Yu Qian only smiled slightly. He is relatively familiar with Zhang Anshi, after all, he has been doing Shuzuo for so many days in the Changshi Mansion.

His Highness may not be very concerned about other things, but he values silver the most.

However, now Yu Qian has also changed his concept, and since he really entered the county king's mansion on business, he has become more and more aware of the importance of silver.

There are so many officials up and down the Taiping Mansion, all pointing to the Taiping Mansion to pay salaries!

Everyone has a family to support, and without money to support, what will happen to the wife and children?

What's more, there are so many projects in Taiping Mansion, and I don't know how many people are employed, which one doesn't cost money?

It is true that the king of Wuhu loves silver, but he is also a boy who scatters money, and countless pieces of silver flow out of the county king's mansion and then enter thousands of households.

He really saw the children of ordinary hired workers enter the school, and he also saw with his own eyes that the women who had to go to the weaving workshop would go to the shop in droves to buy rouge.

As soon as the meal arrived, the smoke of cooking rose from thousands of households, and the smell of meat could be seen.

Maybe these are nothing, and even for people like Yu Qian, who have been officials and scholars for generations, it is simply commonplace.

But Yu Qian is not an ordinary person, he still has a little understanding of the people.

It is precisely because I have seen the starving people everywhere, the ragged starvation, and the skinny children who have been in the field and herding cattle since childhood, that I know how terrible Zhang Anshi is.

Naturally, he may not be accustomed to some of the customs in the Taiping Mansion, and he even has a lot of complaints about some phenomena.

But for Yu Qian and others, they actually already know that if they want to say that the Ming Dynasty is going to produce a saint, nine times out of ten, it must be His Royal Highness the King of Wuhu County in front of him.

What is a saint? Except for the name of the Son of Heaven before the Song Dynasty.

It refers more to people like Yao Shun or Zhou Gong and Kong Sheng.

But the people of this world also have different interpretations of saints, and some people believe that talents and virtues are all saints, so there are saints who are virtuous and talented, and they hear the words of the world.

It's just that Yu Qian also has his own opinion, saints may not be all people with all their talents and virtues, they can be like Yao Shun, so that the people can worry about it, and they can also pass on their holy names to the world.

Seeing Zhang Anshi's hungry appearance, Yu Qian said: "Your Highness, the lower official should report the situation of the customs first." ”

Zhang Anshi immediately said: "Say it quickly." ”

Yu Qian said: "The customs now has a staff of 374 people, including 143 Chinese officers, more than 200 customs inspections, and in addition, there are 19 treasurers. But...... At present, the number of ships entering the port is increasing day by day, and there are many lawless people who are trying in vain to sneak into the customs, and the lower officials think that these manpower is far from enough, especially the number of people who patrol and inspect is far from enough. ”

Zhang Anshi frowned and said, "More than two hundred, isn't it enough?" ”

Yu Qian shook his head and said: "It's not just the manpower that is insufficient, the lower officials think that at least another three or five hundred posts will be allocated." Besides...... It's weapons. What is lacking is not only clippers, but also guns and artillery, war horses, etc., which should be equipped with model battalions as standard. ”

Zhang Anshi paced back and forth with his hands behind his back, which was like Zhu Di's.

After bowing his head and pondering for a while, he said, "Aren't you going to build a model battalion?" ”

Yu Qian smiled and said: "The customs tariff, after all, is not a small amount, and it is precisely because of this that people will not hesitate to take risks for this." Especially the merchant ships, the people who run the boats, often bold, Your Highness should have heard of it, there are some merchant ships, on the land for the good people, down to the sea, although they also run ships to transport goods, but there are also a lot of unsightly deeds. ”

"If there is no necessary precaution for such a matter involving huge profits, how can we collect all the taxes to make up for the additional amount imposed by the customs?"

