My uncle's name is Zhu Di

Chapter 253 Zhu Di's Sour Love

"Returning to Your Majesty, I will wait for you to check the goods in Shanhaiguan for ten buckets of golden sand. Please make a decision!"

When Zhu Di heard this, his head grew bigger.

Ten buckets!
Sands discussion outfit!

This thing was originally used to decorate the palace or the royal garden.

This is where the gold paint applied to the pillars came from.

Zhu Di still remembers clearly.When the Yingtian Palace was first built, Zhu Yuanzhang invested heavily and built three major halls. The scale of the Fengtian Hall is unprecedented.

It's not that the later emperors didn't want to build bigger ones, because they really couldn't find materials that big.

Among them, I don't know how much gold paint is used.

When it was time to repair the bedroom at the back, Lao Zhu felt distressed again, so he had to use cheap brass to make up the number... Now Zhu Di's bedroom was still left by his father, and he was not willing to replace it with gold paint.

One is that it is true because he is too shy in his pocket, and the other is that it is a holy relic left by his father, and he dare not destroy it casually.

But in any case, it was quite shocking to crack a major smuggling case in Shanhaiguan and get ten buckets of gold sand all at once.

"Go and call Jian Ying, I want to ask questions."

Jian Ying, who got the order, hurried to Peiping to meet Zhu Di.

"I pay my respects to Your Majesty, long live my emperor."

Zhu Di looked at him, Jian Ying was about sixteen or seventeen years old, with delicate features, reminiscent of Jian Yi.

"Are you Jian Tianguan's son?"

"Yes!"

Zhu Di nodded, "I heard that you are not very good at reading?"

Jian Ying's face was full of bitterness, and she could only honestly say: "When I was young, my father was an official in the court. He worked very hard and couldn't take care of the family. I was stubborn, and my grandmother and mother favored me, so I was reluctant to study hard. Later, thanks to the grace, Into the Imperial College."

Zhu Di nodded, not surprised.

Ten years ago, it was the Hongwu Dynasty. At that time, the courtiers were trembling every day, for fear of losing their heads at any time. They couldn't even take care of themselves. How could they care about teaching their children!

Jian Ying said that he was negligent in education, which is reasonable.

"In this case, how can you tell that someone is smuggling?"

Jian Ying paused, and said in a low voice: "It's not difficult. I slipped out to play. There is a wine cellar next to the Imperial College. When an empty car comes, the ruts are very shallow. If it is full of wine, the ruts are very deep. The batch of wood is about the same. It should be average deep, but one of the ruts is special, and it must be pulling heavy loads, so I surveyed it."

Jian Ying said it very easily, and it seems that it is really not difficult.

But the problem is that the market trade has started, and who is smuggling even though there are formal channels?Is it just this family, or someone else?

There are so many sands, where do they come from, and where do they go?
Zhu Di was full of question marks, he could only look at Xu Jingchang next to him, and Xu Jingchang turned his head to Xia Yuanji again.

That's right, Lao Xia has already arrived in Peiping.

Haven't stopped yet.Such a big case came out.

"Your Majesty, look at this meaning, Jinsha must come from Liaodong."

Zhu Di rolled his eyes at him, "Of course it wasn't transported out of the pass."

Xia Yuanji was startled, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, what I mean is that there may be gold mines in Liaodong, and they produce a lot of gold."

There are gold mines!
Still a big gold mine!
Zhu Di's whole body is not well.

Since he ascended the throne, he has faced a deficit in the national treasury, and the financial resources of the court cannot support his ambitions.In order to raise money, Zhu Di thought of all kinds of ideas.

Sailing to the West and making money from overseas can be said to spare no effort.

If there are gold mines in Liaodong, isn't this a windfall?
Zhu Di glanced at Xu Jingchang again, "Mr. Ding, have you heard that there is gold in Liaodong?"

"I heard that the Jurchen Wanyan Department uses gold as their country name, which means that there are quite a lot of gold mines between the white mountains and the black waters."

Zhu Di said, "How many?"

Xu Jingchang said: "This minister is hard to say, we need to send someone to investigate."

Zhu Di snorted: "What are you still investigating? There are so many gold dusts here, and they can't come out of nowhere. The gold mines in Liaodong must be huge, and they must be able to smuggle into the customs. Who is this person, and he still needs it." Do you want to talk more?"

Who else could it be?

Xia Yuanji looked at Xu Jingchang, and Xu Jingchang was also staring at him. Both foxes knew that the person Zhu Di suspected must be Liao King Zhu Zhi.

But both of them were smarter than ghosts, they kept their heads down and didn't speak.

Zhu Di stared for a while, and could only hum: "Xu Jingchang, do you know who it is?"

"Qizou Your Majesty, Jin Yiwei has always had so much evidence and said so much."

Zhu Di was so angry that he went to see Xia Yuanji, and Lao Xia was also straightforward, "Your Majesty, I just came here, and I don't know the situation at the moment. Let me investigate this matter thoroughly."

Zhu Di just rolled his eyes, you two bastards.

When you find out the result, it will be too late!

The most important thing is that with so much gold, I am drooling looking at it. If I delay for one day, I will lose a piece of wealth. I can't make things difficult for money!
"You two go down first, I will personally investigate this case."

Xu Jingchang came out quickly, and Xia Yuanji followed behind.

"I said Duke Ding, what the hell is going on here? The old man just came here and encountered such a big case. I was confused and my eyes were darkened."

