Chapter Seventy-Seven: Ambition
"Uhh......h
Early in the morning, Zhu Youzhen stretched his waist and got up.
Yesterday, I had a long night with my good royal brother, and when I went to sleep, I was afraid that I would move too much and wake him up, so I didn't sleep very comfortably.
He twisted his neck and glanced to the side.
Empty......
Turning his head to look outside the curtain of the Babu bed, the sun was shining, and at a glance, he knew that he had overslept, and the good imperial brother had gone to the Wenhua Palace.
"Seung-eun?"
"Slaves and maids are ......"
Zhu Youzhen shouted, Wang Chengen really appeared outside the stepping bed, and he also turned over and got up and said:
"Come, change your clothes."
As he spoke, he stepped down from the bed, and the palace maids of the Qianqing Palace also consciously came up to change clothes and wash for Zhu Youzhen.
"What time is it?"
"Back to Your Highness, it's already three o'clock now, long live is in the Wenhua Hall to deal with the sparseness, and take classes by the way."
Wang Chengen responded, and what happened to the good royal brother made Zhu Youzhen smack.
As a Ninety-Five Supreme Son of Heaven, it doesn't matter if you get up at six o'clock in the morning every day, and you still need to go to class after the Chang Dynasty, and it is estimated that you will have to wait until after noon to have your own time.
"It's better to be a prince......"
Spit out the tea used to rinse his mouth in his mouth, Zhu Youzhen also changed his clothes, walked out of the side hall, and saw the Hakka who was reprimanding the palace maid.
"The Fifth Highness is awake? Do you need a slave to call the imperial dining room to make breakfast? ”
As soon as the Hakka family saw Zhu Youzhen, he immediately put away the snarky and honest salute when he taught the palace maid.
However, Zhu Youzhen shook his head and said:
"Kebaba has worked hard, I still have some things to go back to the Miaoqin Palace, so I'll go back to the Miaoqin Palace today to eat."
As he spoke, he walked out, but as soon as he walked out of the Qianqing Palace, he stepped back and said:
"If my brother comes back, you can ask my brother to inform me that I have brought two foals from the Imperial Horse Warden, and you can go to the back left gate of the temple to ride the horses."
"Slave maid takes the order......" Hearing Zhu Youzhen say this, the Hakka family returned the salute honestly, and Zhu Youzhen nodded when he saw this, and left the Qianqing Palace with Wang Chengen.
When they walked out of the palace gate of the Qianqing Palace, Lu Wenzhao, who had been waiting here, also came with an elephant.
Zhu Youzhen got on the elephant wheel with the support of Wang Chengen, and then asked people to set off to the Qingong Palace.
After the elephant walked, Zhu Youzhen asked the Jinyi guards to leave ten steps away, asked Wang Chengen to drive, accompanied by Lu Wenzhao, and then spoke:
"Do you have anyone in mind about asking people to go to Huguang, Sichuan to sell grain?"
"Back to Your Highness, a person has been selected for the humble position." Lu Wenzhao replied:
"This person is Lu Jianxing, the chief banner of the Jinyi Guard promoted by His Royal Highness, he is a good family, he has no marriage so far, his parents died early, and he has no handle to threaten."
If you want to choose someone to go to Jiangnan, then this person must not have flaws.
As long as he has flaws, then he is easy to be attacked and manipulated by civilian officials.
Therefore, Lu Jianxing's background, strength, and brain are all top candidates.
"Just him?" Zhu Youzhen frowned slightly, and Lu Wenzhao replied:
"Naturally, there are more than a dozen Jinyi guards with similar identities to him, all of whom are good at doing things."
After Lu Wenzhao finished speaking, Zhu Youzhen did not respond, but was just thinking about what to do.
After a moment he spoke:
"In that case, then you ask Lu Jianxing to wait in the Qin Palace, and I'll take a look later."
"Yes!" Hearing this, Lu Wenzhao knew that this matter was more than half stable.
In this way, the elephant carried Zhu Youzhen towards the Qingong Palace, and returned to the Qinqin Palace after a tea absence.
