Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

Outside the Jinchuan Gate of Nanjing City, near the Shihui Mountain, a large area where no crops can be grown was designated by Zhu Yunxi for foreign friends to build mansions.

If you want to be an international friend of Ming Dynasty in this era, if you don't become the king of a small country, you won't even be eligible to be shortlisted.

In this area right now, there are the residences of the two emperors of Japan, the north and the south, and the residences built by the kings of the Southern Dynasties, Koryo, Ryukyu, Vietnam and other countries.

On the surface, it was convenient for them to meet the emperor of Ming Dynasty and live there, but in fact, this was the place Zhu Yunxi had painted for them as a prison.

When he finished cleaning up those powerful countries in the Western Regions, he would not spare any of the small countries around the Daming Ocean, and they would all be classified as Daming counties by him.

As for the original king of the small country, he naturally moved to Daming and enjoyed the treatment of the Duke for generations.

Of course, the premise is to be obedient.

If you don't obey, just find a reason to kill him.

Honda Zhongsheng came out of the Fengyang Palace, and immediately got into a carriage and rushed to Nanjing overnight.

Three days later, Honda Tadakatsu's carriage stopped at Toriyama Hanamachi, the residence of Emperor Kisei of the Southern Dynasty of Japan.

Now Xicheng has already lost the title of emperor, and even gave up all the rights in Japan, only retaining the necessary fields, mines and other industries to maintain his expenses in Daming.

Although Ming did not agree with the merger of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Southern Dynasty was no longer the opponent of the Northern Dynasty because of its declining power.

Therefore, he followed suit and gave all the military and political power of the Southern Dynasty to Emperor Qianren of the Northern Dynasty, hoping that he could cheer up the emperor's line and stop Yuan Daoyi's usurpation of the throne.

However, Gan Ren didn't take his family fortune in vain, and also gave him a lot of promises and authorizations.

For example, when seeking protection in Daming, he was entrusted with the task of seeking a spokesperson.

When Xicheng learned that Honda had come to visit faithfully, he immediately ordered someone to call him into his secret room.

"Let's talk about it, but what kind of excessive demands did that emperor's grandson make?"

Honda honestly heard the words and said heartbroken.

"Your Highness, Zhu Yunqi is really too much. Of the one hundred dead men we carefully selected, he sent him to carry out the mission of death, and none of them came back alive!"

"Not only did Zhu Yunqi not repent, but he also shamelessly asked us to continue to provide dead soldiers, and asked us to prepare 10 taels of gold for him!"

Hearing this, Xicheng frowned, obviously disgusted by Zhu Yunqi's behavior.

"10 taels of gold is a trivial matter..."

"It's just that a hundred dead soldiers are too difficult..."

"Qianren's life is not easy. Our emperor's lineage is weak, and it is long gone. Where can we get him so many dead men?"

"Your Highness, then let's reject Zhu Yunqi and let him find his own way!"

"No no no!"

Xi Cheng shook his head firmly.

"It's better to inform Qianren about this matter and let Qianren make a decision."

"Also discuss with Yuan Daoyi and see what he thinks."

"he?"

Honda is loyal to the emperor's lineage, and he is the most disgusted by the shogun who is the most inferior to Yuan Daoyi.

"Your Highness, Yuan Daoyi only wants to be the emperor, will he support us?"

Hearing this, Xi Cheng shook his head and said.

"will not!"

"But he is also from the emperor's line after all, and he doesn't want Japan to be annexed by Ming?"

"Uh uh..."

"All right!"

"Your servant will find a way to pass the news back to the country."

"Go!"

"Be careful on the road, don't be watched by Jin Yiwei."

"Your Highness, please rest assured that your status in Daming is a merchant, who came to Daming from Japan to trade slaves. They trust you very much and welcome you very much."

"slave……"

Hearing this, Xicheng's face immediately showed a touch of sadness. He didn't know what an emperor was and what majesty was until he came to Daming.

Just look at how majestic the emperor of Ming Dynasty is, one case can kill tens of thousands to 10,000+ people.