Zhang Anshi nodded in agreement: "You think about it thoroughly, even so, it's not impossible, you still want to build a school?" ”

Yu Qian said calmly: "Exactly, what the lower officials want to build is a customs specialized school, and when preparing to build the customs, because the recruited personnel are mixed, the lower officials spent a lot of effort to clean it up." But in the long run, it is not a solution, if there is no professional science hall to replenish personnel at any time, once the affairs become more onerous in the future, and then urgently recruit manpower, I am afraid that it will be too late. ”

Zhang Anshi said: "This ...... It's not that it's not negotiable, you can run the school first, recruit a group of students, and of course, you can do it. ”

Yu Qian said: "Yes." ”

Sometimes, he felt that His Royal Highness the county king was still very good at talking, at least subverting many of his initial cognitions.

So later, many of his suggestions and ideas can be calmly spoken.

At this time, Zhang Anshi said: "This king has also heard that you also seized the goods of the Marquis of Chengyang and ordered him to pay taxes?" ”

"There's such a thing." Yu Qian continued without humility or arrogance: "It was copied from the next inspection, and he was not small, he was brave enough to have a shipload of spices, but he reported a shipload of useless iron ore, and he wanted to take this opportunity to pay less tariffs." The patrol boarded the ship and searched, and there was a conflict with them, but later, the problem was resolved. ”

Seeing his calm and calm expression, Zhang Anshi said curiously: "Are you willing to soften?" ”

"I didn't give in." Yu Qian said: "The owner of the ship, take it down directly, detain it, detain the ship and the goods, and the merchant house involved in this ship directly sends someone to interrogate, isn't this just solving the problem?" ”

Zhang Anshi: "......"

It's straightforward and easy!

But he loved it!

Seeing that Zhang Anshi was speechless, thinking that Zhang Anshi was afraid of getting into trouble, Yu Qian said: "Xia Guan also knows that His Royal Highness must be embarrassed, His Royal Highness is worried about offending people after all, but it doesn't matter, if someone asks, His Royal Highness will push this matter to Xia Guan's head, Xia Guan is in the capital, anyway, there are no relatives and friends, frank and fearless." ”

Zhang Anshi smiled and said: "You are running an errand for the county king's mansion, how can I push these on your head?" This matter is well done, and the inspection of the owner of the ship should be credited and rewarded. ”

Saying that, Zhang Anshi encouraged him and said: "It's not impossible to have such things as human affection, they are all mortal fetuses, how can there be no human relations?" But when it comes to silver, it's two different things, don't say it's a Hou, it's the king of heaven, if you don't pay this tax, I, Zhang Anshi, will still turn my face. ”

Yu Qian smiled and pretended not to hear this.

Although his face was still calm, with Zhang Anshi's support, he also had happiness in his heart that even he didn't notice.

Zhang Anshi said: "This king didn't misunderstand you, you are not small. ”

Well, he appreciates that!

Yu Qian said: "On weekdays, Xia Guan is not very bold, and he does not dare to walk at night, and when he encounters snakes, insects, rats and ants, he can't help but feel furious. The reason why Xia Guan went all out was because he thought that such things would benefit the future, so he just went to the soup and fire. ”

Zhang Anshi kept nodding: "Okay, okay, take the account to this king, there are so many words, if you don't look at this account, this king can't rest assured." ”

Yu Qian smiled again and glanced at Zhang Anshi meaningfully.

This account came into Zhang Anshi's hands, and it was recorded in the way that was common in Taiping Mansion, so Zhang Anshi didn't bother to look ahead, and directly turned the table on the last page to look at it, until a number came into view.

Zhang Anshi suddenly became refreshed, his eyes widened slightly, and said, "So much? ”

Yu Qian was calm: "They are all levied according to the amount of tariffs set by His Royal Highness, the carrying capacity of sea ships is large, and the current sea ships, in order to increase profits, often carry more precious goods. This is a full shipload of goods, and you may have to pay tens of thousands of taels of silver, so ...... Customs taxes, naturally, are not small. ”

Zhang Anshi was a little worried, so he said: "If this is the case, will it be too heavy a burden on maritime merchants?" ”

Yu Qian said with a smile: "Your Highness, you don't have to worry about this, the profit of the sea is too big, my Ming is not worth anything, when it comes to the foreign domain, it is several times the profit, and the goods of the foreign domain, when it comes to the Ming Dynasty, there is more than double the interest rate difference, or even ...... Xia Guan also heard about it...... There are some ways to do business, which is really incredible. ”

Zhang Anshi said: "What method? ”

