Xu Wenchang looked at Zhu Yijun helplessly. After a while, he said, "Your Majesty, don't worry. I'll write it as soon as I get back."
Zhu Yijun nodded his head in satisfaction. Then, he smiled and said, "If there's anything you need me to do, you can just tell me."
After thinking for a while, Xu Wenchang said, "I don't have anything for Your Majesty to do. If there's anything, then please give me some time!"
Zhu Yijun looked at Xu Wenchang and nodded his head. Then, he smiled and said, "Then I'll give you some time. Let's wait until the end of the year!
There's still half a year left. That should be enough, right? "
"Your Majesty, it's enough!" Xu Wenchang nodded his head and said.
Xu Wenzhang could also see that His Majesty did not expect him to write a good novel. It was just a Mandarin novel on the market.
Any storyteller could have written it, but His Majesty wanted to borrow his name!
After leaving the palace, Xu Wenchang sighed as he walked. He didn't expect that he would become a royal scholar one day. The world was really making fools of people!
Seeing Xu Wenchang leave dejectedly, Zhu Yijun was infuriated. He waved his sleeves and coldly snorted, "You made it seem like I forced you to do it."
In the following days, the Daming Capital entered a period of stability.
Nothing big happened in the court. The military reform on the three sides was in full swing. Zhang Xueyan was doing a good job.
The western suburbs were also under construction. Adding on the fact that they needed people to build roads, there was a shortage of manpower.
The recruiters went to the countryside every day to pull people in.
The silver coin exchange had also stabilized. Basically, the Royal Bank would only exchange 100,000 silver coins every day. Any more and there would be nothing left.
This led to the development of the silver coin black market. In a short period of time, it had become extremely prosperous.
In just three months, the He family had distributed more than 5 million silver coins.
They had exchanged more than 7 million silver coins. This silver was not hoarded but used to make silver coins.
It was said that the imperial court was preparing to implement a new currency system in the entire north, and it would start after the New Year in the six northern provinces.
The seven southern provinces could only hold on for a year at the latest. After that, the imperial court would completely replace silver with silver.
At the same time, the imperial court stipulated that the people were not allowed to minte coins privately. Anyone who minted coins privately would have their entire family executed.
He Chengming stood at the door of his house, welcoming his father with a smile.
Unlike the last time, He Chengming's temperament was very different now. He had matured a lot.
Over the past few days, He Chengming had come into contact with all kinds of people in the Shun Tian Prefecture, allowing him to grow a lot.
He Mingli got out of the car, looked at his son and said with a smile, "Good, good!"
The father and son entered the house together. He Mingli smiled and said, "It's been three months. It's finally done!"
He Chengming handed the tea to his father and said with a smile, "Father, you've worked hard!"
"How are you doing in Beijing?" He Mingli looked at his son and asked with a smile.
"There's no problem in Beijing. With the support of the palace and the previous rumor, many people have been polite to us." He Chengming sighed. "The palace is really generous!"
At the same time, He Chengming felt ashamed of himself. He had suspected that the palace would use his family as scapegoats.
Now, it seemed that the palace really wanted to use his family. They did not even hesitate to spread the rumor that the emperor had taken a fancy to his sister. Both He Chengming and He Mingli knew that this was the palace's goodwill.
The palace could be said to have done their best. If they did not do their job well, it would be hard to talk to them.
Therefore, the father and son had been very busy for the past three months. He Mingli finally met Li Dan's envoy and completed the first transaction with them.
He Mingli directly offered a high price for more than a dozen goods.
At the same time, he finalized a second transaction with Li Dan. This time, Li Dan would deliver 120 ships of goods to He Mingli.
This included food, hide, animal tendons, medicinal herbs, and so on. He Mingli would pay half in silver and half in goods.
This transaction was worth 3.7 million taels of silver. It was definitely a big deal.
The He family had never done such a big deal before, but now they felt that they could do it.
He Mingli would never forget his attitude when facing Li Dan's envoy. Yes, I want as much as you can deliver.
The price was negotiable. 30% higher than the market price was not a problem.
The feeling of being full of energy was really great.
The first batch of goods was worth 300,000 taels of silver. He had already handed it over to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The next big deal of 3.8 million taels of silver would have to wait until the end of the year. There was no chance now.
"Father, what should we do next?" He Chengming looked at his father and asked hesitantly.
"Our transaction with Li Dan has been finalized. This is our last transaction this year," He Mingli said with a serious face. "We have two things to do next."
"The first thing is the goods. The goods provided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs have not arrived yet."
"The second thing is that your sister has entered the palace. I have already sent someone to pick her up."
"The third thing is to open the port. At the beginning of next year, we will try to open the port. Have someone spread the news that the He family has the silver to exchange for goods, not because of your sister."
