Taking advantage of the fact that the generals entered Beijing to congratulate during the wedding, Zhu Cihong also summoned several Tianwu nobles such as Sun Yingyuan, Gongsun Yingyuan of Qin, Huang Degong, Duke of Jingguo, and Cao Bianjiao, Duke of Xiangguo.

These are all staunch supporters of the imperial party, and Zhu Cihong will definitely not treat them badly, so that these subordinates who have been following him to fight the world are chilled.

In the Qianqing Palace, there is a large table of imperial meals, Zhu Cihongju and Xu Chenyun are on the head, and Sun Yingyuan, Huang Degong and other honors and nobles sit on both sides.

Seeing that they were a little restrained, Zhu Cihong smiled and said: "Today I only talk about family affairs, not state affairs, you don't have to be restrained." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" The people answered.

At the suggestion of Zhu Cihong, Queen Xu Chenyun personally served tea to everyone.

Everyone was immediately terrified, and shouted that it must not be.

Xu Chenyun said with a smile: "You are the heroes of the Ming Dynasty, and you are also the old people around Your Majesty, Your Majesty often tells the palace that you are like his elders, always guarding him and guarding the Ming Dynasty, and the palace has grown up listening to your stories since childhood, and admires you from the bottom of my heart!" ”

Saying that, she walked towards Yingyuan, the first prince of the Qin State.

Sun Yingyuan hurriedly stood up, waved his hand and said, "How dare the minister bother the queen to serve tea, absolutely not!" ”

Xu Chenyun smiled and said: "Qin Guogong, you are the first general to follow Your Majesty, Your Majesty's original East Palace Guards were also trained by you, Your Majesty once said that Qin Guogong was the first person to make me feel safe." ”

Sun Yingyuan hurriedly bowed down and shouted: "Thank you, Your Majesty for your trust!" ”

After taking the tea, Sun Yingyuan thanked Queen Xu again.

Xu Chenyun then served tea to Huang Degong, the Duke of Jingguo: "Duke Jingguo, when the palace was in the people, I often heard Mr. Storyteller tell your story, saying that you are the first fierce general of the Ming Dynasty, and Your Majesty often praises you for your loyalty and outspokenness, and your strength is clear, and the Tianwu Army is achieved on the basis of the Yongwei battalion you trained." ”

The rugged Huang Degong was a little embarrassed to be praised and kept rubbing his hands.

Zhu Cihong smiled and said: "Don't you just praise you, how did you become such a mother-in-law." ”

After a few words of laughter, Xu Chenyun looked at the straight Cao Bianjiao who was sitting again.

She smiled and served tea and said: "Xiangguo Gong Bing's fierce assets, the destruction of the direction, the Northern Expedition, led by 10,000 horsemen like walking on the ground, chasing thieves for thousands of miles, the people of the time said: There is a Cao in the army, 10,000 enemies, and the thieves are afraid to hear it." ”

Cao Bianjiao got up and bowed and saluted: "Thank you to the queen for giving you tea!" ”

After the end of the first round, Zhu Cihong said: "You all grew up watching me, in this Qianqing Palace today, behind closed doors, there is a family, and in the future, let the wives of your family enter the palace to accompany the queen." ”

"Yes!" The people promised.

Zhu Cihong began to get to the point, and said: "I am not polite to you anymore, I ask you, how much silver can you earn from the fields and shops in your house every year?" ”

Everyone was stunned in their hearts, and they didn't know why the emperor suddenly asked this.

Based on the understanding of this person, the first feeling in some people's minds is that they are going to investigate someone.

We all have the skill of following the dragon, and we have always kept to ourselves, and we have never done anything taboo, this should not be!

And seeing that His Majesty's face was not angry, and there was a smile on his face, the queen praised it one by one just now.

Huang Degong hit the courage and said: "The minister has no heirs, his family does not run a shop, only 10,000 acres of fertile land are rewarded, and hundreds of tenants are hired to take care of it, and the surplus grain sold every year will only be a few thousand taels into the account." ”

Zhu Cihong nodded, Huang Degong is not good at management, and his wife Weng is also more conservative, his righteous son Li Yu is now a viscount and has already started a family, so he doesn't have to worry about it.

Sun Yingyuan followed: "The minister's mansion is relatively wealthy, and there are more than 30 shops under his name, all of which are in Zhili, and there are about 30,000 taels of silver every year. ”

Then Cao Bianjiao, Li Tingbiao and others reported their family property one after another, and as a result, Sun Yingyuan was the richest.

Marrying a capable wife is awesome!

Sun Yingyuan's wife Chen Yuanyuan, born in a merchant's family, formerly known as Xing Yuan, her mother died early, she grew up in her uncle's house, and her uncle's surname was Chen, and later her uncle's uncle-in-law sold her to Suzhou Pear Garden.

