However, what Emperor Chongzhen didn't expect was that when he went to the queen's side, Tian Guifei was also there.

Seeing him coming, Empress Zhou was also very happy, and after hurriedly saluting, she picked up a piece of cotton cloth on the table, and said to Emperor Chongzhen with a smile: "Your Majesty, the concubine is talking about the improvement of this cotton cloth with Sister Tian!" ”

After finishing speaking, she took the initiative to approach Emperor Chongzhen, pointed to the piece of cotton cloth with her finger, and added: "Today, the concubine and your sisters have woven these cotton cloths with some palace maids. Just the ones piled up on the side, but the concubine and Sister Tian are not satisfied, thinking about how to change it! ”

Emperor Chongzhen was slightly surprised when he heard this, and reached out to take the piece of cotton cloth and looked at it. Although he didn't understand this, he could still see how the fabric was. He felt that Empress Zhou was right, these cotton cloths could be regarded as defective. But it's understandable, after all, this is the first batch of weaving in the palace.

Empress Zhou saw that after Emperor Chongzhen finished reading the cotton cloth at hand, she turned her head to look at the pile of cotton cloth on the side, and said a little shyly: "Your Majesty, don't look at it, this is already the best piece of cotton cloth." The concubine and Sister Tian will definitely work hard to improve her skills, and if she goes back and sells it, she will not lose the royal face. ”

When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, his heart suddenly moved, and after thinking about it for a while, he changed his original plan, and immediately shook his head and said to Empress Zhou: "No, since a batch has been spun, it will be taken out and sold early tomorrow morning, it's okay." However, on this cotton cloth, a mark is embroidered on it, indicating that it is produced in the palace. ”

The concept of trademarks actually existed in ancient times. Although Emperor Chongzhen did not say it explicitly, Empress Zhou also understood.

However, she didn't care about this, but said in surprise: "Your Majesty, but this cotton cloth ...... Cotton ......"

Tian Guifei on the side was taken aback when she heard this, and was very stunned: How can you get it with such cotton cloth?

"What does it matter? The first batch of cotton cloth produced in the palace is also normal to have some flaws. Emperor Chongzhen said disapprerovingly, "Just do what I say." Take it out and sell it early tomorrow morning. By the way, you can embroider the date on the cotton. In addition, the sales method is better than the secret auction method. Tomorrow morning, for the first time, the queen will go to the town. In this way, others can also know as soon as possible that this is produced in the palace. ”

"......" Queen Zhou and Concubine Tian looked at each other, both speechless.

In the past dynasties, the queen has personally gone to buy and sell things, which is really a bit appalling. To put it mildly, that's a loss of face.

However, before, Emperor Chongzhen had already had a long talk with Empress Zhou. Between the society and the face, there is no doubt which is important. Now that Empress Zhou has listened to Emperor Chongzhen's request, she can understand the anxiety in the emperor's heart.

Recalling the previous conversation with Emperor Chongzhen in her mind, Empress Zhou made a decision, nodded and said, "Your Majesty, rest assured, the concubine will leave early tomorrow morning, and raise more money to subsidize the palace as soon as possible." ”

Tian Guifei on the side heard that she covered her open mouth with her hand, and her eyes were full of shock. Look at the emperor, look at the queen again, it feels a little incredible! Is the lack of money in the palace really so short?

As if knowing her thoughts, Emperor Chongzhen put down the cotton cloth, sat down, rubbed his head and said: "The only Qin soldier in King Qin's army who can fight, although he won a big victory this time, his own losses are not small, and he is recuperating. The court has no money, and if the bereavement rewards are not in place, I am afraid that it will chill the hearts of these meritorious soldiers. In this way, I am afraid that there will be no army to fight with Jianyu. ”

"Also, in this report, it is also mentioned that there is a big difference between my Ming army and the Jianyu ordnance armor, which is also the reason why the casualties of the Qin soldiers are still relatively large when they have an advantage. And to improve these, you need money. When Emperor Chongzhen said this, he sighed and said, "I'm really going crazy by money!" ”

He is not exaggerating when he says this, and it is true. The 200,000 taels of silver discussed in the court in the morning were only the minimum amount of silver taels required for this great victory. There are also food, grass, supplies, ordnance and equipment, and so on, all of which require a lot of money. If there is a war to be fought afterwards, I don't know how much money will be needed.

This also shows that once there is a war, it is a real amount of money. Now that the treasury has no money, he has to raise it as an emperor, if it was the original Emperor Chongzhen, he would definitely be driven crazy.

