Zhu Ming put down the brush and looked up at Liu Ying: "Are you here to fish for people?" ”

There is some background to being able to open a casino, Zhu Ming had already guessed that there would be ministers to intercede, but he didn't expect that the first to come forward was actually the cabinet minister!

Liu Yang was a member of the old Song Dynasty who captured and persuaded him to return to Hanzhong when the Zhu family father and son conquered Hanzhong. The qualifications are very profound, and the contributions he has made are not small, and after Gao Jingshan died of illness, he was made up as a cabinet minister.

"Your Highness, the minister is not interceding for the person who committed the crime," Liu Ying explained, "There is a person who has opened a gambling house, and this time the crime should be hanged, and the whole family will be exiled to the northwest." His brother did not break up with him, and His Highness said that he would be exiled according to the family register. The daughter-in-law of this man's brother was the daughter of a friend of a minister. Please let Your Highness be accommodating and allow this woman to return to her parents' house with her young children. ”

The daughter-in-law of the casino owner's brother, because she did not separate the family, had to be exiled with her according to the household register...... Well, you can really let it go if you give some face, and you don't necessarily have to follow it to exile to the borderlands.

Zhu Ming asked, "Where is this girl?" ”

Liu Ying replied: "From the Zhang family." ”

"The descendants of Zhangdun?" Zhu Ming said curiously.

Liu Yang said in detail: "He is the descendant of his nephew, Mr. Zhang Heng. ”

Zhang Dian and Zhang Heng's uncle and nephew took the imperial examination together, and Zhang Heng's exam ranking was higher, so angry that Zhang Dian gave up Jinshi and went home to retake the exam.

Liu Ying is Zhang Dan's grandson-in-law.

Zhang's daughter, who was implicated and needed to be exiled, is Zhang Heng's great-granddaughter.

Zhang Heng has a total of more than ten grandchildren, and the devil knows which grandson married his daughter to the nephew of the casino owner.

Zhu Ming frowned and said, "Which one opened the gambling house?" ”

"The Shen family," Liu Ying added, "the descendants of Shen Lun, the founding prime minister of the former Song Dynasty." ”

Shen Lun was the prime minister in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, and he had a daughter and became a concubine.

Zhu Ming said: "The Shen family seems to be the second batch of big clans that have been split and migrated, right? ”

Liu Ying replied, "Indeed." They took the initiative to offer the house deed and the land deed, so they were favored by the imperial court and allowed more than 30 people from their main line to stay in Kaifeng. And did not confiscate the Shen family's floating wealth and shops, only confiscated their land and property. ”

Zhu Ming couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "When Shen Lun was the prime minister, the founding nobles of the Song Dynasty built mansions one after another. Only Shen Lun lived in a humble room, and he was reluctant to spend money to repair it when it was leaking. Zhao Kuangyin sent someone to build a new house for him, and Shen Lun also proposed to make the house smaller. Such an incorruptible and selfless prime minister, will future generations also open casinos? ”

"Indeed, it is an unworthy offspring." Liu Ying echoed.

Zhu Ming pouted: "After the Shen family experienced the relocation of the clan, they still turned a blind eye to the gambling ban notice posted by the imperial court. Is this a disbelief that I will really ban gambling, or is it not taking me seriously at all? ”

Liu Xuan thought to himself, everyone would rather offend the emperor than offend the prince, who dares not to take your old man in his eyes?

Liu Ying said: "Your Royal Highness is angry, although the gambler died in "Song Criminal Unity", the former Song Dynasty has not banned gambling for hundreds of years. Everyone was accustomed to it, so they turned a blind eye to the official notice. ”

"It's still due to the lack of prestige of the new dynasty." Zhu Ming said.

Liu Xuan was horrified, for fear that the prince would make another case to establish his prestige.

Zhu Ming waved his hand: "Let's go, that Zhang girl, you can take the young child back to her parents' house, and you don't have to be implicated and exiled." ”

"Your Highness!"

Liu Ying breathed a long sigh of relief.

