"An annual salary of 1,000 taels of silver?" Zhu Cihong was shocked, "Father, what kind of warriors do you want to recruit?"
1,000 taels of silver!
Not everyone in the feudal clan has this income. Zhu Cixiang thought to himself: My father is so generous in his actions, is he playing some conspiracy again?
Alas, this father has learned badly... I don’t know who he learned it from? You were quite honest before, why have you become so bad now? You should really be careful when you are his son!
Zhu Youjian laughed a few more times: "It doesn't matter what kind of samurai you recruit... What's important is to let the Japanese samurai know that Emperor Xingzi is stupid and rich, and there are great benefits to following her! "
Zhu Cixi suddenly realized, "Father, do you want to buy horse bones with thousands of gold?"
Zhu Youjian nodded and said: "I want thousands of gold to buy horse bones! Only in this way, when Emperor Xingzi rises to overthrow his army in the future, many Japanese samurai will respond."
So bad...this set the stage for the plot to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate.
But Tokugawa Iemitsu is not an idiot!
Zhu Cixiang kindly reminded: "But Tokugawa Iemitsu is not a fuel-efficient lamp!"
Zhu Youjian laughed and said: "Tokugawa Iemitsu is easy to deal with... Since Iemitsu is willing to give the emperor to his third son as his wife, he naturally does not dare to resist the heavenly soldiers. He no longer has the desire to become a good person, so he will not It’s difficult to deal with him. I just need to use some tricks to appease him.”
Zhu Cixiang asked: "How do you want to appease Tokugawa Iemitsu?"
Zhu Youjian looked at his son and said with a smile: "I heard that Iemitsu has five adopted daughters. They are all beautiful girls selected from the Tokugawa family's direct vassals and genealogical vassals... Can you let Zheng Zongming Ask Iemitsu for one of them to be a concubine, so that you will be Iemitsu's son-in-law. Then you promise to betroth the eldest daughter born to Emperor Kouko to Iemitsu's son as his wife.
At the same time, you can discuss with Tokugawa Iemitsu about jointly exploring the New World, so he will definitely feel relieved. "
Look, everyone has learned to fool around with red faces and white faces! Zhu Cixiang thought: And you want me to take some beautiful Japanese girl as my concubine... This is really great!
"Okay!" Zhu Cixiang nodded, "This matter is settled. I will let Zheng Zongming take care of it later... It doesn't matter if I suffer some losses, but I must confuse Tokugawa Iemitsu."
Zhu Youjian smiled: "That's right. As kings, we are dedicated to serving the country and the people. How can we be afraid of suffering losses?"
"My father taught me that... my sons are not afraid of suffering losses."
"Then the matter of increasing the loan limit by another 100 million taels..."
Zhu Cixiang frowned again, looking embarrassed, "I can think of a solution, but..."
Zhu Youjian's face darkened and asked: "But what?"
Zhu Cixiang said: "But the territory that I manage is only the three prefectures of Yangzhou, Huai'an and Xuzhou, so I can't control those rich people in the south of the Yangtze River!"
Zhu Youjian laughed and asked: "Brother Chun, what do you want?"
Zhu Cixiang immediately offered the price he wanted. He said: "My son wants to merge the five prefectures of Songjiang, Suzhou, Changzhou, Zhenjiang and Yingtian in the south of the Yangtze River into Huaidong Province and turn Huaidong Province into Jiangsu Province. The minister became governor of Jiangsu and also knew Yangzhou, and was governor of salt industry, water transportation and Jianghuai water transportation.
Moreover, the son-in-law also has the right to be appointed and dismissed by the prefects of Songjiang, Huai'an and Suzhou! "
After hearing Zhu Cixiang's request, Chongzhen said in his heart: This traitor wants to separate the southeast... But it doesn't matter. As long as you, the traitor, can give you enough money, it's okay to give you Jiangsu for fun. Anyway, in another fifty or sixty years, the world will be yours. Just wait...
