Zhu Gaochu is their boss, the backbone, Zhu Gaochu is not at home, and everyone seems to be bored.

But in fact, Zhu Gaoxu arranged a lot of things before leaving, and everyone performed their own duties, and they did a good job.

"Come one by one, go to the king's study." Zhu Gaoxu went back to the study first, and when he was halfway there, he called Zhong Xian and asked him to arrange a bath.

After so many days outside, I haven't taken a good bath, and I haven't enjoyed the beauty of the horse and chicken.

Zhong Xian immediately went to arrange, and Zhu Gaoxu went back to the study first.

Hou Hai is the oldest, he is not polite, he leads the first room, and the rest of the people are waiting outside, everyone looks at each other, all thoughtful.

In the past, His Highness called everyone in together and assigned tasks.

Later, His Highness was all talked about individually.

In fact, everyone was secretly comparing who was the last to leave His Highness's room.

Now is in the comparison, who has spent the longest time in His Highness's study.

After Hou Hai entered, he was just about to hug the salute.

"Sit, no outsiders, you're welcome." Zhu Gaoxu said very kindly: "You choose the important ones first." ”

Hou Hai was very happy: "Your Highness, Mao Xiong --- according to His Highness's request"

Hou Hai first talked about Mao Xiong's business.

As soon as King Yan joined the army, Mao Xiong began to manipulate the prices of sugar, salt, and grain.

According to what Zhu Gaoxu said, he first contacted several of the largest merchants in Beiping City, hoping that everyone would raise the price at the same time, sell them before the deadline, and each family would only sell in the morning, and close after noon, saying that there was no goods, creating a situation in which Beiping was very short of salt, sugar, and grain.

Businessmen have always been profit-seeking, and major businessmen have agreed and supported it.

As soon as their major businessmen limited the sale and raised the price, the salt, sugar, and grain in Beiping City immediately became sought-after goods, and they did not need to raise it later, and it was a price every day.

There are now two or three hundred thousand people in Beiping City, and the daily consumption is very huge, and now the Yan King is rebelling, and the people are afraid of lack of food and sugar, so they rush to buy and hoard everywhere.

But these important merchants only sell for half a day a day, so every day there are people who get up very early and rush to queue up in the dark as soon as possible after the curfew.

King Yan started his army in July, and it has been about a month now, and the price of salt per catty was originally 20 wen in treasure money and 3 wen in copper coins.

Now the price of salt is only copper coins, 20 wen.

It's a sevenfold increase, especially the more expensive it gets.

The price of sugar and food is fine, one has increased fivefold, the other has tripled.

At present, the price of grain per stone reaches three copper coins, or thirty yuan of treasure money, and copper coins are preferred.

Mao Xiong and the major businessmen made a fortune with blood.

And Mao Xiong earns more.

Because Zhu Gaoxu had made him hoard a large number of goods before, and opened several small shops in other places.

Mao Xiong's main store only sells half a day a day, but other small stores sell all day, and the price is more expensive than what Mao Xiong and his major merchants sell.

Ordinary people can't buy big stores, so they can only go to small shops.

Many small shops were bought and closed, out of stock.

Only Mao Xiong's can be opened every day.

Hou Hai finally said happily: "In mid-July, we earned back the capital, and the back is a net profit, and the more we go to the back, the higher the profit." ”

If this battle continues, as long as the source is not cut off, Zhu Gaoxu will definitely make a lot of money.

"Is Mao Xiong here?" Zhu Gaoxu asked at this time.

"The lower official has already informed him, let him go directly to the backyard in a while, doesn't His Highness not want too many people to know?"

"Yes, that's good."

Zhu Gaoxu pondered, considering the impact of this incident on the Battle of Jingyan.

History says that when Beiping was besieged, the women of Beiping spontaneously went up to the city wall to throw stones and stones to help defend the city.

Of course, this is the person who has the supreme right to speak, and he is bragging about himself.

The people of Beiping will not help King Yan defend the city, and the people who will defend the city will only be the families of military households.

There are more than 30,000 soldiers and horses in the city of Beiping, and tens of thousands of family members.

As long as it does not arouse public indignation, it will not affect the overall situation of the appeasement.

And even if Zhu Gaoxu is not raising these prices, the original history will also be raised, but it may not be as ruthless as it is now.

Hou Hai and Zhu Gaochu talked for more than ten minutes, reporting everything in the palace one by one, and when they finally left, they were still smiling, because Zhu Gaochu asked him to take fifty taels of silver in the warehouse, which was regarded as a reward, and at the same time, he had to give everyone another payment.

Then Qian Xun entered the door, and Qian Xun complained when he opened his mouth, because Zhu Gaoxu took almost all the silver to speculate, and now the palace is very short of money.

And the daily consumption is quite a lot.

He made a list of expenses for Zhu Gaoxu, which was a bit simple, this was what Zhu Gaoxu taught him.

Because the ancients had a complicated expense schedule.

From July to August, the various expenditures of the royal government have reached more than 1,000 taels, which can be regarded as a breakthrough to a new high.

But Zhu Gaoxu saw that most of them were labor wages, including the expenses of craftsmen, as well as the living expenses of his subordinates' families.

"The expenditure is a bit high, but it's okay, it's still within the range of bearing, now that the war is going on, the food may not be enough for everyone, you go back and inform them, every month to the street in front of the 'Hutchison rice shop' with the county king's mansion to seal the book, each family receives two stones of grain every month, three catties of salt and sugar, and the matter of printing, I told Hou Hai, you ask him for it."

Qian Xun was stunned for a moment, and his face showed a touched look: "Your Highness, thank you for everyone." He exclaimed.

"Tell them all to keep a low profile, take turns, and don't let anyone know."

