Touched a tiger!

The prince was not as shameless as his father, he still had a conscience. However, he had no choice but to make up for it in other ways: "Xu Yanmiao, are you interested in tigers?"

Xu Yanmiao: "Tigers?"

The prince: "My father has a tiger farm, where he keeps several big tigers. Do you want to go and see them?"

[Big tigers! I'm thinking about it! ]

[I wonder if I can touch them if they are kept at home! ]

Xu Yanmiao cupped his hands: "Thank you for your kindness, Your Highness, but I am an outsider in the royal gardens, so I should stay away."

[Please persuade me! Please persuade me! 】

Looking at Xu Yanmiao’s hopeful eyes, the prince smiled: "Mr. Xu is right, I was not considerate enough."

【……】

The prince watched Xu Yanmiao’s eyes widen in shock, hesitating to speak, and finally tried not to show his depression and said: "Your Highness, I respectfully see you off."

The prince couldn’t help laughing: "But I still need someone to deliver the meat. Minister Xu, follow me."

Xu Yanmiao: "!!!"

【Prince!!! What a good man!!! 】

The prince laughed: "Let's go! At this time, let's walk faster, maybe we can feed the tigers ourselves."

Xu Yanmiao: "Yes!!!"

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The two of them happily arrived at the tiger house. The eunuch in charge of raising pets for the emperor hurried to receive them. When he learned that the prince was going to get close to the tiger, he showed hesitation on his face.

If something happened to the prince, he would not be able to take care of him even if he had nine lives.

The prince glanced at him and didn't make things difficult for him. He just said, "Forget it. I'll just watch from a high place. Go and fetch two buckets of fresh meat. Has the tiger eaten yet?"

The eunuch breathed a sigh of relief and quickly replied, "Not yet. The tiger is usually fed meat half an hour after mealtime, so that Your Majesty won't run into the tiger's full stomach when he occasionally feels like it."

The prince nodded slightly, "Then go and prepare it."

After giving the order, he took Xu Yanmiao to a high place where the tigers could be seen at a glance.

An eunuch hung food into the tiger enclosure, and soon the tigers were lured out.

Xu Yanmiao's eyes lit up, "So powerful!"

Three or five big tigers walked slowly over, dragging their long tails, twisting their shoulder and hip joints, and their spines rising and falling.

Two barrels of meat were delivered quickly. The prince grabbed a large piece of fat meat and threw it down, showing off his knowledge of raising tigers: "This tiger must not be fed with live animals, as live animals will stimulate its ferocity. Also, try not to feed it with a whole animal, otherwise when the tiger bites, it is still cultivating its biting beastly nature." When

the fat meat was thrown down, the tiger did not fight or fight, but slowly went to eat it, obviously already used to having food "falling from the sky" every day.

Xu Yanmo also tried to throw some meat down, and the tiger did not pick and choose who fed it, and ate it as long as there was meat.

The prince suddenly said, "My third brother is fourteen years younger than me. When I was in the palace, I often went to the harem and brought him food. At that time, I had no self-control, and he liked to eat sweet soup. After I brought him food a few times, he had a toothache, which would occur in the middle of the night, and he would cry so hard that the whole palace was restless. I was the prince, and his mother didn't dare to blame me, nor did she believe that I was really guilty. Later, when I went there again, she often said that the third brother was not in the palace and had gone out to play. After that, our relationship faded."

Xu Yanmiao keenly realized that what the prince needed now was an audience, so she listened quietly.

"He...was not like this when he was a child."

The prince thought about it, not knowing what to say, so he could only sigh: "My legs and feet are not good. Once I encountered a muddy ground. He was afraid that I would slip, so he put my hand on his head, called me brother, and said: Brother, I will be your crutch!"

"I also know that people who are good to their relatives may not be good to outsiders, but I still can't believe that he broke a woman's toes so cruelly."

Xu Yanmiao thought for a while and pushed the bucket of meat towards him: "I don't know how to say it... How about you feed the tiger more, Your Highness?"

The prince smiled: "This tiger has to thank you very much."

Xu Yanmiao nodded "seriously": "It should thank me indeed. It would be even better if it could turn its belly over for me to see."

The prince also said "seriously": "If it doesn't know, I will let someone force it to turn over so that you can touch it enough."

Xu Yanmiao couldn't help laughing, and the prince also laughed. He didn't take the meat strips, but took out a memorial from his sleeve and motioned Xu Yanmiao to take it and read it.

At the same time, he said, "He will certainly come to the capital to ask me for help. I don't know how to face him, and I don't want to be soft-hearted, so I plan to avoid the capital. This is a plan of Cui Yi, the deputy minister of the Ministry of Revenue, for money shops. You can take a look."

