The soy sauce owner who runs a restaurant and soy sauce garden is named Huang Jiang, whose courtesy name is Shiren. He is a native of Xinhui County, Guangzhou Prefecture. He followed his father to do business in Beijing and stayed in Beijing for more than ten years. He is not very old, only 24 or 25 years old.

Years old, very tall, with fair complexion, and an angular face with Chinese characters. Judging from his appearance, he does not look like a Lingnan person at all.

Su Laomi, who runs a grain store, is from Southern Zhili. His ancestral home is Shanghai County, Songjiang Prefecture. He has settled in Beijing for two generations and has been running the grain store business. The "business name" Su Laomi originally belonged to his father and is now inherited by him.

He seems to be about twenty-four or five years old like Huang Jiang. His name is Su Sheng, also known as Shengzhi. He is of medium height, slightly fat, and has a round face that is always full of smiles.

These two businessmen are just ordinary existences in Beijing. They are not big businessmen, their business is not too small, and they have no background. They are just the kind of businessmen who do business down-to-earth. There is no one like them in the whole city of Beijing.

A thousand or a few hundred. But good luck happened to the two of them!

The two businessmen were led into Jiale Hall by Huang Dabao. Because they knew they were going to see the Crown Prince, they were a little nervous and walked into the hall with their heads lowered. After Huang Dabao told them to stop, they immediately knelt down and kowtowed.

"The grassroots Huangjiang bows to the prince's thousand years old..." Soy Sauce Huang said in Cantonese Mandarin.

"The grassroots people are reborn, let's bow to the thousand-year-old master." Su Laomi can speak standard Beijing Mandarin.

"Raise your head, stand up and speak." Zhu Cihong ordered.

"The common people dare not..."

"The common people don't dare to..."

"Why is there so much nonsense?" Zhu Cixiang said in a serious tone, "Get up and talk!"

Huang Dabao helped by saying, "If Qiantose Master tells you to get up, just get up!"

The two businessmen stood up tremblingly, not daring to look directly at Zhu Cixiang. They still lowered their heads and looked honest.

"Did Huang Dabao tell you?" Zhu Cixiang asked.

"Say it." Soy Sauce Huang, who comes from Guangdong, often interacts with the eunuchs in the palace and is not as cautious as Su Laomi. "The prince wants to promote ordinary people to become royal merchants."

"They are imperial merchants," Zhu Cixiang smiled, "they are businessmen who work for me...and I never let people do things for nothing. If you abandon your family business in Beijing and follow me, I will compensate you. The whole family will give you compensation."

Is twenty thousand taels of silver enough?"

"That's enough, that's enough," Su Sheng waved his hand quickly, "How can the common man's property in Beijing be worth twenty thousand taels? It's not even worth ten thousand taels!"

Huang Jiang also said: "The property of ordinary people in Beijing is not worth ten thousand taels..."

Zhu Cixi smiled and said: "Quite honest... Not bad! Businessmen should be sincere and sincerity-based, so that this business can grow bigger!"

However, I still want to give your family twenty thousand taels of silver. It’s not that I have too much money and no place to spend it, but that if you want to be a good merchant for the royal family, you must have capital. This forty thousand taels is the capital given to you.

Do you know what a royal merchant does?"

"The common people don't know."

"The common people don't know either..."

Zhu Cixiang smiled: "He just manages money for me and buys and sells supplies for me... When I escorted out of Beijing, the original Huangzhuang and the Imperial Store were gone, and this and that warehouse in the Household Department no longer existed.

I have to rely on you two royal merchants to buy it. This business is more profitable than opening a restaurant, soy sauce garden, or grain store in Beijing!"

The two businessmen were overjoyed when they heard this. They didn't know how big the business of this royal merchant was. If they knew about it, they couldn't laugh! But they are always happy to follow the prince and leave Beijing, a place of right and wrong.

There is no other way to welcome King Chuang or something like that. Although they are not big businessmen, they are not paupers who are looking forward to Li Zicheng coming to Juntian. Of course they can run away. Moreover, Zhu Cixiang promised to give them 20,000 taels each as compensation.

their losses.

"The common people are willing to work hard for the prince!"

"The common people are willing to follow the Crown Prince..."

