Zhu Gui finally joined up with the people from the Daiwang Mansion who came to answer.

However, he and Xu Miaoqing first emptied all the stalls on half of the street before leaving.

This was not only to satisfy Xu Miaoqing, Zhu Gui also sent people to contact those vendors and explained their intentions to them.

That is, Zhu Gui is willing to cooperate with them, build workshops for them and send workers, they only need to provide technology to get jobs with several times the income now.

And they will also be the owners of this workshop, and if the business grows big in the future, they can even take out a loan from Datong Qianzhuang, which cooperates with the Daiwang Mansion, to expand production.

At first, these small traders thought that this was a dream, but after the other party showed the sign of the Daiwangfu, they finally realized that it was true.

There were people around who kept explaining it to them.

It turned out that the recent frequent movements of the Daiwang Mansion had already alarmed them, but the small merchants who could gather in front of the Daiwangfu had their own shops at least.

And these traders, they have some simple crafts that do not reach the threshold at all.

Unexpectedly, at this temple fair today, the acting king not only bought all their commercial goods, but also wanted to cooperate with them.

It's pie in the sky.

All of a sudden, countless small traders who heard the news began to gather here.

In the end, the people of the royal palace had to choose the registration location in the teahouse that was bought by Zhu Gui before.

Unexpectedly, this registration time lasted for several days.

Zhu Guitong was also quite surprised when he asked about this, and he also sent a lot of people to rotate those registration personnel.

Now, five shops on the busiest street in the south of the city have reopened.

They sell products from other local shops, but the price is a third lower than the original one, and they all come with salt.

So much so that as soon as the shops opened, there was a long queue in front of the door.

At noon that day, Zhu Gui was about to enter the palace to see Zhu Yunwen, and by the way, he went to the imperial study to look for the blueprints of the treasure ship.

Unexpectedly, Xu Guogong came to the Daiwang Mansion one step ahead of him.

As soon as he entered the door, he stopped Zhu Gui: "Come with the old man, I have something important to tell you." ”

Xu Guogong's serious look made that Zhu Gui realize that something had happened, and he hurriedly followed the other party to a remote room.

As soon as he entered the house, Xu Guogong said directly: "Lord Wang, you, your recent actions in Nanjing have been known to the emperor. ”

"Didn't the emperor know about it? Otherwise, he would not have given this king an official position in the Ministry of Commerce. Zhu Gui said very calmly.

Xu Guogong shook his head and said: "This is different, if you only move industry and commerce, then the emperor may turn a blind eye, but now your actions have touched the national capital of the Ming Dynasty." ”

"Huh? Kunimoto? It's not that serious, is it? What did this king do? Zhu Gui was also taken aback, this hat was too big.

"Do you still have table salt in the shop?" Xu Guogong asked with a serious face.

"Yes, this is a means to promote the circulation of goods, and the other merchants have agreed, and they have all turned from sellers to middlemen."

Zhu Gui explained.

Xu Guogong sighed and said: "If it is just about other merchants, the emperor will not care, after all, it is one less big trouble for the imperial court to properly settle merchants, but Lord Wang, your approach has touched the salt tax." ”

"Salt tax?"

Zhu Guileng froze for a moment, then patted his head and realized something.

Only then did he realize the seriousness of the matter.

The salt tax was an important revenue of the imperial court, and even reached half of the annual tax revenue of the Ming treasury at one time.

And now, although his measures have made Daiwangfu a leader in Nanjing's business community in a short period of time, I am afraid that this rule has also been broken invisibly.

That is, once ordinary people get cheaper access to salt, they will inevitably no longer buy official salt, which will have an important impact on the tax revenue of the imperial court.

And now that even Xu Guogong has come to look for him in person, I'm afraid this matter has reached the point where it is not trivial.

Sure enough, Xu Guogong continued: "A few days ago, several ministers of the six ministries have been on this matter, although they did not mention the acting king, but the stakes involved in the acting king's current various measures, although the emperor did not say anything on the surface, but he is afraid that he will not ignore the Ming Society because of the acting king." ”

Xu Guogong is right, if the person who made the mistake is Zhu Yunwen, then Zhu Yuanzhang will not hesitate to go against the Manchu Dynasty civil and military.

But Zhu Gui is not Zhu Yunwen, and his image in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart at this time has only changed slightly, and it has not yet reached the point where he can ignore the Da Ming Law for his sake.

Zhu Gui also realized the seriousness, and immediately said: "The Guogong reminded me very timely, and this king already knows the seriousness of this matter, so this king will enter the palace and make it clear to the emperor, and soon revoke the sales method of giving salt." ”

Zhu Gui immediately called his subordinates and asked him to inform the shops of his decision.

Xu Guogong nodded, but the melancholy on his face was only slightly reduced by half: "The prince can realize the seriousness of this matter, my father is very pleased, so let's do it, this prince and the prince enter the palace together, no matter how things develop, this prince can't sit idly by." ”

When Zhu Gui heard this, he nodded and said, "Then it will bother the Guogong." ”

He didn't know if it was the previous meal that allowed Xu Guogong to make such a move, but now the other party's face in front of Zhu Yuanzhang is obviously much bigger than him.

So the two of them prepared to ride into the palace in a carriage.

At this time, a soldier from the Wangfu Mansion on the North Street, who was in charge of registering those small traders, ran over and reported to Zhu Gui: "Lord Wang, there is a small trader who wants to visit the prince. ”

When Zhu Gui heard this, he couldn't help asking, "Who is it?" ”

"It's a veiled woman who claims to have a technique that a prince will definitely use." The Nafu soldier replied.

"Technology? Okay, you must take her to the palace and wait, and then come back to see her when the king comes back from the palace. ”

Zhu Gui has always been eager for technical talents, since the other party has said so, he is very willing to see him, if the other party speaks wildly, it is not too late to drive the other party away.

And at the moment, it is obvious that meeting the emperor to resolve the 'misunderstanding' is the most important thing.

So Zhu Gui got into the carriage and hurried to the palace.

What he didn't know was that as soon as his carriage left the vicinity of the Daiwang's Mansion, a red shadow appeared at a corner near the Daiwang's Mansion.

Zuo Erniang looked at the direction in which the carriage left, and there was a look of unknown meaning in her eyes.