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Moreover, the dyes used by those factories were all produced by perfume factories-without those "spell dyes", and relying on the easily broken hydraulic machinery, those factories could not survive at all.

As for Zhou Yubing's Gold and Silver Palace, it's actually just a cashier. By the way, he manages his family's shares in Dongchang Guanyinhao and Penglai Yinhao.

And the Crystal Palace...is a glass factory that produces crystal glassware. Although relying on the recipes created by the craftsmen in Yanshen Town, Zhu Heqi, and Leibniz, they can finally produce a lot of good things, but they can't make much money. money.

This home, no, this palace, is actually supported by the perfume factory!

Qiu Shuzhen also smiled and said: "Sister Jiaxin really deserves a lot of credit... Your Majesty, you can also make her a noble concubine later!"

This is Gongdou!

Zhu Heqi glanced at Da Boling with a smile, and said to himself, "This time, the future queen is here! What should you do?"

Da Boling smiled and said: "Empress, Your Majesty has said that there can only be one noble concubine...or I will resign from the noble concubine and let sister Jiaxin go!"

Qiu Shuzhen's face darkened slightly, she turned her head to look at Zhu Heqi, and Zhu Heqi also lowered her face and said to Da Boling: "Auntie, you have contradicted Shuzhen again, she will be the queen soon!"

"I know my mistake!" Da Boling admitted her mistake generously, "I am willing to accept the family law!"

Zhu Hechi nodded: "Well, the family law must be doubled!"

Qiu Shuzhen breathed a sigh of relief, she knew what the "family law" between Zhu Heqi and Da Boling was... It seems that Da Boling's family is upright and her status is unshakable, it's useless for Bei Jiaxin to make money again!

However, Zhu Hexi still nodded approvingly to Bei Jiaxin at this time, "Jiaxin, you are also very good, I will make you a royal concubine, second only to the empress and grand concubine, and you are the only one."

Chapter 587 Ruanfan Emperor, Harem Consortium!

Zhu Heqi gave Qiu Shuzhen a reassurance (being a queen), Da Boling doubled the "family law", and Bei Jiaxin a royal concubine, in fact, they were all encouraging them to continue to work hard for themselves!

Yes, it is work!

Zhu Heqi's harem group may be regarded as the most "volume" harem group in history.In his harem, good birth and good looks alone cannot guarantee higher treatment.

You have to have the ability to operate and manage, and you have to be willing to work hard to make money for Zhu Heqi, a capitalist emperor with a black conscience!

In fact, Zhu Heqi's harem has been involved in Zhu Heqi's industrial operations since the day it opened.

At the beginning, Da Boling participated in the management of the "Northern Winery" as a shareholder of Xin Daming, and soon opened a perfume factory that made a lot of money.

In order to formulate more scented perfumes, to purify life-saving allicin, and to boil white phosphorus (using urine) to produce cable ignition devices... Zhu Heqi later opened his own "" Spell Lab!"

It goes without saying how important these factories and laboratories are to Zhu and Chi's career, so there must be someone absolutely reliable to manage them.

So after Da Boling, Bei Jiaxin and Aoi Zhen participated in the careers of Zhu Heqi, both of whom started as laboratory assistants.

Under the careful cultivation of Zhu and Qi, they have also grown up.

Bei Jiaxin is very smart, she is a rare "engineering girl" and has a talent for business, so after Zhu Heqi moved the capital to Nanjing, she was asked to take over the original management of the perfume factory by Da Boling.

Under her management, the Perfume Palace located in the Yellow Book Storehouse in Houhu has naturally become the cash cow and core asset of Zhu Heqi's "harem business empire".

Although there is no competition in the perfume business, the supply of products is in short supply, and it belongs to lying earning.But this perfume palace is also responsible for the production of white phosphorus and various synthetic dyes. In fact, this is a chemical factory that produces dangerous chemicals by local methods!

If it weren't for Bei Jiaxin's excellent knowledge of "natural magic", strong management ability, and very serious and responsible handling of affairs, Zhu Heqi would not dare to let her manage the Perfume Palace.

In the past three years, Perfume Palace has not only earned more than 130 million net profits, but also has not had a single major accident.

And the secrets of perfume, white phosphorus, and synthetic dyes have not been leaked at all.

Therefore, Bei Jiaxin's contribution is indeed worthy of being an imperial concubine!

After Da Boling handed over the Perfume Palace, she was transferred to be in charge of the Zhinu Palace.And this business is actually very difficult to do!

