My uncle is Zhu Di

Chapter 170: Isn’t it enough to just confiscate the house?
When Xu Qin got outside, he saw Zhu Gaosui. Xu Qin walked over with a smile and immediately hugged Zhu Gaosui. Zhu Gaosui looked at Xu Qin with a tearful face and said, "Cousin, please don't cheat me. You know, just now, my father extorted another 100,000 taels from me. From around the New Year to now, my father has taken a million taels from me. Cousin, you have to help me! If this continues, I can't stay in the capital anymore."

Xu Qin heard it and looked at Zhu Gaosui in surprise: "Not really?"

"Not really? Let me tell you, the palace treasury can't even take out 200,000 taels. My father has no money, so he just keeps staring at the three of us. You say, hey, he doesn't know how to think of a solution. Fortunately, there is your Trade Bureau, which may be able to get some money when the time comes. Otherwise, it will be even more troublesome in the future. How much money can my father spend? More than 20 million taels, and there is not even 200,000 taels left in the treasury.

Well, cousin, you have to help me anyway. If you have any business in the future, you have to think of me. Otherwise, my father will make me penniless sooner or later. "Zhu Gaosui complained to Xu Qin again.

"No? Can't you think of a solution?" Xu Qin looked at Zhu Gaosui in confusion.

"What can I do? I don't know how to do business, what else can I do?" Zhu Gaosui looked at Xu Qin in confusion.

"Well, I feel there is a way anyway. Why don't you find a way to give your father money to spend? By the way, is this what you came to me to talk about?" Xu Qin said while looking at Zhu Gaosui and asked. He didn't have time to listen to his complaints as he was busy.

"My father is looking for you and asks you to go to the palace now. I didn't have to come, but I don't dare to stay with my father. If I stay, I will be in trouble. Now my eldest brother is in the imperial study and I don't know how to deal with my father." Zhu Gaosui said with a wry smile as he looked at Xu Qin.

Xu Qin frowned, looked at Zhu Gaosui and asked, "Why did your father ask me to do something? I'm busy! Is the Trade Bureau's affairs going according to plan? Is there nothing going on?"

"How should I know? Let's go!" Zhu Gaosui pushed Xu Qin outside.

Xu Qin had no choice but to go to the palace. When he arrived at the palace, the imperial guards searched him. Zhu Gaosui saw this and scolded him, "Who told you to search?"

"No, no, search, search me. This kind of thing is not to be joked about. If something happens, I won't be able to explain it clearly. Come on, search me, search carefully." Xu Qin stopped Zhu Gaosui and walked in front of the imperial guards, spread out his hands and let them search him.

"My apologies, Marquis of Haozhou!" The imperial guard immediately bowed to Xu Qin and began to search him.

"I guess my father has forgotten. I'll go and talk to him later." Zhu Gaosui said immediately.

"No, you have to search me. I'm too lazy to bother you later. Anyway, I don't come here many times a year, so there's no harm in searching me." Xu Qin said with a smile. Zhu Gaosui looked at Xu Qin in confusion, not knowing what Xu Qin was up to.

When they arrived at the Imperial Study in the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Gaosui went in first to report, then came out and took Xu Qin in.

There was no one else in the imperial study at the moment, just Zhu Di, his father and his son, and Xu Qin.

"You have taken over the Trade Bureau, but you haven't come to report yet?" Zhu Di sat there, staring at Xu Qin and said.

"What are you reporting? We're still working on it. The goods haven't been fully delivered yet. But looking at the trend, it will be done soon. It will be almost done in five or six days at most. The goods in the warehouse are almost piled up." Xu Qin looked at Zhu Di in confusion.

After hearing this, Zhu Di immediately pointed to the pile of memorials on the table and said, "These are all impeachments against you. Take a look."

"No need to read it. Just impeach me. I have thought of this a long time ago. I have also told you, Your Majesty, before. Anyway, if you don't want me to do it, just take me down. I have no objection." Xu Qin shook his head and said that he didn't want to read those things. It was meaningless.

"You, hey, you should also take a look. See what they are impeaching you for? You also need to think of countermeasures. I can't deal with it here. If I don't deal with it, they will submit memorials every day. What do you think we should do? So, letting you see it means that I want you to think of countermeasures." Zhu Di looked at Xu Qin helplessly and said.

There is no way. If this guy says he won’t do it, he might really quit. That won’t do. I’m still counting on him to help me make money. If he quits, what will happen to the Trade Bureau?
"They just impeached me for forced buying and selling. I haven't impeached them yet. Your Majesty, don't worry, I will go find Xia Yuanji later and scare him to death." Xu Qin said indifferently. They thought that if they impeached him, he would be afraid, and he didn't have any means.

Zhu Di looked at Xu Qin with shining eyes. He just wanted to scare those civil officials to death, but he had no way to do it. So he smiled and asked Xu Qin: "Tell me, how do you want to scare Xia Yuanji to death?"

