Zhu Houzhao, the lonely Ming Dynasty, angrily snatched Yan Shenggong at the beginning!

Chapter 8 Why do you get rich if you don't do anything to challenge the laws of Ming Dynasty?
Ignoring Liu Jin who was hugging the scared yellow dog, Zhu Houzhao turned around and asked Gao Feng, "Is that cousin of yours here?"

"Return to Your Highness, I have been here as early as last month, and I am currently in Anton Guard, waiting for your order."

Zhu Houzhao nodded slightly, rubbed his chin and thought for a while and said, "Find an opportunity to go out these few days, get some money out of the buried money, send someone to him, and let him start building the factory."

"Also, send someone to say hello to An Dongwei and ask them to take care of it. When the money arrives, let him start."

"Also, write to Qiu Ju to ask if the stores in Yangzhou and Jinling have been opened for me, and the goods will be delivered in a while."

"If the goods from Gu's side are delivered, and his store has not opened yet, then he will spend the rest of his life cleaning toilets."

A few black lines appeared on Gao Feng's forehead. This young master seemed to like to let the eunuchs clean the toilet, and he always threatened them with these words.

"Yes, the servant will do it now!"

Zhu Houzhao did everything possible to come to Shandong, not just for the Kong family, the Kong family was just an addition to his plan, and the latter was related to his big money-making plan.

The reason why Zhu Houzhao wanted to make money so much was that the court was too poor.

The money and taxes collected by the imperial court are getting less and less every year, and it is not even enough for the imperial court to spend on its own.

Not only that, every year that prodigal father would subsidize the money earned by Huangzhuang.

It is because of this old man's prodigal son that Zhu Houzhao saw that in the past two years, the food at home has become worse and worse. From the original four dishes and one soup, it has become two dishes and one soup.

As an emperor, what can you do without money.

For his grand plan and future extravagant life, Zhu Houzhao stopped counting on his father and decided to make money by himself.

Zhu Houzhao was the owner of a processing factory in his previous life. He had no other skills. He knew countless manufacturing methods and ingredients for various items.

Coupled with the amazing memory of this life, he recalled all the vague information and knowledge he had learned, and he remembered it so clearly that he couldn't forget it even if he wanted to.

As far as the things in his mind are concerned, taking out any one and putting it in Daming is a business to make money.

It's just that some of these businesses can't be produced with Daming's current capabilities, or can be produced, and ordinary people simply can't afford them.

Where is the greatest wealth in the world hidden?
Except for those corrupt officials and wealthy business families, the greatest wealth is hidden in the hands of the wealthier common people and those small landlords and gentry.

If you want to make money, if you want to make a lot of money, you have to sell commodities that these people can afford, and they are necessary daily necessities.

A person's life is nothing more than firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea.

He hasn't considered selling coal for the time being, but he wants to sell grain, but the problem is that he is still the prince, and the land in Huangzhuang is not under his control.

It is even more difficult to go to the folks. The good land has long been taken away by those aristocratic families and big landlords, and the remaining inferior land is useless.

Besides, with Daming's grain productivity, how many years of land can it take to make a fortune, it's not as fast as robbery.

You don't need to think about oil sauce tea. Zhu Houzhao doesn't want to be called the emperor of soy sauce when the dignified prince sells these things.

So after much deliberation, he set his goal on the salt.

People don't need to wear new clothes, jewelry, eat delicious food, or play fun games, but salt is absolutely indispensable for three meals a day.

In addition, there were no such items as refrigerators in ancient times, and many foods had to be preserved by pickling, so the demand for salt was very large.

But the problem is that salt and iron are under the exclusive control of the imperial court, and ordinary people dare not intervene at all.

According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, those who sell illegal salt will be beheaded if the serious ones are serious, and the minor ones will be sent to the army and exiled.

Moreover, the imperial court is also very strict on this aspect. The Salt Transport Department is not just for nothing, and those who have no background and background do not give benefits. Almost one case is found and one case is cracked down.

At the beginning, the salt merchants who traded grain for salt that Lao Zhu established were also firmly in control of this business, and no one was allowed to intervene in it and compete with them for profit.

For this reason, they did not hesitate to use a large amount of money to bribe officials in the court to escort them.

In addition, their nephews participated in the imperial examination and entered the official system, which made their profit network even bigger.

As the future emperor of the prince, Zhu Houzhao has great power, but he dares to openly engage in this business. Those officials who are supported by salt merchants, and those officials whose family participates in selling salt will definitely try their best to obstruct it. Even at the expense of death.

The current Ming Dynasty is not the Ming Dynasty of the Hongwu Yongle period.

After the changes in the civil fortress, coupled with the laissez-faire of my father, the power of the civil servants has grown, and now it has almost reached the point where it can compete with the imperial power.

Although Zhu Houzhao is an expensive prince, but if he dares to move the cake of salt, those representatives and officials of the salt merchants who are in a hurry will definitely send him on the road more than ten years in advance.

In order to delay this conflict, Zhu Houzhao gave up the option of intervening in selling salt on the surface, and chose to sell private salt to make money from it.

As the saying goes: Big plans lead to big successes, small plans lead to small successes, and small plans lead to small successes.

Don't do something that challenges the laws of Ming Dynasty, if you want to make a lot of money, go to bed and sleep, there is everything in your dreams.

In addition, Zhu Houzhao's more important idea is to gather the kitchen households who have been working all the year round, or the miners from all over the country by selling private salt, and form a new army like Qi Jiguang.

The only difference between him and Qi Jiguang is that the army he formed is not a small army of tens of thousands of people, but an army of tens of thousands or even 10,000+. It is an army that can fully guarantee his life and the throne when problems arise in the future.

If everything goes well according to his plan.

In the future, there will be conflicts with those interest groups who sell salt. He has a lot of money and an elite army in his hands, and he will not make fun of those guys.

I have money and soldiers in my hands, and whoever dares to make a noise will be killed.

It is obvious that I am the prince, so I will talk about it. I have plenty of time, and I have a lot of godsons under my command. Let's grind slowly and see who can't hold on first.

If you want to do it secretly, I have an army in my hand, so you can choose as you please.

Zhu Houzhao is not afraid at all, he is the only son of Emperor Hongzhi.

Zhu Houzhao didn't believe it anymore. With money and soldiers in his hands, the bastards of the civil servants dared to pull Zhu Houcong, a fool with only a small cleverness, to replace him.

Oh, by the way, there is also Zhu Houcong, looking for an opportunity later to kill this selfish, smart idiot, so that these civil servants will not always think that someone can replace them, and come to mess with Lao Tzu.

It’s also Emperor Jiajing, who spends all day in the palace fighting with civil officials. The common people in the world are starving to death, and I haven’t seen his cleverness put to good use. This kind of cleverness is worthless!

Thinking about his own plan in his mind, Zhu Houzhao rubbed his plump chin and muttered softly.

"It's not enough to have only two godsons. Turn around and take the prefects of the two prefectures in Dengzhou and Laizhou as godsons."

Zhu Houzhao's idea is very simple. After accepting the two sons of Dengzhou and Laizhou, he will move the salt factory to Terengganu. Moreover, the terrain of Terengganu and Laizhou is more suitable for the development of salt farms.

Terengganu is also a very good place. It is a good place to establish a naval base, so that the navy and army can develop accordingly.

It would be even better if Japanese pirates came.The army and navy also have opportunities for combat training, which can serve multiple purposes.

When the two military branches develop in the future, Zhu Houzhao will not have to worry about so many things every day, and he can happily play hide-and-seek and stake-hitting games with his beautiful sisters
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