Since Liu Jun was granted the title of marquis, he would be in harmony with the country.◇↓◇↓ Novel.￥f

But perhaps Chongzhen was not at ease about this, and perhaps he wanted to get more loyal service from Liu Jun, but suddenly proposed this plan that scared everyone.

"I have decided, you don't have to take care of anything else, unless you are unwilling. The king and his subjects are like fathers and sons. Now I accept you as my son, don't you?" Chongzhen seemed to have made up his mind and insisted on accepting Liu Jun as his adopted son.

Liu Jun was also a little worried when he looked at Chongzhen's attitude. As he knew, Chongzhen was a very paranoid person. He is now deeply trusted by Chongzhen, but he doesn't want to make Chongzhen angry because of this matter. After thinking about it, Liu Jun also admitted it in his heart. Anyway, Chongzhen insisted on this matter, so he might as well agree to him.

Liu Jun thought that although there was a precedent for the emperor to accept adopted sons, it seemed that the Ming Taizu and Emperor Zhengde had done this in the Ming Dynasty. Emperor Zhengde accepted more than 100 adopted sons, which was deeply dissatisfied with the court officials. When he turned back, the ministers might all oppose this matter, and perhaps it would be fine.

"I have no intention of this, I am just worried that the world will criticize and oppose it."

"You don't have to worry about those things, just say whether you want to?"

"The king and his subject are like father and son, and there is no difference between the king and father. Now that Your Majesty loves him and wants to accept his minister as his adopted son, he will never be willing to do so."

After hearing this, Chongzhen stroked his beard and smiled a few times with satisfaction. "Very good, what I want is your words. From now on, you will be my adopted son, changed your name to Zhu Ciye."

"Thank you Your Majesty for your kindness!" Liu Jun is now 100% sure that Chongzhen was definitely not coming tonight, nor was he thinking about taking him as his adopted son. All of this must have been planned by Chongzhen, and even thought about it for a long time. Everything was just to be able to tie Liu Jun with the emperor's kindness and the king's kindness and even the father's kindness.

"Call the father!" Chongzhen said with a smile. There is a big difference between the adopted son and the adopted son. Chongzhen accepted Liu Jun as his adopted son, but he spent a lot of money to let Liu Jun enter the royal family. "In the future, the crown prince and the kings of Yongding are your brothers. Empress Zhou is your mother, and Concubine Yuan Tian is also your concubine. Do you understand?"

"Yes, Father!" Liu Jun thanked again. But he was thinking in his heart. If you really recognize your son, why don't you be a king? To put it bluntly, Chongzhen also felt that Liu Jun was quite weird. He could lead troops and make money. He had always shown great loyalty to the emperor, so he wanted to use this method to further win over Liu Jun.

"Hahaha, I'm very happy to call you. Ci Ye, please bring you wine. Today, we father and son want to have a good drink. All the honorary ministers and Cao Dajiao Wang Chengen Wang's heart Liu Qiao are all witnesses."

Seeing this, the three dukes and one count also congratulated them on their father and son. The dukes and counts were much more enthusiastic about Liu Jun. They had not taken this new marquis seriously at first. But now both of Liu Jun's teachers have entered the cabinet to be the chief minister and second assistant, and a fellow villager is also the cabinet master. He turned around and became the emperor's adopted son again. How could Liu Jun underestimate him again after this?

While drinking, Liu Jun was still a little dizzy. Why did I become Chongzhen's godson like this? This Ming Dynasty will perish in only a few years. Should I be buried with the Ming Dynasty? Liu Jun doesn't think that with his own strength, he can turn the tide.

What Liu Jun was most worried about was whether Chongzhen would keep him in the capital after he accepted him as his godson. What if he was asked to rectify the Beijing camp, train the Beijing army, or let him participate in military farm rectification, military reform, etc., wouldn’t that be contrary to his plan?

After drinking a few glasses of wine, Chongzhen called Liu Jun to the study and the two talked alone.

"Since I ascended the throne, the world of Ming Dynasty has been like a leaking sieve, with holes everywhere. I have internal and external troubles. I have been fed and eaten overnight, but I have never dared to be lazy and indulged in one day. But in the end, the predicament and crisis of the Ming Dynasty have not only not been alleviated, but have become more and more serious." Chongzhen sighed, "Fortunately, you have pacified the bandits in the Central Plains for me. I always think that maybe you were sent by God to assist me. I accepted you as my adopted son because I thought you were sent by God to help me and the Ming Dynasty."

Chongzhen drank all the wine in his wine glass in one sip and smiled, "For more than ten years, I have rarely drunk alcohol, but I have drunk several times during this period. Once you reported the victory in Wushan, once you captured Zhang Xianzhong alive, and you also established a salt farm to send me 100,000 taels of silver. Later, you brought me a lot of good news, such as coupons to raise funds, rectifying military farms, and the Yehe victory. Good news comes one by one. I can't help but drink a few glasses every time. Today, you become my adopted son, and I need to drink a few more glasses."

Liu Jun stood on one side without saying a word, just listened quietly to Chongzhen's words.

"With you, the situation has improved greatly. However, the change has been too slow."

