King Xin was sure that Gao Di and Cui Guangcheng would not dare to embezzle military funds, and he had no bottom in his heart before, and his expectations were no more than 200,000 at most. If King Xin knew that Gao Di had extorted 400,000 yuan from Cui Guangcheng, I am afraid that he would regret not falling, and his attack would still be too soft.

Back to King Xin's mansion, King Xin was not happy because of the extortion of 500,000 yuan, but was even more annoyed that the top class did not want to serve the country, and bent the law for bribes.

King Xin hated the army in his heart, and it was imperative to speed up the purge of the military, severely punish corrupt and incompetent generals, cultivate excellent generals, strictly enforce military discipline, and create an iron army that dares to fight and win.

Now most of the courtiers are Wei Zhongxian's comrades, Wei Zhongxian controls the Dongchang Jinyi Guard, and the eyeliner is all over the government and the opposition, if you want to bring down Wei Zhongxian and others, you need to train your own people to hold important positions, but it will inevitably cause Wei Zhongxian's henchmen to be vigilant, only by avoiding his eyeliner and paralyzing the opponent, can he tear the gap unknowingly, what should I do?

Shin Oh locked himself in his room all afternoon and meditated!

If you want to succeed, you must have a way to make money, and you must have enough silver to recruit the dead to serve yourself, and the key is silver!

King Xin's mind was open, his mind suddenly brightened, and he made up his mind, King Xin called Wang Chengen, the steward of the palace, Wang Chengen followed King Xin for many years, and was the most trustworthy person in King Xin's palace.

"Lord Wang, are you looking for me?" Wang Chengen asked as he entered the door.

"Manager Wang, what is the current balance of the palace treasury?" King Shin asked rhetorically.

When Wang Chengen heard this, he was stunned suddenly, and then replied: "Lord Wang, you usually save money and use it sparingly, one should be simple, half of the silver issued by the Ministry of Internal Affairs every month is used for the funds of Wang Gong's factory. ”

King Xin was stunned when he heard this, and couldn't help asking, "There is no balance in the treasury?" So where do the expenses in the house come from? ”

Wang Chengen sighed: "Lord, don't hide it, hundreds of people in the palace eat with hundreds of mouths, live on the rent of dozens of shops on Wangfujing Street every month, thousands of acres of fertile land in Tongzhou, you all distribute them to the slave yard workers to have a small family to cultivate, and do not collect rent, if it is insufficient at the end of the month, they are all house slave yard workers to make a living!" ”

After listening to the letter, he was speechless for a long time, and it was indeed as Wang Chengen said, he didn't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt were expensive, but he didn't expect that the palace was already poor and couldn't open the pot, sighed, and the king said apologetically: "I'm sorry!" After so many years of following me, you have suffered! ”

"Oops! Lord, you can torture the old slave, you don't say anything about your own frugality, you have nothing to say to the slave workers, the princes and nobles of the entire capital, there is no one who does not know that you are a virtuous king, and the slave workers can enter the palace to serve you, that is the blessing they have cultivated for several generations, if you want to say sorry, it should be the slaves! Wang Chengen hurriedly explained.

King Xin smiled and waved his hand, "Let's not talk about this for now, I came to you for something that you need to do?" ”

"Please command!"

King Xin thought for a moment and said, "In this way, you come and tell me, among so many princes and nobles in the capital, which are the richest?" ”

Wang Chengen was stunned when he heard this, and asked tentatively: "Lord Wang, what are you asking for?" Aren't you going to borrow money from them? ”

"Well, almost!" Shin Wang smiled.

Wang Chengen thought for a long time, and then said: "According to the old slave's understanding, among the princes and nobles in the capital, the wealthy ones are the Ning Wangfu and the Changwang Mansion, followed by the Changping Marquis Mansion and some family lords. ”

"The richest is the richest in Xicheng, half of the princes and nobles in the capital are concentrated in Xicheng District, and the big businessmen are gathered in the Wangfujing area, followed by Nancheng District, Dongcheng District is the poorest, because there is a Fengtai camp, there is little livelihood; As for Beicheng District, needless to say, Beidaying is an important military town garrison area, guarding the capital, except for some military factories, there are few people. ”

After Wang Chengen finished speaking, King Xin nodded slightly, and said: "In this way, you will invite me these princes and nobles to me tomorrow, and this king will hold a banquet in the palace tomorrow night." ”

When Wang Chengen heard this, he jumped and said in surprise: "Lord Wang, what are you doing here?" Borrowing money is borrowed privately, how can you borrow like this? Moreover, what shall we entertain them? ”

"Alas! You don't have to worry about that, as for the silver, someone will send it tomorrow morning, you just have to let us know. King Shin said in a firm tone.

"Hey! Okay, old slave, let's do it! Wang Chengen shook his head and sighed bitterly, shaking his head as he walked.

After Wang Chengen left, King Xin called the four daughters of Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, handed Chunlan and Xiahe a purchase list, and asked them to purchase according to the list, and at the same time, asked Qiuxiang Dongmei to prepare a few clean big wooden barrels in the backyard of the palace.

The four daughters were inexplicable, and they didn't understand what the prince was going to do, since the prince had ordered it, the four daughters obeyed the words and prepared to go••••••

Until noon, Chunlan Xia He came back panting to see King Xin!

