Xuan Yiwei to bypass the national judicial organs, directly torture them, interrogate them, and get some private money to spend.

In the West, the treasury of the king, that is, the treasury of the state, was not distinguished for a long time, while in China, the treasury and the inner treasury have been separated since the Qin Dynasty.

Although in a certain way, all the money in the world belongs to the emperor, but in a practical sense, the money in the treasury does not belong to the emperor, and the money in the inner treasury is at the emperor's disposal.

Of course, the emperor also has the right to transfer the money of the treasury, but the courtiers will see whether the emperor's transfer is reasonable, if it is unreasonable, such as rewarding the concubine and the old man, and meeting more principled ministers and upright ministers, then the emperor's transfer may not be successful, and he needs to quarrel with the cabinet and the household department, and sometimes he will be scolded bloody.

Therefore, in order to facilitate the reward of relatives and favorite ministers, the emperor usually repairs the palace and adds a few pieces of jewelry to the concubines, and will use the money from the inner treasury to avoid ripping off the skin and avoiding being scolded.

Gao Yihuan also has this need, but he wants to make money, not because of this, but because he is really short of money.

Gao Yihuan had many behaviors that the cabinet and ministers did not understand, such as investing a large amount of money into the craftsman's academy, and spending money to hire some Xiyi craftsmen who were useless in the eyes of the ministers to make clocks and watches, as well as to translate books.

The cabinet and the household ministry are reluctant to give this money, and Gao Yihuan can't explain it to them.

Chinese culture mainly teaches people how to be people, rarely explores the essence of things, and there are indeed shortcomings in the production of instruments.

Gao Yihuan asked Xiyi to make clocks, not because he really needed clocks, but in order to lay a foundation for the miniaturization and sophistication of various instruments in a few years, but in the minister's opinion, you can just buy one for fun yourself, why spend so much money to raise a group of people? Isn't this a desire to learn from the apocalypse and lose your mind as a plaything?

In addition, translating Xiyi's books, as well as craftsmen studying some strange things, are all incomprehensible to the minister.

The Chinese pay attention to being debt-free and light, they do not have the habit of eating grain, the clan treasury still owes a lot of debts, and the household officials are eager to spend a penny in half, you are still here to fix these useless things, aren't you looking for scolding?

As the civil official group became stronger and stronger, some people had already written to scold him, and Gao Yihuan decided to allocate funds from the inner treasury for convenience.

This king spends his own money, you have no opinion this time. But in fact, there are still officials who say that he is not doing his job, Gao Yihuan is uncomfortable, so he instructed Li Yan to do those few things that are not open-minded, and send them to the local officials to be officials, don't stare at him if you have nothing to do, but Li Yan did not carry out King Gao's order, but thought that the official was not at fault, the official was here to point out the problem, and the king did not solve the problem, but wanted to solve the person who raised the problem, not the Holy Lord.

Li Yan is also the secretary of the ministry, no matter what era, the person in charge of personnel is the most awesome, he will be promoted when he says he will be promoted, and he will have to get out if he tells you to get out. Li Yan didn't approve, although Gao Yihuan was able to bypass the cabinet and issue a decree directly, but at this time, he didn't want to turn his face with Li Yan for this matter, so he just asked Xuan Yiwei to see if there was any black material for those officials, and put up with it for the time being.

Directly doing it seemed that the tall king was small-minded and not benevolent enough, so he decided to settle accounts after the autumn.

At this time, with the improvement of the Wei system, after evolving from the Tukou group to a country, many loopholes were filled, and most of the sources of money in Gao Yihuan's inner treasury were handed over to the feudal government, leaving only the fixed annual appropriation given to him by the feudal government, as well as the income of several manors, which could not meet his expenses at all.

For this reason, Gao Yihuan was eager to make money, and Wang Dengku and Jin Liangyu, two Manchu imperial merchants, were tortured to death by Xuanyiwei, so that Gao Yihuan dug out more than one million taels to enrich the inner treasury, which is simply beautiful.

Of course, the Jin merchants left him not only money, but also their original channels of making money.

Gao Yihuan sold all the fur workshops and shops left by the Jin merchants to the merchant Ma Hongshan at a lower price by letting Gao Yicheng, the household servant, and Ma Hongshan gave Gao Yihuan three percent of the shares, with annual dividends, and Gao Yihuan took care of Ma Hongshan's business and realized the transfer of benefits.

Gao Yihuan came to Taiyuan from Wangjing, mainly to command the nearest and prevent the expansion of the battle in western Liao, so that he could quickly invest troops in Hedong and attack Dolgon.

In addition, Gao Yihuan also has a purpose, that is, at the end of the year, he wants to take a look at his industry and ask Ma Hongshan for money.

At this time, in a handicraft workshop by the Fenshui River, Ma Hongshan accompanied Gao Yihuan to visit the entire process of fur processing, including cleaning, production, and then blanking in the tank, staying for several days before ripening the skin.

In the workshop, hundreds of hired workers were busy, and Ma Hongshan accompanied him while explaining, "Wang, these hired workers are all original hired workers, who have been recalled by Xiaomin from the new to carry out production, and the wages are still paid according to the original. ”

Gao Yihuan nodded slightly, and Ma Hongshan said again: "After these furs are transported back from outside the customs, they are all dried in the shade and then scraped with oil, and when scraping oil, you need to use a blunt knife or a thin woodblock, and you also need to wash it with nitrate~"

Gao Yihuan nodded as if he didn't understand along the way, he had nothing to ask a few words, watched the production of hired workers, Ma Hongshan kept explaining, but King Gao didn't listen to anything.

At this time, seeing that after turning around, Ma Hongshan had not yet said that he would have to go back if he left, Gao Yihuan, who was walking with his hands, couldn't help it, he finally stopped, and suddenly looked at Ma Hongshan and reminded: "What, outside the horse, the New Year will be in two months, and this year's dividends should be in place!" ”

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