my days with tyrants

Chapter 80 I am invincible tomorrow!

Therefore, when the imperial power is strong enough, it is difficult for the gentry to support expansion.

There is no guarantee!
It's not that the gentry don't understand the benefits of going out to plunder.

It is impossible to understand this.

There is no essential difference between domestic bone extraction and foreign skinning and cramping, but the problem is that even if they support the plunder under the strong imperial power, what they finally reap is very likely to be all I want from the emperor. As a result, they pay the cost, but they get nothing.Even if the emperor could sign an agreement with them, that would be meaningless. The strong imperial power meant that the emperor would take them life and death. It would be too naive to expect a paper agreement to restrain a person who would take life and death.

So instead of supporting it, we must try our best to stop it.

This is why the voyages finally stopped.

The benefits all belong to the emperor.

Zhu Di paid the officials directly with pepper.

Who knows whether Zheng He bought it or snatched it...

Uh, Nanyang Fanbang actively contributed to Daming in order to show their loyalty to the Emperor of Ming.

Besides, even if it is not a contribution, buying in Nanyang is almost like picking up for nothing.

Of course the gentry couldn't stand it.

We pay taxes for you to engage in this kind of costly voyage, and in the end, not only can’t get a share of it, but you have to be exploited twice by you in the end. The salary of pepper was indeed good at first, but it couldn’t support Zheng He’s boat. Pull back, more silver can depreciate, not to mention pepper.

Therefore, the civil servants representing the interests of the gentry tried their best to destroy it.

It's normal for Liu Daxia to burn charts.

He is from Huguang.

The gentry from Fujian, Guangdong and Zhejiang may have made some money in the voyages to the West, but they have paid for it in inland grain-producing areas like Huguang...

burn!
It must be burned!

Otherwise, which emperor will think about it in the future, and won't he have to pay for nothing in grain-producing areas like Huguang?

Can't eat alone!

But the problem is that the powerful imperial power must eat alone.

This is the crux of the matter. If the problem of the emperor eating alone is not solved, Ming Dynasty will never be able to truly embark on the road of strong expansion. At most, one or two super powerful emperors can overwhelm the gentry, and then promote outward expansion with personal will. When the emperor is gone, the government will die.

But I don't want the emperor to eat alone...

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di are stupid!

Why should I distribute it to others when I can have it all?

This is really incomprehensible.

Unless it is the time of emperors like Wanli, it is possible to force the emperor to accept a distribution plan that cannot eat alone.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Yang Feng. What he wants is the emperor's support for the expansion. Zhu Yuanzhang needs to solve whether the gentry support it or not. His Majesty the emperor will let the gentry support it or not.In fact, at this time Zhu Yuanzhang had already begun to expand in an all-round way. Not only in the northeast, but also in the northwest, Jin Wang Zhu Yan was also taking his younger brothers Su Wang and Qing Wang to the west.King Jin sits in Liangzhou, King Su and his commander-in-chief Song Sheng go west to Jiayuguan, King Su sits in Jiayuguan, King Hameli Wu Nashili is forced to go to Jiayuguan to meet King Su, and then dies in Jiayuguan...

died of illness.

Anyway, it's not enough to be killed.

Then the Ming army sent [-] cavalry to escort his body back to Hami, and by the way, his younger brother Anke Timur succeeded King Zhongshun by imperial decree.

And set up Hamiwei.

To protect King Zhongshun, and set up a station between Hami and Jiayuguan.

This is the Western Front.

On the southern front, Zhu Yuanzhang had paid tribute to Annan's powerful ministers who were arbitrarily governed and chaotic, and sent envoys to reprimand him. Lan Yu was training troops in Guangxi, and in fact was ready to attack Annan. preparing for battle.

But Zhu Yuanzhang hanged on purpose...

He was waiting for Hu Jiyak to get all the troops together, and then he would settle it on the battlefield.

Otherwise it is easy to get stuck.

In addition, it is also waiting for Annan's civil strife.

After all, Chen Shuming also wanted to find a chance to kill Hu Jiyao.

For Zhu Yuanzhang, winning this battle is of course a good thing, and losing is not a bad thing. After all, if he loses, he can give Lan Yu a head-on blow, and the prestige of this increasingly domineering guy in the army will drop sharply. It's a sure win.But Lan Yu is very serious. After all, the grandson of the emperor is now Zhu Yunxi, the son of his sister's daughter. The future of the Ming Dynasty belongs to the Chang Yuchun family, and as the boss of the Chang Yuchun family, of course he has to play come with a prestige.

As for the attack on the Wa country, it has also begun. Before that, Zhu Yuanzhang had sent envoys to reprimand Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.

