Zhu Youzhen used self-questioning and self-answering to clarify the current relationship between him and Wei Zhongxian.

At present, Wei Zhongxian has no intention of going to war with him directly.

According to Zhu Youzhen's current status in Zhu Youxiao's heart, Wei Zhongxian will at most engage in some small conspiracy and play some small tricks behind his back, and for the time being, Wei Zhongxian will never dare to tear his face with him openly.

In that case, it's easy to do.

Retracting his thoughts of flying around, Zhu Youzhen finally found his way forward.

Preparing Ningyuan's supplies was a good opportunity that Zhu Youzhen had been waiting for for a long time, and he couldn't miss it.

Since Lao Wei was so wary of him, Zhu Youzhen just adjusted his direction. Throw the power in your hand into the border town of Daming.

Within the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen will try his best to be low-key, and he will definitely be low-key, low-key, and low-key.

At this stage, Zhu Youzhen should try his best to go out of sight of the Ming Dynasty to accumulate more strength.

As long as the strength is enough, it's a big deal that Zhu Youzhen jumps outside the range of Daming and goes to play the world by himself.

Anyway, he, Zhu Youzhen, will never be encircled as a pig to be slaughtered in his life.

With a decision in his heart, Zhu Youzhen said to Ruan Dacheng easily: "Okay, tomorrow you will ask for the chapter of the vassal for Gu Shangdao, so be it." ”

"Yes, Your Highness."

Receiving Zhu Youzhen's clear reply, Ruan Dacheng sighed secretly in his heart.

It seems that his future in the Ming Dynasty is about to enter the countdown.

In the Ming Dynasty, the vassal kings who stayed in the capital could still have some influence. Once the vassal is in place, the vassal king will only have the prospect of making money.

didn't have time to pay attention to Ruan Dacheng's careful thoughts, Zhu Youzhen directly found Zheng Yingtai.

"Lao Zheng, Lone wants to prepare a batch of supplies for Ning Yuan, do you think anyone is willing to take this job?" Zhu Youzhen asked in a warm voice.

"Your Highness, prepare supplies, this is a good errand. As long as we let out the wind, some people will come to the door automatically. Zheng Yingtai replied with a happy face.

"No, no, you don't understand what loneliness means." Zhu Youzhen hurriedly explained.

"Lone means let them transport the materials to Ningyuan by themselves, and then settle with us when they come back."

"What?"

Hearing King Qingxin's explanation, Zheng Yingtai couldn't help but cry out.

Isn't what His Royal Highness King Xinwang said about opening the middle of the law?

Who will take over the work in this year, is it because they are afraid that their family will not fail fast enough?

Although I think so in my heart, in fact, Shanxi businessmen like Zheng Yingtai still have deep feelings for China and France.

Most of the Shanxi merchants of the Ming Dynasty relied on the Kaizhong method to dig up their family's first pot of gold. Then relying on the hard work of generation after generation, they established their respective family businesses little by little.

Like Zheng Yingtai's ancestors, in response to Hong Wuye's edict, drove a little donkey and transported grain to Xuanfu and Datong one by one.

Then he took the voucher issued by Biansai, went to the imperial court to exchange for salt, and then exchanged a pound of salt from the salt field to sell it all over the world, and then slowly saved up his later family money.

In the early years of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the implementation of the Kaizhong Law was relatively strict.

In that era, as long as you were willing to endure hardships, you would definitely be able to reap huge benefits.

At that time, the ancestors of the Zheng family could go as far as Daning City (Ningcheng, Inner Mongolia), deep in the grassland, to Kaizhong.

The trade routes of the Zhengjia grassland were also laid at that time.

The first few decades of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be the best era for border merchants.

At that time, how many Shanxi merchants relied on the opening of the Chinese law and slowly got rid of poverty and became wealthy businessmen.

How many Shanxi people rely on the promotion and guidance of their fellow villagers and slowly embark on the road of doing business.

