Zhu Houzhao snapped his eyes and twisted Liu Jin again.
Liu Jin sighed: "It hurts, it hurts" Zhu Houzhao was overjoyed and said: "It seems that it's really not a dream, hahaha Liu Companion, let's make money." ” "Your Majesty" Liu Jin said with an aggrieved face: "When I first bought it, the odds were one to three, and Your Majesty earned 60,000 taels of silver between changing hands. ” Sixty thousand taels of silver, which is definitely not a decimal number.
The taxes of the Ming Dynasty are mostly in kind, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, these are the main taxes, in addition, it is a tribute, but the collection of this cash silver is very little, only two or three million taels of silver a year, this amount is outrageously low, so that in the early days, Emperor Taizu Gao patted his head, and came up with a way, I have no silver, I can print money, so the treasure money appeared, the officers and soldiers have no money to pay salaries, it doesn't matter, send you a treasure banknote, there are odds and wholes, and you don't have to look for it.
It's just that although this method has been tried and tested, it soon encountered problems, because of the flood of treasure money, resulting in the depreciation of this treasure banknote too much, a hundred taels of silver treasure banknote, not even ten taels on the market, so that the officials can not bear it, the corruption is good, but the Qingliu official is equivalent to working for the imperial court, the so-called treasure money, not even an IOU, so it made a fuss, and finally even the salary was sent in kind, to the day of the salary, a group of poor Qingliu one by one in the cold weather, All of them had runny noses and full of vegetables, and then squatted under the wall of Chongwenmen with their sleeves folded, paid their salaries, and then went back one by one with silk cloth and rice, all of which were distributed in kind, and Tong Su was not bullied.
A few days ago, Qingliu scolded the illegality of the treasury of Simencang, and then attacked it in groups, it is also for this reason, after all, there are still a lot of poor Qingliu in Beijing, and the days are actually very bad, but this physical Yulu always has good and bad advantages, the same rice, may be white and tender fine rice, may also be brown rice, the same silk cloth, the grade has upper, middle and lower grades, shoddy is the norm.
Cash silver is already a relatively rare thing for the treasury, not to mention Zhu Houzhao, who has just ascended the throne In the blink of an eye, he actually earned 60,000 taels of silver, how could Zhu Houzhao's mood not be excited, his face turned red, and he said happily: "Go, go, let's go get the money haha" Ye Chunqiu felt a little tired, returned to the inn, saw that his father was not there, so he went to his bedroom and fell asleep, and when he woke up, he saw his uncle and father eating tea in the next room, Ye Chunqiu went up to give Ye Jing a salute, Ye Jing didn't know what happened at Dongzhimen, just nodded at him, and said with a smile: "I've always seen you elusive these days, and I'm going to elect officials in the next few days. ” Ye Chunqiu hurriedly said yes, but winked at his uncle, his uncle understood, and immediately didn't say anything, and when Ye Jing went to study, Ye Chunqiu sat down, looked at Sun Qi with a smile and said, "Uncle, how did I entrust you?"
Sun Qi was also full of smiles, and said: "It's okay, 20,000 taels of silver, the bet was placed at noon yesterday, the odds at that time were one to five, Spring and Autumn, when I went out, I heard the guy say about Dongzhimen This time, it's really a big gain" Sun Qi said this, his eyes flashed with ecstasy.
This is really pie in the sky, 20,000 taels of silver smashed into it, one to five, this is how much is 100,000 taels of silver.
That's a lot for them right now.
In this era, silver is not as flooded as silver during the Wanli period because of the great geographical discoveries in Spain and the colonial trade, so the price of silver is quite stable, 100,000 taels, which is definitely a lot of money.
Ye Chunqiu was speechless, and finally understood that the real problem of this old empire was now, because of the unreasonable tax system, so the taxes of the imperial court were mainly in kind, but the lighter silver was very little, and most of the local tycoons and gentry had countless silver, but it was difficult for these people to collect taxes from them.
Because he vaguely remembered that in the prosperous Hongzhi Dynasty, the annual tax was only more than 3 million taels of silver, and the grain was 10 million stones, plus all kinds of silk, cloth and the like, which seemed to be piled up, but in fact there was a huge deficit.
Well, no matter what, the imperial court wants to hide the wealth from the people, this is the affairs of the imperial court, and it has nothing to do with itself, because as a flat-headed commoner, Ye Chunqiu and Sun Qi made a fortune this time.
Wealth is moving, and even Ye Chunqiu is not exempt from vulgarity.
Ye Chunqiu winked at Sun Qi: "Uncle hurry up tomorrow to redeem the silver, hire more people, it's really not possible, find some trustworthy people to help, no, no, go buy a house tomorrow, otherwise it will be transported to the inn, it will be inconvenient, this silver is enough for us to show our strength." ” Sun Qi was very happy: "Just put a big mansion in the inner city, and if you want to find a passable mansion, all of them are counted in the name of Spring and Autumn, and your father and son will have a place to settle in Beijing in the future." ” Both of them are a little interested, total, but not to sit on the ground to share the spoils, but the use of this silver, but roughly take the idea, to take down a mansion is a must, and it must be in the inner city, the inner city is the residence of officials, first, Ye Chunqiu father and son will be on duty in the future, it will be more convenient, almost all the ministries and temples are in the inner city, the distance is close, there is no need to run back and forth, secondly, the security of the inner city is good, and the atmosphere is better, although it looks deserted, but it is better to be quiet.
As for the rest, we will wait for the officials to be elected.
Early the next morning, Sun Qi moved to the gambling house, Ye Chunqiu also got up early in the morning, practiced the knife for an hour, sweating profusely, with the soaring physical strength and the strength of swordsmanship, Ye Chunqiu has begun to search for more swordsmanship-related problems in the light brain.
There are tens of thousands of ancient sword scores in his brain, Ye Chunqiu doesn't know where this information came from, he didn't know anything about swordsmanship before, although he was determined to practice swords, but he didn't have enough eyesight to identify the quality of swordsmanship, but he just looked at it and practiced it in a regular way, and now he has a deep foundation, and he has a new understanding of swordsmanship, and he began to concentrate on choosing a new sword score. aa2705221: