At this time, there was a frenzied atmosphere in the air, and the bloodline of the infrastructure madness demon had awakened.

As the initiator of this atmosphere, Xia Yuan was even more infected by his noble sentiments for the country and the people.

This road must be repaired, if one day this cement road, lapis lazuli road can really penetrate the world, just like the later generations, can reach any place in the entire border.

All the people in the whole world will be blessed because of such a path.

The imperial court could increase its control over the localities; Merchants can use transportation to transport goods and boost the economy; It is convenient for people to travel, and the whole world will become incomparably closer.

There is absolutely no harm in it.

Emperor Hongzhi slowly calmed down and let out a long sigh, "But now that the treasury is empty, where does the money for building the road come from?" ”

A great deal of silver was needed to build roads, but there was no silver in the treasury.

None of this is possible.

The most uncomfortable thing in the world is not that you don't know how to do it, but that you know how to do it, and at the same time, you know that there are countless benefits to doing it, but you can't do it, and that's the most uncomfortable.

Zhu Youzhu was very uncomfortable at this time, a great cause of benefiting the country and the people, the merit in the present generation, and the benefit of the future was in front of him, but he was trapped in poverty and could not implement it.

He even had the urge to raid his home, who was the richest in the entire court

As soon as this question flashed in his mind, his gaze turned to his good son-in-law.

Somehow, being swept over by that kind of gaze, Xia Yuan couldn't help but take half a step back, how could he have an ominous premonition, was it an illusion?

After only one glance, Emperor Hongzhi took his gaze back, and secretly blamed himself in his heart, Zhu Youjiao, this is your minister, the person you rely on, and your son-in-law, how can you have such an idea?

Emperor Hongzhi silently reflected on himself in his heart, let's copy the prince, the prince also has a lot of silver, I heard that he has saved more than 100,000 taels.

Zhu Houzhao inexplicably felt a chill in the back of his neck, couldn't help but shrink his neck, and looked around again, what's going on? Where did the demon wind come from?

"Your Majesty, in fact, this silver doesn't need much, it's just that it needs some manpower, like those materials for making lapis lazuli don't need silver."

After that, Xia Yuan silently added in his heart, he didn't need it yet, but he couldn't say for sure in the future.

"Just manpower?"

Emperor Hongzhi's eyes lit up a little, "Then arrange for the people to obey"

"No way!"

didn't wait for the word "servitude" to exit, Xia Yuan seemed to have blown up, "Absolutely not!" The construction of the road is an extremely large infrastructure project. Even beyond the Great Wall of Qin Shi Huang and beyond the Grand Canal of Emperor Yang of Sui, if the people are arranged to serve as hard labor, the consequences will be unimaginable! ”

Seeing such a big reaction from him, Zhu Youzhu was so frightened that his heart suddenly burst out, and he slowed down before he said dryly: "I'm just talking, the people are suffering, how can I bear to work the people?" Well, you have to pay your salary, just like countless workers in the eastern suburbs. ”

He thought of the man who had sat together before, and when he mentioned the work, there was a smile on his dark face, a smile from the heart.

But where does the wage come from?

"Juzheng, I heard that you opened the shops in the entire eastern suburbs?"

“？”

Hearing this, Zhu Houzhao was shocked, "You opened all the shops in the eastern suburbs?" Then when you eat, you always ask the palace to pay for you? ”

Xia Yuan looked serious: "Your Highness, the minister is a principled person, even if he consumes in his own restaurant, he will have to pay silver." ”

"Then why don't you pay for your own money?"

“.”

Xia Yuan ignored him, turned to look at Emperor Hongzhi, and answered Fang Cai's question, "Your Majesty, the shops in the eastern suburbs are indeed all opened by ministers. ”

"You are very good at this abacus, you have paid these workers, and you have opened these shops to earn the money back."

Xia Yuan didn't like to hear this, so he immediately retorted with righteous words: "Your Majesty's words are very wrong. ”

"You say I'm wrong?"

"Yes, there are tens of thousands of residents in the eastern suburbs today, and the ministers opened these shops to facilitate their lives, to dredge the economy, and to feed more people."

"This silver has to be spent, and if you don't take it out, it's a broken stone, and it has to be circulated, and only when the silver is circulated, can the economy be circulated, and the more the economy circulates, the more people can be fed."

Seeing that Emperor Hongzhi and Zhu Houzhao didn't understand well, Xia Yuan had no choice but to give an example: "It's like the total amount of silver in the world is only one hundred taels, and fifty taels are kept by people and not taken out for spending."

Only fifty taels were circulating in the market, and ten of these fifty taels were earned in his hands, and he did not take them out to spend them, but picked and searched and stored them, and there were only forty taels of silver left in the world, and then someone earned them and saved them again.

And so on, there will be less and less silver in the world, and the people will become poorer and poorer, because they will not be able to earn money at all.

But is there less silver? Actually, no, it was just saved by a few people. ”

Hearing these words, Emperor Hongzhi thought about it, this set of theories sounded a little unclear at first glance, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was very reasonable.

Since the founding of the country, the population has been increasing, and according to common sense, this annual income should be more and more, but the annual income of the national treasury is decreasing, and it has been decreasing.

It gives people the illusion that the population of the world has increased, but the silver has become less, in fact, it is not an illusion, the silver has indeed become less, and it has been saved, or it has been occupied by a small number of people.

Don't say that it is someone else, even he, the emperor, loves to save silver, looking at the amount of silver in the inner money, not spent, just looking at it makes me feel comfortable.

Since ancient times, Chinese people have been keen on saving silver and money, like hamsters, they love to save everything.

Xia Yuan continued: "The purpose of opening these shops is to dredge the economy, those workers know that this shop is opened by the minister, they will be willing to come to consume, they consume, the minister can use this silver to feed more people, what shop shopkeepers, shop juniors, and their families can rely on this salary to support." ”

"Your Majesty may not believe it, don't look at so many shops, in fact, you can't earn a few dollars a month, and it's only tens of thousands of taels."

Tens of thousands of taels just can't make a few bucks

Emperor Hongzhi had an indescribable sense of absurdity, but when he thought about the rest of his income, he felt that the tens of thousands of taels were indeed not much, or even very little.

"So, I blame you by mistake, I didn't expect Juzheng to be so well-intentioned."

"The minister is ashamed, he can't talk about his good intentions, he just wants to do his part for the people."

Zhu Houzhao rolled his eyes beside him, his fart was well-intentioned, he just wanted to earn money.

There are not many tens of thousands of taels of silver, and this dog thing doesn't even let go of ten taels of silver.

There are mountains of gold and silver lying at home, and you have to invite the palace to have a meal.

The restaurant is still riding horses, and you drove it.

Don't be embarrassed!

(End of chapter)