Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 158
Wei Guangwei has no intention of spending the wedding night. At this time, his head is already full of hoarfrost, kneeling under the moonlight, looking up at the faintly visible Drum Tower of the Forbidden City in the distance.

And there was a person standing next to him, it was Wu Jin, the head of the East Factory, and Wu Jin was here to convey Zhu Youxiao's will.

As the chief assistant of the cabinet, even if Zhu Youxiao is the king of a country, he cannot be dismissed at will, but the so-called rules mean there are flexibility.

The emperor does not dismiss you directly, but if you ask yourself to be an official, Zhu Youxiao can directly approve it.

What Wu Jin has to do now is to force Wei Guangwei to write an official letter.

But Wei Guangwei was a little bit reluctant to part with the hard-won position of chief assistant. Once a person has power, he will be obsessed with power, and would even give up his life to seize power and keep his position.

Wei Guangwei is such a person, what he did was to keep his position as chief assistant, but he didn't expect that he would be self-defeating.

Looking at the glass of poisoned wine in Wu Jin's hand, he knew that he had no way out, and His Majesty hated the person who used and tried to control him the most.

Wei Guangwei, who had always been worried that Qian Qianyi, who was in the prime of his family, would usurp his position as chief assistant, thought of such a plan by accident when he learned that His Majesty was coming to congratulate him.

It turned out that before Wei Guangwei arranged for Zhu Youxiao to enter his daughter's attic, he ordered a strange fragrance from the Western Regions that can produce a stimulating effect when mixed with some kind of tea. Specifies that this reaction occurs.

Moreover, Wei Guangwei never knew that Wang Chengen was the one who tested the poison, but Wang Chengen was an eunuch, and he would not react after drinking tea and smelling the fragrance.

Therefore, he had expected that His Majesty would fall into his trap.

At that time, if His Majesty takes possession of his daughter, even if His Majesty knows that he did it, with His Majesty's character, he will definitely admit the fact that raw rice is cooked. Even if he is unhappy for a while, Wei Guangwei believes that his daughter can make His Majesty gradually forget about this pimple .

What's more, I also lost my daughter.

However, His Majesty did not fall into his trap in the end, but he could have died well, but he had to face His Majesty's heavy punishment.

"Your Majesty, I just want to be the head of the country once!"

Wei Guangwei burst into tears uncontrollably, knocked his head heavily on the ground, and then wrote a note requesting to be an official while weeping.

Wei Guangwei's brochure was quickly approved, and at the same time a large number of Dongchang fans surrounded Wei's mansion, but when they entered, Wei Guangwei and his eldest son had already died of poison.

While most of Wei Guangwei's property was confiscated, only a small part of the ancestral property used for sacrifices was kept for the living of his surviving relatives.

Wei Guangwei's Xinna's Mrs. Ru was very unlucky. She thought she could marry into the chief assistant's mansion and be a master from now on, but she didn't expect that she became a commoner again in a blink of an eye, and had to suffer from an old lady. of control.

No one would have thought that old Wei Ge, who was known to everyone in the capital because of a trivial incident of taking a concubine a few days ago, would be ruined overnight.

Even, on the night when he committed suicide by taking poison, the major newspapers and periodicals disclosed that he was guilty of evil intentions.

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The business of the exclusive store of the Royal Industries Company that Gong Yonggu is directly in charge of is still not very good, and few are willing to buy these "luxury goods".

Gong Yonggu also went to the palace to ask Zhu Youjia to allow him to reduce the price, and Gong Yonggu believed that these more well-made silver mirrors and glass could sell better than those merchants as long as the price was reduced by half.

But Zhu Youxiao, who insisted on going to the high-end market and was unwilling to compete with other businessmen for the low-end market, still refused to agree, which made Gong Yongguye, who had already invested tens of thousands of taels of silver, a little calm down.

But after four or five months like this, a certain governor who came to Beijing bought ten pieces here at once, and Gong Yonggu made a profit of thousands of taels all at once.

Immediately afterwards, people from Shangshu's family and Shilang's family came to buy them. In short, after almost the upper-middle-class families in the entire capital and even some ordinary families had silver mirrors, some noble mansions began to feel that they used ordinary mirrors. The silver mirror is no longer enough to show one's status.

As for the silver mirror and glass monopolized by the Royal Industrial Company, because of their exquisite and meticulous design and high price, the Royal Monopoly always feels that it is linked to the Royal Monopoly, so they gradually think that buying the products of the Royal Monopoly is a symbol of status, and it doesn't matter if they are expensive. In terms of money, the worst thing is money.

All of a sudden, many big households in the capital, even some big households who had already bought silver mirrors and glass products from other merchants, came to the Royal Specialty Store to buy them.

In this way, it didn't take long for the goods in the store to be sold out, and the total turnover was as high as 20 taels, and the profit reached more than [-] taels.

Gong Yonggu now believed in His Majesty's strategy, so he obeyed His Majesty's arrangement without any doubts. Each product was only sold for one hundred pieces, and no more would be added after one hundred pieces were sold out.

However, customization is acceptable, but the price is higher, but it happens that many dignitaries come to customize it.

From low-end wholesale to high-end retail, the profits of Royal Industries Corporation have directly doubled, and Zhu Youxiao is now earning over one million taels of income relying on this.

This is much faster than he used to set up banknotes along the way and send eunuchs to various mines to extract mining taxes. After all, before the formal commercial tax was raised and under strong military pressure, Zhu Youxiao did not dare to do it at this time. Take it too far.

The economic benefits brought about by the research and development of the subject of glass have also stimulated other scientific researchers. Chen Laitou, an ordinary craftsman who could only rely on repairing glazed tiles on the roofs of wealthy families, could one day be an official residence of the fifth rank Received tens of thousands of taels of silver within a few months, anyone who saw it would be jealous.

"Have you heard that Chen Shi's family really sent out money this time, and the money was carried to his house one after another for three days and three nights. It is said that his son married Liu Ge's hometown Qianjin, this is a high branch."

"Is what you're saying true?"

"That's still false. The newspaper said it clearly. In my opinion, what kind of scholar do we still test for? In Shuntian Prefecture, we can't get a few in a year. Why don't we just go to the technical school of the Ministry of Industry, maybe we can also pass the exam." If you get one or two new gadgets, they will be reviewed by the Hanlin Academy."

Chen Shi's story of becoming rich caused a complete uproar once it was published in newspapers, especially in the late Ming society where the pursuit of fame and fortune was more prosperous and the commodity economy was more developed. The number of scholars and ordinary people who came to study in technical schools has increased several times.

There are more people who come to listen to Zhu Youxiao's courses, and more people apply for projects. Everyone hopes to be rich like Chen Laitou.

Gong Yonggu naturally gained a lot of benefits. At the same time, it also stimulated more active businessmen to want to cooperate with the royal family. Zhu Youxiao is also interested in looking for more agents for him.

As long as these people are tied to their own economic interests, they will have more say in their financial reforms.

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