"No need," Zhu Youjian shook his head, "These profiteers will pay some taxes this time... They have a big plan, so they have to give me, the emperor, a little sweetness, right?"
"Long live the wise Lord," Li Chengyun smiled, "These merchants are the most cunning, and it will not be easy to get some money out of their hands.
Our Ming Dynasty officially implemented a maritime ban, but private maritime trade was huge. How many goods came in and out every year? How much tax can be paid? That is to say, Long Live Lord is wise and powerful, and he can still get some money out of the hands of these heartless profiteers. "
Zhu Youjian snorted: "When it comes to extracting money from profiteers, I'm not as good as him...and I don't value yellow and white things as much as he does. I actually don't care about money."
who is he? Taizu? Chengzu? Shenzong? It seems like none of those three people have the money from you, right? You are the most money-loving man in this dynasty. You still don’t value yellow and white things? Don't you care about money?
Li Chengyun didn't quite understand, but he didn't dare to ask any more questions. He just smiled and said flattery: "Long live the Holy Ming!"
Zhu Youjian chuckled and closed the memorial, "I know how to flatter you. I am a wise king and I will not do this!"
"Long live Lord, I have wronged you," Li Chengyun continued to feel aggrieved. "This slave is honest and won't flatter others... What I said is from the bottom of my heart! Long live Lord is truly a sage! Long live Lord is not only wise, but also capable. He knows how to calculate and predict the future, just like a god!"
"Prophecy?" Zhu Youjian became alert, "Who said that?"
"That's what everyone in Tmall Division said. They all said that Long Live Lord had foresight and predicted that there would be plague in Shanxi this year. So we made arrangements in advance, and I don't know how many people were saved..."
The plague in Shanxi seems to have been controlled in several prefectures and counties at the junction of Datong and Taiyuan. Although the plague has a notorious reputation, since rats themselves do not migrate long distances, it is the vectors or the infected people that are responsible for the widespread spread of the plague. Plague has the characteristics of acute onset, short course, high mortality, strong contagiousness, and rapid spread. Therefore, as long as the epidemic area is controlled in time and patients are not allowed to leave, the epidemic can be extinguished in a short time.
Since Tmall implemented city and road closures in Taiyuan and Datong in advance, the epidemic did not spread. Even the several states and counties that reported the epidemic have already restricted the movement of people throughout the territory, so only a small number of towns and villages have experienced outbreaks, and most places are safe.
An epidemic that would have swept the entire world seemed to have been nipped in the bud because of Zhu Youjian's foresight!
Li Chengyun saw a proud smile on Zhu Youjian's face, so he continued to speak "the truth" and said: "Saving one life is better than building a seven-level pagoda. Long Live Lord, there are tens of millions of people alive right now, so then How much virtue do you have to accumulate..."
Li Chengyun's words suddenly stopped because he saw Zhu Youjian, who was smiling just now, now looking at him fiercely!
"How do you know how many millions of people I have alive this time?" Zhu Youjian asked calmly.
"Slave, slave... whatever you say..." Sweat was dripping from Li Chengyun's forehead. He was so good at flattering him, why did he slap him on the tiger's butt all at once? It seems that the old saying that accompanies you like a tiger is really true!
"Can you say such things casually?" Zhu Youjian glared at Li Chengyun for a while, then his expression softened, "Go and announce the eldest concubine to me."
Li Chengyun breathed a sigh of relief, said "I accept the order," and hurriedly left the Chengyun Palace to find Zhu Youjian's beloved concubine Wu Liangha.
Because the plague was discovered in Datong Prefecture, Zhu Youjian did not bring a large group of wives and children with him. He only brought Concubine Wu Liangha who had made great contributions in the Battle of Dashawo to Datong and enjoyed the world of two people. .
Not long after Li Chengyun arrived, Concubine Wu Liangha came quickly. After entering the Chengyun Hall, she gave Zhu Youjian a blessing gift and said with a smile: "Long live my Lord, you want to punish the slaves in broad daylight." ?”
She issued a military order to take Huang Taiji's life, but Huang Taiji escaped safely and returned to Shenyang to lose weight.
