Zhu Yuanzhang originally came out with a stack of folded music, planning to take advantage of his leisure time while he was in a hurry to deal with some irrelevant business.

However, as soon as the carriage left the Taiping Gate and turned the streets of the Criminal Department and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, I only felt that my eyes were not enough.

I don't know when a fang market will rise in front of the palace of King Wu, which is full of tourists, and the vendors from the south to the north are struggling to sell.

Lao Zhu likes to see this kind of prosperity the most, and he can't sit still when he sees the gate of Wu Wanggong so lively.

"Stop!"

"Bring a few people and walk around with us!"

"The dragon continues!"

"No!"

Erhu hurriedly took a few people to follow, and Zhu Li, the king of Jin, also got out of the carriage when he saw this, and followed Lao Zhu's footsteps closely.

"Father, there are many people here, don't take any chances!"

When Erhu saw Zhu Li say this, he hurriedly followed suit.

As the head of the guard, Erhu is eager for His Majesty the Emperor to stay in the palace every day.

Because, as long as the emperor leaves the palace, whether it is a white dragon fish suit or a hug from front to back, it is inevitable that there will be negligence in the guards.

Lao Zhu was not a person who listened to persuasion, and while the people in the market were attracted by the emperor's car, he slipped into the market as if no one was around, and grabbed the water chestnut peddled by two vendors and put it in his hand.

The old man selling water chestnuts saw that someone was checking the goods, and hurriedly withdrew his gaze from the majestic royal car to deal with the old man in front of him.

"The guest officer has good eyesight, this is the best water chestnut, the most soft and glutinous sweet, as long as ten cents a catty!"

"If you have grandson money, just one pound a piece, and the old man can spare you a few water chestnuts!"

Lao Zhu is the kind of customer who is the most unpopular, because he just looks around, and he has no desire to buy things at all.

"This fellow, what do you mean by the grandson's money you just said?"

The vendor asked with a little surprise when he heard this.

"Listening to my brother's accent, he doesn't look like a foreigner, why is he so ignorant of what he says, he doesn't even know his grandson's money?"

"Sun Ziqian is a copper coin minted by King Wu, such a big ......"

The old man said as he gestured with his hands. Just after two strokes, I slapped my head in annoyance.

"Look at our head, obviously I have my grandson's money in my pocket, and I'm still here to compare with my brother!"

The hero took out a red copper coin from his pocket and handed it to Lao Zhu in a flash.

"Brother, take a look, this is grandson money!"

It was the first time for Zhu Yuanzhang to see such a beautifully minted copper coin, and he immediately had the idea of playing with it.

"Fellow, can we take a closer look?"

The vendor saw that Lao Zhu was dressed well, and he was not a poor man, so he immediately said generously.

"Big brother, just take it!"

"This grandson's money is not a rare thing, and each person can exchange ordinary Hongwu Tongbao for ten pieces a day."

"If it's a rich family, you can buy it directly with silver, and there's no limit to that, you can buy as much as you want."

Lao Zhu listened to the nagging of the vendors while looking at the style of the copper coin.

I saw that this copper coin was about the same weight as Hongwu Tongbao's ten coins, because there was no hole in the middle, so it was smaller as a whole.

On the front of it is a portrait of a teenager, vaguely looking like a rebellious grandson.

On the back is the six big characters in regular script - the commemorative coin of Wu Wanggong.

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw these words, his face darkened, and he took the money to show Zhu Li on the side.

"You complained about us fighting hard two days ago, you can see for yourself the good things that Sun did against him!"

After Zhu Li saw it, he also sweated for Zhu Yunxi in his heart.

This grandson is so bold that he dares to mint coins privately!

Fortunately, this grandson was well-behaved, and he didn't dare to write anything like Hongwu Tongbao, but just wrote a nondescript "Wu Wanggong Commemorative Coin", which more or less gave him some room to maneuver.

After Lao Zhu showed the copper coin to Zhu Li, he returned it to the vendor who was looking at him.

"Fellow, is this grandson's money like this?"

"Can there be a five, a three, a second?"

Zhu Yuan

At the beginning of Zhang's ascension to the throne, he ordered the minting of copper coins, which were divided into ten coins, five coins, three coins, two coins, and one coin.

Among them, when ten coins weigh one tael, when five coins weigh five coins, when one penny weighs exactly one penny.

It can be used as a coin or as a weight to weigh other goods.

In Zhu Yuanzhang's mind, if Xiao Reverse Sun was to mint coins privately, he would never only mint this style.

The vendor explained with a smile.

"The guest officer has good eyesight!"

"His Royal Highness King Wu has indeed minted more than one kind of coin, and there are also two kinds of silver coins."

