So when the imperial power was strong enough, it was difficult to get the gentry to support expansion.

There is no guarantee!

The gentry were not ignorant of the benefits of going out to plunder.

It's impossible not to understand this.

There is no essential difference between domestic bone and marrow sucking and peeling and cramping abroad, but the problem is that even if they support plundering under the strong imperial power, the final harvest is also very likely to be the emperor's all, and as a result, they pay the cost, but they do not get the harvest. Even if the emperor could sign an agreement with them, it would not be interesting, and the strong imperial power meant that the emperor would kill them, and it would be naïve to expect that an agreement could bind a person who was killed or killed.

Therefore, not only can we not support it, but we must do everything we can to prevent it.

This is why the Voyage to the West finally stopped.

The benefits all go to the emperor.

Zhu Di directly used pepper to pay the officials' salaries.

Who knows whether Zheng He bought it or grabbed it......

Well, in order to show their loyalty to the Ming Emperor, Nanyang Fanbang took the initiative to contribute to the Ming Dynasty.

Besides, even if it's not a contribution, buying it in Nanyang is similar to picking it up for nothing.

Of course, the gentry couldn't bear it.

We pay for taxes for you to engage in this kind of expensive trip to the West, and in the end not only can you not get a piece of the pie, but in the end you have to be exploited by you for the second time, that pepper is indeed cost-effective at the beginning, but it can't stand Zheng He's boatload back, and more silver can depreciate not to mention pepper.

So the civil officials, who represented the interests of the gentry, did everything they could to sabotage it.

It is normal for Liu Daxia to burn charts.

He is from Huguang.

It is possible that the gentry of Fujian, Guangdong, and Zhejiang have made some money in the Western Ocean, and they have paid purely for inland grain-producing areas such as Huguang......

Burn!

Gotta burn!

Otherwise, which emperor will worry about it in the future, and he won't have to pay for nothing in a grain-producing area like Huguang?

You can't eat alone!

But the problem is that a strong imperial power will inevitably eat alone.

This is the crux of the problem, if the problem of the emperor eating alone is not solved, the Ming Dynasty will never really be able to embark on the road of strong expansion, at most it can rely on one or two super strong emperors to overwhelm the gentry, and then push the outward development with personal will, once this kind of emperor is gone, people will die.

But I don't want the emperor to eat alone......

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di are stupid!

Why should I give it to others?

This is really incomprehensible.

It was not until the time of these emperors of Wanli that it was possible to force the emperor to accept a distribution plan that could not eat alone.

Of course, this has nothing to do with Yang Feng, all he wants is the emperor's support for expansion, whether the gentry support or not is what Zhu Yuanzhang needs to solve, and His Majesty the emperor will let the gentry support if they don't support it. In fact, at this time, Zhu Yuanzhang had begun to expand in an all-round way, not only in the northeast, but also in the northwest, and Zhu Li, the king of Jin, was also taking his younger brother King Su and King Qing to tour the west. The king of Jin sat in Liangzhou, the king of Su and the general soldier Song Sheng entered Jiayuguan in the west, the king of Su sat in Jiayuguan, and the king of Hameri was forced to arrive at Jiayuguan to meet the king of Su, and then died in Jiayuguan......

Sick and dead.

It's not about being killed anyway.

Subsequently, the Ming army sent 3,000 cavalry to escort his body back to Hami, and by the way, his younger brother Ankh Timur succeeded the king of Zhongshun by a holy decree.

and set up Hamiwei.

In order to protect the king of Zhongshun, and set up a post station between Hami and Jiayuguan.

This is the Western Front.

And Zhu Yuanzhang on the southern front has already paid tribute to Annan as a minister who is good at ruling the dynasty and chaotically, and sent an envoy to reprimand him, Lan Yu is training troops in Guangxi, and is actually ready to attack Annan, Hu Jichen is also preparing for war while sending an envoy to explain in the name of Chen Shuming.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang deliberately hung ......

He was waiting for Hu Jichen to gather all the troops, and then solve it in a battle on the battlefield.

Otherwise, it's easy to get trapped.

In addition, it is also waiting for the civil strife in Annam.

After all, Chen Shuming also wanted to find an opportunity to kill Hu Jichen.

For Zhu Yuanzhang, winning this battle is of course a good thing, and losing is not a bad thing, after all, if you lose, you can give Lan Yu a blow to the head, so that this more and more domineering guy has a sharp decline in prestige in the army, no matter what, His Majesty the Emperor will win steadily. However, Lan Yu is very serious, after all, now the emperor's grandson is Zhu Yunxi, the son of his sister's daughter, the future of the Ming Dynasty is often in the spring system, and he, as the boss of the often spring system, of course has to play a majestic role at this time.

As for the attack on the Wa Kingdom, it has also begun, and Zhu Yuanzhang has already sent an envoy to rebuke Ashikaga Yoshimitsu before.

