In the eyes of almost everyone in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhanyan is a mature military general who can make the enemy fearful.

If nothing else, let's just say that the souls of the dead who are remembered in his name can discourage most people.

But in Zhu Zhan's opinion, he is still far behind.

Zhu Zhanyan has always known very well that he is just a little ruthless, and other than that, he can command according to the experience of those later generations in his mind, and other than that, he is useless.

However, with the destruction of the Japanese Kingdom of Heianjing, Zhu Zhanyan also had a little swelling mood in his heart, which he didn't even notice.

In fact, this is also human nature.

Imagine that a fifteen-year-old person can achieve a world-leading result in a certain aspect, which may be rare without inflating, but those powerful people will quickly adjust their emotions.

Therefore, people's expansion is not called expansion, but the joy after achievement, and then people can adjust their psychology well and continue to devote themselves to the enterprising cause.

Only ordinary people are called swelling.

And Zhu Zhan was lucky, because when he had just swelled up and had not yet led to serious consequences, the Ezo people used a surprise attack to sober him up.

Zhu Zhan Yan never expected that Ezo, who was far behind the Ming Dynasty and could not even catch up with the Wa Kingdom, would dare to go south, and he would come to Suruga Bay without his knowledge.

Suruga Bay, the bay below the later Nagoya, is less than 20 miles from Heiankyo.

Twenty miles, if there are cavalry, it will only take a cup of tea (fifteen minutes) without considering the terrain, and if the terrain is taken into account, it will not exceed the time of a stick of incense (30 minutes) at most.

Being "humiliated" like this by an enemy who couldn't afford it, Zhu Zhanyan was rarely angry.

"Li Bin!"

When encountering important and urgent situations, Zhu Zhanyan is still accustomed to using his own people, although Li Bin cannot be fully regarded as his person now, but compared with Chen Mao, Zheng Heng and others, Li Bin is more trustworthy.

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Yunnan, Han Wangfu.

The triennial tea and horse exchange market has ended, and Qian Yong and the three returned to Yunnan and reported to Zhu Gaoxu as soon as possible.

"His Royal Highness the King of Han, the goal of this year's tea and horse market has been fully completed, and the taxes have been fully accounted for, please take a look."

"Well, that's good." Zhu Gaoxu nodded, walked out from behind the table, and walked in front of Qian Yong and the others.

"I'll take a look at this later, what about you? What do you think? Didn't you encounter any difficulties, did you? ”

The last time the tea and horse market were exchanged, the people of the Han Wangfu were subjected to some difficulties, but it was not serious, because Zhu Zhan Yan was in the Han Wangfu at that time, and he directly asked Zhu Heng to take almost all the guards of the Han Wangfu over.

I have to say that sometimes the notoriety of killing gods is still very useful.

Not only that, these guards of the Han Palace's mansion were all brought by Zhu Gaoxu from Yingtian, and they were all with him for the longest time, and many of them even followed Zhu Gaoxu on his northern expedition, and were once in charge of security work when Zhu Zhanyu was building the Jingguan.

Looking at the murderous more than 1,000 guards, the patriarchs of each tribe immediately coaxed, honestly carried out the tea and horse exchange market in accordance with the rules, paid taxes, and finally even flattered two good horses, trying to gain the favor of the Han Palace.

For this kind of thing, Zhu Zhanyan has always scoffed.

In his opinion, if you have the courage to be hard, then you will always be hard, and it is best to stand up when the knife is on the neck, but if it is soft, Zhu Zhanyan will look down on him.

On the contrary, he never looked down on those who lowered their eyebrows and pleasing their eyes from the beginning, because in the context of the times, such people have a higher probability of survival.

For yourself, for your family and even your clansmen, there is no shame.

However, because the tea and horse market is once every three years, Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Zhanyan are not very clear about the effect after that time, and Zhu Zhanyan has been cultivating (fire) and burning (burning) planting (mountain) in Jiaozhi knife (release) later, so there is less attention to this aspect.

For the Han Palace, although the tea and horse market is a large amount of income, neither Zhu Gaoxu nor Zhu Zhanyan has ever regarded this as the main income.

Even though, the tea and horse market accounts for a large proportion of the income of the Han Palace.

In fact, everyone knows that although the tea and horse market is Zhu Di's income to the Han Palace, the more meaning is the part of tax collection, and the meaning of tax collection is not comparable to money.

However, these are all given by the old man, and it is not nice to say it, when the old man is unhappy, he will be gone if he says no.

Therefore, whether it is Zhu Gaoxu or Zhu Zhanyan, they have never taken the income of the tea and horse market very seriously, which is why Zhu Zhanyan knew that the Japanese Kingdom was so far away from Yunnan, but he still racked his brains to get the Sado Jinshan in his pocket.

However, facts have proved that the phrase "Fanbang barbarians, fearing power but not virtue" can still explain some problems.

"Back to His Royal Highness the King of Han, I waited for everything to go smoothly on this trip, without any trouble, and even every time I went to a tribe, those people would treat us very ceremoniously, and I didn't dare to slack off."

Qian Yong took the lead among the three, from the time he left the city with the ocean-going fleet.

"In addition, whether it is the price of tea and horses in the market or the taxes that should be collected, those people did not hesitate, and everything went smoothly."

"Well, it's good, it seems that what Zhan Yan said is still right." Zhu Gaoxu smiled and nodded, bent down and helped Qian Yong and the three up.

"Originally, I was thinking of letting you rest after the tea and horse exchanges, but after you left, I received a letter from Zhan Yan."

"He asked Qian Yong and Sanfeng to go to the Wa Kingdom by name, saying that there is something important to hand over to you, as for Jian Xiao, Zhan Yan wants you to go to Thang Long City."

"You also know that although I have been in Yunnan for almost four years, because of the Qianning Palace, my foundation in Yunnan is still shallow, and there are not many people who can be trusted, so I ......"

"Would you like to go?"

"But driven by His Highness!" Qian Yong and the three answered neatly without hesitation.

Even, their faces were faintly excited.

It's just that I don't know whether the Highness they are referring to is Zhu Gaoxu or Zhu Zhanyan, so I don't know.

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Wakoku, Taiji Town.

Many people don't know this name, but if you change the name, then it is estimated that many people will know it.

Dolphin Bay.

That's right, it's Dolphin Bay, where the waters are all red.

Hundreds of years ago today, the waters here were red.

Zhu Zhanyan stood on a high place, coldly watching the emotionless white knives of the Ming army soldiers go in and out of the red knives, and then coldly threw the corpses into the sea.

Perhaps, no one expected that the sharks and dolphins that were hunted by the Japanese in later generations would have the opposite role today.

(End of chapter)