Rebirth of the little landlady

Chapter 229 Be Honest With Yourself

When the emperor issued such an order, he not only sold the Yu family, but also made other imperial merchants remember his kindness. At the same time, he won more and better free products for the royal family.

"Then, how did the Ni family become an imperial merchant?" Yuan Bao asked curiously. She remembered that when she first heard about the head of the Ni family in Ningnan Prefecture, what they were most proud of seemed to be that the Ni family was an imperial merchant. Now it sounds like, with the Yu family's fleet going out to sea, it doesn't really mean much to the Ni family whether they want to be an imperial merchant or not. They don't expect it to make a profit.

Ni Yuze sighed softly, "It's not because of the mother's family instruction!"

"Family training?" Yuan Bao was puzzled and listened attentively.

Although with the law that all imperial merchants can go to sea tax-free, the Yu family is no longer the public enemy of merchants all over the world, and the pressure on the situation has been relieved, but they still have to face another very real pressure, that is, money. !

In the eyes of others, Mr. and Mrs. Ni went to Beijing for a funeral for Yu Xiaomei, and they brought back countless rewards from the former emperor and the current emperor. Only the couple understand that what they brought back is also A partner who couldn't refuse at all - the Empress Dowager!

The purpose of the emperor to let the Yu family continue to go to sea is to make profits, but this kind of profit needs a good name. Therefore, because of the "feeling" with Yu Xiaomei and the "care" of Yu Dajie, the Empress Dowager became so successful. The partner of Yu’s fleet was originally supposed to drain the shares, but the emperor needed a lot of money and the fleet’s income was not stable, so the emperor simply designated an amount for the dry shares: silver every year 300 million taels!That is the money that Yuan Bao and Jing Xin sent away this morning.

Yuan Bao thought for a while, "Then how much money can the Yu family's fleet earn?"

Ni Yuze said, "At that time, it was more than 200 million taels per year!"

Yuan Bao understood that the emperor didn't have to beat the Yu family to death, but to give them a certain amount of pressure. That's why he got such an amount that could be reached every time. But in this way, the Yu family's fleet Isn't it all about making wedding clothes for others?The emperor is ruthless enough!
However, the Yu family is not helpless. If they want to earn money, they can expand the scale, but obviously, Sister Yu is not willing to do this, so Sister Yu let the Ni family become an imperial merchant.

The Ni family and the Yu family have overlapping business projects, but their properties are never confused. Even though all the wealth has been passed on to Ni Yuze, the accounts are still very clear. Even when Ni Yuze introduced his property to Yuan Bao, , It was also divided into pieces: Mr. Ni’s private property, Mrs. Yu’s dowry, and Mrs. Yu’s Yu family’s property...

If it is said that the Yu family made its fortune by shipping, then the main products of the Ni family are silk and embroidery. In fact, the Ni family was not outstanding in this respect in Ningnan Prefecture, which is famous for its silk industry, because at that time The Ni family is not a merchant at all!
But there is no way, the Ni family can get their hands on this thing. Fortunately, in the past few years after Mr. Yu left the sea, Mrs. Yu's business scope is mainly this, and when she gets married, she brings some dowry Shops and workshops, in name, are also properties of the Ni family. In addition, the emperor takes care of them in such insignificant matters, so the Ni family has successfully become an imperial merchant of silk fabrics.

After having the Empress Dowager as a "partner" and the Ni family's imperial merchant qualifications, Sister Yu simply made all the property of the Yu family under the name of Miss Yu, except for the fleet, into her own dowry.

Then, after expanding the fleet of the Yu family to a scale that can earn about 300 million taels of silver per year, they stopped expanding and devoted themselves to running their own dowry, which is mainly based on the silk weaving industry.

With the influence of the royal relatives, the capital much stronger than the average businessman, and the name of the imperial businessman, coupled with the incomparable management, Sister Yu's dowry quickly reached a horrific scale, Ni Yuze said About 1000% of the more than [-] shops in the dynasty belong to this part of his property!

