"Killed Emperor Jianwen?"

In Ningbo City, Yao Guangxiao, the "black-clothed prime minister" who was calm and abnormal, was taken aback.

"Why do you want to get your hands dirty? You must know that if this spreads, in the eyes of many old ministers, it will be a murder of the king. ”

This truth, in fact, there is no need for the old monk to say, Jiang Xinghuo also knows it.

In China, killing a monarch is a very, very serious crime.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, the historian of Qi State paid three lives in a row in order to record the sentence "Cui Shu killed his king", Cui Shu was helpless in the end, so he could only let it go, and Cui Zhu's killing of the king was not without reason, it was the Duke of Qi Zhuang who had an affair with his wife Dongguo Jiang, and also gave Cui Zhu's hat to others, it can be said that the insult to Cui Zhu has reached the extreme, so Cui Shu was angry and killed the king, but even so, this crime will always accompany Cui Zhu.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Wei Emperor Cao Chao led his army out of the palace to resist the control of the Sima clan, the two sides fought, Cao Chao shouted angrily and swung his sword to kill, and Sima Zhao's henchman Jia Chong's soldiers saw the emperor rushing and cowered and did not dare to move forward, Jia Chong said to Cheng Ji sharply, "What are you doing on Sima Fair Day!" Do you need to ask more? When Cheng Ji heard this, he assassinated Cao Chao with Ge, and finally was punished by the three clans in the name of killing the king.

There are countless examples in the future, although as time goes by, the sacredness of the emperor becomes weaker and weaker, and the five dynasties and ten kingdoms even have a social consensus that "the Son of Heaven is strong and strong", but for the courtiers, no matter what the reason, killing the monarch is still a stain that cannot be washed away.

And Jiang Xinghuo obviously doesn't have to do it himself, and there is no need to do it himself.

"Boom!"

Jiang Xinghuo's teacup touched the teacup in front of the old monk.

"The two dragons don't see each other, what do you think it means? Why didn't I explain to you? ”

"What do you mean?"

Yao Guangxiao's white eyebrows furrowed slightly.

"You are the mastermind of the rebellion, he is the executor of the rebellion, and in the future, you are all rebels and thieves, but I am not. What does it matter if I do it myself? Whether it's my hand or not, in fact, it has to be my hand. ”

Jiang Xinghuo poured the tea in the cup into his mouth along with the tea and tea leaves, chewed the tea leaves vigorously, and said in a somewhat muffled voice.

"He wanted me to get my hands dirty."

"In this way, I'm also a rebel and a thief, I'm a person in a boat, this is a vote, but do I care about any rebel thief?"

Jiang Xinghuo swallowed the tea leaves into his stomach, as difficult as swallowing glass foam, and the Adam's apple moved up and down twice before he calmed down, but the expression on his face was not difficult at all, but he sneered.

Yao Guangxiao was delicate, and suddenly asked at this time.

"Have you found out? You didn't say anything you shouldn't have said before, did you? ”

"I checked it, I didn't say anything important."

Jiang Xinghuo was a little excited, since he spit out the truth before killing the Bai Sect Master last time, and was repeatedly admonished by the old monk, now he has no habit of speaking his heart to the dying boss.

The old monk's worries are not unreasonable, this matter was notified by Jinyiwei, Jiang Xinghuo has never seen Emperor Jianwen, and he is going to speculate if it is bad, who knows if this is a bureau set up by Emperor Yongle? This kind of historical unsolved case, of course, may be true, but it is also possible to disguise it as true, Jiang Xinghuo is not sure, so he will naturally deal with it directly, and it doesn't matter if the result is true.

After all, although Zhu Di's suspicion is not as good as Cao Cao's, it is still a little, doing this kind of unexpected situation is zero cost for Zhu Di, if you can really see Jiang Xinghuo's attitude, or if there is something that should not be said, then things will be complicated.

This is also why Jiang Xinghuo did not force him to chatter, but after breaking his psychological defense, he simply slaughtered him.

What do you want to say, isn't it safer to complain to the old monk?

Yao Guangxiao stood up and turned out of the door, and at this time, he summoned a person who Jiang Xinghuo didn't know to say a few words.

When he sat back down, Jiang Xinghuo reacted.

"Old monk, did you arrange for someone to kill Niu Zhen and them?"

Yao Guangxiao was stunned and nodded quite honestly: "Yes." ”

"Why kill them? These people are of great use. ”

Yao Guangxiao twisted the corner of his white beard, and didn't understand what use these people were except for being eyewitnesses to Jiang Xinghuo's murder of the king, as a handle that the enemy could grasp.

"They're going to Japan."

