"Xianggong~"

Xu Wan'er and Li Zhen hurriedly came to Liu Jin's study and found Liu Jin, who was busy.

"What's wrong?"

Liu Jin looked at the two of them, both of them knew that they would never come over to disturb them when they were busy with things, but now they came to look for themselves, and they still had anger on their faces, as if something had happened.

So Liu Jin also put down what he was doing, smiled and asked.

"Xianggong, aren't you in charge of the tax restructuring now, you have to levy heavy taxes on the gambling house and the Qinglou Chu Pavilion, and the people in the Qinglou Chu Pavilion have already spoken now."

"If they start to tax them heavily next year, they will go around saying bad things about you."

Li Zhen pouted angrily, and when she heard her servants say this, she was half angry to death.

"Speak ill of me?"

"What bad things do you say about me?"

When Liu Jin heard this, he immediately laughed.

I knew that the matter of taxation would offend people, but I didn't expect that some people had begun to resist fiercely before it had even begun, and they would even point the finger at themselves.

It's good that someone resists, it's normal, and when the time comes, there is an excuse to ask Emperor Hongzhi to set up a tax catch, and without a strong tax collection agency, it is naturally impossible for everyone to pay taxes honestly.

"They said, they said that you are ridiculous, and you want to be at night every day..."

Li Zhen said without thinking, and when she talked about the back, her face was suddenly flushed and she couldn't speak.

"In short, it's just a bad word for you, and if it's bad, it will cause a lot of damage to your reputation."

"I'm really angry, if anyone dares to talk nonsense, I won't demolish their filthy place."

Li Zhen said angrily.

"That's right, when the time comes, see if I don't call me brother, I will seal all those dirty places, so that they dare to speak ill of each other."

Xu Wan'er was also half dead in anger.

Liu Jin is a good man, he never goes to those places of fireworks, every day he is either busy with national affairs or at home with his wife and children, in the hearts of the two of them, Liu Jin is the most perfect, and no one is allowed to say bad things about Liu Jin, especially about this aspect.

Whether Liu Jin is messing with flowers or grass, whether he is wild or not, the two of them are naturally the clearest.

"Haha, what's so scary about gossip."

"As long as you believe me, the others, I don't care what they think of me."

Liu Jin immediately laughed, what should it be.

If you even care about this bit of, then you don't want to be an official above the court, you must know that compared to the swords and swords above the court, these are nothing at all.

"Xianggong, you can't say anything, this is short and long, and the three of them become tigers, if you really let them talk nonsense, and tarnish Xianggong's reputation in vain, this is not good."

"What's more, our family is actually so easy to mess with."

"Xianggong is doing things for the court and seeking the well-being of the people, if they really dare to speak ill of Xianggong, I will definitely not let them go."

Xu Wan'er still said angrily.

"Alright, alright~"

"Lady don't worry, don't be angry."

Liu Jin smiled and hurriedly comforted.

"By the way, what about the baby?"

Liu Jin hurriedly changed the topic and shifted the topic to the child.

"The nurse has it."

Li Zhen replied.

"Well, in the next few days, the missions of the Nanyang countries are about to arrive in Tianjin, and when the time comes, I will take you to Tianjin to see how about the Nanyang people?"

"What is there to see about Nanyang people, but I heard that the football here in Tianjin is very good, so the minister will take us to watch football, right?"

Hearing Liu Jin's words, Li Zhen thought about it and said.

"Okay, football is football, I'm so busy these days, I haven't watched football for a long time."

Liu Jin agreed very happily. 52 Literature

"Great, it's better to be a good match~"

When Li Zhen heard this, she immediately kissed Liu Jin happily.

This kiss, the maids who followed next to him suddenly hurriedly covered their eyes with their hands one by one, and their faces were full of shame.

……

In the Bohai Sea, several large merchant ships are moving rapidly towards Tianjin Port, followed by dozens of much smaller ships, moving forward on the sea.

These large ships, which belonged to the Tianjin Ocean Trading Company, returned from the South Seas, and the ships were loaded with goods from the South Seas, including pearls, coral, agate, jade, precious stones, ivory, jade, precious agarwood, and boxes and boxes of gold and silver, as well as cane sugar from the South Seas and Ryukyu plantations.

Seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming soon, it is the time to buy New Year's goods, these things are very popular in the Beijing and Tianjin area, there are many rich people here, and everything is particularly easy to sell.

The crew is also like arrows.

After a busy year at sea, the harvest is full, and the New Year is about to begin, this is the last trip before the New Year, and the next time you go to sea will have to wait until after the Lantern Festival in the coming year.

Whenever they think of this, the crew can't wait to be able to return to Tianjin Port immediately, return to their homes, and rest for a while.

