"I don't dare to say that I fully understand it, but the most basic principle of the operation of this thing, Mr. Lin, who came to negotiate, explained it quite clearly. In fact, that thing can't really convey human speech, and can only use some kind of natural principle to transmit the two most basic symbols, one yin and one yang. And it is these two symbols that the people of Qiongzhen have a way to turn them into a thousand words--that is the result of using the way of mathematics to the extreme. Wei Chen carefully studied its reasoning, and felt that it was similar to the sixty-four hexagrams of my Chinese Fuxi, which showed that it was not a sourceless learning, but also came from the great avenue of heaven and earth. ”

Zhu Youzhen listened a little hard, and Zhou Yanru explained it equally hard - no way, this was already the simplest and clearest explanation he could come up with. After all, this kind of thing involving science and technology is extremely complex in itself, and it is definitely not something that can be explained clearly by a saint in a few words.

Seeing that the emperor was still a little unsatisfied, Zhou Shoufu hurriedly added:

"Qionghai Town has promised that he will find an opportunity to make a few 'technical reports', and try to explain the relevant skills related to my Ming Dynasty as much as possible, if His Majesty is interested, he can arrange for them to enter the palace to explain."

Chongzhen hesitated, will this be criticized by the minister as "plaything"? After all, his brother Tianqi was scolded in this regard. But then he turned his head and saw Qian someone, the Donglin Party that controlled public opinion the most, and now its leader was hooking up with Shorthair, so he didn't think he would trouble him in this regard. So he bowed his head slightly, and agreed to this suggestion.

"So they are still more sincere, and they didn't use some vain things to coax the court?"

Although the things they proposed were quite novel, they were all able to justify themselves, and the ministers and Qian Ge Lao, Yang Shangshu, and Bi Jingzeng all raised questions one after another. Their responses were all clear and unambiguous, not as if they could be made up on the fly. It was about the reason for the 300,000 taels of silver, and after several inquiries by the ministers, they also said the reason: it was that their generation intended to open a silver shop in the inland of my Ming Dynasty, and they had to use the fame of the court to win the trust of others. That's why I'm willing to take out this large sum of money and buy a justifiable one. ”

"Take advantage of the fame of the imperial court to do silver trading in my Ming Dynasty?"

The emperor's suspicious nature was aroused at once:

"In the future, if the short-haired deceive matters, won't the people's grievances be attributed to the court?"

This section was already expected by Zhou Yanru, he smiled and said calmly:

The minister was also worried about this verse. Therefore, I carefully interrogated them about the so-called 'bank' way of doing business, and Mr. Lin also explained very clearly: many things that our Ming merchants could not do well and could not do, but they could easily do them - for example, with short-haired ships to make strong guns, no one could steal the money and goods they escorted with warships; For example, shorthair has a 'wireless telegraphy', which can still be contacted freely even though it is thousands of miles away, so it is difficult to be deceived by artificial fraud...... These things happened to be what the people were best at, so even the ministers felt that they could do a lot of business after hearing this, and there was no need to deceive them at all. ”

As I speak. But seeing that Qian Qianyi next to him took the initiative to owe his body, Zhu Youzhen turned his head to signal, so Qian Ge Lao stood up and said:

"Your Majesty, as far as the minister knows. Yang Shangshu and Mr. Bi had set off together for Tianjin yesterday, just to visit a new 'bank' shop in Qiongzhen, and if the rules were indeed feasible, they would soon also open a bank branch in Beijing. It was set up with Qionghai Market. ”

"Is it located in the same place as Qionghai Market......"

Zhu Youzhen groaned -- This Qionghai market in Beijing has been terrible lately. With the successive opening of the Qiongshifang warehouse group and the arrival of the short-haired army, the amount of its material supply has been substantially increased compared with the original. And the nature of the place has also changed from a supply depot mainly for the use of short-haired "Beijing Office". It has nothing to do with shorthair or the court, and you can't get in. Now there is a gradual shift in the direction of shopping malls, and even ordinary people can go in and shop - as long as you have the money.

The impact of this change on the city of Beijing is really extraordinary - as the capital of the Ming Empire, the rich and noble families in the city of Beijing are definitely the crown of the Ming Dynasty. On the other hand: at the end of the Ming Dynasty, in the northern region, it was a big winter. Combined, even if it is the Great Ming Jingshi, the scarcity of materials has reached a level that is absolutely unbearable in the eyes of modern people - this still refers to those wealthy families, who have money and can't buy things, let alone those who don't have money.

