Ming Dynasty: Tanks blocked the door and you said to me, "Long live Ming Dynasty"

Isn’t it just ten thousand cats?

At worst, I can ask the Jinyiwei for help and bring back all the female cats in the city...

Even the rich young ladies in the city will have to cry for a few days because of the loss of their beloved ones.

As he was speaking, footsteps were heard behind him.

Zhu Youxiao looked back and saw Concubine Chun who had rushed over after hearing the news.

"I see you, Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty, why didn't you let me know when you came so that I could dress up."

Seeing that she had obviously just woken up, Zhu Youxiao waved to Wang Yiqi and pulled Concubine Chun out of the cattery.

Upon seeing this, Wang Yiqi and the palace maid beside him hurriedly bowed and saw him off.

After arriving at the bedroom, Zhu Youxiao smiled and lifted Concubine Chun's chin.

"What's the difference between playing with or without dressing up?"

"Won't it all be the same after we blow out the lights?"

Concubine Chun's face turned red instantly.

It had been a long time since the last time she was favored by the emperor. Qingyu just accompanied the emperor on a trip south, and she was pregnant when she came back, which made her extremely envious.

"Your Majesty, please have mercy..."

She murmured softly and fell into Zhu Youxiao's arms.

Two palace maids gently lowered the curtain and stood by with red faces, ready to take action at any time.

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The next morning, Zhu Youxiao was still smiling in his sleep, but several markets in the city had become extremely lively.

Wave after wave of people dressed as servants wandered around the market, buying whatever they saw. It was even crazier than when they were shopping for New Year's goods two months ago!

"Boss, give me fifty kilograms of these sea cucumbers!"

"And these few pieces of ham, wrap them up for me too!"

"Boss, bring us a truckload of your best seafood!"

"........."

The shop owners and waiters were all looking at this scene in bewilderment.

God!

The New Year has passed, the Lantern Festival has passed, and even the second day of the second month has gone far away. What are they going to do?

Is it possible...

Could it be that my brain was stuck in the door and I have to spend the Qingming Festival?

But people have put all the silver on the counter, so it’s impossible not to sell it. After all, no one has a grudge against silver, right?

This is the case in every market!

From dawn till noon, carts pulled away all kinds of goods from the market.

From food to clothing, from things to use to things to display......

These people are not picky at all!

As long as you like it, I won’t even ask for a bargain!

It's not just the market that's crazy, even more outrageous things are happening outside!

The woodcutters carrying firewood, the people pushing carts carrying cabbages, and the hunters carrying rabbits and pheasants, all came from outside the city.

But they were stopped before they even entered the city gate.

Those who stopped them were servants of the military honor families.

In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Youjian was sitting behind the imperial desk as a supervisor, watching Wen Tihen, Zhu Youjian, and Zhang Yan busy dealing with memorials.

Just then, Sun Kangwang strode in.

"Your Majesty!"

"For some reason today, many servants of officials and retainers of military honors are rushing to buy goods from shops like crazy."

Wen Tiren's hand holding the memorial trembled a little, and his eyes moved towards Zhu Youxiao.

Your Majesty will definitely be happy about this, right?

After all, this is more real than a fish!

And the fact was just as he thought, the news made Zhu Youxiao very satisfied.

However, just as he was about to say a few words of praise, he discovered that Sun Kangwang looked worried.

"Isn't this a good thing? Why do you look like that?"

Sun Kangwang shook his head: "Your Majesty, you don't know that there is nothing they won't buy on the market!"

"From morning till now, in just a few hours, most of the shops have been emptied out by them!"

"People want to buy rice, but the rice shops are empty."

"People want to buy meat, but the butcher shop is empty!"

"Even if someone wanted to get some medicine, they would go to the pharmacy and find that even Yemingsha, Renzhonghuang, Baicaodan, Zhuling, and Zuopanlong were all sold out by someone!"

Zhu Youxiao: ???

Damn, they even fight over shit? ?

Is it so outrageous? !

When he thought of the people's faces full of complaints, he looked at Wen Tiren with a somewhat amusing look.

"Mr. Wen, did you do this?"

Wen Tiren was stunned and quickly began to explain.

"Your Majesty, I only asked someone to buy some seafood to taste, but I didn't ask anyone to steal shit!"

He knew very well that only by buying things that ordinary people could not afford to eat or use could he achieve a good effect.

But if you compete with the people for rice, flour, grain and oil, the nature of the matter changes.

Not to mention sending people to the pharmacy to grab medicine!

That's simply taking human life lightly!

Chapter 221 Wang Chengen Setting Up a Stall

Things like panic buying can be big or small, it all depends on how you handle it.

