The Royal Merchant of the Red Chamber

For Tu Zhen, those conceited talented poets who linger in the Chu halls are naturally white-clothed, flamboyant, frivolous and aloof. It's like cooked chicken ribs, it's tasteless to eat, but it's a pity to throw it away.

Because they are too simple, too useless, too simple.So Tu Zhen couldn't trust them to be able to accomplish things, but without them... whoever sings the praises for him, who can be easily used by him?

Since ancient times, it has been said that those who win the hearts of the people win the world.But the real people's hearts-those old farmers who face the loess and their backs to the sky most of the time can't speak.Their life is very simple. They have enough food and clothing, and they are content with wives and children.Even after finishing the farm work, it is like a fairy to enjoy a drink or two of small wine.

Therefore, the so-called popular sentiments mentioned by the ancients mostly refer to the minds of aristocratic chaebols, rich and powerful households, and those sour scholars who think all day long that "everything is inferior but studies are high".Only they have the leisurely mind to yell and give directions.

Tu Zhen dismissed this, but in order to stabilize the government, he had to favor him.Especially for a group of scholars, they can often do very little, but they often ask for a lot.After all, there are too few people who can really achieve "Wen Ke An Bang", and most of them are cunning foxes who can't eat grapes and think grapes are sour.

When I didn't get fame, I was thinking about how to be the master of the people and how to stabilize the country.But once you become famous, you will have power.No matter how ambitious the original vow was, he would eventually become one of their most disdainful courtiers.

Regarding this, they also complacently came up with a few nice rhetoric——

It is called "harmony with light and dust", and it is called "when the water is clear, there will be no fish, and when people observe it, there will be no disciples".

Tu Zhen valued their tongues, but was really bothered by their arrogance.Therefore, after many years of enthronement, although Tu Zhen has always put on an appearance of being a corporal who is respectful and virtuous, valuing civility over martial arts.However, the most important ministers at the top of the court knew that martial arts was the most important thing in the Holy Majesty's heart.

Because he has the ambition to expand the territory and leave his name in history.

Originally, Tu Zhen was still planning that this year's Enke examination would be more generous to those scholars.But after hearing the "newspaper" that Pan'er mentioned, Tu Zhen blinked secretly, and typed back the little calculations in his heart intact.

After all, if the newspaper is done well, it will be much better than the scholars.For one thing, the newspaper is a dead thing, as long as it is firmly in his hands, then he doesn't have to worry about someone rebelling against him.The two newspapers don't need to eat or sleep, and naturally they don't need Tu Zhen to pay him.Then North Korea and China can also save a lot.As for the newspaper man...

Tu Zhen blinked innocently, and her own flat peach has volunteered to solve it.

For showing weakness to Pan'er and taking advantage from time to time, Tu Zhen showed no pressure at all.He's been doing this all his life, and it's very handy now.Seeing that Pan'er is busy every day, she is thinking about sharing her worries and solving her own difficulties.Although Tu Zhen didn't say anything on the surface, he was actually very happy.

It is probably because he has lived for so many years, and he has never seen anyone who can treat him with such heart and soul like Xue Pan, so he feels that he cherishes him very much.

Since you cherish it, you will reveal your emotions in every move.Knowing that Xue Pan loves money, in the next period of time, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty looked at Tu Zhen's swipe of a pen without any pressure: the procurement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was handed over to the Xue family.This was there before, and everyone didn't take it seriously.The procurement of food and logistics for the military department was handed over to the Xue family. This... Xue Zhizhang was originally the Minister of the Ministry of War, and he was in charge of logistics before, so it is understandable to entrust this matter to him.

All the brushes, ink, paper and inkstones used by the imperial court were also handed over to the Xue family.this……

Manchu Wenwu frowned, it wasn't a big deal, so he endured it.

Then the Holy Majesty stated that since the Xue family also has a tailor shop, all the official uniforms will be made by the Xue family and sent to the officials' houses; Repairs to palaces and yamen are all done directly to the Xue family.Since... since...

In an instant, everyone discovered that almost all the money-related businesses that Tu Zhen could make decisions about, Tu Zhen gave to Xue's family with a stroke of his pen.As a result, everyone couldn't help shivering when they saw the eldest son of the Xue family walking towards the palace.

The Xue family in Jinling originally started as an imperial merchant, and the family's wealth is countless.Shops and businesses are all over the country.As the saying goes, what is good at the top must be done at the bottom.Seeing the various measures of the imperial court in Beijing, various local and state capitals followed suit. In just a few months, the business of the Xue family's shops suddenly increased by more than [-]%.In the eyes of everyone, he was even more jealous and helpless.

