The Reborn Duke of Ming Dynasty

"How much did you earn?" Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Fan with a miraculous look on his face, and asked, completely different from the relaxed and sad look he had just relaxed from Zhang Juzheng's lectures in the past, and looked full of energy.

Obviously, Zhang Fan's words touched a nerve somewhere in him.

Zhang Fan looked very indifferent, or it can be said that before he came here today, he had already prepared himself to face this situation, and it was obvious that Zhu Yijun's appearance was not what Zhang Fan expected. is no different.

"Your Majesty didn't hear me wrong," Zhang Fan said with a smile on his face, looking very relaxed, "The total is 500 taels of gold, which is not a lot of money."

Hearing the affirmative answer, Zhu Yijun's eyes widened even further.

"This... this..." Zhu Yijun said hesitantly, "Isn't it only five taels of gold this time last time? Based on that price, these three thousand muskets should be worth 5000 taels of gold. Why? Now there will be an extra 500 taels."

"Your Majesty, do you still remember what I said to Your Majesty last time?" Zhang Fan said, "The three thousand muskets were divided into two batches, and they were not just sold to the same person. People are divided into two groups, one way is to meet our regular customers, and the other way is to meet our regular customers’ enemies. It just so happens that both sides are in trouble now. Although the number of guns we shipped over is not many, they are all Rushing over to ask for it, the people under Weichen just raised the price a little bit, and it went up by a tael of gold.

"Now, Weichen's people have returned, and the gold has been brought back. No, Weichen came here to send money to His Majesty,"

"Oh, where is the money?" Zhu Yijun's eyes were not only full of joy at this time, but there was also a little uneasy look in his expression, "Where is it, let me see quickly,"

As soon as Zhu Yijun said this, Zhang Fan was really dumbfounded. To be honest, Zhu Yijun loves money. Although only Zhang Fan knows about this matter now, he has never thought that Zhu Yijun loves money. It has reached such a point of insanity.

Moreover, Zhu Yijun's words are really too cheap. As an emperor, seeing is believing the money. This also gave Zhang Fan a new understanding of him. Thinking about it, relying on Zhang Fan's weight in Zhu Yijun's mind, he is still worried, which shows how much Zhu Yijun loves money.

However, Zhang Fan didn't despise him, nor did he mean to blame him. In Zhang Fan's view, the reason why Zhu Yijun behaved like this had something to do with his age. Zhu Yijun, who has not been on the throne for a year, although he was born in the royal family and has received this kind of education since he was a child, at this moment, Zhu Yijun does not have the bearing of an emperor, and he will seem worried about some trivial matters.

"Your Majesty," Zhang Fan said with a look of embarrassment on his face, "Not many people know about this matter. Back then, after His Majesty's imperial decree was issued, the Ministry of Industry produced the silver for those muskets, and His Majesty himself came from the internal treasury It was taken out by the minister, and before the minister came, he had already handed over the money to the father-in-law in the palace who was in charge of the inner treasury. He thought it was the minister who got it from where to honor His Majesty, if His Majesty insisted at this time If you go to check it, I'm afraid it's not very good, if someone notices it and guesses something from it, then it's not good, "

"This...that's true," Zhu Yijun heard what Zhang Fan said, and thought to himself, it really is the case. After all, Zhang Fan would not lie to him, and he also felt that what he did just now was a bit too much Overthinking, besides, although this matter is profitable, it is still illegal and cannot be known to outsiders. If Zhu Yijun does something strange and makes some caring people notice something, it will be very serious. It is possible for this matter to be exposed. After all, more than 1 taels, nearly 2 taels of gold suddenly appeared in the emperor's inner treasury, which is not a small sum.

At that time, if the whole story of the matter is found out, Zhang Fan must be responsible for the blame. Of course, Zhu Yijun does not want Zhang Fan to suffer any crimes because of this, but compared to Zhang Fan, he cares more about that, in that case, In the future, he will not be able to earn this amount of money. For Zhu Yijun, this will definitely make him very uncomfortable.

Of course, although Zhu Yijun loves money very much and loves to make money, he is definitely not a stingy emperor. From the day when Zhang Fan's children turned one year old, and the wedding banquet when Zhang Fanna married Zhaoxue not long ago, Zhu Yijun sent everything to him. Someone went to express his concern on his behalf, and it was not just that, Zhu Yijun sent quite a lot of royal gifts every time, which were definitely valuable things, and even directly sent money.

It can be seen that from this aspect, Zhu Yijun is indeed good at doing business. He knows that only by giving something in return, the people below will help you make money again. After all, that is the only way to develop in the long run.

