A small event can often determine the direction of history.

If Liu Zhang didn't have the idea of bringing the best potato seeds back to their homeland, they could actually avoid this adventure of the Inca Empire and return to the Ming Dynasty through the route they came.

It's just that things have developed to this point, can he really be blamed entirely?

His original intention was only to bring the best potato seeds back to China, so he chose to prepare friendly negotiations with the Inca Empire, and no one expected so many accidents.

What's more, they are explorers of China after all, and they can't cower in doing things, otherwise they won't be able to cross the ocean through hardships, and they won't be able to collect sweet potatoes, corn and peanut seeds.

Their mission is to brave danger and open up a new road for Huaxia, a route that can be walked repeatedly by future generations.

Although they came to the royal capital of the Inca Empire not only to get potato seeds, but also accidentally discovered a golden treasure, they suddenly encountered an army of 80,000 who had just returned from the battle.

Once all the three hundred of them die here, let alone bring the best potatoes of the Inca Emperor back to Daming, even the sweet potatoes, corn and peanuts that they collected earlier will not be able to do so.

The Mingyuan treasure ship fleet built by the power of the whole country is about to fail. If there is no Ming Jun like Zhu Youzhi in power, with the urine nature of those scholars, I am afraid that I will have to wait for an unknown number of years before it can be re-sailed.

The words were divided into two ends, and at this time, Da Ming, who was located in the west of the Great Flat Ocean, was also not calm.

The city of Nanjing, which is the most populous city in the world.

According to Matteo Ricci's Chinese Notes, the locals told a story about two men riding opposite each other on horseback from opposite sides of the city, and it took them a whole day to meet each other.

Although there is obviously an element of exaggeration, the capital, which took 28 years to mobilize 280,000 migrant workers and about 350 million bricks, covers an area of more than 230 square kilometers.

Even though it has now been reduced to the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the economy here is still very prosperous, and the lanterns on the Qinhuai River are hung high every night.

The entertainment industry in Gangnam is so well developed that it is in a lively atmosphere throughout the spring and summer.

Yangzhou Oiran in March, Suzhou Oiran in April, Songjiang Oiran in May, and this June in Nanjing will be another Oiran competition, so the current Qinhuai River is particularly lively.

Because this year is the year of Dabi, the banks of the Qinhuai River have attracted countless literati and elegant guests, and various poems praising the women of Qinglou are endless.

"The smoke cage is cold, the moon is long, the sand is long, and the night is close to the wine river in Qinhuai."

This is the Jiangnan realism of the times, but the Ming Dynasty is thriving, so there is no "businesswoman does not know the hatred of the country, and she still sings the flower in the backyard across the river".

The ancient rhyme of Lingbo is ten miles of joy, and the wind shakes the painting boat and the rain contains smoke.

The night tour is amazing, and the love wine is never sleeping.

This is the holy land of literati, more accurately the prosperous age of the rich, and many unambitious young men like to linger here and live a life of drunkenness.

"It's a fool who doesn't know how to make money these days!"

"After a trip to Dongying, tens of thousands of taels of money were earned, and the usury of the year was far inferior!"

"Yesterday there was someone who didn't take money, and guess what? A silver ingot smashed over it almost stuck out your tongue! ”

……

The children of Jiangnan firms have become the highest quality consumer groups in the whole Jiangnan, and now they have gathered in Nanjing from all over the city.

The contradiction between the Tokai Governor's Mansion and the Ouchi family has not been resolved, but they have secretly become the suppliers of the Ouchi family, which can be said to have made a lot of money.

Most important were the Kyushu and Iwami silver mines in Japan, which brought sootblowing and a large number of miners to the Japanese, and now produces a steady stream of silver.

"We have to keep a low profile, those people are already eyeing us!"

Wang Yanao was not carried away by wealth, but he knew that the imperial court was still trying to abolish the silver standard and implement a new currency, so he seriously admonished his companions.

"Those who have lost their ways, there is no help!"

"Daming treasure banknotes have become waste paper, who dares to pay for the new currency?"

"If there are many silver mines in Dongying, the silver standard will be abolished, and there has never been such a reason in the world!"

……

Jiangnan firms have been tied to Japan's mining and silver interests, and they are very resistant to the imperial court's desire to abolish the silver standard.

Originally, they were very opposed to the implementation of the silver standard by the imperial court, and now that they are jointly developing silver mines with the Japanese daimyos, it is naturally even more impossible to let go.

Even though the mining of silver would bring great benefits to the Japanese, they also benefited a lot, and naturally did not follow the imperial decree for the sake of national interests.

