Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

Chapter 361 The Emperor's Grandson's Trick!

A group of people in the Wenhua Palace were very excited after wearing the shark suit and whale suit, and they were a little more capable and murderous than before.

After this day, Zhu Yunxi also resumed the habit of going to court every morning.

Whale on the left, shark on the right.

Whales serve as civil servants and sharks serve as military officers.

But in actual work, there is no distinction between civil and military at all.

Lao Zhu came over to see it a few times, and saw that Dasun was having a good time, so he didn't care about it anymore.

In his opinion, the shark suit and whale suit made by Zhu Yunxi are nothing more than children's play toys.

However, a few days later, he heard a group of officials complaining, and then he realized that Dasun, a little Nilong, began to bark his teeth at the court he controlled.

In Wenhua Hall, Zhu Yunxi sat in his seat, listening to his subordinates' reports.

"Emperor Grandson, the people from the Ministry of War took the weapons away and didn't give us the money for the workshop. We sent someone to ask for it. The people from the Ministry of War told us to go to His Majesty the Emperor. They only took the weapons and issued them, and they didn't care about paying for them. thing!"

Zhu Yunxi said angrily after hearing this.

"No reason!"

"Didn't Gu agree with the Ministry of War a long time ago that Gu is responsible for managing the workshop and the Ministry of War is responsible for paying the money. How dare they play tricks now?"

"Zhu Zhi, Zhu Quan!"

"Uncle Wang is here!"

"You two bring ten Jinyiwei to the Ministry of War to ask for money. If that fellow Ru Xun refuses to give it, you will live in the Ministry of War and live in the Ministry of War!"

"promise!"

Zhu Zhi and Zhu Quan each took ten brocade guards and swaggered into Ru Yu's guard room.

When Ru Xun first saw Jin Yiwei barging in, she thought she had done something wrong.Later, when I saw two princes in shark suits, I realized that this group of people came to ask for money.

As long as the emperor didn't arrest him, the matter would be easy.

"The two princes calm down, it's not that the lower officials don't want to give money, it's because the Ministry of Households didn't allocate money to the Ministry of War!"

Zhu Zhi and Zhu Quan sat down on Ru Yu's table and said carelessly.

"fine!"

"If you have the ability, you can procrastinate. Anyway, the emperor's grandson has spoken. If you don't pay for a day, the two of us won't leave for a day."

"Wherever you go, we will follow!"

When Ru Yuan heard this, her heart was filled with disdain.The old man Xindao goes home at night, can you two still follow?

However, he underestimated the patience of the two princes.

Ru Yu spent a day at the Ministry of War with the two princes during the day, and when she returned home from get off work at night, Zhu Zhi and Zhu Quan really followed her back.

"Master Ru, you must welcome Gu to your house as a guest, right?"

"welcome……"

Zhu Zhi and Zhu Quan followed Ru Xun back home, neither crying nor making noise, they ate whatever Ru Xun ate, even if Ru Xun went to rest in the back house, the two would stand guard outside the door with Jin Yiwei.

The prince stood guard, and Jin Yiwei guarded the door.

How could Ru Xun bear this kind of treatment? The next day, she went to the household department to cry and stalked the household department to allocate money and sent the pair of plague gods away.

After this battle, Zhu Zhi and Zhu Quan became famous in the capital.Whenever there is a debt owed by the government and the Wenhua Palace, the two will lead the Jin Yiwei to the door to collect it.

For a while, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Industry and other departments were almost all tossed about by the two.

Even Ying Tianfu's money for renovating the cell was stalked by the two to get it back.

Zhu Yunxi was also very generous to the two of them, directly appropriating 2 taels from the Ministry of Finance of Wenhua Palace to build the palace for them.

Although it is just a rough house, it is much better than the palace built by the imperial court. At least all the houses, ponds, etc. that should be inside have been repaired.

The two got the sweetness, and they worked harder.

The local government owed Minggang Chamber of Commerce money, and the two also demanded it all.

The direct consequence of this was that the two were collectively sued by the civil officials to His Majesty the Emperor, and the two were pulled out by the Emperor to beat them.

After the boarding, the two continued to quarrel as usual. It would be best for Lao Zhu to have nothing to do with these two things, but ordered the two to stay in the palace and not to go out and run around.

