Ming Dynasty: I, Zhu Gaoyun, inherited the command of Ju Ling.

83: Zhu Di: Thinking about the fourth Danfang, if you have the ability, you can go to him and ask for it!

Ten days is naturally not a problem for Zhu Di.

He is now accustomed to piling up the national fortune value every day, compared to the national fortune value that can only be saved in a few months, ten days is simply a short concept!

What hurts Zhu Di's egg the most is the time and space shuttle!

10,000 points can only be activated once, that is, he needs to save at least three more months of national fortune value before he can start the time shuttle once!

And during this period, you can't use the national fortune value casually, let alone deduce other people, even if you ask a few questions casually, this period will be extended indefinitely!

The most critical problem is how to save enough national fortune value, and get together all the five people you want to bring!

The three brothers Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Gaochu and Zhu Gaosui, as well as the emperor's grandson Zhu Zhanji, don't need to say much, they are in Yingtianfu and can be seen at any time!

The main one is the fourth Zhu Gaoxian, who is still in Shandong today!

If you don't go to him yourself, you can only call him back!

But if he goes to Shandong, the crown prince Zhu Gaochi will definitely have to stay in Beijing to supervise the country, that is to say, at least Zhu Gaochi will definitely not be able to go to Shandong!

The best way is to recall Zhu Gaoxian directly!

"That's it, after you have saved enough national fortune value, let's find a way, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge, I am the emperor, can't I let the family be neat?"

After thinking about it for a long time, Zhu Di didn't think of a good way, so he simply didn't want to.

That would be months later, anyway!

So the next day, there were four letters through different channels, directly towards the Shandong Qi Palace!

Two of them are from the palace, one is from Zhu Di and the other is from the crown prince Zhu Gaochi!

The other two letters are from Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han and Zhu Gaosui, the king of Zhao!

The four fathers, sons, and brothers almost unanimously wrote letters to Zhu Gaoxian, as if they had discussed it!

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Shandong, Qi Wangfu.

Zhu Gaoxian was sitting in the study, looking at the account book that Princess Li had just sorted out!

One of the most important is the accounting of the salt business!

The direct development of the salt industry is the first thing Zhu Gaoxian did after coming to the fiefdom of Shandong, and it is also the most important pillar industry that has been developed today!

It has been two years since the domain, and now the salt factory produces as much as 15,000 stones of refined salt every month, and one stone in the Ming Dynasty is 150 catties, that is to say, the output of the salt factory is more than 2.2 million catties a month, which is about equal to more than 1,000 tons in later generations!

According to the salt intake standards of later generations, the total annual salt intake of one million people is about 2,000 tons.

In other words, the output of more than 1,000 tons a month is enough for half a million people to eat for a year!

In the early Ming Dynasty, the total population of the people in Shandong was only more than 3 million, that is to say, even with the current output standard, the total output of the salt factory reached more than 10,000 tons a year, which is enough for five million people to eat for a year!

During the Yuan Dynasty, the population of Shandong even plummeted from more than 7 million at the peak of the Song Dynasty to 1.5 million.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, from the Hongwu period to the Yongle period, after more than a dozen large migrations, hundreds of thousands of people from Shanxi have been moved to Shandong!

In this way, Shandong's total population began to slowly recover, and now it has a population of more than 3 million!

For example, there are several counties in Zhu Gaoxian's fiefdom, among which Yantai County is set up as the royal palace, so the total population under his jurisdiction adds up to more than one million, but Yantai County accounts for almost half of the population, and the other counties are relatively withered!

Of course, this is the population counted by Zhu Gaoxian when he first became a feudal domain, and now that two years have passed, the total population of each county has increased by 50,000.

That's a good sign!

"Now the overall salt price in Shandong has returned to a normal level because our salt has dropped to about 70% of the original level!"

Li reported with a smile.

Hong Wuye set the standard at the beginning, salt is the foundation of the people, so the price of 100 catties of salt fluctuates up and down in one tael of silver, the lowest is only 0.8, and the highest is only 1.2 taels of silver!

In other words, the price of a pound of salt is about 10 yuan, and a bucket is about 150 yuan.

However, because of the lack of salt, the subsequent price of salt rose seriously, and the price of a catty even reached 15 Wen.

It can be said that after Zhu Gaoxian's refined salt entered the market, he directly knocked the high salt price back to the prototype!

What's more, the refined salt produced by Zhu Gaoxian's side is of better quality and purer, and he directly dried up those high-priced salts!

There is cheaper and finer table salt, who would buy that high-priced kosher salt?

"What is the current price of table salt?"

Zhu Gaoxian asked.

"One bucket is 100 Wen, leaving enough profit margin for salt merchants to 30-50 Wen!"

Li nodded and said, this is also the standard set by Zhu Gaoxian before, and she has never changed it!

About three or four percent of the profit is enough for these salt merchants to make a lot of money!

"Have we calculated our own costs, and what is the overall profit?"

