Chapter 89
The Eleventh Prince was skeptical about what Yinzuo said about the usefulness of making money, but he finally had something he wanted to do and a goal.
As the Eleventh Prince always hangs out with Yinzuo, Concubine Yi is worried that he might be exposed to the wind and run around too much and then become unhealthy. But in fact, when people have expectations, their spirit will be different and their physical condition will improve accordingly.
Seeing that the Eleventh Prince was quite happy with his work, Concubine Yi felt relieved.
Yinzuo discovered that the Eleventh Prince had quite dexterous hands. Although he did not have much strength, he was very patient, not arrogant or impatient, and was very meticulous in what he did.
For example, if they wanted to sharpen a telescope, the Eleventh Prince could spend an hour sharpening it without getting bored at all, while Yinzuo only needed to give orders with his mouth.
"Xiao Shiyi, it needs to be thinner a little bit, just a little bit, don't overdo it."
The Eleventh Prince happily responded, "Don't worry, Sixth Brother."
Yinzuo sometimes felt guilty about ordering his younger brother around, but the Eleventh Prince didn't think so. He would be happy if there was anything he could do.
But in addition to tinkering with things himself, Yinzuo also needed craftsmen from the Imperial Household Department. Yinzuo even went there in person, which made the people from the Imperial Household Department feel very terrified. But when it came to his craftsmanship, they had something to say. Yinzuo was not arrogant, so after a few days of contact, these people finally stopped being timid in front of Yinzuo.
Yinzuo came out of the Imperial Household Department and went to the Eastern Palace to eat.
The prince was quite busy today and he hadn't finished his work by dinner time.
But Yinzuo, who had often come to the East Palace since he was a child, did not have to follow too many rules at all. Moreover, the servants of the East Palace came over and said with a smile: "The prince will be here soon. The prince said that you, Sixth Prince, should have your meal first and don't have to wait for him."
So now that the host is not at home, Yinzuo, who came to eat for free, got to eat first and enjoyed it very happily. There is no one else who can feel so comfortable in the Eastern Palace.
Yinzuo was halfway through his meal when the prince came over.
The prince saw that Yinzuo had a good appetite, and a smile appeared on his face. He said, "I haven't seen you for a few days. What have you been busy with?"
Yinzuo: "Busy making money!"
Yinzuo also made a bold statement to the crown prince: "I will spend the money I earn for you, my brother."
The prince smiled and said, "Okay, I'd like to hear how you want to make money."
There has been some progress and their telescope is about to be completed.
Yinzuo said to the prince: "It can see more clearly and farther than the telescope used by Westerners!"
After listening to this, the prince said with great interest: "Well done. When you are done, bring it to me to see." The prince was proud that his younger brother was smart and could always come up with something as long as he put his mind to it.
Yinzuo raised his chin and smiled like a sunflower: "Okay, I'll give it to my brother the crown prince first when the time comes."
The prince smiled and said, "Okay, then I would like to thank Yinzuo first."
The two of them were eating happily at the table, and the atmosphere was good. However, after Yinzuo had finished eating and put down his chopsticks, the prince said to Yinzuo: "Sixth brother, I will tell you something, you should be mentally prepared first."
Yinzuo was puzzled: "What?" When the prince said this, Yinzuo's heart was lifted up and he was in a state of panic.
The prince's next words really shocked him. He said, "Yinzuo, the telescope you mentioned is of course excellent, but if you want to sell it for silver, you can't do it."
"Once it's finished, it can't be sold outside. It needs to be used in the military."
Yinzuo's mind was originally full of thoughts about making money, but now that the prince had said that, he understood it, but even though he understood it, his face couldn't help but fall.
After a long while, Yinzuo said to the crown prince, "Brother Crown Prince, do you think it's okay for me to sell it to the Emperor?"
But after saying this, he shook his head and said, "Forget it, the emperor is not rich either, let's save some money for him."
The prince's face twitched when Yinzuo mentioned that his father and he were "poor" again.
Yinzuo was hit, but he did not completely lose his morale. He quickly cheered up and said to his brother, the crown prince: "Crown prince, I think it's a pity that we only have a lot of toys made by the Imperial Household Department. We can make more and sell them!"
"What do you think, Prince?"
The prince met Yin Zuo's gaze, moved his lips, and said, "Not really."
"The Imperial Household Department is responsible for making things for the royal family. If we take them out to exchange for silver, it would be a loss of face for us." Their emperor could not afford to lose face in front of this person, and the prince himself also felt that he could not bring himself to do so.
The prince said to Yinzuo helplessly: "Yinzuo, the emperor's father and brother are not poor."
They were royals, one was the emperor and the other was the prince, how could they be poor? They had the best food and clothing in the world.
Then the prince heard Yinzuo say, "Then build a big ship and sail to the Western Ocean?"
Prince: “…”
Then you are still poor.
Yinzuo: "So we still need to make money."
The prince laughed and said, "No matter how much money you make, it won't be enough to support your voyage to the West."
Yinzuo groaned: "You look down on me."
"At least there will be two fractions."
Anyway, any money you can earn is good.
Yinzuo said to the prince, "If you don't allow the Imperial Household Department to come, then Xiaoyi and I can find someone to make toys and sell them ourselves, right?"
Yinzuo was worried that the prince would say something embarrassing again, so he hurriedly said, "When the time comes, we won't use the sign designed by the prince himself."
"Just say that the prince said it was good after playing."
Prince: “…”
Forget it, let them do whatever they want. The prince indulged himself in this way, but he didn't think much of it. Yinzuo could only earn a few silver coins by selling toys.