Xu Yanmiao read it carefully and summarized the meaning. It was roughly:

Your Majesty! I found that only a few big cities have money shops, and only the money shops in the capital have deposit and loan services. The rest of the money shops only provide gold, silver, copper, iron and precious currency exchange.

I think this is really inconvenient.

People now travel either by car with money or travel light. I suggest that money shops can be set up in various prefectures and counties, and the business is the same as that in the capital. In this way, the common people can travel with only the money shop voucher, and when they arrive in another town, they can go to the money shop to withdraw money.

In addition, I think the money deposit business of the money shop is extremely rigid. If the common people want to deposit money here, they have to pay a deposit to the money shop. In this way, it is better to hide the money by themselves.

I think that if the court opens a money shop, firstly, the deposit should be abolished, and secondly, not only should it not collect money from the common people, but it should also give a certain interest according to the amount of money deposited by the other party.

Xu Yanmo: "..."

[Although this is a good thing, why do I feel that Cui Yi wants to earn some interest for herself because she hides her private money in the money shop? ]

The prince coughed.

In fact, he also thinks so.

"I think this move has great potential. What do you think?"

Xu Yanmiao thought about it seriously and said, "I don't know much about business, so I dare not speak rashly. Why don't we ask Madam Cen?"

Madam Cen is the wife of the Minister of Industry. She is now an official in the Commercial Court, handling the affairs of the treasure banknotes for the old emperor and acting as an economic consultant.

The prince thought about it and thought that everyone has their own expertise. It is better to ask professionals for such money-related matters: "Let's go!"

Xu Yanmiao blinked.

The prince also winked at him: "A tiger loses its ferocity after eating. If you want to touch it, do it now."

Xu Yanmo: "!!!"

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It was the first time in two lives that Xu Yanmo touched the tiger's colorful fur. After returning home, he dreamed of the big cat acting coquettishly towards him.

As for the resentment of being forced to work overtime, it was long gone.

After the prince asked about Mrs. Cen's money shop, he rewrote a memorial about how money shops can promote economic circulation and presented it to the old emperor at the grand court meeting.

The prince rarely wanted to take up the cause, but the old emperor was so happy that he agreed without hesitation. He not only greatly praised Cui Yi for proposing the money shop policy, but also transferred several officials from the money pavilion to accompany the prince.

Among them was Mrs. Cen.

Minister of Works: "..."

When my wife was doing business, I often slept alone. Now that my wife doesn't need to do business anymore, I still have to sleep alone often.

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Forget it, I'll go back and study how to help my wife - I wonder if it's possible to design a shop voucher that is difficult to copy.

...

The prince and his entourage soon set off for several cities with large populations, intending to conduct a pilot project there to see how it works. If the effect is good, then slowly promote it to the whole country.

When Prince Fu dragged his two broken legs to the capital, he was dumbfounded.

"What did you say? The prince is not in the capital?" He almost blurted out: "Where can a cripple go!"

The person who told him the news: "..."

The old emperor who received the secret report from the Jinyiwei in the palace: "..."

"No need to try him, remove his title and order him to guard the imperial mausoleum."

A criminal has the opportunity to redress his grievances, curry favor and gain sympathy from those in power only by being tried. If he is not even given the opportunity to be tried, he is completely abandoned.

After Prince Fu got the news, he couldn't believe it: "How could this happen! Dad, don't you care about the friendship between father and son at all! Dad - Dad -"

The commander of the Jinyiwei stuffed a cloth ball into Prince Fu's mouth and said coldly: "Sir, stop shouting, it's noisy."

He personally led people to take Prince Fu to the imperial mausoleum, and then sent away all his subordinates - it's called the imperial mausoleum, but the old emperor who founded the country hasn't died yet, how big can this be? It's remote and desolate, with no merchants passing by. It's said to be guarding the imperial mausoleum, but in fact it's house arrest.

Prince Fu: "Mmmm -"

"Mmm -"

Prince Fu's eyes widened suddenly.

The commander of the Jinyiwei was deliberately kicking his conscious foot.

Bullshit! Bullshit! The subordination - ah!

Someone else - it was the commander of the Imperial Guard, stepped on the nail that had dried up blood and crushed it hard.

The pain made Prince Fu's whole body tremble, and cold sweat broke out as he trembled.

The commander of the Imperial Guard had no expression on his face.

This bastard should be thrown into hot soup and have his skin scalded! When he led people to settle those dancers with bound feet... he found his own sister who had been drugged and lost.

For several days, whenever the commander of the Imperial Guard thought of his sister's feet with broken bones, her thin body, and her shivering expression, he felt a hot and wet liquid flowing on his face.