Therefore, the book of impeachment of the Xue family and the people's struggle for profit flew like snowflakes to the Qianqing Palace where Tu Zhen was located under the instigation of some caring people.On the other hand, Tu Zhen raised his eyebrows leisurely, and without even looking at them, he left the piles of papers unpublished, and put them in the corners to collect ashes.And every half a month, the little eunuch in the palace was asked to carry the memorial with two large boxes to Zhongxinhou's mansion to show up in chariots and horses.After going back and forth, no one will go up for impeachment.

This plan failed, and some ministers openly mentioned these things at the court meeting. Tu Zhen said lightly, "All the profits from the Xue family's business are handed over to the internal treasury for [-]% to fund the government. If anyone refuses to accept it, you might as well follow suit." He blocked the person back.Swear to die to support Xue Pan's attitude to the end.

Seeing this, the ministers didn't dare to be too presumptuous with Tu Zhen, so they had to endure it bitterly.It's just that they are jealous and jealous, and they all alienate Zhongxinhou's family.Compared with the warm greetings of the previous period, Xue Zhizhang has almost no other figures beside Lin Ruhai, Zhen Yan, and Wang Ziteng in the past few months.

After all, people and gods are all angry about things that block people's money.It doesn't matter if you are able to eat meat, but if you don't even give soup to others, it's too much.

There are also those who feel that they have a good relationship with the Xue family and can talk, so they secretly click Xue Zhizhang a few words.Xue Zhizhang agreed with a vague smile on his face, but he still did nothing when he turned around.After all, he already has the consciousness of being a lonely minister of the emperor, no matter what the purpose of Tu Zhen's actions, it is always easy for people to do things.Now that there is such a good opportunity, Xue Zhizhang simply pretended to be a businessman who valued profits. Apart from collecting money and monopolizing it, most of the officials in the imperial and middle families disdain to be with him and alienate him.

At the same time, Tu Zhen, who was always watching the development of the situation in the palace, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

As mentioned above, the Xue family started as an imperial merchant.Businessmen have always paid attention to making money through harmony and attracting contacts.Therefore, Xue's family has always been very popular since they entered the court.Coupled with the reliance and trust of the holy majesty, more and more followers are attached to them, and they can faintly become cronies.Qinggui and Qingliu are cronies with each other just to gain a foothold in the DPRK and gain a greater right to speak.But if the rich are all cronies... No one can guarantee what the consequences will be.After all, human hearts are not enough.Therefore, the appearance of Xue's cronies is naturally the last thing Tu Zhen, the emperor, wants to see.

Tu Zhen trusts Xue Pan and believes that Xue Pan will not harm him.But this does not mean that the emperor will trust the Xue family, and believe that the descendants of the Xue family will treat his descendants like Pan'er.Therefore, it is good for everyone to control things when they can be recovered and contained.

Xue Zhizhang, as the head of the family, naturally understood such hidden worries.And although the Holy Majesty was worried, he still chose the most gentle way to win over and warn the Xue family, which is beneficial to both parties, which proves that the Emperor still trusts the Xue family very much.He hoped that the Xue family would have a clear enough understanding of the next choice and position.And always understand their own identity and responsibilities.Can't Xiao think about things that don't belong to them.

If not, the Holy One can make the Xue family the most wealthy family in the world, and naturally he can plan to pull the Xue family down from above.Moreover, the monopoly has already offended most of the official families. When the Xue family is defeated, for the sake of profit, everyone can only make trouble, and no one will give charcoal in a timely manner.

Of course, this consideration is the tacit acquiescence of the two warring parties, and no one will talk nonsense.If the Xue family is really knowledgeable and interesting, the Holy Majesty doesn't care about giving one more family a high position.

After too many cunning rabbits and lackeys cooking, birds and birds do their best to hide.Xue Zhizhang was not at all surprised by Tu Zhen's methods.If it's true that he didn't think of anything, he's just surprised that Tu Zhen exposed his inner thoughts prematurely and his methods are so gentle.For example, the Wang family and the Lin family who are both Conglong heroes, the Holy Majesty did not do anything except for a more friendly attitude and more reliance on things.

After much deliberation, Xue Zhizhang had to admit that his stupid son had a great contribution to Tu Zhen's actions today.To use a more literary and sour phrase to describe it, the Holy One is "care leads to chaos".Because I care, I always remember it.Because I care, I can't bear the speculation in my heart to become a fact.So I don't hesitate to come up with some clumsy means to make you understand.So you have to follow the path he drew.

