I, Zhu Youjian: the first prodigal son of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 225 I have a sister-in-law...

In the second year of Chongzhen, Zhongxia.

The idiot emperor came to Kunning Palace on a rare occasion, pampered Queen Zhou responsibly, and discussed how to manage the next [-] concubines.

After a day and a night.

In the early morning of the next day, as usual, Zhu Youjian strutted out of the Forbidden City, took a stroll outside the west gate, and then walked straight towards the Xiyuan Taiye Pond.

Beside the emperor, there were only seven or eight master guards in plain clothes.

Hundreds of other royal guards are secretly protecting him so as not to hinder his free play...

……

"So many people? What are they all for?"

Arriving at Xiyuan Zhonghai area, Zhu Youjian frowned slightly as he looked at the noisy gongs and drums and the bustling scene on the opposite bank, and thought, "The one opposite should be the construction site of the villa area;

However, looking at those construction sites...'

It doesn't look like it's under construction.

On the contrary, it is more like a scene of criticism?
The idiot emperor beckoned, and soon a painted boat sailed quickly.

On the bow, there was a woman standing pretty, but it was Miss Hongliu.

"Why did you come in person?" Zhu Youjian jumped onto the bow, pinched Miss Hongliu's face casually, and asked with a smile.

"Every morning, I wait here for the young master..."

Miss Hongliu smiled embarrassedly, turned her head and asked, "Where are you going?"

"Go to the other side to have a look, the place is in a mess, I don't know what's going on."

"On the other side," Miss Hongliu chuckled, "Why don't you ask me, my lord?"

Zhu Youjian smiled and said, "Okay, then I'll ask you."

"Thousands of wealthy families are vying for land and land," Miss Hongliu looked at the construction site on the other side of the sea, "Wei Zhongxian, Qian Qianyi, and Zhang Ruitu held an auction. Where are they speculating on land and cheating money?" .”

Zhu Youjian: "..."

Okay, after all, it's my minister, the prodigal little assistant.

These three people have finally matured!

"What's the method of frying land? Tell me." Zhu Youjian sat on the horse tie in the bow of the boat, eating refreshments comfortably, with the lazy appearance of a dandy traveling in the mountains and rivers.

"Wei Zhongxian falsely preached the imperial decree, and let out a wave of wind, claiming that His Majesty the Emperor intends to divide that piece of royal garden into three grades; upper, middle and lower;
Naturally, the high-grade plots and gardens are for the upper-grade empresses to live in, and the middle-grade ones are naturally for the middle-grade empresses to live in.

As a result, you, the father-in-law and uncle of His Majesty the Emperor, naturally panicked..."

Miss Hongliu spoke with a smile on her face, without any other expressions on her face.

But as he talked, an obvious smell of acetic acid came out involuntarily, which made Zhu Youjian laugh.

this woman...

"Wei Zhongxian and Qian Qianyi, these two old fellows, work hand in hand, they are like each other, and they smell like each other..." Zhu Youjian said with a smile: "It's very much in line with what I want, very much in line with what I want.

Hahaha! "

Unexpectedly, members of the Eunuch Party and Donglin Party, who used to be incompatible with each other and met life and death, would unite quietly one day, which surprised Zhu Youjian.

It seems that in many cases, the root cause of factional strife and chaos in the country is that the country is already in chaos and the emperor is an asshole.

It is not normal for those ministers of civil and military affairs not to form parties and pursue private interests.

"Let's go and have a look."

Zhu Youjian really wanted to see how Wei Zhongxian and Qian Qianyi made money by speculating in land.

When necessary, he, the idiot emperor, can come up with a few bad ideas...

Zhu Youjian is not good at governing the country at all.

But when it comes to land speculation, real estate, and day-to-day acquisition of those rich people, even if he has never done it himself, he has seen it...

……

"This area is planned by the imperial court as a high-grade class. It is close to the Zhonghai Sea and the closest to the Forbidden City. This is the first stop of the Long Live Lord when he comes over by boat.

Therefore, the empresses living in this area, their status in the palace...

Ahem, there are some things that our family can't say clearly, everyone, please don't embarrass our family. "

Wei Zhongxian stood in front of a huge planning map of the villa, holding a long gold-plated stick, pointing and pointing, with a look of embarrassment on his face: "Which lady is eligible to live in this area, our family doesn't know at all. what.

Everyone, stop arguing, stop arguing! "

Under the stage, thousands of well-dressed people ignored Wei Zhongxian's stop and rushed forward. Each of them held a name card in their hands and shouted loudly:

"Eunuch Wei, this is a famous post from our master, please help Eunuch Wei."

"Mr. Wei, this is a famous post from our young mistress..."

……

Where is the name post.

It is clearly a 'passbook' with an astonishing amount!

