Outside the Jinchuan Gate of Nanjing City, a large area near the lime mountain that cannot grow crops was allocated by Zhu Yunxi to foreign friends to build mansions.

In this era, if you want to be an international friend of the Ming Dynasty, if you are not the king of a small country, you will not even be qualified to be shortlisted.

At present, this area is home to the residences of the emperors of the northern and southern parts of Japan, as well as the residences of the kings of the Southern Dynasties, Goryeo, Ryukyu, and Vietnam.

On the surface, it was convenient for them to meet the Ming Emperor and live, but in fact, this was the painting that Zhu Yunxi gave them as a prison.

When he finishes cleaning up the powerful countries in the Western Regions, he will not let go of any of the small countries near the Ming Ocean, and all of them will be divided into counties of the Ming Dynasty by him.

As for the original king of the small country, he naturally moved to the Ming Dynasty and enjoyed the treatment of the state for generations.

Of course, the premise is to be obedient.

If you don't obey, just find a reason to die.

Honda Tadashi came out of the palace of Fengyang Mansion and immediately got into a carriage and rushed to Nanjing overnight.

Three days later, Honda Tadakatsu's carriage docked at Toriyama Hanamachi, the site of Emperor Heisei of Japan's Southern Dynasty.

Now Xicheng has long since removed the title of emperor, and even gave up all rights in Japan, only retaining the necessary fields, mines and other industries to maintain his expenses in the Ming Dynasty.

Although the Ming Dynasty did not agree to the merger of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Southern Dynasties were in decline and were no longer the opponents of the Northern Dynasties.

Therefore, he also pushed the boat down the river and gave all the military and political power of the Southern Dynasty to the Emperor of the Northern Dynasty, Ganren, hoping that he could cheer up the emperor and block the usurpation of the throne by Yuan Daoyi.

However, Ganren did not take his little family wealth in vain, and also gave him a lot of promises and authorizations.

For example, seeking protection in the Ming Dynasty and seeking a spokesperson entrusted to him.

When Hee-sung learned that Honda had come to pay a respect, he immediately ordered someone to call him into his secret room.

"Say it, but what kind of excessive demands did that imperial grandson make?"

Honda faithfully heard the words of the heartache.

"Your Highness, Zhu Yunwen is really too much, the hundred dead soldiers we carefully selected were sent by him to carry out the mission of death, and none of them came back alive!"

"Zhu Yunwen not only did not repent, but also shamelessly asked us to continue to provide the dead, and asked us to prepare 100,000 taels of gold for them!"

Hee Cheng frowned when he heard this, obviously very disgusted by Zhu Yunwen's behavior.

"One hundred thousand taels of gold is a trifle......"

"It's too hard to ...... just a hundred dead soldiers"

"Ganren's life is not easy over there, our emperor is weak, and he is long gone, where can he give him so many dead soldiers?"

"Your Highness, then let's reject Zhu Yunwen and let him figure it out by himself!"

"No, no, no!"

Hee-sung shook his head firmly.

"It's better to inform Ganren of this matter and let Ganren make a decision."

"In addition, discuss with Yuan Daoyi and see what opinions he has on his side."

"Him?"

Honda was a man of the emperor's lineage, and he was most disgusted with the shogun who committed the following offenses like Minamoto Daoyi.

"Your Highness, Yuan Daoyi is bent on being the emperor, will he support us?"

Xi Cheng shook his head when he heard this.

"No!"

"But after all, he is also in the emperor's lineage, and he doesn't want Japan to be annexed by the Ming Dynasty, right?"

"Uh-uh......"

"Okay!"

"Your Majesty will find a way to send the news back to China."

"Go ahead!"

"Be careful on the road, don't be targeted by the Jinyi guards."

"Please rest assured, Your Highness, Your Excellency's identity in Daming is a businessman, specializing in the slave trade from Japan to Daming, they trust Your Majesty very much, and they are very welcome."

"Slave ......"

When Xi Cheng heard this, his face immediately showed a touch of sadness, and after coming to Daming, he knew what an emperor was and what was majesty.

Look at how majestic the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is, he can kill tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of people in a single case.

