The meeting between Lan Yu, Li Jin and Fu Youde lasted for six hours, from broad daylight to midnight, and Fu Youde and Lan Yu still had a feeling of unfinished business.

It's not that the two of them suddenly like to engage in government affairs, but they are with Li Jin, and they don't leave the silver in every word, and the feeling of being able to make a lot of money right away makes them intoxicated.

It's like brainwashing, making them want to stop, if it weren't too late, they would be eager to continue to drag Li Jin to chat for another twelve hours.

Li Jin made it clear from Annan's future plan to specific implementation, and even how much money he could earn in the future and whose money he would earn.

Fu Youde and Lan Yu only felt like they had lifted the clouds, and suddenly realized that they could still make money like this in this world.

The three of them have more and more reverence for Li Jin at this moment, as Lan Yu said, at this moment, Li Jin is the God of Wealth in their eyes, even more spiritual than the God of Wealth.

After all, Fu Youde and Lan Yu have begged the God of Wealth for so many years, and they have not seen themselves get rich, but they have followed Li Jin, but their wealth is growing day by day.

After the meeting was dismissed, Lan Yu arranged Li Jin and Fu Youde into the most luxurious mansion in Annan, and as for the palace, naturally no one dared to go in to live.

After Zhu Di returned to his residence, he couldn't calm down for a long time, lying on the bed, and there was no sleepiness, this was the first time he had heard of such a detailed industrial layout, and it was also the first time that he had such a strong interest in governing the place.

He tossed and turned, tossing and turning, and couldn't sleep.

Fortunately, he jumped up, no longer sleeping, but found a pen and paper, lit a candle, and wrote the desk.

For a whole hour, Zhu Di did not stop the brush in his hand, and when everything was completed, the sky had already revealed the white belly of the fish, and unconsciously, Zhu Di wrote all his feelings and thoughts on the paper, all in one go.

Stretching his waist, Zhu Di gently dried the ink, and then put the letter in an envelope and sent it to Hepu County quickly.

Zhu Di's letter recorded in detail the content of the conversation with Li Jin, including how to divide the spoils, and the silver that Zhu Biao had distributed, and the matter of being invested in the Chamber of Commerce by himself.

The most important thing is that Li Jin's plan for Annan and how to implement it were all written by Zhu Di, and until the end of the letter, Zhu Di also wrote his own experience.

After doing all this, Zhu Di felt a little sleepy, and he didn't even take off his clothes, so he lay on the bed and fell asleep.

...

Hepu County.

Just when Zhu Biao was in full swing to rectify the Tusi in Hepu County, Zhu Yuanzhang's holy decree suddenly came.

Zhu Biao was a little surprised, he didn't expect his father's holy decree to come so quickly this time, because according to his estimate, his own recital should have just arrived in Yingtian not long ago.

After Zhu Biao received the holy decree, the content of it made Zhu Biao a little incredulous.

"Li Jin has been promoted to the political envoy of Annan? Even the fourth child has become the commander of the Annan Metropolitan Division? ”

Zhu Biao thought that even if Zhu Yuanzhang did not condemn Li Jin, he would issue an order to reprimand, but after waiting and waiting, what he waited for was the result of Li Jin's promotion, which made Zhu Biao suspect that there was a problem with his ears.

Wu Feng, the commander of Jinyiwei, who came to deliver the message this time, hurriedly nodded and said after hearing Zhu Biao's inquiry:

"Yes, in addition, the emperor also wants you to return to Yingtian, and the queen misses you."

When Zhu Biao heard Queen Ma missing herself, a touch of tenderness suddenly appeared in her eyes, but after a while, Zhu Biao regained his composure and said:

"Now that the southwest is in the most critical period, I can't leave yet."

"After this matter is completed, I will return to Yingtian, where I will completely solve the problem of toast for Daming."

Seeing Zhu Biao's firm face, Wu Feng didn't say anything, after all, he was just passing the word on his behalf, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not make a clear request, and strictly ordered Zhu Biao to return.

Zhu Biao asked Wu Feng to stay in Hepu County for two more days, and he could write a reply letter to Zhu Yuanzhang, just so that Wu Feng could take it.

Wu Feng bowed down to answer the order, and he also wanted to arrange the eyeliner of the Jinyi Guard here as soon as possible, not to monitor Zhu Biao, but to protect Zhu Biao's safety.

If Zhu Biao had any accident here, Wu Feng couldn't imagine how angry the emperor would be.

On the same day, just when Zhu Biao wanted to report to Zhu Yuanzhang about the situation in the southwest region, Zhu Di's secret letter also passed from Annan to Zhu Biao's hands.

Hearing Zhu Di's letter, Zhu Biao was very happy, and couldn't wait to open the envelope, and when he saw the contents of the envelope, his brows furrowed slightly.

Regarding the seizure in Annan, Zhu Biao's heart was still very shocked, a total of 16 million taels of materials, if Zhu Yuanzhang knew, I am afraid he would be so happy that he couldn't sleep.

But Annan is just a small and weak country, and such a large amount of silver taels and materials have been looted, it is enough to imagine how much damage this looting will do to Annan.

Zhu Biao didn't pity the damned monarchs and ministers of Annan, he just felt that this was too cruel to the people of Annan.

Especially later, Li Jin's plan to eliminate the people of Annan made Zhu Biao feel a little nervous.

