King Luhuang of the Ming Dynasty: My father, Ming Taizu

Chapter 94 The end of Shanxi merchants! Collective madness!
  Mr. Tang let out a sigh of relief.

As long as His Highness is fine.

Her father's reward was insignificant in her eyes.

Guo Ying was stunned.

Your Majesty, what is going on?
  Tan'er's actions clearly harmed the interests of the court. Didn't the Manchu officials impeach him?
  Why is there still an imperial edict to reward him?
  Double salary!

hiss--!
  Money comes second, the most important thing is face.
  Among His Majesty’s 22 sons.

Except for the special status of the prince, the status of other princes is quite similar.

Of course, this is not entirely correct.

For example, at that time, King Zhu Fan of Jin was able to steadily suppress King Zhu Di of Yan.

This means that King Jin is also stronger than the other brothers.

During the Northern Expedition, Zhu Fan was also the commander-in-chief and Zhu Di was the deputy commander-in-chief.

He often bullied Zhu Di on weekdays, because he had suffered so much from Jin King Zhu Fan, and the Jin Wang line was originally very powerful, so after the Jingnan success, Zhu Di severely punished the Jin vassal line.

But let’s just talk about now.

Even the King of Qin and the King of Jin could not get the double salary of a prince, which shows that His Majesty likes and values ​​Zhu Tan very much.

but
  Why is this happening?

Just because salt is sold at a low price?

These days, can you still be rewarded for being opportunistic and defrauding the imperial court?
  Guo Ying was puzzled.

aside.

Zhu Tan's face was already full of pride.

He rolled up the imperial edict with one hand and took it with the other hand, making a "slapping" sound in his hand.

The eyelids of the eunuch who was delivering the order were twitching.

this.
  This is disrespectful!

Are you treating the emperor's edict as a folding fan?

However, the man in front of me is His Majesty's biological son. Now that he has received such a favor, the Holy Family is flourishing.

If she went back to file a lawsuit against him, she would die without even knowing how.

However, this disrespectful thing is a capital offense in my own eyes.
  resignedly.

The eunuch who conveyed the order had no choice but to look up at the sky, turned around, and was about to leave.

We didn’t see anything!
  Zhu Tan suddenly smiled and said: "My father-in-law, wait a minute!"

The eunuch who delivered the order had a bitter look on his face.

Lord, just let me go!

I really can't bear to see you playing with the imperial edict here again!

next second.

Zhu Tan said: "My father-in-law has been working hard all the way, so I want to give him a red envelope!"

The eunuch who delivered the order suddenly became happy when he heard this.

These vassal kings are all wealthy masters.

Especially the one in front of me, His Royal Highness King Lu, I heard that he got tens of millions of taels of silver just for killing Japanese pirates some time ago!
  With so much money, just pass through his hands casually, and only the young and old will be left!
  I gave him such a big surprise again!

What a big red envelope His Highness has to give our family!
  Eunuchs in the Hongwu Dynasty had a hard life
  If you are not allowed to read and write, you will not be able to interfere in government affairs or collude with foreign ministers!

The source of making money every day is such a meager salary!
  It is really miserable to be a slave and a servant!

I heard some old eunuchs say in the palace that in the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty, those great eunuchs were so powerful that they could even dethrone the emperor with just one word!

There was an even more powerful eunuch in the Song Dynasty, Tong Guan, who was directly crowned king!
  But why was the Ming Dynasty so dark?

Ugh.
  Judging from His Majesty's intentions, it is estimated that future generations will have to be obedient and will only treat eunuchs as slaves!
  Poor people like ours will never be able to turn around for generations to come!

The eunuch who delivered the order felt sad and full of expectations.

I have been poor for a long time, and I am afraid of being poor!

Now that His Highness can reward him with a red envelope, it is a great joy!
  So, he turned around, and his evasive eyes disappeared.

Even though Zhu Tan was fiddling with the imperial edict at will, he pretended not to see it!

He just declined and said: "Your Highness, this is impossible, absolutely impossible."

Although I am crazy poor, I have to refuse and be humble!

Zhu Tan looked at the eunuch who delivered the order, with a smile in his eyes.

"That's it, forget it!

I originally wanted to give my father-in-law a few thousand taels of silver!
  But looking at my father-in-law now, he is so breathtaking and admirable!

Then father-in-law, please come back!

I will send you off not far away! "

"cough cough"

When the eunuch who delivered the order heard this, the veins on his forehead suddenly burst out!

King Lu's words almost made him miss his waist!

You...are you just teasing our family with this lie?

This is simply unreasonable!

at this time.

When the eunuch who delivered the edict saw Zhu Tan playing with the imperial edict again, he suddenly felt angry.

The happy smile on his face tightened instantly.

Nodding, he forced a smile and said: "Your Highness, please stay, we will leave!"

While talking.

While trembling all over, he left.

Complain!

Must complain!

King Zhu Tan of Lu is disrespectful to His Majesty’s imperial edict!
  How disrespectful!
  Guo Ying looked at what Zhu Tan did and was speechless.

