Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 414
In Yongning Palace to the south of Zhongcui Palace, Concubine Li Gui sat alone in the warm pavilion of the side hall, wondering what she was thinking in a daze.

A young man with white face and beardless turned out from behind the curtain, walked up to Concubine Li Gui, and said softly, "Sister, what are you thinking?"

Concubine Li Gui moved a little, but she didn't turn her head back, she just frowned slightly, and asked back: "The Imperial Horse Supervisor has changed his palm prints, why don't you stay in the yamen of Licaochang and take care of it, what are you doing here, don't be afraid of three The fire came down and burned you?"

"Sister, you're joking." The young man said with a smile, "Who doesn't know that Chen Ju belongs to the crown prince? As a new official, he will set fire to anyone, but he won't come and burn the crown prince's uncle, right? If he If you don’t know anything, you won’t transfer me from Zhongfu Pasture to Li Pasture.”

Concubine Li Gui turned her head slightly, glanced at her younger brother, and said, "From your tone, I really like Li Caochang? Why, Zhongfu Caochang not only accepts tens of thousands of taels of silver from Taicang every year, but also manages Huangzhuang, Huangdian, Ranch, why do you have two or three million taels of silver a year? With your means, you are afraid of starving to death? The pasture here can’t manage the money. Chen Ju transferred you back from the money jar. Don’t you blame him? "

"Don't complain, it's all on business for the emperor, it doesn't matter where you are." The young man smiled cheerfully.

"Huh?" Concubine Li Gui narrowed her phoenix eyes slightly, sized him up, and said in a neutral tone: "I can't see it, but you have grown up, you already know how to say such things."

"Haha, Sister, look at what you said, the younger brother is really sincere..."

"Okay, okay, let's talk about it, what good did Chen Ju promise you? Why don't I remember any errands that happened in Licaochang—don't tell me that you suddenly don't like money anymore." Concubine Li Gui looked away. , interrupted with a wave of his hand.

The young man put away his smile and said solemnly: "Sister really guessed wrong, the younger brother is just an idler in the pasture." After speaking, he took a waist card from his back waist and handed it to Concubine Li Gui.

Concubine Li Guifei took it and took a look. The waist card was originally made of silver, but the whole body was gilded. Five big characters are written vertically in Zhongyang: Yumajian eunuch.

Concubine Li Gui didn't look at it much, she just turned it over, the dark side was roughly the same as before, but the characters engraved in the middle were different: Zhong Zi No. [-].

"You are in charge of the prison gun now?" Concubine Li Gui frowned, looking at her younger brother with some doubts in her eyes: "This is not a fat job, you don't think so...don't make mistakes."

The young man rolled his eyes, and said angrily: "Sister, what are you thinking? Are you afraid that I will sell the firecrackers and cannons in the Beijing camp? Even if I am so courageous, who would dare to buy it? !"

"Then what are you happy about?"

The young eunuch reached out and took the waist badge from Concubine Li Gui, fastened it around his waist, patted it, and said, "It's not worth much now, but it probably won't be long before."

"Why?" Concubine Li Gui was puzzled.

"Chen Ju asked Gao Yushi's little golden hand for inside information." The young man glanced left and right and saw that there was no one there, so he lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "The last time Gao Yushi came back from Datong, I gave it to the emperor. I reported the problem of firearms to the prince, sister, do you still remember?"

"I have a little impression, what's the matter?"

"After hearing this, sister, what do you think if you know that Guochao firearms are so unbearable?"

Concubine Li Gui looked puzzled: "I am a deep palace woman, what can I think? These matters are considered by the emperor and his ministers."

"Sister, don't you think our firearms are so rotten... so dangerous?"

Concubine Li Gui sighed: "What exactly do you want to say? Yes, after I heard it at the time, I also felt that this is not okay, but I don't understand the affairs of the court, let alone ask, I don't think anything is important."

The young man spread his hands with a wry smile, and said, "Sister, you guard against me as if you were guarding against thieves. Do you think I want to persuade you to take part in politics? No, I just ask. What kind of mentality do you have after hearing such news.”

Concubine Li Gui took a deep look at him, and said in a deep voice: "I said it just now, and I also don't think it can go on like this." Then she said: "I don't need to repeat what I said later, do I?"

The young man nodded helplessly, and said: "So, no matter who knows about such a situation, they will feel that it is not good. Our current firearms are too unreliable. The frontier army and the Beijing army only have these fire sticks in their hands. If something happens, it will be a big trouble... Sister, think about it, although I answer that although I have paid tribute, the Yuan court (Mongol left wing) has not."

"What does that have to do with you, the horse eunuch, the gun eunuch?"

The young man laughed: "My position itself is not important. The important thing is that I am the eunuch of the horse guard and gun gun, and I am also in charge of the military battle as usual."

Concubine Li Gui frowned and said, "What do you want to do?"

She was afraid that her younger brother would say, anyway, the products produced by Bingzhanju must be scum, so why don't I make a fortune out of them.