Yu Qian said: "There are maritime merchants to Malacca, and the local Tianzhu, big food and other merchants, actually take glass, glass and other things, this big food and Tianzhu merchants, do not know what, rush to buy, a piece of glass, especially the glass mirror, can be exchanged for hundreds of taels of gold and silver, a piece of glass, is also a hundred taels of gold and silver, but this Tianzhu, big food merchants, but it is regarded as a treasure. ”

And they relied on the gold and silver obtained by glass mirrors and glass, and then bought a large amount of Tianzhu's cotton, the fabric of the Great Food and its wool, etc., and returned to my Ming Dynasty, it was a lot of spreads. This glass mirror, in my Ming Dynasty, is just a worthless thing, but just a few tens of hundreds of taels of mirrors and glass, but it is enough to exchange for a boatload of wool and cotton worth 10,000 gold......"

Zhang Anshi listened and couldn't help but laugh dumbly.

Thinking about it carefully, the glass thing, in addition to the large-scale production of Zhang Anshi, really looks more precious than ordinary pearls and other jewelry, but he didn't expect that these maritime merchants would still play like this.

The most ridiculous thing is that there are only a lot of people who know glass mirrors in Malacca, not only the local palace and the Han guards, but also so many merchants.

In this way, the only possibility is that everyone knows what is going on, and their hearts are like mirrors, but everyone just doesn't say it, and maintains some tacit understanding.

Don't look at it in Daming, these farmers and businessmen criticize each other, and it's not lively.

But once you go overseas, especially so many people, you are in a more sinister environment, and this sinister environment is easy for people to unconsciously unite.

Zhang Anshi said: "In this way, these three million taels of silver...... We just got a small head, but these maritime merchants, one by one, have already eaten fat heads and big ears? ”

"Not really." Yu Qian said: "The risk of maritime merchants is not small, of course, earning silver is also really earning silver." ”

What is the concept of 32 million taels of silver?

Zhang Anshi himself couldn't imagine it.

It is no wonder that in later generations, the customs of a country is almost equivalent to the lifeblood of many countries.

Zhang Anshi said with great interest: "The silver has already been put into storage, right?" ”

"It's in storage." Yu Qian said: "But the silver flowing in from the foreign domain...... Not much, but more gold. ”

Zhang Anshi smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, gold and silver are not separated, with this, this king can sit back and relax." ”

"What does Your Highness mean?" Yu Qian looked at Zhang Anshi and seemed to feel that Zhang Anshi had something to say.

Zhang Anshi said: "Whatever you do, you must be justified, but no matter how big your name is, where is it worth real money." With such a large amount of income, it is the time for this king to do a big job. ”

After a pause, he ordered with a serious expression: "Right now, don't make a noise about the customs affairs first, just do your own business." ”

Yu Qian said: "Yes." ”

After Yu Qian said goodbye and left, Zhang Anshi sat alone, drinking tea slowly, his face looked calm as usual, but in fact, he had begun to think.

With silver, you have confidence!

But confidence alone is not enough, he is now like a rich man, and he needs to give some people a little shock.

After pondering for a while, Zhang Anshi gave an order, asked someone to invite Chen Lilai, and then asked someone to call Zhu Jinren and others.

Hurriedly agreed.

The next day.

All over the Taiping Mansion, they suddenly began to post lists one after another.

In this list, there is a notice about the eviction.

Encourage the people of the world to migrate to the Taiping Mansion, and all personnel, once settled, can be exempted from the tuition fee of the primary school for one year, and each household will be given a silver tattoo of three taels as needed to settle down.

In the past, the Taiping Mansion absorbed the population, almost in a silent way.

You love to come or not.

But now, it is so naked, but it is surprising.

After all, throughout the ages, the whole world has never seen such a waste of silver.

Another day later, another example came out, but it was a notice of Jimin.

The Taiping Mansion has set up Jimin Houses in various places, which can provide three meals a day if necessary, and of course, this meal is mainly steamed cakes.

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But even steamed cakes, in this era, are fine grains.

As a result, some people can't help but start talking about it again.

Such a measure can indeed solve the problem of manpower shortage in Taiping Mansion today.

