During the Mid-Autumn Festival of this year, because of the great victory of the Eastern Crusade, the Ming Dynasty granted amnesty to a group of prisoners who committed minor crimes.

But all this has nothing to do with Zhu Zhanji, after spending the Mid-Autumn Festival with his family in the palace, he simply arranged the adjustment of the navy's fleet, and took his mother, younger siblings and a group of wives and concubines to Tangchi Hot Spring for a vacation.

When he was no longer in the palace, his wives and concubines were like prisons, and they could only move in the East Palace, and they had no chance to enter and leave the palace gate at all.

Unless they encounter something important in their own family, it is impossible for them to leave the palace.

So after Zhu Zhanji came back, he naturally wanted to take them out for a walk.

Regarding the full moon banquet of several children, in this era when children are not more than five years old and are not insured, it will not be a big deal.

When he came to Tangchi Hot Spring, Zhu Zhanji just held a small-scale dinner, invited the children's grandparents, and uncles to have a meal together.

Although he was on vacation in Tangchi, the main thing was to give the concubines a time to let go, and Zhu Zhanji's main energy was to arrange people to go to Jiangyou to find saltpeter mines, as well as to prepare for the bank and to go to the West.

Knowing the place of Jiangyou and the name Laojun Mountain, Zhu Zhanji was not worried about whether he could find saltpeter mine.

Even if he can't find it, it's a big deal that he arranges a fleet to give an accurate positioning. Let them follow the Pacific current, go to Chile, and dig for saltpeter mines there.

As for going to the West, Zheng He already has a lot of experience. Although the scale will be much larger this time, how to prepare does not need Zhu Zhanji to worry too much.

His main focus was on summoning the princes of the royal palaces and getting the inner prison to assemble the largest trading team in history.

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhu Di sent six noble envoys headed by Mu Xin to go to various palaces to announce the decree, asking each palace to send the second generation of the son, or the third generation, to follow the grandson and go to the West together.

If Zhu Di was still worried about Zhu Zhanji's trip to the West at the beginning, but after he used the conquest of Timur as a bait, Zhu Di was looking forward to his trip to the West.

As for the trade team, Zhu Zhanji not only wants to trade in Southeast Asia and South Asia this time, but also wants to go directly to Europe to see what kind of situation the world is like in the future.

As for Europe, Zhu Zhanji has no intention of getting involved in it. To be honest, the whole of Europe is actually a wild land, and the only suitable climate for human survival is only one climate.

Because of the influence of the warm Atlantic current, Western Europe and Southern Europe have no scorching heat in summer and no severe cold in winter, so it has become another cradle for the development of human civilization.

However, in the whole of Western Europe, the land is barren and not suitable for growing grain, and the minerals are not abundant, whether it is iron ore in northern France or iron ore in Sweden, the reserves are not large, and the only rich reserves are only one coal mine and forest resources.

But these are not worth mentioning compared to the Americas and Australia.

The main reason why they were so rich was that they seized the opportunity of the Age of Discovery, vigorously engaged in colonial plunder and trade, and on this basis, they developed into the largest economy in later generations.

He wanted to go to Europe in order to confine Europeans. In this life, he wanted to confine the Europeans in Europe, and not give them the opportunity to invade the Americas, Australia, Asia, and Africa.

Relying on Daming's current strength, this is not difficult.

It only takes control of Iceland, the Azores, and a few monitoring points in Africa to keep the Europeans in check

However, it is a systemic problem to make these monitoring points self-circulating and relying on their own development.

This is a restriction at sea, and on land, it is even more difficult to restrain Europeans.

Because the desert in the northwest, the Gobi desert, the remote tundra of Siberia, and the high mountains of Central Asia are all difficult difficulties for the current Ming Dynasty to solve.

Before the development of trains, the control of such long distances was an even greater problem.

Therefore, although Zhu Zhanji wanted to defeat the Timurid state, he did not think of directly destroying the Arabs.

