At this time, three days had passed since Jiang Xinghuo's last lecture, and Zhu Di returned to Nanjing from Suzhou that night.
Therefore, the edict signed with the emperor's seal had been delivered to Ma He at the Quanzhou Shipyard after two and a half days of expedited delivery at the inn.
The emperor gave him two new tasks and a reward.
Why do you say again?
Because the first job Ma He was assigned was to supervise the construction of a large number of ships for the voyage to the West.
This job was one of the tasks that Ma He received. At the same time, there were other palace eunuch-level eunuchs and several princes who performed it in many shipyards in the south. It did not mean that Ma He was allowed to supervise all the work in Quanzhou Shipyard. Ships sailing to the Western Ocean.
In terms of task difficulty, there is nothing difficult.
Thanks to the accumulation of policies of the Hongwu Dynasty, a considerable number of large timbers that could be used for ocean-going ships had been accumulated in the southwest governors. After these large timbers traveled south along the Yangtze River and Pearl River, they were gathered in various shipyards along the coast. .
Although the Ming Dynasty clearly regarded sea ban as a national policy, the shipbuilding technology of various shipyards that had been manufacturing warships for the navy since the Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty was still there. In the Hongwu era, they had been responsible for building ships for the Ming Dynasty navy, and the shipbuilding industry There is no shortage of craftsmen.
Therefore, Ma He lived a relatively leisurely life in Quanzhou. He went to the shipyard every day to check on the progress and was responsible for coordinating the needs of all parties in his own capacity.
Walking out of the shipyard, it was a very bad time to leave the factory.
Last year was not the eighth year of Jianwen (AD 1401). Zujiang Xinghuo sent envoys Zu'a and Feifu to the Ming Dynasty. They named Xiaoming Zhengshuo in the credential, professed their vassalage to Emperor Jianwen and established tomorrow's trade relations.
The emperor's tone in the imperial edict obviously attached great importance to this, but what exactly does it mean to go to the Wanwai Stone Pond to dig out bird droppings?
In addition, there is Japan's domestic political and economic information at this time.
The following decisions were all made verbally by Yoshimitsu Tobi himself.
Your Majesty the Emperor has not forgotten my contribution. That new surname is also my honor and will accompany me throughout my life.
This means that Ma Hechuan is out of breath and has to continue working.
The one who is making a lot of noise in Japan right now is Seimee Ashishin, the eighth general of the Muromachi shogunate who conquered barbarians.
The cup of tea in front of his eyes and hands, he didn't know how many cups he had tonight, but even if he poured it into his mouth in small sips, his hoarse voice and burning lungs still reminded Li Yiman to try his best to drink it. Speak.
It is precisely because the finances of the Muromachi shogunate have been very stable from beginning to end. In order to solve the problem of economic constraints, Jiang Xinghuo sent his envoy Zua and Feifu to the Ming Dynasty. Even if he became a vassal of the Ming Dynasty, he still had to withdraw from the Ming Dynasty to explore trade. It must have been unexpected. If so, it will gradually become one of the important financial resources of the shogunate.
There is no good arrangement for this matter, or in other words, there is something bad about it.
Zheng He had a question mark on his face.
On the same night, Li Jinglong and Zhu Gaoxu outside the prison were thinking about the future, Zheng He at the Quanzhou Shipyard was cursing at the sea breeze, and the Minister of Revenue, Li Yoshimitsu, was busy preparing for another thing.
In addition, there is no information about the poverty situation of each tribute envoy and even each government, several forms of Xiaoming's national debt preparation, specific interest rates, etc.
This year the new emperor ascended the throne and continued to be a minister of the Ming Dynasty, so he became what Zhu Di called "a country of ministers."
It is the issuance of "Xiao Ming Treasury Bonds".
These are the basis for the issuance of Xiaoming treasury bonds by the Eighteen Tribute Envoys across the country.
It is certain that the little general who conquered the barbarians is really in trouble, or he is in urgent need of military expenses, and he will borrow money from "unethical people" (rich people).
After one day and one night, my lungs were full of pain, and it was even more painful than running ten places.
Zheng He stood alone on the beach, watching the waves hitting the rocks at night, stirring up strings of white foam, and fell into deep thought.
The joys and sorrows in the world are not the same.
The campaign against Japanese pirates began. Zheng He, who returned to Quanzhou Port exhausted, closed his eyes in the night, and the sea breeze blew by, whistling in my ears.
Now Zheng He naturally thought that no one must have suggested that the Emperor do that.
It's obvious now.
