In Zuixian Tower.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the drunk Li Jin and couldn't help asking:
"What is the important thing you mentioned?"
Li Jin had a strange smile on his face, but did not answer:
"Don't say it, don't say it."
"If you don't want to tell me, how can we ask the emperor for permission?"
Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly became furious and shouted:
"Is it just your empty words? Do you know that no matter what you say, the envoy of Japan Island is also the envoy of a country."
"You, a small county magistrate, want to meet with the envoys of a country. Not only is this unreasonable, but if you fall into the eyes of someone with serious intentions, you will even be impeached until death."
Zhu Yuanzhang was very concerned about the coming of all nations to court.
Because this can greatly satisfy his vanity, Zhu Yuanzhang actually did not have very high material requirements. During his rule, he governed the country diligently and frugally, and used frugality to avoid luxury.
He never built a palace, nor was he greedy for enjoyment and extravagance.
But as long as we are human, we will definitely have seven emotions and six desires.
Zhu Yuanzhang's desire is not material, it must be spiritual.
Compared to material things, maybe he prefers the feeling of being worshiped by thousands of people.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang would attach great importance to the visit of envoys from any country.
A few years later, Hu Weiyong was killed by Zhu Yuanzhang precisely because he handled the envoys who occupied the city without authorization.
Now Li Jin actually wanted to deal with the Japanese envoys himself, which made Zhu Yuanzhang very angry.
But Li Jin said firmly:
"These envoys are not actually the envoys of Washima, but the impersonations of one of the princes' daimyo."
"The princes of Japan Island heard that Ming Dynasty's return gift was very generous, so they wanted to steal our Ming Dynasty's wool."
"However, the Wajima daimyo who came this time is quite powerful. He has occupied the Kyoto area and is about to take control of Wajima's monarch."
"But if the emperor summons this famous envoy, wouldn't he be aiding the evildoers?"
"For the sake of our Ming Dynasty, we should leave this kind of people to me."
"After all, there is a daimyo envoy on the Japanese island, and it is already very grand for me, the county magistrate, to receive them."
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he was suddenly shocked and looked at Li Jin in disbelief.
His mind quickly recalled that when the Ming Dynasty was founded, Japan had clearly sent a wave of envoys. As a result, many more waves of envoys came later, all claiming to be the envoys of Japan.
Now that Li Jinyi explained it, Zhu Yuanzhang quickly understood that he had been tricked, and he was really taken advantage of by Japan.
Zhu Yuanzhang could not wait to kill those hateful Japanese people immediately to eliminate the hatred in his heart.
Zhu Biao and others on the side also recalled the waves of Japanese messengers appearing a few years ago, and at the same time looked at Zhu Yuanzhang with strange expressions.
Zhu Yuanzhang initially thought it was because the Japanese people respected his heavenly power, so he kept sending envoys to pay tribute to him.
"Hmph, we will report this matter to the emperor. You can wait for the news here."
Zhu Yuanzhang's face turned red and he felt a little embarrassed.
Li Jin raised his wine glass and said:
"Old Huang has great magical powers. I leave this matter to you. Our brother's plan to make a fortune depends entirely on you alone."
Zhu Yuanzhang glared at Li Jin angrily, then gently raised his glass and drank from it.
Although Li Jin is a bastard, as long as he can make money for himself, he is a good bastard.
Nowadays, money is needed everywhere in the Ming Dynasty, and Mahamu in the Liaodong area is starting to make moves again.
And the power of the Liaodong Dusi he had just established in Liaodong was still too weak. If Mahamu really wanted to go south and invade the Liaodong region of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court would have to dispatch a large army to pacify it.
The chieftains in Yunnan and Guizhou in southwest China are still rioting and rebelling one after another.
Although Mu Ying is suppressing rebellions in Yunnan and other places, the terrain in Yunnan, Guizhou and other places is too complex, with hundreds of thousands of mountains.
Once the war went bad, these chieftains would hide in the mountains.
Although the Ming army was brave and good at fighting, their understanding of the terrain was no match for these natives.
These natives lurked day and night, constantly harassing the Ming army's food routes, and made the Ming army extremely troublesome.
But they couldn't catch these natives, they were like mice. When the Ming army arrived, these people had long since slipped into the vast mountains and disappeared.
The Ming army had no choice but to continuously shrink its defense lines and put most of its defense energy into major cities such as Kunming, Guizhou, and Yulin.
