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

Chapter 191: Management of Internal Factory
The moon in the sky was getting rounder and rounder. Chen Ce sat in the courtyard and looked up at the bright moon.

The Mid-Autumn Festival of the twelfth year of Hongzhi is approaching.

The light on the stone table was bright, and a stack of documents was neatly placed on the table.

The book income of Shuntian Press in the past few months has been able to maintain a profit of one or two hundred taels of silver, which should be stable, and the annual net profit will be around three thousand two hundred taels of silver.

The post station was still making losses these days, and Tang Yin brought two pieces of news. The first was that Miss Wu next door had started working at Shuntian Express.

The second is Tang Yin’s own insights. He believes that it would be particularly difficult to operate express delivery outlets across the country by himself.

Moreover, as the scale of demand grows, they simply do not have enough financial resources to expand into every state, capital and county across the country.

Tang Yin was not the kind of person who would just raise a problem and then ignore it. He gave a corresponding solution. He suggested that local businessmen could enter the express delivery industry by joining the franchise.

This made Chen Ce's eyes light up. He had never considered this before. Many franchise mechanisms in later generations were like this. The headquarters could collect franchise fees from the other party and make money from their annual franchise fees. The other party also obeyed the management of the headquarters and paid a certain management fee every year.

The rest is up to them.

Tang Yin is a smart guy. When he works seriously, his wisdom is beyond doubt. Chen Ce agreed with Tang Yin's suggestion and let Tang Yin take charge of the express business himself.

With Wang Defa and Tang Yin giving him an overview of the operations of the two industries, Chen Ce, the hands-off boss, has his work cut out for him. At most, he's had a bit of hard work in the early stages, but fortunately, the early preparations have already been passed.

The spies deployed by Liu Hong in various places also brought some fragmentary intelligence to Chen Ce at this time. What caught Chen Ce's attention was that the local princes had been exchanging letters frequently recently, and Liu Hong felt that they were suspected of treason.

Chen Ce smiled slightly. In the entire mid-Ming Dynasty, the only person with such courage was Prince Ning, but not now.

These pigs from the royal family would not dare to rebel easily even if they were given ten times the courage.

However, it is certain that with such frequent correspondence, they are plotting something for their own benefit. So Liu Hong will have to investigate first. If he can find out, then he will. If not, then there is no need to force it. After all, it is risky to investigate the princes, and they are not officials.

Cheng Minzheng did what he said and the operation results for Xu Jing have come out. Xu Jing will soon go to Ningbo Xiangshan County to serve as the county magistrate.

Elephant Mountain.

The first line of defense against the Japanese invaders. Before Xu Jing takes office, there are some things Chen Ce still needs to explain.

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In the Eastern Palace, Zhu Houzhao watched Zhang Yong and Gu Dayong wrestling out of boredom. He had to go to class soon and had no time to leave the palace.

Upon hearing that Emperor Hongzhi had come to the Eastern Palace, Zhu Houzhao was not very interested. He pretended not to know that his father had arrived and did not go to greet him.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that Zhu Houzhao was still angry.

Emperor Hongzhi really had no way to deal with his beloved son. He only had this one son, so what could he do?
Sometimes he was so smart that Emperor Hongzhi thought that a dragon had appeared in the Zhu family, and sometimes his naughty temper made Emperor Hongzhi worry that he was not mature enough.

I am worried about my son.

"Didn't you ask me to open a separate factory for you? Why? Are you no longer interested so soon?"

When Zhu Houzhao heard what Emperor Hongzhi said, he jumped up immediately, ran to Emperor Hongzhi attentively, blinked his cute big eyes and asked Emperor Hongzhi: "Father, do you agree?"

This brat, do you know how much effort your father put into opening a factory for you? He even swore a poisonous oath.

However, as a father, he did not let his son know these things.

Emperor Hongzhi said: "Father has promised you that you can open an inner factory, but you must agree to three rules with Father."

Zhu Houzhao nodded like a chicken pecking at rice and said, "Father, what do you mean by the three rules?"

Emperor Hongzhi said: "The Neichang cannot have a separate imperial prison."

"The inner factory is not allowed to monitor civil servants." "The number of people in the inner factory shall not exceed one thousand."

These three items have almost cut off the possibility of the Neichang becoming larger. It is only in name only, without real power, and is only responsible for monitoring the mistakes of the Jinyiwei and the Dongchang.

But this is enough for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

He said happily, "Okay, okay! I understand."

Emperor Hongzhi smiled, nodded Zhu Houzhao's head, and said, "I want to warn you not to let the Neichang go to the people to do evil things. If I find that they are bullying the people, I will close the Neichang. Do you understand?"

Zhu Houzhao quickly raised his finger and swore, "How is it possible! My father loves the people like his own children. As the saying goes, a dog father cannot have a tiger son..."

"Get lost!" Emperor Hongzhi cursed, "A tiger father cannot have a dog son!"

"I'm sorry, I lost my tongue."

Emperor Hongzhi smiled, then left the East Palace with his hands behind his back. Zhu Houzhao called Emperor Hongzhi and said, "Father."

"What are you doing?"

Looking at the back of Emperor Hongzhi, Zhu Houzhao whispered: "Don't be too busy. Your hair is almost half white. Why are you working so hard? Your health is more important."

Emperor Hongzhi sniffed, turned around and looked at the half-grown brat, his nose ached, and snorted, "Why are you working so hard? Isn't it for you?!"

"It's done. Father will remember your instructions."

After Hongzhi left, Zhu Houzhao happily found Liu Jin and hurriedly said to him, "Go out of the palace and find my little brother!"

"I want him to be in charge of the inner factory! As the commander-in-chief of the inner factory!"

The last time my little brother made such a great contribution, like a man walking in gorgeous clothes at night, no one knew about him, but Zhu Houzhao never forgot him.

Although I don't care about these false reputations, they are all Zhu Houzhao's intentions.

Liu Jin hurriedly dissuaded Zhu Houzhao, saying, "Master! No!"

"You let Master Chen be the commander of the inner factory. Won't Master Chen doubt your identity?"

Zhu Houzhao patted his head, it seemed to be true.

"what is it now?"

Although Liu Jin usually appears to be cunning, lazy, and extremely fawning, he is actually wise.

Liu Jin said: "Sir, you can ask him to take charge of the inner factory for you. Just say that you have been promoted to the commander of the inner factory for your meritorious service, but you don't want to manage it, so let him help you manage the inner factory."

"This is actually equivalent to handing over the entire internal factory to Master Chen for dispatch, and Master Chen will not suspect anything."

Zhu Houzhao nodded in agreement and said admiringly: "That's right, when I ascend the throne, you will be the chief eunuch of the Imperial Household Department!"

"Thank you very much, my lord." Liu Jin had a face full of longing. The Imperial Household Department was the top eunuch there and had a bright future ahead of him!

Zhu Houzhao took Liu Jin out of the palace excitedly and soon arrived at Huaihua Hutong.

Hearing someone knocking on the door, Chen Ce packed up all the documents on the stone table and put them back in the study, then came to open the door.

Looking at the majestic appearance of Zhu Houzhao and Liu Jin, he smiled and said, "What's the matter?"

Zhu Houzhao said: "Great joy!"

(End of this chapter)