Chapter 49 The Poor Emperor

Emperor Jiajing sat upright on the golden tent cushion, his posture of holding the Yuan and guarding the One did not change at all. He still closed his eyes and asked calmly, "What's the important matter?"

Huang Jin took a deep breath and said, "It's about Prince Yu's candy shop."

Emperor Jiajing frowned slightly, "Didn't I ask you to handle it? What happened?"

Huang Jin said quickly, "I deserve to die. I didn't explain the situation clearly. Just now, Meng Chong, the chief eunuch of Prince Yu's Mansion, came over. He was ordered by Prince Yu to ask me to come forward to settle the matter. I thought that the emperor had already ordered me to do it, so I agreed. As a result."

Huang Jin was about to say that at the critical moment, Emperor Jiajing snorted and laughed, "San'er can take advantage of the situation, he has made progress. Go on, what is the result."

Huang Jin said: "In the end, Meng Chong told me that as long as I can settle the matter, Prince Yu will be willing to give me one-third of the profits from Yirantang."

Upon hearing this, Emperor Jiajing could not help but burst out laughing. "San'er has already bribed the people around me. Not bad, not bad. It seems that Gao Gong is still somewhat useful. He can teach San'er some real skills and does not instill the old master's morality into San'er as an inviolable criterion."

"Since San'er is giving you three points of profit, you should just take it. My sons are afraid because I can't see them. If they can get closer to you, it will also make them feel at ease and they won't be thinking about what I will do all day long."

Huang Jin said nervously: "The emperor's three points of profit are too much, I dare not take it."

Emperor Jiajing said with a smile, "How much can a three-tenth profit be? It's probably only a few hundred taels of silver. Didn't you hear San'er say that this Yiran candy is a magical item brought out from the Utopia by Master Zhang? It must be extremely valuable. San'er doesn't have much to earn."

Huang Jin felt like he was going crazy after hearing Emperor Jiajing's nonchalant words. Was he even allowed to speak?

If the profit was really a few hundred taels, would Huang Jin have to turn around and talk about it immediately?

This is really an underestimation of the status of the ancestor of the Imperial Household Department.

Huang Jin took a deep breath, "Emperor, the three-tenths of profit that Prince Yu gave to this servant is not a few hundred taels of silver, but ten thousand taels!"

Emperor Jiajing laughed again, "Look at what you have accomplished. It's only ten thousand. How much do you think it is?!"

Emperor Jiajing was instantly defeated, and his meditation posture was instantly messed up. He turned around and stared at Huang Jin and asked, "How much did you say? San'er's three-tenths of the profit is ten thousand taels?"

Huang Jin couldn't help shrinking her neck when Emperor Jiajing stared at her like that. "Yes, Your Majesty, it's a full 10,000 taels. How dare I take it?"

Emperor Jiajing's eyes turned involuntarily, apparently he was still shocked by the astonishing news that three points of profit could bring in ten thousand taels.

"This little bastard actually cheated me. I've already given you several hundred taels of silver in the past half month, and you still don't tell me the truth?"

Although Emperor Jiajing was cursing Zhu Zaigui, he turned around and laughed happily, "What a good son of mine! He is worthy of being my son. He has such ability at such a young age. Three cents of profit equals ten thousand taels!! Very good, very good!"

Emperor Jiajing danced with joy in excitement. Finally, after he suppressed his emotions, Emperor Jiajing said to Huang Jin sternly, "Handle him severely! Must handle him severely! How dare a dog steal his master's things? How can this be tolerated? Bring the people from the East Factory to give Yan Song a good beating, so that he can clearly know who can be moved and who cannot be moved. If you are really old, then get out of here early and don't waste my time!"

Huang Jin quickly replied: "Yes, I will obey your order."

Huang Jin then asked in a low voice: "Emperor, will I still accept Prince Yu's three-tenths of the profit?"

Emperor Jiajing said as a matter of course: "Accept it, why not? Since it is the Third Son's filial piety to me, how can I not accept it?"

Huang Jin was confused. Wasn't this for him? How did it suddenly become for Emperor Jiajing?

Huang Jin didn't dare to ask more, let alone say more.

Huang Jin said: "I will take my leave."

Emperor Jiajing hummed, "Go ahead."

After watching Huang Jin leave again, Emperor Jiajing could no longer sit still.

He stood up and paced back and forth in the abode, the excitement on his face never stopped, and the immortal spirit in the past seemed to have disappeared at this moment. Emperor Jiajing walked to the imperial desk and took out the budget listed by the Ministry of Works for the construction of the "Four Rings" of the capital. "Three million taels of silver, these bastards will spend my money, none of them can save me from worry. San'er is still considerate."

During the Jiajing period, the population of the capital had already exceeded the city limits planned during the Yongle period, so management efficiency was needed to cope with the increasing population.

In the past two years, Jingzhao Yin and the Ministry of Works have also begun to submit memorials proposing the expansion of the capital's urban area.

That is, a larger outer city will be built on the basis of the Forbidden City, the Imperial City and the existing city walls to accommodate more population, which is the "Fourth Ring Road".

But how easy is it to expand the urban area?

The ancient cities are not the modern cities of the future. In addition to meeting the daily living needs of the people in the city, the ancient cities also undertook the important task of defense.

Therefore, expanding the urban area meant that the court would have to spend a large amount of money to build new defensive walls and dig new moats.

Otherwise, the newly expanded urban area will not be able to play a defensive role at all, and will also become a gap for the enemy's attack.

Therefore, the most worrying thing for Emperor Jiajing during this period was the expansion planning work of the capital's urban area.

Go ahead, I have no money.

No approval, no accommodation.

This is really a headache.

So sometimes Emperor Jiajing would wonder how he could be the emperor?

Isn't it said that the emperor is rich? How come he can't even find enough money to repair the city?

Now seeing that Zhu Zaigui made so much money by selling candy, Emperor Jiajing couldn't help but become curious. He felt that this should be a good opportunity. As for how to put his son's money into his own pocket so naturally and smoothly, this also made Emperor Jiajing start to think cleverly.

You should know that in the original history, Emperor Jiajing's project to expand the capital was an unfinished project. He ran out of money after only building the outer city in the south, and the original U-shaped capital was turned into a convex shape. It has to be said that this is very heartbreaking.

Huang Jin led the Eastern Depot's men and headed straight for Yan's residence without stopping.

A huge group of people suddenly appeared on the streets of the capital, and the people along the way and the officials passing by in the capital couldn't help but be frightened.

Is the emperor going to start another big purge?

Everyone's heart tightened, and they were very afraid of the emergence of such a big prison.

Because once such a large-scale incident happens, there will definitely be more than a few people involved, and if things go wrong, there will be rivers of blood.

Last year, in the case of Prime Minister Xia Yan, it was not just Prime Minister Xia who died, but a series of people.

To this day, the bloody smell of West Market still makes people shudder.

Now, a huge team of factory guards was seen appearing on the streets of the capital, heading towards the East City where many dignitaries gathered.

Who will be the unlucky one this time?

"The East Factory is investigating the case, all outsiders please leave!"

The powerful Dongchang men surrounded the gate of Yan Song's mansion and shouted majestically to the people around who were watching the excitement.

Everyone around was startled. Could it be that the world really had changed?
(End of this chapter)

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