At Zhang Fu's birthday banquet, he reminded everyone that Zhu Zhanji had already thought about it, because most of the nobles would appear.

And because of his attendance, the civil officials will also send people to pay attention here, and he will say a word at this time, which is comparable to mentioning it at the court meeting.

But such a thing as debt collection is a bit too much to mention at the court meeting.

In today's era, a gentleman doesn't say anything, even if he is a villain, he has to toss and turn a few times and put a halo on the outside.

Although everyone is for fame and fortune, it is possible to talk about profit for the public, and it is vulgar to talk about profit for private.

Talking about money directly, that will make people look down on it.

Hearing Zhu Zhanji say this, many people's faces became embarrassed.

Mu Xin is also one of the debtors, and he now has 30,000 silver coins in the development bank, and in addition to repaying half a year's interest, the principal has not been repaid.

He thought he had a close relationship with Zhu Zhanji, and asked with a smile: "Your Highness, is the situation of this Development Bank really so serious?" ”

Zhu Zhanji sighed: "The purpose of founding a bank is to invigorate my Ming economy. But now there is a lot of deficit, just like there is no blood in the veins, how can this person's body be good? ”

Mu Xin said with a smile: "A deficit of three million, compared to His Highness's profit of 20 million from the West, it's not worth mentioning, right?" ”

Zhu Zhanji clenched his fists and said: "Uncle said this difference, this code is one yard, and it can't be mixed up." It is natural to repay debts, this is a rule, this is ethics. The purpose of establishing the bank is to develop the economy of the Ming Dynasty and make the bank work for everyone, not to make the bank the money bag of the few.

If everyone is like this, in the future, the bank's funds will dry up, but the people who have deposited their bank in the bank will put themselves in danger and form a run. If the bank's credit is lost, who will deposit the money in the bank in the future? Who would use a bank for convenience?

The inner treasury can't use silver to make up for the deficit without a bottom line, and if so, wouldn't the plan to open a bank be a joke? ”

Zhu Zhanji kept saying that it was for convenience, but he couldn't clearly say that my royal silver can't be embezzled by you, and it is a natural thing in the future generations, because now is the era of the family world, and everyone takes taking advantage of it as a matter of course.

Just like Zhu Di's embezzlement of bank funds is a matter of course, it is also natural for ministers to think that they have taken advantage of it.

The silver under this world can't be taken by the old Zhu family, and they, the heroes, should also take a small head.

If Zhu Zhanji collects debts from them for the sake of silver, it will be wrong.

However, Zhu Zhanji is not without means to deal with them, if they really dare not repay the money, he does not need to ask for debts, he can use other reasons to deal with them.

In today's era of privilege, who doesn't have some private things! If you really dare not pay back the money, Zhu Zhanji has a way to deal with them.

Take Mu Xin as an example, although he is a captain of the horse, he pays more attention to his image on weekdays, and he does not have many illegal deeds.

However, the Mu family has a big business, and they also have a life lawsuit because of the water fighting in the farm, and because the housekeeper bullies others, they forcibly occupied a beautiful woman and became a daughter-in-law.

Zhu Zhanji only needs to use the topic to play, and he can also make him unable to eat and walk around.

However, this kind of off-the-market trick is generally not necessary, as long as they can honestly repay the money, in the early days of his power, these people still have to be maintained.

The power of the emperor needs to be stable and reflected, and these people are an important way for the extension of the emperor's power.

Zhu Zhanji is just one person, he can't have three heads and six arms, and everything is controlled in his own hands, which is also impossible.

If the emperor's will is to be enforced, in addition to establishing rules, the key is to control people.

Mu Xin actually doesn't care about 30,000 taels of silver, their Mu family now controls Yunnan and Guizhou. It was the largest copper mine in the Ming Dynasty before the Beimingshan Copper Mine.

The Mu family has been guarding for decades, and they have already made a lot of money.

Feeling Zhu Zhanji's resoluteness, he groaned for a while and asked, "Your Highness has a place where you need silver urgently?" ”

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "This army goes out to build water conservancy in the world, build roads and bridges, where does not need silver?" Lonely wants to use cement roads to connect all the counties of Daming, this cost will not be small! ”

Everyone was shocked......

