"Emperor, Emperor, I'm so happy! I'm so happy!" Wang Chengen excitedly broke into the West Nuan Pavilion.

"Parent Wang, why are you happy?" Chongzhen didn't raise his head, just looked at the memorials. Because of the auction, the censors submitted a lot of memorials. They were not against Chongzhen's act of selling people, but they opposed the auction and even had to sell tickets. What's more, they actually sold tea and food at high prices in the venue. This is business, and it is His Majesty who competes with the people for profit.

"Your Majesty, we have given this auction! At the three-day auction, we earned more than 30,000 taels of silver every day by selling tickets. In three days, the ticket revenue was more than 100,000 taels! There were also tea and food sold in the venue. Although not much, it was more than 30,000 taels of rice in three days. This was still a fraction. The total income of items sold this time reached more than 9 million taels! Deducting the cost of more than 100,000 taels of silver for opening an auction, it was only a fraction, and the ticket fee was offset." Wang Chengen said with a chirp face.

"Parent Wang, another censor said that we are competing for profit with the people. Look at these memorials." Chongzhen said, pointing to a stack of memorials.

"Striving for profit with the people and competing for profit with the people. The emperor sells his own things. This can also be called competing for profit with the people? Selling tickets, selling food, and selling tea, so what? It's not a long-term opening! There are so many people who maintain order on the spot, and the cost of renting a store is not money? Humph! Those censors say what integrity and integrity are saying, who knows how much benefits they have taken to merchants?" Wang Chengen said angrily as he flipped the memorial and honesty.

Through a small auction, Li Guodong not only allowed Emperor Chongzhen to sell items at a much higher price than his original estimate, but also allowed Emperor Chongzhen to see the faces of a group of civil servants in the court, especially those censors such as censors.

"After all, I sold the treasures passed down by my ancestors, and I feel ashamed," Chongzhen sighed, and suddenly the topic changed, "Where is Wang Fan, where is Li Aiqing?"

"Go back to the emperor, he has already gone back."

"Oh, it's a pity. I still want to have a good chat with him."

"If Your Majesty wants to meet Wu Weibo, you can send him an edict to the capital."

"No need, Jiannu has come out of seclusion. It's time to suppress the thieves next. Let Li Aiqing go back and prepare. I'm going to let Governor Yang Aiqing suppress the thieves."

Li Guodong did not stay in the capital for a long time. As soon as the auction ended, he left the capital, but did not go back to Shanxi directly, but went south along the canal to chase Shi Fu. He knew that because Sun Chuanting's Qin army was transferred to the capital to serve the king, Sun Chuanting was imprisoned by Chongzhen, Li Zicheng would soon rekindle, and Zhang Xianzhong surrendered and rebelled again. From this time on, the Ming Dynasty began to defeat the upper thieves and defeated more than defeats. Therefore, Li Guodong did not intend to really work hard to fight Li Zicheng head-on. He could fight Li Zicheng, but there was no need. Li Zicheng's knife would be useful in the future.

According to his memories in his previous life, Yang Sichang sent troops to suppress the thieves in December, and it was only June, and there was still some time left. So Li Guodong used this time to prepare to help Wang Quan do something more. He planned to build a shipyard on the Yangtze River and develop the navy.

In the future, we will fight decisively with the Qing army in the Jianghuai area and fight in dense terrain with river networks, and navy is particularly important.

A clutch went south along the canal and chased Shifu's fleet ahead.

Shi Fu came to the capital on Zheng Zhilong's order. Zheng Zhilong asked him to shoot "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" and he would win it no matter how high the price was. Now Shi Fu has successfully completed the mission assigned to him by Zheng Zhilong and is heading south on a boat to prepare to return to Fujian.

"General Shi, there is a fast ship behind us chasing us!" A soldier from the Zheng family army disguised as a friend reported to Shi Fu.

Shi Fu, dressed in a wealthy businessman, shook his fan and walked out of the cabin, looking in the direction of the soldier's finger, and saw that he was indeed following a slender galloping and fast sailing ship behind him.

"General Shi, this boat has been following us all day long. Could it be a thief?" asked a Zheng family army general.

"Look first, even if it is a thief, we are not afraid of a mere boat. We have six boats and more than three hundred people." Shi Fu replied.

The reason why the boat Li Guodong was on was that there were two small boats of the Zheng family army entangled him. After all, at this time, Li Guodong told Wang Chengen that he wanted to go back to Shanxi to train troops, so he could not blatantly report his name, so he could only entangle with the small boat of the Zheng family army naval army.

Sailing to a small waters, Li Guodong asked to shout to the ship in front: "I am Wuweibo, please ask General Shi to wait."

"Is it Wu Wei Bo? Could it be that he wants to recover this "Along the River During the Qingming Festival"?" Shi Fu felt a little worried, afraid that Chongzhen would regret it again after selling the painting, so he said to the officers around him, "Ask Wu Wei Bo, what's wrong with following Shi?"

"Wu Weibo, what's the point of tracking our Zheng family fleet?" He stood at the stern of the boat and shouted loudly.

Li Guodong asked someone to reply: "Li wants to reminisce with General Shi. If General Shi fails to trust him, just let Li board the ship."

Shi Fu said: "Let a small boat lean on it, let Wu Weibo get on the small boat, and then pull him onto our big boat."

The boat leaned on Li Guodong's clutch, and a commander of the Zheng family army on the boat bowed and said, "We General Shi, please invite Wuweibo, and I hope that Wuwei will board the boat and follow us."

Li Guodong jumped onto the boat, and the Zheng family sailors rowed the boat and pulled him to Shi Fu's big boat.

"General Li! I didn't expect you to chase after him!" Shi Fu immediately bowed and bowed to him when he saw Li Guodong, "Can your Majesty regret it, so I'll ask you to recover that painting?"

Li Guodong laughed: "How is it possible? His Majesty the Emperor's words are golden rules, how can he repent easily? If that is the case, wouldn't the emperor lose all his face? It's Li that he has something to ask for, and he hopes that General Shi can do Li a favor. Please rest assured, it has nothing to do with "Along the River During the Qingming Festival".

"General Li, please come to the cabin, please take a seat." Shi Fu invited Li Guodong into the cabin.

The ship that Shi Fu was riding was a large ship in the style of an inland passenger ship. The main deck of the ship was relatively low and very close to the water surface, but it had two floors on it. The cabin was decorated with luxurious decorations. Two pairs of lanterns with the word "bear" were hung on the bow of the ship. This means that the ship was Xiong Wencan's official ship. After passing through some checkpoints, the Ming army dared not check it. In fact, there were a lot of private goods inside the ship. With Xiong Wencan's lanterns, a lot of tolls can be saved.

When he went to the capital, he brought a lot of tea, raw silk and other goods from the south. He exchanged silver in the capital and bought a batch of ginseng, east beads, minks, cloisonné and other goods, and prepared to take them back to the south. The purchased goods will be sold overseas by the Zheng family fleet. This way, you can make a lot of money by making money back and forth.
Chapter completed!