First, he talked about Songjiang cloth as a tribute, and then asked about the way to make money. Shen Rui immediately remembered what Du Laoba said about Songjiang cotton cloth specialty and the cloth industry of Zhang Hui's future Yue family Wujingbo Mansion.

He couldn't help but look at Zhang Hui, wondering whether Du Laoba was talking about the grandson of the Duke of England's mansion, Zhang Hui himself, or...

With his eyes falling back to Shou Ge, Shen Rui was also helpless. Could this little emperor be a merchant who pretended to be addicted to opening a shop in Xiyuan, and he really wanted to do some business now?

Can't let the emperor wait for a long time, Shen Rui stopped his thoughts and smiled bitterly: "Isn't the emperor thinking about the cloth business? But I'm not very good at this. My uncle who knew how to run a business before has gone back to Songjiang. I'm now

Send someone to send a letter to ask…”

Brother Shou pulled the cotton clothes worn by ordinary people on his body and said, "Cloth business? Now I'm shouting everywhere to make me frugal and frugal, and I wish I could wear such coarse cloth clothes every day."

He smacked his lips and asked Shen Rui squintly, "Look at this cloth business, how much profit can you make?"

Shen Rui spread his hands and said, "If your Majesty wants to spend more money on the treasury and buy two more cloth shops, you can still get a few tens of thousands of dollars a year. If you have a talented person on needlework, do some fashionable things.

The value of clothes and cloth doubled, and that year it was probably 100,000 yuan."

Brother Shou waved his hand and said disdainfully: "What is that enough?"

Shen Rui choked, that was 100,000 taels, how capable is this fun-loving emperor to spend money indiscriminately!

But if you think about the leopard house, then feeding animals is a big expense, and these tens of thousands of silver do not seem to be anything.

But when he heard Brother Shou suddenly said, "Shaanxi report the year of disaster, please prepare for wasteland and rescue disasters. The Ministry of Revenue issued a memorial and decided on some ways, but..." His brows frowned and said in a bad tone, "It's better not to mention it.

I came here to ask you if you know how to make money? The money is coming too slowly now."

Shen Rui already knew it in his heart.

He also knew about this memorial. Although the third master was a small official, he could always know what happened to the court in the well-informed yamen.

This is a memorial by Yang Yiqing, who was then the governor of Shaanxi, who was the left deputy censor of Shaanxi. He said that the famine in the mountains and Shaanxi is afraid that the famine will affect wars and people's livelihood in the years.

Now the Nine Borders are the top priority, and the court responded quite quickly, and the Ministry of Revenue immediately broke the bill.

I don’t know if it was affected by the recent frequent use of the internal treasury for disaster relief, but the first part of the household department was to first propose to allocate the internal treasury.

In the eyes of Shou Ge, I naturally dislike it.

The second article was even more frustrating, and it was to propose that salt in Zhonghuai and Zhejiang places be attracted to the first place, and to lose 200,000 taels of silver in Taicang, and to scold the businessman who was under the banner of the Zhang family and Zhou family, he did not benefit or make any mistakes.

The next ones are all about selling official positions and titles, and even the quotas of monks and Taoists, to raise silver.

There was an uproar in the court. Everyone knew that the treasury was empty, but such behavior was too unconventional!

Shou Ge was even more angry. These old people told him not to play with eagles and beasts, not to be extravagant and enjoy, to increase revenue and reduce expenditure. It is important to increase revenue, but the most important thing is to reduce expenditure.

It’s so vague, but the result is so good. These old people are just opening up the source for me?!

His face turned pale. He looked at the quarrels from the ministers below, threw down the "Cabinet Discussion" in the court, turned his head and left, regardless of whether there was anyone behind to report.

But when he ignored it and returned to the bedroom, he couldn't help but think about the treasury input, but after thinking about it, he didn't think of it from the north to the south, but he didn't think of it.

But when he saw Liu Zhong, he remembered Shen Ruilai, who proposed the idea of ​​Xiyuan Hundred Beasts Garden.

Brother Shou thought that Shen Rui was doing a good job in planning. His grandparents and biological mother were good at raising goods. Although state affairs and family affairs cannot be compared, he came to ask Shen Rui and asked him what new ideas would be good.

Moreover, in his heart, he was more inclined to ask questions with young ministers. In the court, especially the old people in the cabinet, they were too cautious. This was not possible, and that was not possible. When did they use their safe method?

