After Li Si'er was straightened up, Yu Yan's marriage was quickly put on the agenda.
Yuyan is definitely Mrs. Beizi.
When preparing clothes at the Long Mansion, you must prepare formal attire, court clothes, court crowns, court gowns, court robes, court skirts, etc. in advance.
In addition, when Mrs. Beizi entered the palace to thank her after her wedding, she had to wear auspicious clothes and wear three sets of court beads.
Anyway, there are a lot of things to prepare.
However, these bits and pieces are not a big deal given the power and status of Longkodo and Yuzhu.
The real important thing is that the furniture and miscellaneous items in Beizi's house must be dignified and elegant, and must be made of rosewood.
Fortunately, from the day Yu Yan was born, Li Si'er started preparing her dowry bit by bit.
After more than ten years of accumulation, the results have been extremely remarkable, and everything I need is now available.
His sister was getting married, so Yuzhu simply called Lei Jinyu and led him to Lao Shiba's Beizi Mansion.
Under the auspices of Yuzhu, Lei Jinyu had actually measured the size and style of furniture room by room.
How dare Lei Jinyu not work hard for his immediate boss's sister's wedding room?
Lao Shiba was at the gate and welcomed Yuzhu into the door.
"Brother, you have the final say on how to arrange the arrangements." Lao Shiba was quite a bachelor and simply obeyed Yu Zhu's instructions.
I don’t know why, but the more Yuzhu looks at Lao Shiba recently, the more he feels displeased.
"Who am I? In the dignified Beizi Mansion, can I really count?"
It was so suspenseful that Lao Shiba almost choked into the river because of Yuzhu.
"Brother, look what you said, don't mention other places. You can definitely have the final say in your sister's house." Lao Shiba was clever and deliberately did not mention Beizi Mansion, but Yuyan's house.
Home.
"Brother, watch your feet, don't sprain your feet."
"Brother, the tea is too hot. Drink it slowly."
"Brother..."
The appearance of the eighteenth-year-old's little daughter-in-law made Yuzhu laugh.
At the same time, Yuzhu also wanted to understand why he disliked Lao Ba.
Yuzhu felt somewhat awkward in her heart that her biological sister, whom she had been living with day and night, was about to become a eighteen-year-old.
In fact, every plant, tree, pavilion and mountain in Beizi Mansion was all arranged by Yu Yan himself.
When he first got the empty house, in order to please Yu Yan, Lao Shiba asked Lei Jinyu to make a miniature version of the schematic diagram for Yu Yan's reference.
Over the years, what object in the entire Beizi Mansion does Yu Yan not like?
Yuzhu made a full circle around Beizi Mansion again as usual.
When we sat down to rest, Lao Shiba enthusiastically took out the tea cup and said with a salivating look on his face: "Brother, please have some tea."
Looking at Lao Shiba's dog-legged appearance, Yuzhu wanted to laugh.
This guy, Lao Ba, was really smart. He was afraid that Yuzhu was deliberately looking for trouble, so he simply lay down.
Yuzhu took a sip of tea and turned to tell Lei Jinyu, who had been standing aside: "The bay, door nails, roof tiles and other items must not exceed the limit, do you understand?"
Lei Jinyu hunched over, lowered his head, and whispered: "Master Zhu, don't worry. If a villain dares to use his head as a guarantee, he will definitely not be able to exceed the limit."
Yuzhu nodded, truly trusting Lei Jinyu, who had been a police officer for decades.
To be honest, the problem of exceeding the regulations can be big or small. Even if it is a small problem, it will not be a big deal with Lao Ba's great favor.
However, when you can obviously pay attention in advance to avoid trouble, why bother to talk about it?
In recent years, although Lao Shiba has closed his government, his mission is to supervise the construction of foreign ships in Dagukou.
In the eyes of ordinary people, this is not a serious job.
In the Kangxi Dynasty, the official job of the princes and elder brothers was to manage the department.
Only when you are in charge of the department can you gain real power, and other tasks are just a cloud.
However, Lao Shiba's visit to Dagukou really opened his eyes.
The foreign ships that went out to sea were tall and powerful, with three decks, and their cargo capacity was several times that of the so-called sea ships of the Qing Dynasty.
Since Kangxi allowed Western trade at Dagukou, Dagukou is now very lively.
Lao Shiba has been staying at the dock all year round. He knows better than anyone that there are as many as seven or eight, and at least three, Western merchant ships arriving at the port every day.
In the past, the Qing Dynasty adopted a simple method of taxing foreign merchants on a per-ship basis.
Now, according to the regulations set by Yuzhu, taxes are only levied on goods unloaded from the ship.
Except for luxury goods, the tax rate for ordinary goods is one-fifth, and the tax base is calculated back based on the retail price on the market.
I think back then, the General Taxation Department under the management of the Englishman Hurd was actually the most honest government office in the entire Qing Dynasty.
There are some things that really need to be reflected on.
Foreigners have a side of robbers and butchers, but also a side that is relatively trustworthy.
The mind should be open-minded, not rigid, and learn from the best of all countries.
For the foreign system, we should take its essence and discard its dross.
Lao Shiba saw clearly that since the opening of Dagu Port, the tax revenue of the imperial court had been increasing continuously.
In Guangzhou, there were thirteen businesses working as white gloves for the government. As a result, the court taxed 10 taels, but the comprador profiteers made 50 taels.
In the long run, the reputation of the imperial court will be ruined, but it will benefit the comprador profiteers, which is extremely undesirable.
