At this time, the population of the whole of South Vietnam did not exceed 3 million, mainly 1.8 million controlled by Zheng Jie and 600,000 controlled by Nguyen Phuc Yuan, in addition to 100,000 Champa people, 100,000 people from Cao Binh Mo Chao, and 100,000 ethnic minorities in the plateau and mountainous areas. After the Tranquil Clan and the Nguyen clan were wiped out, the Ming Dynasty would re-establish the Lê clan as the commander of Annam, using him to promote weights and measures and cultural education in the Central Plains, and completely cut off the root cause of the rebellion in South Vietnam through marriage and immigration.

After listening to Zhu Youxiao's statement, Sun Chengzong and Han Xi had fallen into this fallacy of presupposition, and Zhu Youxiao compared the Ming Dynasty and South Vietnam to life-and-death opponents on the battlefield, and they naturally hoped that the Ming Dynasty would be the victorious side. But the two sides still have the relationship between the clan and the domain, and they don't have to fight with bayonets to stop when they see red, but Zhu Youxiao has already mobilized 100,000 elite Ming troops, and he has supplied all the profits from overseas trade to the front-line military salaries.

After convincing everyone, Zhu Youxiao decided to go to the Yangtze River Delta region to check the situation of overseas trade and taxation, and then sit in Guangzhou with his money bag to command the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, and by the way, inspect the achievements of the Guangzhou Free Trade Zone, and explore the feasibility of building the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone around Guangzhou, Zhuhai, Shenzhen, and Hong Kong.

Zhu Youxiao had been on patrol many times before, although each time it was in the wind and rain, but over time the imperial court also had a set of mature coping mechanisms, Sun Chengzong, Han Xi, Huang Kezhang, Yang Lian and others knew that the emperor's presence in Guangzhou was conducive to boosting morale, and immediately began to arrange matters along the way after receiving the order. Flash dance, but in view of Zhu Youxiao's previous conviction of charging into battle, everyone was worried that he would make a mistake this time, so they jointly asked the harem ladies to go south to play together, wanting to tie the little emperor through women.

Of course, Zhu Youxiao knew their thoughts, but he did owe Zhang Yan too much over the years, but he was imprisoned in the Quartet like a canary at the age of a flower, and he simply pushed the boat down the river and sold everyone a favor. When Zhang Yan and the others heard that the emperor was going to take them to the south of the Yangtze River to play, they naturally cheered and hurriedly packed their luggage in the palace.

The great poet Li Bai once said, "Fireworks go down to Yangzhou in March",

Yin Yun, a Liang man of the Southern Dynasty, once wrote, "Wrap 100,000 yuan around your waist and ride a crane to Yangzhou", which shows that the beautiful scenery of the south of the Yangtze River has always been a holy place in the heart of the Chinese nation. At this time, it is April Fangfei, although it is not as spring as fireworks in March, intoxicating pedestrians, but after the temperature rises, the smoke and rain are hazy, clear and watery, full of poetry and tenderness, which is in response to the sentence "There is heaven and there is Suzhou and Hangzhou".

Revisiting the old place, the scenery is still so beautiful, but the ancients are even more beautiful. The man on the long street wears a scarf, long hair shawl, a folding fan, a long shirt, and walks with a graceful demeanor, and the jade tree is in the wind when standing. The woman is even more slender and slender, with a phoenix crown on her upper body, and a placket on her lower body, or a paddy field button, even if she is wrapped in light makeup, she is still charming.

The scenery is picturesque, the food is naturally indispensable, you can smell the mugwort juice of the Qingtuan from afar, and the verdant skin is wrapped in sweet or salty filling, and a bite seems to eat the whole spring of Yangzhou. The sake-brewed cake made with sweet and glutinous fermented rice has a browned skin and a sweet smell that makes your mouth water. Zhu Youxiao has always been a great foodie, and he has a soft spot for snails, as the so-called "snails are all interesting, and delicious wine is inferior". The snails in March and April are tender and fatty, with excellent taste and mouth-watering, as well as spring bamboo shoots that have just been drilled out of the ground, and fresh shepherd's cabbage, marantou, golden cauliflower, and bracken are even more tender and refreshing.

Looking at the hearty laughter of his family, Zhu Youxiao has never had such a sense of steadiness in his heart, every man should be kind to his family, don't forget the dregs who are in the same boat with you when the scenery is beautiful, and don't bring your temper home when you are unwilling. Zhu Youxiao indulged in mountains and rivers with them all the way with this kind of thought, but after entering Nanjing, he immediately became serious, first took his sons to Xiaoling to worship Emperor Taizu, and then led his ministers to Niushou Mountain in the suburbs to sweep the tomb for Zheng He.

More than 200 years ago, China had a very great navigator, who led the world's largest fleet at that time, and after 28 years, seven voyages to the Western Ocean, creating a maritime Silk Road and bringing Chinese civilization to all parts of the world. There are two misunderstandings here, one is that many "brick families" think that Zheng He's trip to the West is purely a political demonstration, in fact, the entire Ming Dynasty, including the later Qing Dynasty, has been developing overseas trade, and most of them are taking the routes opened up by Zheng He. The second is that the European colonizers continued to bombard the door of the Central Plains Dynasty with artillery, not to mention that the dynasty exchanged most of the gold and silver stolen from the Americas by selling silk, porcelain, tea, medicinal materials and other goods, that is, the Qing Dynasty's foreign trade was surplus for a long time after the end of the Opium War.

Of course, Zheng He has been a eunuch in the palace since he was a child, and it stands to reason that there will be no descendants, but many people recognize him as an ancestor because they admire his prestige. These people are mainly located in Yuxi, Yunnan, Chiang Mai, Thailand, and Nanjing, Jiangsu, and including his birthplace Kunyang, which is known as the "Three Branches and Four Places".

More than 200 years have passed, and the descendants of Nanjing have been guarding his cemetery week, which made Zhu Youxiao greatly moved, and ordered Lai Zongdao and Nan Juyi to select a group of men of appropriate age to be sent to Taixue and Ningbo Maritime College for further study, hoping that Zheng He's seafaring feat can once again awaken the world's desire to conquer the sea.

Since the destination of this southern tour was Guangzhou, Zhu Youxiao did not summon the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs after returning to the palace, but accompanied several beloved wives to the Jiangning Weaving Bureau to select silk under the arrangement of the Wei Dynasty. At this time, the Yangtze River channel has been dredged, a lot of high-quality Shu brocade into the interior, coupled with the development of foreign trade to promote the weaving process of the Ming Dynasty, the current weaving bureau is full of the best domestic makeup Yunbu, color brocade, makeup velvet and gold velvet and so on.

The girls are like butterflies burrowing into the flowers, looking left and right and can't put it down, looking like they have never seen the world. Zhu Youxiao saw that they were in high spirits, and he couldn't bear to ruin the happiness of a moment, so he patiently accompanied them inside for more than an hour, and after returning to the palace, he accompanied them to check their loot.

These girls have different temperaments, and the fabrics, colors, and patterns they pick also have their own characteristics, but their ideas are how to make these good-looking silk into clothes, while Zhu Youxiao is concerned about how to sell them overseas for real money. The peasant woman didn't have the rice in her hand and couldn't even summon the chicken, not to mention the dignified head of the Ming Dynasty, this year's cabinet expenditure budget is 12 million taels of silver, and the deficit has exceeded 4 million taels, and now they are using troops against South Vietnam, which requires a lot of silver.