In the splendid Yangxin Palace, Zhu Yuanzhang was sitting in front of his case writing furiously.
As a diligent emperor, the number of memorials he had to approve every day was not a small amount. It was enough to keep Zhu Yuanzhang busy from midnight to dusk.
Suddenly, a figure wearing a flying fish suit walked in from outside the hall. It was Mao Xiang, the commander of the Jin Yiwei.
Mao Xiang walked to the center of Yangxin Hall, knelt down on one knee and said loudly: "Your Majesty, I have something to report."
"Say." Zhu Yuanzhang replied casually, his eyes not even leaving the memorial in his hand.
"Hu Chang'an, the son of Prime Minister Hu Weiyong, recently invented a new type of soap and is sending it to the people of Yingtian City. At least half of the people in the city have received it."
"New type of soap? Isn't this old fox's son just a dandy? How can he still work as a craftsman? He also gives it away for free because he thinks his father is too greedy and has nowhere to spend it?" Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly became interested and put down his hand.
The memorial looked at Mao Xiang.
"Your Majesty, this is the new type of soap invented by Hu Chang'an." Mao Xiang saw Zhu Yuanzhang's interest and quickly and respectfully presented a piece of soap brought from the folk.
Zhu Yuanzhang opened the oil paper bag, took out the soap trial box inside and played with it for a while.
Well, it does feel much smoother than pancake, and it doesn’t have the unpleasant smell of pig pancake.
However, after all, it is just a heresy.
Zhu Yuanzhang handed the soap in his hand to the maid standing beside him, and casually told Mao Xiang: "If this boy likes to do a craftsman's work, let him do it. Just send a few people to keep an eye on it."
"Yes." Mao Xiang responded respectfully and exited the Yangxin Hall silently.
...
In Hu Mansion, Hu Changan was lying down counting money.
Originally, Hu Changan only received a few worship points every day.
And now, since the trial bottles of soap have been distributed to the people of Yingtian City, the system prompts continuously every day, and the worship points have steadily increased.
Hu Changan was even unable to sleep due to the frequent system noise. It took him a long time to find the button to turn off the notification sound in his head.
Looking at the growing system points, Hu Changxin was satisfied.
I think it won't be long before I can exchange for new items in the system mall.
Next, Hu Changan wants to take the upper-level route and embrace the thick thighs of the current sage Zhu Yuanzhang.
Once he traveled through time, Hu Changan did not want to fight for power, nor did he seek fame or fortune. He only wanted to do things that benefited the country and the people, so that China could become stronger again from the Ming Dynasty and regain its own status step by step.
Although as an ordinary social worker, Hu Changan definitely has more overtime than rest time, but as a modern person, Hu Changan also enjoys everything he should enjoy.
When it comes to eating, drinking and having fun, nothing in modern times is better than in ancient times.
Let’s not talk about other things, just talking about food, just a pack of small spicy sticks, the sweet and spicy taste, it is impossible to produce in ancient times.
In terms of fun, the large-scale online games and various VR games of later generations are enough to beat the ancients.
As the saying goes, "When you return from the Five Mountains, you don't see the mountains; when you return from Huangshan, you don't see the mountains."
After experiencing the life of later generations, Hu Changan naturally had little interest in the enjoyment of ancient times.
When it comes to power, Hu Changan was not a person who was greedy for fame and wealth before traveling through time.
If he was really greedy for fame and fortune, Hu Changan would have knelt down and licked his bald leader in his previous life, and how could he have worked overtime until he suddenly died.
After traveling through time, Hu Changan's greatest wish was for China to get rid of its modern fate of poverty and weakness.
Since childhood, various textbooks have taken turns to promote the superiority of Europa and the United States. It seems that even the oil-paper bags left by German engineers a hundred years ago are better than the new technology of China in the 21st century.
As a patriotic young man, Hu Changan naturally sneered at these flattering remarks.
Europa and the United States have only just emerged in modern times.
From the Han and Tang Dynasties to the Song Dynasty, China has always been the most powerful country on the entire earth, far ahead of Europe, which has not yet enlightened itself in the darkness.
Unfortunately, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, due to the closed-minded thinking from top to bottom in the court and the despising of industry and commerce, China gradually fell behind the world. In modern times, it was even surpassed by the country of Yu, which had a land area comparable to that of only one province of China.
The country is beaten.
Once he traveled back in time, Hu Changan wanted to use his own power to reverse the decline of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and make China as powerful as the Han and Tang Dynasties again.
Although this goal is huge, even a bit too huge, Hu Changan still wants to use his own hands to try his best.
The first step is, of course, to change the mindset of today's rulers.
In ancient times, imperial power was supreme.
An emperor can even influence the direction of a country for hundreds of years in the future.
Zhu Yuanzhang can be regarded as a rare good emperor in Chinese history.
As an emperor, he was of the lowest origin and the one who was most considerate of the sufferings of the people.
He hates evil so much that he once vowed to kill all corrupt officials in the world.
During his more than thirty years in office, Zhu Yuanzhang has been diligent in political affairs and never slacked off for a day.
Hu Changan felt that such thighs could be hugged.
After all, Zhu Yuanzhang always had good intentions in doing things, but sometimes he was limited to the perspective of ancient people and did not see that far-term.
What's more, it's only the thirteenth year of Hongwu's reign, and there are still eighteen years before Zhu Yuanzhang's death. Hu Changan is very confident that he can accomplish something great.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang's initial favorable impression of the Hu family was indeed not very high.
After all, the Hu family did do a lot of bad things.
When recently distributing soap trial bottles, Hu Changan also heard a lot of bad things about the Hu family from the sales team.
What about occupying suburban fields, beating civilians by servants, robbing civilian girls...
Hu Changan was so embarrassed when he listened to each and every one of them, some of which could even be traced in the memory of the original owner.
It seems that it is imperative to clean up the Hu family.
Of course, the first step now is to promote soap and earn cult points, otherwise it will all be empty talk.
...
There were crowds of people in front of Hu's grocery store.
As early as a few days ago, there was an endless stream of people coming to the store to ask when the soap would go on sale.
For this reason, Hu Changan specially ordered Zhou Yi and other craftsmen to make ten thousand pieces of soap, just waiting for a big sale today.
Early in the morning, the door of the store was crowded with people coming to buy soap, and the narrow road was filled to the brim.
Fortunately, Hu Changan had the foresight to invite people from the Five Cities Military and Horse Division to maintain order, and thus the stampede was avoided.
Crackling...
With the sound of festive firecrackers, soap was officially put on sale at Hu's Grocery Store.
People lined up in an orderly manner, walked into Hu's grocery store, and went straight to the soap display cabinet.
Before noon, all the soaps in stock were sold out, and even the items on display in the showcases were bought by enthusiastic customers.
Shopkeeper Chen had to come out and apologize to the customers who were still queuing.
When people heard that the soap had been sold out, they dispersed in disappointment, and secretly made up their minds to queue up earlier tomorrow.
After the crowd dispersed, shopkeeper Chen looked at the day's revenue and couldn't help but smile.
The profit of a soap is 30 taels, and today we sold 10,000 soaps, making a net profit of 300 taels of silver in just one morning!
At this rate, within a few days, the original investment of 500 taels can be earned back, and even a huge profit can be made!
The young master really has a clever plan! If you follow the young master, you will have meat to eat!