What's more, as soon as these two notices came out, Zhang Anshi began to stand on the moral high ground.

As a result, Gao Xiang began to get busy, calling county orders to implement the matter of population absorption and helping the people.

The government's expenses are abundant. With silver, it takes manpower to execute, and in addition, it is necessary to formulate various rules.

Fortunately, the Taiping Mansion has long been reborn, and it is not difficult to do this.

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Henan political envoy Si Shangqiu County.

In this small county office, there are many people coming here at this time, so it is not lively.

Most of the people who came were local gentry.

The county commander Chen Jian, but he was hiding in the back office, and he refused to come out for a long time.

It wasn't until the signing room that the gentry didn't leave for a long time, and even made a fuss, that he hurriedly came out and greeted everyone.

One of the gentry said with a bitter face: "County honor, there are many escapees, you have to think of a way!" In the past, it was only a sporadic escape, but now it ...... On the official road, it is ...... But it'......"

This Chen firmly settled down and said, "Didn't you send someone to stop it?" ”

A gentry smiled bitterly, beat his chest and said, "Don't you know the county honor?" In our county, there are already half of the people who have fled, and there is a charter drawn up in Taiping Mansion, saying that if the servants of various prefectures and counties move to Taiping Mansion, they will be given another five taels of silver settlement fee. ”

"In addition, there is also a grinding station in the Taiping Mansion, specially let the people who have migrated to complain, the migratory people, if they encounter the difficulties of the local officials along the way, they can complain, although they can not be severely punished, but they said that these people will be recorded in the register, now, these officers in the county, one by one, do not care about this, are afraid of being sued, lest they lose their way to retreat when the time comes."

After hearing this, Chen Jian showed surprise in his eyes, and said dumbfounded: "Your Majesty has sealed the domain, this Taiping Mansion is like a country within a country, but I never expected that they would be rampant to such a point. ”

Then someone said sadly: "The old man's palanquin driver, as well as a few nursing homes, and some tenants, have all moved away, hey...... I can't live my life! ”

Chen Jian frowned and said, "Where did this An Shi get so much silver?" They...... They ......"

"This ...... But it's hard to say. The gentry gossiped: "This person is the most insatiable, and in that Taiping Mansion, he collects money for everything." He has a lot of money, but he would rather scatter his wealth than deal with us. ”

"It's encouraging escape."

The more they talked, the more angry they became.

Chen Jian pondered for a moment and said, "Don't panic, don't panic, I will report this matter to the Ming court." ”

He steadied himself and groaned, as if he had a slight scheming in his heart.

In fact, it's nothing to run away, but the terrible thing is that most of the people who go to Taiping Mansion are young and strong.

Now that the land rent has plummeted, and even the price of land has plummeted, many of the gentry and village sages can no longer support it.

If this continues, how can you get it?

Chen Jian couldn't help but mutter, where did this Taiping Mansion get so much silver?

So, he muttered for a while, and immediately began to repair the book, and then ordered someone to send it to the capital quickly.

Inside the capital, it seems that it is still calm.

But in private, there is already a turbulent undercurrent.

From all the prefectures and counties in the world, the letters were sent to the imperial court and the mansions of each family like snowflakes.

No one expected that the two notices of Taiping Mansion would produce such huge results overnight.

Many people saw the letters, and it can be said that they couldn't sleep.

These letters, some of them are protégés and former officials who serve as officials abroad, as well as their own hometowns, but no matter who comes from them, they always give people a kind of breathless oppression.

After a few more days, the weather has become hotter and hotter, and the summer is scorching, but there are fast horses, and they quickly come to the military headquarters.

Then, Jin Zhong, the secretary of the military department, did not dare to slack off, and immediately took a report and urgently met with him.

Zhu Di ascended to the seat, stared at Jin Zhong, Jin Zhong bowed, and saluted: "Your Majesty, the political envoy of Zhejiang is in a hurry, and His Majesty is in a hurry." ”

Yizha took over the music and forwarded it to Zhu Di.

Zhu Di only glanced at it, and then his eyes opened, and his eyes were as cold as frost for a moment, and then he slapped his eyes up, and couldn't help shouting: "Be bold, don't know whether you live or die!" ”