Emperor Yongle waved away the envoys of Annan and asked the ministers in the main hall: "The envoy Ruan Jingzhen came and said that Li Cang was willing to welcome back the old lord and wanted me to return to Ningyuan and Siming, what do you think?"

Before the Chen dynasty of Annam fell, the Chen clan was almost killed by Li Cang's father and son, and when Li Cang usurped the throne, it was the time of Jingjing, so there was no news - and after the emperor ascended the throne, Li Cang went to the table, falsely called the Chen family's heir, and prayed for him to be named the king of Annam.

At that time, he didn't see the problem, and the emperor named Li Cang as the king of Annan, but the next year, Chen Tianping, the grandson of the surviving old king of the Chen clan, defected, saying how Li Cang usurped the throne, and the emperor who knew the truth sent an envoy to reprimand, and now the envoy came back with the messenger of Annan, saying that Li Cang was willing to welcome back Chen Tianping.

The ministers were quiet, and no one dared to speak.

Because it's not right to say it. It was not wrong for this Li Cang to usurp the throne - but everyone did not dare to say that he was usurping, because the emperor was also a usurper. The emperor is also quite interesting, he is a usurper, but he believes that Li Cang can return the throne that he can get his hands on, just like now that Jianwen suddenly appeared, can the emperor return the chair under his ass?

So everyone didn't speak, so the emperor decided to return Chen Tianping, and at the same time crowned Li Cang as the county prince.

After the matter of Annan was finished, the emperor talked about the city ship division again, because now there are more and more tribute envoys, and the emperor has set up three city ship promotion divisions in Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong, which are Laiyuan, Anyuan, and Huaiyuan.

The main duties of the Municipal Shipping Department are to issue certificates (notarized inspections, public certificates) for maritime trade according to the application of the merchants, to inspect the ships that are allowed to go to sea, to check whether there are any prohibited items such as gold, silver, copper coins, weapons, horses, and people, and to send people to seal the goods and escort them back to the port on the way back to port; after arriving at the shore, the officers will supervise and move all the goods into the warehouse and search all the crew members to prevent the unauthorized entrainment of the goods. The import and export of goods to implement a lottery system, fine color (precious goods) out of ten, coarse color (general goods) out of fifteen out of one. A foreign tax is levied, one out of thirty. After that, it was returned to the dealer for sale. For foreign merchant ships coming to China for trade, the Municipal Shipping Division also adopts similar management methods.

This customs regime is quite reasonable and at the same time very profitable. It's just that it is quite common to carry this kind of thing, and now there are foreign merchant ships that bring in Su Ma from Qingliu, which is obviously not exclusively for the royal family, but is to be sold to other people - this naturally makes the emperor very angry.

"Su Ma Liqing has been forbidden," the emperor said solemnly: "The folk kiln can't burn this, I have repeatedly ordered it, although this shipload of big food merchants did not say which one to sell to, but I already know that some people dare to burn blue and white porcelain in private, I have been so tolerant of you for so many years!"

As he spoke, his eyes looked toward the place where the kings stood.

Some of these feudal kings who were stranded in the capital had their usual faces, while others were pale.

Gu Wang Zhu Lu gradually sweated behind his back, although he lowered his head, he could feel the majestic gaze from the emperor. He cursed in his heart, the officials of the city department were obviously taken care of by him, and he didn't know how to make a mistake again - he had smuggled many ships, but this time, the emperor did not tolerate him anymore.

"What's the matter," the emperor was not in a good mood today: "If you have nothing to do, you will retreat!"

Chen Ying glanced at the person beside him slightly, and this person immediately understood, stepped forward and said: "The minister and the king of the emperor have a book to play!"

"Bring it. As soon as the emperor waved his hand, Li Xing next to him took the notebook. The emperor opened it and looked at it, and couldn't help frowning: "Impeachment of Zhang Chang, the commander of the Jinyi Guard, has a number of manors, private music and music, serving treasures, and being extravagant and too rank-"

What kind of crime is this, today's Jing Nanxun nobles and relatives' families, which one is not more excessive than this, just like Xu Jingchang, the Duke of Dingguo, his father is Xu Zengshou, the younger brother of Queen Xu. When Xu Zengshou has been ventilating the news for the King of Yan, the day of the destruction of the city of Jinling was stabbed by Emperor Jianwen on the Golden Palace, after the King of Yan entered the city, the corpse was mourned, and he was posthumously crowned as the hereditary Duke of Dingguo, inherited by his eldest son Xu Jingchang. Xu Jingchang has reached the extreme of a minister at a young age, what else can he pursue?

