I am the king of the dead

Chapter 366 Watching His Banquet

Zhu Qiyu returned to Qianqing Palace, and began to deal with the examination. The examination results accumulated for two days, which was very cumbersome.

The files piled up like a mountain, Chen Wanniang could only sigh deeply in the court.

It is the blessing of Daming to have such a diligent and resourceful monarch on the Daming booth, but it is her lovesickness. No matter how beautiful the Baotu Spring is, His Majesty will not take a look at it, so what's the use.

After many years, it should be a good time for a good time.Even if there are thousands of styles, who can I tell?

Chilling is miserable.

It's getting colder.

Outside the Zhengyang Gate, under the Altar of Mountains and Rivers, on the banks of the Qinhuai River, there is a place called Shenle Xiandu.

This place used to be the residence of Emperor Zhenwu. In the 12th year of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu Gao decreed that it be rebuilt as Shenlian, and a Liquan well was set up.

The God of Optimism was originally a place to practice music in suburban temples, but with the relocation of the capital, many sacrifices in Nanjing stopped, and the God of Optimism was gradually abandoned.

But this place is on the banks of the Qinhuai River, where Nanjing Jiaofang and Xile are located, and the water flow is slow, slowly gathering a small brothel, forming a place surrounded by more than a hundred brothels.

Merchants from all over the world, if they can't stay in the Nanya, they will go out of Beijing, and come to the gods and gods for fun.

It's really a fairy place!
Even in the darkness of night, even in heavy snowfall, the brothels were overcrowded, shoulder to shoulder.

There is no curfew in the suburbs of Beijing, so it is natural to have a carnival all night.

Countless romantic affairs are staged in this fairy capital of Kagura, and the joys and sorrows of the world are staged time and time again.

There are dozens of pavilions in Shenyue Xiandu, six upper houses, sixteen middle houses, fifty small houses, and thousands of prostitutes.

And this Qin Jinlou is the upper house, the most luxurious place in the Kagura Immortal Capital, and it is also known as Jinling Selling Gold Nest, which throws tens of millions of yi.

At this time, Qin Jinlou's private room was very hot, and it was very lively as they exchanged cups and cups.

"It's snowing heavily this day, the ice is firm, and the price of coal frying has skyrocketed. Even if His Majesty knows that I'm waiting here to make a fortune, what else can he do?"

"So many people! The law does not blame the public!"

The speaker came from Lianghuai, he was the leader of the Lianghuai salt merchants, Hu Weiming, the general merchant of Lianghuai.

The salt merchants in the Lianghuai and Huaihe Rivers were classified according to their wealth.

For example, the nest merchants of small merchants rent or open salt nests, known as nest owners. They hire salt cubes and fry salt day and night. It is quite hard work, but they do not make much money.

Then came the transport merchants, who grasped the price of nests and salt, and held salt guides in their hands. They ran around renting and renting nests. .

Moreover, they often carry a large amount of private salt, and they are more called private salt dealers.

The owner of the nest often cooks the salt by himself, which is a hard job, and the transporter also needs to travel around.

But the market owners and merchants don’t need it at all. They set up diversions at various chaoguan wharfs, buy salt from Yanding kitchen households, and resell it to the middlemen of the shippers.

The merchants have the monopoly privilege to purchase all the salt produced by the salt farm. How did this privilege come about?Naturally, it is the collusion between officials and businessmen.

Businessmen often buy low and sell high at both ends, making a lot of money, cruelly exploiting salt producers and grabbing profits.

Above the market merchants is the general merchant, also known as the general merchant, who is elected by the merchants every year and reported to the imperial court. He is the most powerful person among the salt merchants.

The general merchant, Hu Weiming, was not a merchant from Yangzhou, but from Shaanxi.

Shanxi merchants, Shaanxi merchants, and Huizhou merchants competed for profit from the Western Han Dynasty to the early Ming Dynasty on the land here.

Hu Weiming is in charge of the salt merchant leader.

If it is defined according to the operation mode of financial affairs of stripping and stripping accumulation, isn't their mode of operation considered capitalism?

Must count as yes.

Hu Weiming continued: "Your Majesty said that you are allowed to make a fortune, right? Then we are just buying and selling. The soaring price is caused by supply and demand."

"Your Majesty can't punish us no matter what, otherwise Your Majesty will still be able to speak well!"

Wu Bingjian nodded and said: "The emperor breaks his promise, which means breaking the law. It has been snowing heavily for the past few days, and the weather will become extremely cold after the snow melts in a few days."

"The Chinese New Year is coming soon. Could Your Majesty be willing to let the millions of people in Nanjing City have no coal available and frozen bones everywhere?"

"At that time, everyone in the world will say that the wine and meat of the rich family will stink, and there will be frozen bones on the road."

Wu Bingjian is the General Merchant of Ningbo Maritime Merchants.

He controls more than [-] boatmen, who are responsible for building three-masted ships and two-masted ships. The ivory from Manbasa, South Africa, is his family, and it was brought to Nanya from South Africa.