Nowadays, the southwest region is still governed by Tusi autonomy, and these lands are basically the Tusi emperors in these places.
If Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to govern these places, he would continue to invest in the Ming army and pacify all these chieftains.
But even so, these toasts have always been a cancer in the southwest region, and they have never stopped during the more than two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty.
One of the three major campaigns of Wanli was a thirteen-year campaign targeting the Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Tibetan areas on the southwest frontier.
Although the Tusi Rebellion in the southwest was finally put down, it was precisely because of these thirteen years of conquest that the gold and silver accumulated during the Wanli years was emptied, giving the Northeastern Jurchens the opportunity to grow.
It can be said that these chieftains accounted for a large part of the decline of military strength in the late Ming Dynasty.
Although it is the early Ming Dynasty, some of these chieftains have been entrenched in the southwest for nearly a hundred years.
Even Zhu Yuanzhang had no better way to deal with these rich chieftains.
For the current plan, we can only continue to send large troops to support Mu Ying and assist Mu Ying in completely wiping out the southwest rebels.
However, this is destined to be a long process and consumes countless amounts of food and grass.
In Zhu Yuanzhang's original expectation, this time might be five years or even later, because the Ming Dynasty's biggest enemy is still Mobei Mongolia.
Only by completely solving Mongolia can Zhu Yuanzhang be free to settle the accounts with these chieftains.
After all, if the two sides start a war, even the Ming Dynasty will be unable to bear it.
But the appearance of Li Jin gave Zhu Yuanzhang hope to destroy these chieftains.
In fact, after all is said and done, Ming Dynasty was still too poor, with insufficient money, and the national treasury could not support it.
Li Jin's various measures gave Zhu Yuanzhang hope that the treasury would be filled. If it was as planned by Li Jin, Zhu Yuanzhang would even have the confidence to launch a two-front war against Southwest and Mobei.
Zhu Yuanzhang had been helpless when it came to the depletion of the treasury. After all, the Ming Dynasty had just been established less than five years ago and was full of waste.
The people are even more impoverished, with no food to eat and no clothes to cover their bodies.
Zhu Yuanzhang's previous policy of governing the country was based on agriculture. If he wanted to collect taxes from the people, it would take a long time.
After all, Zhu Yuanzhang was not a foolish king, and he could not do stupid things like wasting water. On the contrary, he would take more care of the people, take the initiative to reduce taxes on the people, so that the people could live and work in peace and contentment.
This method is naturally extremely effective for the stability of the country. In the past few years, people from all over the country have returned to their hometowns and settled down.
But this is a policy to stabilize the country, but not to enrich it.
Agriculture and business are the two legs of governance, and both are indispensable.
Zhu Yuanzhang only focused on farming. Although he could stabilize the country, he could not make the Ming Dynasty rich and strong quickly. He could only slowly accumulate national power.
However, this is also the national policy of all Chinese dynasties. In the early stages of each dynasty, they will go through a certain period of weakness.
Although the combat effectiveness of the dynasty's army was still strong at this time, the country was poor and the people were scarce, and the treasury was empty. Therefore, although it had a powerful army, it did not have the matching national power to support these dynasties' aggressive conquests.
It can only accumulate the strength of one or two generations. At that time, the national treasury was full, the food and wealth were accumulated to the peak, and the Chinese Dynasty ushered in a real prosperous age.
Such as Hanwu in the Han Dynasty, Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty, and Yongle in the Ming Dynasty.
This is all because the previous generations of emperors laid the foundation for them.
Zhu Yuanzhang is facing such a dilemma now. Although there are hundreds of thousands of elite Ming troops in the Beijing camp, after these years of war, the Ming Dynasty's treasury is already very empty.
Contrary to Zhu Yuanzhang's governing methods, Li Jin was able to quickly amass money through business means.
If we say that since the Qin State established China through farming and warfare, all dynasties in the past have chosen to strengthen the country through agriculture.
Now Zhu Yuanzhang has used the soldier guard system, which is also a means of farming and warfare, to defeat the powerful Chen Youliang and drive away the Tartars in the north.
So the current Li Jin has given Zhu Yuanzhang another leg, making the current Ming Dynasty based on agriculture and enriching the country through business.
Coupled with Li Jin's continuous advancement of overseas business, Ming Dynasty will rapidly grow by another means.
That is plunder, using the blood of enemy countries to nourish the people of Ming Dynasty, using the flesh and blood of foreigners as soil, allowing Ming Dynasty to emerge from its cocoon and become a butterfly.
