Prodigal Son of the Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 55 Cherish each other

  Looking at Liu Qian's face full of fear, at this moment, Emperor Hongzhi finally knew that things were not easy.

  He snapped and asked, "Say!"

   "When your Majesty was in the court meeting in Fengtian Palace...His Royal Highness the Crown Prince ran over...The servant didn't pay attention at that time, thinking...that...the Crown Prince came to the warm pavilion to wait for His Majesty, so the servant went to the waiter to pour tea for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

  Emperor Hongzhi became impatient, what does this have to do with the prince: "Concise and concise."

"Yes, yes..." Liu Qian was frightened out of his wits: "But who knew, when I just poured tea, I found that His Highness the Crown Prince was carrying a large bag of things, and rushed out with a swish, slave... Where is the slave?" Dare to chase after him, but I don't know what happened. When His Royal Highness disappeared, the slaves discovered that in the warm pavilion, there was missing a picture of "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains", a pair of ivory inlaid pen holders with gold, and their own. The dragon and phoenix jade bib handed down from the Tang Dynasty, and..."

  After listening to Liu Qian's words, Emperor Hongzhi opened his mouth, but at this moment he was dumbfounded.

  Is this considered stealing?

  Bold, bold! Roll up my things and run away.

   "Slaves and servants will die!" Liu Qian's body trembled even more, and he prostrated himself on the ground.

  Emperor Hongzhi looked back, and sure enough, when he checked carefully, the dragon, phoenix and jade bib were gone, and there was still a pen holder...

   At this moment, he hurriedly rushed behind the screen, and couldn't help saying: "Where is my Guishan inkstone handed down from Huizong's court..."

  Liu Qian's body trembled again, not daring to raise his head, he just said eagerly: "I want to come, I want to come..."

"Prodigal son!" Emperor Hongzhi flicked his sleeves. The Nuan Pavilion is the daily office of Emperor Hongzhi. He usually stays here most of the time. Therefore, Emperor Hongzhi's favorite palace Chinese games are also displayed here. These things are all there. The treasures that have been handed down from generation to generation, but now they are all... disappeared...

At this moment, Emperor Hongzhi found that he couldn't even get angry. He just couldn't laugh or cry. He was in a daze for a long time, and then suddenly said: "Let Jin Yiwei check and see what the prince is doing. And..." There was a flicker in his eyes Feng Mang: "No one should say anything about this matter!"

   After all, compared to Emperor Hongzhi, his treasure, the crown prince, is his darling. This kid is so unimaginable, he must be weird. This matter should not be publicized, otherwise, how will the people of the world treat the prince?

  Since it is not allowed to show theft in the palace, then...Naturally, you can't pursue and interrogate with great fanfare, so...Emperor Hongzhi twitched his old face, I bear it!

   "Slaves... Slaves obey the order." Liu Qianru received an amnesty.

  …

  The next morning, it was still freezing cold. There were many disheveled refugees in the streets along the way. They huddled in the streets and alleys, which seemed to be related to the catastrophe in Baoding Prefecture.

  Fang Jifan breathed out, looking at the shivering person curled up in the corner, Fang Jifan was dressed tightly, and even felt cold, let alone them?

   When they arrived at Zhan Shifu, they unexpectedly saw Wang Jinyuan.

  Fang Jifan greeted Wang Jinyuan warmly, but Wang Jinyuan looked like a frightened bird, lowered his head, pretended not to recognize Fang Jifan, and hurried away.

  This is strange...

  Fang Jifan entered Zhan Shifu and was led to see Zhu Houzhao. When Zhu Houzhao saw him, he said excitedly, "I have money in my palace."

  He looked extremely excited, looking radiant, snapped and threw out a contract: "You have silver, don't I have any money in this palace? Hey, hey, who is that..."

  Deng Jian is now following Fang Jifan at any time, and Zhu Houzhao seems to have allowed Deng Jian to enter and leave Zhan Shifu at any time. When Deng Jian heard who it was, he rushed forward and said, "The young one is called Deng Jian."

  Zhu Houzhao snorted: "Read this contract to your young master."

Deng Jian reached out to get the contract, but Fang Jifan took it first. After reading it, he realized that it was written by Wang Jinyuan. It basically meant that he was willing to buy two hundred thousand taels of patterned silver for Zhu Houzhao's "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" "Picture", as well as various literary games, within three days, the money and goods are cleared.

