The food box was opened, and the corn and sweet potatoes were not yet cold. Zhu Youzhen presented a treasure, and personally brought it to Zhu Youxiao. The waiter who was with Zhu Youxiao's side changed his face again and again, and in the end he still didn't have the courage to stand up and stop it.

The husk of the corn slowly peels away, revealing the tight yellow kernels inside. The corn with residual temperature wafted out a trace of heat, and a sweet fragrance that belonged to corn wafted out.

Zhu Youzhen signaled that Zhu Youxiao could eat it, Zhu Youxiao looked at this strange thing, smelled the sweet breath and couldn't help but take a bite.

Unexpectedly, it looked like a big thing, but what it actually bit was only these particles lined up on the surface, and there was a stick that couldn't be bitten inside. However, the corn kernels are sweet and silky in the mouth, and the taste is good.

Zhu Youzhen picked up another sweet potato, and the purple-red sweet potato didn't look beautiful at all. Zhu Youzhen peeled off the skin for the eldest brother with his own hands, revealing the soft yellow flesh inside.

Seeing that it was a yellow sweet potato, Zhu Youzhen swallowed a large ball of saliva, and the sound was so loud that even Zhu Youxiao could hear it clearly.

Nothing can compare to the allure of this voice, Zhu Youxiao is not polite, stretches out his hand to take it, and takes a big bite. The yellow sweet potato is soft and sweet in the mouth, which makes him appetite. He chewed without any image, and asked vaguely: "Xiao Wu, where did you get the food?" So delicious! ”

Zhu Youzhen didn't care about Zhu Youxiao, he picked up a piece of sweet potato and broke it open, and bit it down hard. The sweet aroma fills the mouth, and every taste bud in the mouth is cheering. I haven't eaten it for a long time, and this is the taste of memory. Zhu Youzhen had a feeling of wanting to cry.

"Well, sweet potatoes still taste better in comparison." Zhu Youzhen suddenly felt that there was a fly in the ointment, which was a little worse than the feeling in his memory.

After eating half a sweet potato in one go, Zhu Youzhen answered Zhu Youxiao's question, "Brother, this is the food I just got from the south, how is it, it tastes good, right?" ”

After a pause and a little thought, Zhu Youzhen still said: "I didn't expect that there was such a delicious thing in the south, and the officials over there didn't know to recommend it to us." Good things need to be shared. Southerners are so stingy. ”

"Big brother, I have already arranged for my Zhuangzi to be planted. We don't need them to worship, and we can eat these delicacies if we want in the future. Zhu Youzhen said angrily.

Zhu Youxiao heard Zhu Youzhen say this about the court officials, and he smiled bitterly in his heart. How could Xiao Wu know about the affairs of the court, this is not a problem of stinginess of southerners at all.

In the past two years, Zhu Youxiao has seen that those officials, especially those from Jiangnan, have their own calculations in their hearts. They cry out all day long, to reinvent the basics.

Well, the imperial court is based on agriculture. It is necessary to focus on taking care of the interests of peasant households, and we should not lightly raise taxes on peasant households. What about the operation of the imperial court? The imperial court collects some business taxes, right?

However, when the imperial court wanted to levy commercial taxes, the officials would shout: "You can't compete with the people for profit, you must hide the wealth from the people." I don't know who the people are referring to in the mouth of the officials?

Officials are still shouting all day long that they want to be a gentleman and a villain. Who is a gentleman? Maybe they're gentlemen, right?

The officials all said that the world was mine, but they didn't want anything from them to give me. I don't even want to show them.

The DPRK and China must not be the voices of officials from the south.

Zhu Youxiao originally had a fluctuating heart, and completely made up his mind.

Zhu Youzhen's plan to win over Zhu Youxiao with delicious food was a great success. Zhu Youxiao gave him a generous return, 15 imperial estates and more than 500 hectares of land in the palace of Enxin.

However, this time the fields are not all irrigated, there are both dry land and mountainous land, which is quite uneven. Zhu Youzhen was happy but also a little nerve-wracking, so many imperial villages, so many tenants, management should be put on the agenda.

