"What? Let's go to the pirates?"

When Zhang Dingbian heard Zhou Buxin's words, he immediately laughed: "Do they really think that we are here to exterminate pirates?"

Zhou Buxin said, "This is just right, it shows that Maradi's Sitarama and Hamid have been tricked, they believe that we only have fifty merchants and fifty soldiers, and they regard us as the messenger team of the Ming Dynasty."

Zhang Dingbian added beside him: "Maybe they also want to test our strength, to see if we have something to hide, this Maradi monarch is very interesting, and he can be regarded as a rare smart person in the Nanyang countries, but he is also a difficult opponent."

"Exterminate pirates? When did pirates become enemies of the Ming Dynasty?"

Zhou Buxin sneered and said his thoughts to Zhang Dingbian: "Pirates are just ringworm scabies, and the real threat to us is these monarchs who occupy the land! They belong to the indigenous here, deep-rooted, the Ming merchant ships pass here, the wealth will inevitably make them red-eyed, these indigenous monarchs are hungry for profit, it is difficult to guarantee that they will do something when their heads are hot, we must occupy these cities and ensure that the Ming channel is unblocked."

Zhang Dingbian agrees with Zhou Buxin's words, the purpose of their coming out is to escort the Daming maritime trade route, so for the cities around the route, their original intention is to be controlled by the Daming.

As for pirates...... It was the Ming warships that were active at sea with the Ming merchant ships, and the ferocious artillery made the pirates all frightened, even if they were jealous of the wealth on the Ming merchant ships, they did not dare to go to trouble easily.

Zhou Buxin: "We might as well calculate it?"

Zhang Dingbian: "Find out the purpose of Sitarama and Hamid, and we will drag it in Maradi City first."

Yiwen and Wu's thoughts are all at one point, and the next action is very ...... It went well.

Sitarama and Hamid invited Zhang Dingbian and Zhou Buxin again, but the father and son were invited separately, Sitarama invited Zhang Dingbian to his palace, and Hamid brought gifts to Zhou Buxin in the restaurant where Zhou Buxin lived.

I have to say that in order to find out the true strength of Zhang Dingbian and his party, Sitarama can be said to have invested a lot of money, and gave Zhang Dingbian two fist-sized night pearls as gifts, and then called on the ministers to pour wine on Zhang Dingbian.

Zhang Dingbian was massive, and he did not refuse to toast him, and he took a sip of the wine glass directly, and Sitarama saw Zhang Dingbian's appearance of drinking, which strengthened the idea in his heart.

glanced at the courtiers next to him, and at the same time called over two foreign beauties and asked them to serve Zhang Dingbian.

Soon, Zhang Dingbian blushed and had a thick neck when he drank, and his speech became a little murmurful.

"Isn't it a good thing that I can't even speak clearly?"

Sitarama endured the joy in her heart, began to approach Zhang Dingbian, and said to him with a sad face: "General Zhang, there are rampant pirates near Maradi City, and there are many of them, especially the pirate gang of shark teeth, they are numerous, and the pirate leader is ruthless, we are really powerless to exterminate it, General Zhang, Daming Weijia is in the sea, and there are many generals, can you help Maradi solve the piracy, in the future, Maradi will respect Daming and sincerely surrender to Daming."

"As long as Maradi submits to the Ming, everything is easy to say."

Zhang Dingbian seemed to have drunk a little bit of a lake, put his hand on Sitarama's shoulder, as if he had drunk too much, and said to Sitarama with a mouthful of wine: "For the Ming Dynasty, pirates are just a disease of ringworm and scabies, and they are all trivial matters, as long as the army arrives, they can immediately return a Haiyan River to Maradi."

Sitarama knew the strength of the Ming Dynasty, and when she heard Zhang Dingbian say that the Ming army was coming, she couldn't help but feel nervous.

It's easy to ask God to send God, what if the Ming army comes to Maradi and doesn't leave after exterminating the pirates?

No, we have to find a way to drive Zhang Dingbian and them out of Maradi first.

At this time, Sitarama was already panicking, his original purpose was to find out what Zhang Dingbian's strength was, and whether there was any hidden secret hand, but now he began to worry that the Ming army would appear in Maradi.

Sitarama pretended to be very happy, and hurriedly asked Zhang Dingbian, "General Zhang, I don't know the Great Tomorrow Army

How long will it take to get to Maradi?"

