Chapter 411 Bright, Very Expensive
Zhu Yijun found that he had seriously overestimated the resistance will of the humble Confucians and the restraint of ethics on imperial power. He was somewhat lenient to the enemy.
He thought that these despicable Confucians would do whatever it took, such as inciting civil unrest, coercing the refugees, hijacking public opinion, assassinating the king and killing the king, doubling the execution, etc. They would even resort to rebellion and use all possible means. to oppose the Ming Emperor's decree.
New policies such as clearing the land, opening up the sea, etc. have effectively destroyed the interests of famous and powerful families.
Because Emperor Jiajing had been facing this all the time when he was reforming the old and making new things in the first twenty-one years.
But the humble Confucians' will to resist melted like the white snow in March in the face of the increasingly powerful Beijing camp.
Now, the courtiers are discussing large-scale construction projects, and in the end they only turned three roads into two and a half. The galloping road to Daningwei is also on the list of preparations, and because Most people have no objection to Baitu's problem, but they just feel that the financial pressure is too great.
The courtiers, the mouthpieces of Zheshehu, only shouted twice and then immediately stopped, and even 'pledged' money to help build the road together.
Pledging donations was a method that the Ming Dynasty had to adopt after the financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty dropped sharply since Hongzhi. The governors of the Ming Dynasty, such as Yin Zhengmao, Ling Yunyi, and Pan Jixun, all to varying degrees. This approach was adopted.
The court discussion is still going on. The preparations for the establishment of several ocean shipping companies in the city shipping department have been completed, and the general merchants have begun to appoint. All ocean shipping companies are waiting for Wang Daokun to leave office. There are major personnel changes in Songjiang Ocean Trading Company. Under such circumstances, he severely bit off a piece of meat from Songjiang Ocean Trading Company's body.
Including but not limited to: three-masted and five-masted ship rations, the share of imported grain, the export market for porcelain, iron pots, silk, and cloth, the suitability of ships going to sea, the proportion of city shipping supervisors serving as officials, etc.
These are all interests, sharpening the knife.
After intense discussions, the new governor of Songjiang finally got a result: Shen Shixing, a subordinate of Zhang Juzheng and a direct descendant of Zhang's party.
Wang Daokun is a member of the Zhejiang Party, and the situation changes in turns. In order to ensure that Songjiang Mansion belongs to the imperial court and not the private property of a certain party, this kind of rotation is very common. For example, Guangdong and Guangxi, which have always been in the hands of Zhang Dang, are in Lingyunyi Later, it fell into the hands of Wang Jiaping of the Jin Party.
This kind of rotation is to ensure the centripetal force of the court and the basic stability of the political structure of the Ming Dynasty. The emperor is in charge of the Jingtang, and the Jingtang has jurisdiction over foreign officials.
High positions cannot be stolen for a long time, and great power cannot be retained for a long time.
Judgement of whether a place is a county or a feudal system can also be based on this standard. If the local lawsuit always belongs to a certain faction, it is a feudal system, not a county. For example, the governor of Luzon Governor's Palace, Yin Zhengmao will always regard this governor until the last moment of his death.
After the content that needed to be sent to the Wenhua Hall for court discussion was over, Guo Chaobin, the Minister of Industry, briefly reported on the many achievements of the Ming Emperor's investment in opening up the sea.
Guo Chaobin is not a figure in the Three Parties, but an honest man who works hard. He held the memorandum in his hand and said: "Longjiang, Qingjiang, Weihe, Songjiang, Jinshan, and Ningbo shipyards are jointly built. There are forty-seven factories, with 1,96,048 carpenters, joiners, sawmakers, cobblers, blacksmiths, blacksmiths, porters, trackers, etc. Last year they built 2,130 shallow boats and 1,300 flat-bottomed canoes. There are only 3,200 sailboats with 400 materials, 4,300 battleships with 400 materials, 145 three-masted plywood ships with 1,000 materials, and 72 five-masted plywood ships with 3,000 materials. , there are also several hydrofoil sailing ships, sailing boats, stargazing ships, etc., totaling 12,746 ships, and... 750,000 grain tanks."
