Hearing Zhu Xiongying's question, Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a moment and said,
"Not much, thirty thousand taels."
Zhu Yuanzhang said smugly,
"In order to bargain, I summoned those lecherous people into the palace and personally bargained with them. Originally, they had offered a price of at least 100,000 taels of silver for a palace as large as Earth Tranquility Palace.”
Zhu Xiongying continued to ask,
"Then, does Royal Grandfather know how much it costs to make this glass?”
Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned, and he suddenly had a bad premonition.
"This formula has always been in the hands of the Persians. It's impossible for us to know the cost…"
Zhu Xiongying slowly extended three fingers.
Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned.
asked tentatively
"Three thousand taels?"
Zhu Xiongying shook his head.
"That's three hundred taels?"
Zhu Xiongying still shook his head.
"It can't be thirty taels, right?"
Zhu Xiongying sighed.
"Three hundred coins."
At this moment, Old Zhu suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of suffocation in his heart.
" Three hundred coins?!"
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Xiongying in disbelief, his chest heaving up and down.
Ever since he ascended the throne, it had always been Old Zhu taking advantage of the merchants.
He had never expected that the merchants would take advantage of him. For a moment, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't accept this fact.
"Impossible! It was absolutely impossible! Even if I give them a hundred guts, they wouldn't dare to lie to me like this!”
Zhu Xiongying pulled the small abacus at the side and clicked his tongue.
"Imperial Grandfather might not know, but the raw material of this glass is ordinary sand.”
Sand…
Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned on the spot as if he had been hit by a stick.
Sand!
"And many materials can be used to burn paper glass. It's just that the cost of using sand is lower.”
Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth twitched.
Zhu Xiongying took out a ring from his pocket and said,
"Imperial Grandfather, look. This is our relatively high-quality glass. It's completely crystal clear and truly colorless glass. Just now, the cost of 300 wen was for this kind of colorless glass.”
"Then…what about this kind of colored one?"
"The cost can be reduced by half."
150 wen!
This was only one palace of the Palace of Earthly Tranquility!
The entire Forbidden City had more than nine thousand houses, and Da Ming spent a full ten years and nearly three million taels of silver to build them.
According to Zhu Xiongying.
Nearly a million taels of silver had been earned by the Persians!
"Bastard!"
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't hold it in anymore.
Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's roar, Empress Ma, who was hiding outside the room, immediately pushed the door open and entered.
" Chongba, Ying 'er is a child. Why are you arguing with a child…"
Zhu Xiongying raised his head and smiled at Empress Ma.
"Grandmother, Imperial Grandfather is not scolding Ying 'er, he is scolding those unscrupulous merchants.”
Hearing Zhu Xiong Ying's words, Empress Ma couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.
Zhu Yuanzhang gritted his teeth and looked at Zhu Xiongying.
"No way! Ying 'er, I don't believe it. You have to let me see it with my own eyes before I believe it!”
Zhu Yuanzhang was still unwilling to accept this cruel reality.
Back then, when he was bargaining.
He had brought a whole court of civil and military officials to discuss for a full day and night before coming up with such a bargaining plan.
In the end, the Persians earned 20,000 taels with tears in their eyes?
"Imperial Grandfather will follow Ying 'er to the village outside the city tomorrow.”
Zhu Yuanzhang clenched his teeth and said,
"Alright, we'll go outside the city with you tomorrow!”
……
……
Jinling Pu Clan
From the outside, the Pu Clan's residence looked like an unremarkable residence.
However, after entering the courtyard, it suddenly became clear that the exotic flowers and plants planted in the surroundings were all from various countries.
Although the Pu family was not Han, they had lived in the Central Plains for ten generations. Since the change of Song and Yuan Dynasties, they had been deeply indebted to the Song Dynasty. They had made a fortune in Quanzhou because of the spice business. After Bayan captured Lin 'an, the family leader Pu Shougeng did not hesitate to surrender the Yuan Dynasty and even massacred the Zhao and Song royal families in Quanzhou.
After the fall of the Yuan Dynasty, the Pu family's business was booming day by day. Pu Shougeng, who was promoted to Quanzhou's shipping department, gradually monopolized all the spice business in the entire Central Plains with his identity as an official and a merchant.
Once upon a time, Shen Wansan was not even worth mentioning in front of the Pu Family.
However, after Da Ming was re-established.
Everything was over.
The Pu clan that once commanded the wind and rain no longer had an official position.
He gradually became an ordinary businessman.
But a centipede would not die, Pu Clan's vitality was still there, Pu Clan would not be willing to fall from the altar.
In recent years, Pu clan had been in close contact with the Jiangnan aristocrats.
He had finally saved some of his basic assets.
In the middle of the courtyard, an old perverted man was tending to the flowers and plants.
The butler beside him finished reporting on today's West Park exam.
Pu Hongxi, the Patriarch of the Pu Clan, froze on the spot.
"This great grandson of Great Ming will definitely become a great disaster in the future.”
"Then, Master, what should we do now?”
Pu Hongxi couldn't help but snort coldly,
"How can the gentry allow this child to inherit the throne? Don't worry, the Shi clan is probably already thinking of a way. Take fifty thousand taels of silver and immediately go find Jiang Xiahou Zhou Dexing. When he built the city in Min, I had some friendship with him.”
The butler's expression changed.
"Master, this is a capital crime!"
Pu Hongxi's face was filled with disdain.
"Death penalty? Why was it a death sentence? You only bring silver and don't say a word. From now on, send it every ten days, fifty thousand taels each time. Be careful not to be targeted by the Embroidered Uniform Guards.”
"What? It's…"
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