In the spring of the third year of the Apocalypse, a list of deposed deposers drawn up by the Donglin Party circulated in the capital.

There are hundreds of people on the list, all of whom are said to be people who want to be dismissed in Jingcha. Qi Shijiao, Zhao Xingbang, Guan Yingzhen, and Wu Liangsi of Zhejiang, Qi, and Chu were among the best in the four affairs, and a large number of neutral people such as Xu Zhaokui and Xu Dahua were also among them.

Some people rumored that Zhao Nanxing, the leader of the Donglin Party, personally criticized Qi Shijiao, Zhao Xingbang, Guan Yingzhen, and Wu Liangsi as the four murderers, and the rumors spread with noses and eyes. Some neutral people verified the rumors, but they didn't expect the statement of the four murderers to be confirmed by Zhao Nanxing. For a time, there was a great chaos in the court.

Neutrals made judgments, and it was obvious that Shoufu Ye Xianggao was no longer able to control the Donglin Party, and the radical faction of the Donglin Party, led by Zhao Nanxing, went farther and farther away.

In the court, neutrals began to lean towards the eunuchs. The Donglin Party wanted to clear the field, and they could only take refuge in the Eunuch Party.

The situation in the court changed abruptly, and the Donglin Party, which was busy with Jingcha, suffered a major blow. First, Gu Bingqian and Wei Guangwei entered the cabinet through the court; Secondly, the imperial court actually passed an edict to restore the tax policy during the Wanli period.

Without waiting for the Donglin Party to react, a large number of tax eunuchs who had been gathering momentum for a long time quickly left Beijing and rushed to various places.

The changes in the court did not affect Zhu Youzhen's good mood.

The rumors about the Donglin Party's Jingcha a few years ago and the list that is now circulating were all concocted by Zhu Youzhen in private. But he didn't do it for political purposes.

Zhu Youzhen just didn't want the Donglin Party to be dominant, and the Donglin Party and him, the vassal king, were born to deal with each other. He just relied on vague memories of his past life to spread rumors casually. The list deliberately wiped out all the non-Donglin parties in the court.

For him, the two-party rivalry in the court is a big show, and Zhu Youzhen feels that it is better to be evenly matched.

Zhu Youzhen is relatively boring now, and the new Huangzhuang has not yet been investigated. The other industries under his name have been running well during this time, and they have made great progress, and they do not need to be painstakingly managed.

Through the accumulation of this period of time, Dazhong Qian Zhuang has made great progress in both word-of-mouth and actual business. Now the bank's silver deposit has exceeded 1 million taels. This amount surprised Zhu Youzhen very much, and the people in the capital were still relatively wealthy.

However, the huge amount of cash in the bank made Zhu Youzhen urgently need to find some new investment channels. The commercial scope of the capital is too sensitive to be easily touched. Zhu Youzhen still made up his mind to open the money bank to other cities as soon as possible, and then mention others.

The fertilizer workshop is also on track, and the fertilizer produced is now gradually starting to be sold. The workshop has broken even. Yexianglang is now also accustomed to the workshop system, and they can rest assured that they will receive a monthly subsidy of 60 Wen. What made the Yexiang Lang even happier was that the rewards given by the people in the city, the workshop did not force them to hand them in, and they still fell into their own pockets.

The sale of Zhenmutang is still very good. Now Zhenmutang has become the preferred brand of high-end woodware in Beijing.

The big families will try their best to come to Zhenmutang to take a picture of Master Mingzong's works. Even if they can't photograph the master's work, they will definitely order a set of high-end furniture from Zhenmutang. The behavior of the high-ranking families has triggered the popular fashion in the capital.

Ordinary families have also paid for a set of Zhenmutang's standard home furnishings as heirloom appliances. This practice has completely become fashionable in the capital.

The carpenter's workshop in Huangzhuang has now expanded to a medium-sized workshop with more than 80 carpenters.

The newspaper printed by Zhenmutang is still slowly being distributed with the money house, and now it has sold more than 1,000 copies. People have slowly become accustomed to its existence, because it is updated every 5 days, and the content is printed with the price of the capital, which is called the cordial it 5-price paper.