The matter of the imperial store happened to start in the Zhengde period, but the historical Zhengde Emperor should probably open the store for fun, so he opened a tavern in Yongxiang in the second year of Zhengde. As soon as the emperor opened the tavern, the eunuchs and palace maids all went to cheer, because it was a playful work and lacked planning, so it basically became a tool for collecting money.

Of course, Zhengde also made his reputation even more unreliable.

This will not be the case with Zhu Houzhao now.

In the East Palace, the three elders and several scholars heard the prince say that they would discuss how to deal with shops and workshops, but they failed to understand the prince's intentions for a while.

In general, when a merchant's house commits a crime, people are more concerned about the silver, but they don't think about how to continue to operate those shops and workshops, and many times they put a seal on it.

Min Jue didn't understand what he meant, so he first thought of a "good idea, "Your Highness, the imperial court is short of silver, disaster relief, border preparation, and river work are all major events that require hundreds of thousands of silver, since the imperial court has confiscated the shops and workshops of these sinners, can it be used as a reward and given to meritorious officials?" This will also save the imperial court two taels of silver."

This suggestion is a bit outrageous, rewarding silver taels can save a few bucks, but the old men who read the books of the saints lack economic acumen, which Zhu Houzhao does not blame them, "What does Da Situ think?"

Han Wen wanted to open his mouth to speak, but his brows remained furrowed, and then he shook his head, "The minister is stupid, and he can't have a plan to dedicate to His Highness."

When Tobe Shangshu said so, the others had no head.

Zhu Houzhao didn't make a fool of himself, his idea was something that these people couldn't even think of.

"Before saying the meaning of the palace, Liu Ge Lao, Li Ge Lao, Xie Ge Lao, as well as Otsuka Zai (the official department Shangshu), Da Situ, Da Si Kou, plus Gu Zuo and Liang Chu, the two waiters, this palace wants to ask you a word first."

Everyone didn't expect the prince to be so formal, so they didn't dare to slack off, "Your Highness, please speak."

"This palace wants to ask you, in your hearts, is this palace more public or selfish? Is it for the sake of oneself or for the people? Today, Liu Jin and other internal officials are also there, that is, when the minister is not there, has the palace asked for anything delicious and fun, or is it a hobby of something new?"

Liu Jin said that the psychological cost of sycophant was the smallest, he immediately knelt down, and said with a little emotion: "Your Highness reads books every day, and is busy with politics, not only has he never asked the slaves and maids to explore treasures, but some people have a speculative mind to offer treasures, and it is also a lesson for His Highness to teach a good life."

These words are not Zhu Houzhao's self-labeling, he was a boring man under exam-oriented education in his previous life, food and clothing are not his hobbies, eating is just a full stomach for him, he can't even understand why some people always have to study where to eat, isn't that a waste of time?

Facts are facts, and ministers naturally cannot say a second answer to this question.

Wang Wei can understand the prince best, and he prefaced: "Your Highness puts the people first in everything, and since ancient times, it is rare for His Highness to serve the people with such sincerity."

This is known to everyone, the crown prince can be regarded as diligent, and handles various government affairs, almost will not mess around, the outside world says that he does not accept advice, jokes, as long as it is from the perspective of the people, the prince is very easy to be persuaded. ….

"I'm talking about this...... Not for boasting, but for the sake of asking the ministers to trust me."

These words were serious, and several ministers knelt down in an uproar and listened to the prince's teaching.

「…… But I'm not selfish, I don't have any desires. My selfishness is to establish my own immortal feats, and my desire is to let Daming recreate the atmosphere of the Celestial Empire when Taizu and Taizong! Therefore, Liu Jin sometimes asks if His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is tired...... Hey, I tell them that when they do what they love, they don't know they're tired even if they're tired."

These are heart-wrenching words.

Liu Jian and other ministers were stirred in their hearts after hearing this, these boring old men, like the prince, also have a heart to strengthen the country and enrich the people, and also have a desire to leave a name in history.