Yinzuo kept muttering to the Crown Prince about the eldest prince's past: "My eldest brother wanted to build a better mansion outside, but because he had no money, all his ideas went down the drain."
When the prince heard the eldest brother's embarrassment, a smile appeared on his face. He liked to hear this.
"I'm going to start saving money now, so I can build a mansion however I want in the future."
But when she heard Yinzuo say this, she was not very happy anymore, and said to Yinzuo in a muffled voice: "I will give you some extra money when the time comes."
Yinzuo glanced at the prince subtly. His brothers were not rich, and he felt embarrassed to rely on them.
The prince was almost choked by Yinzuo's look.
The prince wanted to emphasize to Yinzuo that he was not poor. Although Yinzuo did not have the money to go to the West, he would not become a pauper in the eyes of his younger brother!
Although, he now has to spend a lot of money on his work, retaining retainers, keeping subordinates, and having people do things for him, but he shouldn't appear to be poor in front of a little prince, right?
The prince said to Yinzuo: "After dinner, I will take you to see my storehouse."
Yinzuo said, "No need. Many of the things that the emperor gave as rewards cannot be exchanged for silver. My eldest brother even regrets that the emperor did not give silver directly."
The prince was embarrassed. Couldn't he just let Yinzuo look at his account books of the Eastern Palace to prove it? There were actually quite a few, but he spent money in many places.
The angry and embarrassed prince turned his anger to the eldest brother. He had the nerve to talk about the lack of money in front of Xiaoliu. Wasn't he ashamed? !
But the eldest brother was not in front of him, and the embarrassed prince could only say to Yinzuo: "Silver, silver, I think you are going to get into the silver hole."
Yinzuo was not ashamed at all.
Yinzuo said to the prince, "Brother Prince, when the Nanyang merchant's ship returns, you must call me."
"I want to see what good things they have found. I still have telescopes that I can't sell, but can I have magnifying glasses? If that doesn't work, there are still toys and clocks. My brother is thinking of selling them in Beijing and Jiangnan. They all have money."
"In addition, we can also ask the Nanyang merchants to take them out to sea and sell them there."
The products haven't even been made yet, but they're already thinking about making money from others and even want to sell them across the ocean.
Although the prince always felt that he was poor and helpless about Yinzuo's efforts to earn money, since Yinzuo wanted to do it, the prince still said, "Okay, they will take your things with them next time they go out to sea."
"Also, if you want to sell in the capital or Jiangnan, do you have enough people to make and sell the products?"
No.
The prince knew that Yinzuo did not have such a thing. Although Yinzuo often went out and was very favored, he did not gather a few useful people outside.
The prince said: "Once you have finished making your things, I will find you some capable people to help you."
Yinzuo said happily: "Okay, I will give the money to the prince brother when the time comes."
The crown prince raised his lip slightly as he listened to Yinzuo's big promises, thinking that if he couldn't even make back the money he invested in setting up a workshop and renting a shop, how much money could he make?
If there is a loss at that time, he should make up for it quietly, so as not to hit people too hard.
After Yinzuo finished painting a big picture for the Crown Prince, he ran back and told the Eleventh Prince that the things they would make in the future would not only be sold from south to north in the Qing Dynasty, but also outside the Qing Dynasty.
Yinzuo also took out a world map and showed the eleventh prince where all the goods could be sold. Unfortunately, there were still many places he could not go to, so he still had to build a big ship. Then he could sell all the countries on the world map to wherever he wanted.
Make a lot of money!
The Eleventh Prince felt inexplicably excited after listening to this. He stayed in the palace every day and had no shortage of food and supplies, so he actually had no desire for money. But at this moment, he felt an excited urge to do something big.
The Eleventh Prince said to Yinzuo, "Then let's do it quickly."
Yinzuo said: "Yes, we have to make the things first."
"But once the telescope is made, it can't be sold for silver."
"Brother Prince said that it should be used in the army and not sold outside."
Yinzuo said to the eleventh prince: "Although we can't make money, we should still do it well and then hand it over to the emperor."
Eleventh Prince: "For use in the army?"
Yinzuo nodded: "It is very useful to observe the enemy's situation and use it as a clairvoyant when conducting scouts."
The Eleventh Prince was even happier. Compared to making money, he was more happy that what he made was useful. Maybe the Emperor would even praise him.
Yinzuo: "In fact, we could have earned money from the Emperor, but the Emperor is poor, and we are his father and son, so we shouldn't make this money. Just consider it as our filial piety. What do you think, Eleventh Brother?" Yinzuo asked for the Eleventh Prince's opinion.
The Eleventh Prince was still dazed when he heard Yinzuo say that their father was poor again.
The eleventh prince was in a trance for a moment, then hurriedly said, "Just give it to the Emperor Father, no silver is needed, yes, we are honoring the Emperor Father."
Kangxi had no idea that his sixth son had told different people behind his back several times that he was poor.
But now he just needs to reward Yinzuo.
Didn't Yin Zuo ask some young and smart doctors to pester the Western missionaries? Now there are results.
The cinchona tree was found in Yunnan, and now they can extract cinchona cream themselves. Kangxi himself proved that this medicine is very useful for treating malaria.
Isn’t this great news?
Malaria is a very difficult infectious disease to treat. Many soldiers who went to fight Galdan at that time did not die on the battlefield, but succumbed to the disease first.
Kangxi had already given rewards to those doctors and missionaries, and Yinzuo also needed to be rewarded.
Yinzuo liked the set of glass cups that Kangxi gave him as a reward. They were very beautiful, but, well, there was no silver.
But since he knew that his father was poor, Yinzuo naturally would not ask for it.
He is filial and caring.
(End of this chapter)
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