Back to Ming Dynasty as Zhu Biao

Chapter 200
Early in the morning, the breeze was blowing, and the Mid-Autumn Festival would be three days later. After Zhu Biao finished his sword practice, Li Wenzhong happened to come to see him.

"Li Wenzhong has met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"You don't have to be polite, what do those salt merchants and weaving workshops in the south of the Yangtze River say?" Zhu Biao sat at the stone table, and the little eunuch poured tea for the two of them.

Li Wenzhong knew that his uncle directly instructed Zhu Biao to contact salt merchants and cloth merchants in various places, so he did not hide it.

"Reporting to Your Highness, those businessmen don't show up every time, saying that they are busy with business, but they don't annoy us. They just find some women and drink and eat to waste our time."

"Did you ever go to Shen Qiancheng?" Zhu Biao picked up the teacup: "What about him?"

"The first one to look for was Shen Qiancheng. He went to Beiping to buy food a few days ago. I saw that young lady from the Shen family didn't take her seriously and left directly."

buy food?Why did the Shen family go to Beiping to buy food?Isn't there enough food in the south of the Yangtze River for him?

Zhu Biao glanced at Li Wenzhong: "You can fight and charge, but you have to find someone else for this matter."

The two talked about the general situation again, and Li Wenzhong smiled honestly, saying that his father still had something to do, so he asked for instructions and left.

At noon, Zhu Biao woke up at noon and saw a person standing quietly in his bedroom.

"Three treasures?"

"Prince, it is the Three Treasures."

"When did you come in?"

"Go back to the prince, not long, only three hours."

Zhu Biao smiled at him, this three treasures are not the other three guarantees, but now he is definitely not an idler.

"Don't go when you come back, I need you by my side." Zhu Biao looked at him: "The work of the shipyard has been completed, and you have done a very good job."

Sanbao smiled and took out the wooden box from the table, and handed it to Zhu Biao: "Jiao Zan and Li Anyong presented it to Your Highness."

"Open it and have a look." Sanbao opened the box obediently, and there were two small firecrackers with curved handles inside: "They said they saw it in the prince's drawing, but they couldn't make it so detailed."

"This is?" Zhu Biao saw the tubular thing placed next to the firecracker.

"Back to the prince, it is enough gunpowder for self-defense, and the dose is just right." The three treasures brought it to Zhu Biao: "They said that if it wasn't for the shortage of money and materials, they would definitely make a more convenient one."

Zhu Biao took out a handful and weighed it in his hand. Although it is not as good as later generations, it is already a good product today.

Killing a chicken does not require a butcher's knife, the right one is the best.

Sanbao took out the cowhide case of the firecracker and handed it to Zhu Biao: "They are all top-grade products that have passed the inspection."

"Later, you go and send this one to the emperor, let him keep it, and tell the amount of gunpowder by the way."

Zhu Biao thought that the main task of Sanbao was to build ships, and he might not be able to do these things. Unexpectedly, Sanbao laughed in public and said, "The prince, water-based, firecrackers, swords, servants and servants all have learned, and even the selection of minerals and medicines are also taught in these two places." years of study.

The master and servant hadn't seen each other for a long time, and Zhu Biao checked Sanbao's two-year study results.

"Prince, there are many big ships buying grain at the pier? I didn't hear that there was going to be a war."

When Sanbao went to the pier, he saw many cargo ships carrying grain in the early morning and twilight. He is an expert in shipbuilding, and this kind of ship is most suitable for transporting grain and goods.

Zhu Biao didn't pay attention to these things in the first place. Buying and selling grain was the business of the folks. If he cared about this, he would be exhausted.

The fact that the Shen family went to Beiping to buy grain, and now the wharf is transporting grain, is really suspicious.

You must know that there is not enough food now, and the people can only eat their stomachs, and the imperial court is constantly making agricultural policies to increase production.

Could it be that the Shen family wants to monopolize?
Zhu Biao summoned Lu Zhong, the deputy commander of Jinyiwei, to inquire.

"Lu Zhong? Do you know about the Shen family buying food these days?"

"Report to Your Highness, I know."

"Why didn't you report it?"

