Kaifeng.

Zhou Wangfu.

Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, is the fifth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and the half-brother of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, he is very studious, and Zhu Chun, the king of Shu, is called "Shu Xiucai" by Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, likes medicine and botany.

He has a lot of research on traditional Chinese medicine, and when he was in the imperial city, he once consulted with the imperial doctors in the imperial court to study various medicines.

It's just that now he is deeply frightened, sitting on the bed and restless.

"Otomo, what should I do......

looked at the eunuch who was accompanying him, and the eunuch was also entangled and didn't dare to speak.

Kaifeng, as the former Ming Beijing City, has a very important granary, Kaifeng Warehouse.

As an important transportation hub of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal such as the Tongji Canal, this place stores millions of stone grain, grain, tea, silk fabrics transported to Shaanxi from the south, as well as cotton clothes and shoes, gunpowder and other military supplies from the northern border guards, all need to be operated here.

Therefore, Kaifeng can be called the top priority for Daming at this moment.

But with the announcement of the Ming Dynasty to move the town to Beijing to Beiping, Kaifeng has become less important.

The position of Kaifeng warehouse is also in jeopardy.

After the Yellow River seized Huai, Kaifeng Cao Yun was already difficult to transport grain, the waterway was much more difficult than before, and now the town was changed to Beijing to go to Beiping, Kaifeng City some flies camp dog Gou dirty deeds, it is difficult to hide, because the Son of Heaven has sent the household department and the officials to come here to check the inventory of warehousing.

The appearance of Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, is also a bit similar to Zhu Di, with long hair.

With horror on his handsome cheeks, he sighed: "It's all the princess, it's all the princess, the princess misunderstands me, Song Guogong misunderstands me!" ”

As he spoke, he sighed and fell back with his hands on the bed.

King Zhou's princess Feng was the daughter of Feng Sheng, the Duke of Song.

And the eldest daughter of Feng Sheng, the Duke of Song, married Zhu Xiongying's uncle, that is, Chang Mao, the Duke of Zheng.

Because the daughter of Chang Mao and Feng Sheng, she still has no heirs.

This caused the relationship between Feng Sheng and Chang Mao to be very unmatched.

And the Feng Sheng family, in the Central Plains of Henan and other places in the Ming Dynasty, and the power of the Deng Yu family is intertwined, extremely huge, Feng Sheng once took advantage of Zhu Hu Town Kaifeng, secretly went to Kaifeng, and repeatedly conspired with Zhu Hu, so that Zhu Hu could do something convenient for him and do some business in the Central Plains.

Zhu Yuanzhang was furious when he heard this.

In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, Zhu Huben escorted grain and grass from Kaifeng to Beiping to support King Yan, but on the way he met Feng Sheng privately, and Feng Sheng begged him to bring more private goods in the fleet, all of which were tea, silk, pepper, cane sugar and other things that were in demand in Beiping, and they were transported to the north to make a lot of money.

The matter was reported, and Zhu Yuanzhang ordered him to take a boat back to Nanjing after arriving in Beiping, and severely reprimanded him.

It's a pity that Zhu Hu is a reader with very soft ears, and he can't stand his wife's soft grinding and hard bubbles.

In the past few years, he has met Feng Sheng privately several times, and secretly reaped a lot of benefits for the Feng family.

Over the years, as Feng Sheng and Shen Guogong Deng Zhen have gotten closer and closer, the business between the two families has become bigger and bigger, if Zhu Xiongying is here, he will definitely feel that fate is a very magical thing.

In the time and space of his previous life, Feng Sheng's credit was not under Tang He and Deng Yu.

But he had too much appetite, did more business at the border, and was not clear with the civil official group, especially the Confucian families in Henan, Shandong and other places, and secretly controlled Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, which angered Zhu Yuanzhang, and two years after he gave Lan Yu to death in his previous life, he also gave Feng Sheng to death.

Moreover, Feng Sheng is one of the few people who did not accompany the meritorious heroes of the Ming Dynasty who was crowned king after his death.

