Chapter Four Small Treasury Project
Headache! Zhu Youcon's head is very painful now. The news he got from the candied haws banquet a few days ago made him feel a headache!
The land is indeed there at home, but it is not the 20,000 hectares mentioned in the history books. Twenty thousand is literally. In fact, it is given the grains of silver from the field, and there is about 20,000 taels a year. The money is not an annual income of 46,000 taels, but more than 10,000 taels of miscellaneous taxes along the river from Yangzhou to Taiping, Anhui, and it is often owed. Of course, the history books do not have Zhang Juzheng's wealth, and the remaining officials' transfer to Fufu Mansion exists, which is about 1 million taels. The largest sum of money should be the 1,300 entries of Huaiyan that I fooled when I left the capital. Including the income of the family's store was extorted by his fat father over the years.
Here, the family should have two million taels of deposit in the house, but for the upcoming troubled times, this is a drop in the bucket. Because the fields are actually converted into silver instead of the kind that his family can send people to farm, the food problem is highlighted. Who can still mess with you if you can't even eat enough? Not to mention buying people's hearts while the disaster year! There is also no land, so training now has become a big problem. How to practice without land? Where can I go to practice? I can't learn from Goujian's pits that year? Even if I dig a pit, there must be a place to dig! Could it be that I dug in this Fu Palace? Where does that family live?
In this way, Zhu Youzhe has a claw. It seems that time traveling is not that fun! What should I do? Now it seems that the first problem to solve is to make money, make money crazy! But how to make money? This is a big problem. Like his fat father, controlling daily necessities such as salt in Luoyang. That is really the stupidest way. Not to mention the small profits of daily necessities, what is even more terrifying is that they will have conflicts with the group of Jiangnan scholars in the court. If you are not careful, you will be said to be competing for profit with the people. So Zhu Youzhe will definitely not be able to do this kind of thing that offends people. If you don’t compete with the people, you have to think about the pockets of wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan. If you are not careful, you will be said to be competing for profit with the people. So Zhu Youzhe will definitely not do this. If you don’t compete with the people, you have to think about it from the pockets of wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan.
Pay money, but how to pay? You can't bring a big blade to your door? Well, this is good, you can consider it! But grabbing cannot be a long-term strategy. You can grab it once or twice or even ten or eight times? Produce mobile phones, TVs, computers, cars, and planes? Stop making, it's the Ming Dynasty, and if you say that, it's back to the 20th century! Making glass products? It's a wonderful wish, which is also loved by many time travelers. But our little fat Zhu Youcon is only eight years old. You can't tell him what quartz sandstone is now, and by the way, he will teach people to make crucibles and refine soda ash! Then he will be caught for exhibition as a man Rui!
"Oh... it's hard..." Zhu Yougong turned around in the room that was so anxious that he scratched his head. Suddenly, he focused his eyes on a porcelain bottle that his elder brother sent last night. According to Zhu Yousong, this porcelain bottle was fired by Chai Rong, the imperial kiln of Zhou Shizong in the early years of Xiande of the Five Dynasties. It is known as "thin thin as paper, white as jade, bright as mirror, and sound like a chime". It is worth a thousand gold. The wealthy businessmen in Jiangnan were very happy. It seemed that they had some thoughts in their hearts, but they were too vague and couldn't figure it out!
"Fourth brother..." While hesitating, Zhu Yousong took a group of people to the door happily. Why do you say it again? Well, since Zhu Youchan's dear brother came back, he would definitely bring a group of people at this site every day, bringing a lot of food to feed Zhu Youchan like a cram, and now he wants to vomit when he sees the food!
"Brother!" Zhu Youcong became even more depressed when he saw this situation.
"Well, come and serve the food!" Zhu Yousong said to Zhu Yousong while greeting someone: "Fourth brother, didn't you say that the closer you get to the bone the better the meat is, the better? The eldest brother called the chef this morning and supervised the cooking for them. Come and try it!"
"Ah..." I pick the meat on the bones to cook? Brother, I know you are good to me, but there is no need to be so extravagant. Look at this plate, you must have at least two kilograms of meat, so how many bones do you have to pick? When it comes to the outside, I don't know how ridiculous people will say that I am!...
Well, wait, bone? Zhu Youcong turned his head and looked at the Chai Kiln vase again! I really want something to be similar to this legendary fine product!
"I have it!" Zhu Youcong hugged his elder brother so excitedly that he shouted, haha... Bone porcelain! It's so good, it's bone porcelain! The production method is the same as today's porcelain. It is to add 30% of the bone carbon when making ingredients. The finished product has high whiteness, good transparency, fine porcelain, and bright and flat glaze, which is almost comparable to Chai Kiln! As long as the porcelain craftsman is controlled, you can fool people to say that this is the fine Chai Kiln product, and you are afraid that you can't pay from the pockets of wealthy merchants in Jiangnan? What? Fake and shoddy? What if it's counterfeit and shoddy? Do you have an appraisal report? Can you ask the police uncle to travel across time to arrest me?
