As soon as Wang Sai'er left, Xu Xinsu, who represented Kyushu, rushed to Beijing and secretly met with Zhu Youxiao to ask for a delay in repaying the loan.

"Prince Zheng decided to crusade against the shogunate again next year, but now that Kyushu is short of soldiers and salaries, Prince Zheng hopes that His Majesty can delay the repayment of the loan in Kyushu." Xu Xinsu said respectfully.

"How long does it take to delay?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"Prince Zheng hopes that His Majesty can delay it for two years." Xu Xinsu replied.

"I agreed to postpone it for two years, but the interest must be calculated as it is, this is the rule of the Imperial Bank, and no one can break the rules."

"Thank you, Your Majesty! His Majesty's agreement to delay the repayment of the loan is already the greatest favor, and the interest must be calculated accordingly. ”

"But what else?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"Prince Zheng hopes to buy a batch of Apocalypse Guns." Xu Xinsu said tentatively. In Xu Xinsu's impression, Daming's Apocalypse Gun has never been sold to the public.

"How many do you need?" This time Zhu Youxiao did not refuse, now the Apocalypse Gun is no longer a secret, even if Zhu Youxiao does not sell it, Westerners are willing to sell it.

"Last year, Prince Zheng said that he hoped to buy 1,000 to 3,000 Apocalypse Guns." Xu Xinsu thought for a while.

"Yes, you can talk to the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion specifically, but I have to pay for this before the goods." Zhu Youxiao nodded.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, Longen!"

"Remember, in the Empire, I don't want to see the Apocalypse Spear appear, if it flows out of your hands, I will not spare it." Zhu Youxiao said coldly.

"The villain understands that the villain will never dare to use the public for personal gain." Xu Xinsu was engaged in the slave girl trade and had a private army of hundreds of people, but this private army existed completely overseas, and Zhu Youxiao would never allow this army to enter the territory of the empire.

……

Xu Xinsu also gained a lot this time, and Zhu Youxiao agreed to several requests he made, not only did he do the things that Zheng Zhilong explained, but also sold the Apocalypse Gun that he dreamed of for Kyushu.

"This is that Xu Xinsu?" Yang Ai said with a look of disgust.

"Yes." Zhu Youxiao paused for a moment and said.

"The concubine heard that Xu Xinsu is not only the largest female slave trader in the empire, but also opened the largest green building in the empire, why did the emperor summon such a person? Summoning such a person will only ruin the emperor's reputation. ”

"There is day and night in this world, and Xu Xinsu can only be regarded as ash for the empire, and this kind of ash happens to be what the empire needs, Xu Xinsu is indeed selling female slaves, but everything he does is within the control of the imperial court, the population of the empire is only 200 million, and the number of singles is as high as tens of millions, how to solve their problems? It is precisely because of Xu Xinsu that he solves the problem of some singles. ”

"But the concubine heard that Xu Xinsu was hunting slaves everywhere in the surrounding small countries, causing the surrounding small countries to complain."

"I can't control what happens in other countries. And you see those who are polite and Westerners in the empire, they do dirtier things behind their backs than anyone else, they are also selling slaves, but they are selling black slaves, they are slaughtering local people all over the world, plundering wealth. You should know about the massacre of Han Chinese by the Spaniards in Luzon! ”

"It's wrong for them to do this, but the empire rules the world with benevolence and righteousness, and appeases the people with virtue and politics, so there is no need to learn from them."

"The empire rules the world with benevolence and righteousness, and appeases the people with virtue and government, and the people in this sentence refer to the people in the country. At this time, powerful countries are lying in this world to suck blood, are raping the world, sowing seeds everywhere, if the empire does not work hard at this time, the empire will be abandoned by this world, and it will be the object of being sucked and raped by the blood, at that time anyone can come to bully the empire, and then the people will become slaves of other countries, if you want not to become a slave, then you have to become a slave owner. Zhu Youxiao said excitedly.

"Concubine...... Concubine ......" Seeing Zhu Youxiao so excited, Yang Ai didn't know how to say it.

"Have you ever thought about what it would be like one day if the empire became a first-class foreigner and a second-class official, when the foreigner was rampant in the empire, burning, killing and looting, and acting recklessly, but the government did not dare to manage it? Have you ever wondered what it would be like one day when the elite of the empire kept demanding the abolition of Chinese characters that had been in use for thousands of years? One day, a foreigner suddenly said that it was wrong to eat this, it was barbaric, and then a group of people in the empire advocated the abolition of food that had been eaten for thousands of years, what would be the situation at this time? You see, if the women of the empire are asked to marry foreigners, they will think that they are humiliating to them, but have you ever thought that one day there will suddenly be a time when you will be proud of marrying foreigners? ”

"The emperor is too worried, the empire will definitely not have such a situation." Yang Ai said softly.

"I've seen it in my dreams, and it's so real, I'd never let that happen." Zhu Youxiao said categorically.

During the Republican period, the country's national self-confidence was at an unprecedented level, China's inherent cultural pride was completely shattered, and there was a movement to abolish Chinese characters in the country, when it was unanimously advocated for the complete abolition of hieroglyphs and their replacement with pure pinyin scripts. And it was a frenzy that lasted for nearly half a century to abolish Chinese characters, and the elites of society at that time joined it. Imagine that if Chinese characters were really abolished at that time, today's Chinese would not even be able to read their own ancient books, ancient poems, idioms, allusions, etc., and of course a large category in the network would definitely have disappeared.

"Your Majesty, the concubine just doesn't like Xu Xinsu, and the concubine fully supports the emperor's proposition." When Yang Ai saw Zhu Youxiao in such a state for the first time, she was so frightened that she almost didn't dare to speak.

"I'm excited, but what I'm saying is true. No one in the empire knows what the future will look like except me, but I know, I know what the future should look like. Zhu Youxiao said softly.

"Since the emperor knows, he should write it down and leave it for future generations to learn from." Yang Ai suggested.

"Your suggestion is good, you should write it down or draw it for future generations to refer to, I believe that as long as my prophecies come true one after another, then there will definitely be people who believe everything I say." Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "But this is the biggest secret of the empire, and no one can be allowed to wait for it, only the emperor and the cabinet chief assistant are allowed to see it." ”

"It's better to let the concubine help the emperor, the concubine can write and draw, and she will definitely be able to help the emperor fulfill his wish." Yang Ai said happily.

"Yes, I'll work on this when my book is published next year." Zhu Youxiao smiled. Zhu Youxiao felt that since he knew the direction of the future, he should not take it to the grave, but should tell future generations.