Outside the area currently controlled by the Ming Dynasty, the whites and Arabs of Europe had to be adversaries so that they had no intention of doing anything else.

As for the blacks, I'm sorry.

The Ming Dynasty is not Portugal, and they don't need to go to the Americas as coolies, so they should stay in Central Africa and sing and dance happily every day.

Zhu Zhanji has no good impression of this race, they are synonymous with depravity and laziness.

Even if Da Ming uses some black labor in the future, he will definitely castrate them and never let them spread.

Although the Europeans and Arabs are very poor now, there are still three pounds of nails in the broken ship. In southern Europe and North Africa, they have accumulated for thousands of years, and there is still a lot of gold and silver.

Robbery is the least efficient of the kind, and through trade, they can honestly take out their gold and silver in exchange for what they want.

After arranging these affairs, Zhu Zhanji's main energy was to prepare for the bank's affairs.

In his previous life, he participated in his own shares and controlled a number of banks, and he was no stranger to the formation and operation process of banks.

However, it was a modern bank in the future, and in this day and age, in order for the bank to survive on its own, many aspects have to be re-planned.

To give a very simple example, later banks had their own communication networks, and when they deposited money in Asia, they could exchange money in the Americas.

But what about now? Let's not talk about Asia and the Americas. Even Yingtianfu and Yangzhou, there is not a day, and the news can't be transmitted, let alone from Yingtianfu to farther places.

Therefore, it is simply impossible for today's banks to deposit and exchange.

The only thing that today's banks can do is to issue gold and silver bills and withdraw money from other places.

In order to do this, in addition to solving technical problems, there is also the problem of establishing credibility recognized by the people.

However, these seem to be difficult, but in fact they are not difficult for Zhu Zhanji to solve.

First of all, it is to establish an independent system from papermaking to printing. From paper security to printing security, banks must control every aspect of gold and silver bills and print gold and silver bills that cannot be imitated.

As long as the gold and silver bills are not issued indiscriminately, they are issued according to the reserves, and the value of the gold and silver bills is not depreciated, and credit can be established over time.

Therefore, the gold and silver that Zhu Zhanji brought back from Dongying are very important, because this is the basis for building credit.

Zhu Zhanji also has an advantage that no one can match, that is, he is the heir of the empire, and he can get the government and internal supervisors to cooperate with the bank's development plan without any worries.

In his plan, the bank under the household department was responsible for the official income of the whole country, the war fund, but also the operation of government grants and infrastructure construction.

In the future, the operation will be normal, and it will also be able to undertake the work of issuing treasury bonds and cashing out deficits.

When a country's government economic operations can be regulated by banks, the bank is considered successful.

The bank undertook by the internal supervision is responsible for the commercial operation of the world.

Because now the commerce of the Ming Dynasty and the tariffs are controlled by internal supervision. As long as they take the lead, those businessmen who want to do business with the internal supervisor must operate through the bank, so they are not afraid that those businessmen will not deposit their money in the bank.

Since it is in charge of business operations, private deposits and loans are of course also operated through this bank.

As soon as the merchants' money entered the bank, the people gradually accepted the idea of keeping their money in the bank.

However, today's silver shops still need to pay a custodian fee for depositing money, and it is generally unacceptable to ask ministers to accept that they will pay interest when they deposit money into the bank.

During this period of time in Tangchi Hot Springs, from Xia Yuanji, the head of the household department, to the servants of the household department, the middle men of the household department, and then to the twelve eunuchs of the internal prison, the eunuchs at all levels of the four divisions and eight bureaus, every morning, would take turns to receive Zhu Zhanji's theoretical training.

In the afternoon, Zhu Zhanji will not handle official business, he has to accompany his concubines.

At the beginning of September, just as Zhu Zhanji was about to return to Yingtianfu, Ji Gang came to resign.

The previous Ji Gang in Daming can be said to be referred to by thousands of people, so the current Ji Gang is what Wan Fu refers to.

