Forbidden City, Fengtian Temple.

With the sound of footsteps ascending, Zhu Di, who had a calm face, sat on a high position, and after his eyes swept over the spirited ministers, the sound of salute echoed in the empty and majestic hall.

The old eunuch sang.

Zheng He dressed up and entered the main hall, knelt down and shouted: "The minister lived up to his high expectations, and this trip to the West arrived at Champa, Mangara, Sumatra, Ceylon Mountain, Little Gülen, Kezhi...... Guri, when he was in Sumatra, the minister tried to continue to drive south, but found that there was an endless ocean to the south, and the minister did not have enough dry food, so he returned after seven days, and returned to the Celestial Empire after making up for his baggage in Sumatra. ”

The first time Zheng He went to the Western Ocean, he would not sail south in Sumatra, Zhu Zhanyong changed the big ship, so that the ship could go out of the deep sea, Zheng He also wanted to confirm, so he tried so.

He continued: "The ministers have met with the kings of the countries, shown your majesty's holy grace, bestowed on them the rewards of the heavenly empire, and brought the envoys back to the Ming Dynasty to meet your majesty!" ”

He found that His Majesty's face was comfortable, but there was a hint of worry in Shu Chang's eyes.

Zheng He didn't know yet.

At this moment, Zheng Ci, who has always been concerned about the price of silk in the market, stood up and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the price of silk in the capital has stabilized. ”

"Steady?" Zhu Di looked over in amazement, as if he hadn't read the newspaper for three days.

"Hmm!" Zheng Ci motioned for the eunuch to bring it up, the Ministry of Rites was in charge of the ritual music, and he attached great importance to the costumes, and took the two silk horses brought into the palace by the court this morning, one azure and the other ivory white.

Zhu Zhanyong didn't know whether these two colors appeared in the middle of the Ming Dynasty or in the later Ming Dynasty, but there were no such gorgeous colors in the early Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Di doesn't like luxury, but at a glance, he was attracted by ivory white silk, and the queen must like it when she sees it.

The civil officials looked at the azure color, which could be used to make Confucian clothes.

"This is the new silk that has been circulating in the capital recently, I don't know who blended it? After this thing, the price of silk in the capital has risen by one or two silver recently. Zheng Ci reported.

Zhu Gaochi suddenly thought of Zhu Zhanyong.

……………

Zhu Zhanyong returned to the palace.

Wu Lu Yuan originally witnessed this scene.

Lao Zhu doesn't understand the economy, but he is not stupid, but he is limited by the pattern of history, and at this moment, he understands from Zhu Zhanyong, without the reminders of those civil officials, he can trace the stakes of each link from a silk.

Silk merchants, raw silk merchants, silk farmers, the imperial court, how a few cents of silver turned into a dozen taels of silver in the hands of silk merchants, Lao Zhu was very angry, as if he was the silk farmer.

Not to mention, he is not a businessman of the Ming Dynasty.

One: "These merchants still make a lot of silver taels!" ”

Zhu Zhanyong decided to dredge Lao Zhu, otherwise it would be enough for the old man to be angry for a few days: "Taizu, I'm afraid Sun Chen can't do it to prevent Fanshang from earning silver taels, besides, they are also earning silver taels from the royal family and nobles." ”

Don't let the merchants make money?

They will not resell silk, but the gains outweigh the losses for the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhanyong can't let the silk sell overseas prices, so that the people will not be depressed is the end, want to earn back this silver on the merchants?

It is probably necessary to wait until the Ming warship and sail through the Western Ocean.

San, too, has done business.

Three: "Oh, after a month, they will find the real wax prince, but they are afraid that they will not be able to behead you." ”

Zhu Zhanyong: "No, they will only think about how to sell the silk in their hands, and by that time, Fanshang has already left Daming with Zheng He." ”

This time, thanks to the unbridled heavenly creation.

