The more Xu Heng spoke, the more energetic he became: "The saint chose to recover Annan first, this is really a clever move." Annam's grain was shipped to Japan for sale, and Japan's gold, silver, and copper were transported back to Beijing to mint coins.

There is food, silver and copper, and the national strength of the Ming Dynasty is really rising.

To say that the Holy God is really destiny, when he fought Annan, Annan had been plagued by droughts, floods, and locust plagues in the previous two years; This time Japan was hit, and Japan caught up with a major drought again.

This is very favored by the heavens. ”

Jin Xing nodded and agreed: "In the past few years, it has indeed been smooth everywhere, and it would be better if the battle for orthodoxy was completely over." ”

While Xu Heng and Jin Xing were drinking tea, they were thinking about the boundless wealth, and when they were happy, their own soldiers came in to report that the Kamakura Shogunate and the Muromachi Shogunate sent envoys to meet at the same time.

Xu Heng instructed his own soldiers: "Are you here to buy food again, you reply to them, just say that we have an army of 200,000, and the daily consumption is huge, and our own food is not enough to eat, so there is no surplus grain to sell to them." ”

The soldiers shook their heads: "No, they all said that they were talking about peace." ”

"Peace?"

Xu Heng immediately refused: "It's not okay to talk about peace, how to sell food and destroy Buddha with me after talking."

Reply to them, just say that I don't have the right to negotiate peace, and if I want to make peace, let them send a special envoy to Beijing to talk. ”

The soldiers took the order and left.

Xu Heng smiled at Jin Xing: "Look, unless they surrender." It's just a peace talk, and we ignore them.

Kyoto is running out of food, and the people are about to rebel. Let's take advantage of his illness and ask for his life.

When I came, the saint sent a special sentence: It is advisable to chase the poor bravely, and not to become a famous overlord.

Only by completely conquering Japan can we completely control the Oriental trade.

Oriental trade is famous, and then Western trade is engaged.

With both Oriental and Western trade, the imperial court no longer has to worry about money. ”

The envoys of the Kamakura Shogunate and the Muromachi Shogunate were all closed and went home in disgrace.

On the sixth day of the fifth month, after being rejected by Xu Heng, Ashikaga Yoshimasa left the Flower Palace early in the morning to personally inspect the defense of Kyoto.

Unfortunately, the more I looked at it, the more frightened I became, the morale of the defenders was low, and the civilians were hungry.

At the beginning of the war, Ashikaga Yoshimasa was full of ambition and wanted to repeat the feat of the Great Emperor's defense of Kyoshi.

But now, Ashikaga Yoshimasa himself is cold.

I thought that the 200,000 Ming army would not be able to bear the consumption of grain and grass at all, but I didn't expect that the transportation capacity of the Daming Water Division was so strong, and it was hard to survive, and even had the spare power to sell grain and make money.

In the end, it was the shogunate that couldn't hold it out.

Kyoto is modeled after Luoyang City and Chang'an City of the Tang Dynasty, with the imperial city of Da Nei in the middle of the north end, and the Suzaku Avenue running through the capital to the south.

The east side of Suzaku Avenue is called Zuojing Luoyang, and the west side is called Youjing Chang'an.

Whether it is modeled on Luoyang or Chang'an, it doesn't matter. The problem was that Kyoto did not have a good castle wall due to lack of financial resources.

Since there are no city walls, even if the Ming Dynasty does not come to get involved, Kyoto is often in turmoil, whether it is a daimyo or a hand, you can rush into Kyoto at every turn.

By now, Ashikaga Yoshimasa has seen it clearly that the Ming army deliberately did not want to attack in order to reduce casualties.

If it were at any cost, Kyoto would have been brought down long ago.

Ashikaga Yoshimasa looked at his henchman Arima and Karasuma Shiren, who had fled from Hakata Port, and felt more and more helpless.

Even these two closest henchmen refused to propose to abandon Kyoto and escape.

If you don't run, you will wait for death, and running away will immediately lead to the loss of people's hearts and a total collapse.

In the end, Ashikaga Yoshimasa chose to force Karasuma Shiren as a special envoy to Beijing to negotiate with the Ming court.

……

The seventh day of the fifth month.

Zhu Qiyu got up early to eat, and the coffee table was full.

As these days pass, clothes come to stretch out their hands, and food comes to open their mouths. Because Zhu Qiyu has made many new contributions to the imperial court recently, several concubines have served more and more thoughtfully.

Lin Xiangyu and Ning Xiang sat next to Zhu Qiyu on the left and right, and Ning Xiang first raised a bowl of fresh milk and handed it over: "Husband, first drink the fresh milk that your little concubine has just milked, and eat two pieces of beef and two pickled eggs."

Then eat greens, melons and fruits.

Rest for a while, digest and digest, and then eat clam gnocchi soup, just small pickles.

If you're not full after eating, eat a few more snacks. ”

"Enough is enough, enough is enough, this is a big bowl of clam soup, you are really willing to give it to me, strictly speaking, it can't be called a bowl, this is called a big pot of pimple soup."

Ning Xiang replied with a sigh: "That's nature, the husband is the pillar of the family, if the pimple soup is not enough after eating, our family still has donkey meat to burn." ”

Zhu Qiyu took the fresh milk: "The biggest thing in the world is to dress and eat." There are tens of millions of mansions in Ande, and the cold people in the world are happy, and the wind and rain are not moving.

When will my people be able to live in spacious and bright houses, wake up peacefully every day, and drink fresh milk and eat pimple soup as soon as they open their eyes. ”

Lin Xiangyu replied: "It's easier to have tens of thousands of mansions, if you want to be able to drink fresh milk as soon as you open your eyes, everyone has to be able to get a wife." ”

"Then beg for it, I will collect less taxes and produce more food, so that they can have more children."

Lin Xiangyu replied: "It's a bit difficult to change customs." Many baby girls were drowned at birth, and even if they were not drowned, many were sold.

Although the husband has been trying his best to reduce taxes, at least in the short term, the burden on the people is still very heavy. ”

Zhu Qiyu shook his head: "I have tried my best to find a way out for the people, if they are so oppressed in their hometown that they can't survive, they can choose to drag their families out to open up the wasteland."

Annam, Burma, Japan, and Liaodong all have a lot of land waiting to be cultivated. If they change places, the gentry will be less powerful and stronger, and the oppression will be much smaller.

In addition, I found another way for them: to become craftsmen. In the future, there will be no restrictions on household registration changes, and if the people can't get by, they can choose to work for merchants.

After the full opening of Oriental trade and Western trade, the handicraft industry will usher in great development, and the common people will have work. ”

Lin Xiangyu nodded and praised: "It's true, from the position of the people, life is much better than before, at least if you dare to fight, you can find a way out." ”

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "After these two battles, we didn't get any benefits. The bulk of the proceeds were taken by the imperial court, and the rest was given to the people.

Our sons have not yet earned their future family business. ”

Ning Xiang asked, "Then why don't we give birth?" ”

"That's not going to work, at least eight more sons will have to be completed. The newly conquered territory cannot be crowned as a prince. We can't learn from Qin Shi Huang's stupidity.

The world is good, and it is not easy to fight down, but the prince is not sent to guard it.

When it really came to a critical moment, counting on the conscience of the minister, as a result, the descendants were pitted to death, Qin Shi Huang knew that his conscience would not hurt. ”

(End of chapter)