Since he is willing to show the way, it proves that the next thing is not dangerous.It's just that Xue Zhizhang still feels annoyed by Tu Zhen's "praising and killing" approach.

You have bewitched my son, you don't trust my character and loyalty, and you are delusional about living a sweet life with my son?

Xue Zhizhang rolled his eyes bitterly.

Therefore, in the next period of time, Xue Zhizhang intentionally or unintentionally arranged a lot of affairs for Xue Pan to restrain him from entering the palace to speak, and Tu Zhen, who was guarding the deep palace, was like a maiden in spring who had been waiting for more than a month. Xue Pan's figure.I can no longer bear the thoughts in my heart——

So he sneaked out of the palace with everyone in the harem behind his back.

Before leaving the palace, Tu Zhen naturally sent someone to inquire about Xue Pan's whereabouts.So after leaving the palace, Tu Zhen went straight to the capital headquarters of the Taibai Poetry Society.But he forgot the most important thing - time.

Tu Zhen goes to court at Yinshi every morning, and the time of his next court depends on the affairs of the court meeting.After returning to the palace, they had to review the important daily papers before they had time to go out or enter the harem.

So when Tu Zhen left the palace, it was already close to noon.

And with Xue Pan's personality of focusing on appetite.No matter what he does at this time, he must put down his work and eat.So it's not unusual for Tu Zhen to miss out on the Taibai poetry meeting.

In the same quarter, Tu Zhen turned around and Shi Shiran went in the direction of Fuyuan Pavilion in Xicheng.

At that time, Xue Pan was leading a large group of fellow Taibai Poetry Club members to eat wildly, and study the issue of newspaper distribution by the way.Zhuang Shaoyou sat in the first place holding a wine glass, watching Xue Pan coldly chatting with each other while holding the wine jug, but smiled and said nothing.

Xue Pan was pouring wine and food for people, while assigning tasks to everyone.This one is in charge of commenting on overseas affairs, that one is in charge of instructing the new policies of the imperial court, this one is in charge of shaking up the experience of a certain corrupt official who has been dismounted, and that one is in charge of writing some gossip about the capital.As for the positions of the advertisements, the first issue of the newspaper advertised all the shops under the Xue family without exception.After seeing the effect, I believe that there will naturally be businessmen with a keen sense of smell who will come to give money on their own initiative.And on the main page of the first newspaper to be released, there is only one content - bidding.

The scholar Chang Yukun who was in charge of writing the pen couldn't help but frowned when he heard the words, and asked: "What I said before is understandable, but what does this bidding meeting specifically refer to?"

"The so-called bidding meeting means that we, the organizers..." Xue Pan thought for a while, and then explained the meaning and specific form of the later bidding meeting to Chang Yukun.At the end, he took a sip of sake and smiled: "You just need to explain the general meaning clearly, and then write down the specific time and place of the meeting in the newspaper. The most important thing is to hope that all powerful businessmen will understand this. matter, and then come to compete.”

Hearing this, Mr. Zhuang couldn't help frowning and asked: "Hasn't the Holy Majesty already handed over these tasks to the Xue family? Why do you have to create so many troubles?"

Hearing this, Xue Pan chuckled and said, "My Xue family is in business, and the most important thing is money. Although these businesses are entrusted to our Xue family by the grace of the Holy One, our Xue family does not need to eat money." It's so ugly. And if things go on like this, it may not be good for our Xue family's business. Why don't we take this opportunity to launch the bidding, one can bring businessmen from all over the world together to communicate, and the other is that the results of the bidding are better than Our own business is even better. As the saying goes, the court can get benefits, and our Xue family can use this to establish our position in Dayong Commercial Bank. As the so-called mutual benefit and win-win situation, wouldn't it be better?"

Seeing this, Mr. Zhuang pursed his lips in an indistinct manner. The reason why Xue Zhizhang took over all these businesses was because of the political considerations involved. Zhuang Shaoyou also knew a thing or two.But now that Xue Pan has made such a move, will it...

Suddenly there were two slamming knocks at the door, and the shop clerk stood outside and said cautiously: "Master, a young master wants to see you?"

Xue Pan frowned, put the jug in his hand on the table casually, raised his eyebrows and asked, "Who is it?"

The closed door was gently pushed open, a slender young man with a clean complexion stepped in with his hands behind his back, and said with a calm smile, "Me."