"Brother Yingxu." "Brother Jiujiang." Li Jinglong and Xu Yingxu saluted each other.
The two of them greeted each other several times, and Li Jinglong asked: "Today, His Majesty asked us to go to the Qianqing Palace to pay an audience as soon as we leave the court. We have important matters to tell you. Why didn't Yungong come?"
"After my brother resigned from the post of governor and magistrate due to illness, although his health has improved a lot this month and he has been able to see guests, he has just recovered from a serious illness. The doctor told him not to go out, so he did not enter the palace today."
"Besides, my brother has gone home to recuperate due to illness and is no longer an official. Your Majesty's summons must be related to the court affairs, and it is difficult to participate. Naturally, I will do it." Xu Yingxu replied. He is very familiar with Li Jinglong and also There is no need to be modest.
"Yun Gong's illness is not cured yet? How about the doctor you hired? Is he a good doctor? Do you want to hire an imperial doctor?" Li Jinglong asked with great concern, as if he cared about Xu Huizu very much, but in his heart he cursed: "What an old fox" !' He didn't believe that Xu Huizu was not well yet. In fact, he didn't even believe that Xu Huizu was ill some time ago. As for Xu Huizu not participating in the court, he didn't believe it. Xu Yingxu was a steady man, but he didn't have many eyesight. The Xu family was in Although Xu Huizu has not done much in the past two months after his resignation, it is definitely not what Xu Yingxu could have imagined.
But most people were happy to see Xu Huizu's illness and indifference, even if he was pretending to be ill and seemingly indifferent. Although Li Jinglong looked down upon him, he did not dare to make trouble and asked with concern.
"I've asked the imperial doctor, and he said it's nothing serious. It's just that I've been too tired in the past, and my body can't hold on when I'm free. Doctor Chen prescribed a few prescriptions to soothe the nerves, and also told me to rest at home and not blow the wind, but that's okay. Nothing else." Xu Yingxu replied.
"Since you have already asked the imperial physician to see you, just follow the doctor's advice. But remember to always ask the imperial physician Chen to take a look. If you still don't see it, didn't Qin Fan send back some of Timur's original imperial physicians last year? I heard that the medicine there is better There is something unique about it, maybe it can be cured." Li Jinglong continued to say with concern.
"My brother's illness is not that serious, so there is no need to call in doctors from the Western Regions," Xu Yingxu said.
Li Jinglong just said it casually and didn't care when he rejected it. He started chatting with him. The two of them walked towards Qianqing Gate while chatting.
"Yingxu, what do you think His Majesty is going to do when he calls us here today? It's not just our two families. You see, Chang Sheng and Lan Zhen are walking in front, Cao Che and Zhang Shu are also there, and behind them are Yang Feng and Geng Xuan, there are quite a lot of people." Li Jinglong suddenly pointed at a few people walking not far in front of them, then looked behind him and asked Xu Yingxu.
Just now, he was only paying attention to Xu Yingxu's words. When he came to his senses, Li Jinglong suddenly discovered that there were quite a few people going to Qianqing Sect, and they were all nobles. What needed to be said to these many nobles together would definitely not happen. It's a small thing. What on earth could it be?
"Your Majesty, do you have any instructions regarding military reforms?" Xu Yingxu also noticed so many people walking towards Qianqing Gate at this time, and was a little surprised, so he guessed.
"Probably not. It didn't take long to formulate a new military attache evaluation system. According to His Majesty's temperament, it shouldn't be reformed just three months ago."
"Besides," Li Jinglong glanced around again seriously: "If it was a military reform, how could Chen Fuchu (Chen Xingshan) not be announced to enter the palace?"
"If it has nothing to do with military affairs, it is probably related to what the imperial court is promoting recently." Xu Yingxu said about the experience that Xu Huizu taught him.
"Is it related to what the imperial court is promoting recently? What the imperial court is promoting recently is the exchange of treasure banknotes for gold coins, and the implementation of the nest-based system in banks and pawn shops. Could it be that His Majesty wants to allow us to open banks and pawn shops?"
Li Jinglong became excited. Not only the hairless monks could understand the high profits in the financial industry, but also the nobles with hair. But at this time, the financial industry in Ming Dynasty was not developed enough, or in other words, the business was not developed enough.
A more complex financial system was born, and the profits were not as good as those of the steel industry. However, Yunxi completely opened the steel industry to them and reiterated the restrictions on their business, making them unwilling to risk offending the emperor to enter the financial industry for the time being.
Industry.
But if Yunxi allowed them to open banks and pawn shops, this problem would not exist, and they would not mind having one more way to bring in money.
"This," Xu Yingxu was surprised when he heard Li Jinglong's words, but then he imagined in his mind the situation when his family opened a bank. The profits of the bank were not as good as those of the steel industry, but the costs of the bank were very low, not as good as those of the steel industry.
It requires a huge initial investment, and can even be said to be a no-cost transaction, which is just right for noble families like them who are temporarily unable to spend much money to invest in other businesses due to investing in setting up a new steel plant.
Xu Yingxu has even begun to think about which temple or Taoist temple to 'joint stock' with. The bank industry has no cost and relies entirely on credit. The reputation of their nobles is not as good as that of temples and Taoist temples. It is too slow to accumulate over time.
It would be easier to "jointly" with a certain temple or Taoist temple.
With such a happy thought, he and Li Jinglong came to Qianqing Palace and waited in the side hall for Yunxi's summons.
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"Chen Qing, what do you think of my idea?" In the front hall, Yunxi asked Chen Dido standing in front of him while criticizing the memorial in his hand.
"Your Majesty," Chen Di thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, I think it is very appropriate for your Majesty to separate this errand from the household department and set up a separate yamen to take charge of it."
"In this way, Aiqing still disagrees with my idea." Yunxi said this without raising his head to continue to criticize the memorial.
"Your Majesty is serious." Chen Di said hurriedly. Although he thought so in his heart, he absolutely could not admit it.
"Your Majesty," he continued: "Although you are all meritorious ministers of the imperial court, the imperial court should treat them favorably. However, I think it is very inappropriate to entrust them with such an important errand. What's more, this errand has nothing to do with the military.
, and the nobles are mostly military generals, and I think it is inappropriate to be in charge of this matter."
"Aiqing used two inappropriate words in a sentence, which shows that she is very reluctant. But you also heard what I just said. Do you think it makes sense?"
"What your Majesty said is certainly reasonable, but..." Chen Di wanted to say something more, but Yunxi seemed to have lost the patience to continue explaining the matter with him. He raised his head and said, "Chen Qing, I did this for the sake of
For the sake of the court.”
"What's more," Yunxi lowered his tone again and said to him: "As a civil servant, you may not be unable to be knighted. If you love your minister, you may not be able to become a noble in the future. Why should you be so opposed to it?"
After hearing this, Chen Di, who was originally a little excited, was stunned for a moment, then bowed and saluted: "I obey your order." (To be continued)