With the large amount of money supported by his father Qin Guogong Zhang Chuan as the start-up capital, Zhang Chen really played a great trick.

Ah Liu didn't follow him to Xingtai before, but the generals of the Qin State Mansion escorted Zhao Si and Luo Xiaoxiao, a pair of blacksmiths and carpenters, and arrived in Xingtai safely, and then these two leaders led the craftsmen recruited by Zhang Chen to modify ten new looms in only ten days.

Then, Zhang Chen "sold" the cotton he had hoarded in several warehouses to Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu at a high price, and recovered the money he lent, and then he sent someone to secretly take the cotton yarn spun in Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu's workshop, as well as the cotton yarn that the two bought, and took it to his own weaving mill to weave cloth, and then sold the woven cotton cloth to a cloth shop that had long been in contact.

With such a virtuous circle, there were more and more looms in that secret weaving workshop, and more and more cotton yarn, and naturally the output was getting bigger and bigger, so that when others didn't notice, the price of cotton cloth on the market fell by one percent.

Then, Zhang Chen used the money from the sale of cloth to feed Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu in the form of money tickets through Fulong Bank......

This is like a typical left hand throwing a ping pong ball to the right hand, throwing the ping pong ball on the ground with the right hand, and then throwing the ping pong ball on the ground with the left hand...... In such a cycle of trading, he was simply elated, and the price of selling cotton was raised again and again, and finally because Zheng Yuanwai and others also began to ship tentatively, he immediately lowered the price of cotton.

In the end, his price continued to stabilize at four times the price of cotton. As for Zheng Yuanwai and others, after tentatively releasing a part of the cotton, but after he suddenly fell in price, he calculated that the cotton stock in the hands of "Wang Shen" was not much, and they immediately withdrew.

No one plans to fight in the ring with "Wang Shen", who has a second prince as a backstage and acts simply, rudely, and boldly. Most people plan to wait until the inventory in the hands of "Wang Shen" is exhausted, and then raise the price to make a lot of money from the Qin State Mansion behind Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu. Of course, for this reason, Zheng Yuanwai and the others even prepared a very perfect trick to cover their eyes, and they did not intend to reveal their true bodies.

As for Zhang Chen, when he heard that big families such as Zheng Yuanwai in Xingtai went to Cangzhou to buy cotton at a high price, and the warehouses were overflowing for a while, and some people even sent messengers to Jiangnan to contact ships to transport cotton, he was overjoyed and rewarded the guards his father gave him, especially the one who often gave him ideas.

However, although he acted happily, he suffered the prince of Cangzhou and those big families. Although they also hurriedly began to hoard cotton after learning of Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu's "loser" behavior, in the business field, one step behind means being beaten...... No, starvation. This is simply unbearable for the eldest prince who has just tasted the sweetness of profit.

When the new cotton has not yet been harvested and the lack of raw materials cannot be started, they are desperately hoarding cotton, intending to sell it to Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu, who are harvesting cotton and desperately expanding the scale of the workshop.

The result of the shutdown is the dismissal of workers. As a result of the dismissal of the workers, a large number of unemployed poor people directly surrounded the palace in Cangzhou without a way to live - compared with the unjustifiable status of Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu, the eldest prince, as a nobleman of Tianhuang, is naturally qualified to live in the palace, which is also the only preferential treatment given by the emperor to his son.

"Now, the palace that Emperor Taizu, who patrolled the world back then, ordered to build, and most of the emperors before me had not lived much, has been broken into by hundreds of poor people. Some were spinning workers, some were family members, and although the Cangzhou officials, who had only a little garrison, sent messengers and archers to drive them away, they were beaten to the point of bleeding by angry people, and the eldest prince was also taken hostage. ”

When such news came out of the emperor's mouth, Zhang Shou couldn't maintain a relaxed expression. He was silent for a while, and then said in a deep voice: "The minister didn't want to shirk his responsibility, but the original intention was just to let Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu use Zhang Chen's support to create a wave of momentum, and Zhang Chen returned the funds through cotton, I really didn't expect the turmoil to spread from Xingtai to Cangzhou." ”

"I really didn't expect that?" The emperor smiled, seeing that Zhang Shou was calmly looking at himself, and he did not have a single point of weakness, he thought of his eldest son and second son, who could be said to be worse than each other, and couldn't help but sigh again.

