Carrying AK into Ming Dynasty

Chapter 501 Another Bandit (Two in One)

"Zhang pays his respects to the lord. It's been a long time since the lord's family has become more and more prosperous." Seeing Liu Hongjian approaching, Zhang Jin quickly stood up and saluted.

In less than a year, it is unprecedented to be promoted from Marquis to County King. Coupled with the exhortation of the Patriarch, Zhang Jin couldn't help but be careless.

"Haha! It's just dawdling. Compared with your master's happy life, this king is far behind! Oh, by the way, if I remember correctly, your name is Liu Jin, right?"

Liu Hongjian saw that this person looked familiar, but it had been more than half a year since he last met, so he blurted out because he thought Liu Jin sounded familiar, who knew that the expression of the middle-aged man in front of him changed just after he finished speaking.

"My surname is Zhang, and my name is Zhang Jin!" Zhang Jin said in a deep voice, suppressing the depression in his heart.

What Liu Jin?I admitted my mistake last time, how can I admit my mistake this time?Does Lao Tzu look so much like that dead eunuch who brought disaster to the country and the people?
As a guest of the Zheng family, even the Earl and Marquis of Daming, if he dared to talk to him like this, he would make this person overwhelmed. In Fujina, the Zheng family is the king.

But this is the capital, he can't afford to offend the people in front of him.

"Oh, my king has always had a bad memory. Brother Zhang, don't worry about it. Your master sent you here from Fujian, why?" Liu Hongjian sat on the main seat, and the two servants showed each of them Tea.

"Returning to the lord, the traitor Xu Yunzhen's family wanted to flee overseas via Fujian, and happened to be met by my master. The thief offered 40 taels of silver notes, intending to ask my master to escort him to escape.

But my grandfather has been favored by the emperor for a lifetime, and he is unwilling to do such inhumane things, so he sent his people and property to the capital under his orders.

My lord has repeatedly told me that if we arrive in the capital, we must visit you, lord, to show the goodwill of the whole family. "Zhang Jin spoke calmly, as if talking about a trivial matter.

"My lord, Nan Anbo read the letter written by this lord before he felt remorseful. It turned out that he was grateful for the emperor's kindness, but this lord underestimated your master." Liu Hongjian cupped his hands to express his apology, but his face was full of contempt .

Good family?Who is so close to your old Zheng Tong family?

It is obvious that this king has found a weakness and dare not refuse, but you still want to say such a high-sounding, your old Zheng's thick skin can catch up with the city wall of the capital.

"I heard from the eldest son that when we were in Nanjing, the eldest son had a very happy conversation with you, the prince, and the eldest son also praised the prince for his integrity..." Zhang Jin couldn't hear Liu Hongjian's ridicule, but he didn't know the letter What exactly is written in the letter can only be approximated.

"Stop talking about these useless nonsense, I'm very busy, why did your master ask you to come to me? Can you bring food?" Liu Hongjian didn't have time to play Tai Chi with this man.

Now there is a severe drought in the north, and it is more severe than expected. There is a shortage of rice everywhere, and the rice in the south of the Yangtze River cannot be supplied at all. Yesterday, Chief Assistant Li Banghua whispered to him about this.

"This...to tell you the truth, Nanyang is not peaceful now. The Dutch and Franji people have occupied Siam and Sulu, which has caused the Zheng family's business there to suffer, and the grain and rice production has also dropped sharply." Zhang Jin He bowed and explained.

"That is to say, there was no food delivery?" Liu Hongjian glared at Zhang Jin, knowing that this guy was not telling the truth.

The two chatted for a few more words, and Zhang Jin took out a bulging envelope, saying that it was a little love from the Zheng family.

Well, after a while, he was here to bribe him with money, Liu Hongjian sneered in his heart.

Also, whether the Zheng family can make a fortune in Fujian safely or not depends on his attitude.

Liu Hongjian took it and glanced at it. This old Zheng was really willing to pay, and he paid 60 taels at a time.

And Zhang Jin also stated that as long as Zheng's parents survived, they would send at least this amount of silver taels every year. In order to reassure Liu Hongjian, he also specifically said that this was what Zheng Sen meant.

Liu Hongjian made a laugh and then accepted it with a smile. If you don't accept it, you won't accept it. It's not a last resort, and now is not the time to fall out with the Zheng family.

Daming needs time, and so does Xiao Zheng.

After Zhang Jin left, Liu Hongjian didn't dare to delay, and immediately went to the palace, put the banknotes on Chongzhen's table, and directly put Zheng Zhilong's dirty things on the table.

Although he is deeply trusted by Chongzhen, he can clearly distinguish what money can be collected and what money cannot be collected.

It's a trivial thing to tell Chongzhen about it, if you don't say it, someone with ulterior motives will stab Chongzhen here, according to Uncle Chongzhen's temperament, who knows what he will think.

"Hehe, You Ming has a heart, but since the money was given to you by Zheng Zhilong, you can accept it. I, there is no shortage of money." Chongzhen was in a good mood. This is also straightforward.

