Invincible Zhengde

Chapter 36 Direct
Empress Zhang glanced at Zhu Houzhao, seeing that her son had no intention of speaking, she smiled and said, "Brother just came into the palace, and Zhao'er just happened to meet, we are talking about the affairs of my brother's family."

Zhu Youtang nodded, loving the house and Wu, although his brother-in-law is not very good, but because of Queen Zhang's relationship, Zhu Youtang still takes care of Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling a lot.Now that Zhang Heling had entered the palace, Zhu Youtang didn't care.Because he was afraid that Empress Zhang would be bored in the harem, Zhu Youtang often let the two brothers Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling enter the palace.

"Is there something for the eldest brother to enter the palace?" Zhu Youtang looked at Queen Zhang, afraid that she would be embarrassed, so he asked first.

"Say something about the salt administration!"

Before Queen Zhang could speak, Zhu Houzhao said on the sidelines: "Someone went to my uncle's house to ask for a reduction of salt class, 15."

Zhu Youtang didn't expect this to be the case, so he said with a smile: "So it's like this, it's a small matter, it's OK."

Zhu Houzhao looked up at his father, is this a trivial matter?That's right?Turning to look at my mother again, my father really loves my mother.Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but echo a sentence from later generations, parents are true love, you are just an accident.But Zhu Houzhao couldn't let his father do this. If he did, it would be a really bad thing and things would be troublesome.

Glancing at her man, Queen Zhang smiled, but she couldn't ignore her son's thoughts. After all, his son just said a lot, although she didn't understand much.

"Emperor, tell your father what you just said!" Queen Zhang said on the side, and encouraged Zhu Houzhao to speak.

Zhu Houzhao was a little helpless, mom, can't you tell the story?

Seeing that his mother didn't want to tell the story, Zhu Houzhao had no choice but to say by himself: "Father, my son has studied the salt method recently, and found that our Ming's salt method is very interesting."

"Have you studied the salt method?" Zhu Youtang immediately became happy after hearing Zhu Houzhao's words, and said with a smile, "Let's hear it, what do you think?"

"Naliang Kaizhong is really amazing, Emperor Taizu is amazing!" Zhu Houzhao came up and first flattered Zhu Yuanzhang. Of course, this flattery came from the heart. There are several advantages in it, first of all, it solves the military ration problem in border towns, and lures merchants to make them willing to transport grain to border towns.”

"The second is to reduce court officials and expenses. If the court is responsible for this, then there will be more officials and more expenses. In addition to the corruption problem, the cost will naturally increase, and the expenses will also increase."

"In the end, it is beneficial to the development of border towns. Buying grain and transporting grain is not only difficult, but also time-consuming and costly. This makes merchants have to think of other ways to reclaim wasteland in border towns and hire people to farm. , solved the refugee problem, and at the same time supplemented the population of border towns, compared with emigrating to the border, such subtle development is beneficial to the country and the people."

"From the perspective of these three aspects, it is really a great national policy to open up the distribution of grain, especially when it is supplemented by the fact that officials of the fourth rank and above and their relatives are not allowed to profit from the salt. Emperor Taizu really has a long-term vision!"

Zhu Youtang listened to Zhu Houzhao's words, nodded in satisfaction, and stroked his beard, but felt something was wrong later on, why did it sound so awkward inside?If you think about it for a while, you will know that the policy of opening up the payment of grain is so good, but it is gone now, why is it gone?Because he was cut off by himself, he changed the Naliang Kaizhong into the Nayin Kaizhong.

Under such circumstances, how could Zhu Youtang not feel that something was wrong when his son kept advocating the opening of Naliang?
"Where is Nanayin open?" Zhu Youtang looked at his son and asked.

"Father, it doesn't matter whether it's salt administration or other state affairs. It's impossible to do it perfectly. There is no perfect thing in this world. The policy depends on your original intention. If your original intention is achieved, Then this is a good policy." Zhu Houzhao didn't say it directly, but went around in a circle: "The opening of the grain collection is to solve the military food problem in the border towns, reduce the government's expenditure, not increase the burden on the people, and at the same time achieve the effect of emigrating to the border. "

"The government's income from the government's salt administration has been reduced by the payment of grain. This is the imperfection of the payment of grain, but from the original intention of the court, it has been achieved, so the payment of grain is a good policy."

"Compared with the opening of the payment of grain, the income of the imperial court must have increased. My child has checked, and the salt class has increased by more than 100 million taels in the first year. It's just that the benefits of the opening of the grain are gone. The problem of food, the problem of emigrating to the border, are all gone. There is one thing that I haven't checked, but I want to ask my father, is there a shortage of food in the border town?"

Zhu Houzhao turned his head and looked at Zhu Youtang with big eyes. The question was very simple, but it was like a knife piercing into Zhu Youtang's heart.

Is the border town short of food?The answer is lack, and the facts are indeed as what the son said, the court's interest in border towns has greatly increased.

"Father knows that his son is definitely missing, but he can barely maintain it. It doesn't seem to have added a burden to the court, and it has also charged the court more salt lessons." Zhu Houzhao smiled self-deprecatingly, and then said: "However, the expenditure has not increased, but the food has decreased, so what should I do? I am afraid that these things will happen one after another."

"The combat power of the frontier army may have dropped drastically. How can we fight without enough food? Everyone should open up more wasteland to farm! Lest you starve to death."

What Zhu Houzhao said was bloody, which made Zhu Youtang's face very ugly. After pondering for a moment, Zhu Youtang continued: "But the opening of Naliang is already unsustainable!"

"Yes!" Zhu Houzhao sighed and said, "It's hard to continue, why? Because of excessive hair, because of occupying a nest!"

"Honorable gentry and officials, everyone wants to reach out to Yanyin. After all, it's all money, so they reached out and tried every means to get Yanyin. The royal family gave Yanyin a reward, but they went to transport food. Is it? No, they take the salt to exchange for silver, so the price of salt will naturally be high, and these people have to get the salt first, and the merchants who transport the grain have to queue up, so it is not certain when they can get the salt."

"Additionally, the imperial court is constantly exchanging salt for grain, and there is a backlog of salt. If you hold salt in your hand but can't exchange it, which merchant will transport grain? It's strange that the grain is not broken."

This is what Zhu Houzhao dared to say, because the spearhead was directly directed at the emperor, and the big heads of Zhanwo and Chaofa were the royal family.

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