Daming: I became Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest son

In fact, Song Lian also felt that he was probably the third chief assistant, so he always went to see the person who created the cabinet tenure system, and he always suspected that this young hero was compiled by Liu Bowen.

He guessed that it was very possible that Liu Bowen wrote this system himself, but he was afraid of being hostile by civil officials, so he used the name of others.

Liu Bowen glanced at the others, pulled Song Lian aside, and said in a low voice, "Jing Lian, for your sake of asking, let me tell you clearly, I don't know any young talents."

Song Lian had such an expression on his face.

It seems he guessed right!

However, Liu Bowen's next sentence made his face change drastically: "This young man is the son recognized by the superior outside, and I have never seen him before. The reason why he agreed to serve as the chief assistant of the cabinet this time is because His Majesty promised me to go Meet that boy."

"Your Majesty's adopted son?" Song Lian clicked his tongue and said, "If you say that Your Majesty accepted a young general as his adopted son, I will believe it, but..."

It was difficult for Song Lian to say the rest, but Liu Bowen knew what he meant.

How could Zhu Yuanzhang meet such a wicked young man?
"I heard the meaning of the superior, it's not just as simple as Yoshiko, but I don't understand the specifics, so I can only understand it when we meet."

"By the way, don't tell others. In the imperial court, only you, me, and Mr. Li know about this!" Liu Bowen warned again, and then left in a hurry.

Song Lian's complexion was uncertain, and he stood there in a daze.

"Only our three chief assistants are qualified to know?" Song Lian suddenly took a breath of air: "Hiss... the superior is not recognizing his son, this is obviously finding a foreign minister for us!"

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Two days later, Zhu Yuanzhang's carriage went to the gate of Zhu Tao's house again.

It's just that there is no Queen Ma in the car this time, but Liu Bowen is sitting in the car.

"Sincerity, let me tell you first, we are now a merchant, and you are our accountant Mr. Liu Yi, you are absolutely not allowed to say anything, understand?" Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously.

Liu Bowen nodded numbly, but his heart was overwhelmed.

He really didn't expect that Zhu Yuanzhang's so-called recognition of a son actually meant pretending to be his father!

But this also made him more curious about what kind of person Zhu Yuanzhang could treat him with such condescension.

You know, even for those famous scholars who lived in seclusion, Zhu Yuanzhang brought guards to meet them in the name of the emperor.

Suddenly, there was a commotion outside the carriage.

Zhu Yuanzhang pulled up the curtains: "What's going on?"

"Report... Master, the road is full of people, our carriage can't get through!" said the groom, Zhu Yuanzhang looked up and saw hundreds of villagers walking towards a place on the road, suddenly became curious, got out of the car and stopped a villager : "Old man, may I ask where you are going?"

The old man saw that Zhu Yuanzhang was wearing silk, which was either rich or expensive, and he was a little cautious: "We... let's go to eat!"

"Dinner?" Zhu Yuanzhang was taken aback for a moment, thinking it was some kind of wedding or wedding event in the village: "Are all your meals so neat?"

The old man waved his hands again and again: "It's not a banquet, it's because our young master opened a canteen in the past two days, and let us pay the money so that we don't have to cook by ourselves every day."

After hearing this, Liu Bowen frowned.In his opinion, this is clearly a trick to steal money from the villagers.

The villagers don't know how to cook, but they still have to pay to eat at the restaurant called the cafeteria you opened.

Zhu Yuanzhang was also a little puzzled. In his opinion, Zhu Tao was not the kind of greedy country gentleman.

"Fellow, what will happen if you don't pay to go to that cafeteria?" Liu Bowen asked. He wondered if Zhu Tao was taking advantage of his status as a landlord to force everyone to go. If he didn't go, he would pay more rent or be punished.

The fellow looked at him like a fool: "What can I do, if I don't go, I won't have food in the cafeteria."

Liu Bowen choked for a moment, and was about to explain, but was stopped by Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Liu Yi, let's go and have a look." Zhu Yuanzhang said, and then told the groom: "You wait here now, and go to Tao'er when the villagers have dispersed."

After giving the order, the two of them accompanied the old man to follow the team. They saw a big house about two hundred meters away, smoking from cooking. It was probably the so-called cafeteria.

"Old man, how much does this cafeteria charge?" Liu Bowen asked on the road.

The old man thought for a while: "In general, it seems to be one tael of silver a year."

Liu Bowen's face suddenly turned ugly.

You know, when the price of rice is stable, one tael of silver can buy nearly four hundred catties of rice!And this kind of big pot of rice in the country is like steamed bread porridge and pickles.

Although they can make a profit of more than a hundred taels of silver in a year, how can a person who can make a cabinet system secretly earn such a small profit?

Now, even Zhu Yuanzhang was not sure what Zhu Tao meant.He has made up his mind that if Zhu Tao collects too much money, he has to show his father's majesty.

"The head of the family, the landlord here, is as smart as he is smart, but his mind is not right." Liu Bowen said cryptically.

Unexpectedly, before Zhu Yuanzhang said anything, the old man beside him became annoyed.

"What are you talking about? What do you mean by our young master's evil intentions? Tell me again!" The old man started yelling, and the surrounding villagers also looked over, only to realize that there were two more strangers in the team .

"Old Wang, what's going on, who scolded our young master?" Several men surrounded him.

The corner of Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth twitched, it's over, why does he feel that he has committed public anger, if he, the emperor, is beaten up in the field, it will be lively.

Elder Wang stretched out his hand and pointed at Liu Bowen: "This is the man who said that our young master's schemes are not right!"

Cold sweat broke out on Liu Bowen's forehead, and he quickly explained: "Old man, one tael of silver can buy four hundred catties of rice now, and he charges you one tael of silver for a year for a big pot of rice, isn't he still black-hearted?"

"What do you know, are you talking nonsense here?" The old man was furious, and there were two men next to him who were about to make a move, and there were many people behind him who were about to make a move.

Zhu Yuanzhang quickly stood up: "Folks! Let's calm down. I, the accountant, are outspoken. I hope you understand. The two of us don't know what's going on here. Maybe there is some misunderstanding!"

Only then did everyone calm down, and Elder Wang looked at the two of them: "Then shut up and follow us to see and see, don't think that everyone is doing black-hearted business like you."

After finishing speaking, he walked forward without looking back. Zhu Yuanzhang glared at Liu Bowen and followed quickly.