My Brother-in-law is the Prince

  Chapter 144 Take money to kill you

  Wang Ning's face was miserable.

  I just feel that at this time, all the eyes looking at him are gloomy, and the bell in the swaying Taoist's hand is really urging his life.

   Soon, under the persuasion of his father and son, he entered the side room.

  The location was well chosen. If it was a place like the main hall or the bedroom, it would inevitably leave a terrifying impression on his descendants, and it would also look unlucky.

  As for places like woodsheds, they are too petty. They are still sons-in-law, so they cannot lower their status.

  Only this small hall is not considered to have lost its status, and it will not be intimidating to its own descendants.

  The white silk has been prepared, it is high-quality silk and satin, Wang Ning's second son thoughtfully hung the white silk on the beam.

   After a stick of incense, Wang Ning dangled and hung on the beam. The old lady Wang went in with her two grandchildren to check the situation, crying.

  The eldest grandson Wang Su immediately began to cry, and wanted to hug Wang Ning from the beam.

  Wang Taigong stopped him and said: "Just wait a little longer, I'm afraid I'm not dead."

  So I waited patiently for another stick of incense, to make sure that I couldn't die any more.

  At that moment, the three grandparents let go and started to cry loudly.

  Hundreds of people outside the hall, including Wang Ning's daughter-in-law, family members, and servants, like conditioned reflexes, after a long period of silence, suddenly wailed together.

  The Taoist priests circled around the outside of the hall, sometimes chanting words, sometimes jumping, with bells in their hands ringing.

  The filial sons and filial grandsons were all in grief, almost crying to death, and they buried Wang Ning's body together.

  Because the preparations were adequate, the mourning hall was also well-decorated. When the coffin entered the mourning hall, countless people poured in, and there was a lot of crying.

  …

   "Your Majesty..." Yi Shiha tiptoed into the small hall, bowed to Zhu Di and said, "News came from the Wang family, Wang Ning died."

  Zhu Di held the memorandum in his hand, and looked up at Yi Shiha casually: "I'm sorry for my sister..."

   As he spoke, he paused, and then said again: "The Ministry of Rites sends ministers to sacrifice."

  Yi Shiha said: "Here."

  Zhu Di put his hands on the imperial case: "How did you die?"

  Yi Shiha said: "It is said that he hanged himself."

  Zhu Di shook his head and said: "It's okay to keep the whole body. This is because of his past achievements."

   After finishing speaking, he didn't ask about this matter again, as if this matter never happened.

  He closed his eyes, his mind was on the business affairs.

  The scale of the firm is no longer small.

  According to Zhang Anshi, if you rely on the capital to make money, sooner or later you will be exhausted, and all the fry will be caught in one go.

  So external expansion is a top priority!

  If not, the commercial bank cannot break through the bottleneck, and the profit cannot be guaranteed.

  Zhu Di actually doesn't understand the operation of commercial banks, but he also understands the principle that things must go against each other.

  In this way, future profits will fall on Zhu Gaoxu.

  He thought for a moment, then suddenly picked up the ink pen, and wrote a note: "Order Zhu Gaoxu to lead the four guards of the Han Dynasty, and join the Model Camp together, and enter Annan first."

   Then, he handed the piece to Yi Shiha: "Send this to Zhu Gaoxu."

  Yi Shiha only glanced at it, and seemed to understand in his heart that now the imperial court is marching into Annan, there are two groups of troops, one is the military horses of the Mu family in Yunnan and Guizhou, and the other is the imperial court army led by Zhu Neng.

   Now another Zhu Gaoxu has been added.

  Zhu Di thought for a while, and then explained: "Zhu Gaoxu's four guards don't need the court to be responsible for money and food, and the merchants are responsible for raising all supplies."

   After a pause, Zhu Di said again: "Teach them to work hard in every way. Whoever enters Annan first will own this land."

  Yi Shiha couldn't help crying and laughing, but nodded and said: "Your maid obeys the order."

   After receiving the note, he hurried to do things for Zhu Di.

