Chapter 719 The Benefits of the Two Huaihe Rivers
Huo Xi helped pack Mu Yan's luggage, besides presents for her and her son, there was also a box.
Inside is a box of gold tickets, all of which are of large denominations.
There are as many as one or two million taels, this is still a golden ticket! Now one gold is worth ten silver. How much silver is this!
Huo Xi was terrified.
However, he was sent by the emperor to investigate the salt affairs in Yangzhou, Huai'an, but this time, he brought back so many golden tickets? Is this a bit harsh?
Seeing him coming out, he raised the box in his hand and asked where he came from? I am afraid that he will make a mistake.
Emperor Yongkang was jealous of evil, did he run into it by himself?
"Our family is not short of money, even Xiao Yuer, and Xiao Yuer's children and grandchildren don't have to do anything, and they don't have to worry about eating and drinking while lying down."
The husband and wife have saved a lot of money, so they really shouldn't do things that are easy to be manipulated by others.
Mu Yan stretched her long legs and sat cross-legged on the bed. She didn't rush back to her. Seeing her son beckoning to him, she sat beside her son and touched his head, "What are we Yuer playing with?"
"Playing with stacking towers." I haven't seen Daddy for many days, and Xiao Yuer sat in Daddy's arms with a smile, looking up and staring at Daddy.
"That's right, let Daddy take a look, we, Yu'er, have built several floors."
"Three floors have been built," he gestured with three fingers.
"So amazing."
Yeah, Yu'er is so good that he didn't even fall. "Father rides together."
"Okay, Daddy will ride with Yuer."
Seeing that he only cared about playing with his son and didn't return to himself, Huo Xi looked at the box of gold tickets, feeling overwhelmed, and pinched his thigh hard in anger. He didn't cry, but Huo Xi felt pain up.
This man's thighs are so tight that he can't twist them.
Mu Yan glanced at her and said with a smile, "Aren't you stupid? You don't pick the soft meat, pick there." Are you stupid?
"Where is it soft?"
Mu Yan rolled his eyes down, Huo Xi followed his gaze, and punched him again in anger, rascal, pervert. Are you on a business trip and are holding back?
"My mother is playing." Xiao Yuer didn't understand his parents' eyebrows and eyes, so he called his mother to play together.
Huo Xi smiled at his son, "Xiao Yuer is playing with Daddy, Mom will see who can make it fast and secure."
"Yu'er is fast and steady!"
"Okay, Yuer is the best."
As soon as Xiao Yuer heard his mother praise him, he sank into it immediately. His serious appearance was exactly like his father's.
While playing with his son, Mu Yan replied to Huo Xi, "Don't touch the golden ticket in that box, it doesn't belong to our family. I will enter the palace and present it to the emperor tomorrow."
"To the emperor?"
Huo Xi was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it, "Is it dedicated to the emperor by the salt merchants in Huai'an and Yangzhou?"
Mu Yan nodded, "Otherwise, do you really think that your husband, a fourth-rank Jinyiwei, can collect so many golden tickets on a business trip?"
It is true that Jin Yiwei is the fourth grade, but who let him still have the status of the prince of the Duke's Mansion?
And guarding the hall for the emperor for several years, in the eyes of other officials, he is the proper ears and eyes of the emperor.
Otherwise, who is not the Jinyiwei faction? Send him a fourth grader to investigate the salt administration?
He still has a commander above him, the commander is a senior official. Moreover, he is not the only one who is on the same level as him, and there are two pacifiers who are half a level behind him, and they are also the confidantes of Emperor Yongkang.
He just had an advantage in status.
The son of the Duke's Mansion, don't need to think about climbing up, don't need to form a party to seek camps, just wait for a few years, and you will be a super-rank Duke if you become a prince. If you try again, can you still be a king with a different surname?
In this David dynasty so far, there is no living king with a different surname.
There are not many people who pursue the title of king after death.
Mu Yan's grandfather, the former Xining Marquis Muying, was the first adopted son of the Taizu, and was favored and trusted by the Taizu and Empress Xiaoci Gao. It was only after his death that he was posthumously named the King of Qianning.