In fact, as early as yesterday when the Zheng family offered prisoners, Chongzhen summoned the Zheng family members, and the Zheng family directly donated 180 million taels of silver, all of which had already been put into the treasury.

After Liu Hongjian led troops to the south, tens of thousands of soldiers from the guards and thousands of Xun Qi's servants died one after another, plus Liu Hongjian's threat, Lao Zheng was also disturbed.

The Daming navy is not good, but neither is his Zheng family army. If he is really expelled by the court, that is what Lao Zheng doesn't want to see.

"Hey, that minister will be disrespectful." It was rare for Chongzhen to be generous, and of course Liu Hongjian would not be hypocritical.

"Youming, it seems that we must pay close attention to the matter of the navy. I heard that the newly built treasure shipyard in Tianjin has already started to build warships?" After more than half a year of experience, Chongzhen rarely began to care about the navy. .

"Yes, Your Majesty, thanks to the strong support of the Ministry of Industry, most of the old shipwrights were mobilized from the south. Today, Jinbao Shipyard is building four main warships at the same time, and their displacement is equivalent to that of the Zheng family's main warships.

Moreover, the firepower of the cannon made by Ordnance is farther than that of the original Fran cannon. Recently, Chen is still researching with the Ordnance Institute, and wants to attach a layer of steel plates to the whole body of the battleship to make it into an iron-clad battleship.

If this can be done, the foundation of our Daming Navy will be revealed. "Speaking of navy, Liu Hongjian was rarely serious.

The South and North Wars for more than a year did not make Liu Hongjian very excited, most of the time he had to fight passively.

But when facing the ocean, sparks could ignite in Liu Hongjian's eyes.

"Well, I will leave this matter to you. I will let you know what raw materials you need, and let me know if you have any difficulties." Chongzhen doesn't understand military affairs, let alone sailors.

"What is this?" Chongzhen pointed to a wooden box on the table.

When Liu Hongjian entered the palace just now, besides the bribe money from the Zheng family, he also brought a wooden box.

"This is a gift from the minister to the emperor. It is a new gadget developed by our glass workshop. The emperor will definitely like it. Look!"

Liu Hongjian put aside his navy affairs, opened the wooden box, took a pair of reading glasses from it and handed it to Chongzhen.

The two sides of the presbyopic glasses are fixed with silver, and the legs of the glasses are made of high-quality golden nanmu. The woodwork is meticulously carved, and even the silver plating on both sides of the lens is even painted with lace.

Since I don't know the degree of farsightedness of Chongzhen, the ten pairs of glasses that I brought this time are of different degrees.

It was the first time for Chongzhen to see this thing, and he held it in his hand in doubt and observed it repeatedly, not knowing what it was for.

Liu Hongjian smiled without saying a word, got up and walked behind Chongzhen and put the glasses on the bridge of Chongzhen's nose with his own hands.

"Yeah—" Chongzhen opened his eyes and shivered.

Although the main hall of the Qianqing Palace has been completely replaced with glass, it is not as bright as sunlight. On weekdays, Chongzhen had to point the memorials at the light first, and put the memorials far away to see the lower letters written by the courtiers.

But now that he is wearing this weird little thing, he can see things more clearly than ever before. Chongzhen thought he saw a ghost. He could see clearly the blue stubble protruding from Liu Hongjian's chin, and he couldn't help being frightened. jumped.

Seeing Uncle Chongzhen's embarrassment, Liu Hongjian also chuckled, and then explained to him the purpose of the glasses. Chongzhen was overjoyed to have this fetish, and he would no longer have to work so hard to review memorials in the future.

He brought a total of ten pairs of glasses. At first, he wanted to choose one pair for the uncle, and let the uncle give the rest to the courtiers, so as to advertise his new products, but Chongzhen was not willing to respond, so he just bought all ten pairs of glasses. In the bag.

While asking Wang Erxi to send his eyes to the internal treasury, he also swears his reasons.

What if it breaks?
At that time, the level of craftsmanship was limited. From lens polishing to mirror frame carving, all were handmade, and the output was extremely low. It took a lot of effort to polish the lens alone.

What Chongzhen said was reasonable, the quality of the lens at this time was not as good as that of later generations, and it would definitely break if it fell on the bluestone floor.

Liu Hongjian had no choice but to decide to go back and ask the craftsmen to make some more, so as to give them to courtiers for publicity.

"Youming, there's something I've thought about and I think I'll let you do it." Chongzhen took off his glasses and put them on the table for a while, as if remembering something difficult.

But it seemed that Liu Hongjian was the only one who was really busy in the Ming Dynasty. Chongzhen himself felt a little sorry for this boy. I don't know where the kid is enjoying himself.

"The emperor has something to say directly. As a minister, I should relieve your worries." Liu Hongjian was also unambiguous. Now that the south and the north are at peace, and the court has money again, what else can we do?

