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Whether the revenue of this Northern Xinjiang Mutual Market is handed over to the Imperial Court, or whether it is enriched to the Emperor Hongzhi’s own inner palace.

This is no different for Zhou Chen. Anyway, he can’t keep this amount of money.

After reading the secret edict carefully, Zhou Chen solemnly took the secret edict into his arms.

It’s not that Zhou Chen attaches great importance to this secret essay, it’s just that he acted in front of Cao Zhengchun.

After that, Zhou Chen took out a purse from the inside pocket of the cuff, and quietly stuffed it into Cao Zhengchun’s sleeve.

He chuckled and asked: “Your Majesty’s will, the officer already knows everything, I don’t know what other advice Eunuch Cao has?!”

Cao Zhengchun squeezed the purse inside his sleeve, and the smile on his face became more and more brilliant.

Because the purse sent by Zhou Chen is simply not silver taels, but more valuable gold.

Cao Zhengchun can still feel the different textures between gold and silver.

At the same time, Cao Zhengchun also quietly raised his hand to upset the weight of the purse, which contains at least a hundred taels of gold.

You must know that during the Ming Dynasty, the Imperial Court stipulated that 1 gold tael could be exchanged for about 8 taels of silver for the exchange between gold and silver.

And even if so, it is still priceless, after all, the value of gold is much more expensive than silver.

If it is placed in the black market, 1 gold tael can be exchanged for more than a dozen silver.

This full bag of gold is almost equivalent to about one thousand taels of silver.

In terms of Cao Zhengchun’s salary, this thousand taels of silver can be worth his salary for more than ten years.

After all, the current Cao Zhengchun is not the great Court Eunuch who will be in charge of Eastern Yard during the Zhengde period in the future.

He is just Court Eunuch, an attendant next to Crown Prince Zhu Huzhao. For example, with the existence of Cao Zhengchun, Crown Prince Zhu Huzhao is surrounded by eight people.

Although Crown Prince Zhu Houzhao treats them and his subordinates very generously, he has never treated them badly.

However, because of the large number of people attending Court Eunuch with Zhu Houzhao, Cao Zhengchun actually didn’t have a huge amount of oil and water, and he just didn’t need a small amount of money to spend it.

As a result, the gold in this purse is in the sleeves, and Cao Zhengchun’s face is full of joy.

“This week, the adults deserve the attention of His Highness the Crown Prince. This is a good thing to do in the world.”

Secretly muttered with joy in my heart. After one sentence, Cao Zhengchun got close to Zhou Chen’s side, lowered his voice and said in a secret voice: “Master Zhou, Your Majesty hasn’t asked our family to tell you anything.

But our family is serving His. When I was Highness the Crown Prince, I heard from His Highness the Crown Prince something about you, Lord Zhou.”

You Dao is taking people money and people to eliminate disasters, Cao Zhengchun Now that he has received such a large bag of gold from Zhou Chen, he naturally wants to disclose some information to Zhou Chen.

“Eunuch Cao, please give me some advice!”

I heard Cao Zhengchun’s voice in his ears, Zhou Chen’s expression on his face became serious, and he asked in a deep voice. Said.

Cao Zhengchun took a deep look at Zhou Chen: “Master Zhou, did you take action against several of the Shanxi merchants a few months ago?”

Zhou Chen slowly nodded, but he did not speak.

After sighed for a long time, Cao Zhengchun continued to lower his voice and said, “Master Zhou, do you know that there are many Imperial court ministers behind those Shanxi merchants.

If not, how could these Shanxi merchants develop to such a huge scale.

A few days after you started with the Fantian family, Mr. Zhou, there were many officials in the Imperial court. Stand up and impeach you for private use and seize the property of the good family.

Fortunately, Your Majesty is not a faint king. After hearing your impeachment against Lord Zhou, Your Majesty immediately ordered Dragon Guard Mountain Villa and Eastern Yard’s intelligence system were investigated in detail.

Until you discovered that you are all for the establishment of the Northern Xinjiang Mutual Market, Your Majesty personally suppressed the situation in the court. Impeachment.

If not, Lord Zhou, you are afraid that you were transferred back to the capital for trial a few months ago.”

Speaking of which, Cao Zhengchun could not help but hesitate a bit. Later, he said aloud: “Master Zhou, don’t blame our family for talking, you’d better not continue to work on the leading family of Shanxi merchants.

Come on, after all, there are other six major Shanxi merchant families.

If you continue to brutally attack the remaining six major Shanxi merchant families, the imperial court officer behind them will definitely not be able to tolerate you as an adult. Yes.

At that time, I am afraid that even Your Majesty can’t suppress the impeachment against you from the court.”

After listening to Cao Zhengchun’s statement quietly , Zhou Chen could not help but solemnly nodded.

Now the Northern Xinjiang Mutual Market has been thoroughly established. With Fan Tian’s two commercial powers as examples, other Shanxi merchants have also accepted this Northern Xinjiang Mutual Market.

Although there are still Shanxi merchants smuggling in secret, the number of transactions from the Northern Xinjiang Mutual Market is also greater.

For Zhou Chen, his responsibilities have been completely completed, so he naturally will not provoke the remaining Shanxi merchant families for no reason.

In the next time, Zhou Chen’s roots will not need to be as laborious as when he first came to Youyu County.

He only needs to deal with government affairs, practice martial arts, and wait quietly for perfection.

At that time, there will definitely be a new magistrate in the Imperial Court to take over Youyu County.

And he will be rewarded by Emperor Hongzhi according to his merits as stated in the secret decree of Emperor Hongzhi.

Either he was promoted to a higher-level official position in Shanxi Province, or he was directly transferred back to the capital.

In any case, Zhou Chen will not last a few years in Youyu County.

Immediately, Zhou Chen smiled and said: “Many thanks to Eunuch Cao’s guidance, this officer will definitely remember it.”

“Master Zhou is serious, you It’s good if you know it in your heart!”

Cao Zhengchun hearing this, also nodded with a smile, said.

For Zhou Chen, a new subject who is still in the emperor’s heart, Cao Zhengchun’s heart aroused the idea of ​​friendship.

If not, Cao Zhengchun will not tell Zhou Chen so much.

Of course, the full bag of gold that Zhou Chen just sent out also played a very important factor in it,