Jiangnan is becoming more prosperous, but the contradictions are more acute.

If it weren't for the world that now belongs to the Zhu family, they would definitely fully support the other party's forces, so that they could successfully cooperate with the Japanese daimyo to mine silver mines and seize the social wealth of China.

Even now is a time of peace when singing and dancing are peaceful, but there are still hidden ghosts.

Burst!

A sharp blade pierced the young man's chest, and blood splattered out, and the young man who was stabbed looked full of disbelief and unwillingness.

The assailant's eyelids did not blink, as if he had just killed a chicken, and he was full of disdain in the face of the young man who was slowly falling.

His ears suddenly moved slightly, but he accurately caught the sound of hurried footsteps in the front yard, and secretly said that it was not good in his heart, so he immediately chose to jump out of the window and escape from the backyard.

A team had already arrived here, followed by a rapid knock on the door, and someone shouted loudly inside, "Li Si, are you there?" ”

"Not good, it smells of blood!"

"Kick the door open!"

Hu Jun personally led the team to come, and suddenly gave an order in a hurry.

The door was not strong, the latch had broken in the violent impact, and the young man who had just been assassinated had collapsed in a pool of blood and had lost his life.

"Oops, they're one step ahead of us!"

"The blood hasn't dried yet, the murderer must have just left, let's chase after it!"

An experienced deputy squad leader of the search department of the Metropolitan Procuratorate immediately made an accurate judgment after inspecting the situation of the corpse.

"Don't chase?"

"Squad leader, why is that?"

Just when the deputy squad leader wanted to lead someone to pursue him from the backyard, Hu Jun, who was the leader of the third group, stopped him directly.

"Let's not startle the snake!"

Hu Jun is no longer the country boy he was back then, but has grown into the elite of the Metropolitan Procuratorate Search City, but he is expressing his own opinions.

This......

Lei Ming, the deputy team leader, couldn't help frowning, although this explanation was a bit reasonable, he still felt that this explanation was too far-fetched. It's just that the other party is his superior after all, and he is the person Wang Ge Lao relies on, so he has no choice but to give up.

Nanjing City, Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Wang Yue sat on duty, looking very good at handling the affairs at hand.

After two months of recuperation, his injuries have healed, but his body has repeated abdominal pain, so he still chooses to stay in Nanjing City to continue to recuperate.

Although he was recuperating here, he never forgot his mission, nor did he forget the people who were still struggling at the bottom, so the work at hand did not stop.

At present, the most urgent thing is that there are counterfeit copper coins on the market, which has seriously disrupted the economic order and brought losses to the Ming Dynasty's finances.

Although the abolition of the silver decree and the introduction of the new currency were still resisted by the Jiangnan gentry clique, the matter eventually had some results, especially the imperial court gave Jiangnan officials all silver dollars, and the taxes collected were also settled in silver dollars.

Now he had demanded that all the salt, rice, and silk shops in Jiangnan refuse to trade in silver, and instead accept silver dollars and copper coins.

This move mainly improved the status of copper coins, and the status of silver became more and more prominent in the past, so nearly 2,000 copper coins could be exchanged for one or two silver.

Now using 1,000 copper coins is equivalent to the purchasing power of one tael of silver in the past, and you can also exchange 1,000 copper coins for a silver dollar, which is actually of great benefit to the people at the bottom.

The imperial court did not accept all the copper coins, but decided to take back the copper coins of the capital and destroy them.

However, the gang in Jiangnan deliberately made it bad, they got a large amount of copper ore from nowhere, and began to counterfeit copper coins on a large scale and circulate them in the market.

Because the weight of Xuande Tongbao is not fixed, and it is lighter than Hongwu Tongbao and Yongle Tongbao in the early days, it has become the hardest hit area of their counterfeit coins.

Wang Yue knew that the current financial health was good, but if the Jiangnan Group was allowed to commit fraud so unscrupulously, it would be a big disaster for the country and the people, so he must find out the place where the counterfeit copper coins were made as soon as possible.

"What about the four of them?"

"Li Si is dead!"

Hu Jun came back to his life, and reported truthfully and helplessly.

Since Yin Zhi's side found that the gold case was related to Jiangnan Firm, they also conducted a joint investigation, and after two months of Shunteng, they have found the escort team of Jiangnan Firm.

Li Si is a squad leader of the Jiangnan Firm's escort team, but he has been spending a lot of money recently, so he is ready to arrest him back for interrogation.

