As the sun set, the noon gate gate was sprinkled with afterglow, the straight janissaries stood with their swords, and a carriage poured into the door under the support of dozens of knights.

The horse's hooves clattered against the cyan tiles...... Da Da ...... The wheels of the car spun rapidly and made a buzzing sound.

The curtain was pulled open, revealing the graceful face of the queen, her eyes swept over the guards by the doorway, and she seemed to feel that the wind pouring in from outside was a little cold, and lowered the curtain again.

"Your Majesty, it's time to be in the palace."

"Ah......" Zhu Youzhang, who was seated on the same cushion as Empress Zhang, came back to his senses, and then smiled and said, "...... so soon"

Empress Zhang smiled, in this carriage, the fragrant powder is fragrant, warm as spring, the cushion of fur sewing is a little warm, she gently lifted the soft wattle and put it on the back of Zhu Youzhang's hand, the corners of her mouth outlined a beautiful arc, and said lightly: "What is Your Majesty thinking?" ”

"Hmm......" Zhu Youzhu seemed to be thinking about whether to say it, the back of his hand was grabbed by Empress Zhang, with a warm atmosphere, Zhu Youzhu took a deep breath comfortably, unconsciously moved closer to Empress Zhang, and said, "I am thinking about Liu Chengfeng." ”

"Huh?" Empress Zhang smiled and said, "A willow riding the wind, what is there to think?" ”

Zhu Youzhang's old face turned red, coughing desperately, as if he felt that Fang Cai's words had some language problems, and hurriedly said: "I actually think about the treasure building." ”

Empress Zhang didn't speak, just leaned lightly on Zhu Youzhang's arm and listened carefully.

Zhu Youzhu continued: "Does the queen know how much my taxes are in the Ming Dynasty? The amount of silver is only a few million taels, and if you add the salt and iron taxes collected by the eunuchs in various places......" Zhu Youzhu squinted his eyes and continued: "At most, it will not exceed five million taels. But a treasure building, the annual benefits, I am afraid that it will be more than millions of taels of silver, does the queen know what it means? ”

Empress Zhang bit her lip. He smiled slightly: "Please make it clear to Your Majesty." ”

Zhu Youzhu said: "This means that my imperial court uses these hundreds of taels of silver every year to pay the soldiers, provide relief to the victims in various places, dredge the river, and build the river embankment. When I first ascended to the pole, the imperial court was in deficit every year. The salaries of the border army could only be distributed twice a year, and as for the construction of the river, it was needless to say that the money spent was not to mention. Every time I think about it, I feel very uncomfortable. ”

"Your Majesty. Why is that? ”

"The taxes of the Ming Dynasty mainly come from the peasants in the ridges, but those rich businessmen have never paid a penny of taxes. This is the biggest malpractice of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"But why doesn't Your Majesty tax the merchants?"

Zhu Youjiao, in fact, he knew that Empress Zhang might not know the mystery of this, but at this time he pretended not to know, but he wanted to tell his heart so that he could feel better.

Zhu Youzhu said slowly: "Do you know, what is behind the businessman? Behind the merchants is the scholars, Emperor Taizu also set up the law of commercial taxation, the law of the ancestors is that in addition to the scholars, the merchant tax is thirty drawn. It's just that now it's unrecognizable. Almost every merchant had his business under the name of an official or scholar. Taxes were levied on merchants. I am afraid that before my will is issued, the scholars of the world will oppose me. ”

Zhu Youzhu sighed, and then smiled. Lifting the curtain and letting the cold wind blow on his face, he said lightly: "Liu Chengfeng's teahouse has done something for me that I dare not do, to recover the silver money from the merchants, so as to enrich the treasury, and what is more interesting is that those scholars even if they want to oppose it." There is no way to start, not to mention that more people may not object. This Liu Chengfeng, originally I still don't like him a little because of the Duoduo thing, but now it seems that I also find that he also has a lot of cuteness, this person will be left to Houzhao in the future, and I can have no worries. It's just that he's too young now, and sometimes he does things recklessly, so I have to sharpen him well. ”

Zhu Youzhang's evaluation of Liu Chengfeng, Empress Zhang did not object, she had a better impression of Liu Chengfeng, and couldn't help but say: "How does Your Majesty plan to sharpen him?" ”

Zhu Youzhu sighed and said: "I have to think about it again, Queen, I'm going to Kunning Palace, I'll go to read the book later, after all, I can't waste today's political affairs after a day of leisure, you go to bed first, and I'll come after I'm done with the things at hand." ”

Empress Zhang's faint eyes flashed a look of helplessness, her husband always has his own insistence, this insistence makes her a little admired but a little annoyed, she just shook Zhu Youzhang's slightly hot hand, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty must remember to pay attention to the ...... of the body"

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Jubaolou has become the hottest topic in Beijing at this time, and it is said that even the merchants of Beitongzhou and Tianjin Wei have come one after another to apply for membership. The guys in the treasure building have already let out the news, and the number of applications received by the treasure building in three days has reached more than 28,000, and even so, thousands of them are handed in every day.

Among them, some of them are full of ambition and great businessmen, all of whom are striving to get gold medal members, everyone knows what this gold medal membership means, which means that as long as this identity is shown, no matter whether it is shipped or purchased in Jubaolou, it will make many businessmen rush to it. After all, they are big businessmen, and their families are here, no matter what kind of business, the investment is not small.

