"What idiots are doing this?!"

In Xiao Yongfang, when Shi Fenglai, who was in the mansion, questioned the head of the mansion in front of him regardless of his posture, the head of the mansion could only reply stubbornly:

"It is Cui Chengxiu and Zhao Xingbang, Zhang Yandeng, Xu Shaoji, Shang Zhouzuo, Yushi Luo Zeng, Guo Tingxun, Fang Zhuangli, Mu Zhikui and others ......"

"A bunch of idiots!" Hearing these names, Shi Fenglai scolded, and at this time, another person in charge outside the study walked in and said:

"Sir, Yao Du sent someone to the matter and Feng Du sent someone to ask about the news of the inner court that the Yanshan officials had learned."

"Tell them the names of those idiots, tell them to clear up their relationship early, and don't set themselves on fire." Shi Fenglai suppressed his anger, but after the two leaders left, his heart became uneasy.

He walked in the study, thinking about the fact that he was not involved in this matter, and he had not accepted bribes from those people on weekdays, and then he slowly relaxed his heart.

"Tell the others, don't mess with yourself at this juncture!"

Shi Fenglai spoke to the three palms at the door, and this person also returned the salute, and then sent someone to inform the officials at all levels.

But even so, Shi Fenglai was still not at ease, for fear that someone would implicate him, so after weighing, he decided to take sick leave for ten days to the officials and close the house.

After Shi Fenglai's approach was seen by Yao Zongwen, he immediately began to follow suit......

"Two Idiots......"

In the study room in the courtyard of Nanxunfang, Feng Quan, who learned about Shi Fenglai and Yao Zongwen's practices, couldn't help but scold.

"Sir, what should I do now?" Standing in front of Feng Quan's desk, the palm asked, and Feng Quan thought about it before he spoke:

"Don't do anything for the time being, this matter has nothing to do with us, and those fools can't implicate me."

"Let the people in my hometown be more careful recently, and then deal with the officials in Zhuozhou, don't give Jinyiwei a chance to frame me."

After arranging, Feng Quan felt that something was wrong, and then he couldn't bear to say:

"You send my favorite collection to Nanzhen Fusi and hand it over to Cui Yingyuan, and then explain what happened."

"This ...... Is that collection going to be given away? The person in charge was a little incredulous, but Feng Quan waved his hand and said:

"Send it out before I regret it."

"This ...... Yes......" was helpless, so he could only respond, and then turned around to arrange the things arranged by Feng Quan.

After staying up all night, after the morning bell rang, the head of the department went to Cui Yingyuan's mansion with a long strip of brocade box, and left in a hurry after leaving things and handwritten letters.

finally waited until noon for Cui Yingyuan to return to the house, but after opening the handbook and things, he hurriedly went to the Qi Palace.

In an hour's time, when Cui Yingyuan reappeared, he was already sitting in the study of Zhu Youzhen in the Qi Palace.

On Zhu Youzhen's desk was a brocade box and a handwritten book given to him by Feng Quan.

He sat upright, even if there was no one in the study, but he didn't dare to slack off at all.

It wasn't until footsteps sounded outside the study after a cup of tea that Cui Yingyuan immediately stood up, and Zhu Youzhen also walked into the house with Li Dingguo, who was following him.

"Let's talk about it, Feng Quan sent you something to scare you like this."

Zhu Youzhen walked to the main seat of the hall and sat down, not sitting in the study.

"This ......" Cui Yingyuan glanced at the brocade box and handwritten book on the desk in the study, and Zhu Youzhen also patted Li Dingguo's back standing next to him after catching a glimpse:

"Go, help Gu bring the things."

"Huh!" When Li Dingguo heard this, he trotted over with his calves and ran back with a brocade box and a handwritten book.

Zhu Youzhen took it, and then slowly opened the brocade box.

What was hidden in the box was a long post, and when Zhu Youzhen opened the long post with curiosity, the content revealed only made Zhu Youzhen slightly confused for two seconds, and then he smiled:

"Wang Xizhi's "Sunny Post When the Snow is Fast", he is really willing to spend the money!"

As he spoke, Zhu Youzhen carefully placed the long post on the table, while Cui Yingyuan lowered his head and said:

"I didn't expect that he would give such a big gift to the martial artist of the humble position."

