"Foreign envoy Huang Yi is here to see His Majesty!"
Inside the Yingwu Hall, the lights are bright.
Wealth is the same when it reaches the royal level. There is no difference in decorations inside and outside the palace. The general direction is still to follow the style recorded in the construction book, just to highlight the special nature of imperial power.
"Master Huang!"
Sitting sideways in front of the window, Emperor Zhengde closed the memorial in his hand, "In a sense, I should call you senior brother!"
"Don't dare!"
Huang Yi quickly excused himself, saying, "Are you kidding? He can take the initiative in this kind of relationship."
"Whether you dare or not will not affect the facts. I don't have time to bother with you. I just want to know now..." Emperor Zhengde pointed to Huang Yi, "Who is behind this trip? Do I know this person?"
Wu Chao's behavior was too weird.
How could he, an emperor created by a crazy ruffian, dare not promote the alliance between the Wu Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.
As a large country in the north, the Wu Dynasty, except for external aggression, lived its own faults. It had a kind of arrogance that if you don't pay attention to me, I won't bother to flatter you.
Even in the siege forty years ago, when money came out in the end, the Wu Dynasty never took the initiative to send anyone to make peace.
This caused many people to die in the Wu Dynasty in one year, and a generation of young men and women were lost among them. If it were another country, let alone surrendering earlier, it would definitely be suing for peace in various places.
At the slightest sign, Wu Chao walked out on his own and took out Jeju Island. The contrast was so huge that it was hard to accept for a while.
Without the Lianghuai Rebellion, it would have been against the Wu Dynasty's initiative and the interests of Jeju Island, and the matter would have been dragged on for a while.
Not for anything else, just because it’s profitable!
The Ming Dynasty monopolized maritime trade, and its profits were astonishing, but it was ultimately limited by transformation.
Without enough transformation, it is difficult to convert Potian's wealth into material and financial resources. After all, Ming Dynasty cannot use spices, sugar, glass, and gems to fill the people's stomachs and drive the army to fight externally and defend internally, right?
If possible, there would be no problem if the Huaihe River and the Huaihe River were drought for ten years, not to mention two years of drought!
Compared to the Wu Dynasty, which needed wealth more, the Ming Dynasty needed a market. Even if there was no cash or copper flowing in, as long as the things in the warehouse could be turned into meat, leather, and wood, it would be better than the current situation.
The Song people did not give them a chance, and the Chu State in Jingzhou faced a situation similar to that of the Ming Dynasty, leaving the Wu Dynasty and the grassland to choose from.
Huang Yi shook his head and chuckled, "Please, Holy Lord, please don't embarrass me about this matter!"
Is the equation something he can leak?
If he misses it, no matter how great the achievements of this trip are, it will be greatly discounted in the heart of the empress.
According to the rules, he deserves no less rewards and commendations, but who is willing to offend the empress, a king who will obviously hold the throne of the Wu Dynasty for more than ten years, or even decades?
Hearing this, Emperor Zhengde smiled and said, "It seems there really is such a person!"
The change of the Wu Dynasty has long been over, and it will not wait until now. The empress has been on the throne for four years and has not changed. In the early days, it can be understood as maintaining stability. However, the Jinshi imperial examination was changed, allowing women to become Jinshi, and the Wu Dynasty's external strategy has not changed. This is a good explanation. The contemporary empress is a good continuation of the past tradition of the Wu Dynasty.
Continuing the tradition is both a good thing and a bad thing for all countries.
Fortunately, there will be no major problems in the Wu Dynasty in the short term. Countries do not need to worry about anything happening to Kyushu's northern barrier. If they can avoid facing the aliens on the grasslands, no one wants to be that iron-headed boy.
The bad thing is Kyushu. Wu Dynasty, which occupied Qingzhou, Jizhou, and Bingzhou, has continued to become a blank in the Kyushu big market. There is no need to worry about Wu Dynasty using force. At the same time, other countries should not even think about making money from Wu Dynasty.