"This...... I can't say it, it can be fast, or it can be slow."

Zhang Dingbian was drunk, but when answering Sitarama's question, he was a little hesitant, and it seemed that he was also struggling with whether to tell Sitarama or not.

Seeing Zhang Dingbian's appearance of wanting to speak and stopping, Sitarama immediately understood.

I didn't drink too much.

Someone's coming...... Keep pouring wine!

At the same time, Sitarama said to the two women who were serving Zhang Dingbian, "You two, serve General Zhang wholeheartedly."

Soon, more than ten bowls of wine were in the stomach, and Zhang Dingbian added a sense of drunkenness.

At this time, Zhang Dingbian's hand had been lowered from the two women, and he pulled Sitarama to chat: "I see that you are a sincere person, and your heart is towards Daming, so I will say a few more words to you."

As he spoke, Zhang Dingbian also glanced to the side and motioned to Sitarama to let the others leave, and Sitarama immediately understood, not only drove away the ministers who were toasting, but also drove away the two beauties beside Zhang Dingbian.

The person was gone, and Sitarama looked at Zhang Dingbian with burning eyes.

"Brother, it's hard for Da Ming now...... Internal and external troubles, this soldier and horse...... It's hard to recruit for a while, so the pirates outside Maradi still have to rely on us, and we will work together to solve it."

Although Sitarama has a good grasp of Yayan and has no problem communicating, he doesn't know the situation of Daming now, what Zhang Dingbian says, how Sitarama has to believe it.

"Brother, don't you know, the current Da Ming, it's difficult......

Zhang Dingbian seemed to have opened the chatterbox, and Sitarama listened very carefully, for fear of missing a word.

When Sitarama listened to Zhang Dingbian say, don't look at Daming's current territory is so big, in fact, it is a strong foreign and middle cadre, and even the old opponents Wang Baobao and Chen Youliang have not solved it, and now Daming needs to rely on sea trade for blood transfusion, otherwise Daming is a rootless duckweed, which will be broken at a touch.

Zhang Dingbian put his arm around Sitarama's shoulders and said helplessly, "Don't say anything else, let's just talk about Chen Youliang and Wang Baobao...... It's been so many years, these two enemies who existed before the Ming Dynasty were still alive and kicking, if it were me, I would ...... Alas! Don't talk about brothers, drink, drink!"

Sitarama hurriedly raised the cup and clinked glasses with Zhang Dingbian and drank: "General Zhang, how many soldiers and horses did you bring this time?" I don't mean anything else, I just want to know if you can wipe out the Sharktooth pirates."

"Pirates? Kill the fart!"

Zhang Dingbian hiccuped, and then said, "We are the fox and the fake tiger, relying on the prestige of the Ming Dynasty to let you assist us, and then send someone to ...... Daming is expanding too fast, how can there be extra manpower."

……

After Zhang Dingbian left in the evening, Sitarama also took the two beauties who served Zhang Dingbian very intimately and let him take them away, of course...... These two women are still under Sitarama's control, and he needs these two pillow people who sleep next to Zhang Dingbian to provide him with a steady stream of information.

When Zhang Dingbian returned to his residence, Hamid had already left, and after Zhou Buxin heard that Zhang Dingbian was back, he immediately walked out of the door and wanted to talk to Zhang Dingbian about the situation at night, but when he saw the two women beside Zhang Dingbian, Zhou Buxin's footsteps stopped when he had already walked to the door...... Forget it, Sitarama has planted the spy next to Zhang Dingbian's pillow, in order to avoid being discovered, let's wait until tomorrow.

But when Zhou Buxin was about to sleep, Zhang Dingbian knocked on the door outside, and after Zhou Buxin opened the door, he looked at Zhang Dingbian curiously: "Aren't there still two beauties in your house?" Come to me now, not afraid of being discovered by them?"

"I fed them some *** and are asleep now."

Now Zhang Dingbian, where is there still a trace of alcohol, sober as if he hasn't drunk: "Old Zhou, how is your situation here? How's the catch?"

"Hamid came to me with a generous gift, and he gave two of the big night pearls in his fist, hehe...... It's the same as before, it's just testing us constantly."

