Chapter 16: The Emperor's Transformation
"Fifty-fifty!"
"No! It must be divided into three sevens, seven in the palace and three for you, and you are all three seven when you do business with the dog emperor! ”
"That's Your Majesty took out the land of Xishan, and Your Highness, you can't take out anything!"
"Then you also used the name of the sister of the main palace! Don't forget, the name of the cake shop is called Princess House, take this name, and Hongu will definitely be beaten by the Dog Emperor when he goes back! ”
"Your Highness is still quite self-aware......" Li Zhaotong muttered quietly.
"What do you say?"
"Didn't say anything...... Your Royal Highness, otherwise, the minister will take a step back, one or four or five points, His Royal Highness will account for fifty percent, Her Royal Highness the princess will account for one percent, and the minister will account for forty percent. ”
"What do you give Xiurong a point for, she's only four years old, what does she know?"
Zhu Houzhao is like this, people are very smart, but they are uncertain, and they are particularly easy to deviate.
No, obviously the focus of the problem is to divide, but his focus is on his sister Zhu Xiurong.
"Your Highness, you're just over six years old." Li Zhaotong picked his nostrils and looked at Zhu Houzhao with some disdain.
"Alright! All right! One four five is one four five, count you ruthless! ”
……
Li Zhaotong doesn't like to procrastinate, and after agreeing on the way of cooperation, he began to work on the publicity issue.
How to advertise?
Is there any better publicity than the palace cradle cream cakes?
Therefore, after Li Zhaotong asked Zhu Houzhao to quickly select his gifts for his mother and sister, the two quickly returned to Li's mansion, and then Li Zhaotong asked Zhu Houzhao to return to the palace with a bunch of cream cakes.
Because of the relationship to make money, Zhu Houzhao is full of enthusiasm for this and lets it go.
……
"It's pretty early, I thought you wouldn't be back until dark."
After returning to the palace, of course Zhu Houzhao would not go to see Emperor Hongzhi, the first person he went to see was Empress Zhang, but unfortunately, Emperor Hongzhi was here with Empress Zhang at this time.
Therefore, as soon as Zhu Houzhao entered the door, he heard the voice of Emperor Hongzhi.
"Father, you also underestimate your sons! What era is calling, Erchen learned it after watching it twice, of course he came back early! Erchen also went to Qiban Street to sell gifts to his mother and sister! Oh, by the way, Father, Mother, Xiurong, I also brought you something delicious. Zhu Houzhao said triumphantly.
But his triumphant appearance fell in the eyes of Emperor Hongzhi, that is, he was not in shape!
In particular, this rebel brought gifts to his mother and sister, but he didn't bring them to him, Emperor Hongzhi called it a sour!
So, Emperor Hongji was furious:
"Rebel, you're running away again! I ordered you before you left the palace, you can only go to the Li Mansion, you can only go to the Li Mansion, you should be a deaf ear?! ”
"Okay, Your Majesty, the prince is also filial piety!" Empress Zhang spoke.
"That's it!"
Empress Zhang is here, Zhu Houzhao is not afraid of Emperor Hongzhi at all, he knows that his mother will defend himself.
"Son, what delicious food did you bring for your father and mother?"
"Cream petit four, quick! Pick it up. ”
Soon, the maids of Kunning Palace brought the cream cake back from Zhu Houzhao.
"Your Majesty!" Xiao Jing, who was serving on the side, wanted to ask if he wanted to test the poison.
"No, I believe the prince." Emperor Hongzhi waved his hand and refused to test the poison.
Then, he and Queen Zhang both brought up the cream cake to taste, and the little princess Zhu Xiurong on the side also had maids serving her to eat the cream cake.
"Good times~"
Li Zhaotong asked Zhu Houzhao to bring the cream cake, but there are preserved fruits on it with various cartoon patterns of later generations, Zhu Xiurong likes it very much, and the cream cake tastes good, Zhu Xiurong is very happy.
