Fahe looked up in surprise, stunned.
"It's just to follow the national laws and set an interest ceiling. If you need money, come to me and I'll cover it for you. It's done in a serious and open manner." Zhao Jiu spread out his notes, found the relevant matters, and read them out perfunctorily. "Then I'll send someone to check your accounts. You get the interest, and we'll add 50% to it. We won't go through the local government, but will send it to Tokyo in quarterly installments, and deposit it in the Jiaozi Office under the Ministry of Revenue. How do you do that?"
Fahe was about to speak.
"Don't think too much." Zhao Jiu suddenly closed his notebook and added with a sneer. "I dare not let you take care of taxes, levies and loans. You just think that I want to use the royal family's name to invest and force you to take over half of your Shaolin Temple's loan business. I also want to supervise you not to use this business to annex land... Moreover, I don't know if this method will work. Who knows, I may have to rectify and collect it in the future, or simply abandon it... But no matter what, we have to try to do it, right? Let's do it and see how it works!"
"How dare I disobey the emperor's decree?" Fahe scanned the faces of several ministers and realized that although this matter might be controversial, it had already been decided at the highest level. He immediately sat up cross-legged, clasped his hands together, and showed great joy. "Besides, the emperor is so powerful that there are seven Bodhisattvas guarding him. He is the most benevolent king among benevolent kings... and the decree of the benevolent king is also the decree of the law. I think even if our temple's founder Bodhidharma knew about it, he would obey it wholeheartedly."
"King of Benevolence?" Zhao Jiu sneered, looking at those nobles, merchants, monks and Taoists, but he was still sighing for no reason and speaking nonsense. "If you hadn't become a tyrannical king and an unfilial son in Shaoxing, how could you have the courage to be the King of Benevolence today? But what if you really did it? You are all just paper tigers!"
Fahe clasped his hands together, smiled, and pretended not to understand.
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