I am the king of the dead

The whole world was a vast expanse of whiteness, but the entire official road was full of captives clearing the snow and sergeants of the Fourth Armed Forces Battalion.

The snow is not cold, the melting snow is cold.

Zhu Qiyu drove back to Beijing.

The official road is not slippery, but Zhu Qiyu walked for a whole day for the distance of one hundred miles, and it was not until evening that he came to Zhengyang Gate.

Inside Zhengyangmen is Hongwumen, and inside Hongwumen is Chengtianmen.

This is the gate of Nanjing Liudu, Ming Dynasty.

Xu Chengzong knelt in the snow, his whole body was almost covered by snow, it seemed that he had knelt for a long time.

Seeing the car stopped in front of him, Xu Chengzong said tremblingly, "I'm going to die."

Zhu Qiyu got out of the car, stomped his feet and asked, "What's the crime?"

On the one hand, Xu Chengzong's coldness is because kneeling in the snow is really cold, and on the other hand, he is really scared.

Incompetent work.

He shouted tremblingly: "Although I have used a lot, ah! I have used a lot of methods, but it is snowing, and there is nothing I can do."

Originally, after Xu Chengzong's threat from the Yanyun Building, the doors of the shops were opened, and the business roads were unblocked. If it was just a cold wave, his method was enough.

However, with the heavy snowfall, the price of coal rose accordingly, from eight cents to sixteen cents, and it continued to soar.

At this time, Xu Chengzong became helpless.

These people have gone crazy.

They frantically hoarded fried coal, sixteen cents a catty, and they ate all of it. In just one day, it doubled, and it will continue to rise.

Zhu Qiyu is aware of the situation in Nanjing City, and even the power of the rich and wealthy businessmen in Nanjing City to hoard coal has spread to Luzhou and Hangzhou.

The coal market in Nanjing has formed a siphon phenomenon in financial affairs, and countless coal explosions have begun to come to Nanjing.

Zhu Qiyu couldn't help but recall that when he was in Beijing, the price of coal would rise from eight or nine coins to more than 30 coins per catty in winter.

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "It's not your fault, get up. Is this the first time Wei Guogong has seen such a heavy snow?"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Long En." Xu Chengzong stood up, trembling and said: "This is the first time I see it."

"So, for them, this is a godsend opportunity!" Zhu Qiyu said with a smile:

"good."

Zhu Qiyu patted Wei Guogong Xu Chengzong's arm, knocked off some snowflakes on his body, and said with a smile: "After all, a small road is a small road. It can be used for a while, but it can't be used forever. Wei Guogong still needs to learn a lot about the road in the future."

"Three times the benefits, there will be lawlessness. They have been blinded by the benefits."

Xu Chengzong bowed his head and said: "I would like to follow the instructions."

In the future, I will read the financial affairs of the mansion newspaper every day. Your Majesty's financial affairs are indeed a great journey.

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Such a heavy snow, a god-given opportunity to make a fortune!"

Is it their golden opportunity to make a fortune, or Zhu Qiyu's golden opportunity to make a fortune?

This involves the question of who knows better about financial affairs.

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Go back, I will do the next thing."

"I will leave." Xu Chengzong bowed his head and left.

Zhu Qiyu entered the city, first went to the back mountain of the Forbidden City, and looked at the coal mountain. There is no Longevity Mountain in Nanjing, but at this time the coal has piled up like a mountain.

In about 15 days, about [-] tons of coal will be collected and distributed here.

Lu Zhong asked fiercely: "Your Majesty, do you want to do it now? Confiscate the house and destroy the family?"

Zhu Qiyu shook his head and said, "No need, do you know what is the greatest tragedy in a person's life? Is it because the person is gone and the money is not spent?"

"No, the people are still there, but the money is gone."

A fierceness flashed across Zhu Qiyu's eyes.

The reason they hoarded so rampantly this time is that almost all merchants participated in it.

This kind of collective behavior cannot be punished by the law, because the law does not blame the public.

But Zhu Qiyu can make them bankrupt, which is worse than death!

From frugality to luxury is easy, from luxury to frugality.

Every day in this world is a struggle.

Chapter 365 Watching Him Feast Guests

Zhu Qiyu returned to Qianqing Palace, and began to deal with the examination. The examination results accumulated for two days, which was very cumbersome.

The files piled up like a mountain, Chen Wanniang could only sigh deeply in the court.

