Zhu Yuanzhang in the cellar

Chapter 88 Golden Channel
"roll!"

Zhu Yuanzhang kicked Zhu Yunfeng on the butt and kicked him out of the gate of Qianqing Palace.

Then the door closed, locking Zhu Yunfeng outside.

I blanch.

Is Old Zhu going to kill the donkey after it has done its job?

Zhu Yunfeng got up from the ground, patted his butt, glared at the guard who was trying not to laugh, and said viciously: "Laugh if you want to, I won't eat you."

"Your Highness, I dare not."

The guard almost got internal injuries from holding back his breath, and he quickly knelt on one knee and lowered his head to hide his smile.

However, his shaking body betrayed him. Seeing His Majesty kicking the Prince of Wu on the butt and throwing him to the ground was really a sight that made one's mouth almost turn to the back of his head.

"Humph."

Zhu Yunfeng snorted coldly, flicked his sleeves, walked up the steps to the Qianqing Palace Square, and went home.

However, as soon as Zhu Yunfeng returned to the modern era.

The originally unhappy expression suddenly turned into a smug one.

Young man, fight with me?

Want to use me as free labor?
If you increase the strength of your cabinet, you will know how powerful it is.

Zhu Yunfeng had a grin on his face.

Now the cabinet factions have been clearly defined.

The three parties are in a three-way balance of power.

Among the forces, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Party was the most powerful, consisting of three people: Wu Bozong from Fuzhou, Liu Song from Taihe, and Qian Tang from Xiangshan.

The Huaixi Party was next in line, and included Xue Xiang from Luzhou and Zheng Jiuchen from Yingzhou.

Finally, there is the old Yuan party, which only has Qie Si.

If we include several cabinet ministers who only have advisory power, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Party will be even more powerful.

This is a political faction carefully planned by Lao Zhu.

Although the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Party is powerful, the two ministers are from Jiangxi. They just have good relations with the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Party and cannot be considered leaders.

Among the remnants of the Huaixi Party, although Xue Xiang was from Huaixi and his hometown was very close to Fengyang, he was upright and had a high reputation. He offended Hu Weiyong, who was also from Huaixi, and was dismissed.

So the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Party may seem powerful, but they may not be so united. Although the Huaixi Party only has two Shangshu, Xue Xiang has high prestige, so it is easier for them to unite.

In this way, the two sides can barely be evenly matched, and with the addition of the former Yuan party leader Qie Si in the middle, the three-party cabinet can have a good fight.

Finally, what did Lao Zhu see on the stage?

I saw Zhu Yunfeng leading the three parties in singing, and the three parties were confused by what he said, holding hands and keeping their hearts connected, and their emotions were extremely high.

Isn't that just putting eye drops on him?
Before the conflict even started, everyone was already laughing and chatting together.

In addition, if Zhu Yunfeng leads everyone in shouting slogans every day in the future, even if everyone is not in agreement in their hearts, Zhu's idea of ​​maintaining a balance among the three parties will probably be ruined.

And most importantly, given Zhu Yunfeng's ability to speak nonsense, his speeches may not be very inflammatory.

But he is knowledgeable and can do all kinds of small operations with ease.

Where had the court officials ever seen such a scene?
He has been fooled to the point of being at a loss. By then, the cabinet system he carefully designed will soon be left with only Zhu Yunfeng's voice.

If he continues to stay in the inner court, it won't be long before everyone will unite around Zhu Yunfeng.

Is this still available?

"Wang Wang Wang."

Then the barking of the Pipi dog was heard. It quickly went downstairs, followed by Zhu Di, and shouted, "Yunfeng, I'm starving. Cook quickly!"

It was already afternoon. When Zhu Yunfeng came over, he made breakfast for Zhu Di. He hadn't had lunch yet.

"You are the reincarnation of a starving ghost."

Zhu Yunfeng put his hands on his hips and said unhappily, "You are just like your father. Look at what you have become now. All you do is eat and eat all day long."

I blanch.

Zhu Di trembled all over, shrank his neck and dared not say a word.

It's easy to tell that his eldest grandson has been bullied by his father and is now taking it out on him.

But Zhu Di didn't dare to shout anything.

He is not his father.

His current identity is the Ming Dynasty’s special envoy to modern times.

In modern times, if you have no power and influence, you have to rely on Zhu Yunfeng, and naturally you have to be humble.

You have to know that he has a wife and children.

Now, apart from occasionally going back to sleep with his wife, he has to stay in the modern world most of the time to serve as Zhu Yuanzhang's spy.

It's not easy to live under someone else's roof.

Zhu Di's eyes were filled with tears.

'hey-hey. '

Zhu Yunfeng scolded Zhu Di twice, turned around and went to the kitchen to cook for Zhu Di. His originally angry face suddenly turned into a smile.

Zhu Di is Zhu's traitor, and I can't let him see me being complacent.

The next few days were indeed quiet.

