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The whole Beitongzhou has a new look, although it is also snowing, but compared with the ragged homeless people everywhere in Nanchang Mansion, the people here are really much richer, the appearance of the treasure building makes Beitongzhou more prosperous than before, it is said that there are thousands of various workshops in the suburbs of the city, a large number of businessmen have surplus money in their hands and no longer go home to buy land, but put a large amount of money into this water and land transportation point, opened a variety of workshops.

Nowadays, commodities are scarce, and a large amount of demand is generated, so that the price of many goods has risen, and the opening of workshops has become a hugely profitable business, although it is not invested in the land, but the silver earned is more than ten times that invested in the land.

A large number of workshops require a large number of manpower, even though Beitongzhou is overcrowded, but manpower is still in short supply, so the wage is also rising, and a skilled craftsman earns five or six taels of silver a month is not a problem at all. You know, even an apprentice also has one or two taels of silver, if you are a tenant in the countryside, you may not be able to earn three or four taels of silver all year round, and even eating and drinking enough has become a problem, and here, as long as you have strength, a month's salary is enough to buy one stone and a half of rice, enough to have as many as five hundred catties, if it is an old snack three catties, it is enough to eat for several months, in other words, in this Beitongzhou, people finally have surplus money, people have surplus money will inevitably add some things, such as clothing, now in this Beitongzhou, Clothing has begun to transition from home-woven to ready-to-wear shops, at least wearing clothes from ready-to-wear shops has become a fashion.

In order to attract customers, the garment shops have to innovate almost every year and a half, so on the streets of Beitongzhou, up to the high-ranking officials and tycoons, down to the ordinary people, are now wearing fancy jackets or new cotton shirts.

Looking down from the sixth floor of the Liu Ji Inn, although there are snowflakes, the flow of people is unabated, and it looks like a happy one.

Zhu Chenhao is leaning on the side of the six-story hook railing, now the entire inn has been covered by his party, this way from Nanchang Mansion to Beijing, and the previous year back to Beijing heard and saw is very different, although you can occasionally see the homeless, but the number of homeless people has plummeted a lot, just from the face and clothes of the person, it seems that the whole world has changed.

At least all the way to the gallop, you can see the endless flow of carriages and donkey carts loaded with goods, some are from Nantong Prefecture to Lianzhou, some are from Jiangnan to Nantong Prefecture to unload, and even some places because there are too many vehicles, there will be signs of blockage, which was unimaginable a year ago, a year ago, it was just an official road with ash and soil, it was muddy and difficult to walk on a rainy day, most of the time, there was no one in the entire official road, it was a small number of caravans, that was also the rumor, for fear that there would be bandits suddenly popping out of this untouched place.

But now, although many parts of the road are not yet completed, the roads that have been completed, paved with gravel and compacted with soot, are not only brisk, but also bustling with caravans traveling far away.

Zhu Chenhao came all the way, the more he walked, the more frightened he became, compared with Nanchang, it was really a heaven and an underground, and Zhu Chenhao actually hoped that Nanchang would also build a gallop road to connect the world, at least with a gallop road, which would be of great benefit to Jiangxi. But then he thought about it, he dispelled this idea, the biggest benefit of building Chi Road is the imperial court, which means that the imperial court's control over the local will be greater and greater, if the imperial court and Nanchang are connected, the vanguard of the imperial court can go straight from Beijing to Nanchang in just half a month, and more importantly, with this Chi Dao, the entire Nanchang Mansion will be exposed under the nose of the imperial court, and every move is in the control of the imperial court, which is not good for Ning Wangfu, but on the contrary, it is extremely harmful.

The reason why King Ning was able to take Nanchang Mansion as the center, secretly control half of Jiangxi, and even control the appointment and dismissal of officials, and spread their ears and eyes in the yamen, one of the biggest reasons is because Jiangxi is mountainous, and there is the Yangtze River moat in the north, and there is the vast Poyang Lake, which makes Jiangxi has been in a semi-closed state, and the imperial court's control of Jiangxi can only rely on a governor, a few officials such as a governor, and once the road is built, this is equivalent to King Ning looking for death himself.

"Humph!" Zhu Chenhao looked at the bustling crowd below, and couldn't help but say: "When Emperor Taizu was here, the national policy was to focus on agriculture and lowly businessmen, and now that kid Zhu Youzhu is so rebellious to the ancestral system, sooner or later he will suffer." ”

This sentence is quite a bit of a taste of grapes that can't be tasted and said that grapes are sour.

Standing beside Zhu Chenhao, is a staff member around forty years, this person is Jiangxi celebrity Liu Yangzheng, in the early years of the official, after the Hongzhi Emperor succeeded to the throne, he attached to Wan Guifei as the reason for the resignation of the official, Liu Yangzheng returned to the hometown after the surname Suo made a gentleman, every time the poetry and music, but also self-satisfied, gradually, his name is spread all over the township, King Ning sent someone to invite him, it is said that he heard the news, even refused to wear shoes and quickly got off, directly with the messenger who came to ask for people: "I ask Ning Wang Xiande, willing to provide advice." ”

Soon, this Mr. Liu became King Ning's right-hand man, and this person was quite scheming, so this time, King Ning arranged him by King Shanggao's side to give advice to King Shanggao.