What are you doing?

Why do you have to offend those eunuchs!
  That is to say, Your Majesty does not regard these things as human beings. If there were some emperors who favored eunuchs, your offending behavior today would be enough to cause a catastrophe!
  After all, these guys can be regarded as the emperor’s eyes and ears and people around him!

Zhu Tan smiled in his heart.

He is King Luhuang!

Naturally, everything cannot be too normal.

After all, he will have to spend a huge amount of money to do many things that ordinary people cannot understand.

If you act too normal and fall into the eyes of caring people, it will be bad!
  It's better to be like this now, so ridiculous and dissolute that you can't guess what I want to do!
  Therefore, just now, Zhu Tan deliberately played the imperial edict in front of the eunuch, but found that the dead eunuch turned his head and looked at the sky, obviously because he was afraid of offending him, or in other words, he was afraid that the complaint would be useless and he would be punished by Lao Zhu instead.

Simply play tricks on him and make him angry.

If this happens, he will definitely file a complaint when he goes back.

Only then can the name of King Luhuang be resounding.

Of course, if the eunuch didn't refuse just now, it would be okay to thank him directly.

I can give him a red envelope of one penny.

Ha ha
  I guess the feeling of humiliation would be even greater than not being given anything now!

Zhu Tan feels smart.

Can't help but feel a little proud.

He swayed in front of Guo Ying in an airy manner.

"Oh uncle, how should I spend the prince's salary? Twenty thousand dan a year. Or go to Yingtianpo? Or Yangzhou? Or go to Chengdu? In short, now I can wander around, it seems better than my uncle It’s a bit freer.”

When Guo Ying heard this, the veins on his forehead were already popping.

My original judgment was slapped in the face by Lao Zhu's imperial edict, and I was already very unhappy!

Now I am so stimulated by Zhu Tan again!

This kid.
  This bastard!
  Guo Ying coughed dryly and said, "Congratulations! I have something else to do, so I'll leave first!"

Zhu Tan looked at Guo Ying's back and said with a smile: "Uncle, don't go! I have received the prince's double salary, and I still want to celebrate with a drink! What's the use of all this money if I don't spend it! Uncle?"

When Guo Ying heard this, he immediately staggered.

Then he walked even faster
  This bastard!
  snort!
  But how did he please His Majesty?
  Unable to understand!

He obviously did something wrong!
  Not long after leaving the palace.

While walking on the road, Guo Ying passed by Lu Shang Salt Store, which he had never paid attention to before.

at this time.

Everyone was listening to the shopkeeper.

"Everyone, we can eat such good and cheap salt, thanks to your wise and mighty Majesty! The emperor asked His Highness Prince Lu to take charge of the Changlu Salt Field, and that’s why we have such a good life today! Long live my emperor! Long live my emperor!"

"Long live my emperor!" Guo Ying seemed to understand something when he heard the crowd shouting "Long live the emperor."

Suddenly he shook his head.

He gave a wry smile.

"I understand! Don't worry! This guy is awesome! This is the realm of being a fool but not crazy, hehe.
  However, this brat actually dares to anger me!

Do you really think I can't do anything to you? "

Guo Ying sneered in his heart.

A few days ago, my sister wrote to herself, saying that Zhu Tan was sensible enough to give her such a precious jade bracelet.

I can just tell her!
  Rumors had long spread in Princess Lu's house that Zhu Tan gave the princess 15 top-quality jade bracelets of different colors!

Girl, the one you're wearing on your hand is what this brat doesn't want!

While thinking proudly, Guo Ying walked quickly, and the tall figure quickly disappeared into the deep alley.

Yangzhou Prefecture.

Cao Mansion.

at this time.

Cao Wenlong has long since disappeared.

A group of salt merchants gathered here and were extremely angry!
  "Cao Wenlong! Come out here!"

"You bastard! Throw your own salt and silver into the air! Do you want us to unite and hold on?"

"If you can hide from the house in Yangzhou, can you hide from Hejian? If you can hide from Hejian, do you still want the Cao family's ancestral grave in Jinzhong?"

"That thief Cao Wenlong tricked us! We can't spare him! Today we will destroy Gouri's house first!"

"Okay! Smash him to pieces!"

at this time.

This sentence seemed to ignite the passion of everyone present.

They are about to rush into Cao Mansion!

suddenly.

A burst of official shouts rang out!

"Who wants to break into people's houses without permission? And smash people's houses? Who!"

The words fell.

All those who were about to rush in stopped immediately.

Inside the gate of Cao Mansion.

The housekeeper Lao Cao wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

The master asked Cao's Salt Shop to sell the salt at a reduced price and then left Cao Mansion.

As for where he went, even he didn't know.

He just left a sentence, if anyone comes to surround Cao's house, report it to the official immediately.

You are so smart!
  Even this can be expected!
  If it hadn't been reported to the official earlier, I'm afraid Cao's Mansion would have been smashed by now!

the other side.

Everyone and the official were in a hurry to explain.

