Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

Chapter 543 For the position of chief assistant, he, Zhang Zongjun, took the blame!
It never occurred to Zhu Yunxi that a mere slave trade business would drag down the whole royal family and the nobles in the capital.

What made him even more depressed was that the big brother who took the lead turned out to be that bastard Zhu Yunxi!

Oh, by the way, there is also the eldest sister, Grandma Guo.

With these two gods guarding him, it's no wonder that I didn't hear the wind at all.

Whether it's Jin Yiwei or Jing Haijun, whoever sees these two backstage can't sell them some face?
The most important thing is that there will be no people who don't open their eyes to come to inform me. Anyone who sees these two people as the backstage will subconsciously think that they know about this and that they are secretly instructed by themselves...

Zhu Yunxi's face was flushed from holding back, and he gritted his teeth and suffered the loss of being dumb.

"Is this how you usually do things?"

"Don't you tell me about such a big thing?"

Xu Liuzi said aggrievedly.

"His Royal Highness Heng told Beizhi that he would let you know and not let Xiaozhi gossip. He also said that if Xiaozhi dared to talk nonsense, he would eunuch him and send him to the palace as a eunuch..."

Zhu Yunxi snorted coldly when he heard the words.

"Gu can also throw you into the palace as a eunuch!"

Xu Liuzi subconsciously clamped his legs when he heard the words, and begged for mercy with a smile on his face.

"Your Highness, spare your life!"

"I don't have any heirs yet, it won't be too late to enter the palace to serve His Highness when the descendants of the humble class are full, hehehe..."

"Stop laughing at me!"

"Tell me the truth, how long has Ni Sun been doing this business?"

"One year...two years..."

"How long!"

"Return to Your Highness, more than two years, less than three years!"

"How much silver did you earn in total?"

Xu Liuzi had a hard time this time, it would be good if he could remember the time, how would he know how much money he made?
"Returning to Your Highness, I don't know how much I earn or how little I earn, but I guess I still have tens of millions of taels of silver."

"How many?"

When Zhu Yunxi heard this, he immediately went into a frenzy. How much is his customs duty for a year, and Zhu Yunxi could earn tens of millions of taels by handing it over to slaves?

"Your Highness, you don't know that these foreign slaves are very popular in Ming Dynasty, especially the strong and strong white slaves, who have good teeth and can sell for hundreds of taels of silver!"

Zhu Yunxi immediately felt something was wrong when he heard this.

"and many more!"

"Shouldn't black slaves be expensive?"

Xu Liuzi shook his head when he heard the words, and said confidently.

"Your Highness is ridiculous. Although black slaves are physically strong, they eat a lot and don't like to work. Many landlords are unwilling to buy them."

"Comparatively speaking, the white slaves brought back from the western lands are much more sought-after. They eat less and are obedient. They do whatever they are asked to do, and they don't always want to run away like black slaves."

"Uh uh..."

Zhu Yunxi found that he was out of touch with the times, and he didn't even know such common sense questions, and had to rely on a Jin Yiwei to educate him.

"Humph!"

"How can Gu not know, Gu is just to test you!"

Xu Liuzi flattered subconsciously.

"Your Highness Sheng Ming Wu Guo!"

"Your Highness, you see that this slave has already entered Hong Kong, so he can't go back?"

Zhu Yunxi felt a little sick in his heart, he didn't have a Madonna attack, but he was worried that these black slaves and white slaves would occupy the magpie's nest in a hundred years.Even if the Ming Dynasty will always be at the height of its power forever, one has to be wary of a group of mixed races, right?
"Separate the slave ship from the Jing Navy, they like to make a fuss, but there is one thing, every ship entering the port must pay taxes according to the regulations, and register one by one!"

"promise!"

"Humble post, let's pass the decree!"

After Zhu Yunxi took it lightly, the people on the slave ship were released on the spot, and the slave market, which had been silent for a long time, reopened the next day, attracting a large number of landlords in the south of the Yangtze River and military officers in Liaodong to buy slaves.