Chongzhen looked at Liu Jun without saying a word and pointed to the chair on the side, "Sit down, my father and son are talking alone, why should we be so polite? Ci Ye and Hong Chengchou reported to the court to send troops to Jinzhou, but after looking through the treasury situation reported by the two auxiliary ministers Mei and Li, I was shocked. There was no money, no food, and no soldiers. As you said, if we were in this situation, we would have to transfer tens of thousands of troops from all over the country to Jinzhou to fight against Jianlu, but I was afraid that the consequences would be unpredictable."

"Ciye, you are good at commanding troops and training and managing finances. Tell me, is there any way to allow the court to get a large sum of silver in a short period of time without having to send additional money to the people?"

Liu Jun thought for a while and replied, "Your Majesty, Hubei has cleared more than 2 million mu of military farms this year. Now these fields are handed over to more than 50,000 garrisons for cultivation. If the weather is good next year, the court will get more than 2 million shi of garrison rent. If these garrison rents are divided into three parts, partly for local camps and soldiers, and partly for local prefectures and counties, then hundreds of thousands of s of grain can be handed over to the court. And this is only part of the garrison farms cleaned up by Hubei Province. If all Hubei and Hunan are cleared out, just these two provinces, the garrison rents the court may be as much as four or five million s."

Chongzhen interrupted Liu Jun, and he shook his head and said, "Far water cannot relieve near thirst. No matter how fast it is, the rent for the farmland will have to wait until after the next summer. The court needs a cash currency. Although Jinzhou does not send more troops now, it will also provide food and salary. Many soldiers and horses on the nine sides of the court have been owed for a long time, and after the bandits in the Central Plains have been pacified, refugees have to be placed and production resumed. Money is needed everywhere, and I can't wait for that long."

Chongzhen was almost driven crazy by the money and asked for money everywhere, but the court was empty. Fortunately, Liu Jun had donated hundreds of thousands of taels of silver before, and confiscated Lu Jiude, Xue Guoguan and other criminals, who had already won about two million taels. With this money, he could temporarily support his life.

Chongzhen even wondered whether he would scoop up a few corrupt officials and make a fortune. But he also knew that it would be difficult to fight corruption under this situation. If it was not done well, the court would have to catch fire. If even the center was out of control, it would be even more deadly. If it was absolutely impossible, Chongzhen would not dare to use those people casually.

After hearing Chongzhen's request, Liu Jun began to think. If you want to cash in, you have to make money quickly in the short term. Such a requirement is extremely harsh, but he remembered some solutions.

For example, lottery tickets, but lottery tickets must have good execution. For example, if the Nine-Headed Bird issues lottery tickets, it will have excellent monitoring and no one will rob it. If the lottery tickets are handed over to the court, it may immediately become a source of corruption. He can be sure that it won't take long to destroy this good thing.

Lottery coupons rely on credit, and only if there is credit can someone buy them. At the same time, lottery coupons also rely on the ethics of the management officials, so that money can finally get together.

"Your Majesty, I have an idea that I may get a sum of money in the short term. However, this matter needs a reliable person to do it, otherwise it will only end up with corrupt officials, but the court will not get any money." Liu Jun said.

"Oh, what's the plan? How much money can you get?" Chongzhen, who was now a dignified emperor, began to talk about money and money all the time.

"If you have the support of your Majesty, you should be able to get about five million in one year."

Liu Jun dared not say it was too big, so he first said a more secure conservative number.

"Five million a year? It takes a year to get the money?" Chongzhen asked.

"There is no need. If the plan starts, you can start to make an income in at most a month."

"What is the plan? Let me tell you in detail." Chongzhen was immediately moved when he heard that he didn't have to wait for a year, and he didn't have to wait for a year.

Liu Jun’s plan is actually very simple. Later generations have a better understanding of the economy. Liu Jun plans to issue bonds, which is quite simple. In later generations, bonds were very common, including war bonds, national bonds, local bonds, etc., all kinds of things.

To put it bluntly, bonds are borrowing from the Chinese people, especially from rich people. Now the Ming Dynasty court often borrows money from rich people, but the borrowing of money in the court has no technical content and is all forced to borrow money.

For example, Chongzhen asked the Marquis of Wuqing to borrow 400,000 taels of silver. Once he asked to borrow so much, even if he had money, Wuqing would not borrow so much. Moreover, Wuqing Hou was a wealthy slave. After receiving the order, he sold his furniture on the street and even demolished the house to sell it. In short, it was a sensation.

He threw away Chongzhen's face. Chongzhen was furious and ordered Li Guorui to deprive him of his title and salary. Li Guorui died of panic and frightened. Later, the borrowing wind became more and more intense, which made everyone in the royal family and relatives, and they were unwilling to lose money and eliminate disasters. So he spread rumors and confused the public: Empress Dowager Xiaoding (Zhu Youjian's great-grandmother) accused the emperor of being too mean to his relatives and being punished by God, and the emperor's son was about to die.

This is of course a rumor, but it is very strange. Zhu Youjian's fifth son, Zhu Cihuan, died indeed. This unexpected blow made Zhu Youjian regret it. In order to explain to Empress Dowager Xiaoding, he immediately posthumously named Li Guorui's seven-year-old son as Marquis of Wuqing, and returned all the gold and silver handed over by the Li family. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!