Xu Qin looked at Zhu Di with suspicion. Logically, Zhu Di trusted Xia Yuanji very much, as it was recorded in history. But why was Zhu Di so excited?
"Shakabao, now we don't know how to deal with the pressure from these civil officials. If we can't curb those civil officials in this matter, it will damage your reputation." Zhu Gaochi also looked at Xu Qin and advised.

Xu Qin sat there thinking for a while, then suddenly turned to Zhu Gaosui and said, "Third cousin, didn't you just say that the palace has no money? Do you want to take this opportunity to make money?"

"What opportunity?" Zhu Di and Zhu Gaosui asked in unison. "Confiscate the property!" Xu Qin said with a smile.

"Ah, confiscating the property, whose property is being confiscated? Under what pretext?" Zhu Gaosui asked immediately.

Zhu Di also stared at Xu Qin.

"Before, the Weaving Bureau asked the person in charge of the tea mountain for tea, and asked the person in charge of the porcelain workshop for porcelain, but they all said they had none. But now they have them. Isn't this deceiving the emperor? Can't their property be confiscated for the crime of deceiving the emperor? Also, these people are in charge of the tea mountain and the porcelain workshop, how could they not have money? If no money can be confiscated, then Your Majesty should use them and promote them, but I guess there are very few such people." Xu Qin said, looking at them with a smile.

Zhu Di immediately looked at Zhu Gaochi. Zhu Gaochi thought for a moment and said, "There aren't many officials here, right?"

"It's simple. The goods we want to buy now were not available before, but we can buy them now. Why? Jinyiwei will investigate and see who threatened him. As long as it is confirmed that a threat was made, their property will be confiscated. They are working together to deceive Your Majesty, so shouldn't they be severely punished? Those workshop owners also need to be fined. Of course, the fine should not be too high. The fine should be based on the value of the goods they produce, but don't make their families ruined. It's not easy for them.

The purpose is not to fine them, but to make them hate those civil officials. First scare them and then fine them to show your majesty's kindness to those workshop owners, but as for the civil officials involved, they will be severely punished.

The county magistrates below will certainly not accept it, they will give out the officials who gave them the order and continue to follow the clues. I don’t believe that the officials of the six ministries are not afraid. "Xu Qin stood there and said to Zhu Gaochi and others.

Zhu Di clapped his hands fiercely, stood up, and began to walk in the imperial study with his hands behind his back. Zhu Gaochi frowned and said to Xu Qin: "Shijiabao, isn't this a bit too big?"

"You can control the size yourselves, but you have taken the greater responsibility. You said before that there was no stock, but now there is stock, which means there is a problem, right?" Xu Qin said to Zhu Gaochi with a smile.

Zhu Di also looked at Zhu Gaochi and said, "Big brother, you take control. Third brother, tell me, I have handed over the Jinyiwei and Wucheng Bingmasi to you, and you can't even think of this?"

Zhu Gaosui immediately cupped his hands and said, "Father, I am stupid. Father, don't worry, I will definitely destroy their family this time!"

"But we have to be careful!" Xu Qin said. The three of them all looked at Xu Qin. Xu Qin continued, "If he is truly an honest official with a good reputation, you can relax the leniency appropriately. Don't punish good officials as well. If you punish good officials, who will govern the people in the future?"

"Third brother, do you remember this?" Zhu Di said, staring at Zhu Gaosui.

"Dad, don't worry. Before confiscating the property, I will make sure to find out who is rich, who is an honest official, and who might be a corrupt official!" Zhu Gaosui immediately said with a smile and bowed.

"Well, there is a way. Dad, I agree. They are bullying the emperor. Otherwise, if they unite like this, Dad will have no way to deal with them. If they continue to unite, they can even undermine our royal family. Dad, I agree. If necessary, we can deal with one or two ministers to set an example." Zhu Gaochi bowed to Zhu Di and said.

When it came to handling state affairs, Zhu Di actually trusted Zhu Gaochi the most. If Zhu Gaochi said something was okay, Zhu Di would almost not think about it and thought it was okay.

"Third brother, go and get busy!" Zhu Di said to Zhu Gaosui.

"Dad, wait for my good news." Zhu Gaosui was very excited. He bowed and went out immediately.

Zhu Di returned to his seat and sat down, pointing at Xu Qin and said, "You are the one who has the solution. In this case, those civil officials have no basis to impeach you and those sons of military honors. Well, I should have told you about these things earlier, otherwise, I wouldn't be so worried! From now on, you come here twice every ten days."

"What the hell? I came here twice? I won't do that. I don't even want to come here once!" Xu Qin said to Zhu Di immediately after hearing that.

Zhu Di just glared at Xu Qin.

"How can I have the time? I have so many things to do, and the Trade Bureau has a lot of things to do. In the future, the Trade Bureau will need to set up some special workshops in case merchants don't have enough goods. In addition, the Trade Bureau must be involved in some key industries. However, the goods of the Trade Bureau are mainly used for export. Only in this way can we allow more people to have jobs.

Moreover, if we purchase a large number of goods from existing workshops, it will bring a problem: prices will rise and people will not be able to afford them! "Xu Qin said to Zhu Di. He had too many things to do, so how could he have time to come and chat with Zhu Di?
(End of this chapter)