Although this imperial palace was built outside the city, its regulations were not reduced at all. After passing through the hanging flower doors and exiting the back corridor, you can reach the stables in the mansion.
Far away, Zhu Su heard the sound of horses neighing. When they turned around and passed the stable door, they saw a horse tied up to a frame with a lot of blood between its legs. A groom with a bright forehead was holding a gelding knife in his hand. When Zhu Su came, he saw him putting the gelding knife back on the table. He turned around and picked up the powder handed over by someone next to him and applied it to the horse's affected area. The horse cried with tears in his eyes, as if all his thoughts were gone.
Zhu Su was startled and felt a chill in his lower body. He quickly turned away and saw the bald groom turning around and seeing Zhu Su coming through the door. "It is a sin that the monk did not come to greet His Highness when he came from afar. Please wait a moment until the monk has applied the medicine on this beast before welcoming him." It was Yao Guangxiao.
Zhu Su was waiting aside. When Yao Guangxiao came back after cleaning his hands, he couldn't help but smile and tease: "The monk has entered Buddhism and still does bloody things like horse riding. Aren't you afraid of being blamed by the Buddha in heaven?"
"Amitabha, God's behavior is natural, how can you blame people for such trivial things? Riding horses is a wisdom passed down from ancient times. Only after the horse is castrated can it be able to command like an arm, and the cavalry can have fighting power. If I understand that everyone can If you talk about Buddhism in vain and don't encourage horses, how can you compete with Bei Yuan on the battlefield? Wouldn't it be the Buddha's sin to lose troops and generals?" Yao Guangxiao replied calmly.
"The movement of heaven is permanent" comes from Xunzi, a great Confucian sage. He said: The movement of heaven is permanent. It did not exist for Yao, nor did it perish for Jie. Zhu Su had known for a long time that Yao Guangxiao studied Taoism and Buddhism, but he did not expect that he could even pick up Confucian allusions so easily. I couldn't help but complain that this monk was a snobbery, and he would use whatever theory was beneficial to him. No regard for factional opinions.
The boy next to him who had just handed over the medicine powder nodded his head when he heard it, admiring what Yao Guangxiao said as if he had drunk fine wine. Zhu Su glanced at him and was surprised to find that this boy was also an acquaintance. He couldn't help but said in surprise: "Tiezhu? Why are you here!"
"Amitabha, it was the young monk who shamelessly asked King Jingjiang to come and help. King Jingjiang is broad-minded and does not despise the young monk because I am of low status, but is willing to make friends with him at all costs. He is indeed a rare virtuous king in the world." Yao Guangxiao bowed to the Buddha and saluted for him. Zhu Shouqian replied.
Indeed, I heard from Xiang Deng that Zhu Shouqian and Yao Guangxiao had become increasingly close friends, and there was a tendency for them to become friends year after year. I thought it was because Yao Guangxiao often went to Zhu Shouqian to take advantage of the situation, but he didn't expect that Zhu Shouqian would come to the stable to help Yao Guangxiao do such dirty work. Thinking of this naughty kid who was so awkward on the street a few months ago, today he was standing next to Yao Guangxiao wearing a commoner to help him encourage him. Zhu Su just wanted to sigh that this world is so wonderful. What kind of ecstasy drug did Yao Guangxiao pour into Zhu Shouqian? .
"...Fifth uncle." Although Zhu Shouqian's face looked a little uncomfortable when he saw Zhu Su, he still bowed his hands and saluted honestly. After an awkward silence for a while, he seemed to muster up the courage to say to Zhu Su: "Master Daoyan, the fifth uncle, has great talents. It is a bit insulting to let him work as a groom in the stable. The fifth uncle is now employing people, so why not accept the master as his staff?" , so that the master can display his talents and knowledge."
Let Yao Guangxiao show off his talents? Isn't this a scam? Zhu Su cursed in his heart, but calmly said to Zhu Shouqian: "I know. You can avoid it for now. I have something to say to Master Daoyan."
Zhu Shouqian sighed and retreated. As soon as Zhu Shouqian left, Zhu Su stared at Yao Guangxiao with extremely wary eyes: "Monk, it's best not to make mistakes. Tiezhu has a miserable background and is the most loved by my father. Among my nephews, he is the only one who has been crowned king. . If the monk wants to hit his attention, he must consider whether he can withstand my father's thunderous wrath."
"Monk An Dare." Yao Guangxiao smiled bitterly. "Your Highness is so wary of the monk, how can I kill myself? It was because I saw King Jingjiang's miserable face that day that I seemed to have a knot in my heart, so I spoke to him to enlighten him. Who would have thought that he would fall in love with King Jingjiang by mistake, and from then on He often came to see the young monk to discuss Buddhist principles."
