Qi Zhong looked at Jiabao, the leader of the Dorot Tribe, and pointed to the endless sea: "If you want to go back to the grassland, then jump down and swim back!" ”

When Jia Bao heard Qi Zhong say this, he felt deeply humiliated, because his Mongolian warriors were naturally unparalleled in the world in horseback riding, but they couldn't swim at all, and now they couldn't stand even on the boat, and even drowsy, let alone swim back, if they wanted to swim back, they were afraid that they would be drowned or buried in the belly of the fish.

Jiabao had to pull out his knife and threaten Qi Chong: "Lord Qi, if you don't let this boat turn around and transport us back to the grassland, I will kill you!" ”

The Ming army behind Qi Chong also picked up his musket.

But at this time, a wave suddenly came, and the boat shook violently, and the naval officer Qi Zhong and the Ming army behind him still stood steadily in the bow of the ship, while Jiabao and several Mongols behind him fell on the board of the ship, and only after the wind and waves calmed down, did they staggered and stood up again.

Seeing this, Qi Chong couldn't help but smile: "Uncle Kanzhou, you can't even stand on your feet now, how can you threaten the official, honestly go to the cabin and stay, you are about to enter the area where the waves are more violent, and if your people are overturned at that time, the official will not save you." ”

Immediately afterwards, Qi Zhong did not take care of the insurance again.

……

In the area of San Francisco on the American continent today, the leader of Ordos, Manduda, the current Ming Shun Chengroar, finally landed after a few months of turbulence, looking at this unfamiliar continent, he just wanted to find a land route back to his former grassland.

Now he hates Da Ming incomparably!

Manduda couldn't wait to kill the Ming Emperor Zhu Houzhao who fooled him!

Because Zhu Houzhao told him to give him a pasture that is like spring all year round, and then he simply believed it, and at the same time, he was also taken by the military might of the Ming Dynasty, and embarked on the road of migration with his tribe.

But he didn't expect that he and his tribe were on a road of no return, and he had lost a lot of tribes after months of life at sea, but he couldn't do anything with the Ming army, because they were so weak that they couldn't even hold a knife on the ship.

The moment he set foot on the mainland, Manduda was naturally excited, he brought out the war horse in the cabin, and he vowed to take his tribe to find a way back to the grassland on land when he regained his strength.

But what Manduda didn't know was that he had no chance of returning to Eurasia unless he could go north to present-day Alaska while the ice was frozen and find a way to cross the Bering Strait.

But for Manduda, who was not good at crossing the sea, this was obviously impossible.

However, Manduda was unaware of these terrible realities, and now he was only stubborn in finding a way back to the grasslands, which led him to spend the next few decades riding around the continent.

Of course.

For Manduda, he was just looking for his way home, but for the Spanish colonists and Indians, these knights from the East were truly the devil they feared.

Because, the Mongol cavalry of Manduda gave full play to their talent for plundering on the American continent.

On the American continent, they did not have an army with advanced firearms like the Ming army, nor did they have a fortified castle, and even the Spanish colonists were caught off guard in front of them.

……

"The imperial court didn't depose Xia Yan because of the sharp drop in stock prices?"

Fan Yonghe, the big boss of Shanxi Commercial Bank, looked at Yang Feng with some surprise, and Yang Feng nodded: "What Meng Butang means is that Sun Sui, these officials and gentry are too straightforward and eager to impeach, and Your Majesty is not a person who is easily led away." ”

Fan Yonghe got up and walked a few steps with some annoyance, and suddenly asked Yang Feng: "You say, what does our emperor want, Xia Yan has offended so many officials and gentry by fighting smuggling in Nanyang, does he know that if he doesn't replace Xia Yan, the gentry will replace him as the emperor." ”

Yang Feng couldn't help but be shocked after hearing this, and replied: "Master be cautious! The mind of the Son of Heaven is beyond what you and I can guess, but I have another thing here for the master to know. ”

Fan Yonghe motioned for Yang Feng to say.

Thereupon.

