"You're right, but is it really that easy to do?"

Zhu Youzhen did not believe that Jiangnan officials and businessmen were fools.

To put it bluntly, trade with Japan began in the Tang Dynasty and reached its peak in the Song Dynasty, and after the route was determined, a large number of maritime merchants in the late Ming Dynasty began to walk with this trade route.

Otherwise, there would not have been so many maritime merchants who hired Japanese ronin, and then caused a rebellion on the southeast coast.

If you want to meddle in Japan's trade, you have to be the enemy of the merchants in the Jiangnan area.

Unless we can afford more money and support more officials to form an exclusive interest group, what Lu Jianxing said will not be realized.

"Please give your highness a year of lowly duties, if you can't alleviate the food shortage in Liaodong, and you can't earn military salaries for the imperial horse supervisor, you are willing to be imprisoned!"

Lu Jianxing gritted his teeth and simply said the poisonous oath of prison.

This scene made Lu Wenzhao's brows tighten, and Wang Chengen sighed even more in his heart, saying straight in his heart that this Lu Jianxing didn't care about life and death in order to soar.

It was Zhu Youzhen, who was stunned by his poisonous oath, but the next second he smiled:

"Lu Wenzhao, your subordinates are brave......"

"It's just a vulgar person with a bit of guts, who offended His Highness, please forgive Your Highness." Lu Wenzhao hurriedly confessed, and his words sounded like he was belittling Lu Jianxing, but he was actually protecting him.

No one dares to be sure that doing business in the south will definitely make money, and if the words of the edict are said, if it really fails, Lu Jianxing will be ruined for the rest of his life.

Lu Wenzhao was reluctant to Lu Jianxing, but Zhu Youzhen was not angry when he heard it, but smiled and said:

"Lu Jianxing, the chief flag officer of the Fu Division of Weinan Town, is the official of one hundred households!"

"Wait for the 300,000 taels of silver from the inner treasury to be escorted and handed over to him to go south to do business, I want to see if you can do something!"

Zhu Youzhen sincerely admired Lu Jianxing's character of not wanting to die for the sake of his future, and he was not afraid that Lu Jianxing would flee overseas with 300,000 taels of silver.

Once the 300,000 taels of silver are lost, it is not him who should be anxious, but Lu Wenzhao.

"Thank you for your support!"

When Lu Jianxing heard this, he hurriedly bowed to the ground and bowed to the ground.

"Stand down!" Zhu Youzhen waved his hand, and when Lu Wenzhao saw this, he also signaled Lu Jianxing to retreat.

Lu Jianxing saluted repeatedly, then got up and slowly withdrew from the outside of the palace.

After he withdrew, Zhu Youzhen spoke:

"Cheng En, a handwritten letter, asked Qi Yuanfu to recruit troops in Zhejiang, send people to Fujian, Guangxi, looking for three crops."

"One is called jade wheat and maize, the other is called sweet potato, American potato, and one is called potato and Dutch potato."

"These three must be found, and once they are found, they will be sent to the Yanshan camp immediately, and as many as they will be sent."

"In addition to these three, I will order people to find a crop called pepper, sea pepper, and Qin pepper."

"Slave maid takes the order...... Wang Chengen didn't understand why Zhu Youzhen asked someone to get these things, but this did not prevent him from responding.

Perhaps only Zhu Youzhen knows the specific planting methods and yields of these things.

Corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, although they have been discovered for two hundred years, they are not produced as much as later generations believed.

Even in the Qing Dynasty, their cultivation area was not large, but this did not affect their use by Zhu Youzhen.

These three crops can be mixed with rice to make porridge for disaster relief, and can also be used to raise livestock.

The most important thing is that corn and sweet potatoes are very drought tolerant, and the wasteland at the foot of Yan Mountain can be used to grow them.

Depending on the climate, planting them in the plains is a gamble.

Once there is a large-scale drought like the Xiaoice drought, the river water is depleted, and even if it is drought tolerant, it cannot survive without water.

