Ambassador Yang, who was as guarded as a jade, soon appeared in Ruiguang Temple with Zhang Xianzong, mixed in with a group of noble women.

"How did this thing get hung up?"

Yang Feng looked at the tower on the top of the Ruiguang Temple with great interest.

In this day and age, it really takes technology to get tons of this stuff up.

Zhang Xianzong shook his head.

Yang Feng turned his head to look at the hall behind, Mrs. Zhu and her girlfriends were still worshipping the Buddha, looking very pious, I have to say that these rich and idle women have been empty to this point. However, Zhang Xianzong always refused to tell him the true identity of this woman, but fortunately, Yang Feng did not care about this issue, this woman obviously coveted his beauty.

But is Ambassador Yang the kind of person who betrays hue?

This is the customer.

He's just doing his duty as a professional manager.

After waiting for a while, the women finally finished their prayers.

The little maid held the box full of alms to the little monk next to her, and the monks who received them certainly couldn't touch this mundane thing with their own hands......

"I don't want to be poor!"

Yang Feng sighed.

Then he switched his face and walked forward with a solemn expression......

"Master!"

He said together.

The master hurriedly folded and returned the salute.

Mrs. Zhu looked at Yang Feng with interest.

"Master, I really want to do my part to promote the Dharma."

Yang Feng said.

"Amitabha, this is a great merit."

The master said perfunctorily.

"Ambassador, your Great Xia Kingdom also respects the Dharma?"

Mrs. Zhu said curiously.

"Respect, of course, we were like the master at that time, we had to go out with a luxury car, even the government had to be respected, casually a monk in the rich businessman, also respected, we at that time just built a tallest Buddha statue, it was seventy zhang high, all copper and gold, copper alone had to be millions of catties."

Yang Feng said.

"Amitabha, it is really the Pure Land of the World!"

The master said visibly with some excitement.

"So, as soon as I saw the master, I felt kind.

I would like to propose to the Ming Emperor to send an envoy to the Western Heavenly Buddha Country, just like Tang Xuanzang did back then, to study Buddhism in the Western Heavenly Buddha Country, especially to the Holy Lands such as Da Lei Yin Temple, Nalanda Temple, and Yelu Yuan to experience the Dharma. However, I am an outsider after all, and even if I propose to the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, His Majesty the Emperor may not agree, so I would like to ask the master if he can help contact the temples in various places. By my proposal, the masters jointly played, the big deal is that we don't need the imperial court to pay, the temples donate a little, I know the sea route to Tianzhu, let's find a few monks who are willing to go by boat.

It's only a few months back and forth.

Even if those sailboats were slower, the round trip would not take more than a year at most. ”

Yang Feng said.

"Master, this is a great merit, you don't need to worry about the cost, we can just donate it to the believers."

Mrs. Zhu said with a look of surprise.

"Amitabha, since this is the case, how dare the poor monk disobey."

The master hurriedly said.

Anyway, it wasn't him who went.

Yang Feng then called Zhang Xianzong over and asked the Hanlin Bachelor to draft the recital, speaking of which, this is the first time Yang Feng wrote a recital to Zhu Yuanzhang, in the past, he used to pass on the words directly, Zhang Hanlin's recital is naturally simple and clear......

If there is too much nonsense, it is easy to get a court rod!

Soon the fold was completed, and then Yang Feng handed it to the master for signature, and the rest had nothing to do with him, the master would pass on the fold and let the hosts of those temples sign it, in short, the more the better. When do you make up a hundred, send it to the capital, sign it for those masters in the capital, and finally send it to Yang Feng, who will hand it over to Zhu Yuanzhang, and ask Zhu Yuanzhang to allow the masters to pool money, choose believers to go to sea, and use the road map provided by Ambassador Yang to go to Tianzhu. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang still forbade the people to go to sea, and he only opened up the two maritime trades of North Korea and Ryukyu, but not the Daming maritime merchants to go to these two, but allowed these two to go to the Ming Dynasty.

Then trade with treasure money.

So this kind of going to sea must be approved by him.

After completion, Yang Feng left Ruiguang Temple in the master's respect......

"What the hell do you want to do?"

Zhang Xianzong said in a low voice.

In the small sedan chairs next to them, the ladies looked at them with a smile.

Yang Feng smiled at Mrs. Zhu.

"Promote the Dharma!"

He said.

"Ambassador Yang, you and I don't get along for a day, usually you mention monks are not like this, Zhang has no good impression of this generation, Buddhism is profound, Zhang is only shallow in learning, and he really doesn't dare to talk about it, but for monks, in fact, the good and the bad are uneven, and there are many people who are difficult to meet the facts, and even lawless.