"If you don't like gifts, it seems that he can't get a better gift." Zhu Youzhen opened the handwritten letter that Feng Quan asked people to give to Cui Yingyuan.

In the handwriting, the story of the incident was vaguely mentioned by Feng Quan, and there were many contents in which he was convicted.

Zhu You looked at the handwriting and smiled, looked up and said to Cui Yingyuan:

"Since it's given to you, you can accept it first."

"Don't you clean up Feng Quan and them?" Cui Yingyuan was puzzled, while Zhu Youzhen took the teacup handed by Li Dingguo and took a sip before saying:

"Naturally, I have to catch it, if I don't catch it, wouldn't it be saying that my Ming Dynasty has no heavenly principles?"

"It's just that it's not now, it's the person who is masterminding this matter now."

"Feng Quan, Yao Zongwen and the others are temporarily kept, and if they don't arrest them now, they will let them eat the silver of the people below."

"When they have eaten with a big belly, let them spit out every penny of the silver they have eaten in their stomachs."

"By the way, let people keep an eye on them, and what are the officials who give them silver?"

"I know about the lowly position, but this post is precious, and the lowly position is vulgar and vulgar, so let's stay here with His Highness." Cui Yingyuan knows how to borrow flowers to offer Buddha.

In the face of his borrowing flowers to offer Buddha, Zhu Youzhen did not have a burden to say:

"I left the post, before the Turpan Khanate sent two sweaty and bloody horses, and the imperial horse supervisor bred more than thirty horses, I asked people to send you one, and it should be exchanged."

"Your Highness!" Hearing that this post could be exchanged for a sweaty BMW, Cui Yingyuan was still relatively happy.

For people like him, "Sunny Post When the Snow is Fast" is no different from ordinary calligraphy and painting, but it is more tempting to sweat and blood.

"Stand down......" Zhu Youzhen said.

"Retire from your duties."

Cui Yingyuan responded, and then slowly withdrew from the hall of the study.

"Take the things to Chengen and let him put them away."

After he left, Zhu Youzhen gave Li Dingguo an order, and Li Dingguo also put away the "Clear Post When the Snow is Fast", and ran towards the outer court of the palace with him in his arms.

Zhu Youzhen took a sip of tea, then got up and walked to the desk and sat down.

After Zhu Youxiao had the four parts and other yamen pieces separated, the original piles of nearly two feet high every day were now less than one and a half feet left.

Although it was only a half-foot reduction in height, it saved an hour of processing time.

Next, Zhu Youzhen only needs to wait for Cao Huachun to go north, and the daily processing time can be reduced to six hours.

The sixteen-hour work day is finally gone, and although it is still zero-seven, it is at least much easier.

Thinking so, Zhu Youzhen also began to deal with it one by one.

He was fast, even faster than most emperors.

Li Dingguo had only been gone for a quarter of an hour, and when he came back, Zhu Youzhen had already dealt with more than a dozen notes.

"Do your homework and don't be greedy for ......"

When Li Dingguo's footsteps sounded, and as soon as he stepped into the study, Zhu Youzhen reminded him.

In the face of the reminder, his original smile immediately became sad.

The distance of seven or eight steps from the desk was forced by him to walk out of the feeling of life and death.

Finally, I sat on the chair with my ass, and when I picked up a calligraphy book, I began to practice calligraphy.

Two copybooks a day, the content of the copybook is the "Training Chapter" and "For the General" in the "New Book of Discipline and Effectiveness", and you can practice words and learn the art of war.

Needless to say, only Zhu Youzhen can come up with such a "homework".

He was in the main seat of the study to deal with the sparseness, Li Dingguo wrote a post next to him, never from time to time to four o'clock, after an hour and a half of time had passed, Li Dingguo put down the pen:

"Your Highness, I'm done."

"Then let's go play......" Zhu Youzhen didn't raise his head, and after Li Dingguo answered, he supported his chin with his hand, looked at Zhu Youzhen with both eyes, and was stunned.

He was stunned for a moment before Zhu Youzhen realized that something was wrong, raised his head and asked with some doubts: "What are you doing here?" ”

"It's too cold, and there's nothing fun to go out, so it's better to rub the wall of fire here with His Highness." As soon as Li Dingguo spoke, Zhu Youzhen couldn't hold back:

"The house has not treated you badly, go back to your house and clean up the fire wall yourself."