However, the two have already gained sweetness, how can it be so easy to stop?

According to Zhu Zhi's words, the palace now exists, but the decoration inside has not yet been settled.

If you don't take advantage of it to make more money before you become a fan, where will you find such a generous "commission" in the future!

Ever since, after the beating, the two slipped out of the palace to collect the debts, and they went round and round, refusing to mend their ways despite repeated admonitions.

Fortunately, Lao Zhu got tired of tossing and tossing a few times, and let the two rebellious sons make a fuss.

Compared to the restlessness of the two princes, the other noble sons also trembled.

Chen Mi, the son of Chen Zongli, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, after wearing the "shark suit" bestowed by the emperor, deliberately returned to his hometown in brocade and made a circle of surprise.

Chen Zongli naturally scoffed at this. He had heard of unicorn suits, flying fish suits, and bullfight suits in his life, but he had never heard of shark suits.

This shark with a bloody mouth and a mouthful of big white teeth looks like a child's plaything.

However, within a few days he couldn't be happier.

Chen Mi, the Minister of Finance, visited several state capitals in the name of the son of the Minister of the Household Department, and tricked them into transferring the work of escorting taxes to the Post Office, and also asked them to temporarily deposit the funds for the activities of the county government with them. at your local branch.

Kong Yanjin became more courageous after putting on the shark suit. Even in the face of reprimands from his father and grandfather, he still felt that someone was behind him.

When it comes to business dealings with the local government, their shark suits are even more beneficial.

In the eyes of Lao Zhu, this thing is something for children to play house.But in the eyes of the officials below, that is the cronies of the emperor's grandson.

Who is the grandson of the emperor? That is the future emperor of Ming Dynasty!
They would rather offend the Six Departments of the imperial court than this group of young men in shark suits.

It didn't take long for the shark suit to become famous in the Gyeonggi area. Even some remote prefectures heard about the shark suit. Knowing that these people were the emperor's grandson's army, they dared not provoke them easily.

Zhu Yunxi took advantage of this time to frantically buy land and build factories in various places, recruiting a large number of workers.

At the same time, supply and marketing cooperatives are also blooming in the Gyeonggi area, and they have achieved a profit of 10 taels of silver in the first month alone.

Although the 10 taels of silver has long been out of Zhu Yunxi's eyes.

However, he did not expect to make money when he founded the supply and marketing cooperative. It was just a convenience service for the convenience of the people to shop and sell agricultural products.

Now that he can not lose money, he is already very happy.

For this reason, he gave a banquet to the officials in the Wenhua Palace and rewarded them well.

Lu Shiyuan, a bachelor of the Wenhuadian University, who was promoted by the acting Songjiang Shipbuilding Department, also brought good news to Zhu Yunxi.

He has already recruited a group of maritime merchants through his own relationship, which has gradually brought the business of the Shibo Department on the right track.

Michael Harris also gave full play to his subjective initiative, recruited a group of Nanyang maritime merchants for him, and registered with the Songjiang Shipbuilding Department.

Zhu Yunxi was very excited to receive this report, and felt that his dream of great voyage had taken another big step.

However, he was not dazzled by the victory in front of him, and he still maintained enough sobriety.

Attracting maritime merchants is only the first step, and the next step is to prepare for trade goods, and combating smuggling by other maritime merchants is the top priority.

However, to accomplish this strategic goal, the most important thing is money.

Without money, the navy cannot be developed, without the navy, the coastline cannot be blocked, and rampant smuggling cannot be controlled.

In the same way, if you want to prepare enough goods, you also need massive financial support.

Therefore, on the second day after receiving the report, Zhu Yunxi came to the Jinling Stock Exchange to check the funds on the books.

Since the stock exchange was opened not long ago, merchants in Daming did not trust it very much, so a few months passed, and not many stocks were sold, only buying more than 300 million taels.

If you put it in normal times, this is already a lot of money.

After all, the treasury of the imperial household department may not be able to have so much money all year round.

However, Zhu Yunxi now has to build railways, open mines and build factories, and order sea-going ships to build a navy. This amount of money is a drop in the bucket.

Xie Kui, who was in charge of the exchange, saw that Zhu Yunxie's expression was not good, and felt uneasy for a while.

