Daming: Mixed in Dangzhi County, Beiping

Chapter 375 Sugarcane is in serious trouble

Soon, Zhu Gaochi walked in from outside.

This period of time.

Not only has Zhu Gaochi become much more mature and stable, but his overall figure also seems to have been controlled a lot, at least it will not grow significantly anymore.

This makes Guo Anlaohuai happy.

After a salute.

Guo An explained the establishment of the Chamber of Commerce to Zhu Gaochi in great detail.

"Our Prince Yan's Mansion is going to establish a chamber of commerce... all the gentry from Beiping Mansion can become shareholders, accounting for [-]%..."

"Father, please rest assured that this matter will be taken care of!"

After hearing this, Zhu Gaochi felt a little distressed.

However, he never doubted his teacher's plan, and his father had already agreed to it in front of all the gentry.

So, he agreed firmly.

"Thank you, Your Royal Highness!"

"Please rest assured, His Highness, we will fully cooperate with His Highness!"

All the gentlemen thanked him again and again.

"The new chamber of commerce will replace the original trading fleet. Therefore, a lot of complicated things must be sorted out.

Then please go back first, and let's work out various regulations with the officials of Chang Shi Division.

In two days, we will have formal discussions with you. "

Zhu Gaochi said slowly.

"I will obey the orders of His Royal Highness!"

All the gentry responded again.

……

After these gentry slowly left, Zhu Gaochi looked at Zhu Di and Guo An with a puzzled look.

"Dad, teacher, our Prince Yan's fleet can now make a lot of money from Goryeo every month.

Now, the house is not short of money and manpower.

Why is it so easy to set up a chamber of commerce so that all the gentry can join in and get a share of the pie? "

Zhu Di looked at Guo An.

Guo Andao: "Your Highness, Your Majesty, it is precisely because our Prince Yan's palace is not short of money now that I suggested to Your Highness to let all the gentry join in!"

"Ok?"

Zhu Di and Zhu Gaochi couldn't help but frown.

"What's the deep meaning of this, Guo Qing?"

Guo An said: "Back to Your Highness, although the words of these gentry are all directed towards my palace, Prince Yan.

However, they all have families behind them, and in the end, profit must come first.

After all, it was the one who won them over!

Even if they are still towards my Prince Yan's Mansion, as long as some people in their family have other ideas, they may still be affected.

Now, our Prince Yan's Mansion has branched out the business trade with the Yan Kingdom of Goryeo to give them some benefits.

Only if they are completely tied to the chariot of Prince Yan's Mansion will it be truly safe. "

"Moreover, it can be regarded as finding a way out for these gentry who are heading towards Prince Yan's Mansion.

Even in the future, after that person succeeds to the throne, the Ming Dynasty cannot tolerate us and them in Prince Yan's Mansion. They, the gentry, can follow Prince Yan's Mansion and retreat to the Kingdom of Goryeo without being implicated!

At the same time, according to the nature of these gentry, as long as they can intervene in the Yan Kingdom of Goryeo, they will definitely not let go of buying fields and real estate in the Yan Kingdom, and they will not be able to help but help our Yan Palace and govern the Yan Kingdom. "

"Also, if these gentry join the Chamber of Commerce, some of the former stewards of the caravan can be freed up to serve as officials in the Goryeo Kingdom.

The most important thing is that at least more than 1000 of the Yanshan Guards who originally escorted the ship can be used elsewhere..."

"Can the Yanshan Guards who are escorting the big ship be freed up?"

Hearing this, Zhu Di's eyes lit up.

"Guo Qing is really cunning!"

As for Zhu Gaochi, his focus is on completely tying those gentry to the chariot of Prince Yan...

"Teacher is really thoughtful!"

Guo An: "..."

However, when Guo An said this, Zhu Gaochi also knew how to treat those gentry.

He stood up and bowed his hands respectfully towards Guo An.