Zhu Yunxi mingled among these people, listening to their bargaining, and at the same time making friends with them, asking them why they bought it back.

"Tsk tsk tsk, this batch of goods is not good, and the price is still expensive. Are you planning to do business properly?"

"Who says it's not? Just a Kunlun slave dares to ask for 50 taels of silver. Why don't they grab it!"

"Let me tell you, Kunlun slaves are the most useless. They don't know how to do any work, and they just think about it all day long."

"These idiots don't even think about it. It's thousands of miles away from their hometown, so they can run back!"

"Comparatively speaking, Taixi Caucasians are more worry-free, they can learn things quickly, and they are obedient and easy to fiddle with!"

While several Jiangnan landlords were discussing with each other, a Liaodong general in a fur coat came over with a whip in his hand.

"Our side is different from yours. Our side likes Kunlun slaves!"

"Kunlun slaves can eat, but they are also very strong. They are most suitable for digging mines, building roads, and plowing fields."

Several Jiangnan landlords shook their heads in unison when they heard the words.

"Our place can't compare with yours. I heard that you beat roe deer to scoop fish with sticks, and pheasants flew into the rice pot. The land is so fat that you can get oil out of it, and the grain will grow if you sprinkle it."

"It's not like our poor place, where there are not a few buckets of rice left in a year!"

This is a typical cry of poverty. How many landlords in the south of the Yangtze River live by growing food?
For them, growing mulberry and raising silkworms, growing tea and roasting tea, which one is not more profitable than farming?
"Master, you have a lot of land in Liaodong, right?"

The Liaodong man in furs smiled shyly when he heard this.

"It's not too much, it's only a few hundred acres of land. It can barely be regarded as food for the year."

"Hundreds of acres?"

"My mother, I'm a big landlord here!"

"May I ask Jun Ye, how many Kunlun slaves do you want to buy this time?"

"If your price is right, the old man's family really has a few free mouths, so I might as well give it to you."

"Guaranteed to be stronger than what they pulled back this time!"

"Look at these Kunlun slaves. They all look like they are sick, and they can be cured if they buy them back. If one or two die, it's just a waste of ten taels of silver?"

The Liaodong man was slightly entangled when he heard the words.

"What about the price?"

“The price is the same as the market!”

"We bought it a few months ago. At first, we thought the Kunlun slaves were strong and able to work. How can we imagine that they are so lazy!"

The Liaodong man laughed loudly when he heard this.

"Haha, you don't understand this, do you?"

"Kunlun slaves are not suitable for your fine work in the south of the Yangtze River. They can only do hard work in our Liaodong!"

"And you're going to be tough on them, whip the whip and make sure they're obedient!"

When several people were discussing in full swing, a young man in a gorgeous military uniform came to the slave market on a tall horse and shouted at the boss who was shouting on the stage.

"I'll take care of all the goods!"

As soon as this person's voice fell, not only the few small landlords in the south of the Yangtze River were shocked, but even Zhu Yunxi, who was hiding and eavesdropping, was startled.

There are at least tens of thousands of slaves on these three ships. Who is so courageous to cover them all in one go?

Zhu Yunxi looked at Xu Liuzi beside him, and whispered to him.

"Send someone to investigate the details of this person!"

"Returning to the emperor's grandson, there is no need to investigate this person, I know him in a humble position!"

"Who?"

"This man is the guard of Prince Yan's Mansion. His nickname is Tie Dan and his name is Wang Tie. His seventh uncle is still from our Jinyiwei. He grew up in our Jinyiwei's guard."

"King Yan?"

Zhu Yunxi frowned tightly.

"Why did King Yan buy so many slaves?"

Xu Liuzi whispered in Zhu Yunxi's ear when he heard the words.

"Your Highness, I guess that King Yan must have heard the news..."

"what news?"

"Xiaozhi talked to Li Da yesterday... Li Da is the steward of the slave ship, and these three ships are under his control."