It's just that who would have thought that they had just found a list and were about to go to bring Li Si back, but they were wiped out by a mysterious organization.

"Dead again?"

When Wang Yue heard this result, he couldn't help but stop what he was doing.

If it is once or twice, it may be just a coincidence, but if a phenomenon is repeated many times, then it is no longer a coincidence.

What initially made him suspicious was the Suzhou side, Song Cheng originally wanted to identify the mastermind of the gold looting when he was choosing an Oiran in Suzhou, but things did not go well.

Not to mention that the two most high-profile children did not spend money, and all the children of Jiangnan Business did not participate, but it was Concubine Jing's younger brother Su Quai, who supported the Oiran.

It's just that Su Quzhi is his own person, and his original intention of supporting Oiran is to help lead out the mastermind of the gold robbery, but he doesn't want the other party to be tricked at all.

If you add that you were attacked last time, then it can't be a coincidence, but there are internal ghosts around you or Song Cheng's side.

"Elder Wang Ge, what should we do now?" Hu Jun looked at Wang Yue silently, and asked cautiously.

Wang Yue sighed lightly, and then said directly to the truth: "The day before yesterday, the old man asked you to secretly investigate who of our gang was born in Jiangnan, have you found out?" ”

"Elder Wang Ge, don't you say that you almost forgot to report, the list of personnel is all here!" Hu Jun patted his forehead and immediately presented the list.

Wang Yue knew the strength of Jiangnan Group and did not dare to take it lightly. Although he had been carefully screened in the capital, he saw that things were repeatedly going wrong, so he decided to re-investigate the people around him.

Although the list of the three personnel is not much, after seeing the resumes above, they quickly locked on Lei Ming, the deputy squad leader of the search hall. Unexpectedly, although he is not from Jiangnan, his mother is from Jiangnan, and he was raised in Suzhou when he was a child.

Wang Yue put down the list in his hand and made a decision: "You continue to star!" If these people do something wrong, take them down immediately! ”

"Yes!" Hu Jun immediately said solemnly.

Wang Yue raised his hand to let Hu Jun leave, and sighed helplessly, the infiltration of this Jiangnan Group should not be underestimated.

It's just that some things are not as simple as they seem, and now things are beyond their expectations, which is silently preparing to write densely.

Although Wang Yue was not in the capital, he was always in contact with the emperor, and he would report everything here to the emperor.

The sound of oars and lights are ten miles away, and the singer plays the turbid waves.

Meixiang Building, the most well-known green building on the Qinhuai River.

"Don't worry! As long as the master is served well, this year will be spent on you to be an oiran! Li Yi was full of alcohol, and hugged a beautiful Qinglou woman to pack the ticket.

The beautiful Qinglou woman pointed at Li Yi lightly, but she exposed his lie and said, "Come on!" The slave family has heard that you still said that you want to support Su Meier in Suzhou, and who else will you hold when you arrive in Songjiang, but you only have a clever mouth! ”

Li Yi acted very high-profile this year, but he did not go to the sea again, but lingered among the flowers every day, from Suzhou to Songjiang and now Nanjing.

Obviously, he has repeatedly owed debts in the Qinglou, but he claims to praise whoever he wants, which is more like a descendant of Wuxun who eats, drinks and sleeps.

"You have to think about it! Master lied to you, you will make you suffer a small loss at most...... If the master doesn't lie to you, then you're an Oiran! Li Yi pretended to be unsteady, but he was tempted.

The beautiful Qinglou woman was moved after all, but she gently slapped him on the chest and said, "The slave family must owe you in your last life, so you are not allowed to lie to the slave family!" ”

"After the little master is the king of Qiyang, how can he lie to you, let's go to your room and be happy first!" Li Yi was overjoyed in his heart, and immediately cheered up.

The beautiful Qinglou woman vaguely guessed that there was no such good thing, but she couldn't resist the temptation, not to mention that she was indeed from an extraordinary background, and she had a very good personal relationship with the wealthy owners of the Jiangnan firms.

Li Yi glanced at the people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate who were staring at him, and said as if he was deliberately provocative: "As long as the master is served, I will spend money to make you an oiran this year!" ”

Lei Ming and the others who were sitting around the table in the search hall of the Metropolitan Procuratorate suddenly darkened their faces, and the more provocative the other party was, the more reason they had to suspect that this person was the real culprit who ransacked the golden ship.

"Li Yi, please go with the county to the county office!" Just as Li Yi hugged the beautiful Qinglou woman and went straight to the room, a thin middle-aged man wearing a six-grade official uniform stopped the way. (End of chapter)