Look at the emperor of Japan, named Emperor, in fact, he is not even as powerful as a prefect of the Ming Dynasty!

"Try to leave as much spark as possible for Japan!"

"Your Majesty understands!"

Honda Tadashi left Hanamachi and went straight back to Nanjing, using the Daming Post Office to send a telegram to his men in Japan.

"The price of Daming slaves has risen wildly, it has risen to ten taels of gold, and there is still no market, please hurry up and prepare three hundred carcasses to send to Daming."

"I also told my wife and concubine that I was short of money, and I hope he and the two of them will work together to achieve it."

In just a few dozen words, he spent a hundred taels of silver, which made him, a person who is not bad for money, feel that he is robbing money.

"Dare to ask Your Excellency, when will I get my news!"

"Soon!"

"If your address is correct, you'll be there this afternoon."

"Okay!"

"Please!"

The people at the post office took Honda's faithful money, and immediately recorded his telegram, waiting to save up to a certain extent, and concentrated time on sending it in the direction of Japan.

This is Zhu Yunxi's reform of the post office, in order to allow them to balance their income and expenditure, so that they will not always rely on subsidies from the imperial court.

Therefore, in the private postal business, the threshold of the telegraph business was liberalized one after another, allowing the Ming people and foreign merchants who stayed in the Ming Dynasty to use it.

However, this price is not close to the people at all, one hundred wen a word in the territory, one thousand wen a word outside the country, and another one thousand wen if you cross the sea.

This price is not something that ordinary people can afford, even businessmen have to be businessmen with huge profits to afford.

Japan.

Emperor Kanhito and Minamoto received a telegram from Honda at the same time, and after reading the telegram, they immediately thought of each other.

As soon as Ganhito was about to send an envoy to inquire about Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, he heard a report from his subordinates that Ashikaga Yoshimitsu had come to ask for an audience.

Without thinking about it, Ganren got up and went out, and warmly received General Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.

"Ashikaga General, have you also received a telegram from Emperor Heesei?"

"Roger!"

"What do you think?"

"Your Majesty, it seems that we should satisfy Zhu Yunwen."

"Zhu Yunxi is the only person who can compete with Zhu Yunxi, as long as he becomes the Ming Emperor, he will definitely make every effort to abolish the measures taken during Zhu Yunxi's reign."

"Take the Navy, for example!"

"Oh?"

Gan Ren asked curiously when he heard this.

"Please ask General Ashikaga to explain why Zhu Yunwen abandoned the navy."

"The strength of the Ming Navy is rare in the world, Zhu Yunwen has no reason to give up such a powerful army, right?"

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu thought for a moment when he heard this.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty learned during the Ming Dynasty that there were three people competing for the throne."

"One of them, Zhu Yunxi, deserves his name and is watched by the world."

"If Zhu Yunxi doesn't have an accident, he will definitely be the next emperor of the Ming Dynasty."

"The second is Zhu Di, the king of Yan, Zhu Di is older and the strongest among the vassal kings."

"The third is the eldest grandson Zhu Yunwen!"

"Of these three people, Zhu Yunxi is the most greedy and ambitious, if he becomes the emperor, Japan and North Korea will be assigned to Daming County sooner or later."

"Therefore, we can't let him ascend the throne without any means."

"Secondly, Zhu Di, Zhu Di is quite ambitious, and he is also particularly keen on expanding his territory."

"As long as we still have a chance to choose, don't choose to support Zhu Di."

In the end, only Zhu Yunwen was left, firstly, Zhu Yunwen had no great ambitions, and secondly, Zhu Yunwen was not in the right position, so he could only respect the heavens and the ancestors. In addition, he once proposed two as long as the imperial grandfather made a decision, he resolutely defended it! As long as the policies formulated by the emperor's grandfather, he will unswervingly follow them! ”

"Therefore, after Zhu Yunwen ascends the throne, he will definitely give up his overseas conquest and restore the system of his grandfather's non-conquest of the country."

"The last and most important point is that Zhu Yunxi is extremely unconfident, and it is impossible to rest assured of the descendants left by Zhu Yunxi."

"The Jing Navy was formed by Zhu Yunxi, and he was only loyal to Zhu Yunxi, and Zhu Yunxi was not sure to control it, so he could only disband them!"

