All the people in the Wenhua Hall were very excited after putting on the shark suit or whale suit, and they were a little more capable and murderous in doing things than before.

After this day, Zhu Yunxi also resumed his habit of going to court every morning.

Whale on the left, shark on the right.

The whale acts as a civil servant and the shark acts as a military attaché.

But when it comes to actual work, there is no distinction between civil and military matters at all.

Lao Zhu came to visit a few times and saw that Dasun was having a lot of fun, so he stopped caring about it.

In his opinion, the shark suits and whale suits created by Zhu Yunxi are just children's play toys.

However, a few days later, he heard a group of officials complaining, and then he realized that Dasun, the little dragon, began to bar his teeth at the court he controlled.

In the Wenhua Hall, Zhu Yunxi was sitting in his seat, listening to the report of his subordinates.

"Emperor Grandson, the people from the Ministry of War took away the weapons and did not give us any money for the workshop. We sent people to ask for them. The people from the Ministry of War said that we should go to His Majesty the Emperor. They only collected the weapons and distributed them, regardless of paying for them.

Something!"

Zhu Yunxi was furious after hearing this.

"That makes no sense!"

"Didn't I have an agreement with the Ministry of War a long time ago that I will be responsible for managing the workshop and the Ministry of War will be responsible for paying for it? How dare they cheat now?"

"Zhu Zhi, Zhu Quan!"

"Uncle Wang is here!"

"You two go to the Ministry of War with ten guards in royal robes to ask for money. If Rujun doesn't give it to you, you will live and eat in the Ministry of War!"

"promise!"

Zhu Zhi and Zhu Quan each brought ten royal guards with them, and walked into Ru Yu's duty room with great swagger.

When Ru Yun saw Jin Yiwei barging in at first, she thought she had committed something. Later, when she saw two princes wearing shark suits, she realized that these people were here to ask for money.

As long as the emperor doesn't arrest him, things will be easy to handle.

"Two princes, please calm down. It's not that the lower officials don't want to give money, it's because the Ministry of Household Affairs didn't allocate money to the Ministry of War!"

Zhu Zhi and Zhu Quan sat down on Ru Yu's table and said carelessly.

"fine!"

"You can delay if you can. Anyway, the Emperor Taisun has spoken. If you don't pay me for a day, we won't leave for a day."

"No matter where you go, we will follow you!"

When Ru Yu heard this, she felt full of disdain. She thought to herself, if I go home at night, can you two follow me?

However, he underestimated the patience of these two princes.

Ru Yu spent the whole day at the Ministry of War with the two princes, and when she came home from get off work in the evening, Zhu Zhi and Zhu Quan actually followed her back.

"Master Ru, you must welcome Gu to your home, right?"

"Welcome, welcome..."

Zhu Zhi and Zhu Quan followed Ru Yu home, neither crying nor making any fuss. They ate whatever Ru Yu ate. Even if Ru Ru went to the back house to rest, the two of them stood guard outside the door with their royal guards.

The prince stood guard, and the guards in royal robes guarded the door.

How could Ru Ruan bear such treatment? The next day she went to the Ministry of Revenue to cry and complained, and pestered the Ministry of Revenue to allocate money to send the pair of plague gods away.

After this battle, Zhu Zhi and Zhu Quan completely made a name for themselves in the capital. Whenever there were debts owed by the government and Wenhua Palace, the two of them led the Jin Yiwei to come to collect debts.

For a time, almost all the departments such as the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the Ministry of Industry were tormented by these two people.

Even the money spent by Yingtian Mansion to renovate the cells was stalked by the two to get it back...

Zhu Yunxi was also very generous to the two of them. He directly allocated 20,000 taels from the Ministry of Finance of Wenhua Palace to build the palace for them.

Although it is just a rough house, it is much better than the palace built by the imperial court. At least the houses, ponds and other things that should be inside have been built.

The two of them got the benefit and worked harder.

The local government owed money to the Ming Steel Chamber of Commerce, and the two of them also demanded payment.

The direct consequence of this was that the two men were collectively reported to His Majesty the Emperor by the civil servants, and they were pulled out and beaten by His Majesty the Emperor.

After the fight, the two of them were noisy as always, Lao Zhu was the best

There was nothing they could do with these two idiots, so they were ordered to stay in the palace and not allowed to run around.

However, the two of them have already reaped the benefits, so how can they stop so easily?

According to Zhu Zhi, the palace now exists, but the decoration inside has not yet been completed.

If you don't make more money before the confederation, where will you find such a generous "commission" in the future!

As a result, after being beaten, the two of them sneaked out of the palace to collect debts, repeating the process over and over again, refusing to change despite repeated admonitions.

