Chapter Seventy-Eight: Two Major Events

"Good boy." Boss Zheng ran to the bow of the ship in a few steps, and like a few sailors, he took out a heavy wooden box, opened an iron cannon and carried it out.

Xian Jing never expected that Boss Zheng would still have this guy.

You must know that firearms were forbidden to be possessed by the common people by order of the imperial court. And artillery is at the heart of all bans.

This is a sin to be beheaded.

What surprised Xian Jing even more was that several cannons were also exposed on the ship that had just been faked as a fire, and they slammed into it.

Boss Zheng kept his distance, so none of these cannons hit. Boss Zheng immediately used the color to personally operate the cannon, fired several shots in a row, and hit the past.

Boss Zheng hit far and accurately, and the nearest shot hit the opposite ship within a distance of more than 100 meters.

It seemed that the ship on the opposite side hesitated for a moment, avoided the ship, and withdrew far away.

Boss Zheng breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's not that I'm stunned, it's good to know the severity." ”

Xian Jing asked, "Uncle Zheng, it's okay." ”

Boss Zheng said, "It's okay. They are all old rivers and lakes, seeing that we are not easy to provoke, they naturally let it go, they will not do loss-making transactions, they are afraid that kind of stunned people, and if they insist on coming out, it will be difficult to do. ”

Robbery also requires a cost.

Real pirates are also measured costs, as is the case. And for Boss Zheng, sailing also requires costs, and if a few people die, his cost of a few hundred taels of silver is not enough for a pension.

What's more, these people are his old team, almost father and son, and it is not easy to find someone.

Although there were some storms and waves, they all stayed on the shore in time to avoid it, and finally came to Tianjin around June.

Xian Jing first went to the Guangdong Club in Tianjin, hid 50,000 taels of silver in the goods, and brought them to the Guangdong Club.

A few newspapers were immediately sold.

See what's up to date.

The first thing he saw was that the Japanese were beheaded.

For a while, Xian Jing snorted coldly and scolded: "It's a small country, I really don't know whether to live or die." ”

After a closer look, it turned out that it was not the king of Japan who killed the envoy, but the minister of the king of Japan, an old minister named Hosokawa, this Hosokawa is simply a living Cao Cao, who led the troops not to support the crown prince, but actually supported the king's younger brother.

And the court sent someone to mediate, but he was killed.

It just doesn't make sense.

Immediately saw the call for a crusade against Japan on the Ming Pao, and Xian Jing also felt that it was right. Then he sighed and said secretly: "Why is this battle not fought in Nanyang, and Foshan Iron is not needed in the north." ”

Before the orthodoxy of the Foshan Xian family, although it was also a family with a head and face in Foshan, the whole family only had one or two thousand taels of silver

Almost.

The reason why it has developed so much in the past 30 years, although there is the wise leadership of Xian Jing's father, but there are also two opportunities of the times, the first is that the Ming Dynasty first opened the sea in Guangdong, since the opening of the sea, Foshan iron has become one of the goods for export, especially the changes in the sea situation, they have to buy iron between them.

This is the first opportunity for the development of Foshan's iron industry.

The second opportunity was the Battle of Datengxia and the Battle of Annam.

As soon as these two battles are fought, more iron is needed, not to mention government procurement, because many times government procurement does not make money at all.

This is the exact opposite of the afterlife.

The business of the government in later generations was the most profitable, but at this time, even if the imperial court issued enough money, it was divided up layer by layer, even though the politics of the Ming Dynasty were still clear.

But roughly counted, the order of the imperial court. Most of them are loss-making.

In fact, this is also a tradition left by Emperor Taizong. Emperor Taizu was born in the people and understood the suffering of the people, so he had regulations on the people to buy, which was higher than the market price.

However, Emperor Taizong did not have such a concept, and the mainstream of Confucianism defined merchants as treacherous, so Emperor Taizong almost took and demanded from merchants.

What you want, although you give money, it is a fixed price for the imperial court.

If you meet a capable minister, maybe the businessmen can be relieved, but if you meet a vicious minister, even if the businessmen sell their sons and daughters, they will not be able to fill the hole.