Yuan Bao still remembered that no matter whether the Ni family was the main family or a branch, as long as they were businessmen, no matter how many shops there were operating and how many types, they would focus on the silk weaving industry and always regard it as their main business. There will be no contact with the Ni family until this point.

The reason why the Ni family merchants did this is nothing more than because this business makes the Ni family stand out in the commercial field, and it is their glory and fortune. They don't know, in fact, this "representative product" of the Ni family The birth of this book turned out to come from a family motto handed down by Sister Yu - don't get involved in the navigation industry!

Thinking of this, Yuan Bao was taken aback for a moment, "Wait, I don't understand one thing, that, the family motto means a family, so is this family motto from the Ni family or the Yu family? "

Let's say it belongs to the Yu family, so the Yu family's fleet is still in operation, and pays 300 million taels of dividends to the Queen Mother every year. I don't know when it will stop. How to implement this family motto?

If it belongs to the Ni family, what right does Sister Yu have to set the family training for the Ni family?I never heard that the family motto was ordered by the daughter-in-law!Besides, the Ni family doesn't have a fleet and doesn't go to sea. What's the point of this family motto? !
Ni Yuze's answer was quick, "It belongs to the Yu family!"

After Yuan Bao finished talking about his confusion, Ni Yuze's expression became very complicated. He said, "Because my father has always regarded my mother's dowry as the Yu family's property, and it will be passed on to my surnamed 'Yu' in the future." It belongs to the heirs, so this part of the property actually belongs to the Yu family. My father said that the Ni family cultivated and studied in the heirloom, and the sons of the Ni family are the right way to become an official. They cannot regard business as their main business. In addition, whether it is the family motto of the Ni family or the Yu family, Because I have two houses on my shoulders, I am both a member of the Ni family and a member of the Yu family, so I must abide by it!"

"Okay, okay, okay," Yuan Bao wiped the cold sweat that didn't exist on his forehead, "It's really complicated, but I don't understand, if your son surnamed Yu grows up, if the emperor still Every year I ask you for this 300 million taels of bonus silver, what should I do when the time comes?!"

In fact, Yuan Bao just thinks that Sister Yu's family training is quite deceitful. Oh, cooperating with the emperor made it hard for the Yu family. She has no way to get rid of it, so she left such a family training to embarrass her son. It's really...

But Yuan Bao hadn't finished her slander, Ni Yuze had already told her the solution, "My mother told my father this before she died. After she passed away, let my father concentrate on managing her dowry business. There should be more than 300 million taels of profit. On that day, at that time, let my father use my name to pay the silver as the queen mother's bonus silver, and then tell the emperor that my father and I are not familiar with the navigation industry, and I am willing to give the fleet and the people under him, Hand it over to the emperor, so as not to lose the property of the Yu family due to poor management!"

Yuan Bao blinked her eyes, then blinked again, she always felt that there was something wrong with this idea, but she couldn't tell, so she could only ask, "Then, I remember that the shop in your hand has been profitable for a long time. Has it reached 300 million taels?" He frowned, "That's not right, then why is it now 800 million taels again?"

Ni Yuze suddenly gasped lightly. Yuan Bao stepped forward and skillfully massaged his left chest, so Ni Yuze's panting quickly turned into a light cough. Yuan Bao neither urged him nor suggested that he stop talking. Because Yuan Bao understands that after such a long and complicated background is laid out, it is time to talk about today's highlight: about Ni Yuze's ideals, about sailing, and... about his real disease and the deepest secrets in his heart.

Yuan Bao was a little afraid of these things, but whether it was for herself to go home and live a peaceful and happy life after getting a large amount of income, or for Ni Yuze to live a healthy and happy life from now on, she had to do it. To understand and face these.

