"Taizu, you are always a golden mouth!" Wang Wenle said happily.

"Of course, it's still fake!" Taizu said with a straight face.

"It's done! Wealth and danger are sought. Wang Wenle gritted his teeth and said.

"Almost a fart......," Taizu sprayed Wang Wenle on the face and then asked: "Wait for the fourth child to give you a reward, can you remember what I want you to pass on to Zheng He?" ”

Wang Wenle wiped his face and thought for a while: "I forgot, I was so scared that I forgot." ”

Taizu sighed and said after saying it again: "Boy, if you bring these words, you can save hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians, those are all the people of my Great Sun and Moon Empire, there are no immortals in the war, but it can not only achieve the purpose of the war, but also try to kill as few people as possible, this is a big victory." This time, your kid will live countless people, and ten thousand families will be born Buddhas! And all you do is to spread a word, don't worry, they would rather believe this kind of thing than believe it, and they will be more vigilant. Think clearly, old man, I don't force you, you decide for yourself whether there are more or fewer helpless white-haired people and orphans and widows in this world......"

Taizu patted Wang Wenle on the shoulder, and the figure gradually disappeared......

Wang Wenle stared blankly at the disappearing shadow of Taizu and was stunned for a long time...... Wait until he comes to his senses...... He woke up from his dream......

"Your Majesty, after waking up from the dream, the little one secretly reported the matter to Lord Zheng, and you probably know everything after that. Taizu told this story to the emperor when he was a child, and said that the emperor would understand it as soon as he heard it, although the story was very simple, but the actual time span was very long.

When Taizu and his old man first entered the inner demon period, the only gain was to know that the little one could bring words. After not passing the heart demon period, Taizu's old mana was greatly reduced, and Taizu told Zhang Xianren the reason and asked him to help find Xiao's whereabouts. After Zhang Xianren found the small one, he found that the small one had a catastrophe in his body, and he would not escape the catastrophe after a few years, so he desperately lost hundreds of years of Taoist manifestation to take the kid out of danger and go to Laoshan Quanzhen Sect to practice and resolve the catastrophe, while Zhang Xianren went to retreat and heal.

So the little one stayed in Laoshan for nine years, and after going down the mountain, he was conscripted as a miscellaneous servant and followed Lord Zheng to the sea, until last year when Taizu recovered his mana and began to dream of the small one. Taizu said that Zhang Xianren needs to retreat for more than a hundred years before he can recover as before, and this time Zhang Xianren can act so righteously, it is also the emperor's merit. Wang Wenle said respectfully.

"Huh! I have never met Zhang Xianren, so how can I say that the merit is immeasurable. Zhu Di said in amazement.

"Taizu said that the emperor rebuilt Wudang Mountain, so that Taoism was revived, and the incense was prosperous, and Zhang Xianren also cultivated for a great increase, made rapid progress, and achieved twice the result with half the effort, if there is no emperor's immortal fate and merit, Zhang Xianren will not have this huge mana even if he wants to appear and save the small one, so what can he do?" Wang Wenle said more and more respectfully.

"I was unintentionally involved in this! Well...... It is related to the state affairs of my Ming Dynasty, how can it be without my participation, I seem to understand a little......" Zhu Di said happily.

"Your Majesty, in the end, Taizu said to his old man, this link is indispensable, it seems to be accidental, but thinking about it is also inevitable, but the way of heaven is unfathomable, Saiong lost his horse, he knows whether it is a blessing, there is no trivial matter in national affairs, and he must not be careless, although he knows himself and the other, he still needs to think carefully and deal with it carefully." Wang Wenle said solemnly.

"Well, what my father said is very true, I should be careful to do it." Zhu Di nodded and said.

"Wang Wenle, you have made great contributions, I will not hesitate to reward you, the civil and military official positions are chosen by you, and I will consider giving you an official rank." Zhu Di said with a smile.

"The emperor, the small one just brought a word for Taizu and did not dare to take credit, this is the emperor's great blessing, Taizu his old man protects my Daming, this credit has nothing to do with the small one, and the small one is a scattered person, with no ambition and no ink, if the official is afraid of misleading the country and the people, the small one is terrified, if the emperor has mercy on the small, ask the emperor to give the small a few acres of thin fields, a few grass houses, a little silver taels, and the small one will be satisfied with marrying a bad wife." Wang Wenle said respectfully with a big salute.

"Hey, don't you want to have a big mansion, thousands of acres of fertile land, a group of wives and concubines, and a cloud of servants?" Zhu Di said playfully.

"Back to the emperor, the poor man's dream of wealth made the emperor smile." Wang Wenle said with a smile.

"I knew from the stories that my father taught you to me that you wanted to get rich and didn't want to be famous, but I don't think you can get used to them, because you are afraid that one day you will be like them, is that right?" Zhu Di took a leisurely sip of tea and said.

"The emperor is sage, the little one is ashamed." Wang Wenle saluted and said.

"Why not?" Zhu Di asked with a smile.

"It's better to be thick and black." Wang Wenle smiled bitterly.

"Haha, that's right, what do you think of me?" Zhu Di asked in a serious tone.

"Your Majesty, the kid is dying, please forgive the emperor, the little one understands, and the little one is willing to serve the emperor." Wang Wenle saluted again and said.