As a traitor and executioner, he was able to become the first feudal earl of the Ming Dynasty. This gave him a large number of jealous groups in addition to the original enemy group.

The actual sealing of a county is a county, although it is in Dongying, but it is also a real fief!

This kind of treatment is even far more than that of the princes of the Ming Dynasty, because even the princes have no right to dispose of the people under their rule.

So during the time he came back to Daming, the pressure was very huge, and he didn't dare to go out at all.

It only took half a month for him to deal with the property in the capital and prepare to take his family to Dongying.

Originally, he wanted to be in the middle of the planned arms trade and human trade, but now he can't even get out, and no one wants to talk to him.

So he was going to leave the capital first and go to his hometown to worship his ancestors, and then he went directly from Shandong to Dongying.

He first came to bid farewell to Zhu Zhanji and ask about the follow-up arrangements, and he also came to introduce Yuan Jiang, another general under him, to Zhu Zhanji.

After Zhuang Jing and Pang Ying left him, Ji Gang had already realized Zhu Zhanji's ability to win people's hearts.

This Zhuang Jing and Pang Ying were originally tied to death in the same boat with him, but now they have become Zhu Zhanji's minions. But Ji Gang didn't dare to say anything, and he didn't even dare to hate Zhu Zhanji because of this, everything he has now can be said to be given by Zhu Zhanji.

Yuan Jiang is another of his hardcore henchmen in Jinyiwei, and like Zhuang Jing, he serves as the commander of the four products. However, this person's ability is not to investigate and handle cases, but to handle government affairs. So in terms of fame, not only is it not as good as Zhuang Jing, but even Pang Ying's notoriety is even higher than him.

He can be said to be Ji Gang's most important subordinate at present, because of the change of identity, Ji Gang now does not need too many subordinates who can fight and kill, but also needs subordinates who have the ability to handle affairs.

can fight and kill his subordinates, even if he goes to Zhuang Jing and Pang Ying, he still has thousands of households Wang Qian, Li Chun and others. But there is only one subordinate who can handle administrative affairs, Yuan Jiang.

Now Yuan Jiang's family is also going to Dongying with him, and at this time he dares to let Yuan Jiang appear in front of Zhu Zhanji.

But in fact, he is a little too careful, although Zhu Zhanji's current subordinates do not have too many talents, it is because he has not gone all out to develop his own forces.

Otherwise, in the name of his grandson, what kind of talent do you want!

"The first thing to do is to cooperate with the navy to control the situation in Dongying. Although I, the Ming Dynasty, will not directly interfere in the affairs of Dongying, from now on, I must not let Dongying get out of the control of the Ming Dynasty. Although I have recalled the scouts of the Young Army, Jinyiwei still has hundreds of spies and thousands of Dongying insiders, all over Dongying. Ishimibo should take this matter as a priority in the future, and in the future, he can contact Yixin and Yang Zhangde directly. ”

Ji Gang didn't have time to sigh at a small general flag three years ago, because he climbed Zhu Zhanji's relationship, he became the commander of Jinyiwei. Immediately said: "The minister will definitely live up to the trust." ”

"There is no need to be anxious about muskets, even if you sell Dongying muskets, you must wait until my Daming musket is equipped with more than one million, and now the processing capacity of Jiajiang Industrial Zone has increased greatly, and you can sell muskets to Dongying in a year at most."

In the Jiajiang Industrial Zone, due to the limited number of machine tools and skilled workers, no more than 500 barrels could be produced a day at the beginning. But in the past year, the number of skilled workers and the number of machine tools has increased significantly, and now four or five thousand qualified products can be processed a day.

The power of industry has shown great power, and even Zhu Di is amazed by the speed of development of muskets today.

However, gunpowder has become the biggest bottleneck in the development of Daming firearms today, and before finding a new saltpeter mine, it is far from enough to scrape and refine the soil from toilets in various places.

