Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 1555 Grace of His Majesty

   Chen Tong's words, although some people don't like them, at least they agree.

After all, the food tax is limited, and the income of the treasury, the proportion of business and industry is increasing. In recent years, the revenue of the treasury has been increasing day by day, but the spending is still fast. One million taels, now with an annual income of 30 million taels, still spend three million taels.

  It is difficult to go from luxury to frugality, but easy to go from frugality to luxury. If the industry and commerce are gone, what will the court do?

Chen Tong sighed here, and then said again: "Business and business has already been related to the country's foundation. His Highness the Crown Prince is the heir apparent, and the Duke of Qi has retired from the state. This is of great importance. This is why His Royal Highness and the Duke of Qi wanted to establish a Xingguo firm. .It’s just... how to ensure the risks caused by the business, how to control the merchants and workshops? Your Highness and Qi Guogong are wise, they thought of a way, that is, the Xingguo firm."

  The monarchs and ministers naturally have different thoughts, but at this time they did not say a word and continued to listen.

  Chen Tong continued to talk eloquently: "Using this Xingguo firm to become the largest middleman, using orders can restrain workshops, ensure that they cannot shoddy, and ensure that they have stable income.

  After controlling the workshop, turn around and use the source of hand-wounded goods to control the merchants, and then use the merchants to open up channels.

The ultimate goal is that all merchants and workshops are under the control of Xingguo Company. Merchants must abide by the standards set by Xingguo Company before they can easily earn money. Xingguo Company encourages merchants to continuously expand channels , to revitalize industry and commerce, in this way, not only Xingguo companies can take advantage of this to make profits, but for the imperial court, industry and commerce can be orderly without causing any chaos. Isn't that allegiance to the palace? In the long run, Xingguo Company takes the department store as the benchmark and encourages all channel merchants to open up the world's market. This will also be of great help to business and industry. In the future, the revenue of the imperial court will also rise accordingly. Your Majesty... this is for the imperial court, It is beneficial and harmless. "

"What His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has done is truly admirable to me, and Duke Qi's good plan is beyond my reach. I am very dull. I have followed His Highness the Crown Prince and Duke Qi for several months, but I can barely figure out what's going on in their minds, but even this A little bit of thinking can also benefit the minister, so he dare not slack off, these days, following His Highness and Qi Guogong, the minister is really stupid, and if he has the opportunity to work, he will be satisfied."

   Say it, kowtow.

  The temple was very quiet.

  The person who spoke was the Minister of the Household Department before.

  This person, you can call him bad, but you can’t say he’s stupid. A person who can be the minister of household department can never be stupid.

   Chen Tong's words are actually quite to the appetite of many people. He first presupposes that merchants are greedy, so good and bad are mixed, which brings many hidden dangers. Isn’t this what Confucianism advocates?

  The essence of suppressing businessmen is to suppress their greed.

  On the basis of this argument, he just talked about the importance of industry and commerce to the country, even to the imperial court, and to the national treasury.

   I'm afraid that none of the civil and military officials will stand up and refute him at this time.

  The reason is very simple...Who dares to come out to refute, the revenue of the national treasury has dropped sharply, who is to blame for this?

  In the end, he expressed the thoughts of the crown prince and the Duke of Qi, and how the Xingguo firm controls good and bad merchants, and how it promotes the development of business, so as to achieve the goal of stabilizing the country and increasing the annual income.

These words not only satisfied the psychology of all the officials, but at the same time put gold on the faces of the prince and Fang Jifan, turning this profitable business into a major event that is beneficial to the country and society, and it is urgent, and it is not as simple as selfishness. , but related to the overall situation of the world.

  Emperor Hongzhi felt comfortable after hearing this.

  He nodded repeatedly, feeling quite reasonable, so he gradually recovered from the embarrassment just now, and looked at Chen Tong with a smile.

  I had a really bad impression of Chen Tong before, but now... I discovered that Chen Tong, although he was a hindsight, was still a talented person. After a few months of hard work, he took on a whole new look, and he could be called a talent.

  Emperor Hongzhi stared at Chen Tong, and suddenly became interested in him: "I heard that Qing's family is quite capable now, and even this department store was created from scratch, and it was all done by Qing's family, regardless of the details?"

  Chen Tong said: "The minister is just following orders, picking up the wisdom of others."

Emperor Hongzhi nodded, very satisfied. Now he has some awe of being able to run a workshop or a large shop, so he nodded and said: "There are countless chores involved here, can you In this way, I am quite gratified that the Qing family still has talent."

  Among the civil and military officials, Chen Tong is now considered an outlier. What he can do well, others can't do well, this is his ability.

  Emperor Hongzhi pondered for a while, and then said: "Qing is originally the servant of the household department. I want to reinstate the official, how about it?"

