Fengmou Jiangshan

Chapter 58
Gu Qinghua picked up the volume and flipped through it, and asked Su Jun, "Go on, what happened to these four big families?"

"Ah! Yes, Your Majesty!" Su Jun was a little dazed when he saw her eyes shining brightly as she searched and flipped through the volumes. Your Majesty controls nearly a quarter of the grain, cloth, salt, and timber businesses of the Xi Kingdom, with semicolons spread all over the country, dominating one side, and becoming the richest in the world, Your Majesty must know that, right?"

"Is there such a thing?" Gu Qinghua raised his head in surprise, thought for a while, tilted his head and said in doubt: "I only know that the ancestors of the four families were all heroes for the founding of our dynasty. Resigned one after another, received the harvest rewards, and went back to their ancestral home to become a rich man! It is true to say that the mansion is splendid, the servants are numerous, and the fields and mountains are countless. How come they are involved in business? They are all Montaigne The famous family who bestowed a golden plaque on the emperor's patriarch!" At the end of the sentence, Gu Qinghua's tone was a little hesitant, you must know that the status of merchants is low, and their status is extraordinary, how can they fall into the ranks of merchants at the expense of their own value?
Su Jun smiled slightly, and said: "Of course they won't personally intervene in the business, but there are countless relatives and friends in the slave family, so how can they do it in person? Otherwise, how can these four families keep their wealth and ostentation to this day!" Famous family is synonymous with poor, How many famous scholarly families don't look noble and noble on the outside, but poor on the inside?

Gu Qinghua couldn't help being stunned, it turned out that it was manipulating behind the scenes, no wonder that although everyone knew about it, it was not recorded in the aristocratic family information collected at the beginning!Presumably, no one dares to remember!

"So, isn't it that most of the country's economy is controlled by them?" Gu Qinghua frowned imperceptibly, his heart flashed, and he raised his eyes and said: "Then they and the King of Political Affairs—"

Su Jun raised his eyes to look at her, and said: "The Lu family of Nanyang is in southern Xinjiang, and they have a close relationship with the second princess, so they don't really sell the account of Prince Yizheng. Shallow."

Gu Qinghua looked at Su Jun with piercing eyes, and said for a moment, "What are you trying to explain by telling me this?"

Su Jun smiled and said: "It is said that it is better to hit the golden bell once, why does Your Majesty make it so troublesome for the officials and people to collect donations! Besides, it is okay to offend them anyway." !

By the way, you can also test the reaction of this mysterious overlord, Princess Qingshuang, Gu Qinghua thought in his heart.

Speaking of Princess Qingshuang, based on the spirit of gossip and exploration, she couldn't help but cheer up.According to Xianglin, when she was a child, the second imperial sister treated her very affectionately and lovingly. Now that she has succeeded to the throne, why doesn't she return to court and doesn't even have a private word!Secrets, there are definitely secrets!

Gu Qinghua couldn't help raising his eyes to look at Su Jun, and almost couldn't help asking him if he was so powerful that he even knew the inside story of this matter?Thinking about the extraordinary period, I finally endured it, but remained silent.

"Your Majesty?" Su Jun's questioning eyes deepened by two points.I don't understand why she still can't make up her mind, and said hesitantly: "Your Majesty is afraid that the king will discuss politics—"

"I'm not afraid of him," Gu Qinghua shook his head contemptuously, and said, "These families are not related to him, and they have an shady relationship, so he may not help them get ahead." She rubbed her forehead and thought for a while, Lost for a while, he said with a smile: "You go back first, let me think about this matter again."

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Su Jun responded, said goodbye and left.

In the evening, Aunt Su came back to pay the decree and told Gu Qinghua that all kinds of silks and satins, antique porcelain, pearls and jade, calligraphy and paintings, even spices, embroidery, lanterns, rouge and gouache, ivory, precious furniture screens, strange stones, etc. were used in her small treasury. There are quite a lot of things, such as gold and silver, but Aunt Su smiled wryly: "There are only 36, 350, and seven taels of money left." Aunt Su added at the end: "If your Majesty has something to use Yes, I'm afraid it's barely enough!"

The implication is that this amount of money cannot be moved, otherwise, if your Majesty needs something urgently, can you borrow it from your ministers?Or take it out of the national treasury - the king of politics has more to say!
Gu Qinghua couldn't help but smile wryly, he didn't expect to be so poor!What's the use of those silk silks and satins, antique stone calligraphy and paintings?There are only two uses, one is to put it beautifully for fun, and the other is to reward the subordinates to win people's hearts, she can't have a big auction or carry it into a pawnshop as a mortgage, right?For her at the moment, it's just a bunch of things that can be seen but can't be used!
Gu Qinghua thought for a while, and said: "You plan and plan with the Shang Palace Bureau and the Neifu, save a little where you can, and allocate 10 taels!" It’s not a good thing to say, at least, it’s good to show your attitude and cheer up the spirits of the people in the disaster area!

"Yes, Your Majesty." Aunt Su's face was solemn, watching her worry, joy, and respect, her lips moved, and suddenly she squatted down and bowed respectfully: "Your Majesty, I have wronged you!"

