Zhu Heji gave Qiu Shuzhen a reassurance (to become the queen), gave Da Boling a double version of the "family law", and gave Bei Jiaxin an imperial concubine. In fact, they all encouraged them to continue to work hard for themselves!
Yes, it’s work!
Zhu Heji's harem group may be regarded as the most "volume" harem group in history. In his harem, good birth and good looks alone do not guarantee higher treatment.
You must also have the ability to operate and manage, and you must be willing to work hard to make money for Zhu Heji, a capitalist emperor with a dark conscience!
In fact, Zhu Heji's harem began to participate in Zhu Heji's industrial operations from the day it opened.
At the beginning, it was the "North Distillery" that Da Bo Ling participated in the management as a shareholder of Xin Daming, and soon opened a perfume factory that made a lot of money.
In order to prepare more fragrant perfumes, to purify life-saving allicin, to boil white phosphorus (using urine) to produce cable ignition devices... Zhu Heji later opened Your own "spell laboratory"!
It goes without saying how important these factories and laboratories are to Zhu Heji's career, so they must be managed by people who can be absolutely trusted.
So after Dabo Rei, Bei Jiaxin and Aoi Makoto became involved in Zhu Heji's career. Both of them started as laboratory assistants.
Under Zhu Heji's careful cultivation, they all grew up.
Bei Jiaxin is very smart, a rare "scientific and engineering girl", and has a talent for business, so after Zhu Heqi moved the capital to Nanjing, she was asked to take over the perfume factory that was originally managed by Da Boling.
Under her management, the Perfume Palace located in the Huangce Library in Houhu has naturally become the cash cow and core asset of Zhu Heji's "harem business empire".
Although there is no competition in the perfume business, the supply of products exceeds the demand, so it is a profit-making business. . 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 hazardous chemicals using 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 Heji would not dare to let her manage the Perfume Palace.
In the past three years, the Perfume Palace has not only earned more than 1.3 million in net profit, but also has not had a major accident.
And none of the secrets of perfume, white phosphorus, and synthetic dyes have been leaked.
Therefore, Bei Jiaxin’s contribution is indeed worthy of an imperial concubine!
After Obo Rei handed over the Perfume Palace, she was transferred to be in charge of the Weaver Girl Palace. And this business is actually very difficult to do!
Because the textile industry in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty was extremely competitive, it was not possible to rely on a few large water conservancy looms to open up the situation - the water conservancy looms tinkered by Huang Luzhuang and Dai Zi produced very rough cloth that looked like cowboys. It's like cloth and can only be dyed blue to serve as military uniforms.
Moreover, the cost of this kind of hydraulic loom is not low. If you consider that the machine is always damaged and repairs are time-consuming and labor-intensive, it is better to use manpower.
But Zhu Heji did not agree to switch to manual labor, and kept asking Da Boling to spend money to buy new machinery developed by Huang Luzhuang and Dai Zi. As a result, even though the Weaver Palace possesses unparalleled synthetic dyes, it still suffers losses year after year...
For this matter, Da Bo Ling was often "punished" by Zhu Heji!
This "mistake" was all committed by Zhu Heji, but Da Boling had to bear the "blame", and Zhu Heji had to personally "punish" Da Boling. Not only did Da Bo Ling not complain at all after receiving the "punishment", but she also worked harder. Now the Weaver Girl Palace has actually made a profit!
Although this profit is inseparable from large military orders and a group of widowed female officials who came from the Weaver Palace, Da Bo Ling still contributed a lot.
Maybe they saw Bei Jiaxin and Da Boling working hard. Qiu Shuzhen, Zhu Heji's eldest brother, and Zhou Yubing and Yang Ziyun who came in later were too embarrassed to lie down and could only follow them.
With the cultivation of Zhu Heji and the support of Bei Jiaxin, Qiu Shuzhen became the CEO of the harem and took overall responsibility for the harem business. At the same time, she will also work with officials from the Ministry of Industry to supervise the restoration projects of the Forbidden City and Xiaoling Mausoleum on Purple Mountain...
Zhou Yubing took charge of the "financial plate" of the harem - actually the general accounting room of the harem.
