Chapter 205: The Empress's New Profession and the Emperor's Troubles

Rao is early, the royal breakfast must also be unique and colorful, and the new flowers from all over the world should appear on the royal table in the fastest time.

At this time, looking at the Western bread decorated with sesame cheese, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help laughing: "When did the court have this white bread?" ”

"The people in the imperial dining room said that it was Lin Tingxuan's new Western bread from Liangguang, and it was the first time we saw it, Your Majesty, you already knew", Queen Xia pursed her lips and looked at Zhu Houzhao, her big eyes still had the playfulness of a girl, Su Guifei also smiled slightly when she saw this, and put the milk in a glass specially provided by the Royal Industrial Company for the royal family into her mouth, and a stream of white emulsion leached out between her red lips, so that Zhu Houzhao, who had just eaten half a piece of bread, couldn't help but think of some pictures of experiencing bliss with Su Guifei.

Zhu Houzhao shook his head, dispelled this obscene and inappropriate thought, and only asked Queen Xia: "Is this milk from the dairy farm in Xihua Mountain?" ”

In order to improve the quality of life of the people of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houzhao decided that it was necessary to popularize milk, a protein-rich drink, in the Ming Dynasty in advance, so he specially asked Luo Xiang, the eunuch in charge of procurement, to find a way to introduce dairy cows, and let the Imperial Horse Supervisor establish a cattle farm in Xihua Mountain to pilot milk production.

"Exactly, since Your Majesty asked us to use a new disinfection method (pasteurization method), this milk can also be sterilized at a low temperature and can fly into the homes of ordinary people, and at the same time, because the temperature used for disinfection is not high, the quality and nutrition of milk are maintained.

Queen Xia talked with relish, and the coquettishness that overflowed when she spoke made Zhu Houzhao feel a little hot as if she was being tickled by someone with a beautiful jade hand, and she couldn't wait to press this young and beautiful queen under her.

Although Zhu Houzhao thought so in his heart, he didn't really do it, he didn't understand what was going on with him recently, he always had a strong desire after every meal, and now even if he ate some breakfast, he didn't know if it was because he was in his prime of life, or because he was the emperor and there were too many beautiful and delicious beauties around him.

So much so that he couldn't control himself for several days, and fortunately many palace maids, so that all the civil officials began to talk about their absurdity, and even took the internal officials under him to choose more delicate women to enter the palace with interest.

Zhu Houzhao had to reprimand him a few times, he didn't want to end up with a young man who indulged in lust and died early.

Zhu Houzhao restrained his inner desire, and only continued to ask the queen about the Xihuashan dairy farm.

As a traverser, Zhu Houzhao has always used the knowledge he knows in later generations to influence the people around him, and Queen Xia, who has shared the bed with Zhu Houzhao since she was fourteen years old, is naturally no exception.

Queen Xia was initially interested in Zhu Houzhao's Dream of Red Mansions and female romance, and even got angry for a while and felt that Zhu Houzhao was not as painful and single-minded as the male protagonist, but after being corrected by Zhu Houzhao many times, she had to accept the reality, and later began to be interested in life sciences.

Zhu Houzhao wants to develop Daming Dairy, and he is also promoted by Queen Xia.

When Zhu Houzhao happened to mention that the cheese that Zhang Qian brought back from the Western Regions, that is, milk, was a very valuable nutrient, Queen Xia often blew the pillow wind, hoping that all the children of Daming could drink milk.

Zhu Houzhao thought that although the Ming Dynasty Zuxun was a harem and was not allowed to interfere in politics, he did not say that the harem was not allowed to engage in business and scientific research, so he did not stop it, and after asking the queen to agree to play a few new postures with him, Zhu Houzhao asked Luo Xiang of the Imperial Horse Supervisor to accompany the queen to make a Xihuashan dairy farm, and he was also registered as the Royal Xihuashan Dairy Company in the household department, and the legal representative was Xia Xianger.

The Ministry of Household has now set up a new commerce bureau in the provincial bureaucracy to be responsible for managing the provincial tariffs and trademarks, enterprise registration and other matters, so as to achieve the purpose of reasonable management of commerce in the Ming Dynasty.

But the civil officials of the household department were shocked when they saw the appearance of the company Royal Xihuashan Dairy Company, and it was not this royal store that shocked them, after all, this has been common in the Zhengde Dynasty, and what shocked them was that the owner of this company was the queen!

The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, which is the consensus of this civilian clique.

Whether it is a reformist or a conservative civil official, the reformist officials with the background of the Zhongjun Society are only loyal to the emperor but not to the empress.

Therefore, when the queen opened a company, the entire civil official class faced a new problem, that is, whether the harem could open a company and do business.

According to the convention, not to mention the queen, even the emperor and even the entire royal family cannot open a store, because they cannot compete with the people for profit.

But now His Majesty the Emperor has opened a store, and there is even the support of powerful people behind him, because the cunning Emperor His Majesty divided some of the benefits of the royal industry in the form of a joint-stock system.

Even these powerful gentry hired a group of literati to argue that the royal family was different from the imperial government, and that the members of the royal family were also ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty, and could own wealth and run industries in their own names, but they needed to pay the same taxes.