  Zhu Di picked up another memorial in his hand, looked at it carefully, but his face became serious.

   "Minister Songjiang prefect played: Songjiang epidemic, Huating, Fengxian, and Jinshan counties have many monks and lay people suffering from plague, and the dead are sleeping on their pillows, especially in Qingpu County, half of the people died..."

  Zhu Di was shocked, and then took another memorial, which was sent by Taicang Prefecture, and it was actually about the plague.

   But it is clear that Songjiang Mansion is the center of the plague. The plague has only slightly spread to the neighboring Taicang Prefecture, but there are also many patients in Taicang Prefecture.

   Immediately after...Suzhou Prefecture again...

  The so-called great disaster must be followed by a great epidemic.

  Regarding this situation, Zhu Di had already sent someone to understand the situation of the plague.

  But judging from the facts, it seems that...what should have happened happened.

  The situation in Songjiang Prefecture is the most dire, followed by Taicang Prefecture and Suzhou Prefecture.

  If it is allowed to spread, it may even... appear in the counties and states in the south of the Yangtze River.

  The entire South Zhili, even the city of Nanjing...

  Zhu Di frowned deeply, his face was as dark as ink, and a look of worry appeared in his eyes.

  In the army, he knew the horror of the plague the most. After all, a plague in the army caused more casualties and casualties than a protracted and fierce battle.

  Not only that, once the plague spreads, the entire prosperous Jiangnan, even including the capital, will be littered with corpses.

  Zhu Di didn't hesitate much, and immediately said: "Come here, come here, hurry up and order the great scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, and the ministers of all ministries will have an audience, hurry up!"

  At this moment, Zhu Di no longer cared about the business.

  Money can be earned again.

   But if life is gone, everything is really empty.

  ...

  Zhang Anshi received a note here, which is actually the emperor's decree.

  Zhang Anshi was very excited.

  He originally wanted to start with Myanmar bitterly, but who knew that His Majesty was so crazy about money that he actually wanted to operate in Annan.

  Annan's land is fertile, and most of it is along the coast. Once a piece of land is won, it will definitely be earned by blood.

  You know, that place...the rice is only three-cooked.

  And if Annan is used as a springboard, it will be more convenient to infiltrate the entire West in the future.

  So he immediately had someone summon the Model Camp and Zhu Gaoxu, and the brothers discussed carefully and decided to send troops immediately without hesitation.

Zhang Anshi said: "Don't worry about the food, we have already bought all the ordnance, we have bought all the ordnance at a high price. There are already some reserves on the gunpowder side. All in all, we are in a hurry now and we cannot let Chengguo Gong and General Zhang Fu took the lead."

"I mobilized all the boats and boats to support this operation. Fortunately, we have a lot of boats in the shipping industry. As long as you are willing to give money, people, food, and other supplies, you can pass through Jiangxi along the river, and then from Jiangxi, Transfer to Guangxi! At that time, it will be entirely up to you."

  Zhu Gaoxu sharpened his knife, and said in a full-fledged manner: "Very well, I am full of sulking, and I want to find someone to vent it!"

  Zhang An Shidao: "Then the fifth brother is the commander, he has experience, Zhu Yong is the deputy, Zhang Fu and Qiu Song are assisted, and Gu Xingzu is in charge of logistics and teaching."

   Zhu Jin also came to the meeting.

When    came, he was about to suffocate.

   A gathering of heroes.

   These are all the princes, relatives of the Ming Dynasty, and future ministers.

  Everyone here is someone I look up to! I didn't expect that I, Zhu Jin, would be here today. I'm afraid that if I tell this story, people won't believe it.

  Zhang Anshi looked at the excited Zhu Jin and said, "I have to mobilize at least half of the ships in the shipping industry. In addition, I have prepared mules, horses, food, ordnance, and tung oil. I want as much as I have."

  Zhu Jin suddenly put away his excitement and was taken aback.

   This is close to 50,000 horses, and the cost is astonishing to be responsible for such a huge amount of supplies.