In Dagukou, with the help of Alice, the officials in the yamen dealt directly with foreign merchants and collected taxes directly, thus avoiding a huge loophole for profiteers to make huge profits.
In a word, the taxation system in Dagukou is a replica of the British Inland Revenue Service.
Learn the good ones and discard the bad ones, it’s that simple!
"After you get married, do you want to change your job?" Yuzhu asked Lao Shiba casually.
Lao Shiba put down the tea cup in his hand, picked up a handful of melon seeds, and while cracking them, he said: "To be honest, brother, I just like to deal with those foreign things now. Don't say it anymore.
These Western fancy silver tricks are just so lovable that they can sell for a high price.”
Listening to Lao Shiba's endless praise of the best-selling foreign goods, Yuzhu smiled slightly and reminded: "Have you ever thought about it, we can actually hire people to do the best-selling foreign goods ourselves. Let's just talk about the one in your house.
The big clock, He Yi's products are very expensive, more than a thousand taels of silver each. If we have the ability to copy it and sell it for only three hundred taels, we will definitely make a lot of money."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In the era when Yuzhu came, the great achievement of industrialization was to follow the path of the foreigners, leaving the foreigners with no way to go, and making it impossible for the foreign devils to make money.
Huge profits.
In a word, as long as China has completely mastered an industrial technology category and can mass-produce it on a large scale, the comprehensive transformation of that category of products will be just around the corner.
The British are definitely not good people.
Originally, tea and porcelain in the Qing Dynasty were the absolute main force in creating trade surplus.
As a result, the British just tried every means to steal technology and resources and create their own copycat version.
Even if the British succeeded in planting tea trees in Sanguo, until 1840, the foreign devils still had to sell opium to make up for the huge trade deficit.
Yuzhu saw that Lao Ba was very interested in foreign goods, so he simply asked Lao Ba to lead a team to conduct research, specifically copying those best-selling foreign goods.
There are two construction offices in the palace, one is the construction office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the other is the construction office of Yangxin Hall.
There are many skilled craftsmen in these two manufacturing offices.
It's a pity that these top craftsmen can only serve the royal family, and their technologies and products cannot be commercialized, which is a waste of great resources.
There is another benefit to letting the eighteenth-year-old be responsible for copycat foreign products.
With Lao Shiba's great favor, he would ask the old emperor for top craftsmen every now and then. If he asked for ten, he would have to give one, right?
Over time, the Dagukou Terminal Group has become an example of large-scale counterfeit foreign goods among high-tech state-owned enterprises.
Of course, Lao Shiba is also a very sensible person. If he really wants to take charge of the ministry, there is no way the old emperor will allow it.
In the Kangxi Dynasty, among the old emperor's biological sons, the elder brothers in charge of the ministry were all, without exception, born to Manchu banner girls.
The prince born to a Han woman became the elder brother of the Ministry of Management. Is this trying to overturn the world?
Besides, Lao Shiba is Yu Zhu's biological sister-in-law. If his power expands, he will definitely attract the wary eyes of the old emperor.
Why bother?
Isn’t the lesson learned by the Eight-Ye Party profound?
Yuzhu holds huge real power and has never formed a party, let alone monopolized power.
Even in the infantry commander's yamen, Yuzhu is still far from being able to cover the sky with one hand.
Yuzhu knew the old emperor's temper very well.
Whoever takes the lead and becomes more powerful will be killed by the old emperor.
After coming out of Beizi Mansion, Yuzhu went home and went to Yuyan's yard. Through the screen, he explained in detail the arrangements made today.
"Brother, I want to eat Wan's roasted meat..."
Before Yu Yan could finish her words, she was interrupted by a slight cough.
Alas, there is no other way. Ever since the marriage was granted, the aunts and grandmothers from the palace have been keeping a close eye on Yu Yan, making Yu Yan unable to move at all.
"Um,
Are you hungry? Well, I'll ask someone to invite Wan's roasted meat to the house and set up the stove outside the yard, okay?" Yuzhu said something, and the exquisite ladies around Yuyan knew it.
It's inappropriate, but they don't dare to openly oppose it.
Today's Yuzhu has become a high mountain that servants like them must look up to.
To put it bluntly, with just a wink from Yuzhu, the nuns who looked like humans and dogs would probably fall into the well in the palace and become the companions of the Dragon King of the East China Sea.
A few days later, Yuzhu got the exact news that the fourteenth man showed his filial piety in front of the Empress Dowager and was greatly praised.
As a result, the empress dowager, who always meddles in other people's affairs, made an exception and begged for the fourteenth son's favor in front of the emperor.
The old emperor always prided himself on being pure and filial. Now that the empress dowager had spoken, he naturally restored the title of Beizi to the fourteenth old man.
Yuzhu knew as soon as he heard it, what a powerful Concubine De.
As the saying goes, couples come together when they are young and keep company when they are old.
Today, Kangxi has only one wife, Concubine De, by his side.
Concubine De is indeed a ruthless character.
When she was young, she used sex to serve the king and was promoted to concubine at a speed that was jaw-dropping.
When the king grew old, Concubine De often served Kangxi as a gentle and considerate wife.
As people get older, they will certainly talk more. This is the case for a certain Kong, who refuses to change despite repeated admonitions.
Today's Kangxi can no longer bully women. What he lacks is a caring wife.
The restoration of the old Fourteenth will inevitably speed up the transformation of the Eighth Ye Party into the Fourteenth Party.