Daming: Mixed in Dangzhi County, Beiping

Chapter 135 His Royal Highness King Yan Sent Fu Rui Here

"Why not?"

Guo An smiled faintly, "The Palace of King Yan also has a caravan, and the Shen family, as a wealthy Ming Dynasty, is rumored to be as rich as an enemy, so it is natural that they can cooperate with the Palace of King Yan.

However, what Shen Yuanwai said today... Forget it, Shen Yuanwai, please go back, think about it carefully..."

Shen Zhuang remained motionless, his eyes were red, and he stared at Guo An, "Xiao Min begged Guo Changshi for advice."

He is the son of a merchant, if he can cooperate with the Prince Yan's Mansion, then he will directly rise to the top, even the uncles and brothers in the family will not dare to underestimate him. In the future, his lineage in Shenzhuang will be comparable to those direct descendants!
The most important thing is to get on the big ship of His Royal Highness King Yan. No matter how much money he earns in Shenzhuang, his family and life are guaranteed, and he doesn't have to be like his uncle at home, humbly giving respect to the officials.

Now, such a good opportunity is in front of him, no matter how difficult it is, he, Shen Zhuang, will seize it.

Guo An thought for a moment, then said slowly: "Although you are from the Shen family, you don't have any money or connections in Beiping Mansion. If you want to do business with King Yan's Mansion, you can only cooperate with wool and looms."

Shen Zhuang looked disappointed.

"Or..." Guo An said again.

Shen Zhuang's eyes lit up, and he looked at Guo An expectantly for a long while, only to find that Guo Changshi was embarrassed, and then kept silent.

Now, Shen Zhuang couldn't help being anxious.

"I also ask Guo Changshi to speak frankly."

"That's it."

Guo An sighed heavily, and hooked his hands at Shen Zhuang.

Shen Zhuang understood, got up quickly, and put his head in front of Guo An.

Guo An asked in a low voice: "When your Shen family was at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, you often sent a large number of sea ships to the sea to trade with foreign barbarians overseas.

Presumably, now that the Shen family is overseas, they still have some contacts, right?
We don't expect you to risk your life and money to go overseas for trade, but we just want your Shen family to help us... His Royal Highness Yan Wang is looking for a few things overseas. When the time comes, let alone the technology of planting vegetables in winter, even if you want the technology of glass sintering, Can be delivered directly to you! "

Shen Zhuang's face was terrified, and his terrified voice changed: "Guo Changshi must not say that, ever since His Majesty banned the sea, hundreds of big boats of the Shen family have turned into lakes and rivers.

The Shen family hasn't been in the sea for more than ten years. "

"I see."

A trace of regret flashed across Guo An's face, "If that's the case, then let me say nothing."

Shen Zhuang subconsciously nodded quickly, "Extremely, extremely..."

"Ok?"

After returning to his senses, he couldn't help but smile.

"May I ask what Guo Changshi wants the Shen family to look for? Although the Shen family has not gone to sea for more than ten years, when Xiaomin was a child, the elders of the family often brought back some weird things from outside the country.

Nowadays, there are still several warehouses of overseas foreign goods piled up in the Shen family's warehouse.

Perhaps, what Guo Changshi was looking for was in the Shen family's warehouse. "

Guo An smiled lightly, "The Shen family really has a profound heritage."

Shen Zhuang quickly replied: "Xiao Min is ashamed, this is all the blessings of the elders."

Guo An took a deep look at Shen Zhuang, and said, "Mr. Shen wait a moment, I will go and bring you the things I am looking for."

After he finished speaking, he got up and walked out.

After a while, Guo An walked in with a few albums full of portraits and annotations on the side.

Shen Zhuang took it and looked it over quickly, his face froze immediately, he had never seen any of them, and he hadn't even heard of them.

"how?"

Guo An asked, "Does your Shen family have these items?"

Shen Zhuang hurriedly raised his head and replied: "I also ask Guo Changshi to forgive me, Xiaomin didn't pay much attention to these plants.

