The next morning, when the sun had just appeared above the horizon, the people who got up early were surprised to find that Zhu Youzhen, the king of Qin, was leading the members of the palace and was running circles around the village that had just been renamed "Qinwangzhuang" from "Lijiazhuang"!

In particular, all the ladies of the palace also gave up the dresses they usually wear, changed to tight-fitting and capable clothes, and jogged together with the rhythm of Zhu Youzhen's slogan "one-two-one, one-two-one". Princess Rui'er still feels very relaxed because of her perennial martial arts practice; But the other women were a little unbearable, and after just running a lap, they were tired and panting, and they were drenched in sweat.

The villagers had never seen such a scene, and they all looked at it stupidly, and no one knew what kind of nerves this His Royal Highness the King of Qin had. In their opinion, even the female dependents of ordinary large families should not go out of the door, and they should not step out of the second door, and hide in the boudoir, so as to be noble. Who knew that Zhu Youzhen was willing to let Princess Rui'er and other female relatives show up, and she also ran away with her temples scattered, her breasts swaying, what kind of body did she become!

Zhu Youzhen saw the villagers watching curiously, and he was secretly proud in his heart. It turned out that he had already made up his mind to move the method of exercising his body in his previous life to this time and space.

In a past life, the importance of physical exercise was certainly known to everyone. Due to the improvement of the level of science and technology, the people of that era have gradually got rid of heavy physical labor and replaced it with a lot of mental work. A lot of people sit in their offices and spend the day soaking. In the long run, the body's functions gradually decline, which has a negative impact on health, and even some "wealth diseases" such as obesity and diabetes will occur.

When people realize this problem, they start to use physical exercise to maintain their health, even at the cost of spending a lot of time and money on it.

In this era, most of the ordinary people at the bottom of society are engaged in manual labor, especially farm work, which is even more heavy physical labor. The high-ranking officials and nobles are pampered and ashamed of sweating. For example, the Tang Dynasty's "abundance is beautiful" is a concentrated embodiment of this understanding.

Therefore, in this day and age, no one can understand the importance of exercising, and naturally will not exercise.

In fact, Zhu Youzhen was also a lazy person in his previous life, and it was common for him to hide in the dormitory and sleep when he went out in the morning. But since traveling to this era, especially after being born and dying on the battlefield many times, he has thoroughly realized the importance and urgency of exercising.

For example, the Jurchens could shoot arrows 80 paces away, while the Ming army could only shoot 50 or 60 paces, which is one of the manifestations of the "weakness" caused by the long-term neglect of exercise by the entire Han nation. In the 21st century, this gap may be just a gold medal and a first-round elimination. But in this plane, it's the difference between victory and defeat, life and death, prosperity and decline!

Therefore, as soon as Zhu Youzhen settled down, he immediately set exercising as a "daily work" in the palace. He made it mandatory for all members of the house to run early every morning; At 10 a.m., or 2 o'clock, you should do the gym*; At dusk, a group sport is played; In addition, you can't sit or lie down immediately after three meals, but you must take a walk in the yard to avoid obesity.

Of course, Zhu Youzhen has not yet thought about what kind of collective sports to carry out, and he doesn't know whether to play football, basketball or volleyball. These sports were popular all over the world in previous lives, and even children of a few years old could play them; But in order to get this era, I am afraid that it is extremely difficult to make everyone understand the rules!

Today is the first day of your workout. Zhu Youzhen saw that many people were so tired and panting after just a few steps that he couldn't help laughing in his heart, secretly thinking where is this, my brother has a lot more exercise than you! In the evening, my brother also has a secret additional sport, which of course requires the vigorous cooperation of Princess Rui'er!

It turned out that he had seen a piece of news in his previous life out of nowhere, saying that scientists from a certain country had found that after a lot of rigorous investigation, married men lived an average of ten years longer than single men. The reason for this is that regular exercise that is beneficial to physical and mental health, especially the waist, abdomen and limbs, greatly reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease.

At this time, Zhu Youzhen can find a noble reason for himself. As early as a few days ago, on the night of moving into the new palace, the campaign was in full swing. After a few days, Zhu Youzhen only felt refreshed, full of energy, and full of small universes; And Rui'er, under his nourishment, became more and more charming and charming, and her spirit soared.

After the run, Zhu Youzhen did not return home, but came to the entrance of the village to inspect the porridge factory that had just been set up.

Since yesterday, the "Jingyang Business Gang," co-founded by Zhu Youzhen and Li Zicheng, has begun to operate.

The Jingyang Merchant Gang is nominally a branch of the Shaanxi Merchant Gang, but in fact it is a completely independent commercial organization. Among them, Zhu Youzhen invested 100,000 taels of silver, and Li Zicheng invested 30,000 taels; The guys of the merchant gang were drawn from the Shaanxi merchant gang, and the wages were also paid by the Jingyang merchant gang.

The first thing the Jingyang Merchant Gang did after its establishment was to set up a porridge factory.

In fact, Zhu Youzhen also thought about opening a porridge factory in the name of the palace. But he didn't want to give alms for free from the beginning, and if he was under the banner of the palace, he was afraid that some people would say that he was stingy and took the opportunity to loot the people's fat and ointment, causing disadvantage in public opinion. So after thinking about it, it is better to open a porridge factory in the name of the Jingyang Merchant Gang, anyway, the businessman is profit-seeking, and it is understandable that he is paying for porridge.

