In the evening, the temperature of the Blossom Castle began to rain lightly, the wind also blew, and the cherry blossoms fell into the Blossom Castle.

At this time, a layer of cherry blossoms has also been laid in the red leaf dock of Weiyang Palace, like a snowdrift, and the raindrops fall on it without a sound.

However, a small ditch under the small cloister in the dock that leads to the Rouge Creek outside the palace makes a dingdong sound from time to time, which is crisp and pleasant, but it also makes it more peaceful and elegant at this moment.

Although it was already April, due to the warm and cold spring and the influence of the climate of Xiaoice River, Zhu Youxiao at this time was already dressed in a big fit and sat in the dock to listen to the music.

The musician was naturally Gu Hengbo, with a light smile on his white and flawless face, the slender jade fingertips naturally pinched the strings, and the powder muscles wrapped in tulle were slightly red against the background of the fire in the brazier on the side, but also somewhat intertwined with the blush on his cheeks.

The slightly undulating bandeau opposite the guqin did not hide the tension in his heart, although the long hair that flowed from his ears after bathing tried his best to block the wide and narrow ravines in the wind.

The brazier was purchased by Zhu Youxiao when he saw that she was thinly dressed and trembled slightly when she played the piano.

Zhu Youxiao didn't keep an eye on her, he hadn't gotten to the point where he got carried away when he saw the beauty, and the results of the household department's audit of the financial expenses for the eighteenth year of the Apocalypse reached Zhu Youxiao after half a month of drifting across the ocean.

However, the information revealed behind the various figures is not optimistic, although the total wealth of the Ming Empire has increased a lot in recent years, but with the rapid expansion of the scale of commerce and the limited capacity of the country's capital, the proportion of royal capital in the new economic growth is getting lower and lower, but the royal capital is the country's expenditure on large-scale construction and the popularization of Han culture is getting bigger and bigger, and the economy of the Ming Dynasty is still facing a deficit crisis.

In addition, the phenomenon of excessive production capacity, the current rate of social demand increase has been far from keeping up with the speed of productivity increase, in order to maintain the stable development of the Ming economy, there is no crisis, can only control production capacity, began to implement the regulation and control policy, can no longer be in the fast lane stage, unscrupulous production, however, this will still lead to a decline in the growth rate of total social wealth, the intuitive manifestation is that the income of workers directly linked to production will be greatly reduced.

Nowadays, the number of workers in the Ming Dynasty is already a huge number, and there are almost tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of workers in every provincial capital, especially in the Liangjing area, which has exceeded one million, that is to say, once this phenomenon is allowed to develop, if it is not prepared, it is likely to be a riot or even a rebellion of millions of people.

Therefore, while controlling the production capacity not to overdevelop, Zhu Youxiao also has to ensure that the total wealth of the society can still grow rapidly.

The only way to achieve this is to open up new trade and sell new products, but now almost everything that can be sold is sold, and even the ban on the export of guns has been lifted.

Because of this incident, Zhu Youxiao was a little annoyed, he suddenly wanted to be quiet, so he knocked his hand on the railing, and Gu Hengbo's hand that was about to pluck the strings stopped.

As a well-known Qingqi person in the south of the Yangtze River, Gu Hengbo naturally could see the melancholy color between Zhu Youxiao's eyebrows, and she served a cup of tea very appropriately: "A heart-clearing mantra has not been able to eliminate Your Majesty's worries, it can be seen that the slave maid is not perfect, please forgive Your Majesty." ”

"Don't do your business, what do you say is the most profitable business in the world", Zhu Youxiao's words made Gu Hengbo feel disgusted with him, at first he didn't listen carefully to playing the piano, but now he asked about the copper smell as soon as he came, which naturally made Gu Hengbo, who has always pursued elegance, feel tacky, but Zhu Youxiao is the emperor after all, she is just a clear man, and her status is very different, so she naturally didn't dare to show it, so she had to echo and said: "Nature is tobacco and soil, which can make people bankrupt, and it is much faster than gambling money, listening to operas and drinking flowers and wine." ”

"Smoke?"

Zhu Youxiao asked, suddenly his eyebrows tightened, and he put the teacup down: "I ask you, how did you know that tobacco can make huge profits, and whether the tobacco has flooded in the Ming Dynasty now!" ”

Seeing Zhu Youxiao's serious expression, and then thinking that this was a master who could kill people if he didn't agree with him, Gu Hengbo was so frightened that he turned pale and hurriedly knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, in recent years, tobacco has indeed been a well-known good business, because Your Majesty does not allow foreign Yi to operate this road, and the bulk goods are the monopoly of the imperial court, so private sales of tobacco and soil have long been commonplace. ”

"Get up", Zhu Youxiao was very angry in his heart, and at the same time he didn't understand why the tobacco that suddenly became a hot industry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries suddenly became a hot industry at this time.

But now that it is the time to be greedy for fun, Zhu Youxiao is not good at losing his temper in front of Gu Hengbo, so he hides his doubts in his heart, gets up and hugs Gu Hengbo directly, and the corners of his mouth hook up a bad smile.

Gu Hengbo couldn't help but groan, and he also understood what His Majesty was going to do today, so he couldn't help but close his eyes.

For a while, only to hear a clang, the door squeaked and closed from the inside, and Gu Hengbo was also thrown on the bed by Zhu Youxiao, and then, as soon as the red tent was untied, the sound of the wide clothes untied came out.

It wasn't until dawn the next day, when the rooster sang that the world was white, that the red tent was gathered up by a pair of lotus arms, and at this time, there were not only Zhu Youxiao and Gu Hengbo on the mandarin duck mattress, but also a few pairs of beauties who were taken by Zhu Youxiao in his quilt at some point.

By the time Liu Ru came early, Zhu Youxiao had already walked out of the gate, stood under the lotus pavilion in the dock and started Tai Chi, stepping on the cobblestone ground with a loud sound, without the slightest sign of being hollowed out.

"Your Majesty, did you sleep well last night", Liu Ru couldn't help asking, and brought out a bowl of millet porridge, a butterfly xiaolongbao, and a pair of silver chopsticks, put them on the stone table, and at the same time picked up a wooden plate containing towels and washing bottles and walked over.

Zhu Youxiao wiped his hands: "Okay, put these down, go and call Wang Chengen and Li Mingrui, I will wait for them here, in addition, tell a few people to serve some of the people inside, I have played a little too much, it is estimated that they will not be able to get out of bed at the moment." ”

For a while, Wang Chengen and Li Mingrui had already arrived here, and Zhu Youxiao didn't say much, just ordered: "Prepare immediately, leave Fusang in three days, I must return to Beijing before the summer solstice, in addition, Liu Ruoyu, the commander of Dongchang, came to Shenyang to see me, there must be no mistake!" ”

Li Mingrui and Wang Chengen glanced at each other, and both felt that although His Majesty seemed to be calm on the surface, he suddenly changed his mind and wanted to leave Fusang early, and it seemed that something big had happened, but the two of them were not good at asking in detail, so they had to respond.

After the two of them retreated, they grabbed Yang Tinglin, the governor of Fusang, and asked in detail, who was that Gu Hengbo, and why His Majesty suddenly shortened the inspection time after sleeping with him for one night.

Yang Tinglin naturally deduced that he didn't know.