Therefore, when the Qiong Navy used the concept of modern logistics to send a large number of southern goods to the capital through the sea, canals, and four-wheeled carriages, and did not set any political conditions, and opened the supply to those who had purchasing power, the reaction caused can really only be described as "sprinkling salt into the oil pot". Even if this market has only been open for less than a month during the Chinese New Year, and even if it is only during the so-called "trial opening" period, it has become the focus of attention and the core of discussion for all the upper class people in Beijing recently. Everyone was so proud to be able to go in and buy some southern goods, so much so that they had to be like Mingguangtang at the moment - if it wasn't for a particularly high-status, particularly large customer, if they wanted to go shopping, they had to make an appointment in advance.

Although Qiong Haijun does not deliberately take the upper route, but their product grades and prices are placed there, although in the eyes of modern people are already very common, but for people in this era, not to mention the poor at the bottom, the average small family in Beijing is not very affordable, and those rich and noble families are their main customer group.

In addition, many of these goods came under the name of "royal court", so as to avoid all kinds of extortion and exorbitant taxes along the way, and the other is the best trademark advertising. And since this name was borrowed, of course, it was also necessary to indicate to the imperial palace that a certain proportion of the material allocation plan of the trading company had been arranged, which was provided to the Forbidden City free of charge as "endorsement fees". Wang Chengen handed over to him as the head of the palace in charge of logistics, so he could be regarded as having opened his eyes recently, and the scale of material circulation he saw in Qiongshifang definitely exceeded any of his imagination.

So much so that the prince once drank too much and complained to his close godson, the little eunuch, in private, saying that when the nine-thousand-year-old Wei father-in-law was in power, he always wanted to pull all the good things into the palace, which made the whole world resentful. And the things he dragged into the palace from Shorthair in this month were actually no less than those of Grandpa Wei, but the people were happy, and there were no complaints on the streets, and the people were proud to be able to use the same grade of things as in the palace-this is what people are capable of.

With so many materials dragged into the palace, the Emperor Guang's family will definitely not be able to use them, and Wang Chengen is not Wei Zhongxian, so he doesn't have the courage to fill all of them in his own pockets, at least he doesn't dare to hide too much, so most of the materials are still provided to the people in the entire Forbidden City for use - for example, the bronze mirror in the Forbidden City is now rarely used, and even the little palace maid at the bottom can go to the public big dressing mirror to tidy up her appearance. If you are willing to spend some private money, it is also excellent to buy a small egg-shaped glass mirror for dressing up - for girls who survive in the court, demeanor and posture are a major event that determines their fate, maybe one day they will meet the eyes of the emperor?

For example, Empress Zhou has been pondering which palaces to give priority to with glass windows, as well as washrooms with tiled water and ceramic sanitary ware...... Wait a minute. Anyway, as long as it is within the 1,000 taels of free quota in Qiongshifang, there is no need for the palace to pay another money - originally this "free quota" was only set up to buy vegetables and fruits, but after visiting Qiongshifang a few times, Wang Chengen immediately found that it was not only food that shorthair could provide! The palace also needs much more than a few out-of-season vegetables. A large number of industrial manufactured products and daily necessities produced by the technology and ideas of later generations on Hainan Island are the commodities that can attract the people of the Ming Dynasty in the Qionghai market. Even in the Ming Palace, it is no exception.

As a result, in the Forbidden City, many small places of clothing, food, housing and transportation are now gradually "short hair", and a large number of daily necessities from the south are rapidly penetrating into all aspects of court life. Maybe Zhu Youzhen himself didn't notice this, but he could at least feel that since the opening of that Qiongshi Fang, many subtleties in the court were changing. In addition, there are people in the queen's concubine's family in Beijing, as well as people from Jinyiwei and Neichang who also report some news about Qiongshifang from time to time, Zhu Youzhen is no stranger to the recent movements of Shorthair.

"If it's set up with Qiong Shifang, it's unlikely to be a fraud......

There is no need for Qian Qianyi to guide him, Zhu Youzhen himself made this conclusion. The goods in Qiongshifang, despite the endless stream, can still maintain a mountain of piles, which is enough to dispel anyone's suspicion of shorthair. They opened a silver money shop over there to collect gold and silver, and no one would suspect them of falsification or playing tricks such as short-haired and short-haired "banks" -- in Zhu Youzhen's mind, short-haired "banks" are nothing more than institutions similar to pawnshops, and their methods of making money should be similar.

In this way, they would rather spend 300,000 taels of silver...... Moreover, it is reasonable to buy a coin from the imperial court at the cost of 300,000 yuan per Chinese New Year's Eve, which is really generous.

Zhu Youzhen is actually a very impatient person, and he has never been very good at hiding his temper. It is not easy to endure it until now, and at this time I finally expressed my opinion directly:

"Since what they say is credible. For 300,000 taels of silver, they were allowed to mint their own silver coins in the Qiongzhou Mansion...... It seems that the imperial court is not at a loss. (To be continued.) )