There are also many distinctions among maritime merchants, such as the Japanese merchants who went to the Japanese country to dump silver, the material merchants who went to Southeast Asia to dump gold and spices, and the distant sea merchants who went to the West, etc., and Wu Bingjian is one of the leaders.

Wu Bingjian's family is not in Ningbo, but lives overseas in Borneo, which is the place where Wei Guogong Xu Chengzong went to. The gold field is in the hands of their Wu family.

Borneo connects the north and the south, and is the place where merchant ships must pass through, so the Wu family is richer, even richer than the imperial court.

Chen Guangqi from Huguang didn't know what to say when he saw the two people full of confidence.

He always had a bad premonition, but he never knew where this premonition would fall.

In fact, the three of them stood up at this time and looked out the window where the snow was falling heavily. They could see that the Ming army was urging the prisoner camp to transport the coal from the Saddle Factory to Beijing.

Because Qin Jinlou is just beside the mountain and river altar outside Zhengyang Gate, less than a thousand steps away, the sight is indeed not very good, but if you are willing to walk a few steps, away from the hustle and bustle of Qin Jinlou, it will be enough Hear the shouts of the army.

With 15 tons of coal entering Beijing, can the movement be quiet?
But even Chen Guangqi, who was vigilant, did not expect that the emperor would directly get 15 tons of coal into Nanya.

At this time, they have been blinded by their interests, even if they saw the army transporting things, they might not think about the emperor hoarding coal and preparing to turn the table.

Chen Guangqi is a merchant from Huguang. The Siyong Regiment Battalion has captured Xiangyang and is slowly but steadily recovering the lost ground.

Chen Guangqi is a land merchant. To be precise, he once had [-] hectares of land in the Xiangwang Mansion, and as the general merchant, he represented the landlord of the Huguang land boundary.

Chen Guangqi thought for a while and said, "Why don't we start bulk cargo when the snow starts to melt, so as to save many nights and dreams, and how many people will die."

Landlords are different from salt merchants and sea merchants. They need a large number of servants to farm for them.

If the servants are starved to death or frozen to death, who will farm for them?

But Hu Weiming said indifferently: "Brother Chen, I didn't say it, but if you think about it carefully, is there more than 30 seedlings hiding in the mountains in the Huguang area?"

"These people may become rebellious at any time. If His Majesty wants to solve their problems, it will definitely hurt Brother Chen."

"With this good opportunity, make a big profit, and then make plans for the future."

Chen Guangqi couldn't bear it, but still nodded and said: "Then let's do this, I agree with your ideas."

Hu Weiming smiled, stood up, came to the railing in the building, and said loudly: "Everyone, be quiet!"

The three-storey Qin Jinlou was finally quieter, and Hu Weiming continued to shout: "Everyone eat well, drink well, and play well today! We will make a fortune in a few days, and the best will be even better!"

One person stood up and shouted to everyone: "Mr. Hu is right!"

"Hu Shang always said it well!" A group of people applauded in unison. If you observe carefully, you will find that there is a man with a fierce face sitting here, his name is Yuan Bin.

It was the arrest of the spy Xining, and Yuan Bin of the three brothers of the Qu family who turned Hetao into a hell on earth.

Yuan Bin was the commander of Jin Yiwei. He squinted his eyes and looked at the people above, and shouted loudly: "Mr. Hu Shang said well!"

Yue Qian scratched his head when he saw Yuan Bin's mischievous appearance. They were ordered to inquire about the news, so how could they be angry?

"Mr. Hu has made money, why don't you let the big guys have fun together?" Yuan Bin shouted loudly.

When Hu Weiming heard this, his face was wrinkled all over with a smile, and he said loudly: "I do make money, just like you don't make money!"

"But since you have spoken, I will invite you to the banquet today!"

"Mr. Hu is magnificent!" Yuan Bin raised his glass and toasted Mr. Hu.

"Mr. Hu Shang is very generous!" Everyone toasted.

Yuan Bin sat down and said to Yue Qian and Ji Duo: "This group of people are really happy."

Ji Duo was as steady as ever, and said full of emotion: "Yes, we are also happy, to run a business trip and get a meal for nothing."

"Isn't it too much for us to just sit here and inquire about the news so grandiosely?" Yue Qian tore up a duck leg, feasted on it, picked up the wine cup and clinked a glass with Yuan Bin and Ji Duo.

Ji Duo nodded, and said suspiciously: "It's a little bit, but haven't all those who have seen us died? No, Li Xian has also seen us."

Yuan Bin didn't finish a mouthful of foie gras, looked at Ji Duo dully, and said helplessly: "Li Xian don't need to stare at it, your majesty can take a bite of Li Aiqing's, it should be fine."

"You should stare, you still have to stare." Yue Qian and Ji Duo said at the same time.