You and I should be open and honest! ”

"I really want to push them to go to Tianzhu, especially to the places I mentioned."

"What's wrong with those places?"

Zhang Xianzong is not stupid, and he immediately understood.

"Let's put it this way, the Western Heavenly Buddha Kingdom is now the territory of these people."

Yang Feng pointed to a passing fur boot and said.

Zhang Xianzong's eyes widened in surprise.

"What about the monks?"

He asked.

"There are no monks, there is no more, Tianzhu or the last Buddhist temple in India was burned down in the third year of Song Jiatai, so far there is no Buddhist temple there, it has completely become the territory of these people, as for the Buddhist scriptures, those places have long been in ruins. At present, we call the Delhi Sultanate, but now there is a lot of chaos there, a group of masters have passed, I am afraid that they will have to be hacked to death, we have to help them, let His Majesty the Emperor send an envoy to take them.

It can be regarded as the messenger of the Ming Dynasty.

That should save their lives.

The real purpose of my doing this is to let them pay money to the imperial court, and the people can't build large sea ships that go to sea, so I want to go to Tianzhu to get them to raise funds, and then hand them over to the imperial court to build ships for them.

The sailors must also have the navy of the imperial court.

One ship is definitely not enough, how can you get a dozen big ships.

They pay.

His Majesty the Emperor prostituted a fleet for nothing.

Then they also paid for it, and His Majesty the Emperor made a long voyage to Tianzhu to open up a route, and when this trip was completed, the Ming Dynasty would be able to establish stable sea exchanges with Tianzhu.

How cool it is to be a white prostitute!

Don't you dislike them?

I remember that your emperor didn't seem to like them very much.

Then send people to follow and take a look, and then they will see that there is no Dharma in the Western Heavenly Buddha Country, the Wild Deer Garden is just a ruin, the people on both sides of the Ganges River have long been ignorant of the Dharma, they are poor, famine, plague is continuous, and they are surviving in the mire, compared to them, our Ming is more like the Pure Land. ”

Yang Feng said.

Of course, this is of little use.

After all, even if the modern Internet is so developed, there are still strange creatures like Inbuki.

He just wants to prostitute an official exchange between the Ming Dynasty and India for nothing, Zhu Yuanzhang lacks motivation for this because it costs money, but now that someone is giving him money, he who likes white prostitution should not miss it, and the interaction with India, especially North India, will bring him what he wants most.

Steed.

Mawarima.

This is arguably the most perfect war horse in the East.

It can fight in the ice and snow of the plateau, and can also fight in the hot and humid swamps of South Asia, and the food is not as delicate as that of European horses, but it is not much smaller than the latter.

It is completely possible to fool the Delhi Sultanate, under the pretext of partnering with Timur, coaxing them to provide a small amount of Mawari horses for the Ming Dynasty, and then hybridize in the Ming Dynasty, this thing does not need to be shipped by sea, as long as the Delhi Sultanate is willing to provide it, it can enter the Ming by land route from Uszang......

They will agree.

Because the greatest enemy of the Delhi Sultanate was Timur.

They were destroyed by the descendants of Timur.

At this time, it was the Tughluk dynasty, who were defeated by Timur at the Battle of Delhi soon after, sacked Delhi and then collapsed and soon perished. At this time, Timur also declared himself a vassal to Zhu Yuanzhang, as long as he told this to the Delhi Sultanate, and then told them that as long as Timur beat them, the Ming Dynasty would administer justice for them, so what is it to sacrifice a few hundred horses?

Nothing else matters.

The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang now discourages trade with Nanyang is actually not so complicated.

One is that he doesn't want to export too much, which leads to the domestic rice producing areas becoming cash crops, and the other reason is actually that he has too much pepper in his hands......

Well, it's just too much.

After all, the shelf life of pepper is extremely long, and dried peppercorns are often dried, and there is no problem for more than ten years, so the pepper of the Yuan Dynasty's overseas trade was still piled up in Zhu Yuanzhang's warehouse in the early Ming Dynasty, and Tang Heguang collected more than 6,000 catties in Fuzhou. After that, the small Nanyang countries of Srivijaya still paid a large amount of tribute every year, or came to trade under the guise of tribute, but as a result, the pepper was accumulated more and more, and Zhu Yuanzhang once wanted to replace salt with pepper.

That is, let the merchants transport grain to the border to exchange for pepper and then sell pepper.

But the right to import is his.

That is to say, the state-run monopoly on pepper imports, and merchants transport grain to the side, and then exchange pepper from the government to sell.

But it didn't happen.

