Daming: I asked you to supervise the country, Daming is all crazy?

Chapter 53 Zhang Mao: What His Royal Highness Taisun said is absolutely true! ! !

Yingtianfu ushered in the first snow in 1414!

When Zhu Zhanji woke up early in the morning, he saw that the entire Prince's Mansion had turned white, and his mood was not very good.

Against the sound of "whoosh", it was like a demon wind with armor-piercing effect.

When he came to Qianqing Palace, he had just finished clocking in, and some courtiers also began to enter the house in twos and threes.

It can be seen that these people have been severely frozen, and those who are eligible to enter the Qianqing Palace are basically few who are younger than forty.

And after reaching forty, it is basically middle-aged and old, and various physical problems have emerged.

Especially in the winter, Zhu Zhanji looked at the elderly people in the crowd, and was worried that these people would faint in the Qianqing Palace by accident.

After some people had finished the ceremony and went through the process, Zhu Zhanji quickly asked someone to bring some hot tea and hot water.

I'm afraid that there will be an accident, and when it gets out, it may be that he abused the old minister.

"His Royal Highness, this is the booklet handed over by Hebei a few days ago, saying that there was a snow disaster, and I pray that the imperial court will allocate 3 taels of silver for disaster relief!"

"This is from Chang'an in Guanzhong. Chang'an has just been hit by a drought, and this winter has been hit by snow again. I beg the court to allocate [-] shi of grain!"

"His Royal Highness, this is from Henan..."

Zhu Zhanji's butt was still hot, so Yang Shiqi handed three booklets to Zhu Zhanji.

Zhu Zhanji frowned and looked carefully at the paperwork handed over.

These excerpts are basically excerpts related to snow disasters.

Although auspicious snow heralds a good year, every winter is often the hardest time.

Most places in the south are better, the cold wind is cold, but the real damage is the effect of scraping.

But as soon as we arrived in the north, a heavy snow fell, not to mention some houses that were overwhelmed by the heavy snow, and there were not a few people who simply died of freezing and starvation.

After all, this kind of thing, even in later generations, many people will be frozen to death every winter.

Not to mention this era.

This era is not the future. In winter, there are quilts and cotton clothes to keep out the cold.

Many families only have one pair of trousers and one pair of straw sandals.

In addition, houses with civil structures are not as strong as bricks and stones, and some poor people even built a grass shed.

Not to mention air leakage, let alone firmness.

If there is heavy snow in the end, hell will happen if there is no accident!
Zhu Zhanji has nothing to do with these things.

After all, the people of Ming Dynasty are really poor now.

Even if he wanted to change the status quo of these people, he couldn't do it in a short while.

It can only be the money that should be given, and the food that should be given. Everything is handled according to the rules of the past.

Minimize casualties as much as possible.

The only good thing is that the Ministry of Household Affairs has been very generous recently, and there is no shortage of money for disaster relief.

After finishing all these paperwork, it was almost noon.

Zhu Zhanji finished his lunch under the service of the eunuch and maid.

Then I got the news from Shen Wendu and wanted to invite him to Huainan Guild Hall to watch the new salt auction.

This kind of thing naturally didn't need Zhu Zhanji to come forward in person.
In the past, he just wanted to see how rich the merchants of Ming Dynasty were!

After all, sometimes if you want to cut leeks, you must first understand the growth of leeks, right?
If you cut it early, the leeks will become thinner, and if you cut them late, the roots of the leeks will become too deep.

When you want to cut just right, you need to understand the growth of these leeks first.

And now this auction is undoubtedly a good opportunity.

Naturally, Zhu Zhanji would not miss it.

When he came to the Huainan Guild Hall, Zhang Mao and Shen Wendu had already been waiting here.

Zhu Zhanji didn't bring anyone with him when he came out this time, as if he was dressed like a rich man, and he was only accompanied by Xiao Si, who was a sniper.

After arriving at the Huainan Guild Hall, Zhang Mao and Shen Wendu, who had already received the news, immediately took Zhu Zhanji into a private room on the top floor of the Huainan Guild Hall.

"The last general, Zhang Mao, sees his grandson!"

"Subordinate Shen Wendu sees grandson!"

After entering the private room, after the two saluted, Zhu Zhanji looked at Shen Wendu and asked, "Is everything ready?"

Shen Wendu had a confident smile on his face when he heard the words, and said, "Don't worry, Your Highness, the matter has been properly arranged, and according to the news from the people who are arranged among these wealthy businessmen by your subordinates, many of them are determined to win this time." thoughts!"

