"Fang Xuan, listen to the people in the palace, what kind of mermaid line have you practiced? The emperor has also praised you lavishly. Fan Huifei asked.

"Back to the imperial concubine, yes." Fang Xuanzhi replied respectfully.

"Can you let Hongu take a look?" Fan Huifei asked.

"Here, it's not quite right here." Fang Xuanzhi said softly.

"Of course it won't work here, let's go to the main palace later." Fan Huifei said.

……

Zhang Yan and Zhang Yan were also chatting in Kunning Palace at this time.

"Zhang Yan, your personality must be changed, this is the palace, not the Zhang Mansion, you dare to play petty here, you must know that anyone who dares to play petty in the palace will not end well." Zhang Yan said sternly.

"Got it!" Zhang Yan said impatiently.

"This palace asks you again, do you really want to enter the palace?" Zhang Yan asked seriously.

"Yes." Zhang Yan also said seriously.

"This palace always thought that your father asked you to enter the palace, so you were willing to enter the palace, it seems that you are voluntary!" Zhang Yan said suspiciously.

"Although the emperor is the emperor of the Ninety-Five, he has no shelf, he is easy to get along with, he is also very good to me, and the emperor is also very good to his sister, not to mention that if he becomes the emperor's concubine, it is ......better than my father asking me to marry someone I have never met," Zhang Yan said.

It's no wonder that in this era, Zhang Yan, as a lady, stays at home on weekdays, and there are only a handful of men she can see, and Zhu Youxiao is the only man Zhang Yan can often see who is not related by blood and can be worthy of her.

"Okay, Hongu understands." Zhang Yan said.

"Your affairs, this palace will arrange it, don't be in a hurry, for the emperor, this palace knows better than you, this matter can't be rushed, otherwise it will only make the emperor disgusted." Zhang Yan said.

"Hmm." Zhang Yan nodded.

……

Just as Zhang Yan and Zhang Yan were chatting happily, Zhu Youxiao came back.

"Your Majesty, are you back so early today?" Zhang Yan asked suspiciously.

"There was a little bit of something that came back early." Zhu Youxiao saw that Zhang Yan was also present, and he didn't say it directly.

"What's the matter?" Zhang Yan asked.

"Baozhu, let's talk privately." Zhu Youxiao said.

As soon as Zhu Youxiao's voice fell, everyone in the palace consciously retreated, and Zhang Yan also retreated.

"Your Majesty, what's the matter?" Zhang Yan asked again.

"Zhang Yan's entry into the palace, I just understood the meaning. I have said that no matter what happens, you are my queen, and you don't have to do these things. Zhu Youxiao emphasized.

"The concubine did have such thoughts before, but now it is different, Zhang Yan really wants to serve the emperor." Zhang Yan said calmly.

"What do you mean by that?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

Zhang Yan truthfully told Zhu Youxiao everything she had just talked about with Zhang Yan.

Hearing Zhang Yan's words, Zhu Youxiao was also stunned, but he quickly reacted, he once saw an article on the Internet, which analyzed the reasons for this situation in ancient times.

"Zhang Yan has too few men to contact, so she will have feelings for me, let her contact more people, naturally it will not be like this." Zhu Youxiao explained.

"Your Majesty, Zhang's Mansion is also considered to be a leader and face in the empire, what kind of system is it to let a woman who has not left the cabinet to contact men outside?" Zhang Yan retorted.

"Forget it, this is a system problem, it's useless to dwell on this, Zhang Yan's matter, Rong Zhen will think about it again." Seeing Zhang Yan's unhappy face, Zhu Youxiao also knew that he had said the wrong thing.

"Zhang Yan is eighteen years old this year, and if she doesn't get married again, people outside will gossip." Zhang Yan saw that she had said this, and she no longer had so many worries.

"Do you really want Zhang Yan to enter the palace?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"Yes." Zhang Yan nodded without hesitation.

Zhu Youxiao found that he really couldn't use modern thinking to think about the problems of the Ming Dynasty. For Zhu Youxiao, if Zhang Yan insists, he doesn't mind having another wife, anyway, he has a lot of wives.

"Let Zhang Yan come in." Zhu Youxiao said.

……

Zhang Yan stayed outside Kunning Palace, and when she heard Zhu Youxiao's summons, she came in immediately.

"Zhang Yan, are you really willing to enter the palace?" Zhu Youxiao asked again.

Zhang Yan glanced at Zhang Yan, but Zhang Yan didn't speak, just smiled slightly, Zhang Yan nodded without hesitation and said, "Yes." ”

"If Zhang Yan enters the palace, what title will she give?" Zhu Youxiao asked Zhang Yandao.

"The concubine thinks that she will be appointed as a servant, and if she is a concubine, she will definitely be criticized." Zhang Yan said happily.

"It's okay, just do as you say." Zhu Youxiao thought about it and nodded and said.

……

There are rules in the palace, and in the bed, Zhang Yan has formulated a complete system. Zhu Youxiao did not stay overnight in Kunning Palace that day, but went to other concubines, and it was Zhang Yan's turn to wait for eight days.

Zhu Youxiao forced the use of paper money to pay taxes in Shanxi, and now he is facing a problem, the paper money on the market cannot meet the demand for paying taxes at all. Zhu Youxiao only issued a total of 100,000 taels of banknotes, and in Shanxi canceled the silver bills, part of the banknotes were used as silver bills in circulation, and some were saved by merchants, and the number of banknotes that ordinary people could obtain was extremely limited, which led to the price of banknotes rising, and the increase was not small, which made the ordinary people in Shanxi once again face the situation of being exploited by merchants and landlords.

This situation is similar to the situation in the days when the whip law was implemented to pay taxes with silver, and the common people usually had difficulty obtaining silver, and in order to pay the taxes, they had to buy silver from merchants or landlords at high prices.

When Xu Guangqi found out about this situation, he immediately asked for permission to pay taxes in Shanxi with silver and copper dollars, but he did not ask for additional paper money, and he was afraid that there was no limit to the issuance of paper money by the imperial court. He now also feels that the value of paper money lies in the amount of money in circulation.

Zhu Youxiao obviously did not expect such a situation, he originally had the intention of doing good things, but he did not expect to do bad things, but fortunately, it is only being tried in Shanxi now, and if it is implemented throughout the country, I don't know how much trouble it will make. In the end, Zhu Youxiao had to agree to Xu Guangqi's request.

At the end of October, Zhu Youxiao's commercial residence also officially began to be sold. This batch of commercial residences uses cement and masonry, and they are all three-storey buildings, similar to the tube buildings of later generations, and they are all one-bedroom and two-bedroom buildings, but there are no kitchens and bathrooms.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the housing prices in Beijing were frighteningly cheaper than in later generations, the price of a house was about five taels, a bedroom and a living room were about ten taels, and ordinary people could buy a one-bedroom and a living room in Beijing in about three or five years. If it was the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the housing prices in Beijing would be even cheaper. Since Zhu Youxiao levied taxes on all merchants in Beijing, the price of the façade house in Beijing has risen the fastest. In the past, the price of façade houses was not as good as ordinary housing in Jingshi.

(End of chapter)