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In the first year of Chengtian, on the 11th day of June, he got up early.

"Ministers and others see the emperor. Long live my emperor, long live, long live. ”

The ministers bowed and saluted, Chen Ming was sitting precariously, looking at the old-fashioned opening ceremony in front of him, the old-fashioned interrogation mode, everything is a routine, a routine.

Every morning is the same, listening to the ministers below talking about trivial things, it really makes people sleepy. The really important and important things have long been communicated between the ministries, the cabinet, and the emperor, and most of them will not be said in the early court. Even if it is said, it was Chen Ming who ordered the direct decree.

Just when Chen Ming once again expressed his infinite sympathy for many emperors who were 'negligent' in history, and when he felt that it was time to retreat from the dynasty again, he suddenly stood up alone and said loudly: "The minister has his own music." ”

Suddenly startled Chen Ming, who was in a bit of a trance, and took a look, yo, acquaintance. Liu Wenwei: This is!

"Liu Qing." Chen Ming's voice was full of beating, and his spirit was lifted: "What does Aiqing want to play?" ”

In the first half of this year, there were at least 50 officials above the fifth grade who were overturned and bitten by them in the city of Nanjing, two of whom were beheaded, five lost their officials, and more than 30 people were punished or demerited. Although there are times when they miss, on the whole, the combat effectiveness is very high. As for the officials who have been overthrown by the entire Supervision Yuan system, the amount is many times greater.

"The ministers participated in the Shuntian Mansion Yin Yue Wenhai, and used the public for personal gain. Taking advantage of his authority, he handed over the order of fuel required by Shuntianfu in the second half of the year [mainly lamp oil required for street lamps] to Beihai Company. The minister has verified that Yue Wenhai owns 7 percent of the equity in Beihai Company. ”

The entire hall fell silent with these words, and many people looked at each other, and then stared at Yin Yue Wenhai of Shuntian Mansion who had a straight face. Some people set their eyes on Chen Cong, the first minister of the cabinet who was standing at the front, but this Uncle Wang had a look of indifference to himself, and the old god was there. So everyone is a little confused!

Because of the people present, many people knew that the legal representative of the Beihai Company was Chen Cong's second son and Yue Wenhai's son-in-law, Chen Jigong. This company was upside down by him, and I heard that there is also the support of the emperor's small treasury behind it. This is more 'royal' than the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce. ’’

Is Liu Wenwei really just going to impeach Yue Wenhai? Don't be drunk, don't drink anymore. After all, no one really thinks that King Song is not compatible with this Beihai company, right?

But there are always cautious people in the world, such as Peng Zhongrui, at this time, this Lord Peng stared at Chen Cong from the corner of his eyes, looking at Chen Cong's quiet face, there was always a feeling in his heart telling him to be cautious. There really are other reasons why this is not good. Peng Zhongrui naturally flipped the belt with his hand, and Chen Gang, who had already stepped out of half a foot on the other side, took it back again.

"Liu Qing, you continue." Although Chen Han's official position system is very different from that of previous dynasties, some things still have a strong legacy. For example, the imperial history system of the Supervision Yuan, as well as the impeachment of important ministers by the court, are full of 'ancient style'.

Chen Ming didn't think about establishing a 'mature' public security system like a rabbit in his previous life.

"The minister has verified that in the first half of this year, the Shuntianfu lamp oil was purchased from the Southern Jiangsu Military and Civilian Joint Stock Company, and the price per catty was four copper yuan." The price is already very cheap. Converted to the past, it was forty copper pounds, and the streets in the market were all around six copper yuan.

More than 2,000 years ago in China, there were ever-bright lanterns in the Spring and Autumn Period. The lamp is asbestos, and the lamp oil is seal oil or whale oil. But these are too expensive, mainly used by the court nobles, and the oil used by ordinary people is the oil used for stir-frying, such as castor oil and rapeseed oil. There is very little meat oil, and the smoke is big and the smell is big. Lard and mutton fat are mostly used to make wax!

The candles of this era are not as expensive as Chen Ming's previous life, and the price is very expensive [relative]. When Ji Xiaolan was an official in Beijing, she was fooled around by a small trader because she was greedy. The candles he had sold from the peddler could not be lit, and when he opened them, he saw that they were covered with mud, but they were only covered with a layer of mutton fat.

"In the second half of the season, because the cottonseed oil of the southern Jiangsu company is not worried about sales, the price has been raised to a pound of five-jiao banknotes." Liu Wenwei is not really a fool and knows how to speak. In the past May, the exchange rate of gold and silver banknotes was lowered to 1:10, which still caused a lot of turmoil among the people. There has been no substantial decline in prices of all kinds, and it can be said that prices of all types have increased compared to last year.

A pound of oil has been raised from four copper yuan to five-corner banknotes, and people's cottonseed oil is still not sold, which is completely reasonable.

Because of the economic fluctuations, the emperor did not have time to go out until mid-June. Chen Ming wanted to go to Lushan for a walk, and only in early June did he order the Internal Affairs Department to prepare.

