As soon as she heard that it was a post from the capital, Zhu Youning didn't have to think about it to guess what the old lady was looking for her, and it was related to the fact that Fang Wenjing heard that Yan Sui was going to get married.

Sure enough, this time back to the Zhu family, the old lady Zhu's attitude towards Zhu Youning can be called a 180-degree turn, when Zhu Youning came to visit before, he didn't bother to raise his face and eyelids, but now the wrinkles in the corners of his eyes are smiling and blooming into chrysanthemums.

"I don't know what my grandfather is looking for me."

Old lady Zhu smiled and stretched out her hand back.

Zhu Huazhang, who was standing behind Mrs. Zhu, immediately took out a post with a red background and bronzing it from his sleeve and handed it to Zhu Youning.

Zhu Youning pretended not to know, took the post with both hands and unfolded it, and made sure that it was indeed Yan Sui who was about to get married, and invited her to see the post in the capital, so he put on a shocked expression and said, "This ...... I'm not familiar with Yan Gongzi, so this post is a little strange. ”

Old Lady Zhu immediately frowned and reprimanded: "Now you can't call Yan Gongzi, you have to call Uncle Yes." ”

"Uncle?" Zhu Youning pretended to be surprised.

Zhu Huazhang scolded lightly and said, "You don't know this? Uncle Yan is the benevolent and righteous uncle of the Holy Emperor, and his fiancée is the pearl of Jiang Ge's hometown. It seems that you have only read dead books in the academy all these years, and yes, a daughter's family, just learn embroidery, choose a good mother-in-law's house in the future, and carry it directly from the gate of the Zhu family into the door of the mother-in-law's house, and come out to learn what to do business. ”

Zhu Youning Quan didn't understand the ridicule in his words, but said to Mrs. Zhu in surprise: "I didn't expect that Young Master Yan is now an uncle, but I went to the appointment, isn't it a little inappropriate?" ”

Zhu Youning's eyes flickered, and she was completely like a little woman who had never seen the world.

Old lady Zhu looked a little disgusted, this granddaughter was still full of aura at the beginning, but now she was taught by Luo Xun to be a wooden female nerd, and her talent in business was wasted, and now she doesn't even have the courage to eat and drink, as if she was not the one who came to the clan conference to grab business at all.

Mrs. Zhu said with a little displeasure: "Please put on the poster that only wrote your name, and did not invite others, how can people with such status hold a wedding, how can people who do not have invitations rely on the top?" If you don't go, who do you want to go for you? ”

Zhu Youning lowered his head when he was reprimanded, looking frightened.

Seeing this, Old Lady Zhu was afraid that she would not know the inside story and offend someone again if she went to the capital, so she had to explain: "If you go this time, you must be polite to Uncle Yan, and you must not be as casual as before." At the beginning, you did get along with each other in the Chamber of Commerce, but now you are a celebrity in front of the saint, that is, we Cai Zhixian have to be polite and give three points when we see it. ”

After years of hard work, Cai Xiancheng became the magistrate again.

Old lady Zhu and Zhu Huazhang are both a little pantothenic.

Mrs. Zhu said: "Over the years, the economic depression has been obvious, and I haven't seen that gold and silver are not allowed to circulate later, and the imperial court will print treasure money by itself as long as it comprador things?"

"At the time of the economic recession, there were many disasters everywhere. Just three years ago, the Yellow River overflowed and caused several levees to burst and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.

"At that time, the construction of dikes, the reconstruction of cities, and the resettlement of the victims of the disaster were very anxious. However, the treasury was empty, and there was no silver to come up, and few people were willing to do this business. Who wants to work for nothing and get a pile of waste paper back?

At the time of crisis, Uncle Yan stood up and contacted the local officials, saying that he would contract to trim the embankment, rebuild the city, repair bridges and pave roads, build houses, etc., and he did not want the treasure money of the imperial court, and was willing to pay real money to do this himself.

"There is such a righteous businessman among the people, even if the saint is summoned to meet and talk about remuneration, Uncle Yan said, 'As a person from the Great Zhou Dynasty, isn't it natural to do things for the Great Zhou Dynasty?' The saint was so moved that it is said that he shed tears on the spot. When you turn around, you have to reward Uncle Yan, and you must pay Uncle Yan a certain amount of money. - To do things for the country, you can't let a businessman who has always been despised pay out of his own pocket, but the court doesn't pull out a dime, and it doesn't sound good when it spreads.

"Yan Sui said to the sage: 'If the sage really wants to give, I don't want the silver of the court, as long as the tax of the area I cultivate in my lifetime.' ”

Speaking of this, Mrs. Zhu picked up the tea bowl and poured it. Seeing Zhu Youning's stunned face and listening attentively, he said again: "Want the country's taxes?" At first glance, this does sound like a lion's mouth.

"But the saint checked the account books of the household department and found that in the area mentioned by Uncle Yan, the annual tax added up to only five taels of silver! Even if Uncle Yan could live for a hundred years, five taels of silver a year, the court only gave him less than five hundred taels. And the real money that Yan Sui spent for the country was more than one million taels. ”

Zhu Youning exclaimed at the right time: "How is it possible? How can a region's annual tax revenue only be five taels of silver? ”

"That's what I said." Old lady Zhu shook his head and said, "How do we collect taxes in Da Zhou?" Didn't Elder Luo tell you? ”

When Zhu Youning heard this, he nodded as if he suddenly realized.

The taxes of the Great Zhou are collected by local officials, leaving the local needs of the year, and the rest is paid. So one by one, the skin was peeled layer by layer, and when it came to the eyes of the saint, it became a huge area with only five taels of silver a year, and sometimes the year was not good, and the imperial court even had to allocate funds - although it was a treasure money like waste paper.

"In this case, Uncle Yan can be regarded as having done the facts for the country and the people." Zhu Youning said.

Old lady Zhu said, "Yes." But it also offended a lot of people. The magistrate has no oil and water to fish, and he has sued several times. ”

Zhu Youning said: "But the saint still trusts Uncle Yan very much? ”

Old lady Zhu said: "Those magistrates can't take out the money to repair the bridge and pave the road, now the treasury is getting tighter and tighter, and there are more places that need money in the future, of course the saint will maintain Uncle Yan." Now as long as Uncle Yan is in the capital, he is often summoned to the palace to chat with the saint and play chess. That limelight can be said to be not much more than the old man of the dynasty. Therefore, when you go to the capital this time, you must not offend Uncle Yan. I ate the wine with peace of mind and came back honestly. Do you hear that? The last question was extremely harsh.

Zhu Youning immediately nodded with a white face: "Yes, if the granddaughter knows, she will not dare to offend the uncle!" ”

Old lady Zhu saw that Zhu Youning was indeed afraid, so she relaxed a little, asked her to put away the invitation, and instructed her to go back to prepare for the trip. ”

After Zhu Youning left the house, he couldn't help caressing the gilded invitation and smiled lightly.

"Benevolence and Righteousness ......"

If she wasn't very familiar with Yan Sui, she really had to suspect that Yan Sui was also worn.

She has heard of the history of the founder of the three stars of the base.

Yan Sui's success has become an existence that cannot be replicated in this dynasty.

Maybe in ten or twenty years, the Holy Lord will find that most of the Great Zhou already have the deep-rooted roots of Yansui, and he doesn't know how to regret it at that time.