It turned out that Xu Zuhui had heard about some things that happened in Yunzhou a few days ago, especially the fact that he rescued his second daughter from the bandits alone.

At that time, he was still very emotional, thinking that the acting king had finally grown up, so he inquired about Zhu Gui's situation by the way.

But he was taken aback by the fact that the king had gotten a large amount of illicit salt from nowhere, and was competing with the local salt merchants for profit.

After thinking about it, Xu Zuhui concluded that these refined salts were seized by Zhu Gui from salt dealers.

Otherwise, if you sell salt as a vassal king, you will be criticized sooner or later.

As a result, I didn't expect that not long after, this generation of kings actually played by himself and said that he would rectify the salt tax, and Xu Zuhui, who learned the news, did not sleep well for a few days.

He wasn't worried about Zhu Gui, but about his daughter.

Fortunately, he heard that under the intercession of Concubine Guo and the crown prince, the emperor finally opened up.

His hanging heart finally let go.

As a result, it is now that Xu Yingxu, the second son who originally went to Yunzhou to repair Zhu Gui's palace, came back privately, and kept asking him to intercede for the king.

Xu Zuhui subconsciously felt that Zhu Gui had caused another catastrophe.

Of course, Xu Yingxu didn't know about the change in his father's mentality, so he briefly talked about Zhu Gui's series of behaviors in Datong Mansion.

Finally, he added that his sister Xu Miaoqing seemed to have a changed attitude towards Zhu Gui.

Xu Zuhui said with a solemn face: "This acting king, at a young age, why is he so troublesome?" ”

"By the way, where did all that refined salt come from?"

When Xu Zuhui frowned, he asked casually.

"This, I don't know very well, I only know that a large amount of refined salt is transported from the Daiwang Mansion to the Datong Chamber of Commerce every day, and the Daiwang should have mastered the manufacturing method of refined salt."

Xu Yingxu thought for a moment and said.

"How is refined salt made? If he can take this initiative, the emperor will be happy, and maybe he will not be condemned. ”

Xu Zuhui immediately had an idea.

"Well, I don't know if the king will agree."

Xu Yingxu said with some embarrassment.

Now the acting king can only support the entire acting king's mansion by selling refined salt, and asking him to sacrifice the manufacturing method of refined salt is not equivalent to drawing salary from the bottom of the kettle?

"It's best if he agrees, and if he doesn't, it's hard for me to speak for my father, to see if he wants money or death."

Xu Zuhui said.

Xu Yingxu frowned and didn't say anything more.

At the same time, Liu Jingming and Zhang Mao's impeachment of the acting king has reached the hands of Zhu Biao, the prince of the East Palace.

Zhu Biao read it in shock, and his already weak expression became even more tired.

"Thirteenth brother, why are you so disobedient? No, this piece must not be seen by the father, otherwise not only will the position of the thirteenth brother's vassal king not be guaranteed, but he may be worried about his life. ”

So, Zhu Biao actually suppressed this twist.

Around the same time, Yanwang Zhu Di also received Liu Jingming's post.

However, he was not interested in Liu Jingming's mention of Zhu Gui's involvement in the salt tax, anyway, these things would be handled by the eldest brother and his father, what did he care?

On the contrary, he was interested in the new firearms that he had in mind.

King Yan's domain was in Yanjing, and he was the only prince among the many feudal kings who had the right to lead troops.

For no other reason, the Mongol cavalry on the steppe was unwilling to accept the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, and would go south from time to time to harass the border.

Although the Ming army was brave, it still had some difficulty against the Mongol cavalry.

If there were new types of firearms, they might have played a significant role in the war.

Zhu Di is a pragmatist, and immediately sent people to Datong Mansion to retrieve new firearms to study.

Datong Province.

Since Xu Yingxu left, Zhu Gui has been a little restless, and he has not continued to study anything else every day except for the routine training of government soldiers and inspecting the road repair situation in Datong Mansion.

Just when he was thinking about whether to send someone to Nanjing to inquire about the news, the voice of the system sounded.

【Ding! The system prompts that the trigger conditions of the pre-task of the main quest have been reached, and the task is opened]

[The tax revenue in the second year reached three million taels of silver]

【Reward: Steam Engine Blueprint】

Zhu Gui stood on the spot.

It turned out to be the blueprint of a steam engine?

This turned out to be a task reward produced by the system, no wonder he has been trying to figure it out by himself all this time without any results.

And the condition for the achievement of the task turned out to be taxes.

Zhu Gui's originally hanging heart finally let go.

He didn't know what was going on in Nanjing, but since the system had released the task, it meant that the problem had been solved.

So he happily went to the Datong Chamber of Commerce.

After all the representatives of the Chamber of Commerce were gathered.

Zhu Gui said the next step in the road construction plan.

That is to continue to repair the official roads connecting Yuanzhou, Yingzhou, Shuozhou, and Ulzhou in Datong Prefecture.

The five salt merchants and the many small merchants looked at each other with excitement and apprehension in their eyes.

They knew that in this holy decree, the emperor only symbolically punished the acting king, which meant that the acting king was given great rights, which showed that they were right.

However, building roads is not so simple, and although the four main roads in Datong Mansion have been repaired, according to their ideas, they should continue to improve other sections of the city.

But they didn't dare to speak out in public, and for a while, the atmosphere in the living room of the Chamber of Commerce became strange.

Zhu Gui felt the twisting of everyone, so he called out the young Confucian businessman Xu Chenglin.

"Mr. Xu, what do you think of this plan?"

Xu Chenglin first saluted Zhu Gui, and then said: "The official road connecting the four states does need to be repaired, but it should not be completely undertaken by the Datong Chamber of Commerce and the Acting Wangfu. ”

Sure enough, he was a businessman, and he saw the essence of this matter at a glance.

Zhu Gui nodded and said, "What you said is good, but I'm afraid that the county guard of Datong Mansion will not agree to pay." ”

He thought for a moment and continued: "In this way, the king of the county guard will negotiate, you should prepare first, and prepare all kinds of materials according to the road repair situation in Datong Mansion this time, if you are short of money, you can come to the palace to apply for a mortgage." ”

As he spoke, Zhu Gui's eyes suddenly lit up.

Mortgage? Should he take advantage of the trend to open a bank? That is, the money bank?

The idea was out of control as soon as it came to mind.

When the people in the room heard this, they all began to discuss.

The reputation and financial resources of the Daiwangfu are also obvious to all, guaranteed by the Daiwangfu, coupled with the upcoming huge road repair project, it is foreseeable that these businessmen who have joined the Datong Chamber of Commerce will usher in an opportunity to make money.

At the end of the meeting, the acting king took people to the county guard mansion and visited Zhang Mao in person.

When Zhang Mao heard that the acting king had brought someone to visit, he thought that the matter of impeaching the acting king had been known by the other party, and he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.