However, Xiaomin will bring these drawings back home as soon as possible, and ask the elders at home to check them out. "

"No problem!"

Guo An smiled softly, "As long as your Shen family can hand over these things to His Royal Highness King Yan before I find these things, what I say will be valid at any time."

"Thank you Guo Changshi!"

Shen Zhuang immediately expressed his gratitude with great joy.

Afterwards, he hurriedly bid farewell and left.

After sending Shen Zhuang away, Guo Erniu turned around and went back to the house, "Master, why do you think that Shen Zhuang is not telling the truth?"

"Whatever he does, as long as he can find those things, it will be a great achievement for us."

Guo An said casually.

"Oh……"

And when Shen Zhuang got into the carriage, Shen Wu who had never said a word by his side also said solemnly: "Master, then Guo An knows the details of our Shen family!"

"It doesn't matter, as long as they can't find evidence."

Shen Zhuang smiled softly, "Besides, isn't it just our Shen family? The top priority is to find these things as soon as possible? Tomorrow, we will return to Suzhou!"

"Yes, Master!"

……

The next day.

Zhu Di casually asked Guo An, "I heard that Shen Zhuang went looking for you?"

Guo An nodded slightly, "Then Shen Zhuang wanted to ask Weichen to help him and sell him hundreds of catties of vegetables every day, but Weichen refused."

Zhu Di said again: "Then Shen Zhuang left early this morning."

A flash of surprise flashed in Guo An's eyes, "So fast?"

"Huh?" Zhu Di was puzzled.

Guo An explained: "Yesterday, Wei Chen gave Shen Zhuang a few blueprints, and wanted to use his Shen family's power to help Wei Chen find some things.

If found, Wei Chen promises to persuade His Highness to let Yan Wangfu cooperate with Shen Zhuang to do business. "

Zhu Di was furious, "Go to his mother's house, how can we cooperate with his little merchant?"

"Your Highness, calm down, it's not Yanwang's mansion, it's just the shops in the mansion." Guo An explained.

"That won't work either." Zhu Di said directly.

"Your Highness, the Shen family is a wealthy family after all. Although it is a little bit in decline, as long as we cooperate with the Shen family, we will definitely be able to make more money." Guo An said.

Zhu Di was startled for a moment, and then said slowly: "So, this matter is up to you to consider."

"Thank you Your Highness..."

……

And in Yingtian Mansion.

The matter of wool and glass was fermented among the officials.

A group of officials did not dare to go to Lao Zhu to sue rashly, so they all went to Prince Zhu Biao.

"Your Highness, I heard that Prince Yan's Mansion in Beiping did not ask the court for instructions, so they hired [-] young men without permission, and paid them back their wages.

Dozens of workshops were built in Beiping Mansion, and glass was continuously calcined day and night?This matter needs to be strictly investigated! "

"Your Highness, I also heard that His Royal Highness King Yan hired tens of thousands of women from the village to spin and weave cloth for King Yan's mansion. To win people's hearts so much, what exactly does King Yan want to do?"

"That's right, for such a long time, wouldn't it be possible for King Yan to directly bypass the Beiping Third Division and control hundreds of thousands of people in Beiping Mansion?"

"Your Highness, it's not Weichen and others who are making alarmist remarks and trying to stir up the relationship between His Highness and King Yan's brothers.

It's just that King Yan's move is very wrong. If King Yan continues like this, the people in Beiping Mansion will only care about chasing petty profits, and people will not care about farming.

The local sages and gentry could no longer bear it. "

"Your Highness, agriculture is the foundation, and there is no stability without agriculture. People don't think about farming, and big troubles are about to happen. If there is no food, people will starve to death."

"Even if there are rich merchants from the south of the Yangtze River who deliver food to Beiping Mansion every day, there are unpredictable things.