"Fortunately, I didn't send the boss to Jiangnan, he has already made trouble in Cangzhou, if he really goes to Jiangnan, he may be able to force the entire southeast to rebel! And that group of short-sighted, insatiable guys, they have already gained so many benefits, they can't just be a little more restrained and give others a way to live? ”

"Merchants seek profit, and this has been the case since ancient times."

Zhang Shou paused, and then suddenly said bluntly, "And the emperor said that he was insatiable, but in fact, when the wealthy families of the Eastern Han Dynasty annexed the land and the people were not happy, did they really not think about the consequences of the ant people being pushed to the extreme?" So many masters who read the books of the sages will all ignore these things? In the final analysis, if you don't want to see, you turn a blind eye, and if you don't want to listen, you turn a deaf ear. ”

"As long as you feel that what the people's livelihood is and what it has to do with me, you can naturally feel at ease. What's more, I grew up in the courtyard of the deep house since I was a child, and I am used to being arrogant, as long as I think that everything I get is not stealing, nor stealing, but it is upright, I will feel that those ant people should be honest, I give you a little benefit, you should be grateful, if I don't give it to you, you can't make a fuss. ”

"But how could they have thought that their own subordinates could still serve the yang and the yin because of petty profits, let alone those civilians who are all for survival? If a person offends them, they can easily eradicate them by all means, but what about eight out of ten, one hundred and eighty, one thousand eight hundred? As soon as the torrent of all people is completed, it is like a surging trend, and any obstacle can be crushed over. ”

In fact, Zhang Shou wants to use the four words of humane torrent, but these four words are combined, which is really too immortal......

The emperor was shocked to hear this last sentence. Because, this kind of sentence structure, which was commonplace in later generations, does have a great impact today. Especially thinking of the scene of the palace in Cangzhou, he naturally had to consider the worse consequences.

"What do you mean, I should punish the insatiable?"

"No, that's not what the minister meant." Zhang Shou shook his head and said calmly, "The people often say that the county order is broken, and the order is Yin, let alone the imperial court?" If it is the imperial court, not to mention a big businessman, even dozens or hundreds, it can be easily won. But the emperor didn't want to do that, did he? ”

"You know me."

The emperor smiled to himself: "That's right, it's easy to make an example of a hundred people, and it's easy to suppress this time, but just like Emperor Taizu once said, a spark can set the prairie on fire, not only the fire ignited by those poor people can set the prairie on fire, but the rich gentry may not be able to." It is okay to govern business with officials, but how to govern has to be cautious. ”

He said it suddenly, and his gaze at Zhang Shou became a little strange.

Using the power of the government to punish merchants, Emperor Taizu once used power, but with Taizu's authority and power at that time, he still received a huge backlash, which was also one of the reasons why Taizu later changed his methods and gave up his eldest son who insisted on valuing agriculture over commerce, and at the same time carefully cultivating Emperor Taizong. Of course, these secrets are now known to only a very small number of people.

And Zhang Shou asked Zhang Chen to go down to secretly help Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu this time, although he made a crooked move outside the plate, but in the final analysis, he did not use any official power - of course, the official office of Xingtai could not be used as a help at all, and it may also be one of the reasons, but in any case, it was really surprising to him to use such means to pry the entire plate.

The premise is that there is no civil uprising in Cangzhou...... But instead of blaming Zhang Shou, who was strategizing, Zhang Chen and Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu, who won thousands of miles, it was better to blame his eldest son who was really rotten to the roots. Rather than blaming the queen who has always spoiled her son, it is better to blame him, the father and emperor, for giving up the cultivation and discipline of this eldest son because of a momentary anger, so that the indulgence became like this.

He paused for a moment and said in a deep voice: "Zhang Qing, are you willing to go to Cangzhou?" ”

When the emperor talked about Cangzhou before, Zhang Shou had already guessed, and now when he heard this, he immediately cried and laughed. He thought about it very seriously for a while, and then said seriously: "The emperor is very kind, and the minister should not resign, but this is not within the minister's power." If the emperor really wants the minister to go, the minister wants to recommend a more suitable candidate. ”

Unexpectedly, Zhang Shou refused so neatly, and the emperor was a little angry at first, however, when he heard Zhang Shou say that he wanted to recommend candidates, his anger suddenly turned into suspicion. But the next moment, when Zhang Shou said that name, he couldn't help laughing.