Fortunately, several governors of Liangguang, Han Yong, Ye Sheng, Xiang Zhong and others were all capable ministers, and Foshan did not make much money overall, but did not lose money.

And when there is a real war, there is not only government procurement, but also local people's procurement, etc., in short, whenever there is a war, the price of iron is rolling upward.

If this battle is in Nanyang, Foshan can make a fortune again. Regarding the victory or defeat of the imperial court's troops against Japan, Xian Jing was not worried at all.

After all, in his eyes, the prosperity of martial arts since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Han and Tang Dynasties, and the defeat of Maoerzhuang, it is all a subsection, it is just a subsection.

In any case, Japan is not capable of playing such a record.

Immediately, Xian Jing looked down again, although he picked it every day, it was a happy event.

Daming has a grandson, and he is also the eldest grandson, so it can be said that he is the grandson of the emperor. This is a happy event, of course.

Xian Jing was also very happy in his heart.

The farther away from the emperor, the higher the sacredness of the emperor, and many people who worship the emperor to the extreme, most of them are people who have never seen the emperor in their lives.

And Xian Jing is such a person.

Overall, Zhu Qizhen has done well over the years. The Ming Dynasty can also be called a prosperous era. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty has a queen. It's also a good thing for Daming.

His heart suddenly moved, and he secretly said, "This is an opportunity." ”

What chances?

Nature is an opportunity to go the way.

In many cases, it is also necessary to go to the door

Timing. If the emperor's eldest grandson is born, Beijing will naturally celebrate. Among all kinds of walking, it is naturally a good opportunity to move around.

He immediately said: "Immediately prepare the carriage and go to Beijing." ”

As Xian Jing expected.

In Beijing, the festive atmosphere of the birth of the emperor is a little more.

Zhu Qizhen took Hebei as a fundamental business from the beginning, whether it was in policy or anything else, he was inclined to Hebei.

This is especially true for Beijing.

There are not many private interviews with Zhu Qizhen, but if something really happens in Beijing, it is difficult to hide it from Zhu Qizhen.

Not to mention, many things in Zhu Qizhen have benefited the people of Beijing.

Among the various industries of Shaofu, after Zhu Qizhen's amnesty decree, it was the first to implement the various treatments mentioned by Zhu Qizhen. Originally, Zhu Qizhen had very few restrictions on craftsmen working in Shaofu, but this time they were officially settled as citizens. There are also people in other parts of Suncheonfu.

You must know that the Jingwei has been removed one by one, except for the pro-soldier guard, but they are all classified as civil registrations. It's just that their desire to join the army is also the highest.

In fact, it is not that the Beijing camp in this era cannot be beaten, but there is no upward channel in it. The soldiers are all the servants of the generals, all kinds of deductions and things, how can there be soldiers who can fight.

In terms of physical fitness and combat skills, they have not yet degraded to the point where they are worse than the common people.

How many years Zhu Qizhen has fought with the tile spurs, although many Beijing people died on the battlefield, but these people from military families actually don't care too much.

Because in ancient times, being a soldier and eating food was really an act of pinning your head to the waistband of your trousers, and life and death were common.

As long as the imperial court pension is in place, I don't think it's anything.

Not to mention, many soldiers have official positions because of the war, and even some meritorious generals have been transferred out of Beijing to become a military attache in other places, although the military attache of the sixth or seventh grade is nothing to many scholars.

But for ordinary people, it is enough to change the court and call themselves official eunuchs from now on.

Therefore, the people supported the emperor who led them to victory all the time.

After all, speaking of which, what Zhu Qizhen has done over the years, the place where he has been most blessed, that is, the people near Beijing, Beijing has always been the basic plate in Zhu Qizhen's heart.

If Zhu Qizhen can't even gather the hearts of the people in Beijing, his emperor will also fail too much.

So after Xian Jing entered the Beijing Division, he saw such a warm atmosphere.

He first found the Guangdong Club to settle down, and then took Chen Xianzhang's letter to see Wu and Bi.

The place where Tianli Newspaper is located was originally a corner of Beijing, and Wu and Bi chose here because they felt that it was cheap, but they never thought that after Tianli Newspaper settled here, it led to a chain reaction, and most of the newspapers settled here.

It seems that it has become more prosperous here.