After confirming that Zhu Cihuan had successfully escaped to the New World, Zhu Cixiang finally breathed a sigh of relief - this kid was finally on the right path!
If he ran back to Tianfu City to cry to Emperor Chongzhen, Zhu Cixiang would really have a headache! What would they do if the father and son cried and begged Emperor Zhu to help him reveal the truth?
A deficit of more than one million yuan is not a big problem for Zhu Cixiang. But he absolutely cannot take the blame for Zhu Cihuan...because once this precedent is set, how will the clan start a business in the future? How to still operate? What you make is your own, but what you lose is the emperor's responsibility? There is no such thing!
I only took it once, why not next time?
Haha, there will be a next time, and if it doesn’t happen next time, I can keep talking!
Moreover, a one-time bailout will create a strong "bottom-line expectation" in the market, which will greatly enhance the creditworthiness of the clan members, so the hole will inevitably be bigger next time!
If Zhu Cihong bailed out Zhu Cihuan once, then in order to avoid a larger bailout incident next time, he would have to strictly restrict the clan's business - and restricting the clan was a politically correct thing to do, so it was easy to form a routine.
Because members of the clan have many advantages over ordinary people from birth, success is easy to come by. If there are no restrictions on them, it will block the promotion path of poor families to a considerable extent.
Therefore, the Ming Dynasty's policy of raising clans like pigs was actually in line with the people's will and was in line with the tradition of restricting the powerful established since the Song Dynasty.
Just imagine, if the Ming Dynasty did not restrict clan clans, how many big bureaucrats, big capitalists, and big military leaders would there be among the more than 100,000 Phoenix descendants who were listed in the Jade Certificate before the Jiashen Disaster?
Presumably no one really thinks that these powerful people who control the country's military, political and economic power will have less social wealth and resources than a group of captive clans, right?
Just look at the "Liu everywhere" in the Han Dynasty. The existence of "Liu everywhere" not only occupied a large amount of social resources, but also formed a great obstacle to the dynasty change at that time!
Even the Qing Dynasty, which historically had restrictions on bannermen's business and property ownership, was able to form a royal cabinet at the end of the year!
In contrast, before the Jiashen disaster, Emperor Chongzhen had neither "Zhu everywhere" to count on, nor a royal cabinet to rely on... and hundreds of thousands of dragon sons and grandsons who were raised as "pig" , was killed to great satisfaction, and took on the historical responsibility of corrupting the world. What a good thing this is!
If we change to red eyebrows and yellow scarves, can we kill all Liu Bang's sons and grandsons?
Enemies of the caliber of Li Zicheng and Dorgon could not kill figures like Liu Xiu and Liu Bei no matter how hard they tried!
If Zhu Cixiang was just an ordinary scholar, he definitely wouldn't want those nobles from Tianhuang who were born with a silver spoon to compete with him for a very limited path of advancement...
But Zhu Cixiang is the emperor and the head of the clan of these dragon sons and grandsons. Of course, he hopes that these dragon sons and grandsons can thrive in all fields!
Of course, all fields include industry and commerce... After all, the era of capitalism has arrived.
But capitalism is ultimately a "loss". Even if you are born with a silver spoon in your mouth, your probability of success is a little higher than others, but failure is still a high probability event! Even Emperor Zhu Youjian's first commercial activity in his life did not escape the high probability of loss, and he lost all his money!
When Zhu Cixiang came to Renshou Palace to report Zhu Cihuan's escape, he was sighing there. When he saw "the most filial son in the world" coming, he quickly stepped forward and asked, "Has the traitor been captured?"
"The traitor?" Zhu Cixiang looked at Chongzhen in surprise, "Who do you think is the traitor?"
Chongzhen waved his hand, "I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about that rebellious and unfilial thing Ci Huan!"
What? Is Zhu Cihuan being disobedient and unfilial? Zhu Cixi shook his head and said, "Father, what are you talking about? My fifth brother is a filial son!"
Emperor Chongzhen gritted his teeth and said: "He lost all my pension money, is he still a filial son?"
"Father, calm down, he already knows he was wrong."