"Your Highness! With the blessing of the ancestors, the Ming Dynasty has such a prince as His Royal Highness, which is really a blessing for all the people in the world and a blessing for the society of the country!" Min Jue is highly respected by the prince of the East Palace.

Even Zhu Houzhao joked, "I can ask the stubborn Min Shangshu to say a few good things about me." It seems that I deserve to be a prince."

Min Jue said bluntly: "The ministers are stubborn, but the stubbornness is not to distinguish between right and wrong, black is white, since His Royal Highness dealt with the government, the matter he has never cared about is the temple and palace, but the firewood, rice, oil and salt of the people, these ministers and colleagues are in the eyes."

"Thank you."

Where did they dare, so they kowtowed again.

Zhu Houzhao was so affectionate, just to pave the way for the future, he pondered for a while, and then said, "Da Sima once said that the East Palace takes silver from Zhejiang. There are no outsiders here today, and I can tell you that the money is there."

There was some shock to these words,

For a moment, the annotators in the corner were shocked to stop writing.

And the crown prince glanced at Yunlun Wenxu and Wu Liang on the left and right, "What I say, what you remember, leave it to the people of the world and to the descendants of the world."

This is the atmosphere of a prince, who dares to face the judgment of history. It may seem a little false, but the power of the historical pen is very powerful in the moral environment of ancient times.

Heroes like Tang Taizong and Kangxi have asked to see the records of historians more than once, in fact, they are afraid that something bad will be recorded.

「…… All the money is there, and not a silver or two is spent indiscriminately."

"Your Highness......" Wang Wei was already in tears.

Zhu Houzhao stretched out his hand and signaled that he didn't have to say anything for himself, "Someone in Zhejiang said that I, the prince, was competing with the people for profit, but how could the people of the Ming Dynasty have any benefit? It is also illogical to talk about the people's livelihood and hardships while competing with the people for profit. To be precise, I am competing with corrupt officials for profit! Instead of letting them into their own pockets, it is better to go into the private treasury of the East Palace, at least I can spend every tael of silver on state affairs and the people! So ......."

At this point, he formalized, "...... So this palace decided to do it after thinking about it, and I didn't hide it from the gentlemen, this idea has been pondering in the mind of this palace for several years. The main palace is going to set up a government-run business!"

Liu Jian, Li Dongyang and the others were all Wenchen who were familiar with history books, and as soon as they heard the prince's words, their faces immediately changed greatly, and they exclaimed, "Your Highness! No!"

Why not, in fact, there is no need to talk about any big reason, just to say that once power and business are combined, it is very easy to breed corruption. ….

In addition, in the Ming Dynasty, there is another point that cannot be said, that is, Shinong industry and commerce, merchants are the last, and some ambitious people will not go into business. And it's not just a matter of face, it's also about the status of a businessman.

To put it simply, if the prince goes to business, then it is naturally not good to be a cheap businessman, so will the status of the businessman be improved? If so, what are the implications?

These are all unanswerable questions.

Of course, there are pros and cons to everything.

For example, if the imperial court has a large grain merchant, then the ability to mobilize grain will naturally be strengthened, and it will have a certain ability to respond to famines, wars, and fluctuations in food prices.

But people in this era could not see this, and Liu Jian immediately said: "Your Highness, the minister dares to guarantee that none of the ministers will question His Highness's heart for the people, but the minister also asks His Highness to think carefully and act prudently, and do business in the name of the imperial court. And there are only so many livelihoods in the world, and when the court occupies one place, the people will have one less, so that the richer the court and the poorer the people will be, and the ministers will only be far from His Highness's original expectations!"

Li Dongyang didn't agree very much, and basically met Liu Jian's suggestion.

Zhu Houzhao patiently listened to them finish speaking, and then responded eloquently, "If the imperial court can't touch any business at all, why is salt and iron tea all official-run? This palace knows that if this matter is not careful, there may be big disadvantages, but have you ever thought that the treasury is always beyond its means, looking at the panicked Ming Dynasty, but a disaster will force us people to have no way at all. The household department is in charge of the world's money and grain, but what can Da Situ do? It is nothing more than opening up sources and reducing expenditures, and after a few years of saving, there has been a flood and a drought and it is gone. With the central government's financial resources so weak, how can it cope with various situations? The people call us to be in charge, and which of you has the ability to be a good house?"

