Zhu Qiming crossed the heavenly street and went out of the right gate of Chang'an, and saw a carriage parked far away, and Liang Gang and Yun Niang were standing next to the car and beckoning to him.

He instructed his entourage to return to the palace, and he quickly ran to Liang Gang and Yun Niang, stepped into the carriage, lifted the curtain and sat down on the main seat, Liang Gang and Yun Niang immediately got into the carriage and sat down on both sides.

The carriage started and soon went up West Chang'an Avenue.

"Your Highness, it cost more than 23,000 taels of silver to purchase high-grade war horses and build good weapons and armor, and now there are less than 5,000 taels of silver in the house." I haven't seen Zhu Qiming for a long time, Yun Niang is anxious to report a big account of the recent expenses and the current family fund, so that Zhu Qiming knows it, so she didn't wait for greetings, and cut to the chase.

"How can five thousand taels of silver be enough?" It's really not a family and doesn't know the price of firewood and rice, Zhu Qiming is now the head of the family, just to prepare for a small war, he almost hollowed out the family, and he can't help but feel a headache. "There is still a large amount of brocade in the treasury, and I can't use it anyway, so it's better to exchange it for some cash."

"In this world, there is no reason to pay for the war for the imperial court!" Yun Niang seemed very unhappy, "That's the best clothing, when Your Highness becomes an adult, there must be a group of concubines, and it will come in handy at that time." ”

A group of concubines? Zhu Qiming is not sure whether all the princes in the world have to be like this, but his father and the tenth uncle only married one concubine, and no one said anything? Besides, why bother with such idleness when you are so young!

"You don't have to love money, when the time comes, the emperor will be rewarded."

"However, you can't open the pot before the war!" Yun Niang just shouted the poor: "Not only to support the families of the eight hundred warriors, but also to sponsor the children of their families to study, once someone dies in battle, the pension is very heavy, and this will have to spend a lot of money before and after." ”

"Raise a priest, how can it be so easy?" Zhu Qiming said with a smile.

Liang Gang over there also opened his mouth: "Your Highness, there are 500 guards sent by the emperor, led by Jiang Yi, do you want to compare the standard of 800 warriors from Yuefu to support their families?" ”

Zhu Qiming waved his hand again and again, "That's not good!" Coupled with the cost of 500 people, this king can only go to the Forbidden City to beg. Besides, the Son of Heaven's army is not something that a small Yue Mansion can support. ”

"That's it, whose soldiers are raised!" Yun Niang echoed without thinking, but she didn't know that the pro-guard army was a soldier of the Son of Heaven, and the meaning pointed to the emperor, although it was unintentional, but it was also taboo.

Zhu Qiming didn't hear it, lifted the curtain and looked outside, and found that the carriage had changed its direction and was driving from south to north, and the place in front of him should be the junction of Yongfang and Anzhifang, and two or three miles ahead, it was Xi'anmen Street.

Closing the car curtain, seeing Liang Gang and Yun Niang sitting there, with a sad face, he was quickly infected by the emotions of the two, and couldn't help sighing.

I think that the emperor Taizu left a clear order that the descendants of the Zhu family were not allowed to engage in the four industries of agriculture, industry and commerce in the city, which could cut off the financial road of future generations. If there is no such ban, with the extraordinary insight of Yun Niang, a celebrity in the business world, he can make money from business, so why let him, a dignified prince, worry about silver!

The three of them stopped talking along the way. The carriage finally arrived at Xi'anmen Street and stopped in front of an incomparably magnificent restaurant. Zhu Qiming got out of the carriage first, and Liang Gang was about to follow, but Zhu Qiming waved his hand to stop him.

"Commander Liang doesn't have to follow this king, you two can stay here."

Zhu Qiming turned to look at the restaurant, and saw that the plaque was written with the three big characters of "Qi Xianju", he didn't know that this place was the most luxurious entertainment place in the capital, and he only saw many young men in Chinese costumes and people dressed in scholars going in and out, and his intuition told him: Qi Xianju is a gold cave.