"It is because the He family does sea trade. We sold 3.8 million taels of goods to Li Dan. We sold it to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for 4.5 million taels of silver. We made a net profit of 700,000 taels of silver."
"The 3.8 million taels of silver actually cost us only 2.7 million taels of silver. The money from the sale of the goods and the sea trade, the He family made a net profit of 1.8 million taels of silver."
This number was, of course, He Mingli was bragging. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the palace had split the profits.
Even so, the business of these 120 ships was finished. He didn't dare to say much, but 500,000 taels of silver was definitely not a problem. It was a huge profit. The palace and the Ministry of Internal Affairs made even more.
Zhu Yijun's main goal was to make more than 2 million taels of silver. After that, Zhu Yijun had nothing to do with it.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs was prepared to make a lot of money. For example, the new products, including soap, soap, perfume, shampoo, toothpaste, and other items, were all served with lard.
This would be a pillar of the Ministry of Internal Affairs's industry.
The second category of products was wine. Fruit wine was the first. The residue of purified lard, which was glycerin, could be used to dissolve the tannins in fruit wine, making it sweet and delicious instead of sour.
There was also lard wax, which was a new product released by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It was cheap, but it was very useful.
Zhu Yijun had people make thick wax. After lighting it, it would burn for a few days. It was as thick as a cannon barrel.
Zhu Yijun was prepared to export and sell these things. Among them, Zhu Yijun wanted to promote pig farming.
Once lard had these effects, the price of pork would definitely rise.
There would be people raising it if there was profit. Next year, pig farming would be promoted.
The hatchery had already produced three batches of chickens, ducks, and geese. They were selling very well because they were cheap.
They didn't care if they didn't have money. They used eggs to exchange. Basically, three eggs could exchange for one chick.
In an instant, there wasn't enough chicks. A batch was sold out.
Next year, they could introduce chickens, ducks, and geese to exchange for piglets. A piglet could be exchanged for ten chickens or eight ducks.
That was how wealth was accumulated. One ring after another, it was endless.
With silver as the entry point, the northern port as the breakthrough point, and the special products as the attraction point, Zhu Yijun believed that he would definitely be able to beat a lot of people.
Forbidden City, Wenhua Hall.
Zhu Yijun stood in the hall and glanced at Zhang Jing. Then, he said, "Has the He family released the news?"
"Your Imperial Highness, they have been released!" Zhang Jing quickly bowed and replied.
Zhu Yijun nodded and said with a smile, "This He family is interesting. They aren't greedy. That's a good moral character."
Zhang Jing didn't know how much money the He family had made. Greedy?
If they were greedy, they would be greedy.
He Mingli of the He family wasn't stupid. He knew what he should take and what he shouldn't.
"Have you sent someone to see the daughter of the He family?" Zhu Yijun glanced at Zhang Jing and asked again.
Although this beauty contest was basically a competition of interests, Zhu Yijun still cared about the girl's appearance.
If she was really ugly, he still had to marry her!
"Imperial Majesty, I've already sent someone from the palace to see her. They said that her appearance and etiquette are very good," Zhang Jing replied.
Zhu Yijun nodded and said, "Let's start preparing for the beauty contest!
This time, we'll select mainly from the businessmen in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. We also need to take care of Shanxi and Shaanxi. "
Zhang Jing nodded and said, "I understand!"
The scale of this beauty contest wouldn't be too big. The scope was basically limited to the daughters of the newly rising businessmen.
Zhu Yijun was obviously trying to provoke them.
On the one hand, he wanted to stimulate these businessmen so that they could get a higher status. They would try their best to unite around him and form a new interest group.
On the other hand, he wanted to stimulate the old Honours. They had to work hard, or someone would surpass them.
Although the new Honours were relatives, their descendants would enter the Royal Martial Arts Training Hall or the Navy Academy in the future.
Although they didn't know the quality, there would always be a few outstanding ones if there were a lot of them.
The Emperor's marriage was never a simple marriage. In fact, Daming's marriage was much simpler than before.
If it was any other dynasty, the harem would be a battlefield. It would be the battlefield of the concubines and the various families.
Li Zhi crippled Empress Wang and beat up Concubine Xiao Shu. Was it really because he liked Wu Meiniang?
Stop messing around.
Empress Wang was from Taiyuan's Wang Family. Concubine Xiao Shu was from Jiangnan's Xiao Family.
Beating down Empress Wang, crippling Concubine Xiao Shu, and then taking down Zhangsun Wuji. This was all a ploy.
The only thing Li Zhi didn't expect was for Wu Zetian to become the Emperor. Even if Wu Zetian wanted to monopolize power, Li Zhi felt that being Empress Lu was the limit. Even Wu Zetian couldn't be Empress Lu's position.
All of this was a trap. It was the same for Zhu Yijun this time. It was all a trap.