Chapter 158: The Lifeblood of the Nation

"Alright, the mirror stays, there's nothing for you here!" Zhu Youzhu waved his hand and said with a little disgust: "Remember to send your mirror over!" ”

"Yes, father, the son has taken his leave!" Zhu Houzhao is not surprised, he came to Kunning Palace, if his father is here, then he is destined to stay for a long time, of course, this also has something to do with Zhu Houzhao's lack of wanting to be shown, what is it like to have a pair of loving parents? The answer is that you are like charging phone bills.

Looking at the back of her son leaving, Empress Zhang pulled Zhu Youzhu and asked, "Why do you have to ask for your son's money, the money in the inner treasury is not enough." ”

Recently, his younger brother has given himself a long face, not only is he not causing trouble, but he can also make money, and every time he sends a lot of property to the palace, unlike before, he enters the palace to ask for money, or to sue. This made Empress Zhang feel very good, and for Empress Zhang, it was really very good.

Seeing that Zhu Youzhu asked for her son's money, Queen Zhang was unhappy, and it was not easy for her son to make some money, so why bother asking for her son.

Zhu Youzhu glanced at his queen, and sighed helplessly in his heart, you don't know your son's ghost thoughts, but Zhu Youzhu also knows that he can't tell himself clearly, you can't say that your son is as cunning as a fox, right? You're not afraid that your wife will tickle your face full of flowers? Sighing lightly, Zhu Youzhu said slowly: "Our family is not all son's. ”

"In the future, the Ming Dynasty and the silver in the inner treasury will not all be left to him? He is making so much money now, and he doesn't necessarily have to do anything with it, but take out some of it and put it in the inner treasury. ”

"Once he spends it in the future, the silver in the inner treasury can also be left to him, so that he will not run out of money, right?"

Empress Zhang squinted her eyes and leaned on Zhu Youzhang's body, and nodded slightly, she felt that what her man said was really right, this is really good. My son is still so young, he really shouldn't take so much money, and it's good to keep it in the inner treasury.

If Zhu Houzhao were here, he would definitely scoff at his father's statement, what is the difference between this and cheating children to spend New Year's money?

I saved it for you, and if you save it, it will be gone, in the previous life, Zhu Houzhao made money until after work, and I didn't see what my New Year's money looked like. Although I also understand the hard work of my parents to support us, when the New Year's money was taken away, that feeling was really unforgettable, and I can't forget it when I traveled to Daming.

Of course, Zhu Houzhao didn't know that his father was fooling his mother with this reason, and at the same time opened a door for his mother.

He is very excited now, the mirror has been made, and once it is launched, it will definitely be a big seller, and he will be able to make a lot of money at that time.

Everything is going according to Zhu Houzhao's vision, and the launch of the mirror of Qiwei Zhai has become popular in the entire capital, starting from the nobles and relatives, and then to the wealthy businessmen, it can be said that it is difficult to find a mirror. A palm-sized mirror costs 30 guan, a head-sized vanity mirror costs 800 guan, and a full-length mirror of the same height costs 400 guan.

Money flowed in like running water, and countless merchants began to go around asking for purchases, and even at higher prices, with only one purpose, that is, trafficking.

At this time, the mirror is trafficked, whether it is Jiangnan or Northwest, it can definitely be sold at a high price, and for a while, the entire Qiwei Zhai has been pushed to the forefront. After this trend was rewarded by the imperial court, it was officially pushed up, and the emperor rewarded several ministers and Jiuqing with a makeup mirror the size of a human head, which stirred up a thousand waves with one stone.

Qiwei Zhai and the mirror instantly became a hot topic in the capital, so the negotiation of the Qiwei Zhai joint stock was smoothly launched, which has the meaning of overpowering next year's salt policy.

In such an atmosphere, the New Year finally passed, Zhu Houzhao watched past 12 o'clock at midnight, this was his first New Year in Daming, after tonight, Daming was after the thirteenth year of Hongzhi and entered the fourteenth year of Hongzhi. This will be Zhu Houzhao's second year in Daming, and Zhu Houzhao believes that this will be a very important year.

After the New Year, the imperial court sealed the office, and the official's room was completely nothing, and Yang Lian was busy over there, so there was no need to worry about Zhu Houzhao.

sighed that it was cold, and the snow was not small, so Zhu Houzhao didn't go out much, and even the training of those people in Xiyuan stopped, and Zhu Houzhao also gave them a holiday. Hiding in his Xianyang Palace, Zhu Houzhao eats, sleeps and sleeps every day, or exercises to boil his body, and now Zhu Houzhao doesn't practice for a day, it is really uncomfortable.

In addition to these, Zhu Houzhao also began to plan his own business territory, the mirror is a fist product, it will spread the strange Zhai all over Daming, so that Zhu Houzhao will extend his business tentacles to every place in Daming, but this is not enough.