Zhou Buxin told Zhang Dingbian about the conversation between him and Hamid, and Zhang Dingbian nodded: "The situation over there is similar, Sitarama's old thing is quite drinkable, but it is useless

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Zhang Dingbian also told Zhou Buxin about his conversation about drinking Sitarama, and Zhou Buxin judged, "It's almost certain that they are testing us and want to know what our strength is, I feel ...... After Sitarama listened to what you said, he might choose a bigger adventure."

[In view of the general environment,

"I think so, Sitarama is a very ambitious fellow, and if he knew that we only had a hundred men, and that reinforcements would not have appeared in time, he might have set his sights on the wealth we bringed."

Zhang Ding laughed as he spoke, and when he looked at Zhou Buxin, he had the same smile on his face: "It seems that we want to go together again."

"As it should be."

"Count, count! Please enter the urn!"

With one article and one martial arts, Zhang Dingbian and Zhou Buxin quickly made a plan for the next step and hooked up with Sitarama.

……

Zhu Han took Zhou Zhiruo to go outside for a turn, and it was late autumn when he returned to Yingtianfu.

But he didn't rest, but went to the palace to find Zhu Yuanzhang, and just when it was time to eat, he was pulled by Zhu Yuanzhang to eat a mutton tofu pot.

Ma Xiuying is the queen and the master of the harem, but she is not too involved in the management of the harem, in her opinion, the most important thing is to cook for Zhu Yuanzhang, and when she saw Zhu Han also coming at noon, she knew that the two brothers were big stomachs, so she quickly fried two more dishes and added two more cakes.

Zhu Han and Zhu Yuanzhang have always gobbled up their meals, the two of them ate the food on the table like a storm, Ma Xiuying also put down the fast, handed the two brothers tea, and went to clean up the bowl.

Ma Xiuying knows Zhu Han's character, he won't come to the palace if he is fine, and now that he comes over at noon, there must be something important to discuss with Zhu Yuanzhang.

The harem does not participate in the affairs of the court, this is a rule left since ancient times, although Zhu Yuanzhang does not care about these, but Ma Xiuying can avoid it.

"Brother, Chen Youliang and Wang Baobao, we can't drag it out any longer, we have to clean up the two of them."

Zhu Han directly pointed out the names of Chen Youliang and Wang Baobao, and said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Although they are no longer enough to pose a threat to the Ming Dynasty, they are the most direct enemies of the Ming Dynasty.

After Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he nodded and said: "Qiwu, you are right, this time Timur committed Bian Yinli, although Xu Da is here, don't worry about Timur causing any trouble, but it is very disgusting, we can't rush to Yin Li to screw Timur's head off, we have just passed a few years?" They're eyeing Da Ming! If we don't show our blades, we don't know what else this group will do."

"That's true."

Zhu Han saw that Zhu Yuanzhang also had the intention of using force again, so he didn't need to say anything, the civil and military generals in the court would deal with the details well: "There is one more thing, brother, many of our people in Daming have become rich and have money in their hands, but there are still some people who are still solving the problem of food and clothing, and in some poor and remote places, it is a problem for the people to have enough to eat."

"We have also received a setback, and we are ready to set up a camp of homeless camps and relocate them out for proper resettlement."

Zhu Yuanzhang followed the question raised by Zhu Han and continued: "We have a lot of land in the Ming Dynasty, but we really can't arrange it, so let's go find fertile land, and then knock them down and move the people over."

"This is the solution to the problem, but it can only solve the problem at this stage, what about the future?"

Zhu Han looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and asked him, "What if the fertile land in the world is occupied by us, but as the number of people increases, there is not enough land?"

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he immediately realized that what Zhu Han wanted to solve was not only the present, but also the future, and Zhu Yuanzhang immediately became serious and serious

asked, "Seventy-five, what are you going to do?"

"The commerce of the Ming Dynasty needs a troika to pull it."

Zhu Han stretched out three fingers, "The first is foreign trade, which we are already doing, and the second is to stimulate domestic demand. The third is investment...... We use the money from the treasury to invest in the construction of some infrastructure and involve the people, such as building bridges and roads...... Opening up rivers, developing pastures, etc., can be promoted through the court, so that the people can follow us."

After a pause, Zhu Han continued to say to Zhu Yuanzhang: "This is back to the problem of the poor countryside just mentioned, although those places are barren, they are also part of the Ming Dynasty, and we have the responsibility to build the poor countryside well, which is the meaning of the existence of our court."

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