"Count you brat smart, I forgive you for your innocence, let's hear it, I'm very curious." Zhu Di also asked for Wang Wenle's quick reaction.

"The emperor forgives the sin, and the little courage said, repairing books, governing the river, the Northern Expedition, the Southern Expedition, and going to the Western Yongle are all done in one day, and the emperor is really an emperor through the ages. Follow the emperor to eat meat, because the emperor stresses righteousness, and in the future, the small ones will only be loyal to the emperor, as long as the small ones bow their heads and do things for the emperor, they will do errands for the emperor with their hearts, let it wind in the southeast and northwest, and the small ones will be covered by the emperor. Wang Wenle smiled and said with a smile.

"Hahaha, sycophant, you kid is also good at this, I've seen a sycophant, I've never seen you like this." Zhu Di smiled heartily.

Wang Wenle didn't laugh this time, and said solemnly: "Your Majesty, the small ones don't make sycophants, the small ones are telling the truth, all of them are big things that shake the country's foundation, why can they do it all in Yongle Dynasty, it's all because the emperor is pushing hard, they can't be lazy if they want to, which of these things is not Haoyin, this means that our Yongle Dynasty is rich, we can afford to spend it, isn't this a symbol of national strength?" If I am not so powerful, where will this huge human, material and financial resources come from? The simplest truth is often the easiest to ignore, no one can turn a stone into gold, this silver will not be conjured out of thin air, there is something, there is nothing. The emperor has always pursued frugality, compressing the use of the palace and various ministries and departments, and naturally knows the truth of opening up sources and reducing expenditures, if the emperor is to increase income by raising taxes to obtain these silver, it is better not to do those things, because even the small ones understand the evil consequences of tax increases, and the small ones don't believe that the wise and wise Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty does not know this truth, the country is people-oriented, and the people are food-oriented, what is more important than shaking the country's foundation? So where did the emperor's silver come from without raising taxes?

On the one hand, it was saved through the iron rooster of the household department Shangshu Xia Yuanji, and on the other hand, it was also through the iron abacus of the household department Shangshu Xia Yuanji through the adjustment of unreasonable policies to reasonably increase the financial revenue, the most important link is that the emperor can make a lot of money by going to the West in the big things, but everyone tacitly does not say, why? Those who compete for fame are in the court, and those who compete for profit are in the city, all of them are inferior, but the reading is high, how can the scholars be contaminated with copper odor, and the emperor is the lord of the world, and the rich people of the four seas can not be contaminated with copper odor. But does this silver really stink? The little one thinks that this silver is like the sword, and when it falls into the hands of the bad people, it is used to do many evils, and when it falls into the hands of the good people, it is used to punish the evil and promote the good, so whether it is evil or good is the question of the person who uses it, not the sword itself, so whether the silver stinks or not is not the problem of the person who uses it, but the problem of the person who uses it.

Your Majesty, Taizu and his old man said, my Ming Dynasty's annual grain tax is about 30 million stones, and I buy about three stones of rice for one tael of silver in Yongle Dynasty, that is to say, if one day I have an additional income of 10 million taels of silver every year, then the emperor can cancel this grain tax, and then my Ming peasants do not need to pay taxes on the grain produced by cultivators, and this 10 million taels of silver is used to purchase surplus grain in the hands of farmers for national storage and military rations. However, every peasant family has grain in stock, and every household has surplus money, so even if there is a natural or man-made disaster, they can survive safely. If this is the case, let me ask how the Ming Dynasty can not be the country for ten thousand years, if there is another foreign invasion, vainly trying to enslave my Ming people, my Ming people must be all soldiers, fighting to the end to defend my Ming Dynasty, because defending the Ming Dynasty is to protect their own interests from infringement. My Da Ming has no food, whether it is a foreign race or a rebellious person, will it be better than Da Ming?

In addition to diplomatic purposes, military purposes, exploration purposes, and commercial purposes, the emperor sent Zheng He to the West for his old man's great wisdom, and he did not stick to the rules, but said that the emperor was the wisdom of the Ming Dynasty, because the emperor wanted to engage in the West and the ministers opposed it, and the emperor implemented it strongly, with accurate vision and advanced consciousness, so there was no ancients before the history, and there was no one after the history. Taizu his old man was shocked by the benefits brought by Zheng He's trip to the West, and was amazed by the profits of the Maritime Silk Road, Taizu said that it was no wonder that the former Song Dynasty could not beat the surrounding countries and sent money to others, and put it in my Ming Dynasty to destroy the country a long time ago, before I was puzzled, now I understand that the reason for supporting the unfailing power of the former Song Dynasty is because of this maritime Silk Road, so ah, it is wrong to only think about shaving food in the ground, agriculture is people-oriented, but it is completely wrong to focus on the cost and suppress the end.

Taizu said that if one day my Ming Dynasty encounters a strong enemy and the war is protracted, if I Ming Dynasty does not have strong financial and material resources to support this war, what is the solution? Only focus on agriculture, only know how to dig in the field, if you want to increase military spending, you can only increase the endowment, and the endowment is like drinking doves to quench thirst, then the war is not over, I have been in the Ming Dynasty internal smoke, and finally died in internal and external troubles. ”