This Concubine Tian actually had no major evil, but was just incompatible with Zhu Cilang's mother. Fortunately, the few fields in the back garden of Cining Palace were kept, and Queen Yi'an spoke, and no one dared to touch the entire Forbidden City again.

Besides, seeing that these crops are ripe soon, others don’t have the courage to destroy them again at this time.

Thinking of this, Zhu Cilang became calm: "Auntie, I want money."

Queen Yi'an Zhang Yan was stunned: "What, what?"

"My nephew wants to build a Liulichang, but he is in the capital. My father has agreed to this matter. My nephew is thinking, aunt, do you have money here? Why don't you invest in that little bit? If Liulichang makes a profit in the future, I'll be able to share some of it."

"Liulichang, what about Liulichang?" Zhang Yan frowned.

At this moment, Zhu Cixuan told Zhang Yan a lot about the glass: "Auntie, it should be called a glass factory. My father promised to give me 10% of the profit, but my grandfather invested money and my father approved the land. My nephew just didn't even invest a piece of money, which is unreasonable. Do you have money, please lend me some?"

Queen Yi'an Zhang Yan heard that the father-in-law Zhou Kui sold his property in the capital. At first, Zhang Yan was quite surprised. The most stingy father-in-law in the capital, what medicine could be buried in this gourd. After hearing Zhu Cilang's words, she immediately realized it.

"Well, so that's it. But my aunt doesn't have much money here. That's it. I still have some jewelry here. You took it out of the palace and sold it. I think it could be exchanged for a few thousand taels. Just treat it as my aunt's support to you, so as not to be laughed at by your father and grandpa."

Zhu Cilang was overjoyed: "It's still my aunt who is good to me. If I make money in the future, my nephew and my aunt will have half the share."

Zhang Yan shook her head and smiled bitterly. She didn't take this matter seriously at all. However, it was rare for the child to speak, so she took out some jewelry and gave it to Zhu Cixuan: "You can take these, I heard that the objects in the palace are very valuable. These are given to me by the late emperor. It's useless for me to come alone, so you can take them."

During the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, the expenses in the harem were really shabby. Could it be that the Ming Dynasty had no money, no, rich, and a lot of money.

However, this money is all about Tibetans and wealthy. The people here naturally have nothing to do with ordinary people. The rich ones are the big landlords class, the Donglin Party who take the interests of big landlords as the backdrop. Only these big chaebols can control the economic lifeline of the Ming Dynasty.

As for your court without money and your treasury is empty, it is your business and it has nothing to do with us. We Donglin Party members just make money by ourselves.

Is the Donglin Party evil? In fact, we have to say this separately. The Donglin Party is not all bad people, but the Donglin Party without restraint will inevitably become selfish after its dominance.

Jiangnan was prosperous. When the eunuch party was rampant before Chongzhen, the Jiangnan chaebol group was firmly in the hands of Wei Zhongxian. At that time, the Donglin Party was suppressed by the eunuch party, and the country's finances were reluctant to operate normally.

After the fall of the eunuch party, the Donglin party lost its suppression. It immediately changed. They controlled the interests of the landlords. Chongzhen wanted to make money, so he could only plunder the people, and he could not do anything about these consortiums.

The people were so poor that they lived a difficult life. Now the court still had to plunder them, and officials forced the people to rebel, so bandits and uprisings spread like sparks in various places.

Why did Zhu Cilang ask Zhang Yan for money? He was afraid that Emperor Chongzhen would rebel in the future.

Chongzhen is now crazy, and he can make money from the treasury and let him do whatever he wants. If the glass factory makes a profit in the future, the profit that he promised to give himself may not be able to be fulfilled. In Chongzhen's eyes, what does Zhu Cixuan want so much money to do for a little child?

So Zhu Cilang had to find a backer, and this backer was Empress Yi'an Zhang Yan. In the name of Empress Yi'an, he invested 5,000 taels. It doesn't matter how much money it costs. If Chongzhen doesn't want to give this profit, Zhu Cilang could move out and threaten it with Empress Yi'an. This was invested by Empress Yi'an. The eldest aunt didn't want much, but it was only a 10% profit. If you don't give it, I will tell the eldest aunt to go.

Emperor Chongzhen has always respected this sister-in-law, Empress Yi'an, and he will never deduct this little money again.

In fact, Empress Yian didn't take this matter seriously at all. But Zhu Cilang finally spoke to her. Although she didn't have much private property, she generously gave him some jewelry.

Zhu Cixuan found the Yashang who sold his property to Zhou Kui last time and sold some of the jewelry given by Queen Yi'an.

It was similar to what I expected, and these jewelry were sold for about 5,000 taels of silver. Although this amount of money was not much for Xishan factory construction, it was not a small amount.

Next, recruiting workers.

Emperor Chongzhen, who was worried about money, wanted to rob the money clearly, was quick and easy this time. He quickly approved the approval document for the construction of the Xishan factory. The emperor personally issued an edict, so the speed of building the factory was naturally very fast.

The entire Xishan Mountain is at this time the territory of the glass factory. There are many quartz mines here. As Emperor Chongzhen said, the construction of the factory here is unique.

In addition to the soda ash being trafficked from other places, the quartz mine and limestone are produced sufficiently. Next, we will recruit craftsmen and build kilns to smel.

In the early Ming Dynasty, due to poor management of the official iron smelting station and declining production, the court was forced to dismiss the official iron smelting station and replenish the private smelting station, and only tax collections were collected. From then on, the private iron smelting developed among the people.

With iron smelting, coal is naturally indispensable. China’s land of China has rich coal resources, and the history of local mining has been recorded in written records during the Northern Song Dynasty. By the Ming Dynasty, the coal mining industry flourished.

"Tiangong Kaiwu" records that in the Ming Dynasty, a long bamboo pole opened in the middle was inserted from the ground into the depths of the mine. There was a fireworks on the top of the pole, and "toxic smoke" was placed next to it to export the poisonous smoke in the coal mine, which is called gas today, and maintain continuous operations underground.

Coal was not scarce in the Ming Dynasty.

Recruiting workers is even simpler. Zhu Cixuan asked the Jinyiwei to post a notice at the four gates of the capital. A large number of recruiting civilians to work in the Xishan Liuli Mine, and refugees are preferred.

What is the most in this turbulent Ming Dynasty today? Of course, the most inseparable refugees are refugees. These refugees, either natural or man-made, have become a major issue in resettlement here every time they go to a county.

Places like Beijing are strictly prohibited from entering the city. On the one hand, they are afraid of causing trouble for refugees, and on the other hand, they are afraid of bringing plague.

But even so, countless refugees pouring into Beijing were still there.
Chapter completed!