Zhu Biao has followed Song Lian to study since he was a child, learning benevolence and etiquette, learning the royal way, and practicing benevolence.

But these days, following Li Jin for so long, his cognition has been constantly refreshed.

Li Jin told Zhu Biao that since the Han Dynasty, the Huaxia Dynasty has used the set of external Confucianism and internal law, how can there be any real benevolence?

Benevolence is nothing more than to appease the people's grievances and make the people obey the so-called three guidelines and five constants, so as to ensure the stability of the country.

The royal way can be used to your own people, but not externally, because this will make other countries think that you are weak and can be bullied, and you will be ridiculed.

If you rob me of a ship, then I will let you destroy the country and exterminate the species, which is the ultimate purpose of this Annan operation.

With a light sigh in his heart, Zhu Biao began to report to Zhu Yuanzhang again about Annan's harvest.

However, in the letter, Zhu Biao did not write about the sharing of the spoils between Li Jin and Lan Yu and others, but simply wrote about the receipt of 10 million taels of compensation, and then roughly wrote Li Jin's plan for Annan.

It is not marked how much silver Li Jin can earn, nor is it written that Li Jin took Lanyu Fu Youde to form a chamber of commerce again.

It wasn't until late at night that Zhu Biao finally determined the final version after revising and revising it, and then handed it over to Wu Feng and asked Wu Feng to act as his father.

Just when Zhu Biao planned to make persistent efforts to wipe out the southwest toast in one fell swoop, a huge conspiracy began to pour towards Hepu County.

...

100,000 deep in the mountains.

A caravan is winding along the steep mountain road, although within the 100,000 mountains, the road is rarely visited, but with the vigorous development of Hepu County, several roads have been built in Guangxi.

These roads connect Nanning and Guilin straight from south to north, and continue to extend northward.

It is precisely because of the opening of these roads that more and more caravans have begun to enter and leave the 100,000 mountains.

In the past, most caravans only came to the depths of the mountains for more than half a year, because the roads here were really difficult, and it took more than a month to go back and forth.

If it weren't for the abundance of goods in the 100,000 mountains, I'm afraid there would be no caravans to go.

But now, thanks to the vigorous development of Hepu County, there are more and more caravans, and it has become much more convenient to go to the 100,000 mountains, and the merchants have changed from once a year to once a month now.

Although the transportation of 100,000 mountains is backward, it is a place where the natives have lived for generations, so the number of natives scattered here is not small, and even accounts for most of the proportion.

It's just that these natives are used to living in the mountains, so they don't have much contact with the outside world, and the toast in the deep mountains is a veritable emperor of the soil.

The government can't control it, and the people are all bowing down, and all the items in the village are owned by the Tusi, and the land, food, and even people are also the private property of the Tusi.

These toasts have never seen the outside world of flowers, but they are the kings and hegemons in the earthen village, but they are also living freely.

Usually there are two worlds inside and outside the mountains, and the toasts on both sides do not interact with each other or disturb each other, and both sides have a tacit understanding of automatic isolation.

The toast in the mountains is afraid of the people outside the mountain and affects his supremacy, while the toast outside the mountain looks down on the toast in the mountain at all, and the two sides do not interact with each other.

But this time, an uninvited guest, but the caravan that followed into the mountain, suddenly appeared in front of the toast of Qingxiu Mountain.

"Patriarch Ruan, you are here, and you will not be welcomed."

The Tusi Department of Qingxiu Mountain is one of the best tribes among the 100,000 mountains, and most of the tribes have marriages in the mountains, so the strength of the Qingxiu Mountain Department should not be underestimated.

And Meng Xiao, the leader of the Qingxiu Mountain tribe, is also a powerful earthquake within a radius of hundreds of miles, and no one dares to provoke him.

But even so, when Meng Xiao saw Ruan Xiufeng, he was still slightly shocked.

After all, Ruan Xiufeng's reputation is no worse than Meng Xiao, and even slightly better, and Ruan Xiufeng's tribe is several times stronger than Qingxiu Mountain, Meng Xiao really can't understand, Ruan Xiufeng did not hesitate to go deep into the 100,000 mountains to find himself, what is it for?

Ruan Xiufeng took off the cloak on his head, solemnly tidied up his clothes, and then bowed down to Meng Xiao and said:

"I'm here to ask the Mongolian patriarch for help!"

Meng Xiao was shocked when he heard this, he didn't expect that such a powerful tribe as Ruan Xiufeng would ask him for help, so he hurriedly stretched out his hand to help Ruan Xiufeng up, and asked urgently:

"Dare to ask Patriarch Ruan, what happened?"

Ruan Xiufeng looked left and right, and then said in a low voice:

"This is not the place to talk, please ask the Mongolian patriarch to find a quiet place, this matter is not only related to the life and death of our clan, but also the catastrophe that all our Tusi will face."

Seeing that Ruan Xiufeng was so cautious, Meng Xiao didn't dare to slack off, so he hurriedly asked all the people around him to retreat, and he himself took Ruan Xiufeng to his room.

After the two sides sat down, Meng Xiao immediately couldn't wait to ask Ruan Xiufeng about it.

And Ruan Xiufeng's next words made Meng Xiao uncomfortable, and made a decision that he would regret for the rest of his life.