Ganren nodded as he listened, indicating that he was extremely taught.

"Ashikaga Shogun is really resourceful, and Ganhito admires him to the fullest!"

"Your Majesty has praised it falsely, and your subordinates are just watching and listening more."

"According to General Ashikaga, we should fully support Zhu Yunwen?"

"Hayi!"

"Only when Zhu Yunwen is on the throne, we Japan will have a chance to breathe. Otherwise, let Daming continue to squeeze for decades, even if Daming doesn't annex us, we won't be able to maintain it. ”

Ganren nodded in agreement, but soon looked embarrassed.

"I have the same idea, but this dead man and 100,000 taels of gold ......"

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu behaved very simply and did not hesitate to take on the heavy responsibility.

"Your Majesty, don't worry!"

"Whether it's a dead soldier or gold, your subordinates will bear it with all their might!"

"Then there's General Rushikaga!"

Ashikaga Yoshiman bowed, and then respectfully withdrew.

Although he has long wanted to be the Japanese version of Cao Cao, he has always done a lot of work on the surface.

After knowing the strength of the Ming Dynasty, he became even more humble and gave the emperor enough face.

After Ashikaga Yoshimitsu returned to his Muromachi shogunate, he immediately summoned his ministers and issued a series of orders to them.

The first is to collect taxes, and on the grounds that the Ming Dynasty wants to build an imperial palace, taxes are levied on the Japanese people.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is not short of this money, he just wants to take this opportunity to provoke the hatred of the people against the Ming Dynasty.

Secondly, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu secretly trained a group of dead soldiers, intending to mix these dead soldiers in the slave team and transport them to Daming with the slave ship of the Ming Dynasty.

However, before he could finish these things, he sent him a very important piece of news from the Ming Dynasty and the North Korean people at about the same time.

The Ming Western Regions Expeditionary Force has run out of food!

After a few days of demolition and relocation in the outer city of Nanjing, a few vacant plots of land were finally vacated to build a tower for Zhu Yuanzhang to extend his life.

Because the emperor was personally in charge, the progress of this project was very fast. Before the place was vacated, the materials for building the tower had been prepared one after another and transported to the designated place.

Originally, Zhu Yunxi didn't want to make such a big fuss, and planned to draw a picture on the paper, fooling Lao Zhu about how many towers he had built, so that he could have a little self-confidence.

However, Lao Zhu's spirit improved too quickly, so fast that Zhu Yunxi was a little caught off guard.

Now Lao Zhu can not only eat and drink, but also run the city wall three times a day to see the progress of the project.

Zhu Yunxi saw that he couldn't be fooled, so he ordered someone to turn the blueprint into a real thing.

Although it is a big thing to extend the life of Lao Zhu, Zhu Yunxi has no time to pay attention to it now. After handing over the project to his subordinates, Zhu Yunxi made every effort to investigate the case of the disappearance of military rations.

Speaking of this case, Zhu Yunxi felt strange.

A good 200,000 stone army ration was actually lost on the way to Hamiwei in Naturalization City!

Along with the missing 1,000 guards of the guard, no one alive or dead.

However, Zhu Yunxi sent three batches of messengers in succession, and the final results were all the same.

There are no clues!

This made Zhu Yunxi very angry, and he only felt that he was fooled by the low-level officials.

So much food, so many soldiers say no, no, is this fooling him for a fool?

If it weren't for Lao Zhu's inseparable people, Zhu Yunxi would definitely take someone to investigate in person, and all those involved in this case must be brought to justice.

Zhang Zongjun saw Zhu Yunxi scratching his head so much about this matter, and immediately stood up and volunteered.

"Your Highness, why don't you go on a trip in person?"

Zhu Yunxi waved his hand and refused.

"No way!"

"The three masters of Lone are old, and now the cabinet is inseparable from you, and you have decided not to get involved in this matter."

"And Lone suspects that this matter is quite involved, and I am afraid that if you go down to investigate, you will be killed by local officials."

Zhang Zongjun sighed when he heard this.

"Alas!"

"This matter is too obvious, this is why someone does not want His Highness to go on an expedition, so he has done such a horrific thing!"

