Poor family mother and son

Chapter 196 Big Treasurer?
Chu Qing wrote a letter to Hu Hengqiu, first telling him how much silver taels he could hand over to the secret investigation department this year.This takes up less than a page.

Then the remaining six pages gave Hu Hengqiu a detailed description of his income for one month at the end of the year and his estimated income for next year.

Then I reported how much salt I had stored in my saltworks, but I didn't dare to sell it to Daxuan, and only sold some sporadically to Voss.

Finally, I tentatively asked: Is it going to expand the fields in the army next year?Does the emperor of the northern region of Daxuan have any plans?

At the end of the letter, a sentence was added: the emperor's cotton is good, and the common people like it.

The letter came through the Secret Investigation Department's channel, so Hu Hengqiu received the letter three days later.

Hu Hengqiu read the contents of the first page of the letter seven or eight times, and happily drank a cup before reading the second page.

It's really drinking with Chu Qing's letter!
Seeing that I couldn't drink it anymore, this wine... No, this letter is on it!

The emperor's cotton belongs to the emperor!Not from the Secret Service!
Chu Qing has Yanyin, that means the secret investigation department has Yanyin, that is...

This year's 20% tax silver is [-] taels, who knows how much it will be in the future?What would the emperor think of the secret investigation department?What would you think of him, Hu Hengqiu?
We can't stand this thing!People can't be too greedy, too greedy will collapse the sky!

When the sky is falling, find a taller person to hold it up first!Hu Hengqiu took the letter and entered the palace.

It's late at night, and the palace gates will be closed later.

The emperor was being urged to rest by Eunuch Li when he heard the young eunuch report that Hu Hengqiu wanted to see the emperor.

"What time is it? His wife also let him go out?" said the emperor, "Let him in."

"Your Majesty, I'm here to announce the good news to you!" Hu Hengqiu yelled "excitedly" when he entered.

"Oh? Why do you like it?" The emperor had an expression of "I won't be fooled".

As long as Hu Hengqiu comes to ask for money, how can there be good things?
Especially the good news, as long as he announces the good news, he will ask for more money!

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, look, there is a clear letter. This year we can pay 20 taels of tax silver. You leave us 4 taels. Next year's salary (office expenses) is enough. Our secret investigation department does not eat and drink outside. No other money is needed!"

yo!This is not to ask for money, but to give money?

Emperor Qingde got up and went to the window and opened it himself.

"Your Majesty, be careful of the cold!" Eunuch Li hurriedly put on clothes for the emperor: "It's cold, my servant just passed the wind for you, so there's no need to open the window."

"I want to see if the sun has come out at night, otherwise, what would Hu Aiqing say about sending me money?"

Hu Hengqiu: "..."

Eunuch Li: "..."

Hu Hengqiu had no choice but to lean forward with a thick-skinned face, and this was the beginning of the remark, and the main point has not been said yet!

"Your Majesty, please read this letter. You know that this person is really capable. She has maintained your cotton fields very well, and harvested 4000 million catties in the first year. She entrusted your ministers to ask you if you want to reclaim some wasteland next year. "

Hu Hengqiu presented Chu Qing's letter while talking.

The emperor was already half lying on the couch, closed his eyes and meditated, when he heard this, he simply said: "You read it."

Hu Hengqiu read it word by word, and explained some accounts in case the emperor would not be able to respond.

"Well, not bad." The emperor closed his eyes and said something softly, and then said nothing.

Hu Hengqiu waited and said to himself: Don't you fall asleep?If you fall asleep, Chen Ke won't be able to fall asleep!
But he didn't dare to disturb the emperor's rest, so should he go away quietly, or stay bravely, leaving Hu Hengqiu in a dilemma.

Just when he was about to let it go for nothing today, the emperor said: "My cotton people like it, and I am happy! Is 4 taels enough?"

"Enough! Enough!" Hu Hengqiu hurriedly bowed to answer!Emma, ​​you're not asleep!Don't you squeak before you fall asleep!

"Next year, I will strictly restrain my subordinates. If there are no major matters, it is estimated that there will be a surplus of 4 taels, which will be used until the next year." Hu Hengqiu added.

The Secret Service Division is the department with the least overhead, and of course they have the smallest number of people.

But Hu Hengqiu is a person who does hard work and does not pretend to be self-serving. The emperor is quite at ease with him.

The emperor didn't say anything just now, he was not thinking about whether Hu Hengqiu wanted the 4 taels more or less, but was thinking about the money.

Ordinary merchants pay taxes based on [-]% of the total sales. The [-]% set for Chu Qing at the beginning is to leave room for her to develop and allow her to have more funds to carry out more projects. Now it seems that the effect is not small!
Refined salt, she sent it to the palace, and the imperial dining room said it was used, and the taste was purer than the one used in the palace before.

Chu Qing now has more than 3000 mu of salt fields, and there will be more in the future.

Salt.

According to theory, there should be no shortage of salt in Daxuan Kingdom, and half of the border in the southwest is coastal.

But the population is small, such a large country has more than 8000 million people.

There are few people living in the coastal areas, and most of them are prisoner villages.

Most of the domestic salt comes from well salt and rock salt. Because of the difficulty of mining, the output is not high, but it is enough for the common people.

Emperor Daxuan adopted the policy of "private production, commercial income, commercial transportation, and commercial sales" in order to allow the common people to eat salt, but as long as there is business, there are aristocratic families.

After operation, some aristocratic families opened up, acquired, and annexed many salt farms, forming a monopoly situation, and then obtained salt imports from colluding government officials. Therefore, the production and sales were integrated, and even the middlemen were themselves. They controlled the salt price and became rich. own fanny pack.

Salt is enough to eat, but the common people cannot afford it.

The sea is full of salt!Qingde sighed and opened his eyes.

family.

Too many resources are controlled by the aristocratic family, and the imperial power is not stable.

Now, through Chuqing, I am controlling cotton. In the future, it seems that I can also control sea salt, and then through the development of population and immigration policies, all the wasteland will be fully utilized and controlled.

Isn't Xinlunzhou a good start for economic power to be gradually gathered and concentrated from the border to the inland?Isn't Chu Qing my rake?
I want to give her convenience, and let her walk all the places into my hands!
Just how far can such a woman go?It would be great if there were a batch of Chuqing!

"Hu Aiqing, tell her to continue to develop cotton fields next year!" said the emperor, "Since 4 taels of silver is enough for you for a year..."

"Your majesty, it's not that 4 taels is enough for a year, but I mean that 4 taels is enough for a year's salary for the secret investigation department!" Hu Hengqiu hurriedly corrected the emperor's words.

Salary and salary, since you have to get a salary, you have to get a salary!Where is 4 taels a year enough?
"Okay, I know! In the future, the [-]% tax of your secret investigation department will be reduced to [-]%, and the [-]% will go to my private treasury!" The emperor made a decision.

The 4 taels was actually the 20 taels that Chu Qing was about to hand over. One-fifth of the emperor got four shares, and he got one share. This was Hu Hengqiu's idea before he came, and the emperor obviously understood his meaning.

Although it is only 4 taels this year, the future is promising.

"Chuqing, Chuqing, you are now the emperor's big treasurer under the name of the secret investigation department!" Hu Hengqiu thought to himself.

Chu Qing sneezed hard.

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