"Japan? Why are you going to Japan? ”

"Sect Leader Bai has been in Japan for many years in the Hongwu Dynasty, and he has followed the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and now they can contact the contacts over there."

Jiang Xinghuo woke up the dreamer with a word.

"And this floor?"

"Yes, shout back, people have to be honest."

Jiang Xinghuo is very honest, so Niu Zhen's gang really hasn't been killed.

And people other than Niu Zhen actually don't know what they did specifically, they only know that they followed the soldiers loaded by the ship of the city to land on the island, and even if it was Niu Zhen, he only had a vague guess in his heart, and he couldn't confirm it.

So it doesn't matter whether these "people who don't exist in this world" want to be extinguished, these people don't even have a household registration, they have been cultivated by the White Lotus Sect since they were children, they don't have any close relatives, they don't have social relations, even if they go to the street and say, who will believe it?

In short, maybe Jiang Xinghuo is soft-hearted, or maybe he is in a good mood for killing Emperor Jianwen, he himself thinks that not everyone needs to "kill, kill, kill" to solve it, these people went to Japan, and it is not certain whether they can return to Daming in this life.

Killing them is not honest and useless, but keeping them can allow them to get in touch with some forces in Japan that "do not follow the usual path", so as to plan the layout of Japan's separate line in the future, and not to prevent them from betraying, so why not?

Yao Guangxiao came back soon and asked with a smile.

"How does it feel to kill the emperor?"

"How can you feel? Mo said that it is no different from killing other people, just that belly of meat, it is the same as the feeling of killing a pig in the New Year. ”

Jiang Xinghuo rubbed his waist and leaned back on the chair.

I didn't feel it when I killed the emperor, but along the way, I rode a horse first, then took a car, and finally took a boat, if I really felt it, it was a feeling, back pain, leg pain.

In fact, although Yao Guangxiao was worried, he was not so worried.

Because in fact, Emperor Jianwen actually died socially a long time ago, from the day he escaped from the palace, "Zhu Yunwen" has been buried in the fire, everyone acquiesced that he was dead, as for whether he was really dead or fake, it didn't matter to the vast majority of people, it didn't matter to Jing Nanxun, it didn't matter to ordinary officials, there were only two kinds of people who still cared about whether Zhu Yunwen was really dead, one was Zhu Di, a rebellious minister and thief with a thorn in his heart, and the other was the "Jianwen loyal minister" who surrendered to Zhu Di. In the final analysis, Zhu Yunwen's death as an individual is insignificant, Yao Guangxiao is just afraid that Jiang Xinghuo will dirty his feathers.

After resting for a while, Jiang Xinghuo picked himself up.

"Are things going well with SynTao?"

"It's going well."

Yao Guangxiao ordered someone to bring a map and told Jiang Xinghuo about the current plan and progress.

"The starting point of Ningbo Mansion is to start from the city of Bosi Wharf, and then build along the right bank of the Yao River, enter Shaoxing Mansion, the route is Cixi - Yuyao - Shangyu - Huiji - Xiaoshan, enter Hangzhou Mansion and build along the right bank of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Qiantang - Chongde - Jiaxing, and finally enter Huating County of Songjiang Prefecture in the south of Zhili, this is the construction plan of the point-to-point business road in Zhejiang."

It should be said that this plan is very reliable from the perspective of construction.

There are two reasons for this.

The first point is that the goal is clear, that is, to transport the goods of Ningbo Bosi to Nanzhili, so the whole process is along Hangzhou Bay.

The second point is that the route is clear, relying on the natural river, first along the Yao River, and then into the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the coastal situation is very familiar, and there is already a relatively primitive dirt road trade road.

As for why there are so many waterways, but also to build a land trade road, this is not to take off the pants and fart, but Jiangnan does have this demand, because water transportation is not able to completely replace land transportation, water transportation is extremely limited, not only the impact of seasonal precipitation, and can not be rolled out, some goods are not convenient to transport by boat, on the contrary, although the land transportation network is currently only established a main road, but the future potential is far from being comparable to waterways, and when conditions permit, countless branch roads can be extended in various node cities, forming a complete overland trade network.

As for the progress, it is not very fast, it is only from Ningbo to Shangyu at present, on the one hand, the quality of the project is high, on the other hand, it rains from time to time in Zhejiang, and the cement is difficult to dry.

"That's right."

Jiang Xinghuo put down the map and took out a few pairs of stacked insoles from the bag next to his hand.

Looking at Yao Guangxiao's puzzled gaze, Jiang Xinghuo explained, "Your sister brought it." ”

Yao Guangxiao's expression was very complicated, with a little excitement in the accident, and even the white beard trembled unconsciously with the slight movement of the mandible.

