"Yes!"

The next moment, a eunuch who followed Zhu Yuanzhang walked out from behind him, and after saluting, he turned around and left in a hurry.

Zhu Yuanzhang had a calm face, surrounded by palace maids, eunuchs, and guards, and came to the Qianqing Palace, looked at the side of the palace, put down the folds, got up and knelt down to salute the cabinet ministers, waved them to continue to deal with the twists and turns, and went straight to the dragon chair behind the imperial case to sit down.

I picked up the imperial case casually, stacked it, and reviewed it after being approved by the cabinet ministers.

Not long after, just as Zhu Yuanzhang was reviewing the recital, a eunuch trotted over from outside the palace and knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, the commander of the Jinyi Guard has ordered Jiang Zhen to meet you!"

"Let him in!" Zhu Yuanzhang didn't raise his head, still flipping through the folds.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

After the eunuch saluted again, he got up and withdrew from the Qianqing Palace, and not long after the Jinyi guard commanded Jiang Xuan, who was wearing court clothes, hurried from outside, and saluted: "Minister Jiang Xuan, see the emperor!"

"Go down first!" Zhu Yuanzhang ignored Jiang Zheng, but looked at the three cabinet ministers and ordered.

The cabinet ministers who dealt with the folds were already observing Zhu Yuanzhang's movements while dealing with the folds, and when they heard Zhu Yuanzhang's orders, they immediately got up and saluted, "The minister retires!"

When the sound fell, the three of them ignored Jiang Zhen and bowed and withdrew from the Qianqing Palace.

At the same time, the eunuchs and palace maids waiting in the palace, except for the personal eunuch Lu Gonggong, the rest of the eunuchs and palace maids did not need to be instructed, and they consciously withdrew from the Qianqing Palace together.

After the eunuch palace maid left, Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Jiang Xuan, who was still kneeling on the ground and waiting, and said lightly, "Get up!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" After Jiang Zhen saluted, he stood up and waited.

Zhu Yuanzhang said again: "You know everything about the early dynasty!"

"Back to the emperor, the minister has heard a little!" Jiang Zheng said respectfully.

Zhu Yuanzhang said lightly: "Let's talk about it, why did Lu Zhongheng suddenly change their position and support commercial taxes?"

Lu Zhongheng and others privately colluded to oppose the matter of commercial taxes, and he had already passed the Jinyi Wei secret pile and knew it well. There was even a lot of preparation.

But he didn't expect that before his preparations were finished, Lu Zhongheng and others suddenly changed their positions, supported commercial taxes one after another, and wrote a letter suggesting that the imperial court reformulate the commercial tax rate.

As early as he went up, he took the opportunity to try out the tiered tax rate of commercial tax, without thinking much or asking too much. But afterwards, the abnormal reaction of Lu Zhongheng and others aroused his suspicions.

doubted the motives of Lu Zhongheng and others, and even suspected that his preparations were leaked, which caused Lu Zhongheng and others to panic, so they were so eager to change their position.

"Back to the emperor, according to the news from the Jinyi Wei secret pile, the reason why Ji'an Hou Lu Zhongheng, Pingliang Hou Fei Ju and others temporarily changed their position and wrote in support of commercial taxation."

Jiang Zhen had long expected Zhu Yuanzhang to ask such a question, and said unhurriedly: "It's all because Lan Bin, the son of Yongchang Hou Lanyu, made a deal with Lu Zhongheng and others yesterday!"

"Deals? What deal?" Zhu Yuanzhang raised his eyebrows and said suspiciously.

Jiang Zhen replied: "Yesterday afternoon, Yongchang Hou Lan Yu invited Ji'an Hou Lu Zhongheng, Pingliang Hou Fei Ju and others to the mansion, and Lan Baihu exchanged a business for Ji'an Hou Lu Zhongheng and others to support the commercial tax!"

"What business?" Zhu Yuanzhang was interested, and he was both a little curious and a little unhappy, curious about what business Lan Bin used in exchange for Lu Zhongheng and others to support commercial taxes.

What was not happy was that Lan Bin had a new business, so he didn't tell him as soon as possible, but went to envelop Lu Zhongheng and others.

Although Lan Bin's original intention was for business taxes, this incident still made him unhappy.

Jiang Xuan thought for a while, and said with some uncertainty: "Department store supermarket!?"

"Department stores? What kind of business is that?" Zhu Yuanzhang was touched into a blind spot in knowledge, and he was a little dazed.

Jiang Xuan said embarrassedly, "I don't know!"

"I don't know? And what do you brocade guards know?" Zhu Yuanzhang looked displeased, he didn't know what to do, what was the use of Jinyiwei?

Jiang Zhen secretly complained, I also want to know what this department store is, but I know every word, and I don't know when combined together

What does the Tao mean?

I'm also helpless!

But he wanted to think about it, but he didn't dare to show it, and said: "Back to the emperor, although the minister doesn't know what kind of business the department store is, the minister knows that the department store is another profiteering business that is on par with the glass business of Lan Baihu."

"Really?" Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly said.

How lucrative Lan Bin's glass business is, others don't know, but he knows it too well.

Not to mention anything else, the palace alone divided more than one million taels of silver from the glass business.

This is still the same as before, and now the time for dividends is approaching, and it is estimated that another million taels of silver will come in.

He has rarely seen such a lucrative business, and now there is another lucrative business that is on par with the glass business.

How to make him not in a hurry.

Especially this business, which has nothing to do with him at all.

"It's true, this is what Lan Baihu said himself!"

Jiang Zhen nodded, took out a note from his long sleeve, handed it forward, and said, "Your Majesty, this is the record of the conversation between Lan Baihu and Ji'an Hou Lu Zhongheng and others from the Jinyi Wei Secret Stake."

"Please take a look at the emperor!"

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't say much, he directly handed Jiang Zhen the note, took it, spread it out and looked at it, and finally found Lan Bin's original words that the department store supermarket and the glass business were on par.

However, the original sentence is not to say that it is equal, but to say that the department store and supermarket are doing well, which is no worse than the glass business.

Lan Bin even vouched for this later.

After reading the record on the note, Zhu Yuanzhang finally understood why Lu Zhongheng and others changed their position, and he was even more unhappy, Lan Bin, this kid, has such a good business in department stores and supermarkets, he actually does it with other nobles, and we are so good to him, treat him as our son and nephew. Look at the book

No conscience!