Chapter 114: The Correct Usage of Jinyiwei
Zhu Yunxi was listening to Lan Yu's bragging, and suddenly heard the bad old man calling himself, and he was unhappy in his heart.
Lan Yu hurriedly pushed his nephew Sun and motioned for him to coax the old Zhu Tou.
"Good!"
"Go and sit at your grandfather's side, and when you have time later, your uncle and grandfather will tell you about fishing in the sea!"
"Oh!"
Zhu Yunxi reluctantly sat next to Lao Zhu, and Lao Zhu didn't speak, but just knocked on the plate containing shrimp with chopsticks.
Lan Yu almost laughed when he saw this scene, did this old Zhu Tou knock over the vinegar jar, and his niece just picked up a shrimp for us, as for the sourness, is it like this?
Zhu Yunxi looked at Lao Zhu puzzled, thinking to himself what does this mean, is it for me to pick up shrimp for him?
Hum!
Let you always scare me with a whip, so I won't pick shrimp for you!
Lao Zhu was chatting with Lan Yu, while peeking at the rebel grandson, seeing that he only cared about picking shrimp for himself to eat, and didn't care about himself as a bad old man, he was unhappy for a while.
"We thought about it just now, Zhu Yunxi is still young, I'm afraid he won't be able to control it, so let's put your thousands of righteous sons into Yulinwei......"
"Grandpa Huang, you eat shrimp!"
"Let's ......"
Zhu Yunxi didn't give Lao Zhu a chance to refuse at all, and directly stuffed the shrimp into his mouth.
"Let's get down to business!"
"Then the emperor's grandfather will talk slowly, and the grandson will pick shrimp for you on the side!"
"Lan Yu, where did we just come from?"
"You just said that you should try to finish the fight before the winter, and don't delay it until the cold winter wax moon, which will only increase the damage of the soldiers!"
"Oooh......"
Lao Zhu pretended to be suddenly enlightened, and continued to discuss the details of the Northern Expedition with Lan Yu on the tips of the eldest grandson, and never mentioned the matter of restructuring Yulinwei.
Although Lao Zhu didn't mention it, Zhu Yunxi still didn't dare to take it lightly, and picked up a plate of shrimp and put it all in Lao Zhu's bowl, for fear that this cautious imperial grandfather would scare himself by saying anything about Yu Linwei.
Lao Zhu and Lan Yu finalized the strategy of the Northern Expedition and ended the dinner, not only personally sent Lan Yu outside the palace, but also specially ordered Zhu Yunxi to send Lan Yu out of the palace.
"Yunxi, you send your uncle and grandfather for us, and then you can go back to the palace to do your homework."
"Okay!"
As soon as Zhu Yunxi heard that this was the case, he agreed to the thief happily, and hurriedly pounced, pestering Lan Yu to tell him about the cow that he had just not finished blowing.
Lao Zhu watched his eldest grandson keep inquiring about fishing in the sea, and couldn't help but show a helpless wry smile on his face.
The reason why he prefers the crown prince Zhu Biao is that he hopes that he, the martial emperor, will fight the country, and then hand it over to Zhu Biao, the emperor Wen, to rule the country.
However, seeing that this rebel Sun is so interested in military affairs, I wonder if the successor of the Ming Dynasty is a martial emperor!
No way!
I have to find a few good Confucian students to teach, even if I can't teach this child to be a humble gentleman like his father, I can't let him think about war all day long.
Just who to turn to?
Lao Zhu couldn't help but feel embarrassed when he thought of this, and even faintly regretted it.
Because he thought about it for a long time, he didn't come up with a few Confucians who could be used.
"Alas!"
"If I had known today, we wouldn't have killed so hard all these years......"
On the other side, Lan Yu and Zhu Yunxi walked to the gate of the palace, and when Lan Yu was about to get into the carriage, he suddenly grabbed his hand and handed him a waist card.
"Nephew and grandson, you have this brand, if you are short of money in the future, you will go to your uncle's house to withdraw it."
"Uncle and grandpa have already told the people in the house, how much is in the account, you can spend as much as you want!"
Zhu Yunxi was moved when he heard this, but he was not short of money now, and there was no need to take the brand of blue jade.
"Uncle, I have money now, I just earned 10,000 taels of silver some time ago, enough for me to spend for a long time!"
Lan Yuyuan's eyes widened and said unhappily.
"That's enough money for what, not enough to build a kennel!"
"Let's give you the waist card and you will take it, where is so much nonsense!"
"But there is one thing I have to tell you, we don't want you to spend this money indiscriminately!"
"Uncle and grandfather estimate that your imperial grandfather should be short of money after a while, if he is really lacking, you will take the lead in donating silver to the imperial court, reflecting your loyalty to the country!"
"If someone donates 10,000, you donate 20,000. If someone else donates 50,000, you donate 100,000! ”
"If your uncle and grandfather's money is not enough, you can take our cards and go to other generals' houses to borrow them, and your uncle and grandfather will pay them back for you at that time!"
In fact, this is just Lan Yu's wishful thinking, Zhu Yuanzhang is such an arrogant person, even if he is short of money, he will not let others donate silver.
Zhu Yunxi saw Lan Yu say this, so he no longer shirked, and he also gave full play to his subjective initiative to think that if he gave the money earned from the bookstore to the imperial court as military expenses, would he be able to move the old man to tears?
But as soon as this idea arose, he snuffed it out.
His palace has not yet been built, and the palace on the fiefdom has not yet been seen, so many places to spend money are waiting, where is the spare money for the court?
Early the next morning, as soon as Zhu Yunxi came to the main hall, he saw Zhu Gui running over with a smile on his face.
"Big nephew, you're rich again!"
"What's going to get rich?"
