Zhang Han is indeed ruined, in addition to supplying the Ministry of Industry and several large commercial houses in Beijing, the production of fine iron in the past two months did not blindly dump, last year Li Shenming ran a Beijing division, Zhang Han put forward a proposal to make iron utensils, Zhang Han and Li Dongxue, Sun Jingting and others also saw this.

Pure refined iron sales are equivalent to the sale of the lowest raw materials, but it can be used for dumping by taking advantage of the iron shortage environment in the north, and it has also opened up the way of the Ministry of Industry, with stable sales of several million yuan a year...... But the price of iron is very low, and it is not even as valuable as grain...... One stone of threshing and polished rice is now worth more than two taels, and one stone of iron is only more than one tael!

Zhang Han put the last 100,000 taels in the creation of all kinds of ironware, the daily expenses of the last month are almost not enough, fortunately, with the publicity of Ma Chaoren and others, the nearby guards and the big families in the state and county have come to buy carriages, this new four-wheeled vehicle is of good quality and looks noble, and it is not easy to break, and Yusheng also launched a three-year warranty strategy, no businessman has ever said that the things sold have been repaired, although it is the most common business gimmick in later generations, it still has a good effect here in Daming, Hundreds of cars have been sold in more than two months, and the last less than 100,000 silver here in Li Zhuang recently is the income from the sale of cars.

Zhang Han has never believed in fate, and at this time, he couldn't help but take his palm slightly, and said softly: "I hope everything goes well, and there will be no more baskets!" ”

……

A few women with angry figures and delicate appearances were playing various musical instruments in the huge palace, and several royal eunuchs were standing with copper whisks in their hands.

The fat Zhu Dingfu was half-lying on the couch, listening to the soft music, and his fat palms were placed in front of his knees, patting gently.

In front of him are all kinds of delicate palaces, Lingqiu, the county palace, has been passed down for more than ten generations, although it can't be compared with the prince's mansion, but when it comes to various enjoyment, it is not much worse.

When he was a teenager, because of the eldest brother's non-punishment killing, Zhu Dingfu became the most ordinary lieutenant of Zhenguo, and his annual salary was only a few hundred stones, and after the discount, he had to be converted into silver, and he would be in arrears when it was issued, and even the mildew black and inferior silver taels, and the officials didn't even pay much attention to the county king, not to mention the lieutenant of the Zhenguo who had no duties and powers. Although the Ming dynasty is nominally courteous, it is not like the prime minister of the Song Dynasty who is more valuable than the prince, in the Ming Dynasty, even if it is three princes and three orphans, in front of the clan of the pro-domain, it is also necessary to perform the courtesy. However, superficial respect is not beneficial to actual power, the Ming clan, including the prince, are raised as pigs, although it costs the country a lot of money to support, but they themselves do not have the slightest political power, and even the most basic power of the person has been stripped of a lot.

The prince and the clan are not allowed to leave the city without reason, and the prince is not allowed to leave the palace without permission, and they cannot move around each other, so they can only stay in their palaces all year round, enjoying wealth and prosperity.

Only the discipline of the lowest sects is slightly relaxed, but it is also necessary to be cautious and not to fall into the hands of others.

Zhu Dingfu gained relative freedom in the past few years, but what he lost was a life of fine clothes and food, and after gaining the power to be in charge of the affairs of the county king's mansion in recent years, his life became rich again, but he was confined to the old county king's mansion, and he easily had no right to go out.

In the sound of silk and bamboo, a middle-aged eunuch walked up to Zhu Dingfu lightly and bowed down to speak.

"The Chang family is so bold!"

Zhu Dingfu sat up suddenly, he was too obese and couldn't help wheezing, and it took half a day before he evened out his breath.

"Lord Wang," Zhu Dingfu is only a lieutenant, not a prince, but the whole house still calls him the prince, and the middle-aged eunuch said on the side of the yin: "I heard that the woman named Chang Ning resolutely refuses to marry, and must marry that Zhang Han." ”

"Damn." Zhu Dingfu's face became even more ugly, and seeing him like this, the women playing the music stopped their movements, and their faces showed panicked looks.

"Get out!"

Zhu Dingfu waved his hand suddenly, and those women hurriedly bowed down and retreated.

Although he is the lieutenant of the Zhenguo of the abolished county palace, Zhu Dingfu's power in this mansion is not low, and he can take it alive and dead, and do whatever he wants.

These clans, there is no problem with killing a few palace maids or female musicians, at most the reputation is not good, compared with such an unethical thing as the torture and killing of the uncle, the palace maid or female music is originally a cheap thing that can be killed at will in the eyes of the scholars.

"What should I do?" Zhu Dingfu stared at the eunuch in front of him, panting and said: "In recent years, the annual success is not good, the market is very poor, the tax cards everywhere can't collect money, only pawnshops still make money, there are more than 20,000 acres of land in various places, and I can't collect a few thousand dollars a year. ”

After the abolition of the palace was brought back, Zhu Dingfu found the eunuchs of the former palace again, and recruited dozens of palace maids and dozens of sprinklers to serve him, plus the eunuchs and the slice help, as well as his daily pleasure expenses are not small, these years have been getting worse and worse year by year, the grange can not collect the rent, it does not work to kill the tenants, and the income from other industries is not good, and he is not a lieutenant in charge of the palace after all, he is not a real county king, and he does not dare to set up too many tax cards privately, only a few old cards have been collecting money, and the income is also very limited.