Xu Jingchang couldn't help sneering, "I said Xia Shangshu, we haven't seen each other for a while, right?"

Xia Yuanji was taken aback, "What does Duke Ding mean?"

"I mean, do you think I'm being stupid? Isn't the shit obvious?"

Xia Yuanji said awkwardly: "Mr. Ding, I heard that the feudal princes are all studying in the school, and you are still teaching them skills. I am afraid that if I make a mistake in one sentence, I will harm my own people. You should be clear, I have always regarded your people as my own. My people treat."

Xu Jingchang gave this man a big roll of his eyes, and couldn't bear it anymore.

"I said Xia Shangshu, let's not waste our saliva... Tell me, at this juncture, what is the most beneficial thing to do?"

Xia Yuanji said: "Naturally, we should immediately capture King Liao and search the palace... It's just that he is a court vassal, so he found out a major smuggling case, and it's not easy to deal with it. I'm still hesitating."

Xu Jingchang snorted, "I said Xia Shangshu, I'm not stupid, but your brain is not enough... How much gold can you copy if you take King Liao down?"

Xia Yuanji was surprised, "Then what does Duke Ding mean?"

Xu Jingchang directly took Xia Yuanji to his residence, made some side dishes for Lao Xia, put a jug of wine on it, and the two sat opposite each other.

After three glasses of wine, both of them relaxed and couldn't help chatting.

"Old Xia, you have also arrived in Beiping, what do you think the north lacks most?"

Xia Yuanji smiled and said: "Naturally, it is lack of popularity... At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the north was repeatedly devastated, and many people died. These years have not recovered, and they have encountered disasters. The people fled to death, and they can't recover for a while Come."

Xu Jingchang smiled and said, "That's it. What Beiping lacks the most is not gold, but popularity! We need someone to come over."

Xia Yuanji rolled his eyes, and immediately said, "What do you mean? You want to use the gold mine to attract people?"

"clever!"

Xu Jingchang gave Xia Yuanji a thumbs up, "We are heroes who see the same thing!"

Xia Yuanji rolled his eyelids, and suddenly said: "I'm afraid His Majesty won't agree."

Xu Jingchang nodded, "Our Majesty heard that there are gold mines, so he must intend to occupy them by himself, and then pan for gold little by little, and every penny will go into the internal funds."

Xia Yuanji thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "I'm afraid the gain outweighs the loss by doing so!"

Xu Jingchang snorted, "In order to dig for gold, a lot of labor must be dispatched, and in order to protect the gold mines, many soldiers and horses must be arranged... After all the hard work, the gold produced may not be able to cover the military expenses."

Xia Yuanji frowned, it was true, don't think that if you have a gold mine, you can get rich.

Ordinary gold mines, relying on gold panning, can produce more than ten thousand taels of gold in a year, which is considered high-yield.

But in order to protect this gold mine, how many people do we need to send?
One hundred and two hundred, or one thousand two thousand?
"I said Ding Guogong, what do you think about this matter?"

Xu Jingchang said: "It's not difficult... let's just issue the sign."

"Sign out? What do you mean?"

"It's very simple. It's a brand of 50 taels of silver. As long as you get the brand and go to Liaodong to pan for gold, whatever you earn is yours. Even if you can't afford 50 taels, you can still pay on credit. After one year, you can return the ten taels of gold. .”

Xia Yuanji was startled, and said casually, "What if they don't come back?"

"If you don't come back, you'll die as a guest in a foreign land! People die for money, birds die for food, what can I do?"

Xia Yuanji's eyes are rolling wildly. Gold panning is a thing with slow income and high investment... The most terrible thing is that it goes deep into Liaodong, and there are various Jurchen ministries everywhere. There are also many rather savage guys among them. , that is not worth the candle.

According to what Xu Jingchang said, issue a sign and let people go to Liaodong to pan for gold.

This is a matter of profit but not loss, absolutely no loss.

And it can quickly gather a sum of money.

"I said Ding Guogong, you are such a ghost, I am completely overwhelmed. Come on, let's make it clear!"

……

The two of them drank happily, while Zhu Di blew his beard and stared angrily at Liao King Zhu Zhi.

"You bastard, smuggling Jinsha without telling me, you want to go to heaven!"

Zhu Zhi felt wronged, "Your Majesty, I really don't know, it's all done by their subordinates. My brother has been studying in the school."

"I've been studying? So before entering the school, you knew about the smuggling?"

"I'm wronged!" Zhu Zhi cried, "Your Majesty, I have never smuggled you!"

Zhu Di sneered, "Well, since that's the case, I can't wrong you. There's no need to wait for it to be changed into a school, I'll send someone to copy the Liao Palace in advance... Also, your subordinates, your relatives, who Don't even try to run."

Faced with Zhu Di's thunderous anger, Liao King Zhu Zhi was terrified, he pondered for a moment, and had to say: "Your Majesty, I have never smuggled gold."

Zhu Di is about to explode again...Zhu Zhi added: "My brother used to smuggle such big Dongzhu."

As he spoke, he raised his hand, and circled a circle the size of a longan with his thumb and forefinger... Zhu Di felt his whole body tremble, how big was it?
"The palace doesn't have any bastard things, you should enjoy them first! You will offer ten... twenty dou of Dongzhu immediately, and I won't let you go without one!"

After Zhu Zhi was sent away, Zhu Di suddenly beamed and couldn't help being overjoyed.

"Sister, I'm going to make you a pearl shirt to make you look good."

(End of this chapter)