Yang Feng said: "Huadang did not take Kaiping City, and has withdrawn the army, and even made amends to the imperial court, but the imperial court killed Huadang's messenger of reparation, according to the merchants in the north, now from Datong to Liaodong, there are a large number of guards crossing the border every day, it seems that the imperial court is going to carry out a large-scale conquest of the border towns." ”

Fan Yonghe turned around in surprise: "We told this Huadang the truth from Xuanfu to Kaiping City, but this Huadang still can't enter Kaiping City, what are they eating these Tartars." ”

"I don't know the specifics, I only heard that my children and grandchildren did bring 100,000 Tartars, but the guns and cannons were not as powerful as the official army, and finally my children and grandchildren had to give up attacking Kaiping City, but now Your Majesty Long Yan is furious and wants to conquer the Mongolian tribes on a large scale, so that it will naturally be impossible to trade and trade, and it is our Jin merchants who will be cut off!"

After Yang Feng said, Fan Yonghe couldn't help but sigh: "The imperial court officials and troops are too strong, and it's not a good thing!" ”

A few days later, Yang Feng found Fan Yonghe in a convenile manner: "Master, the big thing is not good, Guangzhou brought back news that the stock prices of Shanxi Commercial Bank and Liaomeng Commercial Bank suddenly plummeted, but the stock prices of other commercial banks suddenly rose sharply, and Helin was occupied by the official army, and the Mongolian tribes were either killed or driven to the extremely cold place further north, so that the headquarters of the Liaomeng Commercial Bank in Helin was also confiscated by the official army, and the silver money we distributed to Huadang fell into the hands of the official army!" ”

After hearing this, Fan Yonghe sat back in the chair directly: "Except for our trading house, the others have begun to rise sharply, it seems that the imperial court has made a move, immediately contact Mr. Che Nobei of the Big Buddha Langji, we will go to Nanyang immediately now, hurry up!" ”

Fan Yonghe realized that something was wrong, and he had to run away before the court could catch the evidence that he had violated the law.

However, at this time, a brocade guard had already surrounded his Fan Yonghe's mansion, and Hao Yun, a thousand households of the brocade guard, also brought Che Nobei to Fan Yonghe: "The Fan Yonghe you are talking about is him." ”

Having been bound by chains, Chernobe nodded: "It's him, it's him!" ”

Fan Yonghe was horrified at this time, he didn't expect that Jinyiwei had already caught Che Nobei first, he could guess that it must be the trafficking of the people of the Ming Dynasty that was discovered by Jinyiwei, and in a hurry, he hurriedly waved his hand and said: "No, it's not me, I don't know you, you Westerner, how can you spew blood!" ”

Jinyi Wei Qianhu Hao Yun smiled coldly: "The surname Fan, do you think you can be useful by quibbling now, Che Nobei, you can pretend not to know, but, Qian Rong, you always know." ”

Money Rong?

Who is Qian Rong?

Since Fan Yonghe began manipulating the stock market, he has secretly sold several batches of Daming people, and naturally he can't remember who Qian Rong is.

Hao Yun still smiled faintly: "It doesn't matter if you can't remember, there are always documents." ”

As he spoke, Hao Yun waved his hand: "Search for me!" ”

After Hao Yun finished speaking, a group of Jinyi Wei lieutenants rushed over, and at this time, Yang Feng hurriedly stopped: "What are you doing here, our master is the big proprietor of Shanxi Commercial Bank!" ”

Click!

Hao Yun cut off Yang Feng's right arm with a knife: "Interfering with law enforcement, this official can kill you with one sword, believe it or not!" ”

"Ahh

Yang Feng was already screaming in pain at this time, he didn't expect that Jinyiwei's people would directly cut off his hand.

There is a way to show only when he meets soldiers, and it is unreasonable to say, even if Yang Feng and his boss Fan Yonghe are all people who are good at calculating and even calculating the interests of the country, but in front of Jinyiwei, who only asks questions with a sword, he still does not have any ability to turn the clouds and rain.

The knife that Hao Yun slashed Yang Feng and the bloody arm that fell to the ground also frightened Fan Yonghe, who directly poured out the bubbling hot urine and soaked the hem of his robe.

And after a while, the Jinyi guard in charge of the seizure carried out a box of documents, and one of the Jinyi guards replied to Hao Yun: "My lord, these are all documentary evidence that this person sold the people of the Ming Dynasty, this is the contract of Qian Rong." ”

Hao Yun took Qian Rong's contract from this brocade guard and looked at it, and couldn't help laughing: "Sure enough, it's a profiteer!" Dare to do this kind of business, force people to die, and sell them! It's really a wolf's heart and a dog's lungs! Take! ”

Fan Yonghe drooped his head.