The twenty-four generals who are much less meritorious than him, many of them accompany the temple of meritorious heroes.

It's all because of a greedy word......

According to Feng Sheng's martial arts, he could have flaunted the annals of history and had a good story with Zhu Yuanzhang.

But he formed a party for personal gain, which not only harmed himself, but also harmed Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou.

"If my father knew that I helped Song Guogong to transport private goods on official ships, resulting in so much loss in the Kaifeng warehouse, my father would definitely not be able to spare me......"

Zhou Wang Zhu Hu's expression was sad.

In the past few years, Daming has become richer and richer.

Daming Royal Bank, opened all over the place, Kaifeng is a key area, more storage, more earnings, with more banks, the nobles have also started the idea of boats, because with their own camel teams and caravans to transport goods, in vain manpower and horsepower, the official ship does not need to pay for its own money, Daming Royal, do not use in vain.

The cost of using the public and the cost of using one's own family is still clear about this point for these nobles who have come out in the war.

The civil officials in the south, because they couldn't meddle in too much of the caravan trade, provided raw materials, such as rice, cane sugar, silk, Wu cloth, and tea, and they didn't make much money, so who couldn't get along with the money.

As a result, whether it is the Huitong River or the Tonghui River, many merchant ships come and go, which seem to be transporting money and grain to the border guards, but in fact they are transporting tea, cane sugar, and Shu embroidered silk for the nobles.

Anyway, the accounts of the open warehouse can be modified.

On the side of Beiping, there were also people in the three divisions who greeted them, and the grain transported on the road itself was floated, and when they arrived later, the noble marquis of the Northern Guard Station did not pursue it, and the civil officials did not dare to say anything.

With huge profits, the nobles are all crazy, and they are all stuck in the eyes of money.

Feng Sheng is not exempt from vulgarity......

In fact, Feng Sheng was originally the candidate left to the crown prince Zhu Biao in Zhu Yuanzhang's mind, so he has been pressing Feng Sheng and Fu Youde to be sealed, but unfortunately Feng Sheng has never understood Zhu Yuanzhang's hard work, and gradually fell into the way of a powerful minister and an oligarch.

When the inner eunuch heard this, he also sighed miserably, if the Zhou King Zhu Hu incident happened, they, the long history of the Zhou Palace, and the inner eunuchs, would all have to be punished.

His eyes flickered, he gritted his teeth and pondered, and said: "Your Highness, it is better for Your Highness to send an envoy to Nanjing, tell the guilt, report all the things that are greedy for ink, and then go to Fengyang, the central capital, kneel in front of the tomb of Gaozu, take the guilt, and mourn to the saint, so that you may be able to escape the responsibility." ”

"Huh?"

Zhou Wang Zhu Hu sat up, his eyes lit up.

"So, is this really going to work?"

The inner eunuch smiled bitterly: "Your Highness, you are a noble family after all, even if the crime is monstrous, it is nothing more than punishing Fengyang to guard the mausoleum, the crime is not to death, you are guilty of your own guilt, kneeling in front of the ancestors, how can the saint be too harsh on you again?" ”

Hearing this, Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, nodded.

"Well, that's it......"

The eunuch smiled bitterly and took a deep breath.

You prince, you are amazing.

I'm waiting for the inner servants, as well as the governor of the Zhou Palace, as well as the subordinates, I'm afraid that you will be punished for leaving the fiefdom and going to Fengyang without permission......

But there was a flash of anticipation in his eyes.

I heard that now, Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty has committed capital crimes, all of whom have followed the example of the previous dynasty when the Great Yuan Dynasty sentenced them to go to the border guards, like Yunnan, Gansu, Liaodong, and Beiping to defend the border, and even the big officials of the Ministry of Officials did not die after embezzling hundreds of thousands of Ming silver dollars, but were exiled for 3,000 miles and went to Guizhou to be a liuguan.

As long as King Zhou confesses and is lenient, he and the others still have a way to live......

