lied to Kangxi

Chapter 209 All Succeeded
Coming out of the Compassionate Palace, Kangxi on the shoulder was in a very good mood, and he smiled and told Yuzhu: "Have dinner with Mama, how about it?"

Well, the old emperor has asked this question, what can Yu Zhu say?

"Whoo."

When it was hot, the old emperor liked to eat in the fasting palace on the east side of Qianqing Palace.

After arriving at the fasting palace, the old emperor ordered him to prepare a small table for Yu Zhu, which was on the left side of the emperor.

On both sides of the fasting palace, several long tables were placed, and the tables were filled with imperial meals.

As usual, the regular meals of the emperor and empress dowager consisted of 108 dishes.

Of course, it is impossible to eat so many dishes, but the problem is that the Tian family's cards must be served.

The last time it was cold, the dishes were completely cold when they were served, so Yu Zhu was naturally not full.

This time, the old emperor took extra care of Yu Zhu and ordered people to add a few fried seasonal vegetables to Yu Zhu's small table from time to time.

To be honest, the cooking skills of the royal chef in the palace are still very good.

It's just that there are too many greasy fish and meat, which is not conducive to the health of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular.

After the meal, the old emperor took Yuzhu to drink tea in the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Yuzhu drank a few sips of tea and waited for the old emperor to speak.

The longer he spends with the old emperor, the more Yuzhu understands that the old emperor's thoughts are extremely deep, and he belongs to the master who takes every step and counts ten steps.

Today, the emperor took Yu Zhu to see the empress dowager again, to enjoy a meal, and to invite him to drink tea, obviously for another purpose.

"Liang Jiugong, take the booklet from Guangdong Customs and read it to Yuzhu."

The old emperor also understood Yuzhu's temperament very well, even in private, it was impossible for Yuzhu to read memorials that had not been reviewed.

This child knows the rules very well and knows how to measure. He is not a domineering person who is arrogant and arrogant!
After listening to the memorial issued by the Guangdong Customs, Yuzhu understood it in seconds without Kangxi saying a word.

Hehe, the emperor dislikes that Guangdong Customs makes too little money!
The huge Guangdong Customs only collects 10,000+ taels of silver a year, and those moths are really crazy and greedy!
In today's Qing Dynasty, there are four customs in total, namely Jiang Customs, Guangdong Customs, Fujian Customs and Zhejiang Customs.

Fujian Customs is under the administration of Fuzhou General, while Jiangxi Customs and Zhejiang Customs are under the jurisdiction of the governor of the province.

The most special thing is the Guangdong Customs!
In fact, the Guangdong Customs Supervisor, like the Chongwenmen Supervisor, is the emperor's confidant who receives money from the imperial envoy.

Nominally, Guangdong Customs is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Household Affairs.In fact, he was also an official of the Emperor Jian's Ministry of Internal Affairs, who was stationed in Guangzhou to collect foreign taxes.

Because the imperial court valued scholars over merchants, the Guangdong Customs did not directly deal with foreign merchants, but indirectly collected foreign taxes through the Thirteen Banks in Guangzhou.

In the year of Nalan Xingde's death, that is, the 24th year of Kangxi, Guangzhou Shisanxing was officially born.

Guangzhou Shisanhang, commonly known as Tianzi Nanku, is a foreign goods company with franchised import and export trade rights, and a foreign trade monopoly organization with the nature of half official and half business.

In the Qing Dynasty, the three major merchant groups, the Lianghuai salt merchants, the merchants of the Thirteen Banks in Guangzhou, and the Shanshan merchants, were the wealthiest group of merchants.

In a word, like the nature of the supervision of Chongwenmen, Guangdong Customs is the royal tax customs for the emperor to make money.

The old emperor also understood that ransacking homes to make money is actually a category of killing chickens and taking eggs, and it cannot last long.