"1,432 schools were built, including There are one hundred and twenty-four girls’ weaving schools for the children of craftsmen, with a total of more than 123,000 students.”
"Three generations ago, the canal method was not prepared, and there was no way to build it. Now, your majesty has opened it up and set up canal boats to control the ships and transfer millet. The national plan relies on it. It is a feat that is the foundation of our country and a long-term plan for all generations."
Last year, in accordance with the needs of all parties in the Ming Dynasty, a total of more than 12,000 ships of various sizes were built, and 190,000 people were accommodated. Ding is an adult labor force. According to the statistics, at most one person per household Just two strong laborers. To put it bluntly, the shipbuilding industry is now the lifeblood of millions of Ming Dynasty shipwrights.
In the craftsman school, there is also a girls' weaving school. In addition to studying, you also need to learn textiles. In addition, you also need to study arithmetic, mainly for the purpose of running the family and keeping the business in the future.
The rules and regulations, organizational structure of the shipyard, and even the weaving school of the girls' school, all of which are collectively referred to as the group construction method, are based on the experience of the woolen factory along the Yongding River in the Ming Dynasty.
Folks call grain boxes Taiyue boxes, and it has become a habit to transport bulk granular goods in grain boxes. Guo Chaobin said that he was so used to it that he almost made a mistake in the Wenhua Palace.
Just like Zhu Yijun’s scooter, it is called a landlubber, but its official name is Yuwu.
"Wang Cifu has great merits and is the humerus of economic development." Guo Chaobin said sincerely, all of this must start from the book "Placement of Rogues" written by Wang Chonggu when he joined the cabinet. Wang Chonggu was the second assistant. Although he never worked in Wenyuan Pavilion, his promise in joining the cabinet was to place gangsters in place.
"Me? Economically benefiting the country?" Wang Chonggu was happily listening to Guo Chaobin talking about the Ministry of Industry's Tuanzao like a treasure, but he was suddenly mentioned and was a little confused.
He, Wang Chonggu, arrogant and sycophantic, flattering and submissive, the Yan Song who was in the mouth of scholars in order to survive, suddenly became the economic leader of the country, and he was the mouthpiece of the Ming Gong and the Minister of the Ministry of Industry. This made it difficult for Wang Chonggu to accept this change of identity.
Wang Chonggu, except Wan Shihe, was the target of the courtiers' ire. He had been scolded for so long that Wang Chonggu himself thought he was a traitor.
"What if?" Zhu Yijun smiled and affirmed Guo Chaobin's praise. No matter how much those cheap Confucians talk about it, the real achievements are right in front of them. Even if they say it ten thousand times, they can't shake Wang Chonggu's holy family.
"Thank you for your grace." Wang Chonggu hurriedly bowed his head and thanked him. He was already unhappy, but he couldn't stop the smile on his face and decided to give Wang Qian some extra money.
“Here is an accounting report of internal funds. When the three party leaders left, they handed it to the households who invested the money. Where was the money spent, where was the money earned, and why was it given to them? All the dividends are written clearly." Zhu Yijun asked Feng Bao to bring four thick books, which were the details of the total investment profit of 37.12 million silver since the third year of Wanli.
The leaders of the three parties in Zhang, Jin and Zhejiang will take a share back, and the Ministry of Household Affairs will also take a share.
"There will be one issue every year from now on, and each library will copy and distribute it." Zhu Yijun made it clear that this financial report is once a year, not just this one time.
The Ming Dynasty Royal Gewu Academy, headed by the emperor's uncle Zhu Zaiyu, has amazing computing power. In addition to calculating trigonometric maps, it also has the energy to participate in the year-end audit of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Under investment audit.