Ji Gang nodded and replied: "The minister has reached an agreement with many famous lords and generals, and the channel of providing labor and maids to Daming will soon be stabilized, I don't know what His Highness has to order." ”

Zhu Zhanji pondered for a while and said, "These are all trivial matters, so don't report them to me." I need labor, and I need the vanguard of pacifying the barbarians. They are rare good soldiers who are crippled and loyal to military orders, and if I can train a group of such troops, I will pay a lot of money to hire them. ”

Ji Gang hurriedly said: "How dare the minister do business with His Royal Highness......

Zhu Zhanji laughed and said: "When business is done, this thing can be done for a long time, no matter how high the cost of hiring Japanese people is, it can't be higher than my own training of soldiers!" What's more, these people are all used as substitutes for the dead, and when they do business, I can also save a lot of pensions. In the future, the recruitment of the Japanese vanguard army, whether it is a pension or a pension, will be paid according to sixty percent of my Ming soldiers, as for how much you give, I don't care. ”

Finally, the two of them talked about the management of Iwami Ginzan. This silver mountain is to be handed over to the internal supervisor to develop, even if Ji Gang, as Shi Jianbo, can get some annuity every year at most, and he also has to help Zhu Zhanji supervise the development of the internal prison, so as not to let people enrich themselves.

In addition, the management of the local Japanese miners must also be handed over to Ji Gang to manage.

As for how much money is paid to Ji Gang every year, it is difficult to determine now when Yinshan has not yet been developed.

According to Zhu Zhanji's meaning, it must be the best to set a proportion according to the annual amount of silver.

Therefore, we will try to develop it in the next few months of this year, and then determine the quota next year.

After sending Ji Gang away, Zhu Zhanji asked people to come in and wait to see Hou Xian.

Last year, when Zhu Zhanji was preparing for the Eastern Expedition, Hou Xian, as an envoy, led the boat division alone and sent an envoy to the countries of Banggara. In what would later be Bangladesh, his mission was warmly welcomed by the local elites, authorities, and kings.

Because he only escorted the envoy back to China and opened a channel with the local Buddhists to Tibet, he returned to China in less than a year.

Before Zhu Zhanji's triumphant return, he had just returned to Beijing. And brought back local specialties of tigers and pythons, adding two more special animals to the zoo in Yingtianfu.

In front of the globe, Zhu Zhanji listened to him give a detailed report on the course of the envoy and inquired in detail about the situation in various countries in India.

The north of present-day mainland India has been almost occupied by the Sayyid dynasty appointed by Timur, which has invaded most of northern India.

But in the south of India, there are still dozens of large countries and hundreds of small states, which are fighting each other, but they are united with each other to deal with the threat of the Sayyid dynasty in the north.

In the second year of Song Kaixi, the governor of Delhi ruled by the Ghor dynasty of Afghanistan, Kutbuaibak, established himself as the sultan who ruled India, and the capital was Delhi, marking the beginning of the Delhi sultanate's rule over India.

The Sayyid dynasty was the fourth generation of the Delhi Sultanate, founded in the 12th year of Yongle by the former governor of Punjab, Hazr Khan. Because his family claimed to be descendants of the Prophet Muhammad, it was called the Sa'id dynasty.

Hazr Khan was the governor of Multan and Lahore appointed by Timur of the Chagatai Turks, and after Timur's death, he gradually became powerful and established himself as king the year before.

This dynasty is dominated by the belief in green religion, which is incompatible with the local Hindu and Buddhist sects in India, and has always been suppressed by force.

Hou Xian is Tibetan and believes in Buddhism, so he has no good feelings about this country. Hearing Zhu Zhanji's inquiry about the local situation, he really said a lot of bad things about the Saided Dynasty, and wanted to stimulate Zhu Zhanji's heart of conquest.

When he set off, Zhu Zhanji was just about to exterminate the pirates, and when he came back, Zhu Zhanji had already occupied the Dongying Palace and made Dongying surrender at the feet of the Ming Dynasty.