In order to facilitate the accumulation of money... ahem, in order to facilitate the officials, wealthy businessmen, and ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty to use the "Daming Gold Coins" of the Daming Royal Bank, Zhu Youjian personally designed a set of "Daming Passbooks" and let Li Yan and others widely promote them.

At the beginning, this kind of 'passbook' similar to bank notes was quite disgusted by people.

There was even a storm of wealthy businessmen boycotting the use of passbooks, and Wei Zhongxian tried to suppress it.

Today, in the Ming Dynasty, what is the most valuable thing?
Of course it is a passbook.

"Are you blatantly bribing our family?" Wei Zhongxian stared at the 'passbooks' with a stern look on his face, but there was no need to hide the satisfaction in his eyes.

"Let Long Live Lord know that in order to build another garden for the future ladies, our family accepts bribes from everyone, and he will definitely skin and cramp our family...

You put away all the famous posts first.

Put it away, don't let people see it, okay? "

The more the eunuch is like this, the more sure the people below are. This dog eunuch must have great power in his hands, and he can decide which empresses can live in the 'upper class' other gardens!
As a result, people crowded towards the stage even more crazily, no one gave way to anyone.

Not to mention, Wei Zhongxian does have a brain.

Just such a true and false statement made those people think about it, wishing to put the 'passbook' in their hands into their pockets.

Zhu Youjian and Miss Hongliu got off the boat quietly and stood not far away to observe.

"My lord, do you want to get closer?"

"No, we're here to watch the fun, don't make trouble for Wei Zhongxian and Qian Qianyi."

The two found a weeping willow and sat down leisurely.

"My lord, can you handle [-] empresses?"

"Uh, let's try."

"One person a day, it will take several years to sleep with all [-] harem beauties."

"Well, almost ten years."

"Can you really bear it?"

"It should be about the same..."

"What about me? And what about the empress?"

"Bold Red Willow, why don't you bring me a bowl of herbal tea!"

Miss Hongliu chuckled, brought a small table and two small stools to the boat, and made a pot of high-quality green tea by herself, and then sat down to drink with the idiot emperor.

One thing she is good about is that she treats the idiot emperor as a person from the very beginning, not as an emperor.

Therefore, when speaking, there are fewer worries.

This is one of the reasons why Zhu Youjian likes to listen to her talk...

……

There was a lot of noise at the scene of snapping up.

Wei Zhongxian couldn't get rid of thousands of people on the platform, so he had to ask Qian Qianyi to step forward.

"Lord Qian, I am the head steward of the Cai family in Jiangsu. This is a famous post sent to the capital by our master Xingye. Please accept it!"

"What is the Cai family in Jiangsu? It just has 70 mu of fertile land. I am the Xu family in Songhu. Do you know the Xu family? Xu Guangqi, Mr. Xu, is our master's little grandpa!"

"Stop arguing, don't you just have some bad money?"

Suddenly, a black burly man stood out from the crowd, brushed aside the people around him, walked up to the stage, clasped his fists and said, "I am the third son of Confucius in Shandong, my sister has become the emperor's wife, and I am the uncle of the country.

Tell me, under what conditions can you live in the other gardens in this area? "

Qian Qianyi looked the big black man up and down, his throat trembled.

The Confucius family in Shandong are all ladies from a scholarly family, looking at this big black man, thinking about his sister...

Did you make a mistake?
"Your Majesty's meaning is very clear, that is, regardless of family background, anyone with favorable conditions can enter the master's high-ranking other garden..."

"Favourable conditions?" The big black man stretched out his hands and scratched the back of his head, and asked blankly: "My sister can memorize the Four Books and Five Classics, and is proficient in everything;
By the way, martial arts is also very good.

Since she was 12 years old, she can crush me, an older brother, to death..."

Qian Qianyi: "..."

Is this considered a favorable condition?

Thousands of people in the audience burst into laughter when they heard the words of this Shandong man.

The martial arts is very good, the emperor heard this, why don't you quickly cross it off the list?
You know, since Emperor Yongle was assassinated by a court lady in the Ming Dynasty, the management of concubines in the harem was almost harsh. Not to mention superior martial arts, even those with slightly stronger hands would probably be eliminated immediately.

This brash man!
Zhu Youjian, who was drinking tea under the willow tree in the distance, had a strange expression on his face. He brought a bowl of tea and almost cried out from laughter.

This brother-in-law is so funny.

There are some things that cannot be said at all.

At the same time, he was also a little puzzled, the Kong family in Shandong... He remembered that they did select three or five candidates in the draft album, and some of them were ladies from famous families.

This big black girl...

Could it be a black peony?
If he really looked like this brother-in-law, he would definitely not be selected and sent up...