China has been cloudy since ancient times, and children are worried.

Yao Guangxiao's childhood was raised by his sister, and for him, his sister is more like his mother than his parents who have no memory.

And two years ago, when Jing Nan had just succeeded, his sister thought that he was a rebellious minister and thief, and she refused to let him into the house even if she died, which undoubtedly became a pain in Yao Guangxiao's heart.

And now, my sister has finally forgiven him.

Yao Guangxiao stretched out his hand and wanted to get the insole, but Jiang Xinghuo took two pairs from underneath, and his hand stopped.

"These two are for me."

Jiang Xinghuo is right.

Yao Guangxiao didn't say anything, took the upper pairs, he squinted his eyes, and carefully looked at the stitches on the insole.

After a long time, he sighed unpleasantly: "It's not as fine as before." ”

The line in the mother's hand, the wanderer's shirt. Before leaving, I am afraid that I will be delayed.

Thinking of this ancient poem that he would memorize when he was a child, at this time, through the long river of time, it was like a bullet, accurately hitting the center of the eyebrows, Yao Guangxiao was stunned, and burst into tears.

"Hey, why are you still crying at such an old age?"

Jiang Xinghuo took out a clean silk cloth from his sleeve and handed it to the old monk to wipe his nose.

As Yao Guangxiao blew his nose, Jiang Xinghuo made a fake cough vigorously, and the sadness that was not too much was suddenly disturbed by Jiang Xinghuo.

"I also saw your nephew, an honest farmer in his fifties, do you want to hurry up? Someone will inherit the title of duke in the future, now you take care of it, although it can't be plastic, but it can still be corrected, lest he will take a detour without you in the future, and people will be bewitched by others to make a mess, that can really go to a situation where there is no return. ”

Jiang Xinghuo said it was quite subtle, but in fact, for this kind of farmer who has lived in the fields all his life, if he is not taught, he will suddenly be promoted to the position of the future heir to the position of the prince, then I really dare not imagine what this person can do.

The wealth of the sky is not something that anyone can catch.

If you just eat and drink, then it's just that, no country is poor.

If you stick to some bad hobbies, it will be a waste at most, and you will have more money by the way.

These are easy to say, but the most fearful thing is that I have no brains and are taken into the ditch, involving some sensitive events, and many times even if I give Danshu iron coupons, it is not so easy to use.

But just like the phrase "adults don't need education" says, this kind of person who hasn't read much at the age of fifty, it is impossible for you to change his lifelong habits, and it is difficult to make him smarter, the only thing to do is to let him not take the wrong path, live a rich life, and pass on the lineage of Rong Guogong, which can be regarded as worthy of Yao Guangxiao's ancestors.

"Let's see."

In this regard, Yao Guangxiao is not in a hurry.

He has escaped into the empty door for many years, and he has done the work of this chaotic minister and thief, what is the inheritance and even the title of merit and title after his death, compared with the world, he looks down on it very lightly, for people like Yao Guangxiao and Jiang Xinghuo, changing the world is the only thing that can make them feel the realization of the value of life, as for the daily food, clothing, housing and even fun, it is okay to give them the minimum standard, and it is more comfortable to give it a little higher, it doesn't matter.

Therefore, if this nephew is rashly passed over, it will hinder the great cause, then Yao Guangxiao is not willing to do it.

"Open the door and blow the wind."

This is an old three-story stone building in the city, and when you open the door, you can see the rippling sea.

The history of this three-storey building is very long, it was established during the Song Dynasty, it has been hundreds of years ago, although it is not as famous as other famous buildings, but it has witnessed the rise and fall of the city of the past dynasties, it is like a witness of time, silently standing in a corner of the city.

Jiang Xinghuo carefully observed the building, the ancient wooden structure is more calm under the baptism of time, as if every wood grain tells the story of the past, and the moss on the roof tiles and the vines extending down the side like a green screen add a bit of vitality and interest to this ancient building.

The most interesting thing is that on each door, there are different door paintings carved with wood reliefs, including some religious images, local folk customs, and even Western customs.

Yao Guangxiao also followed him and watched quietly.

The Zhoushan Islands loom on the skyline in the distance, as if they are a mysterious force guarding this sea area, whenever the sun pokes its head out of the clouds, the light is sprinkled on the sea, sparkling, and the distant islands complement each other, forming a magnificent picture.

In this quiet and solemn place, the officials of the city and the merchants who came to perform the formalities came in and out of the courtyards in front of the building, each with their own interests, some for the interests of the family, some for the faith in their hearts, and some just for survival.