At this time, Yuan Bao will not still naively think that as long as she leaves Ni Mansion and returns to Sujia Village, it will be a different world. Now she knows too many secrets about Ni Yuze, and she has already stamped the name of "Yu Zehou" on her body. Perhaps she will never be able to get rid of the relationship with Ni Yuze throughout her life.

But Yuan Bao didn't regret it. If she needed a partner, or in Ni Yuze's words, "find a good master", then Yuan Bao would rather choose Ni Yuze!
I don't know whether it was influenced by Yuan Bao's calm emotions, or he had already decided to be honest about everything, Ni Yuze quickly calmed down. After drinking a cup of soup, he continued his narration, and the protagonist this time was himself.

Jin Yiyu's considerate care, strict and demanding, as precise as a pendulum, boring and busy life, this is the portrayal of Ni Yuze's growth.

When he was just over two years old, he was held by his father to learn to read the account books and attend to his father's business management. He was officially enlightened at the age of three and began to practice martial arts at the age of four. However, he did not learn to do it by himself until he became seriously ill because he was too ugly to see people. Get dressed, but only to one or two pajamas and underwear.

His father was always toiling, and the smell of medicine lingered in the room he lived in for a long time. It was like an invisible hand holding Ni Yuze tightly. When he saw him, he taught him and took exams. Mother's smile only existed in the picture scroll, and her gentle caress occasionally appeared. In a dream.

Ni Yuze has no friends, no biological brothers and sisters, he has no chance to get in touch with cousins, he often has no chance to leave his yard for several months, and there are only countless servants around him.

Ni Yuze is lonely.That kind of loneliness is not what Yuan Bao thought when he heard his voice for the first time, it was caused by his short death, but it was deeply imprinted in his bones and blood, and with the passing of his father and his ideal , and become more profound.

In order to protect Ni Yuze's personal safety, all the servants around him are good at martial arts. The source is naturally those brothers of Mrs. Yu back then, and they have another identity, that is, sailors, so he heard people tell him about the sea. Those adventure stories with the sea became his only pleasure, and gradually became an obsession, and going to sea became his indelible dream.

"Have you ever seen the sea?" Ni Yuze asked softly, his eyes seemed to pass through the courtyards and fall to the distant horizon, nothing could stop him, the sea existed in his heart, at night The night land called him, from the moment he saw the sea for the first time, no, it should have started before he saw the sea.

Yuan Bao shook his head, "No." In her previous life, the city she lived in was not near the sea, and her family background naturally did not have the opportunity to travel.

"I will definitely take you there," Ni Yuze smiled, the kind of excited smile overflowing from his heart made him extraordinarily dazzling at the moment, "It should be soon!"

When Ni Yuze was nine years old, he saw the sea for the first time, and he also did one thing - he spent 3000 taels of private money to buy a picture.

Yuan Bao was very interested, "Could it be a sea chart for such an expensive map?"

Ni Yuze shook his head, "No, it's a shipbuilding drawing." He slowly sat up straight, "The boat built according to this drawing is divided into four floors, more than [-] feet long and [-] feet wide. It can carry thousands of people or millions of catties of goods, can withstand huge storms at sea, can sail for many years, and reach places that many people have never thought of..." His eyes were shining brightly, like Two small flames were burning fiercely.

Yuan Bao couldn't help opening his mouth slightly, quickly calculating and imagining in his heart, a large ship with a length of two hundred meters, a width of more than 70 meters, and a cargo capacity of several thousand tons is really unimaginable. Suddenly, Yuan Bao stopped, and she I remembered!
Yuan Bao remembered that the history books said that the "treasure ships" used by Zheng He in the Ming Dynasty seemed to be roughly the same size. After she arrived here, she felt that the customs and some daily necessities of this time and space were similar to those of the Ming Dynasty in every way, and even some places were larger than those of the Ming Dynasty. Even advanced, so why is it impossible for such a ship to appear?
Moreover, Zheng He's voyages took place in the early Ming Dynasty. The material production conditions of this time and space and Ni Yuze's personal economic conditions have made it possible to replicate Zheng He's voyages!
Yuan Bao suddenly became excited. She seemed to see that Ni Yuze and even her own name were engraved in the history books of future generations. No, even if they could not be famous in history, they could still become the pioneers of this era. If there were no forbidden seas and closed doors in the late Ming Dynasty , Then in the Qing Dynasty, how could the country encounter alien attacks from the sea, and all kinds of subsequent loss of power and humiliation of the country...