Married to the Yuci Chang family, one is to hear about Chang Ning's extraordinary beauty, the second is also the dowry of Xitu and the Chang family, and the third is to cooperate with a pure merchant family like the Chang family to open up more financial resources.

Unexpectedly, the good thing turned yellow!

Zhu Dingfu's face was very gloomy, and he felt insulted.

Although he is in his thirties, close to forty, and he is too obese and addicted to wine, he is the seat of the main room after all, not to fool the Chang family with a concubine, in Zhu Dingfu's opinion, he is full of sincerity, and the Chang family also agreed, but unexpectedly, Zhang Han was the variable.

"This ......" The eunuch had no way, and said in a hurry: "It's better to ask His Royal Highness the Acting King to speak for us." ”

"That's a way to go." Zhu Dingfu clapped his hands and said, "Call a master to write a letter for me!" ”

……

"The one who acts as the king?"

In the past three days, a large number of bandits have made a big noise, and the entire Guangling City has been surrounded, and a small group of bandits have ridden horses in Shuozhou and Ulzhou as suspicious soldiers...... In so many places, there are several guards, more than a dozen thousand households, and an army of nearly 20,000 people on the books, if they were all commanded at the beginning of the country 200 years ago, tens of thousands of troops can be assembled in an instant, and they can fight when they are pulled out, and they can face a strong enemy without falling behind. But after more than 200 years, the tens of thousands of troops on the books only exist on the books, not to mention tens of thousands, not even a few thousand soldiers and horses, and Zhou Daniu They are mainly active in the south, and there are still dozens of miles to hundreds of miles away from Tiancheng and Zhenyu and other guards, and there are such distances, of course, the military attache of the guard can pretend to be stupid, and he will never run out with his poor and limited family to die.

Although the king's affairs are important, the most important thing is your own life.

For a while, there was a rumor on the southwest side of Datong Mansion, and the people were almost all soldiers, but they were calm at the upper level, and they did not show interest in attacking the city and plundering the land, and it seemed that they were just robbing the goods, and secondly, it would take time to react from the lower to the upper level, and the people in Datong City should not say that they were nervous, and even many big people had never heard of the bandits' large-scale activities.

The person sent by the royal palace is one of them.

"Is it a eunuch?" Zhang Han is interested, he has traveled to this era, he has dealt with everyone, and he really has not had any communication with eunuchs, he feels very unfamiliar with people of this class, and he is not completely rejected or afraid like the scholars of the Ming Dynasty.

"Not a eunuch." The attendant who reported the message said, "It's a man who looks like a master." ”

"This shows that the palace attaches great importance to it." Li Shenming, who went to Beijing again and rushed to Lizhuang again from Beijing, said with a smile: "What official business does the acting king want to do, of course, he is to send a eunuch to pass on the decree, and if there is any personal matter for himself, it is to send a close master out." ”

"My God, I'm messy enough, what kind of excitement is the palace coming to join in." Zhang Han has also been stinging in a mess recently, and Beijing has already launched it, and Li Shenming went in person and spent a small amount of 10,000 yuan to buy off more than a dozen officials from Shanxi, Datong, and Xuanfu to impeach Han Qi.

This thing is called "buying ginseng", that is, spending money to buy the imperial history or to give the bullet seal in the matter.

Generally speaking, there is a political future, the reputation of the Taoist officials will not sell ginseng, in the Ming Dynasty official system, divided into clear stream and turbidity two kinds, local miscellaneous duties needless to say, that is the turbidity of the turbidity of the current, and then the pro-people official, the Qingsi official, the aspect official, then the six officials, and then up is the science and road official, and then up is the noble Hanlin official, but also the first class in the clear stream, known as the "storage phase".

The official is also the second class of Qingliu, the official position is not high, but the Ming Dynasty has always had the tradition of "controlling the big with the small", the official position is not high, but the power is not small, the imperial history can be heard, impeached at will, the officials are as strong as Zhang Juzheng has also received piles of bullet seals, this is very Zhengzhang, if which cabinet old can not receive the bullet is a fatal thing, there is a clamp on the way, the image of plotting misdeeds, the emperor will never rest assured that such a minister. Not only does it have the power to impeach the emperor, but it can also theoretically refute the emperor's edict, the power is boundless, and the six parts are targeted in the matter, and the mistakes of the six departments can be corrected at ordinary times, although it is only a seven-grade official position, and the good ones are much more majestic than the six departments.

This time, Li Shenming attracted more than a dozen people, and spent a lot of money, but they were all second-rate goods among the science and technology officials, and they belonged to a group of people who did not have strong party support, and their own image and ability were very ordinary.

The good thing about this matter is that most of them are imperial historians in Shanxi and Datong, and they have the right to speak on the affairs of their hometowns, secondly, there are many people, and the momentum is relatively huge, and thirdly, there are Zhou Daniu to cooperate, which is considered a "fact", and there is no reason for impeachment, and it is estimated that after it is launched, Han Qi will have a headache.