Just when the idiot emperor secretly poked memories of several "mothers" of the Confucius family in Shandong, Miss Hongliu touched Zhu Youjian with her shoulder: "Hey, I said, son, do you hear that martial arts are very good!
Do you want me to teach you a few tricks to grab your hand, so that you won't be beaten to the ground when it happens?
Don't worry, my catcher was handed down by Mr. Cao..."

A look of schadenfreude.

"Fighting? The last thing I fear is fighting!" Zhu Youjian said angrily.

To be honest, thinking that there will be a concubine with great martial arts in the future, who can fight until dawn every night, the idiot emperor still has a sense of anticipation in his heart...

……

"This gentleman, who knows what His Majesty is thinking? The old man just said that the conditions are good, and we are courtiers, and we can't ask what good conditions are."

Qian Qianyi smiled wryly and said: "That's why I, Mr. Wei Changgong and Mr. Zhang Ge summoned everyone to discuss this matter face to face..."

"Know what you know, don't know what you don't know, this is wisdom!"

The Shandong black man had an upright face, and reprimanded: "Isn't the court favoring you cabinet scholars and Dongchang admirals to serve the emperor and be a pillar of the court?

His Majesty the Emperor didn't make it clear, you courtiers, you should ask clearly.

Only by asking clearly, there will be no deviations in the following matters, this is the way to be a minister, Mr. Qian Ge..."

Qian Qianyi: "..."

Shandong Confucian family!

Sure enough, there is no such a fuel-efficient lamp, just such a big black man, standing here casually, he is speechless after a few words.

Because what people say is the truth.

Even Zhu Youjian, who was drinking tea in the distance, nodded secretly, and said in his heart: "This black-faced brother-in-law, what he said is quite reasonable..."

"How about this, Elder Qian Ge, Wei Zhongxian, Elder Zhang Ge, I don't bring much money today, but with the reputation of the Confucian family in Shandong, if you want to draw a road, how much food and land you need, just ask.

I, for the sake of my sister's lifelong event, even if I spend all my wealth, I am willing! "

Now, Qian Qianyi, Wei Zhongxian, and Zhang Ruitu were in a difficult situation.

They had already discussed it, creating a panic-buying scene, driving up the X price, and slaughtering these future fathers-in-law and uncles...

"Speak, you are all the pillars of the imperial court, why didn't you speak at the critical moment? Let the donkey chew your mouth?"

The big black man said reluctantly.

"That's right, come up with a charter."

"We want everyone to raise funds to build the Empress's other garden, but Piansheng didn't make a charter, which makes everyone very embarrassed!"

The scene became chaotic.

Each of you, in the Ming Dynasty, can be regarded as having a reputation, power and influence, who is afraid of whom?Isn't it just a matter of money and food?
Is that still a problem?

The imperial court is poor, but it does not mean that others are poor.

"I... yes! What are you arguing about? I have an idea. I wonder if Master Qian, Jiu Qiansui, and Master Zhang are willing to adopt it?"

Zhu Youjian listened for a while, and finally couldn't help but make a move.

Wei Zhongxian, Qian Qianyi, these pig heads, can't do such a simple thing as land speculation?It's really frustrating...

Wei Zhongxian and others on the stage suddenly saw the idiot emperor, they were startled, their knees softened, and they were about to kneel down to pay respects, but Zhu Youjian waved his hand inadvertently to stop him.

"My son... has a sister-in-law who was also hand-picked by the emperor's imperial pen during the selection process," Zhu Youjian said nonsense, but scared thousands of people on and off the stage to death.

'There is a sister-in-law...'

'The emperor's draft, isn't it all ladies, how did your sister-in-law be selected and sent to the palace? '

"Selecting and sending a married woman into the palace is a crime of deceiving the emperor..."

……

Wei Zhongxian, Qian Qianyi, Zhang Ruitu and the others had their eyes twitching and their hearts beating wildly. They didn't dare to say a word, they could only laugh awkwardly and clasped their hands together.

"Today, I heard that there is going to be a competition for the high-ranking Royal Garden, so I came here in person," Zhu Youjian pushed aside the crowd, walked slowly to the stage, and said loudly:

"Since it's a competition, then use the auction system."

"I want the best villa, and I am willing to bid 50 gold coins!"

"50 gold coins? Do you want to eat farts?" There was a burst of laughter from the crowd.

"A mere 50 gold coins is like the best other garden? Whose brat is this, is he crazy? Hahaha, 50 gold coins count as money?"

……

Zhu Youjian smiled and said nothing.

Wei Zhongxian and Qian Qianyi on the stage quickly looked at each other and immediately understood.

It turned out that it was just for fun...

"This Mr. Zhu, bid 50 gold coins to compete for the first-class garden. Is there anyone with a higher bid?"

Once they understood the emperor's intention, the next step of specific operation was like a fish in water for Wei Zhongxian and the others.

"50 gold coins, one time!"

"50 gold coins, twice!"

(End of this chapter)