Zhu Gaoxian asked again.

"The cost is gradually decreasing, from 80 Wen at the beginning, to 60 Wen. As the scale expands again, it should eventually maintain the cost of 50 wen per bucket of salt, of which labor costs account for more than sixty percent!"

Li nodded and said.

"In other words, the profit can finally be controlled between 40-50 wen per bucket, and now the profit of the salt factory every month is eighty or ninety thousand taels!"

A smile appeared on Zhu Gaoxian's face.

This is just the beginning!

Even if it is a profit of about 100,000 taels a month, the income of more than 1 million taels in that year is more than 1 million taels, you must know how much is the annual tax payment of Daming?

"If, according to His Royal Highness's final plan, if you want to supply salt to the entire Ming Dynasty, then you need to expand the production capacity by at least six or seven times!

Lee smiled and nodded.

"If it doesn't work to eat alone, the court will supply at least fifty percent every year, and the specific time will be that the king will talk to the court in person!"

Zhu Gaoxian shook his head slowly.

In his own fiefdom, he himself has the right to make and sell salt, after all, he is a vassal king!

But only within his fiefdom!

Although the imperial court did not stipulate that the salt in the feudal lord's fiefdom was not allowed to flow out, it would make people blush if it was too ugly!

First of all, you can't pass the level of the household department, so everyone must earn money to make it, and the business can last for a long time!

But even so, in the end, Zhu Gaoxian relied on the income from salt every year to earn him two or three million taels of silver, which would not be a problem at all!

"Your Majesty, Princess, I have received a letter from Tianfu!"

At this moment, Zhao Jian prominently appeared at the door of the study to report.

"Oh, from the palace?"

Zhu Gaoxian was stunned when he heard this.

"There are two letters in the palace, as well as His Royal Highness the King of Han and His Royal Highness the King of Zhao!"

Zhao Jian directly handed all four letters to Zhu Gaoxian.

"It's really what you said, the old man asked me for salt!"

Zhu Gaoxian first glanced at Zhu Di's letter, and couldn't help laughing, he knew that this would be the result!

He was also ready a long time ago, and gave half of the output to the imperial court, so that the imperial court would at least have enough refined salt to meet the sales in the Jiangnan region every month!

"Isn't this what His Highness expected?"

"But what does Your Majesty mean by this, do you have time to go back to Yingtianfu in person?"

Li also saw the content of the letter, in addition to the matter of salt, he saw that Zhu Di also talked about some family things, some of them didn't, and the meaning of the words was that although Zhu Gaoxian was a vassal, he had to go back often to see him as a father!

"Without an edict, the vassal king is not allowed to leave the fiefdom, that is the rule set by Taizu, and the old man uses this set!"

"If he really wants this king to go back to see him, wouldn't it be more painful to make a direct will?

Zhu Gaoxian was also puzzled.

"That's right, it seems like I'm waiting for you to take the initiative to ask for a decree, right?"

Lee guessed.

"No, the old man is reminding me and getting ready, I should be called back to Beijing in the near future!"

"But why did he call me back to Beijing?

Zhu Gaoxian shook his head slowly, but he couldn't think of why!

"Since you don't know what Your Majesty means, then you don't want to think about it, you just have a number in your heart, and when Your Majesty really orders you to go back, you won't be caught off guard!"

Li nodded slowly.

"Well, Ai Fei has a point!"

Zhu Gaoxian nodded approvingly.

"But since the old man has brought up this salt matter, then I will also talk about the conditions here, and by the way, I will talk about the matter of opening the sea ban!"

After thinking about it, Zhu Gaoxian began to write a reply to Zhu Di.

Nowadays, the people of Yantai Prefecture, because of the rise of the salt industry, there are also a large number of salt farmers. (If you read a violent novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

In addition to the salt pans dug by Zhu Gaoxian himself, the Qi Wangfu also collected crystal salt, that is, the crystal salt from the salt pan, the kind of toxic salt that has not passed through the brine.

In this way, it can be regarded as allowing the people in the coastal areas to have an additional livelihood, and a lot of salt farmers have been born!

At the same time, this can also increase the refined salt output of Zhu Gaoxian's salt factory!

In addition, the opening of the sea ban is also to let the people of Yantai Mansion have one more way to go, at least so that the original fishermen can go to the sea to fish is no longer a problem!

After replying to Zhu Di, Zhu Gaoxian opened the letter from the other three brothers.

"These three guys are unified, except for the cold and warmth, they are all thinking about the royal shortbread sent last time!"

After reading the letter from the three brothers, Zhu Gaoxian immediately laughed.

Zhu Gaochi himself loves to eat, and Zhu Gaochi knows this, so he will send it every time, and he won't feel anything strange!

But Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaosui don't have such a hobby!

It seems that they should have discovered another mystery in the Shaqima sent last time!

However, if you eat too much of this pill, the effect of the medicine will have no effect, and it will be a waste to give them to eat again!

