Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 522 Seeing Gu Hengbo in Hongyewu

It was evening, and Huajian City, where the temperature was getting colder, began to drizzle lightly, and the wind picked up, and the cherry blossoms fluttered into Huajian City.

At this time, there is already a layer of cherry blossoms in the Hongyewu of Weiyang Palace, like a snowdrift, and the raindrops fall on it without a sound.

On the contrary, a small ditch under the small corridor in the dock leading to the Yanzhi Creek outside the palace makes ding-dong sounds from time to time, which is crisp and pleasant, but it also complements the tranquility and elegance at this moment.

Although it is already April, due to the warm and cold spring and the influence of the climate of the small glacier, Zhu Youxiao has already put on a big cloak at this time, and is sitting at the music bar in the dock to listen to the music.

The player who played the music was of course Gu Hengbo, with a slight smile on his flawless white face, his slender jade fingertips naturally plucked the strings, and his pink skin wrapped in tulle was slightly reflected against the fire in the brazier beside him. It was glowing red, but it also complemented the blush on her cheeks.

The slightly undulating tube top on the opposite side of Guqin did not conceal the inner tension, although the long hair flowing down from the ears after bathing tried to block the changing width of the gully while swaying in the wind.

The brazier was bought by Zhu Youxiao when he saw that she was wearing thin clothes and trembling slightly while playing the piano.

Zhu Youxiao didn't stare at her all the time, he hadn't gotten to the point of getting carried away by seeing the beauty. The audit results of the Ministry of Household Affairs on Tianqi's 18-year financial expenditure reached Zhu Youxiao after half a month across the ocean.

However, the information revealed behind the various figures is not optimistic. Although the total wealth of the Ming Empire has increased a lot in recent years, with the rapid expansion of business scale and the limited capacity of the country's capital, the imperial capital has been growing in the new economy. The proportion of the amount is getting lower and lower, but the royal capital, that is, the country's expenditure on large-scale construction and the popularization of Han culture, is getting larger and larger. The economy of Ming Dynasty is still facing the crisis of deficit.

In addition, the production capacity has become excessive, and the current increase in social demand has been far behind the increase in productivity. If we want to maintain the stable development of the Ming Dynasty's economy and avoid a crisis, we can only control production capacity and start implementing regulatory policies. , can no longer be in the fast lane and produce unscrupulously, but this will still lead to a decline in the growth rate of total social wealth. The intuitive manifestation is that the income of workers directly linked to production will be greatly reduced.

Today, the number of workers in Daming is already a huge number. Almost every provincial capital city has tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of workers, especially the two capitals have exceeded one million. That is to say, once this phenomenon is allowed If it continues to develop, if you don't take precautions, it is likely to be a riot or even a rebellion by millions of people.

Therefore, while controlling production capacity from excessive development, Zhu Youxiao has to ensure that the total wealth of society can still grow rapidly.

How to achieve this can only open up new trade and sell new products, but now almost everything that can be sold is being sold, and even the ban on the export of guns has been lifted.

Because of this incident, Zhu Youxiao became a little annoyed. He suddenly wanted to be quiet, so he tapped his hand on the railing, and Gu Hengbo's hand, which was about to pluck the strings, stopped.

As a well-known nobleman in the south of the Yangtze River, Gu Hengbo could naturally see the melancholy look on Zhu Youxiao's brows, and she offered a cup of tea quite appropriately: "A mantra of pure heart can't relieve your majesty's worries, It can be seen that the servant girl is not good at playing the piano, please forgive me, Your Majesty."

"Don't do your business, what do you think is the most profitable business in the world?" Zhu Youxiao's words made Gu Hengbo feel disgusted with him. At first, he played the piano and didn't listen carefully. Gu Hengbo, who has always pursued elegance, would naturally feel vulgar to ask about copper stink, but Zhu Youxiao is an emperor after all, and she is just a noble lady, with a disparity in status, so naturally she dared not show it, so she had to echo: "Naturally it is smoke and soil, It can make people go bankrupt, and earn much faster than gambling, listening to operas and drinking flower wine."

"Smoke soil?"

Zhu Youxiao asked a question, and suddenly frowned, and put the teacup heavily: "I ask you, how did you know that Yantu can make huge profits, and whether the Ming Dynasty has been flooded with Yandi now!"

Seeing Zhu Youxiao's serious expression, and thinking that this is a master who can kill people if he disagrees with him, Gu Hengbo was so frightened that his face paled, and he knelt down and said: "Your Majesty, in recent years, Yantu has indeed become a human being." We all know that it is a good business, because His Majesty does not allow foreigners to operate this way, and the bulk of the goods are monopolized by the imperial court, so private sales of tobacco and soil have long been commonplace."

"Get up", Zhu Youxiao was very angry. At the same time, he didn't understand why the smoke and soil, which was rampant in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, suddenly became a popular industry at this time.

But now that it's time for fun, it's not easy for Zhu Youxiao to lose his temper in front of Gu Hengbo, so he hid his doubts in his heart, got up and hugged Gu Hengbo directly, with a wicked smile on his lips.

Gu Hengbo couldn't help moaning coquettishly, knowing what His Majesty was going to do today, he couldn't help closing his eyes.

When Liu Rushi came with breakfast, Zhu Youxiao had already left the gate, and was standing under the lotus pavilion in the dock, practicing Tai Chi.

"Your Majesty, did you sleep well last night?" Liu Rushi couldn't help asking, and brought out a bowl of millet porridge, a butterfly steamed bun, a pair of silver chopsticks, and put them on the stone table. A wooden tray of towels and toilet bottles came over.

Zhu Youxiao wiped his hands: "Very good, put all these down, go and call Wang Chengen and Li Mingrui, I will wait for them here, and in addition, tell a few people to serve some of the people inside, I am playing a bit However, it is estimated that they will not be able to get out of bed at this moment."

For a while, both Wang Chengen and Li Mingrui had arrived here, and Zhu Youxiao didn't say much, but ordered: "Prepare immediately, and leave Fusang in three days. I must return to the capital before the summer solstice. In addition, the admiral of Dongchang Liu Ruoyu came to Shenyang to see me, there must be no mistake!"

Li Mingrui and Wang Chengen glanced at each other, and felt that although His Majesty seemed to be calm on the surface, but suddenly changed his mind and wanted to leave Fusang early, it seemed that something important had happened, but the two couldn't ask in detail, so they had to agree.

After the two retreated, they grabbed Fusang Governor Yang Tinglin and asked carefully who that Gu Hengbo was, and why His Majesty suddenly shortened the inspection time after sleeping with him for one night.

Yang Tinglin naturally said he didn't know.

(End of this chapter)