Lao Cao remembered the Shen Zhengcong who was kneeling outside the line, and reminded.

"Your Highness, Shen Zhengcong is still kneeling outside, look ......"

Zhu Song drank the tea in the cup.

"Then let him in, since the two adults have already been involved with the Japanese Kou, Shen Zheng will not be a problem at all from this matter, let this Shen Da shopkeeper come in."

Not long after, Shen Zheng walked in from holding the balcony post, and when he saw Zhu Song, he began to kneel and kowtow.

"Shen shopkeeper get up, I haven't seen God for many days, and the shopkeeper's demeanor is still the same."

Shen Zhengcong raised his head, maybe this guy kowtowed too much, and his movements were so violent that half of the beard on his face actually fell off.

Zhu Song frowned when he saw this, his head was full of doubts, and Lao Cao reacted quickly and pointed to Shen Zhengcong's face.

"Shopkeeper Shen, what's the matter with your beard?"

Shen Zheng chuckled in his heart when he heard the beard, both hands were numb, and he saw the mustache on his lips fall off, and he quickly subconsciously glued the beard back to his lips.

Zhu Song still didn't understand, so Lao Cao leaned on Zhu Song's ear and explained softly.

"Your Highness, there is only one kind of beard that he has not grown at this age, maybe he is a eunuch."

"Huh?"

Zhu Song ran with 10,000 amazements in his heart, no, since he is a eunuch, he is a eunuch, isn't he a complete man after being stabbed? How can a eunuch still marry a wife?

Originally, Zhu Song only thought that Shen Zhengcong could dedicate his wife to others, this person was somewhat psychopathic, relying on power and sex trading to stabilize his position, but when he knew that this guy was a eunuch, he felt that he was more perverted, and he was not so perverted.

After all, he can't do his best, and Cheng Lou'er is just an indifferent tool for him, just a tool he uses to win over those powerful people.

To be honest, Zhu Song felt some sympathy for this Cheng Lou'er, this woman was also very pitiful, she was born in the dust, she was originally ransomed by someone for 100,000 taels of silver and thought it was a good story, in such a feudal society, the story of the two of them being able to warm up together as the lowest of the three religions and nine streams is still very touching.

But now that he knows that this guy is a eunuch, Zhu Song really doesn't think this guy is psychopathic, but thinks that this guy is a little disgusting.

This was the first time Shen Zheng had shown flustery, and he knew that he would not be able to hide this time

"Your Highness, in fact, the grass people...... The grass man was a eunuch. ”

The eunuch came out to do business, this thing was really groundbreaking, Zhu Song was also shocked, this throughout the Ming Dynasty, how could the eunuch go out to do business? However, the Yongle Dynasty will reuse eunuchs in the future, such as what ship divisions and city shipping divisions in various places will arrange eunuchs to serve.

But whether it is Emperor Taizu or Emperor Jianwen, their grandparents and grandchildren do not have a very high trust in the eunuchs, and the eunuchs at most stay in the palace to serve the emperor, when did they hear that the emperor could let the eunuchs out and let them do business.

Unless the eunuchs are old and can retire honorably from the palace, basically such eunuchs will get a not small amount of silver when they leave, which can be regarded as allowing these eunuchs to return to their hometowns.

But this Shen Zhengcong in front of him, no matter how you look at him, he is only in the prime of life, and no matter how you look at it, he is not an honorable retirement from the palace.

"Shopkeeper Shen, you really gave this king a surprise, since you are from the palace, how did you come out? Seeing that you have no beard at this age, you are probably not a monk halfway, and this king estimates that when you are on duty in the palace, it should be when my father is still alive. ”

"I have always disliked the reuse of eunuchs, let alone let eunuchs out to do business, how did you come out?"

Shen Zheng knew that he couldn't hide, if what he said next was wrong, he was afraid that he didn't have to wait for the things behind him to be dug up, and he could be taken back to Jinyiwei Prison for interrogation now.

"Back to His Royal Highness, the grass people are from Yangzhou, when His Majesty Emperor Taizu went to Yangzhou to inspect, one of the remaining eighteen households was the grass people's home."

"At that time, the grass people and grandpa depended on each other, Emperor Taizu Gao came, but not long after he came, my grandfather died of old age, before he died, he asked people to send me to the palace to be a eunuch, clean body, my grandfather thought at the time, as long as I can eat enough."

"Caomin was in the eleventh year of Hongwu, came out of the palace, the then master of ceremonies and the father-in-law of the palm seal was my fellow countryman, he wrote me a letter of recommendation, I heard that the salt merchants in my hometown did a good job, so I went back to my hometown and worked with the salt merchants in my hometown for a few years, and then I was sent to Hangzhou, but in the second year of my arrival in Hangzhou, the father-in-law of the palm seal in the palace died."

"After that, the grass people and the sea of commerce rose and fell for more than ten years, and finally gained a firm foothold in Hangzhou, and there is now a microclimate!"

Zhu Song doesn't understand eunuchs very well, eunuchs are more complicated, since they have no reproductive organs, will they have a different feeling about a different surname?

Zhu Song really couldn't figure it out, he just wanted to leave the balcony post in his hand now, give him the silver, and then concentrate all his energy on investigating the matter of that widow.

"So that's the case, it's not easy for you, what's the matter with Shopkeeper Shen coming to this king today? You have figured it out, you want to sell this balcony post to this king, you don't want to bargain with this king anymore, this king didn't bring so much silver with him when he went out of Beijing this time, and 350,000 taels is already the limit. ”

Shen Zheng didn't dare to mention anything about giving the balcony post to others now, since people wanted to spend money, they would spend it.

And I came here this time for Zhou Tong and Wu Qian.

"Your Highness, just according to the price that Your Highness said, there is actually one more thing for the grass people to come this time, the salt tax that His Highness talked to the grass people about that day, the grass people thought of a way."

"The export of the ports along the coast of Zhejiang has been very strictly controlled, if we can let go a little bit at this critical time, the excess along the sea is sold, there is no need to sell to too remote countries, as long as it is the Nanyang countries."

"A pound of salt in Yangzhou is about seven or eight yuan, and this salt is sold at this price in Yangzhou, but as long as it is sold to Nanyang China, the salt is another price, not to mention more than two times!"

"Using this method to pull the salt out for sale, this time the imperial court can collect salt tax, and secondly, it can even pay more, maybe His Royal Highness's five million taels is not empty talk."

Zhu Song leaned back in his chair, the method is really a good way, but such a good way, I am afraid that these businessmen should make a lot of profits.