Yang Ziyun learned to make crystal glass under Zhu Heji's guidance, so Zhu Heji paid for her to build a crystal palace. Although this is not a big business, Yang Ziyun and Wu Tu have worked very hard to run it, and they have always been able to make a profit. It is not difficult to earn 10,000 to 20,000 silver dollars every year.
Therefore, Zhu Heji's harem is actually a group of "professional women". When Zhu Heji went to work in the "Wenhua Building" or "Wuying Building", they would also ride to the Huangzhuang Enclosure 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 Palace, Perfume Palace, Dongchang Official Bank, Penglai Bank, Silk and Cotton Exchange and other places. Everyone is very busy. They have to work at least two hours every day, and sometimes they even have to work overtime until the afternoon!
They are probably the only harem in history that works so hard. Therefore, Zhu Heji, the candidate emperor, can also have a delicious bite of "soft rice" - he has always been a wise king with a salary. Two thousand silver dollars a month can still cover daily expenses at first. But as he had more and more children, he opened several new palaces in the past two years, built a palace on Purple Mountain, and gave several wives and concubines extra monthly money. These two thousand silver dollars were simply not enough. overhead.
So Zhu Heji has been living on "soft rice" since two years ago...and now, his monthly salary is not enough to support the expenses of the entire palace for ten days.
And he himself has become interested in collecting antique calligraphy and paintings in the past two years, and sometimes he can spend tens of thousands of silver dollars on it in a month... He has to get the money from the harem's general accounting room!
If it weren't for these women to help him manage this huge industry, he wouldn't be so cool now.
And if these properties were "returned to the public" after he became emperor, he would not be happy even if all his future expenses were covered by the court.
Let those stingy civil servants who are in charge of money use the money for themselves to squander, how can I feel comfortable with money?
"The Holy One is right, the money in the imperial court belongs to the imperial court, and the money in the palace belongs to the palace!" Qiu Shuzhen, CEO of the harem, also has the same idea as Zhu Heji, "We now have many industries, in addition to the perfume palace, In addition to the industries we manage ourselves, such as the Weaver Palace and the Crystal Palace, there are also large stocks in the Jiangnan Iron Works, Jiangnan Cement Factory, Jiangnan Brick Factory, and Jinling Car Factory, as well as the Dongchang Official Bank, Penglai Bank, Nanyang Trading Company, Small stocks in the Nei Gunpowder Factory, the West Fire Saltpeter Factory, and the South Equipment Factory...the dividends distributed to the palace account alone are no less than 500,000 yuan every year. There is also a large piece of land in Shanghai that has been enclosed It’s a commercial port. Apart from what’s used for building factories, the rest can be built as fences and rented out! It’s possible to earn a million a year in the future, so why should we spend money depending on other people’s faces?”
"Yes, yes!" Bei Jiaxin nodded repeatedly, "Your Majesty, having our sisters help you manage these properties is better than leaving it to outsiders! Don't worry, we won't leave you short of money!"
"That's right," Da Bo Ling and Bei Jiaxin were in agreement, and she also smiled and said, "Your Majesty, you must never hand over the property... The royal family must not touch the money and ignore the money, and take care of the money. Property also requires experience, and the more we have managed it over the years, the better we have become. Without these properties, what use are we women apart from accompanying you for entertainment and giving birth to your children?"
Listen, what a wonderful woman!
Although Zhu Heji knew that these women were all CEOs, so they set high annual salaries for themselves, and all of them were rich... But what they said was not wrong. The royal family could not live without its own Industry, let alone lose the ability to manage money.
Otherwise, he will end up like the previous Ming Dynasty. He obviously has a lot of royal property, but he just can't get the money out.
Thinking of this, Zhu Heji smiled and nodded: "That's what I mean too... All power cannot be private, all property cannot be public, the royal family cannot ignore money, and the princes and grandchildren cannot not know the wonderful uses of money." !
Therefore, the royal internal funds cannot be connected to the household treasury, and there must be independent financial resources. And this financial resource cannot be limited to this current industry, it must continue to grow! "
"Do you still want to grow bigger?" Qiu Shuzhen blinked, "Your Majesty, what other big deals do you want to make?"
Zhu Heji uttered two words: "City...this is a big business that can be passed down for hundreds of years!"