Just as he was about to moisten things and praise him silently, he said in an anxious voice: "There is something I want to ask you?" ”

uses the most heavenly creations, and Zhu Zhanyong is still concerned about wanton things.

"What do you say?" Zhu Zhanyong said.

The voice is urgent: "I have rushed to the capital in Xia, but I heard that the anti-Jin general has been imprisoned, and now I haven't seen the saint in Xia, and I have counted many officials with silver taels, but no one is willing to introduce them??" ”

Among the people present, only Zhu Zhanyong knows the situation of the emperor, and even knows better than himself, although Chongzhen killed Wei Zhongxian, but the remnants of Wei Zhongxian's party still occupy the middle of the court, and the monarchs and ministers are centrifuged, why do you let you see it?

Because of Zhu Zhanyong, Lao Zhu's relationship with Huan is very good, so his indignant voice came.

One: "These dog officials only know how to register two!" ”

San's thinking is very much in line with the characteristics of his dynasty.

Three: "Can I use a beauty trick?" Send a beautiful woman and let her envelop these ministers and pass the word for you? ”

The idea is good, but it's too late......

At this time, Lu told the anecdote of King Goujian of Yue sending a beautiful woman to her husband, and agreed with San's idea, as for Er and Wu, he didn't seem to be good at how to meet the emperor.

Zhu Zhan Yong sighed lightly, it seems that only he can give an idea, Chongzhen has a eunuch by his side, named Wang Chengen, he will definitely introduce Chongzhen for Chongzhen.

Trust between people is mutual.

If he didn't help, he wouldn't have lent him the Heavenly Creation next time, not to mention, he had never shirked it.

Zhu Zhanyong said: "There must be people around the emperor who are favored. ”

He understood a little but didn't fully understand, and asked, "Zhan Yong, you mean?" ”

Zhu Zhanyong said: "If the civil official fails, then find a eunuch and ask who the most favored eunuch is around the emperor, Xizhimen has eunuchs who go out of the palace every day to buy, don't say that you want to see the emperor, so as not to arouse suspicion, just say that you have just come to the capital to do business, and you want to know the big people in the palace." ”

There is only one eunuch favored by Chongzhen, Wang Chengen, as long as he is a eunuch, he knows.

This time I understood: "Thank you!" ”

Yes...... You are too polite, Zhu Zhanyong said in a tone of "we are all family": "If it doesn't work, you come to me again." ”

Lao Zhu sighed secretly, our grandson is more slippery than a loach......

………

The third year of Chongzhen, July.

On Chang'an Avenue in Beijing, in a restaurant where guests come and go, the Confucian student sitting in the corner quietly opened his eyes, as if he had already thought about what to do next, and hurriedly walked to Xizhimen.

I waited anxiously for an hour.

I saw three little eunuchs driving the carriage, not slowing down, coming towards Xizhimen, and hurriedly smiled: "Father-in-law stays, the villain is a merchant from Jiangnan." ”

The little eunuch who was driving the horse was about to drink and drive away, but when he saw it, the other party was greeted by ten taels of silver and handed it over: "Say, what do you want to ask us to do?" ”

According to what Zhu Zhanyong said, he said: "The villain wants to inquire, who is the lucky person around His Majesty now?" ”

"Huh?"

He hurriedly said: "Alas, now the situation in Liaodong is also clear to the father-in-law, the people of the world are panicking, who is not afraid of taking advantage of the tricks?" The villain just wants to find a backer as soon as possible! ”

The vigilance in the little eunuch's eyes quietly dissipated: "If Your Majesty favors you, it must be the prince and the prince." ”

"Please also ask your father-in-law to spread the word, see it or not, these are all father-in-law's." He handed over the money bag very moistly, and there were hundreds of taels in it.

The little eunuch drove away satisfied.

Until two days later.

Wang Chengen is Chongzhen's humerus henchman, since Wei Zhongxian was eliminated, Chongzhen recalled the eunuchs in various places, and Wang Chengen helped him cut off Wei Zhongxian's henchmen.

