The first meeting with Fang Yuegong was quite smooth, Fang Yuegong is now a rising star in the court, and Zhu Ping'an didn't expect to be shocked by the first meeting and included him in the account. He just hoped that this meeting would leave a good impression on Fang Yuegong.

In today's Shandong, Dengzhou is the only one in power, and Laizhou, which is a neighbor, has gradually been incorporated into the system. After Liu Zeqing's death, Zhu Ping'an extended his tentacles to Yanzhou, Dongchang, and Jinan, trying to slowly bring the whole of Shandong into his control, which took a certain amount of time to complete.

Now that Fang Yuegong has come to Shandong, the biggest wish in his heart is to do his best to clean up Shandong officialdom and optimize people's livelihood. The other is to monitor Zhu Ping'an, but he is no longer a big idea, and now all the military attaches in Shandong have been directly or indirectly controlled by Zhu Ping'an in the palm of his hand. In other words, the edict of the imperial court may not work, but Zhu Ping'an's warrant is definitely valid.

In the final analysis, Zhu Ping'an is not a talented politician, nor can he achieve the same feats as many great politicians in history. But his advantage is to be able to integrate all kinds of knowledge from later generations into the construction of Dengzhou, combined with the current actual situation of the Ming Dynasty, to find out which measures can actually operate and indeed bring benefits, and do their best to grow themselves in the fastest time. It is enough to distribute the land to the people, to use commerce to drive the economic development of the whole Dengzhou, and to gather the funds available for use in case of war.

As for the various constructions after reunification, they can only be chosen after breaking the original ruling framework, Zhu Ping'an thinks that he doesn't have that ability, and if he really comes to that point, there will naturally be suitable people to do this. Now, we can only move forward step by step, hoping for the best results.

Zhu Ping'an said a lot, Fang Yuegong listened very carefully, and it could be seen that Zhu Ping'an's words touched him a lot, and the so-called alternative way is probably this reason. Zhu Ping'an didn't dare to say how much of a role it could play, but Zhu Ping'an was confident that Fang Yuegong would be able to accept the land policy that satisfied all strata, and it would be further improved on the existing basis.

After sending Fang Yuegong away, Zhu Ping'an rushed back to the Dusi Yamen. Mrs. Sun and her entourage have been arranged, and Zhu Ping'an specially arranged for the current Dengzhou First Hospital's Mafu Wang Ma, the director of the hospital, to invite the hospital's famous Chinese medicine experts and Western doctors to diagnose and treat Mrs. Sun.

Just returned to the Yamen, Wang Pin hurriedly came to the door, saying that the fleet of Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, was going to leave for North Korea in a few days, so the fleet was larger, so the city shipping division must say hello to the trade area, because the cargo handling volume after the fleet came back will be far more than in the past, Wang Pin must say hello to Zhu Ping'an in advance, and the current cargo storage capacity of Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, cannot meet the needs in any case, and must be coordinated by Zhu Ping'an. However, Zhu Ping'an knew very well that Wang Pin came so actively, he must have added a share in it.

Tong Wenhuan's defection to Dengzhou, coupled with the news obtained by the military intelligence department, the role played by Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, in the battle between Liu Zeqing and Zhu Ping'an was also revealed. He dared to point out his business ways to Liu Zeqing's army, which also made Zhu Ping'an very annoyed.

It seems that this His Royal Highness King Lu is really not a worry-free character, and he wants to make some moves whenever he encounters an opportunity. It seems that it will not work if it is not strictly rectified.

"What kind of business is King Lu doing with North Korea?" Zhu Ping'an suddenly asked.

Wang Pin was stunned, but he didn't know the small actions Zhu Yihai had made in the past. He immediately replied: "The business name under King Lu's name has always been in contact with the Korean side, King Lu's business name is strong, and the Korean royal family and officials are also willing to deal with it. Therefore, the volume of trade has been not small. After the Manchu Qing forced Korea to submit, they plundered hundreds of thousands of soldiers from Korea to enrich the Guanwai. North Korea was greatly damaged because of this, and for this reason, it was necessary to make a huge deal with King Lu this time. Things to trade include: furs, mountain ginseng, iron ore, ......! ”

"What, iron ore?" Zhu Ping'an suddenly shouted.

"That's right!" Wang Pin explained: "However, these iron ores were transported back to the territory of Daming and resold to the border army towns, but they had nothing to do with the Tartars outside the Guan. Besides, there has never been such a large number before. The Manchus were very harsh with Korea, and the Joseon royal family could not make ends meet, so they had to make these transactions privately to fill the treasury. ”

Zhu Ping'an stood up straight and secretly scolded himself for being confused, although Shandong also has various minerals, the scale of the deposit is not large, and most of them are associated minerals. There are some iron ores in central Shandong, but after large-scale logging, the next mining is difficult, and the output of iron ore is also declining year by year. As a general of Daming Town, he did not dare to collect iron ore in a big way, so he had no choice but to use Shen Mingxian's relationship to look for iron ore everywhere, thinking it was for military use.