Queen Zhou felt very uncomfortable when she heard this, and with a little choked up, she hurriedly said: "It's really embarrassing for Your Majesty, the concubine will definitely spin more and sell it." ”

Tian Guifei listened to it on the side, and she was also a little gloomy. She actually heard a little about the hardships of state affairs. However, she didn't expect that the matter had reached this level.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't sit for a long time, he quickly stood up, suddenly with a little ruthlessness, and said in a small but very firm voice: "For the sake of the society, don't talk about the royal face, I will do anything, this is my responsibility!" ”

After finishing speaking, he was about to turn around and leave, and when he left, he remembered something, so he turned around and asked Tian Guifei: "How is the emperor?" ”

Tian Guifei was still a little surprised by the emperor's determination, but as soon as she heard about her son, she hurriedly replied: "It has improved in the past few days, and the imperial doctor said that it will be completely better in about five days after another course of treatment." ”

Hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen was also relieved, nodded and said, "That's good, I have too many things, and Concubine Ai has to worry more about herself." ”

"Well, as it should be, Your Majesty is busy with state affairs." Tian Guifei nodded and replied.

Emperor Chongzhen did not stay any longer, and left under the congratulations of Empress Zhou and Concubine Tian.

Early the next morning, Chen Baoting, Emperor Chongzhen's personal attendant, came to the queen's side to listen to the order. Because the shop outside the palace was arranged by Chen Baoting.

Empress Zhou also remembered this, and she had already prepared and left the palace early. There is no pomp, just some necessary casualness.

Despite this, the incident caused a sensation. Passers-by along the way were curious. What's more, there will be palace maids who will briefly explain the situation to passers-by. Suddenly, some people ran back to their homes to report the news, while others followed behind to watch the excitement.

This is the first time in the founding of the Ming Dynasty in nearly 300 years, unless there is something urgent, otherwise it is absolutely necessary to see the excitement!

The location of the store is not a prosperous area, but as soon as the queen arrives, it will be lively. Although it is not a sea of people, it is also the most crowded here.

Naturally, the queen will not show up in person, but it is an attitude to be here. A palace maid came out to explain the situation, and was ready to start the auction.

When the crowd of onlookers heard that there was no money in the palace, so that the queen had to weave in the palace and sell it out of the palace to subsidize the palace, it immediately exploded. Who would have thought that the use of the palace would be so nervous?

"I didn't expect it, I didn't expect that the emperors of my Ming Dynasty would be poor like this!"

"But no, I heard that a friend of my aunt next door and his son was on an errand in the palace, and he accidentally saw it, and when he walked faster today, the wind blew the corners of his clothes, revealing the clothes inside, but they were patched. I didn't believe it before, but now I ...... Ah, I really didn't expect it! ”

"Recently, I also heard that the palace is cutting manpower, and it is said that it can't afford to support so many people!"

“……”

As they spoke, they couldn't help but be very emotional. It's really not easy to think about it, Emperor Ming is really not easy!

"I really didn't expect it, my son's Hou Mansion is usually called a pomp. We, the Ming Emperor, are so poor that we are not even as good as the Hou Mansion! ”

"I still need to say it, don't talk about the Hou Mansion, just those who are officials, which mansion will have no money?"

"Yes, now, the emperor has no money, the court has no money, the officials are rich, and the emperor's relatives are rich!"

“……”

As a result, some people are sympathetic to the Ming Dynasty, some people want to be extravagant, and some people are thinking about whether they can have a relationship with the palace...... Anyway, there are various reasons, which led to the first auction of cotton cloth produced in the palace, which was unusually popular.

As for the quality of the cotton cloth, not many people actually care.

At the same time, on the side of the Marquis of Wuqing's mansion, Jiang Dong came early in the morning with Li Guochen. He didn't care if you were the emperor or not, since he had been forced to delay for a day, he didn't have to delay it any longer, so he immediately urged for silver taels.

"This stall leader, the Hou Mansion really doesn't have so much money, and the wealth of the ancestors' father's family is all made up by this mongrel." Of course, Li Guorui would not take out the money, but looked at Li Guochen with disgust and said coldly to Jiang Dong.

When Li Guochen on the side heard this, he immediately became angry, pointed at Li Guorui and shouted: "You are a cheap, you still dare to lie?" ”

Jiang Dong was too lazy to be verbose, and shouted coldly: "At noon at the latest, if you don't hand over the money, don't blame me for being unkind!" ”

When Li Guorui heard this, he suddenly laughed "sadly", as if he had been forced to a dead end, and after saying a few "yes" in a row, a big drama began.

