Since ancient times, people have not fought with officials, let alone businessmen with low status. certificate
In fact, the most important thing is to figure out your own position. If you think that you have brought a lot of benefits to others, others will definitely protect you.
As everyone knows, for nobles, their own power is the most important.
Money is gone once it is gone. As long as the power is still there, it can still be earned back later.
When it comes to silencing people, the nobles are surprisingly unanimous. Those who were in prison for loan sharking, as well as those who followed them to do evil, all died tragically in prison without exception.
"Drink up. Drink up and get on your way early so that our brothers don't come in to attack you."
"We've killed dozens of people today, and my hands are sore when carrying the bodies. If you do this again, I won't have the energy to eat anymore."
"If you know the truth, you can avoid a lot of pain. The things inside are all carefully measured and stored in the shortest possible time. The pain will not last long."
Outside the cell, several jailers persuaded him earnestly.
They are really tired.
The butlers from all the big bosses came to visit the prison one after another. Each one was of higher rank than the other. It was not something that little minions like them could disobey.
The nearby pharmacies are almost out of stock of arsenic.
All these people who have been caught in jail recently will die.
After the key person died, due to some reasons, they had to carry it out by themselves. This was a physically demanding job.
From the morning until now, everyone is exhausted. certificate
The businessman who heard this in the cell inside looked horrified and begged for mercy: "I am following Shilang Li. If you do this, Shilang Li will definitely not let you go."
"Do you know how much money I gave him as a tribute? This is an amount you can't even dream of."
"Hurry up and let me go. I won't be held accountable after I get out."
The minister does not seem to be very big in the imperial court, but looking at the capital, he is also a first-rate official.
Basically, most things can be settled easily without even having to step forward.
The jailer smiled and said: "As for the minister, I don't care which one you have. You know what the backstage of the one in front is. He is already a minister, so there is no use."
"Even if you have something to do with the palace, it's still the same. You can still maintain your dignity by drinking. But if our brothers take action later, it won't be so easy."
"Besides, you are dead in prison now, and you alone will die. If you really keep struggling, the whole house will die."
"We brothers are really out of strength. There are still hundreds of people behind us, and the pressure from above is tight."
"Here is the bowl for you, please be more sensible."
"Remember, when you drink it, you will get it all dry. If the amount of medicine is not enough, you will be the one who suffers."
The jailer put the bowl filled with potion on the ground, and after saying that, he walked towards the next cell, leaving the ashen-faced businessman with his eyes blank.
After a long time, the businessman seemed to have figured it out. He walked to the cell door and picked up the medicine bowl tremblingly, for fear of spilling it.
Then drink it all in one gulp. certificate
Even the residue inside was licked clean.
As the jailer said, drinking less will only make the torture worse.
After a moment, a miserable scream sounded, which was the last torture before death.
Throughout the prison, screams echoed one after another.
The prisoners who had nothing to do with this matter were so frightened that they huddled in the corners of the cells and shivered.
Scenes like this are truly a lifelong shadow in the hearts of ordinary people.
Even the jailers rarely saw such a scene, and they felt a little frightened. certificate
Turning around, for those who were unwilling to drink, the jailers could only swarm them and forcefully irrigate them, which took a lot of effort.
Jailers cannot commit suicide privately
, especially traumatic injuries such as swords.
The most basic right to execute people has nothing to do with them.
The saber on the waist is mostly just a decoration.
Entering the cell and wiping the neck of a prisoner is not allowed by law. Secondly, ordinary jailers don't have the guts to do it themselves.
If you take poison, it will be considered suicide.
This time the incident was so big that the jailers had no other choice. certificate
Fortunately, when someone comes from above and gives instructions, they will give a lot of reward money. After removing the cost of buying medicine, the rest is what they earn.
This wave can be regarded as a windfall.
There are only a dozen or twenty jailers in a normal cell, but now there are hundreds of people in each cell.
After death, even if it is carried out and thrown to the prisoner's family, everyone has to carry dozens of them and lie down.
The storm in the capital was like a thunderstorm, coming and going even faster.
