The First Gongsheng of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 36

"Cattle?"

Jiang Dezhong froze in place, probably unable to keep up with his train of thought.

Is this a new market trend?

The food business has just ended, and you want to raise cattle again?
"My son-in-law, can you tell the old man, what are you going to do? Do you mean that you want to sell beef? Or that Daming's cattle will be scarce? What do you want are cattle for working in the fields? That is to say, what are you going to do?" Are there not enough people alive?"

Jiang Dezhong began to ask Zhang Zhou what kind of money-making business this is.

Zhang Zhou thought to himself, I won't tell you, let you guess for the rest of your life, and you will never guess the result.

"Father-in-law, there are some things I can't tell you in detail. What I want is not an old cow, but a calf. In the future, I will buy and sell cows more frequently. It is best to have a ready-made way. I also need a place where I can raise my cattle."

Cows will not die if they get smallpox, and they will be immune once for life. Once a cow recovers from the disease, he can only be replaced by another one.

Zhang Zhou needs the support of local people with resources and connections to buy and sell large quantities of exchanges. It is impossible for him to run out of the city every day as a juror to talk to people about "cow exchange".

"you……"

Jiang Dezhong was speechless.

He said: "My son-in-law, you are a jury now, why do you want to do such a self-deprecating thing? I have never heard of any famous people who went to raise cattle."

"Then father-in-law, you won't help?"

"If you want a cow, I'll just buy it for you, but you still have to tell me what it is for, right?"

Zhang Zhou smiled and said: "I can't say it yet. After I raise the cattle, I will make it clear to you, father-in-law, and this is a profitable business. Please keep it a secret, father-in-law. There will be some disaster."

Jiang Dezhong looked disdainful: "Raising a cow, there are still disasters? As for?"

Zhang Zhou sighed: "Father-in-law will understand at that time. No matter how cheap my father-in-law's medicinal materials are, let's sell them early. I have some money here for father-in-law to help you buy cattle. I also ask father-in-law to help you introduce local cattle breeders! Find some The tenants can come..."

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Zhang Zhou wanted to raise cattle to breed smallpox, and then cultivate vaccinia. Obviously, he couldn't do it by himself all the time.

Since Jiang Dezhong has always wanted to make a fortune, then bring Jiang Dezhong along.

This matter looks promising, but it is actually dirty, messy, and politically risky. Zhang Zhou is purely trying to drag Jiang Dezhong into trouble.

Zhang Zhou's idea is.

When you help me find the cows, I will prepare the first batch of cowpox and send them to the capital, and then I will tell you the reason behind it. At that time, there will be no chance for you to get off the pirate ship. You can only come with me partner in this business.

In the future, I will take my imperial examination, become my official, and earn my big money. I will leave all the hard work to you, old Taishan!

Don't say there are "good things" I don't think about you.

Before Jiang Dezhong left, Zhang Zhou specially gave him some tribute tea.

Jiang Pingyu wrapped it up and sent it out.

Jiang Dezhong was still puzzled and asked: "Son-in-law, what have you experienced recently? Why do you look different from before? Even your shots... are different."

In the past Zhang Zhou was very stingy and wished he could split a penny into two halves to spend, but now he actually gave him tribute tea to his father-in-law, without asking where the tribute tea came from, but why Zhang Zhou changed his sex.

Zhang Zhou said with a smile: "Father-in-law, people will always change. As I now have a status, I will always experience something that I have never experienced before. I was just a tribute student before, and eating was a problem. If my father-in-law drinks this tea smoothly, I will be happy in the future. I'll send some more."

"Hey!" Jiang Dezhong turned around and walked towards the door, not forgetting to remind him, "The price of food has dropped, and you have time to make up for your food."

Zhang Zhoudao: "Don't worry, the price of food has not dropped to the bottom yet, if father-in-law, you want to use my method to borrow food from others to make money... it's too early."

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Send Jiang Dezhong away.

Jiang Pingyu asked: "What did my husband say to my father again? Looking at him, he seems very embarrassed."

Zhang Zhoudao: "I asked him to buy cattle for me."

"Buy a cow?"

"Let's not talk about it, how do you think about the materials? Not only are there brocade brocades, but also silk and satin from Duke Cheng's mansion. Make more clothes. After a while, we will go to the capital." Zhang Zhou said.

Jiang Pingyu said: "Is my husband going to the capital to rush for the exam? If I rush to the exam, I will just wait in Nanjing with my younger sister."

Zhang Zhou said with a smile: "I want to be a Jinshi in the next year. From then on, I will be an official in the capital. What does it look like for you to stay in Nanjing? After we arrive in the capital, we will settle down and rarely come back. This is my heart. Just follow my pace as an official, wherever I am an official, wherever I go.”

Jiang Pingyu was taken aback when she heard that.

"Why is my husband so sure that I can be a Jinshi? At this time, shouldn't I be more humble?"

Zhang Zhou thought to himself, I even know the exam questions for the next year's national exam and palace exam. Even if it may change due to the butterfly effect, but since I treat the princess and do some business in the capital in the future, I won't wait for the next time, the head office, right?
Why do you have to go back to Nanjing City, where the sky is high and the emperor is far away?
Zhang Zhoudao: "To be a husband is to be a high-profile person. Be prepared. You must go out before winter. The weather in the north is no better than that in the south. It will take a while for us to get used to it after we go there!"

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The capital, the imperial palace.

Inside the Qianqing Palace.

Dai Yi is reporting to Zhu Youtang the current situation of the palace's epidemic prevention.

"...of the 160 four people who took the medicine, although a few of them had symptoms of acne, none of them got worse. Those who recently contracted the epidemic and were sent out of the palace were all without medicine and belonged to the miscellaneous hospital. Now The servants and maidservants who often served in front of several noble lords in the inner garden have already used the medicine, and the epidemic has not shown any signs of developing into the inner garden..."

Dai Yi is now full of ambition.

After vaccinating the little princess, he became a model of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism in the eyes of the emperor. Dai Yi himself was the eunuch in charge of the seal of rites, and the emperor even said that he would confer a title on Dai Yi's nephew.

Zhu Youtang nodded when he heard the words: "How far has the epidemic in the capital developed?"

Dai Yi was a little confused: "There are signs of spreading from the south city and the north city to the surrounding areas, and the epidemic has been reported one after another outside the city, and the panic has not improved."

Once the smallpox epidemic spreads, it is very difficult to clean it up.

The vaccination of human pox in China was mainly done after the Longqing period, using special methods to select and cultivate four or five generations of vaccinia for vaccination, so the mortality rate was still quite high, and even the human pox was the most primitive strain in the Hongzhi period.

"Is there any news from Nanjing?" Zhu Youtang asked.

Dai Yi said: "There is news that there is no prescription, and we can only dispense medicine temporarily."

"Then it should be faster! Before more people are infected with the epidemic, we should urge Ying Tianfu more. Now, I can also use this medicine, as well as the queen, queen mother, and empress dowager. It depends... There is a prince..." Zhu Youtang suddenly thought of his son, and he felt a little headache, "I said today that I will give him medicine, did you send someone there?"

Dai Yi smiled and said: "Yes, Commander Zhu Qianshi went there in person. The old slave wanted to go, but he was afraid that the crown prince would not listen, so he had to let Zhu Qianshi go in person."

Zhu Youtang shook his head and said, "Let Zhu Feng go, will he listen? This kid, the older he gets, the more disobedient he is, he's spoiled!"

　mutual encouragement

　　
　
(End of this chapter)