  Although there is money in the account now, it is far from being as simple as directly supplying a large-scale war.

  Unexpectedly, Zhang Anshi said again: "Don't be reluctant to part with the money, everything must be the best, soldiers are precious and fast, I ask the entire army to be turned into mules and horses."

   "What does mule-horse transformation mean?" Zhu Gaoxu was the first to ask.

  Zhang Anshidao: "It is to ensure that all the supplies, all the personnel, are equipped with horses and chariots, and they are also transported by mules and horses."

  Zhu Gaoxu said in amazement: "How much will it cost?"

   "Is it your consideration to spend money?" Zhang Anshi said: "You can just think about how to win Annan for us. You must not let Duke Cheng and General Zhang Fu take the lead and let them succeed."

   Zhu Gaoxu was breathing heavily.

  If the battle of Jingnan is a beggar turning over.

  Then what we are fighting now is really a battle of wealth. He felt that he would be ashamed to live if the birds like Cheng Guogong and Zhang Fu competed for the lead.

   "Brother has an order, I will carry it out, and I will go to gather the army horses."

   Zhang Anshi looked back at Zhu Yong and the others at this moment: "Don't talk about sympathy with your father and brother. This involves the livelihood of our brothers. The king of heaven is here, and there is no sympathy to talk about."

  Zhu Yong only felt his blood boil, and yelled: "Brother, my father doesn't know how to flatter, so I will teach him as usual."

  Zhang Anshi patted him on the shoulder, stared at him appreciatively and said, "Good brother."

  At the moment, after the arrangement, whether it is Zhu Gaoxu or Zhu Yong, everyone is gearing up.

   Only Zhu Jin drooped his head, he had to calculate how much it would cost.

  Obviously, the loss of materials needed this time is astronomical.

  After all, the imperial court can recruit men, and the treasury allocates money and food.

  But the 50,000 people in this firm have to pay for all the losses with their own silver.

  Finally, after working hard, Zhu Jin quickly came to Zhang Anshi again and said, "Uncle, there is bad news and good news."

  Zhang Anshidao: "I only listen to good news."

Zhu Jinbian said without further ado: "The good news is that these days, we have sucked up a lot of gentry's money, so they are now selling their grain, plus... a lot of land in our major banks also has Some income, food and tung oil, these basic needs, can be bought at a fair price."

  Zhang Anshi nodded and said: "That's great. I'm afraid that in a large-scale acquisition, some people will hoard goods, causing the price of rice and horses to rise."

  Zhu Jin smiled wryly and said: "Don't dare now. The tung oil incident has just passed, and so many people have lost their fortunes. Now even if someone has such a wicked heart, I'm afraid they won't have the courage to do so!"

"However... we mobilized so many boats, the wages of the boatmen, and other manpower, I am afraid that the cost is not small. If you calculate the small ones carefully, I am afraid that the cost will be around one million taels of silver. "

   "It's only one million taels?" Zhang Anshi said in surprise: "Even if it's shared, this soldier is only twenty taels of silver? Who are you looking down on?"

In fact, this number is already considered very high. During the reign of Emperor Gaozu, he was diligent and thrifty, and all the guards were dispatched to support themselves, which can minimize the cost of war. A war may cost the cost of a soldier. , spread out evenly, it is only seven or eight taels of silver.

   It can be said that Emperor Taizu Gao gave full play to the frugality of the old peasants.

  However, Zhang Anshi has a different idea. What he believes in is always high investment and high return.

  If you live frugally in war, what is the reason?

Zhang Anshi directly said proudly: "Prepare three million taels of silver! If three million taels is not enough, you can continue to add more, allocate all the funds available on our books, and give me the support of the four guards and the military horses of the model battalion. I always think about saving money, but that’s not how accounts are calculated.”

  Zhu Jin was taken aback.

   These days, don’t all the money that has been worked so hard to fool the gentry go into it?

  Zhu Jin hesitated and said: "This... If something goes wrong, it will be nothing."