In two or three days, more than 10,000 people lost their lives.
More than 10,000 people may seem like a lot, but in fact, they have no major impact on the entire city of Nanjing. certificate
Perhaps the only thing that is more conspicuous is that almost all the banks and pawnshops in the streets and markets have been closed down.
According to the current Ming Dynasty laws, the land deeds of these shops will be invalidated, and they will be included in the internal funds and enter the emperor's private treasury.
Of course, the other properties of these loan shark merchants were confiscated.
Sometimes it’s really that easy to get money.
Zhu Yuanzhang also sighed.
It turns out that these businessmen have so much money in their hands. If I had known that I would have paid more attention to the businessmen, I would not have been as embarrassed as before.
Zhu Ying no longer feels much about money. certificate
His current idea is to develop internal affairs on a large scale, as well as various industrial bases, and then expand the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
After three months, the Beiyuan Employment Guild has reached a certain scale.
The current direction of development still lies in the protection of caravans, especially when traveling in the Western Region.
Feeling that the time was almost up, Zhu Ying called Uncle Zhang.
"If I remember correctly, there was a Mongolian member in our chamber of commerce earlier. He was a good and powerful man. His name was Batu, right."
Zhu Ying asked after reminiscing.
Over there is the branch of the Qunying Chamber of Commerce in the Golden Horde. It is very far away. The difference between it and the Ming Dynasty is the Western Region, the Chagatai Khanate in the east, and then the Golden Horde. certificate
The spread of news is naturally very slow.
At the beginning, Zhu Ying ordered all Mongolian chambers of commerce to evacuate to the Western Regions, and then entered the Ming Dynasty.
The news from the Golden Horde was very late, and the losses would be much greater.
Among them, when Zhu Ying checked the intelligence, he was deeply impressed by Batu described in the file.
The Western Regions belong to the Ming Dynasty in name, so the Ming Dynasty cannot arbitrarily send troops to the Western Regions, as this will affect the reputation of the Ming Dynasty.
The Mongols are different. They are famous for their ferocity, especially small countries in the Western Regions, which have been ravaged many times by Mongolian cavalry.
If you want to stir up the water in this pool in the Western Regions, it is naturally more convenient for the Mongols to come forward. certificate
Uncle Zhang replied: "After the Mongol men like Batu withdrew, they have been staying in our city of heroes in the Western Regions."
"If His Highness has any instructions, I think they will definitely be able to handle it."
Zhu Ying nodded and said, "Send them some money and food to support them, recruit troops and horses in the Western Regions, and conquer everywhere, causing chaos throughout the Western Regions."
"The Beiyuan Mercenary Guild hired a team of three thousand cavalry to help Batu gain more territory."
"Don't worry about logistics. If there's anything you don't like, just call it."
"Timur's side should now treat the Golden Horde
The advantage is sufficient. Timur himself is very arrogant and thinks that he will prepare to launch troops against the Eastern Chagatai Khanate in the near future. "
"Let Batu and the others participate in the past. Once we have enough troops, we will also conduct border sweeps against the Eastern Chagatai Khanate." Evidence.
"As for funding, just take 20 million treasure notes and gradually support it within two years."
The Western Region is too stretched.
Especially now in the Western Region.
Back then, Zhu Ying had thousands of horses in his hands, so he could dominate the entire Western Region. However, in the Western Region, there was no point in having too much territory, and the land was vast and sparsely populated, and you might not see a single person for several days.
Zhu Ying's original thoughts were all about business. In addition to building a city of heroes, he didn't deliberately capture several countries to show off his force. It was just for fun.
It's different now. Unifying the Western Regions is of greater significance.
High-yield crops can still have very good output values in the Western Region. certificate
The Western Region is at the junction with Timur and the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, and its geographical location is also relatively important.
Although Timur died on the march in history, some things had changed. Zhu Ying was not sure whether he would die like that.
It's better to play it safe.
There is no need to bet on something that has not happened yet.
The Western Region is so big, almost half as big as the current Ming Dynasty.
In terms of time, we can only think in the long-term direction.