"Teacher, don't worry, I will definitely build the Chamber of Commerce!"

"Your Majesty is cautious and steady, so I can rest assured!"

……

Day two.

Zhu Gaochi discussed the next day in detail with a group of scribes from the Changshi Division.

Day three.

Without waiting for Zhu Gaochi to send someone to notify him, the gentry came to the door one by one.

Then, view details of the fleet's financial transactions in previous years.

All the gentlemen were filled with excitement again.

They never expected that the business between Prince Yan's Mansion and Goryeo would be so profitable?

In this way, they really made a lot of money!
Next, everything will be easy to handle!
All the gentry are very active in providing money and people!

As for the threat from the imperial grandson of the capital, they had long forgotten it.

soon.

five days.

The Yan State Chamber of Commerce has been established.

A few more days passed.

Then we arrived at the Autumn Harvest Festival in Beiping Mansion.

Everyone was busy harvesting, and there was no big commotion.

However, Zhang Yu, who was sent to the south by Zhu Di, returned to Beiping Mansion with hundreds of old sugar craftsmen and their families.

The Shen family is quite familiar with these craftsmen, and no one dares to cause trouble.

The emperor's grandson Zhu Yunwen, who lived deep in the East Palace, also received reports from Huang Zicheng.

The attitude of the Shen family made His Royal Highness the Crown Prince very satisfied.

"Then the Shen family is quite sensible!"

"His Highness is the Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty, and the Shen family is just a merchant family. How dare you disobey His Highness's orders!"

Neither Zhu Yunwen nor Huang Zicheng paid the slightest attention to the Shen family.

However, after talking about the gentry in Beiping Mansion, Zhu Yunwen's expression darkened.

"I heard that all the gentry in Beiping Mansion are very treacherous and cunning. A large number of them were sent by Mr. Huang to persuade them on the first day. On the second day, they all hurried to Prince Yan's Mansion to plead guilty to Prince Yan?"

Hearing this, Huang Zicheng couldn't help but get up again, with a guilty look on his face, "This is a poor minister who has done something wrong, please punish me!"

Zhu Yunwen quickly said with a gentle look on his face: "This is the disloyalty of those gentry, what does it have to do with Mr. Huang?" Huang Zicheng couldn't help but sigh softly and said: "Your Highness, forgive me, in fact, the gentry are not to blame for this!"

Zhu Yunwen couldn't help but frowned and said, "Huh? How can Mr. Huang speak for those gentry in Beiping Prefecture?"

"Your Highness doesn't know that the Beiping Mansion has been run by King Yan for more than ten years, and King Yan's spies are everywhere in the Beiping Mansion.

No matter what movement An An made, Prince Yan's Mansion would soon know about it.

And those gentry and their families were all in Beiping Mansion. For the safety of their families, these gentry had to pretend to submit to King Yan's power! "

"Huh, King Yan really has evil intentions!"

Zhu Yunwen said with hatred.

Huang Zicheng nodded slowly.

Zhu Yunwen once again looked at Huang Zicheng with an earnest look on his face, "In this case, relying on those gentry to shake the foundation of King Yan cannot be done for the time being. I wonder if Mr. Huang has any other ways to teach orphans?"

"This……"

Huang Zicheng couldn't help but think deeply.

……

at the same time.

As the major sugar workshops in the south stopped working, sugar craftsmen were brought to Beiping Prefecture.

However, some turmoil began to appear in southern state capitals such as Guangdong, Fujian, and Jiangxi.

Because sugar cane can be used to make sucrose.

In southern cities and towns such as Guangdong, Fujian, and Jiangxi, people often convert their fields to sugar cane.

With the advent of white sugar.

There are naturally more people growing sugar cane in places like Guangdong, Fujian, and Jiangxi.

There are even some wealthy families who directly plant sugar cane on the two to three hundred acres of fertile land in their homes, except for the ten or so acres that are enough for their own food.