However, they are planted at the foot of the mountain range, not to mention that they can provide water after the wind and snow melt in the north, and the small mountain streams in the Yanshan area alone can feed them.

In Zhu Youzhen's memory, although a drought broke out in Changping at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the water source of Yanshan was never cut off.

Therefore, it is best to plant here, and as long as it becomes large, then go to Ryukyu to plant.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to silver, there was also people's hearts, but in summary, there was only one problem, and that was food!

As long as he does a good job of grain, Zhu Youzhen will have the strength to set the table against various parties together with his good imperial brother.

Thinking like this, he was in a much happier mood, and at this time, a little eunuch also walked into the palace road:

"Your Highness, long live the morning class has ended, ask Your Highness if you have had breakfast, if you have used it, you will go to the back left gate outside the imperial horse."

"Good!" Hearing that he finally had time to learn to ride a horse, Zhu Youzhen was also interested, and hurriedly arranged for someone to prepare to go out.

It's just that when Xiang Zhen walked out of the East Palace, Zhu Youzhen encountered a group of officials who withdrew from the Wenhua Palace.

"In this way, it doesn't look like a retreat from the early dynasty, but it seems to have something big."

Zhu Youzhen was suspicious, and then said to Wang Chengen: "Chengen, send someone to ask what is the matter?" ”

"Yes......" Hearing this, Wang Chengen sent a Jinyiwei to inquire, and then Jinyiwei came back to report:

"Back to His Royal Highness, the cabinet will discuss inviting Young Master Ye Xianggao to re-enter the cabinet and call hundreds of officials to observe."

"Ye Xianggao?" Hearing this name, Zhu Youzhen frowned.

In his memory, Ye Xianggao was because the Donglin Party had won the support in the palace transfer case, so as to squeeze Fang Congzhe, Sun Ruyou and others out of the power center.

After squeezing out the two, the Donglin Party welcomed Ye Xianggao back into the cabinet as the first assistant, but although the Donglin Party welcomed back Ye Xianggao, later generations also believed that Ye Xianggao was the Donglin Party.

But in fact, Ye Xianggao is a non-partisan person, and like many people in the DPRK who are considered by later generations to be the Donglin Party, they are actually self-proclaimed officials.

The reason why people say that they are the Donglin Party is because during the Wei Zhongxian period, anyone who disobeyed Wei Zhongxian and offended the eunuch party was the Donglin Party.

Ye Xianggao is the first assistant with a little talent at the end of Wanli.

However, his personal ability is not outstanding, and he cannot hold power like Gao Gong, Xu Jie, Zhang Juzheng, and Shen Shixing, and at the same time govern the court in an orderly manner.

However, his only advantage is that he is very good at harmony with the mud.

As a Qingliu official, he did not favor the Donglin Party, which was also a Qingliu, but worked hard to settle the disputes between various parties.

From the perspective of political pattern, Ye Xianggao's pattern is relatively large.

However, in the late Ming Dynasty, which would die if the law did not change, Ye Xianggao and the dilute mud in disguise accelerated the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

As the first assistant to enter the cabinet, he neither helped the Donglin Party to crush the Qichu Zhejiang Party with Yang Lian and others, nor did he help the Qichu Zhejiang Party to crush the Donglin Party.

Maintaining the situation of party contention is to continue this meaningless internal friction in disguise.

Politically, the entry of every cabinet minister into the cabinet is the result of a compromise between various forces.

Therefore, when Zhu Youzhen heard that Ye Xianggao was going to enter the cabinet, he immediately understood what the parties wanted to do.

The Donglin Party thought that when Ye Xianggao came back, he would occupy a position in the cabinet for them and suppress the Qichu Zhejiang Party.

However, the Qichu and Zhejiang parties can see that the current situation of the Donglin Party is very strong, and it is a good way to find someone who can eliminate the struggle between various parties to the minimum.

The reason why they are looking for Ye Xianggao is, firstly, that Ye Xianggao has a hand with the mud, and secondly, it is to deal with Jingcha three years later......