"Emperor, I think I can borrow the power of the people," Wang Fan suggested.

Zhu Yicheng had no objection to Wang Fan's suggestion. In fact, the Ming Dynasty is different from previous dynasties. The civil power, especially the civil business power, has increased significantly. If compared, the two Song dynasties with developed commercialization, may be comparable, but this is only reflected in the commercial atmosphere, and there are earth-shaking changes in nature.

After the great rise of maritime trade, the Ming Dynasty embarked on a different path. When the Ming fleet fought with the Portuguese fleet and led Guangdong, civil forces, or mainly business parties, were already doing business for the court.

In the Battle of the South China Sea, Bao Honghui devoted all his efforts to the Bao family and personally took risks to provide logistics for Wang Dong's fleet. In the end, the Ming army defeated the powerful Portuguese fleet at sea, directly joined forces with the army to advance against Guangdong and recover Guangdong in one fell swoop.

In this war, Bao Honghui's assistance played a huge role in it. It is precisely because of this that after the war, Zhu Yi became the creditor of Bao Honghui not only for him, but also imitated Shanghai to directly hand over Hong Kong Island to Bao Honghui for governance. This was also because the incident happened to the head of the Bao family in Ningbo, and Bao Honghui was able to revive the Bao family in Hong Kong. Now the Bao family in Hong Kong is still one of the few major businesses in the Ming Dynasty.

When the Ming Dynasty decided to immigrate to the New World, that is, in the current Xinming period, various businesses, including ordinary maritime merchants, were scrambling to invest in it. If we only rely on the power of the Ming court, it would be impossible for Xinming to make such rapid progress in such a short period of time, and these are inseparable from the civil forces.

At present, the same is true for Wang Fan's proposal to borrow the power of the people. Zhu Yicheng was not surprised. He originally wanted to do this, but Wang Fan's other suggestion surprised Zhu Yicheng a little, because Wang Fan took the initiative to propose that various businesses could mobilize grain from Nanyang to Tianjin, and promised Zhu Yicheng that there would be no need for the court to allocate funds first, but that various businesses would advance funds themselves to reduce the burden on the court.

"So feasible?" Zhu Yicheng was stunned and asked involuntarily.

If this is the case, it will greatly reduce the pressure from the court. Although the treasury is rich now, there are too many places to use money in the Ming Dynasty. In addition, the war is still continuing, and the pressure from the Ministry of Revenue is still quite large. Just now, Zhu Yicheng was thinking that this time the rescue of Shanxi might cost a lot, and was planning to discuss with Wang Fan, but he didn't expect that he had not asked this question, but Wang Fan told him like this.

"Although the northern region is not connected now, and it is still a few days before autumn harvest, but it is okay in the South China Sea. The climate in the South China Sea has always been ripe three or even four ripe a year. After the Ming Dynasty occupied Luzon, its grain production increased significantly. In fact, our Ming Dynasty did not lack food, just a man-made disaster in Shanxi today. The emperor first transferred the grain from Taicang for emergency treatment, and then transported grain from the south to provide assistance. This is a good idea..."

Wang Fan explained that his words made everyone nodded slightly, but then he mentioned the situation of the imperial court's capacity. Although it was normal for the navy to come forward and the localities stepped up mobilization, it was normal. However, Wang Fan also reminded the court that it had its own rules for handling matters. Since there were rules, the efficiency would be worse, and private businesses would be more efficient.

"Can the business advance the funds to transport grain, and they are willing to do it?" At this time, Sun Jiagan couldn't help but ask, but He Xianzu was a little thoughtful. As for Liao Huanzhi, Dong Dashan, Zeng Yishu and others did not speak, and continued to wait for Wang Fan to talk further.

Wang Fan smiled and bowed, "Businessmen, the businessmen who do business mainly do it for profit, but our Ming merchants are not only merchants, but also people of our Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty is now prosperous in business, which is the grace of the emperor and the court. Now that the Ming Dynasty has something to do, it is natural for them to do something for the court, not to mention that it is just to advance funds to buy grain. The court will naturally settle the amount of grain afterwards, and it will not be able to lose them."

Speaking of this, Wang Fan said again: "Although I cannot guarantee the world's business, I can guarantee that most of my businessmen in the Ming Dynasty are loyal and righteous, and all I lack is an opportunity. Therefore, I beg the emperor to benefit the world and give them this opportunity."

After Wang Fan said these words, the people present looked a little strange, and even Zhu Yicheng was a little amused and crying. According to Wang Fan's intention, this matter was not a bad thing, but a good thing. Moreover, the court handed over this matter to various commercial banks, so that they could serve the court with loyalty and righteousness, which was something they could not ask for.

But everyone is not fool. Although Wang Fan's words are so high-sounding and feasible, the most important thing is that they can reduce the great pressure of the court, which is indeed a good thing for the Ming Dynasty and the people of Shanxi. However, what Wang Fan did is doing is also profound. Liao Huanzhi had already thought of something at this time, raised his eyebrows slightly, but did not say anything.

As for Zhu Yicheng, he also understood Wang Fan's intention in his heart, probably knowing why Wang Fan did so. However, he didn't say anything, but just nodded slightly, immediately agreed to Wang Fan's proposal, and asked the Ministry of Revenue to start dealing with the matter.

The meeting was not long, and it ended after discussing Shanxi. As for the abnormal movements of the Qing court and subsequent strategic issues, we can only put it aside for the time being. Now the Ming Dynasty doesn’t care about so much at all, so we can only concentrate on dealing with the issues in Shanxi, Guanzhong and Southwest, and talk about the others when everything is settled.

"Mr. Wang, why are you doing this today?" Leaving the Palace of Yangxin, Liao Huanzhi called Wang Fan in front of him, and waited for the others to walk away. He looked at Wang Fan and sighed.

Wang Fan thought for a while and said, "I am going to solve my problems in the Ming Dynasty. Do you think this is not appropriate to arrange this matter?"

Liao Huanzhi stared at Wang Fan and sighed after a moment, "Some things are afraid that they are too much. I naturally understand what Lord Wang is worried about, but you should also know that the Emperor is a famous lord who will not be known for thousands of years. Can't the Emperor see the Lord Wang's little thoughts?"

Seeing Liao Huanzhi talking about this, Wang Fan was silent for a moment, then smiled bitterly: "As a minister, you always have to do something. In the past, he was just an ordinary businessman. When the emperor refused to abandon him, he followed the dragon and entrusted him with important tasks. He has been trembling all these years, as if he was walking on thin ice to control the Ministry of Revenue for the Ming Dynasty. Fortunately, he had only a small achievement. However, the emperor treated his ministers with great kindness. We must not refuse to repay him. It can be regarded as being the emperor before he retired, and he also did something for the Ming Dynasty within his ability..."

Although Wang Fan's words were normal, they showed a firm look, which made Liao Huanzhi speechless and didn't know what to say. After a while, Liao Huanzhi laughed, bowed to Wang Fan with a big smile, turned around and strode away.
Chapter completed!