In the four or five years since the invention of cement, Zhu Di's focus on road construction has been to the north. At present, the cement road to the northwest has been repaired to Hami, and the road to the north has been repaired to Beimingshan.

However, in the territory of Daming, there are still most state capitals that do not have cement roads.

Especially in the southwest direction, the cement road is only built to the Dazhou capital of Hubei and Hunan, and then to the mountains, there is no cement road.

Now Zhu Zhanji said that he would build cement roads for all the counties in the world, and this project is amazing.

Mu Xin asked: "Your Highness, but also build a cement road to Yunnan?" ”

"Of course, not only to Yunnan, but also to Bagu, to the big city."

Bago refers to Myanmar and Ayutthaya refers to Thailand. Zhu Zhanji's remarks mean that there will be countless projects to be started in the future.

Although these projects are led by the Ministry of Industry, in recent years, many big families have made a lot of money because of the supporting services for road construction.

Whether it is to send sand, stones, or food to the project, or directly participate in the construction of the project, you can get a stable income.

As soon as Zhu Zhanji said this, many people's hearts were immediately moved.

Mu Xin said excitedly: "If the imperial court builds a cement road directly to Yunnan, the minister will not only immediately return the 30,000 silver loaned, but also be willing to contact the Southwest Tusi to provide more manpower for the imperial court." ”

The Mu family guards Yunnan, although it is very profitable, but because the mountains are high and the road is long, the benefits obtained cannot bring too many benefits.

To take a simple example, in the capital, ordinary people can spend fifty yuan to watch a big drama every once in a while.

But in Yunnan, if you want to watch a big play, you need to raise a troupe and spend hundreds of taels or even thousands of taels of silver.

In the capital, eat a table of one or two silver, and when you arrive in Yunnan, you can't afford to spend dozens of taels of silver.

No matter how much gold and silver there is, it can't be converted into actual benefits, which means that the Mu family doesn't actually get many benefits.

But if all the roads are built and you can enjoy everything in the capital in Yunnan, then even if the actual benefits are a little smaller than now, it is also cost-effective.

Mu Xin's words caused many people to pout, you have the benefits when you arrive, you readily agreed to repay the money, and you have been a good person.

But it made the situation of others even more embarrassing, and some of the people who did business with silver were better to say, and they were able to draw out the silver anyway.

But some gentlemen have never thought about repaying the silver, and they have already spent the money, and now let them pay it back, it will hurt their muscles and bones.

The housekeeper of the Zhang Mansion walked in quietly and whispered a few words in Zhang Fu's ear. Zhang Fu smiled and said, "It's not early, please take a seat...... Your Highness, please go inside. ”

Zhu Zhanji's goal had been achieved, so he got up happily and took the lead in the West Garden.

A stage has been erected there, and everyone can eat and watch the play at the same time.

The crowd followed them, each with a thousand thoughts in their hearts.

Shandong. Qingzhou Mansion.

In the past month, Chu Song has been traveling around half of Shandong with Lin San and Tang Sai'er and his wife.

The southernmost reached Linyi, the easternmost to Jimo and Laiyang, the northernmost to Cangzhou in Hebei, and the westernmost to Heze.

In the course of this month, Chu Song also had a deep understanding of the deep-rooted influence of the White Lotus Sect among the people.

On the surface, although the White Lotus Sect does not have strict rules, it does not have much binding force, and does not belong to the kind of cohesive reactionary forces.

It is precisely because of this loose canon, the doctrine for the sake of ordinary people, that the White Lotus Sect has been repeatedly banned among the people.

But in fact, there are many sects in the White Lotus Sect, and each faction implements paternalistic rule within itself, with dignity and inferiority in an orderly manner and strict hierarchy.

The composition of their leaders is very complex, and their attitude towards the Ming court is also very inconsistent. Some deceive believers and accumulate money by promoting religion; Some climbed to the upper echelons by writing scriptures to please the court; some developed believers among the court eunuchs and bureaucratic wealthy; Others combined with the struggle of the lower classes against the government to launch an armed uprising.