It is the blessing of Daming to have such a diligent and resourceful monarch on the Daming booth, but it is her lovesickness. No matter how beautiful the Baotu Spring is, His Majesty will not take a look at it, so what's the use.

After many years, it should be a good time for a good time.Even if there are thousands of styles, who can I tell?

Chilling is miserable.

It's getting colder.

Outside the Zhengyang Gate, under the Altar of Mountains and Rivers, on the banks of the Qinhuai River, there is a place called Shenle Xiandu.

This place used to be the residence of Emperor Zhenwu. In the 12th year of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu Gao decreed that it be rebuilt as Shenlian, and a Liquan well was set up.

The God of Optimism was originally a place to practice music in suburban temples, but with the relocation of the capital, many sacrifices in Nanjing stopped, and the God of Optimism was gradually abandoned.

But this place is on the banks of the Qinhuai River, where Nanjing Jiaofang and Xile are located, and the water flow is slow, slowly gathering a small brothel, forming a place surrounded by more than a hundred brothels.

Merchants from all over the world, if they can't stay in the Nanya, they will go out of Beijing, and come to the gods and gods for fun.

It's really a fairy place!

Even in the darkness of night, even in heavy snowfall, the brothels were overcrowded, shoulder to shoulder.

There is no curfew in the suburbs of Beijing, so it is natural to have a carnival all night.

Countless romantic affairs are staged in this fairy capital of Kagura, and the joys and sorrows of the world are staged time and time again.

There are dozens of pavilions in Shenyue Xiandu, six upper houses, sixteen middle houses, fifty small houses, and thousands of prostitutes.

And this Qin Jinlou is the upper house, the most luxurious place in the Kagura Immortal Capital, and it is also known as Jinling Selling Gold Nest, which throws tens of millions of yi.

At this time, Qin Jinlou's private room was very hot, and it was very lively as they exchanged cups and cups.

"It's snowing heavily this day, the ice is firm, and the price of coal frying has skyrocketed. Even if His Majesty knows that I'm waiting here to make a fortune, what else can he do?"

"So many people! The law does not blame the public!"

The speaker came from Lianghuai, he was the leader of the Lianghuai salt merchants, Hu Weiming, the general merchant of Lianghuai.

The salt merchants in the Lianghuai and Huaihe Rivers were classified according to their wealth.

For example, the nest merchants of small merchants rent or open salt nests, known as nest owners. They hire salt cubes and fry salt day and night. It is quite hard work, but they do not make much money.

Then came the transport merchants, who grasped the price of nests and salt, and held salt guides in their hands. They ran around renting and renting nests. .

Moreover, they often carry a large amount of private salt, and they are more called private salt dealers.

The owner of the nest often cooks the salt by himself, which is a hard job, and the transporter also needs to travel around.

But the market owners and merchants don’t need it at all. They set up diversions at various chaoguan wharfs, buy salt from Yanding kitchen households, and resell it to the middlemen of the shippers.

The merchants have the monopoly privilege to purchase all the salt produced by the salt farm. How did this privilege come about?Naturally, it is the collusion between officials and businessmen.

Businessmen often buy low and sell high at both ends, making a lot of money, cruelly exploiting salt producers and grabbing profits.

Above the market merchants is the general merchant, also known as the general merchant, who is elected by the merchants every year and reported to the imperial court. He is the most powerful person among the salt merchants.

The general merchant, Hu Weiming, was not a merchant from Yangzhou, but from Shaanxi.

Shanxi merchants, Shaanxi merchants, and Huizhou merchants competed for profit from the Western Han Dynasty to the early Ming Dynasty on the land here.

Hu Weiming is in charge of the salt merchant leader.

If it is defined according to the operation mode of financial affairs of stripping and stripping accumulation, isn't their mode of operation considered capitalism?

Must count as yes.

Hu Weiming continued: "Your Majesty said that you are allowed to make a fortune, right? Then we are just buying and selling. The soaring price is caused by supply and demand."

"Your Majesty can't punish us no matter what, otherwise Your Majesty will still be able to speak well!"

Wu Bingjian nodded and said: "The emperor breaks his promise, which means breaking the law. It has been snowing heavily for the past few days, and the weather will become extremely cold after the snow melts in a few days."

"The Chinese New Year is coming soon. Could Your Majesty be willing to let the millions of people in Nanjing City have no coal available and frozen bones everywhere?"

