"Oh, your surname is Chen?" Shi Mo nodded first, and then an intermittent memory suddenly popped up in his mind, hitting Shi Mo's mind like a bolt of lightning.

"Your surname is Chen?" Shi Mo's eyes shrank slightly.

"That's right." Chen Bailu said with a slight smile when she heard this.

"Soft-eared Chen? And not the process of engineering? Shi Mo confirmed again.

"That's right, that's what you thought of." Chen Bailu nodded slightly.

"I really didn't expect that." Shi Mo looked at Chen Bailu and sighed when he heard this.

This woman is incredible.

Shi Mo thought to himself, even a nerd and otaku like him heard the surname Chen, and he could imagine how powerful the Chen family was in Donghai City.

It is no exaggeration to say that this Chen family is the local tyrant.

The Earth Emperor of Tokai City.

Because there is a noble in each generation of the Chen family.

That's right, there are people in this family who have been given hereditary titles of disregard.

The head of the Chen family of each generation is a well-known nobleman in the entire Ming Empire.

Because the title of the Chen family is very unusual.

It is a duke title that can be counted on the fingers of the Ming Dynasty.

The most important thing is that this thing is hereditary.

It is in the same vein as the empire, sharing honor and disgrace, and sharing weal and woe.

It is very presumptuous, it is difficult to hear, and it makes many ordinary people and civil officials uncomfortable.

Such a prince is really a man who kills people on the street unless he rebels, and the government and the emperor will find a way to suppress it at the first moment, instead of thinking about disposing of it at the first moment.

The honor of the Ming Dynasty itself is quite valuable.

Non-military merits are not knighted.

This is the ancestral system.

In modern society, there are fewer and fewer wars for the great powers.

Even if there were, then it would be some easy wars, and there would be no possibility of a knighthood at all.

So it is foreseeable that Daming's title is very strong.

The gold content is still so high.

The ancestors of the Chen family in Donghai City were named the Duke of Yue by the emperor.

This was sealed during the year of the Apocalypse.

That is what the senior of the traverser in Shi Mo's eyes did.

The ancestor of this Yue Guogong is a close confidant of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, and this guy was sent to Donghai City by the Emperor of the Apocalypse to supervise the commercial activities of Donghai City, with only one purpose, that is, to ensure that Donghai City, which has just been allowed to be used as a treaty port, will honestly pay a lot of taxes.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty's tax evasion was particularly serious, not only because of the protection of some people who had a good relationship with the government, but these were just basic operations.

Who would have imagined that at that time, the people of the Ming Dynasty had already violently resisted taxes, and the government was forced to send troops to violently suppress it.

In some places, there have even been cases where the common people will be killed by the tax collectors who collect taxes in the future.

In short, the biggest reason for the fall of the Ming Dynasty was financial problems, and the funniest thing was that the people did not have money, but that the Ming Dynasty government could not collect taxes by itself.

It can be said that the government of the Ming Dynasty was not at all like a centralized government, because it was always overwhelmed by local affairs, and it could not even collect taxes.

Therefore, the time-traveling Emperor Tianqi thought about open source, and finally through the exchange of interests in political struggles, Donghai City became an outlet to the sea, in order to prevent the bankruptcy of this struggle, and also for money.

He sent his cronies to Donghai City to collect taxes and ensure the safety of Donghai City.

Piracy in the Ming Dynasty was extremely rampant, thanks to the background of the time.

At that time, it was the Age of Discovery, the Ming Dynasty inevitably collided with foreign forces, and Fusang at that time was in the Warring States Period, and it was divided into seventy-seven countries at the most chaotic time, and there were seventy-seven countries on such a large broken island.

These pirates often have contact with some outlaws of the Ming Empire, and they rob the Ming Empire inside and outside, making the Ming Empire tired of coping, which is why the Ming Empire wants to ban the sea.

There is an essential difference between the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty.

In the Ming Dynasty, the sea ban was for defense, in order to prevent aggression, and in order to protect the safety of people's lives and property, the sea ban was to defend the security of the territory.

It's not arrogance, it's not self-righteousness, it's not just a rat's eye.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty did not stop trading with foreign countries, in fact, the purchasing power of silver along the coast of the Ming Dynasty was constantly declining, because there was too much silver from Spain, which made silver worthless.