Lin San was originally the godson of a branch of the White Lotus Sect and belonged to the upper class.

After marrying Tang Sai'er, with the help of the local influence of the Tang family, he used various means to praise Tang Sai'er, who was strong in martial arts and heroic and righteous, as the Holy Mother, which made them rise in power in the White Lotus Sect.

Maybe it's because the benefits promised by His Royal Highness are too great, or maybe it's because he can be knighted and expand his territory gives Lin San more expectations.

So he is now desperate, not afraid to reveal his secrets at all, just to come up with bigger chips to get more support from the imperial court.

According to Chu Song's statistics, although their direct forces are not large, and there are only a few hundred young people, the scope of their influence is amazing.

On their own, they could bewitch a team of as little as two thousand.

And in addition to them, there are bandits everywhere, other branches of civil associations, who can easily pull out a team of tens of thousands of people.

These are just what Chu Song saw.

Many ordinary people do not know that there is a court at all, and they will not seek justice from the government when they encounter problems, but rely on civil forces like them to seek justice.

Seeing this, Chu Song was secretly frightened, if it wasn't for the fact that he was burdened with the holy order this time, if it wasn't for the fact that this force could be used by the imperial court, he would have wanted to write to the imperial court to exterminate all these forces.

Even so, in his secret letter to Feng Xiaonian, he introduced everything clearly in code.

Fortunately, His Royal Highness is far-sighted, if the situation in Shandong is allowed to develop like this, the consequences will be unimaginable.

The Tang family has been so wronged, and this time in the capital is afraid that it will be the last move. If justice is not sought, they will turn against it in a fit of rage, but it will lead to great disaster.

Thankfully, fortunately!

At the beginning, Lin San was afraid that he would not be able to recruit anyone, and he was willing to accept anyone, but later, because there were too many people who wanted to go to the extreme west with them, they had to reduce the number of people as much as possible.

Because the first batch of people to go cannot exceed 5,000 young people, if more than 5,000 miles, this tens of thousands of miles, just the food they carry, can drag them down.

Although the imperial court promised them one person and one horse, one person traveled thousands of miles, and the food consumed on the road alone was a lot of money.

A person has to carry hundreds of pounds of food, as well as luggage, weapons, such a burden is very large, even if there is a horse, you need a car.

And the imperial court will not provide them with carriages, and they can only afford to buy a few hundred carriages at most.

They couldn't buy heavy carriages yet, because there were no roads everywhere along the road, and the carriages were too big, which would be detrimental to the journey.

In order to assist them in co-ordination, at Chu Song's request, the young army sent an old clerk who had been in charge of logistics and heavy transportation for 20 years to assist them in their preparations.

5,000 people is the limit of their first departure.

Only when they reached their destination, they began to develop gold mines and build a city there. After standing on your heels, you can prepare for the relocation of relatives according to the actual situation.

Today's Lin San can be described as a spring breeze, and the support of the imperial court has greatly increased his status in the White Lotus Sect.

The Jinyi guard sent by Zhu Zhanji could make him unhindered in the official face, and the logistics experts sent made all the preparations in an orderly manner.

Now everyone is full of energy, and they want to go to the extreme west to make a contribution. The more people there are, the more excited they are.

Although there were only 5,000 of them in the first batch, these 5,000 people were all young and strong, and in the extreme west, there was no small tribe that had more than them.

As for those large tribes, with the deterrence of the Ming Dynasty, they didn't dare to bully them at all.

With the February 5 Dynasty meeting, the news of His Majesty's personal expedition has spread throughout the Ming Dynasty.

Everyone knew that His Majesty was going to fight in the extreme west, and they took this opportunity to go to the Western Regions, and they were not afraid that someone would fight with their five thousand people.

Seven major forces were elected on the Shandong side, with a total of 5,000 people, two of whom were copycat bandits.

However, at this time, the imperial court is not to blame in the past, as long as they go to the extreme west, they will be treated equally.