"He told Beizhi that the reason why the goods could not be sold this time was because many people were war slaves, and they were sold as slaves only after they were defeated and captured."

When Xu Liuzi said this, he pointed to the hundreds of slaves on the platform.

"Your Highness, don't look at them drooping their heads, but as long as you give them a knife and armor, ordinary tigers and leopards are no match for them!"

"On this stage alone, I can see a few good seedlings in humble positions. As long as they are thrown into the army and practiced, they will be fighters who dare to kill and fight!"

Zhu Yunxi nodded when he heard the words, and the doubts in his heart instantly became clear.

No wonder the fourth uncle fell in love with these people. He must have heard the news in the capital, so he hurriedly sent someone to buy them, and planned to bring them back to Yandi to form an army, right?

"Your Highness, Wang Tie has already gone to negotiate with the boss, should we stop them?"

Zhu Yunxi shook his head.

"Need not!"

"Go and call Zhang Zongjun, he has a way to solve this matter."

"promise!"

Not long after, Zhang Zongjun hurried over.

"Your Highness, is your name Weichen?"

"Gu is hungry, go eat a bowl of Chaos with Gu!"

"okay!"

"It just so happens that Weichen's stomach is also growling, so he really has nothing to worry about eating and clothing with His Highness, hehehe."

"loquacious!"

The two came to an open-air chaotic stall. Before Zhu Yunxi could touch his pocket, Zhang Zongjun threw out a few copper coins and ordered two bowls of chaos.

The stall owner took the money, and his subordinates quickly wrapped up Chaos, and after a while, he came over with two bowls of Chaos.

"Two guest officers take it easy!"

"If you think it's not enough, there are soy sauce and chili on the table, you can add it yourself!"

"thank you boss!"

Zhu Yunxi picked up the small bowl of chili peppers with ease, scooped a spoonful of chili peppers from it, put them into the chaotic bowl, and began to eat with a sigh.

"Unexpectedly, this thing was the first to become popular!"

If this is said to ordinary people, ordinary people may not be able to understand Zhu Yunxi's thinking.But for Zhang Zongjun, he immediately guessed what Zhu Yunxi was referring to.

"It's not surprising!"

"Since His Highness came to power, the world has been at peace, and the people no longer have to worry about famine."

"Although corn and sweet potatoes are good, the people are not short of food, and their desire to plant them naturally is not high. Relatively speaking, such appetites are more popular among the people."

Zhu Yunxi sighed secretly when he heard the words.

"If this is the reason, I would rather sweet potatoes and corn never have room to grow in Daming."

"But this wish is too difficult to realize. This year, Hunan and Hubei have suffered poor harvests, Shandong and Hebei have experienced frequent rains, and Shanxi and other places are still drought..."

"If it weren't for the food supply from Vietnam, Siam and other places, the places in the south of the Yangtze River might be starved to death!"

Hearing this, Zhang Zongjun hurriedly offered a rainbow fart.

"It's not because of the emperor's grandson Shengming that the people of the world can live in peace and enjoy this peaceful and prosperous world!"

Zhu Yunxi humbly accepted Zhang Zongjun's praise, and after eating a bowl of chaos, he pointed to the table not far away.

"There are more and more foreign slaves now. I am worried that after a hundred years, there will be more foreign slaves than ours in the Ming Dynasty, or there will be a mixture of Hu and Han, messing up my Chinese blood."

"You come to think of a way to meet Daming's demand for foreign labor, but also to eliminate such hidden dangers, without causing any major disturbances."

"This……"

Zhang Zongjun never expected that the grandson of the emperor would make such an outrageous and unreasonable request.

This is necessary and necessary, and finally, it is simply to kill him, a cabinet bachelor!
"Your Highness, this matter is really not easy, my humble minister..."

Zhu Yunxi didn't give him a chance to refuse at all.

"Gu believes in you!"

"By the way, the three masters are old, they recommend you to Gu, let you be the chief assistant after them!"

"Chief?"