"Who could it be?"

"In the DPRK or in the opposition?"

Zhang Zongjun's words to himself immediately opened up a new idea for Zhu Yunxi.

Yes!

Maybe the enemy is above the court!

If it weren't for the mastermind of the bigwigs of the DPRK and China, how could local officials dare to commit such a big case?

"Someone, Xuanjin Yiwei commanded Jiang Zhen to enter the palace to meet him!"

"No!"

Not long after, Jiang Zhen came to the North Palace to pay respects.

"Humble to meet Your Highness, Your Highness is a thousand years old!"

"Jiang Xuan, have there been any changes in the officials of the DPRK and China recently?"

"Anomalies?"

Jiang Xuan thought for a while.

"Back to His Royal Highness, Wang Yuan, the waiter of the Ministry of Works, celebrates the birthday of his youngest son, and does it count as a banquet to invite the Manchu Dynasty civil and military to his house for a banquet?"

"Count!"

"Give me a detailed list!"

"I'll send someone to send the list later."

"There is also a household servant who married a concubine and invited a few colleagues to celebrate......"

"Send all the recent records of the officials in the capital, and I have to check them one by one."

"No!"

Jiang Xuan was just about to say goodbye, when he heard Zhu Yunxi stop him.

"You take Chang Sen and go to the vicinity of Juyanhai to investigate the case of the disappearance of military rations!"

"If you can investigate this case to the bottom of it, Lone will let you go to the army for a few years of training, and then reward you with a knighthood!"

Jiang Xuan was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed.

"Thank you for your great kindness!"

"Your Highness, rest assured, you will go all out to complete this case!"

"Go ahead!"

Jiang Zhen came out of the North Palace with a thousand thanks, and as soon as he returned to Beizhen Fusi, it was like a chicken blood, and he gathered all his capable subordinates.

"Brethren are coming to life!"

"The imperial grandson has sent us a big case!"

Chang Sen's face showed envy when he heard this, since he entered Jinyiwei, he hadn't caught a few cases.

Occasionally, there are one or two cases, which are also small cases that Jiang Zhen and others look down on, helping the court arrest a few small corrupt officials.

As we all know, sooner or later he will succeed Jiang Zhen in charge of Jinyiwei in the future.

Not only did he think so, but Jiang Zhen himself also knew.

With this relationship, Jiang Zhen can not prevent him from seeing hell.

However, just when Chang Sen wanted to take the initiative to leave to avoid embarrassment for himself and others, Jiang Xuan took the initiative to stop him.

"Brother Chang Sen stays, this big case needs a lot of your help."

"Me?"

"Can I handle the case too?"

Jiang Zhen smiled slightly when he heard this.

"Of course!"

"You are the person named by the imperial grandson himself, without you, this case would not have fallen on our Jinyi Wei!"

"Ahh

Regardless of Chang Sen's surprise, Jiang Zhen immediately held a case analysis meeting in Beizhen Fusi after the Ming people sent the recent official records to the imperial grandson.

"Ladies and gentlemen, everyone must know about the disappearance of military rations."

"The imperial grandson sent three waves of messengers in succession, but they failed to investigate the case."

"Now that the imperial grandson has handed over this case to us, we must investigate this case to the ground, and fight for the imperial grandson, and also for our Jinyi Wei!"

"Whether Jinyiwei can exist in the future depends on your performance!"

As soon as Jiang Xuan's voice fell, there was a lot of discussion in Beizhen Fusi.

Jin Yiwei commanded Hu Changshou to be the first to stand up and speak.

"Lord Commander, the facts of this case could not be clearer, if it weren't for the self-theft by the guards, how could the military rations be stolen?"

"Therefore, the lowly suspicion is that the officials along the route are the most suspicious, if not the participants, then at least the insiders. As long as they are arrested and tortured, they will naturally be able to find clues! ”

With Hu Changshou speaking, the others became more enthusiastic, and after a while, they came up with more than a dozen directions for solving the case.

Some say that they are directly arresting people, some say that they are making secret visits under makeup, and some say that they are transporting a batch of grain and then secretly setting up an ambush.

In short, Jinyiwei and these people can't do anything else, and they catch the crooked ways.