Invest in building a country... and buy and sell?
Although Zhou Daguozhang is a big businessman and has a fortune of millions, his business is not big, so he cannot understand the relationship between investment and founding a country, let alone treat it as a business.
Why is this a transaction? The founding of the country is a rebellion! That was what Li Zicheng and Nurhachi did...
Zhu Youjian, you are so great, why are you still restless? What else are you thinking about founding the country? It’s okay if you just close the door and think about it. Why are you still setting up a stall in front of Renshou Palace to raise funds for the rebellion? Not to mention that the Jin Yiwei is doing things quickly now, even if there is no Jin Yiwei to report, the emperor would have to know about it! You live across the street! You are selling things here to raise money to build the country. How could the emperor not know?
Thinking of this, how could Zhang Guozhang dare to meet his son-in-law? Wouldn't he be an accomplice in the rebellion? This is not okay... I have to run away quickly, no, I can't just run away, I also have to report to the emperor about his father's plot to rebel!
The old father-in-law was very smart and knew that at this time, he must stand clearly with his good grandson, otherwise his head would have to be moved!
Thinking of this, he didn't say hello to the old eunuch who was walking in front to clear the way for him. He slipped away and disappeared into the crowd. He was so fast that even the imperial guards following the old man didn't react - these people They are all bodyguards of Emperor Chongzhen. They have followed him since before Jiashen. They have not been replaced in twenty years. The youngest ones are all in their forties and their skills have long been lost. Among them, the leader of the bodyguards who follows Zhou Guozhang is still a fat man. , weighing at least 200 kilograms, and I can’t even walk without breathing.
Although Zhou Guozhang was 74 years old, he was in good health, neither fat nor thin, and his legs and feet were nimble. He disappeared in an instant. The fat man was still standing there dumbfounded, not understanding what had happened!
When Zhou Guozhang sneaked away to inform Zhu Cixiang, his good son-in-law, Emperor Chongzhen, was in the Huangji Palace!
The emperor setting up a stall is just a way of saying it. Emperor Chongzhen couldn't really set up a stall outside Renshou Palace to do business! If you go, nothing will be sold... So the stalls set up in a row of temporary sheds outside Renshou Palace are actually the eunuch Pang Tianshou and several of his godsons.
As for Emperor Chongzhen himself, he went to the Huangji Palace to grab territory!
The world is big, but there are so many people who want to participate in the carving up!
Chongzhen himself had more than a hundred sons, and each of them had a Marquis of Thousand Li, which would be a hundred thousand miles! The three brothers Zhu Cihong, Zhu Cijiong, and Zhu Cizhao also have many sons, and they also have to participate in the carve-up!
In addition, there are a lot of princes, county kings and their children in Yingtian City. These dragons and dragons have not been pigs for 20 years. Among them, a group of young people do not know the happiness of being pigs at all. They are all in a hurry. So full of feelings!
Now the princes of the Ming Dynasty, except for those who have the title of "overcoming difficulties" (only the kings of Tang, Lu, Dai, and Luokun who lead troops), other kings have surrendered.
The prince's eldest son becomes the county prince, the county prince's eldest son becomes the county prince (only meritorious officials can be the prince), the prince's eldest son becomes the prince, the prince's eldest son becomes the uncle, the uncle's eldest son becomes the son, the son's eldest son becomes the male, and then there are They are common people...and a prince can only pass on one son, and the other sons are common people!
Do you think this person is in a hurry?
Most of the princes' families have a lot of sons, and some princes are still around. What about the others? Can you not be anxious, not anxious, and not work hard?
But hard work doesn’t mean results! It’s impossible for everyone to be a top student! Although children from the prince's family can enter the best elementary and middle schools in Yingtian Mansion, there is no advantage at the university level, except for a slight extra ten or twenty points... This is still the "Beijing Studies Department" (That is, Yingtian University, Nanjing Institute of Technology, Wuhan University of Arts and Sciences, Tianjin University and other institutions derived from Jing Xuetang) and military science departments (various military academies) can get extra points. Take the "Tai Xue Department" (Nanjing Tai Xue, There are no extra points for universities such as Wuhan Taixue, Tianjin Taixue) and "minxue departments" (private universities, mainly concentrated in wealthy provinces such as Jiangnan, Jiangbei, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong).
