Holding a pile of documents, Lu Qi walked quickly into the Qianqing Palace, and after passing through a long corridor, he stopped in front of a room. He took a deep breath before pushing the door open and entering the upper study.

Zhu Youzhen looked up at the documents in Lu Qi's hand, couldn't help leaning back, and said with a sigh: "Hua Qifang, they have been screening for so long, are there still so many documents?" ”

Lu Qi carefully explained: "Most of the documents sent to the Secretariat by the General Administration Department have been screened, and most of the documents here are summaries of the issues discussed by the Merchants' Congress in the past few days. ”

Zhu Youzhen stretched his waist, cheered up and said, "Are there any more important documents here?" ”

Lu Qi carefully put a document in front of Chongzhen, and then stepped back and said: "This piece of the House of Nobles, the minister thinks that His Majesty can take a look at it first." ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at it and asked casually, "What does the House of Nobles want to do?" ”

Lu Qi replied: "The minister didn't take a closer look, but it should be related to the turmoil in the stock exchange this time. ”

Zhu Youzhen calmed down and carefully flipped through the recital, and after reading it, he couldn't help but smile dumbly and said, "Are these bastards lying to me?" They don't share the money they earn, and when they lose money, they want to get it back from me? ”

Wang Chengen and Lu Qi did not dare to accept Chongzhen's words, they knew very well that this stock turmoil was manipulated by the emperor behind the scenes. And these nobles obviously smelled something, so they ran to the emperor to cry.

"Call Xu Yingyuan over, I also want to ask about the stock exchange."

After Zhu Youzhen gave an order, he began to take a serious look at the difficulties submitted by the representatives of merchants from various provinces and the difficulties they encountered in the course of doing business.

Although each province has a summary of the problems, most of the problems are overlapping, so after reading one, Zhu Youzhen turned over the rest of the documents at a glance.

"Tomorrow I will arrange for me to hold separate meetings with the representatives of the provinces." After Zhu Youzhen stamped the last document, he said to Wang Chengen.

Wang Chengen agreed, and then said: "Your Majesty, Xu Yingyuan is already waiting outside the door, can you pass him on to Jin?" ”

"Let him in." Zhu Youzhen nodded and said.

After Xu Yingyuan entered the room, he first saluted Chongzhen, and under Chongzhen's inquiry, he honestly reported the turmoil about the stock exchange.

"These nobles and merchants lost about 250,000 taels, and we only earned 180,000 taels, so where did the rest of the money go?" After Zhu Youzhen listened to Xu Yingyuan's explanation, he suddenly asked with some suspicion.

Xu Yingyuan hurriedly replied: "The Beijing Guangyuan Pawnshop didn't know where to inquire about the news, and it also learned that we accepted stock mortgage loans, and then sold the mortgaged stocks on the exchange. ”

Zhu Youzhen was suddenly a little depressed, someone dared to rob him of money, he said to Xu Yingyuan with a calm face: "Let the stock exchange come up with a plan, and in the future, without the permission of the mortgagor, it is forbidden for others to sell the mortgaged stocks, and the offenders will confiscate the illegal gains." ”

Zhu Youzhen began to think about the recital of the House of Nobles, and about two-thirds of the nobles in the House of Nobles lost more than 5,000 taels. In other words, half of the salary package he gave to these nobles before has disappeared.

These nobles have just lost a sum in the land estate, and now they have lost another in the stock transaction, coupled with the impact of the murder of Yangwu Hou, they are obviously in a state of resentment.

Zhu Youzhen felt that it was time to give them a sweet date to soothe their emotions.

"Lu Qi, what is the total investment of the spinning mill and textile mill invested this time?" Zhu Youzhen asked casually.

"Back to Your Majesty, the first phase of the project is ready to launch 150,000 spindles, 500 looms, with a total investment of about 350,000 yuan. Among them, Sihai Commercial Bank invested 200,000 yuan, and the palace invested 150,000 yuan. ”

Zhu Youzhen thought about it for a while, and said: "In this way, let Zhang Shengsheng expand the investment to 500,000 yuan."

Then the House of Lords came and informed them. Each member of the House of Lords can subscribe for shares in textile factories up to a limit of $5,000.

At the same time, according to the amount of their capital contribution, they will receive shares of double denomination. These shares cannot be transferred for 2 years, and at the end of the 2-year period, we will recover these shares at a premium of 10%.

After the amount of capital contributed by the House of Nobles was determined, the remaining share capital was divided between the Four Seas Trading House and the Imperial Palace. ”

Wang Chengen only calculated slightly, and then carefully persuaded: "Your Majesty, in this case, it is equivalent to returning all the money earned in this stock turmoil, is it too cheap for them?" ”

Zhu Youzhen rubbed his temples and said with a smile: "Well, with this money hanging on them, presumably in the past two years, they have to think clearly about everything they do." ”

Lu Qi waited for a while, and seeing that Chongzhen had no intention of changing his mind, he retired to carry out the emperor's order.

When Xu Yingyuan also wanted to retire, Zhu Youzhen stopped him and said: "This Guangyuan pawnshop is making money by taking advantage of the loopholes in the rules of the exchange, you find a fine of 30,000 taels in the name of improper trading, and this matter is over." ”

Xu Yingyuan was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly agreed. Zhu Youzhen pondered for a while and continued: "You have settled the matter of the stock exchange as soon as possible, and I plan to let you go to Sichuan in a few days?" ”

Xu Yingyuan suddenly raised his head and looked at Chongzhen, and asked cautiously: "What does Your Majesty want Weichen to do in Sichuan?" ”

Zhu Youzhen looked at him and said: "Shizhu Tusi is loyal to my Ming Dynasty, thousands of Shizhu Tusi soldiers died in the bloody battle of the Hunhe River to defend the country, I plan to reward Shizhu Tusi well, and canonize Qin Tusi as a loyal marquis, this is the first thing."

