Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 457 The Loyal Suzhou City of King Chu and King Hai

By the time everything gets back on track, it will be the end of the winter month.

The Zhongshu Province seized the time again and held a grand ceremony for changing the title of King Zhu of Wu to King of Zhou and adding the title of King Zhu Zhenhai of Chu.

The twelfth lunar month came after the grand ceremony. In this month when tired birds return to their nests and travelers return to their hometowns, His Royal Highness, the only double prince of the Ming Dynasty, left Nanjing by boat.There are still many things in Suzhou that have not been finished, and the sixth child is also preparing to personally welcome the return of the second city ship fleet that went to Nanyang.

The journey is always quick, and three days later, His Royal Highness and his party arrived in Suzhou.

This time, Lao Liu received the grandest welcome.

From the wharf to Xingyuan, the road is paved with loess, and the street is sprinkled with clean water.Li Heng, the prefect of Suzhou, and two county magistrates led the city's gentry to wait at the pier before dawn.There are red and colorful hangings everywhere on the pier, and a band is playing "Yinfeng Tune" to welcome the saint.

When the sixth son of Emperor Hongwu, the right-hand man of His Highness the Crown Prince, the guardian of the Daming Sea, the guardian of Hangjiahu in Su Songchang Township, and Zhu Zhen, King of Chu and King of the Sea, appeared on the deck, Li Heng led a group of citizens, officials and gentry to bow down and bow down. , greeted His Highness back to his loyal Suzhou City in unison.

If it is said that their obedience to the sixth child before was mostly due to coercion.But after personally experiencing the recovery of Suzhou at the speed of light, and learning that His Royal Highness wiped out the two pirates of Fang and Chen, and subdued the Beiwa Navy, they have completely surrendered.

What's more, His Royal Highness was named King of the Sea, in charge of all affairs in the Daming sea area.And what's more terrible is that his palace will be built in Suzhou, guarding the south of the Yangtze River from generation to generation.Hearing this news, the big officials and gentry in Suzhou were completely paralyzed, knowing that they would never escape the clutches of Lao Liu.

Since you can't escape, of course you have to assume the most humble posture, so that His Highness can relax a little...

His Royal Highness the King of Chu walked down the gangway slowly. Looking around, he saw that everyone was prostrate on the ground, and no one dared to look up.

"Let's all be flat." His voice was loud and full of energy, his feet were on his own territory, and his whole body felt different.

"Thank you, Your Highness." Li Heng hurriedly led the crowd to thank him and got up.

"His Royal Highness's palace has been tidied up. Please return to the palace to rest for a while." Li Heng personally raised the curtain for His Highness.

"En." Zhu Zhen nodded, got in the car and sat down.

The guard of honor set off slowly, and the long procession surrounded Wang Jia and entered Suzhou City, and the city was even more lively.Under the colorful buildings one after another, Suzhou citizens crowded shoulder to shoulder, and the incense tables set up were crowded.

They chanted 'Your Highness, Thousand Years' loudly, and bowed devoutly to His Highness the King of Chu in front of the incense table. The scene of thousands of people emptying the alley, like welcoming a fairy Buddha, made Lao Liu's scalp numb for a while.

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"It's too much, it's too much..." As soon as he returned to the Canglang Pavilion, he scolded Li Heng: "Is it necessary to make such an exaggeration?"

"I am wronged, Your Highness, the people under my command at the pier did a good job," Li Heng hurriedly called Qu and said, "But after entering the city, it was all done by the people spontaneously. It's not like you don't know how diverse the people in Suzhou are. Who can force them to bow their knees and welcome the powerful?"

"Spontaneously?" The sixth child was a little incredulous.

"That's natural." Li Heng said with a smile: "When Your Highness came to Suzhou at the beginning of the year, the common people couldn't open the pot and wanted to rebel. Thanks to His Highness's skillful hand, Suzhou is now prosperous and the people have jobs, and the wages are two or three times what they were before. times, life is much better than before.”

