Zhu Yuanzhang took the treasure book and flipped a few pages, and it was really all some business experiences and experiences recorded by Shen Wansan, he had always disliked businessmen and businessmen's profit-making methods, so he was not interested in reading the previous content. Send Shen Wansan away, throw the notebook on the royal table, and take it to ask Ma Xiuying when he goes to Kunning Palace later.

That's the secret of the Shen family's fortune! Hu Weiyong's eyelids jumped wildly, and from time to time he glanced at the treasure book that was discarded by Zhu Yuanzhang as a sundry, and he couldn't wait to take it for himself immediately. It's a pity that he has a thief's heart but no thief's guts, since Zhu Yuanzhang must let Ma Xiuying see this book first, then he must not move first. He could only secretly give Zhao Cheng a look when he was leaving, suggesting that Zhao Cheng must get the contents of the treasure book as soon as possible, otherwise this book may not be taken out again if it falls into the hands of Ma Xiuying.

Zhao Cheng nodded imperceptibly, but he was very troubled in his heart, how could Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Xiuying see the content of the book without noticing?

The sky was getting dark, Zhao Cheng lit the candles and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, it's time for dinner." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang thought of Ma Xiuying persuading him not to stay up all night, so he put down his pen and said, "I will go to Kunning Palace for dinner." With that, he got up and left.

If it was usual, Zhao Cheng would remind Zhu Yuanzhang in every detail not to forget the matter of the treasure book, but this time, he glanced at the treasure book, and his eyes flew quickly, as if he didn't see it.

Zhu Yuanzhang arrived at Kunning Palace and told Ma Xiuying about Shen Wansan, and suddenly slapped his forehead, "I forgot what kind of treasure book he had, and said that I would show it to you." Zhao Cheng, you quickly go to the imperial study and bring the treasure book, which is on the imperial table. ”

"The slave obeys the order!" Zhao Cheng was waiting for this moment, he returned to the imperial study, set up the inner servant who was cleaning and tidying, and hurriedly flipped through the contents of the treasure book while there was no one around.

In order to prevent the leakage of secrets, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that the eunuchs and palace people who served closely must be illiterate, but Zhao Cheng was born in the army, and Ma Xiuying taught soldiers to learn cultural knowledge in the army in his early years, so although Zhao Cheng couldn't make splendid articles, he still knew a few words.

He picked up the treasure book, and his mood was the same as Zhu Yuanzhang's, feeling disappointed, the content of the book was complicated, there were many names, and people were dizzy to watch, which was a kind of torture for rough men who didn't like literature. However, the next few pictures make people's eyes shine, there are mountains and rivers, could it be Shen Wansan's treasure map? If you look closely, you can see that they are marked with Ryukyu, Japan, Korea, and Cochin...... Hey, this is a treasure map, but a nautical chart of various overseas feudal states.

He wanted to read more when footsteps sounded outside the door, and the cleaning attendant returned. He suddenly realized that Zhu Yuanzhang was still waiting for him, so he quickly memorized a few navigation charts in his mind, closed his notebook and hurried to Kunning Palace. Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang confessed first, "The emperor forgives the sin, and when the slave went to get the treasure book, he didn't see him on the imperial table, and he was also a prisoner to clean up the wrong place, and it took a long time to find it under the imperial table, so it was delayed a little time." ”

"Haha, maybe I knocked it to the ground when I was reviewing it. Zhu Yuanzhang smiled, he didn't mean to blame Zhao Cheng, he handed the book to Ma Xiuying, and couldn't help laughing, "This is Shen Wansan's treasure book, alas, the treasure book, the cornucopia, the difference of one word, how many misunderstandings have been caused." ”

While waiting for Zhao Cheng to pick up the book, Ma Xiuying had already heard Zhu Yuanzhang tell the story of Shen Wansan and the cornucopia, and said with a smile: "The world is only confused by the huge benefits of the cornucopia, but I don't know what treasures in this world can be obtained for nothing." If there is, it is not a treasure, but an ominous thing! Farmers work, fishermen fish, and merchants do business, this is the foundation of human beings, the ethics of heaven, and how can things that violate the ethics of heaven be treasures?"

