Daming heir

Chapter 195 The Angry Ming Dynasty
Daming in February is not as gentle as spring breeze turns into rain.

Just like the girls in the south of the Yangtze River whose dates are out of balance, even though they are gentle and watery on weekdays, they are full of anger at this time, with nowhere to vent their anger.

Far away from the homeland of the Central Plains, but in a certain seaport on the west coast of the Wa country, where the flag of Ming Dynasty has been erected, a brand new wooden camp has been erected in just a few months.

A loess road, with sword marks and sword wounds, grew from the back of the camp into the mountains and spread to the depths.

In the mountains in the distance, there will be a loud noise from time to time, causing the surrounding towering giant trees to spread outward like a wave.

It's just that the forest birds that had already been frightened and moved away from their nests were no longer seen.

As the loud noise gradually subsided, in a short while there would be a cart full of ore being pulled towards the camp by buffaloes.It's just that when you get to the camp, you don't enter the camp, but turn to the workshop area beside a stream.

There are countless smelting furnaces that are spewing thick smoke.

"You motherfucker, is the Yoshino family looking for death!"

On the wall of the camp, Li Jinglong, the general who suppressed the Japanese, slapped the wooden post heavily, his face was full of anger and murderous look.

After cursing, he turned his head to look at Zhang Yi, Marquis of Heqing, who had turned around and was giving orders for additional training to the officers and soldiers in the barracks.

Li Jinglong hummed twice in displeasure, then turned his head to look at Tie Xuan with his hands in his arms.

Tie Xuan was about to turn his head, so as to avoid trouble.

Li Jinglong has already stretched out his hand and clasped his shoulder: "Tie Xingxing, the grandson wants us to get people back from the Wa Kingdom, which is a big deal. But now the Southern Dynasty wants us to spend money to buy the Northern Dynasty captives, this matter is not easy to handle. You He is a scholar and has many ideas, so he has to help us figure out what to do."

Tie Xuan put his hands in his pockets, twisted his waist, and broke away from the general's palm, and then said flatly: "What the Southern Dynasty wants is money for the road, and the general will pay for it no matter what."

Li Jinglong frowned: "How do you say that?"

Tie Xuan sighed softly, always thinking how such a person could flourish in the Southern Dynasties of Japan, and even visited the Yoshino family's back house countless times.

"The Yoshino Clan in the Southern Dynasties also had branch factions. Yoshino Temple Ma asked for money in order to gain a foothold in the clan. The money was not used to buy Japanese people, but to buy a convenience.

After spending money, we will be able to go to the countryside of the Japanese country by ourselves, and bring back those Japanese people who cannot eat to Daming. "

Li Jinglong shook his head and said after a while, "Is it that simple?"

Tie Xuan nodded: "It's that simple."

"In that case, let's leave this matter to Tiexing!" Li Jinglong showed a solemn expression, and then he raised his legs to walk under the camp wall, and turned back halfway: "What festival is there in Nanchao recently?" , invited us over. We can’t get away, otherwise we would definitely not be able to ask Tiexing to handle this matter.”

After speaking, the great general of the Ming Dynasty, Li Jinglong, Cao Guogong, had completely disappeared.

Tie Xuan's face suddenly changed.

"It's over! I've been set by him!"

For a moment, an unknown fire ignited in Tie Xuan's heart.

He slapped the wooden stakes on the camp wall in front of him violently.

……

Yingtian City.

On the Lion Mountain next to Zhongfu Gate in Beicheng, there is an elegant house.

Pushing open the window, you can look at the Longwan Wharf not far away and the endlessly painful Yangtze River.

This place is far away from the imperial city, a full city away.

Liu Sanwu and Zhao Mian, the two high-ranking officials of the court, sat on both sides, and the atmosphere was less of the "concern for the country and the people" in the court.

"Your Majesty pressed impeachment and never agreed to the imperial court's replacement of imperial envoys. He has already expressed his attitude. I am afraid that it is impossible for us to seek a solution in the court."

Zhao Mian raised his eyes and looked out the window. On the distant river, there was a flat boat carrying a fisherman wearing a bamboo hat, throwing a delicately woven fishing net into the river.

The fishing net slowly sank below the surface of the river.

When it sinks to the bottom, the fishing net is closed.

The fisherman stood at the bow of the boat with explosive movements, lifting the fishing net out of the water with both hands.

Zhao Mian's breathing gradually slowed down, and his eyes became more and more focused.

The sound of rushing water seemed to reach Zhao Mian's ears from the river.

A large area of ​​river water dripped from the fishing net, and there was no harvest.

There was a look of disappointment in Zhao Mian's eyes.

Liu Sanwu from Zhongshushe sitting opposite him took a sip of tea and said in a low voice: "The old man has sent letters to various places. Although we, the sages and disciples, had occasional estrangements due to academics in the past, it is probably at the moment of life and death. Eliminate barriers and protect me for thousands of years.”

Zhao Mian's eyes flickered.

"Are you going to raise the voice of scholars from all over the world to enter the court?"

He was a little hesitant, whether it was the right choice to let the opposition of the entire scholastic community into the court.

To face the emperor's wrath?
Liu Sanwu's eyes sank: "Plowing and reading heirlooms, if there is no farming, how can you read?"

"After listening to the words from Zhejiang, there has been a land clearing order over there, and the number of acres of local land has to be verified. The collection quota is set at ten mu, thirty mu, fifty mu, one hundred mu, three hundred mu, and five hundred mu. " Zhao Mian said worriedly.