The development of the Daming musket made the war no longer as stalemate as before, and turned into a one-sided situation. He really wanted the Ming to directly occupy the South Asian continent, because under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, Buddhism would not be suppressed by the Hindu sect and the Green Sect in turn, as it is now.

Nowadays, Buddhists can no longer survive in the birthplace, and can only move eastward into those poor and remote places.

What he didn't know was that if Zhu Zhanji had not been involved, Buddhism would indeed have been expelled from India and would never have returned. Hundreds of years later, there are almost no Buddhists in India, but they have been passed down in Bago, Nanzhang, Siam, Chenla and other places.

He also didn't know, because of the Buddhist doctrine of foolishness, all countries that believe in Buddhism and take Buddhism as the state religion, although there is plenty of food, are all poor places that do not even have a little oil and water.

There is only one Siam, and it is better to rely on lust and love and tourism.

Zhu Zhanji is really interested in India, because the Hindu doctrine of this country is to divide people into several classes, and this rigid political system is the most conducive to rule and management.

It is also the most fertile area in the world, with a vast, fertile and abundant land area.

If the Indian continent is turned into a colony, or even a national territory, then the radiation capacity of the Ming Dynasty will increase by more than one-third compared with the current one.

Easy to log, easy to manage, abundant in resources, fertile in land, the only drawback is that there are too many people.

Compared with Australia and North and South America, which are waiting for the Ming Dynasty to occupy, although it is close, the temptation does not seem to be so great.

However, Zhu Zhanji decided to leave this matter to Zhu Di to decide, if he wants to attack Timur, he will definitely come back to the South Asian continent at that time, and it will depend on his decision at that time.

If he wants to turn India into a colony, he can send a prince surnamed Zhu, or even two, to manage it. If he wants the Indian continent to become the land of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhanji will not object.

Anyway, now for Zhu Zhanji, it is more important for the population of Daming to skyrocket, and then occupy North and South America, and Australia.

Zhu Zhanji finally instructed him: "After you go back, write a detailed account of the situation on the Nanyang Continent and submit it to the emperor's grandfather, who will surely reward your ......."

Hou Xian's eyes lit up and asked, "Could it be that Your Majesty intends to make a move against the Syed Dynasty?" ”

Zhu Zhanji said with a smile: "A small Said dynasty is not worthy of the emperor's grandfather's temptation, what he really wants to deal with is the Timurid country." ”

Hou Xian was overjoyed and said: "Write more reminders to Your Highness, and after the ministers go back, they will elaborate today's words into a book and submit them to Your Majesty." ”

Before leaving, Zhu Zhanji gave him a copy of "Yingya Shenglan". "You go back and read more of this book, and write a strategy according to this pattern."

Hou Xian said with a smile: "The ministers have already bought this book, and Ma Zongdao is familiar to the ministers." ”

Zhu Zhanji smiled, Ma Huan was the translator of Zheng He's fleet, and Hou Xian used to be Zheng He's deputy, and they should have known each other.

This "Yingya Shenglan" was written by Ma Huan at the behest of Zhu Zhanji. The book consists of 18 chapters, describing the territory, customs, and products of 19 countries visited by Zheng He's fleet, including Champa, Java, Old Port, Siam, Manraka, Mulu, Sumatra, Na Orphan, Lê, Lam Boli, Ceylon, Little Göran, Ah Chi, Guri, Taoshan, Zufar, Adan, Punggara, and Kurumus, as well as the general history of the country.

One for each country, and because the orphan was so small, it was attached to Sumatra.

This book can be said to be the most complete and detailed introduction to the countries of Nanyang today, and it has a very significant role in helping the Ming people understand the outside world.

Zhu Zhanji himself likes this book very much, and during this time, when he has nothing to do, he likes to read it for a while to deepen his impression.