Now, of course, he will not forget this crop.

"Well, this time the teacher and his subordinates have worked hard, and they have to hide it for me," Zhu Yijun said, "When the teacher is about to leave, he will take away a thousand from the inner treasury, no, take away 5000 taels of gold , just take it as my reward."

Zhang Fan was a little surprised when he heard Zhu Yijun say this. He naturally knew that Zhu Yijun would not be stingy in this kind of matter, but he never thought that Zhu Yijun would be so generous. , Nearly one-third of the gold was rewarded.

"Your Majesty, is this too much?" Zhang Fan asked. He didn't care about the amount of money. After all, how much money did Long Qing give him when he came back from Jiangnan? To be honest, it's been more than a year. , including the expenses of the Zhang family and the alms of the Zhao family, all of them add up to only a little. The Zhang family's daily expenses are very economical. The monthly money, although compared to other families, even the monthly salary of the maids and eunuchs in the palace, is a bit more, but it is not too much.

As for Zhang Fan's wives and concubines like Ru Xue, they don't receive monthly money like the wives and concubines of other big families, but just eat as they want, Zhang Fan has already explained this However, it is clear that neither Ruxue nor Zhaoxue, Yingyue nor Luo Linger like to go shopping and spend money all day long, even if they need to buy some rouge, gouache, or red satin cloth, they have a purpose Sexually, not blindly, of course, there have been occasional nights when I saw something on a whim, but that kind of situation is really rare.

Especially things like jewelry, Zhang Fan didn't mention it, but no matter which woman in the family, it seems that they don't particularly like this kind of thing.

In addition, today, the world is peaceful, and the border is also peaceful. There are basically few people fleeing famine and starving. Zhao's people send porridge outside the city, and most of them are just beggars.

All in all, according to the Zhang family's current money-spending pattern, as long as Zhang Fan's sons and grandsons don't have some prodigal sons to the extreme, the money is enough for his Zhang family to comfortably use for hundreds of years, which may sound too sensational It's a bit more, but the facts are like this, and I don't even think about how much Longqing bestowed on Zhang Fan back then.

Therefore, Zhang Fan did not take the money that Zhu Yijun wanted to give him at this time. Besides, it was not Zhang Fan who ran the errands this time, but those under him, so Zhang Fan planned to transfer the money Give it to them, of course not all of them. After all, it's too much. Zhang Fan thinks he can control himself, but he can't guarantee that other people can control himself. With a lot of gold and silver in his hands, he can't guarantee what will happen.

"Wei Chen thanked His Majesty here," Zhang Fan said to Zhu Yijun.

"There's no need to thank me," Zhu Yijun waved his hand, and said, "Besides, although the money is easy to earn, it still requires people to go around. I know this in my heart."

"Your Majesty can think so, I am really happy in my heart," Zhang Fan said.

"Well," nodded, and accepted Zhang Fan's compliment, Zhu Yijun said suddenly, "Since this business is easy to do, then, teacher, let's see when we can make another deal."

It seems that Zhu Yijun really fell into Qian's eye.

"Let's not be busy with this matter," Zhang Fan said, "After all, what we sell are muskets. If there are too many people there, it will be bad if there is something wrong. Moreover, it is the beginning of the year, and this merchant ship is going to sea again. up,"

"Well, what the teacher said is," Zhu Yijun said, "The teacher mentioned last time that it is not easy for those people to go to sea, and I can't always take advantage of them. Is it right to use their boats for business?"

"Your Majesty wants to add a few more ships to sail with them," Zhang Fan asked.

"good,"

"In this case, His Majesty will have to spend the money himself," Zhang Fan said. "After all, this matter should not be disclosed to the outside world compared to buying muskets for those Fusang people."

Of course, how can the emperor do business?

But if he didn't say anything, then Zhu Yijun would have no way to use his emperor's rights to mobilize ships, so he could only buy them with his own money.

But obviously, Zhu Yijun was already prepared for this.

"The price of a treasure ship is about 30 taels," Zhu Yijun said, "Now in my internal treasury, even the ones brought back by the teacher this time, there are about 200 million taels, so I will buy three ships, and the remaining It is more than enough to use the money that was put on the cannon as the capital, "

"Your Majesty is sure," Zhang Fan asked.

"This..." Zhu Yijun looked heartbroken when he heard Zhang Fan say this, but soon he made up his mind, "Didn't the teacher say, I can't bear... I can't bear children, I can't catch wolves, this time I have to give it a go, too."