Some of the second-class merchants can only compete for silver members, and the second, even some ordinary shop merchants are running around for an ordinary member.

The reason why this is so is because of the trading volume of the second and third day of the treasure building, the treasure building will be counted every night, and the results of the statistics will be released early in the morning of the second day, written on the blackboard of the announcement column, but the next day, the transaction volume of silk has been as high as 9,700 quintals, it is said that there is a businessman from Shanxi who actually ate 3,000 quintals of silk in the treasure building in one go, so that the supply of this Beijing division is in short supply for a while, and the price of silk has skyrocketed by 10% in one day.

At this time, all businessmen understood that whether they wanted to buy or ship, it was the best choice to go to this treasure building; Many merchants who trafficked goods to Beijing even sold all the goods in one day, and the next day they bought a batch of special products from Beijing, and then returned to their hometowns.

Three or two days...... In just three or two days, a transaction was completed, and the speed of this transaction has increased many times compared to the previous one or two months.

Someone shipped. There are people who buy it, and the fluctuations in the prices of various goods are clear. Everyone only needs to make a few points of profit or raise a few points around this approximate price, so that even the time-consuming and lengthy bargaining in the past has become boring.

In Daming, many places are too slow because of the circulation of goods. So that many goods are in short supply, this kind of thing is inevitable, businessmen seek profits, but the business environment of the Ming Dynasty has restricted this development. And now. Due to the accelerated circulation of goods, the transaction link alone has been shortened by nearly a month, so that some merchants with large shipments have begun to send letters to their families.

Suzhou businessman Wu Chengcheng is one, Wu Cheng wrote very clearly in the letter, silk in Beijing and Xi'an, Shanxi, Liaodong and other places is in short supply, the daily shipment is huge, is still beyond the means, and raw silk has become tight, and now the shipment is getting bigger and bigger. Next year, I will escort raw silk to Beijing at least four times, and in order to prevent trouble, I can immediately buy some silkworm cocoons in Suzhou. In case of emergency, the silk spinning at home must also be expanded, and strive to recruit a few more craftsmen, so that in the coming year, when the goods are out of stock, there is no stock in hand to sell.

In addition to these silk merchants in Suzhou, ceramic merchants in Jiangxi. Even those who run boats in the canals have also seen business opportunities.

It is almost conceivable that the circulation of this commodity is accelerated, which is bound to increase the closer ties between merchants and Beijing Division, many merchants mostly run Beijing Division once or twice a year, but due to the surplus of a lot of time, coupled with the speed of goods getting rid of the speed, then the number of merchants to this Beijing Division in the coming year is bound to change from one or two trips to three or four trips, merchants want to charge goods, they have to lease cargo ships, so many docks immediately received many orders from merchants, naturally in order to prepare for the capacity of the canal in the coming year.

Since the appearance of the Treasure Tower, not only Yingchunfang, but also the entire Jingshi, and even many prefectures and counties have begun to undergo subtle changes, a large number of homeless people have begun to be employed, and even the wage has increased for a while.

Of course, the biggest change is naturally the Spring Festival, the price of the Spring Festival has more than doubled three days ago, a piece of land is very popular, those warehouses and small shops have changed hands by the big merchants to buy at a high price, the buildings of the warehouses and small shops have been bulldozed, and they began to prepare to build four-storey, five-storey or even seven-storey and eight-storey buildings like imitation pagodas.

Here, it will become the center of the entire Beijing division and even the whole world, it is almost predictable that the land price will rise wildly, even if it rises ten times, no one will find it unusual, and the land purchased at such a large price must naturally be maximized.

The Zhang brothers because they bought early, but spent some silver to buy a few warehouses, three days of hard work, spent out of the seven hundred taels of silver due to the price of the land skyrocketed, suddenly rose to three thousand taels, on this price is still priceless, the Zhang brothers are naturally not stupid, happily ready to raise the inn, he two are really enough, the inn, just a place where people live, the land is only so big, the more rooms are profitable, anyway, there is no business here, so the two of them found the craftsman who is said to build the pagoda, It's just trying to make a dozen stories high.

The requirements of the two uncles, the craftsmen naturally had to respond, and came up with a few plans, the Zhang brothers were not very satisfied, to put it bluntly, if you want to build a tower, it is impossible to build it with wood, you have to build it with bricks and stones, but if you are brick and stone, it will inevitably increase a lot of costs, and it will also affect the appearance, and finally the two of them looked for Liu Chengfeng to get an idea, Liu Chengfeng looked at them almost with strange eyes, and said: "Eleven stories high? What are you doing here? ”

Zhang Heling smiled bitterly and said: "Liu Baihu, this is also a helpless thing, you see, we are still early, and we just got an acre of land, such a big land to make an inn, if it is only built two or three floors, but it is not worth it, the more guest rooms there are, the better our business will be." ”

Liu Chengfeng couldn't help but laugh secretly, the thoughts of these two brothers were very advanced, and in the next generation, this is Nima is an evil developer. However, Liu Chengfeng also agrees with their point of view, the land price is too expensive, if it is not worth not building a high-rise building, the land price will increase several times in the future, although the idea of building a high-rise building is advanced, but it may not be a way to take precautions.

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