In the following days, Zhu Houwei began to be busy again. Zhu Houzhao learned to deal with political affairs with Hongzhi in the previous dynasty, so he hardly had much time to help Zhu Houwei manage the Tianxia Chamber of Commerce and Huangzhuang.

Recently, the imperial court is also eventful, the southern Huguang, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places have a drought phenomenon, resulting in a great decline in grain production, the people can not be hungry, Guangxi, Guangdong, Sichuan floods, mudslides, not only flooded many fertile land, many official roads have been blocked, the local government has fallen into an embarrassment. Anyway, judging from the officials' performance, Daming suffered huge losses this autumn, which is in stark contrast to the smooth weather in previous years. Hongzhi and others were also in a hurry, so they had to order a large amount of grain produced in Jiangnan to be sent to the disaster area to help the civilians.

The north does not stop, many tribes under the rule of the little prince have sent small forces to raid and rob, Shaanxi, Shanxi, and even Nuer Gandusi have suffered different losses, among which Nuer Gandusi has suffered the most serious losses, because most of the ethnic groups here are either nomadic or hunting and grazing, few tribes have a strong city as a support, and it is difficult to resist sudden attacks. An eight-hundred-mile rush was sent from Nuer Gandusi and Shanxi and other border towns to ask the imperial court for help. I had no choice but to send some food and silver two to support.

Only Shaanxi did not come to ask for help, because a fierce man here went crazy, he was Yang Yiqing, the governor of Shaanxi.

Yang Yiqing, the word Yingning, the name of the An, alias Shi Song, the south of the Zhenjiang Prefecture Dantu (now Jiangsu) people. As a fierce man, he has excelled since he was a child. At the age of 14, he took the township examination and was recommended as a Hanlin Xiucai. Ming Xianzong ordered the cabinet to send teachers to teach him. In the eighth year of Chenghua (1472), Renchen Kejinshi, awarded the middle school, was only eighteen years old that year.

In the fifteenth year of Hongzhi, (1502), due to the recommendation of Liu Daxia, he was promoted to the left deputy capital of the Imperial Palace, served as the governor of Shaanxi, and was responsible for supervising the Ma Zheng of Shaanxi. From 20 to 26 August, the Fire Sieve Division, the Tumut Division, and other tribes divided their troops to attack Yansui, Ningxia, Gansu and other places. Yang Yiqing immediately led three thousand light cavalry, eight days to run six hundred miles, more than ten battles, to maintain a winning record, due to the urgency of the situation, Yang Yiqing did not leave prisoners, all the way to kill more than 5,000 people, hit the Tartars in a hurry to the north, Yang Yanluo's reputation quickly resounded in the north. After the battle, Yang Yiqing was impeached by the official because of the surrender, but such a great contribution can not be erased, after the deliberation of the imperial court, it is ready to Yansui, Ningxia, Gansu three places have police do not help each other, set up a Shaanxi and Gansu governor, the overall control of the three towns of military affairs, and Yang Yiqing is the first governor.

There are many things in the imperial court, and there are also many things in the world chamber of commerce. First of all, IKEA will open branches in various parts of Gyeonggi, several major cities in Shandong and Nanjing. I originally wanted to open more branches, but the world chamber of commerce has enough talents to go out and take charge of their own talents, at the current scale, or hire a shopkeeper from the private sector, and the chamber of commerce sends accountants to settle in.

Most of the furniture in this era was made of wood, and if it was too hard, you could only add some quilts and other things, but Simmons, sofas and other items made by IKEA were widely praised as soon as they entered the market. Although the price is a little higher, it is not a matter for large families at all, the lowest price of a Simmons is fifty taels, if the fabric is better, the pattern is more delicate is nearly a hundred taels. Due to the upgrading of furniture in the homes of large households, the World Chamber of Commerce has appeared

Due to the lack of production capacity, many branches have orders in three months. The most important thing is that whether it is a sofa or Simmons, the most important spring technology in it is only available in the World Chamber of Commerce, if others want to copy, the cost will increase greatly, and there is no way to compete with the World Chamber of Commerce.

The second business is the four-wheeled shock suspension carriage, this business is in cooperation with Xungui, the World Chamber of Commerce accounts for forty percent, the World Chamber of Commerce sells the carriage at a "low price", and the Mingyuan Carriage and Horse Shop is responsible for sales. Now that there is a concrete road and a four-wheeled carriage with shock absorption, there are basically no bumps on the road.