For the first time, Jiang Xinghuo had a sense of history.

This sense of history does not refer to the past here, but to the fact that this place is becoming a part of history.

These people are clever or stupid, cunning or vicious, no matter what kind of people they are, they have all merged into the whirlpool of history with the ships that set sail to sea, and they are intertwined with each other in this whirlpool, light or dark, and together weave a magnificent epic.

"I actually read all the documents of the city department on the way when I came."

Jiang Xinghuo's thoughts flew in the distance, and he pondered: "The wealth of the Ming Dynasty, manifested in taxes, is only the tip of the iceberg, and the larger part is still hidden in the people. ”

Obviously, it is very telling that these businessmen were able to do so much in the short period of time after the lifting of the maritime ban policy, and that so many people were engaged in maritime trade.

If this is true on the coast, what about the inland?

In this era, Jiang Xinghuo had just established a bank, and in more remote places, it was usually the pawnshop that took on the responsibility of financial exchange, and it was not only unsafe to put the wealth there to keep it, but people in turn would take money from you.

Therefore, the most effective means of financial management, in addition to buying land, is to dig a pit and bury it.

This is what many gentry like to do.

These are hidden treasures, not something that can be seen normally, even if they are buried in the soil for hundreds of years and passed down for generations, it is not strange at all.

On the contrary, the more you bury, the more you bury is the norm.

Since Jiang Xinghuo has crossed over to the Ming Dynasty, he naturally does not need to use violent means to loot wealth like Li Zicheng.

The city was a good investment for the gentry, landlords and merchants along the coast.

Gold, silver and copper coins are also buried in the ground, it is better to dig out some to buy ships, goods, and conduct overseas trade, after all, this kind of thing has been done by ancestors for generations, and the Ming Dynasty has banned the sea for more than 30 years, but it is not a normal situation.

In addition, in the past, overseas trade was not allowed, and only people with good hands and eyes could smuggle it.

Now that the sea ban has been lifted, in addition to the very special goods such as gunpowder and iron ore, other trade goods can come and go freely as long as they pay taxes, and the threshold for participating in marine trade has been greatly reduced, so there are also a large number of civil forces involved, which directly creates the prosperity of Zhejiang's trade.

At the same time, the armed forces of the merchant ship also developed, and groups similar to those of the sea dart master began to appear, that is, the paid escort business, except that the dart master rode horses on the shore and drove ships on the sea.

Under such prosperity, Jiang Xinghuo felt that he could learn from the overseas trade model of the Age of Discovery, and cultivate the non-governmental maritime merchants into real transnational trade giants.

Of course, although the idea is good, it must be supported by sufficient financial resources.

The money must not be Jiang Xinghuo, and Jiang Xinghuo still expects to give money from them, so it is also necessary for the bank's business to develop to Zhejiang.

Now Daming Bank only has some branches in Nanzhili, but not one in Zhejiang.

For merchants, with the bills in any place to store treasure money, to the other place can be withdrawn, do not need to carry a box of silver on the road, only need to bring bills, this kind of convenience of business, can be said to be greatly improved.

Of course, some people will joke that it is much more convenient to tie up a person than to rob a cart of silver.

But in fact, wealthy businessmen understand the truth of "wealth is not exposed", and the business model innovation caused by this portability has been very obvious in the late Qing Dynasty in Jiang Xinghuo's previous life.

It is precisely on the basis of this consideration that Jiang Xinghuo felt that he should seek progress while maintaining stability and open branches of Daming Bank to these cities along the coast of Hangzhou Bay in northern Zhejiang.

On the one hand, it absorbed the money used by merchants and gentry to do business through savings; On the other hand, it is to provide financing to merchants in need through mortgages.

In this way, as long as the supervision, bookkeeping, and inspection are strict enough, it is still very difficult to bankrupt the bank, and there is a high probability that it will be able to continue to monopolize and make money.

The reason why Jiang Xinghuo had this idea was also inspired by the report of the city.

Although many families in Zhejiang have been known as wealthy families since the Southern Song Dynasty, they have not saved much for so many years - because these families relied on the sea to eat in the early years, and after the Ming Dynasty implemented the sea ban, the income was not as good as before, and most of the wealth they accumulated was used to buy arable land, and the remaining small part was left for the education of their children and grandchildren.

But no matter how to buy arable land, the fertility of Zhejiang's land can not be compared with those prefectures in the south of Zhili, and the north of Zhejiang is better to say, there are still a little plains, but the south of Zhejiang is basically dominated by hills.

Therefore, the initial scale of these Zhejiang maritime merchants is actually not large, perhaps this is very rare for Daming, but compared with those maritime trade families in other countries, it is simply too far behind.

