Wei Guangwei had no intention of celebrating this wedding night. At this time, he was already covered in white frost. He knelt under the moonlight and looked up at the drum tower of the Forbidden City that was faintly visible in the distance.

Next to him was a man, Wu Jin, the head of the East Factory. Wu Jin was here to convey Zhu Youxiao's will.

As the chief minister of the cabinet, even if Zhu Youxiao is the king of a country, he cannot be dismissed at will. However, the so-called rules will lead to flexibility.

The emperor will not dismiss you directly, but if you ask for retirement, Zhu Youxiao can directly approve it.

What Wu Jin has to do now is to force Wei to write a memorial to retire.

But Wei Guangwei was a little reluctant to give up the position of chief minister whom he had finally obtained. Once a person gained power, he would be obsessed with power, and would even rather give up his life and seize power and protect his throne.

Wei Guangwei is such a person. What he did was to keep his position as chief minister, but he did not expect that he would backfire.

Looking at the glass of poisonous wine in Wu Jin's hand, he knew that he had no way to live. His Majesty was the one who hated the most to use and attempt to control him.

Wei Guangwei, who had always been worried that Qian Qianyi, who was in full swing, would seize the position of chief minister, and when he learned that His Majesty was coming to congratulate him, he thought of such a plan by chance.

It turned out that before Wei Guangwei arranged for Zhu Youxiao to enter his daughter's attic, he lit a Western Regions strange fragrance that could produce an exciting effect after mixing it with a certain kind of tea. As soon as His Majesty came in and smelled the fragrance, he would specify that this reaction would occur as soon as he drank tea.

Moreover, Wei Guangwei knew that it was Wang Chengen who tried the poison, but Wang Chengen was an eunuch and would not react after drinking tea and smelling the fragrance.

So, he had already predicted that His Majesty would fall into his trap.

If Your Majesty possesses his daughter, even if Your Majesty knows that it is his own doing, with Your Majesty's personality, he will definitely admit the fact that the raw rice is made into a mature meal. Even if he is unhappy for a moment, Wei Guangwei believes that his daughter can make Your Majesty gradually forget this knot.

What's more, I also paid for my daughter.

However, His Majesty finally failed to fall into his trap. He could have had a good ending, but he had to face His Majesty's heavy punishment.

"Your Majesty, I just want to be my uncle again!"

Wei Guang couldn't help crying, his head hit the ground with heavy head, and then he wrote a memorial to request retirement while crying.

Wei Guangwei's memorial was quickly approved as soon as he was put on, and a large number of Dongchang men surrounded the Wei Mansion at the same time. However, when they came in, Wei Guangwei and his eldest son had already died of poisoning.

Most of Wei Guangwei's industries were seized, and only a small part of the ancestral property used for sacrifice was left to provide for the lives of his surviving relatives.

Wei Guangwei's new wife Ru was very unlucky. She thought she could marry into the residence of the Chief Minister and become a master of the people from now on, but she didn't expect that she would become a commoner in the blink of an eye and had to be governed by an old lady.

No one expected that a few days ago, Ge Lao Wei, who was well-known in the capital, ended up ruining overnight because of a trivial matter of taking a concubine.

Even on the night when he committed suicide by taking poison, major newspapers and magazines disclosed that he had bad intentions. Although he committed suicide, he had to pursue his crimes and deprive him of all his official bodies, and his parents and descendants of his official bodies were also deprived of them.

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The business of the Royal Industrial Company store, which Gong Yonggu, is directly responsible for, is still not very good, and few are willing to buy these "luxury goods".

Gong Yonggu also went to the palace to ask Zhu Youcai to allow him to reduce the price, and Gong Yonggu believed that these more well-crafted silver mirrors and glass could sell better than those merchants if they were cut by half.

However, Zhu Youxiao, who insisted on entering the high-end market but was unwilling to seize the low-end market with other businessmen, still refused, which made Gong Yonggu Liquid, who had invested tens of thousands of taels of silver, feel a little calmer.

But after four or five months, a governor who came to Beijing bought ten pieces here at one time. In a short while, Gong Yonggu made a profit of thousands of taels.

Immediately afterwards, some people from the Shangshu family came to buy it. In short, after almost all the middle and upper-level families and even some ordinary families in the capital had silver mirrors, some noble mansions began to feel that using ordinary silver mirrors was not enough to show their status.

The silver mirrors and glass sold by Royal Industries are exquisitely designed and expensive, and the royal sale always feels that it is linked to the royal sale. Therefore, I gradually believe that buying the royal sale products is a symbol of identity, and it doesn't matter how expensive it is. For them, the most important thing is money.

Suddenly, many big investors in the capital, even some big investors who had bought silver mirrors and glass products from other businesses, came to the royal store to buy them.

As a result, not long after, the goods in the store were sold out, and the total transaction volume was as high as 200,000 taels and the profit was more than 100,000 taels.

Gong Yonggu believed in Your Majesty's strategy now, so he followed His Majesty's arrangement without any doubt. Each item was sold for only 100 pieces, and he would never add it after the 100 pieces were sold.

However, customization is acceptable, but the price is higher. However, if you do this, many high-ranking officials and officials will customize it.

From low-end wholesale to high-end retail, Royal Industries' profits have increased several times, and Zhu Youxiao's income has exceeded one million taels by relying on this area.

This was much faster than when he used to set up money gates along the way and sent eunuchs to mines in various places to collect mine taxes. After all, before the formal commercial tax was proposed and under strong military pressure, Zhu Youxiao did not dare to do too much at this time.

The economic benefits brought by the research and development results of the glass project have also stimulated other scientific researchers. Chen Laitou, an ordinary craftsman who could only rely on repairing glazed roofs for wealthy families, could one day become a fifth-rank official and get tens of thousands of taels of silver within a few months. Anyone who saw it was jealous.

"Have you heard that Chen Shi really paid off at home now. The money he carried to his family was one after another. After three days and three nights, it is said that his son also married the daughter of Liu Ge's hometown, and now he has climbed up a high branch."

"Are you saying this true?"

"There is still fake. The newspaper is clearly stated. In my opinion, what kind of scholars are we going to take the exam? We can't get a few exams in Shuntian Mansion a year. It's better to go to the technical school of the Ministry of Works. Maybe we can get one or two new things and get a Hanlin Academy to review."

Chen Shizai's story of getting rich was completely sensational once published by newspapers, especially in the late Ming society where fame and fortune were more prosperous and commodity economy was more developed. Although these news were both false and true, it did make the scholars and people who took the initiative to come to the technical school to study several times.

There are more people coming to listen to Zhu Youzhai’s courses and more people applying for projects. Everyone hopes to be as rich as Chen Lai Tou.

Gong Yonggu naturally gained a lot of benefits, and at the same time, it also stimulated more active-minded businessmen's idea of ​​cooperating with the Royal Family. Zhu Youxiao is also interested in finding more of his own agents.
Chapter completed!