To be honest, according to Liu Mingqi's personal opinion, the emperor's quota for giving grace is actually nothing if it is a little bit of a loss.

The royal family and nobles will lose money when purchasing quotas for promotion. If interest is paid, why can't the court lose money?

You have used all the money for the next few decades now, and you don’t want to pay at all. How is this possible?

Moreover, this loss is only relative to the decades of totality. Now, at this critical moment, it is not a loss at all!

It can solve the urgent big problems and resettle tens of millions of victims, and can bear any losses.

Besides, with this money, we can also use various investments to offset the cost of interest loss in use - just like buying a house with a loan, real estate appreciation, and loans become profitable!

But Liu Mingqi dared not say this, and he did not want to use the money to help the court invest.

Let’s learn about Chen Wansan’s story?

Or can you also refer to Hu Xueyan’s story?

For such extremely sensitive things, it is definitely better to have less than more things.

But there is one sentence to say one sentence.

In ancient times, it seemed that the emperor and the court did not lose money and forced themselves to take other people's affairs, and no one thought it was wrong.

Besides, this business is not that easy to do.

From the perspective of the royal family, the three titles of Duke, Marquis and Earl are the lowest, so there is no need to buy them.

The most valuable and most reflective of value is actually the Duke.

The price of the duke is low, which is definitely not in the interests of the court.

That's why the ministers set a sky-high price of 800,000 taels of silver.

But the Duke is not necessarily the most profitable.

You should know that because the royal family is a royal family, they must be viscounts at the very least, and the country's support will not be lacking.

The nobles are different. Even if you are a duke with great military achievements, your descendants will one day become ordinary people.

Moreover, the nobles can only have one son to inherit the title, but not all their children can obtain the title. Even if they are demoted to two levels, they are not qualified.

So in fact, the nobles have a greater demand for titles.

But they are not greedy. It would be great for ordinary families to buy an extra viscount. If they really can't buy a baron, it's also their wish for their descendants.

Of course, the wealthy first and second generation families would definitely want to buy a duke or marquis, so that at least four or five generations of people could enjoy the support of the court and commercial discounts, and would not be dismissed from the ranks of nobles.

Many of the former noble families who have become civilians are ignored.

Therefore, in addition to the richest families, those lords who are themselves barons are actually the happiest and most nervous ones.

They were not qualified to become barons anymore, that is, they were no longer part of the nobles. Even if they had some of the advantages of their ancestors, at most one or two generations would be completely excluded from this circle.

It is really great that one generation can be continued now, and it is very likely to continue again in the future!

This means that they may always be in the circle of aristocrats and will always be higher than others.

Tell me, how eagerly the nobles of this part of the group would buy it?

If Emperor Jinghe and the court were so unfaithful, many people would buy a baron's position of 300,000 taels.

But unfortunately, the emperor and the imperial court bosses are still ashamed and have not completely gotten into the money.

According to Emperor Jing He just said, the price of the baron's rank of Xisheng was 150,000 taels of silver.

Compared with the baron's salary, the price is slightly higher.

But in modern terms, people who need it must buy it, and the price is not a problem in their eyes.

If there is any problem, it must be overcome!

This is a real need!

...

Liu Mingqi was right. In addition to the sons of the princes at the top who wanted to get the throne of dukes, they were the barons at the bottom.

After the rumor of the wind started, the barons in the capital with good family conditions gathered together in groups of three or five.

For example, the Lishan man Xue Jiagui who is in the salt business, the Anxun man Wu Biyu who is in the furniture business, the Pingdong man Ke Xiaobai who is in the fur business, and the Guangzhong man Zhai Biao who is in the fabric business, the four of them are just in exchange for their own or not, and they have been married for several generations, which is a relatively close alliance.

There are many more alliances like them.

There is no way. When a noble family continues to be demoted, they can only join forces to keep warm and gather everyone's strength to develop together.

Otherwise, they will only disappear into the long river of history.

In fact, Dakang’s businessmen are not discriminated against much. As long as you do business seriously and pay taxes, ordinary officials will not make things difficult for you.

However, those nobles whose ancestors were nobles always felt that they were not as brave as the official's skin.