Shipping, contains huge profit margins, every year back and forth to the east, west, north and south, if it goes well, just a few months of income, can feed a large family.

Of course, there is no such thing as a completely safe place to buy and sell.

Overseas, in addition to the deterrence of the Ming Dynasty, it is also very important for the locals to abide by the rules, because many people do not understand the rules, and they are easy to be instigated, and they will make trouble whenever they have the opportunity -

Probably only the warship cannons of the Ming Dynasty can stabilize them.

Speaking of going back to China, of course, the assets of Daming Bank are actually limited now, Jiang Xinghuo now wants to make a huge overseas trade network, the first thing to break is the financing problem of maritime merchants, and this difficulty is definitely quite high.

However, this did not prevent Jiang Xinghuo from giving it a try.

After all, if it is really done well, it will be "hundreds of millions of dollars".

At present, the world is just emerging money bank is not deposit savings function, but Daming Bank can carry out this exclusive business, once opened, with people familiar with it, it will be very popular, when the wool can be out of the sheep, take out a part of the deposit to the maritime loans.

In other words, if Jiang Xinghuo wants to get 100 million Daming treasure banknotes in the next day, he doesn't need to print it himself, and he can directly use the power of finance to obtain it.

Of course, there is no pie-in-the-sky good thing in this world, and if you don't do it well, you will get rid of yourself, and the consequence will be the collapse of the credibility of the entire Daming Bank.

At that time, it may also affect the actual value of the treasure banknote.

At this time, Jiang Xinghuo finally understood why many people in history would rather take risks to engage in these, if this can be done, then this feeling of manipulating money is really cool.

Jiang Xinghuo told Yao Guangxiao his thoughts.

After Yao Guangxiao listened, he didn't have a special reaction, but he just felt that since Jiang Xinghuo had the confidence to control the risk, then this was a very good thing.

In this regard, Yao Guangxiao has a blind trust in Jiang Xinghuo.

"Aren't you afraid I'll mess up?"

"The worst outcome is nothing more than a pre-meta story, and the credibility is bankrupt, what's so scary?"

Jiang Xinghuo smiled.

This is the perspective of standing at the pinnacle of power, even if for many people, it may be a catastrophe, but for people at the highest level of the empire, such as those emperors and prime ministers of the previous Yuan Dynasty, it is not so unacceptable.

However, Jiang Xinghuo's personality is not quite the same as Wang Anshi and Zhang Juzheng.

There are some commonalities of perseverance and courage to do things, but also some personal preferences.

Jiang Xinghuo does not reject bold attempts, and Jiang Xinghuo is a bold person from the bottom of his bones, and he will not be afraid of one or several failures.

And before that, the reason why Jiang Xinghuo didn't show it was because of the lack of motivation, so he was completely eating and waiting for death, and enjoying himself by the way.

But now with continuous experience, Jiang Xinghuo has a very clear understanding of the current situation of Daming, even if he has done a lot of things, he has not blindly expanded, he is very clear about his responsibilities, he does not dare to do anything wrong, and at the same time, he clearly knows his weaknesses and shortcomings, but has fear, this fear is not the fear of trying, but the fear of himself.

Deep in Jiang Xinghuo's heart, he has always had a feeling that he actually does not have Zhang Juzheng's ability to shoulder the affairs of the world, and his insight and knowledge beyond the times cannot allow him to directly assume this role similar to that of "prime minister".

For a long time, it was the old monk who helped him share a lot of pressure and work.

Similarly, Zhu Gaochi is also the same.

Therefore, the current Daming temple is actually more like the previous "three provinces", with different positions and factions, each in charge of its own share, and there is no "single minister" with enough power to threaten the imperial power.

This power structure, balanced and fragile, may soon be broken, but until it is broken, everyone benefits from it.

This trip is more like a staged summary of the change.

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the old monk beside him and said to him: "I used to always fantasize, how to change the social atmosphere of the entire Ming Dynasty, so that the world takes on a new look, I want everyone to live a good life, so that those poor people can get the life they deserve, but unfortunately this trip to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, although I have seen a lot of farmers and workers have become better, there is still poverty and hunger along the way, maybe sometimes I don't do well, even I can't get rid of the shackles, how can I help the people of the world?" ”

"That's what you do."

Yao Guangxiao just pointed from afar, Jiang Xinghuo turned around, but saw an unusually beautiful scene.

At this time, the sun has completely come out of the clouds, the harbor is shining, and even the sea is golden, as if it means something.

"Yu Dao each works hard, thousands of miles from the same wind, why bother with these things? And just do things seriously. ”

(End of chapter)