Because the textile industry in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty is extremely competitive, it cannot be opened up by relying on a few large-scale water conservancy looms—the cloth woven by the water conservancy looms tinkered with by Huang Luzhuang and Dai Zi is very rough, and it looks like cowboys. Like cloth, it can only be dyed blue to serve as a military uniform.

Moreover, the cost of this kind of hydraulic loom is not low. If you consider that the machine is always damaged and the maintenance is time-consuming and laborious, it is better to use manpower.

However, Zhu and Qi did not agree to switch to manual labor, and they kept asking Da Boling to spend money to buy new machines produced by Huang Luzhuang and Dai Zi.As a result, Zhinu Palace is still losing money year after year even though it has the world-leading synthetic dyes...

For this matter, Da Boling was "punished" by Zhu Heqi a lot!

This "mistake" was all committed by Zhu Heqi, but Da Boling had to bear the "wrongdoing", and Zhu Heqi had to "punish" Da Boling himself.Not only did Da Boling not complain at all after being "punished", but she also worked harder.Now the Weaving Girl Palace is actually profitable!

Although this profit is inseparable from the large military orders, and also benefited from a group of widowed women officials who were born in the Zhinu Palace, Da Boling still contributed a lot.

Perhaps seeing Bei Jiaxin and Da Boling working hard, Zhu Heqi's big wife Qiu Shuzhen, and Zhou Yubing and Yang Ziyun who came in later were all too embarrassed to lie flat, so they could only roll along with them.

Under the cultivation of Zhu Heqi and the support of Bei Jiaxin, Qiu Shuzhen became the CEO of the harem and assumed the overall responsibility of the harem business.At the same time, she will work with officials from the Ministry of Industry to oversee the restoration of the Forbidden City and the Xiaoling Mausoleum in Zijin Mountain...

Zhou Yubing took care of the "financial plate" of the harem—actually the general accountant of the harem.

And Yang Ziyun learned to make crystal glass under the guidance of Zhu Heqi, so Zhu Heqi paid for her to build a crystal palace.Although this is not a big business, Yang Ziyun and Wu Tu are also working hard to manage it, and they have been able to make a profit. It is not difficult to earn [-] to [-] silver dollars a year.

Therefore, Zhu and Chi's harem is actually a group of "professional women".When Zhu and Qi went to work in the "Wenhua Building" or "Wuying Building", they would also ride their bicycles to work in the Huangzhuang Wai Building inside the Xuanwu Gate, the north gate of the Forbidden City in Nanjing.Sometimes, accompanied by female officials and guards, they would go out of the palace to do business in Weaver Girl Palace, Perfume Palace, Dongchang Guanyin Bank, Penglai Bank, Silk Cotton Exchange and other places.Everyone is very busy, working at least two hours a day, and sometimes even working overtime until the afternoon application time!

The harem that works so hard like them is probably the only one in history.Therefore, Zhu Heqi, the candidate emperor, can also eat a mouthful of delicious "soft rice" - he has always been a Ming king with a salary.Two thousand silver dollars a month was enough to meet daily expenses at first.But as he has more and more children, several new palaces have been successively opened in the past two years, and a detached palace has been built on Zijin Mountain, and monthly money has been added to several wives and concubines. These two thousand silver dollars are not enough at all. overhead.

So Zhu Heqi has been eating "soft food" since two years ago... until now, his salary of one month is not enough to support the expenses of the entire court for ten days.

And in the past two years, he himself has become fond of collecting antique calligraphy and paintings, and sometimes he can spend tens of thousands of silver dollars on them in a month... he has to get the money from the harem general account!

If it weren't for these women to help him manage this huge property, he would not be so chic now.

And if these industries are all "returned to the public" after he becomes emperor, even if his future expenses are all covered by the court, he will not be happy.

Let those stingy civil servants in charge of money take out the money for their own squandering, how can they be comfortable with money?

"Your Majesty is right, the imperial court's money belongs to the imperial court, and the money in the palace belongs to the palace!" The harem CEO Qiu Shuzhen also had the same meaning as Zhu Heqi, "We now have a lot of industries, in addition to the perfume palace, In addition to the Zhinv Palace and the Crystal Palace, which are under our own control, there are also large shares of Jiangnan Iron Works, Jiangnan Cement Factory, Jiangnan Brick Factory, and Jinling Depot, as well as Dongchang Guanyinhao, Penglai Yinhao, Nanyang Trading Company, The small stocks of Inner Gunpowder Factory, Xihuo Nitrate Factory, and South Apparatus Factory...the annual dividends distributed to the palace account alone are no less than 50. There is still a large area of ​​land in Shanghai that has been enclosed in commercial ports. The factory uses it up, and the rest can be rented out after building a fenced building! It is possible to earn millions a year in the future, why should we spend money depending on other people's faces?"

