Since Liu Jun is a marquis, it stands to reason that he will be in solidarity with the country.

But maybe Chongzhen is not at ease about this, or maybe he wants to get Liu Jun's more loyal effect, so he suddenly put forward this plan that shocked everyone.

"You don't have to worry about anything else, unless you don't want to. Monarchs and ministers are like father and son, and now I have accepted you as a son, don't you want to? Chongzhen seems to have made up his mind early and is bent on accepting Liu Jun as his righteous son.

Liu Jun looked at Chongzhen's attitude, and he was also a little worried. As far as he knew, Chongzhen was a rather paranoid person. He is now deeply trusted by Chongzhen, but he doesn't want to make Chongzhen angry in the end because of this. After thinking about it, Liu Jun also admitted it in his heart, anyway, this matter was insisted on by Chongzhen, and he might as well agree to him.

Liu Jun thought about it, although there was a precedent for the emperor to accept Yizi, but in the Ming Dynasty, it seems that Emperor Taizu and Emperor Zhengde did this. And Emperor Zhengde received more than 100 righteous sons, which was also deeply dissatisfied with the courtiers. When this matter is turned back, maybe the ministers will oppose it, maybe it will be forgotten naturally.

"The minister has no such intention, but he is worried that the world will criticize him and the subjects will oppose it."

"You don't have to worry about those, you just say if you want to!"

"Monarchs and ministers are like fathers and sons, and monarchs and fathers are one, and there is no difference. Now His Majesty loves and wants to accept the minister as his son, and the minister has no unwillingness. ”

Hearing this, Chongzhen stroked his beard and laughed a few times with satisfaction. "Very well, that's what I want from you. From now on, you are my righteous son, and you have changed your name to Zhu Ciye. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Longen!" Liu Jun is now 100% sure that Chongzhen definitely didn't come over on a whim tonight, and he definitely didn't think of taking him as a righteous son temporarily. All this must have been planned by Chongzhen a long time ago. Even after thinking about it for a long time, everything is just to be able to tie up Liu Jun with the emperor's grace and even his father's grace.

"Call Father!" Chongzhen said with a smile. There is also a big difference between the righteous son and the righteous son, and Chongzhen accepted Liu Jun as the righteous son. But after making a bloody investment, Liu Jun was allowed to enter the clan membership. "In the future, the crown prince and the kings of Yongding will be your brothers, Queen Zhou will be your mother, and Concubine Yuan Tian will also be your aunt, understand?"

"Yes, Father!" Liu Jun thanked him again. But I was thinking in my heart, if you really want to be a son, why don't you become a king? To put it bluntly, Chongzhen also felt that Liu Jun was more strange and could lead troops. can make money again, and has always shown great loyalty to the emperor, so he wants to use this method to further envelop Liu Jun.

"Hahaha, it's good, I'm very happy, Ciye, let people bring the wine, today our father and son want to have a good drink, all the lords and Cao Daban, Wang Chengen, Wang Cheng'en, Wang Qiao, they are all witnesses."

Three dukes and one earl saw this. also congratulated their father and son, and several counts of the Duke of the Kingdom were also much more enthusiastic about Liu Jun. They didn't take this new Hou Ye very seriously, but now Liu Jun's two teachers have entered the cabinet as the first assistant and the second assistant, and one fellow villager is also a cabinet elder. turned his head and became the emperor's righteous son again, how could Liu Jun be underestimated in the future.

When drinking, Liu Jun was still a little dizzy. How did I become Chongzhen's godson like this. This Ming Dynasty is only a few years in history before it will perish, do I want to follow the Ming Dynasty to be buried? Liu Jun didn't think that he could turn the tide with his own strength.

Liu Jun is most worried about Chongzhen after accepting him as his godson. Will you leave him in Jingshi? If he is asked to rectify the Beijing camp, train the Beijing army or something, or let him participate in the rectification of the tuntian, the reform of the military station, etc., wouldn't it be contrary to his plan all along?

After drinking a few glasses of wine, Chongzhen called Liu Jun to the study, and the two talked alone.

"Since I succeeded to the throne, this great heaven has been like a leaky sieve, full of holes. Internal and external troubles, I did not dare to relax and indulge for a day, but in the end, the predicament of the Ming Dynasty was not only not alleviated, but became more and more serious. Chongzhen sighed, "Fortunately, thanks to you, I have pacified the bandits in the Central Plains." I often think, maybe you were sent by God to assist me. I accepted you as a righteous son because I thought you were sent by God to help me and help the Ming Dynasty. ”

Chongzhen drank all the wine in the wine glass in his hand and smiled, "For more than ten years, I have rarely drunk alcohol, but I have drunk it several times during this time. Once you reported success in Wushan, once you captured Zhang Xianzhong, and then you built a salt farm and sent me 100,000 taels of silver, and later you brought me a lot of good news, lottery money, rectification of Tuntian, Yehe victory, good news one after another, I couldn't help but drink a few glasses every time. Today, you have become my righteous son again, and I want to drink a few more glasses. ”

Liu Jun stood on the side and didn't speak, just quietly listened to Chongzhen's words.