Zhang Anshi laughed mockingly and said: "Nothing to lose? We lose nothing when we lose. So we can only have one choice, how to win, don't let the soldiers eat and drink enough, don't let them have enough energy, don't Give them enough supplies, but don't provide them with the best firearms and ordnance, why should people work their lives?"

"You people who are in business know how to care about everything. At this time, is it time to care about money? These are not things you consider, you have to consider... how to mobilize all the gold, silver and resources we can use to support the four guards and model camps."

  Zhu Jin thought for a while, although he couldn't understand Zhang Anshi's concept of spending money like water, but for him, anyway, he just needs to be obedient.

   You know, he has been with Zhang Anshi for so long, and he has seen a lot of Zhang Anshi's ability, so he is very convinced of Zhang Anshi.

  Therefore, he said: "Okay, the villain will definitely live up to my uncle's expectations."

  ...

  The army set off.

  When the four guards of Han Wang Tiance saw Zhu Gaoxu, all of them were refreshed.

When Zhu Gaoxu was convicted, the four guards fell into an unprecedented panic. No one knew whether Zhu Gaoxu's incident would implicate them. In addition, without Zhu Gaoxu's big backer, the future of the ups and downs in the future All slim.

   Now seeing Zhu Gaoxu appearing alive and kicking in front of them, how could it not cheer them up.

After the generals were summoned, Zhu Gaoxu didn't say anything, but said in person: "Prepare one day, break out of the camp at this time tomorrow, and head to Annan immediately! Everyone... put on the military flag of the firm, and everything else remains the same, this time the model camp is the forerunner. "

  The words were dismissed lightly, but all the military officers up and down were still excited.

  As long as Zhu Gaoxu is still alive, they still have hope.

   As for where to go, this is not important.

  No matter what Zhu Gaoxu does, he will never forget everyone, anyway, as long as he follows him hard.

  At the moment, the four-guard camp is extremely lively, and everyone is packing their luggage.

   And in the brother ship line, a large number of ships began to be transferred.

  The leading men and horses have also started to set off, and they have to arrive at various docks in advance to adjust the shipping of various places.

  A large number of boatmen were recruited, but fortunately, they were all their own boats, and the salary of the boatmen remained the same, and some subsidies for leaving home were even promised.

  On the other hand, they began to purchase food and medicine in large quantities, and many grain merchants were directly called in. Zhu Jin personally came forward and set a price, and those who were willing to sell would be delivered immediately.

  Now a large number of gentry sell a lot of grain to the market because they need funds. You must know that these grain merchants have a lot of grain in their hands.

  As for taking advantage of this opportunity to hoard goods, if there is no such thing as tung oil, perhaps some grain merchants will secretly unite to operate one or two.

   But with this lesson learned from others, and Zhu Jin has already begun to emerge in the business world, everyone knows that his background is extraordinary, so whoever dares to fight against him at this time is probably looking for death.

  So, large quantities of grain, food, medicine, in addition to this, there are many ordnance, and gunpowder, one after another loaded the ship.

Zhu Jin's action is still very fast, mainly due to his confidence. In addition, these days, he has recruited a lot of capable talents. Everyone knows that working for a firm will not lose their own benefits. The future is promising, so they are all willing Desperately.

  Everyone was very busy, but Zhang Anshi became more relaxed.

   After all, there are people like Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Yong in the military, and Zhu Jin and Gu Xingzu in the logistics supply.

  He instead found himself with nothing to do.

  When I had time, I went to the East Palace excitedly.

  I was going to find my sister in the dormitory of Crown Princess Zhang, but outside the dormitory, I saw Zhu Zhanji sitting on the steps with his head drooping in a daze.

  Zhang Anshi went up and touched his head, but he still looked sullen.

  Zhang Anshi said: "Dear and dear nephew Zhanji, if you have something on your mind, please tell uncle."

  Zhu Zhanji raised his head, glanced at Zhang Anshi, and sighed, "Uncle, why did my father and you plead for him when my second uncle made a mistake? I thought it would be fun to watch."

