Arriving at the fourth prince's tent, Yang Bing saw Zhu Yun sitting in the main seat and Harz sitting aside. Neither of them paid any attention to the other.
As soon as Yang Bing came in, the expressions on the two people's faces became obviously much more relaxed.
"Brother Yang, you're here. This brother of yours is really hard to talk to." Harz leaned over Yang Bing in a slightly funny way and said quietly.
As the head coach of Tongtian Pass, the fourth prince invited Hartz over, hoping to meet and get to know each other formally. However, who would have thought that the fourth prince would always be indifferent to strangers, let alone staring at a Tatar. The tart-faced Hartz.
Although Harz is a good person, he can't bear to say that he is a nomad on the grassland. He is straightforward and a little reckless by nature. So when he entered the fourth prince's camp, because he did not wait for the guard to report, Harz broke in.
This provoked the fourth prince to sneer: "Huh, you are still a barbarian after all. You don't even know to report him when you enter the door?"
Even though Harz was reckless, he could still hear the meaning of these words, and immediately retorted: "We are not like you Central Plains people, each of us has a lot of scheming. We Ke people always say what we have to say. "
Zhu Yun snorted coldly, ordered the guards to find Yang Bing, and then stopped talking. Harz also sat on the seat next to him angrily, picked up a water glass and took a sip of water, which made him mock: "The drinking cups are so small!"
After Yang Bing understood what had happened under the explanation of the guards, he smiled helplessly, walked to the fourth prince Zhu Yun, bowed and saluted: "Fourth prince, the Harz brothers are from the Ke tribe, a nomadic people on the grassland. That's how they are by nature. He is bold and unrestrained, but his heart is not bad. You can see on the battlefield that the Harz brothers killed as many enemy soldiers as you and me. What's more, the Harz brothers were also framed in the first place."
Yang Bing said this and sat down. When Harz heard Yang Bing say that he was framed, he couldn't help but show an unwilling look.
"At the beginning, the old king of Ke Renguo wanted to have good relations with me in the Ming Dynasty, so he sent the Harz brothers to Kyoto to meet the saints. As a result, his brother Hatan took advantage of the loophole, and the old king was also killed. He and himself The remaining subordinates were hunted down by their brother Hatan and fled to the Qiling Mountains." Under Yang Bing's explanation, the fourth prince finally understood Harz.
He also felt slightly guilty in his heart. He originally thought that Hartz was a Tatar leader who was betrayed by Yang Bing in battle. He looked down upon traitors, whether they were the enemy's or his own subordinates.
The fourth prince Zhu Yun stood up and got a glass of wine and came to Harz: "I'm sorry, Brother Harz, I was just negligent." After saying this, Zhu Yun raised his head and drank it all.
Harz waved his hand: "The fourth prince is joking. This is my Harz's family matter. The most disgusting thing is Nahatan. I didn't kill him just now! I will kill him with my own hands when I have the chance." His head was sent to his father’s tomb for worship!”
Yang Bing patted Hartz on the shoulder: "Fourth Prince, what should we do next? Although Hatan's army has been reduced to stragglers, Lin Ziren's remaining 80,000 troops are still hundreds of miles away. It’s entrenched outside.”
Zhu Yun nodded: "This is indeed a difficult problem. Although we have temporarily repelled Lin Ziren's small army, his rebellion will not stop there. I am afraid that things will change in the South China Sea in the future."
"Report! Fourth Prince, someone outside the camp has sent a letter, saying it is from Lin Ziren and asking you to open it personally." A guard walked in from outside, kneeling on the ground holding a letter in his hands.
When the three of them heard that it was from Lin Ziren to the fourth prince, they came over one after another. Zhu Yun picked up the letter and opened it in front of Yang Bing and Harz without hiding it.
There are only a few words in the letter: "From now on, I will declare myself king from the South China Sea and will never have any contact with the Ming Dynasty!"
"Sure enough, what my father feared most happened happened." The fourth prince put down the letter helplessly and sat down.
As the founding emperor, what Zhu Yuanzhang feared most was that his subordinates would become too powerful and establish themselves as kings. It was not that Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid that he would not be able to defeat them, but that if a war was launched, it would be the common people who would suffer. As a commoner, Zhu Yuanzhang naturally did not want to see this. Arrived.
"There is no way. Lin Ziren must have already made this plan when he gathered troops to reach Tianguan Pass." Yang Bing also felt helpless. To be honest, if Zhu Yuanzhang sent him to the South China Sea to become a border general, Yang Bing would be happy to do so. So happy.
"What should we do? How about we go directly to the South China Sea." Harz couldn't understand the conversation between Yang Bing and Zhu Yun, so he could only come up with the most direct method.
Yang Bing nodded: "If you don't care about the people, killing them directly is the best way, but the people are not wrong."
Yang Bing was also at a loss. Suddenly he saw Harz, and an idea suddenly flashed in his head: "Yes!"
The fourth prince Zhu Yun seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and said quickly: "What is Brother Yang's plan?"