Huang Yi smiled and said nothing, lowering his head and looking at his feet silently, as if there was a chess game under his feet, waiting for him to solve it.
"Man, I won't ask, and I won't investigate. I just want to know, what else do you want to do?" Emperor Zhengde turned around and straightened his eyes, staring at Huang Yi.
A person who can change the general direction of the Wu Dynasty must be respected by the Wu Dynasty royal family and the court.
A person who can use Jeju Island as a bargaining chip must not analyze based on his past attitude towards Wu.
It is unknown what kind of impact this person's appearance will have on the entire Kyushu, but it will be beneficial to Mingren who are in urgent need of new markets to convert wealth.
"I think His Majesty already knows the news about the opening of the household market!" Huang Yi raised his head and looked straight ahead.
Chongming Palace has been analyzing this de facto junior brother for many years, and Huang Yi has also been studying it for a long time. He is an anomaly among emperors.
Normally, after a dynasty has experienced its heyday and two eras of resurgence, inherent classes are formed, and both civil and military methods of struggle will tend to be similar to civil rule.
In this environment, a prince who received a civilized education from an early age not only did not continue the style of his father's generation, but also directly transformed into a military king. It cannot be said to be rare, but it has never happened in history.
However, this Wu Jun had a thorough strategy and battle, and he was stronger than the founding emperors of the previous dynasties. He also used the means of civil rule and the financial resources of the dynasty to get rid of the trap of militarism, making the Ming Dynasty stronger and stronger.
If there were no old illnesses in the Ming Dynasty, it would be difficult to imagine what Emperor Zhengde, who had been in power for ten years, could do.
"Jeju Island is not a test for this dynasty, but the first step. Next, this dynasty will open Yuyang, and once Yuyang opens a border household market, it will naturally open to the Ming Dynasty!"
Huang Yi entered the Ming Dynasty, but the intelligence behind him was uninterrupted.
Although Huang Yi still doesn't know the specific results of the banquet, he already knows what needs to be discussed and what needs to be decided.
It all depends on how Huang Yi plays these cards!
Theoretically, under the premise of promoting the alliance, the fewer cards played, the greater Huang Yi's contribution.
"Is it the same for banks?" Emperor Zhengde smiled.
The pace of the alliance between the two countries can be improved, and the interests must not be lacking. Wu has a record keeping department, and the Ming Dynasty also has a royal guard. If he reports to Emperor Zhengde, his understanding may not be less than that of Huang Yi, at least not as complete.
"Treat everyone equally!"
"Everything this dynasty is doing now is to get rid of the monopoly situation of the Song people. This opening is to introduce more friends!"
Why was the Wu Dynasty kidnapped to death by the Song people for so many years? To put it bluntly, the ambitions of the warriors did not die. They continued to follow the strategic direction of first north and then south, thinking of conquering the Jurchens in the north first and enclosing the Bohai Sea as the internal sea of the Wu Dynasty.
The Bohai Sea turns into an inland sea, and the gateway is Jeju Island.
Jeju Island was unwilling to give up, and the Ming Dynasty was shut out. Not only did it have no prerequisites for cooperation, the Ming Dynasty even had to prevent the Wu Dynasty from going south to Xuzhou from the sea and giving the Ming Dynasty a severe blow.
Now that the warriors have left Jeju Island to focus on the overall situation, it can naturally be discussed.
"Friends?" Emperor Zhengde smiled, "Go back and tell your empress that I am happy to be friends with you, but after becoming friends, should I help my friends solve some small problems?"
Covenants must be made and troubles must be resolved.
The two Huaihe Rivers must not be disrupted. If they are disrupted, it will be a slap in the face of the Ming Dynasty, and it will damage the prestige of the Zhu family and the people.
You can't defend the land of Longxing, so why should you be an emperor?
You must know that it is not only Zhu Ming's hometown, but also the hometown of most of the nobles of the Ming Dynasty. If there is a drought or disaster, God will not provide food, but if there is chaos, the loss will be everyone's money.
