In the Temple of Fengtian.

Cao Guogong Li Wenzhong has also sat on the side, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, because of the influence of Meng Yuan, the palace is also popular to sit down, and there are many Yuan Shun Emperor concubines and palace maids in the Daming Palace, and some grassland style habits have also been brought into the palace.

Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Biao, Li Shanchang, and Li Wenzhong are sitting cross-legged on a precious Samarkand carpet, and on the stall is a sandalwood table that was used in the palace in the Southern Song Dynasty, and there are aromatherapy, milk, fruits, tea, and tea soup on the table. The tea set includes both Jiangnan Junxiu porcelain and Persian-style gold and silver ware.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were many ways to take tea.

There are cold brew method, grinding method, brewing method, as well as various latte art from the Song Dynasty, blending process, boiling tea method, and other conditioning method, adding spices to the preparation method.

Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the way of drinking tea was complicated, and personally issued an order to set the way of serving tea as the brewing method.

After the former Yuan conquered Europe, he brought back a large number of craftsmen from Europe, Central Asia and West Asia, as well as the imperial chefs of the Western court, and they also brought back to China the way they made dim sum.

For example, the tea products on the table today include West Asian-style fennel oil cakes, steamed dumplings, oil fragrance, sesame sugar cakes, as well as fruits that have existed in the Southern Song Dynasty, Bijian bean cakes, five-spice cakes, crispy qiong leaves, and crispy cakes.

Several cups of tea, filled with mutton fat and white jade, were placed in front of several people.

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were slender, when he tasted tea, his eyelids drooped slightly, and his whole cheeks were shrouded in tea mist. ”

Li Wenzhong, the Duke of Cao, was not only in charge of military affairs and intelligence, but also in charge of the Ming Dynasty's tea and horse trade in the West, which was not only tea and horses, but also silk, medicinal herbs, grain, and most importantly, porcelain and salt.

Since the Southern Song Dynasty, Jiangnan has been rich in the world.

Silk, tea, porcelain, is the Ming Dynasty tax items, the other is salt, the official family to give salt, merchants with the garrison to bring grain and grass to the army station, to obtain salt.

Since the third year of Hongwu, Deng Yu Xuda conquered Liangzhou, and the religious leaders of Tibet and Qinghai after the alliance in Liangzhou, there were living Buddha leaders in Qinghai, Tibet and other places, and went to Nanjing to make a pilgrimage to Zhu Yuanzhang, and accepted the canonization of the emperor, and then the trade between the emperor and the west was very close.

First, in Qinghai Tibet, the plateau lacks food and clothing, and is in urgent need of salt and tea, while the head Tusi, a religious leader, lives a luxurious life, loves the silk and porcelain of the emperor, and the living Buddha blesses him, and uses more silk from the south of the Yangtze River, which can be imagined that silk tea is precious.

The Ming Dynasty was in urgent need of military horses, and Gansu Hetao and other places were often harassed by the Northern Yuan, so they had to march horses from Qinghai-Tibet and other places, and Xining Wei was specially set up for this purpose.

However, today's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is also very complex internally, with many tribes and factions, divided into dozens of factions of large and small, including dozens of Buddha heads, some pro-Ming, some pro-Northern Yuan, and some on both sides are not offended, from Mengyuan into the horse, sold to the Ming.

The canonized living Buddhas mostly listen to the propaganda and do not listen to the tune.

Zhu Yuanzhang has long had the intention of recovering Qinghai Hehuang, you must know that in the former Song Dynasty, even the traitor Cai Jing was in charge of Qinghai and controlled it. The Emperor Ming is naturally not weaker than the Song Dynasty, and what is more urgent is that with the fifteen years after the peace of the world, the handicrafts of the entire Ming Dynasty, silk, tea, and porcelain, began to flourish, and these hard currencies need to be opened up to market, and this road is the Silk Road.

The Northern Yuan Dynasty occupied the overland Silk Road, and the Emperor Ming could only trade through the Xifan Tea Horse Road, and the tea horse silk tea salt was an important source of taxes for the Ming Dynasty.

Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, Li Wenzhong turned around and arched his hand: "Qi Qi Sheng, now the big and small Buddha heads of the West are all powerful to the emperor and tomorrow, since the pacification of Yunnan, Sichuan and Shu are peaceful, this year only military horses, I can get more than 10,000 horses, silk and satin, sold more than 500,000 horses, all the heads of the tribes in the West, all with military horses, cattle and sheep, gold to pay, there is no arrears." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang squinted.

"Qinghai Hehuang has always been my homeland in China, and the Tibetan lamas are mostly in collusion with the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

"No!"

Before Li Wenzhong could speak, the Korean prince Li Shanchang was surprised, his face was solemn, his eyes were solemn, and he said seriously: "Holy Lord, no." ”

"Qinghai-Tibet and other places, the road is far away, the fame is not good, through the Mengyuan and sparse China, near Di Yi and far away from China, if you want to conquer, one of the logistics baggage can not continue, the second plateau is cold, the Tang Dynasty famous general Xue Rengui is still difficult to succeed, now my emperor and the people are tired, the treasury is empty, why start the war lightly?"

Zhu Biao also frowned and said: "Father, the sons and sons also think it is inappropriate, now the wars are frequent, the people are heavily served, and there are many mistaken agricultural times, and Yunnan is at the beginning of peace, after the war, there will be a famine, and the northwest bandits are serious, the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty are wandering around, and the money and grain transferred in the northwest have been repeatedly robbed by bandits, and it is not easy to send troops." ”

Yes, today's Ming bandits are very rampant.

