"Right or wrong, we can't comment on this."

Facing Zhou Xin's question, Xia Yuanji was stunned for a moment, and then said slowly.

"What we have learned, whether it is right or wrong, is the experience of our predecessors, and it may be wrong, but it is obviously not something that our people can change."

"You can just say that we have learned Cheng Zhu Lixue, you say it is wrong, but Meng Yuan used it, built a huge empire, and governed all the Han people obediently."

"But you have to say that it's right, Meng Yuan only used this Cheng Zhu Lixue when he ruled, and in the war, he was the same as His Royal Highness the Prince."

Speaking of this, Xia Yuanji looked up at the sky, but unfortunately the dark clouds covered him, and he couldn't see a single star.

"Perhaps, the only one who can change all this is His Royal Highness......"

"Wei Zhe, I can understand you now." Hearing the last sentence, Zhou Xin laughed.

"In the past, I always felt that you liked to get close to His Royal Highness the Prince because every time His Royal Highness the Prince would bring huge benefits to the treasury, which could alleviate the urgent need of you, the head of the household."

"But now I find out that you really ......"

"Huh! Stop! Xia Yuanji interrupted Zhou Xin's words with a smile.

"I, Xia Yuanji, am a layman, and the only thing that can make me happy is money, and I like to get close to His Royal Highness the Prince for no other reason, just because His Royal Highness the Prince can bring money to the treasury and solve the urgent needs of the household department."

"You see, in the northern expedition to the grassland, His Royal Highness the Prince has made more than one seizure, and those cattle, sheep and horses alone were sold for two full years before they were sold."

"The attack on Annan, although it did not bring any substantial benefits to the household department, I think that this year's autumn tax in Yunnan will definitely surprise everyone."

"I won't talk about the Eastern Expedition to the Wa Kingdom, Iwami Yinshan is still sending money to the household department in a steady stream."

"I'm a household secretary, can I not be happy about this situation?"

Saying that, Xia Yuanji carried the wine jug and stretched it out in front of Zhou Xin, Zhou Xin also smiled, picked up the wine jug and touched one with Xia Yuanji.

In the night, the two officials sat next to each other, but they smiled knowingly under the dark clouds.

Following.

Early in the morning, Xia Yuanji and Zhou Xin got up, and even the officials with Daming got up and began to continue the previous day's work.

The mutual market is not an overnight thing, the price will change every year, and this year there are more wool things, and the work is more and more complicated.

Wool is a very difficult thing to qualify, because in Zhu Zhan's statement, only the wool of Wuzhumuqin sheep and white sheep (Tan sheep) can be purchased, and nothing else is needed.

White sheep is not found in the grassland, and is only distributed in the area from Lintao Mansion to Xining Wei in the Ming Dynasty, while Wuzhumuqin sheep can only be enjoyed by the Mengyuan nobles during the reign of the Yuan Dynasty.

The aristocracy, and even the royal family, can know from this point how precious the Ujumuqin sheep is.

Therefore, although this year is the opening of the wool market, in the final analysis, it is just to set the tone, even next year there will not be much wool.

That's how things are troublesome.

But fortunately, after Xia Yuanji moved Zhu Zhanyan out yesterday, he compromised with Dehuan, and with the matter of wool being decided, other things were simple.

After all, in other aspects, both the grassland and the Ming are experienced, so they can adjust the price according to the situation this year.

"Alright, let's settle it then." Xia Yuanji put away the account book in his hand.

This thing is to be taken back to the household department for filing, but it can't be lost.

"I hope that next year you will follow the rules, instead of repeatedly violating the agreement with Daming as before."

Hearing this, Tuohuan smiled awkwardly.

As the saying goes, hitting people doesn't slap them in the face, and scolding people doesn't expose their shortcomings.

This is the basic "morality" of human beings, especially for Confucian scholars, this situation will be even more shameful, but this Xia Yuanji is an outlier.

When talking about the price of wool before, Xia Yuanji was very shameless to bring out the big killer of Zhu Zhanyan, and now he kicked the ass of someone who had just been hit by the board again.

You know, because of the cross-border grazing, last year Warat failed to apologize as usual, return the property of the Ming border people, and finally get the reward of the Ming Dynasty.

On the contrary, last year, in addition to returning the looted goods, they also made compensation to those people in the Ming border who were looted by them.

This is not a little compensation, and it is not that Warat cannot afford to pay it, and the most important thing is that in the tribute at the end of the year, they have to increase the number of tributes.

It can be said that because of Zhu Zhanyan, it was originally a matter of making money in previous years, but this year it has become a loss of money.

However, Xia Yuanji did not go too far.

Now after all, it is in the grassland, although the mouth of the Three Gorges is nominally the chassis of the Ming Dynasty, but in fact, the Ming Dynasty does not have much control over here.

If it really annoys Warat and makes Tuohuan lose his mind, then maybe something will happen.

Therefore, Xia Yuanji also accepted it when he saw it, and after briefly saying a few words to Tuohuan, he began to lead the team back.

It's just that what Xia Yuanji didn't expect was that his unintentional idea came true.

On the first day of the return of the officials of the Ming Household Department, because they were talking about the mutual market with Wara in the morning, Xia Yuanji only took people to set off in the afternoon.

For this reason, at dusk, Natsuharaji decided to camp at Sanfeng Mountain, which is the south side of the Yuqu River.

The evening on the prairie is never silent, and on the prairie, especially in summer, the sound of insects and flowing water merge into a pleasant tune that leads people to sleep.

However, just halfway through the hour, when almost everyone fell asleep, a sharp whistle sounded.

The whistle was too sharp, and in the grassland, where there was no noise except for the sound of running water and insects, almost everyone was awakened in an instant.

"What's going on?" Xia Yuanji came out of the makeshift tent with a calm face and looked at the panicked camp.

"Do you need to ask about this?" Zhou Xin and Xia Yuanji's reactions were completely different, and he was as plain as he was on weekdays.

"Isn't this whistle the enemy attack signal that Tan Zhong explained when he first came out of the Great Wall?"

That's right, Tan Zhong.

I don't know if Zhu Di did it on purpose, this time the household came to the grassland, and Zhu Di specially asked Tan Zhong to escort him.

Not only that, but the people led by Tan Zhong are also a little special, they are not ordinary soldiers, but soldiers who have been sent by the imperial court to the Wa Kingdom and fought with Zhu Zhanqi.

Even, he also helped Zhu Zhan to build a view of Beijing in the palace of the Wa Kingdom.

"After crossing the Yuqu River, this is the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the people who dare to ambush the Ming Dynasty here, and they are also the officials of the Ming Dynasty......"

Xia Yuanji's eyes narrowed, and that look made Zhou Xin stunned.

Although there was not much contact, Zhou Xin was deeply impressed by this expression, but not to Xia Yuanji, but to Zhu Zhanyan.

When Zhou Xin was still in Taizhou Mansion, Zhu Zhan Yan led people to encircle and suppress the Japanese invaders, and the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Ji Gang, said that under Zhu Di's order, all the Japanese were handed over to Zhu Zhan to deal with.

At that time, Zhou Xin saw this expression on Zhu Zhanyan's face.

(End of chapter)