But he forgot that North Korea, which is only across the sea, is a region with extremely rich mineral reserves. In particular, Mosan County in Hamgyong Province has a storage capacity of nearly one billion tons of iron ore, and although it is mainly magnetite, the reserves of hematite in it are also considerable. It can be said that as long as these mines in Maoshan County are owned, the ordnance raw materials of the Dengzhou Army will be extremely abundant.

It's just that the Maoshan iron mine is still in an undeveloped state, and it is still a green mountain and green water. The North Korean royal family is really guarding a cornucopia without knowing it.

Zhu Ping'an thought for a moment, "Brother Wang, please go to Jinan in person and meet King Lu in person, in the future, I don't care about anything else in this transaction with North Korea, but he won't touch this pig iron again." ”

Zhu Ping'an's words startled Wang Pin, but Zhu Ping'an didn't seem to be telling a joke.

Zhu Ping'an saw his confusion, smiled and patted his shoulder, "This time I go to Jinan, you take the new Tong Wenhuan who has served me, King Lu will definitely agree!" ”

Seeing off the confused Wang Pin, Zhu Ping'an summoned Yin Shigang and Yang Dekai, and instructed Tong Wanjun, the sailor of Denglai, to transfer two cadres and one hundred captured ships of the Zheng Jun Navy to standby, and at the same time urgently summoned Li Dingguo to Penglai City.

"Is there any news outside the gate now?" Zhu Ping'an suddenly asked.

"Not yet!" Speaking of Huo Wu, who followed Ning Wan and me out of the customs together, Yin Shigang also had a sad face. "The inspection outside the customs is very rigorous, and it is even more difficult for the Han people to move an inch if they do not carry the flag outside the customs. Our people have finally taken root in Shengjing with great difficulty, but now there is still no news back! ”

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Shengjing outside the gate was in the crisp autumn season at this time, and more than 30 Han army banner guards dressed in civilian clothes surrounded a lonely adobe house outside the city, and the knives and guns in their hands flashed with cold light, but there was no sound coming out, just staring coldly at the crumbling house with the door closed.

The doors and windows of the house were closed, and I was lying on a chaise longue, my body barely leaning forward, and saliva was constantly flowing from the corners of my mouth, but I seemed to be unconscious. Surrounded by several henchmen with big shoulders and round waists, Nagu under his feet was tied like a rice dumpling.

Under the earthen wall opposite, Huo Wu and his two subordinates were also tightly bound, sitting on a pile of messy grass.

"Who the hell are you?" Ning Wan's face was extremely unnaturally distorted, and my left hand kept stroking my right hand that was waiting for the glove, and three of the fingers had been left in Dengzhou forever.

"In Xia Huo Wu, Lord Li Jiucheng's personal soldiers ......!" Huo Wu replied calmly.

"Fart!" My voice was hoarse, and my body kept shaking.

Nagu also opened his mouth at this time, "Lord Ning, you have to think clearly, my master is His Royal Highness King Rui......!" ”

Ning Wan tilted his head and stared at Nagu, "You are you, King Rui is King Rui, you also need to think clearly, if this matter is known by King Rui, what will happen to you and your family!" ”

Hearing this, Nagu immediately closed his mouth.

"Why did you harm me?" After Ning Wan, I set my eyes on Huo Wu again. "What is the medicine you gave me, and why is it that as soon as I stop taking it, I will be worse than dead!"

"That is the tribute medicine left by Lord Li Jiucheng back then, how did the villain know what it was, only know that if it wasn't for this medicine that day, the adult would have died on the ship, and there would be no sword soldiers today."

"Nonsense", Ning Wan just scolded weakly, and then his hand hung down heavily, and his face gradually began to show pain.

"But the adults are feeling unwell again, do you want to take medicine?" Huo Wu had a thick smile on his face.

Ning Wan's face gradually turned pale, and beads of sweat dripped down my cheeks. There seemed to be 10,000 ants in the body.

"Alas!" Huo Wutan sighed, "Let's let the villain share the worries of the adult!" ”

After saying this, Huo Wusan and the three of them had already bounced up from the ground like ghosts, and a cold light faintly flashed in their fingers, and several big men surrounding Ning Wan and me were already bleeding from their throats, but they even made sounds, only occasionally making a sound of squirming in their throats.

Several bodies fell one after another. But Ning Wan had already slipped to the ground, and my face that I couldn't hold fingers with both hands scratched around, and after a while, there were already several blood marks on my face.

One of Huo Wu's subordinates untied Nagu's rope, and Nagu stood up with palpitations, looking at Ning Wan, but there was an indistinguishable sense of loss from the dead rabbit and the fox.

Huo Wuyi stepped on Ning Wan's body, but threw a pill into his mouth with one hand. The time was not long, but Ning Wan gradually stopped the beast-like howl, and his expression also regained a clear color.

Panting heavily, Ning Wan raised his red and swollen eyes to look at Nagu, and then looked at Huo Wu, "Nagu has also been poisoned, right?" ”

Huo Wu nodded. "This poison is so powerful that I have already learned it many times, so I don't know what to do in the future?"

"Who is the master behind you?" Although Ning Wan asked viciously, there was already a look of despair in his eyes. R1152