Lao Zhu has always looked down on Lan Yu, if it weren't for his dead brother-in-law, and if he was still a little useful, it is estimated that he would have lost this goods a long time ago.

Therefore, he gave Sapphire a choice.

Just like the choice of a mother when she gives birth, keep it big or keep it small!

Lan Yu also knew Lao Zhu's intentions, Lao Zhu thought that he had too many friends, and wanted him to take the initiative to cut off the points.

It's just that Lan Yu couldn't help but be ruthless when he thought of those brothers who were born and died with him and finally mixed up some credit.

Lao Zhu saw that Lan Yu didn't react for a long time, and his old face turned cold on the spot.

"What?"

"Are you still reluctant?"

When Lan Yu heard this, cold sweat broke out on her head.

"No, no!"

"What is wechen reluctant to do, wechen will go back and kill those rebels!"

Lao Zhu snorted coldly.

"Don't bother!"

"You go back and write a list and hand it in, and we'll send someone to arrest them!"

"Remember, this is the last chance we give you for the sake of the eldest grandson!"

"If you don't cherish it, don't blame us for being ruthless!"

Lan Yu is usually quite arrogant, scolding one Zhu butcher after another, but when he really saw Lao Zhu, he was as well-behaved as a kitten.

"Yes, yes!"

"Wechen must cherish it!"

"By the way, Your Majesty, how much do you think is appropriate?"

When Lao Zhu heard this, he put his hand on the back of his head on the spot and leaned back in his chair.

"It depends on your attitude!"

When Lan Yu saw Lao Zhu say this, she was so angry that she scolded her mother.

Is this a human word?

It also depends on Lao Tzu's attitude, if you really follow Lao Tzu's attitude, Lao Tzu doesn't want to kill anyone!

But Lan Yu only dared to slander in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it on his face.

"Wechen knows!"

When Lao Zhu saw him say this, he waved his hand impatiently.

"!"

"Wechen, get out!"

Lan Yu crawled out of the palace and locked himself in the study when he got home.

"Lan Yong has been with him for more than ten years, and this can't die......

"Lan He is also a good boy, he has blocked the knife for himself several times, and he can't die......

"Lan Ning, this kid has been with us for a short time, so let's ......

It's just a list of ten people, which made Lan Yu entangled all night, and then he came up with it.

The next day, Lan Yu ordered someone to hand over the fold, and he closed the door at home to call his illness, and no longer dared to drink like he had called friends to drink like he had done in the past.

Lao Zhu frowned on the spot when he saw the list handed over by Lan Yu.

Truth be told, it's not the list he wants.

Lao Zhu was not interested in Lanyu's righteous sons, he was interested in Jingchuan Hou Cao Zhen, Heqing Hou Zhang Yi, Zhu Shou, and Dingyuan Hou Wang Bi.

These are Lan Yu's sworn friends, and Lan Yu's veterans of more than ten years are the Blue Party in the real sense.

If Lan Yu didn't have any objections, he should confess these people and cut off his own henchmen.

Now there are a few righteous sons who don't feel pain, this is a lake ghost, right?

Although the list submitted by Lan Yu made Lao Zhu very unhappy, Lao Zhu still pinched his nose and admitted it for the sake of his eldest grandson's face.

After all, what kind of virtue Lan Yu has, he knows the most in his heart. ….

It is possible to say that he is open-mouthed and disrespectful behind his back, but if he dares to rebel, then he does not have the courage to do so!

Lao Zhu added a few more names to Lan Yu's own report and exposed, and tactfully told Lan Yu that he was very dissatisfied with his "attitude", and then wrote the word "quasi", and threw the fold to the Criminal Department for the Criminal Department to deal with.

According to Lao Zhu's previous habits, this kind of thing is generally handed over to Jinyiwei to do. But this time, it was the imperial historian who impeached Lan Yu, so he used these dozen shrimp soldiers and crabs to level it

Calm the anger of the people.

After Lao Zhu's order arrived at the Criminal Department, the entire Criminal Department rejoiced, feeling that this was a victory for the rule of law, a victory for the imperial historians, and a victory for civil officials.

However, when they happily took the officials of the Criminal Department to arrest people, they were beaten back by Lan Yu's righteous son.

Yang Jing, the secretary of the Criminal Department, is called a gas, on the one hand, the officials of the Ministry of Punishment are waste, and on the other hand, Lan Yu's subordinates are a group of arrogant soldiers.

