Yan Chengjin looked up at Emperor Hongzhi slightly, waiting for His Majesty to decide.

He is just the imperial history of the Imperial Palace, this is a matter of the cabinet and the six ministries, if Li Dongyang and Ma Wensheng and others recommend him, His Majesty will not doubt him.

Not necessarily if it is changed to the imperial history.

After Yang Yi eliminated Liu Jin, he gradually showed his military talent, and Emperor Hongzhi did not know his strengths, and I am afraid that he only regarded him as an ordinary horse official.

After a short silence in the main hall, Emperor Hongzhi asked, "What does the Li Qing family think?" ”

Li Dongyang was a little uncertain, Shen Mei thought about it, and then said: "Yang Yiqing is raising horses in the northwest, he is familiar with horse bandits and robbers, and with the assistance of Zuo Zongyi, he should be competent." ”

With his understanding of his junior and disciple, he is not a talented person.

It's just that his desire to be transferred back to the capital is afraid that it will come to naught.

Emperor Hongzhi nodded, looked at Qin Hong, and said: "Order Yang Yiqing to be the governor of the northwest, and Zuo Zongyi will go together to transfer 5,000 troops from the northwest border army to exterminate the northwest bandits." ”

Qin Hong arched his hand and said, "The minister obeys the order." ”

The Zhang brothers' faces are like ashes, and the imperial court has really opened the Silk Road!

Think about it now, they don't have raw silk in their hands, and they have to wait for next year's spring silk at the earliest, and then weave silk, I don't know what year and month they will have to wait.

I can't wait to sue the royal lawsuit and sue Yan Chengjin pit silver.

But Yan Chengjin was so unlucky, then Yang Yiqing only impeached him once, and then he was sent to the northwest to suppress bandits.

Bandits are extremely dangerous, day and night to cross the next door of the grassland, to the deserted mountains to find the bandits' den, and may also be hacked to death by the bandits and feed the wild dogs.

Zhang Heling didn't want to be fed wild dogs.

Ministers have their own agendas.

Yan Chengjin was a little sure in his heart, and it was good news that Yang Yiqing led his troops into the northwest.

The merchants in the market are most afraid of encountering the heroes of the green forest to rob goods and kill people.

Some people were sent by the imperial court to pacify the bandits in the northwest, and for the merchants, there was more trust.

Scattered,

Zhou Yu didn't retreat for a long time, and saw that the ministers had all withdrawn.

He stepped forward with a smile, looked at Emperor Hongzhi and said, "Your Majesty, the imperial court has reopened the Silk Road, and the ministers also want to do good deeds, there are too many wastelands in the northwest, and they are wasted."

Your Majesty, it is better to allocate some to the ministers, and the ministers will build collapsed houses in the northwest for businessmen to rest. ”

It's big business!

The Silk Road in the northwest was opened again, and thousands of merchants and Ming merchants had to take this road.

As long as the collapsed houses were built on the roads, and the merchants were given lodging and carriages parked, they could earn silver.

The collapsed houses in Liangxiang did not make less money from merchants from the south to the north.

Emperor Hongzhi frowned slightly, looked at Mu Bin on the side, and didn't know what the collapsed house was.

His Majesty has been in the palace for a long time, and it is reasonable to not know that the house has collapsed.

Mu Bin said: "It is an inn, unlike the inn, it can also store goods, and it takes a lot of places, and the collapsed house in Liangxiang is as big as the square in front of the noon gate, which can accommodate the goods of hundreds of merchants." ”

"I asked the military department to repair the post station, what are you going to do if the house collapses?"

The distance between the stations is usually calculated as the distance that can be reached in one day.

Zhou Yu said with a smile: "Your Majesty doesn't know, the speed of merchants is fast and slow, although the post station is good, it may not be able to arrive." ”

Emperor Hongzhi was also a wise man, and knowing where the interests were, he asked, "How much silver do you give to the imperial court?" ”

"This ......" Zhou Yu really didn't think about paying taxes.

One of the sources of commercial tax in the market is to collect it from collapsed houses.

Some merchants had to pay taxes for storing their goods in collapsed houses.