Zhang Anshi patted his head, and said patiently: "Because he is your relative, why don't you always see your relatives well? Zhanji, Zhanji, outsiders and relatives are different. No matter what mistakes your relatives make, It's also connected with your blood!"

   "If you think this way, what's the big deal? Will your uncle commit a crime in the future, and you will kill him?"

  Zhu Zhanji tilted his head and said: "But... shouldn't there be right and wrong?"

  Zhang Anshidao: "Right or wrong depends on who it is used on. People need to be flexible. Have you been taught badly by your masters again? Don't listen to them."

  Zhu Zhanji pouted, thought for a while and said, "Then let's forget about it?"

  Zhang Anshidao: "Your second uncle is just plotting something wrong. What a big mistake? Oh, I advise you to be generous. You should learn more from your brother-in-law."

  Zhu Zhanji felt that something was wrong, but with his small head, he seemed unable to refute Uncle. Anyway, what Uncle said seemed to make sense.

  So, I had to droop my head and say: "I'm very angry, I want to eat popsicles."

  Zhang Anshi rolled his eyes at him: "Go and tell your sister yourself."

   Zhu Zhanji said with a bitter face: "I dare not say."

  Zhang Anshi said: "That's it. You don't dare to do it yourself, but tell me what to do? Zhanji, Uncle is doing it for your own good. I look at Uncle and worry about you."

  Zhu Zhanji blinked: "Accounting for the interest, Uncle owes me eight popsicles."

  Zhang Anshi patted him on the head: "I won't talk to you anymore, I'm going to talk to Sister."

   After finishing speaking, he walked quickly into the bedroom.

   Mrs. Zhang is writing in front of the desk at this time.

  Zhang Anshi approached lightly, and said, "What are you writing, sister?"

   "Must Buddhist scriptures." Mrs. Zhang didn't look up, and continued to wave her pen.

  Obviously, someone had come in to inform her just now, so she wasn't surprised by Zhang Anshi's appearance at all.

On the contrary, Zhang Anshi was surprised and said: "Buddhist scriptures? I am familiar with this. I have a friend who is an eminent monk. If I say hello to him, he can silently recite a hundred chapters. Does my sister know the blood scriptures? It is made with the blood of an eminent monk. Making ink and transcribing Buddhist scriptures are more advanced things, and my friend can also do it, but it is a bit expensive."

  Zhang said: "This thing can't be faked by someone else, sincerity is good."

   As she spoke, she finally raised her head and said, "Who is that friend you're talking about?"

  Zhang Anshi said vaguely: "This...it's hard to say, he doesn't like to show his face, after all, he is an eminent monk."

   Mrs. Zhang didn't ask further: "Okay, okay, I'm going to copy the Buddhist scriptures and send them to the Ming Hall in the palace to show to the queen mother. I don't have time to talk to you now, so go play with Zhanji."

  Zhang Anshi said very sadly: "Zhanji is always jealous of my uncle, and I'm afraid that if I'm with him, he'll pick me up again."

  Ms. Zhang smiled and said: "You are about to start a family and start a business, but you are still angry with your child. He hasn't spoken ill of you in front of me recently, so don't worry."

  Zhang Anshi exhaled, and said, "Why did Sister suddenly copy Buddhist scriptures?"

"You don't know about this?" Mrs. Zhang looked at Zhang Anshi in amazement, and then said, "There is a great epidemic in Songjiang Mansion, and many people have died. The emperor was also shocked. How did you know that Songjiang Mansion had no knowledge of it before?" I didn't realize it, and waited until the epidemic spread in all directions, so I was in a hurry to report!"

"Nowadays, not to mention the Songjiang Mansion, even the Suzhou Mansion and Taicang Prefecture have already had patients. Now the whole court is in chaos. Who knows how far it will spread, let alone how many?" If something happens to someone, I'm afraid it won't last long, and they may even come to Nanjing City."

