Ming Dynasty: I risked my life to teach the prince, the emperor begged me not to die

Chapter 120: Do you want to invest? The kind that will bring huge profits
Zhu Houzhao said with a smile on his face: "My two uncles, I'm doing business recently. Would you like to invest in it? The kind that will make a lot of money."

Zhang Yanling was instantly excited and said, "Okay!"

Zhang Heling was the boss after all, so he calmly asked, "May I ask what business?"

Zhu Houzhao said mysteriously: "It is hard to say, as long as you invest, you will make a fortune."

what?
Are you kidding me? Is this how my uncle plays tricks on me?

You just give me an idea, and then ask me to invest, and tell me that I can make a lot of money? Are you taking me for a fool?
Fortunately, I asked a question. If it were my stupid brother, he would have agreed right away.

Zhang Heling asked again: "How much do you want to invest? We can still afford thirty or fifty taels of silver."

Zhu Houzhao held up five fingers and said, "Not much, not much, just five thousand taels."

Five thousand taels? That's all?

Why don't you tell me what business you are in? This is not the way to fool a fool, right?
Why don't you go and grab it?
Zhang Heling smiled slightly and said, "I'm sorry, nephew, I'm not interested."

Zhu Houzhao patiently persuaded him, "Uncle, we are relatives, dear ones. Would I cheat you? I will think of you first when there is a benefit. Why don't you trust me?"

"It's really going to be very profitable!"

Zhang Heling said righteously: "Your Highness, although we are royal relatives, it is precisely because we are royal relatives that we must lead by example."

"Your second uncle and I are both very honest people. It's not that we don't want to invest, but we just don't have that much money."

Zhu Houzhao said: "One thousand taels is fine, or five hundred taels is also fine as a token of appreciation."

Zhang Heling smiled and said, "As I said before, we are the most honest relatives of the Ming Dynasty! We are not greedy or corrupt, but we really have no money. I am afraid we will not be able to enjoy this huge profit. What a pity, what a pity!"

"Any thing else?"

"Oh, it's ok, let's go."

Zhang Heling grabbed his brother and ran away as if they were escaping.

Hu Hu Hu.

Zhang Yanling was weak and was sweating profusely after running halfway.

"I told you I'd find you a wife, but you said she's not as good as me at doing crafts. You hold a tattered book in your arms every day, wasting so much paper!"

"You are so weak now, how could the Zhang family produce a loser like you!"

Zhang Heling scolded his younger brother.

Zhang Yanling retorted: "Big brother, let's talk about the matter, why are you dragging me into this?"

"Why don't you agree to the prince's offer? It's a huge profit! The prince only asked us to pay 500 taels of silver, which is not much."

Zhang Heling covered his forehead with his hands. These words... were too outrageous!
He looked at the sky with melancholy, patted Zhang Yanling on the shoulder, and asked in a friendly manner: "Yanling, can I punch you?"

"Just one punch. I really have the urge to hit you."

Zhang Yanling shrank his head and said, "Brother, please stop making trouble."

Zhang Heling snorted heavily and said, "Isn't five hundred taels of silver a lot of money? Isn't that a lot? Do you know that five hundred taels of silver is enough for ordinary people to save for a lifetime?"

"So much money, giving it to the prince for nothing? He's my father?"

Zhang Yanling hurriedly said: "He is not your father, he is your nephew, brother, you are confused!"

What the hell!

I don't know? Do you need to remind me? Do you think I'm stupid?
"I can't help it anymore!"

Bang bang bang!
Zhang Heling caught his brother and beat him up. No, his stupidity syndrome came back!

……

Zhu Houzhao went to Kunning Palace to find Empress Zhang. At this time, Emperor Hongzhi also arrived at Kunning Palace angrily. He pointed at Zhu Houzhao and shouted, "Who asked you to make trouble?"

Empress Zhang stopped Zhu Houzhao behind her and said, "Okay, okay, you just want five hundred taels of silver, right?"

"If you don't give it to me, can't I? I don't need the money from the treasury. There were some jewelry when I came with my dowry, so I sold them."

What? He actually came here to ask for money?
Emperor Hongzhi stared at Zhu Houzhao with eyes wide open, and said in disbelief: "You, Zhu Houzhao! Do you still have any shame?!"

"You are already a grown-up, and you ask your mother to sell your jewelry to give you pocket money?" "What do you want five hundred taels of silver for?"

Zhu Houzhao grumbled, "I'm going to do business."

Haha.

Emperor Hongzhi was so angry that he laughed. His own son, the future emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was going to do business.

What a great future!
"I'll let my subordinates do business." Zhu Houzhao was not willing to be outdone.

Emperor Hongzhi raised his eyes to stare at him, then laughed loudly: "If you have the ability, don't use your parents' money!"

"I won't care if you go begging."

Zhu Houzhao said indifferently: "I borrowed it, and I didn't ask you for it. I will pay it back when I make money."

Emperor Hongzhi's face twitched violently, and he angrily said word by word: "Zhu! Hou! Zhao!"

"I don't want to bother with you. You will be killed by those treacherous officials sooner or later."

After saying this, Zhu Houzhao took the five hundred taels of silver that Empress Zhang secretly handed to him and ran away.

As Emperor Hongzhi became more and more angry, he became confused.

This kid, why is he sometimes good and sometimes confused?

Empress Zhang hurriedly advised Emperor Hongzhi, "Your Majesty, at least Houzhao is still thinking about making money, which is a good thing, right?"

“Can he make money?”

"He's cheating you out of your money!"

"What a spoiled son a loving mother has! What a spoiled son a loving mother has! If he were a child from an ordinary family, I would let him be as spoiled as he wanted and indulge him as much as you wanted."

"But he is the future emperor of the Ming Dynasty!"

Empress Zhang said, "Yes, because he is the future emperor. Houzhao is still young. Isn't it a kind of life experience for him to experience more cruelty and failures in society?"

"If the road to growth is always smooth, then what else can you teach him, Your Majesty?"

Empress Zhang's words made Emperor Hongzhi fall into deep thought and speechless.

That makes sense!

……

Sophora japonica alley.

Zhu Houzhao looked up at Chen Ce and slapped five hundred taels of silver on the table. He said calmly, "It's just five hundred taels of silver."

"What did I say?"

"I said I'd send it to you this afternoon, so I'll send it to you. It's just a small amount of money."

Chen Ce glanced at Zhu Houzhao suspiciously and said, "Is it not embarrassing for you?"

Zhu Houzhao sneered: "What a joke! It's just five hundred taels of silver, why are you so embarrassed? It's just a piece of cake!"

Chen Ce nodded and asked, "How is the situation in Hami?"

When Zhu Houzhao heard this, he sighed helplessly and said, "Not very good."

"Everyone in the world is drunk, but you and I are the only ones awake. How sad and pitiful!"

This was within Chen Ce's expectations. After all, Zhu Houzhao was not the emperor and could not influence the will of the emperor and his ministers. This was not something Chen Ce could control.

"If that's the case, then forget it. We've done what we should do. As long as we have a clear conscience, that's fine."

"I have been working hard in the carriage, but I have not yet left the saddle. I have only just realized how hard it is to die. For three hundred years, the country has been in decline, and I am eight thousand miles away from the suffering of the people."

When Wang Yue was alive, Hami could rest easy. But now that Wang Yue is dead, Hami, which has been under its control for so long, is not given the attention it deserves by the court.

Chen Ce couldn't help feeling a little emotional.

However, Zhu Houzhao's eyes lit up!
(End of this chapter)