Seeing the five scribes under his command, Zhu Hongsan sighed secretly. There is really no one, these are still abducted and deceived by themselves for more than ten years, although they are all talents, but they can't be used as a hundred people. It seems that the introduction of local literati is an urgent task at present.

Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan asked: "Second brother, how many local literati in Guangdong do we have now, and the best one who has been an official is the best." ”

Ma Mingyuan smiled bitterly and said: "There are no officials at all, but there are a few literati." But the highest education is Xiucai, and there are more than a dozen children. I sent letters to a few well-known local literati, and they replied very tactfully, waiting to take the exam. ”

Zhu Hongsan scolded: "What the hell will you try, what are a bunch of stupid and stinky old nine pretending to be, and I am in a hurry that this king led the soldiers to burn their house." ”

Zhu Hongsan's words basically scolded all the literati present, Erma, Feng, and Xu are all Jinshi, Ma Mingyuan's ranking in the palace test is not low, Gong Dacheng is a lifter, and Tong Yangjia is a showman, all of whom are the ruling class.

When everyone heard Zhu Hongsan scolding intellectuals here, their faces were not very natural. Others said that Xu Dali was a defender of the scholar class, and stood up and said: "His Royal Highness the King of Chu, you can't say that about scholars, the imperial examination is the right way for a scholar." On the contrary, it is the king of Chu who is here in the side door. ”

Zhu Hong's face turned green, is he a side-of-the-road? The side door also gave you Xu Dali a prefect, you go to the right way to see who can give you the prefect?

But you can't say this to your face, Zhu Hongsan still needs the help of this stinky old nine now. Originally, there were few people, and it was more complete in the gas walk.

Zhu Hongsan held back his anger and said, "What Lord Xu said is that this king Meng Lang is gone. ”

Xu Dali saw Zhu Hongsan admit his mistake, nodded and sat down.

Zhu Hongsan continued: "In this way, everyone has to go to other places to be officials. When you go to the local area, you must look for people who have the ability to read, and recommend it to this king. ”

Ma Mingyuan felt that this was the way to do it at present, and said, "It can only be like this." ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "That's all for today, let's go back and prepare." The second brother will withdraw two thousand taels of silver to each gentleman as funds. In the past few days, everyone went home to think about what to do in the local area, and came up with a feasible plan, and we will have a meeting in five days, and I will listen to how everyone arranges. Governor Feng should be able to go to Zhaoqing at the end of September, and when the time comes, everyone can go to take office. "Stand up and bow in farewell.

Ma Mingyuan was just about to leave, and Zhu Hongsan said, "Second brother, wait a minute." ”

Ma Mingyuan turned around and asked, "Is there anything else to do?" ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "Second brother tell me how much money we still have?" ”

Ma Mingyuan said: "Now we have two main incomes, one is the income of the steel factory, which sells kitchen knives, axes, plows and other iron products every month. Our things are cheap and beautiful, and they are very popular in the Liangguang generation, and these can earn 50,000 taels of silver per month.

The second income is from the Dongguan Development Zone, where the terminal is now busy, with more than 40 merchant ships docking every day. But we haven't collected commercial tax at the wharf, didn't the lord propose a two-year tax exemption? At present, the development zone mainly relies on the sale of land to make money.

Now one acre of land in Dongguan City has risen to 1,000 taels of silver, which may not be able to be bought. At that time, the lord left thousands of acres of land in Nancheng, and I sold 200 acres last month for a profit of 200,000 taels of silver. That's the bulk of the income. ”

Zhu Hongsan said in his heart: "Of course, the master used to play land requisition and demolition, this routine is too simple." ”

Zhu Hongsan thought for a while and said, "Sir, don't release a large amount of land, the price will naturally come down if there are more of these things." There is also the next step to gradually buy the land outside the city through the development office, and we must take our time and not make a big show. Be careful that someone knows the news. ”

Ma Mingyuan's eyes lit up, does he have another chance to make a fortune? When Zhu Hongsan's advisors occupied land in the development zone, Zhu Hongsan left them 100 acres of land each, which is 100,000 silver, which is still the current price. In a few years, it will not be a problem to multiply.

Zhu Hongsan continued: "Now that the land in Dongguan County is tight, I will build a bulk commodity trading market outside the city next year." There will be more silver then. ”

Ma Mingyuan said: "How much land do you want to occupy?" ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "First levy 200,000 mu. ”

Ma Mingyuan was taken aback, if the current price of 200,000 mu is 20 million, how much money will the Ming treasury have.