"The grandson of the emperor, in fact, he can sell [-] shares, which is considered pretty good."

"After all, we have only opened for less than three months, and many merchants are still suspicious of this thing."

Zhu Yunxi shook his head indifferently when he heard the words.

"You don't need to explain, I only know what's going on with this thing!"

In fact, Zhu Yunxi had long expected that stock sales would be cold.

Because he had been wary of this thing from the very beginning.If it wasn't for the lack of money, he wouldn't even have made this thing in Daming.

Therefore, he did not do many things to stimulate the stock price, and has always been a laissez-faire attitude.

"You haven't paid any dividends yet, have you?"

"Yes!"

"Originally, it was said to pay dividends at the end of the year, but it is less than three months now, so there is no reason to pay dividends!"

Zhu Yunxi nodded.

"Divided!"

"Discuss with Chen Mi from the Ministry of Finance, and combine the profit situation of last year, and distribute the dividends to them every month."

"But don't divide too much, just make sure that the monthly income is about [-]%."

"promise!"

After Zhu Yunxi made this decision, he went to Maanshan to inspect the preparations for the construction of the Maanshan Iron and Steel Plant.

However, the stone he threw caused an uproar in the capital.

The owner of the Fuqing grocery store, Wang Fuqing, opened the door as usual. He thought the first customer to enter was the old bachelor Tian Erhun from the innermost alley.

This guy has to drink three or two ounces of wine every day, and only those who are drunk will go to work on the dock.

However, to his surprise, the person who entered the door today turned out to be a man dressed as an official.

It's just that the official's clothes are a bit special. A palm-sized carp is embroidered on the left chest, which indicates that he is not an ordinary official.

"May I ask if the shopkeeper Wang Fuqing is on the opposite side?"

"you are?"

"I am an employee of the Jinling Stock Exchange. I have been ordered by my lord to invite shopkeeper Wang to collect the monthly dividends."

"What?"

"Isn't the dividends paid out together at the end of the year? Why are they paid out on a monthly basis?"

"Master Xie told us that this year the Minggang Chamber of Commerce has collected a few receivables. There is a lot of spare money in the Chamber of Commerce, so let's share some money with old friends, and let everyone be happy!"

When Wang Fuqing heard this, he immediately smiled.

"Brother, can you tell me how much you can get this time?"

"I don't know about this, but it is said that there will be a point."

"one cent?"

The so-called one point is one tenth of tenth, which is what Zhu Yunxie said is one percent.

When Wang Fuqing heard that he could get so many, he was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth.He didn't come back to his senses until the staff went far away and Tian Erhun came to drink.

However, he had no time to take care of Tian Erhun at this time, so he greeted the clerk and asked the clerk to entertain Tian Erhun, so he hurriedly took his voucher and ran to the stock exchange hall to collect his dividends.

Wang Fuqing was not the first to arrive. When he arrived, the hall was already full of people.

He searched around in the crowd, and sure enough, he saw two old buddies.

"Shopkeeper Liu Neng Liu!"

"Zhao Yuande, Zhao Dong's family, you two have very fast legs and feet, even a few steps faster than me!"

The two laughed loudly when they heard the words.

"The good thing about splitting the money is of course to hurry up!"

Wang Fuqing hurriedly asked after hearing the words.

"You two came early, do you know what the rules are for dividing money?"

"I don't know!"

"However, it is said that the points will be divided when the time comes, so let's line up and wait now!"

"Yes, the emperor's grandson is so rich, how can he still care about our little money?"

Several people were well-known people on the street. After discussing with other people, they adjusted their positions in the queue and whispered together.

"Tell me, why did the grandson of the emperor pay dividends in advance?"

"I reckon that the grandson of the emperor has made money, and I want to give back to those of us who supported him!"

Zhao Yuande shook his head when he heard the words.

"It's hard to say. It may be that the emperor's grandson thinks that there are too few people buying it, so he raised his hand..."

Liu Neng and Wang Fuqing fell silent when they heard this.After a while, Wang Fuqing spoke quietly.

"If this is the case, then this thing is hard to say, let's sell the shares as soon as we get the dividend!"

Zhao Yuande shook his head again and said.

