"His Royal Highness Taisun, His Royal Highness King Zhao is visiting ......"

Zhu Zhanji sat up from the entanglement of the pink arms and jade legs of spring, summer, autumn and winter, stretched his waist, and the bones on his body made a clicking sound.

The four girls were shy one by one, mixed with the laziness of waking up, so that Zhu Zhanji couldn't help but climb their hands on their delicate mountains again.

Qiu Yue, who was pinched by him, couldn't help but snort, and her breathing couldn't help but become rougher. But she didn't dodge, but took the initiative to get close to Zhu Zhanji to facilitate his actions.

"When?"

Liu Wan's voice came from outside the door: "Your Highness, it's three o'clock." ”

That is, it is not yet eight o'clock, so that the pampered King Zhao can get up to find him so early, presumably he attaches great importance to the sea trade business.

"Let Uncle Zhao wait for a while, bring water in and wash."

Gentle Township is a hero's mound, although he is reluctant to bear the soft fragrance of warm jade around him, Zhu Zhanji can't always indulge in it.

The four girls in spring, summer, autumn and winter were tossed by Zhu Zhanji for half a night, and the passion they had never experienced made them die and live one by one, unable to sleep peacefully. So, I woke up a little late this morning.

Hearing the movement outside, they panicked one by one, and looked for the small clothes that were thrown everywhere by Zhu Zhanji to block their bodies.

However, their shyness was more like seduction, and the teasing Zhu Zhanji couldn't help but have another brotherly desire.

They endured their shyness, put on small clothes, and then immediately put them on for Zhu Zhanji.

After serving Zhu Zhanji to wash up, they began to dress up, and when Li Liang and they brought breakfast, they began to serve Zhu Zhanji for breakfast.

After eating breakfast, Zhu Zhanji did not go directly to see Zhu Gaosui, but according to the Taoist breathing method, he breathed for three weeks, and spent a quarter of an hour adjusting his body to the best state.

As soon as he entered the hall, Zhu Zhanji took the lead in saluting and said, "Uncle Zhao, please forgive my nephew for arriving in the capital yesterday and being exhausted, so he got up late." ”

"It's me who was too anxious to harass Jungi early in the morning, please forgive me. I would also like to congratulate Zhanji on his victory, success, and great achievements in this northern expedition. ”

Compared with half a year ago, Zhu Gaosui's attitude this time is more intimate. However, Zhu Zhanji knows very well that this is not because of himself, but entirely because of the maritime trade business he currently controls.

Since the time of Zhu Yuanzhang, Daming has also opened a sea trade for several years, but at that time, there were many autumn winds, and few people really came to do business.

Although the Ming Dynasty is known as the dynasty of all countries, it has earned face and lost its lining.

Later, it happened that Zhang Shicheng's old department who fled to the sea cooperated with the Japanese Kou, and the Ming Dynasty suppressed it, and the sea ban began from then on.

However, the sea ban was only aimed at the common people, and the communication between the Ming Dynasty and other countries was never interrupted, and trade continued under the strong demand of other small countries.

However, at this time, all merchants and local governments had no right to trade, and only internal supervisors had the right to trade with other countries.

The internal prison is to serve the royal family, and the money earned is also attributed to the inner treasury, which belongs to the private money of the royal family.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, there were no more than 10,000 eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, but by the time of Zhu Di, the scale of eunuchs had expanded to nearly 100,000 people.

Not only in Yingtianfu, but also in the major affluent areas in the south of the Yangtze River, there are eunuchs, who buy domestic materials and sell them to foreign merchants, as well as their own fleets, their own fleets, and even their own factories.

For example, the inner treasury eunuchs on the west side of the palace, covering an area of nearly one million square meters, have more than 20 factories, more than 30,000 palace maids and eunuchs, and they have to work in it all their lives until they die.

They work most of the day, no freedom, no holidays, only a meager salary. In addition to facing the oppression of freedom, they also have to face cruel mental oppression, and even physical humiliation, without any human rights.

However, they also brought huge benefits to the Ming royal family, and Zhu Di was able to make five northern expeditions to recover Yunnan and Jiaozhi, mainly relying on the profits they earned.

This profit is something that no prince dares to covet. However, Zhu Zhanji's expanded trade routes through sea trade pointed out another path for other members of the royal family.

Relying on his royal status, he got the approval for import and export, and he didn't even need them to do business at all, as long as he was willing to sell the approval, there were countless merchants who were willing to spend money to buy it.

Although Zhu Gaosui's amiable attitude is not because he accepts his fate, but just wants to get a piece of the pie from the current inner prison, Zhu Zhanji is also happy to see it.

As a grandson, a future emperor, he never wanted to control all the business in his own hands.

A lone branch is not spring, a hundred flowers bloom in spring.

If Daming wants to develop, it can't be developed just by a fat family.

Only by diverting everyone's attention from that limited land can the business atmosphere of the whole society be better.

He is not a person of this era, who thinks that the wealth of the world is limited, and if you have more, others will have less.

The improvement of the national business atmosphere can promote the growth of the national strength of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, being a judge who sits on the ground and collects money is far more profitable than a merchant who comes and goes in the wind and rain.