After finishing speaking, Mrs. Zhang sighed quietly, and said: "Not to mention the emperor's side, the queen mother's side is also very worried. Last year, there was a flood, and this year there was a severe epidemic. I don't know how many people will suffer. So the queen mother copied Buddhist scriptures in the palace. I thought, as a daughter-in-law, I can't be idle..."

  Zhang Anshi said: "What's the use of copying Buddhist scriptures at this time?"

Mrs. Zhang said: "Don't talk nonsense. There are some things... I would rather believe in them than in nothing. Maybe the mother's sincerity has moved the heavens? After all, the gods have the virtue of good life, and it is good to teach this disaster to pass. You, sometimes Sensible, sometimes confused."

  Of course Zhang Anshi knew that in ancient times, this pandemic was terrible!

   Not to mention the records in the history books that there are corpses strewn all over the fields, even the royal family, with such favorable conditions, would still kill many people.

   It’s no wonder that Sister, who is usually disrespectful to the Buddha, is now holding on to the Buddha’s feet.

  Zhang Anshi said: "What is the disease and what are the symptoms?"

   "A great epidemic is a great epidemic..." Mrs. Zhang said, "What are you... doing to inquire about this?"

  But seeing Zhang Anshi turned around and ran away, and said in his mouth: "Sister, you know a bird... goodbye..."

  After hearing this, Mrs. Zhang was very angry, her face was gloomy, but Zhang Anshi ran fast, and disappeared in a whoosh.

  So Zhang's eyebrows were slightly frowned, and her heart was also in a state of confusion. With a flick of the pen in her hand, drops of ink spread out on the hand-copied Buddhist scriptures and became a blur.

   "Come here, come here, he dares to come next time, don't let him get away easily!"

   "Yes, ma'am."

  ...

  The news of the great epidemic has not yet reached the capital, but someone has already learned the news in advance.

  Many people became frightened.

  The past few years have been relatively peaceful, but many elderly people still have memories of the tragedy after the outbreak of the epidemic.

  Zhu Di met various ministers almost round after round.

  Prince Zhu Gaochi stayed in the palace almost all night at this time, preparing for possible situations at any time.

  People always have a different kind of fear of the unknown.

  Even a murderous person like Zhu Di can't help but feel palpitations.

  Because his enemies are invisible right now, and no one even knows what is going on with this so-called great epidemic.

   And it is in Huating County, Songjiang Prefecture.

  In a Zhuangzi, the sedan chair of the local magistrate Liu Sheng has arrived.

  The epidemic in Huating County is the most serious.

  The county magistrate Liu Sheng was in a state of desperation. He was lucky and was not sick for the time being, but six people in the county had already died.

   Coupled with the prevalence of the epidemic, the entire county has become a purgatory.

  He was already scared out of his wits, yet trembling, watching one bad report after another, but Liu Sheng was helpless.

  In the past few days, he has been sleepless, trying his best to contact the local gentry to discuss countermeasures, and to seek medical treatment everywhere, but unfortunately...many of the famous doctors in the county who wanted to be called were all sick.

  The remaining few have been prescribed various prescriptions, but they are not very useful.

   At this moment, Liu Sheng heard a piece of news... A Zhuangzi in Huating County unexpectedly went up and down, and no one was infected with the epidemic.

   There are more than 400 people in Zhuangzi, but they are all intact.

   It is said that he is a scholar who has found a countermeasure.

  Scholar...

  Hearing this, Liu Sheng felt unbelievable, because the rumors of all kinds of ghosts are everywhere recently, but after people investigate, they are all kinds of stories made up by people under panic.

   Therefore, he first asked the guards to find out the truth, but in the end... he found out that it was actually true.

  At the moment, County Magistrate Liu was overjoyed, but worried that the situation might not be true, so he rushed to the village in a hurry.

   And I want to see how the situation of Zhuangzi is, and see this great scholar again.

  If...there is really a countermeasure...then...then...there are countless living people, a great merit.

  Even...this scholar...is truly a model of Shilin.

  (end of this chapter)