On the side of the Dongzhi Gate of the capital, the huge whale had no way to enter the city because the city gate was too small, and the purpose of adding Zhu Houzhao had already been achieved, so he also followed the advice of Emperor Hongzhi, and directly dismembered the big whale on the side of Dongzhi Gate and sold it on the spot.

There is no doubt that the scene is naturally very popular, and the many legends about whales have made whales a popular thing, whether it is a whale skin that can make people soar for 90,000 miles, or something that can rejuvenate a kilometer eunuch in a legend, or a whale bone that does not have much effect at all, etc.

Everything on the whale's body has been sought after, and the old and young masters in the capital have bid to compete, and now it is extremely popular, so that this big whale has sold for a sky-high price of more than 50,000 taels of silver.

After all, this is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, gathering the powerful people of the entire Ming Dynasty, and the rich people don't know how many, and the consumption power is naturally not comparable to Tianjin.

"Dad, let's get a few whaling ships to go to sea to hunt whales, and after all, it won't be difficult to earn a million taels of silver this year."

On the way back to the palace, Zhu Houzhao suggested to Emperor Hongzhi with a hippie smile.

"You are the crown prince, why are you thinking about some businessmen in your head?"

When Emperor Hongzhi heard this, he frowned slightly, he was a person who was extremely seriously influenced by Confucianism, and the education he received since he was a child was also the classic way of kings.

"Dad, Lao Liu, that is, Liu Jin said, the most critical one in governing the country is the economy, no matter what our court does, it needs money, it takes money to pay officials, and it also needs money to pay the generals in border towns, and it is indispensable to help the victims."

"This money is not everything, but no money is absolutely impossible, and sometimes silver is much better than our words."

Zhu Houzhao didn't care, he now knows the charm of money, so he is also very interested in making money, and he has money in his hand, so he can do whatever he wants, and he doesn't have to look at people's faces everywhere.

"Go back and let Liu Jin leave me a few boats."

Although Emperor Hongzhi wanted to find a bunch of reasons to refute Zhu Houzhao, but after thinking about his own situation, there was no emperor in history who was poorer than himself, and he was accused by the ministers of the court every day for saving money.

After more than ten years of hard work and thrift, he saved millions of silver, and then just made a honeycomb coal with Liu Jin, and earned hundreds of thousands of taels of silver in a year.

As for Zhu Houzhao and Liu Jin to set up a glass factory casually, they easily earned millions of taels of silver in a few months; At the beginning, it was just to go to sea to find good seeds, and this fleet did not go to the Golden Continent, but only went to Korea once, and brought back a million taels of silver to the internal treasury of Emperor Hongzhi.

He now understands that this silver is not saved, although it is important to throttle, but it is more important to open source, and to have his own money-making business, so that there will be a steady flow of silver into his own internal funds.

So when he heard Zhu Houzhao say that this whaling business can also earn one million taels of silver a year, he thought about it and said, in the end, he, the emperor, is still poor and short of silver.

"Hmm~"

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he immediately laughed, although he was willful, but he was very smart, he knew that his father Emperor Hongzhi was a master who was short of money, and he was frugal, many times this standard of living was not as good as the average rich businessman and gentry, at least these rich businessmen and gentry all had three wives and four concubines, and Emperor Hongzhi had only one wife.

"Is Liu Jin still in Tianjin?"

Emperor Hongzhi heard Zhu Houzhao mention Liu Jin, thought about it and asked.

"No, he also went back to Beijing this time, and he was still behind me just now, so I guess he should go back to his house now."

Zhu Houzhao habitually looked behind him and found that the carriage Liu Jin was riding in had long since disappeared.

"Bring him back to me, I have a lot of things I want to ask him."

Emperor Hongzhi nodded, thought about it and said.

"Well... Dad, let me tell you, the scenery in this sea is actually very beautiful, especially at sunset and sunrise, when the water and the sky are red..."

While walking towards the palace, Zhu Houzhao was also happy to talk to Emperor Hongzhi about his experience of going to sea this time.

And Emperor Hongzhi also knew the mood of his son, so he also listened quietly, and asked about some things he was interested in from time to time.

"There are a lot of whales in the sea, often a whale group has a hundred whales, this whale is different from ordinary fish, it can't breathe in the water, so every time you breathe, you have to surface when you breathe, and a huge water column comes out, when a hundred whales breathe at the same time, the whole sea surface will rise a hundred water columns, and some of these water columns can be as high as more than ten meters, which is very spectacular."

“……”

On the other hand, as soon as Liu Jin arrived in the capital, he naturally walked around a big circle, Dongzhimen was blocked, and he couldn't get in, and he was not in the mood to go to Dongzhimen to see the dismembered whales, so he also went around in a circle and entered the capital from Xizhimen.

Liu Jin also has his own mansion in the capital, and he bought it at a great price, a large courtyard with three entrances, and the location is also very good, which is close to the imperial city, but after this courtyard was bought, Liu Jin rarely had time to live here.

Originally, when I was in the capital, I was usually busy on the Xishan side, so I also lived on the Xishan side, and then I went to Tianjin, so I couldn't use it, and I lived for a few days.

When he returned to his home, the first thing Liu Jin did was to get a good night's sleep.

followed Zhu Houzhao back to the capital slowly, Liu Jinke didn't get a good night's sleep in the past few days, although the carriage was comfortable, but it was too noisy outside, he couldn't sleep at all, and the whole person was in a terrible state when he was swaying.

Liu Jin slept directly until noon the next day.

"Stinky boy, stinky boy~"

When Liu Jin was still in a daze, Zhang Mao, a British prince who had just left the early dynasty, hurried to Liu Jin's mansion, and didn't have any scruples, he walked directly to Liu Jin's bedroom, and shouted out as he walked.

"It's still comfortable for you kid, I've slept until noon."

When he came to Liu Jin's bedroom, seeing that Liu Jin was still asleep, the British Duke Zhang Mao couldn't help but say with envy that he had to get up early every day to go to the morning court, and he rarely had the opportunity to sleep until noon.

"Gong Zhang, you just got off the morning court, right?"

Liu Jin got up lazily, this Lao Zhang is getting more and more excessive, he simply treats this place as his own home, and when he comes in, he goes straight to his bedroom, it seems that he is looking for a daughter-in-law, so that no one will dare to disturb his sleep in the future, this bachelor has no human rights.

"Yes, I heard yesterday that your kid returned to Beijing, so I came to look for you this morning."

"Get up, get dressed, get dressed, and come with me."

Zhang Mao looked at Liu Jin's appearance, couldn't help but smile and shook his head and said.

"What?"

Liu Jin asked with some confusion.

"What? Take you to a blind date, I told you a long time ago, and when you return to the capital, I will introduce you to everyone's girlfriends, I Lao Zhang has a spit and a nail, and speaking naturally counts, hurry up, hurry up. ”

Zhang Mao sighed as he spoke: "For the sake of your kid's business, I have let go of my old face, and I have already found a few for you in the whole capital to inquire about whose daughters are to be married, but whether your kid has this blessing depends on your own creation." ”

Hearing Lao Zhang's words, Liu Jin suddenly came to his senses, this Lao Zhang was really interesting, he actually remembered this matter, thinking of this, Liu Jin also quickly got up.