"Haven't we started selling the second volume yet, where did the ......money come from?"
Zhu Gui interrupted Zhu Yunxi's words and explained with a smile.
"It's not about selling books, it's your jade cabbage!"
"Yesterday, my guard went to the pawnshop to redeem the pawnshop, and the owner of the house said that the pawnshop was robbed the day before yesterday, and the jade cabbage was stolen, and we were compensated five times the silver according to the custom!"
"At that time, the jade cabbage was 7,000 taels of silver, and now they pay us five times the price, which is 35,000 taels!"
"I have estimated with someone that even if it is taken out and sold, it will only cost more than 30,000 taels of silver, and it may not be possible to find a suitable buyer. The pawnshop paid us 35,000 taels, which is not a loss! ”
"I've already got the silver back, and the rest of the gold and silver jewelry, as well as your broken pillow, have also been brought back to you!"
"Oh......"
When Zhu Yunxi heard that he had suddenly earned 35,000 taels of silver, his heart did not fluctuate in the slightest.
After all, he is staying in the palace every day now, and there is really no place to spend money.
There is no difference between 10,000 taels of silver and 100,000 taels of silver in his eyes, just a string of numbers.
"Since we are not short of money now, then Uncle Thirteen, you should first take some silver to repair your palace, at least it must be stronger than the kennel!"
When Zhu Gui heard this, he hugged his eldest nephew and said words of thanks.
"Big nephew, Uncle Thirteen didn't hurt you in vain, I didn't expect you to remember Uncle Thirteen's palace, woo woo woo woo ......"
"Hey, hey, hey!"
"Loosen up, if you don't let go, I won't give you money to repair the palace!"
When Zhu Gui heard this, he hurriedly let go of his eldest nephew, and carefully tore out the crumpled clothes for him, and straightened his collar.
"Although we have money now, we can't spend it indiscriminately!"
"You first take five thousand taels of silver, buy all the furniture in the palace, and then pick up a few wings."
"Find someone to build stones in the pond and raise some fish in it."
"Let's not compare with the second uncle, as long as we can get by on the big side!"
"Uh-huh, everything is up to the eldest nephew, and the eldest nephew will do whatever he says!"
"After the palace is repaired, you have to write to your father and the emperor, saying that I will move out and live with you!"
"This ......"
When Zhu Gui heard this condition, he immediately didn't dare to accept it.
"Big nephew, I'm afraid this thing is not easy to do!"
"Difficult?"
"Then I won't help you repair the palace, I'll keep the money to buy land and build a house by myself!"
Zhu Gui saw that his eldest nephew wanted to take the money back, so he immediately changed his mind and agreed.
"Do!"
"It has to be done!"
"I'll go and beg the concubine, let the concubine find a way for you!"
"If the concubine speaks, your imperial grandfather will definitely be able to agree!"
When Zhu Yunxi saw Zhu Gui say this, he smiled with satisfaction. As everyone knows, Zhu Gui is completely fooling him, thinking that he will repair the palace first, as for whether he can say that his father agrees to this grandson to move out......
When the palace is finished and the money is spent, can this grandson still tear down the house?
……
In the next few days, Zhu Yunxi was busy with the business of the bookstore, and at the same time was busy with Qi Tai, Zhu Zhi, and Zhu Gui.
Because of Qi Tai, a fast gunner, they wrote the book super fast, and they finished writing the ninety-nine chapters of the Golden Bottle Plum before the second volume went on the market.
As for why there is one left, this is because Zhu Yunxi plans to write it himself.
The first is to enhance his sense of creative participation, and the other is to maintain the mystery of the ending.
Qi Tai has the ability to never forget, in case he accidentally misses the ending, what will he do to make money in the future?
The second volume of Jin Zhumei was listed, which directly caused a sensation in the capital, and before the bookstore opened, thousands of people were already crowded outside.
Although Zhu Yunxi had long expected that the sales of the second volume would explode and prepared the goods in advance, he still underestimated the enthusiasm of the people in the capital for reading.
The 3,000 books that had been prepared in advance were sold out in less than a day.
Then he continued to print and sell books, and just when his second volume had just sold 10,000 copies, the customers of Sanwei Bookstore suddenly decreased a lot.
Ding Hao, the bookstore guy (Jin Yi before, changed to another fan's name because the big guy said the play) saw this scene, and was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and hurriedly reported to Zhu Yunxi.
"Your Highness, something is wrong, the sales of bookstores have declined seriously, it should be that other bookstores have already copied it!"
"Today, during the day, only a few hundred copies of the second volume of Golden Vase Plum were sold, and the first volume only sold a dozen copies, which is a big difference from the past!"
"Let's stop sticking to our own stores, distribute the books, and let other bookstores follow suit!"
When Zhu Yunxi heard the guy's complaint, he was immediately unhappy.
"What a joke!"
"I just want to be exclusive, only in this way can we start the signboard of our Sanwei Book House as soon as possible!"
Ding Hao saw that his Royal Highness was still obsessed, and he was so anxious that he was about to cry.
"Your Highness, what about other stores' imitation printing, we can't prevent it at all!"
"Can't you prevent it?"
Zhu Yunxi smiled confidently, he had already thought of this step, and he had prepared a countermeasure in advance.
"I can't see it, can I?"
"Uncle Thirteen, you will send the dividends of Jinyiwei over in a while, tell them, and let them investigate who is copying our books!"
"I still don't believe it, I can't cure this unhealthy trend!"
"I, Zhu Yunxi, am going to fire the first shot against piracy in Daming!"
"Whoever dares to steal my book will be arrested and put in the Jinyi Guard prison, skinned him, pumped his tendons, and hung him on the beam of the house to bleed!"