"At that time, everyone in the world will say that the wine and meat of the rich family will stink, and there will be frozen bones on the road."

Wu Bingjian is the General Merchant of Ningbo Maritime Merchants.

He controls more than [-] boatmen, who are responsible for building three-masted ships and two-masted ships. The ivory from Manbasa, South Africa, is his family, and it was brought to Nanya from South Africa.

There are also many distinctions among maritime merchants, such as the Japanese merchants who went to the Japanese country to dump silver, the material merchants who went to Southeast Asia to dump gold and spices, and the distant sea merchants who went to the West, etc., and Wu Bingjian is one of the leaders.

Wu Bingjian's family is not in Ningbo, but lives overseas in Borneo, which is the place where Wei Guogong Xu Chengzong went to. The gold field is in the hands of their Wu family.

Borneo connects the north and the south, and is the place where merchant ships must pass through, so the Wu family is richer, even richer than the imperial court.

Chen Guangqi from Huguang didn't know what to say when he saw the two people full of confidence.

He always had a bad premonition, but he never knew where this premonition would fall.

In fact, the three of them stood up at this time and looked out the window where the snow was falling heavily. They could see that the Ming army was urging the prisoner camp to transport the coal from the Saddle Factory to Beijing.

Because Qin Jinlou is just beside the mountain and river altar outside Zhengyang Gate, less than a thousand steps away, the sight is indeed not very good, but if you are willing to walk a few steps, away from the hustle and bustle of Qin Jinlou, it will be enough Hear the shouts of the army.

With 15 tons of coal entering Beijing, can the movement be quiet?

But even Chen Guangqi, who was vigilant, did not expect that the emperor would directly get 15 tons of coal into Nanya.

At this time, they have been blinded by their interests, even if they saw the army transporting things, they might not think about the emperor hoarding coal and preparing to turn the table.

Chen Guangqi is a merchant from Huguang. The Siyong Regiment Battalion has captured Xiangyang and is slowly but steadily recovering the lost ground.

Chen Guangqi is a land merchant. To be precise, he once had [-] hectares of land in the Xiangwang Mansion, and as the general merchant, he represented the landlord of the Huguang land boundary.

Chen Guangqi thought for a while and said, "Why don't we start bulk cargo when the snow starts to melt, so as to save many nights and dreams, and how many people will die."

Landlords are different from salt merchants and sea merchants. They need a large number of servants to farm for them.

If the servants are starved to death or frozen to death, who will farm for them?

But Hu Weiming said indifferently: "Brother Chen, I didn't say it, but if you think about it carefully, is there more than 30 seedlings hiding in the mountains in the Huguang area?"

"These people may become rebellious at any time. If His Majesty wants to solve their problems, it will definitely hurt Brother Chen."

"With this good opportunity, make a big profit, and then make plans for the future."

Chen Guangqi couldn't bear it, but still nodded and said: "Then let's do this, I agree with your ideas."

Hu Weiming smiled, stood up, came to the railing in the building, and said loudly: "Everyone, be quiet!"

The three-storey Qin Jinlou was finally quieter, and Hu Weiming continued to shout: "Everyone eat well, drink well, and play well today! We will make a fortune in a few days, and the best will be even better!"

One person stood up and shouted to everyone: "Mr. Hu is right!"

"Hu Shang always said it well!" A group of people applauded in unison. If you observe carefully, you will find that there is a man with a fierce face sitting here, his name is Yuan Bin.

It was the arrest of the spy Xining, and Yuan Bin of the three brothers of the Qu family who turned Hetao into a hell on earth.

Yuan Bin was the commander of Jin Yiwei. He squinted his eyes and looked at the people above, and shouted loudly: "Mr. Hu Shang said well!"

Yue Qian scratched his head when he saw Yuan Bin's mischievous appearance. They were ordered to inquire about the news, so how could they be angry?

"Mr. Hu has made money, why don't you let the big guys have fun together?" Yuan Bin shouted loudly.

When Hu Weiming heard this, his face was wrinkled all over with a smile, and he said loudly: "I do make money, just like you don't make money!"

"But since you have spoken, I will invite you to the banquet today!"

"Mr. Hu is magnificent!" Yuan Bin raised his glass and toasted Mr. Hu.

"Mr. Hu Shang is very generous!" Everyone toasted.

Yuan Bin sat down and said to Yue Qian and Ji Duo: "This group of people are really happy."