Chapter 497

The next day, Xiao Ming sleeps lazily until noon.

This month's hard work made him quite tired, and he and Fei yue'er were separated for a month. They were playing and talking about themselves when they were lying in bed.

And for Xiao Ming, Pang Yukun and others' report is one thing, and Fei Yueer's personal narration is another.

"The Confucianist is really a street mouse in his Highness's mouth now. Everyone shouts and beats him." Fei yue'er told Xiao Ming about the changes after the last Confucianist riot, "but my father wrote from Chang'an, saying that the court had a lot of criticism on this matter. The officials headed by Cui Hao even reprimanded his highness in the court for disobeying Confucian classics and not respecting Confucianism, and even asked the emperor to take off the title of his Highness Prince Erzhu."

"Hum, these little people."

Xiao Ming's face shows disdain. It is precisely because of these talented people who only attack their colleagues who make the government waste day by day.

"What else does Fei Zhongshu say?" Xiao Ming asked. Generally speaking, Fiji would not write to him if there were no important things.

"My father also said that the emperor had suddenly fainted a few days ago. When he woke up, his body was not as good as before, and he was absent every other day." Speaking of this, Fei yue'er's look was dignified.

"If I'm not wrong, my father is nine out of fifty today." Xiao Ming pondered.

Fei Yue son nods, "the father in the letter also says so."

Xiao Ming's eyes narrowed. In his letter, there must be deep meaning in mentioning this matter. Maybe in his opinion, Xiao Wenxuan really doesn't have many years to live this time.

For Xiao Ming, it's not easy for Xiao Wenxuan to live to this age. After all, Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty is only 69 years old, while the average life span of emperors in contemporary history is only about 39 years old.

"Well, I understand."

Xiao Ming frowned. Now Xiao Wenxuan is the supporting point of the balance of Chongqing. He doesn't want Xiao Wenxuan to fall down so soon. After all, he doesn't want to lose a stable development environment.

However, if something really happens, he can only protect himself from water and soil. Now Fiji mentions this matter just to wake him up and let him be prepared.

After all, the minister knows that Xiao Wenxuan is ill, but there are not many people Xiao Wenxuan may know when he passed out, otherwise it will inevitably cause the government and the public to shake.

After some gossip, Xiao Ming and Fei yue'er washed, dressed and had a simple meal before they went to the workshop area.

When Xiao Ming came back to Qingzhou, he ordered him to go on. This time, he smuggled sugarcane from Ryukyu. When he came back, the sugarcane was also transported to Qingzhou. At the same time, there were craftsmen from the white granulated sugar Workshop on Ryukyu Island.

These craftsmen will be responsible for helping Xiao Ming set up a white granulated sugar workshop in Qingzhou and training a group of sugar makers. When he comes back, he will send someone to inform Lu Tong of the sulfite used to extract pure white granulated sugar.

"Your Highness, we have sulphuric acid." In the workshop area, Lu Tong is already waiting for Xiao Ming. He is holding a glass bottle containing sulphurous acid solution.

In fact, the manufacturing process of sulfite is very simple. However, the sulfur dioxide obtained by calcining sulfur at high temperature is put into water to obtain sulfite. This process is not a problem for Lu Tong and others. After all, they have been able to prepare sulfuric acid.

"In the future, your chemical workshop will be responsible for providing sulfite solution to the white granulated sugar workshop. I hope to see clean white granulated sugar these two days." Xiao Ming said.

The significance of white granulated sugar to him is not only to eat, but also to provide an industrial classification for Qingzhou, so that he can go further to the whole industrial system.

Lu Tong had learned the purpose of Xiao Ming's request for sulphuric acid. At this time, he nodded. He was also very interested in the white granulated sugar. In his opinion, it was also a wonderful chemical reaction.

At this time, the craftsmen from Ryukyu had already cooperated with the craftsmen of the equipment department to produce the equipment needed by the white granulated sugar workshop, and Chen Wenlong selected one of the vacant houses in the workshop area and gave it to these craftsmen.

After inspecting the preparation work of the white granulated sugar workshop, Xiao Ming had a problem in his mind. In his opinion, the formal production will take at least seven days.

Just as he was telling the craftsmen, a loud noise came. Xiao Ming looked at the source of the noise and saw Li Kaiyuan almost pushed towards him by the merchants. Cao Zhengyang, Ding Wu and Dai Zixing were the first merchants.

When he came near, Li Kaiyuan looked helpless and said, "Your Highness, I can't help it. Originally, I thought I would come back to find my highness again in two days. After all, my highness needs time to recuperate after a long journey. But now all the merchants of the chamber of commerce are like ants on a hot pot. I can't stop them."

"What's the matter? You're all so excited." Xiao Ming's eyes swept over the merchant's face.

One by one, the merchants looked excited, their mouths open and their teeth exposed. It seemed that they had met with great joy.

Cao Zhengyang now seems to be the representative of the merchants. He said to Xiao Ming, "Your Highness, it is said that this time the Qingzhou Navy South recaptured Ryukyu and reached an agreement with the Dutch. From then on, the sea trade route is your highness's

While Cao Zhengyang was speaking, other businessmen were waiting for Xiao Ming to confirm the news."It's really the Cao family. Your news is very well-informed. Yes, my king recovered Ryukyu and still stationed troops in the city of Zhelan. Since then, the coastal routes have been under my control."

As soon as Xiao Ming's voice fell, the merchants were dead.

Then there was a huge burst of cheers.

"Your Highness is a man of great talent. After all, he is famous in history."

"It's a great achievement in the future."

"Wise, your highness."

“……”

The merchants were so excited that they had been salivating for sea trade for a long time. Now they know that the right of sea trade lies in Xiao Ming's hands. How can they not be excited.

One of the most exciting is Cao Zhengyang. Since the collapse of the relationship between the king of Chu and the Dutch, the Cao family's maritime trade has fallen by a thousand feet. Now he has finally found an opportunity to revitalize the Cao family.

"Your Highness, can we sell goods by sea from now on?" Cao Zhengyang said expectantly.

"Of course not." Xiao Ming's words poured 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 all merchant ships engaged in maritime trade must pay taxes. If anyone dares to evade taxes in his fiefdom, he will lose the right of maritime trade forever."

"Your Highness, it's a matter of course to pay taxes. We certainly won't cheat." Ding Wu assured.

"Don't worry, your highness. We dare not."

“……”

Businessmen, you say a word, I say a word, patting the chest to guarantee.

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