Hearing Zhu Chenhao's unkind words, Liu Yangzheng's face couldn't help but stiffen, and he said: "Your Highness, the wall has ears, be cautious!" ”

Zhu Chenhao pursed his lips and wanted to say something more, but finally shook his head, and said after a long time: "So, Zhu Youjiao's kid rebels against the ancestral system is still reasonable?" ”

Liu Yangzheng said: "The student didn't mean Zhu ...... What is the reason for the imperial court, everyone goes to learn the luxury of businessmen, has His Royal Highness forgotten the matter of the Jin people fighting for wealth? This is a sign of bad etiquette, Your Highness will wait and see, ten years at most, three or five years at the latest, and the world will be chaotic. ”

Zhu Chenhao couldn't help nodding again and again: "It's still Mr. Liu's words that make sense, it is precisely because of this that Emperor Taizu persuaded the people to plant agricultural mulberry, and regarded merchants as cheap industries, presumably this is also the plan." ”

Liu Yangzheng couldn't help but glance at the bustling and peaceful scene downstairs again, and always felt that he didn't even dare to believe what he said.

At this moment, a guard quickly went upstairs and shouted breathlessly: "Your Highness, there is an urgent report from Nanchang Pegasus." ”

Zhu Chenhao was suddenly solemn, his father didn't give him any hint all the way, and now, the news finally came from Nanchang, and he immediately said: "Bring it." ”

The guard immediately took out a letterhead and presented it to Zhu Chenhao, Zhu Chenhao took it, quickly tore the seal, pulled out the letter and unfolded it for a moment, then couldn't help but be full of suspicion, and said lightly: "Father, what does this mean?" I said it was all right before I came, but now I have to rearrange it. ”

Liu Yangzheng couldn't help but stretch his neck and said, "Maybe the prince has other plans." ”

Zhu Chenhao thought for a while, but couldn't figure out why, so he handed the letterhead to Liu Yangzheng and said to Liu Yangzheng: "Mr. Liu might as well take a look." ”

Liu Yangzheng took the letter, read it for a while, and then stopped squeaking.

The content of the letter was really unexpected, if it weren't for the fact that he recognized that the handwriting was completely from Zhu Jijun and stamped with the big seal of Ning Wangfu, Liu Yangzheng even suspected that the letter was fake.

Because the things in the letter were too strange, when he came, King Ning had told him to be cautious when he arrived in Beijing, but in this letter, King Ning asked them to make a big show and not have to be cautious. What they have to do is to be completely straightforward, and the strength that King Ning arranged in the capital will also surface after the arrival of the King of Shanggao, in order to strengthen their momentum, and also said that after the King of Shanggao arrives in the Jingshi, he does not have to stay in Honglu Temple, but goes directly to live in the Four Seas Commercial Bank in Yingchunfang.

What does that mean? Could it be that Prince Ning didn't know that once he did this, all the people arranged in the entire Jingshi would be exposed?

This kind of rebellion should have been carried out in a covert manner, but he really hasn't seen anyone who shows his strength with such fanfare, and this King Ning is either crazy or has a bigger plan.

Zhu Chenhao's face was cloudy, obviously, he didn't dare to do what his father ordered, he went to Jingshi this time, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, the court already had doubts about his father, no matter how blatant he was, would he still have the life to go back to Nanchang?

However, King Ning has sternly warned in his letter, and I must remember, remember, that King Ning has shown that this sentence is very serious.

Liu Yangzheng stayed for a moment, coughed, and said, "Your Highness, the student understands. ”

"What do you understand?" Zhu Chenhao's face was pale.

Liu Yangzheng said: "I'm afraid that the inside line planted in the court and the palace has heard some rumors, and the emperor has completely lost his trust in King Ning, presumably the court has begun to quell the rebellion." Prince Ning's plan is to make the court dare not do it easily, only to let the court know that we are not only in Jiangxi, but also in the capital There are enough ears, eyes and eyeliner in the capital to make the court feel jealous, didn't King Ning say it clearly in the letter? Let some people surface, not to expose all our forces in Beijing, what Your Highness has to do is to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger, the more you show your strength, the safer Your Highness will be. ”

There is some truth in these words, if King Ning has no strength at all now, once he is suspicious of the court, he only needs a holy decree from the emperor to take down King Ning's father and son without blood, and the reason why the court did not do it, the only possibility is that there is still fear, in order to deepen the jealousy of the court, King Ning deliberately gave Qin a dismount in Jiangxi, and also let the court see his ability in Nanchang, and the king of Shanggao must echo with King Ning, only in this way can those who want to do it be jealous.

(To be continued)