"Xiaguan understands."

After Li Mo came in, he immediately mentioned the craftsman sent by Zhang Xin.

Zhu Gaoxu originally wanted to meet the firearms maker, but after thinking about it, he still forgot it, and he couldn't rush this matter now.

"Take good care of them, and they may be of great use in the future."

"Yes, Your Highness."

"How are your sister and Xue Xun?"

"The two want to get married, and the lower official wants to wait for His Highness to come back."

"You can do it, you find an auspicious day, this king will call some good brothers to your house together, it is best to go out to fight as soon as possible, and after getting married, this king will reuse Xue Xun."

Zhu Gaoxu didn't tell Li Mo something, he had already asked people to find out the details of Xue Xun.

Li Mo was followed by Qian Chang, Jing Sheng and others, and almost everyone had to talk to him for about ten minutes.

After everyone saw it once, Zhu Gaoxu also looked a little tired.

But he didn't dare to slack off, and immediately returned to the backyard.

The bath was in the backyard, and he saw that Mao Xiong was also in the backyard.

Mao Xiong came in through the back door of the palace, and there were not many people in the palace who knew him.

Soon, Mao Xiong came to a room in the backyard.

"Meet Your Highness."

"Hurry up, no courtesy in the future." Zhu Gaoxu laughed and stepped forward to help him up.

Mao Xiong's eyes also flashed with a hint of emotion.

The king of Gaoyang County has no shelf, and the son of the world is very big, and he doesn't want to move.

"How's the goods selling? How many more? ”

Mao Xiongdao, the early sale was almost done, and now another batch has been entered.

Zhu Gaoxu is very strange, now that he is in a war, where did he get the goods from?

There were several channels for Mao Xiong to purchase goods, and iron tools and grain came in from Shanxi.

On the Shanxi side, now the officials and troops are shrinking in Datong, and Ulzhou, Guangchang, and Guangling are all under the front of the Yan army, and no officers and soldiers dare to come out.

Among them, Guangchang and Guangling have copper mines and iron mines, and the nearby places are also one of the sources of iron for the Yan army.

Because the officials and soldiers did not go out of the city, the brave merchants still dared to sell the iron materials here to make a lot of money.

Datong is the former Song Zhong general Chen Zhen is guarding, he only dares to defend to the death, and does not dare to go out, so the Yan army has a lot of room for activity in Shanxi.

But Shanxi is not the main offensive direction of the Yan army, so after fighting once in history and not defeating Datong, Zhu Di is mainly defending here.

The amount of sugar is not as much as salt, but it is also an important daily necessities, and like salt, Mao Xiong obtained it in Tongzhou.

This is in the direction of Jinhai, and it was transported by the official water post road.

"The waterway to the south of Tongzhou, the imperial court has not been sealed?" Zhu Gaoxu said strangely.

"No, merchant ships can still come and go freely." Mao Xiong shrugged: "Just pay taxes." ”

Zhu Gaoxu was dumbfounded, there were hundreds of civil and military officials in the Ming Dynasty, no one asked this question?

But Zhu Gaoxu was afraid that Geng Bingwen would block it after he came, after all, the imperial court had set up a formal Pingyan political envoy to coordinate the overall situation, and immediately said: "Recently, a large number of goods will be purchased, and this king will see that this battle will be fought for several years." ”

"The imperial court will seal it at any time, and all the silver earned will be used to buy and hoard."

"The little one understands." Mao Xiong said immediately.

It's just that there are some goods that can't be stored for a long time, and he also has to take this into account.

The two discussed again, and Mao Xiong turned away.

Early the next morning, Zhu Gaoxu got up under the waiting of Yaya and Ruo'er and changed into his regular clothes.

After seeing everyone yesterday afternoon, he didn't do anything, didn't eat a meal and took a shower, and slept until now.

When I woke up, all the fatigue seemed to disappear, and the whole person came back to life.

The robes in the summer of the Ming Dynasty are actually quite hot, and ordinary people are coarse cloth clothes.

Zhu Gaoxu is okay, a piece of silk has been prepared in the house, this dress feels very smooth to the touch, and it is a little cold to wear.

I heard Yaya say that there is ice silk in it, and I don't know if it's true or not, anyway, it's more comfortable to wear in summer.

As soon as he got dressed, he went out and saw a man standing outside the door, with Zhong Xian.

Zhu Gaoxu was stunned, shook his head, and quickly saw that this was not a man.

Sun Ruonan was wearing a man's clothes, his hair was also coiled like a man, with his back on his back and a bow in his hand, and he was standing outside the door.

Zhu Gaoxu swallowed the words that came to his mouth.

Originally, he thought that Sun Ruonan and Sun Yan had gone to Shoutongzhou, but he didn't expect to stay in the palace, and it seemed that Sun Yan was still afraid that he would not admit it after the autumn.

"Your Highness is back, when will you take me out for a walk, I'm bored in the house." Sun Ruonan frowned.

She was a little unhappy, because she heard that Zhu Gaoxu had been back for a long time, but she didn't look for her.

However, she had just met Zhong Xian, and knowing that Zhu Gaoxu was not looking for Wei Mo'er, she was happy again.

She is the kind of girl who will show her face whether she is happy or not.

The first time Zhu Gaoxu saw her, she was wearing men's clothes, very heroic, looking at it today, I still think that she wears men's clothes well and likes her men's clothes.

Tui, I'm not too much, am I? He thought to himself.

But don't say it, he has been fighting outside for nearly a month, and he is with a group of stinky soldiers every day, and when he suddenly comes back and sees such a lovely beauty, he not only feels a little scratched in his heart.

"Let's go with arrows." Zhu Gaoxu is a serious way.