Hearing the two businessmen's statements, Zhu Cixiang smiled and nodded: "It is my own decision to let you come, and it has nothing to do with anyone else." He pointed at Huang Dabao, and his tone became serious, "It has nothing to do with him! So you guys

Don't give bribes to anyone, including him! He is my most trusted eunuch, but you are also my most trusted businessmen.

So you and Huang Dabao are on equal footing and are both members of this palace! As long as you keep this in mind, you can continue to be your royal merchant!

Huang Dabao, please remember, don’t ask them for money...otherwise you won’t be able to reap the benefits!”

Huang Dabao and the two businessmen quickly responded in unison: "We have all remembered it..."

"Okay," Zhu Cixiang nodded, "Then I will explain the rules of accounting, cashiering, treasury management, auditing, and purchasing in the Imperial Accounting Room. You all listen carefully..."

Zhu Cixiang's choice of these two imperial merchants was of course carefully considered.

He not only needs someone to help manage the money, but also needs someone to help spend the money. In the future, he will also need someone to help collect the money.

In Zhu Cixiang's view, those responsible for managing, spending, and collecting money can only be businessmen! Because the ability of civil servants and internal servants to manage, spend, and collect money has been proven to be very low.

Moreover, civil servants and chamberlains cannot do business on their own. Do they have to go through businessmen?

In this case, why doesn't Zhu Cixiang deal directly with businessmen? This matter is not difficult for him... In his previous life, he worked hard in the financial industry, which has the most profiteers. Compared with those profiteers in later generations, the businessmen of the Ming Dynasty

They are not cheating at all, they are all good businessmen based on integrity!

In addition, Zhu Cixiang could not completely control the two systems of internal servants and civil servants. As for Emperor Chongzhen, could he dare to say that he had a firm control over the courtiers?

Therefore, it is the best choice to establish an imperial merchant system outside the system of courtiers and internal servants, and then use them to manage, spend and collect money.

At least a new system is relatively efficient at the beginning.

…

When Zhu Cixiang was explaining to two businessmen and Huang Dabao how to manage money, accounts, and purchases. Outside the Meridian Gate, several important ministers waiting to go to court also gathered in the doorway and discussed how to help Emperor Chongzhen beat Zhu.

The eldest prince.

"Since we have millions of taels of silver and 20,000 brave men, why mention Nan Xing? Mr. Wei Ge, just watch it today! Your subordinates must have messed up Nan Xing's affairs..."

The person who was beating his chest to assure Wei Zaode, the great scholar of Zhongji Palace, that he would undermine Nan Xing's proposal was a civil servant in his forties, with a dark face, a dignified appearance, and an upright look on his face. His name was Guang Shiheng, and he was a member of the military department.

During the previous discussions about moving to the south and the prince's decision to supervise Nanjing, he was the one who took the lead and came out to oppose it, thus messing up the matter.

Because he blocked the southward migration twice, Guang Shiheng has now become a representative figure in the court who dares to rebuke the direct ministers. His reputation has greatly increased. Many people have compared him with the reputation of presiding over the capital to fight against the Mongols after the Tumubao Incident.

Chen and Yu Qian were compared.

If Beijing is really lucky to be able to hold on this time, then Guang Shiheng will be very successful, and it is no longer a matter of course to join the cabinet and become the boss of Guangge.

So at this time, of course he must take a clear-cut stand against relocation to the south!

Li Banghua glared at Guang Shiheng, who was impatient, and said coldly: "This time, Dong Palace is urging the southward move. Do you still dare to impeach Dong Palace? Do you want to provoke a dispute over the country?"

After being defeated by Li Banghua, Guang Shiheng was speechless for a moment. Those who proposed the southward move and the prince's move were all ministers, so of course Guang Shiheng could be impeached. But this time it was the crown prince who advocated southward migration, so he dared to scold the crown prince? Then

Li Banghua, the censor of Zuodu, is about to impeach him and shake the country's foundation...

Wei Zaode twirled his beard, shook his head and said: "The East Palace is going to move south. As ministers, we are not likely to object!"

Guang Shiheng's face turned livid when he heard this. Wei Zaode and his former chief assistant Chen Yan were opposed to moving south earlier. Why have they changed their minds now? This old Wei Ge seems to be a treacherous minister too!

Li Banghua echoed: "Yes, the responsibility for moving south lies with the East Palace...Why should we ministers meddle in other people's business?"
Chapter completed!