Not to mention the psychological gap between aristocrats and non-nobles makes it even more difficult for them to balance.

When I got underground, my ancestors asked you, how is our family? Have you made contributions to revitalize the family?

How do you answer?

Is it said that my generation is the last generation of barons, and the next generation is the ordinary people?

Isn’t this a shameless person?

Therefore, although these four barons have been successful in their business over the years, they are still in anxiety.

Although they have prepared various efforts to transform the next generation into businessmen, they are still a little uneasy.

Fortunately, the Holy Emperor is in court now, and there is such a great thing as the Greed Order coming out, which really makes these people overjoyed.

Anyone with some skills is very happy to see the appearance of the Gaen Ling. Whoever dares to object is to be an enemy of them.

"Have you heard it? This morning, the clan mansion was already in trouble, and at least hundreds of people surrounded him. That scene, tsk!" Xue Jiagui said to his three friends and in-laws while drinking wine: "A person like King Su is so serious and indifferent, he is almost forced to swear. These clans are so amazing!"

"They are so awesome!" Ke Xiaobai snorted coldly, "They're all broken in their minds if they want to get benefits but are unwilling to give!"

"I am not worried about this, but what if they make trouble like this and feel that Jiaen Ling needs more money, which forces the emperor to cancel this idea?" Wu Biyu replied in a deep voice.

Zhai Biao immediately slapped the table, "They dare! This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for us, so we must not let them disrupt the situation!"

"Yes, I think so too." Xue Jiagui nodded and said, "The life of the royal family is better than ours. At the worst, we can get the guarantee of a viscount. What about us? The ancestors of the four families are all marquises, but now they can only be barons. They are only one step away from ordinary people. Do we deserve no chance to change our destiny?"

Ke Xiaobai said: "Don't worry about them, we nobles do our own things... No, it's just us doing what we should do, and no one else needs to worry about it!"

"It's not the case. For example, Lao Wu and the others, as well as Lao Xu and the others, are similar to our minds. If everyone can join forces, they may become a great force." Xue Jiagui said seriously: "If the emperor has the possibility of changing his mind, then we will take the initiative to write a petition and donate silver to the emperor. In this way, he shouldn't refuse, right?"

"Yeah, then do it!"

The remaining three looked at each other and nodded in agreement.

They have been forced to retreat to the point where they cannot retreat, and no one can make them give in.

The royal family is just a big deal. If you want to bite me?

With a unified opinion, Wu Biyu smiled bitterly again and said, "But the price is probably still a bit high. The emperor will definitely not be ruthless about the heavy snow disaster."

Zhai Biao comforted, "Hey, why do you care about so much? Our emperor is a good person. This money is not given to him for personal expenses, but to save people. We have done good deeds, killing two birds with one stone."

Ke Xiaobai expressed his strangeness: "But Lao Wu, we all know how much money your family has. How expensive can the baron be? You can't give it?"

Wu Biyu sighed: "Then you must know how many sons I have in my family! I have four sons in total! The eldest son can definitely inherit the family business, but the remaining three are not worth much, so I can't give nothing, right? If possible, I want them to become barons, so I will have an explanation to them."

"scare……"

Xue Jiagui widened his eyes, "How much does it cost to you! Maybe you will have 700,000 or 800,000 taels of silver, and your family's assets will be emptied!"

"If it was that expensive, I would definitely not be so stupid to buy it, so I had to feel wronged by the younger ones." Wu Biyu said, "It's better to do it according to the original plan at that time! My father's ability is limited, and I can't do it!"

"Who said no? I have three at home. If I have the ability, I want to give them a thought." A rough man like Zhai Biao also showed a hint of tenderness at this time. "I will be satisfied in my life by pushing all three of them who had no hope to the baron position."

Everyone nodded with grievance.

On the one hand, there is unlimited hope, but on the other hand, there is a high cost that is likely to be unbearable.

This principle is also very simple. If it is a bargain, does the emperor need to let the news come out first?

He just said how much it costs!

Now the emperor is watching everyone's reaction.

Just like what the four of them discussed just now, if there were too many fierce oppositions, the emperor might retreat and no longer mention this matter.

This is something that barons like them who will become civilians cannot tolerate.
Chapter completed!