O deceitful!

What is it that you dare to usurp the title of emperor, and dare to conceal the facts, are you not deceiving the emperor?

So Zhu Yuanzhang asked Ashikaga Yoshimitsu or Minamoto Yoshimitsu to ......

Yuan Daoyi is his Dharma name after becoming a monk, so originally in history, Zhu Di called himself Yuan Daoyi, but now he has not become a monk, or Yuan Yiman, when he tried to pay tribute to Zhu Yuanzhang before, he called himself Yuan Yiman.

It's okay to be a tribute and a dog to the Ming Dynasty, but first of all, you must abolish the emperor, and secondly, you must apologize for the previous deception, and it is not difficult for you, just according to the standards of North Korea, just give me 5,000 war horses plus some gold and silver. Then His Majesty the Emperor gave them the right to be a dog for the Ming Dynasty, and named Yuan Yiman as the king of the Wa, and from then on he was loyal to the Ming Dynasty, honestly as the dog of the Ming Dynasty, and honestly paid tribute every year.

This is obviously impossible.

If Genyoshimitsu can depose the emperor, he will not be a shogun.

Not to mention five thousand war horses?

It's hard to say whether there are 5,000 of all the war horses in the entire Wa country!

And they are all the hearts and souls of those daimyos, a family has dozens of horses is very luxurious, moving their horses is the same as moving their lives, even if Yuan Yoshimitsu wants to sacrifice horses, it is estimated that he can't do it without beating all the daimyo from all over the world.

So it was simply impossible for him to accept it.

Then His Majesty the Emperor can justifiably crusade against him.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang quickly accepted Yang Feng's suggestion, and after the spring breeze changed next year, he would gather troops and materials to Qingjin and other ports, and wait until winter to land in Echigo, and march to Kamakura, putting on the posture of taking the north of the Japanese kingdom and forcing Gen Yoshiman to go north for a decisive battle. You can even seduce the Ashikaga clan, this guy is the Kamakura Gongkata, the equivalent of the Ashikaga family's branch in the Kanto region, the cousin of Minamoto Yoshimitsu, and has always been interested in the latter's position.

If Zhu Yuanzhang put on the posture of wanting to crown the Ashikaga clan as the king of the Wa Kingdom, then Ashikaga Yoshimitsu really has to fight with all his might.

All he wants is for him to fight with all his might.

Then the Ming Dynasty subdued him in a war, and then forced him to accept a series of agreements that humiliated the country.

Indemnity for land cession.

Generations of silver mining for the Ming Emperor.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang was sending warships to Xiaoliuqiu......

It's an island.

Ryukyu is a large Ryukyu, and an island is a small Ryukyu.

But his purpose is actually a small island in the north, after all, Yang Feng told him that there is guano there, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who is extremely sensitive to farming, of course hurry up when he hears that there is this good thing, and he has to consider the difficulty of going to Dongsha and Xisha for the time being, but it is not difficult to go to the East China Sea, just go straight there from the mouth of the Yangtze River this season.

The return flight will go to Guangzhou.

In short, a fleet of twelve warships has gone to dig guano for His Majesty the Emperor.

His Majesty the Emperor, who was stimulated by Yang Feng, is now reversing his previous stability and has begun to attack from all sides and embark on the road of comprehensive expansion.

It is estimated that if you want to grab as much as you can, you can grab as much as you want.

After all, if you grab enough of it, even if your children and grandchildren are losers, they can lose for a longer time.

Of course, these have nothing to do with Yang Feng.

After he returned to the capital, he was engaged in banking, building agricultural machinery, purchasing seeds, and his fish vine powder, not only fish vine powder, but also gall alum......

Bordeaux liquid!

However, it can't solve the spray, this can only be used to soak seeds, and the price is relatively expensive, and it is impossible to really use it in large quantities, which is used to make copper, and the main means of making copper at present is the bile copper method, that is, using this as a raw material, and then using iron to replace, so in a sense, using this as a pesticide is similar to burning money.

"Your kind of field is also like curing diseases, except medicine is medicine!"

Zhang Xianzong sighed.

They are now on the third floor of the embassy.

This layer belongs to Yang Feng, and the two layers below belong to the righteous women.

In fact, Zhang Xianzong's was also forcibly occupied by Yang Feng.

After all, he has too many righteous daughters, it is impossible for an embassy to accommodate them, there is no one on Zhang Xianzong's side, Ambassador Zhang still lives there with an old servant, and it is enough to have a third floor.

He is not like Yang Feng and has subordinate officials.

Therefore, not only the Ming embassy in Daxia, including the surrounding annexes, are all occupied by those righteous women, standing upstairs and looking down every day, the surroundings are simply chaotic and charming, all of them are dressed in various colors of girls and even little girls, and now the folk have been circulating the legend of Ambassador Yang following the example of Emperor Yang of Sui......