However, it is a pity that there is no introduction to Luzon and Sulu, which are the closest to the Ming Dynasty, because these two countries have a close relationship with the Ming Dynasty and can be regarded as the land of the Ming Dynasty.

In the third year of Yongle, Zheng He went to the West for the first time and led a huge fleet to Luzon, that is, he appointed Xu Chailao, the leader of overseas Chinese in Jinjiang, as the governor of Luzon by the edict of Emperor Yongle.

Xu Chailao has been in charge of the political, economic, military, and cultural power of the region for 12 years now.

During this period, Xu Chai Lao spared no effort to promote the culture of the Chinese nation and implement the rule of Confucian etiquette. It also disseminated the advanced technology of agriculture, fishery and industry in southern Fujian, and greatly developed shipbuilding, textile, pottery, and tea planting, making outstanding contributions to Luzon's social stability, economic and trade development, and literary and artistic prosperity.

Although Luzon was plagued by miasma, the northern part of Manila was a vast plain area that is now developing rapidly.

The three sultans of Sulu were envious of the economic development of Luzon because they witnessed it, and they repeatedly wrote books, hoping to change from a vassal of the Ming Dynasty to a subject of the Ming Dynasty.

However, this was opposed by many ministers, because for these Confucian ministers, a small country that did not obey indoctrination and believed in green religion was not worth wanting.

But in any case, the Philippines in later generations is now the closest place to the Ming Dynasty. In Quanzhou and other places in Fujian, because there are many people and few places, many people go to Luzon every year to seek a living.

But in the original history, because of the relocation of the capital to Beiping, the Ming Dynasty almost gave up the south, after the revocation of the political envoy Department of Jiaozhi Cheng, the Nanyang countries realized the weakness of the Ming Dynasty, and gradually stopped paying attention to the Ming Dynasty, and did not recognize the Ming Dynasty.

The last time Zheng He went to the West, it was the original Zhu Zhanji who realized the mistake of giving up Jiaozhi and wanted to make up for it.

But there was only the fleet, nothing was done and it did not achieve the desired effect.

Especially after the death of Zheng He, the fleet never cruised again. After the Old Port Comfort Division was invaded and occupied by the Sumatran State, the Ming Dynasty did not take any punitive action, and since then the Nanyang countries and the Ming Dynasty have only been nominally subordinated.

If it weren't for moving the capital and giving up Jiaozhi, not only the countries of Nanyang, but also the countries of India in later generations, the east coast of Africa, and the Kingdom of Heaven (Saudi Arabia in later generations) would still consider themselves to be the subject countries of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Zhu Zhanji doesn't know much about these histories, when he sees that all countries are coming to court, he has already made up his mind in his heart, and the Ming Dynasty will definitely not give up these places.

The Ming Dynasty is not only an empire of the Han people, but also a heavenly kingdom for everyone.

Hou Xian left, and Zhu Zhanji also came to the courtyard and stretched out. It's already the beginning of September, and the weather is neither hot nor cold, and it's very comfortable.

Li Liang said softly behind him: "Your Highness, Ma Liangyuan's birthday today, Ma Zhide's father and son have come to the other courtyard to celebrate Ma Liangyuan's birthday, do you want to go over?" ”

Zhu Zhanji was overjoyed, nodded and said, "Madi is here!" Lone is looking for him, let them come and see him. ”

Zhu Zhanji has many wives and concubines, and there are people who celebrate their birthdays at both ends of the three days. Each of them has a monthly allowance of 22 taels to 50 taels of silver, and Zhu Zhanji has all covered food, clothing, housing, and transportation, including piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and there is no place to spend money.

Today's chamberlains, the status of palace maids is not high, and they don't even need to be rewarded. The purchasing power of silver is very strong nowadays, so they are all little rich women.

This is nothing, every year on three festivals and one birthday, it is the time when they can receive gifts in their name.

The magistrate in his hometown will give gifts every Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and his birthday. In addition to this, there are also the rewards of the palace, which are also proportional to the silver.

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