……

A few months later, Zhu Houzhao also received an investigation report from Liangguang about the previous stock crash, and after learning that this was a group of Jin businessmen from Shanxi Commercial Bank and Liaomeng Commercial Bank who were also involved in human trafficking, he couldn't help but look cold, and directly replied:

"All the Jin merchants' properties suspected of this case were confiscated, all the people involved in the case were beheaded, and the family was sent to Mobei to build cement roads and serve for more than 50 years!"

Zhao Jian, the secretary of Dali Temple, couldn't help but persuade after knowing it: "Your Majesty, is this too harsh, after all, they are only suspected of trafficking in their own people, and as for the manipulation of the stock market, it can't be said to be a crime in the end." ”

"The compatriots who dare to harm are ruined and killed, and they also sell others, it is enough to see that these people do not treat their own people as people, in this case, why should the people of this tribe treat them as people, since they do not respect the human rights of the people of the Ming Dynasty, then the people of the Ming Dynasty do not have to respect their human rights, their property rights, the right to life, and the right to freedom are completely deprived! They don't even have the right to commit suicide, the one named Fan Yonghe is the first evil, and he directly Ling Chi to set an example! ”

Zhu Houzhao knew that he had to punish harshly now, because he knew that with the development of capitalism in the Ming Dynasty, if he did not use the harsh punishment to deal with these Jin merchants, then in the future, there would definitely be more profiteers who disregarded the interests of the country for their own interests, and then pulled the entire country and nation into a dangerous situation, which was what the Jin merchants in history did in the late Ming Dynasty.

……

But Fan Yonghe now regrets that he forgot the majesty of the imperial court and only cared about chasing his own interests.

Obviously, even if he regrets it now, it is too late, the cold knife has already slashed at his chest, and the tearing pain instantly swept every neuron in his body, and he screamed directly in pain, and the cold winter wind blew, which exacerbated his pain.

"Spare your life! Spare your life! I was wrong! I shouldn't have trafficked my own people, I shouldn't have collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, I shouldn't have manipulated the stock market! I have money, and I am willing to give all my possessions to forgive my sins! Whining! ”

Fan Yonghe screamed miserably, but at this time, no one would answer him, but he was not alone, and he was tortured by a Han 0 traitor named Jiang Han, Hua Dang, and the two leaders of the Tartars.

Before Jiang Han, Hua Dang, and their children and grandchildren were tortured, Zhu Houzhao also met these three people once.

Because, these three people were captured by the Guards from the Horqin Department, and when they were escorted back to the capital, Zhu Houzhao, who was also in Beijing, learned that the Guards had captured these three people, so he met these three people by the way.

When Hua Dang, his children and grandchildren, and Jiang Han were escorted to Zhu Houzhao, Zhu Houzhao only asked first: "Which of you is Hua Dang!" ”

At this time, a slightly older Tartar couldn't help but hold his head high: "I am Huadang, His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Huadang once again apologizes to you, I hope you will forgive me, I am willing to continue to be a courtier of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

"Forgiveness? Why should I forgive you, what right do you have for me to forgive you, drag it down, and put it to death! ”

Zhu Houzhao said and looked at his children and grandchildren: "Who are you?" ”

"He is the son of Huadang, and he will give his children and grandchildren", at this time, Guo Rong on the side replied.

Zhu Houzhao nodded: "Take it down with you and punish you with death!" ”

And at this time, when there was only Jiang Han in front of Zhu Houzhao, Jiang Han cried by himself: "Your Majesty spares your life!" The minister is also forced to do business, but he never wanted to be captured by these Tartars, the minister wanted to keep the festival to the death, but he couldn't stand the coercion and temptation of these Tartars, so the minister had to succumb to the thief! ”

Zhu Houzhao knew that many Han compatriots in the Ming Dynasty had always been hard-mouthed and soft-boned, and even for their own interests, they did not hesitate to instigate the entire alien race outside the country to destroy their own country, and now this Jiang Han is naturally just one of them, of course, Zhu Houzhao did not debunk this Jiang Han, only said:

"Since you have succumbed to the thief, it means that you are still a Tartar lackey, do you say yes or no?"

"Your Majesty! The minister is a last resort, the minister wanted to emulate Su Wu, but he never expected the Tartar to be extremely cunning, and the minister was helpless! ”

Jiang Han cried bitterly.

But Zhu Houzhao just paused: "Answer me, have you surrendered, have you become a Tartar lackey?!" ”

Jiang Han saw that Zhu Houzhao kept asking about this, and he couldn't escape it for a while, so he had to nod: "Yes!" Kechen is really ......"

