Chapter 55: Farewell

And this time, Yu Mian will not long after, and he will also follow the prince to Jiaozhi.

Yu Qian was ready to return the house to the imperial court.

Dong was even more reluctant. You can only watch it over and over again.

Yu Qian has done many big things in his life, but when he arrives at home, the person who is really in charge is still the Dong family. Once in the Dong family's sphere of power. Yu Qian, who was once the most powerful person in the Ming Dynasty, could only shut up.

Yu Mian and Yu Kang, the two brothers, could only help their mother and didn't dare to say anything.

At this time, I saw a person coming here quietly.

Yu Qian looked up and said, "Father-in-law Huaien? ”

But I saw that Huai En was dressed in green clothes, as if he was a small guy. He saluted Yu Qian and said, "Yu Gong, the master wants to see you, please move." ”

Yu Qian frowned slightly, stood on crutches and said, "Lead the way." ”

Yu Qian followed Huai'en for more than a mile and pushed open a courtyard, but saw that there was a big jujube tree in the yard, and now the jujube trees are all red.

Underneath the date tree, there is a stone table with several stone piers around it.

Zhu Qizhen was under the jujube tree, dressed in white, standing with his hands in his hands, looking up at the jujube tree, as if looking for how many dates there were on the jujube tree.

Hearing the movement at the door, he immediately turned around, but when he saw Yu Qian standing on crutches, he was about to salute, Zhu Qizhen hurriedly stepped forward to help him up, and said: "I came to see Mr. this time, not as an emperor, but as an old friend for many years." ”

"Sir, it doesn't have to be like that."

Yu Qian said: "Even so, the minister also has to advise Your Majesty, the white dragon fish suit, once there is something, what can I do in the world?" ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "I'll pay attention." ”

Today's Zhu Qizhen is not at all the same as the previous Zhu Qizhen.

He seems to be more and more fond of moving out of the palace. First, he is very confident, confident that he can control the situation in Beijing, and the person who can do something to him in Beijing has not yet been born.

Second, Zhu Qizhen is very unconfident.

What he does after that will evolve into what it will become. Is he Qin Xiaogong or Emperor Yang of Sui, what is the difference between the two?

He's actually not too bottom-notch.

I am becoming more and more suspicious of some of the information below. Then he has several different intelligence systems, and it still is.

So a lot of times, he prefers to see something with his own eyes. Then just Jingshi will do.

This time too.

This courtyard is actually an empty house, just like a series of official houses owned by the imperial court.

When Beijing was first established, the imperial court owned most of the mansions in the whole of Beijing, and later with the granting of hundreds of officials, and some people took loopholes to take it for themselves, etc., the imperial court owned fewer and fewer mansions.

But even if it's less, there are still some.

Yu Qian's house was originally a gift. Naturally, most of the houses around him are the houses of the imperial court, some of which are already other people's homes, but some are in the hands of the imperial court, which is also very normal.

However, because Zhu Qizhen came very suddenly. So I only came and swept the yard, and the inside of the house was empty and dusty.

This is also the reason why Zhu Qizhen wants to talk to Yu Qian in the courtyard.

Zhu Qizhen looked at Yu Qian's crutches, changed the topic and said, "Why did Mr. use crutches?" ”

In Zhu Qizhen's memory, Yu Qian has always stood straight in the court, and there has never been a flaw in etiquette, and he has never used crutches for Yu Qian.

Yu Qian gently tapped his legs with his hand and said: "The old minister's legs have long been useless, but he is the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty in the court, how can he lose his dignity, and now he is nothing." This can be a little presumptuous. ”

Zhu Qizhen listened, and he didn't know what to say?

Just like Xue Xuan's forced mouthful of blood, it is not rude. Yu Qian doesn't use crutches in the court, and he thinks about it.

This can be said to be face, or it can be said to be the stubbornness of a Confucian minister.

Zhu Qizhen retreated left and right, and said: "Mr. insists on leaving, and I can't keep it, but when I leave, do you have anything to warn me?" ”

Yu Qian looked at Zhu Qizhen and hesitated for a while.

How could Yu Qian have nothing to say? It's just that he knows better that it's useful if he says it?