In fact, Zhu Yijun did not need to show the details of the investment income of the 37.12 million taels to the courtiers. After doing it, Zhu Yijun could just take a look for himself. After thinking about it, he decided to publish the financial report. This large sum of money, Zhu Yijun didn't use his extravagance, there was nothing he couldn't show to the ministers.
"On the journey of the great road, the world is for the common good, Your Majesty is wise!" Zhang Juzheng, Wang Chonggu, and Tan Lun stood up and bowed their heads to thank them.
The troubled Zheshe households all support His Majesty. It is true that His Majesty is on a high road and does things honestly.
"After the meeting is over, it is no small matter to call Bachelor Shen to go to Songjiang to take up his duties." Zhu Yijun waved his hand and announced the end of the court meeting, and then announced to the foreign officials who were going to the local governor.
Shen Shixing, the number one scholar in the 41st year of Jiajing reign, was a good old man who had been an assistant minister for fifteen years. He was in harmony with each other. Shen Shixing seemed to be a man with "two ends", "all sides" and "everything he wanted". He had neither A chief assistant who is opinionated, incompetent, and incompetent.
As a disciple of Zhang Juzheng, he did nothing when Zhang Juzheng was liquidated. After he succeeded him as the chief minister, he did nothing, let alone continued to implement the New Deal. In the end, in the national case, because he was afraid of trouble, he simply Zhi Shi returned to his hometown.
But in Zhu Yijun's eyes, Shen Shixing, who is only 45 years old now, is impassioned and a radical among the reformists. In the sixth year of Wanli, Shen Shixing even criticized his teacher for advocating for uprightness. The reason for criticism is very simple. After Zhang Juzheng returned to the court in the sixth year of Wanli, when all the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty implemented the Qing Zhang and One Whip Law, Zhang Juzheng opposed the radical nationwide promotion, but chose to implement it slowly and implement one government for one place. method.
The 45-year-old Shen Shixing is a radical, and the 50-year-old Shen Shixing has begun to get along with each other. Probably, he chose to be wise and protect himself under the overwhelming trend.
The liquidation of Zhang Juzheng was apparently carried out by Zhang Siwei as the first assistant, but in fact, Shen Shixing, as a cabinet minister, knew very well that it was Emperor Wanli who initiated it.
An incompetent person cannot climb to the position of chief assistant.
"I pay homage to your Majesty, long live your Majesty, long live your Majesty." Shen Shixing, the right servant of the Ministry of Personnel, walked into the side hall. In addition to the affairs of the Ministry of Personnel, he is also the vice president of the "Da Ming Huidian".
"No courtesy, sit down." Zhu Yijun motioned to Shen Shixing to sit down.
The side hall is filled with Zhu Yijun’s whimsical ideas. On the left hand side as soon as you enter the door, there is a pile of various ship models sent by the shipyard, and there is also a pool to verify the stress of some ship models. , and on the right and north side are seven display windows, filled with various classics, which are summaries of the Ming Dynasty's New Deal. In front of the window sill, there is also a piano. Zhu Yijun does not like music theory, and it is Wang Yaozhuo's musical instrument.
This is the first time for Shen Shixing to come to the side hall. This is an important task entrusted to him, and he is also rising rapidly.
"Master Shen, I'm going to Songjiang Mansion now. I hope you can live up to Sir's expectations and run Songjiang Mansion properly. Songjiang Mansion is the bridgehead for the Ming Dynasty to open up the sea. This is a big deal." Zhu Yijun did not exchange greetings in detail, but said directly. meet their own expectations.
According to Ming Dynasty’s official appointment and removal mechanism, Wang Daokun should leave and hand over the job as soon as Shen Shixing arrives for this transfer. However, this is not the case. Wang Daokun will take Shen Shixing for nearly a year and wait until the expiration of next year before leaving. When he was appointed, Shen Shixing had to serve as an assistant official for one year before he arrived. If he failed, the court would choose to let Wang Daokun continue to serve, and the result of Shen Shixing's embarrassing return to Beijing was that everyone was lost.