"Auntie, don't be like this!" Gu Qinghua raised his eyebrows in surprise, raised his hand to help her, and sighed: "Auntie's words really make me feel ashamed! Oh, I have food to eat, a house to live in, and people Serving is much better than those people who have left their homes, are hungry and thirsty, and have no next meal! People must be content, and they must be grateful. This is called grievance, and the people still want to live! It’s just a pity, " Gu Qinghua couldn't help but gritted his teeth again as he spoke: "If it wasn't for that old thief named Mu who secretly made a move, how could it be so difficult!"

Gu Qinghua was annoyed in her heart. It seems that she underestimated Mu Hongru. If this guy is not dealt with thoroughly, his ghost will linger.Therefore, Gu Qinghua's heart was broken, and he secretly decided: after this difficulty, she must plan and prepare well, and gradually change the mild passive defensive policy into an active attack...

After hearing her words, Aunt Su was a little dumbfounded, her face was surprised, her eyes were wide open, she stared at her as if she had never known her, and she remained silent for a while.

Gu Qinghua's face was cloudy and pondering his thoughts, he suddenly raised his head to see Aunt Su's strange expression, he couldn't help being very surprised, and said in surprise: "Aunt Su, what's wrong with you?"

Aunt Su suddenly came back to her senses, hurriedly restrained her surprised expression, relaxed, and returned to a respectful attitude, lowered her head and said with emotion: "Your Majesty has such a heart, it is indeed a blessing for the people of the world, and a blessing for me! Although I don't understand state affairs, I also understand that His Majesty's heart for the people is really rare!"

Gu Qinghua's face became hot, a little ashamed, he couldn't help lowering his head, pursing his lips and smiling embarrassingly.No, Aunt Su's next words made her startled, almost breaking out in a cold sweat.

Aunt Su smiled and said, "Your Majesty is not the same as before!"

Gu Qinghua's fingertips trembled slightly, and his heart skipped a beat naturally. He glanced at her lightly, raised his eyebrows and asked with a smile on purpose: "Really? Auntie, what do you think is different?"

Aunt Su thought for a while, shook her head lightly, and said with a smile: "I can't tell, but it's different! I think back then—" Aunt Su said with a smile, and couldn't help but think of Gu Qinghua's pink and tender face back then. Even if she refused to succeed to the throne no matter what, the king of politics forced her to succeed!
Thinking of this, Aunt Su couldn't help joking, "I wonder if the King of Political Affairs will regret it!"

As soon as Gu Qinghua heard her words, he immediately thought of the succession turmoil that Xianglin had told him about. He looked at Aunt Su, blinked, and said with a mischievous smile: "Who told him to have ulterior motives and ulterior motives? This is the moment." He regretted that his bowels were green! Back then," she glanced at Aunt Su inscrutably, and said with a casual smile, "I just put on a show to test him!"

Aunt Su's heart trembled, and the trace of doubt that she had originally disappeared immediately.She couldn't help being a little confused, and then she felt admiration and awe in her heart: she pretended to be so similar at the beginning, even she was deceived!Alas, no wonder, if you can't even fool her, how can you fool King Yizheng!
"Your Majesty's talent and intelligence are truly a blessing to us!" Aunt Su said sincerely.

Just as this room was talking, Xianglin’s intentionally heavy footsteps came, and the next moment, she pushed the door open and entered, saluting: “Your Majesty, this is a note from Mr. The amount of silver is counted, Lord Liu is waiting at the incident at the palace gate, if your Majesty has any questions, you can send someone to ask questions."

"It's late at night, Your Majesty is probably hungry, I'm going to see what kind of supper has been prepared in the small kitchen." Aunt Su blessed her body, saw Gu Qinghua nodding, then slowly stepped back out with her hands down.

Her duty is to serve His Majesty well, manage the affairs of the Zichen Palace well, and never interfere with state affairs, even if she refuses to listen to it.It is also because of such disposition that Fang has Gu Fengqing's absolute trust.With her temper, who would believe that she colluded with foreign ministers and had the intention of rebelling against her?

"This one surnamed Liu is really neat!" Gu Qinghua sneered, took the booklet and opened it, and couldn't help frowning when he saw it. There were only 300 million taels available, and she could indeed see that the 300 million taels were from teeth. It's squeezed out!No wonder this Liu Jia is so active, of course he knows that His Majesty is in such a hurry, he hastened to report, and His Majesty will take less anger at him because of his painstaking efforts!

"Let them discuss and discuss the distribution of the 300 million taels, together with the 10 taels proposed by my small treasury, and draw up a list of imperial envoys for disaster relief. Hurry up and send the money down! Those who buy medicine buy medicine, those who should buy cloth buy cloth, don't delay!"

Right now, it has to be like this!
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Xiang Lin responded and went to order.

Looking at the flickering candlelight, Gu Qinghua rested his cheeks in thought, recalling Su Jun's words, his eyes were a little downcast.

To be honest, she is not willing to rely on the strength of these four major families to survive this disaster.

(End of this chapter)