Zhang's father and Liu Yang are classmates, and the two families are related by in-laws, so he can't save face before he comes to intercede.

Waiting for Liu Ying to leave, Zhu Ming instructed Fu Zhirou: "The parents, brothers, wives and children of the main criminals of the gambling houses are not allowed to be forgiven if they are in the same household register." The wife of the brother or nephew of the principal offender, who is willing to reconcile with her husband, may return to her parents' home with her minor children. This is a rule, which is supplemented in the "Da Ming Law". ”

He also said to Bai Sheng: "If anyone comes to intercede again in this case, they will be blocked outside and not allowed to enter." ”

"Yes!"

Bai Sheng and Fu Zhirou led the order in unison.

The letter of any law is improved step by step, and the same is true of exile.

The "Da Ming Law" published this year has made adjustments to the exile of the whole family: everything is handled according to the household registration book, forcing the big family to divide their own household and property, otherwise as long as someone in the clan commits a major crime, hundreds or thousands of people will have to be exiled together.

The exile of the clan is not the goal, forcing them to divide the family is!

Not long after, Shi Yuangong brought people to visit.

"Your Highness, the merchant has already been chosen." Shi Yuangong said.

Several businessmen behind him hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed. Zhu Ming didn't bother to say that he didn't have to kneel, he was already tired of saying this kind of thing, so he directly asked them to get up and sit down.

These merchants have a characteristic that their eye sockets are relatively sunken, and at a glance they know that they have alien blood.

However, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Uighurs scattered and migrated, and the weaker ones could not go far, so they settled in the poor areas of Shaanxi, and all of them learned to speak the Han language.

According to the records of the Song Desert Chronicles, these Shaanxi Uighurs were familiar, and women often had fornications with Han Chinese before they were married. There were even Uighur women who were nearly thirty years old and had already given birth to several children, but had not yet married. When it came time to talk about marriage, his parents also showed off to the matchmaker how many men their daughter had slept with. Most of the Uighurs with sunken eyes and beards were born of fornication with the Han Chinese.

Among Li Yanxian's cavalry, there were many such Uighur hybrids.

"Have you ever been to Gaochang to do business before?" Zhu Ming asked.

A mixed-race merchant Jia said: "We are all engaged in small business, let alone going to Gaochang, even the Western Xia do not dare to go deeper, only dare to trade with the Western Xia people in the border areas." ”

Zhu Ming said: "The official family has sent a messenger to canonize the lord of the Western Xia, and in the future, the Ming Dynasty and the Western Xia will be the country of father and son." Although you traveled from Hexi to Gaochang to trade, you recorded the climate, geography, cities, customs, and sects along the way. If the financial resources are insufficient, the imperial court can buy shares and provide them with some goods that are scarce in the Western Regions. ”

Another mixed-race merchant Jia said: "In the past, I heard from the Uighurs and Sogdians that there were often people in the Western Xia who intercepted and killed the merchants, and we really did not dare to enter the territory of the Western Xia too deeply. ”

Zhu Ming's expression became cold: "If Western Xia dares to intercept and kill the Ming merchants, the imperial court will send large soldiers to suppress the territory!" ”

For maritime trade to develop, the overland Silk Road should also be restored.

Even in the era of steamships, the overland Silk Road still made a lot of money.

In recent decades, the situation of the Silk Road has been relatively complicated and unstable, which caused the Liao State and Western Xia to lose a lot of commercial taxes.

Especially in the Western Xia, the Silk Road of the Song and Liao countries had to pass through the territory of the Western Xia.

For the Western Xia court and government, they hated the matter of intercepting and killing business travelers, after all, it was best to be able to flow for a long time. Most of the Western Xia bandits who intercepted and killed the merchant brigade were pretended to be military officers or tribesmen.

The Silk Road passed through the Western Xia and was followed by the Qochang Uighurs, followed by the Qarakhanids in the east and west.

The two khanates were divided by different sects, and they played each other's dog brains, often intercepting and killing merchants sent by the other. It not only reduced the commercial taxes of the Uighurs, Western Xia, and Liao in Gaochang, but also seriously affected the Gejining (Ghazni Dynasty) in the west.