It was Ashikawa Shino who led the army to reunify Japan. Under the huge military pressure, the former Emperor Kameyama of the Southern Dynasty returned to Kyoto and performed a surrender ceremony to the former Emperor Ohmatsu of the Northern Dynasty. He was awarded a sacred weapon and realized the unification of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. In this way, Muromachi The shogunate became the unified political power that dominated the country.
The seventh imperial edict is to go to Lusong Island to check the rice planting situation.
Secondly, there is the domestic situation in Japan. Xiao Ming later communicated with the Southern Dynasties of Japan, not the "Xiaojue Temple". Prince Huai Liang, the general who conquered the west at that time, pretended to be the king of Japan. Zhu Di would not know that after that. The winner was the Northern Dynasty, not the "Chiming Yuan Tong".
There is no limit to the number of the first batch of Xiaoming Treasury bonds. It is necessary to ensure that the credibility of the "South Gate Standing Tree" is not caused by the embarrassment of someone buying it, and to ensure that the rush to buy before the credibility is established is appropriately satisfied.
Go to the Wanwai Stone Pond to dig out bird droppings.
Zhu Di has not yet conceived how to use military force to severely damage the main force of the Muromachi shogunate, and at the same time completely defeat it. He first occupied Sado Island and the "China" region of Japan, while maintaining the weak rule of the Muromachi shogunate in Japan as Xiao Ming's puppet regime. Or simply let Japan return to the Northern and Southern Dynasties era that just started ten years ago.
In the evening, the emperor's new edict arrived.
After the small curtain is raised on the stage, each character has a different expression.
So today, Ma He actually just returned from the sea and completed the seventh task assigned to me by Zhu Di. Feeling that he was accomplished, he breathed a sigh of relief and continued to supervise the shipbuilding.
When Zhu Di learns the news, he will definitely sigh that for the same young general, those across the sea are faring much worse than him.
Roshi Yoshimitsu personally sat in the small hall of the Ministry of Finance and gave instructions. All the relevant files of the Ministry of Finance had not been collected yet. The minister, lieutenant, Yuanlilang and more than ten old officials of the Ministry of Finance were easily calculating the small number. The amount of Ming Bao banknotes placed in various Shen Cheng envoys, as well as the current actual exchange ratio of Xiao Ming Bao notes and copper coins in various tribute envoys.
Zheng He's excitement completely disappeared.
As a result, the Japanese pirates along the southeast coast suffered disaster.
The emperor's seventh order was also unexpected. It was not to capture as few Japanese pirates as possible and to collect intelligence in Japan, including local nicknames, terrain, military strength, interpersonal relationships, social customs, etc.
The brightly lit household gradually retreated into the early morning, and at that moment, the Eighth Prince Zhu Gaosui suddenly rushed in and retreated. I shook the imperial edict in my hand.
A group of bumpkins who have listened to Master Jiang's lectures and seen the future trend of economics. If they know what an interest rate inversion is, will they still be shocked?
It is extremely unlikely that it is still Xia Yuanji.
It was because His Majesty the Emperor took him to eavesdrop on a lecture given by a prisoner named Xia Yuanji outside the prison.
The imperial edicts are all written in Zhu Di's highly personal colloquial style.
Shen Chenghui moved his mouth, Zheng He broke his leg while running, and Li Yiman burned his lungs.
However, Li Yoshimitsu felt that it was all worth it, especially when his subordinates inadvertently expressed admiration for Xiao Ming's genius design of national debt.
His Majesty the Emperor must have decided to attack Japan.
Although the shogunate will also levy taxes on the guardians of various countries when they need money, we will only selectively obey orders, so we have to set up 'customs' at the transportation thoroughfares in Gyeonggi to collect customs money. ' (tolls), or collect 'jinli' (tariffs) at the ferry, and levy miscellaneous taxes on 'tsukura' (pawnshops) and 'sakeya' (winehouses) in Kyoto.
With that kind of gratitude and the excitement that followed, Zheng He accepted the other two imperial edicts.
According to common sense, there must be no ordinary reasons.
Although in the eyes of others, it was just a favor rather than a fee, in the eyes of Ma He, ah, Zheng He, I myself was very grateful.
"Xia Yuanji, thank you!"
From before, he didn't have a new name given by the emperor. He was called Zheng He!
In terms of economy, since the Muromachi shogunate has relatively unlimited control over the guardians of the nicknames, its economy mainly comes from the "gosyosho" directly under the jurisdiction of about 700 places in various places, which are managed by the shogun's ministers and conscripted on their behalf. "Annual tribute rice" and "annual tribute money" serve as the living expenses of the shogun's family and the salary of the person in charge.