"Ok!"

Zhu Zhanji nodded, he was quite relieved of Shen Wendu's words.

After all, this guy does not belong to the bureaucratic system, but an out-and-out businessman.

I don't have the guts to play bureaucratic twists and turns for him.

"When you're ready, go down and make arrangements to start. When it's over, show me all the offers from those people!"

"Yes!"

When Shen Wendu heard the words, he immediately responded respectfully, and then retreated.

When Shen Wendu left here, Zhu Zhanji looked at Zhang Mao and said, "Is there any news from my third uncle?"

When Zhang Mao heard Zhu Zhanji ask him, he quickly said: "Returning to the grandson, according to your instructions, this time I did not use the old man from Jinyiwei, but specially arranged some new faces to investigate, and indeed found some thing."

Zhu Zhanji was just asking casually at first, but he didn't expect Zhang Mao to actually investigate something, so he looked over curiously, and said with a smile: "Tell me about it!"

Zhang Maogong raised his hand and said: "Grandson, some new brothers found out that about seven or eight days ago, a group of refugees were suddenly found in the team of His Royal Highness Zhao. After entering King Zhao's team, King Zhao invited them to eat and drink, and afterward he sent these refugees out of the camp in person."

"The brothers continued to investigate along this line, only to find that after leaving the camp, this group of people went all the way south, and along the way they were very skillful in avoiding the hidden piles set up by the Jinyiwei along the way."

"According to the time calculation, this group of people should have arrived in Yingtian five days ago, but then this group of people seemed to disappear. The last time they appeared was in the south of the city. Presumably these people are still near the south of the city. !"

"It's just that most of the people living near the south of the city are high-ranking officials and dignitaries, so it's not easy to search, but at the end of the day, many new brothers have been placed in the south of the city to keep an eye on them. I believe that as soon as King Zhao appears, there should be news in a short time. Pass it on."

Zhu Zhanji nodded when he heard the words. To be honest, he still admires his third uncle.

Hearing Zhang Mao's words, he almost guessed that his third uncle pretended to be a refugee in all likelihood, so he sneaked into Yingtian.

A dignified and serious prince can condescend to play the role of a refugee. If his third uncle says he has no brains, it is purely wronging him.

It's just that this brain doesn't seem to like to use it in the right way.

He keeps holding back bad things all the time, likes to catch other people's little tails, and his pattern is also stingy.

In fact, Zhu Zhanji didn't pay much attention to this third uncle.

From his point of view, this third uncle has only this structure, and what he can do is extremely limited.

The only thing that bothered him was that the latest new salt was related to his next series of actions.

I was worried that this third uncle would take advantage of him and cause some damage to him.

So seeing that Zhang Mao was about to pull out the third uncle, Zhu Zhanji stopped asking, and said lightly: "Keep paying attention, just don't let my third uncle run out to cause damage to me, You can figure out the rest yourself!"

"Yes!"

Zhang Mao nodded upon hearing this.

While the two were talking, the auction downstairs also started.

Daming's salt and iron business has always been strictly controlled.

After all, the salt and iron business, one is an important military material, and the other is related to the taxation of most of Ming Dynasty.

Whether it is Zhu Yuanzhang or Zhu Di, the old Zhu family relied on the salt tax for most of the funds for the war.

In the past, the sale and purchase of table salt had to rely on the salt guide issued by the imperial court to obtain opportunities.

Those without salt are illegal salt, and those who sell illegal salt are fine if they don’t find out.
Once found out, not only will I have my head beheaded, but my family property will be confiscated, and even my wife and daughter will not be able to come to a good end.

But even so, the profit of private salt still stimulates a large number of people to sacrifice their lives for it.

But now it is different, the imperial court has released new salt, and they only need to participate in the auction, as long as the price is high enough, they can compete for the qualification to buy and sell salt in one place.

Unlike Yanyin, you can only get the qualification to buy and sell the salt of Yanyin only by how many Yanyin you have!
And getting Yan Yin is not a simple matter, not only need to pay a lot of money, but also need to find various relationships!
Otherwise, just because you have money, you still have no chance to join in.

So hearing about the new salt is simply great news for most businessmen.

It was precisely because of this that at this time, the Huainan Guild Hall was almost full of businessmen from all over the Ming Dynasty.

Some merchants were invited by Shen Wendu, and some came here by themselves after getting the news.

Among them, the one who came here by himself was the Shanxi merchants.

