Daming: Brother, there is no future for monks, let's rebel

At this time, it is the general's fault to criticize the poor life of the people. Although this sentence sounds innocent, if it falls into Zhu Yuanzhang's ears, this sentence has a different meaning.

It is Zhu Yuanzhang's job to let generals go to war. Now criticizing generals, what is the difference between pointing at Zhu Yuanzhang's nose and scolding?
Zhu Yuanzhang: Isn't this calling us militaristic?

As the courtier who knows Zhu Yuanzhang best, Li Shanchang will not run into bad luck, and in this matter, he is firmly standing with Zhu Yuanzhang: "Everyone, I am able to achieve what I am today, thanks to your majesty's achievements. Your majesty must continue The use of troops abroad is also for the better development of Ming Dynasty, we must not disappoint His Majesty's good intentions."

What Li Shanchang said was so vague that the ministers present were puzzled.

How can you develop trade when you have been fighting abroad?

They think that peace can make money, and fighting all the time will only destroy and delay the development of business, but Li Shanchang doesn't think so.

Since ancient times, few dynasties established were willing to develop commerce, but this precedent was broken in Daming.

The reason why the Ming Dynasty is so different from the previous dynasty is because of Zhu Han. If Zhu Han hadn't been promoting the development of commerce, Zhu Yuanzhang would never have allowed commerce to become another 'leg' of Ming Dynasty.

After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Han didn't like to be in charge. Under Zhu Han's suggestion, Li Shanchang helped Zhu Yuanzhang to manage a large stall in the court. In order to better serve Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Shanchang conducted a very in-depth study on Zhu Han From the beginning of Longxing Temple to the present, Li Shanchang has studied all the news about Zhu Han that he can get.

The conclusion did not come out, but it made Li Shanchang admire Zhu Han more and more. Zhu Han attached great importance to the development of commerce, and now he has proposed the concept of heavy industry and light industry. Carrying out detailed divisions, in these processes, Li Shanchang's understanding of Zhu Han has deepened a lot, especially business.

According to Zhu Han's business theory, whether it is wartime or peacetime, each has its own set of theories that can be operated, and there are no restrictions.

During a war, sell more weapons and food, and raise these prices; if in peacetime or a peaceful area, raise the price of infrastructure construction, you can make money after all, even if a country is defeated What if it's rotten?Isn't rebuilding the same as an opportunity to make money?

Where there are people, there is business. As the population increases, the business development of Daming will only get better and better.

Since you can make money in the end no matter whether you fight a war or not, why do you still oppose Zhu Yuanzhang's continued use of troops overseas?
Besides, Zhu Yuanzhang is such a pure person, he just wanted to build a powerful empire that no one had ever seen before, so as to show his great achievements, unlike Zhu Han - there are 800 minds in the world, and Zhu Han monopolizes 799.

Therefore, in Li Shanchang's view, instead of thinking about Zhu Yuanzhang here, it is better to think about how to gain greater benefits under Zhu Han's hands.

Li Shanchang would not say these words directly.

He just told the ministers not to get in trouble with Zhu Yuanzhang, but to listen more to what Zhu Han said... To be more blunt, Li Shanchang did not say that Li Shanchang is not the leader of the officials who have power and even Zhu Yuanzhang wants to give him face Because of Zhu Han's participation, he is just a high-level laborer, and now he is relying on Daming's overseas trade to fill his pockets. As for greed and money-gathering, he dare not do it at all.

Li Shanchang made up his mind that he would take the first step to buy more overseas business shares before others reacted, and strive to earn more for himself.

Song Lian didn't say much, and followed Li Shanchang away.

Liu Bowen, Hu Weiyong, Yang Xian... and a group of courtiers all left silently.

They want to take advantage of the present to invest quickly and make a lot of money. They don't know if they will have this opportunity to make a fortune in the future.

Only a small number of courtiers who have not turned their minds around are still stubbornly wanting to ask Zhu Yuanzhang to withdraw his order and not to continue to wage war.

……

Zhu Han didn't know what happened in the court, and when he knew, it was when Mu Ying and Ping An came to ask Zhu Han to say goodbye.

Mu Ying and Ping An were once adopted sons of Zhu Yuanzhang. They were unable to fight when they were young, and they were trained and raised by Zhu Han.

Zhu Han knew very well that the more than 20 sons adopted by Zhu Yuanzhang were loyal to Zhu Yuanzhang, and they only obeyed Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Han recognized these sons very much, and helped Zhu Yuanzhang adopt more Yizi, he is not worried that there will be white-eyed wolves in it, even if there is, it will be affected and changed.

