Chapter 41: A Pot of Champion Red
Entering Xu Pu's study, the two opened the food box and filled the table.
"Yo, Liubiju's sauce meat! There is a heart, there is a heart. "Xu Pu is not a glutton, but there must be meat at every meal. At this moment, I was full of joy when I saw the dishes in Xie Qian's food box.
Xie Qian took out a jar of wine and filled it for Xu Pu diligently: "Boss, this wine is not a good wine, but this flower carving has been underground for twelve years, and it was when I was preparing for my high school..."
"Oh! Champion Red! Yu Qiao, you are a native of Yuyao, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, it seems that there is this custom there, giving birth to a man to bury wine is the champion red, and giving birth to a daughter to bury wine is a daughter red. Good! Try this champion red today! ”
"Boss blog! Yuyao's wine is all Huadiao, and Zhuangyuan Red and Daughter Red are just lip dressing. Come, full drink! ”
Three glasses of wine, Liubiju sauce meat, skin jelly, peanuts, two people feasted. Xie Qian covered his face with wine and asked, "Boss, why do you have to say the emperor's intentions now?" ”
"Yu Qiao, is Daming rich?" Xu Pu's eyes narrowed slightly, and he looked at Xie Qian with a smile.
Xie Qian shook his head: "The treasury is empty, although His Royal Highness has the whimsy of the Second Highness and has a crazy hug, there is no money after all." ”
"You're wrong! Daming is rich, it can be said that looking at the world, where is Daming rich? Xu Pu sneered, and his words were full of sarcasm.
"Where's the money?" Xie Qian was stunned, and he didn't understand what Xu Pu was fighting at all.
"Hehe, the money is in the ground, in the fields, in the south of the Yangtze River, and on the sea. Yu Qiao, in the family of poetry and books like you and me! ”
Boom a thunderbolt, Xie Qian picked up the fallen chopsticks, and forced a smile to himself: "Spring thunder, the lower officials are not bold, let the old man laugh." ”
"Hehe, you don't dare to listen? Or are you complicit with those people? Xu Pu, who was old, had eyes as sharp as an eagle at the moment, staring at Xie Qian.
Xie Qian was a little flustered, and he didn't dare to look directly into Xu Pu's eyes. But after struggling, he still raised his head and sighed: "Boss, it's useless to say, why bother saying it?" ”
Xu Pu sneered: "Yu Qiao, you don't care about what happens in the future, I only care about where your heart is!" ”
Xie Qian was stunned: "What can I do?" Even if you know that the country will not be a country in the long run, you are powerless! ”
"Who said that? You're still young! What do you think of our emperor? Xu Pu had that look that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, which made Xie Qian upset.
"Your Majesty? Your Majesty is merciful and should be the lord of Zhongxing. ”
"Hehe, Yu Qiao, the old man has asked such words, and you answer me like this?"
Xie Qian was helpless and ruthless: "The boss forgives, Your Majesty is the master of the success." ”
"Well, that's right. Still, huh. I originally saw it that way, but who called out a second highness! ”
Xie Qian was puzzled: "My lord, the second highness is smart, but after all, his identity is embarrassing, can it affect the court situation?" ”
"You, you underestimate our Second Highness. Not to mention anything else, we are both here in person in one country and the world, how about the Second Highness? ”
Xie Qian hesitated slightly: "It is worthy of being unpredictable." But his identity..."
Xu Pu shook his head: "That's not what the courtiers care about." Let me tell you, the emperor and His Royal Highness had a long talk in the Taimiao that day, and since then, the emperor's heart seems to have changed. ”
"Boss, what do you mean?"
"When will the emperor be as tough as this Jingcha?"
"Well, that doesn't mean anything, does it? When His Majesty succeeded to the throne, didn't he also depose Uncle Wanguo? ”
"Hehe, let me ask you, whose idea is the Trademark Office?"
Xie Qian replied affirmatively: "It is definitely the idea of the Second Highness." ”
"Do you know what will become of the Trademark Office in the future?"
Xie Qian shook his head, and Xu Pu lay down on the back of the chair: "The old man is also very curious, but it's a pity that he is not forgiving at his age, and I am afraid that he will not be able to see it." However, according to my guess, it should be related to business taxes. ”
"Business tax?" Xie Qian twisted his eyebrows, and a look of horror broke out in his eyes: "I understand, with the Second Highness, the emperor is going to do something to us." ”
Xu Pu frowned and said coldly: "Xie Qian, the gentry occupy seven or eight out of ten of the world's wealth, and the people can't live happily anymore!" You have read history books to the fullest, and you have come to sue me, how terrible are the people who can't live? ”
Xie Qian fought a cold war, the former Tang Dynasty Huangchao swept the world, but the prestige of the Tang Dynasty was like a decayed house, and it fell down as soon as it was pushed! The former high-ranking gentry wept in a pool of blood. "Boss, it's not that far, is it?"
"Well, not yet. But that is also the emperor's hard work, and we people are loyal and dutiful, so we can barely maintain the situation. If the crown prince is greedy for enjoyment after ascending the throne, let's return to the hometown, and the next cabinet is only for personal gain, you come and tell me, how many years can Daming last? "Xu Pu is no longer an old man who is about to rot at this time, he is full of evil spirits like a veteran galloping across the field!
Xie Qian lowered his head, stood up after a while, tidied up his clothes, and bowed deeply to Xu Pu: "Boss, the lower officials are blind, and they have been taught!" ”
"Well, what are you doing here? Sit! Yu Qiao, in fact, I don't want to do this, but I don't kill the rich and help the poor, and in the end, a family like ours can't leave anything. Yu Qiao, what is the responsibility of the cabinet to this day? ”
Xie Qian looked up at Xu Pu in surprise: "Adjust yin and yang, assist the king." ”
"Wrong, let's redistribute the wealth of the world, let the people get a little more life-saving money, and let the gentry take a little less money. The old man has been in the household department for a long time, and this tax is a foolish account! I'm old, and I'm out of sight and out of mind when I kick my legs, but my son, grandson, and great-grandson still have to live! ”
Xie Qian also shook his head and sighed: "It's too difficult." ”
Xu Pu laughed: "Yes, it's really too difficult." But now I see the light of day. ”
"Second Highness? He can't figure out his own affairs, can he take on this heavy responsibility? ”
"Hehe, look at it, Second Highness will definitely surprise you! What are the means of returning to Jingcha this time? He's only a year old! ”
Xie Qian also laughed: "Speaking of which, I am still his second master, and now it seems that he is almost my master!" ”
"Come, I'll tell you my guess. His Royal Highness has gathered the talents who are really in charge and invested in this trademark office, and I think the next step should be to directly focus on commercial taxation. I couldn't guess after that. For the sake of Da Ming and for the sake of our descendants, we must cooperate with His Royal Highness. ”
"Boss, do you think Your Highness has the idea of going overseas?"
"I can't stop watching, this kid has a big heart! Do you know that there is movement in the palace war? ”
"I've also heard that His Royal Highness has made some coking coal that can completely melt iron ore. It's nothing, right? ”
"Yu Qiao, the war is about money and food, and it is about steel. Your Majesty, it's time to send troops! ”
The two elders chatted for half a night, and Xie Qian finally stayed at Xu Pu's house to rest. And Hua Houwei has completed a plan that others will never imagine, and he sleeps very sweetly in bed!