However, when anger returns, people still have to be caught.

In the end, there was no way, Yang Jing, the secretary of the Criminal Department, borrowed a hundred people from the Ministry of War, and only then did he arrest more than a dozen of Lan Yu's righteous sons.

During this period, thirteen people were killed and wounded, which also became ironclad evidence that Lan Yuyi's sons added to their crimes.

Originally, the Criminal Department wanted to convict these dozen people of Ling Chi, but Lao Zhu considered that they had contributed to the country after all, so he changed Ling Chi to beheading, which can be regarded as a manifestation of mercy.

On the day of the execution, tens of thousands of people in the capital went to watch in empty alleys.

In fact, for the people, they watched whoever they killed.

Because I don't know it anyway, as long as I know that it is for the people.

However, the civil servants exaggerated this grand scene, wrote articles to commemorate it, and even submitted it to the newspaper office under the name of the emperor's grandson, Sanwei Study, and carried out a long serialization.

With the publication of the newspaper, the people of the entire Jinling City knew about the crimes of these people, and applauded the imperial court's killing of more than a dozen scum this time.

Zhu Yunxi's newspaper has been in the trial operation stage, covering only Jinling City and a few surrounding counties.

Even so, it caused an uproar and made many people realize the importance of newspapers.

This was something that Xie Kui and the others never expected, even Qi Tai, who was in charge of this matter, was confused by the sudden explosion of the newspaper.

Zhu Yunxi didn't expect that he racked his brains to open the newspaper sales, and finally opened it with the help of civil officials.

Lan Yu saw the long report in the newspaper, and was so angry that she slammed the table at home. But when he inquired about the owner behind the newspaper, it turned out to be his nephew and grandson, who he had been trying his best to protect, and he was so angry that he wrote a letter to Zhu Yunxi on the spot to complain.

It was also through Lan Yu's complaint that Zhu Yunxi knew that his newspaper had become popular, and was even spontaneously taken to other areas by some vendors to sell.

It is said that the business is not bad, and the scholars in the counties and the literate merchants in the market are very interested in this thing.

After learning that this thing came out every ten days, they directly subscribed to a year's newspaper.

Zhu Yunxi didn't feel anything about Lan Yu's complaints, but felt that it was a good thing to have the imperial grandfather help him repair Lan Yu's "righteous sons". ….

He believes that Lao Zhu will definitely keep the best for himself, and those thorns and the like will be cut off.

Therefore, Zhu Yunxi directly wrote a letter to Lao Zhu, telling him to kill casually and leave more useful people for himself.

Lao Zhu also believed that the eldest grandson could understand his hard work, so he didn't have any psychological burden when he cleaned up the blue jade.

Lao Zhu laughed and scolded after receiving the letter from his eldest grandson, so he took the letter as a joke and showed it to Zhu Li when Zhu Li accompanied him to dinner.

Zhu Li saw that his eldest nephew was so monarchical and courteous with his imperial grandfather, and he was also happy for the grandfather and grandson.

However, seeing that the old man doted on his eldest nephew so much, Zhu Li was faintly unhappy for his eldest brother.

In order to protect his mentor, the eldest brother of the prince spent a lot of effort on his old nose, when did he have this kind of treatment?

After Zhu Li stayed in the capital for a few days, other vassal kings also entered the capital one after another.

King Zhou was the second to arrive, and on the first day he arrived in the capital, he had a conflict with the people in the Beijing camp, and he disliked that the camp prepared by others was not good, so he had to let the family change it for them.

The person in charge of the Beijing camp was Zhu Yuanzhang's second son-in-law Mei Yin, who listened to the complaints of her brother-in-law and directly reported the matter to His Majesty the Emperor.

When Lao Zhu heard that King Zhou was making a fuss again, he just asked Zhu Li to deal with it.

Zhu Li's handling method was very simple, and he scolded King Zhou

, let him go back to the palace and stay and be done.

King Zhou didn't dare to argue with Zhu Li, so he could only return to the palace with a few guards.

Then there was the King of Shu and the King of Xiang, the two met their father and queen, the King of Xiang went out of the palace and returned to the palace, and the King of Shu went to the harem to meet his mother Guo Huifei.

King Qin didn't come early or late, but after entering the city, he didn't go to see his father for the first time, but went back to the palace to settle down, took a hot bath, and slept well before going.

Lao Zhu also received him very cordially.