Can make the treasury abundant!

Shen Rui knew that Shou Ge was impatient. Since he was asked, those words such as not daring to talk nonsense about the government were false, but how important was the border food and salary, how could he speak nonsense?

He could only sigh and said, "Your Majesty. I am young and short-sighted. I only know that the food and wages in the border have always been used to induce food merchants in mainland China to transport grain."

When he said this, Brother Shou's face sank a little, and Zhang Hui couldn't help but wink at Shen Rui secretly.

You Xuan, on the side, coughed lightly, stood up to accuse him, and smiled and said to Shen Rui: "Although I have been to Shen Er Ge's mansion twice, I have never looked at the garden carefully. I can tell that the garden is so elegant and tight,

I would also like to ask Brother Shen to arrange someone to take me and Brother Hutou to feast your eyes."

Although Youxuan's appearance is as tall and honest as Gao Wenhu, he is not a person with a simple mind like Gao Wenhu. He comes from a family of nobles and has a keen sense of smell.

These words were not only to help Shen Rui break the embarrassing atmosphere, but also to be afraid that Shen Rui would be scolded by the emperor. He and Gao Wenhu were here, and Shen Rui looked bad on his face.

He said he wanted to pull Gao Wenhu away, but he also left a chore, so that Zhang Hui could also use the introduction to come out together.

But Brother Shou waved his hand and said, "Let's go and see it later. Calling you here today is to gather your ideas and everyone will think about it."

This was a bit stiff, and Youxuan had to sue him and sit down.

Zhang Hui immediately smiled and said, "Your Majesty, these three cobblers are more powerful than Zhuge Liang! Except for Shen Er, here's what the three of us are, aren't we just getting together with three cobblers?"

Brother Shou was also amused by him, knocked on the Arhat couch and said, "It's so wonderful. Shen Rui finished speaking later, I'll listen to your ideas to get to Zhuge Liang."

After saying that, he curled his smile again and said to Shen Rui seriously: "Shen Rui, I know what the matter of salt is like, so I don't need to mention it."

He kept the Zhang family and the Zhou family and it was useful. Moreover, the detriment of the salt administration was not something that could be solved by a few relatives without asking for a request. The major affairs of the Yan Iron military and national affairs were not decided in one sentence.

"Do you have other ideas?" As Brother Shou spoke, he unconsciously brought the emperor's majesty.

Shen Rui also knew that it was not pleasing to bring salt to attract people, but transporting grain at the border was just to use salt to attract people to fish for merchants. Otherwise, what else could there be in the border?

Shen Rui stretched his clothes and said solemnly: "It should not be embarrassing Your Majesty, nor should he be alienated from the family of the Heavenly Family. It is just that the students' opinions and want the merchants to transport grain to the border, they have to give them more profits.

.”

He couldn't help but change the words in Capital Theory to Shou Ge, "I once saw what the wise said in a book that if there is 50% profit, merchants dare to take risks; if the profit doubles, they will dare to do so even if they are illegal.

Do it; if you make three times the profit, you won’t be afraid of risking your life.”

Brother Shou raised his eyebrows and expressed his understanding, "Man is dead for money and birds die for food, and it is natural for businessmen to seek profit."

"What's the border?" Shen Rui said slowly, "If there is nothing at the border, naturally, only salt can be placed on the border to catch them."

"What's in the border?" The people present couldn't help but murmur.

In the eyes of a high-ranking family like Zhang Huiyouxuan, the bitter and cold land of the border has no products, only military achievements.

Gao Wenhu said first: "I heard from Brother Luo that there are good horses in the border." His eyes were shining as he spoke, which showed that he was a very horse-loving person.

Shen Rui couldn't help but smile when he saw him like this. At this time, the man loved horses, just like men in later generations loved cars. He remembered that he would pick up a good horse to send him.

Shen Rui said: "In my opinion, the most profitable thing is foreign trade. The so-called mutual exchanges, my Ming Dynasty has a wealth of people and great people. Some of them are things that are highly respected by small foreign countries. Usually, they can be exchanged for less than tea and porcelain.

Their gold and jewelry. Wenhu said he would be good at horses, so I guess the same is true for changing horses at the border, right?"