Göchnin was once a Central Asian empire that spanned Persia and India, and was the first country to use Sultan as its monarch.

The Seljuks established the Seljuk Empire by defeating the army of Gochenin.

Today, the center of Ghokenin's rule has been compressed to Punjab, India, and the Silk Road west of the Qarakhanid Kingdom is controlled by the Seljuks.

Seljuk merchants often traveled overland to the Great Song Dynasty, but because they were intercepted and killed by Western Xia in the early years, they gradually became mainly engaged in maritime trade.

In order to open up the Silk Road, the Liao State even named the noble daughter as a princess and married Prince Ge Jianing and his relatives.

The Central Asian countries of Gojining and Seljuk, which seem to be far away from China, are in fact very active in commercial exchanges, but now they are mostly disrupted by the two Karakhanid states in the east and west.

In the future, the Qarakhanid State must be destroyed, first, to open up the Silk Road, and secondly, to obtain bloody horses.

The former land of Dawan was divided into half by the two Qarakhanid states at this time.

Seeing that Prince Zhu's attitude was clear, those mixed-race merchants still didn't dare to refuse after all, so they could only choose to do business in partnership with the imperial court, and were responsible for exploring the Hexi Corridor and the Western Regions for the imperial court.

It may take a decade or two to conquer the Western Regions, but now we have to start making preparations.

After a few mixed-race merchants retreated, Shi Yuangong took out a few books: "Your Highness, this is when Ma Kuo sent an envoy to the grassland and asked King Gaochang to send someone to collect them. The king of Gaochang was quite attentive, and even brought a literate Sogdian scholar with him. ”

The Uighurs were a sedentary nomadic people who now relied on agriculture and commerce, while the Sogdians specialized in their trade. (The Uyghur word for merchant is pronounced very close to the Sogdian word.) ）

As for the Sogdians, An Lushan is, and in the Tang Dynasty, he was called Zhaowu Jiu.

Zhu Ming took the thickest one and asked, "What kind of book is this?" ”

Shi Yuangong replied: "According to the Sogdian scholars, this book is called The Great Dictionary of the Turkic Language, and it has only been twenty or thirty years since it was written. There are a lot of transgressions in the book, which can be used to wage war against the Black Khanate (Qarakhanate) in the future. ”

Zhu Ming smiled and asked, "What are the arrogant words?" ”

Shi Yuangong replied: "For example, in the whole of China, the Black Khanate called it 'Qin'. It is also said that the land of Qin is divided into three, and the former Qin is in the east, which is called Taohuashi, in fact, it is the Song Kingdom. Zhongqin is in the north, and it is the Liao State. Lower Qin in Balkhand (Kashgar) of the Black Khanate. ”

"Interesting!" Zhu Ming didn't laugh angrily.

The Qarakhanid State divided China according to the territory of the Tang Dynasty, and divided China's legal unity into three: the Song State, the Liao State, and the Qarakhanid State.

This view was mainstream among the upper rulers of the Qarakhanid.

In other words, Zhu Ming has obtained the legal system of China, so there is a reason to annex the Qarakhanid as well!

Shi Yuangong said: "The more arrogant ones are still to come, and the division just now is outdated. The current Black Khanate, which calls the Song State Ma Qin and the Liao State Qin, actually regards the Liao State as Chinese orthodoxy. In this way, isn't it true that the Jin Kingdom is orthodox, and my Ming Dynasty belongs to the Southern Dynasty? ”

The more Shi Yuangong spoke, the more angry he became: "What's even more odious is that the Khan of the Black Khanate called Emperor Song his uncle in his national book, but privately called himself Taohuashi Khan (Chinese Khan) and the Lord of the East and Qin (King of the East)!" ”

Zhu Ming shook his head and said: "Don't be angry, but praise it, after all, the king of the Black Khanate has always regarded the Chinese legal system as authentic." Let him steal for another decade or two, and then I will send troops to get it back. ”

(End of chapter)