Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 402, sensational

In the imperial palace of the capital, Emperor Hongzhi habitually prepared to review memorials after he came down from the early court. He was a diligent and good emperor, and he worked very long hours every day, and there were many memorials that needed to be reviewed.

"Your Majesty, this is a new thing that has appeared in the capital today, called newspaper~"

At this time, Xiao Jing respectfully presented a newspaper and spoke.

"newspaper?"

Emperor Hongzhi put down what he was doing, took the newspaper, and said curiously.

"Yes, this is something new made by Liu Jin and Liu Hanlin."

Xiao Jing said with a smile, anything that happened here in the capital can't be hidden from his eyes, not to mention that this newspaper is issued in an aboveboard manner, so Xiao Jing naturally knew about it immediately.

"Liu Jin made it."

In fact, Emperor Hongzhi had already guessed it in his heart, and only Liu Jin, a kid, could toss about, and he always had all kinds of new tricks.

He put on his short-sighted glasses, picked up the newspaper and read it, and he was immediately fascinated by it.

"Interesting ~ Interesting ~"

Emperor Hongzhi praised repeatedly. Of course he knew about the Tatar Kouguan and the Southwest Chieftain's rebellion earlier, so he glanced at it casually and started to read other content.

The whole person likes it more and more. Through this newspaper, he also knows some things that are not at his level.

He is the emperor of Ming Dynasty, so naturally no one will tell him about the prodigal son Wang Enyi, nor will anyone tell him about the big whale caught in Tianjin.

Looking at the novelty things published in the Ming Morning Post now, I am also interested in it.

"Haha~"

"Not bad, not bad, this morning's newspaper is pretty good."

Soon, Emperor Hongzhi finished reading the contents of the newspaper. He seemed to have seen a lot of content about Daming that he hadn't seen before, and he said happily.

"Xiao Jing, how much money do I have in my internal money?"

After thinking about it, Emperor Hongzhi also asked.

"Return to Your Majesty, there are still [-] million taels of silver in the internal funds."

Xiao Jing quickly said that Emperor Hongzhi was more concerned about his small treasury, and Xiao Jing always memorized the numbers in the small treasury.

"Drop five million taels of silver to Daming No. 2 Bank, let Liu Jin pay higher interest rates, this money can actually produce silver, that Wang Enyi's father has deposited [-] taels of silver, and the annual interest is [-] More than [-] taels, if I deposit five million taels of silver, there will be hundreds of thousands of taels of interest in a year."

Hong Zhi told Xiao Jing that he was interested in the interest of Daming First Bank.

Emperor Hongzhi was rich now, and the five million taels of silver was only a small part of his internal funds. Most of his silver was actually invested in various industries with Liu Jin.

Like Changlu Salt Field, Miyun Iron Works, Daming First Bank, Ryukyu City on Baodao, etc. Among these industries, Emperor Hongzhi is the major shareholder, and he poured real money into it. Money, he still has five million taels of silver left.

Thinking of this, Emperor Hongzhi suddenly felt that Liu Jin should be rewarded well. He had saved up ten years of frugality before, and his internal money was only more than one million taels of silver.

Now spending money like running water every day, throwing out a lot of money, but the money in the internal money is getting more and more. It has only been a long time, and Emperor Hongzhi no longer has to worry about money.

Moreover, his son Zhu Houzhao is richer than him and owns more properties. Thinking of this, Emperor Hongzhi is in a good mood, and it is easy to do things with money. He really understands this.

In the past, he was so desperate that he was reluctant to do something, so let's not think about it on the treasury side. Zhou Jing wanted to empty out his internal funds this week.

It's all right now, if you want to repair the garden, you don't need to look at Zhou Jing's face, you can spend your own money, and you can spend it as you want, no one can control it.

"Your Majesty, you are the major shareholder of Daming First Bank~"

Xiao Jing looked at Emperor Hongzhi and reminded weakly.

"What happened to the shareholders?"

"Shareholders can't deposit money in it?"

Emperor Hongzhi said indifferently: "You pull the silver over, that boy Liu Jin must be very happy."

"Yes~"

Xiao Jing quickly said respectfully.

"It's a bit unaccustomed to read things horizontally from left to right. These punctuation marks and writing things in vernacular are very novel~"

After ordering this matter, Emperor Hongzhi picked up the newspaper and studied it carefully. The vernacular text and punctuation on it were very novel.

……

The chief minister of the cabinet, Liu Jian, returned to his home in the early morning. Recently, there were few things. Emperor Hongzhi didn't stay with him every day to discuss matters. He could go home early to rest and rest.

"I'm starving~"

When he got home, the first thing Liu Jian did was to have breakfast.

It's not easy to be a minister, especially to the old Zhu's family, it's even more difficult.

It's too early for this morning morning, I have to get up before dawn every day to go to morning morning, the duration of this morning morning is uncertain, so I will eat something first, but I don't dare to eat too much, I am afraid that I will be anxious during the morning morning.

So generally these ministers would be very hungry in the morning. If he was summoned by Emperor Hongzhi to discuss matters, Emperor Hongzhi would also ask him to prepare some breakfast, which was very good for his ministers.

