Chapter 205: The Disaster of the Southwest Toast

Drunken Immortal Building.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Li Jin, who was drunk, and couldn't help asking:

"What is the important thing you are talking about?"

Li Jin smiled strangely, but did not answer:

"Thou shalt not speak, thou shalt not speak."

"If you don't want to say, how can we ask the emperor for instructions?"

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly became angry and shouted:

"Is it just your empty mouth and white teeth? Do you know, no matter what, the envoy of Wajima is also an envoy of a country. ”

"If you want to meet with the envoy of a country with a small county order, this is not only unreasonable, but if it falls in the eyes of someone who cares, you will even be impeached to death."

Zhu Yuanzhang is very concerned about this kind of thing when all countries come to the court.

Because this can greatly satisfy his vanity, Zhu Yuanzhang's material requirements are actually not very large, during his reign, he governed the country diligently and thriftily, and ruled luxury with thrift.

There was no great palace, nor was there any greed for enjoyment, and there was extreme desire for luxury.

But as long as it is human, then there will definitely be seven emotions and six desires.

Zhu Yuanzhang's desire is not above the material, it must be spiritual.

Perhaps he prefers the feeling of worship to materialism.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang will attach great importance to the visit of envoys from any country.

A few years later, Hu Weiyong was killed by Zhu Yuanzhang because of his unauthorized handling of the envoys who occupied the city.

Now Li Jin actually wants to deal with the envoys of Wadao by himself, which makes Zhu Yuanzhang very annoyed in his heart.

But Li Jin swore and said:

"These envoys are not really envoys of Wajima, but one of the princes' daimyo pretending to be them."

"The princes of Wadao heard that the Ming Dynasty's return gift was very rich, so they wanted to get our Ming wool."

"But the Daimyo of Wajima who came this time is not bad, and he occupies the area of Kyoto and is about to control the monarch of Wajima."

"But if the emperor summons this messenger of the great name, won't he help the abuse?"

"For the sake of our Daming, this kind of person is still handed over to me to deal with."

"After all, a daimyo envoy on Wa Island, I have a county order to receive them, which is already very grand."

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he was suddenly shocked and looked at Li Jin in disbelief.

In his mind, he quickly remembered that when the Ming Dynasty was founded, Wajima had obviously sent a wave of envoys to come, but later there were many waves of emissaries, all of whom claimed to be envoys from Wajima.

Now that he was explained by Li Jinyi, Zhu Yuanzhang quickly understood that he had been tricked, and he was really wronged by Wadao.

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't wait to cut down those hateful widows right now to eliminate the hatred in his heart.

Zhu Biao and the others on the side also remembered the appearance of wave after wave of envoys from Wadao a few years ago, and at the same time looked at Zhu Yuanzhang with strange expressions.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought that it was because the people of Wadao revered their heavenly might, so they kept sending envoys to pay homage to him.

"Hmph, we will report this matter to the emperor, you can wait for news here."

Zhu Yuanzhang's face turned red, and he felt that his old face was a little unbearable.

Li Jin raised his wine glass leisurely and said:

"Old Huang has great powers, this kind of thing is entrusted to you, our brother's fortune plan is all on you."

Zhu Yuanzhang glared at Li Jin angrily, then gently raised the wine glass and drank the glass.

Although Li Jin is a bastard, as long as he can make money for himself, he is a good bastard.

Now that Daming is asking for money everywhere, Mahamu in the Liaodong region is ready to move again at this moment.

And the Liaodong Metropolitan Division he had just established in Liaodong was still too weak, and if Mahamu really wanted to go south and invade the Liaodong region of the Ming Dynasty, he was afraid that the imperial court would have to send a large army to pacify it.

The Tusi in Guizhou, Yunnan Province in southwest China, are still rioting and rebelling, one after another.

Although Mu Ying's kid is suppressing rebellions in Yunnan and other places, the terrain in Yunnan and Guizhou is too complicated, claiming to have 100,000 mountains.

When the war did not go well, these toasts hid in the mountains.

Although the Ming army was brave and good at fighting, in terms of understanding of the terrain, it was no match for these natives.

These natives went out day and night, constantly attacking the grain routes of the Ming army, and the Ming army was too annoying.

But they couldn't catch this group of natives, just like rats, when the Ming army arrived, these people had already slipped into the vast mountains and disappeared.

The Ming army, which had no choice, could only continue to shrink the defensive line, and put most of its defensive energy on major cities such as Kunming, Guizhou, and Yulin.