"Let's see the situation!"

"If there is too much money distributed to us this time, then we will get a dividend. If it is just a normal dividend, then we will continue to keep it."

The two hurriedly asked when they heard this.

"What does that mean?"

Zhao Yuande smiled and said.

"Think about it, both of you. If the grandson of the emperor deliberately gives us more money regardless of the business situation of the Minggang Chamber of Commerce, it proves that he wants to simply raise his hand and continue to sell his shares."

"If he pays us less and pays attention to the long-term flow of water, it proves that the emperor's grandson has confidence in Minggang Chamber of Commerce and wants to take care of this as a century-old foundation!"

"If it's the latter, even if the share is less, then this thing is worth old money."

"After all, the title of the imperial court is gone. This share can be eaten every year and every month. It is more secure than the salary of an official!"

When the two heard Zhao Yuande's analysis, they immediately nodded like chickens pecking at rice.

Although they are all running small businesses, they earn hard money.But it doesn't prove that they are fools, they are fully vigilant about new things.

While several people were chatting, the bell in the hall of the stock exchange rang eight times.

"Don't talk about it, the exchange is starting to work!"

As expected, Wang Fuqing stopped talking after hearing the words, and stared at the counter in front of him, looking at how much money others could get.

Soon, the first person in line received the dividend and left happily.

Wang Fuqing originally wanted to pull him over to ask questions, but when he saw that it was a businessman he didn't know, he put out the idea.

Just as he was scratching like a cat's claw in his heart, a sign was hung above the counter in the hall.

"The profit in May is 30 taels, and the dividend per share is [-] taels!"

"Profit of 50 taels in June, dividends of [-] taels per share!"

"The profit in July was 70 taels, with a dividend of [-] taels per share!"

Wang Fuqing calculated silently in his heart. He bought a total of 150 shares at the beginning. After three months, he could get [-] cash per share. That is [-] taels of silver?

To be honest, this money is not too much, at least it is lower than the profit of many businesses in his store.

Even if he uses this money to invest in straw sandals, the rate of return is around 20.00%.

However, things like straw sandals are subject to market saturation, not how much he can sell as much as he buys.

Therefore, even if his family has saved tens of thousands of taels of silver, the money that can be used for shop turnover is only a few thousand taels.

The remaining silver money can only be rusted in the cellar, and it has to be taken out from time to time to soak it in potion.

The dividend ratio on the stock exchange does not seem high, but it is the best place for his spare money.

After all, money makes money better than money rusts, right?
Others have the same thoughts as Wang Fuqing. For merchants like them, what they lack is not money, but investment channels and directions.

Now seeing that the emperor's grandson is willing to pay dividends, and the ratio of dividends is quite reasonable, it seems that they plan to keep the water flowing and manage the two chambers of commerce well. What else do they have to worry about?
With excitement, Wang Fuqing received his own dividend of 150 taels, but he didn't take it home, so he threw it in the bank next door to earn interest.

Many people have the same choice as Wang Fuqing.

Taking things like silver back is easy to attract thieves, and it is also very easy to rust.If one is not well stored, the silver will turn black.

Therefore, it is most convenient to put it in the bank and take it out whenever you need it, and the money you take out every time is new.

Through this dividend distribution, Jinling Stock Exchange not only won the trust of merchants, but also raised the bank's credit to a new level.

After receiving dividends, many businessmen immediately inquired about when they would sell new shares.

As for selling shares, they didn't even think about it.

Finally, there is a place to put spare money, and they are stupid to sell it.

The merchants did not sell, but Zhu Yunxi took the opportunity to sell a thousand shares.

The thousand shares were released, and they were all snatched up in a blink of an eye.Immediately afterwards, someone listed for acquisition, 110 taels per share.

Many merchants were so excited that their eyes were red when they saw this purchase price.

When they bought it three months ago, they bought it at the price of 100 taels a share.

However, less than three months have passed, and the stocks in their hands have risen by [-]%!
As soon as the listing price came out, many people waited and watched, and did not sell immediately.

However, there are also smart people who saw through the emperor's grandson's tricks.

The owner of the porcelain shop, Sun Ruhaisun, was keenly aware that something was wrong, and felt that someone was deliberately driving up the stock price.

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