Not to mention anything else, when the sea ban is opened, I don't know how much money will be charged every year just for tariffs, not to mention commercial taxes.

Therefore, if Zhu Gaosui's interest can be shifted from winning the heir to doing business and making money, Zhu Zhanji is actually happy.

Of course, he will not be more active than Zhu Gaosui at the beginning, and even deliberately embarrass him, at least let Zhu Gaosui admit his feelings.

Although he hasn't thought about how to deal with these royal moths in the future, he will definitely not let the Ming Dynasty bear the food, clothing, housing and transportation of hundreds of thousands of Zhu family members like the original history.

Although they were not as corrupt as the millions of bannermen who came later, they already had sweet potatoes, corn, and potatoes in the Qing Dynasty, and basically solved the problem of food shortage.

As for the Ming Dynasty, coinciding with the Xiaoice River period, countless peasants could not even feed themselves, and they had to feed hundreds of thousands of Zhu family members with fine clothes and food, and this burden was heavier than in the Qing Dynasty.

To be able to make money for themselves is the best.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang did not allow these vassal kings to do business and become officials, in Zhu Zhanji's view, they were all wrong policies that should be overturned.

Although Wang Anshi's methods in the Song Dynasty were somewhat radical and wrong, this person's insight was very advanced in the era at that time.

In the Song Dynasty, he had already put forward the declaration that the sky is not enough to be afraid, the ancestors are not enough to be lawful, and the words of people are not enough to be compassionate.

After coming to this era for more than ten years, although Zhu Zhanji felt that many concepts in this era were relatively rigid, it was not as shown on TV, and the laws determined by the ancestors could not be changed.

When Emperor Jianwen came to power, he changed many of Zhu Yuanzhang's policies, and Zhu Di almost revised the Da Ming Law when he came to power.

Those who shout every day that their ancestors are greater than the sky are actually just some rotten Confucians.

In fact, the real literati have been constantly studying the gains and losses of history, trying to find a better path of development.

Especially now that it is still the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Confucianism has not yet fully occupied the right to speak, so the resistance to changing the law is actually not great.

But there are some things that are more difficult to change than to change, such as concepts.

With such an idea, Zhu Zhanji will be able to occupy a leading position in the conversation with Zhu Gaosui.

After greeting for a while and having an unnutritious conversation, Zhu Gaosui couldn't wait to shift the topic to what he was interested in. "It is rumored that in this northern expedition, Zhanji took out nearly five million taels of silver to serve as military funds?"

Zhu Zhanji nodded. "It is true. For this northern expedition, I took out three million taels of silver and two hundred thousand taels of gold. ”

Zhu Gaosui didn't expect that Zhu Zhanji didn't hide it at all, and directly answered his question. So he was stunned for a moment and gasped.

Zhao Shichun saw Zhu Gaosui's gaffe, and hurriedly said: "His Royal Highness Gao Yi, such a huge amount of wealth, it's really appalling!" ”

Only then did Zhu Gaosui react and said, "I have never seen so much silver in my life. ”

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "The so-called silver money, one can't eat and two can't wear, I was born in the royal family, I don't have to worry about food and clothing, what good is it to have more money?" Giving these coins to the emperor's grandfather can be exchanged for the soldiers of the three armies to return to their hearts and fight bravely to kill the enemy, which is the right way. ”

Zhu Gaosui shook his head and sighed: "You haven't opened a mansion yet, and you don't know how hard it is for a penny to overcome the suffering of a hero." Like me, I often can't make ends meet, and I have gray hair for money. ”

Zhu Zhanji deliberately said: "Uncle Wang is the prince, and the Zhao Wangfu should not be nervous, right?" ”

The prince's guard of honor and the guards are all paid by the imperial court, and tens of thousands of acres of land are enough to cope with consumption every year. If it weren't for the ordnance, even if I was a little nervous, I would have gotten by.

Zhu Gaosui deceived Zhu Zhanji for not opening a mansion, and he didn't understand the people's suffering, so he complained well.

It wasn't until he saw that Zhu Zhanji was a little tired of listening to it, so he cautiously asked tentatively: "Since Zhanji has a channel to get money, Uncle Wang also wants to ask Zhanji for advice today." I saved money and made up 50,000 taels of silver, hoping that Zhanji could take care of my uncle and nephew, and give me some pointers to see what to do with these silver coins. ”

Zhu Zhanji paused for a moment before he realized that people in this era are still a little simple. Although they want to make money, they are still thinking about what to do and how to do it.

Instead of just relying on one's own identity as in a certain era, you can do the trick of a white wolf with a short glove.

Although Zhu Gaosui is a prince and a prince, he still thinks of what business he can make money in now.

Of course, this kind of simplicity is only because he doesn't understand, maybe when he sees that there is a faster and easier way to make money, he will become more greedy than anyone else, but at least now, what he wants in his heart is to do business steadily.

Zhu Zhanji did not hide it, and introduced the business he did with Goryeo and Dongying, of course, Zhu Zhanji would not say the procedure of exchanging silver money in the middle.

Not only Zhu Gaosui, but also anyone, if they want to do maritime trade in the future, as long as they pay taxes honestly, they can do it. But the business of exchanging money is absolutely controlled by the emperor himself.