If ordinary people just can't buy things, it's not a big deal. What we are worried about is that ordinary people will see that there is profit to be made and join in the rush to buy things, and then raise the price!

If the stuff falls into your hands, it won't just be one or two people who get cheated.

The tulip incident in the Netherlands is the best example!

Those guys who had nothing to do after eating discovered that tulips were beautiful, and began to hype them up crazily, for more than 30 years!

At the craziest time, the price of an ordinary tulip bulb rose from 64 Dutch guilders to 1668 Dutch guilders within a month, but two days later, it fell directly to 0.15 guilders!

This incident dealt a severe blow to the entire Dutch economy, the severity of which was no less than Black Thursday on Wall Street!

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao's eyes suddenly lit up.

This thing seems to be doable?

To be honest, if it weren't for this rush to buy, he would have really forgotten the tulip incident!

When he thought of the wealth that the Netherlands had plundered from all over the world, he could no longer suppress his impulse and even wanted to leave right away and take his fleet to the West.

It was just something he could only think about, but it didn't stop him from writing it down in his memo.

Wen Tiren and Zhu Youjian were still scratching their heads over the rush to buy, but he was bent over his desk, writing furiously. For a moment, they looked at each other, all with confused looks on their faces.

What is your majesty doing?

"It's done!"

After writing the last word, Zhu Youxiao put away the memo, put it in his arms, stood up and walked out from behind the imperial desk, and waved to everyone.

"Come on, accompany me out of the palace to take a look, and the Queen will follow too!"

Zhang Yan was overjoyed when she heard this, and quickly closed the memorial. In order to avoid forgetting it, she also put a bookmark in the middle as a mark.

But unexpectedly, Zhu Youjian's expression became a little unnatural.

"Your Majesty, I still have some things to deal with. How about I not go?"

Zhu Youxiao laughed and pulled him out from behind the table.

"There is no such thing as a day when political affairs are not dealt with! There is no rush for now, put it aside for now and deal with it when I come back!"

Zhu Youjian had no choice but to follow Zhu Youxiao out of the palace.

Whether it is the Ming Dynasty today or the Qing Dynasty more than a decade later in history, Beijing is a gathering place for commercial goods from all over the world and the largest commercial and trade center in the country.

The Ming Dynasty broke the old system of "court in front and market in the back", and formed the city's largest commercial center on Qipan Street between Daming Gate and Zhengyang Gate.

Qipan Street is located on the main east-west transportation route in Beijing, and is also a gathering place for officials from large central agencies such as the Five Government Offices and Six Ministries.

Therefore, the prosperous "Chaoqian City" was formed on Qipan Street inside Zhengyangmen and Langfang Hutong outside Zhengyangmen.

In addition, the Drum Tower in the north of the city, Fuchengmen Street in the west of the city, Chaoyangmen Street in the east of the city, and the area near Chongwenmen on the east side of Zhengyangmen have gradually evolved into markets.

Many temples in the city, such as the Thousand Buddha Temple, City God Temple, Jade Emperor Temple, Fahua Temple, and Longfu Temple, hold temple fairs from time to time. Over time, a market centered on the temples has been formed.

The group left the palace and walked a short distance to Qipan Street.

This place has another name in later generations, Tiananmen Square!

Today's Qipan Street is more lively than ever!

I originally thought that based on the panic buying scene described by Sun Kangwang, there should be a lot of cursing here.

But what was surprising was that at the intersection of Qipan Street, there were a large number of servants and slaves gathered.

Shouts came from among the people, and it could be heard that it was the voice of a eunuch.

"A hundred-year-old mountain ginseng, fifty taels of silver, who wants it?"

"I want it!"

"Three racks of the best deer antlers from Liaodong, two hundred taels of silver, who wants it?"

"I want!"

"Two white bear skins brought by Westerners, five hundred taels, do you want any?"

"Give it to me!"

"........."

Every time the eunuch shouted, he would get an immediate response.

Afterwards, we saw people carrying ginseng, deer antlers and other goods, squeezing out of the crowd and leaving with smiles on their faces.

Zhu Youxiao subconsciously looked at Zhu Youjian.

That eunuch is definitely not from the palace!

Although it was not uncommon for eunuchs to steal things from the palace and sell them, no one dared to be so bold as to sell the stolen goods near Zhengyang Gate in broad daylight.

After all, the ubiquitous Jinyiwei are not just there to eat and do nothing.

The only explanation is that this eunuch is Zhu Youjian's man!

Zhang Yan and Wen Tiren had obviously thought of this as well, and their eyes were also on Zhu Youjian.

Sure enough, Zhu Youjian's expression changed.

He explained with an embarrassed look on his face.

"Don't blame me, my emperor. I also wanted someone to come out and buy things."