So much so that the accumulation of pepper as many as millions, he simply used it as a reward, Hongwu once rewarded the soldiers in the capital with three catties per person in the twelfth year, and rewarded more than one million catties, and later Zhu Di actually picked up his gameplay during this period.

But later Zhu Yuanzhang found a more high-end way to play with treasure money.

So pepper is useless to him.

Zhu Di had to change to pepper because he couldn't play with treasure money.

"Ambassador Yang, what are you talking about, why are you afraid that we will hear it?"

Mrs. Zhu said enchantingly.

Yang Feng turned around and leaned over......

"I'm asking Zhang Hanlin if there is any place to have fun in this Suzhou city."

He said as he lowered his head on his horse and held his hand to the window.

"What do you know about that Hanlin?"

Mrs. Zhu said with a smile.

"I don't know!"

"Of course he doesn't know, he is an official of the imperial court, and if he dares to go to such a place, the black gauze hat on his head will not be guaranteed."

"Then it's a pity, Nuo is a big Suzhou city, can't you even find a place to have fun, uh, don't think too much about it, madam, I just want to find a place to listen to songs, watch dancing, there is no other meaning, we were very serious entertainment at that time.

Those who sing well have a great future. ”

"If that's just the case, the concubines have a different business here, and they all have singers and musicians at home, and I don't go to live around them, and the ambassador will have to delay for a few days if he wants to come to Suzhou, so he will lend the ambassador and Zhang Hanlin to live, and then borrow a few singers and musicians from their homes, and the ambassador will not be lonely."

Mrs. Zhu said with a blushing face.

"What's so embarrassing about this, aren't we magpie's nest doves?"

Yang Feng said.

He lowered his head as he spoke, so that the two of them were closer, and the heat was almost enough.

"The concubine didn't live there originally, but she came here to visit her cousin, so she naturally lived with her cousin."

Mrs. Zhu's face turned even redder as she spoke.

"Is that disrespectful?"

Yang Feng said with a mysterious smile.

Mrs. Zhu slapped his hand three times, and then quickly sat upright......

"I'm going to visit a friend tonight, too!"

Zhang Xianzong came to Yang Feng's side, looked at Mrs. Zhu in the distance, and said with a serious face.

"Go ahead, you don't have to come back at night!"

Yang Feng didn't look at him, and waved out a few times with the back of his hand and said.

"I still have to warn you, this woman better not provoke."

Zhang Xianzong said helplessly.

"I didn't provoke her, she did it first."

Yang Feng said.

Zhang Xianzong was speechless, so he had to leave by himself.

Immediately afterwards, a maid came over and took Yang Feng to that other industry, which was actually a courtyard with a garden pool in the city. The Ming Dynasty had a strict household registration, and it was not possible to buy land or buy a house outside of the original registration. This should be her family's businessman, purchased in Suzhou in the name of a merchant, which is the center of the handicraft industry, and those powerful families have special domestic slaves as merchants to do business in Suzhou. In this way, it is naturally indispensable to buy other businesses, after all, once the master comes to inspect, there is no place to live.

Is it still possible to live in a business?

There are also housekeepers and slaves here, and then arrange everything for him, good wine and food, full of wine and food, and then sent to the warm pavilion in the depths of the garden, at this time it has rained, although it is not big, but it is still very long, and the warm pavilion at night is lit with candles, and the candlelight is swaying in the light and dark.

Ambassador Yang, who was bathing and changing clothes under the service of the maids, lay comfortably on the short couch and closed his eyes to recuperate.

Soon he opened his eyes......

"What about people? Where have they gone, didn't you let me listen to the songs and watch the dance? And what about the singing and dancing? ”

He shouted dissatisfied.

The door of the pavilion was closed, and it was empty, even the candles had been extinguished, only the lanterns outside let in some light, and the maids were gone.

The wind outside blew in, blowing the curtains, and the sound of the wind was accompanied by the sound of rain, and for a while there was a bit of a ghost atmosphere......

"If this is a squeak......

Yang Feng sighed.

The next moment......

"Squeak!"

The door of the warm pavilion, which had been closed, slowly opened.

An elongated black shadow was thrown in instantly, and there was a figure with an umbrella standing in front of the door, her long skirt reaching the ground, her clothes fluttering, and in the light behind her, the wind blew her long flowing hair, and she slowly raised her head under the umbrella, showing a white and miserable face......

"Childe, are you waiting for me?"

She said in a very ethereal voice.

"Can you change the style of painting?"

Yang Feng said melancholy.

The latter let out a burst of gloomy laughter, then threw the umbrella and pounced directly at him, Ambassador Yang suddenly possessed Zhong Kui, and grabbed the female ghost, instantly held her down, and then pulled out his belt and began to tie it......