Qin Lin's suggestion was quickly implemented, Zhang Juzheng was both internal and external, and carried out all the work vigorously, first stopping the official discount, announcing that in the future, all the money and grain would be distributed according to the real amount, and then the Fanbang tributes accumulated in the treasury over the years and the goods collected by the sea trade were all sold to the Cao Gang and Wufeng Maritime Merchants at a 20% discount on the market price—in fact, they were sold to Qin Lin.

Wufeng Maritime Merchants and Cao Gang are stationed in Beijing to set up a shopkeeper, set up a warehouse, and immediately send the most experienced old shopkeeper to sort, evaluate, and complete the purchase.

If these tributes are piled up in the treasury, they are just waiting to be moldy; When the offsetting is sent to officials, the people who receive it often don't need it, and the value doesn't match the record, so they complain.

Now it is completely sold to the Cao Gang and the Wufeng maritime merchants to form a business empire in an ordinary way of trading, they have a professional transportation network and commercial channels, according to the process of these things are classified and transported to various places for distribution, saffron is popular in Liangguang, celadon is shipped to the northwest for sale, Yunnan Tusi tribute tea bricks are rough and difficult to import in the eyes of the Central Plains scholars, but they are the favorite of Mongolian herdsmen in Saibei......

In this way, as long as all the tributes find the right market, they will suddenly turn waste into treasure, and from the tasteless and discarded chicken ribs in the hands of officials, they will become white silver.

Qin Lin not only demonstrated his ability once again by financially supporting Zhang Juzheng's reform and new policy, but also was able to make a lot of profits from this trade.

did not announce the role played by Qin Lin in this matter, but there was always gossip spread, and officials at all levels in Beijing, especially those who worked hard to live a poor life, all praised Qin Lin for his righteousness and squandering money, which was really a timely rain for Ganlin

- No matter what benefits are sent, I don't directly find that the money is powerful!

On the other hand, Zhang Juzheng asked to sort out the idle items accumulated in the palace for many years to be put up for sale, and he did not encounter any resistance from the little emperor and Empress Dowager Li.

Empress Dowager Li came from a humble background, her mother's family was a mason, she did not have any artistic cells, Emperor Wanli also did not like calligraphy and painting, Zhang Juzheng promised to sell the silver by the household and the inner treasury fifty-five accounts, the mother and son were overjoyed, and immediately ordered to search for the heirloom calligraphy and paintings in the palace, all of which were sold.

Zhang Juzheng is very good at doing things, knowing that Feng Bao in the palace wants to be half of the master, and privately allows him to bribe half of it, Feng Bao is the most greedy for money, and immediately ordered the eunuchs in the palace to collect all the precious paintings and calligraphy and give them to the household department to sell.

The sales of the things in the palace have a very good response, although it is not a royal gift, after all, it has also been in the Forbidden City, stained with a bit of heavenly atmosphere, rich merchants and dignitaries are vying to buy it, that is, those lords and nobles who received a little discount some time ago and complained about the hardships, at this time they all threw a lot of money, rushing to buy their favorite heirloom calligraphy and paintings, especially the calligraphy and paintings with the inscription of the previous emperor are in short supply.

The silver of the white flowers flowed into the treasury of the household and the royal treasury, and the financial pressure on Zhang Juzheng's shoulders was reduced, and the Empress Dowager Li and Emperor Wanli were also masters who loved silver and did not love art.

Feng Bao's purse was also enriched a lot, and he searched for calligraphy and paintings in the palace more and more, relying on his power and the support of the emperor and the queen mother......

The eastern half of the Forbidden City belongs to the palace where the prince and princess live, compared with the scale of the Huangji Palace, the Zhongji Palace, and the Qianqing Palace, it is slightly larger than the courtyard of the Beijing people, and there are no small bridges and flowing water, green trees and flowers and trees, and the eyes are full of red palace walls, which are so high that the sky is covered by most of them, which is really boring and boring.

In the palace where the eldest princess Zhu Yaoyuan lived, Xu Xinyi's angry voice came: "How can they do this? Cousin, you are too cowardly, watching others take away your beloved things, and you don't even dare to say a word, how do you do this princess? ”

Miss Xu crossed her waist with her hands, opened her apricot eyes, raised her willow eyebrows, walked around angrily with her long legs, and kept waving her arms, looking like she was about to rush out and fight with someone.

A delicate little girl sat at the head of the bed, her figure was a little girlish and thin, she looked very beautiful, with a pointed chin, a small nose bridge, and her white skin seemed to be a little bloodless, with big eyes, she looked at Xu Xinyi timidly, envious and admired this daring cousin,

- She is the fourteen-year-old eldest princess Zhu Yaoyuan, the sister-in-law of the current Wanli Emperor's mother.

Empress Dowager Li's maiden family has a shallow foundation, and the Ming Dynasty system never allows relatives to interfere in politics, so Emperor Li's family can only enjoy a lifetime of glory and wealth when the Empress Dowager is alive, but they can't keep the lord forever.

Like Emperor Xiaozong, Empress Zhang, that is, Empress Dowager Zhang when Wuzong, the Zhang family was so arrogant and domineering, but as soon as Emperor Jiajing ascended the throne, Empress Dowager Zhang's younger brother was executed by Jiajing after committing a crime, and the precedent was enough to make Empress Dowager Li feel cold.

And the British Gong Zhang family, the Qianguo Gong Mu family, the hereditary replacement of the martial arts princes, is in charge of the army from generation to generation, and really rest with the country, among which the descendants of the king of Zhongshan Xu Da are the most prominent, the only Ming Dynasty to be awarded the lineage of two national dukes, Xu Da's eldest son Xu Qihui ancestor was named the Duke of Wei, Shizhen Nanjing, the second son Xu Zengshou was named the Duke of Guo, and he was in Beijing for many generations as the wings of the imperial court and held the military power.

Therefore, in order for her mother's family to maintain its glory and wealth forever in the future, Empress Dowager Li instructed her mother's family to marry the Xu family, so as to combine the imperial relatives and martial arts nobles.

One of the sons of Wu Qingbo Li Wei is also the younger brother of the Empress Dowager Li, and he married the daughter of the Dingguo Gong's side, and the daughter of the elder brother of the Empress Dowager Li married a cousin of Xu Xinyi, and Xu Xinyi is Zhu Yaoyuan's cousin in terms of their in-law relationship.

Eight years ago, Emperor Wanli ascended the throne, meritorious dignitaries and women entered the palace for pilgrimage, ten-year-old Xu Xinyi also went to Beijing with his parents, this eldest lady's woman fate is even more powerful than Qin Lin, as soon as she entered the palace, she bluffed her six-year-old cousin Zhu Yao, and ran behind her like a fart.

Empress Dowager Cisheng Li may be patriarchal, or she may know that all glory and wealth come from her son, all her love as a mother is placed on Zhu Yijun, the emperor of Wanli, and Zhu Yihua, the second son of Luwang, almost ignoring her only daughter Zhu Yaoyuan, and letting her grow up alone and lonely in the deep palace.

Therefore, Xu Xinyi, who is running crazy all over the world, is a window opened to her by the fresh world outside for Zhu Yaoyuan

It was only when this cousin arrived that she had a few days of brief happiness.

Empress Dowager Li's thirtieth birthday, the daughter of the Li family and Xu Xinyi's cousin got married, Xu Xinyi went to Beijing with her mother twice, and every time her cousin arrived, it was Zhu Yaoyi's happiest day.