Bully!
You dare to call yourself the emperor, and dare to conceal the truth, what is it?
So Zhu Yuanzhang asked Ashikaga Yoshimitsu or Yuan Yoshimitsu...

Yuan Daoyi is his dharma name after he became a monk, so Zhu Di originally called himself Yuan Daoyi in history, but now he is still Yuan Yiman before he becomes a monk. When he tried to pay tribute to Zhu Yuanzhang, he called himself Yuan Yiman.

It’s okay to pay tribute to Ming Dynasty, but first you must abolish the emperor, and second, you must apologize for the previous deception. It’s not difficult for you, just give me [-] war horses plus some gold and silver according to North Korean standards. That's fine.Then His Majesty the Emperor gave them the right to be dogs for Daming, and made Yuan Yiman the king of Japan. Since then, they have been loyal to Daming for generations, honestly being Daming's dogs, and paying tribute honestly every year.

This is obviously impossible.

Minamoto Yoshimitsu deposed the emperor, so he wouldn't be a shogun.

Not to mention five thousand war horses?

It's hard to say whether there are five thousand war horses in the entire Wa country!
And they are all the darlings of those daimyos. It is a luxury for a family to have dozens of horses. Moving their horses is like touching their lifeblood. less than.

So it is impossible for him to accept it.

Then His Majesty the Emperor can justifiably attack him.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang quickly accepted Yang Feng's suggestion. When the spring wind changes direction next year, he will gather troops and supplies to Qingjin and other ports. The next posture forced Yoshimitsu Minamoto to go north for a decisive battle.You can even lure Ashikaga Ujimitsu, this guy is Kamakura Komakata, equivalent to the branch of the Ashikaga family in Kanto, the cousin of Minamoto Yoshimitsu, and has always been very interested in the latter's position.

If Zhu Yuanzhang made the gesture of making Ashikaga Yoshimitsu the king of the Japanese kingdom, then Ashikaga Yoshimitsu really had no choice but to fight with all his strength.

All he needs is to fight with all his might.

Then Daming defeated him in the first battle, and then forced him to accept a series of agreements that forfeited power and humiliated the country.

Land reparations.

For generations to dig silver mines for the Ming emperor.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang is still sending warships to Xiaoliuqiu...

It is an island.

Ryukyu is the Great Ryukyu, but a certain island is the Little Ryukyu.

However, his goal was actually the small island in the north. After all, Yang Feng told him that there was bird droppings there, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who was extremely sensitive to farming, would of course hurry up when he heard that there was such a good thing. For the time being, he had to consider the difficulty of going to Dongsha and Xisha, but going to the East China Sea There is no difficulty, just go out of the Yangtze River Estuary and go straight there this season.

Return to Guangzhou.

In short, a fleet of twelve warships has gone to dig bird droppings for His Majesty the Emperor.

His Majesty the Emperor, who was stimulated by Yang Feng, is now reversing his previous stability and starting to attack from all directions and embark on the road of comprehensive expansion.

It is estimated that if you want to grab as many as you can, you will grab as many as you can.

After all, if you rob enough, even the prodigal sons and grandchildren can be defeated for a longer period of time.

Of course, these have nothing to do with Yang Feng.

After he returned to the capital, he was engaged in banking, manufacturing agricultural machinery, purchasing seeds, and his deer vine powder, not only deer vine powder, but also bile powder...

Bordeaux!
But it can't solve the spray, this can only be used to soak seeds, and the price is relatively expensive, and it is impossible to use it in large quantities. This is used to make copper. At present, the main method of copper production is the gall copper method. Make raw materials, and then use iron to replace them, so in a sense, using this to make pesticides is almost like burning money.

"Your field is like curing a disease, except for medicine, it is medicine!"

Zhang Xianzong sighed.

They are now on the third floor of the embassy.

This floor is dedicated to Yang Feng, and the lower two floors belong to righteous women.

In fact, Zhang Xianzong's property was also forcibly occupied by Yang Feng.

After all, he has too many adoptive daughters, and an embassy cannot accommodate them. There is no one at Zhang Xianzong's side. Ambassador Zhang still lives there with his old servant, and the third floor is enough.

He doesn't have officials like Yang Feng either.

So not only the embassy of the Ming Dynasty in Daxia, but also the surrounding ancillary buildings are all occupied by those righteous women. Standing upstairs and looking down every day, the surroundings are becoming more and more charming. Girl, the legend that Ambassador Yang imitated Emperor Sui Yang is already spreading among the people...

Also vivid.

Leisurely people feel sad when they hear it, and then look at Mount Wutai, wishing they could replace it with their bodies.

"It is!"

Yang Feng said.