Who knew it was not, the young man smiled and said: "Whether it is the military bureau of the inner court or the military bureau of the Ministry of War, there is probably nothing to save, so... Mr. Gao is thinking about allowing private companies to open weapons factories and manufacture weapons. The weapons will then be jointly inspected and procured by the Bureau of Military Warfare and the Bureau of Ordnance.”

Concubine Li Gui did not know much about government affairs, so she reacted after being taken aback for a while, and said in surprise, "Opening a privately owned arms factory? This seems...somewhat inappropriate, right?" When she heard that Elder Gao Ge was thinking about something, she subconsciously thought about it. I felt that it was impossible to do so, and the words turned into an obviously unconfident "seems like something is wrong" as soon as I said it.

In this kind of thing, men are generally more confident, even if it is a crippled man, so the young man waved his hand and said: "I know what my sister is worried about. I just think that if the private sector allows the manufacture of firearms, will it cause firearms to flood the people and cause trouble."

Concubine Li Gui asked: "Isn't that so?"

"Yes, and no." The young man said with a smile: "Sister, it's not like I said that you can think of things. Can Gao Ge, Guo Ge, and Zhang Ge not think about it? These hidden dangers are naturally We will think of ways to prevent it in advance.”

"It's all handed over to a private person, how can we stop it?" Concubine Li Gui wondered.

"Uh, the news here is all from Chen Ju's inquiries. It may not be complete. Sister, why don't you just listen?"

"Okay, tell me."

"That's right. Although it is handed over to private individuals, first of all, not just anyone who comes here can have such qualifications, and there will be very strict status restrictions: for example, there are generations of loyal families in the family; the capital contribution for building a factory must reach at least 10 taels You must apply for the ordnance you manufacture. You can only make guns if you are allowed to make guns, and you can only make guns if you are allowed to make guns; the factory itself must also be supervised by the Imperial Horse Supervisor and the Ministry of War. ;Finally, the manufactured ordnance must pass the supervision and inspection of the Military Bureau and the Ordnance Bureau, etc., etc., there are many restrictions."

"Oh..." Concubine Li Gui thought for a while, nodded and said, "In this case, it sounds feasible. It would be a good idea for the inner and outer courts to supervise together."

That's natural, after all, in Li Guifei's view, if the inner court and the outer court joined hands to deceive the emperor, it would not be such a small problem as the outflow of firearms to the people.

But she immediately came back to her senses: "No, in this case, wouldn't it be even more useless for you to be in charge of the military?"

"How can it be useless?" The young man laughed: "I am in charge of the military situation, which is equivalent to deciding whether these things can be adopted by the army..."

Concubine Li Gui raised her phoenix eyebrows, and her tone suddenly became severe: "You want to accept bribes?"

"Sister's words are too harsh." The young man spread his hands: "Let's put it this way, if the item is not up to standard, it will definitely not be approved by the younger brother, but even if the item is up to standard... oh, everyone can get 10 yuan. When you two come out to do business, you can't be ignorant of any normal courtesies, right? What's more..."

Concubine Li Gui breathed a sigh of relief, but when she heard "what's more", she immediately asked: "what's more?"

"What's more, I see that Gao Yushi is also very interested in this business. He is still a good man, and our family can follow suit when the time comes."

Concubine Li Gui was slightly taken aback, but immediately felt that this was not surprising, Gao Yushi's business experience is indeed good, if there is such a business, it would not be surprising for him to step in.

Who knew that the young man seemed to think of something important again, slapped his head, and said: "Oh, I almost forgot, our father is also very interested in this business."

Concubine Li Gui was stunned for a moment, and said in surprise: "What nonsense are you talking about? Where can we get the 10 taels at home? Don't say 10 taels, can we get 1 taels?"

The young man smiled and said: "I can't get it out, but it doesn't matter, we can participate in the shares. Sister, you know, Dad and Zhang Siwei have always had a good relationship, and Zhang Siwei is a highly pragmatic uncle. There is such a relationship Now, is he so pragmatic that he won’t let us take part? When he started the Jinghua Soap Factory and Honeycomb Coal, our response was too slow and we didn’t catch up with the good times. Don’t miss it this time. Now, let’s not talk about other things, this little guy is really a first-class national player in terms of making money.

"So, this is a serious business... But, you must not take dry shares in the name of the prince or me, you know?"

The young man smiled all over his face: "I know, I know, how can I do it." But he thought to himself: If you don't take dry shares, you don't take dry shares. Let's just invest some money and see how many shares the kid surnamed Gao can give!I still don't believe that I gave him 1000 taels of silver, but he only gave me 1000 taels of shares!

Seeing that he agreed to come down, Li Guifei turned her phoenix eyes slightly, but did not speak again.

　Well, this chapter is basically a chapter and a half of words. I decided that the content of the next chapter should be as much as possible, and I will divide it into chapters. .Also, can you guess why this chapter appeared at this time?Finally, I would like to thank the book friend "Book friend 20180826163323839" for the reward, thank you!
　　
　
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