"Concubine Ai, please make some royal shortbread and send one to each of them!"

After thinking about it, Zhu Gaoxian commanded the Li family.

Anyway, he has already handed over the production method of this shaqima to the Li family, and the Li family has done it himself several times!

"You three brothers are really going to do something!"

Li also stomped his feet speechlessly.

But after all, the Li family finally went to work!

I don't know why, the Li family doesn't have much affection for Zhu Gaoxian's three brothers!

After all, the family still has to intrigue, and she is tired when she looks at it!

And because she came from a humble background, she has never been treated well by the three brothers, and the Li family is so smart, she can already see that when she was in Yingtianfu, King Han and King Zhao took their husbands to get on their thief ship for three days!

As for what to do on a thief ship?

Naturally, it is to earn power!

This kind of thing, if it fails, it's a matter of losing your head!

Therefore, for the two brothers, Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaosui, the Li family is particularly disgusted.

However, Zhu Gaoyi has always treated them with brotherly courtesy, and on the surface, the three brothers are not bad to him as a younger brother, and the Li family is not good to say anything.

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Days passed.

Ying Tianfu Palace.

Zhu Gaochi took the brocade box he had just arrived and went to the imperial study!

He has now found out that it is not safe even to hide in the East Palace, because there is an unconscious son at home who steals his things all day long to honor his imperial grandfather!

Since they are all filial to the old man, then why bother to let that little cub pick up the cheap and come in person, so that the old man can read it, okay?

To put it bluntly, Zhu Gaochi has learned well this time, and he specially came to Zhu Di to offer treasures!

"'Dad, the fourth has sent the royal shortbread over there again!'"

Zhu Gaochi directly put the brocade box in front of Zhu Di.

"Eat, eat, how do you know how to eat?"

Zhu Di was furious when he saw this, what kind of fat has this stinky boy become!

Zhu Gaochi was speechless, but he didn't take it seriously in his heart.

He also knew that the old man himself also liked to eat this shortbread very much, but the old man was embarrassed to talk to the fourth kid in detail, so he could only ask for it as a son!

As for being scolded, he's used to it anyway!

Every time it comes to the problem of eating, he will inevitably be scolded by the old man, but he will not lose a few pieces of meat if he is scolded a few times!

"Then do you eat or not?"

"If you don't eat it, then my son will eat it himself!"

Zhu Gaochi said that he was going to put away the brocade box directly.

"Put it down, who said I won't eat it?"

"I'm also doing this for your own good, what have you become fat? Eat less!"

Zhu Di's eyes immediately widened.

In fact, these shortbreads were also sent to him, after all, the fourth child sent them to Zhu Gaochi, how could he not think about him?

He just wanted to see if Zhu Gaochi's shortbread had added something.

Anyway, the one he sent this time was a normal shortbread, and there was no pill ingredient added!

And the fourth letter also said that this was made by his fourth daughter-in-law!

"I heard from afar that Dad, you were scolding the eldest brother (King Li's) again, what's the matter?"

At this moment, Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaosui also walked in.

I saw that the two brothers were also holding a brocade box in their hands, and they obviously also received the royal shortbread!

"Why do you have the same virtue as the boss?

Looking at the brocade box in the hands of the two brothers, Zhu Di was also speechless!

"So Dad, you're angry about this?"

"This royal shortbread is a good thing!"

Zhu Gaoxu was stunned when he heard this, but then explained to Zhu Di.

"Hmph, I still need to say it. This is a medicinal diet developed by the Qi Palace, and it can indeed strengthen the body!"

Zhu Di glared at Zhu Gaoxu angrily.

"Dad, can you directly ask the fourth child for the recipe of this medicinal diet?"

"If this medicinal diet can be put into the army, the effect can be imagined!"

When Zhu Gaoxu heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly proposed.

"The medicinal ingredients used in this shortbread are all precious and precious herbs, how can they be put into the army?"

"Even if you have so much money, will you come up with so many precious herbs?"

Zhu Di shook his head slowly.

is still in the army, is it really that the elixir refined by the fourth child is cabbage?

He also showed all the brocade boxes brought by the three brothers, which were actually ordinary shortbreads, and did not contain any ingredients in the elixir!

In other words, after Zhu Gaoxu finished eating the shortbread, it was completely psychological, and he felt that the more this thing he ate, the better, but in fact, this shortbread was made by the Li family, and it was not out of the hands of the fourth child!

After all, now Zhu Gaoxu feels infinite energy every day, so under the psychological effect, he feels that this must be the effect of shortbread!

"Dad is right, but my son is not thoughtful!"

"But the fourth child shouldn't be stingy with this medicinal diet formula, right?"

Zhu Gaoxu obviously didn't give up.

"If you have that ability, you can go to the fourth child to ask for it!"

When Zhu Di heard this, he immediately laughed!

Even if the fourth child is really willing to give the Dan Fang to Zhu Gaoxu, this kid will not know how to refine the Dan at all!.