Zhu Su believed this. Zhu Shouqian has become a lot more Buddhist these days, no longer the blaming and extreme person he used to be. Zhu Su is also happy to see such a change. After all, Zhu Wenzheng is already a pain in Lao Zhu's heart. If Zhu Shouqian can relieve his hatred of Lao Zhu because of Yao Guangxiao's enlightenment, it will be a meritorious deed.
"Monk, please don't play tricks on Tiezhu. My father is not as indecisive as me. If he knew what you have learned, even if you are conceited, he will use the power of the world to kill you. Your nine tribes." To give Yao Guangxiao another layer of insurance, Yao Guangxiao smiled bitterly and kept shouting, so Zhu Su stopped threatening him. ,
Just as he was about to discuss Hu Weiyong's matter, Yao Guangxiao spoke first: "Your Highness previously said that if the young monk could guess what the 'sheep eats people' strategy was, he would use the young monk. Now the young monk has figured it out. Your Highness, do you have time to listen to the young monk?" Narrative?"
"Huh? Did you guess it?" Zhu Suqi asked. "Then tell me."
"The so-called 'sheep eating people' undoubtedly means using sheep to squeeze out people's living space." Yao Guang Xiao said. "Earlier, His Highness sent Wu Er to Northern Xinjiang, saying that he wanted them to harvest more wool from the herdsmen. The young monk had some suspicions. Does His Highness want to use the profit of wool to induce the herdsmen who originally herded horses to switch to sheep herding?"
"After all, the grassland is bitterly cold. If they can feed their families with the profit of wool, the herdsmen will definitely give up their horses and choose to herd sheep. Unlike horses, sheep cannot be ridden. If the herdsmen on the grassland all herd sheep, then the vast northern frontier will no longer threaten the Ming Dynasty."
Zhu Su nodded, it was already remarkable that he could guess this. But it's still on the surface. But Yao Guangxiao continued: "But it is extremely difficult for your majesty to make this strategy work. Otherwise, all dynasties would have permanently suppressed the troubles in the northern frontier. From the perspective of the young monk, at least three conditions are needed to achieve the effect of sheep eating people." He raised his eyebrows. Three fingers.
"Tell me more." Zhu Su was very interested.
"Then let's have a brief talk, little monk." Yao Guang said filial piety. "First, a large amount of grain and grass must be continuously transported to northern Xinjiang for trading. Now our Ming Dynasty is also short of grain, and this will cost a lot of money. I'm afraid the court will not be able to do it."
"The fact that the imperial court can't do it doesn't mean that the merchants can't do it. Everyone in the world is interested in profit. As long as it's profitable, the merchants are willing to go all the way to northern Xinjiang to buy wool." Zhu Su said.
"The young monk also thought of this level." Yao Guangxiao nodded. "So I thought of the second one. The second one is that the wool needs to be hugely profitable to attract businessmen all over the world. But the young monk thought hard and thought that the wool could only be made into felt like the Mongolian herdsmen did. And the felt was rough in shape and had a smell of sandalwood. The taste has always been disdained by the people of the Central Plains. Is there anything your Highness can do to turn this wool into treasure?"
"Of course there is a way." Zhu Su grinned. “What do you think if wool can be spun into yarn and made into clothes?”
"Weaving clothes!" Yao Guangxiao was startled and couldn't help but stand up. "If you can weave clothes, it will make Jiangnan cloth merchants flock to it!" After thinking for a while, he added: "But the grassland is huge. Even if wool can be spun, it will still require countless manpower."
"It doesn't matter. I have a method that allows one person to spin a lot of wool in one day." Zhu Su said. The power of the Jenny machine is enough to promote the industrial revolution, so why worry about the shortage of labor force?
"In this case, the second question is no big deal." Yao Guangxiao nodded and continued: "There is also the third question."
"There are also heroes in the grassland. Those people will definitely not sit back and watch our Central Plains use this conspiracy to reduce the strength of the grassland! If a large army comes to disrupt the transaction, how should His Highness respond?"
"What else is there to ask?" Zhu Su laughed. "The hands are used to cut off the hands, the legs are used to cut off the legs. He dares to raise troops. Is there no hot-blooded man left in China? Just like the former champion Hou Huo Qubing did, he first sealed the wolf in Xu, controlled the grassland, and then used this strategy to transform it. "
"It will be enough to permanently pacify our northern frontier troubles in China!"
(End of chapter)
