"Didn't the two of you profit from the border trade in the past?" Master Hu tugged at the corners of his mouth, looking at these two people with a smile on his face, and he was quite disdainful of these two people in his heart, but who made them pay a lot of money to their filial piety every year?

As an official, can't you learn from Tao Yuanming to farm and raise [***]? Correspondence between colleagues, this is all costly, just with their own little month, I am afraid that even to buy a girl ring is not enough, now, as a river in Tongzhou to Yizhen Huai'an Caoyun Imperial History, has gradually sat down here to establish a solid foundation, but who would have thought that a few days ago, came a will, the former cabinet deputy Wang Wen actually wanted to move Nanjing Zuodu Imperial History.

Wang Wen's name, can he not know Hu Yanyan? This person used to be the imperial history, long infamous, and then, through the king of the servant, was able to smoothly climb to the position of the imperial history of the left capital, and later entered the cabinet and made up for the secretary of the ministry.

At that time, Hu Yan once wanted to follow the path of this old boss, trying to leave Nanjing, a place to retire, and go to the real political center of the Ming Dynasty in the north to do a career, but Wang Wen not only did not help, but ridiculed himself, this hatred, where can Hu Yan forget?

Later, he still took the path of the confidant eunuchs around the king of Yu, and in the end, the king of Yu insisted on letting those eunuchs fool him, and he made a new errand, that is, he was also the imperial history of Huai'an Caoyun in the area from Tongzhou to Yizhen.

It's a pity, not long after he sat in this position, the Ming Dynasty has been turned upside down, and the abdicated Emperor Taishang suddenly exerted his strength, and lifted the king off the horse again, and he went back to his old job.

Hu Yan, who has always been uneasy, has been staring at the wind and grass in Yanjing since the day Zhu Qizhen took the throne, while ordering his family to transfer the family's assets to a large extent, for fear that it will be involved in his own head when the time comes, so that his children can rely on those properties and be rich incognito.

But who knows, after waiting a lot, it seems to be very legendary in the circulation of the people, but Zhu Qizhen, who is famous and powerful, has never raised the butcher's knife, and after that, he simply came up with a series of three law divisions to try a series of Yu Wang Yu Dang.

When the news spread to the south of the Yangtze River, the boulder in Hu Yan's heart finally fell to the ground, and the eunuchs he bribed had been slaughtered, but after more than half a month, he didn't even receive any news.

--------------------Moreover, those who are in the court of the Yu Wang Yu party, except for a few heinous people who are punished according to the law, even the leaders of the Yu Wang Yu party, Wang Wen and Yu Qian, are all acquitted, and even reinstated, so that Hu Yan finally understands that when he does not want to continue to pursue today, he will not have to make any big trouble in the court.

This made Hu Yan breathe a sigh of relief, relaxed his vigilance, and let those children return to his side, and the hands and feet that were originally retracted gradually grew larger.

But who would have thought that Zhu Qizhen actually threw Wang Wen's guy to Nanjing again, and became his direct boss, which made Hu Yan's careful liver suddenly hang in his throat again, and these two giant businessmen reported to themselves again, so Hu Yan also came here by the way to explore the truth.

However, when I came to Nanjing, I visited a lot of colleagues, but not many people knew why this treasure shipyard was reopened, only that it was Zhu Qizhen's will, and a lot of craftsmen were transferred from the Xuanfu.

And there are also Jinyi guards intervening in it, because of these, so today, Hu Yan specially came here with these two giants to take a look. Ask around and see if you can find any clues.

“…… In the past, the bitter cold of the border stopper, my Ming merchants and those nomadic northern barbarian trade, there will be a danger of swords, and the caravan on the grassland is also in danger of being wiped out at any time. "The gloomy old man's surname is Sun, and the old man surnamed Liu started by Caoyun, and then became a giant businessman, and the business dare not be said to be done all over the north and south of the river, up and down the Yellow River, but in the south of the Yangtze River, it can be regarded as a number of giant businessmen.

"Along the way, not only must you be careful, but you also have to bribe those grassland nobles, and finally you can successfully do business once, and the wealth you earn is only a small amount of money. Who would have thought that the Son of Heaven would forcibly collect our taxes, and those who did not pay it were not allowed to enter the grassland to trade, what is the reason, who knows if the Xuanfu Trading Company has accepted it? ”

“…… is not only an ordinary businessman, even if he is an official person, he is unexpectedly, hum, we have never heard of such a strange thing since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Listening to the grievances of these two businessmen, Hu Yan was also a little dissatisfied with Zhu Qizhen's attitude towards industry and commerce in Xuanfu. In fact, in addition to the two giant businessmen Sun and Liu, the businessmen and gentry in the Jianghuai area are extremely sensitive to Zhu Qizhen's every move, because Zhu Qizhen not only cut off their financial routes in Xuanfu.