Before Jiang Han finished speaking, Zhu Houzhao only smiled coldly and ordered: "Since he was forced to surrender, but he did surrender again, then I will give him a chance, give him a knife, and let him commit suicide and apologize!" ”

After Zhu Houzhao finished speaking, Jiang Han couldn't help but be shocked, he kept shaking his head, he didn't want to die at all, he didn't expect that he was so miserable, and the emperor didn't forgive him.

"Your Majesty, the minister, the minister has no power to restrain the chicken, and the minister himself will not cut off the minister's own head! The minister is willing to take the hair as the head, and only asks His Majesty to spare the minister's life! ”

Jiang Han hurriedly begged for mercy.

Zhu Houzhao didn't expect Jiang Han to be so soft-boned, so he only said: "Since you have no power to restrain the chicken, then take him down and punish him with capital punishment, and a special executioner will remove the soft bones on his body one by one!" ”

When Jiang Han heard this, the whole person was so frightened that he was crying: "Your Majesty, spare your life!" Spare your life! ”

Zhu Houzhao naturally didn't pay attention to it.

……

At this time, on the execution ground, Fan Yonghe, Hua Dang, his children and grandchildren, Jiang Han and others were all screaming miserably.

But at this time, Zhu Houzhao, who was in the Royal West Garden, naturally couldn't hear these miserable voices, as the emperor, he was destined to be stained with the blood of many wicked people in his life.

Zhu Houzhao is also quite helpless about this, and he is sometimes troubled, why there is no effective way to curb people's greed and maintain basic respect between people.

For example, these Jin merchants, as businessmen to make profits is understandable, even if they take advantage of the loopholes of the imperial court to manipulate the stock market to make a windfall, but why do they still buy their compatriots whose families are ruined to be slaves in the West, and many of them are even the children of their own relatives.

There are also these Tartars, especially Huadang, the leaders of this kind of Tartars, because they have been attached to the Ming Dynasty for a long time, they have the richest grassland given to them by the Ming Dynasty, and because they are close to the border town of the Ming Dynasty, they can completely rely on the border trade with the Ming Dynasty and the grassland given by the Ming Dynasty to live a subsistence life.

But he was still insatiable and wanted to come to the Ming Dynasty to plunder, and even ignored the lives of his own people to the point of using them as cannon fodder.

How cheap human life is in the eyes of people in this era.

Zhu Houzhao had to admit that when the people's wisdom was not opened, the people were indifferent to other people's right to life, and they could ignore the lives of others for their own interests.

Because of this, Zhu Houzhao can only use severe punishment to warn all people that disregard for the lives of others will suffer the most severe punishment, and Zhu Houzhao wants everyone to know that sometimes it is not only you who will harm others, but when you yourself are killed, the pain you suffer is not lighter than that of the person you harm.

Zhu Houzhao knew that even if he was the emperor, he could not make people feel good in a short period of time, and as the ruler of the empire, he had to spend more energy on maintaining the justice and development and progress of the empire, and the kind of thing of persuading people to do good needed to be done by those who were responsible for education and the dissemination of ideas.

In November of the 19th year of Zhengde, the governor of Fengyang, Hu Dingzuo, reported that the Huai, Yang, Lu, Feng, Chu, Xu and other prefectures had flooded after the drought, resulting in the flooding of countless farmlands.

Since ancient times, various disasters have often occurred in the land of China, and Zhu Houzhao is now governing the Ming Empire, and the entire empire has had two major droughts and floods in the nineteenth year of Zhengde, and both of them occurred in Nanzhili.

But fortunately, after the introduction of sweet potatoes and the development of countless cultivated fields abroad, the food supply of the Ming Dynasty has increased a lot, and even if this drought and flood disaster occurs, it can be calmly dealt with.

However, the problem that Zhu Houzhao had to face was that frequent natural disasters not only affected Daming's agricultural production, but also affected Daming's treasury revenue.

Zhu Houzhao had to speed up the process of changing the Ming Empire's dependence on agricultural production.

But in fact, after the industrialization of the Ming Dynasty, the empire became more and more dependent on agriculture.

Especially after the nineteenth year of Zhengde, because of the provocation of Huadang, the Ming Dynasty increased the number of troops in the north, and even kept adding the number of troops, but because the climate began to gradually turn colder, the army supply in the north needed a lot of food.