The people in the Hou Mansion, who had been prepared for a long time, suddenly moved out of the "bottles and jars", "pots and pans" or something, and began to move outside the mansion.

This scene surprised Jiang Dong and the others, and naturally someone asked what the situation was.

So, I saw Li Guorui crying a few times in the sky, and then replied: "This Hou Ye really can't take out so much money, if he doesn't hand over the money at noon, this stall head will be unwelcome, what else can this Hou Ye do?" can only sell property and sell it cheaply! ”

His answer made all the people who heard it, whether it was Dongchang Fanzi, or the household officials, etc., all of them were dumbfounded.

I've seen shameless, but I've never seen such shameless. The dignified Hou Ye is going to sell pots and pans on the street? When this is said, it is really a big joke that is rare in the Ming Dynasty for a hundred years!

This time, even Jiang Dong is a little unbearable, it's really embarrassing to do this. On the one hand, he ordered them to be stopped and not allowed to leave the house, and on the other hand, he sent people to report to the factory to make a decision.

So, on the side of the Hou Mansion, a group of subordinates, knocking on pots and pans, looked like they didn't think it was a big deal, and they began to sell before they left the house.

"The Marquis of Wuqing is in a hurry to use the money, and he sells it cheaply, and he sells it cheaply!"

"The court is pressing, there is really no way, it is sold cheaply, it is sold cheaply!"

“……”

The movement here is so big that there are many passers-by at the door who are probing their brains here.

But soon, the fan who was sent back came back, bowed his head and said to Jiang Dong: "The factory man said, don't care what they do, we only collect money!" ”

When Jiang Dong heard this, he was a little surprised, and thought to himself, is this really good?

Naturally, he didn't know that Cao Huachun was equally surprised when he heard it, and then immediately asked Emperor Chongzhen for an order, and finally got this will.

Jiang Dong has instructions, so naturally he will not stop again.

So, the people of the Hou Mansion moved pots and pans out of the house, and began to set up stalls and sell them loudly, which also attracted more and more people to watch.

Director Qian shook his head again and again, but Jiang Dong sneered, with one thought in his heart, it was really shameless!

Li Guochen was also dumbfounded in this process. When he finally came back to his senses, he felt that he was going to be terrible.

If others think that the Hou Mansion really has no money, and they are all forced to do this by the imperial court, then where will the face of the imperial court go, and if they want to find a scapegoat when the time comes, it will be him.

Thinking so, he hurriedly went to the street and explained loudly to the onlookers that the Hou Mansion had so much money. However, he was alone, and it was clear that not many people echoed him.

What he didn't expect was that things were getting more and more serious.

Today's queen's father, the prince's grandfather, Jiading Bo Zhou Kui rushed over when he heard the voice, and heard that Wu Qinghou was forced to do this job, on the street, in front of onlookers, he said indignantly, the court actually wanted to force Wu Qinghou to take out so much money, how could this be possible? But you can't disobey it, right? They are all royal relatives, and they always have to help with this favor.

However, he also didn't have much money. But it's nothing, it's just smashing pots and selling iron, and you have to help Marquis Wu Qing tide over the difficulties.

So, under the dumbfounded eyes of everyone, the people of Jiadingbo's Mansion, who had been prepared for a long time, also came over with pots and pans, and set up stalls next to the people of Wuqinghou's Mansion. You shout, I shout, echoing each other, selling pots and pans.

Such a strange thing, of course, spread quickly, and the number of onlookers soon increased.

At the same time, on the side of the auction of cotton cloth, someone suddenly found Chen Baoting and said a few words, Chen Baoting immediately found Queen Zhou, saying that it was okay to mean here, and it was inconvenient for the queen to stay here, and it was time to return to the palace.

Empress Zhou also had this idea, so she drove back to the palace.

Not long after walking, suddenly the lead officer felt that something was wrong, so he asked Chen Baoting, who led the way, "Father-in-law Chen, did you go the wrong way?" ”

"No, it's the same when you go back to the palace from here." Chen Baoting replied after hearing this, "We don't need to be as fanfare as we did when we first came out, this is the residence of the nobles, and there will be fewer onlookers." ”

It seemed that this was indeed the case, so the man had no opinion and walked away. However, he didn't expect that this place was so lively that even the streets were blocked.

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