"Yes, yes!" Bei Jiaxin nodded again and again, "Your Majesty, having our sisters help you manage these properties is better than handing them over to outsiders! Don't worry, we won't let you spend without money!"

"That's right," Da Boling and Bei Jiaxin agreed with each other, and she also said with a smile, "Your Majesty, please don't hand over your property... The royal family must never ignore money, and managing money and property also requires experience. Yes, we've become more and more proficient in managing these years. If we don't have these properties, what use are we women to do besides entertaining you and giving birth to you?"

Listen, what a woman!

Although Zhu Hexi knew that these women were all CEOs, they all set high annual salaries for themselves, and all of them were rich... But what they said was right, the royal family cannot live without their own property, let alone Lose the ability to manage money.

Otherwise, it will end up the same as the former Ming Dynasty. He obviously has a lot of royal property, but he just can't pay for it.

Thinking of this, Zhu Heqi smiled and nodded: "I also mean the same thing... Power cannot be private, property cannot be public, the royal family must touch money, and princes and grandchildren must not know the magic of money!

Therefore, the royal family's internal funds cannot be connected to the treasury of the Ministry of Households, and there must be independent financial resources.And this financial source can't be limited to the current industry, it must continue to grow! "

"Still growing?" Qiu Shuzhen blinked, "My lord, what else do you want to do with big business?"

Zhu Heqi spat out two words: "City... This is a big business that can be passed down for hundreds of years!"

Chapter 588 This is the best deal!

"City?"

"Your Majesty, do you mean the business in Dengzhou City?"

"But Dengzhou City was robbed by Qing Yao, this business is not safe!"

Zhu Heqi glanced at Da Boling who said "not safe", and said to himself: You first became a pirate with Su Dadu, then became a bandit, and finally became a rebel... It's all Ling Chi's fault, what risk are you afraid of? ?

Stared at by Zhu Hexi, Da Boling immediately changed her words: "With the Holy Spirit, we are not afraid of being robbed... But we can't manage this business for you!"

"You don't have to worry about it," Zhu Heqi said with a smile, "this is the children's property... Grandpa Taizu sealed up a bunch of vassal princes, and they were all raised in pig pens in the end.

In the final analysis, the territories guarded by these vassal kings were not built by themselves or managed from scratch.Otherwise, Jianwen couldn't cut them down, and Chengmiao couldn't keep them in captivity. "

"Emperor Taizu is a bit more serious about defending success." Qiu Shuzhen nodded, "It's a pity that he didn't keep it!"

"The lesson is profound!" Zhu Hechi said, "We have to make good plans for our children and grandchildren... Compared with perfume, textiles, and glass, a city located at the hub of trade between the East and the West is the real business that can be passed on for a long time!

And this business is the easiest for our family to succeed. "

This is the main reason why Zhu Heqi must keep the "emperor's selfishness".

Without the "emperor's selfishness", the emperor would have neither the ability nor the motivation to run these overseas colonies.

In fact, these overseas colonies cannot be established by relying on the "public" of the imperial court.

"Your Majesty," Da Boling recalled what Zhu Heqi said in the early years about making his sons kings, so she asked, "Is the city trading you mentioned the same as going overseas to make kings? Are you Let's build our city on other people's land!"

Qiu Shuzhen was taken aback, "Can others agree?"

"Yes!" Zhu Heqi said casually, "if you don't agree, destroy it!"

Da Boling nodded and said with a smile, "Yes, that's it!"

Qiu Shuzhen also understood, this is still a fight!But who will fight?

At this time, Zhu Heqi looked at Qiu Shuzhen, "Shuzhen, we are a big family, and we will be full of children and grandchildren in the future. If we all nest in Daming's one-third of an acre of land and become kings, we will have to go back to the old path of the former Ming Dynasty. So I was thinking about spreading out branches and leaves... This is also the tradition of our Chaozhou people!"

Of course Qiu Shuzhen knew what her husband meant.

She is the eldest wife, and most likely her son will inherit the throne in the future.So she may not support Zhu Hechi's "city business".

"This is a good thing!" Qiu Shuzhen immediately changed her smiling face, looked at Da Boling and said, "How about we build more feudal states and cities, so that the children can have a family business to pass on?"

Da Boling responded with a smile: "That's great... But we still have to work hard to make money, otherwise we won't be able to keep the children out!"

Seeing that Qiu Shuzhen and Da Boling could still reach an agreement, Zhu Heqi also laughed with satisfaction...Other emperors who have too many wives engage in palace fights.It's so inspiring to be here in Ben Shengshang, and to be able to fight together with wives and wives. It's worthy of being the home of saints!