"Lord Wang, the roses, alcohol and small porcelain vases that you arranged for the slaves and maids to purchase have all been purchased!" The second daughter searched for a rose plantation in the capital, and finally found a relatively large one, so she purchased so much, alcohol and small porcelain vases were easy to purchase.

"Oh! Wait for this king to see! King Xin was full of interest, and under the guidance of his second daughter, he came to the backyard, only to see that the yard was full of more than 20 bags of freshly picked roses, and alcohol and two boxes of small porcelain bottles were placed next to it.

King Xin was very satisfied, and called Wang Guoxing to arrange a few guards, pour the roses into a large wooden barrel, and began to pound them; When the rose juice seeps out, the mashed rose juice is filtered and extracted with a clean white cloth, and then the alcohol is mixed according to the proportion to form rose essential oil.

At the same time, arrange people to set up an iron pot and fill it with water, keep burning on the fire, cover the steamer sieve plate for distillation, open a hole in the steamer, insert a fine bamboo joint, and extract the water vapor distilled water formed by condensed steam into the prepared wooden barrel.

Finally, rose essential oil and distilled water are distilled and heated in the sieve plate of the steamer, with the increase of temperature, the rose essential oil and distilled water accelerate the evaporation, and the resulting mixed vapor is introduced into the prepared utensils through the top of the pot, and the liquid mixture of distilled water and rose essential oil is ingested, and after the separation of oil and water, it is packed into the purchased small porcelain bottle.

During the whole process, Xinwang guided the whole process, and personally went into battle at the critical moment to operate, which is the steam distillation method learned by Xinwang in the dream to extract perfume; When the fragrance of perfume overflowed the courtyard, everyone was cheering, and the four girls in spring, summer, autumn and winter were even more fascinated, after all, they were girls, and they loved beauty, especially the girls' obsession with perfume, which could not be described in words.

After a whole afternoon, I finally extracted 110 bottles of rose perfume, after all, it was the first time to make it, and the process was rough, unlike modern glass containers, the output and the concentration of perfume were naturally not comparable, but it was very commendable to be able to produce such a rose perfume.

"Lord, what are we doing with so many perfumes?" Chunlan looked at the more than a hundred bottles of perfume with her eyes, as if she couldn't leave her sight for a moment, and the other three girls did the same.

"Of course it's very useful, and I will make better and more perfumes in the future" King Xin watched the four women staring at the perfume unwillingly, as if they had been snatched away, and said with a smile: "Each of you takes two bottles"

"Ahh Really? So happy! ”

King Xin rewarded each person with two bottles of rose perfume in spring, summer, autumn and winter, the four girls were overjoyed, very happy, a busy day was very worthwhile, King Xin looked at them and smiled: "Tomorrow night at the banquet, the four of you will sprinkle more perfume, whether the business of the palace can open up the market, it depends on you"

At this moment, Wang Chengen, the steward of the palace, hurriedly came to the backyard, looked at the chaotic scene in the yard inexplicably, raised his nose and smelled it, and suddenly became energetic, and asked in surprise: "Lord Wang, what's going on?" Where does this aroma come from? ”

Everyone laughed, Wang Guoxing passed back and forth, and told it in a colorful way, only to hear Wang Chengen shouting, 'Incredible!' Wang Guoxing is the nephew of Wang Chengen's own family, and he followed King Xin very early.

"Lord, it turns out that you asked the old slave to invite the princes and nobles to sell perfume!" Wang Chengen shook his head and laughed.

"Well, you've sent invitations from all over the country?"

"Back to the prince, the old slaves all came to the door one by one to send invitations" Wang Chengen replied, then looked at the perfume, puzzled: "Lord, you don't really invite the princes and nobles to sell them perfume, right?" ”

"Of course, what do you think?"

"However, perfume is used by Madame, Miss and Lady, what do you invite to do with the prince?" Wang Chengen asked puzzled.

"I can't invite all the ladies and ladies of the princes and nobles of the capital to the palace, right? The reason for inviting the sons and daughters is because they are more keen to please women, and these sons and daughters have to spend more money than the ladies of the family," King Xin explained.

"Ahh Wang Chengen was dumbfounded, and then seemed to suddenly understand something, and muttered in his mouth: "It turns out that the prince knows this well!" ”

Suddenly, Wang Guoxing and the other guards laughed!

King Xin smiled embarrassedly, so he said, "Okay, everyone has a hard day, let's go back and rest, there are more important things to do tomorrow." Then he hurried away.

Wang Chengen suddenly understood, knowing that he was abrupt, and hurriedly bowed to the back of King Xin's departure and shouted: "The prince forgives the sin, the old slave made a mistake!" ”

It caused Wang Guoxing and others to laugh again.

"Stinky boy! I make you laugh" Wang Chengen kicked Wang Guoxing's ass hard and scolded with a smile.

Wang Guoxing and the other guards hurriedly fled with a smile!

"Steward Wang, what are they laughing at?" Spring, summer, autumn and winter don't know why, asked with a smile.

"What are the girls doing when they ask about this?" Wang Chengen pretended to be an old pedant, shook his hands behind his back, and left with a smile.