Let's look at the emperor of Japan, who is called the emperor, but in fact he is not even as powerful as a magistrate of Ming Dynasty!

"Try to leave as much fire as possible for Japan!"

"Your Excellency understands!"

Honda faithfully left Hanamachi, went straight back to Nanjing City, and used the Daming post office to send telegrams to his subordinates in Japan.

"The price of slaves in the Ming Dynasty has skyrocketed. It has already risen to ten taels of gold, and there is still no market for it. Please prepare three hundred carcass and send it to Daming immediately."

"Also tell my wife and concubine that I am short of money, and hope that the two of them will work together to make it happen."

In just a few dozen words, Honda spent 100 taels of silver, which made him feel like he was stealing money.

"Dare to ask Your Excellency, when will I get the news!"

"soon!"

"If your address is correct, you can arrive this afternoon."

"Ok!"

"please!"

The people at the post office took Honda's faithful money, and immediately recorded his telegrams, and waited until they had saved up to a certain level, before concentrating on time to send them in the direction of Japan.

This is Zhu Yunxi's reform of the post office in order to allow them to achieve a balance of income and expenditure, so that they will not always rely on subsidies from the imperial court.

Therefore, in the private postal service, the threshold of the telegraph service has been loosened one after another, allowing Daming people and foreign merchants stranded in Daming to use it.

However, this price is not close to the people at all. One hundred Wen is a word in China, and one thousand Wen is a word in overseas.

This price is not affordable for ordinary people, even businessmen have to be those with huge profits to afford it.

Japan.

Emperor Mikhito and Minamoto received the telegram sent back by Honda faithfully at the same time. After reading the telegram, the two immediately thought of each other.

Qian Ren was about to send an envoy to ask Ashikaga Yoshimitsu when he heard his subordinates report that Ashikaga Yoshimitsu had come to see him.

Ganren got up and went out without thinking, and warmly received General Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.

"General Ashikaga, have you also received a telegram from Emperor Kisei?"

"received!"

"What do you think?"

"In my opinion, we should satisfy Zhu Yunqi."

"Zhu Yunxuan is the only person who can contend against Zhu Yunxie. As long as he becomes the emperor of Ming Dynasty, he will definitely abolish Zhu Yunxie's measures during his reign."

"Like the navy!"

"Oh?"

Gan Ren asked curiously after hearing the words.

"Please general Ashikaga explain why Zhu Yunqi abandoned the navy."

"The strength of the Ming Dynasty Navy is rare in the world, Zhu Yunqi has no reason to give up such a powerful army, right?"

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu thought for a while when he heard the words.

"Your Majesty, I learned during the Ming Dynasty that there are three people competing for the throne."

"One of them, Zhu Yunxi, truly deserves his name, and the world pays attention to him."

"If nothing happens to Zhu Yunxi, he must be the next emperor of Ming Dynasty."

"The second is Zhu Di, King of Yan. Zhu Di is older and the strongest among all the vassal kings."

"The third is the eldest grandson Zhu Yunqi!"

"Of the three, Zhu Yunxi is the most greedy and the most ambitious. If he becomes emperor, Japan and North Korea will be assigned to Daming County sooner or later."

"Therefore, no matter what, we cannot allow him to ascend the throne smoothly."

"Secondly, Zhu Di, Zhu Di is quite ambitious, and he is especially keen on opening up territories."

"As long as we still have the chance to choose, don't choose to support Zhu Di."

"In the end, only Zhu Yunxuan was left. Firstly, Zhu Yunqiu had no ambitions, and secondly, Zhu Yunqiu was out of position, so he could only respect the Heavenly Father. In addition, he once proposed two things. As long as the decision made by the emperor's grandfather, he will firmly defend it." ! As long as the policies formulated by Grandpa Huang, he will unswervingly follow them!"

"Therefore, after Zhu Yunqi ascended the throne, he will definitely give up fighting overseas and restore the system of his grandfather's non-conquest country."

"The last point is also the most important point. Zhu Yunqi is extremely unconfident, and it is impossible for him to be at ease with Zhu Yunxi's direct lineage."