Zhu Yijun made the secret here very clear. Songjiang Mansion cannot be in the hands of Shen Shixing and become invincible, just like the Jin Party in Datong and Li Chengliang in Liaodong in the early years of Wanli Xuanfu.
If Shen Shixing does well, he will be the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty when he returns to the court.
“You must be careful when building factories and factories, don’t be coerced by luxury households. In the eighth year of Zhengtong, Emperor Yingzong ordered to build ships to sail to the West. The following year, the ships were supervised and completed, and a civil turmoil broke out. A fire burned everything. You have been working in the Ministry of Civil Affairs for many years, and you have always been very clear that this is not a simple civil unrest." Zhu Yijun has always been very direct in his speech. The fire that lasted for nine years burned more than just Fujian Shipbuilding. The factory's fleet went south to the West, and there were several tung gardens, including the tung garden in Zijin Mountain.
Purple Mountain in Nanya, where Zhu Yuanzhang’s mausoleum is located.
"I obey your order!" Shen Shixing took a deep breath and said solemnly: "I will go to Songjiang for inspection this time, and I will definitely live up to your order."
"If you have the power, If you are not caught, send a letter to the capital, I will make the decision for you." Zhu Yijun expressed his support for Shen Shixing very clearly. It is not shameful to defeat Shen Shixing. It is not shameful to go back to his hometown to call others. It is shameful to mess up things. Don't be too embarrassed. Worry, moving reinforcements will not lead to a drop in evaluation.
"Thank you for your kindness, Your Majesty." Shen Shixing bowed his head again. This was unreserved support. If he couldn't do it, he would flip the table. With 30,000 naval troops at his side, could he still turn Zheshe House upside down?
After Shen Shixing left, Zhu Yijun went to the Military War Bureau, mainly to inspect firearms manufacturing. The Ming Dynasty border army was imminent in replacing firearms. A veteran in Gansu Town, the capital of Shaanxi Province, got a fire gun made in the seventh year of Yongle. , overjoyed, became his only firearm.
It’s not that Yongle never made firearms after Yongle. The firearms made by Yongle were of excellent quality. Until the Battle of Songjin in the late Ming Dynasty, these antique firearms were still active on the battlefield. They were finally captured by Huang Taiji and became one of the collections of the Tatar Palace.
The fireguns installed on a large scale cannot be as luxurious as the cavalry camps. Using rosewood as the butt is just an overkill attitude. The Ming Dynasty does not have so much rosewood, and the cost is too high. .
The Bureau of War and Warfare can produce 35,000 muskets a year, while the Ordnance Supervisor of the Ministry of War can produce 60,000 muskets a year. The Ming Dynasty’s border firearms require about 300,000 muskets. In order to prepare for war , it is necessary to build an additional 30,000 muskets and more than 300 artillery pieces of various types, mainly to cope with the changes in the southwest after the death of Mang Yinglong.
The production pressure of the Military War Bureau and Ordnance Supervision is extremely high.
Zhu Yijun has actually always wanted to visit Wang Gong Factory. Wang Gong Factory was the gunpowder depot of the Ming Dynasty. However, a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. As an emperor, Zhu Yijun naturally cannot go there in person. Fishing is fishing. If you pay for it yourself, you will be laughed at.
Zhu Yijun stayed in the Bingzhan Bureau for half an hour. The entire Bingzhan Bureau was spotless, even the leaves were clean. It had obviously been carefully cleaned. "Your Majesty, the cabinet has received a message, saying that the naval expansion is proceeding in an orderly manner. The main task is to transfer 12,000 troops from Songjiang Prefecture and go to several cities to establish them. The results will be seen within this year." Feng Bao Hui reported His Majesty's inquiry, and Wenyuan Pavilion was already advancing with all its strength.
"The Great Sima and the Great General said that the most difficult thing about expanding the army is to recruit soldiers. If you recruit strong men, it will be a mob, a mess. The biggest difficulty in recruiting soldiers is the source of soldiers. It is better than before. Solved, the shipyard is built together, and there are many strong men." Feng Bao also reported the judgment of the Minister of War and the General Soldier of the Beijing Camp.