He is the Minister of the Household Department of the Kingdom Dynasty, and the number of these details should always be known in more detail.

He said again: "There is also a commercial tax. It is already clear that the tax is collected from merchants. The lowest three points are only collected from the people who go to the city to sell. Up to seven points, one point [-]%, [-]%, [-]% of the levy."

Liu Sanwu snorted coldly, and an unknown fire ignited in his heart.

"Excessive taxation, the old man can already see that soon after the Zhejiang Road, people's livelihood will wither, and the people will be displaced! You can even see the wailing of officials and gentry, blocked government orders, and closed businesses."

This Zhongshusheren who came from Qianyuan had a gloomy face: "At that time, it will be another disaster for the country!"

Zhao Mian shook his head weakly: "But His Majesty's current posture probably means that it is absolutely impossible to stop this matter."

"That's why this old man wants to bring the voices of scholars from all over the world into the imperial court!"

Liu Sanwu looked at Zhao Mian with a trace of stubbornness and anger in his eyes.

……

"Fuck!"

"I'm afraid something bad will happen!"

Looking at the Zhengyang Gate of Yingtian City not far in front of him.

Zhu Yunxi, who rushed all the way back to Beijing, suddenly cursed in a low voice.

I saw him sitting on a war horse, covered in mud and spots, and his clothes were a bit dilapidated because they hadn't been changed for a long time.

Behind him, Sun Chengqin led dozens of Jinyi guards, guarding him all the way from Hangzhou City through the official road to Huitian.

Sun Chengle immediately stepped forward and asked in a low voice: "Third Master, what's the problem?"

With that said, Sun Cheng glanced at the Zhengyang Gate of Yingtian City in front of him.

Zhu Yunxi shook his head, but there was some hesitation on his face.

The reason why he rushed to Huitian in a hurry was to resolve the criticisms and delays that might arise from the court, which finally led to the clearing of Zhejiang Road with great difficulty, and brought the initial reforms to an abrupt end.

But until now when I saw Yingtian City again.

Zhu Yunxi suddenly woke up, thinking wrong.

There is an old man in Yingtian City, and there is the old man who is now hiding a low profile but always paying attention to the court. As long as they don't hesitate, there is absolutely no possibility that their affairs in Zhejiang Road will be interrupted suddenly.

He went out of Beijing and killed half of the Zhejiang Road, so the old man can naturally kill some in Yingtian City.

Then his sudden return to Beijing at this time will become a matter full of variables.

He has to face the accountability and pressure from the central government.

Far worse than before, he was in Zhejiang Province, and the court could not criticize him. At most, he was impeached at the court meeting.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yunxi's face darkened, and he felt inexplicably irritated.

Sun Cheng asked worriedly: "Third Master, do you want to enter the city?"

"Enter the city! Go to Qingliangmen first."

After finishing speaking, Zhu Yunxi immediately turned the pier, from Zhengyangmen, which could directly enter the imperial city, to Qingliangmen in the northwest.

Sun Cheng hurriedly led others to follow.

A group of people stuck close to Yingtian City, passed through Tongji Gate, Jubao Gate, Sanshan Gate, and Shicheng Gate before arriving at Qingliang Gate.

After entering the city gate, it turns into Yingtian Zhongcheng, which is also the most densely populated area, until Xiaowutai Mountain on the right hand side.

On the left hand side of the city gate is Qingliang Mountain, which is why Qingliangmen got its name.

To the northeast of Xiaowutai Mountain and Qingliangmen, there are Yingtian West City and Beicheng City, where there are mostly fields, tombs, and houses of farmers walking around.

And the heavily guarded Jingwei camps.

Zhu Yunxi took the lead and followed the road at the foot of Qingliang Mountain to the northeast of Qingliang Mountain.

In the eyes, it is a large area of ​​sheds surrounded by fences.

This is the Human Tooth Market in Yingtian City.

A place dedicated to buying and selling servants.

In fact, it is a place where slaves are bought and sold, just because Emperor Hongwu issued a decree when he founded the country that no slaves should exist in Ming Dynasty.

But how many meritorious military generals, relatives of the emperor, and clan princes have existed in the world these years.

As long as these people exist, keeping servants will never be forbidden.

But it's just another reason and excuse.

Sun Cheng didn't quite understand why the third master didn't go back to the palace first after returning to Beijing, instead he came to such a dirty place first.

Zhu Yunxi, on the other hand, led the horse and walked through the entire human tooth market step by step.

At the forefront of the human teeth market is the Kunlun slaves with the lowest price. The so-called Kunlun slaves are just slaves who came in from Tianzhu or Southeast China and were deliberately tanned. They are not really Kunlun slaves.

Inside, there are some low-quality new Luo Fu, Hu Ren Hu Ji.Further inside, there are the better-looking Silla girls and orchids from the Western Regions.

At the innermost place, there is a Ming man with a straw mark on his body.

The insertion of this draft sign shows that these Ming people sold themselves voluntarily, rather than being sold as slaves by their fellow clansmen.

Of course, the money after selling one's body will still go to those of the same clan.

It's just one more process, which legalizes this thing that was banned by the emperor.

After reading it all around, Zhu Yunxi's expression made Sun Cheng who was by his side unable to see any emotion.

Except after the human tooth market.

Zhu Yunxi opened his mouth: "Go back to the palace, buy a hemp rope and bring it with you."

(End of this chapter)