"Yo yo yo, what a happy event, you will be so happy that you can't open your mouth from ear to ear."
We haven't entered the gate of Kunning Palace yet.
Queen Ma had already led people to greet them.
Zhao Chongyuan grinned and ignored the maids around Queen Ma. He stepped forward and pulled Queen Ma towards the back room. When he saw that no one followed him, he looked at Queen Ma with a smile, raised his eyebrows and said: "Sister, you just this time we raided the Sun family, Li family, Zhou family, Chen family,
How much money did we get from these four companies in total? "
Zhao Chongyuan looked at Queen Ma with an expression of treasure.
This time, he took advantage of the civil strife in Nanchen to send people to Qingzhou and Yizhou to confiscate homes. Queen Ma naturally knew about it.
Seeing the joy on Zhao Chongyuan's face, Queen Ma also started laughing even though she didn't know what happened.
After all, since the death of his and Zhao Chongyuan's eldest son, Prince Yiwen.
It seemed that she hadn't seen such a smile on Zhao Chongyuan's face for a long time.
I personally made a cup of tea for Zhao Chongyuan.
Afterwards, Empress Ma sat opposite Zhao Chongyuan like an ordinary couple. She watched Zhao Chongyuan drink the tea she made in one gulp, then pour another cup carefully, and then asked: "How much?"
Zhao Chongyuan stretched out two fingers.
"Two hundred and fifty taels of silver?"
Queen Ma asked subconsciously.
"Guess the big one."
Zhao Chongyuan raised his eyebrows and said.
"Guess it's a big guess?"
Queen Ma was stunned when she heard this, then the expression on her face completely changed, and she lost her voice: "Two thousand..."
Before Queen Ma could finish speaking.
Zhao Chongyuan covered Queen Ma's mouth and hissed: "Keep your voice down and let people listen. Those old guys are asking me for money again."
Listening to Zhao Chongyuan's words, Queen Ma was stunned again and looked at Zhao Chongyuan with a ghostly expression: "Really that many?"
What is the concept of twenty million taels?
That's close to a year's worth of tax.
The tax for a year's work is about 23 million taels to 25 million taels.
It's not that Daqian can't collect taxes.
Rather, the nearly two hundred years since the founding of the country in Daqian had accumulated many shortcomings. Coupled with the corruption of the previous dynasty's official administration, the late emperor's inaction, and his focus on making elixirs for immortality, and laissez-faire about the government affairs. As a result, since Zhao Chongyuan ascended the throne, he has been focused on reforming the official administration. But it also had little effect.
There was collusion inside and outside the imperial court, plus enemy countries were eyeing him.
There has been nowhere to show it.
It is also true that the tax collected by Daqian every year has always been the lowest among the surrounding countries.
It was through this time that Zhao Ding killed Wen Liang and caused civil strife in Nanchen that Zhao Chongyuan found an opportunity.
Zhao Chongyuan took another sip of tea and groaned: "The money confiscated from the house alone is one thousand two hundred and seventy-eight thousand six hundred and forty-two taels. If we add in the antique calligraphy and paintings, land deeds, and shops, As well as the various black mines secretly controlled by those four companies, the total is almost 20 million taels."
"How could these four families accumulate so much money by themselves?"
Even after listening to Zhao Chongyuan say this number, Queen Ma still felt dreamlike for a moment.
It’s not too much, it’s too much.
He, Ma Ruyin, also came from a wealthy family.
I have also managed some family businesses with my mother since I was a child, but no matter how a family operates, its income for a year is always at that amount, and beyond that it is no longer money that can be earned by conventional means.
Listening to Empress Ma's words, Zhao Chongyuan snorted coldly and said: "The Zhou family, the Sun family, the Chen family, and the Li family are all aristocratic families that have been established in my country before Taizu founded the country. They have huge roots and complicated powers. In the past few years, I have been using Da Qian to quarrel with Southern, Chen and Beiliang, and I don’t know how much wealth has been made from the national calamity.
After so many years, the money accumulated is naturally very different from that of your Ma family. "
Having said this, Zhao Chongyuan shook his head again, looked at Queen Ma and said, "Let's not talk about this for now. Let me tell you something. How do you feel?"
"What's up?"
Seeing that Zhao Chongyuan didn't worry too much about this matter, Queen Ma simply didn't ask.
As a woman, she knew in her heart what things should be asked and what things should not be asked.
"I want to bring Lao Jiu back."
Zhao Chongyuan thought for a long time, looked at Queen Ma and asked.
"What?"
As soon as these words came out, Queen Ma was shocked.
Recalling the vassal king is not a trivial matter, especially since Zhao Ding is still the vassal king who has already been vassalized for a long time. What is more important is that Daqian has already established the crown prince. Now that he is recalling the vassal king, is it not like saying something to the courtiers in disguise? The crown prince of Daqian is not stable.
This is something that shakes the foundation of the country.
Once word spreads, those rotten scholars will probably hit the palace gate again.
Looking at the expression on Queen Ma's face, Zhao Chongyuan was not surprised at all, and said calmly: "I have asked the second and fifth children to come back."
Then, without waiting for Empress Ma to speak, she continued: "With the two of them in Qingzhou and Yizhou, it is inconvenient for me to do things. Calling them back will also be convenient for me to send people to deal with the remaining aristocratic families in Qingzhou and Yizhou." power."
"Then why are you calling Lao Jiu back now?"
Queen Ma asked subconsciously.
When it comes to wealth, who can compare with Youzhou under Zhao Ding's governance.
Although she has never been there, she can feel a lot of things from the boasts that Zhao Chongyuan has made in front of her these days, as well as the things that the king of strength has been tinkering with outside the palace according to Zhao Chongyuan's instructions, and the profits made.
Those things that Zhao Ding tinkered with made money extremely fast!
As if he guessed what Queen Ma wanted to say, Zhao Chongyuan immediately shook his head and said: "Of course that is impossible."
Then he continued: "Although Lao Jiu is a little more thoughtful and a bit of a jerk, he still treats the people well, better than Lao Er and Lao Wu, and what happened in Youzhou under his governance in these years I also see the changes. As a father, I naturally can't do anything to steal my son's things.
Although his little bastard doesn't take me seriously either. "
Having said this, Zhao Chongyuan glared hard in the direction of Youzhou again.
Looking at Zhao Chongyuan's angry look.
Queen Ma also covered her mouth and smiled.
She basically knew everything that happened to Zhao Chongyuan in Youzhou these days.
Especially the phonograph that Zhao Ding tinkered with was an eye-opener for her.
There is actually such a magical weapon in the world.
It really didn't occur to her.
But listening to Zhao Chongyuan, Queen Ma's face gradually turned cold, and she asked in a deep voice: "So what do you want?"
"Um."
Before Empress Ma could finish speaking, Zhao Chongyuan nodded and said with some helplessness: "Although Qingzhan is the legitimate son of the boss, his character is not suitable for being a prince of a country. If he is forced to help him, he will end up like this in the end." If a country is destroyed and the city is destroyed, it is better to let him live his life as an idle prince and live a wealthy life. This can be regarded as a small amount of compensation for our boss."
"well."
Listening to Zhao Chongyuan's words, Queen Ma sighed again.