"One is a silver coin or two, which is called grandpa money. There is also a small silver coin weighing a penny, which is called son money. ”

"It is said that there is a kind of money made of gold, called ancestral money, and other idlers can't afford to spend it, the old man set up a stall here for more than a month, grandpa money is fortunate to see once or twice, and ancestral money is not once."

While the two were talking, several brocade-clothed guards wearing flying fish suits walked over with a large bamboo basket.

"Come on, come on, pay the money, those who don't pay will be driven out on the spot, and they will never come in to set up stalls again!"

When Lao Zhu heard this, he looked at the second tiger on the side with displeasure, and saw that the second tiger hurriedly shrank his neck and glanced at a few subordinates who came over with bamboo baskets.

Several brocade guards saw Erhu standing here, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

"Master Tiger, why are you so idle today, and you actually have time to come here to play?"

"If you're not busy, wait for the little ones to finish their errands, find a stall and invite the tiger master to have a few drinks!"

Erhu heard the words of several people who died, and scolded angrily.

"Get out!"

"Don't let Lao Tzu see you!"

Jinyi Wei has three guards, with a total of nearly 20,000 people, so naturally it is impossible for everyone to recognize His Majesty the Emperor. Only a small number of people led the errands of the entourage, who were responsible for guarding and beating gongs and drums when the emperor was out on patrol, and occasionally saw the emperor. As for most of the Jinyi Guard, they may never get the opportunity to see the emperor himself in their lifetime.

When a few Jinyi guards heard Erhu's words, they smiled and said.

"What is Master Tiger talking about, we were ordered by the Three Emperors and Sun to collect money, who dares to say that we don't say a word!"

The two tigers were about to hate these big mouths to death, if it weren't for the emperor watching from the sidelines, he would have to go up and kick a few bastards away.

A few brocade guards carried bamboo baskets, and in front of each stall, someone would throw ten cents into it, and most of the basket was collected in a short time.

Lao Zhu saw these in his eyes, and made a note in his heart for the crime of rebelling against his grandson.

"Fellow, do they have a name for this money?"

The vendor had just paid the booth fee of ten cents, and when he was unhappy, he immediately scolded when he heard Lao Zhu Xiangwen.

"Naturally, there is a name!"

"What are the management fees, sanitation fees, palace construction fees, palace maintenance fees, etc."

Lao Zhu was inexplicably unhappy when he heard this, the first two expenses were just that, this is clearly outside the Wu Palace, why do you collect money related to the palace?

"You shouldn't take the last two kinds of money, aren't you outside the palace?"

The old man pouted when he heard this.

"Who said it wasn't?"

"This money is unreasonable!"

As soon as the old man said this, a few brocade guards who had just received the money turned back and reprimanded the old man.

"You old man is unreasonable!"

"If you are too expensive to set up a stall on the side of the road, there is no money over there, why don't you go over there!"

When the old man saw a few brocade guards say this, he hurriedly put on a smile and said.

"A few military masters are angry, and the old man is just complaining!"

"There are many people here, there are many nobles in and out, things are easier to sell than other places, His Royal Highness King Wu does not charge ten cents, not much......"

"Humph!"

"Since you don't know much, you're still talking nonsense!"

"Let's tell you, if it weren't for the fact that you are related to Zhang Xiaoqi, this stall would not have been your turn, and it would have been robbed by the vendors in the city for a lot of money!"

"You have such a big bargain from His Royal Highness King Wu, it's just that you don't want to be grateful, and you dare to say bad things about His Royal Highness King Wu, I really don't know how to do it

Bad! ”

"Yes, yes!"

"The old man said the wrong thing!"

Seeing that the old man had changed his words, the two brocade guards continued to collect money with a bamboo basket with a proud face.

Zhu Yuanzhang also understood when he heard this, and dared to feel that this was a willing to fight, a willing deal.

I just don't know if there's an element of coercion here.

"This fellow, but Jinyi Wei bullies people and bullies small merchants and hawkers?"

When the old man heard this, he hurriedly waved his hand and said.

"Don't talk nonsense!"

"Although the military master here has a bad attitude, he has never said that he is bullying!"

"We just complained to the guest officer a few words, in fact, the money they collected didn't matter at all, and they would earn it back by selling an extra catty."

"Don't look at me, this is a lot of money, you go inside, the stalls near the entrance of the palace are more expensive."

"And it's a re-auction every ten days, and the highest bidder wins."

"It is said that the price of the stall next to the door has risen to 2,000 wen a day!"

"Hiss......"

Ren is Lao Zhu is well-informed, and he couldn't help but be shocked when he heard that a stall charges two thousand dollars a day.