Since he is related to the royal family, and he is the son of the prince, the emperor uses him easily.
He has a natural status advantage.
Don't worry about him forming a party for personal gain, committing crimes, unless he doesn't want to be a prince or a prince. Anyone with a bit of intelligence would not do things that destroy their reputation and identity.
So it was Mu Yan who did the dirty work for the emperor these years.
Jin Yiwei's reputation is really not good.
The people are afraid, and the officials are even more displeased. Hearing that Jin Yiwei frowned.
After all, as long as the emperor wants to inquire about anything, Jin Yiwei can do it all by himself. If he can report the content of the couple's evening conversation to the emperor verbatim, will all the officials not be afraid of hatred?
But Mu Yan has his own plans.
Jin Yiwei, as the emperor's confidant, works for the emperor, and as a disciple of the emperor, his promotion is faster than others. Although Mu Yan didn't have to think about promotion, he also realized the benefits of having real power in his hands.
His road to becoming a prince in the future will not be smooth, and Xier's business is getting bigger and bigger, so he has to have real power in his hands in order to protect her and prevent others from coveting her.
His wife and children shall be protected by him. Don't try to deceive anyone.
Hawk and dog minions, so what if they are clean and shameless? The whole world is the land of kings, and within the four seas, there are no kings or ministers. The dynasty of the Zhu surname will not fall, and the only one who is loyal to his orders is the current sage.
Win the emperor's trust, so that the whole family can be kept safe, and the wife and children can live in peace forever.
How others see him and treat him is not in his eyes or in his heart.
"Is this what the salt merchants of the two places entrusted you to hand over to the emperor?" Huo Xi asked.
Mu Yan nodded, "Sacrificing small fortunes can save big fortunes."
Nowadays, the three major policies in the south of the Yangtze River, the water policy, the salt policy, and the river policy, are all the top priorities of the emperor.
"The salt used by the people in the seven provinces in the south of the Yangtze River today comes from the Huaihe River and the Huaihe River. Salt merchants gather in Huai'an and Yangzhou. The salt merchants have made huge profits year after year, and rich merchants gather here."
Huo Xi nodded. Nowadays, the salt production technology is backward, and the transportation is inconvenient. People can eat less and wear less, but I have never heard of people who can not eat salt. At most, they eat less.
But every household cannot live without salt.
Salt merchants have made great profits, and Lianghuai is the most prosperous, and the wealth can rival the country.
Over the past dynasties, "the country's profit from boiling the sea is divided into three, Huaidong is the second, and the salt profits of the roads of Shu, Guangzhe and Zhejiang are less than half of the amount of Huai salt."
In the former Wu Dynasty, "National funds accounted for eighty-tenths of the salt profit, while Lianghuai alone accounted for half of the world." In this dynasty, although the national tax revenue and salt tax did not account for 70% to 80% like the previous dynasty, they still accounted for half.
Among the salt taxes, the Lianghuai salt tax ranks first, accounting for 60% of the national salt tax revenue.
The national treasury's annual income is only about 30 million taels, while the annual income of salt merchants is nearly 20 million taels! A merchant's private treasury is comparable to the national treasury.
Is it a bragging about being so rich?
Emperor Yongkang could not think about it?
Especially at the critical juncture of moving the capital and overhauling the Forbidden City in Beijing, the old man of Hubu Shangshu would go to the emperor's imperial study from time to time to call him poor. Can Emperor Yongkang not think about it?
"Hey, give me so much!"
Huo Xi counted the golden tickets in the box, feeling emotional. Are the salt merchants afraid that Emperor Yongkang will steal their homes? Give the emperor some sweets?
"It doesn't matter who, your husband and I are able to have so many talents, others may not have these." The proud expression is exactly the same as Xiao Yu'er.
Huo Xi turned to look at him, when did this guy become so cheeky?
"What did you do?" That's why people stuffed so many golden tickets. Was it coercion, or did you send someone to break into the salt merchant's warehouse?
(end of this chapter)