Chapter 61: Wu Xingzhi

Zhu Houhuang watched the two of them leave, and suddenly heard the sound of footsteps behind him, he turned his head and saw Wu Xingzhi.

The whole trough ship is not big, and there are only a dozen experts in astronomy and arithmetic, unlike other ships that are crowded with people. But many people can't avoid it.

Zhu Houhuang stopped Wu Xingzhi and said, "Wu Xingzhi come here." ”

Wu Xingzhi wanted to retreat, but after listening to Zhu Houhuang's call, he had no choice but to come over and say, "Meet Your Highness." ”

Wu Xingzhi is a child of Wu Wenhai's clan, arithmetic is often a family study, especially in this era, Zhu Houhuang saw Wu Xingzhi and asked: "Do you know the number of the soil disk algorithm?" ”

Wu Xingzhi didn't understand it originally, but Zhu Houhuang asked them to write him the progress of his calendar in Arabic numerals, and if someone knew what it was, it naturally spread.

"Yes."

"Do you think that Suzhou yards and those razor numbers are better used?" Zhu Houhuang asked.

Wu Xingzhi looked at Zhu Houhuang's face and said, "Actually, both are about the same. ”

Zhu Houhuang sighed secretly in his heart and stopped asking. Without him, Wu Xingzhi is like this, and he doesn't want to say that Yi Shu is good, which shows that in his heart, it is more comfortable to calculate the code than to use Yi Shu. Even persecution won't help. However, he was not familiar with the expressions of ancient mathematics. It is imperative for him to change the method of mathematical calculations. No one can change that.

But Zhu Houhuang won't say it in front of these math masters. Zhu Houhuang suddenly thought that this Wu family was in Hangzhou, and asked, "I remember that your family is in Hangzhou?" “

Wu Xingzhi said: "His Royal Highness Lao is concerned. The minister's family is in Hangzhou. ”

"Good place, heaven above, Suzhou and Hangzhou below." Zhu Houhuang sighed.

Wu Xingzhi smiled and said, "When His Highness passes by Jiangnan, you can go to Hangzhou to have a look, and you can naturally know how charming the spring color of Jiangnan is." ”

"Spring in the south of the Yangtze River."

Zhu Houhuang was a little dazed, it has been thirteen years of Zhengde now. At the end of the twelfth year of Zhengde, Zhu Houhuang was running around for the affairs of the fiefdom, and even the Spring Festival, or Zhengdan, was in a hurry. Just after the Spring Festival, before the Lantern Festival, I rushed on the way south, and I didn't know if I could see the spring in Jiangnan when I arrived in Jiangnan.

However, Zhu Houhuang only paused slightly and said, "Do you know who is the biggest maritime merchant in Hangzhou?" ”

Wu Xingzhi was stunned, sweated instantly, and said, "The minister doesn't know." ”

Zhu Houhuang immediately noticed it, he didn't know, not didn't know, he asked, "Is it really not known?" ”

Da Ming strictly forbids the sea, in fact, what is it like below, the above knows a lot, at least Zhengde knows. Moreover, the so-called forbidden sea is not a complete ban on business, but a ban on private trade, but official trade has not been cut off. After the split of the Japanese regime, the two sides fought for the right to trade with the Ming Dynasty, and after the Ming Dynasty made a big move, the Ming Dynasty banned trade with Japan, which was the cause of the Japanese rebellion.

But that was during the Jiajing period, and it hasn't happened yet.

In today's terms, Japan is the largest trading partner of the Ming Dynasty. However, Japan's trade with the Ming Dynasty was still dominated by official trade, supplemented by smuggling trade.

It's just that in any case, maritime merchants are forbidden things, and generally maritime merchants are the white gloves of the big family, or they are very low-key. If it weren't for the Wu family's special learning, I'm afraid the Wu family wouldn't know either.

Wu Xingzhi saw Zhu Houhuang asking, he couldn't bear it in his heart, and said: "I don't know which one is the biggest maritime merchant, but it must be a Hui merchant." As for the more, the minister really doesn't know. Please also ask Your Highness to be gracious

"Kaien?" Zhu Houhuang was puzzled: "What kind of favor do you want me to make?" ”

Wu Xingzhi couldn't help but raised his head but found that Zhu Houhuang's expression seemed to be really unclear, but it was too difficult to change his words at the moment, so he had to say: "The Chen's family uses arithmetic to pass on the family, and most of the bookkeepers in Jiangnan are from the Chen's family, and some people do things for the maritime merchants, but they have nothing to do with the Wu family?" ”

Zhu Houhuang smiled lightly and said secretly: "So that's the case." Zhu Houhuang didn't know that the Wu family had such a network. It seems that the Wu family is still quite useful.