But the problem is that after Yuzhu took advantage of monopolizing the city gate and opened the rice store and the vegetable store, the Chongwenmen supervisory yamen can collect more than 8000 taels of living money every day.

This is incredible!

There are more than 8000 taels a day, and nearly 300 million taels a year!

What is this concept?
Cough, the Ministry of Internal Affairs' expenditure for the whole year last year, including the money for garden repairs, was only about 200 million taels.

Hey, the old emperor set the trap early, gave enough benefits in advance, and rewarded him with dignity.

If Yuzhu dared to pretend to be stupid now, he would definitely be in bad luck.

"Old man, if I were to be the supervisor of the Guangdong Customs, it would still be the old rules, and I would have the full power to call the shots."

Yuzhu has been haggling with the emperor since he became the supervisor of Chongwenmen, and subtly made the emperor adapt to his errand regulations
I will earn money for you, but the monopoly power must be given to me.Otherwise, I really can't do it!

"Okay, 200 million taels of silver every year, one tael is not less. If you can do it, I will depend on you." Kangxi is also used to the lion opening his mouth to ask for money from Yuzhu.

To be honest, Kangxi is very shrewd.Even the supervising yamen of Chongwenmen can make so much money, let alone doing monopoly business with foreign businessmen?

Yuzhu shook his head, and said seriously: "If you can't control the smuggling at sea, and want to collect so much money, you will definitely not be able to do it."

Kangxi's eyes flickered slightly, and when Yuzhu mentioned the word smuggling, he thought of the Guangdong Navy that had been abolished.

At present, the established Guangdong Navy no longer exists.

However, on Shanghengdang Island, an important place in Humen, there is still a naval battalion that investigates smuggling.The military commander in charge of the navy battalion is a green battalion general under the control of the admiral of Guangdong.

Before the first Opium War, two forts, Hengbantai and Yongantai, were built on Shanghengban Island.

It's a pity that when the British army attacked, the officers and soldiers of the Qing army on the two forts fled watching the wind and collapsed without fighting.Guan Tianpei, the national hero who was the admiral of the Guangdong Navy at the time, sacrificed his life for the country and made a heroic sacrifice.

Today, it is just a Humen navy battalion with more than 200 people and only [-] wooden boats. Compared with collecting an extra [-] million taels of silver a year into the internal treasury, what is Kangxi reluctant to part with?
If Yu Zhu was a Hanchen in the south, Kangxi would have to hesitate for a while.

The problem is, Yuzhu is a serious Manchurian nobleman under Xianghuang's banner, and he is a member of the Qing Dynasty, so why worry about it?

The garrison generals all over the country, with the Eight Banners soldiers, monitored Hanchen nearby, which had long been ordered by the imperial court.

"It's up to you. After you preside over the township examination, you will also serve as the supervisor of the Guangdong Customs. At that time, the Humen Navy Battalion will also be under your control." Kangxi happily agreed to Yuzhu's bargain.

"Wei Zhu, go and get my decree." Following Kangxi's order, Wei Zhu brought the secret decree that had been drawn up long ago.

Yuzhu opened the secret decree and saw that he couldn't help being shocked, and cold sweat broke out all over his body.

Obviously, Kangxi had expected long ago that Yu Zhu would want the military power of the Humen Naval Battalion.Therefore, in the secret decree that had been drawn up long ago, Yuzhu had been given the power to control the Humen Navy camp.

The old emperor is definitely not an ordinary person, his thoughts are unfathomable!

Companion to the king is like companion to the tiger, sincerity does not deceive me!
From Obai to Suo'etu, they all suffered a great loss of belittling Kangxi.As a result, one was imprisoned to death, the other was starved to death, and both suffered retribution.

Yuzhu suppressed the shock in his heart, and exclaimed deliberately: "Old man, you know everything in my heart like the back of your hand."

"Little monkey, how many bowls of dry rice can you eat, you Mama me, you know all about it."

Yuzhu's flattery was so perfect that Kangxi couldn't help but stroking his beard and chuckling.