Old Zhu did not ask him to go to the inner court again, nor did he even disturb him.

Steal a half day of leisure from busy life.

By early May in the Gregorian calendar, which is April in the lunar calendar, there is only about a month left until the rice harvest.

That day Zhu Yunfeng sent money to Lao Zhu.

In fact, he just sent bags of silver coins to the cellar via a conveyor belt, and then threw the bags into the underground palace on the Ming side.

A bag contains about 2000 silver dollars and weighs 130 kilograms. It is definitely impossible to lift it, so it can only be dragged.

Zhu Yunfeng thought about using aluminum.

However, the Ming Dynasty's credit system collapsed, and the people were not interested in currencies other than gold, silver and copper.

If you want to improve your credit as quickly as possible, you can only use silver dollars.

But now he is facing a dilemma.

No money.

Just over 1000 million yuan was spent on farming in the first quarter.

Then there were all kinds of miscellaneous expenses, including millions spent on buying all kinds of things, such as sofas, clothes, electrical appliances, cars, electronic products, books, etc.

Next is the salary. He and Ji He received a base salary of 20 yuan per month, Zou Ting received 3 yuan, and the average salary of the other 40-odd employees was around 5000 yuan.

The monthly salary expenditure is about 68 yuan, which is more than 300 million yuan in five months.

It cost more than two million to open the factory afterwards.

The most important thing was to buy raw materials. The finished silver dollars that had not been stamped cost more than 530 million per ton, and he bought two tons.

So far, in less than half a year, he has spent nearly 4000 million.

Looking at the cold balance of more than 700 million yuan in the card, Zhu Yunfeng shed tears of poverty, took out his mobile phone and called his father.

May 9th was the beginning of summer, and the warm spring sunshine made people feel stuffy.

At this moment in Guangzhou, compared to the north where the temperature is still over ten degrees, the sun is shining brightly in Guangzhou, making people sweat profusely.

In broad daylight, Zhu Changqing returned to his rental house drunk and saw a call from his son.

These days, rich bosses have a hard time after going bankrupt.

If you owe the bank hundreds of billions, you are awesome and the bank will have to support you.

But if you only owe tens of millions or hundreds of millions.

I'm sorry, but the bank will screw you over and make you lose a lot of money no matter how thin you are.

to be frank.

Being a debtor and a defaulter is not a good thing in itself.

But unlike those people who just give up after becoming a deadbeat, Zhu Changqing still wants to pay back all the debts he owes.

So he chose to divorce his wife before he went bankrupt, transferred the remaining property to his wife, and let her retain a part of the property, thus leaving some possibility for him to make a comeback.

The most important thing is that the money he owes the bank is actually not that much, only tens of millions.

Some of the debts were owed to suppliers, and some were owed to relatives and friends who trusted him. All in all, the debt totaled more than 100 million yuan.

Zhu Changqing is also a man who cares about his reputation, so naturally he doesn't want his family to be ashamed of themselves in the future.

However, business is not good these days.

Even with the help of good friends like Liu Dong, the orders he gets every month are barely enough to support his life and interest, and the day of recovery is probably a long way off.

"Hey, son."

Although life is difficult, we still have to live. Zhu Changqing adjusted his mentality, tried to speak in a more relaxed tone, and answered the phone: "What's wrong, son?" "Dad, I have something to tell you."

"You said."

"Don't I run a business?"

"Is there something wrong with the company?"

Zhu Changqing's heart skipped a beat.

He can't afford to help his son through this difficult time.

"No, I exported it overseas. The customer traded it in gold. I want to know how to deal with it."

"Gold? Just complete the import procedures and relevant certificates, and then go to the bank to exchange it."

“This might be a little unexpected.”

"What accident?"

Zhu Changqing asked doubtfully, "Maybe it was smuggled in."

"Not really. Anyway, it's about the same as our ancestral gold. Do you think there is any way to deal with it?"

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After a moment, Zhu Changqing said, "How much do you have on hand now? I'll call your uncle Dong and ask."

"Is Uncle Dong reliable?"

Zhu Yunfeng asked.

Although the transaction has already been done once, I still need to ask about this kind of thing.

"He was your dad's college classmate and roommate. In the past few years, it was only thanks to your uncle Dong and your uncle Zhou that your dad survived. What do you think?"

"That's fine. We have 250 kilograms on hand now. The main thing is that there may be a large influx of goods in the future, maybe more than 200 kilograms every month. I don't know if Uncle Dong can eat it all."

250kg?

Zhu Changqing took a breath of cold air. More than 200 kilograms per month?
The value is about 1.5 million.

His total assets at his peak were less than 2 million.

Where did my son get so much gold?

After a long silence, Zhu Changqing replied: "Don't worry, your uncle Dong is the entire family business, and their industry chain is very large."

"Golden family property?"

"Yes, your uncle Dong only owns a small part of his family, but do you know how much spot gold he has?"

