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Chapter 004: Business Opportunities in the Mirror

After Sun Chengzong's guidance, Zhu Youxiao was able to fully confirm that the Emperor of Heaven in history was not a foolish monarch, but a wise monarch.

Emperor Tianqi reigned for seven years. Although there were some turmoil in the Ming Dynasty, it basically calmed down and was generally stable.

On the contrary, Emperor Chongzhen immediately activated the Donglin Party after he took office. As a result, he started to cause a peasant uprising that year, and wild boar skins entered the pass and robbed them. Then the situation became uncontrollable and was obviously ruined by the Donglin Party.

But since the general direction of the Apocalypse Emperor in history is correct, why did he fail in the end? The main reason is that the Apocalypse Emperor died suddenly seven years after he ascended the throne.

Today's time traveler Zhu Youxiao secretly speculated that the Emperor of Apocalypse in history was most likely to have been infected with a chronic poison, or even poisoned before attacking the Donglin Party, which led to the complete break between Emperor of Apocalypse and the Donglin Party. After four years of persistence, he died.

Even if Empress Zhang was poisoned and miscarried when she was pregnant, it might be the work of the Donglin Party. If Empress Zhang gave birth to a son, it means that even if Emperor Tianqi was poisoned to death, Empress Zhang's son would definitely ascend to the throne, and Empress Zhang would not be as easy as Li Xuanshi. If Empress Zhang became the Empress Dowager, she would probably continue the will of Emperor Tianqi and might cultivate a second emperor like Wanli.

The emperor was the one who fought to death in the late Ming Dynasty.

This made Zhu Youxiao, who has traveled through time, feel a strong sense of crisis. His life is unsafe! If the Donglin Party members cannot fight in the court, they will likely use despicable means to poison the emperor to death in the palace, and then support a brainwashed royal family to ascend the throne.

Zhu Youxiao decided to endure it while strengthening his own safety.

The most dangerous thing is those imperial doctors, Zhu Changluo died in one month after he ascended the throne, which was killed by the doctor. There is a theory about the combination of Chinese medicine, called "Four Qi, Five Flavors, and Seven Emotions". According to this theory, putting some non-toxic drugs together will form a highly toxic, which makes people not careful.

If you want to not seek medical treatment, you should not touch the beauty randomly and insist on exercising.

For the sake of his life, Zhu Youxiao, who originally wanted to hug him in the harem, could only give up this idea temporarily. Anyway, his body was only fourteen years old and belonged to the category of minors. So Zhu Youxiao sleeps alone in the Yangxin Palace every night. He has stopped going to the Qianqing Palace recently, and he died there in a row. After living for a few days, he felt creepy, so he moved to the Yangxin Palace to live.

At the same time, Li Jinzhong was appointed to admiral the East Factory, but Li Jinzhong lived up to expectations and quickly rectified the East Factory, allowing Zhu Youxiao to control this royal secret service agency.

It seems that only Li Jinzhong is the eunuch who can be used by him. Wang An and the Donglin Party colluded with each other and were a veritable rebel. They were scattered and helped the Donglin Party poach the country's flaws.

Li Jinzhong should still be able to use it. The reason why history records Zhu Youxiao, Wei Zhongxian and Keshi so unbearable is that the Donglin Party failed in the political struggle, so it was so crazy that it was poured dirty water on Zhu Youxiao, Wei Zhongxian and Keshi. Those merchants had a lot of financial resources and had a lot of people and power, and had already controlled the public opinion in the world. It was too easy to throw dirty water on a person.

Zhu Youxiao insisted on going to court every day during this period, but soon found that he had become a puppet. The government affairs in the court were basically controlled by the Donglin Party. Zhu Youxiao, who was completely unable to interfere in the court affairs, simply announced that he had lasted an early court every seven days, and was too lazy to get up early every morning to suffer.

Winter is gradually coming and the temperature begins to drop. It is already the Little Ice Age, and the winter in the capital is very cold.

On that day, Zhu Youxiao saw two eunuchs from the direct palace supervisors (the cleaning department) wearing thin clothes while sweeping the floor in the corridor and trembling with the cold wind.

In contrast, the emperor usually hides in the palace and burns charcoal fire, which is very warm and comfortable.

"Li Jinzhong, please give more clothes to the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace and give more charcoal to each palace." Zhu Youxiao Li Jinzhong ordered, but Li Jinzhong said in embarrassment: "Your Majesty, there is not much money in the treasury."

Zhu Youxiao was stunned for a moment, then reacted and sighed. Yes! There was no money, and even the funds needed for purchasing in the palace were in short supply.

Did you find a way to make some money? Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but have such an idea.

The Donglin Party obviously cannot be eradicated in a short time. Before it cannot guarantee its own safety, fighting against the Donglin Party is seeking death.

So before that, it was completely unrealistic to impose commercial taxes to improve national finances.

In this case, you can only make money by yourself. It was normal for the emperors of the Ming Dynasty to have imperial shops and imperial shops, and it was normal for the emperor to run business by himself. Especially Emperor Wanli, in order to maintain the national finance, he expanded the scale of the emperor's shop a lot and sent eunuchs out of the palace to collect mining taxes.

However, profits of imperial stores require a certain scale to accumulate to make up for the national finances, and dozens of imperial stores alone are useless.

There are many industries that make huge profits, including salt, iron, wine, tobacco monopoly, and various monopoly businesses that can make huge profits. However, these huge profits need to be supported by the state's violent machines. At present, Zhu Youxiao is still a puppet emperor. If he implements monopoly, it will touch the interests of the merchants behind the Donglin Party, so the distance cannot save the near fire for the time being.

Just when Zhu Youzhai was confused, Zhu Youzhai saw that Keshi, who was serving his daily life, was dressing up with a glass mirror the size of a palm. Zhu Youzhai looked stunned and asked, "Is this?"

"Your Majesty, this is a artificial mirror made by Folangji." Keshi replied, not feeling strange about this kind of mirror.

Franjiren? It should be the Portuguese. The Portuguese and the Ming Dynasty had traded. The Ming Dynasty established a city dedicated to trade in Macau. However, it was not the Portuguese concession. At this time, Macau was still under the management of the court.

"This should not be made by Franchise, but by Italian." Zhu Youxiao made a judgment.

"Italian? What is that?" Kess asked strangely.

"It's a country in Europa." Zhu Youxiao smiled and asked immediately: "Didn't we have such a mirror produced in the Ming Dynasty?"

"It seems that there isn't. This thing is too expensive. It costs hundreds of taels of silver for one." Keshi said.

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but be amazed when he heard this. This thing is really too expensive. A mirror costs hundreds of taels, which is even faster than robbery! Zhu Youxiao looked carefully and saw that it was a very ordinary glass mirror.

"Li Jinzhong, please send someone out to investigate this kind of mirror immediately." Zhu Youxiao immediately realized the business opportunity and immediately ordered Li Jinzhong to investigate the market.
Chapter completed!
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