Speaking of which, these people were also started by salt merchants. In the early Ming Dynasty, there were many Northern Expeditions, and the imperial court had trouble transporting military supplies.

Therefore, the Kaizhong method left over from the Song Dynasty was used,

The so-called open-China method is actually using something, such as salt and tea, as an intermediary to recruit merchants, transport rations, horses and other materials.

In fact, a large part of Shanxi merchants started their business by relying on the geographical advantages. Until later, after the Ming Dynasty was unable to continue the Northern Expedition, it was useless to open China and France, and Shanxi merchants embarked on another road because of this!
At this time, the imperial court produced new salt, and these Shanxi merchants who started their fortunes on salt would naturally not miss this opportunity.

Zhu Zhanji knew about this, but he didn't stop him.

After all, there is no problem with Shanxi merchants now. Although they still have no good impressions, Zhu Zhanji also understands in his heart.

In fact, businessmen all over the world are similar. If Shanxi merchants can be suppressed today, there will still be some merchants who will replace Shanxi merchants tomorrow.

The best way is to treat them all as leeks, cut when it’s time to cut, and fertilize when it’s time to fertilize!

If a leek is cut off, then uproot it and replace it with a new leek.

At this time, the original hall on the first floor of the Huainan Guild Hall has been distributed into a fan-shaped area.

The front end of the fan shape is a high platform, on which some brothel girls invited by Shen Wendu from the Qinhuai River are performing various dance poses!

Opposite the stage are the semi-open second and third floors, as well as the first floor area.

At this time, these places were already full of businessmen, and the performances of these delicate brothel girls on the stage did not arouse much interest from these people!
At this time, these people have already gathered their energy and are waiting for the next auction.

Fortunately, after Zhu Zhanji gave the order, Shen Wendu didn't make people wait for long. It was almost time and the dance was over.

Shen Wendu waved his hand and let all these women get off the stage, and then appeared on the stage himself.

Those below the stage and those upstairs saw Shen Wendu appearing, and they all looked over.

Shen Wendu pressed his hand, and the voices in places that were still noisy were gradually suppressed.

Only then did he look around and shouted with a smile:

"It is really an honor for Mr. Shen to gather here today. Mr. Shen is also very grateful for your support. Later, after the auction is over, Mr. Shen will also have the honor to invite several people from Qinhuai River, I also hope that you can come here with joy and come back with joy!"

These are some occasional words that should be given. After all, they are all businessmen, and Shen Wendu is still very good at handling these colleagues.

As soon as the words fell, there was indeed a large number of applause. These businessmen are not like some scholars, and they are not reserved.

When Shen Wendu finished speaking, some people who had been impatient for a long time immediately urged:

"Shopkeeper Shen, since almost everyone has arrived, everyone who should come has come, so let's start the auction quickly!"

"Yes, Shopkeeper Shen, we came to Yingtian only after we got your letter. Don't delay any longer, let's start!"

.........

On the top floor, in the box where Zhu Zhanji was, Zhu Zhanji glanced at Zhang Mao beside him and said with a smile: "Believe it or not? The loudest voices will probably come here to join in the fun."

Hearing the words, Zhang Mao nodded without thinking about it and said, "What His Highness Taisun said is absolutely true!"

Zhu Zhanji: "..."

.........

Seeing the urging of everyone downstairs, Shen Wendu smiled calmly, waved his hand, and immediately a maid walked towards all the businessmen present with a pile of blank paper and pens,
When everyone was puzzled, Shen Wendu's voice also sounded at this time:

"Shen doesn't waste everyone's time. If you get the pen and paper that you sent, please check the name and place of origin on the paper to see if there is any mistake. If there is no mistake, please leave it on the paper. Their recent addresses, and then write down the new salt agency site they want to bid for, as well as the agency fee."

After saying that, Shen Wendu paused for a moment, and didn't look at the audience. After hearing his words, the bewildered businessmen continued to say:
"After you finish writing, everyone just needs to raise their hands, and then someone will come to collect the things you wrote. Shen will personally hand over these things to the Ministry of Accounting at that time. If everyone here can win the bid, um, they will be selected. The Ministry will arrange someone to notify you, and then you only need to prepare the money you filled in, and then you can directly find me to buy new salt!"

"Of course, I also need to remind everyone that you must do what you can. If you bid indiscriminately, you will not be able to pay the agency fee at that time. Jinyiwei's prison has a lot of vacant rooms recently!"

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