Then he took the glass test tube and shook the Bordeaux mixture in his hand like a chemist.

The blue liquid looks weird in the sunlight.

"Ambassador, someone is here to deposit money."

Steward report.

"Finally someone is here!"

Yang Feng said excitedly.

His bank has already opened, it is called Daxia Country Bank, and it is actually located in this embassy. After all, it is safe enough here, Jin Yiwei is stationed, and then add another sign next to the sign of the embassy, ​​not just one, in fact, it is still here. Daxia State Production and Construction Group Headquarters, Daxia State Machinery Equipment Manufacturing Group Headquarters.

group.

A term specially introduced by Yang Feng.

Then Zhu Yuanzhang gave him a clear definition, which is a collection of various business names.

For example, the production and construction group includes reclamation, animal husbandry, transportation, and even armed escort, in short, it is similar to United Fruit.

The machinery and equipment manufacturing group owns the right to manufacture all industrial products including weapons.

Except firearms.

Such a transnational consortium with banks as its core, including agriculture, animal husbandry, industry, transportation, and even armed mercenaries was born, although now this transnational consortium is only an office on the third floor of the Great Xia embassy...

"Madam, let's see what you like, as the first batch of guests of this bank, you will get a souvenir!"

Yang Feng sat behind the oversized desk he designed, pointed to the shelves on both sides and said.

In front of him was the bank's first depositor, a young woman in her early twenties, she looked very lovely, but she was already a wife, so Ambassador Yang could only lament that it was too late to meet her.The latter stood by a shelf, looking curiously at the various decorations on it. In fact, most of them were made of glass. Yang Feng set up a glass-burning workshop next to the embassy.

Currently practicing.

So they are all the products of his practice, each with a strange color and a strange shape.

Although there are materials transmitted by Sister Liu, after all, we still need to continue to experiment.

There was also glass in the Ming Dynasty.

Zibo Yanshen Sun's family is a specialized royal glass manufacturer, but they treat glass as a luxury item, something like a gem, which is different from what Yang Feng is doing now.

Yang Feng wanted to burn glass bottles and use them for canning in the future.

"What is this?"

The young woman pointed to a lump of columnar glass and said.

"Wentian, this is a work of art. I named it Wentian. I saw it straight up, its body twisted with blue veins, as if its head was raised to the sky, and the middle of the mouth was like an open mouth. Shout out with all your strength, if you like it, I can give it to you as a souvenir.

But easy to break. "

Yang Feng explained very seriously.

The young woman also nodded knowingly, but she blushed slightly for some reason.

Then she returned to her seat and sat down. The maid next to her carried a box forward, put it on Yang Feng's table and opened it. Inside were thick treasure bills, which seemed to have thousands of coins, and they were all new bills. That is, with watermarks and color-changing inks...

"Here is a thousand bills. The concubine is widowed and has no children. Although she has relatives from her natal family, she is an outsider after all. These savings should be put in a safe place. The ambassador's status is special, and there are mortgages to protect, so I would like to deposit it with the ambassador, but the concubine also has requirements, and the ambassador cannot disclose the identity of the concubine to the outside world."

She said.

"Don't worry, ma'am, keeping depositors' secrets is the first rule of our bank. Let alone outsiders, even the emperor of your country will not want to know your identity. All you need is to press your fingerprint and take the banknotes. We only recognize banknotes and yours." handprint.

I don't even need to know your real name.

You just need to give me a pseudonym that I can use to keep the books. "

Yang Feng said with a smile.

Then he took out a certificate of deposit...

"This is made with materials from our Great Xia Kingdom, and there is absolutely no possibility for outsiders to forge it."

He said.

This is actually a parachute cut out.

No one can fake this.

"I can rest assured that."

said the young woman.

After Yang Feng finished writing the deposit slip, he pushed forward, and the adoptive daughter hurriedly held it in front of the young woman. The latter looked at the marker pen, then picked up the marker pen in the posture of writing with a brush, hesitated, and signed his own. Name, and then press the fingerprint, and the adopted daughter held it in front of Yang Feng again.

"Then, Mrs. Zhu, you are welcome to become the first depositor of the bank. Do you still like Wentian?"

Yang Feng said.

"It looks chic too!"

Madam Zhu said with a smile.

Yang Feng gestured to the adoptive daughter, who quickly took off the box, the maid took it, and at the same time Yang Feng walked up to Mrs. Zhu with a box in his hands...

"Ma'am, the things inside are not for play, especially the ring that must not be pulled out. After pulling it out, there may not be a single person in our room alive."

he said very seriously.

Inside the box were ten grenades, and on top were ten banknotes.

"Who will play this!"

Madam Zhu gave him a shy look and said.

(End of this chapter)