Liu Jin and Zhang Yong quickly said yes. Although Liu Jin and others could see that Xu Jing seemed to be favored, they were not disgusted with Xu Jing. After all, they had made a lot of money from Xu Jing. Xu Jing seemed to be a very emotional person and talked with Liu Jin and others within a long time, which made Liu Jin and others feel despised by literati.

As eunuchs, I care about this very much. As long as they have strong self-esteem, they will have a good impression of whoever they are willing to respect them. Now Liu Jin is the same. He hopes that Xu Jing will become one of them.

Therefore, Liu Jin also took the initiative to suggest: "The emperor, Lord Xu will be considered an internal minister in the future. It is better to see if Lord Xu should be asked to remove his descendants. After all, this is the rule of the inner government for many years."

Liu Jinyan’s implication is nothing more than that Xu Jing is considered his own person, but as his own person, he should be a eunuch, so Xu Jing should also become a eunuch.

Zhu Houzhao didn't expect this problem. He actually didn't mind whether the people around him must be eunuchs, so he didn't have this awareness. But now Liu Jin's mention made Zhu Houzhao think of a way to make money again, and he couldn't help but smile maliciously at Xu Jing, the head of the Royal Taxation Administration.

Xu Jing has been immersed in the joy of becoming an official, and he has always wanted to enter the official career. Although he was a wealthy businessman, the twelve-year fraud case in Hongzhi made him lose his qualifications to be an official, so Zhu Houzhao is indeed very happy that he has given him the opportunity to be an official now.

However, just when he was overjoyed, Liu Jin's proposal was poured on Xu Jing's heart like a basin of cold water. Xu Jing was so scared that he couldn't help but cover his lower body and looked at Zhu Houzhao with a pleading look: "Your Majesty, do you really want to remove the roots of your descendants?"

"Xu Jing, do you mind? You can't have both fish and bear's paws. You should know that following me will naturally have a prosperous career, but you also have to sacrifice, otherwise there will be no such good things in the world. You can consider it again. If I don't force you, if you don't want to, at least I can choose other people who are willing to be my attendant director," Zhu Houzhao said with a smile.

Of course, Xu Jing minded whether he had descendants or not. As a rich child, he had tasted the beauty of women since he had a second sexual characteristic, and even raised several beautiful concubines. But when he thought that he had tasted women anyway, he had never tasted the taste of power, he still gritted his teeth: "Your Majesty, don't think about it, I am willing!"

Liu Jin, Zhang Yong and other eunuchs all looked at each other and laughed.

"He is a person who wants to do big things! He has courage!"

Zhu Houzhao naturally couldn't help but cough with a smile, and then said, "Actually, you don't have to be castrated. In ancient times, there was a Shaofu specializing in the imperial treasury. Moreover, it was not that the Shaofu had to be a eunuch, and he was one of the nine ministers. If you were not willing, you could do it, but you had to pay a free castration fee, otherwise it would be unreasonable, and it would make Liu Jin and others feel that God was unfair, otherwise why are they eunuchs, you are not, right?"

The eunuchs such as Liu Jin secretly admired their emperor. They didn't expect that Zhu Houzhao could think of ways to make money. Even Gu Dayong encouraged him: "What the emperor said is that we had to get rid of our descendants and become eunuchs because we were poor. Now, since you, Mr. Xu, can naturally pay the money without paying."

Xu Jing also understood that His Majesty, the emperor, had to make money from him in a different way, but he had to agree. He was willing to pay as much money as he could not castrate his descendants and become an official. For him, the money problem was not a problem.

So Xu Jing hurriedly asked with a sad face: "I dare to ask Your Majesty how much money you need to pay."

"Liu Jin, Zhang Yong, you eight tigers talk about how much money you have to pay. You know better than me about the importance of that thing. After all, you have lost it." Zhu Houzhao actually wanted Liu Jin and others to call for a high price. After all, they were jealous of normal people having complete parts, so they would definitely call for a high price for Xu Jing's free eagle.

Liu Jin thought about it carefully and looked at the other seven tigers and looked at each other: "Ten thousand taels! Mr. Xu is in his thirties now, and he plans to live 60. He has more than twenty years left. He only needs to spend 20 years on a woman's belly every year, 10 thousand taels is enough!"

"Then it's ten thousand taels, Xu Jing, may you accept it?"

After Zhu Houzhao said this, he asked Xu Jing if he was willing to pay so much money.

Without thinking, Xu Jing hurriedly took out the silver notes: "I am willing! Ten thousand taels of silver notes, I will offer you this, hehe!"

Zhu Houzhao took the silver notes and looked at Liu Jin and others meaningfully. He felt that Liu Jin and others had shouted that the price was lowered.

Liu Jin also regretted it a little. In his opinion, 10,000 taels were indeed very high, but it seemed that this was nothing to Xu Jing.

Zhu Houzhao felt a little angry when she saw Xu Jing getting a bargain, so she said, "I heard that your righteous brother Tang Bohu is very popular with women, right? I guess it is because the thing has a good function. Since that's the case, he will double it and charge 20,000 taels. Your younger brother will pay for both yourself and your righteous brother Tang Bohu's free eunuch."

Xu Jing has always been generous, and now his own emperor asked him to help Tang Bohu pay the eunuch fee for free, of course he dared not to obey. But what made Xu Jing disagreed was that why Tang Bohu's eunuch fee was 10,000 taels more, so he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, my righteous brother is only half a quarter of an hour more than the empress!"

Zhu Houzhao was not interested in knowing which Xu Jing or Tang Bohu was more lasting. He was interested in how much money he could make, so he didn't talk to Xu Jing anymore. He only asked Liu Jin and Zhang Yong to take Xu Jing to invest, while he took Qiu Ju to continue to work on pharmaceutical projects about nitroglycerin at the Royal Industrial Experimental Base.

The reason why Zhu Houzhao is obsessed with nitroglycerin's pharmaceutical engineering is not only because he wants to make money by creating a magical medicine for treating heart disease, but more importantly, he wants to master the control methods of trinitroglycerin to prepare for the production of trinitroglycerin.

Of course, the actual operation was still Qiu Ju. Qiu Ju didn't dare to let his emperor come into contact with this thing. He even found a little Nei Guan to take action. But in fact, there is no danger in trinitroglycerin now, because Zhu Houzhao only asked Qiu Ju to use one drop and dilute it several times with distilled water.

The important thing in making nitroglycerides is not the pre-reaction but the late-stage crystallization technology and product purity. After all, this is something that needs to be eaten into the stomach, and several phases of clinical trials are required.
Chapter completed!