It is also allowed to be implemented in border towns such as Datong and Gansu according to the regulations, but anyone who wants to trade with the grassland must pay taxes, regardless of whether you are an official or a scholar in the background.

This made them all become vigilant, and even felt that Zhu Qizhen's shipbuilding would affect their maritime trade, or they wanted to extend their hand to the trade behavior in the south.

"It seems that it should have nothing to do with my Cao Yun, in this case, why should this official stay any longer, what Your Majesty has done, is it that my little Cao Yun Du Yushi can manage it?" Thinking of this, Hu Yan slowly exhaled, stood up, and shook at the two giant businessmen who were spitting and complaining. "Two, this is the matter, and the official still has important things to do, so I will leave first."

Seeing Hu Yan's performance, Sun and Liu couldn't help but be stunned, and opened their mouths to keep it, but Hu Yan insisted on it, so he could only send it outside the teahouse, watching Hu Yan go away in a sedan chair, the old man surnamed Sun couldn't help but snort coldly. "This Hu Yushi is really an official, hehe, as soon as I saw that this matter had nothing to do with luck, I just left."

"Yes, it looks like we've really found the wrong person, and this person's courage is really not enough. It's just a district of Nanjing's imperial history of Caoyun. Since he doesn't have the guts, let's find another way. The rich old man surnamed Liu stroked the long beard under his chin and said with a smile, but the shrewdness in his eyes could not be concealed.

"It's okay, but today I can finally see some doorways, hehe, if I want to learn from Emperor Taizong, it has nothing to do with our small people, and I really hope that Long Live Lord can go back to the West and the East a few more times, so as to open up a few more trade routes for us, so, I will wait for ......" Even though the old man surnamed Sun said good things, the expression on his face was still gloomy like a dead face.

Hearing this, the old man surnamed Liu couldn't help but smile and shook his head again and again.

-------------------- in the far north, several officials of the Ministry of Industry, accompanied by dozens of officers and soldiers of Liaozhen, were shuttling through the dense forests around the border fort on the banks of the snow-covered Yalu River.

"General, do these guys really want to get wood from us? This is too, isn't it that in the past, wasn't it all cut down wood directly from around the capital to build a temple? Why did you get to our side of the bitter cold this time? There is no road, and the road is long, how much manpower and material resources does it cost to make such a giant tree? A frontier guard looked at the officials of the Ministry of Works, who had begun to get busy at his frontier fort today, and whispered to the same superior who accompanied them.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Hearing the complaints of his subordinates, this Qianhu couldn't help but glare at him, and whispered, "These are not used to build temples, but to build ships. ”

"Shipbuilding?" The border fort guard raised his head, looked at those towering ancient trees that were more than ten feet high, and couldn't help but smash his tongue: "I said general, how big a ship does this have to be?" You know, these old trees must be at least hundreds of years old and more than ten feet high......"

"Hehe, you don't understand this, Your Majesty is preparing to build a treasure ship, without such a giant tree, can a treasure ship like the Three Treasure Eunuchs when they went to the Western Ocean in the past?" The master of the thousand households stroked the short beard under his chin and laughed.

"I see, huh?" The border fort guard nodded suddenly, but his eyes were round again, and he turned his face to the Qianhu and said: "My lord, aren't you the last general, the treasure shipyard is in the south of the Yangtze River, and the timber is transported from us, these thousands of miles, I'm afraid it will be thousands of miles, how many young months will it take to arrive?" ”

Qianhu rolled his eyes with a black line, and weakly played with the horse whip in his hand, if it weren't for this guy and his friends for many years, maybe he really wanted to whip this girl's head and let this guy open his mind. "I said Zhao Kui, can you have some eyes, it will take many years for these woods to be sent to Beijing, and they will be sent to Jiangnan, so you are not afraid that these woods will rot?"

"Let me tell you, Your Majesty has ordered the construction of a port in the Jinzhou Zhongzuowei, Jinzhou Weiqing mud puddle, and the Yalu River south of Zhenjiang Fort, and the green mud puddle to build a dock for the construction of treasure ......ships in the north," the Qianhu muttered quietly in the ear of the border fort guard.

(To be continued)