Even if some people throw out the view that the royal family cannot compete with the people for profit, some people refute it on the grounds that the royal industry is also employing people, and even employs more people, so that the large number of displaced people can be solved by food and clothing.

In the eighth year of Zhengde, Zuo Tongzheng Yu Feng, the secretary of the general administration, said that he should stop the imperial store, and even suggested that the weaving bureaus in Nanjing and Suzhou and other places should be abolished, which resulted in tens of thousands of weaving bureau craftsmen demonstrating and hundreds of officials related to the royal interests playing impeachment, and Yu Feng finally committed suicide to prove that he was really out of a public heart.

The traditional gentry were always resistant to commercial and socio-economic changes, and they were naturally also very resistant to the royal family's behavior of opening shops and even valuing commerce for profit, so it was normal for Yu Feng to act out of public interest.

However, Yu Feng's suicide also made some gentry who were afraid that the royal family would infringe on their commercial interests under the guise of not competing with the people, and had to sit back and watch the royal invasion of the commercial field.

So much so that the constitution only stipulates that court officials themselves are not allowed to do business, nor does it stipulate that members of the royal family are not allowed to do business.

After Zhu Houzhao ordered Wang Qiong, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, to hand over 50% of the tax revenue of the Royal Taxation Bureau to Taicang, the court officials were even more reluctant to prevent the royal government from doing business, because the annual tax contribution of the royal industry was a large part of the income, and if the royal industry was closed, it would not only produce hundreds of thousands of homeless people who had no food to rely on, but also lose a large amount of tax income.

"Now that the times have changed, the queen has also started a company, a few years ago, Wang didn't even know what a company was."

When faced with this problem, Wang Qiong, the head of the household department, only said this, he was not an official who was willing to offend the emperor in order to maintain certain principles, he could see that the queen could open a company must be the emperor's favor, so he passed the registration of Xihuashan Dairy.

And the other officials can only choose to accept it now, because they have not yet found a theoretical basis to determine whether the queen's behavior is not conducive to society.

But in any case, the first Daming dairy farm Xihuashan Dairy Farm, which originally appeared in the Chongzhen period, finally appeared in advance in the Zhengde Dynasty.

The empress of Emperor Zhengde obviously began to behave differently from the queen in the traditional sense, no longer just following the etiquette to be a virtuous and virtuous queen, but began to carry out her own business, with a group of palace maids and eunuchs began to successfully apply the pasteurization method mentioned by Zhu Houzhao in milk production, coupled with the appearance of glasses, making milk sales possible.

But in fact, what Queen Xia said about letting milk fly into the homes of ordinary people has not yet been realized, because the cost of glass is still not low, and the container for aseptic milk can only be high-temperature resistant glasses at present, so it is basically the royal and official families who enjoy milk now.

But in any case, milk has only begun to appear in the daily life of the Ming Dynasty on a large scale.

Zhu Houzhao wanted to tell the queen about the preparation of yogurt again, but the evil thoughts became heavier and heavier, and for a while he had the urge to restrain himself, and even the crotch was as heavy as a black iron, so he had to resign to the Queen Mother Zhang, and handed a look to the Queen Xia Xiang'er to signal her to go back with her, but Queen Xia only cared about feeding her prince and did not notice Zhu Houzhao's fire-breathing eyes.

The same is true for Su Guifei and Liu Guifei.

Zhu Houzhao had to walk outside the hall, thinking of letting the cold wind blow away the lust that had ignited in his heart, but at this time, it happened that a palace maid with some orchids in the Western Regions attracted Zhu Houzhao's attention, and Zhu Houzhao saw that she was tall and standing under the banana leaves of Zhumen, so he dragged her directly into his arms and held the soft lips of the orchid palace maid.

Seeing this, the eunuch on duty knew that his Majesty had committed another disease of hunger, so he hurriedly retreated left and right, closing the doors and windows.

After a long time, Zhu Houzhao was already a hairpin with a messy crown, his clothes were disheveled, and the orchid palace maid on the ground didn't know whether she was happy or sad, her beautiful eyes still had tears, but the corners of her mouth were piled up with a smile: "Thank you, Your Majesty!" ”

Zhu Houzhao stood up from the cold gold brick ground, hurriedly put on his shoes and clothes like a cat stealing fish, and then ran out in a panic, and he was absent-minded all morning.

Wang Hua, the first assistant of the cabinet, knew that His Majesty the Emperor Zhu Houzhao had been like this for several days, and his expression was in a trance, and he even heard that Zhu Houzhao had often made peace with the ladies in the palace recently, so that there were no less than 20 palace maids canonized by the Ministry of Rites.

Therefore, at this time, Wang Hua saw that Zhu Houzhao was also tired because of this, so he could only persuade him: "Your Majesty, although the Sixth Palace Fandel is not for ornamentation, it is also because of moderation. ”

"I know, but I have been very strange in recent days, I am very obsessed with this way, and I gradually can't restrain it", Zhu Houzhao said and had to say: "I will go back and rest for a while, and you can discuss the matter first." ”