"Fourth brother, what's wrong with you?" Zhu Yousong's sweat was almost like a stream, for fear that the most precious fourth brother in the family would suddenly be confused again. If he hugged him and jumped into the lake together, he would be scolded by their fat father as a sieve!
"Hehe, it's okay, it's okay. Eat, eat! After eating, I have something important to discuss with my elder brother!" Zhu Youcon knew that although his elder brother was not favored by himself, he was so much older than himself after all, so some things were much better than him through his elder brother.
"Brother..." After dinner, Zhu Youcon dragged Zhu Yousong to the garden and didn't allow the servants to follow him. He rubbed his hands and looked very vulgar.
"Fourth brother, what do you want to do?" Zhu Yousong was quite scared. This fourth brother is not ordinary and alternative! He was trying to commit suicide some time ago, but recently he often locked himself in the house. Now he is so vulgar, it shouldn't be... Zhu Yousong was also scared by his thoughts and was sweating coldly.
"Well, brother, I'm on hand recently..." Zhu Youcon didn't know that his elder brother's mind would have jumped up long ago. He continued to rub his hands and threw his eyes on him! That's right, it's just a charming look, the charming eyes of the eight-year-old fat man! It's definitely a thunderous look that the army of 100,000 collectively vomited!
"What are you doing? The fourth brother is short of money?" Zhu Yousong was so scared. At the same time, he was also surprised that his fourth brother never left the door, which made his family wonder if he was in the transgender warning period. Why did he suddenly mention money to him?
"I can't bear to see my father and several brothers thrifty in their daily lives and save money!" The nonsense is purely nonsense. The Fu Wang family is not as extravagant as the legendary one, but it must have nothing to do with thrifty and saving! In order to fool his elder brother, Zhu Youcon is simply shameless.
"Hey, it's still my little brother Ming Shili! Although the family has a lot of income, the expenses of such a large family are also quite good! Fortunately, although it's not wealthy, it's better than ordinary households!" Zhu Yousong is not a good person, so he quickly beat the snake while he was on the stick, and he almost said that the Fu Wang family is begging for food now.
"Brother, do you still remember my dream of Nan Ke a few days ago?" Zhu Youcong quickly ended the topic of the two brothers' memories of bitterness and sweetness, otherwise the toads in hibernation would have to run out and glar at them and turn around and go back to sleep.
"Remember, what is the fourth brother going to say?" Zhu Yousong looked confused, really didn't understand what his fourth brother was going to do.
"Well, today, I saw the vase I brought the day before yesterday, and suddenly remembered the guidance of the immortal in my dream!" Zhu Youcong became a charlatan for the second time. The first time of course, he fooled his fat father to find Lu Xiangsheng.
"Oh? What advice did the immortal give to the fourth brother?" Zhu Yousong was also excited. Could it be that he could make a elixir of immortality by smashing the vase? Not to mention a vase worth a thousand gold, even if he lost ten kilograms of meat, he would have to do it after taking pants around the palace and running around for ten laps!
"Well, I remember that the immortal in my dream taught me that I would add 300 bone charcoal to porcelain clay and calcinate it first, and then apply glaze to form objects. Its lightness and smoothness can be called an immortal product, which is comparable to a wood kiln!" The immortal product is of course an immortal product. According to the statement that both Taoist and Buddha schools have spirits, it is not an immortal product or something? It cannot be said to be a ghost product? Anyway, it is not an ordinary product!...
"Ah? What? Braised porcelain from bone charcoal?" Zhu Yousong was scared again. No wonder, let alone the Ming Dynasty, even in the 21st century in the later generations, would you dare to tell others that the thing is called ashes? I'm afraid not to mention selling it. If they don't know, they will regard your store as Lanruo Temple!
"Shh! Speak quietly, it's bad if you're heard." Zhu Youcon quickly stopped his elder brother and said mysteriously: "Clean, brother will find a few craftsmen and try it out. If it really works, you might as well find someone to sell it in Jiangnan. Anyway, our family will definitely not be able to use it!"
"Yes! Yes! Our family can't use it, but it's good to make some pocket money for our brothers!" Zhu Yousong is also worthy of being a rich second generation, and his reaction is quite sensitive. Although it is not the elixir he began to imagine, and this formula is really scary, it does not prevent him from seeing the business opportunities.
"This... don't you need to tell your father?" Zhu Youcong tried, for fear that this big brother would accidentally leak the news and then let his stingy father intercept it.
"No, of course not. Why bother your father with this little thing? Just leave it to your elder brother!"
"Then I will thank you brother first!"
"Why are you so polite? Let me tell my elder brother if you have anything in the future!" Zhu Yousong waved his hand and pulled Zhu Youcong and said, "Let's go in the house first. The fourth brother has recovered from a serious illness and has suffered a cold. The elder brother will arrange for craftsmen when he goes back. Even if this matter fails, just look for the elder brother!"
