After finishing speaking, Emperor Wanli stood up again and wanted to leave. But when things have reached this point, Ning Xibo and others are already on the verge of death, so how can they let him leave the hall! So Zhou Zhiwu gritted his teeth and shouted: "Your Majesty, I have a way to solve this problem!"
Hearing these words, Emperor Wanli had to stand still. He turned back and stared at Zhou Zhiwu and said, "Ning Xibo, you said you have a solution, how to solve it?"
Zhou Zhiwu gritted his teeth and said, "We can collect a sum of money from the merchants!"
These days, Emperor Wanli and Liu Haojia heard a lot of novel ideas together, many of which were about taxation, so he subconsciously said: "You mean to collect taxes from businessmen all over the world?"
As soon as Emperor Wanli finished speaking, there was a burst of noise among the two civil and military groups! Hearing this sound, Zhou Zhiwu's forehead was instantly covered with sweat! He knew that if this sentence was confirmed by Emperor Wanli, or it triggered the idea of Emperor Wanli to tax merchants all over the world, he dared to say that he would definitely die within three months, and he would definitely die without a complete body. !
So he said eagerly: "Instead of taxing merchants all over the world, we only need to ask for money from one merchant! And we are borrowing money from him, and we can pay it back to him when the court is rich in the future!"
Emperor Wanli also woke up at this time. He felt that since he had already seen it, he simply said: "Who is this merchant you are talking about? Which merchant can provide such a large sum of money?"
Zhou Zhiwu said desperately: "Jubaozhai! Jubaozhai can produce five hundred thousand taels of silver at one time!"
Emperor Wanli walked back to the dragon chair with square steps and sat down. He stared at Zhou Zhiwu and said, "Whose business is Jubaozhai? How do you know he can come up with this money?"
Things have reached this point, and Zhou Zhiwu has completely given up! He stood up straight and said: "Your Majesty, Jubaozhai is the property of Gu Ningbo's house. And your Majesty should know about the hot glazed mirrors on the market, right? Jubao has made an unknown amount of money by selling this kind of glazed mirrors! As long as Gu Ningbo agreed, and the money will be secured! When the national treasury becomes abundant in the future, it will not be too late to return the money!"
Emperor Wanli was furious after hearing this, and said loudly: "Repay? What should I pay back? It's not like you don't know the situation in the court now. I'm afraid you won't be able to repay the money you borrowed! Do you want to pay back the money?" Do the imperial court and me have a reputation for defaulting on debts?"
Zhou Zhiwu was heartbroken when he heard this and said loudly: "If that's the case, just take Jubaozhai back to the imperial court and let Gu Ningbo's house hand over the secret recipe! After all, they are all made of porcelain clay, so cheap But the things in their Gu Ningbo Mansion are so expensive! Now that they have earned so much money, it’s almost enough! Moreover, Gu Ningbo Mansion is a noble family and has received great favor from the imperial court for generations, so it is right to serve the imperial court!"
Zhou Zhiwu's words once again caused a commotion among the courtiers. Even the Wanli Emperor looked at him blankly, thinking how could he say such shameless words? Just when he was about to scold Zhou Zhiwu, he saw the passion and greed in the eyes of the courtiers! Especially the light in the eyes of those low-level officials is even more intense!
Seeing this situation, Emperor Wanli felt cold in his heart, so he simply closed his eyes and said, "Is Uncle Gu Ning here? If so, go out and answer the questions!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Runlin stood up from the ranks of the warriors! Just as he was about to kneel down, Emperor Wanli raised his hand pretending to be impatient and said, "Okay, what time has it been? Why are you still giving me a gift? Let me ask you, Jubaozhai is the property of Gu Ningbo's house?"
Liu Runlin, who had been communicating with Liu Haojia for a long time, said: "Your Majesty, I don't know about this matter! Because the affairs at home are handled by my son Liu Haojia, and I just go to the military camp every day to train the soldiers!"
After hearing this, everyone secretly cursed Uncle Gu Ning for being extremely shameless! Everyone in the world knows that Jubaozhai is your family's property, but you dare to say you don't know! But now that Emperor Wanli is asking questions, no one dares to interrupt. They can only curse in their stomachs!
But they heard Emperor Wanli say with satisfaction: "It turns out that Aiqing is so loyal to his duties, and he is indeed the pillar of the country! Very good! In this case, Liu Haojia can be sent to the palace to answer!"
Liu Runlin bowed and said: "Your Majesty, I think Quanzi is already waiting outside the palace at this time!"
After hearing Emperor Wanli's reply, the officials discovered two things! One thing is that Emperor Wanli seems to have an inexplicable love for Gu Ningbo! Because it can be seen from the title, he directly calls Ning Xibo to Ning Baiqiang, directly calls Zhao Qing's family to Zhao Yulin, and only calls Liu Runlin Liu Aiqing!
Don’t underestimate the difference in this word, it means a huge difference! Especially in this era of supremacy of imperial power, the emperor's love is a step towards success for an official, especially a military minister! It's just that except for a few people, most people don't understand where Emperor Wanli's goodwill comes from?
Another point is that the ministers discovered that Gu Ningbo's mansion seemed to be well prepared for their attack today! Otherwise, Liu Runlin would not have been able to openly say that someone was waiting outside the palace gate. This made the ministers feel a little bad!
Just when Zhang Jia sent someone to tell Liu Haojia that he had entered the palace, the whole hall was silent and the atmosphere was extremely dull! Especially the few people standing in the open space between the civil and military classes were focused on by many eyes and were under great pressure!
But at this time, the six people headed by Zhou Zhiwu were confronting Liu Runlin, and they couldn't care less about the eyes of the people around them. Standing alone, Liu Runlin's eyes were full of anger at being betrayed! Because he had a banquet with Zhou Zhiwu and the others, and they called each other brothers! As for Zhou Zhiwu and others, their eyes were full of pride!
I don't know how long it took, but finally a eunuch reported: "Your Majesty, Liu Haojia, a member of the Jinyiwei Examination Hundred Household, is waiting for orders outside the door!"
Under the order of Emperor Wanli, Liu Haojia, dressed in a flying fish suit, walked in with his head held high. All the ministers looked up, including Zhang Juzheng and praised in their hearts: "What a brave young man!"
The bright red robe of Jinyiwei looked like it was custom-made on him, and he looked very upright! If you put a Xiuchun Dao on your waist, it will look even more heroic! It's a pity that Liu Haojia's embroidered spring knife was removed before entering the palace!
Liu Haojia stepped forward to pay homage. After getting up, he strode forward and stood behind his father. As soon as he stood still, Father Liu said in a low voice and quickly: "See clearly the people opposite, from left to right are Shunyi Bo Zhang Fulin, Ning Xi Bo Zhou Zhiwu..."
