Chapter 9: Intermarriage between Man and Han? (Five)

After the two old ministers left, Zhu Yinglong first went to the practice room to practice boxing with the Hai brothers for half an hour, then used Yanhong's carefully prepared breakfast and took a hot bath. After relaxing his spirit and body, he returned to the imperial study room with ease.

In fact, the saints may not be able to persevere when facing memorials that are almost the same face every day. Therefore, Zhu Yinglong always feels a little fear from the bottom of his heart when he sees them. No wonder the emperor is unwilling to go to court every day and review memorials for many years. This is definitely not a job that ordinary people can do. Fortunately, the cabinet and the military cabinet will deal with part of it, otherwise he would not be as relaxed as he is now.

After reading the memorials handed over by several provinces in Jiangnan, there are reports of income, taxes, etc., all major local affairs are involved. These are just the word "read" to be approved. The rest are large basic projects applied for by the local government. These projects must be submitted to the cabinet for review first, and they will be transferred to him if they think they are necessary or feasible. The cabinet can decide on projects below 100,000 Silver Dragon Yuan. If more than 100,000 Silver Dragon Yuan, the emperor needs to decide on their own. Of course, the cabinet will also indicate the priorities of the project first, and the Ministry of Finance will also remind the following countries in advance for decision-making.

After more than a year of monetary trial policies, the circulation of Longyuan has become increasingly large and has a good reputation among the people. The issuance of Longyuan tickets has also entered a small amount of circulation, which has won unanimous praise. The court also planned to issue dragon tickets by the central bank at the beginning of next year to replace the flying money and silver tickets issued by major bankers on the market, and to popularize Longyuan and Longyuan tickets to more than 70% within three years.

The imperial court issued state-owned currency, which had a great impact on the money houses and bills. Therefore, these people perceived the upcoming sense of crisis with a keen sense of smell. They either chose to cooperate with the imperial court or had to die. This is a problem that there is no way. A country cannot have multiple monetary systems.

This year, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hubei and Hunan have reported bumper harvests. The grain shortage that has plagued the court for many years has finally seen a glimmer of hope. As soon as new grains are in warehouses, the prices of grain on the market have plummeted by 30%. There are also many items such as salt, silk cloth, soybean oil, etc. that are related to the daily life of ordinary people have been greatly reduced. People on the food and clothing line can finally take a breath.

With the continuous struggle of workers at Qingdao Shipyard, five more Chinese treasure ships were launched. One of them was a warship to the Fujian Detachment of the East China Sea Fleet, becoming the flagship Fujian. The remaining four were built for commercial purposes and used for ocean maritime trade. Of course, certain armed forces are still necessary and can participate in combat when necessary.

Two of them belonged to the imperial court, one of them was eaten by the Shen family. In addition, there were six more ships built by Qingdao Shipyard, which had been ordered by people. The salt merchants in Yangzhou occupied four ships, which were so powerful that they were scary. Two were led by several princes of the royal family to set up a business alliance and ate these two ships. After Nanjing recovered, the Longjiang Shipyard located in Xiaguan, Nanjing also resumed production. After receiving technical support and complementary issues from Qingdao Shipyard, the construction of the Chinese treasure ship was also started. It was originally one of the largest shipyards in the imperial court, and four ships were launched at once. Due to the distrust of the merchants at the beginning, they did not dare to make a decision, but the inner mansion, who knew the truth, ordered two ships at once, and two ships were set by the imperial court itself.

Now the two major shipyards have joined forces to work hard to solve the three thousand-item sea ships, and the progress is very fast. Sun Yunhua’s memorial to Zhu Yinglong reads: “I guarantee that within two years, the three thousand-item sea ships can be launched, completed trial voyages in half a year, and mass production can be carried out within three years.”

At present, both the court and the people's main maritime trade are Japan. Now Japan has almost become the largest trading partner of the Ming Dynasty. In just two or three years, the Japanese market was filled with items, grain, porcelain, silk, tea, furniture, etc. produced by the Ming Dynasty. A large amount of silver in Japan poured into the Ming Dynasty. Although Japan was a little poorer than the Ming Dynasty, their powerful class was rich. In this way, merchants flocked into Japan wildly, and Japan's economy gradually began to rely on the Ming Dynasty. Although Japan had a disagreement with the Ming Dynasty, it did not dare to show it blatantly. It also did not have enough understanding of economic wars and trade wars, so it was naturally strangled by the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time, through Japan's transit station, the Ming Dynasty not only indirectly earned a lot of money from Europeans, but also had a huge impact on the upper class of Europe. They all wanted to see what the country could produce these exquisite items was. Many European explorers, adventurers and navigators came to the Ming Dynasty in their own ways. The arrival of these people not only allowed the people of the Ming Dynasty to re-understand the world, but also allowed the world to know the Ming Dynasty.

When they were in the vast land of Ming Dynasty, each of them was shocked. It turned out that there was such a huge country in this world. The simple people, the mysterious and difficult Chinese, the strange and beautiful clothes, delicious dishes that make people bite their tongues, etc., which strongly attracted these Westerners who had traveled across the ocean. Most of them did not leave Ming Dynasty, and even brought their families together, took root, and finally became a genuine Chinese.

These subtle changes or trivial matters witness the rejuvenation of a great nation and regaining the peak of the world.

"Your Majesty, Lord Zhou Wenyuan is here." Xu Yingyuan reported to Zhu Yinglong, who was reviewing the memorial.

"Let him come in." Zhu Yinglongtou said without much raising.

