Zhu Bai grinned: "It wasn't me, I asked Brother Monkey to get it."
Then the three adults stared at the monkey.
The monkey was peeling a banana. When he heard the sound, he raised his head and bared his teeth at the three adults.
A few days ago, the tax collected by Guangdong Province included a large bunch of bananas.
It is green and astringent, and no one in the palace likes to eat it.
Zhu Bai took all the bananas.
Unexpectedly, within a few days, the bananas would turn yellow and become sweet and soft.
Then Zhu Bai went around selling bananas for five cents each.
Zhu Yuanzhang: "Children are not allowed to lie. How can a monkey be so obedient? Even if it was willing to get it, it would have finished eating on the way back and forth."
Zhu Bai smiled: "I made an agreement with it. I don't care how it gets it. I don't care if it eats it on the way. Anyway, I just give it a bag. When it brings it back full, I will give it the most." The thing I like is one banana, two bags of dried meat means two bananas, and so on. Bananas are only available in the palace, not outside, and it likes this thing very much, so it can only listen to me."
Zhu Yuanzhang opened his mouth slightly.
Li Shanchang was completely unaware of Zhu Yuanzhang's shock. He sighed and said, "If His Royal Highness the King of Xiang wants to eat, why go to all the trouble? Just ask the eunuch in the palace to come out and say it, and I will bring it to you."
Zhu Bai shook his head: "No, no, no. If you bring it to me, it will have to be passed on by the guards, eunuchs, maids, and even your father and brother. When I get it, how much will be left? I asked Brother Monkey to help me transport it. , the fastest and easiest, we each get what we need.”
Zhu Biao suddenly understood and said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Father, in fact, relief food does not necessarily need to be transported by officers and soldiers. There are many people who transport goods among the people."
Zhu Yuanzhang murmured: "Yes, let the merchants transport it, and they will take care of the consumption on the road. Everyone in the world wants to gain and gain. As long as you give them what they really want, there will definitely be many people willing to do it." "
Zhu Biao said: "For example, Yanyin."
Zhu Yuanzhang: "If the temptation is big enough, even the disaster relief grain can be collected by the escort themselves, and the pressure on the court will be much better. All you have to do is wait at the receiving place to receive the grain and open salt."
Then the two father and son started a heated discussion, and finally called Liu Bowen.
After hearing this, Liu Bowen praised repeatedly: "This is really a good idea. It can even be applied to military rations. In fact, there were precedents in the Tang and Song dynasties of using salt to encourage civilians to transport military rations, but it didn't work well and stopped."
Zhu Yuanzhang frowned: "Why did you stop during the Tang and Song Dynasties?! What went wrong?"
Liu Bowen said: "There are businessmen hoarding salt yin, and when the price of salt rises, they sell it at a high price, which is several times the profit of actually using salt yin to sell salt, which disrupts the court's salt price control."
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "This is also a problem. We can't put an end to profiteers who hoard goods. The imperial court has the sale and transportation of salt in its hands, and this part is also taken into consideration."
Liu Bowen said: "The emperor is wise, so we must first think of a way to prevent this matter."
Zhu Biao said: "Also, the officials responsible for opening salt diversion have too much power. It is easy to deceive the superiors and conceal the inferiors, collude and practice favoritism and malpractice."
We didn’t receive that much food, so we collected money directly from Yanyin. In the end, the money fell into private hands, and the victims still had no food to eat.
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded slightly: "Yan Yin is too tempting, and it must be managed by honest officials."
Li Shanchang was extremely anxious. He could tell with his toes just how big the profits of Yanyin were.
But Zhu Yuanzhang had no intention of letting him participate.
At this moment, Lao Zhu, his son and Liu Bowen were stuck, and they turned to look at him together.
"Master Li, do you have any clever ideas for solving these two problems?"
Alarm bells rang in Li Shanchang's head: Big pit, huge pit! Think carefully before speaking, otherwise you will let yourself fall and be unable to climb up.
Zhu Yuanzhang: "Let's first talk about how to solve the problem of hoarding salt and selling it at high prices."
Cold sweat broke out on Li Shanchang's head: The Tang and Song Dynasties were both the prosperous times of Chinese civilization, and Li Shimin and Zhao Kuangyin's talents were astonishing.
None of them have been able to solve this problem, so they are really looking down on me to tell me a feasible solution right away.
Being stared at by Zhu Yuanzhang with bright eyes, Li Shan's calves trembled, and he scolded Zhu Bai to death in his heart.
If it weren't for this little brat, how could I be in such an embarrassing situation?
Zhu Bai was holding the little monkey and eating the dried meat happily, as if all this had nothing to do with him.
Li Shanchang could only bite the bullet and asked: "I wonder if His Royal Highness King Xiang has any good ideas."
Zhu Bai replied without thinking: "No. I'm still a child, I don't know anything."
Haha, you don’t pay much attention to intellectual property rights.
If you can't figure it out, just ask me. I'm not a philanthropist.
If I don't get some benefits this time, I won't say anything.
Zhu Yuanzhang secretly gritted his teeth: This little brat is taking revenge on me for rejecting his request for salt before.
He definitely has a way! !
Zhu Biao naturally understood what this weird little brother was thinking and couldn't help but laugh.
Liu Bowen suddenly understood where the method he just mentioned came from, and looked at Zhu Bai thoughtfully.
Zhu Yuanzhang asked Zhu Bai: "What do you want before you are willing to say it?"
Zhu Bai said: "It's easy to talk. First, my father must promise me not to let me go to the fiefdom."
Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head: "There's no need to talk about this."
Zhu Bai pursed his lips.
Zhu Biao hurriedly tried to smooth things over: "This is a long-term plan. Does the twelfth brother have any other requests?"
Zhu Bai thought for a while: "I want the salt monopoly on the five roads of Huguang, Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan."
These places are far away from Northern Xinjiang and Yingtian, so there is no way to fight, and the emperor has no control over them.
Everyone else gasped: What a huge appetite!
Only Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Zhu Bai had actually taken a step back.
After all, a few days ago, Zhu Bai wanted the nationwide salt monopoly, which has been reduced to five channels.
Zhu Yuanzhang said: "It's impossible."
Zhu Bai: "Then Huguang."
Zhu Yuanzhang sneered: "Don't you think your words are inconsistent? You want the salt monopoly rights in these places, but you don't want to become the king of the fiefs. Will the brothers and brothers of these fiefs let you control their salt sales in the future? ?”
Zhu Bai frowned and thought: Yes, this is a problem.
Simply engaging in business is too insecure. If the time comes, whoever wants to take advantage of you will take advantage of you...
Zhu Yuanzhang was secretly amused when he saw the sad look on his face.
Zhu Biao also advised Zhu Bai: "Twelfth brother, you are still young, so you don't have to think so far. It is better to focus on the key points that can produce immediate benefits, which is more practical."
Zhu Bai pursed his lips and said nothing.
Zhu Yuanzhang said: "It's better than this. If your method works, I will increase your monthly payment to ten taels."
Twelve months' money is the same as Zhu Biao and Queen Ma.
The rules of the palace: an adult prince gets five taels a month. The underage prince receives twenty taels per month.
His monthly income now is only two taels.
If the water flows slowly, I will save a lot until I reach adulthood...
It was obvious that Zhu Yuanzhang would not agree to him immediately regarding Yan Yin.
