Father can be an enemy to the country

"Last year, Feng Shui master Wang Zanghai came to Kunming for a visit. He said that the mountain in Kunming is rich and the water is in charge of wealth. To the north, there are five flowers blooming, and slightly to the south, there is a jade screen. It is the most noble purple dragon. It can be found in If you build a Confucian temple there, Yunnan's literary style will flourish. Further south, you can build a large south gate, which is the place where the dragon's cave is located."

While relaying the master's results to Zhu Zhen, Pan Yuanming unfolded a carefully drawn sketch so that the prince could form an intuitive impression.

"In addition, the main mountain of Yunnan Fucheng is a snake, so the city must open six gates to form a turtle shape. One is the head, the other is the tail, and the fourth is the feet to form a turtle.

When the snakes intersect and swing their heads and tails, the city will be alive and all industries will prosper. Five hundred years later, Yunnan will beat Jiangnan! "

"Five hundred years is too long, seize the day!" Zhu Zhen took a picture of the sketch of the new city drawn by Master Kanyu and said: "This design is not good, the area is too small. The southern city of the Yuan Dynasty was drawn outside the city. How can this be done? OK?"

"The new city designed by Master Wang is nine miles and three minutes around..." Pan Yuanming said: "It is two miles and five minutes larger than the original one."

"That's only 1.4 square kilometers," Zhu Zhen said after some calculation: "That's 2,100 acres, which is still too small. Such a small city still wants to beat Jiangnan? Just dream!"

"What does the prince want?" Pan Yuanming asked for instructions.

"When my father-in-law built Beiping City, it had a circumference of forty miles, so it should be about this size." Zhu Zhen said.

"Isn't that too big?" Hu Quan objected: "The city is too big and is not conducive to defense."

"It's not big. The circumference of the capital is seventy miles, and we are only a little more than half of it. There is no problem. It doesn't matter if we can't use it now. We have to leave space for the future!" Zhu Zhen waved his hand and said: "As for the defense problem, on the city Wouldn’t it be solved if we built more forts and stationed more guard posts outside the city?”

"The designated budget is far from enough." Pan Yuanming said worriedly.

"Come out the budget first." Zhu Zhen waved his hand. There is no need to worry about money in Yunnan. If it doesn't work, just dig in the ground.

"Your Majesty is heading towards Kunming, a city with a population of one million!" Daotong sighed: "This new city is six times that of Guangzhou."

"You always have to have dreams, what if they come true?" Zhu Zhen laughed and said: "Besides, cities are not just for government offices and for military and civilian residences. They can also build many schools, hospitals, factories, and trade centers. ...Don’t worry, every inch of land will still be valuable when the time comes!”

"Hey, okay. I'll ask Master Wang to revise the sketch again." Pan Yuanming nodded and said, "He is now going to Yongchang for inspection."

"Well, when the time comes when the king invites him to dinner, master still has to respect him." Zhu Zhen said with a smile.

Everyone also laughed.

While they were talking, Deng Duo reported to Gu Yuanchen for a meeting.

Zhu Zhen then smiled and said: "Hey, the God of Wealth is here, let him in quickly."

Then he said to Pan Yuanming: "Aren't you worried about the budget? Wouldn't it be great if you give me more copies of the God of Wealth?"

"That's true." Pan Yuanming said with emotion: "President Gu's business is very big now. I think Shen Wansan back then was just like this."

"The feudal lord doesn't dare to say that." When Gu Yuanchen heard this, he quickly laughed and said, "Aren't you just relying on the prince and the feudal lord to make a living?"

"If you only make a living, then we will have to drink from the northwest wind." Hu Quan said with a smile.

"Even the prince wants to make fun of a villain?" Gu Yuanchen entered the pavilion carrying a bamboo basket and saluted the prince and other big shots.

"Sit down." Zhu Zhen waved his hand, and the guards moved a porridge for him.

After Gu Yuanchen sat down, Zhu Zhen said with a smile: "How about having a sharp nose in business? I went to work on the first day, and you came here looking for a taste."

"I haven't seen the prince for a long time, and I miss you so much," Gu Yuanchen said with a smile, "I just wandered around outside the palace gate when I had nothing to do. Today I saw two carriages from the feudal lord arriving. How could I hold it back?"

"No, something must be wrong with you." Zhu Zhen shook his head and smiled.