Although Yu Qian's body is unbearable, these are not insurmountable for Qian. What really made Yu Qian want to leave was Zhu Qizhen's drastic reform.

Yu Qian said: "The old minister has something unclear, and I ask Your Majesty for advice." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Sir, just say. ”

Yu Qian said: "Your Majesty, apart from cleaning up the officials, what does Your Majesty want to do?" ”

Zhu Qizhen pondered for a while and said, "Sir, I still hope that Mr. will keep some words secret." ”

Yu Qian said: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, no matter what you say, the old minister will forget it completely when he leaves this courtyard." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Does Mr. know about Zunhua Iron Works? ”

Yu Qian said: "If the minister doesn't know, then it's too lonely. ”

Zunhua Iron Works is now a well-known iron factory, known as the world's iron out of Zunhua. Zunhua iron materials are even available in the northwest, which shows the wide reputation of Zunhua Iron Works.

Zhu Qizhen said: "There are a lot of people in Zunhua Iron Factory, thousands of craftsmen, about 20,000 or 30,000 strong men are employed, and there are some people who depend on Zunhua Iron Factory to live. ”

Yu Qian estimated the scale of the Zunhua Iron Works in his heart, and said after a moment of silence: "Three hundred thousand taels? ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Between three million taels and four million taels a year. ”

Yu Qian was taken aback, he never thought that there were so many? It can even be said that the annual profit of Zunhua Iron Factory can be compared with the silver income of the Ming Dynasty before Zhu Qizhen did not carry out the salt tax reform.

Yu Qian's estimate of 300,000 taels is calculated according to the richest county in Jiangnan, and he estimates that a large county in Jiangnan pays 300,000 taels of taxes every year, which is also an unattainable figure.

He couldn't have imagined that the Zunhua Iron Works would make so much profit every year?

Zunhua Iron Works is the most profitable of all the industries in Shaofu, and there is no one.

Of course, most of the other industries in Shaofu can make money. However, almost none of the money from the Zunhua Iron Works has been siphoned off, and it has been subsidized to the army, steam engine research, and so on, and only hundreds of thousands of taels are handed over every year, which is inconspicuous.

Zhu Qizhen said on the hot iron: "Sir, the annual income of Shaofu is roughly equivalent to the salt tax. ”

In Shaofu, there is a steel system with Zunhua Iron Factory as the core, a ceramic system with Jingdezhen as the center, a cloth system with Jiangnan weaving as the center, and many royal horse farms in Mobei, as well as wool spinning and textile. As for the maritime trade, the rent of shops in the capital, etc., miscellaneous income, each of which has an income of tens of thousands of taels.

So before Shaofu knew it, it had become a huge business empire.

This is also an inevitability.

In the hands of Liu Dingzhi, Shaofu has done two things, the first is the embodiment of the large division of labor, changing the handicraft industry of the previous small workshop.

Second, it is to divide or sell many departments of the Shaofu that directly serve the court. The transformation of Shaofu from a palace service to a purely productive sector was completed.

Of course, Shaofu still has the attribute of serving the court.

In this case, although there are such and such drawbacks in Shaofu, the production efficiency of Shaofu is high. At cost can suppress other merchants.

Of course, the background of Shaofu is also one of the factors for the vigorous development of Shaofu.

After all, the whole Ming Dynasty is not a pure commercial society, there are many things, which cannot be solved with money, if a businessman develops from one place to another, he must worship the dock.

But what is Shaofu?

Shaofu is the emperor's private property, even if he eats the bear's heart and leopard gall, he doesn't dare to hit Shaofu's head.

Today's Shaofu Ling Shi Jing, Xiao Gui Cao Sui, has not changed anything to Shaofu. Speaking of which, Shi Jing is not a first-class general, but in the position of Shaofu, he is very short-guarded, and he has killed people with real knives and guns on the battlefield, and he is even more confident.

Support for the development of Shaofu.

In fact, many officials have impeached the Shaofu to deprive the people of their benefits, but they have all been rejected by Shi Jing one by one.

Today's Shaofu is already a behemoth, and this behemoth has given Zhu Qizhen confidence.