"Why are you so happy today? Come on, come on, you're back and drink some watermelon juice. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info "Shen Cong saw that Princess Yongle returned home happily, and hurriedly ordered someone to prepare the watermelon juice.

Princess Yongle grabbed Shen Cong's arm and said, "Husband, my relationship with my father and the emperor has finally reconciled as before, it turns out that he has always loved me so much, and specially rewarded me with a night pearl." As he spoke, he took out a pearl of the night.

"I heard that the night pearl can be used for beauty." Shen Cong looked at the beads in Princess Yongle's hand, and his heart was full of curiosity, how could this thing shine at night.

"Okay, I don't drink this thing, now the time is urgent, I came back today just to tell you, I want to go to Mount Tai with the queen mother to incense, I can't accompany you, now I have to pack up my things and leave, the queen mother is still waiting for me." Princess Yongle put down the watermelon seeds and shook her head and smiled, then left like the wind and went straight to the inner house.

Looking at the back of Princess Yongle leaving, Shen Cong's hands were clasped tightly together, and he knocked the watermelon juice to the ground with a wave of his hand, most of the watermelon juice he made was made for her, but people were so unappreciative, sure enough, in her eyes, there were only people from their Zhu family, and he was an outsider after all, and he still had illusions about Princess Yongle, it seemed that he was too stupid.

Zhu Yuanzhang has to bear his thoughts, since Yongle is his daughter, it is naturally impossible to be devoted to himself, but he is stupid and almost believes her.

It seems that before the big thing is accomplished, you shouldn't be emotional.

With the departure of Princess Yongle, the princess's mansion was also much quieter, because a large number of people were taken away by Princess Yongle.

Shen has been wandering around Nanjing since these days, and he understands everything about the palace more clearly.

The Ming army fought with Mongolia in the north, and this time it did not take any advantage, because this time the Mongols were erratic, always harassing when the Ming relaxed their vigilance, and the Ming army that would always fight was caught off guard, and even the golden family once hit the foot of the Great Wall, these days Zhu Yuanzhang's energy was completely involved in the war in the north, and he had no time to take care of other things.

Shen Cong saw that Zhu Yuanzhang's energy was involved, so he also left Nanjing City and returned to Chang'an, after all, at this moment he must find a way to develop his strength, although the Mongols involved the Ming army, but once Zhu Yuanzhang, the ruler of the Ming Dynasty, understood that this war of attrition was useless, then he would definitely withdraw his troops, or he would close the pass, no matter how the Mongols acted outside the pass, they would not make a move, so they must take advantage of this golden time to prepare.

After returning to Chang'an, Shen Cong immediately ordered the merchants of the Shen family to concentrate on Chang'an and the northern part of Chang'an, and began to gradually withdraw from Jiangnan, because there would be no profit if Jiangnan continued to develop.

Although the area south of the Yangtze River has gradually become more developed after the great migration of population, the north has gone through thousands of years of historical development, and the foundation is much thicker than that of the south.

You must know that the population migration in Chinese history began from the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, after the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, the population moved south again, and after the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Jin State, the migration of the population in the Southern Song Dynasty was a huge southward migration, and the development of the north and the south finally gradually tended to be balanced, but the northern region is still the political center and economic center of the country, so Shen Cong began to retreat north.

Of course, there is a more important reason for the withdrawal from the north, that is, the maritime ban policy in the near future.

In Shen Cong's personal opinion, Zhu Yuanzhang's implementation of the sea ban is not a small peasant consciousness at all, but the result of careful consideration!

Zhu Yuanzhang was deeply aware of the root cause of the country's weakness and demise, that is, the rise of big landlords and big businessmen, the concentration of the country's economic resources in their hands, and the collusion of state officials with them, resulting in a greatly reduced number of resources available to the central government, which was unable to cope with the various problems faced by the country.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang vigorously cracked down on big landlords and big businessmen on the one hand, and on the other hand, he imposed a sea ban, which can not only prevent the people from using the huge profits of maritime trade to form new big landlords and big businessmen, but also enable the state to use tributary trade to monopolize the huge profits of marine trade, and can get huge wealth without raising taxes to solve various needs of the country, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone!

The Ming Dynasty practiced tributary trade, and there used to be a very common belief that tributary trade must be a loss-making business, with more money and less in, regardless of the cost, but this is not the case.

At that time, there were three kinds of tributes brought by overseas missions: square items, king's attachments, and envoys' self-advancement, and attachments, the former was very small, and the vast majority of them were king's attachments and envoys' self-advancement and attachments, often exceeding dozens of times the tribute.

The Ming Dynasty adopted the method of government acquisition, bought at a low price, sold at a high price, and could obtain huge profits, taking Sumu and pepper as an example, the Ming Dynasty used Sumu and pepper as a payment to the civil and military officials of the Beijing Division, so as to save the crisis of the corruption of the banknote law and the failure of monetary policy, and the import price was only one-fiftieth of the selling price, and the profit from changing hands reached 50 times.

Zhu Yuanzhang's ban on the sea was also a military policy, not entirely a political or economic policy, in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, the rebel army rose everywhere, and Zhu Yuanzhang finally took the lead and ascended to the throne.

However, when Zhu Yuanzhang opened the country, not all the various forces that participated in the rebellion were submissive, and the two armed forces of Zhang Shicheng and Fang Guozhen fled to the island or the neighboring sea country, becoming a threat to Zhu Yuanzhang after he ascended the throne, however, for the Ming government, the main threat at that time came from the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty who fled to Mongolia.

The Ming Dynasty put the focus of military forces on the northern frontier, paying equal attention to defense and pursuit, while the resistance forces in the southeast sea frontier threatened second, and the choice of priority made the hostile forces on the southeast coastline at that time only adopt a defensive policy, which was also an important reason for Zhu Yuanzhang to ban the sea.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang's ban on the sea of "not being allowed to enter the sea" is also a military policy to prevent communication with the "traitors" who are unwilling to submit.

During the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang, tributary trade has begun, but there is no contact, Zhu Yuanzhang sent a general to the Northern Expedition, and guarded Beijing, most of its grain, grass and materials rely on shipping, it can be seen that maritime shipping is not affected by the ban on the sea, but maritime shipping is limited to private people in the imperial court.

Once the Ming Dynasty implements the sea ban policy in the near future, then the treaty ports in the coastal areas will be closed, then the Shen family's merchant ships will be abolished, and once the sea ban policy is implemented, then the economic development level of the south will inevitably be affected, coupled with the floods in the southern region, it will be more difficult to develop in the future.

The northern region has a heritage, at the same time, the population is large, the market is vast, there are fewer natural disasters, and there are more political factors, so in the north and south directions, Shen Cong chose the north.