"Hehe, I can't hide anything from the prince." Gu Yuanchen opened the bamboo basket lined with bamboo shoots and leaves with a smile, took out a round cake the size of a plate, put it in front of Zhu Zhen with both hands and said: "In two days, the third Yunnan The Tea Horse Fair is about to open. On behalf of the Yunnan Tea Horse Association, I would like to extend my sincere invitation to the prince and all of you."

As he said this, each person was offered a piece of round cake, one piece not too much and one piece not too little.

Gu Yuanchen smiled at Zhu Zhen again and said: "This Tea and Horse Fair was organized by the order of the prince back then. As a result, the prince was not in Kunming during the first two sessions. Everyone from top to bottom was extremely regretful. This time, we finally waited for the prince. Up and down Everyone is looking forward to it, so they invite the prince to come. It’s just a matter of three things, and I beg the prince to show his favor. "

"This is the third time." Zhu Zhen couldn't help but sigh: "It's becoming more and more formal, and some even bring souvenirs."

The invitation is affixed to the round cake, so the round cake is naturally a souvenir.

"Hey, Pu'er tea!" Zhu Zhen opened the invitation and looked at the round cake wrapped in white tissue paper underneath. He knew what it was without opening it.

"Your Majesty knows the goods!" Gu Yuanchen gave a thumbs up and smiled: "This is the best Pu'er tea refined by our Tea Horse Association Tea Bureau. Please feel free to taste it, Your Majesty and Your Excellencies."

"Oh, it's Pucha." Everyone opened the colorful packaging and saw that it was indeed a tea cake inside.

Pu'er tea is naturally familiar to them, because the tea in the Tea Horse Trade refers to Pu'er tea! It's just that these days it's called Pu'er tea, but Zhu Zhen suggested changing its name to Pu'er tea to make a difference from before.

Because the origin of Pu'er tea is in Xishuangbanna, Pu'er, and Lincang, it is located in a remote area and is limited by the local economic and cultural level. The processing technology of Pu'er tea was very backward in the past. There are no tea experts who study its craft taste like green tea, so the taste is quite bitter, and to put it bluntly, it just doesn’t taste good.

For the natives in the snowy areas and southwest, tea is an urgent need, and it is impossible for them to purchase expensive green tea from the Central Plains, so they can only drink this rough Pu'er tea. Of course, those princes, nobles and chieftains still have to drink green tea shipped from the Central Plains.

Not to mention the people in the mainland, they don’t recognize this crude tea at all, which is why this kind of tea can only be popular in remote areas.

Gu Yuanchen was left in Yunnan by Zhu Zhen. After serving as the president of the Tea Horse Association, he has been trying to make the tea horse trade bigger and stronger.

Especially after the Ming Dynasty conquered Bago and gave Yunnan an outlet to the sea, Gu Yuanchen was obsessed with making Yunnan's tea a smooth sailing ship for overseas trade.

As a result, he was disliked by the maritime merchants. They all felt that this kind of tea was too vulgar and would definitely have no market, so they were unwilling to purchase it.

Gu Yuanchen learned from the painful experience and decided to change the backwardness of Dian tea. So he established a tea bureau under the Yunnan Tea Horse Federation to oversee the tea trade in Yunnan.

He also bought six of the top tea mountains in Yunnan, selected the best tea leaves, and had the tea makers handcraft them into round cakes that looked like a full moon. Then every seven pieces of cake tea are packed into a tube, weighing forty-nine taels, to facilitate transportation and weight recording.

Moreover, Gu Yuanchen is worthy of being a big businessman from the south of the Yangtze River. He is very trademark aware. The origin, grade and tea making master of the tea cake are printed on the packaging, and there is also a big stamp of 'Supervised by Yunnan Tea Bureau'. The grade is indeed much higher. .

Gu Yuanchen has been busy with this matter for the past two years. These tea cakes are his hard work. In order to quickly open the market for them, he came up with this method of affixing invitations to tea cakes and sending them out.

This will not only maximize the promotion of his 'Qizi Cake Tea' among the upper echelons, but also arouse people's curiosity and want to try the high-end tea cakes that Gu Daguanren has painstakingly launched and how much improvement there is.

Zhu Zhen ordered someone to boil a pot on the spot. This tea has a clear color, refreshing taste, slight bitterness and obvious sweetness. The taste is really improved! So he readily agreed to attend the Tea and Horse Fair two days later.