On Timur's end, the current overall situation is similar to Zhu Ying's expectation. certificate
When Timur got the cement formula, he naturally started a large-scale construction without hesitation.
Timur itself attaches great importance to cavalry, and the post stations throughout Timur's territory are also highly distributed. This is similar to Meng Yuan's idea.
Today, Tamerlane is full of momentum, powerful troops, and brazenly launching wars on many fronts, and has won consecutive victories along the way.
For now, in the entire Central Asia region, Timur is already a veritable hegemon, and none of the surrounding countries can defeat him.
The Timurid Empire had a territory almost the same size as the actual territory of the Ming Dynasty today.
Among them, the number of troops is close to two million, which is not much less than that of the Ming Dynasty.
Unlike the self-sufficient guard system of the Ming Dynasty, Timur's system was a slave system, which used slaves to forcibly support his army. certificate
A large part of the army was also a slave army.
By fighting to support war, Timur did not have to worry about lack of troops. He was always thinking about how to consume the slave army on hand.
Because if it is consumed too slowly, it will become a burden to oneself.
Led by the Mongolian cavalry, these slave armies also had considerable combat effectiveness. Although they were said to be slaves, in fact, many of them were the backbone of the surrounding small countries in the early days.
It's not that these small countries are not developing well, but compared to the Mongol Khanate, they are indeed far behind. The quality of the Mongolian cavalry is equivalent to a natural gap in all aspects.
There are many plains here, and on the plains, hundreds of Mongolian cavalry can easily kill thousands of infantry.
It's a full ten times difference. certificate
In addition, Timur's side has more cavalry than the infantry of ordinary small countries, so there is nothing to resist.
If it were more than a hundred years ago, these small countries would have been in places that Genghis Khan had conquered.
According to Timur's words, this is not invasion, this is reconquest.
Of course, Timur was only king in Central Asia.
There is Ming Dynasty in the east.
In name, Timur was still a minister of the Ming Dynasty.
In the West, there is the Ottoman Empire, which is now at its peak. certificate
The Ottoman Empire was at the intersection of Eastern and Western civilizations and had controlled the land transportation lines between Eastern and Western civilizations for hundreds of years.
Not long after Kublai Khan settled in the Central Plains, he died
In the fourth year of , the Ottoman Empire was established.
The Ottoman Empire, which had developed for hundreds of years, was in its Rise of the Sun.
The ancient Byzantine Empire farther west was completely in retreat when facing the new Ottoman Empire.
Today's Ottoman Empire already spans three continents, Europe, Asia and Africa, and its influence is extremely powerful.
Even Timur was cautious when facing the Ottoman Empire.
Of course, as a Mongolian, he inherently has a strong psychological advantage over Western European countries. certificate
Because since the rise of the nomads, the west has never lost a war in this world.
This is no exaggeration.
It’s not just the Mongols either.
For example, the former Xiongnu Empire was the most powerful and vast empire on the Asian continent. It once roamed freely and plundered everywhere, becoming a terrifying force of civilization and destruction that stretched between the East and the West.
It's just that when the Xiongnu Empire, which was invincible in the west, met the Han Dynasty from the east, it almost never won.
I was chased and beaten all the way.
It is said that the final demise of the Roman Empire had a lot to do with the Han Dynasty. certificate
The various kneeling Xiongnu in the east, strictly speaking, are the northern Xiongnu, who were expelled from the Mobei Plateau by the Han Dynasty.
The Northern Huns gradually retreated westward to the Don and Danube river basins, and based themselves on the southern Russian steppe, and finally launched a war against the Roman Empire.
The Northern Huns, who had experienced the hell mode of the East, finally discovered that in the West they could defeat everything at will.
So in the end, the Xiongnu did not return to the east, and slowly integrated into the western countries.
Although their nationalities are different, the Mongols and Huns are both nomadic peoples.
The Mongol Empire after the Huns Empire was in a similar situation.
Timur could surrender to the Ming Dynasty, but in his heart, he had no fear at all of the approaching and powerful Ottoman Empire. certificate
Recently I've been thinking about whether to have a fight with them first to test the situation.