This is why in the late Ming Dynasty, the currency began to turn into silver.

The reason why you have to pay taxes in silver.

Because Daming really has a lot of silver.

As for the Qing Dynasty, it was very different.

The Qing Dynasty was a real piece of the board.

At that time, the army was specially organized to blockade the coast, and the people were not allowed to move along the coast, and the people living in the coastal areas were forcibly relocated, which led to the destruction of many families.

Many people who relied on the sea for food went bankrupt, their families had no source of income, and I don't know how many people starved to death, causing famine.

At that time, many ordinary people secretly went to the coastal edge to fish at night, but the Qing soldiers had already formed a blockade line, and whoever dared to cross the line would be beheaded.

Not to mention, there are quite a lot of head cuts.

So in the Ming Dynasty, the ancestor of the Chen family actually had a heavy responsibility.

One of the most important tasks besides collecting taxes is to fight piracy.

This guy co-opted the biggest pirate of the time.

Zheng Zhilong's fleet was absorbed by this guy.

Zheng Zhilong, this person, many people may not know.

He had a son who was more famous.

His son's name is Zheng Chenggong.

It must be said here that Zheng Chenggong is not as good as many people think.

But it's also very good.

Under the circumstances at that time, being able to actively resist the Qing Dynasty was a big hero, whether people had other thoughts at the time, whether he and his father had other plans, those didn't really matter.

Zheng Chenggong can be said to have done an extremely great thing.

He almost seized the city of Nanjing, but unfortunately he did not seize this opportunity to change history, and he made a lot of tricks.

But of course, these things don't exist on this plane.

This old ancestor of the Chen family was shouldering a heavy responsibility, and later his fleet was even more powerful around the world.

Because of this, the Chen family is extremely prestigious and powerful in Donghai City.

After all, they have the title of duke.

Each generation of emperors would give the Yue State Commissar a heavy responsibility, putting him in charge of overseeing the development of Donghai City, and also in charge of a part of the army.

In other words, it is not for nothing that the successive generations of Yue Guogong have been staying here.

They all wanted the emperor's mission.

Such appointments were not uncommon in the Ming Dynasty.

Jinling City is like that.

As the capital of the Ming Dynasty, Jinling City, which has another set of administrative systems, is also garrisoned by dukes.

In other words, it was only in some very important cities that the emperor would let the prince stay there to help him watch.

Where it doesn't matter, the emperor won't allow others to mess around.

Of course, there is another place in the Ming Dynasty that is also an exception.

That's Yunnan.

It's not very important here, but there is still a national prince.

The ancestor of this prince is Zhu Yuanzhang's righteous son.

His name is Mu Ying.

This guy is very powerful, and he was the first to create the use of firearms.

The famous three-stage burst was the first he created.

I don't know how many years more advanced than Europe.

It turns out that the use of firearms, in the era when rifles and machine guns did not appear, was still the fastest and most scientific three-stage shooting.

Mu Ying was stationed in Yunnan at the time, he wanted to suppress the invasion of the Yunnan border, and the other side had elephant soldiers, which was very difficult to deal with, so Mu Ying began to use firearms.

Elephants are afraid of sounds, they are afraid of life.

Firearms are just right to restrain elephants.

Mu Ying was originally the favorite of all Zhu Yuanzhang's righteous sons.

This is also one of the few ministers under Zhu Yuanzhang who has received a good death.

Of course, Shi Mo's mind is full of historical information from his previous life, and he doesn't know what to say about Zhu Yuanzhang in this era.

Shi Mo knew that it was a lot of meanness and vicious statements about Zhu Yuanzhang in his previous life, and the deliberate rumors were all slowly invited to appear at that time.

This is really not nonsense, you must know that during the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there was also a special kind of pamphlet, that kind of special record of some folk romance booklets, this thing was written by the Qing court itself to spread rumors. Something that specializes in discrediting the Ming Dynasty.

Don't believe it, to take the simplest example, there is a saying, that is, after Zhu Yuanzhang unified the world, this guy wanted to kill his minister, so he thought of a way.

