Seeing that Emperor Chongzhen was not convinced, Liu Weichao asked him directly: "When the Ming Dynasty runs out of salt, won't you sell it abroad?"
"..." Emperor Chongzhen was dumbfounded when he heard this.
Selling food abroad is something he has never thought about!
So, he couldn't help but ask: "Is this okay?"
"Why not?" After hearing this, Liu Weichao immediately asked, "Don't people in foreign countries use salt? As long as they are humans or animals, they must take in salt. Well, let's not talk about animals, just
Speaking of people, they also need salt!"
After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen always felt that something was wrong. He had never done such a thing before. After thinking about it, he said to Liu Weichao: "But he must have some salt, right?"
"Didn't I just say that?" When Liu Weichao heard this, he guided Emperor Chongzhen and said, "The salt you produce must either pay attention to the quality, or produce refined salt, and lower the price. In this way, your quantity will be large.
, it’s cheap and better than the salt from other countries, people will definitely be willing to buy it from you!”
"No, that's not right!" After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen shook his head and said, "Salt and iron should be exclusive to other countries, right? If so, they would not agree to what we sold in the past!"
Liu Weichao couldn't help laughing after hearing this. After a while, he stopped laughing and asked: "What do your troops do for food? If they don't agree, just beat them until they agree!"
"..." When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he couldn't help being dumbfounded and speechless.
Liu Weichao ignored him and continued to say to him: "Same as salt, you will listen to me from now on. After Ming Dynasty lights up the technology tree, productivity will be greatly improved. All outputs may lead to prosperity. In this way
Come on, you have to sell these extra things abroad. If they don’t agree, you have to be responsible for your people and just use the army to knock on their country’s door!”
After hearing this, Emperor Chongzhen's eyes slowly became brighter and brighter. He would never have too much money.
However, he still hesitated a little in the end and said to Liu Weichao: "But... but Ming Dynasty is a country of etiquette!"
"Yes, we are a country of etiquette!" After hearing this, Liu Weichao immediately nodded in agreement, "So we are polite first and then fight, sell them cheaper and better things, and improve their lives. If they can't even accept this,
Then we have no choice but to send troops to teach them!"
Emperor Chongzhen actually agreed to Liu Weichao's proposal in his heart. After all, in that case, he could make a lot of money, and the treasury would not be empty and the government would not be in a mess, but it would not save his face.
But when he heard Liu Weichao's words, he had a reason and said with a smile: "This method is good, I think it is okay!"
Just when he said this, he suddenly said "ah" again, and said to Liu Weichao a little disappointed: "I suddenly remembered that I don't even have a strong army in my hands!"
"..." Liu Weichao was speechless and couldn't help but shake his head and asked, "Then do you think your salt production can be increased tomorrow? Can the quality of salt be improved tomorrow? You can meet the country's salt demand tomorrow.
What?"
When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he was immediately speechless: "..."
After a while, he said awkwardly: "I'm just impatient!"
Seeing Emperor Chongzhen like this, Liu Weichao smiled and said: "Aren't you checking the eight major Shanxi merchants now? You have a lot of money in your hands. You can take care of the salt merchants' affairs slowly, and do everything down-to-earth step by step.
The land comes. Anyway, the salt merchants’ money can’t escape!”
When Emperor Chongzhen heard this, he smiled very happily.
Later, he felt a little embarrassed just talking about his own affairs, so he asked Liu Weichao: "How is the situation over there? I've been busy with my own business these days, and I haven't even asked you about it."
After hearing this, Liu Weichao said to him: "All the procedures for starting a business have been completed, but some reviews will take a long time. I have been mainly busy with mobile phone software these two days, which I need to optimize and rent.
Server and so on. But it will be done soon, and then I need you to send more content. I will contact you later!"
"Okay, just ask if you need it!" Emperor Chongzhen heard this and quickly expressed his stance, "I also asked them to prepare more songs. When you ask for them, I will give them to you!"
After hearing this, Liu Weichao thought for a moment and then said: "Well, I might want to make some videos later. When I'm ready, you can take some for me too!"
"No matter what, as long as I can help, it will be fine!" Emperor Chongzhen answered without hesitation after hearing this.
Both parties had a satisfactory result and fell asleep contentedly.
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"Help, don't kill me, don't kill me..."
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."
In the Prince of Zhou's Mansion in Kaifeng, in the early morning, King Zhu Gongzhen of Zhou had a nightmare and woke up sweating profusely.
When he opened his eyes and saw that there were no thieves in front of him, he realized that it was a dream. After heaving a sigh of relief, he quickly asked: "How is the Kaifeng city defense going?"
His concubine, of course, couldn't answer, so she just comforted her by saying, "Secretary Gao and General Chen are watching, and everything will be fine!"
Gao Xunxun was Gao Mingheng, who was the Xunxun Xun of Henan at that time.
