Hu Changan stood up and came out of the queue, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, I think that the ten characters from one to ten that are easy to tamper with can be rewritten into characters that are more difficult to change."
"At present, I already have the rough outline of these words in my mind. Your Majesty, please bring me paper and pen and let me write them down."
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he waved his hand and ordered someone to bring Hu Changan paper and pen.
So Hu Changan started writing eloquently in front of everyone.
After a while, several traditional Chinese characters appeared in front of everyone.
In order to make it easier for everyone to identify, Hu Changan also specially marked what the simplified characters are below the traditional characters.
After Hu Changan finished writing, Zhu Yuanzhang took the words written by Hu Changan from the young eunuch.
After thinking about it carefully, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but marveled.
These words indeed meet Zhu Yuanzhang's requirement that the figures cannot be tampered with.
No word can be easily changed into another word.
More importantly, the pronunciations of the radicals of these characters are consistent with the pronunciations of the original simplified numbers.
In this way, even a person who does not understand these numbers at all can easily tell which numbers these words refer to.
Looking at the calligraphy in his hand, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but be overjoyed, and quickly ordered: "Someone from the Ministry of Household Affairs will bring this calligraphy down. I am going to promote this calligraphy to all prefectures and counties across the country."
"When you do your accounting in the future, you must use these numbers!"
Zhu Yuanzhang originally wanted to be the Minister of Hubu, but when he thought of the current situation of the Hubu, Zhu Yuanzhang changed his mind again.
It is true that there are too few people in the Household Department now.
Since the first-come-first-served position in the Ministry of Household Affairs is near the water, many corrupt officials are from the Ministry of Household Affairs.
In particular, Xu Duo, the Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, and Guo Huan, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, were the most corrupt in the entire court.
These corrupt officials were naturally thrown into jail as soon as they were discovered.
At present, there are only a pitifully few officials in the Ministry of Household Affairs.
Most of these people were petty officials without names. Zhu Yuanzhang could not name them, so he could only shout them casually.
Hearing this, the one with the highest official position among the remaining people in the household department stood up, gingerly took the banner handed by the young eunuch, and carefully put it away.
At this point, the biggest corruption case in the Hongwu era has finally come to an end.
All those who had committed huge amounts of corruption were ordered to be executed by Zhu Yuanzhang.
The ground at Caishikou was stained red with blood again.
However, despite this, Zhu Yuanzhang killed far fewer people this time than in history.
At least after Zhu Yuanzhang killed people, most of the officials in the court were still alive, and there were no terrible phenomena such as nine empty rooms in ten rooms.
After a storm, the court returned to its former tranquility.
And Hu Changan is also ready to fully promote his briquettes!
It's winter now. If we don't vigorously promote briquettes, Hu Changan's briquettes will be unsaleable!
Hu Changan would not allow this to happen.
And now, the first step in promoting briquettes has been completed.
Nowadays, briquettes have quietly become popular among the scholar-official class.
After this incident, Hu Changan was a blessing in disguise and gained the favor of many courtiers.
After all, in the eyes of these ministers, Hu Changan was a good man who spoke uprightly for them!
If it weren't for Hu Changan, a large number of them would have been separated long ago!
Not only that, it was precisely because of Hu Changan's words that Zhu Yuanzhang helped them raise their salaries.
Moreover, in the days to come, Zhu Yuanzhang also promised to always guarantee the basic expenses of these ministers.
This was definitely like a shot in the arm for these ministers.
Now everyone is smiling while walking on the road.
Naturally, they wanted to express their gratitude to Hu Changan, a great hero.
Since they heard that Hu Changan was promoting briquettes, they all thought of buying some.
This is a great purchase.
Now almost all the ministers in Yingtian City have abandoned charcoal and switched to briquettes.
Nothing but this briquette is too warm.
If you buy charcoal for the same price, the room will always be cold.
But if the money is used to buy briquettes, the room will always be as warm as spring!
Naturally, even a fool can do this kind of multiple-choice question.
Therefore, honeycomb briquettes have become the standard for the upper class in Yingtian City.
Since the upper class in Yingtian City has already used briquettes, the natural next step is to promote briquettes to ordinary people.
So in Hu's grocery store, a new product was quietly launched.
Hu Changan's sales team also quietly shuttled through the streets and alleys of Yingtian City.
However, Hu Changan's sales plan did not seem to achieve the desired results.
A week later, Hu Changan frowned as he looked at the sales report handed over by his subordinates.
The sales volume of this briquette was completely different from what he expected!
Originally, Hu Changan thought that he could sell a hundred carts of briquettes in a week.
But judging from this report, the sales volume of briquettes in the entire Yingtian City is only a few dozen cars?
This means that except for those scholar-bureaucrats who originally used briquettes, almost no other people bought briquettes!
At this time, Hu Changan was really dumbfounded.
Why, is the ability of the scholar-bureaucrat class in this era to carry goods so poor?
But even so, he ordered the sales team to go around the streets to promote briquettes!
With the pearls of soap in front, I believe the people will believe the words of the sales team.
Why now, people don’t seem to be interested in this briquette at all?
After thinking about it, Hu Changan decided to order the sales team to go to the private sector to find out.
There must be something wrong here!
A week later, Hu Changan summoned a sales team to investigate the situation.
Looking at the teenagers in the yard, Hu Changan cleared his throat and said, "Have you investigated anything this week?"
"How come the people of Yingtian City don't like this briquette?"
Hearing this, one of the young men who looked smarter immediately began to express his bitterness: "Master Hu, you don't know something right now."
"Now the people in Yingtian City regard this briquette as a scourge!"
“I don’t know who leaked the news, but now everyone in Yingtian City knows it.”
"They said it was because of briquettes that more than a dozen officials were poisoned at home."
"Of course no one would dare to buy such a poisonous thing."
"Hey, where are you just now," another young man heard and immediately continued, "The version I heard is that the briquettes directly poisoned more than a dozen officials!"