It is also vivid.

Idlers are all stunned when they hear it, and then look at Wutai Mountain, hating to replace it.

"That's right!"

Yang Feng said.

Then he took the glass test tube and shook the Bordeaux liquid in his hand like a chemist.

The blue liquid looks weird in the sunlight.

"Ambassador, someone has come to deposit money."

Housekeeper report.

"Finally someone is here!"

Yang Feng said excitedly.

His bank has been opened, called Daxia Bank, in fact, it is in this embassy, after all, it is safe enough here, Jinyi Wei is stationed, and then add another sign next to the embassy's sign, not just one, in fact, this is also the headquarters of Daxia Production and Construction Group, the headquarters of Daxia Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing Group.

Clique.

Words specially introduced by Yang Feng.

Then Zhu Yuanzhang gave him a clear definition, which is a collection of business names with multiple operations.

For example, the production and construction group includes reclamation, animal husbandry, transportation, and even armed escort, in short, it is similar to the joint fruit product.

The Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing Group owns the right to manufacture all industrial products, including weapons.

Except for firearms.

Such a multinational consortium with banks as the core, including agriculture and animal husbandry, industry, transportation, and even armed mercenaries, was born, although now this multinational consortium is only an office on the third floor of the embassy of the Great Xia Kingdom......

"Madam, look what you like, as the first guests of this bank, you will receive a souvenir!"

Yang Feng sat behind the oversized desk he had designed, pointing to the shelves on both sides and said.

In front of him was the first depositor of the bank, a young woman in her early twenties, who looked very cute, but she was already a wife, and Ambassador Yang could only sigh that it was too late to see each other. The latter stood by a shelf, curiously looking at the various furnishings on it, in fact, most of them were glass products, and Yang Feng set up a glass-burning workshop next to the embassy.

I am currently practicing my hands.

So it's all the product of his practice, all of them have weird colors and weird shapes.

Although there is the information transmitted by Sister Liu, it is still necessary to keep experimenting after all.

The Ming Dynasty also had glass.

Zibo Yanshen Sun's family is a specialized royal glass manufacturer, but they treat glass as a luxury, something like a gemstone, which is different from what Yang Feng is doing now.

Yang Feng is going to burn the glass bottle and use it to fill the canned food in the future.

"What is this?"

The young woman said, pointing to a lump of columnar glass.

"Wentian, this is a work of art, I named it Wentian, see it straight up, the body twists the green tendons, as if raising its head to the sky, in the middle like an open mouth to the sky with all its strength to shout, if you like, I can give you a souvenir.

But it's easy to break. ”

Yang Feng explained very seriously.

The young woman also nodded knowingly, but she didn't know why, and her face flushed slightly.

Then she returned to her place and sat down, and the maid next to her stepped forward with a box, put it on Yang Feng's table and opened it, and inside was a thick treasure banknote, which looked like there were thousands of dollars, and they were all new banknotes, that is, with watermarks and color-changing inks......

"Here is a thousand banknotes, the concubine is widowed, and has no children, although there are relatives, but after all, they are already outsiders, these savings still have to be put in a safe place, the ambassador's identity is special, and there is a mortgage to protect, so I would like to deposit the ambassador here, but the concubine also has requirements, and the ambassador cannot disclose the identity of the concubine to the outside world."

She said.

"Madame, rest assured, secrecy for depositors is the first criterion of our bank, don't say it's an outsider, even if the emperor of your country comes, don't want to know your identity, all you need is to press your fingerprint, take away the banknotes, we only recognize the banknotes and your handprints.

I don't even need to know your real name.

All you need to do is give me a pseudonym that I can use to keep accounts. ”

Yang Feng said with a smile.

Then he took out a deposit slip......

"This is made of materials from our Great Xia Kingdom, and outsiders will never forge it."

He said.

This is actually a parachute cut.

No one can fake this.

"Then I'll be relieved."

The young woman said.

Yang Feng, who finished writing the deposit receipt, pushed forward, and the righteous girl hurriedly held it in front of the young woman, who looked at the marker, and then picked up the marker pen in the posture of writing calligraphy, hesitated, signed his name, and then pressed the handprint, and the righteous girl held it in front of Yang Feng again.

"So, Mrs. Zhu, you are welcome to become the first depositor of the Bank, do you still like that question?"

Yang Feng said.

"It's also chic to look at!"

Mrs. Zhu said with a smile.

Yang Feng signaled to the righteous daughter, who quickly took off the box, and the maid took it, and at the same time, Yang Feng personally walked in front of Mrs. Zhu with a box......

"Madam, the things in here are not for play, especially the ring must not be pulled, after pulling out, we have a room of people, I'm afraid there will be no one alive."

He said very seriously.

Inside the box were ten grenades, and on top of them were ten bills.

"Who's going to play this!"

Mrs. Zhu glanced at him a little shyly and said.