Ming Dynasty: The Rampant Crown Prince

Noon.

Heavy rain.

Dark clouds obscured the sky, and majestic raindrops fell from the dim clouds, and pedestrians who took shelter from the rain under the eaves on both sides of the street carefully avoided the splashes from the ground.

The most melancholy is the summer rain, it is so gloomy, so gray, meditating in the mist and rain, so that people can experience the loneliness of life.

In the open street, a luxurious carriage was moving, and a large, long and wide golden canopy stood on it, completely covering the entire body, and even the horses.

Behind the carriage, hundreds of brocade guards wearing robes, hats, and scimitars at their waists followed quickly, and Zhang Huaibin rode around the carriage and followed closely.

"Your Highness, it's raining so hard, why are you still coming out, how hard it is."

Jiang Xuezhu hugged her three-year-old sister, opened the car window, looked at the heavy rain outside, and suddenly shivered.

"It's May, and the weather is still so cold."

As he spoke, he covered the blanket wrapped around his sister more tightly.

"One of them is to give you a break."

Zhu Cihong leaned back, looked at the street outside through a crack in the car window, and said: "Second, your cooking skills are too poor, take you to eat things outside, let you learn to cook, and third, let you meet your father."

"It's only been a long time since I've eaten my food, and I'm starting to dislike it."

Jiang Xuezhu originally heard the previous sentence, and she was still a little happy in her heart, but she didn't expect that the next sentence began to dislike her.

"Really?"

However, when she heard that she could see her father, her watery eyes suddenly revealed a look of surprise.

Zhu Cihong turned his head to look at her and smiled slightly.

In the final analysis, Jiang Xuezhu is just a ten-year-old girl, even if the ancients matured early, but the age is here, she still looks like a child.

Of course it's cute.

"Your Highness, Jufu Building has arrived."

The carriage stopped, and the eunuch who drove the car opened the door, whispered a reminder, and then got out of the car, holding up a large yellow umbrella, big enough to protect five or six people from the rain.

Zhu Cihong walked into the restaurant, and then Jinyiwei put martial law in the restaurant, although he did not disturb the guests who dined in the rainy area, but as soon as they entered, the restaurant immediately quieted down for a long time, and they did not dare to speak loudly and chat.

The people living in the capital are very knowledgeable, it can be said that there are officials everywhere in the capital, and this pomp and circumstance can be seen at a glance that they are not ordinary officials, and they naturally dare not make loud noises, for fear of getting into trouble.

"Zhang Huaibin, you can order something to eat in the next room, you don't have to guard me."

Zhu Cihong walked into a room and said to Zhang Huaibin, who followed in.

"Seventeen of you go to the next room for dinner and rest."

When Zhang Huaibin heard this, he turned to the other seventeen brothers and said, but he still followed Zhu Cihong into the room and stood aside like a benchmark.

"Go and pass Jiang Ming and Li Ruolian over."

Zhu Cihong said to the eunuch on the side, and then began to order, and said, "Zhang Huaibin, you can also sit." "

Your Highness, it's not very beneficial."

Zhang Huaibin stood still in place.

"Uncle, let's sit down together."

Jiang Xuezhu also said with a smile.

Zhang Huaibin glanced at her and didn't speak, His Highness can be very good to them, but they can't really be unruly.

"Then set up another table next to it."

Zhu Cihong had no choice but to say so.

Soon, a table of dishes was served, Zhu Cihong tasted a few bites, and then he had no appetite, this ancient dish was the same, because the condiments were not complete, the taste was not to his taste.

"Your Highness, Jiang Ming and Li Ruolian are waiting outside."

At this time, a eunuch shouted outside the door.

"Let them in."

Zhu Cihong put down the dishes and chopsticks and wiped his lips with a handkerchief.

"The villain Jiang Ming has seen the adult."

As soon as Jiang Ming walked into the room, he bent down and saluted, but he kept staring at his two daughters out of the corner of his eye.

"Daddy."

When Jiang Xuezhu saw Jiang Ming coming in, she immediately threw herself into her father's arms happily.

Then the father and daughter shushed for a while, and Zhu Cihong did not interrupt the warm moment of their father and daughter, but looked at Li Ruolian.

"Your Highness."

Seeing this, Li Ruolian immediately trotted over, bent down and whispered in front of Zhu Cihong.

"Has this restaurant been auctioned off?"