"You know you are wrong?" Chongzhen looked at his son, "Then my money..."
Zhu Cixiang smiled and said: "He has gone to the American Mansion to make money. When he makes money, he will return it to you."
"Go, go to America to make money..." Chongzhen jumped up suddenly, raising his hand and pointing outside, "He, he, he ran away?"
Zhu Cixiang shook his head, "Father, my fifth brother can't be considered a runaway, right?"
"Isn't that considered running away?" Chongzhen was trembling with anger, "You didn't repay your debt, you cheated me of my money, and you ran away... I, I, I don't have such a son! I want to He was kicked out of his clan!"
Zhu Cixiang waved his hands quickly: "No, no... Father is going to revoke his clan status, and those 250,000 taels will never come back!"
Chongzhen was stunned and looked at Zhu Cixiang: "You, you mean I can still get my 250,000 taels back?"
"My son didn't say that," Zhu Cixiang shook his head, "but we should always give the fifth brother a chance, right? He is also your biological son after all... How can you really bear to do it for a mere 250,000 taels? His clan membership is driving him to death? The poison of a tiger can’t even eat its seeds!”
"You..." Emperor Chongzhen thought to himself: Now you are out to pretend to be a good person! If you are willing to help him, will he have to run away?
Zhu Cixiang added: "Father, you have so many sons, and it is impossible for everyone to have a suitable official position. There will definitely be other sons who want to go into business in the future. But the business is dangerous, and losses are inevitable. If you lose once, you will lose money." The clan status has been lost, who will dare to imitate the fifth brother in the future?"
"Anyone else wants to imitate this disobedient son?" Chongzhen glared at Zhu Cixiang, "I don't have that much pension money to cheat them!"
Zhu Cixi smiled and said: "You shouldn't have given money to the fifth brother... Erchen, Dai Wang, and Luokun County Prince all have good management, so if you want to invest money, you should invest it with the three of us!"
The fifth brother is just starting out and knows nothing, so you dare to invest 250,000 taels in him. It is normal to lose money on such an investment. It is normal and nothing. "
"You, you... just be angry with me!" Chongzhen stamped his feet, "Sooner or later I will be angry to death with you disobedient sons!"
Zhu Cixiang hurriedly cupped his hands and said, "Father, please calm down. Your 51st birthday is just around the corner. Don't make your fifth brother so angry."
Chongzhen sighed, with a sad expression on his face, and said to Zhu Cixiang: "No matter how angry he is, he is still my son... Your fifth brother has had a hard life since he was a child. His mother died not long after he was born. Later, he was captured by the bandits and stayed with them for many years before being released.
Now I am going to the New World again, and I don’t know if I will have the chance to come back in this life! Cixing, give the people in the New World an order to take good care of him. "
It turns out that Chongzhen is still a good father...
Zhu Cixiang nodded, "Father, don't worry, I will make arrangements for you."
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Nagasaki City, Japan.
This port city, located at the westernmost point of the Japanese archipelago facing China, suddenly became crowded with Chinese people who came from Shanghai and wanted to go to the New World in the few months from the end of the thirteenth year of Hongxing to the beginning of the fourteenth year of Hongxing. people.
The American House in the New World has been open for some years, but it has always been tepid and there has been no wave of immigration. Even if many Chinese people crossed the ocean, most of them were coaxed by the Ming Dynasty and the United States authorities, and few of them did so spontaneously.
But for some reason during this period, tens of thousands of Chinese voluntarily left the most affluent Jiangnan water town in China, crossed the ocean and came to Japan, crowded in the small city of Nagasaki, waiting to go to the New World. sea ship.
This incident made the Japanese on Kyushu Island a little excited - is there an opportunity to make a fortune in the New World?
Have you discovered a mountain of gold and silver? Or discovered a particularly warm, humid and fertile land? Otherwise, why would these Chinese people not even live in the wealthy hometown in the south of the Yangtze River, but go to the New World to make a living?
At the beginning of the 14th year of Hongxing, even more shocking news reached Xu Zhengzhi, the Duke of Ogura - a prince from the Ming Dynasty also arrived in Nagasaki, preparing to go to the New World after a short rest!