Now it is in the Bohai Sea, and it is very close to Tianjin Port, and many crew members are a little anxious to come to the deck, looking west from time to time, looking in the direction of Tianjin Port.

The deck of the Red Coral was also full of people, but these people were Nanyangs in fancy costumes, not Ming people.

Taiping Hou Du Mingen opened up a route to Nanyang, and the major commercial banks of the Ming Dynasty frequently traveled to and from Nanyang, which greatly strengthened the exchanges and contacts between the Ming Dynasty and the countries of the Nanyang.

In addition, the current Ming Dynasty is becoming more and more powerful, and it directly seized Manila in Nanyang, renamed Crescent City, and also set up provinces and government offices here, and appointed officials.

This made the Nanyang countries also frightened, so after the Nanyang countries contacted each other, they also sent a huge delegation to Daming, ready to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and showed the Ming Dynasty that they and the Ming Dynasty are friendly neighbors for generations, and they will always be the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty, and they will never do anything to harm the Ming Dynasty like the people of Luzon.

Always, this time they came to Daming to convey their willingness to friendship and peace to Daming.

Daming is too powerful~

The strength of Luzon is not small, and it can be regarded as okay among the countries of the South Seas.

But the Taiping Marquis of the Ming Dynasty almost destroyed the Luzon Kingdom simply and easily, and even the national capital Manila has now become the crescent city of the Ming Dynasty.

This strength is terrible.

What's more critical is that the strength of the Ming Dynasty in the Nanyang region has swelled rapidly, with the crescent city as the center, the entire Nanyang region can now see large and small Ming merchant ships and merchants.

At the same time, there are Ming merchants in many places to open up and establish plantations, especially here in Luzon, a large number of plantations have risen, and Luzon is afraid to be angry but dare not speak.

It can only be retreated step by step, and now a large area north of Luzon Island has fallen under the jurisdiction of the Ming Crescent City, and it is no longer limited to the original 100 miles.

There was no way, the war in Luzon was scrapped, and it was completely scared.

Du Ming, the Marquis of Taiping, went on a killing spree in Crescent City, killing all the kings and ordinary officials of Luzon, and many of the rebellious natives were even more merciless, burning them alive, allowing them to see the thunderous side of the Ming Dynasty.

So this time, Luzon also sent an embassy, prepared a thick tribute, and prepared to ask the Great Tomorrow to draw a clear line with the Ming Dynasty, otherwise the entire Luzon will be occupied by the Ming Dynasty.

Luzon, Sulu, Champong, Siam, Annam, Java and other large and small countries in total, a total of more than 30 Nanyang countries have sent missions, prepared tribute, and took the merchant ships of the Tianjin Ocean Trade Company to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

It is nothing new that Nanyang countries come to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

In the past, when Zheng He went to the West, there were often Nanyang missions to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and even in the Chenghua Dynasty, that is, when Emperor Hongzhi's father Ming Xianzong was the father, there were also Nanyang missions to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

However, in the late Chenghua Dynasty until the thirteenth year of Hongzhi, it has been almost thirty years, and there is no Nanyang mission to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

The main reason for this is that the Ming side closed the country and implemented a strict sea ban, and of course, the Ming side has always wanted to save face.

The tributaries of other countries' missions often have to be returned several times, and with the decline of the Ming Dynasty's national strength, the Ming Dynasty is no longer able to slap a swollen face and become fat as before.

I had to give an order to the countries of Nanyang to stop coming to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty frequently, so slowly no one came to pay tribute.

Now that there are contacts, as a vassal state, it is natural that they still have to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, there is also a very important reason that with the Ming merchants began to spread all over the Nanyang countries, it also spread the situation of the Ming Dynasty to the Nanyang.

The changes and development of the Ming Dynasty, the richness and strength of the Ming Dynasty, also made the countries of Nanyang yearn for it, and they have sent missions to the Ming Dynasty to have a look.

Among them, Godara, the eastern king of Sulu, came in person, and the Sulu country's mission was also the largest, with hundreds of people, and there were more than a dozen ships from Sulu alone.

However, for the safety of the mission, all the important people of the mission took the merchant ships of the Tianjin Ocean Trading Company, and the ordinary members took the ships of their own country.

"I heard that Tianjin in the Ming Dynasty is very prosperous, with high-rise buildings and bright lights, and I don't know how it will compare with our Ayutthaya in Siam."

On the deck of the Red Coral, Godala, the king of Sulu, looked in the direction of Tianjin, but heard the discussion of the officials of the Siamese mission.

At this time, Siam was under the reign of the Ayutthaya Dynasty (Ayutthaya Dynasty), and in 1500 it was the most powerful and heyday period of the Ayutthaya Dynasty, one of the most powerful states in Indochina.

So the Siamese people in this period were still relatively confident.