General Chen, also known as Kaifeng General Chen Yongfu, shot Li Zicheng blind in the second battle of Kaifeng and forced him to retreat.
After hearing this, Zhu Gongzhen thought of the tragic scene in his dream, and finally felt uneasy. He got up in a hurry and summoned Gao Mingheng and Chen Yongfu.
Hearing his worries, Gao Mingheng and Chen Yongfu looked at each other, and then Gao Mingheng answered him: "With the generosity of the prince, I have increased the cloud tower, stored gunpowder, erected forts, added flying stones, and distributed them carefully.
I dare not say that Kaifeng is impregnable, but if the bandits come again, it will definitely not be so easy to capture!"
Hearing this, Zhu Gongzhen still felt uneasy no matter what.
In his dream this morning, he ended up with the same fate as King Fu!
Thinking of this, he shuddered!
So, he asked again worriedly: "I want you to be able to ensure that Kaifeng is foolproof! To achieve this, what else do you need to do, just say it clearly!"
The fact that Kaifeng was able to hold on before had a lot to do with King Zhou spending a lot of money. In this regard, Kaifeng Mansion is still much luckier than Luoyang!
At this time, Gao Mingheng listened to Zhu Gongzhen's words and replied respectfully: "As the art of war goes, defending a city alone without reinforcements from outside is a taboo for military strategists. If you defend for a long time, you will lose! I respectfully request the prince, and then ask the court for help!"
"
Hearing this, Zhu Gongzhen couldn't help but said worriedly: "If the thieves besiege the city, Gu will naturally ask for help from the imperial court. But the problem is, now that the thieves have not besieged the city, how can Gu ask for help from the imperial court? If this is the case, other vassal kings will also ask for help from the imperial court.
Asking for help, what can I do?"
Hearing this, Gao Mingheng and Chen Yongfu both looked at each other, feeling a little helpless.
Nowadays, in these days of war and chaos, vassal kings everywhere are worried. As King Zhou said, if Kaifeng is not attacked by thieves and rushes for help, then other vassal kings will definitely ask for help. So what should the court do? It is impossible to go everywhere.
Are they sending reinforcements?
But they also knew very well that Li Zicheng's group of thieves had suffered heavy losses in the previous two times and even lost an eye. They would not give up and would come back sooner or later to attack Kaifeng again.
If we really have to wait until that time, the thieves will definitely be stronger, otherwise they will not attack Kaifeng again.
As a result, they really have no idea whether Kaifeng can hold on or not.
Just like Gao Mingheng's answer just now, if there are reinforcements from outside and the generosity of King Zhou, then Kaifeng will be worry-free!
However, how could it be possible if there were reinforcements from outside?
It's not like they haven't received news from the outside. According to the fact that Li Zicheng's army of thieves has captured several towns around Kaifeng according to the fact that they don't accept returns at night, their situation is already a bit obvious, and they are likely to come to attack Kaifeng again.
Moreover, Ding Qirui, the commander of the surrounding troops, was frightened by the news and did not dare to become an enemy of the bandits!
In addition, there are rumors that the current emperor has summoned all the brave guards from all over the country to the capital. Looking at this situation, even the emperor has signs of being in trouble. Otherwise, he would not have summoned all the brave guards to the capital!
The current situation is really not optimistic!
At this time, after listening to King Zhou's words, Gao Mingheng had nothing to do.
But Zhu Gongzhen kept staring at him and asked him to make a decision. He had no choice but to comfort King Zhou and said: "Maybe the thieves saw that I am heavily guarded in Kaifeng, and maybe they don't want to lose too much, so it's not necessarily a matter of not attacking!"
After Zhu Gongzhen heard this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly. Indeed, with no other way, he could only hope that the thieves would not attack the heavily defended Kaifeng again!
For a moment, the hall became quiet.
I guess this is the only way this summons will go.
At this moment, the sound of hurried footsteps came from outside. In the quiet situation of the hall, the sound of hurried footsteps was particularly clear.
At the same time, there were hurried calls: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty..."
Upon hearing this, Zhu Gongzhen was suddenly excited and stood up immediately. He asked in shock: "Could it be...could it be that the bandits came to attack Kaifeng?"
As he spoke, he was trembling slightly.
Gao Mingheng was also a little panicked, but he was much better than Zhu Gongzhen.
The one who was least alarmed was the commander-in-chief Chen Yongfu.
When he heard what King Zhou said, he shook his head and said, "It doesn't seem like a thief. Could it be that he is up to something good?"
Both King Zhou and Gao Mingheng were very worried about the thief, so they panicked when they heard the news.
But Chen Yongfu did not. After listening carefully, he could tell that the shouts outside did not have the tone of panic when the thieves were attacking the city. Instead, they seemed to have a tone of surprise.
Therefore, he said this.
Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, he saw a royal general at the door of the hall, not even caring about etiquette, and hurried in. There was a look of surprise on his face!