Looking at the indecisive Zhou King Zhu Hu, the inner servant decided to cut through the mess quickly, and first fooled Zhou King Zhu Hu to Fengyang to take the blame, so as not to persuade him to come back by the princess of Zhou or Feng Sheng, the Duke of Song, and hide the guilt......

……

Sian.

Just welcomed the crown prince Zhu Biao and the emperor's eldest grandson Zhu Xiongying to the Qin Palace, Zhu Biao didn't have time to take a sip of tea, so he criticized Zhu Wei, the king of Qin.

"Second brother, post stations in many places in Shaanxi, horses and donkeys are seriously missing, I walked along the way, and found that many post stations lack horses up to sixty percent, and the horses are not enough to make up mules and donkeys, all of which are prevarication and play, fooling me and so on! But Ma Zheng reported the shortage of money to the household department, and still asked for money according to the full amount, where did these horses go? ”

Zhu Biao waved his hand to retreat from the crowd and fired directly at Zhu Wei, the king of Qin.

Zhu Wei was stunned, he was happy to catch up with his eldest brother, but how did he suddenly become a ......

He was a little aggrieved, and opened his mouth, but he couldn't say why.

Zhu Xiongying saw that he was deflated, and sighed: "Second uncle, let me tell you." ”

"The horses and ox carts of our post station, as well as donkeys, many of the nobles who passed by, the princes and princes took them away, or they passed by from Shaanxi, and went to the officials who took office in various places, today you lead a horse, and tomorrow I take away an ox cart, and the post man does not dare to care, nor dare to say, and this has become the unspoken rule of officialdom."

The officials of the Ming Dynasty took the post post horse, there were strict regulations, that is, in order to prevent the noble prince from messing around, Pingliang Hou Fei Ju, because of the private post horse, was reprimanded by the emperor's grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang, because he was not to ride the horse, he was a dignified Pingliang Marquis, how could the military background be short of horses, he looked at the post station horse handsome, and had a greedy mind.

People like Pingliang Hou Feiju are not alone, and civil officials are also engulfing standing horses.

Men, they all like to ride something.

Men, too, are obsessed with what they have ridden.

Who wouldn't want to have a car.

"As for the money spent on the horse station, it is mostly coveted, because the post station reception is often exceeded!"

"I Daming to the post station households allocation, is according to the payment of grain tax to raise horses, pay grain 70 stone to raise a horse, pay grain 10 stone or less, eight households to support a horse, this horse is worth a lot of money, pull to walk for rent, but also earn some money, is their many post station households family livelihood."

"When the officials saw that the horses were good, they forcibly rode away and drifted, saying that they were standing on the horses and died!"

"Second uncle, eight or nine families depend on a horse to survive and feed, these officials and masters say that they will die, and eight or nine families will have no livelihood to sell their sons and daughters, won't their conscience hurt!?"

"Shaanxi Post Station is eroded like this, second uncle, as my Zhu Ming royal, acting as the emperor's grandfather Mubian guarding the domain, this is how you protect Shaanxi and Gansu?"

"You're not afraid, one day there is a post man surnamed Li who can't survive, and he will rise from Shaanxi!"

Zhu Xiongying's voice was deafening.

Qin King Zhu Wei smiled awkwardly and said, "Xiongying, you should study, you actually know so much about my Daming Horse Station system......"

Zhu Xiongying rolled his eyes.

To paraphrase the words of the three heroes of the northwest of Shanxi,

Read, read a fart!

"This is not something you can learn from books, second uncle."

Zhu Xiongying sighed and looked at Zhu Wei, the king of Qin: "Second uncle, you are so haggard because of the wine. ”

"It's time for you to quit."

"Nephew, look at your complexion, it's obvious that you're overindulged......"

Thinking of the two stunning princesses and aunts, Zhu Xiongying felt that his second uncle, Zhu Wei, the king of Qin, would sooner or later die of exhaustion due to too much riding.