In the fifth year of Longqing, the fourteenth day of the first month.

Xu Jue didn't tell a lie, the location of this house that the emperor gave him was really good, he didn't want to sleep at night from the light market, there was a lantern festival across the street, and the fireworks exploded in the sky at every turn, and all night long it was the sound of drinking and laughing among the dignitaries and nobles who chartered the house...... At the end of the year, the official has the longest leave, and Chen Mu doesn't want to sweep people Yaxing.

But he really can't help it, usually he listens to the sound of the cannon quite vigorously, but when he sleeps, he can't stand it.

At the beginning of the first month, Xu Wenbi, the prince of Dingguo, wrapped up the house outside his house, he didn't ask for money, Xu Wenbi's stupid son put a cannon battle on the roof in the middle of the night, which exploded all over the sky, and Chen Mu, who was sleeping soundly, woke up from the nightmare of being shelled by the Japanese pirates in the night battle outside the south gate of Guangzhou Mansion, and carried Yan Qingyao to the bottom of the bed with all his might, and it took him a long time to wake up.

The next day, according to the market price, the rent of 400 taels of silver for one night was withdrawn from the Dingguo Mansion.

From the eighth day of the first month to the thirteenth day of the first month, even with the rent, the house outside brought him an income of 4,300 taels of silver, and there was no way, some people did not come according to the market price. For example, Du Gao, a wealthy merchant who buys and sells coal in Changping, asks for 2,500 taels of silver to rent for one night, and you say that 400 people will rent your building if they bid 2,800 taels.

After renting, I also sent an invitation, asking General Chen to be sure to appreciate his face.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, especially the palace, which is a big sieve, and nothing can be hidden from anyone who cares.

In Chen Mu's imagination, it was very difficult to persuade Emperor Longqing to send internal officials to Wanquan Dusi and divide the accounts, but he didn't expect that almost no obstacles were encountered, and the emperor agreed in the blink of an eye, and told himself very clearly that he was very short of money.

According to Chen Mu's original opinion, it was good that the emperor was short of money, but now it is different.

When he was in this era, as the general of the Gongwei Emperor and went out of Zhenxuanfu, the emperor he served told himself very clearly that he was short of money, and Chen Mu thought it was his shame.

Yes, when the emperor who was driven by poverty confessed that he was short of money regardless of his face, Chen Mu thought that this was a shame for everyone who lived a prosperous life under the emperor of the entire Ming Empire.

It is a shame that high-ranking officials and nobles give each other thousands of gold and silver, and when the name Sagara will spend thousands of dollars to buy famous beauties to have fun, they are ashamed.

It is the wealthy businessmen of Yangzhou who climb the mountain and sprinkle gold leaf to compete in the wind, and when the beautiful women in the capital compete to wear clothes and put wine lamps in the market, they are ashamed.

It was also when Chen Mu thought that he had hundreds of thousands of taels of silver buried in Weigang, but his emperor was worried about lack of money, which was even more shameful for him.

In feudal times, no one was immune to this.

Therefore, his movements were very fast, and the letter was sent to the Xuanfu a year ago, and on the second day of the Lunar New Year, there were carefully selected and eloquent military surplers walking the streets and alleys, carrying donkey carts to sell honeycomb coal and coal stoves from house to house, and winning orders.

The impact on the coal business inherent in Beijing can be imagined, where do they know what is sales promotion, or even what marketing is!

So a businessman named Du Gao came to the door, and he didn't ask for anything else, but hoped that Chen Mu could leave them a bite to eat. As you can imagine, the negotiation was very pleasant.

The coal furnace is divided into five coins of silver, one or two silver, three taels of silver, honeycomb coal is priced at one or two eight cents of silver, the original coal merchants in the world of Shuntiandi, Chen Mu directly told them the method of making coal, and they printed the three words of Hexingsheng on the honeycomb coal and coal furnace, and every thousand catties sold, all of them drew six cents of silver.

"You're not afraid that they hack your money?"