Xue Huan trotted all the way over, "See His Royal Highness King Yue." Libi looked at Zhu Qiming with a smile, a long shirt was cut very well, lining his slender figure standing in the wind, and the whole person looked more and more elegant and handsome. Why is Your Highness late? I waited for half an hour. ”

Do you think that this king doesn't need to ask for a request to go shopping on the street? Zhu Qiming glanced at Xue Huan angrily, "You give the "Seven Strategies of Pingyu" to this king, and this king can't stay here for a long time. ”

Xue Huan laughed a few times and said in a low voice: "The private room has been decided, and the "Seven Strategies of Pingyu" is placed in the private room, and I respectfully ask Your Highness to move to the Immortal Residence and sit down for a while." ”

"The period of filial piety of this king has not yet expired, and some places cannot be entered, you know."

Xue Huan was still smiling, "His Highness is dressed in ordinary clothes, and no one can recognize His Highness's identity." Besides, it's just a small sitting, a cup of tea, the clean person is self-clearing, and there is no sound. ”

It's also an eye-opener! I think that I have never stepped into a luxurious place half a step outside, and I am not as free as the children of the family! And a prince is overstretched for the Tartar thieves who are preparing for the invasion of the Kou, but to see who spends a lot of money for Bo Hongyan and smiles. So, Zhu Qiming waved his hand, which was regarded as agreeing to Xue Huan's invitation.

When I entered the Qixian Residence, I saw more than 100 young men sitting in the lobby, and occasionally elderly people mixed in among them. Zhu Qiming didn't dare to stop for a while, and followed Xue Huan to the private room quickly.

As soon as she sat down, a mother-in-law came to serve tea and pastries.

There is a window in the private room facing the direction of the hall, looking through the window, but seeing the candles shining downstairs, sprinkled a dark red color on the more than 100 visitors, everywhere is staggered, drunk and confused, from time to time someone raises his eyes to look at the stairs on the east side, the staircase is covered with a red carpet, and the railing is floating with a gorgeous colored curtain.

Zhu Qiming retracted his gaze, with disdain in his eyes, "You often come here?" ”

Xue Huan shook his head again and again, and said with a straight face: "I never enter such a place in Xia." Didn't you want to see Your Highness today, don't you dare to slack off. ”

I'll believe you! Zhu Qiming pursed his lips and stretched out a hand, "What about the Seven Strategies of Pingyu?" ”

"Oh." Xue Huan hurriedly turned around and walked to the low cabinet, took out a brocade box from it, and turned around and handed it to Zhu Qiming.

"You can sit down too." Zhu Qiming commanded, opened the brocade box, took out a thread-bound book, and saw the words "Seven Strategies for Pingyu" written crookedly on the blue cover, and couldn't help frowning and looking at Xue Huan.

"It's the handwriting of the next, which makes His Highness smile." Xue Huan said with a smile.

The handwriting of the manuscript is really ugly, but the content is interesting. Yin Guogong deserves to be a victorious general, everything is planned and then moved, in the "Seven Strategies for Pingyu" made a detailed description of the mountains and rivers in the north, on how to meet the Tartar thieves according to local conditions designed different tactics, especially the tactics of inviting the Tartar thieves with sharp horses, there is no lack of reference. Just by seeing this, Zhu Qiming can conclude that "Seven Strategies for Pacifying the Prisoners" can be called a good strategy to meet the Tartar thieves.

The Ming Dynasty is a great country, there is no shortage of strange people, but unfortunately the truth is always in the hands of a few people, good ideas are often shelved, and mediocre views are easy to clamor in the temple.

Thinking of this, Zhu Qiming couldn't help but sigh secretly. "It can be seen that the "Seven Strategies of Pingyu" was written in the fourth year of Xuande or the fifth year of Xuande, and after that, if the Ming Dynasty did the plan of Yin Guogong, why would the Tatars be allowed to invade the border year after year!"

