False Eunuch: With Many Children, I'm as Happy as a Fish in Water

It's late autumn now, and winter is about to cool down.

Most of the victims outside the city can only live in simple shacks.

As the White Lotus Rebellion continues, these victims will not be able to return to their hometowns to farm.

If we wait until winter, less than 30% of these victims will survive!

Therefore, Lin Chen planned to take advantage of these victims.

From a certain perspective, these victims are not a burden, but a wealth to be developed!

Lin Chen already had a plan in mind for this.

Of course, for now, I have to go and talk to Guan Wan'er first.

"Ziwei Chamber of Commerce?"

Li Zhao looked strange after hearing what Shangguan Wan'er said.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, what Lin Chen said is to establish a Ziwei Chamber of Commerce, in which Your Majesty will participate."

Shangguan Wan'er thought of what Lin Chen said to her, and her thoughts were similar to Li Zhao's.

Let the emperor do business, what do you think? !

"Lin Chen means that your Majesty would like you to endorse the Chamber of Commerce." Shangguan Wan'er added.

The so-called endorsement means, to a certain extent, borrowing the emperor's own prestige.

"This Lin Chen is so brave!"

Li Zhao, who seemed to be irritated, reprimanded angrily.

But the next second, Li Zhao glanced at the details of the memorial written by Lin Chen.

"Hey, this..."

According to what Lin Chen said, if nothing unexpected happens, the Ziwei Chamber of Commerce can contribute at least five million taels of profit to the emperor's inner treasury every year!

Five million taels? !

Li Zhao took a breath of cold air.

For her, now that the state treasury can run away with money, only the inner treasury still has some surplus.

But the remaining balance is only about two million taels of silver.

This money must also be used to cover all expenses in the palace.

Because of this, Li Zhao didn't even have the money to build a palace.

If there is really so much profit, so what if she comes to endorse this Ziwei Chamber of Commerce!

Even if she was impeached by the imperial censor for competing with the people for profit, it didn't matter to her!

These guys will only be sanctimonious, saying that I am competing for profits with the people, but in fact they are making a lot of money for themselves!

"In that case, I agree!"

"Ah~" Shangguan Wan'er was stunned for a moment.

Your Majesty, your tone sounded like you were planning to punish Lin Chen.

There was no other way, Lin Chen even dared to draw cakes for the emperor!

Of course, the memorial written by Lin Chen also included a request to grant Xue Biao the status of Imperial Merchant.

The key point is that Xue Biao donated his family property and contributed to the rebellion of the White Lotus Sect.

Furthermore, since Xue Biao was the public face of the Ziwei Chamber of Commerce, the emperor had to give him some benefits.

As the saying goes, if you want a horse to run, you must feed it.

Li Zhao naturally understands this truth.

"However...this Xue Tadashi deserves to be rewarded for his merits, so let's first restore his ancestor Ziwei Sheren's official position."

The so-called Ziwei Sheren was, to put it bluntly, a seventh-grade civil servant.

The reason why the Xue family can grow big in Jinling lies in the status of Huangshang.

The implication is to tell outsiders that the Xue family has a very close relationship with the royal family.

After all, those who do purchasing work for the royal family are almost the emperor's alternative white gloves for making money.

Li Zhao planned to wait until the Ziwei Chamber of Commerce really sent the profits to the internal treasury, and then reward Xue Biao with the title of Imperial Merchant.

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At the same time, the young man who followed Xue Biao to the capital was busy recruiting workers.

"The Ziwei Chamber of Commerce is recruiting workers, and it costs ten dollars a day, including two meals! Only three thousand people!"

"The Ziwei Chamber of Commerce is recruiting workers!"

Many of them were the clerks and shopkeepers who managed the Xue Biao family property in Jinling.

These people were arranged by Xue Biao to recruit workshop workers, and they were professional counterparts.

"Really?!"

"I, I sign up!"

Inside the camp for victims of disaster outside the city.

As soon as the news came out, countless people were willing to work.

You know, these victims only have two bowls of gruel to feed themselves every day.

These two bowls of gruel can, at best, keep people alive.

"Don't mess up, don't mess up!"

Wang Wu, who was newly married but had to return to the military camp, today led his soldiers to maintain order in the camp for victims of the disaster.

As for Lin Chen, he was inspecting the land purchased by Xue Biao in the suburbs of Beijing.

According to Xue Biao, it cost thirty thousand silver taels just to obtain the land deed here from the government.

The reason is that this wasteland is close to a canal, which has the convenience of water conservancy.

"How many people have been recruited?"

Lin Chen looked at Xue Biao, who had an excited look on his eyebrows, and asked with a smile.

"There are five thousand people!"

After Xue Biao really got the official position bestowed upon Ziwei Sheren by the emperor, his whole spirit changed.

Although this Ziwei Sheren has an idle official position and does not have any real power in his hands.

Hearing this, Lin Chen's eyes flashed with a flash of thought.

"How many days will it take to build this workshop?"

"According to what the craftsman said, it will take ten days."

"Is that so?" Lin Chen nodded thoughtfully, then took out a drawing made on rice paper and handed it to Xue Biao.

"As shown in the drawings, let the craftsmen build the instruments."

Once upon a time, Lin Chen, as a frequent visitor to political circles, had seen many teaching strategies that taught travelers how to make a fortune in ancient times.

Glass, perfume, refined salt and icing sugar.

Now that winter is approaching, there is still the killer weapon of briquettes.

"After remembering it, destroy it."

Seeing that Xue Biao was fascinated, Lin Chen reminded him.

"Yes!" Xue Biao was extremely excited.

He understood that the drawings Lin Chen gave him were the techniques for refining refined salt and icing sugar.

In Xue Biao's view, such important craftsmanship are handed down from generation to generation in anyone's home.

But he didn't expect Lin Chen to give it to him directly!

Such trust made Xue Biao not even know what to say.

Lin Chen didn't know what Xue Biao was thinking at this time. He just looked at the other direction of the canal, slightly lost in thought.

"On the contrary...it seems that I still have two famous generals in Qing Dynasty in Jia Mansion."

He suddenly thought of this matter and planned to visit Lin Chen at Jia's residence someday.

At first, Jia Zheng used Jia Gongjun as an introduction, but now Lin Chen can also use this to come to express his gratitude.

Going back and forth, isn't it a simple matter to ask for two domestic slaves?

Suddenly.

Lin Chen heard the rapid sound of horse hooves behind him.

Looking back, it was Yang Zhi coming on horseback.

Um?

The other party is not practicing martial arts and military formations in the camp, so what is it doing here?

"grown ups!"

Yang Zhi turned over and dismounted, knelt down and said, "There is an urgent military situation, please return to camp!"

"Military emergency?"

Lin Chen's expression changed slightly when he heard this.

"Walk!"

Lin Chen said, grabbing the reins of a war horse, getting on his horse and heading towards the military camp in the capital.

When Lin Chen felt the military camp, he saw several eunuchs in red standing at the door.

This style of clothing seems to be that of a young eunuch in charge of setting up a supervisory department.

Lin Chen's status as a eunuch in the palace was still that of the Chief Supervisor.

"General Lin?"

"Exactly a certain family."

"Your Majesty has a decree to summon Lin Chenjia into the palace!"

When Lin Chen heard the decree read out by the little eunuch, he became more and more surprised.

certainly.

Lin Chen didn't think much and went straight into the palace.

In the palace.

Lin Chen was not the only one who was summoned.

Lin Chen glanced over and saw that the six tribes, generals and ministers were all present.

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