"Tell me, what's the matter? I know you have never reported bad news but not good news." When he heard the footsteps, Zhu Yinglong heard that it was Zhou Wenyuan. He still lowered his head and looked at the memorials in his hand, one after another, and the speed of changing was very fast.

Zhou Wenyuan was also used to such a scene of face-to-face holy. He knelt down confidently and kowtowed, then stood up and said, "Your Majesty, this time I really got you covered, it's not good news."

"Let me tell me?" I have been the emperor for so long, and it has been a shocking adaptation period. Even if someone tells him that it may not be scared if the day falls.

"Weichen received the news from the west of the Moon that the four tribes including Turgut, Heshuot, Mucampert, Huit and others were oppressed by the Junggar tribe and led about 300,000 tribes to migrate west or north in different terms. Now these four tribes have left the control area of ​​Chamo West Mongolia. There is no doubt that these four tribes have already planned and are no longer controlled by Gu Shihan, the Heshuot tribe. But I don't know where these four tribes will migrate." Zhou Wenyuan analyzed while reporting.

"The separation of 300,000 people from four tribes is definitely a huge blow to Moxi Mongolia, which has a small population. Moxi Mongolia is located in the west and is originally a remnant of the Oirat. It is a mortal enemy of our Ming Dynasty. The "Tumu Fort" incident was led to the shame of the country by me, and I will raise troops to destroy it in the future."

"Weichen knows what to do."

"Also, you ordered people to follow these four troops, and I must know their final destination." Zhu Yinglong ordered. In fact, he already knew this period of history, but he didn't know the specific time of the migration of the four troops. After the Heshuote tribe moved east to Qinghai, the Junggar tribe took advantage of the situation and was ambitious. He had fought against the Qing Dynasty in the later history of his own several times.

"I understand."

Zhou Wenyuan left the imperial study room, and Zhu Yinglong ordered Xu Yingyuan to pass on Concubine Kang Taisong, because he remembered that Huang Taiji would make his third western expedition to Chahar tomorrow. Although it might not be exactly the same as the history he knew, he also received news that the Later Jin secretly reserved grain and grass and secretly contacted the Mongolians who had joined him. What could this move mean? So at his request, Taisong sent a letter to his brother Lin Dan, which reminded Lin Dan to practice combat preparations and reserve grain and grass, and under appropriate conditions, her sister would ask the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to provide some weapons assistance.

When Taisong finished the letter at Zhu Yinglong's request with a nervous mood, he encapsulated it and sent it out.

"Your Majesty, is there a war in my brother?" Taisong asked with a weak look.

Looking at Taisong's melancholy eyes, Zhu Yinglong felt pity for no reason. He had always been a little confused about what kind of feelings he had for this Mongolian princess. If it were him, he would never have proposed to marry Mongolia. However, when he first ascended the throne, he was in trouble with internal and external affairs. If he had a feud with Mongolia and the Later Jin at the same time, it would be said that he had no choice at that time. As for marrying his youngest sister to such a faraway place in Mongolia, it was his cold-bloodedness that ignored family affection. In fact, he did not have much deep feelings for this cheap sister, so he sacrificed her happiness under his needs.

"This is also impossible. If someone wants to take away your brother's cattle, sheep, horses, people and grassland. If you don't resist, you will have to lose everything he has now. Do you understand?" Zhu Yinglong explained gently stroking Taisong's hair.

Taisong, who grew up in the Imperial House, naturally understood the blood and cruelty here, but he lived a carefree life for four years. Everything here almost made her forget that she was still a Mongolian and that she had fought against each other on the grassland.

"I want to go back to the grassland and meet my brother, mother, sister, and nephew." Taisong looked at Zhu Yinglong begging. She had wanted to make this request long ago, but she didn't dare to mention it, for fear that she would be rejected.

Zhu Yinglong thought for a moment and thought that this battle would not be fought for a while. It would take at least three or four months or even longer from preparation to war. So he said, "Okay, I promise, I will send troops to escort you back in the spring of next year."

In fact, this gave Zhu Yinglong a chance to send troops to fight. In the past, the Ming army fought against the Eight Banners, occupying the advantage of time and place. The Ming army was good at defending and winning battles was supposed to be. However, the biggest weakness of the Ming army was that the attack power of field battles was too weak. Although advanced artillery and grenade guns were now prepared, and there was a special chariot specially developed for restraint, for the powerful impact and speed of the cavalry, there was more defense and insufficient offense. The speed of the development of firearms was closely related to the industrial development of the entire country. Even if more advanced firearms were studied, it was impossible to mass-produce them all at once. For speed

For the cavalry that won, they can only deal with it. On the vast grassland, only cavalry is the darling of the grassland. Therefore, he has always paid great attention to the construction of cavalry. The trade with Mongolia and the Later Jin Dynasty is mostly chosen for war horses, and several pastures were established to raise good horses and breed foals to achieve the goal of self-sufficiency. After four years of hard work, Zhu Yinglong has used bartering to establish a Guanning Iron Cavalry of 20,000 people. This Iron Cavalry has been secretly trained for two and a half years. He also wanted to see the combat effectiveness of this army, and naturally thought of the war that might break out between the Later Jin and Chahar Mongolia.

As for Taisong's safety, he was not worried at all. If Huang Taiji wanted to fight, he would definitely wait for Taisong to visit his relatives and leave Chahar Mongolia. Even if there was any accident, Huang Taiji would not be able to hurt Taisong. Being attacked on both sides was definitely something that Huang Taiji could not bear.
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