"Your Majesty, the Jin merchants who settled in the south of the Yangtze River are also buying grain. I thought they were buying and selling grain for business, but I have ordered people to keep an eye on them all the time. It's just that hundreds of thousands of shi of grain are placed in the Wen family. The government granary, no other actions."

"What about the Shen family?"

"The Shen family, Yechen's people said that the Wen family asked the Shen family to help raise food and promised to take it back at a high price, so Shen Qiancheng went to Beiping.

"Where's Miss Shen?"

"She...Wen Shujiang will go to the cloth workshop to look for her in the past few days, and the two of them will go to the lake during the Mid-Autumn Festival."

Zhu Biao nodded, what did the Wen family do when they collected grain and transported it to their own granaries in various prefectures.Now there are no natural disasters, so it is not justified for him to stockpile food.

"From now on, if you want to know everything about the Wen family in the past and present, you can arrange it."

"Observe the order. The minister will do it now."

Zhu Biao ordered Sanbao to send firecrackers to Lao Zhu, and he kept one for himself.

Seeing the exquisite firecrackers, Lao Zhu couldn't put it down. After all, it was his own prince who proposed to do it at that time, and he was very satisfied.

Afterwards, Lao Zhu ordered that, except for him and the crown prince, no one in the palace was allowed to carry this kind of firecracker privately.

For two consecutive days, the news that Lu Zhong brought back was that the Wen family was buying grain everywhere, which cost a total of 100 million shi, but after the grain was bought, it was put in the granary and there was no movement.

Their Jin Yiwei had no choice but to stand still.

On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhu Biao took the three treasures out of the palace.Even if he is a crown prince, he is stable and proud, but he really can't sit still.

After all, does Shen know that he hasn't given him the profits of the wine shop in the past two months, and there is also a treacherous and cunning document Jiang.

When he came out of the East Palace, Zhu Biao asked Sanbao to take his firecracker with him, and then he sat on the carriage and left the palace.

It's the Mid-Autumn Festival again, and the streets are very lively with people coming and going, there are many tourists selling sugar, monkeys, and so on.

However, the most popular ones are all kinds of handmade mooncakes, which are cheap, healthy and delicious. This year, Empress Ma will still manage these mooncakes in the palace.She always supervises in person, afraid that those court ladies and eunuchs will miss steps.

On Zhengda Street, there is a vendor who sells candied haws on a hot day, and many women and men are vying for it.

Shen Zhishi took the girl by the hand and said, "Whatever Xiaobai wants to eat, my sister will buy it for you."

"Miss Shen, why don't we go have a bowl of summer soup?" Wen Shujiang approached Shen Zhifu's waist with one hand.

"I don't like to drink." Shen Zhifu said with a smile.

"Why don't you go to the theater?" When Wen Shujiang was about to approach, Xiao Bai next to him said, "What's on my sister's waist!"

"What?" Shen Zhishi turned her head, and everything became clear. She glanced at Wen Shujiang, thinking of his promise to help her contact wine merchants in various places in Shanxi, so she endured it.

If he can win the business of several big restaurants in Shanxi, Wuliang Xuequ will increase a lot of profits every month.

Wen Shujiang next to him eased his embarrassment, glared at Xiaobai, and waved his fan. When he saw a candied haws seller not far away, he walked over and bought two.

"No need." After Shen Zhishi finished speaking, he saw that it was a candied haws, and he was taken aback for a while before taking it.

I remember that at the end of the year, someone also bought candied haws, and just walked over from the street and handed them to her.

Thinking of his identity and holding common people's things, she thought it was so funny and tempting.

Seeing her staring at the candied haws with a smile on her lips, Wen Shujiang thought that the things he bought were good, and he became a little proud at the moment.

In the private room of the Shen family restaurant, Zhu Biao was sitting by the window eating food and wine. Seeing Xiao Lian standing next to him, Zhu Biao said with a sullen face, "Go find your lady."

Sanbao didn't know what the relationship between his crown prince and that young lady was, but he felt that it was a crime of deceiving the prince to keep His Highness the crown prince waiting for two hours.

Xiao Lian looked at the street worriedly, she only begged the young lady to come back quickly, there is something wrong with the Crown Prince today, if she gets angry, it will be bad.

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