Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1096 The Princess Summons
The fight in Myanmar was in full swing, but Gao Yu's life in the capital was uneventful. Apart from helping the three students greet and pave the way for their future, his main task was nothing more than fundraising.

Jinghua’s gold-lettered signboard may be stronger than the Ministry of Household Affairs to a certain extent. No matter whether the rich people in Beijing are nobles, wealthy businessmen or officials, no one thinks that the “Dian War Treasure Banknote” can still be used after Jinghua has a pocket. What is the possibility of a credibility crisis.

Since reputation is not a problem, what about Qian Jing...Anyway, Gao Pragmatically said there is no problem.Even if Gao Pragmatic’s commitment to Qianjing is discounted in half, everyone still thinks it is acceptable. After all, it is more and more useless to hold cash in one’s hand these days. Speaking of which, it seems that Gao Pragmatically put forward this idea at the earliest time. Yes, he said that money is to be used to make money, if not, then the silver is no different from bricks.

It is good to make money with money, but before the emergence of high pragmatism, everyone's ability to make money is really not worth mentioning. The most common means of managing money is nothing more than buying land.

However, in fact, the return of the land to its basic income is very slow. Let’s put it this way: Usually, the money spent on buying an acre of land will not be able to return to its original capital in 30 years.

The biggest advantage of this thing is nothing more than preservation of value. In other words, although the income is small, it generally does not lose money. If you insist that you can catch up with floods, droughts, and locust plagues every year, it will be boring. This is luck. What else to invest in, just admit it to God.

However, after the emergence of the highly pragmatic Jinghua, several new ways to make a fortune appeared in front of everyone.Ports, maritime trade, border trade, private mines, iron smelting, selling coal, soap, drying salt, private military industry, cement infrastructure, reopening Yuci, and even lending usury—of course, Jinghua Bank’s loan interest is very low , At least in this era, it is very low. It is said that it is usury, which seems to be a sign of smashing usury.

All in all, the characteristic of Jinghua is to make money in everything. After being dazzled, the big guy only remembers one thing: follow Gao Pragmatic to invest money, and you will not lose money, so the "Dian Zhan Treasure Banknote" will definitely not lose money.

As for what means he has to turn war into money, it has nothing to do with everyone, in short, let him do it.

Just kidding, all the people who can buy "Dian Zhan Treasure Banknotes" are famous people. Such a large group of famous people have thrown in several 10 taels of silver. How dare Myanmar not bleed?The palace has demolished him!

Because of the blessing of this mentality, Gao Wushi issued three batches of Yunnan war treasure banknotes in Beijing. If you didn't look horizontally and vertically, it would be enough to beat Myanmar twice. Willing to pay.

It was only at this time that he deeply realized that it was no joke that certain countries in later generations fought wars because of the interests of financial groups.As long as there is a group of people in the upper class who hold power who have a golden hook for this war, this war is inevitable, and it must be fought until the winner is determined.

He took the lead in the matter of the Yunnan war banknotes at the beginning, but he had nothing to do with it when the second batch was issued. Gao Guoyan handled it neatly. At most, he only needed to tell Gao Guoyan how to distribute the bonds in proportion .

So for a while, he actually felt a little leisurely, and was able to find time to live in Baiyulou.

Until one day, a few young eunuchs came out from the palace and invited him into the palace, saying that someone wanted to see him.

Gao Wushi was a little puzzled, now that the front line is going smoothly and the rear is also rich, why does the emperor want me at this time?Could it be that the emperor was looking for me, or that Huang Mengyu or Chen Ju wanted to see me?

If the two of them want to see him, it should be something important. Maybe Zhang Jing or Liu Shouyou has made something wrong, or Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju have figured out a way to deal with them.Anyway, it's not too late, let's go.

Gao Wushi didn't think much, and set off with his servants.Since it was inconvenient for him to ride a horse in Beijing after he became the right servant of the Ministry of War, he could only travel in a sedan chair. As a result, he set off in the morning and was only able to enter the palace around noon.

But this is not a big problem. Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju are the "first assistant" and "second assistant" of the inner court, and they are not afraid of starving themselves when they rush in for a meal.

However, what was unexpected was that after entering, Gao Wushi realized something was wrong, why did he keep walking towards the west of the palace?
He subconsciously stopped, looked left and right, and asked: "Everyone, are you going to take the headquarters to the Compassionate Ning Palace?"

The leading eunuch quickly bowed and said: "Zhong Cheng was joking, we are the servants of Changchun Palace, Zhongcheng walks on this road for a while, turn left and you will find the Palace of Compassion, and continue walking to Changchun Palace."