Yuan Bin said helplessly: "That's fine, you eat, I will send the news I found to the palace, so that His Majesty will know that this group of insects has gathered together again."

"Leave after the feast." Yue Qian shook his head, but he was not in a hurry, the snow still had to fall for two days, and His Majesty had to prepare for a heavy blow.

Don't be in a hurry to eat this time.

When it was midnight, the three of them ate so much that their mouths were full of oil, and they drank a few cups of wine to warm up their bodies. They didn't drink at first, but everyone around them was drinking, so they couldn't get in without drinking.

The three got on their horses and went straight to Chaoyang Gate.

The Chaoyang Gate is open, and coal is continuously piling up towards the back mountain.

But when they got to the Chaoyang Gate, they couldn't see His Majesty, and the Xi'an Gate was still locked.

The Imperial City is the Imperial City, and the Forbidden City is the Forbidden City.

Yuan Bin went to Jinyiwei's yamen and wrote the memorial, put it in a basket under the city, and sent it to the palace.

Zhu Qiyu stretched his waist just after completing the examination of the final method.

Most of the errands are officials and sergeants brought by Zhu Qiyu from the north, and they are extremely efficient.

After all, after Jingcha and Daji, and two pumpings, the surviving fish are all the best.

Zhu Qiyu picked up Yuan Bin's memorial and looked at it for a long time before saying to Xing'an: "How many imperial silver coins do we still have?"

"More than 300 million." Xing'an said hastily.

These silver coins were originally planned to go to Nanjing, exchange them for gold flowers and silver, and then send them back to Beiya to stabilize the people's livelihood in Nanya.

As a result, few pieces were exchanged.

"Well, not many."

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "You go to Wei Guogong's mansion tomorrow to see if he has a bank to put money in. If you put money in pledge, the profit will be set at one point."

"Didn't Hu Shangshu say that? If the profit is [-]%, the green and the yellow can be divided."

"We can't break the rules we set ourselves, so let's release the rice money, with one hundred silver coins as the base point, just let it go."

"The land deeds, real estate, workshops, and merchant ships can all be used to repay the debt, and it will be calculated at [-]%. Anyway, they can't afford it."

Zhu Qiyu couldn't let go of the imperial silver coins, so he simply changed the method and asked Xu Chengzong to release the money. With 300 million silver coins, he could buy a lot of them at a low price.

Don't you want to hoard?Don't you want to make a fortune?

Xing'an bowed his head and said worriedly: "What if they run away? What I mean is to go overseas."

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "The sea outside the Yangtze River is frozen, where are they going?"

"Besides, looking at the world, they can run away for a while, but they can't run away forever. They only want to trade in the sea, and they have to come to Daming."

Xing'an thought for a second that this was indeed the case, and bowed his head to accept orders.

Zhu Qiyu went to the bathroom to wash up, and then came to Yeting.

His Majesty the Emperor, who was looking forward to it day and night, finally finished his business and thought that there was someone else in the palace.

Before Zhu Qiyu could reach the bed curtain, after confirming that it was His Majesty, Chen Wanniang stepped on the ground barefoot and jumped onto Zhu Qiyu's body.

"Miss me? I'm not afraid of the cold." Zhu Qiyu asked with a smile while holding Chen Wanniang.

Chen Wanniang buried her head deeply, and said as if crying, "Think."

"Thinking about what?"

"Your Majesty has teased the servants again."

"What are you thinking?"

……

The hibiscus tent is warm.

Chen Wanniang was finally defeated and begged for mercy one after another.

Zhu Qiyu looked at the top of the bed curtain, and asked with a smile: "Does Wanniang have any family members? I'm not talking about a matchmaker."

Chen Wanniang was silent for a long time, and finally stopped her troublesome hands, and said with a sigh: "It's gone, my parents sold the slave's house, but they froze to death within a few days, and the slave's family has a younger brother who can't be sold, so they freeze together." died."

Zhu Qiyu was stunned for a moment, then sighed and said: "So that's the case, don't be sad."

Who would sell their sons and daughters if they had no other choice? Among the four members of their family, only Chen Wanniang survived.

"My family is not sad. After a long time, I will take it lightly." Chen Wanniang didn't care much.

Zhu Qiyu looked at Chen Wanniang's face, but stopped talking and fell into a drowsy sleep.

In the early morning of the next day, the snow was still falling, and although a large amount of coal from Nanya entered the city of Nanjing due to the siphon phenomenon, it was temporarily stabilized, but the price still reached 25 yuan a catty.

Zhu Qiyu began to ask a company to release coal, and the coal was released in batches, at least 15 scales at a time, more than 2000 catties, and the price was [-] taels of gold flower silver or two thousand imperial silver coins.

There is a company that releases coal, and tens of thousands say it is like a stone falling into the sea without a trace.

　Thank you for the 1500-point reward from "Luobuying", the 300-point reward for "Shujia who laughs at me when I see you", and the 100-point reward for "When I Don't Exist". Thank you for your support.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)