Wei Zhu, who was at the side, had another thought in his heart.

Except for the Crown Prince Yinfeng, Lord Long Live treated Yuzhu much closer than the rest of the princes.

Today's old emperor is really inseparable from Liang Jiugong and Wei Zhu.

However, Wei Zhu can neither help the Long Live Lord make money, nor can he play chess with the Long Live Lord.

More importantly, Yuzhu can help Lord Long Live to restrain the growing ambition and power of Lao Ba and the prince.

Wei Zhu couldn't handle any of these things.He could only watch helplessly as Yu Zhu gradually rose up in front of Long Live God.

"Grandpa, I'm thinking, if I want to earn 200 million taels of silver every year, I still need to buy a large ship in the West, and form a caravan to do business in the West." Yu Zhu deliberately tried to discuss with Kangxi, and he didn't even dare to mention shipbuilding.

However, Kangxi waved his hands and said with a smile: "The supply of cotton, linen, silk, tea and porcelain in my celestial dynasty is in short supply in the West. Why send someone to do business in the West?"

Yuzhu knew it well, this is a typical British conservative trade thinking.

The decline of Britain is due to the great contribution of Churchill, the prodigal son.More importantly, the closed and monopolized colonial market has led to a long-term stagnation in the level of production technology.

Because the big businessmen in the UK have made a lot of money lying down, so where is the motivation to engage in technological innovation?
The essence of World War I was that Germany's high-quality industrial products could not enter the colonial markets controlled by Britain.

The old emperor said so, most people must dare not say anything more.

But the problem is, Yuzhu is not an ordinary person.

Yuzhu smiled and said, "To tell you the truth, old man, I also want to use your power to build a few boats and sail to the west to earn some pocket money."

"Oh, that's it." Kangxi is not the mean Yongzheng. The logic of governing the country he believes in is that when the water is clear, there will be no fish, and when people are observant, there will be no disciples.

Ordinary people do it stealthily when they make money, lest the emperor find out.

Yuzhu was different from everyone else, he was blatantly asking the old emperor for the privilege of going to sea to build ships.

In this era, the merchant ships of the Qing Dynasty were at best nearly a hundred tons.

Kangxi thought that Yuzhu built this kind of merchant ship, so he nodded in agreement.

There is no way, Kangxi is a man or not a god, and he has never seen what a real Western sailing battleship looks like.

The gaps and gaps in thinking made Kangxi fall into Yuzhu's plot invisibly.

"At most three boats, no more." Kangxi, as before, drew a circle on Yuzhu that he was not allowed to cross.

Yu Zhu knew very well in his heart that he could only eat food one bite at a time, and he must not be impatient.

In this era when patent rights are not strict, entrusting foreigners from Macau to spend a lot of money to invite British shipbuilders to help build three three-masted sailing merchant ships of several hundred tons can actually train Yuzhu's own shipbuilding team. .

The old emperor went around in a big circle, asking for more silver.

As for Yuzhu, he played a cat-and-mouse game with the old emperor. The cat was relieved, and the mouse also succeeded in a psychological game.

The old emperor in his later years just liked to arrange errands around the bush, and made a lot of foreshadowing and hints in advance, leaving Yuzhu to realize it by himself.

To put it bluntly, this is also because I have been the emperor for too long, and I am tired of the boring monarch and ministers.

In history, except for a few diligent emperors such as Zhu Chongba and Yongzheng, most of the emperors were in a state of indolence or fatigue in their later years.

The boring and fixed governance process that has been going on for decades, even with the self-control of the emperors, it is hard to bear!

Didn't Qianlong know the greed of gentlemen?

But the problem is, without Heshen, a powerful crutch who can both make money and do things, Qianlong in his later years would not be able to be lazy and enjoy the blessings.

(PS: It’s the end of the month, and the monthly ticket will not produce a small monthly ticket. Let’s reward Yuzhu who writes wonderful stories with his heart.)
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