After all, they could earn much more from selling sugar cane to the sugar shop jointly opened by the Shen family and Prince Yan's Mansion than they could from growing grain.

In just a few years, sugar allowed these wealthy gentry to make a lot of money.

come behind.

These wealthy gentry naturally increased their investment in cane sugar.

Some wealthy households even directly invested all their money in it.

just.

Those big households are seeing that this year's sugar cane has begun to mature.

After just selling it, they can make a lot of money one by one!
However, bad news suddenly broke.

Prince Yan's Mansion and the Shen family no longer cooperate in opening a sugar shop.

Not only were the sugar workshops closed, but even the craftsmen who could make sugar were taken away by Prince Yan's Mansion.

This news was like a thunderbolt in the clear sky, causing the confident wealthy households and common people to freeze in place and feel chilled all over.

In particular, some merchants who went to the countryside to harvest sugar cane were even more pale.

The sky is falling!

In order to harvest sugar cane, they paid deposits to the big sugar cane households.

They have even harvested thousands of kilograms of sugar cane!

"Sucrose...yes, there is also a cane sugar workshop..."

Suddenly, some merchants and sugarcane tycoons thought of the sugarcane factories that they had lost sight of in the past two years.

then.

A group of people ran towards the original sugar workshops.

When they arrived, these people were dumbfounded again!

"Sugar workshop?"

At this moment, they finally remembered that many of the original cane sugar workshops were converted into white sugar workshops.

And those cane sugar craftsmen have also become white sugar craftsmen.

Now, those craftsmen have all gone to Beiping Mansion!

"Hahaha, it's gone, there's nothing left..."

"Damn it, why doesn't the Shen family cooperate with Prince Yan's Mansion?"

"My sugar cane..."

In an instant, all the merchants and sugarcane tycoons collapsed!
Without the sugar mill, no one wants their sugar cane.

Not only the merchants have to lose money, but the big farmers who have been struggling with planting are even more miserable.

A year of hard work in vain, the result is just a useless meal of sugar cane...

soon.

Then someone found out the news.

"I heard that the emperor's grandson was afraid of King Yan in Peiping, so he spread the word that the Shen family would not be allowed to cooperate with King Yan!"

"The Shen family did not dare to disobey the emperor's grandson, nor did they dare to provoke Prince Yan's Mansion. They could only hand over the sugar craftsmen and sugar workshops to Prince Yan's Mansion!"

"This……"

Everyone was filled with anger when they heard this.

"The emperor's grandson wants to suppress King Yan, so why does he involve the sugar workshop?"

"Yes, without the sugar workshop, who will I sell the sugar cane that I have worked so hard for a year to sell to?"

"We have already collected two thousand kilograms of sugar cane in our warehouse..."

"If those sugar canes can't be sold, how will we survive this year?"

"Let's go find the magistrate!"

"Humph, go find the prefect!"

"If I and so many others are cut off from their jobs, I will definitely appeal..."

soon.

The gates of government offices and county offices in Guangdong, Fujian, and Jiangxi were crowded with hundreds of merchants, gentry, and village sages.

In areas like the south, where literary culture flourishes, those who have the leisure to plant sugar cane are basically wealthy families with well-established families.

Moreover, it is still intact today. Those who stay in these places are all officials in their families or wealthy gentry with strong backgrounds.

Every time a family comes to visit, those county and government officials must treat them with caution.

But now, all these people angrily blocked the door, and it was still about the sugar cane matter. These county magistrates and magistrates were immediately worried!
However, they cannot ignore it.

After all, sugar cane also involves their interests.

As for the emperor's grandson?
snort!
When it comes to their own interests, those gentry don't care about the emperor's grandson or the emperor's prince!

It can't be done, because the emperor's grandson will starve to death.

Those magistrates of counties and prefectures did not dare to delay.

then.

The impeachment memorial flew directly into the capital like snowflakes!

……

(End of this chapter)