Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 428
Now no one in the cabinet says their emperor is stingy anymore.

Every day, I saw more and more savings from my account department deposited in the Daming Central Bank.

Liu Wanchun, Minister of the Household Department, has only one thought in his mind.

That is, Your Majesty is very wise!

"The Ministry of Household Affairs has always spent money outside. Now since the money law was changed, the Ministry of Household Affairs can not only spend money outside, but also make money. Now it not only makes profits by saving money, but also by auctioning state-owned assets. profit."

Liu Wanchun now likes to talk about the four words "state-owned assets" when he meets everyone, and he seems to be a real financial expert in Ming Dynasty.

He admired his emperor for actually inventing this word.

It is not good to say that the minerals and forests in this world are His Majesty's assets and put them up for auction, but now they are replaced by "state-owned assets", and it is natural for the Ministry of Households to come forward a lot.

However, Liu Wanchun was also a little worried. He knew that His Majesty the Emperor would dare to do anything, so he was afraid that His Majesty would sell everything away. Don't even sell his Miyagi in the end. He even extended his hand from the vassal king to the entire gentry class.

Therefore, Liu Wanchun felt that since he was the Minister of the Ministry of Households, he still could not let His Majesty be too obsessed with business matters. Now he said to Zhu Youjian more than once:
"Your Majesty, the treasury has enough money to spend now, so don't try to make money! Your empire is endless!"

But Zhu Youjian is now addicted to making money, so how can he just stop if he says stop.

After the vassal kings entered Beijing, Zhu Youjian was not in a hurry to let Gao Hongtu, the chief assistant of the cabinet, preside over the expansion of the vassal kings' fiefs.

Zhu Youjian has been procrastinating on the grounds that the Southwest War has not been resolved.

But Zhu Youjian didn't let these princes idle.

Now Zhu Youjian seems to be very keen on hosting family entertainment activities, and invites these vassal kings into the palace to attend banquets from time to time.

There is a banquet for the Dragon Boat Festival.

Because of the moon appreciation, there is another banquet.

Because the reward is once again.

In commemoration of a certain emperor, a certain nobleman hosted another banquet.

……

Every day or two is a feast.

Sometimes Zhu Youjian was embarrassed to host a banquet to summon the vassals, so he asked Queen Zhou to hold a family banquet.

However, the banquet food is also simple, but there are few ordinary dishes, and there are no delicacies from mountains and seas.

But the vassals could not resist the decree.

There is a reason why Zhu Youjian did this.

The reason is that these princes now live in Qixia Mountain, which is far away from the imperial city.

Although Zhu Youjian said that he would mainly summon the vassal kings in the palace of Qixia Mountain in the future to deal with the internal affairs of the Zhu family, but in order to make money from the vassal kings, he could only continue to be shameless.

Zhu Youjian did not come to the palace on the grounds that he was busy with state affairs, and the vassal kings had nothing to do with Zhu Youjian.

But Zhu Youjian called the vassal kings into the palace every now and then, and the vassal kings were also very annoying.

Because of such a long journey, in order not to be late, I had to get up early in the morning before dawn to go to the banquet.

Then, Zhu Youjian always finds a few ministers with good drinking capacity to drink with these vassal kings in turn, and they drink until late at night.

The vassal kings have only one idea now, that is, it is best to live in a place that is closer to the imperial city.

At least it is convenient to enter the palace.

That way they can at least get a good night's sleep, too.

Sure enough, it lasted only two months, and Nie Xiaowei, a doctor of the Department of State-owned Assets Management of the Ministry of Household Affairs, came to the Qixia Mountain Villa Area again, and read out the announcement of the Ministry of Household Affairs on the square.

The meaning of the announcement is that there are a group of mansions of noble and noble officials who committed crimes under the imperial city wall to be sold in order to raise military expenses. Come to the vassals to buy it or not.

The old mansions under the root of the imperial city were packaged together by Zhu Youjian and sold to the Ministry of Households at the market price, and then the Ministry of Households came forward to prepare to auction these old mansions at a higher price.

These mansions are the mansions of many dignitaries who committed crimes in Nanjing over the past two hundred years.

Most of them are dilapidated, and even though they are at the root of the imperial city, they are still some distance away from the outer city.

In addition to the great needs of the vassal officials of the previous dynasty, there is naturally no need for ordinary wealthy families to gather at the root of the imperial city.

Therefore, now that the vassal kings are living in Beijing, Zhu Youjian just took advantage of this to sell these high-priced old mansions with idle jobs to these vassal kings at a higher price.

This is why Zhu Youjian frequently summoned these princes in the palace.

The purpose is to make these vassals realize how inconvenient it is if they don't have a house in the imperial city.

"Your Highness, the war in the Southwest is tight and the military budget is insufficient. Now the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Cabinet have no choice but to think of such a way to sell some old mansions. They are all left by the former feudal kings and officials. The area is large and the location is good. Everyone Your Highness, if you are interested, you can follow the above address to come to the State-owned Assets Management Department of our Ministry of Accounts to bid for the auction."

Nie Xiaowei, the household doctor, still showed a harmless smile to the entire Qixia Mountain villa area and said that it is good to live at the foot of the imperial city.

And these vassal kings also knew that it was the court's statement that they wanted to earn money from themselves, but in order to make their lives more convenient, they had to take out the money and compete to buy it.

In this way, all the mansions were auctioned off, especially the palace of Zhao Wang Zhu Changxun of the Yongle Dynasty with the highest auction price, directly reaching 30 silver dollars!

Although the value of 30 silver dollars is lower than the 30 silver dollars used in the Ming Dynasty, its value still represents a sky-high price in today's Ming Dynasty. You must know that Liu Kongzhao's purchase of a world-class sailing warship is only [-] silver dollars.

But the feudal kings can still afford so much money, and they don't hesitate at all when buying a house.

It can be seen how rich these princes are!
Many of these old mansions have already been covered with carved beams, the paint on the rich doors is peeling off, the tiles are black and crooked, and the furnishings are dust and dirt, not to mention the number of wild cats or rat holes between the beds.

Therefore, even if these vassals bought it at a high price, they still had to spend money to hire someone to clean it, buy new furniture, and decorate the interior and exterior.

Naturally, the dignified prince's residence should not be too shabby, and it is natural to hire craftsmen at a high price to buy things. Naturally, the economic recovery in the first half of 21 Chongzhen has something to do with the consumption promotion of these feudal princes.

Liu Wanchun, Minister of the Household Department, now admires Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian for his five-body investment. His household department has not yet started collecting summer taxes, and his income has already completed last year's half-year total income.

Counting performance rewards alone, he, Liu Wanchun, will be able to earn a salary of two to three thousand silver dollars by the end of this year, which gives him the foundation to take another concubine.

Of course, after the vassal kings entered the capital, Zhu Youjian didn't just help the Ministry of Households increase the treasury revenue, he also helped him increase his own income.

(End of this chapter)