Craftsmen are very disciplined, because in production, if you do not obey the rules, you will pay the price in blood. Many strange rules are summed up with human lives. Craftsmen are a natural source of soldiers, because they obey the rules and also pay the price with blood. If you have strength, you will be from a middle-class family just like the good people in the Qin, Han and Tang Dynasties.
"How is the emperor's steam turbine going?" Zhu Yijun was sitting in a jade chariot on the way back to the palace, asking about the research and development progress of the emperor's uncle Zhu Zaiyu.
Feng Bao said in a low voice: "There is no news. His Royal Highness, King De, has been obsessed with steam turbines in the past few years, but there has been no results. Some Dr. Gewu have criticized this. It costs tens of thousands of taels of silver a year to invest in it."
"Give the emperor another 30,000 silver and tell him that this matter is not urgent." Zhu Yijun chose the support of real money.
Feng Bao said with a smile: "Although the steam turbine is still unfit for reuse, the reciprocating steam engine has made great achievements. Last autumn, it was already one horse strong."
There are two routes of steam engines in the Ming Dynasty, steam turbines and reciprocating steam engines.
The steam turbine, a monster far ahead of its time, can turn because of the ingenuity of Ming craftsmen. This is a dream, a pursuit, poetry and distance, while the reciprocating steam engine is a reality.
What are the difficulties with steam turbines? For the current Ming Dynasty, it is all difficult. Even if it is made, it is just a strange object and cannot be mass-produced.
The principle of the reciprocating steam engine is not difficult for Ming Dynasty. It is a bellows, but it takes a long way to go from principle to implementation, such as the tightness of the cylinder, the control of steam pressure, Steam input control and more.
The fuel of Ming Dynasty is still too expensive, the cost of trial and error is high, and the coal is buried too deep.
Sanniangzi sent the wool, and after meeting the saint, she once again left the capital and returned to the grassland with her riding whip. The years began to leave traces on Sanniangzi’s face. This does not affect Sanniangzi’s beauty. The maturity of time.
Legas took two more concubines, a red-haired and a golden-haired, and was happy to miss the West, but there was no word of love in his travel notes.
King Naojiu of Ryukyu and King Ashikaga Yoshiaki of Japan were in close proximity to each other, and they fought fiercely with each other. Naojiu was afraid of Japanese pirates when he was in Ryukyu, but now that he is in the arms of his own father, Ming Dynasty, he is no longer afraid of Japanese pirates.
The Ryukyu King's Palace has recently become more sophisticated and threw the collected excrement jars into the Japanese King's Palace, causing the Japanese King's Palace to stink. The Japanese king's palace counterattacked in equal measure, and finally attracted the attention of the Honglu Temple of the Ministry of Rites. The emperor issued a decree and reprimanded the two kings for their waste, and they were not allowed to throw away dung cans, which were all fertilizer.
This has also become one of the jokes in Jingtang.
In addition to listening to storytelling in the Qianmen building, Shah Maimaiti suddenly fell in love with visiting the academy. The loud sound of reading made Shah Maimaiti forget to leave.
A few days later, Shah's envoy found Chen Xuexue, the minister of Honglu Temple, and mysteriously presented a treasure, black oil from Horumus in the Persian Gulf. This oil can burn, But the smell is very unpleasant.
Bright and very expensive.
Especially at night, the lamp oil used in the Ming Dynasty is mainly animal and plant oils, such as fish oil from Ryukyu. Lighting a lamp at night is at least like a Chinese home, and chiseling the wall to borrow light is a kind of homage. The praise of students is also a reflection of the lack of materials.
Zhu Yijun saw a barrel of oil. He was very sure that this was oil. After oil is refined, you can get gasoline, kerosene, diesel, solvent oil, lubricating oil, gear oil, paraffin, etc., and this barrel of oil It was the lamp oil that Shah Maimaiti carried with him for lighting. Because the smell was so unpleasant, Shah's envoy didn't like it very much, so he changed it to a fish oil palm lamp in the Ming Dynasty.
