Chapter 493: Fanatical merchant

It stayed warm all night, and the next day Xiao Ming slept lazily until noon to get up. Tian Lai
The pain of running around for a month made him quite exhausted, and he and Fei Yueer were separated for a month, and the two of them were playing and playing in bed, and said something self-conscious.
And for Xiao Ming, Pang Yukun and others' reports are one thing, but Fei Yue'er's personal account is another.
"The Confucian scholars have really become the crossing rats in His Highness's mouth now, and everyone shouted and beat them." Fei Yueer told Xiao Ming about the changes since the last Confucian riot. "But my father wrote from Chang'an, saying that the court is right. This matter is quite controversial. The officials headed by Cui Hao even reprimanded his Royal Highness for rebelling against Confucian classics and not respecting Confucianism, and even asked the emperor to take off the title of His Royal Highness Prince Erzhu."
"Huh, these young people."
Xiao Ming showed disdain. It is precisely because of these talents who can only attack his colleagues, the DPRK government has become ruinous day by day.
"What else did the book in Feizhong say?" Xiao Ming asked. Generally, Fiji would not write to him if there were no important matters.
"Daddy also said that the emperor had suddenly fainted to the ground a few days ago. After waking up, his body was not as good as before, and he was absent from the early morning." Speaking of this, Fei Yue'er's expression also became solemn.
"If I didn't guess wrong, my father is already fifty to nine today," Xiao Ming said in a deep voice.
Fei Yue'er nodded, "That's what Dad said in the letter."
Xiao Ming's eyes narrowed. Fiji's mention of this in the letter must be meaningful. Perhaps in his opinion, Xiao Wenxuan really hasn't lived for a few years this time.
For Xiao Ming, it was not easy for Xiao Wenxuan to live to this age. After all, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was only sixty-nine years old, while the average life span of the emperor in contemporary history was only about thirty-nine years old.
"Well, this king understands."
Xiao Ming frowned. Now Xiao Wenxuan is the support point of the balance of Great Yu Kingdom. He doesn't want Xiao Wenxuan to fall so quickly. After all, he does not want to lose a stable development environment.
But if something really happened, he could only come to cover up the water and cover it up. Now Fiji mentioned this incident to remind him and prepare him.
After all, the minister knew that Xiao Wenxuan was ill, but there were not many people who might have known about Xiao Wenxuan's death, otherwise it would inevitably cause a shock between the government and the opposition.
After talking some gossip, Xiao Ming and Fei Yueer washed and dressed, and after a simple meal, he went to the workshop area.
Regarding the white sugar, Xiao Ming ordered to go down when he returned to Qingzhou. This time he transported sugarcane back from Ryukyu and was transported to Qingzhou when he returned. At the same time, he also came from the white sugar workshop on Ryukyu Island. Craftsman.
These craftsmen will be responsible for helping Xiao Ming build a white sugar workshop in Qingzhou and train a group of sugar craftsmen. He also sent someone to inform Lu Tong when he came back to purify the sulfite of the white sugar.
"His Royal Highness, we brought the sulphurous acid." Lu Tong in the workshop area was already waiting for Xiao Ming. He was holding a glass bottle in which was a sulphurous acid solution.
The manufacturing process of sulfurous acid is actually very simple, but high-temperature calcination of sulfur to obtain sulfur dioxide is passed into water to obtain sulfurous acid. This process is not a problem for Lu Tong and others. After all, they have been able to prepare sulfuric acid.
"From now on, your chemical workshop will be responsible for providing sulphurous acid solution to the white sugar workshop. This king hopes to see clean white sugar in these two days." Xiao Ming said.
The meaning of white granulated sugar to him is not only in eating, but more importantly, it will provide Qingzhou with an industrial classification, allowing him to take the whole industrial system one step further.
Lu Tong had already learned that Xiao Ming wanted sulphurous acid. At this moment, he nodded. He was also very interested in the white sugar. In his opinion, it was also a kind of strange chemical reaction.
At this time, the craftsmen from Ryukyu had already produced the equipment needed for the white sugar workshop with the cooperation of the equipment division craftsmen, and Chen Wenlong selected one of the vacant houses in the workshop area and gave it to these craftsmen.
After inspecting the preliminary preparations of the white granulated sugar workshop, Xiao Ming had a plan in his heart. In his opinion, it would take at least seven days for the formal production.
When he was instructing the craftsman, a loud noise suddenly came. Xiao Ming looked at the source of the sound, and saw that Li Kaiyuan was almost pushed towards him by the merchants. The leading merchants were Cao Zhengyang and Ding Wu. , Dai Zixing three people.
When he got closer, Li Kaiyuan looked helpless. He said: "His Royal Highness, the subordinates can't do it. Originally, the subordinates thought about coming to see your Highness again after two days. After all, the long-distance travel needs time to recuperate, but the merchants in the Chamber of Commerce are now one by one. They are all like ants on a hot pot, and the officials can't stop them."
"What's the matter, you are all so excited." Xiao Ming's eyes swept across the businessman's face.
These businessmen looked excited one by one, with their mouths open and their teeth bared, as if they had met a happy event.
Cao Zhengyang now seems to be the representative of the merchant. He said to Xiao Ming: "His Royal Highness, it is said that this time the Qingzhou Navy regained the Ryukyu and reached an agreement with the Dutch. From then on, this maritime trade route belongs to His Highness."
While Cao Zhengyang was speaking, other businessmen all waited expectantly for Xiao Ming to confirm the news.
"As expected of the Cao family, your news is very well-informed. That's right, this king has recovered Ryukyu and is still garrisoned in the city of Jeranj. Since then, the coastal routes have been under the control of this king."
As soon as Xiao Ming's voice fell, the merchants were suddenly silent.
Then a huge cheer burst out suddenly.
"His Royal Highness is a general, after all, his name goes down in history."
"This is a great achievement for the future."
"Wise, Your Highness."
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The merchants were excited one by one~EbookFREE.me~ They had long been coveting sea trade, and now they are not excited to learn that the right to sea trade is in the hands of Xiao Ming.
The most exciting of them was Cao Zhengyang. Since the relationship between King Chu and the Dutch collapsed, the sea trade of the Cao family has fallen a thousand feet, and now he has finally found an opportunity to rejuvenate the Cao family.
"His Royal Highness, will we be able to sell goods by sea from now on?" Cao Zhengyang said expectantly.
"Of course not." Xiao Ming's words were like pouring cold water on the merchants' heads, but his next sentence gave the merchants hope, "Only merchants under the unified jurisdiction of the Chamber of Commerce can carry out maritime trade, and in general. Merchant ships in maritime trade must pay taxes. If anyone dares to evade taxes in the king’s fief, whoever will lose the right to maritime trade forever."
"His Royal Highness, paying taxes is a matter of course and righteousness, and we will certainly not resort to fraud." Ding Wu promised.
"Your Highness, rest assured, we absolutely dare not."
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Merchants, say a word to me, pat your chest to make sure.