"Second brother, when we celebrate our birthday this year, don't give it away if you can't bear to, but don't come to chill us with a whole broken bowl like last year!"

After a year of adjustment, King Qin also came out of the shadow of being deceived and blushed in embarrassment.

"Father, that's all in the past, don't mention it......

Lao Zhu laughed when he saw this, left him in the palace for a meal, and sent him away.

The king of Qin returned to the palace and complained about the poor quality of the food in the palace, praised the luxury of his father's bedroom, and began the renovation of the palace.

Later, when he inquired about the interior decoration of the new palace, it was all done by his eldest nephew Zhu Yunxi, so he didn't bother to toss.

Because, he didn't want to beg Zhu Yunxi!

What's more, he can't ask for it if he wants to, his eldest nephew is now busy fighting with the Nine Seas.

After Zhu Yunxi purchased raw silk, he went to Songjiang City, and after finalizing several large overseas orders, he ordered the Suzhou Manufacturing Bureau to recruit workers, and ordered the Nanjing Machinery Manufacturing Bureau to build an improved handloom.

Because it is impossible to build a steam-powered loom in a short period of time, and it will have an impact on the existing economic structure of Suzhou.

Therefore, Zhu Yunxi wants to use manual transition, so that more low-level weavers can survive by this.

However, to his surprise, the weavers in Suzhou City were all hired at a high price, and even the weavers in the Weaving Bureau were poached a lot. ….

Regarding this situation, Zhu Yunxi didn't need Jinyiwei to investigate, he could figure it out with his toes, and the counter-revolutionary group headed by Zhang Tianyou was fighting with himself, the grandson of the Ming Emperor, again.

Last time, I grabbed raw silk with myself, and this time I grabbed the weaver with myself!

If it weren't for the steam engine in his hand, he would have commanded the Jinyi Guard, and Tiannan Haibei would have to arrest these dogs.

When the time comes, under the means of Jinyiwei, what do you want them to do, and they dare not do it?

Lu Shiyuan, who was acting as the director of Songjiang City, did not want to sign a contract with an overseas merchant on the spot when he learned that the weavers in Suzhou had been recruited, and he also wanted to invalidate the contract that had already been signed.

"Imperial grandson, we can't sign any more orders, and if we sign again, we won't be able to hand over the goods!"

"Lao Lu, you can sign boldly with confidence!"

"Don't talk about their goods, even if they multiply it tenfold, Lone can still drum it up!"

Lu Shiyuan hurriedly explained when he heard this.

"Your Highness, this is different!"

"The merchants come to order with patterns, and they have to weave ...... according to the appearance of others."

"What?"

Zhu Yunxi was also stunned when he heard this, he didn't know that there were so many requests from overseas businessmen.

"What's the pattern?"

Lu Shiyuan hurriedly showed the drawings provided by overseas merchants to Zhu Yunxi.

"This is the image of the Virgin......

"This is Jesus......

"And this pattern......

"Buttercup?"

"Yes, that's what Mr. Michael Harris called it, saying that it is a plant in the West, which means ......."

Zhu Yunxi blurted out his debut.

"It alludes to wisdom and art, to vigorous vitality, and to regeneration and resurrection."

Lu Shiyuan's eyes were about to pop out when he heard this, he used to think that the imperial grandson only valued the benefits of maritime trade, but he didn't expect the imperial grandson to know so much about overseas customs.

"Emperor Sun Shengming!"

"This thing does have this

Meaning, we merchants have also woven a lot of this silk for them over the years."

"The porcelain drawings that go to sea in Quanzhou, Fujian Province are also customized, and they need to be made according to the patterns and styles they provide, so that they can be shipped back and sold at a good price!"

Zhu Yunxi listened to Lu Shiyuan's words, and felt a lot of emotion in his heart.

He used to think that as long as it was something produced by Daming, Westerners would buy it.

Dare to love the Ming businessmen at this time, and support the customization of samples!

Although this delivery time is a bit long, it is not that the speed of the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty is slow, but it is really limited by the transportation conditions of this era.

Zhu Yunxi sighed with emotion, realizing that he still knew too little about maritime trade, and what he knew was too biased. Subsequently, he strengthened his heart to be the shopkeeper, and decided that he would never interfere in the affairs of the market company in the future, and leave professional things to professional people to do.

It's just that he still vigorously opposes the cancellation of the order.

"Lao Lu, you can do it boldly and boldly, and leave the silk weaving to Lone, and Lone will definitely not smash the signboard of our city!"