Some people even gave away dozens of treasure notes.

The official then left with a smile.

Everyone looked at each other.

His face was full of misery!

in fact.

This time everyone came to Cao Mansion to cause trouble, not because they believed Cao Wenlong's lies!

We are all in business, how can we talk about loyalty?
  They had just returned home, or even on the way, and had already informed their respective salt shops to sell salt at low prices.

And this has also led to vicious competition. Today, the Qi family's salt is six cents per pound, and tomorrow the Cao family's salt is five cents, and then there are four cents.

But even if there is vicious competition, if the price is maintained at a low enough price, all the salt can be sold.

Although the loss is huge, for these people, it is better to hurt their muscles and bones than to guard a pile of worthless garbage salt!
  However, what they didn't expect was that the vicious competition between them was nothing.

The most terrifying thing is that not long after their salt price was reduced, the salt price of Lushang Salt Company also dropped!

The price is always only one penny higher than the salt of these Shanxi merchants!
  If you dare to sell it for six cents today, the Lushang Salt Store will reduce the price to seven cents.

If you drop it to four cents, the people from Lushang Salt Store will sell it for five cents!

Compared with these salt merchants, the grains are huge, rough, full of impurities, and taste bitter.

The salt from Lushang Salt Store is of extremely high quality and delicious. No matter how you look at it, it costs five cents of silver per catty, which is more cost-effective than the four cents of silver per catty of salt from these salt merchants!

Although ordinary people are poor, they will only buy salt from Lushang Salt Store!

But now selling salt for five cents a pound, Zhu Tan can earn more than 10 million taels of silver a year!

Those salt merchants will lose money!
  Even the current price of salt is only 30% of the cost!

Recently, the Lushang Salt Company has been engaged in a price war with these Shanxi merchants, which directly led to the sluggish sales of salt.

After all, the common people are not stupid. Now that the price of salt is getting lower day by day, they naturally want to hold on to the currency to buy it.

As a result, everyone is buying less salt. Except for daily needs, no one is hoarding salt at all.

These salt merchants are now clearly in a dead end.

Can't be sold outside.

Keeping this salt is like keeping a pile of garbage. In fact, it is worse than garbage!

After all, garbage may only be worth a little money, or it may be worth nothing, but it will never lose money.

And the large grains of coarse salt stocked by these salt dealers come at a cost!

They have to open a store, pay taxes, and support a bunch of shopkeepers, man!

The expenses here are still very huge.

Watching the money being lost day by day.

These salt merchants finally couldn't sit still. They didn't dare to trouble King Lu.

I wanted to find trouble with the person in charge of Lu Shang Salt Store, but I found that the old man named Wu had already rubbed oil on his soles and was missing.

Or someone heard that he went to Yanzhou Prefecture.

But that place in Yanzhou is obviously the territory of King Lu. Who dares to go there to ask for wildfire!
  Everyone was helpless for a moment, and then they started to cause trouble for Cao Wenlong.

Cao Wenlong also knew that these bastards would definitely come to cause trouble, so he ran away early.

Now there is only a group of salt merchants left who have collapsed to the extreme!
  Everyone knows that even if they sell it at a low price now, they will be severely blocked by Lu Shang Salt Store!

They lowered the price, and the Lushang Salt Store followed suit and couldn't sell it at all!
  But if it is in your hands, and it is a money-losing item that will definitely cost you money, it is more cost-effective to throw it on the street than to put it in your own hands!

Xu Chaofeng, the head of the Xu family, turned pale and sighed.

"Why did His Highness Prince Lu push us to death?"

Qiao Zhifu's eyes were filled with red bloodshot eyes and he said bitterly: "It's over this time, it's all over now! The foundation of ten generations of my Qiao family has been destroyed in one day! I'm sorry to all my ancestors!"

The head of the Yue family, Yue Gao, said angrily: "After all, that bastard Cao Wenlong is still responsible! We have always taken salt bait, and we will also hoard a batch of salt bait!

Why is it that all the salt has been replaced by salt like now?

This time the losses were so huge that many people were unable to stand up!

Isn't it because the game is too big? "

Everyone was immediately filled with righteous indignation and spat one after another: "Bah! That's right, it's all the fault of the man named Cao!"

Qiao Zhifu smiled bitterly and said: "If you continue to scold me, the current situation will not be alleviated. I just want to ask you, what should we do next?"

When everyone heard this, their anger towards Cao Wenlong immediately dissipated.

There is only endless fear left in my heart!

Yes!

What's the use of swearing now? The current crisis has not been resolved!
  If I keep hoarding this salt.

I'm afraid that everyone present will go bankrupt!

But instead of hoarding, just close all the salt shops and throw away all the salt?

That kind of result would be unacceptable to everyone here!
  After all, this situation is no different from going bankrupt.

suddenly.

A voice sounded leisurely.

"Now that you have calmed down, can you let Cao have a word?"

Everyone looked up.

They all roared angrily!

"Cao Wenlong! You bastard, how dare you show up!"

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