Seeing her happy appearance, Emperor Hongzhi and Empress Zhang also smiled.
This family of four is happy.
"For the sake of this little cream cake, I won't hold you responsible for running around today, but you have to make it clear, where did you get the money to buy these food?"
"This is the product of Erchen and Li Zhaotong's partnership business, no money!"
"Doing business?"
Emperor Hongzhi was stunned for a moment, looking at Zhu Houzhao's immature appearance, he felt a little ridiculous.
However, immediately Li Zhaotong's appearance appeared in his mind, and he didn't say anything more.
"Then do it well, don't be blind."
"Father, you don't object?"
Zhu Houzhao felt that the sun might come out of the west today, and he was ready to be trained, but the result was ...... The Dog Emperor actually encouraged the Hongu?!
Actually, Zhu Houzhao didn't know that if he had been trained a month ago, but now, Emperor Hongzhi's mentality has changed!
This is not only because Li Zhaotong partnered with him to build the Xishan Coal Mine, but also because he remembered a person who had passed away and a 160-volume super-long recital!
That person is called Qiu Jun.
That book is called "University Yanyi Supplement", written by Qiu Jun!
"University Yanyi" is a physical work by the Southern Song Dynasty physicist Zhen Dexiu, this book mainly expounds Confucian thought, except for the Song Dynasty and later emperors must read, there is nothing to say.
But "University Yanyi Supplement", it is amazing, the knowledgeable Qiu Jun only expounds one thing in this: governing the country!
This book comprehensively expounds the important tasks of governing the country from the military, political, industrial and commercial, and agricultural aspects.
In short, this is a masterpiece with a forward-looking vision!
We will not go into details, but only pick out a few points related to the change of thinking of Emperor Hongzhi.
For example, there is a sentence in it: Those who eat goods are the foundation of the people.
What do you mean?
Food and goods refer to commercial activities, and this sentence translated into the vernacular is: commerce is the foundation of the national economy!
This is subverting the traditional concept of "valuing agriculture and suppressing business" in China's thousands of years of feudal society!
In particular, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang also attaches the most importance to the point of view of "valuing agriculture and suppressing business"! So at the time, it was a big rebellion!
More than 400 years after Qiu Jun's death, Mr. Liang Qichao was shown off by a wealthy Western businessman, who proudly showed off the doctrine of mercantilism in front of him.
What are you proud of? I had the Celestial Empire more than 400 years ago!
Far from it!
Moving on to Emperor Hongji.
Emperor Hongzhi is a Ming monarch, he can see that "University Yanyi Supplement" is a good thing, otherwise he would not let Qiu Jun, who released rebellious remarks, enter the cabinet!
However, he only accepted part of the ideas in the "University Derivation".
For example, the core point of "University Derivation and Supplement": financial management is the key to the world, and financial use is the foundation of the country.
Emperor Hongji accepted some of them.
Therefore, Emperor Hongzhi carried out tax reform and salt administration reform.
The tax reform is to plug the loophole of the long-term transportation law promulgated by his father, requiring the formulation of a unified "loss price list", and then taxpayers can also be allowed to discount money, that is, if you can't pay enough food, then you can make up for the insufficient part with money.
The reform of the salt administration is to change the opening law that began to be implemented in the founding period of the Ming Dynasty into the famous folding method!
Of course, later generations saw that the folding method gave birth to the moth of Jin merchants, so that they were scolded very badly, but at that time, the folding method greatly promoted the prosperity of commerce.
But Emperor Hongzhi now feels that these two alone are not big enough steps.
Xishan Coal Industry was able to resettle a lot of displaced people, which made Emperor Hongzhi see that commerce could really help the world and the people!
So, his mindset is changing!
Therefore, Zhu Houzhao looked for Li Zhaotong, a good boy in his eyes, to partner in business, and he seemed very calm, and even had some small expectations.
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