  Chen Tong's heart skipped a beat, um, a little surprised...

  Happiness comes too fast!

   Almost lost his head just now, turned his head, unexpectedly... want the official to return to his post?

  He suppressed the excitement in his heart. He wanted to go back to the Ministry of Households all the time. After all, as the Minister of the Ministry of Households, he was so respectable, and how many people flattered him.

  He hurriedly kowtowed: "Your Majesty's grace, I... I really die, and it's hard to report the event, just... just..."

But he suddenly said: "It's just... now that this Xingguo firm is in its infancy, there are a lot of things waiting to be done. Although the minister is not talented, now he has learned some management methods with great difficulty. Although this is an unrefined skill , but the imperial court can do without a mediocre servant of the household department, but for the time being, it can't do without the minister, the minister... thank you for your kindness, but I still ask your majesty to take back the order and choose a virtuous one."

  As soon as this remark came out, it was really amazing, and all the officials were moved.

  The servant of the household department didn't work anymore, but went to be a dog's leg for Fang Jifan, a dog?

   Could it be that the servant of the household department is not as important as a mere dog leg?

  This Chen Tong... took the wrong medicine.

  But Chen Tong seemed to have made up his mind.

  In fact, what he has always dreamed of is to return to his original post. Just now he even fought with heaven and man, but he thought that Xingguo Company still had many ideas that had not been completed.

  Emperor Hongzhi's face changed, and he was no less surprised than the others. He stared at Chen Tong, but his expression was a little more respectful.

  Others are begging for an official, but this Chen Tong is so modest.

   Well, I have to say, this is a man who can do things.

  In the future...if you continue to hone your skills, you will definitely become the minister of the humerus.

Emperor Hongzhi pondered, looked at Chen Tong's eyes with a little more appreciation, and said seriously: "In that case, then the Qing family will work hard at the Xingguo Company for the time being, but...you are a person with fame after all, in the future...I will sooner or later I still need you..."

After finishing speaking, Emperor Hongzhi paused, and then said: "I order Chen Tong to be the Minister of the Nanjing Household Department. In the name of the Minister of the Household Department, he will temporarily work in the Xingguo firm to handle business affairs. When the firm gradually gets on the right track and there are successors, I will entrust myself with a heavy responsibility."

  This person... is regarded as an economic talent. Emperor Hongzhi cherishes talents, and really can't bear to let him go to Nanshan.

  Chen Tong was taken aback, but now it was his turn to be surprised.

  If he said that when he made the decision just now, he didn't have any regrets in his heart, it must be false.

  After all... This is tantamount to cutting off my official career, which I have paid a lot for.

   But he never expected that after he made such a difficult choice, His Majesty actually added an official to himself.

  Minister of the Household Department, although he is from Nanjing, this Minister of the Household Department of Nanjing is actually just a false job and does not have much authority, but with this level of status, he can still do what he likes to do... This is...

  Even... He can already imagine that after a few more years, after he has sharpened himself, maybe... His Majesty even handed over the real household department to himself...

  Thinking of how a few months ago, he was still being convicted, turned his head, but His Majesty was eclectic and honored him, perhaps because of his great joy, Chen Tong burst into tears, and kowtowed: "Mr. Thank you for your kindness."

   All the officials have complicated thoughts.

   And Liu Kaizhi was also taken aback, and suddenly...he blushed.

   Judging from His Majesty's tone, Chen Tong's future may be much greater than what he imagined, and I... considered shooting myself in the foot, not only made Chen Tong a success, but also completely offended him.

  In the future...I'm afraid...

At this time, Emperor Hongzhi waved his hand and said: "As for the crown prince and Fang Qing's family, they have indeed contributed a lot. This Xingguo firm, as Chen Qing's family said, is really beneficial to the country and the people. In the future, the crown prince and the Duke of Qi, I still need to put more thought on this, in the future..." Emperor Hongzhi stared at the prince, and said meaningfully: "In the future, if this Xingguo firm is established, I will be free from worries."

   This sentence obviously has a different meaning.

  Many people understood.

  Xingguo Company... can share the joys and sorrows of all the merchants with the prince, which is of course of great benefit to the prince's successor in the future.

  In the future, who else in this world will have a more stable position than His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?

  Zhu Houzhao said self-consciously: "My son obeys the order."

Fang Jifan took a slow shot on purpose, and after Zhu Houzhao said that he obeyed the order, he said enthusiastically: "Your Majesty has excellent knowledge and extraordinary knowledge. This kind of encouragement really makes my minister energetic. There is only one thought, and that is to never disappoint His Majesty's great trust, even if you risk your life and die ten thousand times, you must share your Majesty's worries and solve the prince's problems."

  …

  Chapter 2, and more.

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  (end of this chapter)