"Jing Haijun was established by Zhu Yunxie alone, and he is only loyal to Zhu Yunxie. Zhu Yunqiu is not sure how to control them, so he can only disband them!"

Gan Ren nodded while listening, expressing that he was extremely educated.

"General Ashikaga is really resourceful and resourceful, I admire him so much!"

"Your Majesty's absurd praise, and the subject just watched and listened more."

"According to General Ashikaga, we should fully support Zhu Yunqi?"

"Roms!"

"Only when Zhu Yunqi is in power, we in Japan will have a chance to breathe. Otherwise, Daming will continue to squeeze us for decades. Even if Daming does not annex us, we will not be able to maintain it."

Gan Ren nodded in agreement, but soon showed embarrassment.

"I also think the same, but this dead man and 10 taels of gold..."

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu behaved very simply, taking on the important task without hesitation.

"Don't worry, Your Majesty!"

"Whether it's a dead man or gold, the subject will bear it all!"

"Then there is General Lau Ashikaga!"

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu bowed, and then retreated respectfully.

Although he has long wanted to be the Japanese version of Cao Cao, he has always done a good job on the surface.

After knowing the strength of Daming, he became even more humble, giving the emperor enough face.

After Ashikaga Yoshimitsu returned to his Muromachi shogunate, he immediately summoned his ministers and issued a series of orders to them.

The first is taxation. On the grounds that Ming Dynasty wants to build the imperial palace, taxes are collected from the Japanese people.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is not short of this little money, he just wants to take this opportunity to stir up the hatred of the people towards Daming.

Secondly, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu secretly trained a group of dead men, intending to mix these dead men with the slave team and transport them to Daming on the slave ship of Ming Dynasty.

However, before he finished these things, his subordinates in Daming and North Korea sent him back a very important message almost at the same time.

The Ming Dynasty Expeditionary Army to the Western Regions is out of food!

After several days of demolition and relocation in the outer city of Nanjing, several vacant lands were finally vacated for the construction of a tall tower to prolong Zhu Yuanzhang's life.

Because the emperor's grandson personally took charge of it, the progress of this project was very fast.Before the place was vacated, the materials for building the tower had been prepared one after another and transported to the designated location.

Originally, Zhu Yunxi didn't want to make such a big fanfare, and planned to draw a picture on paper. He fooled Lao Zhu into saying how many towers he had built, just to make him a little more confident.

However, Lao Zhu's spirit improved so quickly that Zhu Yunxi was caught off guard.

Now Lao Zhu can not only eat and drink, but also visit the city wall three times a day to see the progress of the project.

Zhu Yunxi saw that he really couldn't get away with it, so he ordered people to turn the blueprint into a real thing.

Although the matter for old Zhu Yanshou is very big, Zhu Yunxi doesn't have time to pay attention to it now.After handing over the project to his subordinates, Zhu Yunxi made every effort to investigate the disappearance of military rations.

Speaking of this case, Zhu Yunxi felt strange.

The good 20 shi army rations were lost on the way from Guihua City to Hamiwei!

Together with the missing one thousand guard soldiers, no one was alive or dead.

However, Zhu Yunxi sent three batches of imperial envoys one after another, and the final results were all consistent.

There are no clues!

This made Zhu Yunxi very angry, and only felt that he was being fooled by low-level officials.

There is so much food, so many soldiers say they don’t have it, is this fooling him for a fool?

If it weren't for Lao Zhu's inseparable people, Zhu Yunxi would definitely take people to investigate in person, and all those involved in this case must be brought to justice.

Zhang Zongjun saw that Zhu Yunxi was scratching his head so much about this matter, so he immediately stood up and volunteered.

"Your Highness, why don't I come here in person?"

Zhu Yunxi waved his hand and refused.

"no!"

"The three lonely masters are old, and now the cabinet cannot do without you. You have decided not to get involved in this matter."

"And Gu suspects that this matter is quite involved, and I am afraid that you will be silenced by local officials if you go down to investigate."

Zhang Zongjun sighed when he heard the words.

"Ugh!"

