Zhan Zhumen

Chapter 719
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 in large denominations.

As much 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, and this time, he brought back so many gold 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 bump 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 couple saved a lot of money, so they really shouldn't do such a thing that is easily manipulated by others.

Mu Yan stretched her long legs and sat down cross-legged on the bed, and didn't rush back to her. Seeing her son waving at him, she sat beside her son and stroked his head, "What are we Yu'er playing with?"

"Playing with stacking towers." I haven't seen my father for many days, Xiao Yu'er is sitting in his arms with a smile, looking up and staring at him.

"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 great."

Hmm, Yu'er was so powerful that he didn't even fall. "Father rides together."

"Okay, Daddy will ride with Yu'er."

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's eyes rolled down, Huo Xi followed his gaze, and punched him again in anger, rascal, pervert.Are you on a business trip and are holding back?
"Mother to play." Xiao Yu'er didn't understand his parents' eyebrows and eyebrows, so he called his mother to play together.

Huo Xi smiled at his son, "Xiao Yu'er is playing with dad, mother will see who can get along quickly and safely."

"Yu'er is fast and steady!"

"Okay, Yu'er 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. When he did things, he never focused on other things. This is a good genetic inheritance.

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, trying to understand, "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's true that Jin Yiwei's fourth grade is right, but who let him still have the status of the prince of the Duke's Mansion?
Moreover, he has guarded 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 a Jinyiwei faction?Send him a fourth grader to investigate the salt administration?

There is a commander above him, the commander is an acquaintance, and he is a senior officer.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 after winning the title.If you try again, can you still be the king of the opposite sex?

Think about something beautiful.

So far in this David dynasty, there is no living king with a different surname.

There are not many people who pursue the title of king after death.

As for Mu Yan's grandfather, the former Xining Marquis Muying, as the first adopted son of the Taizu, he was loved and trusted by the Taizu and the Empress Gaozu, and it was only after his death that he was posthumously named King of Qianning.

As 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 Mu Yan has been doing the dirty work for the emperor over the years.

Jin Yiwei's reputation is really not good.

The common people are afraid, and the officials are even more pale when they talk about it.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 plan.

Jin Yiwei, as the emperor's confidant, works for the emperor, and as a student 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 nobleman in the future will not be smooth, and Xi'er's business is getting bigger and bigger, so he has to have real power in his hands in order to protect her from being coveted.

His wife and children are under his care.Don't try to deceive anyone.

How about the hawks and claws, 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.

To 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 treats him, he doesn't pay attention to him, and doesn't care about him.

"Is this what the salt merchants from the two places entrusted you to hand over to the emperor?" Huo Xi asked.

Mu Yan nodded, "Sacrificing small fortunes can save big fortunes."

Today, the three major policies in the south of the Yangtze River, the water policy, the salt policy, and the river policy, are all important matters on the emperor's mind.

"Nowadays, the salt used by the people in the seven provinces in the south of the Yangtze River comes from the Huaihe River and the Huaihe River, and the salt merchants gather in Huai'an and Yangzhou.

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, not bragging.

In the past dynasties, "the country's profit from boiling the sea is divided into three, Huaidong occupies the second place, and the salt profit of the roads of Shu, Guangzhe and Zhejiang is less than half of the amount of Huai salt."

In the Wu Dynasty of the former dynasty, "National funds accounted for eighty-tenths of the salt profit, while the two Huaihe Rivers alone accounted for half of the world."In this dynasty, although the national tax revenue and salt tax did not account for [-]% to [-]% as in the previous dynasty, they still accounted for half.

Among the salt taxes, the Lianghuai salt tax ranks first, accounting for [-]% of the national salt tax revenue.

The annual income of the treasury is only about 3000 million taels, while the annual income of salt merchants is nearly 2000 million taels!A merchant's private treasury is comparable to the national treasury.

Are you bragging about being so rich?
Can Emperor Yongkang not think about it?

Especially at the critical juncture of moving the capital and overhauling the Forbidden City in Beijing, the old man of the Household Department would run 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 and sighed with emotion.Are the salt merchants afraid that Emperor Yongkang will steal their homes?Give the emperor some sweets?
"It doesn't matter who you are, your husband and I are able to have so many talents, others don't necessarily have these." The proud expression was exactly the same as Xiao Yu'er.

Huo Xi turned to look at him, when did this guy become so cheeky?
"What have you done?" 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)