When Xu Jing saw that the chief assistant Liu Jian refused to invest in the Royal Taxation Administration, he had to say goodbye. After all, although he is now a close minister of the emperor, he does not force the chief assistant to do anything.

When the chief assistant Liu Jian saw Xu Jing saying goodbye, he didn't give him a message, so he just smiled coldly: "My money cannot be spent in vain by you Zhu Houzhao!"

Xu Jing found Ma Wensheng, the Minister of Personnel, and explained his purpose to Ma Wensheng.

Ma Wensheng also sighed and said, "It's not easy for Your Majesty. I understand. But I have not saved much money for so many years as an official. It's only 5,000 taels. You can take it, and you don't have to say anything about investment. Although I don't know what investment is, since Your Majesty needs it, just use it directly. Don't think about what money is. Your Majesty should spend your thoughts on the government."

Xu Jing thanked him and left Ma Wensheng, and found Xu Jin, the Minister of War.

Xu Jinze directly took 30,000 taels to Xu Jing. After Xu Jing left, Xu Jin's chief steward couldn't help asking: "Master, give the emperor 30,000 taels of silver. Although the money is still yours, why do I think it means going without returning? What else can I invest? I think I want to use your money to do business. What if I lose money?"

"If you lose, you will lose. As long as your Majesty stops selling on the street, I will give him another 10,000 yuan!" Xu Jin said helplessly.

Xu Jing found Jiao Fang, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and Jiao Fang also gave him 10,000 taels directly, thinking to himself: "This silver must be gone but never returned. Your Majesty is not a business man. Even the emperor cannot be good at doing business, let alone doing business. However, Your Majesty loses this ten thousand yuan, so he will owe him a favor and he will be promoted in the future."

Xu Jing has successively found many nobles and officials, and they are willing to give and are reluctant to give. They either maintain a skeptical attitude, but can only say that he is honest and has no money to give to the Royal Taxation Administration, or they are really unwilling to make a bad reputation for being unclear. Most of the people who are willing to give are afraid that His Majesty the Emperor will be embarrassed by the court because he has no money to sell on the street. He does not really think that the emperor can make money.

It is worth mentioning that Xu Jing later found Wang Hua, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue.

When Wang Hua saw Xu Jing ask him if he was willing to invest in the Royal Taxation Administration for silver, he understood what Xu Jing meant for a long time and asked in a little hesitantly: "Isn't the treasury under Your Majesty's direct control? Why do you have to ask all officials to raise funds?"

"Master, why bother ask again? Assistant Xu, I have understood what you mean. This fundraising is not a stock raising, but His Majesty wants to give us a wealth. Right, it means that whoever pays more money will get more at that time, I will give it to you!"

Before Xu Jing could answer Wang Hua's words, Wang Yangming started asking his family to take out his wife's 30,000 taels of cash in Beijing before he could answer Wang Hua's words:

"Sir Xu, this is all the money I can take out now. This is mentioned in the economics lecture notes of Your Majesty's Outline of Governance. I am very optimistic. If possible, I want to continue to add more money."

Because Wang Hua was not used to mundane affairs, Wang Yangming was in Beijing just in his own home, so he could naturally take out the money to Xu Jing directly.

But Wang Hua was shocked when he saw this. If Xu Jing and others had not been present, he would have beaten Wang Yangming, but at this moment he could only pat the back of the chair: "You prodigal son, this is all the savings in the family. You gave it to the servant Xu, what should we eat!"

"Master! Believe me, this is definitely a good thing. Besides, you don't want His Majesty to go to the streets to sell royal treasures again. In that case, you, the newly appointed Minister of Revenue, will have to resign, so what if the 30,000 taels are spent by His Majesty?"

Wang Yangming said.

Wang Hua thought about it this way, so he had to wave his hand and said, "Well!" At the same time, he sighed in his heart: "One loses one family, the other defeats the country, and the prosperity of our Ming Dynasty is really about to end!"

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"The prosperity of our Ming Dynasty has just begun. In the future, the empire will be under our control, and the empire in our hands will also rule the entire universe! The Royal Taxation Administration does not allow me to gain enough wealth to enjoy, but allows me to have more wealth to feed back to the people and build a strong army, so that the empire will have no boundary troubles and no internal worries. The people do not know that they are hungry and will become richer and richer, including you and myself."

Zhu Houzhao was talking to the "Eight Tigers" and Xu Jing about the political significance of his Royal Taxation Administration. For the "Eight Tigers" and Xu Jing, it is naturally better to make the Ming Dynasty stronger while making money by themselves. After all, only if the Ming Dynasty is prosperous and peaceful, can they enjoy wealth and glory. Therefore, they do not reject the political vision expressed by Zhu Houzhao and agree with it.

"Xu Jing, how much money has he raised from all officials now?" Zhu Houzhao asked Xu Jing at this time.

Xu Jing hurriedly took out the account book: "Report to Your Majesty, there are 236,200 taels in total." After saying that, Xu Jing smiled embarrassedly.

He was very afraid that Emperor Zhu Houzhao would be angry because of this, because there were so many officials in the capital, and he had only collected more than 230,000 taels. Even if he first entered the officialdom, he knew that it was a little less. After all, as far as he knew, the officials in the capital collected no less than this number of Bing Jing Tang Jing every year.

However, Zhu Houzhao was not angry and just smiled secretly, thinking that it was better than Chongzhen. I don’t know if it was the ministers in the late Ming Dynasty who were poorer or the ministers in the 18th year of Hongzhi who had more feelings for themselves as emperors.

"It seems that my ministers are still very honest."

On the surface, Zhu Houzhao still found a step for the officials, and as he said that, Xu Jing and the "Eight Tigers" began to participate in the investment. As for how much they were willing to invest, it depends on their voluntary policy. It is worth mentioning that Xu Jing directly invested 100,000 taels of money! This shocked Zhu Houzhao and the "Eight Tigers".

"Xu Jing, you have spent a lot of money all the time, why are you still so rich?" Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but ask.

"I dare not hide it from Your Majesty. I have nothing else in my family, but I have a lot of money, but this is just a second-rate family in Jiangnan." After Xu Jing said this, Liu Jin and Bahu showed an incredible expression, and Zhu Houzhao also asked:

"I believe you have money. I heard that you and your righteous brother Tang Bohu went to Beijing to take the exam. He had a secret meeting with the beauty and even went to Beijing to get a relationship. But if you, Xu Jing, are considered a second-rate family, then I am really a pauper."

"I am not deceiving Your Majesty. Most of the wealth in the world belongs to Jiangnan. A real wealth in Jiangnan can be taken out by millions of people. I am just some of the savings accumulated by our ancestors," Xu Jing said with a smile.
Chapter completed!