In some places, the government can only manage the periphery of the city, and if it is a little farther away, it cannot actually control it.

In fact, this is also subject to the limitations of today's times, the Ming Dynasty can only manage the county master, and the township is the territory of the gentry, you must know that Zhu Xiongying's later generation, even if the grassroots management organization is advanced to the village, and there are modern guns and weapons, it is more than ten years after the founding of the People's Republic of China to completely eradicate the bandits.

In today's north, bandits are rampant, the government is corrupt, and Zhu Yuanzhang's proposal to recover Qinghai-Tibet is actually a thought of moving the capital to the north.

Nanjing is too far away from the north, and the officials in the north do not listen to the propaganda, which is a big trouble after all, so he has sent the prince Zhu Biao to inspect Kaifeng and Luoyang.

Zhu Yuanzhang picked up the teacup of mutton fat jade, stared at the twisting teacup with his eyes, and said with a smile: "I am not attacking for this moment, but for a long-term plan." ”

"It seems that this mutton fat white jade is the white jade that was entered in Khotan, and the west went in, only to get the price of water, and my emperor went to buy it, it was the price of wine, if the west fan belonged to me, then I would do it myself, and the people would benefit."

"The Great Stone Tooth Forest of Western Liao, only more than 100 years ago, I want to come to the Western Regions to have my Han family legacy, Qinghai-Tibet and other places, the Yuan Dynasty Lama Buddha head was canonized by the northern lord, plundered my Han family people as slaves and maids, do cattle and horses, the world and me, if I have a sword in hand, I will wave the army to the west, and return home to my Han family!"

After speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Li Shanchang again and asked: "The general stationed in Yunnan, can there be a lover in the heart of the Korean public?" ”

……

chatted with Zhu Gui for a few words.

Zhu Xiongying found that this first king of the Ming Dynasty was really a good person and a smart person.

No wonder, in his previous life, Zhu Yunwen and his fourth uncle Zhu Di did not pull down their faces to attack him.

Zhu Yunwen wanted to find an excuse for cutting the domain, and the officials of the substitute land searched for various charges, and finally came to the conclusion that Zhu Gui, the acting king, was "short-tempered." ”

That's right, it's grumpy grumpy.

You must know that at that time, Zhu Yunwen had already cleaned up several uncles for the crime of treason, and the king of Xuan would cry when he saw the crime of being placed, so there was no need to be too polite to the acting king.

However, the officials on behalf of the land searched for a long time, but they really couldn't find a crime, and they couldn't pull down their faces to make up this person, and finally Zhu Yunwen demoted him to a concubine on the grounds that Zhu Gui was short-tempered.

When the fourth uncle Zhu Di succeeded, and restored Zhu Gui to the king, the fourth uncle did this, mainly to set an example for the world, I, Zhu Di, am by no means the kind of mean and unkind son of Zhu Yunwen who treats his brothers lightly!

Then the fourth uncle Zhu Di frowned and looked at Zhu Gui's son.

Brother, your son is really naughty, as a great tomorrow, I must discipline and discipline!

Yo, the young man is playing a lot of flowers, dozens of big crimes, you don't dare to do it, you do it, your father doesn't dare to say it, you say, the royal power is licensed, do whatever you want, this is the vassal king?

really took pity on Zhu Gui's unlucky son, escaped Zhu Yunwen, met his fourth uncle Zhu Di, was pitted to death by Zhu Di, and when he came up, he fabricated dozens of charges and buckled Zhu Gui's son's head, and after he died, he was given the nickname "戾".

The nickname "戾" can be called one of the most unpleasant nicknames in ancient times.

Zhu Xiongying looked at Zhu Tan, the king of Lu, his tenth uncle was impatient and indignant, Zhu Tan was nicknamed "Wild", and Zhu Gui's son was nicknamed "戾", which can be called the Wolong and Phoenix Chicks in the Ming royal family, all of which belong to the kind of nicknames that are very disgusting and difficult to hear.

I'm going to go, saying that if I can't survive this eight-year-old catastrophe, I'm so healthy, won't the civil officials behind me give me a disgusting nickname......

"It's hard to be the emperor, it's hard to be the prince, it's hard to be the prince, and I'm Zhu Xiongying's life......"

Zhu Xiongying couldn't help pursing his lips, sighing slightly in his heart, his eldest grandson is not so easy to sit on, and he doesn't know how many eyes are staring at it.

If I can't survive this eight-year-old catastrophe, I don't know how the history books will knock me.

Those people who write history books and hold the pen are good and bad.

In fact, the old Zhu family has a lot of talents, especially the nine-sided race king of the first Ming Dynasty, don't look at the class in Wenyuan Pavilion at this time, several princes don't seem to be very concerned, in fact, Zhu Yuanzhang is very strict with the discipline of future generations, and even harsh, and these princes are basically very smart except for a few strange and absurd things such as Zhu Tan, the king of Lu.

But these less intelligent and discerning Ming princes, as long as they go to the fiefdom, they will begin to be unscrupulous, tyrannical and cruel within two years, and then they will be beaten by local officials and written in the history books as comparable to the people of the Emperor......

Is it a coincidence?

No, it's because local officials don't need a wise vassal king.

You say that you are greedy for money and lustful, how good it is, the magistrates can also raise you as a pig in the palace, you have to care about the people's sufferings as soon as you come, walk around, and check whether the court policies are implemented. Everyone will be punished quickly!

Jinyiwei bullied us, and my official confessed.

You're a foreign vassal king who wants to join in the fun!? Okay, let's do it together!