"I still have to carry firewood by myself...... Li Dingguo muttered in a low voice, and then immediately got up and ran out of the house, for fear that he would be caught by Zhu Youzhen after running late and preaching for a while.

"......" Looking at the back of Li Dingguo running out, Zhu Youzhen shook his head, and then lowered his head and continued to deal with the music.

In the middle of the recital, most of them are the governor's mansion of the five armies, which battalion of soldiers need to add cotton clothes, or replace swords and guns, as well as some business conditions of the imperial store and shipyard under the command of the imperial horse supervisor.

For Zhu Youzhen, dealing with the sloppiness is like managing a big family.

There are in-laws to be filial to the top, a wife in the middle to take care of, there are so many children to work underneath, and a group of snakes, insects, rats and ants who have been eyeing each other.

It's just that even with his life, there are still people who want to make him unstable and find something for him.

Footsteps sounded, and it seemed that every time the footsteps appeared, they would bring some bad news.

Zhu Youzhen had just sorted out more than half of the recitals, so he put them aside, leaned back on the chair and closed his eyes to recuperate.

After a while, footsteps walked into the study, and the person who came did not speak, as if he was worried that Zhu Youzhen was asleep and he would make a noise to the other party.

"Tell me, what's going on......"

Zhu Youzhen closed his eyes and spoke, and Lu Wenzhao, who appeared in the study, also said:

"The matter of the feudal king spread to Xiaoxiyang and Tianzhu, and the governors and merchants of European countries engaged in the spice trade were very dissatisfied.

"What do you ask......" Zhu Youzhen knew what Huang Long wanted to ask, but he still asked.

Lu Wenzhao didn't know what he meant, but responded: "The Governor of Huanglong asked if he wanted to give this group of people some hardships. ”

"Give them hardship, are you sure it's not for the imperial court?" Zhu Youzhen's rhetorical question made Lu Wenzhao puzzled, and Zhu Youzhen immediately said:

"Shen Tingyang is also sparse......"

"Back to Your Highness, it's Shangshu, but the content of Shangshu is to ask Banzai to suspend the establishment of vassals, or to prepare for a sharp drop in foreign trade taxes."

Lu Wenzhao said, also took out two notes, carefully placed them on the table, and added:

"Shen Bu's political envoy said that if the two go to war, the city will drop the tariff at least one million taels, and the imperial store will have about three million taels of orders will suffer."

"When the war is opened, counting the orders of the Shanghai merchants, the imperial court will suffer a loss of at least 4.6 million taels of silver."

"Shen Bu's political envoy said that even if he wants to fight, he will have to wait five months for the emperor and the maritime merchants to sell the goods first......

"......" After Lu Wenzhao finished speaking, Zhu Youzhen was silent, and only said after a while:

"Shen Tingyang's words must be reasonable, the imperial court is now surviving the difficulties, and the imperial court cannot afford the loss of four million and six hundred thousand taels of silver."

"Tell Shen Tingyang and Huang Long, lead the shore of the land, it is not the king's ministers, all the officials of the Ming Dynasty are people of the imperial court, just say this is alone......"

"In addition, let Huang Long first transfer all the soldiers and horses to the Xiaoxiyang Supervision Mission, and the imperial shop will help transport gunpowder."

"Tell Shen Tingyang to let the imperial shop and the maritime merchants sell the goods as soon as possible, suspend trade with European countries, and wait for the goods to be emptied, and then tell them that the imperial court wants to recover the official factory established in Tianzhu during the Yongle period."

The official factory was a temporary trading post set up by Zheng He when he visited the West during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty.

According to Zheng He's Navigation Chart, Zheng He established official factories in Manchuka (Malacca), Sumatra (Sumatra), Guri (Calicut in southern Tianzhu), and Kulmus (Hormuz, Persia).

The official factory has a grid outside the warehouse, and a warehouse is set up inside to store money and grain, and concentrate the goods for sorting and transshipment.

This official factory, Zhu Youzhen can say that it is only the size of a city, and it can also be said that it covers the entire Tianzhu.

Specifically, the right of interpretation belongs to the Ming Dynasty, after all, the princely states and Mughals of Tianzhu do not understand this history.