Yang Bing chuckled lightly: "Don't Lin Ziren want to isolate himself? Then we will establish diplomatic relations with Ke Renguo."
"Ke Renguo? Hatan hasn't been caught yet." The fourth prince said doubtfully.
Yang Bing hugged Hartz and said with a smile: "Hatan didn't catch him, but didn't we catch the real prince?"
Yang Bing then revealed the plan in his mind. It turned out that Harz was to go back and establish the Keren Kingdom, and then establish diplomatic relations with the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, he established a free trade zone around Tongtian Pass, where no forces from all countries were allowed to launch War, but the resources and wealth of various countries can be exchanged here.
In this way, not only can the problem of war be solved, but also mutual understanding between countries can be enhanced.
The fourth prince frowned and said, "But what if someone with an intention obtains our Ming Dynasty's treasure in exchange for it and uses it to do something that is detrimental to the country's strength?"
Yang Bing thought for a moment, looked at Harz and asked: "Harz, tell me, why did you fight for items in the Ming Dynasty's city?"
Harz touched his head and said: "Well, in the past, we nomads had no problem eating and drinking on the grassland, but we were never able to build our own city. It was because we lacked the materials of the Ming Dynasty, so we had no choice but to rob it. , but my father did not allow us, the Ke people, to fight for it."
Yang Bing nodded and said, "That's right."
Neither the fourth prince nor Hartz could understand what Yang Bing said.
"This is why the Tatars keep invading the borders of the Ming Dynasty. It's because they lack a lot of things that we in the Ming Dynasty have." Yang Bing said here and drew a circle on the paper: "Look, here It is Tongtian Pass. To the south is the prairie, to the north is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, to the west is the South China Sea, and to the east is the plateau. There are forces from all directions around it, and even more. Here, a place where everyone can do transactions has been established. region, it will definitely reduce the occurrence of war.”
Yang Bing looked at the thoughtful expressions of the fourth prince and Hartz, and continued: "Do you know, there are not many people who really want to fight. If they can get what they want easily, they How can we go back and steal it?"
Yang Bing stood up and said with his hands behind his back: "When His Royal Highness the Crown Prince discussed with me why the chieftain tribe in the south has been rebelling, I only answered him with one sentence."
The fourth prince was like a student studying at this moment: "What are you talking about?"
"If everyone in the common people can have enough to eat, have clothes to wear, and a house to live in, who would want to risk their lives to rebel?" Yang Bing looked at the fourth prince and said with a smile: "This is not the same as now. Is the situation similar?"
The fourth prince suddenly realized that he was just like the original prince Zhu Di.
"I understand, Brother Yang, I will write a letter to my father and ask for the establishment of what kind of free zone?"
"It's a free trade zone." Yang Bing corrected.
"Oh, yes, yes, free trade zone." The fourth prince patted his head, walked to the desk and started writing.
But just as he raised his pen, the fourth prince remembered something in his mind. It was like a thunder exploded in his brain, and he stared at Yang Bing blankly.
Yang Bing felt a little cold when the Fourth Prince looked at him, and asked quickly: "What's wrong? Fourth Prince, don't you know how to write it? I can ghostwrite it for you."
The fourth prince stood up guiltily and grabbed Yang Bing's hands: "Well, Brother Yang, there is something I forgot to tell you."
Yang Bing was puzzled: "What's going on?"
Zhu Yun spoke with difficulty: "Lin Ziren and Lin Feng used a trick before the war to frame Prime Minister Yang and General Wan Qi in front of the emperor. The prince's secret message has just been received. Prime Minister Yang and General Wan Qi have been imprisoned. .”
"What! My fourth prince, why did you just say that?" Yang Bing cried sadly, stood up and was about to rush out of the tent.
But he was stopped by the fourth prince: "Brother Yang, don't be anxious. The eldest brother also said in the letter that nothing happened to Prime Minister Yang and General Wan Qi. My father also knew what was going on. It was just Lin Ziren's treachery in the court. There are really too many parties, and they cannot be eliminated at once, so we can only wrong the two elders first."
Yang Bing then breathed a sigh of relief: "It scared me to death." Yang Bing sat down and touched his chest, and suddenly thought again: "Does Ke'er know?"
The fourth prince shook his head: "Not yet. After I sent the secret message, I burned it after reading it. Now only you and I know."
Harz on the side was unconvinced: "There is still me! Brother Yang, it's okay. If something happens to your father, at worst, I will rebel with you, fight back to the Ming Dynasty, and avenge your father!"
Yang Bing quickly covered Harz's mouth, thinking that if he didn't stop this big brother, he didn't know what trouble he would cause.
Yang Bing pondered for a while, then suddenly clapped his hands: "Fourth Prince, we have a solution."
Zhu Yun asked: "What can we do?"
"Aren't we going to establish a free trade zone?"
In the camp, Yang Bing, the fourth prince and Hartz were discussing the free trade zone.
In a corner outside the camp, the sixth prince Zhu You listened intently to the conversation inside the camp. Smiling slightly: "Free trade zone? Interesting."