The rebellion has not yet subsided, and there have been nearly a million dead and injured people in Sichuan and Guizhou, but I haven't seen it until now, how to deal with the land left by these dead and injured people, you take someone to me to investigate, this is the second thing.

Guangxi, Yunnan, Sichuan, and Guizhou are southwestern frontiers with many ethnic minorities. The rebellion of Lu'an has not been able to subside for a long time, and the attitude of the Tusi in various places towards me now also needs to be investigated in detail. If you go to visit the Tusi in various places, those who are capable and prestigious will report to them, and I will transfer them to Beijing to take up posts, which is the third thing.

This last thing, you give the king of Shu to me to the capital, and the king of Shu's family property is borrowed first as military expenses to rectify the southwest army and guards. Can you do it? ”

Xu Yingyuan didn't feel embarrassed about the first three things, but the last thing made him feel sweaty, and he didn't agree, and he didn't agree.

Although he didn't need to be afraid of anything for the emperor, it was a tricky task to deal with the clan.

Ever since the Yongle Emperor seized the throne of his nephew, the attitude of each emperor towards the vassal king has become a subtle contradiction.

They were always wary of whether these vassal kings had any strange ideas, and they did not want to bear the bad reputation of being mean to the clans. After all, one of the reasons why Emperor Yongle raised troops was that Emperor Jianwen treated his relatives harshly.

And these eunuchs are different from the civil officials of the outer court, although they are also nominally the emperor's courtiers, but in fact they are the emperor's domestic slaves.

After all, this clan is also a relative of the emperor, as long as they have no deeds of rebellion, a eunuch to persecute a vassal king with a good reputation like the King of Shu, the top ten will be attacked by the world's clans. What if the emperor threw him out and blocked everyone's mouths for the sake of his own reputation?

Zhu Youzhen couldn't hear Xu Yingyuan's reply for a long time, and couldn't help but be a little impatient, "Are you dissatisfied with my order?" Why the silence? ”

Xu Yingyuan hurriedly kowtowed and said: "The minister does not dare to question His Majesty's order, and the minister will definitely do it hard." However, the king of Shu has always been very respectful to the court, and the ministers are afraid that the time will come when the world clan will attack His Majesty. The minister's death is not enough, but if his majesty's reputation is tarnished, the minister will not become a sinner for the ages. ”

Zhu Youzhen was a little ridiculous, he shook his head at Xu Yingyuan's words to excuse himself and said: "I asked you to bring the King of Shu to the capital, and I didn't say that I would punish him, what do you have to worry about." As long as you bring him back to the capital, I have my own opinions on the rest, can you do it? ”

Xu Yingyuan finally didn't dare to shirk it, and accepted Chongzhen's instructions tremblingly. After Zhu Youzhen watched Xu Yingyuan go out, he turned to Wang Chengen and asked, "Do my grandmother and Uncle Wang have any answers?" ”

Wang Chengen immediately bowed down and said, "Back to Your Majesty, Concubine Zheng has accepted Your Majesty's conditions. However, she made a request, that is, His Majesty wanted to recall King Fu to serve his mother in Beijing, and he could not use the middle decree. ”

Zhu Youzhen smiled and said, "Imperial Ancestor Zheng Guifei is really cautious enough, lest she be fooled by me." When will Uncle Fu's list arrive? ”

"Back to Your Majesty, it will take more than 10 days to come and go."

Zhu Youzhen thought about it for a while, and then asked: "I remember, in 10 days, Enke will start the exam, who are the two examiners this time?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, Yang Jingchen and Zeng Chuqing, the waiters of the Ministry of Rites, are the presidents of this examination."

"Send someone to the Gongyuan to inform them that this time they will try out a topic about filial piety. Then let the Daming Times publish more stories about the filial piety of the ancients these days. After Uncle Fu's seal enters Beijing, it will be published in full after review..."

After the Marquis of Fengcheng conveyed the emperor's reply, the noble courtyard was quiet for a moment, and then began to discuss gossip.

Xiangchengbo asked with some doubts: "What does this 5,000 yuan limit mean?" Can't we buy 1,000 yuan and give 5,000 yuan of denomination stocks? ”

Fengcheng Hou suddenly turned his head to look at Xu Yingyuan on the side, Xu Yingyuan immediately replied lazily: "It means that if you buy 1,000 yuan of shares for less than 5,000 yuan, you can get 2,000 yuan of stocks, and after two years, Your Majesty will buy it back from you for 2,200 yuan..."

After listening to Xu Yingyuan's explanation, Taining Hou said quite unhappily: "Now the businessman lends money for a year, and the interest is more than sixty percent. If you lend it to Your Majesty for two years, will you pay 10% interest? ”

The other nobles immediately echoed the Marquis of Taining, and after Xu Yingyuan glanced at the Marquis of Taining and the nobles, he said slowly: "This subscription is purely voluntary. If you are not willing to buy it, Your Majesty will not force it. ”

Xu Yingyuan's explanation immediately stifled the coaxing of the nobles. After taking out 5,000 yuan two years later, it turned into 11,000 yuan, and except for a few people, most of the people who lost in this stock turmoil got back.

They just did the math and whispered about subscribing to their share. The original strong dissatisfaction with the emperor was immediately wiped out. In the end, the nobles subscribed for 340,000 yuan of the share capital of the textile factory for 170,000 yuan.

However, the asset management committee in the palace and the Sihai Commercial Bank were obviously unwilling to suffer losses, and they also chose to inflate the share capital, and the cotton spinning mill with an actual investment of 500,000 yuan finally became a cotton spinning factory in Beijing with a share capital of 1 million yuan.