"Biao'er, could it be that you also think the same as your mother, thinking that those businessmen and rich families can't take out so much silver?" Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head to Zhu Biao and asked, as long as he found an opportunity, he would be reminded of him and increase his ability to govern the country.

"Erchen also thinks they don't have that much money." Zhu Biao replied.

"Tell me your reasoning." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"The land of China has just experienced war, and the people are not living well, and the wealthy businessmen are not spared. After the Yuan court government paid taxes for hundreds of years, they had already looted their wealth. Coupled with the burning and looting of warlords on all sides, they are lucky to survive until the establishment of a new dynasty. Zhu Biao said, "So Erchen thinks that they really have no money." ”

"And after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the ministers and the officials under them also secretly inspected the wealthy merchants in Yingtianfu, and they lived in dilapidated houses one by one, ate coarse tea, and even dismissed the family Ding Yahuan."

"Biao'er's analysis is very reasonable, and it is commendable to be able to personally inspect it." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "You said that the warlords of all parties have robbed the wealth of wealthy businessmen is also in line with the facts, and we also did this at the beginning of the incident." Let his generals secretly arrest those wealthy merchants and rob them of their wealth as military salaries, and the rebels cannot survive without production or plundering wealth. ”

The tone changed: "It's just that you only know one of the marks but don't know the other." ”

"Please also ask my father to teach me." Zhu Biao hurriedly stood up and saluted respectfully, and said.

"Why don't you put yourself in the role of a wealthy businessman and put yourself in their shoes?" After Zhu Yuanzhang had a conversation with Qin Yu, his horizons were broadened, and his thinking became a lot more active, "Now let's assume that I have huge assets in my family, what will I do when the court is completely corrupt in the last years of the Yuan Court, and how to deal with the chaos in the face of war." ”

"Girl, you can also think about it together."

Zhu Biao and Queen Ma listened, lowered their heads and pondered.

"If I am a wealthy businessman and encounter the situation where corruption among local officials was rampant in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, I would take out money to bribe the local officials to protect myself, after all, the world is like this, and ignorance of current affairs will only bring disaster to myself." Empress Ma said, "So in the last years of the dynasty, although the court was on the verge of collapse, those rich people were actually very little affected. ”

"The most affected by the corruption of the court can only be ordinary people."

"Not bad!" Zhu Yuanzhang said in a deep voice. Queen Ma said that he had a painful situation, at the beginning his family had starved to death several people, his parents died and buried without even a reed mat wrapped in the body, and the landlord's family still lived a good life, when he was very young, he gave the landlord a cow, knowing that the landlord's family was very rich. The poor people did not dare to rebel against the landlords because they had colluded with the government.

"The queen mother is right!" At this time, Zhu Biao's brain also turned a corner, "In the event of a war and chaos, ordinary rich families and middle-class rich families will hide with their families, and famous families who can't hide will take out part of their family property to the warlords." Then they would cry poor, saying that they only had a little bit of money, and let the officers who captured them let them go. ”

"Biao'er is right!" Zhu Yuanzhang said fiercely, "When we sent Xu Da to make money, we only caught the biggest local landlord Lao Cai, and the rest of the small landlords hid in the mountains, and they didn't even see a shadow." At that time, the largest landlord Lao Cai took out 500,000 taels of silver, Xu Da and we were both farmers who had never seen the world, and they were all spent. ”

In the end, I really listened to his nonsense, thinking that it was all his belongings. Now that I think about it, 500,000 taels is estimated to be just a drop in the bucket of his family's property, which is really cheap for him. ”

"It is not surprising that wealthy merchants can accumulate huge wealth, and they are extremely intelligent or cunning people, and it is not surprising that they can escape from the corruption and chaos of the imperial court." Queen Ma said, "Chongba, after you reminded me like this, I understand that our previous thoughts were wrong." The social turmoil didn't break their bones, and they were rich. ”

"You've finally got the hang of it." Zhu Yuanzhang asked Zhu Biao again, "Biao'er, when the new imperial court is established and the world is stable, what will you do if you are a businessman and a wealthy family?" ”

"I'll pretend to be poor for a while to avoid making a big fuss." Zhu Biao said, "Because the world was initially decided, the society was still unstable, and the wealthy merchants not only had to guard against the robbers on the mountain coming down to rob, but also had to guard against the ...... of the imperial court."

Suddenly, his eyes lit up: "Father, son-in-law also understands, the poverty of those businessmen and rich families is pretended!" ”

"The children can be taught!" Zhu Yuanzhang nodded with satisfaction.

"The vision of my father is really unique in the world, and I am very comparable, and my sons admire him. If it weren't for his father's suggestion, the sons would have been kept in the dark and deceived by those cunning businessmen and wealthy households. Zhu Biao said.

"I'm afraid it's not your father's unique vision, but that person's unique vision." Empress Ma smiled, "If your father saw it himself, why don't you bring it up until now?" ”

"Yes, Mr. Qin told us." Zhu Yuanzhang didn't hide it, "Sister, Biao'er, now you should know how powerful that person is, right?" Just because he saw that the wealthy businessmen were rich, he could increase the income of tens of millions of taels of silver for my Ming Dynasty, and make the Ming court rich immediately. This person's knowledge has thrown off those corrupt Confucians who are full of benevolence, righteousness and morality for dozens of streets. ”

"That Mr. Qin is really an amazing master! He sees things that none of us can see. Zhu Biao looked ahead, full of admiration for the gentleman he had never met.

"Biao'er, it won't be long before we'll send you to his door. You have to learn all this knowledge from him. Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Any one of his studies is enough to stabilize the country." ”

"The sons obey the order, and the sons will live up to the high expectations of their father, study hard under Mr. Qin, study carefully, forget to sleep and eat, and stay up all night."

"As long as Biao'er can learn his knowledge seriously, I will be a prosperous country, rich and strong, and a prosperous era is just around the corner, and you will go down in history." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Sister, Biao'er, now you should understand why these words I wrote are worth millions of taels of silver, right?" ”

"The emperor means to sell these banners to those wealthy merchants, and they can also buy them with money?" Queen Ma said, "Although the emperor's royal pen every merchant dreams of it. But now after all, it is the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and those businessmen and wealthy families must be very cautious in their actions, they are all human spirits, and they will not expose their family property at this time. ”

"Who said we were going to sell them the words? We are emperors, not poor scholars who sell words. Zhu Yuanzhang smiled coldly, "We want to reward them, what the emperor gave them, they have to accept if they don't accept it." ”