As long as there is an accident, the grain from the south of the Yangtze River will be transported to Beiping Mansion, and the hundreds of thousands of people in Beiping Mansion will have no food to eat, and within a few days, Beiping Mansion will be in chaos. "

"Your Highness, there are still remnants of Yuan Dynasty lingering in the north. If there is a war and there is no food available in the north, it will be a disaster..."

"Your Highness, no matter what, you can't open the hole in Yanwang Mansion..."

After hearing this, Zhu Biao's expression gradually became dignified.

During this period of time, it is not that he has not complained to him.It's just that the courtiers who sued him this time are bigger and more numerous.

"Why don't you go find your father?"

"This……"

An elderly senior official smiled awkwardly and said, "Sheng Wei is like Yuan, Weichen and others are a little scared."

Behind him, all the officials nodded.

A trace of helplessness flashed in Zhu Biao's eyes, and he said slowly: "We also know what you mean, we will go to Fengtian Hall in a while, and ask Father to investigate this matter thoroughly!"

"Your Highness is wise!"

"Your Highness is wise..."

All the ministers immediately beamed with joy.

Afterwards, they all resigned and left contentedly.

Inside the hall, Zhu Biao rubbed his head vigorously, sighed slightly, then got up and walked outside.

This matter, the fourth child is indeed making a big fuss.

However, what made Zhu Biao terrified was that after he finished speaking, Lao Zhu had a gloomy expression.

"They all slander you like this?"

"Father calm down, these ministers are also out of good intentions. The fourth brother actually recruited more than 2 young men and tens of thousands of women, which will indeed delay the farming work." Zhu Biao quickly excused the ministers.

"kindness?"

Old Zhu's eyes were even more angry, but after seeing Zhu Biao's anxious expression, he took a deep breath.

"Biao'er, let me ask you, in Beiping Mansion, in this severe winter, the land is as frozen as hard rocks, how do the common people produce farming?"

"This……"

Zhu Biao was taken aback.

Old Zhu said again: "Also, the fourth child is the King of Yan. He is a majestic King of Yan who spends money in Beiping Mansion to hire people to work and make money, so that the people can earn money and have food to eat in this cold winter. It is a great good thing, why is it a heinous crime?"

"Hmph, as for the local sages and gentry who can't bear it, it's because the fourth son makes the common people earn money so that they won't suffer from hunger, and no one asks them for loans, which prevents them from sucking the blood of the common people, right?"

As he said that, a cold light flashed in Lao Zhu's eyes.

"These people who only want to harm the people should be killed."

Zhu Biao was taken aback immediately, "Father, calm down, this matter needs to be investigated in detail, so as not to kill innocent people by mistake!"

"Hmph, why do these young people need us to do it?"

Old Zhu smiled coldly, and under Zhu Biao's astonished eyes, he said directly: "Just tell the fourth brother about this, and the fourth brother will clean up those gentry and country elders who are jumping up and down.

By the way, let the fourth son be reprimanded again. In the spring of next year, so many young men and women are not allowed to be hired, and not even an acre of land in Beiping Prefecture will be empty. "

"Father is wise!"

Zhu Biao's eyes lit up, and he quickly flattered him.

Old Zhu smiled triumphantly, and said again: "As for those treacherous ministers who dared to deceive the crown prince, let's investigate carefully!"

"Father calm down, those ministers are also thinking about Daming..."

Zhu Biao hurriedly begged for mercy.

Old Zhu looked helpless, "Biao'er, you are too kind. If you continue to be so kind, you will suffer at the hands of those ministers!"

"Report to Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Yan sent someone to present Furui!"

Suddenly, a servant came in from outside the hall with a happy face.

"Forry?"

Both Lao Zhu and Zhu Biao couldn't help being taken aback.

"It's He Furui?"

"His Royal Highness, it seems to be vegetables." The servant quickly replied.

"Vegetables? He Furui's vegetables?"

Old Zhu sneered, a little indifferent.

However, he quickly remembered something, a trace of excitement appeared on his face, and he got up directly.

"Hurry up and bring us that Furui!"

"Yes, Your Majesty..."

……

(End of this chapter)