Mu Ying and Ping An are the best among Zhu Yuanzhang's adoptive sons. Coupled with his deliberate training, these people's abilities have improved a lot compared to history. They are going to Yinzhou to replace Hu Dahai, so they bid farewell to Zhu Han before leaving.

Zhu Han entertained them with barbecue, the half-children ate the poor old man, Mu Ying and Ping An were military generals, Zhu Han directly put on big meat skewers, wrapped them in dough pancakes after roasting, and handed them directly with a big chili pepper. Person: "Eat, eat, I will continue to bake for you after eating."

"Thank you uncle."

Mu Ying and Pingan took the dough cakes wrapped in skewers and began to gobble them up. Zhu Han watched them eating, and knew that the two more dough cakes wrapped in meat would not run away. He said while grilling the meat: "You two boys Don’t just eat it, look at how I cook the meat, if you save it, you won’t know how to cook it yourself.”

"Uncle, are you underestimating us?"

Muying wolfed down the food in her hands, and said with a smile: "Uncle, when you taught us to read and took us to practice martial arts, you often took us to eat barbecue. We have learned these techniques a long time ago. Uncle, I think your cooking is delicious, hehe."

It's clear that Muying and Ping An came here today to eat the barbecue made by Zhu Han.

Zhu Han didn't take it seriously, he watched these children grow up, he was very kind, and he was willing to cook food for the children. In the past, he would make a few jokes about meat and vegetables. Zhu Yuanzhang's The adopted sons are also rapidly developing in the direction of "veteran oil son".

Zhu Han was chatting with them. Seeing that Mu Ying and Ping An had completely relaxed, Zhu Han suddenly asked: "My brother asked you to go to Yinzhou to trip me up, right?"

"Yeah, uh...no, what's causing the trip?"

Just as Mu Ying agreed, she suddenly realized something was wrong and looked at Zhu Han with grievances in her eyes.

Uncle, you took the meatloaf and asked us to jump into the fire pit, right?

Zhu Han looked at Mu Ying and Ping An with a half-smile.

Ping An is an honest and boring gourd, he doesn't talk much, and now he suddenly realizes that he has been 'deceived' by Zhu Han, so he naturally chooses to keep his mouth shut. Well, naively asked Zhu Han: "Uncle, why can't I understand what you said?"

"Stinky boy, do you still want to fool me?"

Zhu Han made a gesture to hit him, but Mu Ying hurriedly dodged, and then said with a smile behind Ping An: "Uncle, this is a matter between you and the adoptive father. Bao'er and I are honest children, you can't take it out on us."

"Little bastard, I raised you up so much, can't I vent my anger on you?"

Zhu Han didn't like this, but he didn't get rough on Mu Ying and Ping An.

Because he knew that this had nothing to do with the two children, it was Zhu Yuanzhang who played tricks behind his back.

Hu Dahai is Zhu Yuanzhang's confidant, but Hu Dahai is even more convinced of Zhu Han.

Zhu Han said that Yinzhou should be taken down as soon as possible and put into production and construction quickly.

Hu Dahai obeyed the order and made Zhu Yuanzhang's teeth itch.

The construction is so fast, do you want to send Zhu Han away so much?
Zhu Yuanzhang asked Hu Dahai to slow down the construction, but Hu Dahai didn't listen at all, instead he went faster. This time, he just took the opportunity of sending Hu Dahai back to let Muying and Ping An go overseas to practice.

Mu Ying and Pingan are Zhu Yuanzhang's adoptive sons, so it is much more convenient to arrange things, and Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't need to be polite to them, and directly explained the reason: "After the construction of Yinzhou is completed, we will move to Yinzhou on July [-]th. I don’t want him to leave, so the two of you went to Yinzhou, and the construction speed was set to the slowest, can you two do it?”

Facing Zhu Yuanzhang's inquiry, Mu Ying and Ping An also answered firmly: "Yes!"

must be able to.

They were also reluctant to let Zhu Han go to Yinzhou, and Mu Ying and Ping An didn't stay in Yinzhou forever, they had to go back to Daming after three or five years, and they didn't want Zhu Han to stay in Yinzhou forever.

Zhu Yuanzhang told Muying and Pingan to keep it secret, and they must not leak their words, but they hadn't set off yet, and they were directly tricked out by Zhu Han.