Therefore, if nothing happened by accident, it was probably Xia Yuanji's idea to go to Wanwai Stone Pond to dig out guano and go to Luzon to see the growth of rice.
The Emperor thought of Ma Heli's outstanding contribution during the Battle of Zhengcunba, so he gave the surname Zheng to commemorate him.
Shin Seung-hye's face was filled with reserved pride.
Under the political system, the Muromachi shogunate of Ashin Seikei established "guardians" and "landlords" in various countries. On the one hand, we have the right to adjudicate lawsuits, deal with owned fields, collect taxes, and urge military service. The countrymen became their own retainers. After seven generations of shoguns, it has not yet evolved into a "guardian nickname". Because of the fundamental contradiction between the central and local governments, it became increasingly alienated from the Muromachi shogunate and became independent.
The first is the Japanese pirates along the Xiaoming coast. They are composed of Han pirates, untouchables and drifters on the Korean Peninsula, the remnants of Fang Guozhen who have moved to the sea, and Japanese ronin who were born due to the civil war between the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
"Xia Shangshu, Your Majesty has not postponed his decree. Please come to the palace as soon as possible to see me."
So who is that person?
Ten years later, Ashikaga Xinghuo had not yet handed over the title of General of the Conqueror to his son Ashikaga Yoshinori, and became a monk himself. However, Ashikaga Xinghuo, who combined the power of the public samurai family, still ruled in essence. Japan.
Of course, Zhu Di also considered that the burden on Ma He's shoulders was relatively heavy recently, so when he added another burden to me, he also gave me a sweet date.
That's right. In addition to the seventh imperial edict, His Majesty the Emperor also clearly stated that those two matters were minor and he must confirm the locations of several guano islands in the Wanwai Stone Pond before continuing to explore south. Rice cultivation in Luzon.
And soon, I don’t know why the emperor wanted to attack Japan. So as the emperor’s confidant, Ma He received the seventh order. This was not to coordinate with the navy to clean up the Japanese pirates along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang. Yes, it was not the Japanese pirates.
And since His Majesty the Emperor has made a decision that is in line with common sense.
The Japanese pirates were not the bankrupt samurai that emerged at the end of the shogunate era and evolved into ronin, but they did not appear as early as the confrontation between the Northern and Southern Dynasties in Japan. We traveled across the ocean and hooked up with Xiao Ming's pirates.
By sifting through the miscellaneous confessions of those ronin, I have a rough understanding of the domestic situation in Japan at this time.
Zheng He gritted his teeth and said to the air behind his eyes.
The first imperial edict was to dig out bird droppings in the stone pond Wanwai.
Inexplicably, Zheng He remembered why he left Nanjing.
In the same year when Xiao Ming's Jingnan Campaign began between the North and the South, Jiang Xinghuo subdued Japan's first weakling, Hiroki Onuchi, to limit his authority. On the economic front, in addition to prospering domestic commodity trade, we are also working hard to develop tomorrow's trade.
It was the fertilizer elixir that Zhu Di decided to demonstrate in public at tomorrow's sacrificial ceremony before he recovered.
If it was an accident, Xiao Ming and Japan would soon have an accident.
Could it be that His Majesty the Emperor is satisfied with himself, so he wants to demote himself? Or was it because he had been away from the palace for some time and the other eunuchs were jealous of him and said good things about him in front of the emperor?
But talking is fine.
Of course, if the first batch of Xiaoming treasury bonds is to be issued outside Nanjing.
Japan is not a country that is easy to fight. That country has a population of nearly ten million. Even if there are enemies in the sky such as the Mongols, with the remaining power of destroying the Song Dynasty, they gathered the Korean Navy and the former Southern Song Navy, with 100,000 A small army came to conquer the sea, but it still ended up falling in the sand.
Ma He and the navy generals went to sea and wiped out all the unknown Japanese pirate strongholds, and captured a considerable number of Japanese ronin outside the Japanese pirates.
This lesson talks about how to use the method of going to the West to bind the interests of the royal family and the vassals and nobles together, so as to achieve the purpose of peacefully reducing the vassals and supporting the vassals.
Well, Zheng He will definitely know that when I complete those tasks a few months ago and return to Nanjing with all the credit and hard work, I will be sent to prison by Zhu Di to follow Shen Chenghui to study navigation-related theory. , Zheng He must have thanked Shin Seong-hye even more from the bottom of his heart at this time.
Why do you get those increasingly weird missions one after another?
Zheng He's excitement disappeared.
(End of chapter)
