Hongwu Daming: Why hasn't my son rebelled?

Chapter 14 Xu Miaoyun's Little Thoughts and Zhu Yuanzhang's Reward
After Xu Da finished boasting, Xu Miaoyun immediately realized that the mysterious person who wrote the poem that day turned out to be His Royal Highness Liao Wang. The poem is given to my family by a talented man." "You are lying, this talented man is doing a great job, and no one in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion can bear it except for my family, this poem is clearly for my family!" "No, no, it is this This gifted man has used Dongxuanzi 36 times, and my family can stand up to it, this talented man wrote poems to encourage my family!"

One by one, Xu Miaoyun felt ashamed at the side, although Xu Miaoyun also hoped that the poem could be related to him, after all, the more quality the poem, the more flavorful, in Xu Miaoyun's opinion, this poem The only fly in the ointment of "Song of Drinking Wine Under Flowers" is that the poem was completed in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion.

Now I heard that His Royal Highness King Liao wrote the poem, Xu Miaoyun's expression became even more subtle. As a prince, it's not appropriate to go in and out of a place like the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, right?
After a meal, Xu Miaoyun went back to her study, still thinking about His Royal Highness Liao's running to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion. Others obviously didn't know about it, and it must not be good to spread the word. At this time, Xu Zengshou ran away Come here, walk around the study with your hands behind your back, cast your eyes everywhere, and say:

"Well, my sister hasn't written poems these days, unlike you."

Xu Miaoyun was a little speechless, knowing that this guy came to copy poems again, but she was worried that Xu Zengshou would talk nonsense and tell about His Royal Highness Liao's visit to the Xiaoxiang Pavilion, which would cause unnecessary trouble, so she kindly reminded:

"Brother, you can't go out and say anything about King Liao, and don't tell your father either."

"King Liao?" Xu Zengshou had a confused expression on his face, and it didn't look like he was pretending.

Xu Miaoyun was stunned for a moment, and she understood from Xu Zengshou's expression, her brother didn't react at all, her father was good at reading "Song of Drinking Wine under Flowers" at the dinner table, it was the poem I heard in Xiaoxiang Pavilion that day!
But think about it, Xu Zengshou was looking at those frivolous women in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion from beginning to end, and didn't pay attention to any poems at all. Thinking of this, Xu Miaoyun sighed and said:
"It's nothing, I was wrong. By the way, when will the hanging of clothes for the oiran in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion be held?"

Xu Zengshou smiled and said:
"I've made all the inquiries, it's the fourth day of next month, but let me tell you first, this is the last time I'll take you to the Xiaoxiang Hall."

"Yes, yes."

Xu Miaoyun said perfunctorily, then pushed Xu Zengshou outside, and said:
"There are no poems, brother, go out, I want to read a book."

Xu Zengshou shook his head, and left the study obediently. After Xu Miaoyun closed the door, Xu Zengshou shook his head and muttered:
"It's all right now. My sister knows how to help others keep secrets. Your Highness Liao Wang, well-written poems are popular. Hey, I wish I had a talent for poetry."

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Yingtian Mansion, the Forbidden City.

Zhu Qifu was at the desk, drawing on white paper with a charcoal pencil. As for the plan for opening a store, it was too tiring to write half of it.

Over there, Zhu Di was there to help. Of course, cartoonist assistants usually do outlining, blackening, drawing backgrounds, writing dialogues and other things. Zhu Di is definitely not capable of doing such things, but it is still possible to serve tea and water to chat about the plot.

It's not that Zhu Qiqiang kept Zhu Di to come over as an assistant, but that Zhu Di didn't want to leave. To put it bluntly, he felt that the Forbidden City was boring, but the third brother Zhu Qi's side was interesting.

Writing a project is fun, but drawing manga is even more fun!
The two of them were busy here for a long time, when suddenly several internal officials walked in, carrying boxes one by one, but the leader was the crown prince Zhu Biao.

All the people in the yard knelt down to greet him, and Zhu Qi and Zhu Di also hurriedly put down their work and came to the yard to welcome Prince Zhu Biao.

As the eldest brother, Zhu Biao naturally had no airs. After letting Zhu Qi and Zhu Di excuse him, he waved his hand and asked the internal officials to put all the boxes in the yard.

It turned out that Zhu Qi made a sand table map, and Zhu Yuanzhang was very satisfied, and he wanted to promote it among the whole army. There was no reward at first. After all, the inventor was Zhu Yuanzhang’s own son Zhu Qi, but after the prince Zhu Biao reminded him, Zhu Yuanzhang It was only then that he remembered that he wanted to give a reward. Prince Zhu Biao suggested, and finally gave 2000 taels of silver as a reward. Including the 1000 taels that Prince Zhu Biao had previously agreed with Zhu Qi, the total was 3000 taels of silver, all of which were in these boxes.

Zhu Qi was dumbfounded when he heard that, 3000 taels of silver!Converted according to consumption power, it is equivalent to 300 million yuan in the modern world!It's just a casually made sand table, but it's actually rewarded with 2000 yuan?Zhu Qi was hesitating, whether he should copy an unknown blueprint from his laptop and send it out when he was short of money, what if he could still get money?
Prince Zhu Biao still had something to do, before leaving, he patted Zhu Qi on the shoulder, encouraging Zhu Qi to study hard and keep working hard.

As for the matter of opening a shop to make money and share dividends, it didn’t even mention it. It seems that Prince Zhu Biao didn’t take the matter of dividends to heart. After all, he is going to be the emperor in the future, and the world belongs to him, so he really doesn’t care about these dividends. .

