When Zhou Shixian heard Hongye's words, he was surprised and looked Hongye up and down, but didn't say anything for a moment.

Ruyi was used for national joys, and ministers were used to congratulate the emperor. However, such a beautiful and beautiful handful of pure gold Ruyi must have been created by a prince at that time who hired a master craftsman to carefully build it and worshipped it to Zhu Di. Later, Zhu Di rewarded it to King Zhu Gaoxi of Han. Such royal treasures are rare, and anyone who saw it was moved. Hongye, a girl, was willing to melt it?

More importantly, Hongye can say that sincerely and let him share the gold with his officers and soldiers. This is really a bit amazing. As the saying goes, black eyes see silver, let alone a box of yellow gold. This girl is not moved?

"Hongye, this Jin Ruyi is so beautiful, are you willing to give up?" Zhou Shixian asked curiously.

"I'm willing to give up." Hongye stroked Jin Ruyi and replied in a voice, "You said it was a royal thing. We hid it in private. One day, let Master Long know, is it bad?"

Such insight made Zhou Shixian unable to help but give her a thumbs up in her heart.

"What about these two boxes?" Zhou Shixian asked, pointing, "I said I'll carry it to your room. Do you know what it means?"

"I didn't know at first, but now I know," Hongye whispered, "this is what you gave it to me."

"Even if you take this box of gold, you can spend it for a long time. Are you willing to take it out and let me reward my subordinates?"

"I'm willing." Hongye's tone did not hesitate, "My father told me that wealth gathers and people disperse, and wealth gathers and people disperse. I can see that your brothers are very capable and are very loyal to you. None of them are willing to betray you, and like Uncle Qi, Liu Jinhai and others, I won the hairpin for me and came back, but I have never thanked them."

When wealth gathers, people disperse, and wealth disperse, people gather. Zhou Shixian shouted in his heart and looked at the red leaves with admiration.

"But I have promoted them all," Zhou Shixian said deliberately, "It turned out to be a soldier, now it has an official position. It turned out to be an official, some have been promoted to two ranks, and some have been promoted to the third rank."

"I have never been an official, so I don't understand what the official is doing," Hongye shook his head and said, "But I know that people have to spend money. Nanjing is a big place. They are all newcomers, and they are not familiar with the place, and everything will cost. In the future, they will have to marry a wife and raise a baby. They may not be able to live in your son-in-law's mansion for the rest of their lives?"

Hongye’s words are very simple, but the simple truth is the ultimate truth in the world. Zhou Shixian sighed greatly and thought that Hongye could explain the truth very clearly, but those who became emperors did not understand it.

In fact, I don’t know whether I don’t understand it. It may be because of the iron rules set by Emperor Taizu that I cannot make any changes.

The salary of officials in the Ming Dynasty was indeed so low that they could hardly live. For example, Xu Yong, who had just been promoted to the fifth rank, had a monthly salary of only 16 shi, which was paid into 4 taels of silver per month. It sounded unreliable for someone who took you four taels of silver per month to govern the Five Army Criminal Prison.

If the salary of officials is deducted to help the people, it would be fine. Unfortunately, the largest part of the country's money is used to support the royal family. On the one hand, it is so mean to officials and on the other hand, it is so generous to the royal family. Such an approach is difficult to convince.

Zhou Shixian thought to himself that of course he could not follow Zhu Yuanzhang's rules, but he had to do it according to the method Hongye said, but he also had a certain opinion on how to do it.

The eagle cannot be hungry, if it is hungry, it will be powerless, and if it is full, it will be far away. Hongye may not understand this principle, and of course, she does not need to understand it.

"Hongye, you are such a good girl," he said sincerely, "I, Zhou Shixian, accept your love very much."

Seeing that he suddenly said so seriously, Hongye couldn't help feeling embarrassed.

"But don't worry, I didn't come out of Beijing empty-handed, and my brothers never treated them badly." Zhou Shixian smiled, "You can put the gold and silver we dug out first, and keep the flow of water and use it slowly in the future."

When Hongye heard him say this, she felt relieved and looked at the box of gold, and was a little worried, not knowing where to hide it.

"I will ask eighteen keys to bring this yard house tomorrow and hand it over to your hands. You will be in charge of it. You will put it wherever you like." Zhou Shixian gestured with his hands and said enthusiastically, "But now, it is safe to hide it under the bed first."

After saying that, he reached out to open another box. As expected, it was a box of gold nuggets full, but the box was not pure gold Ruyi, but a pure gold statue about a foot high.

Zhou Shixian laughed. This Han King really had a weird thing about hiding things. A box of gold and silver must be filled with a treasure. Yesterday the box was a dragon robe, just now the box was Jin Ruyi, and now this is a golden Buddha.

It seems that my game system is using the dragon robe as the biggest treasure. No wonder the big ray of star on the small map yesterday was so brilliant.

"Hongye, these two boxes of gold nuggets are less than 3,000 taels, and at least 40,000 to 50,000 silver." Zhou Shixian said with a smile, "If you say it, I will recruit soldiers, and I can recruit two or three thousand people."

"Yes, soldiers must be paid," Hongye nodded, "I heard that the official army could not defeat the King of Chuang because they owe the salary."

Zhou Shixian glanced at her and reminded her: "You can't call this outside, you have to be called a thief."

"Well," Hongye felt a little embarrassed, "I know you are against him, so it's just that."

"Li Zicheng is richer than the official army, but he also spent all his money. So when he entered Beijing, he called all the officials together and asked them to take out all the money to help the salary."

"Then you can get a lot of money, right?" Hongye asked curiously.

"Say at least... there are 37 million taels of silver."

Hongye was surprised and looked at his two boxes of gold and could not imagine what the 37 million silver would look like.

"How can I spend so much money?"

"Yes, if you can't spend it all and can't take it away, if you get the Qing soldiers who enter the pass, it's not worth it."

"Is the dog Tartar coming in again to grab things?" Hongye was shocked and said hatefully, "It ruined our Cangzhou twice, and how many people have it harmed!"

"Yes, dog Tartars." Zhou Shixian said in contemplation, "But this time they were not here to grab things, they were here to grab the world with Li Zicheng."

"Snatch the world?" Hongye suddenly stood up and said loudly, "You must not let the Tartars sit in the world!"

"No," Zhou Shixian nodded, "It would be better if Li Zicheng could block them."

"But what if Li Zicheng didn't know and let the Tartars sneak in?" Hongye said anxiously.

"So I've tried my best to remind him."

"Reminder? How to remind me?" Hongye was confused by him, thinking to himself that you and Li Zicheng are not mortal enemies?

"I asked someone to bring him a message, saying that the Tartars were coming to cause trouble for him, and asked him to bring a few more helpers by his side." Zhou Shixian said thoughtfully, "I don't know if he listened to it."

"I heard that the Tartar soldiers are very powerful," Hongye was a little nervous, "Do you think Li Zicheng can beat him?"
Chapter completed!