"This matter is too obvious. This is because someone didn't want His Highness to ask for an expedition, so he did such a shocking thing!"

"a?"

"In court or in opposition?"

What Zhang Zongjun said to himself immediately opened up a new way of thinking for Zhu Yunxi.

Right!

Maybe the enemy is above the imperial court!
If it wasn't for the mastermind of the DPRK and China, how would the local officials dare to commit such a big case?

"Come here, Commander Xuan Jinyiwei envoys Jiang Yu into the palace to have an audience!"

"promise!"

Not long after, Jiang Yu came to the North Palace to pay homage.

"I pay my respects to Your Highness, His Highness is a thousand years old!"

"Jiang Yu, has there been any change in the officials of the DPRK and China recently?"

"Change?"

Jiang Yu thought for a while.

"Reporting to Your Highness, Wang Yuan, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, is celebrating the birthday of his youngest son. Does it count as a banquet for the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty to his house?"

"Calculate!"

"Isolate the detailed list!"

"We will send someone to send the list later."

"There is also the servant of the household department who married a concubine, and invited a few colleagues to celebrate..."

"Send all the recent records of the officials in the capital, and check them one by one."

"promise!"

Just as Jiang Yu was about to leave, Zhu Yunxi called him to stop.

"You take Chang Sen to investigate the case of the disappearance of military rations near Juyanhai!"

"If you can get to the bottom of this case, Gu will let you go to the army for a few years and reward you with a title!"

Jiang Yu was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed.

"Thank you, Your Highness, for your kindness!"

"Your Highness, don't worry, I will do my best to complete this case!"

"Go!"

Jiang Yu came out of Beigong gratefully, and as soon as he returned to Beizhen Fusi, it was as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, and he summoned all his capable men.

"Brothers come to live!"

"The grandson of the emperor sent us a big case!"

Chang Sen's face showed envy when he heard this. Since he entered Jinyiwei, he hasn't gotten a few cases.

Occasionally there are one or two cases, which are also small cases that Jiang Yu and others look down on, helping the court to arrest a few small corrupt officials.

As we all know, sooner or later he will succeed Jiang Yu in charge of Jinyiwei.

Not only did he think so, but Jiang Yu knew it himself.

With this relationship, it would be hell if Jiang Yu could not guard against him.

However, just when Chang Sen wanted to leave voluntarily to avoid embarrassment for himself and others, Jiang Yu took the initiative to stop him.

"Brother Chang Sen, stay put. This big case still needs your assistance."

"I?"

"Can I handle the case too?"

Jiang Yu smiled slightly when he heard the words.

"Of course!"

"You are the one who was personally named by the emperor's grandson. Without you, this case would not have fallen on our Jin Yiwei!"

"what!"

Regardless of Chang Sen's surprise, Jiang Yu immediately held a case analysis meeting in Beizhen Fusi after the Ming people sent the latest official records to the emperor's grandson.

"Everyone, everyone must know about the disappearance of military rations."

"The emperor's grandson sent three waves of imperial envoys in succession, but they failed to investigate the case clearly."

"Now the emperor's grandson has handed over the case to us, we must investigate this case to the bottom, to give the emperor a sigh of relief, and also give us Jin Yiwei a sigh of relief!"

"Whether Jin Yiwei can exist in the future depends on your performance!"

As soon as Jiang Yu's words fell, there was a lot of discussion in Beizhen Fusi.

Hu Changshou, the commander of Jin Yiwei, was the first to stand up and speak.

"Master Commander, the facts of this case couldn't be clearer. If it wasn't for the guards stealing themselves, how could the military rations be stolen?"

"Therefore, the humble officials suspect that the officials along the way are the most suspicious. Even if they are not participants, they are at least insiders. As long as they are arrested and tortured, they will naturally find clues!"

With Hu Changshou's speech, the others became more enthusiastic, and in a short while they came up with more than a dozen directions to solve the case.

Some said they were directly arresting people, some said they were making unannounced visits under disguise, and some said they were transporting a batch of food and then set up an ambush secretly.

In short, Jin Yiwei and these people can't do anything else, they will catch them in crooked ways.