"Your Highness, if you say this, I'm afraid that the news will be leaked to the southern princely states and the Mughals in the north."

Lu Wenzhao was a little worried, but Zhu Youzhen shook his head and said:

"What about leaks?"

"How many ships are in Tianzhu from various European countries? How many ships were there in the Mughal and southern princely states? ”

"This ......" Lu Wenzhao paused, thought about it before he remembered, and said:

"There are about 300 ships, and the total number of materials is about 100,000."

"Twelve Guards of the Navy, how many materials are there at the moment?" Zhu Youzhen asked again.

"There are 1.24 million warships, and there are 1,200 supply ships, with a total of about 8 million materials...... Lu Wenzhao was a little nervous as soon as he spoke.

Zhu Youzhen leaned back in his chair and asked Lu Wenzhao:

"How dare the warships of various countries, which are less than one-tenth of our expected number and the number of artillery, dare to be presumptuous in my Daming Sea Territory?"

"Tell the countries that if they want to do business, we can continue to open the market, even if the Tianzhu coast is taken, the spices will be sold at the previous price."

"But if they are still stubborn, then the country will only have twelve guards, and the eight fleets will wipe out the small Western Ocean!"

Saying that, Zhu Youzhan didn't care and said:

"How many armies can the southern princely states and Mughals have? Three hundred thousand? Or 400,000? ”

"If the current thirty-two arch guard battalions can't take Tianzhu, then transfer sixty arch guard camps and one hundred and twenty arch guard camps."

Zhu Youzhen didn't have the heart to argue with the Europeans, and what he said about the division of land among the feudal domains during the court meeting a few days ago was not a joke.

The feudal domains will not be stupid enough to hand over more than 40 million mu of land, and the premise of their surrender of the fields is that Zhu Youzhen has made a lot of preparations and promised that next year there will be a war between the feudal domains.

If the time is delayed, not to mention the decline in the prestige of the imperial court in the feudal domains, the delay of the 32 battalions of soldiers and horses alone will be fatal.

Xiao Xiyang can be self-sufficient, and what he needs to do now is to send troops to feed back the Ming Dynasty finances by fighting and supporting the war.

Only when the wars of the feudal domains fed back enough gold and silver to the imperial court, then the Ming Dynasty could pacify the victims and pacify the captives at the same time.

In two years' time, he will see the heads of Huang Taiji and Nurhachi......

The Ming Dynasty sent troops from the old port no more than 10,000 miles away from the sea, but if Europa wanted to send troops to intervene, it would have to cross the entire African coastline.

If they really dared to send troops, Zhu Youzhen would not mind selling hundreds of thousands of catties of gunpowder to the Ottoman Empire, or even training a black army for the Ottomans.

Presumably, the young Ottoman Sultan at the moment would have liked to have an armed force of his own to counterbalance the country against Persia, Hungary and the HRE.

"Anything else?"

Zhu Youzhen looked at Lu Wenzhao and asked, and Lu Wenzhao also said:

"There is one thing, Yan Siqi is ready to launch the Northern Expedition on the seventeenth day of the first lunar month to recover the area of the capital planned by His Highness at the end of next year."

Hearing a rare piece of good news, Zhu Youzhen changed his sitting posture for a while, and then spoke:

"The state capital has nearly one-third of Yingzhou's population, tell Yan Siqi to prepare well."

"Yes......" Lu Wenzhao responded, and Zhu Youzhen asked when he saw this:

"Has there been any movement over there in the past few days?"

"Except for the garrison defense, there is no act of mobilization, but ......" Lu Wenzhao glanced at Zhu Youzhen before saying:

"They have not given up letting some Han Chinese slaves go to North Korea, and then try to make a detour to North Korea to return to our country and steal the technology of Yanshan artillery."

"According to the people caught in Jingcheng, Jianyu can basically achieve self-sufficiency with sweet potatoes, but their grain output is declining every year."

"Last year, you could still have five stones of sweet potatoes per acre, but this year there are only about four stones and six buckets."

Lu Wenzhao's words made Zhu Youzhen very interested, and he said with great interest:

"It seems that they got sweet potatoes, and after they have no food problems, they are currently thinking about holding on to it in exchange for time......"