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but be a little sneering, he was also a person who was almost confused by the cornucopia, he quickly changed the topic and said: "Shen Wansan said that this book also records the business scriptures you taught him in his early years, and I can't see that the queen can also do business." ”

Ma Xiuying took the book, the corners of this book have been rubbed to the hair, and time seems to be pulled back to the summer more than 20 years ago, when she and Shen Wansan, Yao Tianxi, and Lu Xiaoqian were playing in the lakeside pavilion in Zhouzhuang, and Shen Wansan and Lu Xiaoqian almost quarreled in order to grab the book. At that time, Shen Wansan called the book "Jucai Ben", and I don't know when it was changed to "Jubao Ben", and then caused such trouble.

Retracting the heavy memory, Ma Xiuying smiled, "If the concubine knew how to do business, she would have done it herself, and the concubine just told Shen Wansan some of the contents of the book and asked him to practice." At that time, it was just for fun, where did I think that Shen Wansan could really make some achievements. ”

"Oh, I think I took his money for granted. Seeing that Ma Xiuying did not deny it, Zhu Yuanzhang joked with interest: "The queen told me what methods Shen Wansan had told, and I will see if the household can learn from them." ”

In fact, Ma Xiuying understood what Shen Wansan meant when she saw the book, some of the contents in it could not be announced to the public, she glanced at Zhao Cheng who was standing with her head down, and said lightly: "The emperor will eat first, and when he is free, the concubine will tell you slowly." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't ask any more, cleaned his hands and ate, Ma Xiuying led him into the inner room, knelt down and said: "The emperor allowed the concubine to be detailed, and some of the business that the concubine granted to Shen Wansan back then would damage the interests of the country, but at that time, my Ming Dynasty had not yet been established, and the concubine had the courage to let Shen Wansan do it, and now in order to protect the interests of our dynasty, the concubine has long persuaded Shen Wansan to stop doing it." ”

"Since it is a matter of the previous dynasty, I don't blame you. Zhu Yuanzhang picked up Ma Xiuying and asked her to continue.

Ma Xiuying presented Shen Wansan's private fund-raising and overseas smuggling matters one by one, and Zhu Yuanzhang could find out these things by investigating them carefully, so it was better for her to take the initiative to confess, and Hu Weiyong's generation in the province seized this matter to make a fuss.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very angry, "I just said that none of these businessmen are good things, you see Shen Wansan has accumulated the hard-earned money of the common people as his own capital, and he also evades taxes and evades taxes and smuggles them all over the place, no wonder he is so rich, it turns out that they are all scraped people's fat and people's ointment and state taxes, this is a traitor! This is a crime!"

"The emperor is angry!" Ma Xiuying hurriedly persuaded: "Shen Wansan's money raised by the people has already been returned to the people, not only that, but he has also done a lot of good things for the local people, building bridges and paving roads, and building houses. In the early years, Zhouzhuang was just a poor small village, but now it has developed into a prosperous town, and Shen Wansan has played a major role in it. As for your claim that he has betrayed the country repeatedly, the concubine does not recognize this charge. The concubine never thought that the country ruled by the Yuan people was our country, and the emperor should not recognize it, so he wanted to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty. Since it is not our country, how can he betray the country? After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Shen Wansan never went to sea once, wholeheartedly assisted the emperor in mediating the relationship between the merchants of Suzhou Prefecture, and did not do anything to damage the interests of the state.

Ma Xiuying's arguments made Zhu Yuanzhang speechless, if Shen Wansan's smuggling in the Yuan Dynasty was a crime, then wouldn't he have committed an even greater crime by overthrowing the Yuan Dynasty and becoming emperor himself? But this man is richer than the rest of the country, and he is richer than me, which is really a bad omen. ”

Ma Xiuying was really a little disgusted with Zhu Yuanzhang's greed and stubbornness, so she held back her anger and choked up: "The concubine heard that the laws made by the state are used to kill lawbreakers, but I have never heard of them being used to kill ominous people. What does it have to do with the fact that the people are rich and rival the country's laws? If Shen Wansan is an ominous person, and the heavens have brought disasters to him, why do you use punishment?"

Zhu Yuanzhang attaches great importance to the important role of law in governing the country, and he calls for heavy legislation and strict law enforcement. Before becoming emperor, he ordered Li Shanchang to be the president and began to formulate the "Da Ming Law", and later created many criminal laws and regulations. For such a person who uses the law to demand himself and others at such a time, once Ma Xiuying goes online with him, he really has nothing to say.