Fortunately, Lao Zhu got tired of it after struggling a few times and allowed the two traitors to cause trouble.

Compared to the restlessness of the two princes, other noble sons also started to tremble.

Chen Mi, the son of Chen Zongli, the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs, put on the "shark suit" given by the emperor, and specially dressed up when he returned home.

Chen Zongli naturally sneered at this. He had heard of unicorn suits, flying fish suits, and bullfighting suits in his life, but he had never heard of shark suits.

This shark has a huge mouth and big white teeth. At first glance, it looks like something a child would play with.

However, within a few days he couldn't be happy anymore.

Chen Mi, the Minister of Finance, in his name as the son of the Minister of Household Affairs, visited several state capitals and deceived them into transferring the task of escorting taxes to the Postal Department, and also asked them to temporarily deposit funds for county government activities with them.

at your local branch.

Kong Yanjin became much more courageous after putting on the shark suit. Even in the face of reprimands from his father and grandfather, he felt like there was someone behind him to support him.

When it comes to business dealings with local governments, their shark suits are even more unfavorable.

In Lao Zhu's eyes, this thing was just something for children to play house with. But in the eyes of the officials below, it was the emperor's cronies.

Who is the emperor's grandson? He is the future emperor of Ming Dynasty!

They would rather offend the six ministries of the imperial court than offend these young people in shark suits.

It didn't take long for the Shark Suit to become famous in the Gyeonggi region. Even some remote prefectures and counties heard about the Shark Suit. Knowing that these people were the emperor's grandson's personal soldiers, they didn't dare to provoke them easily.

Zhu Yunxi took advantage of this period to frantically buy land and build factories in various places, recruiting a large number of workers.

At the same time, supply and marketing cooperatives also sprouted up all over the Gyeonggi area, achieving a profit of one hundred thousand taels in the first month alone.

Although this one hundred thousand taels of silver has long been ignored by Zhu Yunxi.

But he didn't expect to make money when he founded the supply and marketing cooperative. It was just a convenient service for people to shop and sell agricultural products.

Now that he can avoid losing money, he is already very happy.

For this reason, he held a banquet for the officials in the Wenhua Hall and rewarded them well...

Lu Shiyuan, a bachelor of Wenhua Palace and acting in charge of the promotion of the Songjiang City Shipping Secretary, also brought good news to Zhu Yunxi.

He has already recruited a group of maritime merchants through his own connections, which has gradually put the business of the Shipping Company on the right track.

Michael Harris also gave full play to his subjective initiative, recruited a group of Nanyang maritime merchants, and registered them with the Songjiang Shipping Department.

Zhu Yunxi was very excited after receiving this report, and felt that his dream of a great voyage had taken another big step.

However, he was not dazzled by the victory in front of him and still remained clear enough.

Recruiting maritime merchants is only the first step. Next, preparing goods for trade and combating smuggling by other maritime merchants are the top priority.

However, in order to achieve this strategic goal, the most important thing is money.

Without money, we cannot develop a navy, without a navy we cannot block the coastline, and we cannot control rampant smuggling.

In the same way, if you want to prepare enough goods, you also need massive financial support.

Therefore, the day after receiving the report, Zhu Yunxi went to the Jinling Stock Exchange and checked the funds on the books.

Since the stock exchange was opened not long ago, merchants in the Ming Dynasty did not trust it very much. Therefore, after a few months, not many stocks were sold, and they only bought more than three million taels.

In normal times, this is already a large amount of money.

After all, the Treasury of the Imperial Household Department may not have so much money all year round.

However, Zhu Yunxi now had to build railways, open mines and build factories, and order sea-going ships to build a navy. This amount of money was a drop in the bucket.

Xie Kui, who was in charge of the exchange, felt uneasy when he saw Zhu Yunxi's bad expression.

"Emperor Grandson, actually being able to sell 30,000 shares is pretty good."

"After all, we have only been open for less than three months, and many merchants still have doubts about this thing."

Zhu Yunxi shook his head indifferently after hearing this.

"You don't need to explain, I know what this thing is about!"

In fact, Zhu Yunxi had long expected that stock sales would be cold.

Because he had been wary of this thing from the beginning. If he hadn't been too short of money, he wouldn't have even come up with this thing in Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, he has not done many things to stimulate the stock price, and has always had a laissez-faire attitude.

"You haven't distributed any dividends yet, have you?"

"yes!"

"Originally, we were planning to pay dividends at the end of the year, but it's only been less than three months. There's absolutely no reason to pay dividends!"

Zhu Yunxi nodded and said.

"Let's divide it!"

"After discussing with Chen Mi from the Ministry of Finance, combined with last year's profits, we will distribute the dividends to them every month."
To be continued...