"Master, this is a new newspaper that appeared today, would you like to read it?"

While eating breakfast, the butler of Liu Jian's mansion also came over with a newspaper and said.

"newspaper?"

Liu Jian was slightly taken aback, took the newspaper and began to read it. Naturally, he was immediately fascinated. He read it with gusto, and even forgot to eat breakfast.

"Who made this newspaper?"

Soon, Liu Jian finished reading the above content and asked quickly.

"It's Liu Jin and Liu Hanlin~"

the butler replied.

"It really is him, and only he can think of such a way."

Liu Jian laughed immediately, and then looked carefully while eating breakfast.

"Writing articles in vernacular is very novel. The punctuation and the like make the paragraphs easy to read. The things published above are also very interesting."

After watching it again, Liu Jian kept making comments.

"The first bank of Ming Dynasty actually earns interest on depositing silver?"

Soon, when he saw Wang Enyi's report again, he stopped slightly.

Of course, he knows about the Daming First Bank. In the past, the people under his command gave Xiao Jing all kinds of real gold, silver, antique calligraphy and paintings, but now everyone has become popular to give Daming First Bank banknotes and silver dollars. .

In a very short period of time, everyone fell in love with the bank notes and silver dollars of the First Bank of Ming Dynasty, which became a hard currency, something everyone liked.

He also knows a lot about the many businesses of Daming First Bank, among them, the deposit business, he has never believed that there will be interest for this money deposited in their Daming First Bank?

I'm afraid that even the principal will not be returned by then.

It's all right now, as soon as Wang Enyi's story was published in the newspaper, he finally believed it, and there was actually interest in depositing money in the Daming First Bank, money can make money.

"Deposit all the money at home in the Daming First Bank~"

Soon, Liu Jian also made the same decision as Emperor Hongzhi, saving money. Anyway, he was not afraid that Liu Jin would run away with the money.

……

"It's an insult to the gentleman~ It's an insult to the gentleman~"

"How can this Ming Zaobao write articles in vernacular Chinese, how can it change the rules of writing passed down from the ancestors without authorization, and even add some punctuation without authorization."

"It's simply disgraceful~"

Here at the Imperial College, a group of scholars looked at the Ming Morning Post, and they were all aggrieved.

The novel writing method of the Ming Zaobao, and the way of writing articles in vernacular, made it difficult for them to accept.

In the eyes of these scholars, this article should learn from the ancients, make it as concise as possible, the fewer words the better, the more powerful, and the words and sentences must rhyme, just like writing poetry, you must have antithesis and antithesis. It can be like this newspaper without any antithesis or antithesis.

They still use vernacular Chinese, which is simply the greatest insult to their scholars and an insult to the written language.

"This Mingming Morning Post must be cancelled, or they must be changed back. It must not be so insulting to Sven, and let Sven be swept away."

Someone yelled and suggested.

"Yes~ yes, it must be changed back, if not changed back, they will cancel their Ming Morning Post."

"Let's go, let's go to the Daming Morning Post together and ask them for an explanation."

A group of scholars yelled and walked towards the Daming Morning Post, ready to have a good argument with the Ming Morning Post, why the Ming Morning Post uses vernacular, why the writing does not follow the traditional rules, it must be the Ming Morning Post. They are willing to give up when they give an explanation.

……

"Tsk tsk, old Liu, your newspaper is interesting."

At Liu Jin's house, Zhu Houzhao came to Liu Jin's house to eat and drink again. While eating, he read the newspaper and talked while reading.

"It's so-so, that is, it just came out, and everyone thinks it's strange."

Liu Jin said indifferently.

"Is the Ming Morning Post making money?"

Then Zhu Houzhao also asked quickly.

"make money?"

"I lost money to my grandma's family by running this Ming Morning Post. This newspaper sells for five cents a piece. Do you think I can make money?"

Liu Jin smiled and shook his head.

"Yes~ you won't make a loss-making business, stop talking nonsense, and quickly share half of my shares."

Zhu Houzhao said very positively that there is nothing that Liu Jin does that does not make money, and he does not believe that Liu Jin will generate electricity for love.

"Okay, you give 10 taels of silver first, and I will give up half of the shares. To be honest, this thing really doesn't make money, but this newspaper is also for making money."

Liu Jin said straightforwardly.

"10 taels of silver is a trivial matter. I'll send someone to send it later."

"Tell me, what's the use of the Ming Morning Post?"

Zhu Houzhao said nonchalantly, who is he, the big guy who always has tens of thousands of silver bills in his pocket at any time, 10 taels of silver, he just threw it out, there is no way, rich and willful.

"This newspaper only sells for five cents, and you sell [-] copies a day for only fifty thousand pennies. For a matter of tens of taels of silver, in terms of your work style, the money you invest is more than what you want. a little."

"So you definitely don't make money by selling newspapers, let's talk about how to make money from it?"

Zhu Houzhao rolled his small eyes, thought carefully and said.

　Chapter 1~There is more in the evening~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)