"Is the Ming Dynasty really a treasure with everything?" Zhu Yijun looked at the oil and asked with a sigh.
"It should be so." Feng Bao was a little unsure. The Ming Dynasty lacked gold, silver, and copper. Coal was buried deep and there were very few high-quality iron ores. Now Feng Bao discovered that there is one more thing, oil.
According to Shah Maimaiti, this kind of oil can be sprayed out just by stamping one's foot in Horumus. The locals set the black oil on fire to prevent fires.
There is oil in the tributes of the Ming Dynasty. There is an oil well dug in the Nanying River in Yanchang County, Shaanxi Province. The oil is flammable and can also treat scabies in livestock. The annual income is 110 catties. In Yongping Village, Yanchuan County There is a well that collects 400 kilograms per year, which is put into Yanfeng's treasury and entered into the palace as a tribute.
The Ming Dynasty did not lack distillation and condensation technology. Zhu Yijun’s Guojiao was brewed with sweet potatoes and other substances, also called sweet potato roasting, which is spirits. The distillation technology was not a rare technology in the Ming Dynasty.
The palace can obtain 510 kilograms of oil a year, which is then refined into lamp oil. The light oil is used to ignite the fire and the heavy oil is burned to make ink. The black light is like paint, and the pine ink is far behind.
The Ming Dynasty does not lack the technology to transport oil. The number of grain tanks produced will even appear in the Wenhua Palace.
"The lamp oil of the Ming Dynasty is extremely expensive. Anyone who prevents the Ming Dynasty from conquering the Strait of Malacca will be a sinner of the Ming Dynasty!" Zhu Yijun looked at the barrel of oil and slapped the table.
Open up shipping routes, obtain oil, refine it in Old Port, Java and other places, and then transport the refined product back to the Ming Dynasty to illuminate the world.
It may take a long, long time, but lighting up the night of the Ming Dynasty is an exciting vision.
Shah Maimaiti was showing value. He wandered around the Ming Dynasty, just to see what the Ming Dynasty lacked, to supplement the goods list, and to strengthen the bond between the Ming Dynasty and the Mughal Kingdom.
The Ming Dynasty was not a warlike dynasty, and was even war-weary. The demand for war horses was a short-term need. Once the problem of the northern captives was resolved, the motivation to trade with the Mughal Kingdom immediately dropped sharply.
Shah Maimaiti is not very optimistic about this group of fellow villagers from his ancestral homeland. They have already formed a relationship with the Ming Dynasty. One driving force, oil, is the supplement of Shah Maimaiti.
On June 23rd of the eighth year of Wanli, Zhu Yijun came to the Quanchu Guild Hall to have dinner as usual.
"Xiong Da, I bring you a gift." Zhu Yijun asked Feng Bao to bring a lamp. This lamp was more than a foot tall. The bottom was a copper-engraved fish, and the top was a The curved cover is made of copper, with a layer of tin plated on the inside.
Feng Bao pulled up the foot-long pressure rod and began to pressurize it. After applying pressure for more than ten times, Feng Bao slightly turned on the switch, and then pulled the hemp rope, which pulled the flint. , the flint rubbed against the fire sickle and produced sparks. The sparks lit up the light oil sprayed out. The flame of the light oil was extremely small, and the tongue of flame spit out on the lime stick.
Feng Bao continued to turn the light oil switch, and the flame gradually increased and hit the lime. The lime rod changed from red to incandescent. Bright light filled the Wenchang Pavilion, the study room of the Quanchu Guild Hall.
"The oil lamp hurts the eyes. Use this one in the future, this one will be brighter." Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "In the future, you will be able to see clearly when you study at night."
"Thank you, Your Majesty for your kindness. "Xiong Tingbi hurriedly thanked him. He worked very hard because he read a lot, so reading at night was a common thing. This lamp was exactly what he needed urgently.