However, the southern part of the empire, which had more arable land and higher yields, was becoming more and more industrialized, and the proportion of agriculture was getting lower and lower, so this required the Ming to develop further south in order to obtain more arable land and produce more food.

"Now Nanzhili is exempted, Jiangxi Ji'an and other provinces are also exempted because of disasters, Huguang and other places are also exempted due to floods and droughts, if we only focus on the two capitals and 14 provinces (multiple river loops), then we will not be able to increase more food income this year, we must focus on other regions!"

Zhu Houzhao presided over a pre-imperial meeting, which was attended by the privy envoys of the Guards, cabinet ministers, and secretaries of various ministries, and at the pre-imperial meeting, Zhu Houzhao only explained one point at this time, that is, as the ruler of the Ming Dynasty, he could not only limit his attention to the pass.

Guannei, basically Yungui needs Sichuan's grain to supply, the north can only be self-sufficient, and Cao grain can only come from Nanzhili, Huguang, Jiangxi and other places, Fujian Liangguang arable land area is very small, now Nanzhili, Huguang, Jiangxi and other places have disasters, the empire's only grain income if only rely on Guannei, this year is equal to nothing, and even Yin will eat grain.

But now, in fact, the empire did not eat grain, because the grain bureau could still accumulate and plunder millions of stone of grain and grass overseas into Beijing.

"What Your Majesty said is extremely true, now the imperial court is no longer able to ban the sea and retreat, not to mention the annual tariff income of hundreds of millions of silver dollars, let's just say that this grain import, if there is no such grain import, I am afraid that every family can only eat sweet potatoes and potatoes this year, not to mention the food demand for soldiers in the north, which requires us to open up more arable land overseas!" Zhang Xuan, deputy assistant to the cabinet, echoed.

"Now the Guards have repaired the barbed wire and side walls to the Helin area, and it will be extended in the future, and the Ministry of War has now recruited nearly 200,000 recruits in the disaster-stricken areas around the country, and these recruits will naturally be arranged to the north to continue to open up territory for my Ming Dynasty, but this also means that the demand for food will be greater and greater, and to increase the grain income of my Ming Dynasty, we must increase the territory of the south while opening up the northern territory!" Gui Cao, the secretary of the military department, also agreed.

Kang Hai, the first assistant of the cabinet, couldn't help but ask at this time: "Your Majesty, since this is the case, why don't you stop using troops against the north, since it doesn't make much sense to use troops in the north." ”

"I don't know, if these victims do not enlist in the army to open up territory for the Ming Dynasty, they will become thieves in their hometown, the minister has done a total calculation, before the Zhengde Dynasty, every time there is a disaster when there is a court relief, but there must be thieves, because once the people are flooded or drought and have no land to plant, they will be thieves, but after the Zhengde Dynasty, the number of thieves has decreased by more than eighty percent when the disaster occurs, but the number of troops has also surged!

This is better than increasing the number of thieves, the increase in the number of troops is nothing more than an increase in military salaries, the empire is not short of money now, but there is a lack of fields for the people to cultivate, increasing the expenditure on military salaries The empire has little impact, but increasing the number of thieves will overturn the Ming Dynasty. ”

Gui Cao's remark also made Zhu Houzhao and the officials present agree very much, but at this time, Xia Yan, who had been promoted to the third assistant of the cabinet, couldn't help but say:

"Your Majesty, speaking of the amount of cultivated land, the minister recently received a note from the Marquis of Liyang, Suchen, the father-in-law of the country, this father-in-law implores His Majesty to give 200,000 hectares of farmland, saying that for his future pension, these nobles will ask the court to give land, the people can be said to be deeply affected, and the court will also have a great reduction in income, so at present, these nobles ask for land, please also ask Your Majesty to deal with it carefully."

Zhu Houzhao also knew that it has always been very common for nobles to ask for land, not only for lords, but also for vassal kings, these princes and nobles will get more and more arable land through land grants and contributions, and compress the living space of the people, and now Zhu Houzhao has to deal with this matter carefully.

"Since I have said that I will go overseas to cultivate the land, and since this is the case, I will find 200,000 hectares in this part of the southern part of America and give it to him! He could borrow money from the imperial court and hire someone to go there to cultivate his land! ”

As soon as Zhu Houzhao said this, other officials said that His Majesty was wise, and he could think of using such a method to fool these nobles.