  Fang Jifan said in surprise: "His Royal Highness, what did Wang Jinyuan buy these for? "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains Map"? As far as I know, this should be a treasure in the palace. Where did Wang Jinyuan get the courage to buy it?"

  Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "He didn't have the guts to buy it, but he also didn't have the guts not to buy it."

  Fang Jifan instantly understood what it meant. Nine times out of ten, when Wang Jinyuan signed the contract, someone put a knife on his neck. Wicked, Zhu Houzhao, you scum.

  Fang Jifan wanted to scold Zhu Houzhao very much. In his opinion, although Wang Jinyuan was greedy, a gentleman loves money and gets it in a proper way. How could he blatantly rob money in broad daylight?

   It’s just these things, what else can I say, the deal is done, Fang Jifan showed appreciation, and said with a smile: "Your Highness is brilliant, I admire, admire."

  Zhu Houzhao saw Fang Jifan's ambiguous appearance, and immediately became excited: "What do you mean, do you think that the palace has robbed the people and their wealth?"

  Fang Jifan said seriously: "What are you talking about? What's wrong with robbing people's wealth? Looting people's wealth is inferior to others? If people don't rob people's money, are they still human?"

  Deng Jian hurriedly nodded and nodded: "The young master's words are really shocking and enlightening!"

  Deng Jian smiled happily. It was a smile from the heart. He grew up with the former Fang Jifan when he was young.

   "..." Zhu Houzhao said righteously: "Nonsense, I am not robbing money, I am just taking, taking father's treasure, and selling it to that king Jinyuan."

  Fang Jifan took a deep breath when he heard it, Your Highness, you are not stealing, you are cheating, you are cheating me.

  Zhu Houzhao then said nonchalantly: "However, Wang Jinyuan didn't dare to buy it. I got angry, so he obediently expressed his willingness to buy it. Can we start business now? How do we do this business?"

  Fang Jifan could only be speechless when Zhu Houzhao gave him a trap.

Hearing Zhu Houzhao's question about the sale, Fang Jifan became serious, and said solemnly: "I bought a barren hill in Xishan, but this barren hill has to be excavated, so I need to recruit some people. Not only that, the barren hills near the barren hill Some land needs to be bought, and I have already contacted some nearby landowners, and we have been talking about it for the past two days."

   "Excavation, what are you excavating?" Zhu Houzhao asked in surprise.

  Fang Jifan said: "Coal, isn't it cold now? Sell the coal to keep people warm."

   "Huh..." Zhu Houzhao's eyes lit up: "Why didn't I think of this?"

Fang Jifan smiled and said: "Where, where, I have heard people say that there is coal there, so I bought the coal. Think about it, Your Highness, the weather is so cold now, I think it will snow heavily in a short time Well, those people, if they don’t keep warm, they will freeze to death. Besides, I also thought about it, whether it’s burning charcoal or coal, if the smoke has been smoked for a long time, if the house is airtight, It is inevitable that people will be smothered to death, I plan to rebuild the coal stove and smoke pipes at the foot of the mountain, the wealthy households in Beijing are particular about it, and they are not short of money, isn’t this also a business opportunity?”

   "Oh..." Zhu Houzhao was excited: "I didn't expect this, this is co-authoring Bengong and you to make a lot of money."

"Of course it is to make a lot of money. As long as the weather is colder, this heating material is the same as firewood, rice, oil and salt. It is an indispensable thing for people. As long as it is indispensable, the price of our mining coal is far lower than the price of burning charcoal. , I am not afraid that no one will buy it. You must know that charcoal needs to be cut in the mountains, and the wood needs to be burned in the mountains. In the past few years, outside the capital, the trees have already been cut down, and the price of charcoal is also increasing year by year. It is as high as a year. But coal is different. I know that the coal in Xishan is shallow coal mines. It does not take much effort to mine it. It is inexhaustible and inexhaustible. The price is more than ten times cheaper than charcoal. Your Highness Just wait, the time has come for us to get rich."

Zhu Houzhao was so excited that he rubbed his hands together, feeling more and more that he had a lot to do. In fact, people in this era already knew what coal is. Didn’t the Ming Dynasty have a special coal mountain? Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself there, so Even Zhu Houzhao knew that this coal could be used for burning, and he couldn't help patting his forehead: "I didn't even think of it at all, yes, coal can be burned, brother Fang is really smart, You see, so many people in this world can't think of it, but Brother Fang thought of it."

  (end of this chapter)