Due to Wang Chengen's explanation, the palace made breakfast early.
Pepper and vinegar goose, roast pork, pork white soup, mutton crystal dumplings, mung bean chess noodles, bean soup, tea.
A series of dishes were placed on the table, and Zhu Youzhen sat on the chair and began to eat.
But in a quarter of an hour, the food on the table was eaten, and finally after rinsing his mouth with tea, Wang Chengen also spoke:
"Your Highness, Jinyi Weinan Town, Fu Si Chief Banner Lu Jianxing is already waiting outside the door."
"Pass him in." Spit out the mouthwash tea, Zhu Youzhen turned around and walked out of the side hall, sat on a chair in the main hall, took out a book and put it next to him, Wang Chengen personally made a cup of tribute tea, and dismissed all the eunuchs and palace maids.
In this way, Lu Wenzhao took Lu Jianxing into the palace and saw Zhu Youzhen, who was bowing his head and tasting tea.
"Humble Lu Jianxing, meet the Fifth Highness!"
As soon as Lu Jianxing came in, he bowed his hand, and after seeing Zhu Youzhen raise his hand, he slowly stood up, and the whole person stood straight, but his eyes looked at his nose and his nose and his heart.
"Lu Wenzhao said that he recommended you to go to the south to do things, what do you think?"
"Your Highness tells the lowly to do something, and the lowly will do it, and he will do it without asking."
Lu Jianxing's answer was simple, but it was not what Zhu Youzhen wanted to hear.
"According to what you can see, 300,000 taels of silver will sell you grain, what will you do?"
Zhu Youzhen looked at Lu Jianxing and asked this question, and the answer to this question, Lu Jianxing already had a draft.
Through Lu Wenzhao, he learned that the so-called grain sales were to gradually control the grain sales under the noses of civil officials, and then find an opportunity to go north to reduce the local grain pressure in Liaodong.
But in addition to reducing the pressure on the people of Liaodong, there is one more difficult thing, that is, to make money while reducing the pressure on the people of Liaodong.
Normally, it is either to make money or for the people, but Zhu Youzhen's appeal is not only to make money, but also to reduce the pressure on the people of Liaodong.
That's a bit of a challenge......
But for Lu Jianxing, he can probably come up with a way.
"I think that I will sell Sichuan grain to Jiangnan, and at the same time sell grain, transport the wood from Sichuan to the south of the Yangtze River, sell silver taels into Jiangnan officialdom, get close to all parties, and seek an errand to transport grain overseas."
"As long as you get permission to transport grain overseas, and you can get the Jiangnan officials for profit, you can transport the grain to Liaodong and forge the documents for shipping it to Japan."
"I was in the Beizhen Fusi Library, and when I learned about the Korean War, Beizhen Fusi Jinyiwei went to Japan to obtain some prices and the situation in Japan at that time."
"Japan has a lot of minerals, and there is a lot of silver and copper, but all the needs are produced by the Ming Dynasty."
"At that time, I learned that the difference in the price of our Korean goods in Jiangnan and Nagasaki was about two to three times, and it was even worse in Sichuan and Huguang."
"For example, pig iron is nine dollars a load in Sichuan, one or two or two dollars a load in Huguang, and one or two or six dollars a load in Jiangnan, but after arriving in Japan, it can be sold for four or five dollars a load."
"The price of brown sugar in Huguang is seven cents per quintal, and after it is shipped to Japan, it is sold for two taels and five cents."
"Beeswax costs nine taels of silver in Sichuan and Yunnan and Guizhou, and in Japan it costs fifty taels and one quintal."
"It can be seen that a large number of things in Japan are purchased from our Ming Dynasty, so even if the merchants in Jiangnan are dissatisfied, as long as they buy officials along the Yangtze River estuary and pile up grain with goods, they can also use grain to sell to Liaodong."
Lu Jianxing finished speaking his thoughts, but Zhu Youzhen squinted his eyes, and then slowly spoke:
"You ......"