It was time to go to Beimingshan to contact in advance, but Lin San didn't want to go to Beimingshan.

Although he and Tang Sai'er are husband and wife, although the relationship between husband and wife has always been very good, Tang Sai'er is still relatively strong.

If it was in the past, Lin San would also respect and respect his wife. But now this is equivalent to the alliance of the green forest in the entire Shandong, although he Lin San is not the leader of the alliance, he also seems to be the leader of the alliance.

An alliance leader, how can he leave his own forces at this time, regardless of the overall arrangement, to act as a liaison.

But he can't say it, he can't say it, let his wife contact him, he can sit back and enjoy it at home!

On the contrary, Tang Sai'er didn't think of this, she always thought that she was responsible for everyone's fate, and took the initiative to go to Beimingshan to contact.

Although Lin San knew that it was not a man's way to let his wife go, this time, he did not say that he would let Tang Sai'er stay at home and go to Beimingshan by himself.

The first day of March is the day Tang Sai'er leaves. In addition to the two senior brothers Bin Hong, Dong Yanggao, Gao Yang'er, Hao Yunzhong, and the four representatives of their large power factions, plus Chu Song and a subordinate, a total of nine people.

On this day, Qingzhou City has simply become the Shandong Green Forest Conference, and the original bandits and bandits are not afraid of the government at all today, and they swaggered in Qingzhou City.

After a night of drunkenness, early the next morning, everyone came to the north gate.

Lin San and Tang Sai'er *** enjoyed, in the morning, Lin San wanted to propose himself to go instead of Tang Sai'er several times, but he didn't say anything.

Until the morning, Lin Sangang was a little impulsive and wanted to speak, but as soon as he opened his mouth, Tang Sai'er covered his mouth. "Third brother, we husband and wife are one, you are a man with great ambitions. I am a woman, so I naturally want to overcome obstacles and obstacles for you. I am willing to go to Beimingshan, and I don't want you to give up the opportunity to win over Shandong heroes because of guilt. ”

Lin San became more and more moved and hugged her plump body. "It's because the third brother is not pure-minded, and he can't put you first."

"Which family in the world is not headed by a man? Sai'er can marry the third brother and be favored by the third brother, so there is nothing else to ask for. I was lazy to go to Beimingshan, according to what Chu Qianhu said, all kinds of materials had already been raised according to our preparations. ”

Lin San was no longer hypocritical, and said: "Don't worry, I will definitely prepare everything properly at home, just wait for the carriage from the inner prison to send me, and then I will set off to meet you." ”

The two went out together, and they returned to normal, Tang Sai'er became the heroic Virgin, and Lin San also became an extraordinary commander.

Everyone set off together and came to the north gate, Gao Yang'er hugged his fist to Tang Sai'er and said: "The mountains are high and the water is long, the third sister is easy to walk all the way, after one month, at most two months, we will go to Beiming Mountain to meet the third sister." ”

Hao Yunzhong also said: "Although the imperial court has promised all kinds of materials now, if there is any discord, I hope the third sister will inform my brother as soon as possible." ”

Tang Sai'er was blessed and said: "Brothers, although Sai'er is not well-informed, he is also an understanding person. Today, here in Shandong, we are all swaggering and showing our identities, and the court has not moved, which means that His Royal Highness is generous. As long as His Royal Highness is generous, and we are also serving the imperial court now, we will not be cheated. This time, I will take the first step, and I hope that you brothers will restrain your brothers these days, and do not make trouble and affect the great cause before the big thing is completed. ”

Tang Sai'er was not afraid of anything else, but he was afraid that some of them felt that they were leaving, so they would attack those rich people without scruples.

If such a thing really happens, I'm afraid the tea table will definitely not spare them.

Hao Yunzhong and they all said: "Third sister, don't worry, I will definitely restrain those little rabbit cubs these days and not cause trouble to everyone." ”

Tang Sai'er glanced at Lin San, who was a little low, looked at him and smiled, turned around and got on the horse, and raised the horsewhip. "Drive!"

Hearing the sound of the whip, the horse's body sank slightly, and its hind legs exerted force, and its body jumped out.