Last month, he also fought a handful of crickets with King Gao Sui of Zhao, and it is said that he bet 40,000 taels of silver - the emperor has also heard of it, compared to this, Zhang Chang's little transgression, what is it?

"You're full!" The emperor said angrily: "You imperial history, don't you have anything else to impeach! I think you should be sent out to inspect the world, don't only stare at Xungui every day!"

The emperor left angrily, and Chen Ying breathed a sigh of relief. He looked around, Zhang Chang's rank was not enough to come to the court, Ji Gang's rank was enough, but he didn't come today, where was it, Chen Ying also knew, just outside Zhang Chang's courtyard on the outskirts of Beijing.

After the emperor went down to court, he approved the recital in the Qianqing Palace for more than two hours, and got up and went to the Kunning Palace. When he saw that Zhang Zhaohua was also there, he couldn't help but think of Wang Dechun's recital, and said casually: "Someone participated in your eldest brother's costume today—"

Zhang Zhaohua was shocked, and hurriedly knelt on the ground, asking for the emperor's forgiveness.

"Get up," the Emperor said with a smile, "I have no intention of pursuing this matter." Your brother is an honest man, and when he sees that I can't say a few words, how can I not know?"

However, Zhang Zhaohua did not get up, and she even pulled out the hairpin on her head to apologize. The emperor and the empress couldn't help but glance at each other, and the emperor became serious: "It seems that your brother seems to have done something terrible." ”

Zhang Zhaohua trembled and said, "Please forgive my father." My eldest brother he, he suddenly became rich and rich, and he couldn't help but lose his heart - a few days ago, he accepted a concubine, and this concubine is really unbearable in terms of identity. ”

"Is it the musician of the Jiaofang Division?" the emperor remembered a line on the note: "That's it, it's nothing." ”

"No," Zhang Zhaohua bowed his head and said, "It's from the sixteenth floor of the Qinhuai River...... What is the Oiran case...... He ransomed this man, and was afraid that my father would know that he was going to scold him, so he hid him in a manor on the outskirts of Beijing. ”

The emperor laughed: "Then does your father know?"

"My dad doesn't know," Zhang Zhaohua sweated in his palms: "It's Lord Ji Gangji who knows." ”

"Ji Gang knows, what's wrong?" asked Empress Xu.

"This, this," Zhang Zhaohua said hesitantly: "This little concubine originally had a head and tail with Ji Gang...... Master Ji also wanted to redeem her, but she was preempted by my eldest brother...... Master Ji was not happy...... Today, I wanted to eat cans of acacia nectar, so I sent someone to Zhuangzi, only to know that Master Ji led someone to block my eldest brother's door...... My eldest brother is also a bull temper, and he refuses to hand over people to Master Ji, and he refuses to give up his face at all...... I'm afraid that I'll really offend people, so let me come over and say ...... to my father and mother."

Zhang Zhaohua's last sentence is the essence, because she is so secretive, the emperor remembered another thing.

Previously, the governor knew that Xue Lu and Ji Gang fell in love with a female Taoist priest at the same time, but Xue Lu started faster and bought her as a concubine. When Xue Lu and Ji Gang entered the palace at the same time, Ji Gang opened the scoop for Xue Lu with the golden gourd held by the palace guards, and all the brains flowed out. That is, Xue Lu had a big life, and he picked up a life and did not die.

Hearing the grudge between the two, what the emperor did at that time was to favor Ji Gang, "don't ask the edict", and not pursue such a rude thing as Ji Gang.

The emperor planned to ask Ji Gang to be grateful to Dai De, but he didn't expect that his tolerance would breed Ji Gang's greater indulgence, and he couldn't help but be secretly angry in his heart, but said to Zhang Zhaohua with a pleasant face: "I know, I don't think Zhang Chang is wrong, first come, first served." ”

He didn't mention Ji Gang, but Zhang Zhaohua knew that Ji Gang would definitely not be able to please him this time, so he was overjoyed, and he still kowtowed respectfully and thanked him.