It doesn't need him to say, Gao Wu has been in the palace for ten years, especially when the first emperor was still in power, he often had to follow Zhu Yijun to the harem to visit the two palaces and concubines, so he was familiar with the harem In fact, this road does not need the eunuch's introduction at all.

But the question is, why go to Changchun Palace?
Gao Wushi didn't move, but frowned and asked, "Princess Yongning summoned?"

"Yes, Zhongcheng."

Gao Wushi pondered for a while, and asked, "Forgive me, this matter... Has Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess ever reported it to the Emperor or Empress?"

He is a courtier of the outer court, and the eldest princess summoned him in the palace, and as a rule, he should report to the queen.The reason why Gao Yushi also mentioned Zhu Yijun is mainly because Zhu Yijun, the eldest brother, is very kind to his younger siblings, and Princess Yongning's marriage ended up like that. Reporting to the emperor is also unreasonable.

The eunuch took out a token from his pocket and handed it to Gao Wushi, and said with a smile: "If there is no order from the empress, our family will not be able to leave the palace."

After Gao Wushi heard this, he remembered that the court rules of Daming were very strict. In addition to the emperor and the two empress dowagers, only the empress had the final say in the harem.Others, no matter whether they are concubines or princesses, they have no right to speak, and even the people under their hands cannot leave the palace, so they must first ask the queen to ask for orders.

He took the token and looked at it. It was indeed the banning token of Kunning Palace, so he was relieved.

Although Queen Wang and Gao Wushi rarely met, there was no doubt that the two were on the same front. He believed that Queen Wang could not harm him.

So he continued to move forward and arrived at Changchun Palace in a short time.

The Changchun Palace was built during the Yongle period. It was renamed Yongning Palace in the 14th year of Jiajing. Later, Zhu Yijun named Zhu Yaoyu Princess Yongning and let her live here. I don’t know if he changed the name of the palace because of the duplication of the name. , Continue to call Changchun Palace.

After arriving at the Changchun Palace, Gao Wushi was invited to the Xipei Hall.This West Side Hall is called Chengxi Hall, just like the emperor liked to meet his courtiers in Xinuange, most of the princesses in other palaces in the palace would also meet outsiders in the West Side Hall.

There were only two eunuchs and two maids at the gate of the Chengxi Palace, and the gate was wide open. Gao Wushi had already seen the slim figure in the palace even at the gate.

Seeing that the eunuchs and maids seemed to have no intention of communicating, Gao Wushi had no choice but to stand still outside the door and said loudly: "Your highness, I have met Your Highness the Eldest Princess."

The woman inside was Princess Yongning. She seemed to be reading a book. After listening to Gao Yushi's words, she put down the book in her hand, nodded slightly, and showed a smile: "High school prime minister, please come in."

Gao Wushi walked in, but before he could stand still, Princess Yongning ordered again: "Princess Senior High School, please sit down."

"Thank you, Princess Zhang, for your seat." Gao Wu could only walk in the palace, and the Changchun Palace was a little far away, so he sat down honestly.

Princess Yongning smiled even wider, looked carefully at Gao Yushi for a while, and then said: "The high school prime minister really hasn't changed at all."

Gao Wushi didn't know what she was going to do, but he still replied: "Princess is a little less elegant, but she is also more elegant."

This is supposed to be a bit over the top, but with Gao Yushi's status, he is indeed not afraid of the princess, besides, he has helped Princess Yongning a lot before, and he thinks that he will not provoke the princess' anger because of this matter.

Princess Yongning did not get angry, she just looked away slightly, and replied: "Widowed for more than a year, it is hard to be rich."

It was only then that Gao Wushi remembered that Princess Yongning's identity was quite special. Although she had never even had a bridal chamber, she was indeed a "widow" in name. Thinking of this, Gao Wushi felt a little regretful, and sighed, saying: "Flowers are not flowers, fog Non-fog is always a trick of good fortune."

He was afraid that Princess Yongning would say something difficult for him to answer, so he asked again: "I don't know why the princess summoned the ministers here today?"

Princess Yongning seemed to be aware of Gao's pragmatic thoughts, and there was a hint of sadness in her eyes, but she quickly concealed it, her face was as calm as water, and said: "Last time you helped me set up a 'charity fund', and I will help you to set up a 'charity fund' every once in a while. Time will get the roster from Huang Zhangyin, and it is full of records of where the money was spent...Later, I took a closer look and found that it mainly supports the disaster-stricken areas, right?"

In fact, Gao Wushi is not too clear about this issue, because he has already told Jinghua Bank to handle it on his behalf, but he did tell him to use the money as much as possible to the disaster area, just in the name of Princess Yongning.