"How many?"

"About 1000 kilograms. Their entire family's gold spot assets are worth hundreds of billions. Just don't get dozens of tons at once. One or two tons is easy."

Zhu Changqing sighed, wondering if his son had struck gold.

"Okay, Dad, I'll wait for your news."

After hanging up the phone, Zhu Yunfeng was a little dazed.

At their peak, their assets were only 100 or 200 million, and they also had a lot of fixed assets, so a cash flow of tens of millions was good enough.

And they have more than 6 million in spot gold on hand.

Even this only accounts for a small part of the family's entire family assets of tens of billions.

However, even so, he cannot be considered a top rich person.

Because those top bosses are not ranked based on family assets, one person’s worth is tens of billions or even hundreds of billions.

The assets of some top families may be counted in trillions.

As expected, this world is so uneven.

There is a huge gap between people.

The most important thing is that he can only get 250 kilograms of gold from Lao Zhu every month, which is worth more than million yuan, or about billion yuan a year.

The net profit is even less. The previous calculation was that the net profit was 6000 million per month, which is 7 million per year.

By using cheats, a door to another dimension appeared in his home, which enabled him to trade between the two worlds. However, he still had to struggle for 30 years to reach the standards of other family.

Outrageous.

Zhu Yunfeng was thinking, and while his father was calling Liu Dong, he looked at the gold price again.

But after seeing the gold price, Zhu Yunfeng felt like he had been hit hard again.

The international situation has stabilized a little this year, and the price of gold has fallen a lot. Last year, the peak price was 670 per gram, and the average price was 650. This year it has fallen to 610.

If we subtract 10 yuan from the delivery price, the price per ton is 6 million yuan.

He had previously calculated that one ton of silver could be exchanged for 12.5 kilograms of gold from Lao Zhu, which was worth 800 million yuan, but now the value has dropped to 750 million yuan.

After deducting the cost of 530 million per ton of silver, and then deducting fixed expenses such as monthly wages, company and rice field operating costs, and factory taxes, the net profit per ton is probably only about 100 million.

Assuming 20 tons are exported to Daming every month, the net profit is only 2000 million.

really.

I think that doing business is too simple.

I thought the profit could be 6000 million a month.

As a result, the drop in gold prices, coupled with various expenses and taxes, directly reduced profits by two-thirds.

I used to dream of working hard for 30 years to reach the family standard.

Now it seems that I have thought too much.

According to this standard, you may not be able to earn that much even in a hundred years.

It's better to just be a good slave and earn some money by running around.

Soon, Zhu Changqing called Liu Dong to ask, and was surprised to learn that Zhu Yunfeng had another 250 kilograms on hand.

I don’t know where Zhu Yunfeng got so much gold.

But there is nothing wrong with business coming to your door.

He didn't ask any more questions.

I know all the rules.

Asking too many questions is not good for everyone.

Liu Dong immediately said that he would come to pick it up in person in two days.

Now that the gold channel business has been opened up, the source of income will be stable.

"Yunfeng."

At this moment, Zhu Biao's voice came from downstairs.

Zhu Di quickly turned off the dark horse.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao didn't come over these days, fortunately he did not lose his vigilance.

"What's wrong, Grandpa?"

Zhu Yunfeng shouted downstairs.

"I have formulated the policy, please help me take a look."

Zhu Biao walked up.

What I saw was Zhu Di wearing a short-sleeved shirt and beach shorts, with flip-flops on his feet - his exposed calves and thighs were covered with leg hair.

Zhu Yunfeng was also dressed like this.

He liked to wear beach pants and casual T-shirts in the summer. Whatever he wore himself, that was naturally how he dressed Zhu Di.

"Fourth brother, look at you now. Why are you so careless every day?"

Zhu Biao looked disgusted.

"Wow."

Zhu Di felt uncomfortable and said with a wronged look: "My father asked me to come here and stay here every day, so what can I do? Yunfeng goes to the company every day, and I go with him."

Zhu Yunfeng hurriedly said: "I can prove it."

The company's headquarters is in the town. He and Ji He go there every day. In addition to coming to Daming to report the situation, this morning they delivered the silver dollars and brought back the gold.

Otherwise, most of the time, Zhu Di would follow Zhu Yunfeng around, either visiting factories or going to the fields.

"Then you go back later."

Zhu Biao said angrily, "Look at what you have become now. Your face is almost round. Don't you know how great your military talent will be in the future? Father is really something. I will talk to him when the time comes."

"this."

Zhu Di touched his slightly bulging belly and said, "Father must have had a purpose for asking me to come here, and I'm fine here, don't worry, big brother. I will exercise every day when I have nothing to do. I'll go for a run. Didn't Yunfeng buy a treadmill? He's also going to build a gym. I'll exercise by myself and read more military books."

"Well, that's better."

Zhu Biao nodded with satisfaction.

(End of this chapter)