After the two got married, Chen Yuanyuan changed back to his original name and gave birth to a son and a daughter to Sun Yingyuan.

After listening to the family property reported by several henchmen, Zhu Cihong sighed and said: "Twenty or thirty thousand taels of silver a year, it seems to be a lot, but the Nuoda Guogong Mansion and the Hou Mansion, except for eating, drinking, chewing, and sending some money out, there is nothing left all year round, you are too poor!" ”

"Why, Your Majesty, are you going to give us silver?" Huang Degong said with a smile.

Zhu Cihong said: "Don't you have to send silver, if you all become poor eggs, who else will follow me?" ”

When everyone heard this, a row of question marks appeared on their heads, and they didn't know what kind of charter this was.

Zhu Cihong didn't sell it, and said directly: "I called you this time, one is to reminisce about the past, and the other is to give your descendants a golden job!" ”

"There is a royal group under my name, I don't know if you have heard of it, Dezhuang Hot Pot, Northeast Barbecue Building, Zhonghua Building, Jinjiang Star, Mingshang Bank, Shanxi Automobile Company, Mingzheng Fleet, Taiping, Hanyang two major iron works....... These are all properties under the name of the Royal Group. ”

Zhu Cihong just said a few briefly, except for Li Tingbiao and Xu Sheng, the eyes of the other nobles were already as wide as bull's eyes.

It is said that the emperor is rich all over the world, and this one in front of him is really amazing, and he has made so many family properties quietly, but listening to the name, there are many of them obtained from copying the family!

I only heard Zhu Cihong say: "I have meat to eat, I won't let you lick the bowl and let your descendants drink the northwest wind. ”

Then, Zhu Cihong began to divide the shares, and each of the nobles who participated in the royal banquet received one percent of the shares of the royal group.

One percent seems to be very small, but one percent of the shares in the huge Royal Group has at least 100,000 taels of silver a year.

As the Royal Group grew larger and larger, and gradually opened up maritime trade, Zhu Cihong decided to truly build the Royal Group into the model of the East India Company, focusing on overseas markets, establishing strongholds and colonies overseas, and monopolizing trade.

The Royal Group is also to establish a separate armed force, mainly composed of retired personnel of the Tianwu Army, and also recruit people locally overseas.

In the future, the royal group will be dominated by the royal family and supplemented by the nobles, which is equivalent to a board of directors, with the emperor as the chairman and the honorable as the board member.

Zhu Cihong gave a detailed introduction to the future model of the Royal Group to several nobles.

The Royal Group is a private business group, except for paying taxes to the Ming Ministry of Finance, and does not belong to any department of the imperial court.

However, all political activities must be subordinated to the interests of the Ming Dynasty, that is, they cannot contradict the policies of the imperial court.

In order to prevent the future of the royal group from interfering in the imperial court's policies, Zhu Cihong stipulated that the two would not be subordinate to each other, and the decision-making power of the board of directors would lie with the emperor.

The link between the royal group and the imperial court is the Ming Emperor.

No matter how many vassal kings and nobles became shareholders in the future, the emperor held at least 51 percent of the shares and held absolute control.

To put it bluntly, the nature of the royal group is the imperial village, which belongs to the emperor's private property, and it is already the nature of the God of Wealth to scatter wealth if it can take the clan and nobles out to run around, and the Godhead of the God of Wealth cannot be lost.

The shares can be hereditary, but as an obligation, the nobles have their own tasks every year, and this money cannot be taken in vain.

After talking for a long time, Sun Yingyuan and others realized that in fact, His Majesty was engaged in the separation of public and private, transferring the burden of the clan and nobles from the imperial court to the royal group, from political hereditary to economic hereditary, and the main field was overseas.

The Royal Group can not only serve as a retirement place for nobles and soldiers, but also as a pioneer in expanding the territory for the Ming Dynasty.

The group mercenaries opened the way first, the land belonged to the Ming Dynasty, and the economic management rights belonged to the group.......

In the end, Zhu Cihong said again: "I can assure you that in the future, the Royal Group will earn more silver, and if it is run well, it will be possible for each family to receive millions of taels of silver a year." ”

A smile immediately appeared on Xungui's face, it seems that the Son of Heaven is still thinking about himself, he really didn't follow the wrong person!

As long as the Ming Emperor is there and the royal group is there, his children and grandchildren, even if they can't become officials, they will not fall.

Of course, the descendants who eat and wait for death, even if they give him gold and silver, they will still be defeated.

Zhu Cihong naturally took this into account and is starting to establish various systems within the group, striving to make the future royal family and the descendants of the nobles have the will to open up and do business all over the world.

Everyone present in the Qianqing Palace did not expect that today's imperial meal would affect the pattern of the future world for hundreds of years.