"There is such a thing." Gao Wushi said without changing his face.

"Can I... change this purpose?" Princess Yongning didn't seem to have enough confidence in her words.

Gao Wushi didn't care, and asked instead: "Your Highness, do you mean to ask me to get the money back? This matter is easy to handle. After I leave the palace, I will call the person who handled it to ask, and see if the princess's fund is still there. How much silver, and then let them pay the bill, and the silver can be returned to His Highness in two or three days at most.

However, in Shangyanshang, according to what the minister and His Highness said in the old days, the principal of the "Princess Yongning Disaster Relief Fund" is the conversion of the land given by the princess, and the later relief money of the Princess Fund is actually a certain amount of this conversion into Jinghua. Therefore, the current amount owned by the fund is probably only the principal plus the remaining money that has not been donated, which may not be much more than the principal. Please be prepared for this. "

Who knew that Princess Yongning shook her head and said hastily: "I don't want to get the money back, I just want to use it in a different way."

Gao Wushi thought for a while, and guessed: "It is... no relief for now?" He thought to himself: Maybe this girl finally thinks about it, and maybe she needs money.

But Princess Yongning still shook her head and said: "I summoned a person before, you know him."

Gao Wushi reacted quickly, and asked, "Your Highness is referring to Vice President Annan Huang?"

"Gao Gaocheng really knows Miss Huang's whereabouts like the palm of his hand." Princess Yongning blinked, her tone was a little weird.

Gao Wushi coughed lightly, and said: "Your Highness, I have known Miss Huang for several years. When she was in Guangxi and Annan, she was of great help to me. Whether it is Zheng Annan or Ding Annan, Miss Huang has played a considerable role. Therefore, she told Chen about everything she did when she came to Beijing last time."

"Okay, but that's not what I want to ask." Princess Yongning paused for a while, and said, "I didn't talk to Miss Huang for too long, but I did mention a few words about her being a woman and an official. "

Gao Wushi didn't know what the princess wanted to say, so he could only ask, "And then?"

Princess Yongning said: "Then, she said that the female chieftains in Guangxi and other places can be in power for generations, and most of them have done a good job. At least they can be regarded as middle-class. Be more cautious, and less prone to too much ambition."

Gao Yushi would like to say that this is not necessarily the case. Being ambitious or not has nothing to do with gender. Some female tsars in Russia in history were really as ambitious as men.

But this question cannot be answered in this way. Gao Wushi only said: "Ambition is commensurate with strength, but more often it depends on the education of this person. I have said before when discussing history with the emperor that Tang Shi Tianbao During the years, Wang Zhongsi was the No. 1 soldier in the world, followed by An Lushan, but history has proved that Wang Zhongsi was a loyal minister, but An Lushan was a traitor. May I ask your Highness, what is the real difference between the two? No It is not the difference of nationality, but the difference of education.

Wang Zhongsi lost his father since he was a child, and was raised by Tang Xuanzong in the palace. He knew the importance of loyalty and righteousness, and he wanted to repay the emperor's kindness.Later, when Xuanzong dismissed him, he never thought of rebelling, either because he couldn't, but because he refused.

An Lushan is the opposite. However, Youzhou Zahu has tasted the warmth and coldness of the world since he was a child. In his heart, only strength is the only basis for determining status, so he focused on seizing power. After Wang Zhongsi was withdrawn, he was under pressure. The last mountain on his head was gone, so he chose to rebel with peace of mind.So at the end of the day, it's an education issue. "

In fact, the reason for this problem is not so simple, but Gao Yushi must stand on this position, because he is a courtier, and now he is very powerful.

Princess Yongning didn't expect to draw such a long sentence from him, she was a little surprised, then laughed again, nodded and said: "The high school prime minister's words are reasonable, so I thought about it later, and I think education is really important... I want to put The money is spent on this, I don't know what the high school will do?"

Gao Wushi said, "Uh...that's great, but how do you spend it?"

Princess Yongning smiled slightly and said: "Miss Huang mentioned that there are several types of maids around their female chieftains, and one of them has been educated since childhood. In the future, when the female chieftains they serve grow up and take power, they can help take care of some things. I thought, can we also teach some girls to read and write..."

Gao Yushi asked: "Yes, it is possible, but what about after the teaching? What will these girls do in the future? Forgive me bluntly, adopting boys to teach them will be of great use in the future. For example, I have the Jinghua Artisan School for this. However, Your Highness To teach women, I have to ask, what is the way out for these women after they complete their studies? If this problem is not solved, there is really no difference between teaching or not."
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