Daming: My boss Zhu Yuanzhang

Seeing Ru Taisu's infertile look, Li Wei rolled his eyes fiercely.

"Okay, let's go!"

Li Wei urged.

After hearing this, Ru Taisu could only put down his complicated emotions and left the Jiaofang Division with him.

Arriving at the door of the bank, Li Wei arranged for Ru Taisu to stand aside just like yesterday, waiting for him to "accidentally" drop the money on the ground before appearing.

After a while, seeing Li Wei's exaggerated performance, Ru Taisu was also confused, secretly hating that he had agreed too hastily.

But it was already here, and he had no choice but to go up and accompany Li Wei to complete the scene.

"As long as it's not intentional, there will be no blame..."

Under Li Wei's earnest gaze, Ru Taisu read out the lines bravely.

The people queuing up are already watching, especially the people who started watching Li Wei's first performance two days ago. Now they are almost rolling their eyes to their foreheads.

You were careless once or twice, but you weren’t careful three times?

"But he obviously did it on purpose!"

"That's right. How many times has this happened? Who are you trying to fool?"

Some people couldn't bear it anymore and shouted with indignation.

But some smarter people remained silent. This guy who seemed like a stupid man and lost money every day could ask the minister to act with him, and change one every day. It would be strange if it could be simple.

Li Wei was not happy when he heard these shouts: "Why don't you recognize good people's hearts? Am I not here to popularize the law for you?"

"We've all watched it three times, three times!"

"That's right, I don't even have any tricks. Isn't it annoying..."

Li Wei: "..."

These people are so difficult to maintain!
Li Wei couldn't help but curl his lips.

While everyone was shouting, a group of pro-military guards suddenly came over from a distance.

Both Li Wei and Ru Taisu were shocked, especially Ru Taisu. He had just been beaten by these guards last night and was still frightened. Seeing these people, he quickly hid aside, leaving Li Wei alone in the scene. Standing lonely.

The person leading the team was Mao Xiang. Mao Xiang ignored Ru Taisu and came directly to Li Wei.

"Master Mao, what are you doing?" Li Wei asked in surprise.

Mao Xiang cupped his hands with him, then looked around at the people and emphasized the edict loudly:
"Your Majesty has decreed that those who destroy treasure banknotes unintentionally will not be held accountable according to the law, but those who destroy them intentionally will be punished with thirty sticks and a fine of ten sticks!"

After shouting, he said to Li Wei: "Prince-in-law, you deliberately destroyed the treasure banknotes. Your Majesty ordered us to deal with it according to law!"

Li Wei's face froze and he said, "What do you mean? No, I am here to promote Baobao and popularize the law with the people!"

"I don't know about that. Anyway, that's what His Majesty ordered. Prince Consort, I'm offended!"

With that said, Mao Xiang waved his hand, and the two guards immediately rushed forward, pushed Li Wei to the ground and beat him. This was His Majesty's special order to beat him in front of the people.

"Well done! It was long overdue!"

The people who were filled with indignation just now couldn't help but cheer.

The companion next to him quickly stopped him: "You are stupid, he is the prince-in-law!"

"Uh." The common man quickly shut up.

The guards beat Li Wei hard. Of course, they also beat him hard. It looked like they were beating him fiercely, but in fact it was not harsh at all.

Ru Taisu, who was hiding aside, felt much better when he saw this scene, and felt that he was not so aggrieved.

After thirty canes, the guards helped Li Wei up again. Li Wei stood up, feeling secretly resentful in his heart. This dead old Zhu just sent someone to say no to the actor, so he insisted on sending someone to beat him up. It was really unreasonable!

After the guards finished beating him, Mao Xiang said again: "Prince-in-law, your Majesty has summoned me. Please come with me."

The corners of Li Wei's eyes twitched. Zhu Yuanzhang was not done with the beating. He wanted to pull him over and scold him!

After Mao Xiang finished speaking, he shouted to Ru Taisu who was hiding aside: "Master Ru, His Majesty also wants to summon you, let's go together!"

Ru Taisu was also shocked when he heard this. He originally wanted to stay out of the matter, but it seemed that he couldn't run away this time.

After Mao Xiang finished speaking, he led his guards to lead the way. Li Wei and Ru Taisu could only follow behind with their heads down.

After they left, the group of people began to discuss in low voices.

"It turns out he is the Prince Consort, why do you look so stupid?"

"Please keep your voice down, I can see that the prince-in-law actually wants to tell everyone that you don't have to be afraid to take out the banknotes just because they are damaged."

"Is that so? But it felt really good to see him get beaten."

"Our emperor is so selfless. He even beats his consort."

"Yeah yeah……"

……

In Wuying Hall, Li Wei and Ru Taisu stood with their heads down, one covering their buttocks and the other covering their faces.

Zhu Yuanzhang stood in front of them and pointed at his nose and cursed.

"You throw our portraits on the ground and trample on them every day, and I ignore you once or twice. You're not done yet, are you?"

"And you, how many times have we told you that the memorial should be straightforward and speak the truth, and don't pile up empty words and clever words to confuse the truth. Look at what you wrote. It's a lot of nonsense. Do you think we are idle?"

Gu Taisu received a definite answer. Although he regretted that his literary talents would have nowhere to be used in the future, he still sincerely accepted His Majesty's reprimand and kept it in mind.

But Li Wei was different. Although he didn't say anything, he didn't think so in his heart.

After Zhu Yuanzhang scolded them, he calmed down and got down to business.

"We will send people to post a sign at the door of your bank and explain the law of treasure money to the people. You don't need to act to please the public anymore!"

"Ru Taisu, you must cooperate well with Li Wei recently to handle the matter of the treasure banknotes. This matter is of great importance and must not go wrong!"

Ru Taisu quickly bowed and replied: "I obey the order, please rest assured, Your Majesty."

"The minister obeys the order."

Li Wei also responded respectfully. Although he felt that Zhu Yuanzhang's method was not as effective as his own performance, he did not refute again.

Zhu Yuanzhang scolded the two of them to vent his anger, and then drove them away.

Li Wei and Ru Taisu left the palace, first went to the Banknote Collection Department to check the accounts, and then went to the Banknote Collection Bureau.

There are about [-] banknote makers in the Banknote Bureau. When they heard that Li Weilai wanted to merge them into the banknote printing factory under Minghuang Bank, and that they would be under his personal supervision from now on, they were extremely surprised.

They have heard that Mr. Li treats the craftsmen very favorably. If they work under this Mr. Li in the future, they will definitely not have to live such a hard life anymore!

The fact was exactly what they thought. Li Wei integrated them with the Ordnance Bureau's current banknote printing factory, and the treatment was equivalent to that of the craftsmen of the Ordnance Bureau. These people were moved and thanked him profusely.

After arranging the craftsmen of the Banknote Bureau, Li Wei returned to the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry and began to plan the arrangements for Minghuang Bank.

Strictly speaking, the Minghuang Bank he opened now is only a commercial bank. The Minghuang Bank established by imperial decree is the government agency, responsible for printing and issuance of banknotes, as well as managing all commercial banks.

Although the only commercial bank currently is the Minghuang Bank opened by himself, there will definitely be others in the future that will extend to all parts of the country and even to vassal countries.

Although he knows something about finance, he is not very professional. He can only establish a management system based on later generations. In fact, no matter what kind of system, there will be loopholes in the end. It is impossible to eliminate corruption. I can slowly check and fill in the gaps in the future. (End of chapter)