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Chapter 8 Asking for Money

"This Gao Hongyun is simply ill-intentioned and actually falsely spreading the king's order. Isn't this destroying the reputation of Prince Jing's Mansion?"

The palace of the king, Ruyi Palace.

Zhao Yuyan slapped the teacup heavily on the table. Even though she was eating vegetarian food and chanting Buddha's name, her heart was as calm as water, and she was very angry at this incident.

"The child also thinks so. Wouldn't this make the people on the fence feel disappointed and poke the backbone of Prince Jing's mansion?"

Liu Jun was so angry that he sweared in swearing because of this.

After more than 200 years of the founding of the Darong Kingdom, the equal-field system that fixed the people in their registered place to engage in production had long been destroyed.

Nowadays, the flow of people in Darong is very frequent.

If a place is not suitable for living, the people will give up their original household registration and go to other places, which intensifies the population density and unevenness of the rich and poor in each place in Darong Country.

Especially for the Nine Border Kings, the number of people and the wealth of the people determine the size of their own strength.

If the people in Jingzhou are losing faster, they will explode on the spot without foreign enemies in the future.

"This is the crux of the matter. If the royal palace's reputation is extremely bad and the public is full of grievances, then leading troops to rebel would be to follow the public's wishes. Wang'er, I'm afraid that Gao Hongyun has already become a traitor."

Zhao Yuyan was worried.

Liu Jun nodded. If a subordinate spreads rumors about his boss everywhere in the company and deliberately creates some incidents to vilify his boss, then he either hates his boss or wants to replace him.

This principle also applies to Gao Hongyun and Prince Jing’s Mansion.

Originally, he thought Gao Hongyun would not have the courage to rebel, but now it seems that he is still too simple.

In an era when nations are fighting for hegemony and civilization has not yet escaped from barbarism, cruel struggle is the norm.

He must break out of the contemporary harmonious mentality.

"The mother does not need to worry too much. The child has already thought of a countermeasure, but now it needs a lot of money to resettle these fleeing people." Liu Jun was confident.

The Craftsmanship Department is developing the Jenny textile machine. If it is successful, he will set up an official weaving workshop in Jingyang City. These displaced people will be settled at that time.

But at the moment, he needs to keep these people so that they will not continue to move south to Chenzhou next door.

At the same time, he also had to select some clever people from these people to train secretly and establish his own eyes and ear institutions.

He has thought of the name of this institution and is called Feihuwei.

Similar to the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty, Feihu Guard will be the special service agency in Jingzhou in the future. He will be responsible for supervising all officials internally, collecting intelligence, bribing, assassinating targets, and assisting in war.

"silver?"

Zhao Yuyan glanced at Liu Jun sideways, afraid that this is the focus of Liu Jun coming to find her today.

"Mother, now the taxes are sharply reduced, and the treasury is in short supply. The child cannot continue to charge heavy taxes to the people. This money will naturally be out of the inner treasury of our royal palace."

Liu Jun showed a pure smile.

In Jingzhou, there are two systems of financial and tax division, one is the government's treasury, which stores the taxes collected in spring and autumn, as well as the income from mining taxes and the government's salt and iron monopoly.

These taxes are only used for the expenses of the Jingzhou government and army.

The income from the royal mansion comes from the land and shops of the royal mansion. All of this money is stored in the treasury and has always been in charge of Zhao Yuyan.

Sighing slightly, Zhao Yuyan said, "Your grandfather is a prodigal son, and your father is also a prodigal son. After spending over the years, the inner treasury has not accumulated much. If you continue to lose, we will have a drink."

After pausing, she continued, "But as long as you use the money on the right path, your mother will not stop you. At worst, we will eat or wear a little bit in the future, which is better than losing our ancestors' foundation."

Liu Jun nodded repeatedly.

Zhao Yuyan ordered the nanny at the door at this time.

The nanny left, and a man with a beard with a horoscope and a long gray robe with a big sleeve and a scholar walked in with his abacus and account book.

"Qin Account, how much money did we make in the last month? How much money does the inner treasury have?" Zhao Yuyan asked while turning the Buddhist beads.

After opening the account book, Qin's accountant took the abacus and replied, "Go back to the concubine, the total investment this month is 23,200 taels of silver, and there are 60,000 taels of silver in total."

"How much did our royal family spend last month?" Zhao Yuyan asked again.

"The food, clothing, food, clothing, and money from servants last month, the food and grass for feeding horses, and the exchanges with fiefs, the capital, and the kings totaled 19,000 taels of silver."

Zhao Yuyan looked at Liu Jun, "As the saying goes, if you don't be a boss, you don't know how expensive it is to be a food, oil and salt. Now you know it."

Liu Jun ticked his tongue, as the saying goes, a big family and big business, and big expenses.

There is not much money left in the royal palace every month. If the land is not collected, the store business is not good, and relatives, friends and relatives, the royal palace will have a deficit that month.

"I first embezzle 20,000 yuan in silver. After a while, I will be able to fill our warehouse with you."

Liu Jun swore to the fullest.

According to the current rice price in Jingzhou, if you buy two stones of rice for one tael of silver, you can buy about 188 kilograms of rice for one tael of silver.

In contemporary times, one or five to two yuan per kilogram of rice, and the purchasing power of one or two taels of silver in Darong Kingdom is equivalent to about 660 yuan in contemporary times.

"One or two thousand silver is equivalent to a huge sum of six million yuan, and 20,000 yuan is equivalent to a huge sum of ten million yuan." Liu Jun didn't expect that one day he would be so rich.

But soon he calmed down again. He was the Lord of Jing, no matter how he said that he was the Lord of Jingzhou.

Such a large family business is only 60,000 taels of private money.

In contemporary times, it is equivalent to tens of millions. Compared with those little Arab princes who often cost tens of billions of dollars, isn’t he so poor that he is not even as rich as the richest man in the village?

"The cost of a musket in the Darong Kingdom is three or eight cents, and each guard's mansion is five thousand, which is nearly 20,000, not including gunpowder, projectiles, armor, and soldiers' pay."

After doing this, Liu Jun was so worried that this little money could not do much.

Seeing that Liu Jun's expression went from excitement to tranquility to sadness, Zhao Yuyan couldn't help but sigh, thinking that the immediate fall had not yet been done.

"Mother, it's time for the child to go back."

The money was about to be obtained, Liu Jun ran away, and Zhao Yuyan gave him a blank look, but did not leave him.

While dragging Qin's account room, Liu Jun took Hu Wei directly to the inner treasury of the royal palace.

"Prince, this box contains newly cast silver, a total of fifty taels per box, a total of two hundred in the box, and two boxes are 200 taels of silver."

Qin's account room opened a box, and there were neat silver ingots inside, which shone brightly and looked very beautiful.

"Send me to my bedroom, and I will sleep on the silver tonight."

Liu Jun was almost blinded by the silver, and his true nature was exposed.

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