Shouge nodded and said, "That's true. The border tea and horse market is also under Yang Yiqing's jurisdiction. At the beginning of last year, he wrote a letter and bought 70,000 kilograms of tea in the mainland for 1,500 taels of silver and exchanged for 900 mules and horses.

If you only need to exchange it for money, it will cost 2,700 taels. It has not been reported this year."

Shen Rui sighed in his heart, not knowing whether it was because Shou Ge particularly likes martial arts, or because he was talented and had a good memory, but he read so many comments every day, but he could remember such a comment from early last year so clearly.

"Hors are military equipment, and the border troops are not equipped in a complete range, so naturally they cannot be resold by merchants." Shen Rui said, "The north is not as good as the northeast. I heard that the old forests in the northeast produce better fur, and noble people often wear winter clothes. There are about only cattle and sheep in the north. But cattle are there.

Sheep are also good things in the Central Plains.”

Zhang Hui frowned and said, "The plowing ox is naturally precious, but these living things are not as good as dead things. You should drive them away and take care of them along the way. You should prepare enough for food and prevent disease and epidemics. It's okay for cattle, but sheep mainly sells mutton, which is a long-distance

If you trek to the place, you might lose weight. How could the merchants be happy?”

Shen Rui smiled and said, "I think it's the same thing, it depends on how much profit it is. I heard that the winter in the north is very cold, and cattle and sheep cannot live without grass. Most herders have to slaughter many. Merchants collect cattle and sheep.

, extremely low price.”

Zhang Hui couldn't help but sneer: "My second brother, if the Tartars can't raise cattle and sheep in winter, we can raise them? It's cheap to keep them, and you'll die at your own hands, and you won't lose money!"

Shen Rui said: "There are ways to sell the living, and the dead are ways to sell the dead. It is naturally excellent to rush back to the oxen. But if it is slaughtered, cowhide can be made into leather armor, leather boots, and saddles.

It can be made of utensils, made of mutton, leather jackets, leather boots, leather mattresses. As for beef and mutton…”

He suddenly smiled and said, "I haven't thought about it yet when I mentioned it, but I have thought about it when I saw Wenhu."

Gao Wenhu was stunned and said strangely: "What did Brother Shen think of when I saw me?"

Shen Rui smiled and said, "Baoke. It's not easy to store fresh meat, but it's air-dried, bacon, but bacon is made. Isn't your Yue family good at it?"

Brother Shou immediately clapped his hands and laughed, Zhang Hui and Youxuan followed suit, Gao Wenhu's face turned red and he felt embarrassed.

Zhang Hui smiled and said, "The Li family's little lady is afraid that she will open several bacon shops at the border." Gao Wenhu's future Yue family is surnamed Li.

Shen Rui looked at Zhang Hui and smiled and said, "There is another thing that I only thought of, and wool is also a good thing. I was stunned to see in some miscellaneous notes that wool can be spinned and woven into clothes that are light and warm. And

It seems that some wool can be added to the threaded fabric, and the material is thick and durable. But I didn’t care about it at that time, and I really don’t remember any of the books. Now I can let the weaving factory try it out.”

Shou Ge smiled and said, "It can be seen that the two weaving factories occupied by the He family will be of great benefit to you."

Shen Rui smiled and said, "It's not just these two weaving factories. I also heard that there are many cloth shops in Wujing Bo's mansion. If you have experienced old shopkeepers, you can also help you take a look at the first and second. You can set up a reward.

, I believe that you can always make a reward that you have found out."

Brother Shou was stunned, then turned his head to see Zhang Hui. Seeing that he was also stunned, he burst out laughing, "Zhang Hui, according to my opinion, the little lady of the Zhao family is going to open several cloth shops at the border.

"Zhang Hui's future father-in-law Wu Jingbo is the surname Zhao.

Zhang Hui is not a thin-skinned person, and his marriage is approaching. He smiled and said, "If the emperor can use it, it is better. But my father-in-law is now guarding Nanjing, so I am afraid that he will not have much friendship with the border.

, the shop closed here is not easy to open."

Brother Shou half-jokingly said, "It doesn't matter. After a year or two, you will be transferred to the border, and you will be in love."

Zhang Hui's heart moved, and his eyes looked at Shou Ge with gratitude. Children like him who were not destined to have a hereditary title in his family had to make a fortune by relying on military merits.

In terms of military merits, how can you compare to the border? Even if you don’t go to the battlefield, you will have countless military achievements to make when you walk to the border.
To be continued...