Empress Dowager Zhang felt that something was not right, so she said: "You brothers haven't seen each other for many years, don't stay here at the mourning house, go out and talk."

Zhu Houzhao and Zhu Houwei retired.

"Tell my sister honestly, how have you been living in Europe all these years?"

Zhang Heling hurriedly said: "I didn't lie to you, the eldest nephew explained to us, as long as we don't bully the Han people, then even if we are harsh to the Europeans, he doesn't care, so we caught thousands of Europeans as coolies to work for us, and the eldest nephew also gave us the palace of the King of Portugal.

"Really?" Empress Dowager Zhang was a little suspicious.

"We don't dare to lie to my sister, sister, you are our backer."

Empress Dowager Zhang nodded and said: "It seems that it is right to let you go to Western Europe, stay in Daming, just with the temperament of your little nephew, you may not be able to do anything to you when the mourning family is still alive, but if the mourning family goes one day, I don't know how he will clean you up, go to Europe, Zhao'er's temperament will still be more loyal."

The Zhang brothers nodded again and again.

"Come back this time, stay a few more years and then go back, the mourning family's body is getting worse and worse, and I don't know how many years I can live, if you go again, our sisters and brothers may not even have the chance to see each other again in this life."

The two brothers shuddered.

Outside the temple.

"They won't talk nonsense."

Zhu Houzhao smiled: "They don't dare!"

"I'm sure they wouldn't." Zhu Houwei said with a smile: "The more lustful and inward-looking people are, the more greedy they are for life and fear of death, and they also know who their only backer is, but if they don't have a backer, what will happen to them, they know in their hearts, if they don't even have this kind of consciousness after being imprisoned for a few years, it can only be said that it is hopeless."

Zhu Houzhao paused and said curiously: "I have a question?"

"What's the doubt?"

"Suppose the two uncles go their own way, and one day the queen mother is gone, what will you do with them?"

Zhu Houwei said with a smile: "The powerful are a privileged class, and in today's era, it is indeed superior, it is inevitable to bully the small people on weekdays, and it is inevitable to take advantage of them, but everything must have a limit, once the limit is exceeded, then don't say that it is an uncle, even if it is my son, I will not be soft, imprisonment for life is light, and giving a glass of wine can be regarded as repaying the sins I have committed!"

"You are ruthless, you are much more ruthless than my brother."

Zhu Houwei smiled and said: "My brother is decisive in killing, and he killed a scoundrel on the street just now, this makes me, I can't do it."

"That showman...... It's a pity. ”

"Xiucai?"

Zhu Houzhao smiled and told the story of Ji Yan.

"Bet...... The lottery is a double-edged sword. Zhu Houwei sighed: "I opened this magic box with a lottery ticket because I had no money, and in order to make money, I even issued tobacco ...... Now, I don't know if it's right or wrong. ”

Zhu Houzhao rolled his eyes and said, "You don't have any money...... You are richer than my brother when I was the emperor, I don't know how many times richer, brother, I have been pulling the skin of the ministers for several months in order to build a leopard house, and finally I have to come to more than 200,000 taels of silver, pitiful, and you? I'm afraid there are mountains of gold and silver in this palace. ”

"Scholars like to talk about not competing with the people all day long, but what about themselves? I can't wait to plunder all the wealth of the people into my own home, the local tyrants and inferior gentry plunder the people's wealth, the people will only get poorer and poorer, and I let the royal business do all over the world, and the silver earned will feed back to the world, and the people will only get richer and richer, if this is also regarded as competing with the people, then I am willing to plunder all the wealth in the world! ”

"You are a business wizard, when it comes to business, we can't talk about you."

Zhu Houwei sighed: "The only thing I regret is the issuance of lottery tickets and tobacco ......"

"Why?"

Zhu Houwei said with a smile: "Although the lottery is only two pennies a note, but to put it bluntly, it is still gambling, and gambling is to stimulate the greed in human nature, when encountering real gamblers, they will not be satisfied with only buying a bet to gamble once, they will come up with more money to gamble more opportunities."

"Then you're going to ban the lottery, won't it be over?"

Zhu Houwei laughed and said: "The magic box has been opened, and I want to close it, where is it so easy, now the royal family is doing lottery business, the royal family does not do it, and the local rich and powerful will not do it?" This is the same as gambling, I closed the gambling house on the surface but couldn't close the underground gambling house, the opening has been opened, and it is impossible to collect it. ”

Zhu Houzhao pouted and said, "Brother, I still plan to paint a scoop in the Wu Dynasty to paint a gourd, and I will tell you this...... Looks like it's time to think about it. ”

Zhu Houwei said speechlessly: "I just said that the magic box has been opened, and I can't help it, it's better to block it, if this is capital, then the most important thing is to keep the capital in your own hands, at least it can be fair and just, but if you let the people go, I'm afraid that things will be reversed."

"I see...... What about tobacco? It's going to make money. ”

Zhu Houwei said with a smile: "A million profits, the lottery can create a net profit of seven or eight million taels of silver for the Ming Dynasty every year, and the tobacco will at least double or triple the amount, and 20 million taels of silver per year will be the base."

Zhu Houzhao gasped, he knew that tobacco made money, but he didn't expect it to make so much money.

"How much does Daming pay in a year? How much is the internal payment per year? ”

"Last year, the tax department calculated that the land tax was 6.8 million taels, and the actual grain was almost 10 million yuan, and the commercial tax was 23.47 million yuan, adding up to 35 million.

As for the internal tax, there are too many, including the mining tax, the salt tax and the business in the name of the royal family, such as tobacco, lottery tickets and messy business, the annual net profit will not be less than seventy or eighty million taels! ”

Zhu Houzhao was dumbfounded......

You must know that during the Zhengde period, the total tax revenue of the household department was less than eight million taels per year, which had to be converted into physical grain, and as for the royal family, it would be pitiful.

Before the Jiajing Dynasty, the main income of the royal family came from Huangzhuang Huangtian, and it was only 500,000 taels of silver every year, and these 500,000 taels of silver were responsible for the huge expenses of the entire royal family.

What now? The annual income of the Jiajing royal family is seventy or eighty million, which is fifteen or sixteen times more than that of the Zhengde Dynasty!

This kind of open-source ability, not to mention him, even none of the emperors of all dynasties can be compared with Emperor Jiajing, and he can't be envious.

The ministers of the Zhengde Dynasty are working against him, but what about the ministers of the Jiajing Dynasty? The obedient ones that were packed up by the elder brother, why?

Because there is money, the emperor has the confidence when he is rich, and if he has money, he has the loyalty of his subjects and the army, on the contrary, just like him, asking for money from the household department is like the life of his mother's household officials......

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