Xue Huan looked disapproving, "Look down, my father is worrying about it in vain, there will always be a time when Tatar is weak, and the wicked will be ruled by the wicked." The year before last, the Tatars were weak, and they were attacked by the Warats and could not support them, so the Ming Dynasty took the opportunity to raise troops to pacify the Tatar remnants, and reported the enmity for many years. ”

Hoping for someone else's decline? Hope that the wicked will rule by the wicked? This kind of mentality is so familiar, relying on others to defeat one's old enemy, that other person becomes an even more powerful enemy! Was there still a lot of such Yin Jian in the Song Dynasty?

And revenge, it's time to turn enemies into friends!

Thinking that Xue Huan's fallacy may coincide with many people in the temple, Zhu Qiming was too lazy to bother to speak, so he changed the topic at the right time: "Who are the people downstairs?" ”

Xue Huan's eyes lit up, and he seemed to be waiting for this moment to come. "Most of them are after the relatives, and there are also the children of the official eunuchs. Your Highness may not know, how can the children of ordinary eunuchs come here to throw money, and those who can come here are either Shangshu or squires. ”

Zhu Qiming was stunned, "Since you are a martial artist, why don't you learn from his father and practice martial arts to serve the country?" ”

Xue Huan shook his head, "In these years, being stubborn will be laughed at." ”

A group of bloodless gentlemen! Zhu Qiming scolded secretly, and said: "I don't want to be a martial artist, I want to study and get famous, and it's good to be a professional." ”

Xue Huan shook his head again, "It's too difficult!" It is not easy to get a student, let alone a junior in the middle school. ”

"If you don't write or fight, how can you make a living?"

"Isn't it possible to open a silver number? No matter how bad it is, you can open a silk village or something, and it is very profitable, much better than being an official or a general! ”

If these people don't have other skills, they will take advantage of the situation to occupy the profiteering industry! It is no wonder that Confucian businessmen are in decline, even people like Xun Liang have retired early, and the profit-making method of integrating government and business is popular, how can there be room for Confucian businessmen to survive?

Bad money drives out good money, and this has been the case since ancient times!

Zhu Qiming finally understood Xue Huan's intention of inviting him here. Compared with the group of people downstairs, Xue Huan is simply a rare handsome among the children of the family!

"Your Highness, although you don't know anything about military affairs, you have always been clean and self-loving, and you are much better than the gang downstairs, you see, the matter of conscription is ······."

Zhu Qiming thought it was funny, but he didn't expect that a sentence of pinching people would be taken seriously by Xue Huan. I don't want to think about it, if the Son of Heaven doesn't speak, how can a prince be able to move a horse?

However, the children of your family are all hiding in the distance and dreaming of death, only he, the prince, leads a group of children of ordinary people to the north to fight hard, which is not fair!

"Confronting the Tartar thieves is a matter of the well-being of the people of the world. Alas, this king is short of money, and it is not easy to raise a soldier! ”

Xue Huan's eyes widened, with a bitter look on his face, "In the next year, I have always adhered to the family motto, never used the situation to make profits, and my daily use depends on the help of a few brothers, otherwise, after I go back, I will consult with my brother, and I may be able to make up a thousand eight hundred taels of silver." ”

A sucker! Won't you give a message to Princess Changde? After thinking about it, he would also feel sad to cut the flesh on Princess Changde, so Zhu Qiming felt an inexplicable sadness in his heart, and he wanted to say something, when he suddenly heard a piano sound downstairs, and then the song of "Pheasant Flying Towards Flight" floated over. The singer is a man with a slightly older voice.

"The pheasant is flying and singing, the male and female flock fly in the mountain, I am alone and there is no room, when the twilight can be helpless, sigh, twilight can be helpless······"