Emperor Hongzhi thought for a moment, and then said to Xiao Jing: "Since there is a collapsed house in Liangxiang, let Yan Chengjin come, this son is greedy for life and afraid of death, and he does not dare to be greedy for the tax and silver of the imperial court." ”

Xiao Jing smiled and groaned: "The slave thinks the same way. ”

Even if he put the silver in front of Yan Chengjin and forced him to be greedy, he didn't dare to be greedy.

Zhou Yu hurriedly said: "The minister can also pay taxes and silver." ”

"Stand down."

Emperor Hongzhi waved his hand and asked him to step down, and when he saw the Zhou brothers and the Zhang brothers, he was in an irritable mood.

After Zhou Yu withdrew, he asked Mu Bin on the side: "How much silver did Liangxiang sell for the silk woven with a shuttle loom?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, I haven't sold a single horse." Mu Bin continued: "The weaving bureau of Liangxiang, this time, is really going to make a profit......

The news of the opening of the Silk Road by the imperial court spread all over the capital, and the Shuntian Mansion posted an announcement, and the whole capital was boiling.

The news spread quickly, and in just one hour, it reached Liangxiang.

The Silk Road, which has been closed for more than a hundred years, is open again!

This means that the merchants will enter the Ming Dynasty in a big way, and the northwest will return to its former prosperity.

The most worrying thing is that the silk has risen from four taels of silver to ten taels of silver!

The best silk is even twenty taels.

The major cloth mills were buying silk, and even the gentry, who had never been in the silk business, began to buy silk in a desperate spree.

As for who is buying silk, no one knows.

I only know that it has risen all of a sudden, and it is more expensive than gold!

Liang Zhong didn't understand this, but he was very excited, staked all his net worth, spent fifty taels of silver, bought a shuttle loom and twenty-five catties of raw silk, and weaved thirteen silks, and the remaining silk could be woven seven horses.

Fifty taels, all of a sudden became two hundred taels!

He didn't dare to go out.

I'm afraid that someone will come in and grab silk, but now silk is soft gold.

"From four taels to ten taels, the price has increased nearly three times, but fortunately I bought it early." Liang Zhong sighed.

Silk is twice as expensive, just like a thousand-year-old iron tree blooming, which is rare in a hundred years.

What's even more valuable is that there are few homeless people in Liangxiang who buy looms and raw silk, and now they can't buy them if they want to.

He was ruthless, but he made a fortune and gave birth to more than a hundred taels of silver out of thin air.

In the thatched hut area of the homeless, it is second to none the rich.

Liang Zhong has no idea of buying land, more than 100 taels of silver, he can't afford to buy land in Liangxiang, and no one in Liangxiang has sold land.

I'm going to go to Dayuan County to buy it.

But he didn't want to move out of his hometown, where he had the opportunity to make money, even though he lived in a dirty and smelly straw hut that leaked on all sides in winter.

If he moves out, the hut will be given to other homeless people.

Nowadays, the displaced people want to settle in the good township, but they can't get in.

"Daddy, the silk has risen to ten taels of silver, can we sell it?" The eldest daughter-in-law of the Liang family was in the workshop and heard others talk about it.

"Sell! Tomorrow I will put these ten silks in sacks and sell them to the workshop. ”

Liang Zhong was afraid that the price of silk would fall and lose money.

The Liangxiang Chamber of Commerce is completely messed up.

Xie Yu took the lead, and the members of the Chamber of Commerce squeezed into the yamen, holding the equity deed that had been signed and pledged.

"Master Zhang, the small one will be your grandson, and the equity will be divided again......"

"Look away, my lord, let's re-invest in the shares, this time the small one will be 30,000 taels......"

Xie Yu cried so much that his old eyes were hazy, and the gentry cried wolf one by one, making the yamen look like a mourning hall, hugging Zhang Xian's thigh.

They have more business vision than weavers, and as soon as the Silk Road in the northwest is opened, the countries enter the customs and trade, and the price of silk has no possibility of falling.

Wang Busui earned 40,000 taels of silver and accounted for 10% of the shares of the weaving factory.

That is, the weaving factory made ten percent of the profits, and it was necessary to give one percent of the king's life.

They only bought a hundred taels of silver, and they could not even drink the soup.

Wang Busui bet right!

Zhang Xian shook his head: "This is the rule set by Lord Yushi, if you miss it, you miss it."

It's useless for you to be a grandson of this official, and besides, this official is not married, so you can't ...... like this."

According to Lord Yan's character, there will definitely be no more precedents.