Therefore, Zhu Youjian did not give Wu Liangha any reward in the post-war merit discussion, and he also took her with him and "punished" her every day. Now she has been punished with death - Wu Liangha is pregnant again!
Zhu Youjian glared at her angrily: "You are a Tatar girl who needs to be dealt with! But I have to leave Datong... and you have to leave too! We have to say goodbye again."
"Are we going to say goodbye again?" Concubine Wu Liangha looked unwilling, walked to Zhu Youjian's side, sat down, and leaned her soft and waxy body against her.
Zhu You caressed the belly of the imperial concubine, "I am the emperor of tomorrow, and you are the imperial concubine of the grassland... When we are united, we are destined to live apart more and spend less time together. However, we travel far and wide, but we can make great achievements for future generations. Isn’t it the same for the next foundation, the career of Genghis Khan and Emperor Gao, the great ancestor of this dynasty?”
Concubine Wu Liangha pouted: "I can go forward for Your Majesty and sweep the grassland!"
"But the world is bigger than your imagination, and what I want is not just the grassland." Zhu Youjian said, "You go back to Huacheng first, and at the same time contact the leaders of Mobei and Moxi to open the Jinlianchuan grassland. Kulitai Conference; while recruiting prairie warriors, expanding the army, and preparing to fight again!"
It was not easy for Zhu Youjian, whose job was to be the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, to concurrently serve as the Great Khan of Mongolia, or to have the Mongolian tribes support him as the Khan of the same day. It is more difficult for Huang Taiji to become the Bogda Chechen Khan than in the previous life, because although the current Manchus claim to be descendants of the Jurchens, they are actually "Golden Mongolia" and are probably closer to the Mongolians, so the Mongols are easier to accept. Kim's notice.
The Ming Dynasty was the enemy of Mongolia for more than two hundred years!
"Okay!" Concubine Wu Liangha nodded, "If Long live the Lord must be the Great Khan of Mongolia, it may be difficult. But the title of Tian Khan belongs to His Majesty as a matter of course... If anyone dares If he doesn’t obey, the slave’s camel soldiers will chase him to the ends of the earth!”
"Let's go together then!" Zhu Youjian laughed, "But before that, I have to go back to Beijing to meet the naval admiral of the United East India Company brought by Zheng Zhilong."
"Unite the East India Duke..." The noble concubine Wu Liangha frowned her slender eyebrows, "What are you doing?"
"It's just a trading house!" Zhu Youjian said, "A businessman who doesn't do business honestly will know how to cheat, steal, rob, kill, and set fire, and do all kinds of evil!"
"Are they so bad?" Concubine Wu Liangha looked disgusted, "Long live Lord, then you still want to see them? Oops...Long live Lord, why are you pinching the slave?"
Zhu Youjian laughed and said: "You, a female Tatar, have done many things like killing people, setting fires, and robbing things. You still say that people are bad. Shouldn't you pinch them?"
Concubine Wu Liangha was stunned and retorted: "Your Majesty, aren't you the same? You even let me rob this female Tatar..."
"Yes!" Zhu Youjian laughed, "That's why I'm going to meet the bandits of the United East India Company... We are all in the same industry, so we just happened to join forces to rob!"
"Join forces? How to join forces?" Wu Liangha asked doubtfully, "Long Live Lord is a giant...a benevolent and righteous king with a huge appetite, how can he join forces with others?"
"I am a wise king, I will not eat alone!" Zhu Youjian said with a smile, "And I don't love Kong Fang very much... What I love is the land, the country! I want to give one to each of my sons. If we want a piece of land, we must fight for it fiercely!”
It turns out that Zhu Youjian worked so hard for the sake of those more than one hundred sons... He couldn't just focus on having children and not caring about the territory!
In his previous life, he was usurped by his traitor and had no choice. He may have had enough patience in this life, so how could he not consider the future of his sons?
And as a feudal emperor, doesn't he have to banish all his sons one by one? Without sealing off 100 countries, could Zhu Youjian still be called a feudal emperor?
So what he cares about in this life is not capitalism (he doesn’t understand this), nor industrialization (he has never heard of it), but feudalism and nation-building!