And how many Shanxi families are relying on the trade routes formed in Kaizhong to support their families.

It can be said that without the opening of the Chinese law, there would be no Jin merchants.

The Jin merchants were dependent on the opening of China and France to survive and develop.

It's a pity that with the Ming Dynasty taking a long time, the Kaizhong method has slowly changed its taste.

First of all, the vouchers obtained by the merchants who worked hard to lose at the same time, when the imperial court replaced the salt introduction or branch salt, they would always be subjected to all kinds of difficulties.

This forced border merchant had to sell a part of the voucher or salt to the wealthy merchant at a low price.

At that time, although the interests of the border merchants were greatly invaded by the sitting merchants, at least half of the interests of the border merchants were still available.

But when it came to Emperor Hongzhi of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Xiaozong, who was fooled by Wenchen (regarded as the most virtuous emperor of the Ming Dynasty by Wenchen), foolishly allowed the people to buy salt directly with silver.

This policy of buying salt directly with silver is the folding method in the Kaizhong method.

This so-called color folding method completely destroyed the foundation of the Kaizhong method.

Everyone is not stupid, you can buy it directly with silver, so who is still working hard to run and lose at the same time.

From then on, countless merchants with deep backgrounds began to buy salt from the imperial court with boxes of silver.

As soon as the opening of the folding method was opened, the salt distribution of the imperial court to the border merchants became less and less.

When he worked hard to deliver supplies to the border stopper, but he couldn't get the salt for a long time:

When you finally get the salt guide, but you can't get the salt from the salt field;

The frontier merchants began to decline.

At that time, the border merchants who worked hard to transport grain to the border, except for a few with particularly deep backgrounds, everyone else could not get salt for a long time, and their lives began to become more and more difficult.

Border merchants had to start looking for change.

Several of the border merchants with deep backgrounds finally got tired of the life of losing and losing, and they began to move their families away from the border and return to the Central Plains to become sitting merchants who could earn money by sitting.

At this time, the interests of the Daming salt industry have gradually been wiped out by the merchants in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty.

At this point, except for a very small number of border merchants in the Ming Dynasty, who have turned into sitting merchants, they can also get a share of the profits from the Daming salt industry, and the other border merchants can no longer get the salt they deserve.

At this time, the border merchants who could not get salt at all went bankrupt, and the opening of the Chinese law came to the point of existing in name only.

At this time, if it weren't for the Zheng family's ancestors who had launched a number of operations early with their superb vision, I am afraid that the Zheng family would not have escaped the frenzy of bankruptcy of border merchants.

But even if the Zheng family is not bankrupt, the trade routes of the Zheng family's ancestors for hundreds of years are still barely maintained.

In this case, King Xin mentioned it again, there are countless examples of bankrupt border businessmen in front of him, how can Zheng Yingtai not change color.

"Your Highness."

Zheng Yingtai thought about it again and again, but still had good wishes, and asked cautiously: "Your Highness, I don't know which one of the ten outlines of Sheng, De, Chao, Qian, Gu, Huang, Feng, Fan, Jiu, and Wei has been distributed?" ”

"What did you say?" Zhu Youzhen was stunned by Zheng Yingtai's question.

What the hell is Zheng Yingtai talking about, why can't he understand.

"Your Highness, forgive the villain for being presumptuous. I don't know if His Highness got the right to distribute that piece of salt? ”

Seeing Zhu Youzhen's reaction, Zheng Yingtai secretly screamed bitterly in his heart.

His Royal Highness didn't even know the name of Tsunayan, but he was afraid that His Highness had been deceived.

Sure enough, Zheng Yingtai listened to His Royal Highness the King's surprise and asked, "Gangyan, what is that?" Is it salt to eat? ”

Finished.

Zheng Yingtai felt that his head was bigger.

His Royal Highness Shin seems to have really been deceived.

I don't know what Tsunayana is, so what's going on!