On the lantern tower facing the street outside General Zhenshuo's mansion, Xu Jue laughed quietly: "How do you know how much coal they can sell?" ”

"That's the internal official's business, Chen only needs to believe that the internal official can get the registration of the entry and exit of the coal donkey carriage in various cities and transportation arteries in Shuntian, if Brother Xu does it, it will be easy, right?"

Chen Mu slapped his legs, raised his head and drank the spirits, leaned over the railing and looked at the sky and the brilliant fireworks exploded in the night, and laughed: "Of course, you can also take the coal car to the deep mountains and old forests in order to avoid the draw, if they really work so hard, Chen also admits it-I never thought that silver was so easy to earn!" ”

"This should be said by Xu!"

Xu Jue pursed his lips and said to Chen Mu: "What the hell is your hand, my godfather said that you will give people a strange-shaped broken shovel, and people will have to give you less than seventy or eighty thousand taels for this year." ”

"You are also a strange person, before you fired a cannon under the capital, your godfather said that if you are a Wenju person, you should be a waiter in the Ministry of Works; This will be good, do you know Youqi? Zhang Ge Lao is doing things by his side, and his brother drank with him a few days ago, saying that you are smarter than Zhang Bifeng. ”

Zhang Bifeng is Zhang Shouzhi, the head of the household department who is now in charge of the country's money and grain.

"Yo, that's not going to happen!" Chen Mu smiled and teased: "How can Chen be virtuous, if this little cleverness is in Zhang Shangshu's position, it will bring disaster to the country and the people...... Having said that, when the elder brother is free, he will be in this viewing light tower, the younger brother will be the east, and the elder brother will be a Chinese person to introduce the old man You, how about it? ”

Xu Jue smiled and didn't speak, pushed away the beautiful woman who was accompanying the wine beside him, walked forward, didn't answer Chen Mu's words, and said: "Disaster to the country and the people, what I mean is that you don't have to do anything, just rely on a few internal officials, and raise the price of Shuntian coal by eighty percent in a few days after the New Year, and the people don't know it, they just know what's going on, and they want to poke your backbone and scold you!" ”

"Layman!"

Chen Mu learned Xu Jue's tone and smiled, and spread his hands to calculate for him: "In the past, when coal cakes were burned, a family of five boiled water for cooking, and shaved off charcoal and straw, and generally used four or five hundred catties of briquettes to go up, counting four cents of silver; Nowadays, the same consumption of briquettes is only two or three hundred catties, which is about three cents of silver. ”

"Do you think the people who suffered in Chen's sale of briquettes, no, the people benefited, Chen benefited, the internal officials benefited, and His Majesty benefited, do you know who lost?"

Xu Jue was said by Chen Mu to be blindfolded, his fat face wrinkled, and he pondered for a long time and said to Chen Mu: "You make the book low, spend less money, and use it longer, then no one loses, who loses?" ”

"The wealthy businessmen have lost, that is, the people who sent them to the door to take the coal shovel from Chen Mu's hand a few days ago have lost."

"That's not right!" Xu Jue was very serious, and had the pleasure of catching Chen Mu's mistake, and said: "You miscalculated, you said, in the past, the price of coal was one or two catties, and coal merchants could earn one or two points, but now the coal price is one or two eight, even if you take six points, they can also earn four or five points, and the businessmen have no loss." ”

"But I didn't make any money!"

Chen Mu smiled, looked up at the fireworks for a long time, and then said quietly: "The total number of briquettes used by the people is less, and it will be less than half." They are all smart people, who now think that they have earned it, but in the future they will find that they have not earned, and if they don't earn, they will lose. ”

"In the future, it is not the people who will poke Chen's backbone, it is these people, and I have already arranged the names for them - Chen Papi!"

Xu Jue pouted, choked by Chen Mu for a long time without speaking, and finally said: "You Qi doesn't like to see people, forget it, if you want others, you will prevaricate." He likes to see the living, but I won't give you any of them unless you ...... Our brother of Jinyiwei is bitter, you, Zhao Gongming, go down to earth, don't you give your brother a trick? ”

Chen Mu laughed with the wine jug, turned his head and patted the big belly of Xu Jue's python robe.

"It's easy to do, it's fried for the brother, and the Jinyi brothers don't need to buy oil for five years!"

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