Zhu Qi looked at Zhu Biao with a strange expression. At first, he thought Zhu Biao thought it was too little. After all, the gross profit was only 500 taels, and the one who really got it, it might be less than 300 taels a day.

Compared with the salary of the Crown Prince Zhu Biao, this daily income is indeed nothing, not to mention that Zhu Biao is already in power. During the Hongwu period of the early Ming Dynasty, everything had to be reviewed by the Crown Prince before it was sent to Zhu Yuanzhang. The finance handled by the Crown Prince Zhu Biao must be a huge astronomical figure.

Zhu Qi was afraid that Prince Zhu Biao would withdraw if he lost investment. After all, Prince Zhu Biao was his big backer, so he quickly explained to Zhu Biao:

"Brother Huang, it's just opened now. Many people don't know that our store has not been fully started. Five hundred taels are very small. There is only one comic book. In fact, novels are more exciting than comic books. Recently, I have been preparing to launch new ones. As long as the brother Huang makes a printing workshop for me, the rest of the money-making matters will be my best."

After Zhu Qi said something, Zhu Biao felt that his throat was almost blocked. He made a profit of 500 taels, but Zhu Qi even said it was too little!

Zhu Biao didn't even know how to comment, after all, he originally thought that as long as he could not lose money, he would win.

But opening a store to make money is just a small path after all, and my brother is tempted to play, so it’s better to exercise. It doesn’t matter if you make less, but it’s naturally better to make more. Zhu Biao figured this out, so he nodded and said:

"Since you are confident in your third brother, then Brother Wei will not ask more about it. You can handle this matter yourself. If you need to publish and print, just mention it to Brother Wei."

Hearing Zhu Biao say this, Zhu Qi secretly gave a thumbs up. This is the hardest backer in the Hongwu period, Prince Zhu Biao, the eternal god.

Zhu Biao then continued:

"By the way, Brother Wei is not here to see the account book. I just want to tell you something. Today, the morning court came, and my father talked about the inspection of Zhongdu this year. He planned to send you and the fourth brother over there. About half a month later, he will set off with Uncle Xu. You should make some preparations."

Zhongdu is Fengyang, which is Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown. People like to return home in glory. Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty and returned to Pei County to see his fellow villagers. Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty and set up his hometown Fengyang as the accompanying capital. He even wanted to build a capital in Fengyang for a time.

However, Fengyang has a flat terrain and no danger to defend. There is only one Huai River. Because the Yellow River seized the Huai River and entered the sea, it flooded every year and did not have a tall city wall as the foundation. It is really a waste of money to build the capital in such a place that flooded every year.

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw that things were not done, he kept the same thing, but he still went to Zhongdu to inspect every year. If he couldn't find time, he would let the prince replace him.

Since this matter has been spread to him, he will definitely not be able to escape. Zhu Qi nodded obediently and prepared to travel to Fengyang in half a month. Fortunately, he is not very far away from Yingtian.

After Zhu Biao finished talking about the matter, there were still many government affairs waiting for him to work, so he got up and left. By the way, he asked Zhu Qi to go to Zhongdu for a while and notified Zhu Di. Zhu Qi was about to leave, but saw two guards coming to his bedroom to ask for a meeting.

Zhu Qi summoned the two and asked, and then he found out that Zhu Yuanzhang had ordered the courtesan Shi Xuan'er of Xiaoxiang Pavilion to Zhu Qi as a personal palace maid.

In ancient times, when princes reached a certain age, they had palace maids responsible for special adult teachings. It seems that Zhu Yuanzhang directly regarded this teacher Xuan'er as his special teaching.

The two guards greeted Xiaoxiang Pavilion early. After His Highness of the King of Liao left this morning, they sent Shi Xuan'er to the side of Liao Zhu Qi. However, after Liao Zhu Qi left, the Xiaoxiang Pavilion said that Shi Xuan'er was gone, and even the little maid disappeared.

Those who can be a guard by Zhu Yuanzhang are naturally all martial arts masters and investigative experts. They investigated in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion for a while and found that someone should have taken them to the eaves and left. This is a bizarre thing.

In case, they went to Zhu Qi to say hello and remind His Highness of the Liao King. After listening to the report, Zhu Qi nodded as if he knew. It seemed that he had really met a master flying around the world and rescued the courtesan. Fortunately, he did not force the "Shi Xuan'er" last night, otherwise he would have been forced to jump over the wall, and it seemed that he would be the one who was in danger.

It seems that in the future, we have to be more careful in protecting personal safety.

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Life is passing day by day. For Zhu Qi, the matter about the courtesan Shi Xuan'er is already a matter of turning over, so I won't think about it anymore.

The first thing he has to do now is to print out the third chapter of "Mingshanhe" he just drew.

Although I knew that comic books would definitely be very popular in the early Ming Dynasty, less than a month after the Royal Entertainment Center opened, the entire streets and alleys of Yingtianfu began to discuss the comic "Mingshanhe". As the author of the comic, Zhu Qi was still a little unexpected. He was not very famous in his previous life. Unexpectedly, he became famous after traveling through the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to comics, Zhu Qi also launched a new novel version of "Mingshanhe", which is mainly to facilitate the consumption of ordinary people. After all, the cost of comics is too high now. Even if the Prince Zhu Biao approved the printing, the number of prints per month is only 100 or 200 copies.

It’s not that the printing industry in the Ming Dynasty was not strong, but that the printing business across the country was concentrated in the court, with limited manpower and material resources every year, but the books that needed to be printed were piled up. Zhu Qi’s comic books were already printed using privileges.

Well, it seems that if you want to expand your business, you have to appear in person. Zhu Qi's computer has a ready-made technology to improve printing technology. It is a kind of civilized printing in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China, and a hand-crank letterpress printing technology!

It is actually similar to movable type printing. The difference is that it is semi-automated. After doing the stereotype, pour in ink, put paper, shake hands, and automatically bring the paper into the machine. After printing, new paper comes out from the other end.

This method only requires one person, a few piles of paper, and enough ink to print at an extremely fast speed.

Even in many schools in remote areas in the past seventy or eighty years, teachers used this method to print test papers for students.

But even this kind of method that does not require any electricity and steam as power is difficult to do with the current technological level of Ming Dynasty. At least after Zhu Qi took a look at the mechanical design drawings, he found that many parts were not available at all in the Ming Dynasty!

But I don’t know how to make these parts and how to make standards, so it seems that I have to leave them to professionals.

So Zhu Qi asked his subordinates to recruit craftsmen, which naturally took time. Soon, it was time to go to Zhongdu for inspection. It seemed that he could only wait until he came back before dealing with the recruitment of craftsmen.

Zhu Qi put the plan to recruit craftsmen for the time being, so he took Zhu Di and set off with Xu Da.

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Chapter completed!