First Prince of Ming Dynasty

Zhu Biao said with a smile: The household department is empty-handed, so isn't the royal father's money the same?

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up. He heard that this meant not only tens of thousands of taels, but he knew that his son had slapped those corrupt officials for a fortune, but thinking about it, he could get five hundred thousand taels. Quan Xu took away 100,000 taels, kept 200,000 taels in the disaster area, and returned 200,000 taels to the household department. There should not be much left.

Zhu Biao sighed: Shaanxi and Gansu are full of disasters, the local people are poor, and the officials who have just taken office are not well-educated, but the rich and wealthy businessmen who have lived there for a long time are very fat. It is estimated that they did this a lot in the Yuan Dynasty. Even if you don’t count calligraphy, paintings, jewelry, rare land deeds, etc., this trip has collected more than 700,000 taels.”

Old Comrade Zhu was born in poverty, needless to mention before, even after the founding of the country, his internal income was only more than a hundred thousand taels at most, and he immediately subsidized the court.

Although the imperial court received a large sum of money every year, it still couldn't make ends meet, and the people all over the world were still waiting to be fed. As a father, Lao Zhu naturally couldn't draw money from it to pay for his family, so he could only rely on the subsidy from the Huangzhuang Huangtian.

It is also fortunate that Empress Ma is thrifty in managing the family, and the concubines below do not dare to surpass the empress, so the palace expenses are barely enough, but they are barely enough. Don't even think about building a palace by yourself. The budget doesn't make it through either.

Old Zhu muttered to himself: We knew that those wealthy households were rich, but we still underestimated it. This is only in the provinces of Shaanxi, Gansu, and Hanzhong and Xi'an. It seems that we are going to live a happy life this year. Fat years.

Zhu Biao nodded and said with a smile: At least there can be more than 200,000 taels, but it's not as good as the large-scale house raids in Shaanxi and Gansu. There must be omissions.

The roots of the local big families are entangled. Unless they are like Zhu Biao, the local snakes will have a wide range of connections. It is not difficult to cover up and take in the property of some criminals and clansmen. This is also the tacit understanding of the big families and will not face the court directly. , but will do some tricks and hide from each other.

Zhu Yuanzhang naturally understood: That's enough. It's rare for a teacher to be well-known. Those idiots in the court are not easy to intercede. When the time comes, let Mao Xiang go in person.

Zhu Biao nodded. Because the involvement was too wide, Zhu Biao, the officials outside Shaanxi and Gansu, did not move too much. He just took down the most obvious officials, and the people they involved were not investigated. That's the most important thing.

However, all the evidence has been transported to the capital along with those prisoners, and it cannot be said that all of them are involved. Except for the officials, those local big households and family members involved in the case were transported to various places in the south of the Yangtze River, and tortured in various cities. For whom to read, then the benevolent see the benevolent and the wise see wisdom.

Zhu Biao pondered for a moment and said, Mao Xiang is in a bit of a mess, and Father is still going to let him go in person?

Zhu Yuanzhang's face was full of smiles, but the tiger's eyes showed a bit of coldness: It's okay, the more disturbed he is, the less he dares to make mistakes, not to mention his next family has not yet been negotiated.

As soon as Zhu Biao heard it, he knew it in his heart. Hu Weiyong didn't dare to accept Mao Xiang's surrender easily. The ghost knows if it was the emperor's temptation to him, not to mention Mao Xiang's notoriety. repel him.

But don't worry, Hu Weiyong's ambition and fear will increase day by day with the decentralization of power. At that time, he will naturally not let go of all the forces that can be drawn in. After all, Mao Xiang is in control of the existence of the emperor's pro-army Duwei Mansion.

What's more, in a certain way, Hu Weiyong and Mao Xiang are very similar. Both of them are valued by Zhu Yuanzhang and entrusted with important tasks, but both of them know that according to the heart of the Holy One, the possibility of them dying well is very small, and the ants are still alive , not to mention these two smart people.

The father and son did not discuss this point further, after all, the time has not come yet, the court cannot do without Hu Weiyong, the prime minister, let alone the Huaixi nobles guarding various places.

Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking about how to spend the money, when he heard his son suddenly say: Father and emperor will not need this money for the time being, but my son will be of great use.

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned. It wasn't that he was reluctant to part with the silver. After all, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver was the same thing for the old Zhu who was sitting in the mountains and rivers. He was just wondering what his son was going to do?

Zhu Biao explained: Leaving aside the poor places in Shaanxi, Gansu, Yanyun and other places, people's livelihood in other places in Ming Dynasty has recovered, and Jiangnan and Shanxi are quite rich. With the recovery of Bashu, the time is right. Naturally, my ministers want to earn more money. .”

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, while Zhu Biao leaned back on the chair and said, You have to find something to do, otherwise it's not too deliberate, besides, Erchen really has plans.

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang took out a small jade ruyi from his sleeve, scratched his back and said, As long as you have an idea in mind, then do it. By the way, those who should enter the East Palace can't be delayed. Take it in a few days.

Zhu Biao heard the words and said: It's only a few months before Luohua's production, so let's wait until next year.

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said, Biao'er, don't you see a lot of things that you can't usually see at this time? You are back, are you afraid that you won't be able to see it?

Of course, Zhu Biao is not afraid of anything else, but just feels that he has been wronged by the princess, but if Chang Luohua really wants to be the mother of the world, then how will such grievances be less in the future?

Zhu Biao got up and said: The specific son will write a memorial to the emperor in the next two days. Now I guess the mother and queen are waiting anxiously. The son will go to visit the mother first.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the stack of memorials on the desk and said: Go, dinner will be served at Kunning Palace, call Luo Hua, and let's have a meal together as a family.

Zhu Biao retired as promised and went straight to Kunning Palace. To be honest, he didn't miss Comrade Zhu too much. Maybe because he was a man, his feelings were more restrained and he would not be touched easily.

But he really missed his mother, especially after hearing that Empress Ma was in poor health a few days ago, he was even more anxious. Perhaps it was because he subconsciously knew how good his father was, and his mother was far worse than him according to history. Go even earlier.

However, no matter how anxious Zhu Biao was, he couldn't go straight into the harem. Liu Jin led the people to clear the way at the front, and if there were concubines walking around, he had to ask them to stay out of the way to avoid collisions.

Fortunately, the concubines also knew the news of the crown prince's return to Beijing, and knew that the crown prince would definitely visit the queen when he returned to the palace, so they didn't make fun of themselves, and stayed honestly in their own palace.

After entering the harem, Zhu Biao had dozens of court ladies and eunuchs following him, and the whole group was mighty.

The rest of the princes also received the same treatment when they entered the harem, and it was not time to slap their buttocks and rush in to find their mother and concubine for dinner.

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