Zhu Cihong raised his hand to signal the other party to get up, and then asked softly, this restaurant was originally the property of Guozhang Zhou Kui, and after the Guozhang Mansion was destroyed, these properties were naturally taken over by him by Jinyiwei.

Originally, he planned to auction it out for cash, but now, he decided to let Jiang Ming run it for him.

"Not yet, not only this restaurant, but also several rice shops, cloth shops, and pharmacies that have been seized have not been auctioned yet."

Li Ruolian replied in a low voice.

"Don't auction it, stay all."

"I know, I'm going to order all properties to cancel the auction."

After Li Ruolian finished speaking, he walked out of the door.

After Jiang Ming greeted his daughter, he learned that the person who sold the lives of their father and daughter was actually His Royal Highness the current Crown Prince, and he was immediately scared into a cold sweat.

His Jiang family is just a businessman, and the status of a businessman in Daming is very low, but he didn't expect to be so close to His Royal Highness the current Crown Prince.

"The grass people meet His Royal Highness the Prince!"

After Jiang Ming saw that Zhu Cihong and Li Ruolian had finished talking, he immediately came to Zhu Cihong and knelt down and kowtowed.

"Get up and take Jiang Xuezhu out to play."

Zhu Cihong smiled and pointed to the eunuch at the door.

After Jiang Xuezhu went out, it happened that Li Ruolian also came back at this time.

"Li Ruolian, hand over all the properties that have not yet been auctioned off to Jiang Ming to take care of."

Zhu Cihong pointed to Jiang Ming on the side, and said: "Jiang Ming, there will be more business for you to take care of in the future, do a good job, this palace guarantees that your Jiang family will be glorious and honorable." "

The life of the grass people is yours of Your Highness, the grass people must be..."

Jiang Ming heard this, of course he knew that this was an opportunity to leap into the dragon gate, so he immediately swore to speak, but he was interrupted in the middle of speaking.

"Don't worry."

Zhu Cihong waved his hand, directly interrupted the other party, and said: "But if you don't do it well, or if you take care of so much business, you can't make money, but you have to lose money, then this palace will not be worth saving the lives of your father and daughter, and when the time comes..."

"The villain understands."

Jiang Ming wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, and said: "The villain's family has been in business for generations, and they have never lost money in business, please rest assured, the villain is also a crawler, and he will never let His Highness's business have a loss!"

How could he not hear His Highness's threatening tone, but he knew in his heart that this opportunity was greater than the danger, and he was confident that he could do a good job.

"That's okay, this palace is very easy to talk to, and when things are done, it's easy to say anything."

Zhu Cihong suddenly laughed, and said: "Doing business inevitably involves dealing with officials, and when the time comes, if you have any difficulties that cannot be solved, or if someone deliberately embarrasses you, go directly to Jinyiwei." "

Li Ruolian."

"The minister is here."

"Give Jiang Ming a sticker for your brocade guard."

Of course, this kind of care has to be given, this is his Zhu Cihong's business, it is impossible to look at other people's faces in everything, and he has to bribe those who are officials.

"Let's get a chamber of commerce, this chamber of commerce is called the Longmen Chamber of Commerce."

Zhu Cihong tapped his fingers on the table, thought for a while, and said, "It is best to be the largest chamber of commerce in the country." "

If you just run a few stores, you can't make the climate, if you want to make a lot of money, you have to make it big.

"That's what the villain means."

Jiang Ming is very smart, of course he knows that His Royal Highness the Prince's appetite is by no means so small as a few shops, although his Jiang family has a lot of business in the past, most of them are in the shop model, one is not enough money, and the other is that there are not enough manpower, and the network is not enough, so it cannot be developed.

The status of businessmen is already low, and if they want to become big, they can't do it without an official background, but now that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has a background, then naturally everything will be unimpeded.

"Li Ruolian, go and take Jiang Ming to receive the industry."

"Thank you, Your Royal Highness, Prince, the villain, the grace of heaven is mighty!"

Jiang Ming knelt down and kowtowed three times in a row, and then retreated with Li Ruolian.

Zhu Cihong looked at the closed door, these shops can only make a small amount of money, and if they want to make a lot of money, they have to destroy the eight imperial merchants in Shanxi and take over all the businesses of these eight families.

He remembered that these eight imperial merchants operated a lot of industries, such as smuggling grain, clothing, cloth, tea, illegal salt, cooking utensils, gunpowder, metal, porcelain, and money.