Outside the mirror, Zhu Houzhao still wants to expand other industries, the reason why these gentry and businessmen have great energy and can make trouble is not because they control the economic lifeline of a country, which will definitely not work in later generations. Even in the so-called liberal and democratic United States, how many businesses have been interrupted by antitrust laws.

Don't talk about the economic lifeblood of a country, you can't monopolize an industry, how did the Mobil Oil Trust fall back then.

The country will never allow such a person to exist, what about the Ming Dynasty? The economic lifeline of the Ming Dynasty is basically not in the hands of the emperor, not even counting taxes, how can such a national government have dominance. Once you have pinched the economic lifeline, mastered the clothing, food, housing and transportation of the people, and established a new class, then you will have someone to support you.

This salt political incident is a good proof, under the leadership of Xun Gui and Xun Qi, he arrested so many salt merchants, and the two Huai were not chaotic, why?

I thought that the people arranged by the nobles and relatives took over quickly, the salt administration was in order, the stove households lived better, and the wages of the people who worked for the salt merchants increased, so how could it be messy? By the salt merchants themselves? Don't dream, they can't even resist Dongchang and Jinyiwei. It's just that this kind of thing can only be done once, not again.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty dared to issue an order, why? Because people have a strong military force as a backing, if they are not convinced, they will destroy you.

Support Wei Qing, support Huo Quai, the generals in the army are all henchmen of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the same is true of Tang Taizong, the generals in the army are all my people, isn't it the same for Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty? The army all listen to me, if you don't listen, then kill you, that's how power politics came about. But what about the current Da Ming? To be honest, Zhu Houzhao really has no confidence in the Ming army.

Just look at the chaos that occurred during the Jiajing period, the army of the Ming Dynasty is really difficult to explain, and it will collapse if you are not careful.

What Zhu Houzhao has to do is to lead, that is, to create an interest group that supports him, and once he succeeds, then what he has to do is much simpler.

For example, in the Civil War in the United States, the slogan was shouted loudly, and the real purpose was not because the big capitalists in the north needed cheap labor, while the manor owners in the south held a large number of slaves, to put it bluntly, it was a conflict of interests between two interest groups. The North won, why, because he is an industrial civilization, and people are playing large-scale industrial production.

Manor lord of the South, how many guns can you make? How many cannons can be made? You're going to have a ghost if you win.

Zhu Houzhao's current thinking is almost like this, if he touches the tax system before he has enough strength, that is, he is looking for death, Zhang Juzheng's reform is just scratching the itch in his boots, and it has not touched the root at all, but how much opposition has he encountered? If you do touch your core interests, the devil knows what will happen.

Make money, strengthen yourself, and then be able to fix some people and fix things, instead of making money through reform, that is basically impossible.

Now that his business territory has been unfolded through the strange Zhai, the mirror is enough to open a channel for himself, and of course he can't stop in the future.

Because of this thing, Zhu Houzhao's life was also very fulfilling, and there was nothing to do during the whole New Year, and everything was very stable. According to the system of the Ming Dynasty, after the fifteenth day, the government was basically opened, and the court basically resumed operation, and Zhu Houzhao also went to participate in the first early dynasty, but it was boring.

"Go and get the people from the Wine and Vinegar Noodle Bureau and the Siyuan Bureau to the main palace!" Zhu Hou looked at Liu Jin, and then spoke.

Zhu Houzhao has two actions on the side of the Eighth Bureau this year, one is the Wine and Vinegar Noodle Bureau, and the other is the Siyuan Bureau, needless to say, the Siyuan Bureau is responsible for the cultivation of vegetables and fruits in the palace, and Zhu Houzhao is naturally looking for them for vegetables and fruits. In terms of vegetables, greenhouses can be built, and those frosted glass should be used.

In terms of fruits, fruit wine can be considered, in an agrarian society like Daming, planting is definitely a good profession, which can solve the employment problem of many people.

This is what Zhu Houzhao has to do, he wants to use a large number of jobs to collect the displaced people, to collect the tenants, to transfer these people at the bottom. All things in this world, to put it bluntly, are human affairs, once the people at the bottom are pulled over, they still occupy the upper class, and the gentry and landlords in the middle layer are much simpler to clean them up.

This is also part of Zhu Houzhao's commercial sector, although it takes a long time, but the effect is good and stable, which is what Zhu Houzhao needs.

Another key point of Zhu Houzhao is the internal weaving and dyeing bureau and the scarf and hat bureau, to put it bluntly, it is the production of wool textiles and woolen clothes, which must be done. How bad is it to export silk and change rice to mulberry, we export wool thread, export wool cloth, the price is low, and the quantity is large, how good is this?

Britain's colonial commodities are wool imitations, the famous sheep cannibalism theory, Zhu Houzhao shuddered when he thought about it.

The merchants transported grain to the border to exchange for salt, and let them send grain to exchange for wool in the future, and then it would be impossible for northern Xinjiang to be underdeveloped.

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