"The common people understand in their hearts that they know who makes them live a good life. It's not the Xiaguan, the prefect of Suzhou, or those big families, but His Royal Highness the King of Chu!" He continued with a look of admiration:
"Many ordinary people's homes have enshrined His Highness's tablets. It is no exaggeration to say that His Highness gave birth to a Buddha in ten thousand families in Suzhou City. Now that His Highness is sealed in Suzhou, what do you think they will be happy about?"

"Okay..." Zhu Zhen finally let him go, and sighed, "It seems that when I return to Suzhou, I have to enter the city quietly, and I don't want to beat the gong."

"Isn't this also the first time His Royal Highness has returned home after the change of title, and the common people will just get used to it." Li Heng smiled and said.

"En." Zhu Zhen nodded, and said to Li Heng: "I have three things to do when I return to Suzhou this time. One is to choose a site for the palace. Please help me to pay attention."

"Abiding by the order." Li Heng hurriedly responded respectfully, and asked again: "Does Your Highness have any requests?"

"The palace, the front palace and the back palace, the size and width are all strictly in accordance with the regulations, what tricks can there be?" Zhu Zhen thought about it and said: "But you have to make the garden bigger for me, the king has a lot of pets to keep. .”

"Understood." Li Heng said with a smile: "Suzhou gardens are unique, and they are perfect for keeping pets."

"Look at it first, and then report when you've found something." Zhu Zhen nodded, and then ordered: "The second thing is to see if the food stamps are working normally?"

"Normal, normal, of course." Li Heng couldn't help but smiled wryly, "I didn't expect that the food coupons issued by His Highness in an emergency would be so effective, even a bit too good..."

"How?" Zhu Zhen frowned slightly.

"People in Suzhou not only recognize food stamps, but also prefer the latter between copper coins and food stamps, let alone precious money." Li Heng hesitated, Fang said:

"Because almost all merchants and stores offer discounts for the use of food stamps... This is of course a good thing for the promotion of food stamps, but the problem is that after they receive the food stamps, they will never spend them again. Therefore, it has formed It’s a weird situation where we don’t print and they keep receiving.”

"My lord understands what you mean. You mean that food stamps are in high demand now because big households need to accumulate food stamp quotas to increase their own points." Zhu Zhen said with a smile:
"You worry that when the one-year period comes, they don't need points, and there will be a huge amount of food stamps pouring out, causing a run. Isn't it?"

"Your Highness is wise." Li Heng nodded hurriedly, and said with a bitter face: "There are still three months until the expiration date. Now 3000 million stone food coupons have been released, even if the next one is not released, we are prepared There is less than 100 million shi of grain in the warehouse, which is far from enough to pay."

He doesn't dare to mention it now. Back then, it was agreed in black and white, signed and drawn, that the weaving and dyeing bureau had borrowed the grain from the reserve warehouse, and Qiuli had to pay it back.

Because at the beginning, it was said that only 20 shi of food coupons were issued, but now they have been issued 150 times more!Once there was a thunderstorm, none of them could run away, so what's the point of worrying about the 'mere' 20 shi?
"Hahaha, you just put your heart in your stomach," Zhu Zhen laughed nonchalantly and said, "This king has his own rules, and it will definitely not cause a run on!"

"Since His Highness has his own plan, the subordinates can rest assured." After he said that, what else could Li Heng say?I had no choice but to force a smile not to mention this issue: "Dare to ask Your Highness, the third thing is for the sake of it, so it will be judged for merit?"

"That's right." Zhu Zhen nodded and said, "In the past nine months, they have performed well, and they have made great contributions to this king. We must give them some rewards."

The sixth man was telling the truth. He was able to quickly reorganize the fleet after losing the first battle, and wipe out the pirates with a thunderous force. It was inseparable from the generosity of the big players... Of course, they were in exchange for points and improved their rankings.

In any case, their credit is real.Now that they have won, they have to give them something sweet.

(End of this chapter)