Zhu Youjian waved his hand and said with a smile: "There are eight prefectures in Jiangsu Province...all the prefects and prefects are appointed and removed by you.
In addition, the position of staying behind in Nanjing is also given to you. From now on, you can run back and forth between Yingtian, Yangzhou and Songjiang!
Officials from the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of Industry, and the Ministry of War stationed in Yangzhou will all go to Nanjing, and they will all be under your control.
In short, the fertile land of Jiangsu is entrusted to you! "
This power is really delegated!
Emperor Chongzhen paused, his face became more solemn, and he said to Zhu Cihong: "What I want to do is a great cause for the country and the people, and there are many places to spend money.
And the money must be used, because the population of the Han Dynasty is too large, close to 200 million. However, there is still too little land. Counting the cultivable land outside Saibei Pass, it is only over a billion acres, less than ten acres per person. Now we are just barely maintaining food and clothing for everyone, but the human population is multiplying extremely fast, and 450 million is the number I can see. If we don’t open up now, then we will have to worry about the people’s food problem. I have been worrying about the problem of food for the world for 17 years, and I know how difficult it is! That's why I took advantage of the disaster years to recruit military households, and then paid them to send them to colonize far away. In order to manage these military households who have left far away, I have no choice but to establish a state and establish more princes..."
What Emperor Chongzhen meant by this is that there are too many people eating in the country, but there is too little land that can produce food. What should we do if there is not enough food? Of course, we cannot allow the poor to rebel, nor can we equally distribute the land of the rich to the poor - a feudal emperor cannot do such a thing!
Therefore, Chongzhen's idea was to launch an aggressive war, engage in colonial expansion, organize the poor into military households, engage in armed immigration, and seize other people's land to grow food.
This is really bad!
As for how to solve the military expenses for launching a war of aggression, and where the money for armed immigrants will come from... Of course, they have to ask for it from traitors.
"I understand, I'll take care of it all." Zhu Cixiang figured out Chongzhen's trump card, so of course he had to obediently get money... and act as an accomplice to Chongzhen, the invader!
In fact, this matter has both good and bad aspects for Zhu Cixiang.
It is certainly a bad thing to give Zhu Youjian an extra tens to 100 million every year for invasion and expansion... but the king of Jiangsu is still quite happy.
Moreover, what Emperor Chongzhen wanted was not cash, but the balance on the books, various military supplies and logistical transportation services, so Zhu Cixiang could still find a way to solve it for Zhu Youjian.
Zhu Cixiang still has many ways to make money!
"Father," Zhu Cixiang said to Zhu Youjian again, "it's still not enough for me to raise so much money just by relying on a salt bank.
I heard that you asked Mrs. Xu to purchase a lot of land in the Shanghai commercial area in your early years? "
If finance is not good, real estate will make up for it!
Moreover, if finance and real estate are developed together, there will be a synergistic effect... Because when real estate is developed in big cities, excess liquidity can be absorbed, thus maintaining the purchasing power of currency.
In addition, selling government-owned real estate can also provide the court with a large amount of income. With this income, the court can spend more money and borrow more debt, thus forming a cycle that is easier to maintain.
In this way, the total scale of finance can be very large, and Ming Dynasty can become very rich...
"It's true," Zhu Youjian said, "I have hundreds of thousands of acres of land in Shanghai. Some of it is in the business district, and some of it is on the edge of the business city. I can leave it to your disposal."
Zhu Youjian has a lot of land in Shanghai, but the location is not good!
When Xu Ruolan bought land, she only talked about the quantity, not the location... So she bought a lot of suburban land, which was not worth much.
However, Shanghai has developed rapidly in the past few years, and land in the suburbs will soon be developed... Moreover, Zhu Cixiang can also help Zheng Zhilong with urban development planning.
Thinking of this, Zhu Cixi smiled and said: "I will be more confident there."