The third business is also the Shuntong Post Office in cooperation with Xungui, which currently undertakes mail and parcels from Beizhili, Shanxi and Shandong. The price is low, the speed is fast, it is very popular with the people, although the current business is still in a state of loss, but it is a matter of time before it becomes profitable. By the way, the person in charge of Shandong was handed over to Ma Sanniang's eldest brother Ma Dali, the World Chamber of Commerce is responsible for the written work, and Ma Dali is responsible for transportation.

The fourth gate cannot be said to be a business, in order to meet the coming winter, the road construction team has no fixed place to live, and the problem of resettlement of people who are safe with the road is very important. So Zhu Houwei ordered the quilt factory to manufacture yurts in large quantities. It is very convenient to build, disassemble and move, which is very suitable for the road construction team. The yurt is basically circular on the bottom and conical on the top. The main materials are sheepskin, wool felt and some wood. In order to protect against the cold, a hole connected to an iron pipe was left in the center of the yurt, so that a stove was placed underneath and heating was basically no problem. The yurt and the stove cost about ten taels of silver, enough to live in a family of eight. When it was given to the road construction team, they were asked to repay it on a monthly basis, two dollars a month, and it only took about four years to pay it off, which was not too much of a burden on the road construction team. This time, a total of more than 100,000 will be made, not to mention that these wool felt, sheepskin and other raw materials have taken a lot of effort, and they have been scavenged from the northern tribes of Beizhili and Shandong, and then purchased from the northern tribes of the pro-Ming Dynasty to be completed. The silver in the World Chamber of Commerce is also about one-fifth less, but such measures have suddenly gathered the hearts of hundreds of thousands of people in the road construction team, and it can be said that it is a steady profit.

In addition to the decoration of the mansion, Fuwang Mansion also has one more entry this time, that is, boiling salt. There are salt households in several health centers along the coast of Shandong, and some military households even cook salt themselves to increase their income. But these boiled salt are coarse salt, the quality is not good, the color is yellowish and bitter, thirty catties of seawater can only be boiled out of one catty of salt, the consumption of firewood is not counted, seawater is corrosive to the iron pot, the income of that catty of coarse salt is only three cents, there is no profit at all.

Zhu Houwei asked people to go to Dengzhou Wei to buy coarse salt boiled by military households and salt households, and then gathered them to let some trustworthy people filter and purify them into white flowers, pure refined salt, just a word difference, but the price is heaven and earth. A pound of refined salt can be sold for 40 to 60 wen, because Shandong is too far away from the highest-priced green salt production area, and the price of sending it here has doubled several times, and it is normal for refined salt to be more expensive.

Why not use seawater for salt? Because once this happens, the price of salt will drop greatly after all, causing a huge impact on the salt industry. Now that there are many overt and dark enemies in the world, there is no need to stimulate the rich salt merchants who have a lot of money.

In Dengzhou, Wei asked people to buy it everywhere for five wen a catty, and then sold it for thirty wen a catty, the amount is not too large, and it is not much to disperse to all parts of Shandong and even to the south and north of the country, which is just right. explained, that is, to be a private salt. As for the salt introduction, Daming is rationed every year, and it has long been carved up, even the prince and even the world chamber of commerce are not easy to interfere with, the water in it is too deep. It is worth mentioning that the exclusive agent was handed over to Baidongshan, and what Baidongshan needs to do is to recruit fugitive military households and black households in Shandong, which will be of great use to Zhu Houwei in the future.

Li Yanwen returned from Shanxi, and at the same time brought back good news, not only the local smallpox was controlled, but also the feasibility of cowpox was experimented. This time the entourage was intact, and the cowpox was successful.

Hongzhi originally rewarded Li Yanwen with 100 taels of gold and 10,000 taels of silver, but Li Yanwen invested all of them in Limin Hospital to buy valuable medicinal materials and hospital expenses. Hongzhi thought about it after hearing this, and personally wrote a plaque "Doctor's Benevolence" to Li Yanwen.

On August 30, there were many people standing in the lobby of Limin Hospital, Zhu Houzhao, Bai Yulian, Zhu Xiuning, Qingmei Xiaohuan and others all looked at Zhu Houwei who was sitting next to Li Yanwen with great concern. Zhu Houwei rolled up his sleeves, revealing his slightly muscular left arm, and Li Yanwen took a cotton ball and dipped it in some alcohol and wiped it on the top of his left arm. Zhu Houzhao asked, "Are you ready?" Want to wait no longer? ”

Zhu Houwei exhaled, pretending to be relaxed and said, "Ready, nothing to fear, it hurts" Before he finished speaking, Li Yanwen stabbed the array into his left arm. Zhu Houwei's face changed, his originally relaxed smile became a little embarrassed, and the corners of his mouth twitched, but he continued, "It's over." "Okay, Zhu Houwei is actually a big man who is afraid of pain and injections.