"In addition, after our Ming officials and merchants became rich, they did two things, the same was to buy land, so the fields became more and more concentrated, and there were more and more landless displaced people; The other is to build a cellar to bury the silver, which leads to a growing shortage of silver in the Ming Dynasty. If there is a shortage, the court has no silver to make, the people have no silver to use, and the people are in a disadvantageous position in the distribution of wealth, and the country is short of silver, where can they get silver? In this way, all industries will also be affected by this and will wither day by day."

"In that case, we will simply concentrate the silver in the hands of the imperial court, and let us spend the silver again and let it circulate again. Wouldn't it be better?"

Han Wen had been listening carefully, and when he heard this, he felt unsatisfied, "Dare to ask Your Highness, how to spend it?"

"To govern rivers and build roads, as long as the court has money, it is completely possible to hire the people with silver, and it is not necessary to make the people serve in labor."

Everyone's eyes lit up, if they could really be exempted from labor, in fact, the burden of the people would be lighter by more than half, but this amount of money would be great.

The prince said so much at once, and the ministers doubted themselves a little, and it seemed that there was indeed some benefit.

Zhu Houzhao said, "Actually, this palace is already doing it. The academy and the women's medical hall are all spent money to hire the poor people in the capital as laborers, and all the ministers live in the capital, so they can naturally feel it. The people at the bottom have a livelihood, but will the number of displaced and hungry people in Beijing decrease?" ….

"Your Highness," Xie Ge Lao didn't speak, and he asked a more crucial question, "Minister's courage. If it is His Royal Highness to govern the government, this method may have more advantages than disadvantages, but if the king of later generations does not have the talent and virtue of His Highness, the court can ask for the world's silver to use it. Your Highness also has to consider the century-old plan of the imperial court."

There is no way to guarantee this Zhu Houzhao, and it can be said that he will give birth to a bastard bastard. So he shook his head and shook out this doubt, "Future generations also have the wisdom of future generations, and we must believe in future generations."

Besides, a dynasty is immortal. His duty is to create a great prosperity in the years that he can control, showing the glory of the Han nation, but not to let the Ming Dynasty continue for another five or six hundred years, and send an emperor to future generations.

Seeing that the crown prince and the ministers were at a stalemate, Wang Wei advised, "The ministers think that the benefits of what His Highness said are also obvious. Can this be? His Highness often says that if it doesn't work, whether it looks good or not, it is better to try it slowly and slowly first, and then it is not too late to make a decision."

The cabinet doesn't speak, it's really done, who has the ability to make the crown prince cancel? Who is deceived by this trick?

"Your Highness." Li Dongyang thought about it for a long time, but he also had a question, "If the imperial court wants to do business like this, then can the political envoy Yamen do business?" Can the prince of the clan do business? Can relatives, eunuchs, and ministers do business like this? In this way, can people's livelihood be difficult?"

The more in-depth the discussion, the more direct the rhetorical questions will be.

Li Ge thought that this issue was very critical, and it was indeed critical, because once this opening was released, it would really be called a big solicitation of people's wealth. To be honest, officials below the fourth rank of the dynasty can do business, and Zhu Houzhao has been thinking about changing this rule.

Therefore, he also answered this question very firmly, and his immature voice contained an unquestionable question, "Of course they can't do business!" How? My Ming Dynasty still has such rules, what the court does, what the royal family does, they also require to do? Then the emperor calls himself me, do they also want to call themselves me?! Elder Li Ge, this can be said in this palace, there is no room for negotiation in this matter, and none of these people you are talking about, they are not allowed. If anyone really has great ability and feels that it is unfair and simple, then ask him to display his ability and open a country for the palace to see, and then I, a boy from the Zhu family, will worship him as the emperor!"

This is a bit unreasonable, but what is imperial power? Imperial power is just four words: refuse to share.

What I have you can't have, what you have is what I allow you to have.

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