Ni Yuze looked at Yuan Bao who was pacing on the bed with surprise, unable to stop no matter how hard he tried. It turned out that Yuan Bao really understood his inner thoughts and might really support him, even though this kind of support could not do anything practical. However, Ni Yuze's drowning heart breathed fresh air all of a sudden, and he came back to life like this!
Yuan Bao finally stopped, and asked excitedly and nervously, "Then... what happened next?"

The smile on Ni Yuze's face began to fade until it slowly disappeared. After he got the shipbuilding plan, he was so excited that he couldn't eat or sleep. Soon his father noticed the abnormality, and then severely punished him. Grandpa Ni felt that Ni Yuze was still young and didn't tell him too much about the history of Yu's family, but now, Grandpa Ni felt that he had to tell, so he told the story about Grandpa Yu, hoping that Ni Yuze could learn from it.

Ni Yuze, who had always been in awe of Master Ni, disobeyed his father's discipline for the first time. He argued, "Although I am young, I also know that my father will never allow me to go to sea in any case. Yes, but it doesn’t matter, I can build a fleet, let my men go to sea, and record what I saw on the road. If one day, my sons grow up, I can go to sea. At that time, I You must go to places that no one else has ever been to, and see scenery that no one has ever seen before!" The frenzied light in his eyes was very different from his usual indifference.

Yuan Bao looked at Ni Yuze quietly, unable to say any words of advice. Xu Xiake, Marco Polo, Columbus...the names of these famous travelers and adventurers flashed in her mind, and she could say that these people are all right to eat their fill Are you strong enough?

No, it is because of them that human beings can progress and continuously explore those unknown areas. They are pioneers and heroes!

They stand at the pinnacle of a certain aspect, use their lives and abilities to open up territories for the entire human race, or communicate with each other, they are great!

As for Ni Yuze, he has this condition, this ability, and the spirit of adventure left in his blood inherited from Mrs. Yu. He has all the advantages of being an adventurer, his success is predictable, and his ideal can be fulfilled. What's more, he is very clear about what step he should take. This kind of Ni Yuze should not be stopped, but should be encouraged!

But what Yuan Bao thinks is useless, the key is what Eldest Ni thinks. Sure enough, Eldest Ni first told Ni Yuze all the details of the past, and then analyzed it as he talked, and then moved out of the place where Elder Sister Yu left behind. and asked Ni Yuze to kneel on his mother's tablet in the ancestral hall for a whole night.

Yuan Bao's heart twitched because she knew that this should be a difficult choice for Ni Yuze.

It has to be said that Ni Yuze is stubborn. He still has the heart to persuade Mr. Ni. He started to use questions similar to those raised by Cai Yuanbao just now, and later said that the emperor will not let their family go. It works.

Yuan Bao took it very seriously, and persuaded him, "Family precepts are not necessarily static. Not to mention, shortly before coming to Fucheng, Chunsheng and I built a new Su family ancestral hall. The family rules and so on Ah, in fact, it was created by us, isn’t it good? I think whether it’s family rules or family precepts, to put it bluntly, it only exists to make life better for future generations. If it hinders development because of this , not worth mentioning!"

Ni Yuze looked at Yuan Bao thoughtfully, and it can be said that Yuan Bao's words were a bit outrageous, completely different from the education he had received in the past, how could the rules of his ancestors be changed, but at the same time, there was a voice in his heart saying, In fact, what Yuan Bao said was right, not only right, but also in line with his wishes.

(End of this chapter)