"His Royal Highness King Zhou." Ye Shangren stood up, respectfully put a small jar of wine in his hand into an extremely exquisite wine glass, and said casually: "In the countryside, there is nothing else to produce, only a glass of turbid wine brewed at home, which can still be drunk." Today I am here to dedicate myself to Your Highness. ”

"Lord Ye is polite." Zhu Su smiled slightly, picked up the wine glass and twisted it in his hand, only to see that the wine in the cup was clear and visible, and in the aroma of the wine, there was a faint fragrance of bamboo, lined with the bamboo leaf pattern outlined by the craftsman at the bottom of the cup.

But Ye Shangren, naturally, couldn't have climbed the Three Treasures Hall just to ask for a glass of wine.

"Although this wine is good, if you are drunk, how can you do things for the court? …… If Lord Ye has something to say, how about you and I have a good drink? Zhu Su said with a smile.

"Yes, yes, what His Royal Highness said is very ......" Xu didn't expect Zhu Su to be so straightforward, Ye Shangren was stunned, and looked a little cramped.

He sat down and rubbed his hand on the hem of his clothes, as if he hadn't thought of the wording yet, and suddenly gritted his teeth and said, "Xiaguan...... Ashamed. ”

"My Ye clan is small, there is a shortage of medicine and few doctors, and there is not much income between the fields, and the clansmen are deeply suffering. Today, His Royal Highness opened a field in Lianzhou, which is a good deed to help the people of Lianzhou. Xiaguan is cheeky...... I also ask Your Highness to allow my Ye clan to buy a few shops in this field, so that my people can communicate with foreign businessmen......"

“…… Can? Ye Shangren's attitude was extremely respectful.

Zhu Su gently put the wine glass back on the table, but his heart jumped. came, and finally there was a toast that couldn't hold his breath.

Since that day, after the Dongpo Lou banquet, Zhu Su's plan to open the field in Lianzhou Mansion has been rejected by all the toasts.

Perhaps it is the survival wisdom inherited for thousands of years, although the local Tusi live in the mountains, forests and lakes, they always have some tacit understanding in the face of the imperial court. When they learned that Zhu Su was only willing to open the field in the capital city of Lianzhou, they immediately understood that the imperial court was very likely to use this field to control them, the toasts who had been passed down from generation to generation.

Perhaps there was one toast who took the lead, but in short, all the toasts unanimously chose the "non-violent and non-cooperative" approach to the construction of the field. They didn't listen to or ask about the Lianzhou capital city that was building a lot of buildings, and let Zhu Su do it. In their minds, such a huge project, as long as they restrain the people in the clan, so that the young prince has no work to call, this huge project will definitely be shelved.

After all, the movement planned by this prince is really too big, and it is to expand the city wall, and to repair the canal and port. If a project of this magnitude were not for tens of thousands of people working around the clock, it would be difficult to complete it within a few years.

Without manpower, there is no way to build a field. Can't repair the field, didn't the king of Zhou obediently change the location within the scope of their Tusi, so that they could take advantage?

It's a pity that these toasts underestimated Zhu Su's ability. After the banquet that day, Zhu Su had already revised a book. In less than half a month, a caravan appeared in Lianzhou Mansion with several ships of building materials. For the first time, these toasters also knew that they didn't know the height of the sky: they saw that the city wall built by the Ming army, I don't know what it was, but it could be condensed in just a few days. However, in the middle of a month, the new city wall that had been expanded outside the eastern city had already been repaired, and even the water canal and the dock houses in the field had begun to take shape, which was unheard of.

They live in a corner, and naturally they don't know about the emerging building materials that have shone in the interior of the Ming Dynasty and northern Xinjiang in the past two years: cement.

The advent of cement directly pushed the military engineering industry of Daming to several steps in an instant. Without cement, the Ming Dynasty would not be able to build cities and forts at such a fast speed in northern Xinjiang and the Wa Kingdom. It can be said that it is a major military weapon of the Ming Dynasty to expand its territory. Most of these elite soldiers under Li Wenzhong and Lan Yu had served in the Northern Xinjiang and the War of the Japanese Kingdom, and they were really familiar with using these cements.

In such a remote place, these Ming soldiers could build a city, let alone expand the Lianzhou capital city. The appearance of Lianzhou Mansion is simply changing with each passing day, and such an unprecedented change finally made these toasts who were originally sure that Zhu Su would not be able to build a field panicked.

Now, finally, the first toast who couldn't hold his breath found Zhu Su in private, and clearly said that he wanted to get a piece of the soup from this huge project......

According to Zhu Su's previous statement, the Lianzhou Port Farm mainly faced Nanyang merchants and Western merchants, and it was foreign trade in nature. According to the regulations of the imperial court, foreign trade requires the commercial and trade exploration promulgated by the imperial court, otherwise it is regarded as smuggling. When this paper survey is issued, they will be supervised by the relevant yamen of the Ming court, and they will have the responsibility of paying taxes and taxes, and the right of the Tusi to do their own thing will be greatly reduced...... Therefore, this Ye Tusi's words seemed very hesitant and entangled.

Zhu Su knew this, although the construction progress of Lianzhou Yongchang shocked the hearts of these toasters, but this Ye Tusi came to the door, and he was only reluctant to make temporary gains from the field. Perhaps, in their hearts, they still feel that this field is set up because of the face of their own King Zhou, and when they return to Beijing after calming down the chaos in the southwest, this field will also be abandoned.

Ye Tusi is so entangled, he is weighing the pros and cons. What he was afraid of was that he had received the survey of the imperial court, but the field would be abandoned in a few days. If you put on a layer of shackles and don't make much profit, then the gains outweigh the losses.

Therefore, Zhu Su did not agree directly, but asked instead: "Lord Ye wants to rent a shop...... I don't know, what do you want to do to make a living? ”

"Oh, there's nothing to do." Ye Shangren was stunned for a moment, and then replied with a smile. "There is still some surplus food in the clan, some wine, and some cloth, mulberry and hemp and other things, and I want to exchange ......."

The Tusi family, inherited for a hundred years, which family does not have some surplus sundries? I heard that the transportation of Chinese goods to the West is ten times and a hundred times the profit, Ye Shangren hit this idea, and wanted to sell these things to the Nanyang merchants who traveled west.

"Oh? Don't you have Namzhu? Zhu Su's eyes flashed and he asked.

"Nam-joo? Oh. Your Highness is talking about Ha Zhu, right? Of course, there is. Ye Shangren said. The land of Lianzhou, adjacent to rivers, mountains and seas, has many mussels, and can there be less river beads? ”

"It's just...... Our clan is not a Xu household, although there are river beads, the yield is not abundant, far less than the production of Xu households. ”

"This river bead business...... Although Xia Guan is interested, he still can't do it if he thinks about it. Ye Shangren smiled bitterly.

(End of chapter)