"Is there really someone renting two thousand wen a day?"

Seeing that Lao Zhu was so ignorant, the vendor was full of disdain.

"Cut!"

"Less knowledge, huh?"

"Let me tell you this, I am still rushing to send money to His Royal Highness King Wu, and I am afraid that people will not look down on me!"

Lao Zhu asked a few more casually, and then ordered Erhu to buy five catties of water chestnuts, which was regarded as a reward for the old man's chat.

Lao Zhu continued to lead a few people to wander around the market, but he didn't have any interest in the goods sold around, just grabbed Erhu and kept asking.

"When did it become a bazaar, when did it start collecting money, and how much can it collect in a day now?"

"Back to the emperor, not long after the opening of the Wu Palace, there were gradually people setting up stalls here. At first, no money was charged, but every day after the vendors closed their stalls, a lot of waste paper, bamboo sticks and other things would be discarded on the ground, which greatly affected the cleanliness in front of the Wu Palace. ”

"In addition, some people are shoddy, abducted and cheated, and there are habitual thieves in the capital who come to steal tourists' money, so the third emperor Sun ordered someone to supervise the market and symbolically collect some money."

"The first is to raise the threshold for stalls and put an end to those who are indiscriminate. Second, it is also to hire people to clean and register the information of the stallholders, so as to prevent someone from shoddy and ruin the reputation of the Wu Palace......"

"As for the daily booth fee, it's not much in total, but it's more than a hundred taels ......."

Lao Zhu can't hear the word "more" now, and as soon as he hears "more", he can't help but ask.

"How much?"

Hearing this, Erhu lowered his head again in embarrassment, and said like a mosquito.

"Two hundred and thirty taels more......

Zhu Yuanzhang originally thought that the reverse grandson had fallen into the eyes of money, but now when he heard this, he was immediately shocked by the reverse grandson's ability to make money.

This is just the square in front of King Wu's Palace, but it is just for people to set up stalls, and they can earn three hundred and thirty taels of silver a day?

In that month, wouldn't you be able to earn tens of thousands of taels a month!

Lao Zhu walked straight into the palace of King Wu, and in order not to alarm others, he directly ordered Erhu to pay for the ticket according to the official price.

Entering the palace of King Wu again, Lao Zhu saw a slippery shop at the door, a brocade shop, a jewelry shop, a spice shop, a jewelry shop, and so on.

"These shops also cost money, how much is the monthly rent?"

"Back to the emperor, the rent of the shop here varies, ranging from a few dozen taels a month to a few hundred taels a month."

"Just say the total!"

"In the entire Wu Palace, there are a total of 100 shops and more than 700 stalls, and on average, you can collect nearly 50,000 taels of silver a month......

"How can there be so many?"

"Didn't you say that some stores only charge a few dozen taels?"

"Back to the emperor, shops are different from shops, some are rent-collecting, and some are joint ventures."

"His Royal Highness King Wu went out of the venue, and the shops in the city shipped goods, and the money earned was divided in half......"

"There are also some stores that are directly operated, directly selling the names of the Three Emperors

The goods under the workshop, the one that is more profitable......"

When Lao Zhu heard this, he finally knew why the rebel grandson built the Wu Palace like this, and opened it to the people of the world.

What the whole world enjoys, and what the world is for the public is nonsense.

The true purpose of the rebel Sun is only one - to make money!

In fact, Zhu Yunxi came for the purpose of making money from the beginning.

After all, his dream at that time was to be a vassal king, and he never thought of staying in the capital for a long time.

If the palace was built in the traditional way, he would not be able to live for a few days after it was built, and he would have to be sent to a foreign country to become a vassal king.

In this way, not to mention the money for building the palace, it has to be maintained and repaired every year, which is a lot of money.

Therefore, in line with the principle of rational planning of resources, he simply built the palace into a sustainable and profitable institution. He can earn some money for the maintenance of the palace and provide cash flow support for his other properties.

The more Lao Zhu thought about it, the more angry he became, it can be said that he was moved at the beginning, and how excited he is now.

However, when he thought of the small Wu Palace, which could net 600,000 taels of silver a year just by rent, his heart was red again.

He even regretted it a little now, regretting that he had rewarded the Wu Palace to that rebellious grandson. If he didn't have to worry about being a grandfather, he would want to get the palace back from the hands of his rebel grandson.

"If we open the palace to the outside world, can we earn 100,000 taels of silver a month?"

As soon as Lao Zhu said this, not only Erhu was stunned, but even Zhu Li on the side was taken aback.

I'm a father, you are so short of money, you even want to sell the palace!