Zhu Youjian showed a slight sneer, because he knew that even if there were sweet potatoes and potatoes, in the face of the cold wave of the Xiaoice River, the grain production in all places would be reduced.

The result of the reduction in food production was an internal famine.

Whenever a country has an internal famine, the only solution is to expand effective land and acquire new means of production and resources.

The Xiaoice Age is not only for Daming, but for countries around the world.

At present, the European countries, if nothing else, should also be staging the drama of the Great Famine.

The reason why most of Europe survived the Xiaoice Age was also because Europe had already begun to plunder the world's colonies.

Although European countries, especially those in the Nordic region, are close to the Arctic Circle, they should be most affected by the Xiaoice period.

However, due to the fact that Europe at that time mainly focused its manpower and material resources on foreign aggression, the reduction of local grain and fishery production did not have much impact on Europe.

The lands that can be occupied in East Asia have been recovered by the Ming Dynasty one by one, and the remaining countries are also vassal states of the Ming Dynasty.

For these vassal states, the Ming can help them survive the famine, and will also use their food to help the Ming tide over the famine.

Therefore, countries close to the Ming Dynasty can survive, while countries and tribes such as Transkhalkha and Jianguo, Lin Dan Khan, and Warat will only wait for the population to plummet if they do not maintain their aggression and acquire new means of production.

Zhu Youzhen is not sure whether the Heilongjiang region suffered any disasters at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but even if there were no disasters, Jianyu would not be able to withstand the cold winter.

You must know that even the Beishan Jurchens living in Eastern Siberia chose to go south in large numbers during the Xiaoice River, which is one of the reasons why Tsarist Russia can easily occupy Eastern Siberia.

The cold is like this, but when the temperature drops by three or four degrees in the north, the yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes will be reduced by 30 to 50 percent.

This is not the most terrible, the most terrible thing is to plant sweet potatoes and potatoes in patches like Jianyu, so once the two crops are sick, what you get is a piece of harvest.

When it comes to the end of the harvest......

Zhu Youzhen thought of a good way, that is, to artificially collect fungi and let Jianyu meet a great famine.

This method can be used not only against Jianyu, but also against other countries, but it is somewhat difficult.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen instructed Lu Wenzhao:

"You go and ask Cheng En if there are any cases of bacterial infection and death in potato and sweet potato fields in various places, and then let people ask what is the difference between Jianyu's methods of planting potatoes and sweet potatoes and ours."

"By the way, remember to continue to let Beizhen Fusi explore the intelligence of the Western Regions and Wusizang, and you may be able to use it after the pacification of Jianyu."

"Yes!" Lu Wenzhao responded, and then slowly withdrew from the study.

After he withdrew, Zhu Youzhen began to recall the spread of crop diseases.

However, he didn't have much research in this area, instead of studying this, it was better to see that Jianyu's cultivation methods were different from those of the Ming people.

After all, in his impression, the degradation of potatoes has a lot to do with the way potatoes are cultivated.

Since the use of tubers as seeds for propagation is actually asexual reproduction, the defects or viruses of the mother will be inherited by the offspring, and the cumulative yield reduction over multiple generations is obvious.

In this day and age, it is not surprising that potato yields would have decreased without the means of artificial detoxification.

Moreover, even if it is artificially detoxified, it cannot make the potato yield of this era absolutely not decrease.

Unless Jianyu has the professionally detoxified potato seeds of later generations, it will not be able to avoid the end of reduced yields.

Even the current Ming Dynasty actually needs to keep changing seeds, selecting and breeding to maintain the 30 million acres of potatoes.

As for sweet potatoes, if they do not change to new varieties when planting sweet potatoes, the virus will continue to accumulate in the sweet potato, which will aggravate the disease from generation to generation, leading to the degradation of seed properties and the deterioration of quality.

Generally speaking, such a result will lead to a reduction of more than 2 to 40 percent of the sweet potato yield, and in the worst case, the sweet potato will even lose its ability to set potatoes.

Detoxification and replanting are the best means of treating all root crops, and the productivity and technology of Jianyu determine that they cannot have fertilizer and breeding capabilities.

At this time, if the fungus starts to spread among the cultivated land of the Jianyu, the situation is very interesting.

However, no matter how interesting it is, it is not as interesting as the current raid on the officials of the Zhejiang Party and the Eunuch Party......

(End of chapter)