Get it done! Zhu Youcon, who sent his elder brother away, was so happy. If it weren't for his weight, he would have learned to fight somersaults. Now it seems that the startup capital is not a big problem. What should I do next? Soldier training and other start-up capital will be available, but it doesn't prevent me from considering equipment first? Well, this is the Ming Dynasty, and the army now uses a large number of firearms such as bird guns, red cannons, and the capital city has a large number of firearms. The trouble is that the firearms are now too slow to launch. Improving the Ming Dynasty firearms first? It's not impossible. After all, the Ming Dynasty firearms have reached a considerable height. Types of firearms There are many, and he only knows about them include magic guns, general iron cannons, second general iron cannons, general bronze cannons, young general bronze cannons, magic guns, big copper cannons, magic guns, big copper cannons, flying cannons, copper cannons, iron guns, horse-shoulder machines, magic arrows, iron Xuanfeng cannons, tassel cannons, iron folang cannons, iron cannons, iron cannons, iron cannons, iron cannons, iron cannons, iron cannons, iron cannons, caltrops, newly built equipment include Jiulong disk guns, iron fire guns, rocket cannons, mother-child cannons, rocket cannons, etc. The difficulty is gunpowder. The ratio of gunpowder in the Ming Dynasty was close to the best ratio, and there is not much room for improvement as launching drugs. In this way, some so-called impossible things in the late Ming Dynasty must be made.
"Hehe... Tartars..." Zhu Youcon's heart was so dark. In front of him, he seemed to see the scene of gunpowder and cannons roaring everywhere, and the Tartars fell down one after another. A grand and terrifying plan was formed in the heart of this little fat man who was eight years old, with beautiful eyes and a weight of over one hundred pounds.
"Fourth...Fourth Brother!" Just as Zhu Youcon was thinking about random things, Zhu Yousong turned back for some reason. As soon as he entered the door, he was frightened by the ferocious expression of an unscrupulous fat man.
"Brother! Is there anything wrong?" The angel-like expression came back, and the little fat man Zhu Youcon's face-changing speed was as fast as that of the Sichuan Opera master.
"Well, my elder brother almost forgot about it just now!" Zhu Yousong nodded and said, "My father has given instructions today to take my fourth brother out of the mansion to Linglong Pavilion a few days later to pick up some small items for your birthday!"
"Birthday?" Zhu Youcon was so upset. Isn't it just a birthday? The eight-year-old kid said that he was not the seventh and eighty-year-old. But it's okay, he hasn't left the mansion after so many days, so it's good to go out for a walk!...
ps: Regarding the property of King Fu, we refer to a passage from Huang Renyu in Chapter 3 of the 15th Year of Wanli, commentary 2, "About several plots of King Fu's farmland, Chinese and foreign scholars have misunderstood the plot of King Fu's farmland,... Wanli ordered the 40,000 hectares of farmland to be the one that was bargaining with the ministers. In addition to bargaining, Wanli reduced the price to 20,000 hectares, and King Fu himself repeatedly expressed his "refusal". What Wanli really asked for King Fu was not the land but the land of the land. Because Henan was vast in the early Ming Dynasty, the land of the people was sparsely populated, and the land of the people was called "white land". The ownership problems often occurred. .The taxes levied by local officials on this kind of land are not included in ordinary land taxes, and it is difficult to regard them as rent for official fields. Due to the changes in the Yellow River channel in Shandong, the flooded fields were redeveloped, and the situation was similar. In Huguang, due to the numerous rivers and lakes, the lakes and squash in the past became polder fields, and those who only levy the "reeds" on the barren land on the river bank also tended to become fertile fields. In addition, there were confiscated farmlands, etc., which were extremely complicated. Even though the tax revenue of these land was not fully included in the private pockets of local officials, it never made public and detailed explanations. Wanli's intention was to ask local officials in the three provinces to obtain this income. 46,000 taels of silver were paid every year to serve as the expenses of the Fuwang Mansion. As late as 1617, officials in Huguang only expressed their commitment to bear 3,659 taels of silver. King Fu himself sent people to measure the above-mentioned land in Henan because he did not believe in reports from various places, which led to a conflict with local officials and civilians. "What does Huang Renyu mean by giving King Fuwang 20,000 hectares of land? In other words, the so-called granting King Fuwang 20,000 hectares of land was not that King Fuwang really owned the 20,000 hectares of land, but only the corresponding provinces, and provided the King Fuwang with a corresponding sum of silver every year, that's all. So the number of land seemed very shocking. People, 4 million mu, 2 million mu, are really a sin, but in fact they represent only more than 40,000 taels of silver, more than 20,000 taels. A medium-sized businessman in the Ming Dynasty brought more than this amount of money to do business at one time! This is the truth that some people criticized that the royal family invaded a large amount of land!! In fact, according to Huang Renyu's research, the silver that King Fu really received in representing these lands every year was not even full. Local officials in various places tried their best to evade the vacancies for their own local interests, so King Fu "most of the land and soil have not sold more than 20,000 taels of silver every year."
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Chapter completed!