And having extra points does not necessarily mean that you will be admitted, because there are many people who are eligible for extra points when taking the entrance exams for the Beijing Studies Department and the Military Science Department!
In addition, each academies of the Department of Military Science also have a bunch of half-military and half-civilian juvenile military academies such as Army High School and Naval High School.
Compared with this group of students who entered the military academy at the age of ten, the children of the Prince's family would have no advantage even if they added twenty points...
Therefore, a group of princes and the princes and grandsons below are all anxious, and the success of the "fool king" Zhu Cihuan, who lost all the pension money of Emperor Chongzhen, makes this group of extremely anxious dragons, dragons and grandsons I saw hope!
The success of the three brothers Zhu Cihong, Zhu Cijiong, and Zhu Cizhao will not give them hope. Because there are three awesome guys! Needless to say, Zhu Cixiang, Emperor Taizu Gao is still alive!
Zhu Cijiong has been on the front line of the resistance against the Japanese in the north!
Although Zhu Cizhao is a little worse than his two brothers, he has also made great contributions to Ping An Nan and saving Siam. In the past few years, he has also led the army to draw the Pattani Kingdom, and is still attacking the Perak Kingdom... He is about to fight. Cheng Nantian is the dominant one, who is still unconvinced?
But Zhu Cihuan has no ability, everyone knows this... Apart from being handsome, he has no merit, he is just a fool prince.
He can open a country fifteen thousand miles overseas, why can't other dragons, dragons and grandsons?
So when everyone saw that the Jiaqing Kingdom's titles were selling like hotcakes, their hearts became warm.
The demand for barons in Jiaqing Kingdom is really in short supply! There are only 500 places in total, and 25 were taken away by Chongzhen, leaving 475. How many rich people and various second-generation people are there in Yingtian Mansion? It was sold out in less than ten days... so Zhou Guozhang, who was far away in Suzhou, didn't even know about this good thing!
This money is so easy to make, how can everyone not be jealous?
Of course, these jealous guys have no idea how much Zhu Cihuan spends!
That more than four million taels was not enough to spend—Zhu Cihuan was actually very happy with poverty.
But it’s better to be poor and happy than to be happy! Even a Marquis of Thousand Miles Overseas is a spiritual sustenance - even if there is no title of Ming Dynasty, there is still a Marquis of Thousand Miles Overseas, it is still hereditary and replaceable, and it also has a land for the people...
Therefore, the princes of Yingtian Mansion quickly formed the "Six Princes Founding Group" and came together to "please land" from Emperor Zhu.
The so-called "asking for land" is of course not an attempt to cut flesh from the Ming Dynasty's direct provinces, inner vassals, and outer vassal territories, but "asking for unowned land."
But the "unowned land" is limited after all, and there are even fewer of them that are relatively close to the Ming Dynasty and relatively wealthy.
You have to grab it quickly!
"This is ours! Our brothers proposed it first, why do you want to rob it?"
"I am Prince Kenan, who are you? You are just a descendant of the 'Flower King', why should you fight with me?"
"Why? His Royal Highness Prince Fu also participated in the shares!"
"Your Majesty, the King of Zhou's family has a large number of people, and they have long been unable to make ends meet... and although my family has not overcome the difficulties, they did their best to protect our country when they defended Kaifeng Mansion, and spent millions on City defense!"
These princes were really fooling around. They actually started arguing around a huge globe in the Huangji Palace!
Zhu Cixiang got angry when he saw them, and was about to reprimand him when Emperor Chongzhen, who came over at some unknown time, suddenly shouted: "Stop arguing!"
Emperor Zhu looked back and saw that Emperor Chongzhen and his older sons had arrived at the Huangji Hall at some unknown time.
Zhu Cixiang was not very good either. When he saw Chongzhen coming, he did not go to greet him. He even teased him: "Father, weren't you setting up a stall outside Renshou Palace? Why did you come so quickly? Everything is sold out?"
"Sold out of what?" Chongzhen glared at his son, then pointed at the group of princes arguing around the globe, "I'm going to be late, the world will be divided up!"
The world will be divided... Just when Zhu Cixiang was about to explain it to Chongzhen, he heard the voice of the eunuch Huang Xiaobao: "Your Majesty, Jiading Bo Zhou Kui has come to see you and said that he has something important to report!"
