Chapter 59: Venting (2)
The night wind is a little bleak, and the branches are a little hideous.
The earth dragon in Lezhizhai was burning too strong, and a heat surged in the house.
"Open a gap for the window!" Luo Shan sat on the bed, watching the joint report from the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Industry, Zhu Yunsheng, who promoted Hongshu, said to the eunuch at the door without raising his head.
The windows silently exposed the narrow gaps, and the cold wind outside blew in, making the heat inside the house much softer.
Although the harvest of the Hongpotatoes tested this fall was awesome, the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Industry still chose the most secure plan for promotion. All northern provinces first set up large seedling farms, and then slowly implement them in wastelands and mountains.
Zhu Yunqiu understood that no matter what such a large country promotes, it must take it slowly and silently. If the action is too big, the effect will be counterproductive and it will also cause unnecessary turmoil.
Therefore, he mentioned the red pen and wrote in the memorial, "I know that since the matter of the long potato is handed over to you, the power is in your hands. At the beginning of the implementation, you should be careful and not be greedy for merits and advances. If it is counterproductive, it will not be beautiful."
"Hongshu involves grain storage and people's livelihood, and it is the most important thing. I am slower and more mature and persistent!"
After writing, it is specially placed aside.
The emperor's life is boring, and it is even more boring to be a good emperor. Every day is memorials and memorials, and endless memorials to deal with political affairs. But if it is all major national affairs, it would be fine, but...
It’s like this one in my hand, the memorial by Chen Dewen, Ambassador of Guangzhou Customs and Shipping Department.
"I have been away from the capital for many years, and I have always thought of Your Majesty's saint's face and shed tears. In another month, it will be the holy life of Your Majesty. I dared to report, and I will come to the capital to pay my respects to Your Majesty."
This month is the old man’s birthday, and next month is the Zhu Yunyu’s birthday.
He has not yet celebrated his birthday formally. One reason is that he is unwilling to make a statement, and the other reason is that he is still young. The ancients started their birthday only when they were forty years old, so it was too funny to have something to do at a young age.
Chen Dewen's career was very good and had already achieved the third-rank Yin Tian Prefecture. However, when the outer city of the canal was transformed along the river, he was blinded by villains and forced demolition, so he was beaten to the end.
At that time, Zhu Yunyu saw that he was still a professional economy and sent Yi to the Guangzhou Customs Department.
Facts prove that Zhu Yunyu had a good look. This man was promoted to the ranks of fifth-rank officials in just two years as a minor official in Guangzhou Customs. This shows his ability.
The person is quite a bit of a tax collection, but there is a strength that others don’t have, which is to capture smuggling. The Ship Department is to capture smuggling, and the department is equipped with Clippers and other archers.
Before Chen Dewen took office, smuggling in Guangzhou Customs was extremely rampant. Fishermen drove small boats to load cargo and ran directly outside the port to trade with the ships. Porcelain, ivory, spices, gems, etc. were broken into pieces and transported into the city.
How could these smuggled fishermen have any life? This is something that is privately controlled by big businesses and local wealthy people, and those fishermen can only get some money for wine and meat.
After Chen Dewen started smuggling, he did not immediately take action with the fishermen. Instead, he directly caught the merchant ships of the foreigners and tried publicly at the port for smuggling. In front of hundreds of people, all the leaders chopped their heads and hung them with bamboo poles in the most conspicuous place standing in the port.
"Whoever trades with the fishermen will kill whoever they want!"
This unreasonable approach greatly alleviated the rampant smuggling. Then, foreign sailors were transferred from the army, and the Clippers cruised and cooperated with the local government to jointly crack down on the attack. The smuggling was cleared within one year.
He is now promoted to the head of the Shipbuilding Department, and Zhu Yunyu was promoted again. Who would have thought that this first memorial was to come to the capital to see him.
"I have known the achievements of my customs. This year, Guangzhou Customs is unique and I have made great contributions. I am still young, and you have been with my king and minister for a long time, so there is no need to rush for a moment."
Zhu Yunxiu wrote patiently, "I was demoted to Guangzhou on that day, and I should not do anything about Meng Lang because of some achievements. If I really feel grateful to me, I can do my best."
Because he was a person he protected and promoted, Zhu Yunyu chose the relatively gentle Yi in terms of his words, rather than the superior and inferior identities ascended the throne and the strictness of his throne.
"Long live the Lord!"
Zhu Yunyu had just finished reading this memorial, and the turtle came in with the light of the lamp and whispered, "He Guangyi, the commander of the Jinyiwei, is waiting outside."
"Well, pass it!" Zhu Yunxiu whispered.
"Yes!" The turtle responded, then picked a few candles to make it more vigorously, and then slowly retreated.
Soon, He Guangyi lowered his head and lowered his arms, "I......"
"Sit there and say!" Zhu Yunxiu pointed to the stool next to him without waiting for him to salute.
"Yes!" He Guangyi knew the emperor's temper and did not say much nonsense and polite etiquette. He sat on the stool and spoke, "The matter that the emperor asked the minister to investigate has been found out."
"Oh?" Zhu Yunxiu put down the note, rubbed his eyes, and took a tea ceremony, "You can tell me carefully!"
What He Guangyi wanted to talk about Sheng Hengda Money House. Although Zhu Yunyu heard Sheng Hengda's boss Zhou Quan talk about the whole story that day, he always felt that this matter was not that simple.
"The emperor forgives the crime. I did not go to inspect and investigate, but directly sent someone to find Sheng Hengda's second cabinet and used some means..."
"Talk about it!" Zhu Yunxiu spoke impatiently.
Why did he send someone to come and use some means? It was obvious that he directly tied up the second person from Sheng Hengda and examined everything he knew.
"Sheng Hengda, the Zhou family, became a military officer, and later married rich merchants in the south. Because they had the background of a vassal king, they could transport tea and goods from the north to the south, so they built a huge family business in less than twenty years."
"Later, with shareholders in Suzhou, Shanxi, founded Shenghengda Money Store, and the trading plates became larger and larger."
"According to Sheng Hengda's second cabinet explanation..., he said."
He Guangyi paused and continued, "According to him, Sheng Hengda's boss Zhou Quan is actually the white gloves of King Zhou and King Chu!"
"White gloves?" Zhu Yunyu put down the tea bowl and his face became solemn.
"Sheng Hengda has a wide range of people and is not only the money stored by merchants, but also the payment and loans. The Zhou family takes out a portion of Sheng Hengda's money every year and handed it to the two princes without interest..."
"They used it to lend?" Zhu Yunxiu said angrily.
He Guangyi immediately lowered his head and dared not say anything else.
"Dear Prince..."
A fiefdom, Kaifeng, is a prosperous place in the Central Plains of the thousand-year-old ancient city.
One is the vassal of Wuchang, the world's commercial road hub.
Loaning is indeed a profitable deal. It also uses other people's money to earn high interest rates. And with such an identity, who dares not pay back their money?
"You continue!" Zhu Yunxiu continued.
"After a long time, Shanxi and Suzhou have an idea about the Zhou family. Those who say that they don't do business like this will take out the money from their tickets for others to use, and they will share the risks."
"But the Zhou family is good at using power to suppress others, and the two masters are also..."
Zhu Yunxiu sneered, "They also took out the money from their vassal warehouses and handed it over to the Zhou family to lend money in the south, right?"
"The emperor clearly understands it!" He Guangyi swallowed his saliva, "The money from the two masters was also given to some merchants in the south through the Zhou family to obtain interest."
“Several of these are……”
He Guangyi said, pausing again.
Chapter completed!