Seeing that Zhu Han didn't mean to blame, Mu Ying became more courageous, and said to Zhu Han: "Uncle, you have to understand why Dad did this, and he also hates you, doesn't he? Not only them, but also Baoer and I Brother Wenzhong, we are reluctant to let you go, uncle...why do you have to go to Yinzhou, what is there to do there? Wouldn’t it be better to live as a family? Besides, Bao’er and I want to eat your barbecue , Grilled skewers, do you want to go to Yinzhou specifically?"

"Stinky boy, you know how to be a rascal here."

Zhu Han knocked Mu Ying on the head, and then said: "I left for my own reasons, and besides, I won't come back unless I went... Forget it, I can't talk to you two brats about this, I'll go back later Talk to him."

After finishing speaking, Zhu Han stopped worrying about Zhu Yuanzhang's hind legs, and continued to barbecue to make the two little guys full.

The fierce opposition in the court did not make Zhu Yuanzhang change his mind, but intensified it. He quickly dispatched troops and horses, and exchanged the major overseas generals, so that overseas expansion would never stop. Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang did not withdraw Sapphire And Zhang Dingbian, the two of them went too far to the west, Zhu Yuanzhang left them to continue fighting in the front, but handed over the overseas territories belonging to the rear to courtiers with both civil and military skills.

The courtiers in the court wailed, but Li Shanchang and others remained silent.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang announced that he would continue to expand overseas, many people worried that their investment would lose money, so they wanted to withdraw the purchased shares. Li Shanchang, Liu Bowen, Song Lian, Yang Xian, Hu Weiyong and the others were waiting for this opportunity, and they all sold out. A lot of shares, in order to maintain appreciation.

Zhu Yuanzhang was well aware of these things, and instead of stopping the private purchase of shares by Li Shanchang and others, he took a tacit attitude. After all, these people who bought overseas trading shares were people who supported and trusted him. Zhu Yuanzhang How can you dismantle your own platform at this time?

Moreover, the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang acquiesced that Baiguan took advantage of overseas expansion to make a fortune was because Zhu Han reminded him before: Daming’s business has indeed made great progress after being promoted, but these progresses are very one-sided. For further development, officials in the court are needed as the driving force.

As for what the impetus is, Zhu Han did not say, Zhu Yuanzhang is not very clear now, but he believes what Zhu Han said, and he also believes that it will not be too far away from that time, because Zhu Yuanzhang can no longer bear it. Officials got rich on overseas trade opportunities.

Zhu Yuanzhang is a very serious person, and he is very stubborn. He believes that officials are officials, and businessmen are businessmen. There should be no relationship between the two...Of course, the business under the jurisdiction of the Ming government does not count, and those belong to the functions of the court Part of the department, but other than that, can't continue to be so unclearly twisted together.

Zhu Yuanzhang hates corruption, and it is absolutely unforgivable for officials to accept bribes.

Officials involved in business are the most prone to collusion.

The decrees in the court are formulated by these officials. They are the first to know the decrees. If they find out the benefits that can be obtained from the decrees, they will inevitably collude with familiar businessmen immediately. This is not conducive to the balanced development of business. .

Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to change this situation, but how to do it made Zhu Yuanzhang a little uncertain.

If it was normal, Zhu Yuanzhang would definitely go to Zhu Han immediately and ask Zhu Han what he thought, but recently he was a little timid, not because of anything else, but because Zhu Han saw through Zhu Yuanzhang's little girl who asked Muying and Ping An to go to Yinzhou. The abacus made Zhu Yuanzhang a little nervous when facing Zhu Han.

"Don't we think about it ourselves?"

Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a long time, and finally found the answer from what Zhu Han said to him.

Zhu Han once said that the development of Ming Dynasty's commerce needs the promotion of Ming officials... Could it be that Qiwu means to force all officials to give up their official positions and go into business?

When Zhu Yuanzhang had this idea in his mind, he couldn't get it out of his mind immediately. After thinking about it carefully, he slapped his thigh suddenly: "Isn't that the meaning of Seventh Five-Year?"

Scholars, farmers, businessmen... Scholars are at the head, business is at the end.

Zhu Yuanzhang accepted Zhu Han's suggestion, and continued to improve the status of businessmen, and kept the status of scholars, farmers, businessmen on a level line, but in the eyes of some people, businessmen were still the last ones, and officials were still superior.

However, if officials are forced to go to sea to do business, this is very reasonable. Even if businessmen are still regarded as low-level occupations in everyone’s eyes, those officials who go to sea to do business will use their own methods to tell other people that there is no distinction between high and low in agriculture and industry.