Chapter 195: Rumors

Hu Changan got up and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that the ten characters from one to ten, which are easy to tamper with, can be rewritten into words that are even more difficult to change. ”

"At present, the minister already has the rough prototype of these words in his heart, please bring paper and pen to your majesty and let the minister write it down."

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he also waved his hand and ordered someone to bring Hu Changan a pen and paper.

So Hu Changan wrote in front of everyone.

After a while, several traditional Chinese characters appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

I. II, III, IV, Wu, Lu, Qi, Zhu, Jiu, Shi, Bai, Qian, Wan......

In order to make it easier for everyone to identify, Hu Changan also specially marked what simplified Chinese characters are under the traditional characters.

After Hu Changan finished writing, Zhu Yuanzhang took over Hu Changan's writing from the little eunuch.

After some careful consideration, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but be amazed.

These words indeed meet the requirement that Zhu Yuanzhang's numbers cannot be tampered with.

No one word can be easily changed to another.

What's more, the pronunciation of these words is consistent with the pronunciation of the original simplified numbers.

In this way, even a person who is completely unaware of these numbers can easily tell which numbers these words refer to.

Looking at the words in his hand, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but be overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered: "Someone from the household department will bring this character down, and I am ready to promote this character to the states and counties across the country." ”

"In the future, when you make accounts, be sure to use these numbers!"

Zhu Yuanzhang originally wanted to talk about the book of the household, but when he thought of the current situation of the household, Zhu Yuanzhang changed his words again.

In fact, there are too few people in the household department now.

Due to the fact that the household department is close to the water and the building is the first to get the month, many extremely corrupt officials are from the household department.

Especially Xu Duo, the head of the household department, and Guo Huan, the head of the household department, are the most greedy in the entire court.

These corrupt officials were naturally put into prison as soon as they were discovered.

At present, there are only a few few household officials.

Most of these people are petty officials without names, and Zhu Yuanzhang can't call out his name, so he can only shout casually.

Hearing this, the highest official among the remaining people in the household department stood up, took the banner handed by the little eunuch tremblingly, and carefully put it away.

So far, the biggest corruption case in the Hongwu period has finally come to an end.

All those who embezzled a huge amount of money were ordered by Zhu Yuanzhang to be executed.

The ground at the entrance of the vegetable market was stained red with blood.

However, Rao is like this, and the number of people killed by Zhu Yuanzhang this time is much less than in history.

At least after Zhu Yuanzhang killed people, most of the officials in the court were still alive, and there were no terrible phenomena such as ten rooms and nine emptiness.

After a storm, the court returned to its former tranquility.

And Hu Changan is also ready to go all out to promote his honeycomb coal!

Now that it is winter, if we don't vigorously promote honeycomb coal, then Hu Changan's honeycomb coal will be unsalable!

Hu Changan did not allow this kind of thing to happen.

And now, the first step in promoting honeycomb coal has been completed.

Nowadays, honeycomb coal has quietly become popular among the scholar class.

After this incident, Hu Changan was also a blessing in disguise and gained the favor of many courtiers.

After all, in the eyes of these ministers, Hu Changan is a good person who speaks up for them!

If it weren't for Hu Changan, a large part of them would have been separated a long time ago!

Not only that, but it was precisely because of Hu Changan's words that Zhu Yuanzhang helped them get a raise.

And in the days to come, Zhu Yuanzhang also promised to always guarantee the basic expenses of these ministers.

This is definitely like a shot in the arm for these ministers.

Now everyone walks on the road, and they are all smiling.

For Hu Changan, a great hero, they naturally want to express it.

Since they heard that Hu Changan was promoting honeycomb coal, they all bought a little.

It's a big deal.

Now almost all the ministers in Yingtian City have abandoned charcoal and used honeycomb coal instead.

Without him, this honeycomb coal is too warm.

Buy charcoal grill for the same price, and the room will always be cold.

But if you use this money to buy honeycomb coal, the room will always be warm like spring!

This kind of multiple-choice question is naturally done by a fool.

Therefore, honeycomb coal has become the standard configuration of the upper class of Yingtian City.

Since the upper class of Yingtiancheng had already used honeycomb coal, the next step was naturally to promote honeycomb coal to ordinary people.

So in Hu's grocery store, a new product was quietly launched.

And Hu Changan's sales team also quietly shuttled through the streets and alleys of Yingtiancheng.

However, Hu Changan's sales plan this time does not seem to have achieved the desired effect.

A week later, Hu Changan frowned as he looked at the sales report handed over by his subordinates.

The sales volume of this honeycomb coal is simply different from what he expected!

Originally, Hu Changan thought that he could sell 100 truckloads of honeycomb coal in a week.

But judging from this report, the sales volume of honeycomb coal in the entire Yingtian City is only a few dozen cars?

This means that except for those scholars who originally used honeycomb coal, the rest of the people almost did not buy honeycomb coal!

At this time, Hu Changan was really dumbfounded.

Why, is it possible that the ability of the scholar class in this era to carry goods is so poor?

But even so, he ordered the sales team to go through the streets and alleys to promote honeycomb coal!

With the soap Zhuyu in front, I believe that the people will definitely believe the words of the sales team.

Why now, the people don't seem to be interested in this honeycomb coal at all?

After thinking about it, Hu Changan decided to order the sales team to go to the people to find out.

There must be something wrong with this!

A week later, Hu Changan summoned a sales team to investigate the situation.

Looking at the teenagers in the courtyard, Hu Changan cleared his throat and said, "Have you investigated anything this week?" ”

"How can the people of Tiancheng not be interested in this honeycomb coal?"

Hearing this, one of the young men who seemed to be more clever suddenly began to pour bitter water: "Master Hu, you don't know anything. ”

"Now the people in this Yingtian City regard this honeycomb coal as a flood beast!"

"I don't know who leaked the news, but now the people of the entire Yingtian City know about it."

"They said it was because of the honeycomb coal that more than a dozen officials were poisoned at home."

"Naturally, no one dares to buy such a poisonous thing."

"Hey, where are you now," the other teenager immediately continued, "I've heard the version that honeycomb coal directly poisoned a dozen officials!" ”