Zhang Zongjun's eyes glowed green upon hearing this.

Daming has no prime minister now, and their cabinet bachelors are called half-prime ministers.As for the Chief Assistant of the Cabinet Bachelors, he is a veritable "Full Prime Minister". Except that his name is different from the previous prime ministers, his power is even greater than that of Hu Weiyong and others before him!

His greatest wish in this life is to be able to enter the cabinet and become the chief assistant!
"Your Highness, don't worry, I will go through fire and water, and I will not hesitate!"

After Zhu Yunxi finished eating chaos, he led Songjiang prefect and others to draw circles. He wanted to re-plan Songjiang mansion and make it the largest city in the world, leaving only Zhang Zongjun in a daze at the wonton stand.

"Both... and... and..."

"It's really embarrassing for the grandson of the emperor..."

Just when Zhang Zongjun was frowning, he suddenly heard a male duck voice.

"Dare to ask Mr. Zhang, have you seen my young master Zhu?"

As soon as Zhang Zongjun heard this, he knew that Wang De was such a waste that he had lost His Royal Highness the Emperor Taisun again.

"Look west, you should go to the Great Whampoa..."

"Our family thanked Mr. Zhang!"

Zhang Zongjun rolled his eyes disdainfully when he heard the words, as if who cares whether you are a dead eunuch or not.

However, when Zhang Zongjun looked at Wang De's receding back, a flash of inspiration suddenly came to his mind, and he thought of a good way to perfectly satisfy both the emperor's grandson's needs!
"correct!"

"Isn't it enough to turn them all into eunuchs?"

Zhang Zongjun did as soon as he thought of it, and ordered people to go to the capital to ask for help on the spot.

Looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, only the imperial palace and the medical school could do this.

However, medical students may not be willing, but relatively speaking, the old eunuchs in the palace dare to do it for money!
The most important thing is that there is no need to pursue safety too much in this matter, even if you accidentally kill someone, it's no big deal!

The more Zhang Zongjun thought about it, the more he felt it made sense, but when he sent people back to the capital to ask Qin Deshun, Hao Wenjie and others from the Imperial Hospital for help, he suddenly thought of a possibility.

Didn't the grandson of the emperor think of this way a long time ago, but he just didn't say it on purpose and let himself do it for him?

The more Zhang Zongjun thought about it, the more he felt it was possible. After all, this matter was disgraceful, and it would hurt the emperor's grandson's reputation if it spread.

But for the sake of being the chief assistant, he, Zhang Zongjun, took the blame!
King Yan's Mansion in the capital city.

Ever since Zhu Di heard about the arrival of a new batch of war slaves from the Shibo Department, he hastily sent his henchmen to investigate.As long as the news is true, even if he spends a million taels of silver, he will buy these war slaves back!
Now he is not short of money or iron, as long as he has enough soldiers, he can arm a powerful army!

It's just that this move is bound to attract the attention of interested people. How to avoid this problem?
Every time Zhu Di encounters a problem that cannot be solved, he will go to Yao Guangxiao to discuss it in the name of Shangxiang.

That day, Yao Guangxiao had just settled down in the meditation room, when his heart skipped a beat, he sensed someone outside the door.

"But His Royal Highness is visiting at night?"

Zhu Di pushed open the door, laughed and walked into Yao Guangxiao's Zen room.

"I really can't hide anything from Master Yao!"

"Gu recently wanted to buy a batch of Taixi war slaves, but I don't know what name should be used. I also asked Master Yao to help Gu."

"Taixi War Slave?"

"Ok!"

"The land of Taixi is no better than Ming Dynasty. It is said that the whole land of Taixi is comparable to Ming Dynasty, but there are hundreds of small countries. These small countries are mixed with more than a dozen big countries to attack each other. Whenever they are defeated on the battlefield, they will be captured by the enemy country. Then sell them to other countries as slaves."

"This time, the Shibosi brought back [-] war slaves from the land of Taixi, and only wanted to buy them all, and then..."

(End of this chapter)