He invited his ministers to a building to celebrate, and then mobilized his troops and horses, and the artillery bombarded the building. This story is called the bombardment of the Qinggong Building.

After Shi Mo heard this story in his previous life, he was not only frightened by Zhu Yuanzhang's viciousness, but also admired Zhu Yuanzhang's murderous brain hole in his heart.

Bombardment of the Qinggong Building.

This murderous brain hole is a novelty.

But Shi Mo later searched on the Internet.

I found out that this thing was actually fake.

This made Shi Mo more and more disgusted with the Qing Dynasty from then on.

It's disgusting.

Unexpectedly, the Black Ming Dynasty spared no effort.

It's really heartfelt.

Fortunately, nothing so disgusting happened on this plane.

This is also something that Shi Mo feels relieved about.

Mu Ying was later named the Duke of the Kingdom by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Qianguo Gong, Shizhen Yunnan.

The prototype of Mu Wangfu in Jin Yong's martial arts is actually this.

Shizhen Yunnan.

This is already equivalent to ripping the earth and sealing the king in a sense.

Of course, Yunnan is still under the jurisdiction of the central government, but Mufu still has the right to govern Yunnan.

At that time, the appointment of many local officials in Yunnan could actually be decided by the Mu government, which still had a lot of power, military and administrative powers.

Mufu did not live up to the trust of the imperial court, and was always loyal to the central government, and there was no rebellion.

"You turned out to be the daughter of a prince." Shi Mo exhaled softly.

"No wonder you say you know the princess and the prince." Shi Mo nodded, and he understood what was going on before.

In this way, Chen Bailu is not too normal to know the princess and the prince, it seems that their age itself is not much different, maybe not only have they studied together, maybe a few people were originally playmates.

Here I have to talk about the aristocratic education of the Ming Empire.

Since the Apocalypse, for those important ministers of the court like Yue Guogong and the great nobles of the empire, their children are generally taken to the palace when they reach school age, and the royal family personally pays for them to teach them to learn.

Not only the nobles, but also the generals of the frontier, of course, after all, they have to be generals, in short, they are some high-ranking and powerful people, and their children are brought to the palace for education.

It's kind of a benefit.

This really touched a lot of people at the time.

There is nothing absolutely wrong with this.

At most, I feel that my child will not see him for some time, but there is absolutely no dissatisfaction.

After all, at that time, the families of the frontier generals would have been arranged by the imperial court in Beijing.

Well, the emperor actually took them to the palace in person, and let them receive an education that was almost the same as that of the prince and princess, which was a good thing that didn't break their heads.

You must know that the person who is qualified to be a teacher in the palace is not an important minister of the imperial court?

Not to mention anything else, even if the children of their own family do not become very powerful people and knowledgeable people in the end, then at least they know a lot of famous ministers.

My children have several famous teachers, what a great fortune it is.

Not to mention, it is also helpful for your career.

At that time, the teacher-student relationship was very important.

These are put aside for the time being, and the most important thing is to study with the prince and princess and other people.

That's all that matters.

Think about it, in the future, when the new emperor ascends the throne, maybe his children will know the emperor after taking over his position.

It seems that the relationship is not bad.

What a precious friendship.

What could be better than that?

I had a friendship with the emperor.

Great, there's nothing better in the world.

This is the system of the empire today.

So Shi Mo had no doubt that Chen Bailu knew Zhu Zining.

"You can be considered convinced." Chen Bailu drank a glass of wine, and then said lightly.

Shi Mo was also drinking, and while drinking, he looked at Chen Bailu.

"I didn't expect the daughter of the prince to be so approachable, I thought that except for the eldest princess, you nobles are usually high-minded." Shi Mo said casually, but the amount of information is not small.

"Do you know the eldest princess?" Chen Bailu was surprised.

"You think I was joking with you?" Shi Mo said with a smile.

I always thought that Chen Bailu was lying to him, but I didn't expect Chen Bailu to believe in himself either.

"You really know each other." Chen Bailu wondered.

Shi Mo nodded with a smile.

Chen Bailu looked at Shi Mo incredulously when she heard this, and then looked at Shi Mo carefully, her mouth was slugging, and her head shook gently.

"It's incredible, the eldest princess is a proud person in her bones."

(End of chapter)