Zhu Houhuang said: "You don't need to talk about someone in detail, can you tell me an overview of the maritime merchants in the south of the Yangtze River?" ”

"The overview of the maritime merchants in the south of the Yangtze River, but I don't know how to say this." Wu Xingzhi said: "It's just that most of the maritime merchants in Jiangnan are Hui merchants. ”

Huizhou merchants came from Huizhou, because "Huizhou Baojie Valley, the mountains are according to the original foothills, the fields are barren, the production is thin, most of them are one year old, and they can't support tithes." The small people are more skillful, or those who sell and eat other counties, often nineteen. "Therefore, "there is no land to work in the middle family or below." There are many businessmen in Hui, and it is natural to cover it." Hui merchants are all over the world, and the Zhengde period is the time when Hui merchants rise.

Wu Xingzhi did not know much about the situation of maritime merchants. He just knew that most of the maritime merchants were Hui merchants, not the Fujian merchants who emerged later, and although there were many maritime merchants now, they were all making a hard money, because the tribute between the imperial court and overseas countries was still going on, and most of them were in the tributary trade, especially in Japan. The power of maritime merchants has not yet reached the huge strength of the late Jiajing period, and it can be said that it was in the early stage of an outbreak.

Zhu Houhuang and Wu Xingzhi talked for a long time, but it could be seen that Wu Xingzhi was telling the truth. The fact that he was able to be brought to Jingshi shows that he is very skilled in mathematics, and the Wu family's intention is probably to let him seek an official position in Qintianjian. Instead of going to be a bookkeeper. And even if you are a bookkeeper, you have to talk about professional ethics, and the situation of the owner cannot be casually revealed.

However, Zhu Houhuang took more and more fancy to Wu Xingzhi. said, "I'll leave this to you." ”

Wu Xingyi looked at it, but it was a key. said: "Your Highness, this is?" ”

Zhu Houhuang said: "This is the key I brought with me for 200,000 taels of silver, and I will hand it over to you." From today onwards, you are my Tobe Shangshu. ”

"Minister---" Wu Xingzhi actually didn't think about following Zhu Houhuang all the way to the black. Otherwise, Wu Xingzhi wouldn't have seen Zhu Houhuang just now, and immediately prepared to avoid him. It's just that Zhu Houhuang delivered 200,000 taels of silver to Wu Xingzhi, which made Wu Xingzhi feel a sense of trust.

"Death to a confidant." This is the dead knot of countless scholars, even if Wu Xingzhi is not good at arithmetic, he does not read the Four Books and Five Classics well, and he is not even a showman. Nor can it stop him from having the heart of a scholar. He bowed to the ground and said, "Minister Wu Xingzhi, please see my king." ”

Zhu Houhuang picked him up, and Wu Xingzhi said, "Sir, please get up." ”

This can be regarded as having set the status of the monarch and minister, Wu Xingzhi immediately advised: "Your Highness is not despicable to the minister, but the confidant of the minister, the minister should also be straightforward, and His Royal Highness should be self-respecting." ”

Zhu Houhuang was a little strange and asked, "What's wrong with me?" ”

"Your Highness, since you have inherited the throne of King Yong, you should be called Lonely, and you can no longer call yourself me. Otherwise, people think that it is frivolous and not enough to entrust the heavy responsibility. ”

Zhu Houhuang's heart froze, but he said secretly: "Yes, what do you say and do, don't look at your own feelings, but look at the feelings of others." "Zhu Houhuang came from modern society, and the most impatient thing is what it means to be lonely. No matter how many words you change, you can't change it, you are still a human fact. So although he is already a prince, he does not have the consciousness of being alone.

But at this moment, Wu Xingzhi said this, which made Zhu Houhuang realize the importance of this change in the Dao, and said: "I, ah no, I know. Zhu Houhuang immediately changed his words, but he still felt a little unaccustomed. said: "Sir's words, Lone listened to it, if there is anything wrong with Lone next time, please ask Mr. to admonish him face to face." ”

Wu Xingyi felt that the chicken blood was injected into it for a while, and his whole body was hot, as if Zhuge Liang met the first master, and without saying a word, he asked Zhu Houhuang for the account book. I lit the lamp overnight, checked all the ledgers, and then checked the 200,000 silver, and I was busy all night.

Zhu Houhuang, the head of the household, is really more serious.