Zhu Houzhao definitely can't find a big businessman, because there are people behind the big businessmen, in the current Ming Dynasty, officials and businessmen are definitely not talking, if you want to do business, you can't do it without an official background. Even many businessmen, they are simply officials, what are these people Zhu Houzhao looking for?

No matter what you do, the main thing is to look at your own needs, and only those that meet your own needs are the best.

Zhu Houzhao is just looking for an agent, not a powerful businessman.

"Your Highness, rest assured, the slave maid will definitely be able to find someone who satisfies His Highness!" Liu Jin hurriedly said on the side, his face full of firm assurance.

Zhu Houzhao just smiled, and then said, "Then go and do it!" Don't let your Highness down. ”

Liu Jin went to do something, Zhu Houzhao actually didn't care so much about this matter, no matter who Liu Jin was looking for, Zhu Houzhao had the confidence to control him in his hands, and even Zhu Houzhao didn't have to come forward in person, Liu Jin just came forward. Now Zhu Houzhao can probably understand why the emperor likes to use eunuchs, because it is really easy to use.

Even if something happens in the end, the eunuch can just take the blame, the ease of use is comparable to that of a legalist, and the cost performance is high.

Zhu Houzhao is very busy these days, because his father Zhu Youzhu is not very busy, since he learned that Empress Zhang had a child, Zhu Youzhu basically went back to Kunning Palace every day, and he went back early. Something like correcting the question book will be handed over to Zhu Houzhao, and there is only a need for special things, and Zhu Houzhao can report it.

Zhu Youzhang has a posture of other emperors in the Ming Dynasty, and handed it over to the eunuch for approval, but now it is Zhu Houzhao who criticizes Zhu Youzhang.

For his own behavior, Zhu Youzhu found a high-sounding reason for himself, which was the cultivation of his son. Zhu Houzhao expressed strong protest and opposition to this, but under the suppression of his parents, this protest and opposition could only end in nothing.

Under such circumstances, Zhu Houzhao couldn't think of it anymore, he had to attend classes and practice martial arts, and the whole person was like a spinning top.

After practicing martial arts this day, Zhu Houzhao was resting and drinking tea, Zhang Yong ran in from outside, and after seeing Zhu Houzhao, he hurriedly said: "Your Highness, Your Highness, Your Highness, Your Majesty asked Your Highness to go over." ”

Zhu Houzhao nodded and stood up, although he didn't know what his father was looking for him, Zhu Houzhao was still ready to go over and take a look.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, it's not Kunning Palace, it's Qianqing Palace!" Seeing Zhu Houzhao going to Kunning Palace, Zhang Yong hurriedly reminded him behind him.

Zhu Houzhao was slightly stunned, he didn't mean to blame Zhang Yong, but he felt that this matter was a little strange, because his father had been staying in Kunning Palace most of the time, so how could he go to Qianqing Palace to summon him? Although he didn't know why, Zhu Houzhao's expression became serious.

In Zhu Houzhao's view, this should be an accident, and it is not a small matter, it should be a big thing.

When he came to the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Houzhao knew what was going on, and all the people in the entire palace had been cleared out. Now there are only three people standing in the main hall, except for his father Zhu Youjiao, the remaining two people are Yang Peng, the factory father of the East Factory, and the other is a young eunuch, Zhu Houzhao does not know.

"The people sent out by the East Factory are back, and they are about to return, let's listen to it together!" When Zhu Youzhu saw Zhu Houzhao coming, he spoke.

Zhu Houzhao glanced at his father's expression, no sadness or joy, obviously he didn't listen to it, Zhu Houzhao nodded and said, "Okay!" Erchen hopes that Erchen will lose. ”

Of course, Zhu Youzhu understood the meaning of his son's words, nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "My son has a heart, but what it is is is what it is, some things will not come according to people's hopes and ideas!" Saying that, Zhu Youzhu turned his head to Yang Peng and said, "Okay, let's talk about it!" ”

"Yes, Emperor!" Yang Peng hurriedly bowed down and said, "After getting this errand, the slave maid asked Yang Lian to take people to Jiangnan. ”

Zhu Hou took a look at the young man behind Yang Peng, this should be Yang Lian, right? Speaking of which this name is really good, he made Zhu Houzhao sound another name, that is, Yang Lianting.

"After Yang Lian came back, the slave didn't ask, but just took him into the palace." After Yang Peng said this, he stood aside.

Glancing at Yang Peng, Zhu Houzhao smiled, this Yang Peng is not bad, turned his head to look at his father, and seeing that he was silent, Zhu Houzhao also turned his head. Yang Peng is probably lying about this, anyway, as long as he and Yang Lian know, but Zhu Houzhao thinks it is unlikely, because it is unnecessary.

"Then let Yang Lian talk about it!" Zhu Youzhu glanced at Yang Lian, and then said slowly.

"Emperor, His Royal Highness the Prince, the slave maid went to Shanyang at the first stop, because Lord Ye Qiye is from Shanyang County, Huai'an Prefecture. Shanyang County has been a transportation center on the Grand Canal since ancient times, so Shanyang trade is prosperous, gathering a large number of merchants, and the most here are Xin'an merchants. ”

Listening to Yang Lian's words, Zhu Houzhao sighed, sure enough, it was a Hui businessman, many people in later generations thought that the Hui merchant was referring to a businessman from Anhui, but in fact it was not.

In this era, there was no such place in Anhui, only Huizhou, and Huizhou merchants referred to the general name of merchants or merchant groups from the old Huizhou government, not all Anhui merchants.

Zhu Houzhao remembered very well that Huizhou merchants developed vigorously in this era, and Huizhou was located in the "head of Wu and Chuwei", which belonged to the marginal area, with high mountains and dense forests, changeable terrain, and relatively late development. Before the Han Dynasty, the population was small, but at the end of the Jin Dynasty, the end of the Song Dynasty, the end of the Tang Dynasty and three waves of migration in Chinese history, a large number of people migrated from the north to Huizhou in southern Anhui. What should I do if I have a large population and a lot of mountains and little land? Going out to do business is a way out.

Hui merchants from the Han and Tang dynasties to have, the Song Dynasty strength soared, the Song Dynasty, Hui paper has been exported to Sichuan. In the Southern Song Dynasty, Hui merchants with huge capital began to appear, and the brothers Cheng Chengjin and Cheng Chenghai of Qimen became rich in business, and were respectively called "100,000 Grand Dukes" and "100,000 2 Dukes", collectively known as "Cheng 100,000". Zhu Xi's maternal grandfather Zhu Qu ran shops and inns that accounted for half of Huizhou, and was known as "Zhu Banzhou". Some big businessmen with strong capital also issued "huizi" in Huizhou.

Although the Hui merchants were also quite powerful before this era, they were far inferior to the Jin merchants, you must know that the Hui merchants were at their peak, accounting for four-sevenths of the country's total economic output, which shows their strong strength.

When did Hui Shang develop greatly? It was at this time that Huizhou merchants began to enter the great development, how to develop? Entered the salt industry of Daming, why can it develop? Because of the two Huai salt fields. The Hui merchants relied on the Lianghuai salt farms to grab profits and became a huge merchant gang.