Zhu Yunxi separated from Lu Shiyuan, so he wrote a letter to the commander of the Jing Navy, asking when the Jing Navy would be able to go to sea for sea trials.

He couldn't stand the situation of being constrained by a *** businessman, and wanted to directly take the port, rot their goods in the warehouse, and wait for them to come to the door to beg for mercy. ….

However, the letter from Li Qi, the commander of the Jing Navy, was very frustrating, saying that the soldiers were not yet proficient in the operation of the ships, and that it would be at least two months before they could do so.

Zhu Yunxi read the contents of the letter and went directly to Suzhou to personally supervise the preparation for the construction of the steam spinning machine and the steam loom.

I just chose the address to build the factory before, and now I can start it directly.

Due to the relatively low construction cost of spinning machines, he started with spinning machines, and invited the owners of loom factories in Suzhou to visit after he finished.

When Zhu Yunxi was so busy that his feet didn't touch the ground, Zhang Tianyou, who sneaked back to Suzhou, led a few maritime businessmen, plus local businessmen in Suzhou, to a meeting.

This time, they held a celebration party, celebrating that they had blocked the plan of the imperial grandson and recruited the weavers in Suzhou one step ahead of schedule.

"A drink for our victory!"

After everyone toasted and celebrated, they naturally praised Zhang Tianyou for a while.

"Brother Zhang Xian is far-sighted, and he really has the style of a general!"

"This time, tens of thousands of weavers have been recruited in advance, and almost all the weavers on the market are in our hands, look at what the emperor and grandson rely on to weave silk, hahaha!"

Zhang Tianyou listened to everyone's praise and pretended to be modest.

"Where, where!"

"I'm just seeing the tricks!"

"Some time ago, I was crazy about harvesting silk, and I was flashed by the imperial grandson, causing me to lose millions of taels in vain!"

"If I hadn't run fast, I guess I'd have become a prisoner of the emperor's grandson by now!"

When everyone heard this, their faces were also afraid.

The matter of the imperial grandson's ambassador in Suzhou has long been known to everyone.

Although the imperial grandson did not kill people on the spot, but only transported people back to the capital and handed them over to the old emperor for disposal, everyone knew that Sun Yuan, the ambassador of the treasury, was certain to die.

The only uncertainty is whether he will die, whether he will be skinned and grassed, or whether he will be lightly chopped off.

If it's the latter, then he's really picked up a big bargain.

Many of the Suzhou businessmen who are doing it are Sun Yuan's customers, or have had business cooperation with him.

After all, if Sun Yuan wanted to turn the materials in the treasury into money, he had to deal with merchants and sell them.

Therefore, when they heard that such a business partner had been arrested, everyone felt quite sorry.

"Brother Zhang Jiaxian, I heard that the imperial court plans to build a crown mound for Ling Zun?"

"The imperial court's move should be to Zhao'an you?"

Zhang Tianyou said with disdain on his face when he heard this.

"Humph!"

"Everyone

Heart, I will not defect to the imperial court like Lu Shiyuan, my Zhang family swears that I will not share the sky with the Zhu family!"

When everyone saw Zhang Tianyou say this, they applauded him.

"Brother Zhang said it well, this is what the Fourth Nine Gong should say after that!"

The reason why everyone applauded like this was only because they had excluded the Lu family from the Nine Seas Merchant.

Although Lu Shi originally planned to let his daughter take over the family business at both ends of the rat, and go to work for the court himself. But the Nine Seas merchants still excluded his daughter Lu Hongfu, and did not even notify their family of the secret meeting.

Because there is no so-called wall-riding faction in this world, if you want to ride the wall, you will be the first to die.

"Hey, have you heard, the imperial grandson is building a new factory in Suzhou, saying that there is a loom that does not require manpower!"

When they heard this, they all scoffed.

"Nonsense!"

"There is no loom in this world that does not use manpower!"

"Although there are water-powered mills and water-powered spring rice, weaving silk and spinning are complicated things, how can that little water power be able to figure it out?"

Everyone laughed at the innocence of the imperial grandson, and celebrated the night with the crown, and then secretly returned to their respective homes.

Not long after returning home, the local merchants received an invitation from the prefect to visit the newly built spinning machine.

Everyone who received such an invitation had a blank look written on their faces.

Is there really a spinning machine in the world that does not require manpower?

It can't be, right?.

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