As a person who knows the history of later generations, Zhu Qi naturally knew that Zhu Biao would die young in the future. Now that I think about it, I feel quite sad, but I am a cartoonist, not a medical scientist. The only thing I can do is to ask my elder brother Zhu Biao, drink more water!

Sending off the prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di was excited for a while, looking at the silver in the box, his mouth was split open.

Zhu Qi was also generous, waved his hand and said:
"First take 1000 taels and send it to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to make up for the empty accounts of our brothers."

When Zhu Di heard this, he was so excited that tears were about to flow out. He hugged Zhu Qi and shouted:
"It's still third brother who treats me well!"

Zhu Qi also remained silent, and patted the back of Zhu Di's head: Emperor Yongle, you must remember how good I am to you, Third Brother.

Stop talking, good brother.

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Now that you have decided to open a store, you must act immediately. The first step is to determine the name of the store. According to the previous statement, it will be finally determined as "Royal Entertainment Center". Since it is called "Royal", it must be approved by Zhu Yuanzhang. .

Zhu Qi took the name of the shop and went to look for Prince Zhu Biao. After all, the card was to open a shop in the name of the prince. Hong Wu these years, no matter what he did, it was definitely a talisman ah!
I wanted the prince Zhu Biao to ask Zhu Yuanzhang for instructions on the name of the store, but when the prince Zhu Biao heard that it was the name of the store, he smiled and said, "You can decide what name you want for the store, third brother. Please, what are you doing, brother?" I support you, let me see the store name."

Prince Zhu Biao looked at the name, was taken aback for a moment, and took another look.

"That's weird, take another look."

Indeed, the name of the store "Royal Entertainment Center" is a bit too advanced, but once the name comes out, it will be different, grand and absolutely no one will dare to copy the name of the store, unless he is tired of it.

Prince Zhu Biao just thought the name was strange, but he didn't stop Zhu Qi, so Zhu Qi felt relieved.

Then go out and choose a location. The most important thing to open a store is to choose a location, especially this kind of relaxing entertainment place. If you open near a residential area where residents gather, you are really courting death.

Ordinary people, who have nothing to do and run to entertainment venues?There are only a handful of ordinary people who go to restaurants to drink and eat, let alone spend money to play. Naturally, Zhu Qi did not overestimate the social productivity during the Hongwu period, and he did not take it for granted to guess the customer base out of thin air.

Instead, they did some market research, and the objects of the research were restaurants, theaters and romantic venues that were also in the tertiary industry.

Restaurants and theaters arranged for people around them to investigate, mainly to see who were spending and going in and out on weekdays. In a special place like Fengyue place, Zhu Qi decided to sacrifice his reputation and bring Zhu Di to investigate together.

After several days of research, and probably after getting the data, Zhu Qi quickly identified his target customers, the second generation of officials, scholars and wealthy businessmen.

As for the officials, I’m sorry, they don’t have the guts to entertain. There is a saying, “It’s better to be a dog of peace than a person in troubled times; it’s better to be a person in troubled times than to be a military officer in Hongwu.” Throughout the Hongwu period, Zhu Yuanzhang personally ordered the officials to be killed , There are as many as 15 people recorded in historical data!

In many local county offices, there is a fur man of the former county magistrate hanging at the door, and the former county magistrate wearing a shackle sits inside the county office. There is no way, the current county magistrate has not been selected yet, the predecessor can only wear the crime for office first. .

Officials these days, they are honestly at the two points and one line between the official office and their home. They really dare not run away in other places. As for the officials going to entertainment places, let alone, they pray all day long. Tell your teachers or students not to commit crimes, or they will be finished if they sit down, and dare to go to entertainment venues with other officials?

That's really the old birthday star hanged himself, tired of working.

Some people may ask, isn't that right, isn't the salary of officials in the Ming Dynasty very low?Why does the second generation of officials have money to go out for entertainment?
At least during the Hongwu period, the salary of officials in the Ming Dynasty was indeed not high, but it could not be said to be low. Compared with the Yuan Dynasty, it was not bad!During the Hongwu period, the salary standards for officials were:
The monthly salary of the first rank is 87 shi, the monthly salary of the first rank is 74 shi, the monthly salary of the second rank is 61 shi, the monthly salary of the second rank is 48 shi, and the third rank is monthly A salary of 35 shi for rice, and a monthly salary of 26 shi for the third grade... Even a small county magistrate can receive seven shi of grain every month, enough for a big family to eat for a whole month and still have For the rest, do you call this the inability to live with a low salary?

Not to mention that in addition to distributing food, the corresponding amount of money will also be distributed according to the level, but then there was a coquettish operation, that is, starting from Zhu Yuanzhang, the country issued paper money randomly, and all the silver money given to officials was replaced with paper money.

Anyone who understands paper money in the Ming Dynasty understands it. After the mid-Ming Dynasty, it was really just paper, not money.

However, officials also have many other ways to get money. Officials who can really make themselves poor, such as the upright official Hai Rui, are all strange things that are surrounded by people.In short, in the feudal dynasty, as long as you become an official, it is very difficult for you to be poor.Of course, during the Hongwu period, you should not even try to get rich, or you will be found out by Zhu Yuanzhang, and you will be cut off first before asking other questions.

After some research, Zhu Qi decided to locate the store in a place where the rich and the wealthy gather together. After looking at the map, the west of the city, and then carefully looked at it. Good guy, isn't it the most suitable place to open a store in the Qinhuai River!

Come on, I will be neighbors with the girls from the Xiaoxiang Hall from now on.

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