……

When Zhu and his wives were discussing how to be a good emperor and a good ancestor with a clear distinction between public and private.

His "25 filial piety" father, Zhu Tianwang, is in the magnificent Tianwang Mansion with the [-]-year-old Eunuch Pang and the old man Yu Zhongxian while drinking a little wine while studying the " "Daming Treaty".

"Heavenly King, this covenant..." Eunuch Pang wore a pair of presbyopic glasses ground out of crystal glass, read the "Daming Covenant" word by word, and finally shook his head and said, "Everything is good, just two, One is the issue of the royal property, which is to compete with the people for profit! I'm afraid those scholars will object!"

"I'm not afraid of that," Zhu Tianwang said with a smile, "Just fight for it... Those people in the advisory council can't compete with my bad boy. My bad boy has always been rich and everyone earns it together!"

Although he still called Zhu and Qi "Shanzi", his "Guan Gong face" was full of pride.

Obviously, Zhu and Chi are the pride of his life.

"That's true," Eunuch Pang nodded, "The Holy Majesty really doesn't eat alone, and you (we) have made a lot of money by following him... The people in the Yanping Palace have also made a lot of money from the Nanyang trade. We all support him together, there should be no problem with this.”

Those who make money with Zhu Heqi are all first-generation nobles!

He paused, and then said: "But is it really necessary to include the equal-field system?"

"Of course it is necessary!" Zhu Tianwang nodded and said with a smile, "The land equalization system is the foundation of the country... If there is no land equalization system, the rich and powerful people in the world will buy land and collect rent. Who would go to Lushun and Dengzhou? Running in such a city?"

It turned out that Zhu Tianwang had long discussed with Zhu Hechi the benefits of adhering to the land equalization system.One of them is to avoid the situation of "rich with business, keep with land".

Although this kind of thinking of buying land to pass on to descendants does not necessarily limit the development of Chinese capitalism.

But Zhu and Chi are in a hurry to industrialize!

So the "germination" of capitalism can be faster.All kinds of obstacles that may hinder industrialization methods should be removed as much as possible.

And because Zhu Tianwang made a lot of money in Dengzhou City and established a "brand name", he tasted the sweetness and wanted to replicate the success of Dengzhou City in Lushun.

He planned to have a discussion with Zhu and Qi after a while, and he would withdraw the territory of two counties and one prefecture in Dengzhou, leaving only one in Dengzhou.At the same time, another piece of land will be built at Lushunkou to build a new "Tianwang City".

At that time, he will guard both sides of the entrance of Bohai Bay, not afraid that he will not make money.

Yu Zhongxian interjected at this moment: "However, this method of equalizing the land to the clan and the village also has loopholes. It may not be even within a clan, otherwise there would be no theory of righteousness."

The so-called "Yimen" refers to the kind of families where hundreds or even thousands of members of the same clan live together without dividing their families.

The most typical one is Jiangzhou Yimen Chen.

But since this kind of behavior will win the title of Yimen for the clan, it can be seen that it is not common.If there is a large loss of population and there is a big problem in the survival of the clan, such as in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, the Yimen phenomenon is more common. After all, the people are gone and the land is worthless.

But once the world is peaceful, the population increases, and the contradiction between man and land eases, the situation will change immediately.

"Then it's none of the court's business!" Zhu Tianwang laughed, "The ancestors couldn't have a bowl of water. When they separated, they gave the big house more and the other houses less...can you blame the court?"

This is the ancestor's unfilial piety, don't you blame the court for being unfair!Can you blame the court for failing to find your ancestors?

Yu Zhongxian nodded: "This really cannot be blamed on the imperial court!"

Zhu Tianwang added: "Besides, we divide the land from the clan to the village... This land can only be registered under the name of the clan and the village, and cannot be converted into private land."

Zhu Tianwang went on to say: "Furthermore, the land that a clan or village can occupy is not too much, more than [-] mu, and less than two or three thousand mu.

When we started equalizing the land, we had already divided the land, so the future mergers will not be as big as usual. "

The right to use is registered in the village and clan land, and it is almost impossible to completely fall into private hands.Moreover, when people from one clan and one village are rioting, the cost of suppression will be high.

For the rich and powerful, the cost of this kind of all-out land is too high and the risk is too great.

Maybe they looked at the difficulties and seemed to have nothing to do, so they simply didn't engage in land annexation.

And if they don't engage in mergers, then their capital can only be invested in industrial and commercial or overseas business.

After listening to Zhu Tianwang's analysis, Yu Zhongxian and Mrs. Pang knew it well.