Watching Tang Sai'er run forward without looking back, Chu Song was amazed in his heart, and glanced at Lin San with some envy. Clasped his fists and said: "Lin is in charge, thanks to the care of more than a month, Song is here to thank you."

In the future, you should ask Mr. Mao more, he has rich experience and can contribute more than me. When you arrive at Beimingshan, we will drink together to celebrate! ”

After saying goodbye to everyone one by one, Chu Song turned around and got on his horse, and went north with Binhong.

Along the way, they walked at dawn, dropped off their horses after dark, and walked about 200 miles a day according to the location of the post station.

Because of Chu Song's companionship, they can not only stay at the imperial court post station along the way, but also change horses every day, and they are not afraid of running away from the horses.

On the third day, they arrived in Tianjin.

The Northern Parallel is now a large military camp, a large warehouse, and the transportation and distribution of grain throughout the North are carried out here.

In order to build this military center in the north, the emperor personally ordered the construction of a sister city on the edge of the Bohai Sea in the southwest of Beiping, called Tianjin.

Tang Sai'er and they went to the extreme west, and the grain had to be collected in Tianjin. Nowadays, the imperial court has more rice and less noodles, so although they are northerners, they will still give them mixed rice and noodles.

Tang Sai'er saw the granaries in the seaside warehouses with his own eyes, and also listened to the promise of the landlord that he would not dare to deduct a grain of grain.

Now that the Shandong case is still being tried, many internal prison officials are in danger and do not dare to take the opportunity to make a fortune.

From Tianjin to Beiping, out of Xuanfu, it became desolate.

But on this ten-meter-wide concrete road, it is a lively scene.

In the past few years, the copper ore of Beimingshan has been continuously transported to Kaiping Qiantunwei, where the gold and silver have been refined, and then continuously transported to Beiping and Tianjin.

From Tianjin, these carriages were loaded with grain, supplies, and then returned to Kaiping Qiantunwei, thus forming an active economic circle along the way.

If there were no Beimingshan copper mines, it would be a great burden for the imperial court to bear the 200,000 cavalry in the north. But now, because of such a circular economic circle, the 200,000 cavalry in the north is not only not a burden, but on the contrary, a prosperous scene has formed in the north.

Along the way, Tang Sai'er noticed that many aliens were also in the team transporting copper ingots and grain, and these aliens were now like the Ming people, who could use lard and soy sauce to pour rice, and then eat with relish.

When he arrived at the former guard of Kaiping, the thick smoke in the sky here surprised Tang Sai'er.

There are countless cars, countless coke kilns, and the kilns that refine gold and copper when you feel the heat boiling as soon as you get closer.

There are more and more alien races, but those brutal aliens in her impression are now working honestly.

The huge carriage here also surprised her, and in Daming's heart, the largest carriage she had ever seen could pull one or two thousand catties.

But the carriage here actually has six wheels, the first two wheels are movable, can adjust the direction, I am afraid that one cart can hold four or five thousand catties of ore and charcoal.

It's a pity that there are no concrete roads to the far west, otherwise, they would only need five hundred of these wagons, and everything would be loaded onto them.

In her impression, the Northland should be extremely cold, but now, she feels that it doesn't seem to be so cold, except that it is colder in the morning and evening, and during the day, it is similar to Shandong.

Numerous horse-drawn carriages traveled back and forth on this three-lane concrete road, which was divided into three lanes by several lines in the middle.

The middle lane is not allowed to walk, and only the carriage in front of it breaks down can it pass through the middle lane.

Every short distance, there is a car repair shop on both sides of the road, and this car repair shop is mainly for repairing wheels. Because the ore pulled is too heavy, damage to the wheels is also a normal thing.

This novelty made Tang Sai'er not so much fear of the extreme west, if the extreme west can also develop in the future, the Ming Dynasty can also build such a road, even if it is thousands of miles away, they will be able to come back in more than a month or two months.

As long as there is a road, it doesn't seem to be far.

(Today's toothache is much better, and I will continue the second shift now, and strive to write it before 12 o'clock in the evening.) ）

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