"With you, the situation has changed for the better. However, the change has been too slow. ”

Chongzhen looked at Liu Jun and didn't speak, and pointed to the chair on the side, "Sit, our father and son are talking alone, why be so formal." Ciye, Hong Chengchou said again that the imperial court would send troops to Jinzhou, but I was shocked when I looked at the situation of the treasury reported by the two auxiliary ministers of Mei and Li. There was no money, no bread, no grass, no soldiers. Indeed, as you said, if under such circumstances, we still have to transfer tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to Jinzhou to fight a decisive battle with Jianyu, but we are afraid that the consequences will be unpredictable. ”

"Ciye, you are good at commanding troops and training troops and managing money, you tell me, is there any way for the imperial court to get a large sum of money in a short period of time, without having to send more money to the people?"

Liu Jun thought for a while and replied, "Your Majesty, Hubei has cleared out more than 2 million acres of military tun fields this year, and now these fields have been handed over to more than 50,000 tunding for cultivation. If these rents are divided into three points, part of which is reserved for the local battalions and part for the local prefectures and counties, then hundreds of thousands of stone of grain can also be handed over to the imperial court. And this is only part of the tuntian cleared out of Hubei Province, if Hubei and Hunan are cleared out, only these two provinces, then the imperial court may harvest as much as four or five million stone in a year."

Chongzhen interrupted Liu Jun, he shook his head and said, "Far water can't quench the thirst of the near, no matter how fast it is, the rent of Tuntian will have to wait until after the summer harvest next year." The imperial court needs a sum of cash, and although Jinzhou does not send additional troops and horses now, it still has to provide food and wages. Many soldiers and horses on the nine sides of the imperial court have been in arrears for a long time, and after the Central Plains put down the bandits, they had to resettle the displaced people and resume production. Asking for money everywhere can't wait that long. ”

Chongzhen was about to be driven crazy by the silver, and he asked for money everywhere, but the court was empty, fortunately, Liu Jun gave hundreds of thousands of taels of silver before, plus the confiscation of Lu Jiude, Xue Guoguan and other prisoners got almost more than 2 million taels. Relying on this money, I can support my life for the time being.

Chongzhen was even wondering if he was stealing a few corrupt officials and making a windfall. But he also knows that in this situation, it is difficult to vigorously crack down on corruption. If you don't get it right, the center of the court will catch fire, and if even the center gets out of control, it will be even more fatal. Unless it is absolutely necessary, Chongzhen will not dare to use the knife with those people casually.

Liu Jun listened to Chongzhen's request and thought about it. If you want cash, you have to get money quickly in the short term. It was a very demanding request, but he could think of some solutions.

For example, lottery tickets, but lottery tickets, you have to have good execution. For example, if the nine-headed bird issues lottery tickets, there is excellent monitoring, and no one will guard and steal them, and if the lottery tickets are handed over to the imperial court, it will immediately become a source of corruption. He was sure that it wouldn't be long before those corrupt officials would be able to spoil this good thing.

Lottery tickets rely on credit, and only with credit can someone buy it. At the same time, the lottery also depends on the integrity of the management officials, so that the money can finally be gathered.

"Your Majesty, the minister has an idea, maybe he can get a sum of money in a short time. However, this matter must be handled by reliable people, otherwise, in the end, it will only enrich the corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and the court will not get money. Liu Jun said.

"Oh, what's the plan? How much money can you get? "Chongzhen is now a dignified son of heaven, and he has begun to talk about money and silver.

"If you have Your Majesty's support, you should be able to get about five million within a year."

Liu Jun didn't dare to say too much, so he first said a conservative number.

"Five million a year? Do you have to get the money after a year? Chongzhen asked.

"Not necessarily, if the plan is launched, then it will start to come in a month at most."

"What the hell is the plan, let me know in detail." When Chongzhen heard that he didn't have to wait for a year, he would be able to enter the account in January, and he was immediately moved.

Liu Jun's plan is actually very simple, and later generations will have a more comprehensive understanding of the economy. Liu Jun planned to issue bonds, a fairly simple plan, and in later generations, bonds were a very common thing, including war bonds, national bonds, and local bonds, etc., all kinds of things.

To put it bluntly, bonds are borrowing from Chinese people, especially from wealthy people. Now the Ming court often asks rich people to borrow money, but the court's borrowing has no technical content, and it is all forced to borrow money.

For example, Chongzhen asked Wu Qinghou to borrow 400,000 taels of silver, and when he opened his mouth to borrow so much, even if he had money, Wu Qinghou would not borrow so much. And this Marquis Wu Qing is also a miser, after he received the will, he sold his furniture on the street, and even demolished the house to sell, in short, it was a boil.

Chongzhen's face was lost, Chongzhen was furious and ordered to deprive Li Guorui of his knighthood, and Li Guorui died of panic. Later, the wind of borrowing became more and more intense, so that everyone in the emperor's relatives and relatives were in danger, and they were unwilling to destroy their wealth and eliminate disasters, so they spread rumors to confuse the public: the Empress Dowager Xiaoding (Zhu Youzhen's great-grandmother) accused the emperor in heaven of being too mean to his relatives, and he would suffer the punishment of heaven, and the emperor's son was about to die.

Of course, this is a rumor, but it is very strange, Zhu Youzhen's fifth son Zhu Cihuan really died. In order to give an explanation to the Empress Dowager Xiaoding, he immediately posthumously crowned Li Guorui's seven-year-old son as the Marquis of Wuqing, and returned all the gold and silver handed over by the Li family. (To be continued......)

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