The Shuntianfu Materials Department soon reached a preliminary agreement with Sunan Company, but after this agreement was handed over to Yue Wenhai, it was not approved for half a month. Then the Beihai Company stepped in and traded with the Shuntianfu Material Department at the same price of one pound of five-jiao notes. When the Southern Jiangsu Company heard this, the price was lowered, and the Beihai Company also lowered the price. After the oil price of Beihai Company dropped to one pound of four-corner banknotes, and the oil price of Sunan Company dropped to one pound of triangular nine cents, the Shuntianfu Material Department immediately signed a two-and-a-half-year supply and marketing contract with Beihai Company on the grounds that the quality of fuel provided by Beihai Company was better. ”

If he takes three years as a term, Yue Wenhai is quite unsightly. Although the amount of this transaction is not huge, the impact is very bad.

Almost at the same time as Liu Wenwei's words fell, many officials in the palace had already condemned Yue Wenhai in their hearts. There are only a few old gods here, and the corners of Yue Wenhai's mouth are even more sarcastic.

Chen Ming also had a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, he didn't even let Yue Wenhai come forward to refute, but asked Liu Wenwei directly: "Liu Qing is really bothered." "With his mouth, he can almost convict Yue Wenhai," but I don't know that Liu Qing Kecheng has seen the fuel provided by Beihai Company with his own eyes? ”

Liu Wenwei heard a hint of the meaning of Chen Ming's words, but he felt that this was Chen Ming shielding Yue Wenhai, and Chen Jigong behind shielding Yue Wenhai. As soon as his neck straightened, he was about to stiffen with Chen Ming twice, and Chen Ming's next words sounded in his ears, and Liu Wenwei's whole person froze.

"Liu Qing may not know that the fuel provided by Beihai Company is whale oil."

The so-called Beihai Company is a comprehensive company with the whaling industry at sea as its source, not only has a number of oil refining workshops, but also has a medium-sized canning factory under it, and its canned whale food produced in the first half of this year, as well as air-dried whale meat, has entered the logistics supply system of the Fuhan Army.

There are many whale fishing grounds in the world, such as the one on the Chinese side, the North Pacific Ocean from Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands and the Aleutian Islands to the south, to the west of the waters off Japan, and to the east of the waters off North America, which are all vast fishing grounds for whales, and fin whales, humpback whales and sperm whales are the main whale species here.

In the previous life, the whaling ship of the little devil made people angry, but they were not ashamed, but proud. In the present time and space, the whaling industry in the West has been carried out for three to four hundred years, and in the 17th century, the Dutch and the English formed a huge whaling fleet. By the 18th century, the installation of refineries on whaling vessels allowed whalers to refine the most valuable whale fat into oil at sea, and store the whale oil in barrels, without having to drag the whales back to shore for processing. With this processing capacity, whaling ships can often stay at sea for up to four years before returning with a full cargo.

But the European whaling ships are still swaying around the Atlantic, and the Pacific Ocean is still a virgin land, if not counting the small fights of the Japanese. Therefore, if China develops the whaling industry at this time, it will be a brilliant road with an infinitely bright future.

Chen Ming also remembered this incident when he saw that the sailor was in the Kuril Islands and repeatedly mentioned the discovery of whales during his time in Sakhalin. It's just that this kind of thing obviously doesn't need him to go out in person, so he handed it over to Chen Jigong to deal with, and gave 50,000 silver dollars as an investment, accounting for 30% of the shares.

Because of the short distance, the newly baked North Sea Company placed orders for whaling ships at the shipyard on the one hand, and on the other hand set up oil refining plants on the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin, as well as a canning factory in the North Sea.

They don't just go after whale oil, and discard countless tons of whale meat.

In this era, China is seriously short of meat, even if the thing is dried, take it inland to buy two triangles a catty, as long as it can recover the labor and transportation costs, Chen Ming will insist on doing it. In the future, this canneyard will be opened to Sakhalin!

"Whale oil?"

The exclamations of the hall filled the hall, and Liu Wenwei had a hellish expression on his face.

Is the North Sea Company's four-corner banknote offering whale oil? , right?

When it is taken to the market, one yuan banknote is a catty, and whale oil will be in short supply. "Minister, please sin." Liu Wenwei's face turned red, and she put away her face full of disbelief.

"Liu Aiqing, as an imperial historian, has the responsibility of supervising hundreds of officials, and there is nothing to oversee for a while, so this matter will be stopped."

Although the current imperial history does not have the talent of 'opening his mouth and spraying irresponsibility', it is also forgivable to occasionally make mistakes, especially when it does not cause serious losses. In a situation like Liu Wenwei's, it is necessary to record it in the work file, and when it comes to the evaluation at the end of the year, you have to pay for it yourself if you do something wrong.

If it is small, it will lose money, and if it is large, it will delay promotion.

"Retreat from the ......"

"Long live my emperor, long live, long live."