Now in the southwest region, there is still Tusi autonomy, and these lands are basically the soil emperors of these places.

If Zhu Yuanzhang wants to govern these places, he must continue to invest in the Ming army and pacify all these Tusi.

But even so, these toasts have always become a cancer in the southwest, and they have not stopped at all in the more than two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty.

One of the three major campaigns of Wanli was a thirteen-year campaign against the Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Tibet regions in the southwestern frontier.

Although the Tusi Rebellion in the southwest region was finally quelled, it was precisely because of these thirteen years of conquest that the gold and silver accumulated during the Wanli years were emptied, giving the Northeast Jurchens a chance to grow.

It can be said that the decline of military strength in the late Ming Dynasty was due to a large part of these toasts.

Although it is now the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, some of these toasts have been entrenched in the southwest for nearly a hundred years.

Even if it is Zhu Yuanzhang, there is no better way to take these toast clans.

For now, the only way to do this is to continue to send a large army to support Mu Ying and assist Mu Ying in completely exterminating the rebels in the southwest.

However, this is bound to be a long process, and countless grains and grass will be consumed.

Originally, in Zhu Yuanzhang's expectation, this time may be five years or even later, because now the biggest enemy of the Ming Dynasty is still Mobei Mongolia.

Only by completely solving Mongolia can Zhu Yuanzhang free up his hands and settle the general account with these toasts.

After all, if there is a war on both sides, even the Ming Dynasty will not be able to bear it.

But the appearance of Li Jin made Zhu Yuanzhang see the hope of exterminating these toasts.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty is too poor, the silver is not in place, and the treasury is difficult to support.

Li Jin's various measures made Zhu Yuanzhang see the hope that the treasury would be full, and if it was really like Li Jin's plan, Zhu Yuanzhang would even have the confidence to wage war on both sides of the southwest and Mobei.

Zhu Yuanzhang was helpless about the depletion of the treasury before, after all, the Ming Dynasty had just been established for less than five years, and everything was waiting to be rebuilt.

The people are even poorer, and there are many people who are hungry and clothed.

Zhu Yuanzhang's previous policy of governing the country was based on agriculture, and he wanted to collect taxes from the people, which would take a long time.

After all, Zhu Yuanzhang is not a faint king, and he can't do stupid things like dry and fishing, on the contrary, he will take more care of the people, take the initiative to reduce taxes on the people, so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment.

This method is naturally extremely effective for the stability of the country, and in the past few years, people from all parts of the country have returned to their hometowns one after another to settle down.

However, this is a policy for determining the country, not for a rich country.

Agriculture and commerce are the two legs of governance, and both are indispensable.

Zhu Yuanzhang only pays attention to agricultural affairs, although he can stabilize the country and secure the country, but he can't let the Ming Dynasty quickly become rich and strong, and can only slowly accumulate national strength.

However, this is also the national policy of all Chinese dynasties, and in the early days of all dynasties, they will go through a certain period of weakness.

Although at this time, the combat effectiveness of the dynastic army was still quite strong, but the country was poor and the people were lacking, coupled with the emptiness of the treasury, so although they had a strong army, they did not have the matching national strength to support these dynasties to conquer on a large scale.

Only one or two generations of strength can be accumulated, at that time the treasury was full, the grain and wealth were accumulated to the peak, and the Chinese Dynasty also ushered in a real prosperous era.

Such as the Han Dynasty of the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty's Kaiyuan, and the Ming Dynasty's Yongle.

This is all because the early generations of emperors laid the foundation for them.

Zhu Yuanzhang is now facing such a dilemma, although there are hundreds of thousands of elite Ming troops in Beijing, but after these years of war, the treasury of the Ming Dynasty has been very empty.

Contrary to Zhu Yuanzhang's governing methods, Li Jin was able to quickly accumulate money through commercial means.

If it is said that since the Qin State established the country through cultivation and warfare, all dynasties and dynasties have chosen to become a strong country with agriculture.

Now Zhu Yuanzhang has used the soldier guard, which is also a means of farming and warfare, defeating the powerful Chen Youliang and driving out the Tartars in the north.

So the current Li Jin is to put another leg on Zhu Yuanzhang, so that the current Ming Dynasty is agriculture-oriented and business-oriented.

Coupled with Li Jin's continuous promotion of the business of going to sea, it will be used to grow the Ming Dynasty rapidly by another means.

That is to plunder, nourish the people of the Ming Dynasty with the blood of the enemy country, and use the flesh and blood of foreign races as the soil, so that the Ming Dynasty can break through the cocoon and become a butterfly.