Seeing Ma Mingyuan's surprised appearance, Zhu Hongsan smiled and said: "Second brother, don't be surprised, now the people of Daming have silver, you see that those rich people in the countryside don't have 18,000 silver, and the rich families in Guangzhou City don't have a worth of 180,000." This is still in Guangdong. If it is in the wealthy Nanzhili, there is not 100,000 taels of silver buried in the ground of a town, but also 70,000 or 80,000 taels. All we have to do is how to lure them to take out the money and put it in circulation, so that we will not have money? ”

Ma Mingyuan heard this theory for the first time, and it felt very fresh. But when you think about it, that's really the case. Not to mention others, even when his Ma family was in Wuchang County, Huguang, 200,000 taels of silver were buried in the yard.

Ma Mingyuan asked: "Lord, I don't understand something, what if they don't take out the silver?" We can't rob it, can we? ”

Zhu Hongsan said with a smile: "Of course you can't rob it." But we can't rob openly, we can rob secretly. We can declare that silver is not in circulation, and only the silver coins we issue can be used. But their silver can be exchanged for silver coins, so that all the silver will come out? ”

Ma Mingyuan was dumbfounded, he didn't expect Zhu Hongsan to be so shameless, this is more ruthless than robbing. Ma Mingyuan's family has been an official for two lifetimes, so he naturally knows that the quality of the people's silver is different, and there is fire consumption when paying taxes. If silver coins are really issued like Zhu Hongsan, the silver consumption in the whole world is an astronomical amount.

Zhu Hongsan looked at Ma Mingyuan's appearance, and said with contempt in his heart: "It seems that the cognitive level of the ancients is like this." This kind of small means surprised them like this, if the master is offering the concept of the stock market, he will not be scared to pee? ”

Ma Mingyuan came to his senses and asked, "Then can't we use this method now?" ”

Zhu Hongsan said: "This thing is very powerful, if it is used well, it can multiply the national strength, and if it is not used well, it will be the end of the country." At this stage, our strength is not large, and we can ensure our normal operation by buying land alone, and we don't need this thing for now. In addition, there is not enough manpower now, and the second brother must first look for talents who know how to make money, and then implement it step by step. ”

Ma Mingyuan nodded, and went down after asking if there was anything to do.

Zhu Hongsan looked at Ma Shaoguang, his cheap uncle, who was recorded on the side, and asked, "Boyu, have you recorded it?" ”

Ma Shaoguang, Zhu Hong's third secretary, said: "Lord Wang, it's all recorded. ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded and said, "Okay, you sort it out and file it by year, month and day, just like I taught you." ”

Ma Shaoguang said: "Please rest assured. ”

Zhu Hongsan got up and walked out of the house, seeing that it was almost dinner time, but he didn't expect to have a day's meeting today, and he wanted to go to see the industrial zone. I don't know what happened to the three of them, but now it seems that they are not free today, so let's talk about it tomorrow.

Thinking of this, Zhu Hongsan got up and returned to the backyard, and thought about going to Zhu Youjia's yard first. When I went to the small courtyard, Zhu Youjia had already moved away, and it seemed that the housekeeper was very fast.

Zhu Hongsan found a servant and asked Zhu Youjia where he lived, and Zhu Hongsan came to the door of his new residence. This is a small courtyard with three houses.

Zhu Hongsan pushed the door and went in, and saw two maids cleaning in the yard. Yahuan saw Zhu Hongsan coming, and saluted: "The master is here, and the fifth lady is in the house." ”

Zhu Hongsan entered the house and saw Zhu Youjia breastfeeding Zhu Xiang.

Zhu Youjia saw Zhu Hongsan coming and got up to say hello. Zhu Hongsan nodded, glanced at his daughter, and found that Zhu Youjia's breasts may have been lactating and had become bigger than before.

Zhu Xiang fell asleep after feeding. Zhu Youjia was just about to get dressed, but Zhu Hongsan said: "Don't wear it yet, let this king touch it." ”

Zhu Youjia's face turned red, but he also stopped putting on his clothes and let Zhu Hongsan be light.

Zhu Hongsan is in a good mood today, and when he sees the image of Zhu Youjia as a cold beauty, his desire is hot again. Press down Zhu Youjia and poke it.

After Zhu Hongsan finished venting, Zhu Youjia got up and waited for Zhu Hongsan to get dressed. Zhu Hongsan said: "Old Five, you go and inform me, I will stay with you tonight." ”

Zhu Youjia went out to arrange for Yahuan to prepare.