It's another routine, but after this routine, Yue Wenhai, who was standing in front of Liu Wenwei, walked in front of Liu Wenwei proudly, without looking at Liu Wenwei. Liu Wenwei was like an impotent man seeing Chang Yu, and only after Yue Wenhai walked by, did he half-raise his head, and walked out of the palace with a red self. He wasn't ashamed to see people. Imperial history, it's common to be involved in the wrong person. But Liu Wenwei has lost a big face, he has only been an official for a few years now? The skin is a lot thicker, but it hasn't lit up the talent points of 'spit on its own face' and 'mouth honey belly sword', and it is still shameful.

The imperial history of being beaten to death without biting people is not unheard of in the new dynasty. There are countless in the history books. To do imperial history, you must have this kind of "victory is not arrogant and defeat is not discouraged".

I believe that Liu Wenwei will be high-spirited again after two or three days of red-faced and red-eared red.

……

This scene in the court, which can be called Liu Wenwei's shame point, is the best advertisement for Beihai Company in disguise.

At noon on the same day, Beihai Company's station in Nanjing, a very simple and very tricky marketing company, has not finished the decoration or something, has ushered in the first wave of guests, and then from the first wave of guests to the door, knowing that it is dark, there has never been a break in it.

We all know that whale oil is good, high brightness, no peculiar smell, no oil smoke. This thing has always been priceless in China, and even Emperor Lao Tzu did not have a lot of whale oil to order every day and night. Chinese have not been whaling since ancient times, and the whale oil on the market is either transferred from abroad or happens to catch a dead whale.

The palace is even more tribute from outside!

Therefore, after the whale oil of the Beihai Company came out, not only the Shuntian Mansion presided over by Yue Wenhai placed an order, but the imperial palace also placed an order early, and the first batch of whale oil had been sent to Beijing.

Therefore, the yamen of various ministries in Nanjing, including the cabinet, and the colleges in Nanjing, including Chengjun Public School, came one after another.

But the sudden boom in whale oil from Beihai Company can't hide the fact that Chen Cong and his family are stared at with too many eyes and faint hostility. Many of these people are loyal to Chen Han, but they just faintly 'look' at Chen Cong unpleasantly. Because there is always a feeling in this world: I feel that xx has a bad influence on imperial power.

It's not that Chen Cong was determined by many people to 'rebel', but they just felt that Chen Cong's power was too big, and the vassal king was too big, and it was not good for the stability of the imperial power.

"The old man is a big man." Since sitting in the position of the first assistant minister, Chen Congke has not felt relaxed at all. But if you want him to resign from the position of first and auxiliary minister of the cabinet, he is absolutely unwilling. Who will lose the power in their hands themselves? This is the throne of the first assistant of the cabinet.

If Chen Cong doesn't have the position of the first assistant of the cabinet, don't look at him as Uncle Wang, he is the prince, and his influence is far worse than that of the first assistant of the cabinet.

"Lord Wang, you can't be so passive in this matter forever." Always waiting for others to shoot the black gun, Yue Wenhai didn't know when he would fall into the ditch.

Chen Cong was silent. Yue Wenhai was anxious, "Lord Wang, you can't be a woman's benevolence." We're going to kill chickens and monkeys! "This trend must be countered and hurt in order to make people remember it for a long time.

"What the in-laws said is reasonable. But we can't move at this time. Chen Cong shook his hand to stop Yue Wenhai's mouth from opening, and continued: "Our grievances will be remembered in the eyes of the emperor. That's the best for us. But if we fight back, then this bit of good will be gone. This was seen by all the people of the world. When you go back, you immediately arrange for someone to poke this matter out! ”

"Now those street tabloids dare to write anything, and they use their pens to inform the world about it."

"But in the officialdom, in the court, let's continue to endure. It's not that we haven't endured it, let's continue to endure it now. Endure him four times, five times, six times, and it's not too late to fight back at that time. "If you can't bear it, you don't need to endure it anymore. Chen Cong remembers very well that this was Chen Ming's original words. Of course, when Chen Ming said this, he definitely didn't use it on this occasion.

By the time Chen Ding was on vacation from school two days later, he already knew the scene in the court.

"Father, second grandfather, they are stared at by a lot of eyes, is this just being taboo?"

"Why do you say that?" Chen Ming looked at his son's blinking eyes and asked.

"The second grandfather's rights are too great. Not only is he a prince, but he is also the first assistant minister of the cabinet, and he has been sitting in the Ministry of Finance before. is more eye-catching than the pseudo-Qing Fu Heng. ”

"Some people say that they want to give the second grandfather's cabinet first minister. lest his tail be too big to fall off, and the power will be too great to be cured. Chen Ding was full of ridicule when he said this.

Chen Ming also asked with a smile: "Then do you think this is right?" ”

"The father has soldiers in his hands, and power comes out of the barrel of a gun!"

"Haha, good son. You must always remember this sentence! (To be continued.) Mobile phone users, please browse and read, a better reading experience.