The loud explosion of the grenade quickly attracted the soldiers patrolling around, and before that, Zhu Gui first recovered the flintlock pistol in the Egret Pavilion's hand.

This thing really can't flow outside easily, otherwise it will really be bad and it will end up eating itself, Zhu Yuanzhang's worries really have some reason.

Zhu Gui began to think about how to control the flow of arms.

The patrolling soldiers quickly cordoned off the scene, but everyone present had no idea what was so destructive.

I'm afraid that even the power of the cannons of the Shenji Battalion is no more than that.

As for Zhu Gui, they naturally didn't dare to stop it.

And Zhu Gui soon returned to the palace of the king.

I happened to meet the people from the Daiwang Mansion who heard the explosion and rushed to hear the news.

Xu Miaoqing also rode a horse in the crowd.

"Zhu, Lord Wang, are you okay?" Xu Miaoqing asked with concern.

"You're the pig." Zhu Guileng paused for a moment, and then said.

Xu Miaoqing was also stunned, and then quickly reacted and actually laughed.

The group returned to the palace, and Zhu Gui told Xu Miaoqing about the affairs in the palace and talked about his promotion of grain to Zhu Yuanzhang.

"If it goes well, the seeds will be planted tomorrow, and the disaster will be alleviated to a great extent, but ......"

Zhu Gui was halfway through speaking, suddenly sighed and did not continue.

"But what? Isn't this a good thing for the benefit of the country and the people? Xu Miaoqing asked puzzled.

"That's right, but this king has overlooked one thing, that is, most of the fertile land in the Ming Dynasty is now in the hands of landlords, squires and wealthy families, and ordinary people have very little land, even if there is high-yield grain, they can only barely make ends meet."

Zhu Gui explained.

"Yes, it would be good if you don't advise the emperor and take back all the apprentices of the landlord and squire and then distribute them to the people, just like we did in Yunzhou."

Xu Miaoqing said.

"You're thinking too simply, but this king can try it out."

Zhu Gui said with a smile.

……

Just when Zhu Gui was still thinking about how to persuade Zhu Yuanzhang to promote land reform, the forces behind the three major families had already begun to impeach Zhu Gui in the court.

The leader is He Zhongbi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

He wrote a memo of more than 1,000 words, which "profoundly" explained the practice of disrupting the normal order of Nanjing, and requested that the acting king be removed from the position of vassal king.

There are several other officials like him, all of whom are ministers of the six ministries, although they have different angles, but they all say the same thing, and they all hope that the emperor can control Zhu Gui and let him no longer cause trouble to Nanjing.

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard these ministers' words, he couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

If this had been placed a day ago, when so many ministers impeached Zhu Gui, Zhu Yuanzhang would have sent someone to arrest him.

But after experiencing yesterday's incident, Zhu Yuanzhang also discovered Zhu Gui's transformation.

Although he didn't know if Zhu Gui deliberately pretended to be in front of him, he was able to propose a solution to the current predicament of the Ming Dynasty, which was much better than these ministers who only knew how to eat and eat but didn't do much practical things.

"Is there anything else going on besides this?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was silent for a long time, but the result was to change the topic.

This surprised all the civil and military officials present.

Because in the past, when it came to the topic of acting kings, Zhu Yuanzhang was very angry, why did he behave so calmly today?

He Zhongbi wanted to speak, but was stopped by Zhu Yuanzhang.

"If it's about the acting king, don't say it, I'll take care of it."

This sentence made He Zhongbi suspicious, he didn't know what the emperor was thinking.

Seeing this, other officials could only bypass this topic and explain the current situation in various places step by step.

As in the past, except for the frequent looting by the Mongols at the border passes, it was the disaster relief problem caused by natural disasters.

Both of these things require a lot of money, but now the imperial court has withdrawn most of the taxes and silver collected this year, but it still has no effect.

Zhu Yuanzhang even put on hold the matter of repairing the palace.

So he thought of Zhu Gui again.

If Zhu Gui can cash in on the 10 million taels he said, then maybe he can fill the problem of the deficit in the national treasury.

But what is said to be good is the tax silver in Yunzhou next year, and it is indeed difficult for a strong person to ask for it now.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it, and suddenly his eyes lit up.

By the way, isn't that kid willing to do something that he doesn't have? Since he dares to stretch out his hand to the business community in Nanjing, then he must have some blood, right?

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang's gloomy mood suddenly improved a lot.

In his heart, he already regarded Zhu Gui as a wronged leader.

This time, he must be ruthless in his blood.

……

When Zhu Gui was still teaching Xu Miaoqing to make dumplings at home, suddenly the holy decree arrived.

Zhu Gui was suddenly given a seven-grade official position of 'Ministry of Commerce Weaving', and assisted the Ministry of Household in collecting taxes from Nanjing's commercial circles.

However, before Zhu Gui had time to be happy, the old eunuch who announced the decree took out a brocade box and mysteriously told Zhu Gui that this was the emperor's edict.

Zhu Gui took it strangely, and he didn't know why Zhu Yuanzhang didn't explain the matter on the edict together.

But when he finished reading the contents of the edict, he couldn't help but smile bitterly.

No wonder Zhu Yuanzhang was so generous this time, it turned out that he wanted Zhu Gui to 'spend money' to buy the official position of 'Ministry of Commerce Weaving'.

And as soon as you open your mouth, it's two million taels.

However, at the same time, he also said that if Zhu Gui could increase Nanjing's commercial tax by two percent within half a year, he would consider handing over all the commercial parts of the Ming Dynasty to him for management.

Zhu Gui was a little confused for a while.

He doesn't know what Zhu Yuanzhang is doing, doesn't he pay attention to business? Then why did you give him this errand again?

It wasn't until Xu Guogong came to the door in person and told Zhu Gui about the things in the court that Zhu Gui reacted.

It turns out that Zhu Yuanzhang really doesn't pay attention to business, but he doesn't pay attention to him either.

So he handed over this unpopular errand to him, the unpopular prince, and at the same time he could block the mouths of hundreds of officials, which can be said to kill three birds with one stone.

Oh, no, you can still get a sum of silver from Zhu Gui to enrich the treasury, it can be said that everything was calculated by Zhu Yuanzhang.

However, after Zhu Gui heard Xu Guogong's explanation, not only did he not get angry, but he raised his head to the sky and roared.

"Haha, God really help me, it seems that this king is really going to be developed."

Xu Guogong and Xu Miaoqing looked at each other, thinking that Zhu Gui was mad, so they hurriedly came over to comfort him.

Zhu Gui asked Xu Miaoqing to take out 1.5 million taels, and then gave 50,000 taels to the eunuch who came to announce the decree.

Then he explained to Xu Guogong's father and daughter.