In fact, Xiong Tingbi knew very well that His Majesty just found a reason to send something to the Quanchu Guild Hall. After the pencil was made, His Majesty immediately said that the thing was very good and gave it to Mr. Yu for use.
It has been eight years. If there is anything new in the palace, it must be in the Quanchu Guild Hall.
Oil is light oil refined from stones. The pressurized plug is to allow the light oil to spray out. When the flame tongue of the light oil hits the lime stick, it will emit a white glow, and the higher the temperature, the brighter the light. Bright.
In order to allow the light oil to fully burn without causing carbon deposits, the entire lampshade uses the chimney principle to allow air to circulate more conveniently and fully burn.
This thing is called a lime blowtorch. The Ming craftsmen designed it for a full half a month, then debugged it for half a month, and officially started mass production.
"Every courtier in the Ming Dynasty has one of these. If others want to use it, they can go to the imperial village to buy it." Zhu Yijun did not disturb Xiong Tingbi's study, but talked about the reward with Zhang Juzheng, and he was not as happy as everyone else. Lele, Zhu Yijun will also reward the courtiers with good things.
“How much does this cost?” Zhang Juzheng asked tentatively.
"Twenty silver a lamp, lamp oil five cents a pound." Zhu Yijun said with a smile.
“How much?!” The corner of Zhang Juzheng’s mouth twitched. The things in Huangzhuang are good and good. They are really expensive. Twenty taels is a lot. A middle-aged family can earn ten taels of silver a year. It’s a lot. Well, Jingying Ruizu only gets eighteen silvers a year!
A lamp, twenty silver, why not grab it!
"Limited quantity." Zhu Yijun sighed and said: "I don't have much lamp oil. Rare things are more expensive. The products produced by the internal department must be high-quality. My husband has used them and said they are good."
Zhang Juzheng, the Ming Dynasty's master of goods, Zhu Yijun stuffed all the strange gadgets he made into the Quanchu Guild Hall, and when he sold them, they were all of the same style as Yuan Fu, and they sold very well.
Zhang Juzheng was hesitant to speak, but in the end he said nothing. It would be better if your majesty had unlimited quantities. Once there is a limited quantity, this thing will change hands among the people and the price will be increased.
Everything in Huangzhuang is all luxury goods. Zhu Yijun dares to ask for ten taels of silver for a book. You can choose imitations, but you will be laughed at.
Huangzhuang business never cheats the poor.
“If you want lamp oil, you have to go to Horumus in the Persian Gulf. Oil comes out when you stamp your feet there. Is that oil? That’s black gold!” Zhu Yijun signaled Feng Bao to bring a new lamp. , the texture on this lamp is a python pattern and a four-clawed golden dragon.
In the entire Ming Dynasty, only Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang used the python pattern, while Wang Chonggu, Wang Guoguang and other courtiers all used the flying fish pattern.
"No, Your Majesty, just have one in the study. This thing is extremely valuable, so there is no need for a square lantern." Zhang Juzheng was about to thank him when he saw the busyness outside. The maids and eunuchs were changing under the eaves. Square lamp for lighting!
If we replace them all, we will need more than two hundred lamps, and the lamp oil alone will consume several thousand kilograms a year.
"Sir, you are still too frugal." Zhu Yijun saw Zhang Juzheng's serious refusal and was helpless. He asked the palace maid to stop and sent the lime glow lamp to the warehouse for storage. Since it was given as a reward, it was naturally not taken back. reason.
Zhu Yijun went to see it, and Zhang Juzheng didn't use most of the things he rewarded. Just the things in the warehouse, if packed together, could be sold for at least 70,000 to 80,000 taels of silver.
Zhang Juzheng worked in Yipin for eleven years, and his family property was only 100,000 silver. In the forest of happy steles outside Chaoyang Gate, there are more than a dozen large and small steles. As a county magistrate, there were more than a dozen who embezzled 100,000 silver in three years.
(End of this chapter)