Chapter 653: A Money-Making Business

Jia Yun pondered this thing, not simply for the enjoyment of herself and her wife, but to earn more silver, and there must be a source of silver.

Even if Jia Yun becomes the emperor in the future, the emperor will not be able to take the silver in the treasury and squander it.

If this is the case, he will definitely be deducted from the name of a faint monarch, and when the time comes, he may have to be scolded by those ministers of the Imperial Historical Observatory and risk death to admonish.

Therefore, even the emperor will have his own internal affairs office, which is dedicated to making money for himself and maintaining the emperor's daily expenses.

Emperor Yongtai was an extremely frugal emperor, and took the lead in eating some ordinary and simple food in the palace to set an example for the Son of Heaven.

However, the courtiers under Emperor Yongtai were all serving with big fish and meat, and they did not have the slightest thrifty thoughts and ideas.

In particular, the powerful and luxurious families such as Rongguofu even took extremely precious medicinal materials such as ginseng and reishi to feed chickens and ducks, so as to obtain the treasure chicken, which is said to be able to cure diseases and prolong life.

It can be said that the emperor is the emperor and the minister is the minister... net

The emperor's frugality does not make the ministers below also thrifty, but they are two different worlds.

When Concubine Yuan returned to Ningrong Mansion before, she once warned everyone in Rongguo Mansion to be thrifty.

It's a pity that the people in Rongguo Mansion didn't listen to it.

Jia Yun listened to it, but she didn't care about it.

Nowadays, what the powerful and wealthy lack has never been silver.

Perhaps there was a shortage of silver in the treasury, and there was a shortage of silver in the emperor's internal affairs office, but there was no shortage of silver in the ministers' homes.

The emperor Chongzhen of the last Ming Dynasty, for the sake of the court and the world, continued to work hard, but the ministers below were rotten and unwilling to give out the silver, and then, Emperor Chongzhen succeeded in his death, so that the entire court and the world fell apart, giving the king Li Zicheng and the barbarians outside the pass a chance, so that the barbarians entered the customs and caused disaster to the country.

It is said that after King Li Zicheng entered the imperial city, tens of millions of taels of silver were tortured from the homes of the ministers.

It can be said that these ministers are all rich and drained, and they have lost the treasury and put the silver of the court in their trouser pockets, so can there be no situation where the treasury is empty, the court has no money, the public and private interests are damaged, and corrupt officials are rampant?

When Emperor Yongtai ascended the throne, this kind of atmosphere had already become popular.

Even if Emperor Yongtai has realized the problem in his heart, he still can't kill this unhealthy trend, but it is getting more and more intense.

It is common for eunuchs in the palace to ask for bribes, and if the ministers do not pay bribes, they will be unlucky and die without a place to be buried.

Even if it is the imperial relatives like Rongguofu, when they treat these eunuchs who run out of the palace to ask for bribes, they are greeted with all smiles, and countless grass and mud horses gallop past in their hearts, but they still need to hold the bribe silver of the filial piety eunuchs with both hands.

The ministers outside the palace were all the way with the eunuchs in the palace, wantonly looting, expropriating and expropriating the people, and getting the silver in the people's trouser pockets into their pockets.

Emperor Yongtai didn't know about these things.

Deception and concealment, this is the rule of officialdom since ancient times.

The emperor is not an immortal, and he cannot predict the prophet.

On the contrary, the emperor did not leave the palace, and all the information was sent by the people below.

There's a lot of room to work in this.

Many officials like to report good news, not like to report bad news, every day is a prosperous era of singing and dancing, but for the people of Limin, it is only the same suffering as the previous dynasty, and it is not because of the change of an emperor, life is better.

Jia Yun's mastery of the court and the people is undoubtedly much more sober than that of Emperor Yongtai.

Today's world is like a tree that is gradually decaying, and sooner or later the building will collapse.

Not only was the imperial court full of internal worries, but there was also turmoil in the imperial court's maritime frontier.

Taking advantage of the imperial court's national policy of banning the sea, the Japanese state constantly expanded its fleet, so that it had a naval advantage, constantly harassing and plundering the fishermen along the coast, burning and looting

, do no evil.

As soon as they encountered any disturbance and attack by the regular army, they would immediately withdraw to the sea, so that they could rely on the superiority of the sea fleet and leave calmly, and the whole process was smooth, and they would hardly lose a single soldier, and they would make a lot of profits.

And the army of the imperial court, due to the national policy of sea ban, could not go to the sea, so it could not pursue these pirates from the sea.

For a time, the turmoil in the sea and frontier became more and more intense, and it had reached the point of being out of control.

However, the sky is high and the emperor is far away.

The location of Haijiang is too far away from the Imperial City of the Son of Heaven, and the local officials are afraid of taking responsibility, and they are even more afraid of losing their heads, as well as making themselves unlucky and other factors, and often choose to conceal it collectively from the bottom up to deceive the Emperor of the Son of Heaven who is far away in the imperial city.

As long as they don't say anything, cover the lid.

So even if there are more people who die, it is only the death of some insignificant Shengdou small people, anyway, it is not these Haijiang officials who die, how can they ever care about the life and death of these small people?

Even some of the more black-hearted officials would secretly contact the pirates of the Japanese state, taking the opportunity to lure the pirates ashore, provide accurate information, and loot the rich merchants and local gentry along the coast, so as to obtain the land and property of these rich merchants and gentry.

It can be said that the chaos in the sea frontier is absolutely unimaginable to Emperor Yongtai.

Every day, even if there are occasionally one or two loyal ministers and righteous people, some loyal Qingliu officials, who present the chaos of the sea and frontier, they will also be suppressed by the cabinet officials and not given to the emperor.

Because they all knew in their hearts that Emperor Yongtai didn't like this kind of bad news very much, but liked to hear good news.

Loyal words are contrary to ears, and good words are bitter.

If this matter is exposed, then they will be in even greater trouble.

These people are used to being high-minded, and they have long been accustomed to the routine of deceiving their superiors and subordinates.

So, these twists and turns were pressed down and discarded in the corner to eat ashes.

Jia Yun often browses the twists and turns in these corners.

Because, these twists and turns can reflect the real situation in the world.

The sea is uneven, and Emperor Yongtai seems to be planning to move troops against the Huns in Mobei in recent years.

The day of chaos in the world is not far off.

And he, Jia Yun, wants to take advantage of the chaos in the world to earn money frantically, cultivate the descendant army, and speed up the co-optation and corruption of officials in the court.

Once there is a change in the world, he can ride the wind, rely on supreme military exploits, and stage a play of Zhao Kuangyin's yellow robe, or monopolize power, hold the emperor hostage, and stage a drama of resignation and three concessions.

After learning about Jia Yun's plans and ideas, Hua Zifang went down to arrange this matter to earn more silver for Jia Yun.