Since yesterday, the Jingyang Merchant Gang has begun to purchase grain from Xi'an. Of course, the first object of procurement is the Shaanxi Merchant Gang, because the transportation of grain from the south to the north is one of the important businesses of the Shaanxi Merchant Gang.

Since Li Zicheng is the young gang leader of the Shaanxi Merchant Gang, and the Jingyang Merchant Gang is nominally subordinate to the Shaanxi Merchant Gang, this is similar to the "related party transaction" in the previous life, of course, it was sold at an internal price and for two taels of silver and one stone.

In fact, due to the severe drought last year, there was heavy snowfall in winter, which caused food prices to skyrocket. The retail price of rice in Xi'an has soared to three taels of silver per stone, and it will continue to rise.

In fact, including the Shaanxi merchant gang, the major merchant gangs bought a large amount of rice in Jiangnan, and the purchase price of each stone was less than one tael, and it was even less than eight yuan to catch up with the good year. However, due to the long distance, ordinary small merchants could not do the business of transporting grain at all, so the grain and rice business in Xi'an was mainly monopolized by a few big merchant gangs.

These business gangs include: 1. Shaanxi business gangs. It is a chamber of commerce organization initiated by local merchants in Shaanxi, the leader is Li Henian, and the daily affairs are taken care of by his son Li Zicheng; Second, the Jinzhong Business Gang. In recent decades, the Jin merchants rose rapidly, gradually replacing the position of the Shaanxi merchants. They not only developed to the south, but also extended their tentacles to Xi'an, the base camp of Shaanxi merchants, and the Jinzhong merchant gang was one of the leaders. The leader of the gang is Qiao Beiyue, a native of Pingyao County, Shanxi.

3. Yulin Business Gang. Although Yulin also belongs to Shaanxi, the local people are fierce and very domineering in doing business, which is very different from the traditional Shaanxi merchants. Due to their proximity to the Northland, the Yulin Merchant Gang often engaged in smuggling transactions with the Mongols, and they were also inextricably linked with the thieves in the past two years. With some despicable means, they also forcibly broke into the grain and rice market in Xi'an. The gang leader is the fourth child of Yulin.

Fourth, the Tiger Roaring Business Gang. This is a chamber of commerce that has sprung up in recent years, and the leader is Li Hu of Lijiazhuang. This man is extremely nimble, extremely cunning in business, and has repeatedly gained the upper hand in business wars.

These four major merchant gangs basically determine the price of rice in Xi'an. Due to the lack of competitors, several merchant gangs also reached a temporary tacit agreement to raise prices together, resulting in rising rice prices. This grain is not like other commodities, and if you can't afford it, you can stop buying it for the time being. As the saying goes, people are iron and rice are steel, and if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry and panic, even if the price of rice is high, the people still have to eat. Therefore, these major merchant gangs have also made a lot of money, but the lives of the poor people are becoming more and more difficult.

And the strength of these four major merchant gangs is also different. The strongest Jinzhong merchant gang, followed by the Yulin merchant gang. The oldest Shaanxi merchant gang in Xi'an has been declining in recent years, and now it can only rank third, and is even in danger of being overtaken by the Tiger Roaring merchant gang. Some merchants within the merchant gang already felt that the Shaanxi merchant gang building was about to collapse, and began to contact other merchant gangs in private, maybe they would change their doors at some point.

After Zhu You listened to Li Zicheng's introduction to these situations, he didn't say much, but just asked the Jingyang merchant gang to purchase grain and rice from several other major merchant gangs at the same time.

But the merchants refused to cooperate. Although the Jingyang Merchant Gang's purchase volume was large and the bid was not low, those few felt that it was now a spring famine, and they did not worry about selling grain at all, and they wanted to continue to hoard Juqi, so they categorically rejected the Jingyang Merchant Gang's request to buy grain.

After listening to Li Zicheng's report, Zhu Youzhen frowned, secretly thinking that this is another war without gunpowder, and it is also very important to him!

For the Jingyang merchant gang that suddenly appeared, the other merchant gangs were wary and refused to cooperate, which was also expected. But the Jingyang Business Gang is an important channel for Zhu Youzhen to raise funds, and there is no time for slow development, and it must rise rapidly in a short period of time! If you can't even handle these business gangs in Xi'an, how can you do business in the world?

However, at present, Zhu Youzhen has not had time to pay attention to these merchants, and the top priority is to set up the porridge factory first. So he asked Li Zicheng to transport the purchased grain to Qinwangzhuang, and by this morning dozens of truckloads had been transported, and it was still being delivered.

With food, the rest is simpler. The Jingyang Shang Gang paid for more than 20 men to be in charge of the porridge factory. At this time, it was breakfast time, more than a dozen cauldrons had already boiled, and the guys were busy filling water and firewood, and they were so busy that they were sweating profusely, and they were very happy.

And there are not a few people who come to eat porridge, except for Qinwangzhuang, people from nearby villages also came from all directions when they got the news. Smelling the overflowing aroma of porridge, these hungry people with blue eyes all screamed in their stomachs, eager to rush up and snatch the rice porridge in the pot.

At this moment, Li Zicheng stepped onto the stage and shouted loudly: "Fellow villagers, please wait a while, I have something to say!" ”