Is there anything money can't solve?

The answer is, there really is.

"The drought continues in the north. Since the locust plague last month, it has now spread to Shandong. The rice grains in the south of the Yangtze River are in a hurry and cannot be transported to the north for the time being.

Shanxi and Henan are alright, the canals have been filled with water, although this season’s winter wheat will not be able to catch up, but at least Henan still has potatoes and sweet potatoes from Shanxi to support, but Shandong..." Chongzhen sighed slightly at this point Take a breath.

I really don't know if the sky punished Daming on purpose or punished him on purpose.

In the 18 years of his reign, there has never been a year without disasters in the north. After the drought, the locust plague came, and the plague came again after the locust plague.

"Nowadays the mountains are full of starvation, refugees and thieves are everywhere, and there is a prairie fire. I wanted to go out of the Beijing camp to suppress the bandits, but I was worried that the Beijing camp's killing spirit was too heavy, and they would return to the bandits and bandits like in previous years. The more there are, the more the people will be destitute."

Chongzhen has been afraid of these refugees in the past few years. He has been in power for 18 years, and at least 15 years have been suppressing bandits.

For more than ten years, Qin Bing, Tianxiong Army, Guan Ning Army, all ruthless people have done this job, but none of them succeeded. After much deliberation, Chongzhen had to rely on Liu Hongjian for this matter.

"There are so many thieves in Shandong, alas, it's all caused by the annexation of the land, Your Majesty!" The first half of Liu Hongjian's sentence is true, but there is something insincere.

He knew in his heart that it wasn't that the people in Shandong were bandits, they had food and drink, who would like to do the business of putting their heads on their waistbands?

The Ming Dynasty was short of war horses and came out of Mazheng. Since the time of Chengzu, Shandong has been the main area of ​​Mazheng. Every family raises horses for the imperial court, but people can't eat enough, so how can they raise horses well.

The more the imperial court punished, the more complaints from the people below. People were going to starve to death, so they simply became thieves and bandits. Anyway, every family has horses, and the guards of the imperial court really can't do anything under the wind.

It has been so noisy for hundreds of years, but the court has not done anything, and the people in Shandong are still not enough to eat and wear warm.

It was the turmoil in the north and south that settled down. I thought everyone could live in peace, but a severe drought and locust plague made the people of Shandong go back to their old ways.

"I have ordered the Ministry of Households to give priority to measuring the acres of fields in Henan and Shandong, and redistribute them to the people in the two places as soon as possible, but now it is far from being able to quench their thirst.

According to the Hubu newspaper, the fastest batch of rice grains in the south of the Yangtze River will not arrive in Shandong until a month later. I hope you will go to Shandong to stabilize the situation first, and never fall into the situation of previous years. "

Chongzhen's brows were all wrinkled. The people were starving, and he himself felt very uncomfortable.

"Shandong has no food, and the court also has no food. What can I do even if I go? To kill those so-called bandits who have no food?" Although Liu Hongjian knew Chongzhen was in trouble, he was also very conflicted.

They are all poor people who are about to starve to death. In the face of starving to death and robbing food, how many people will choose to starve to death, but based on these alone, are they going to be killed?

Everyone has the right to live!

Chongzhen was speechless, he knew that this was really not a good job.

The soldiers, Tianxiong Army, and Guan Ning Army are well-known outside the pass, but when they went to the mainland to suppress bandits, there are still rumors about these troops everywhere. No matter how awesome you are, if you go to kill people, no one will miss you good.

"If the emperor allows the ministers to collect rice grains to help the people, the ministers will go." Liu Hongjian knew that Chongzhen had no choice but to make such a request, so he had to make a condition.

Thieves and bandits would not rob the poor. The common people had no property. As far as he knew, these thieves were all playing the slogan of robbing the rich and giving to the poor, and they did exactly that.

She Xiaojia is just for everyone, thieves can do it, and he Liu Hongjian can do it even more. There is only one creed, and there is always nothing wrong with building a life for the people.

"This..." Chongzhen was at a loss for words for a moment, he didn't know what Liu Hongjian's plan was, this humerus himself wanted to carry forward the routine of robbing the rich and giving to the poor.

This is true in Shanxi, and it is also true in Shaanxi, even the recent suppression of nobles.

"Oh, you can figure it out!" Chongzhen didn't agree, but he didn't refuse either.

After all, this matter is not very glorious, but Xun Qi can say that it is his family business after all.

But the gentry and landlords in Shandong didn't mess with the imperial court, and they didn't resist when the imperial court wanted to take back their land. Besides, Chongzhen himself said that those who surrendered their land should forget their past mistakes.

Now, why do you want to take someone under the knife again?What about the court's reputation?
"If that's the case, then let's make a trip." Liu Hongjian had no choice but to accept the matter.

Alas, at first he said he wanted to stay at home and spend time with his wife and children, but Liu Hongjian left the palace and sighed, "I can't help myself in the rivers and lakes!"

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