"The minister recommends Zhao Guogong's eldest son, Mingwei General Zhu Tingfang."

"Zhang Qing, are you considered an internal move and do not avoid relatives?" The emperor directly laughed and scolded, "You just said that you recommended your eldest brother, isn't it over?" ”

"The minister just agreed on the marriage, and the three words of the emperor's eldest brother are not very accurate." Zhang Shou coughed and said very seriously, "Brother Zhu can only be regarded as a quasi-uncle at most." ”

Does it make any difference?

The emperor was angry and amused, but after a moment of silence, he had to admit it. The candidate recommended by Zhang Shou is really good. Before Zhang Shou appeared, Zhu Tingfang had always been the leader of the younger generation in the DPRK and China - unsurpassed among his peers. Now that this battle has been fought, it is even more so, what a young jinshi, a talented man, there is no comparison at all.

But thinking so in his heart, he still joked: "You are not afraid that Zhu Tingfang will go to Cangzhou, and after meeting Zhu Tingjie, he will beat him up, and when your second uncle cries and calls his mother, will he hate you who pleaded him to Cangzhou?" ”

Zhang Shou didn't expect the emperor to ridicule this, and he was a little caught off guard for a while. At this moment, he heard Chu Kuan's voice not far away: "Yo, why is Miss Zhu here?" ”

"Don't stop me, I want to see the emperor to seek justice. staring at Ah Shou's shortcomings all day long, are those people full of food and holding on? So much business doesn't matter, is their money just to pick thorns? It's unreasonable! ”

Chu Kuan couldn't laugh or cry. But seeing that the emperor not far away bowed slightly at him, he still let Zhu Ying go with a smile. Seeing that Zhang Shou also looked at him, smiling and groaning as always, but he remembered the scene he had heard about today, and while smiling at each other, he couldn't help but feel a little jealous in his heart.

The favor that he wanted to sell could not be sold, and Zhang Shou was able to get the support of Xiangyang Bo Zhang Qiong so easily, he was still very surprised. What's more, whether Zhang Shou was aware of the means he was playing with was the most important question.

And Zhu Ying went straight to the emperor angrily, but suddenly her eyes flickered, but she saw that it was Zhang Shou who blocked her. At first glance, when she saw that handsome face, and her eyes that seemed to be able to speak with a smile, her anger suddenly turned into nothing, and her momentum disappeared by seven points, and finally she glared at Zhang Shou with disgust.

"Get out of the way, I'll find the emperor to judge!"

"The emperor has already come to the country to judge in person." Zhang Shou didn't know Zhu Ying's temper, and after an explanation, he said with a smile, "Although my thin arm can't twist the thighs of some bosses in the court, it is not so weak that it is vulnerable." It's another question the emperor just asked me, Yingying, you might as well help me answer it? ”

"What's the problem?" Zhu Ying was really led by Zhang Shou to think crookedly, and after he got out of the way, he immediately looked at the emperor suspiciously, and the momentum of the Xingshi asking for justice just now was gone.

Seeing this scene, the emperor could only sigh secretly that one thing would drop one thing, and then he said lightly: "Yingying, something happened in Cangzhou, I originally wanted your family Ah Shou to go, but he couldn't help but politely resigned, but recommended your eldest brother to go." ”

"Huh?"

Zhu Ying's face changed. Although she doesn't usually like to use her brain, she is not stupid, and the word Cangzhou reveals too many things. Especially Zhang Shou excused herself, but recommended Zhu Tingfang's situation, how she thought and felt that there was definitely a problem. So, she immediately stepped forward and grabbed Zhang Shou to the side regardless of it, and asked the reason for the matter.

When she heard what had happened, she was immediately shocked and angry, and then returned to the emperor angrily, and said stiffly: "Ah Shou recommended my eldest brother, that is, I believe that the eldest brother will be able to clean up the situation." But...... The monstrous disaster that the eldest prince broke out of, but now he is letting others clean it up, what about him? Should the emperor give an explanation? ”

In this way, Zhang Shou can't say it, others don't dare to say it, and if he can say it, Miss Zhu is the only one left. Although the emperor who was squeezed was embarrassed, he couldn't be angry, because Zhu Ying has always been such a straightforward character since she was a child, and she never beat around the bush.

He took a deep breath, and finally said word by word: "Since he has caused a big disaster, then I will naturally not cover him!" ”