Wang Chengen was busy helping Chongzhen approve the red, but he heard the little eunuch who came in with tea timidly said: "Master, a few days ago, the slave maid went out of the palace to procure, and a gentry from Jiangnan inquired about the master. ”

"What did he say?"

"I want to see you."

Wang Chengen touched his chin, as if he was deep in thought, His Majesty is worried about the military salary in Liaodong, the gentry? He had an idea right away.

Chapter 56

Wang Chengen saw it, but heard something different.

This man wasn't trying to slap him.

Wang Chengen couldn't make up his mind, so he decided to report to Chongzhen, and Chongzhen decided for himself.

Fengtian Temple,

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen sat in front of the imperial case like a virtuous monarch, he got up every day when the rooster crowed, and he did not sleep at night, never slackened off to review and review, and studied Confucian scriptures in his spare time, stayed up more vigil, trying to save the crisis of the Ming Dynasty, and at the age of nineteen, he revealed the diligence of an adult.

"Your Majesty, there is a merchant who has come from Jiangnan to bring grain, and wants to pay for the military salary of the Nine Sides, so I beg to meet Your Majesty." Wang Chengen whispered to Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen raised his head.

"This person was in the first year of Chongzhen, participated in the imperial court examination, and after failing the list, he gave up the idea of the imperial examination, and started a business in Jiangnan, the slave maid felt that he was an upright person, did Your Majesty want to summon him?" Wang Chengen asked.

The turbid world is coming, and there are square people in the world, who do not want to be the people of the country, Chongzhen sighed in his heart: "What is his name?" ”

"Song Yingxing."

Song Yingxing followed the eunuch into the noon gate and crossed the Jinshui Bridge, and as for seeing the emperor, Zhu Zhanyong taught him how to rescue Yuan Chonghuan.

Stepping into the Fengtian Temple, saluting, and slowly raising his head.

"Listen, the gold thieves have successively broken through Yongping and Zunhua, and His Majesty has ordered the king of the world to donate money, so the students came with food."

After the edict was issued, there was little response, and Emperor Chongzhen wondered: "Why are you willing to donate grain?" ”

"If the Jin army breaks the capital, the students are the people of the dead country, the students' fields, family property and wives and children, are all used by the Jin people, since the opening of the Ming Dynasty, the Han and the Jin people have been in constant conflict, the students do not believe that the Jin people will treat us and other people who have died of the country." Song Yingxing learned something from Zhu Zhanyong, he was not good at talking.

Chongzhen patted him on the shoulder and said, "Sir, a person who is detained!" I don't know how much military pay Mr. has brought into Beijing? ”

"The student has a request, please forgive Yuan Chonghuan from Your Majesty." Song Yingxing said the purpose of the trip.

"I've ordered him to be executed!"

Chongzhen's eyes flickered, Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong first, and then negotiated peace with the gold thief without authorization, and the court and China impeached Yuan Chonghuan for colluding with the gold thief.

"General Yuan was originally in Ningyuan, but I heard that Emperor Taiji of the Great Khan of Houjin led hundreds of thousands of troops, and after breaking through the pass of the Great Wall of Da'ankou, he traveled under the stars and led a large army to rescue the Beijing Division, and dared to ask Your Majesty, if General Yuan really took refuge in Houjin, why did he come back to rescue?" Song Yingxing said.

Chongzhen was stunned.

He found himself unable to answer the question.

"A thousand armies are easy to get, and it is hard to find a general, if General Yuan is executed, it will be the Jin army that will benefit!"

Song Yingxing shouted loudly and said, "The students are here to offer advice to Your Majesty!" ”

"Hearing the news of General Yuan's death, Huang Taiji will definitely lead his troops to attack the Beijing Division, Your Majesty might as well plan and execute General Yuan in prison, take the opportunity to catch the person who reported the news, and then secretly send General Yuan to block Huang Taiji's army, if there is really no person who reports the news, it is not too late to execute General Yuan."

Chongzhen's eyes faltered.

"This matter is not difficult, the person who reported the news must be among the people who advised His Majesty to execute General Yuan!" Song Yingxing was determined that he would be secretly executed in prison, and the news would only be known to Huang Taiji if the news was passed on.

Chongzhen took a deep breath, Daming entered the Xiaoice River period, the grain harvest was not harvested, disasters and famines in various places were revealed, each fighting for itself, there were still remnants of the Wei Party in the imperial court, Liaodong was constantly urging military salaries, internal worries and external troubles, these government affairs were waiting for him to deal with, he really did not have the heart to ponder the benefits and harms, and he suddenly came to his senses at this moment.

"Spread my will and give Yuan Chonghuan a pot of wine!"

…………

Now, it is the fifth year of Yongle.

Song Yingxing turned into a man at this moment.

If he hadn't seen Zhu Zhanyong, he might have lived in seclusion in Jiangnan and lived a life of tinkering with crafts, but since seeing Zhu Zhanyong's series of operations, he felt that his husband could have another choice.

And at this moment, Zhu Zhanyong also noticed that it was launched at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Zhanyong asked: "Have you solved it?" ”

He said sincerely: "Your Majesty has secretly executed General Yuan, just wait for that fine work to report to the Jin people, you can catch the traitorous ministers, and you may not be a slave in the country!" ”

Taizu and Ersanwu Lu were not in the late Ming Dynasty, and it was difficult to understand his mood.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was fire everywhere.

It's hard to turn things around without a shock, because things don't happen one after the other, they happen at the same time.

The Xiaoice River period caused disaster and famine in the world.

When someone is sent here to quell the rebellion, the Jin army over there will attack the city gate, and the lack of food and the remnants of the Wei party are brewing at the same time.

Chongzhen for three years, I hope there is still time.

Zhu Zhanyong asked, "How are the township guards you recruited?" Although the imperial court strictly prohibited, it could accept farmers with strong men, as tenants of Zhuangzi, once they encountered a soldier, these people could be soldiers! ”

Lao Zhu couldn't help but nod after hearing this, Guo Zixing was just the young man who gathered in the fields, these people could plough the land when they were busy farming, they could be soldiers in wartime, and they could avoid the imperial court clearance.

One: "Our grandson is right! ”

The grandparents and grandchildren gave him pointers.

It was as if a new door had opened in his head.

Sanye spoke: "If you have enough money and food in your hand, you can cast iron tools, but if you really wait until wartime, the price cannot be sold on the same day, not to mention that it is difficult to obtain!" ”

Zhu Zhanyong reined in his thoughts.

What are you guys doing, armed with the number one guys...... Zhu Zhanyong complained a few words in his heart, and then remembered the price of silk in the capital, and the time passed for more than half a month.

How much silk can be sold?

The silk merchants went crazy, ran to the countryside of Huzhou, Hangzhou, and Suzhou, and on the fields, patches of mulberry forests, bare leafless branches, visited several households in a row, and they were all sold.

Zhu Zhanyong contracted the silk farmers in the capital, and the raw silk was quite abundant.

"What does Your Highness want to do with the guards?" As soon as he walked out of the gate, Wu Zhong turned Zhu Zhanyong into the corner, and then looked at him with a smile.

"Something's wrong?" Zhu Zhanyong asked.

"The two silk mills of Fu'an Silk Workshop and Suzhou and Hangzhou sued the Yingtianfu Yamen, saying that a real wax prince ordered their silk." Wu Zhong's eyes seemed to say, don't pretend, you are the real wax prince.

Ying Tianfu Mansion Yin Gu Zuo also hated these ploppy profiteers and drove them out.

"The second uncle also sold a lot of silk, but no?" Zhu Zhanyong asked rhetorically.

"The King of Han has many imperial shops and Zhuangzi in the capital, and His Majesty has rewarded him quite richly, this is natural!" Wu Zhong glanced around and whispered to Zhu Zhanyong.