The heavens start from saving Daming

Chapter 132 It's okay if the Wa country doesn't give it to us, let's get it ourselves!

The east wind puts flowers and thousands of trees at night, and blows them down, and the stars are like rain!
The eye-catching fireworks blooming all over the sky made Li Yunze feel relaxed and happy watching.

He turned his head to look at the dry and thin old man beside him, and sighed, "Mr. Jianzhong, if Dongfeng Express blooms with you hundreds of years later, it will definitely be more dazzling and brilliant than it is today."

Keimi Kyumi, the Japanese envoy who came to the Ming Dynasty many times.

Hearing Li Yunze's words, he stroked his beard and smiled, "The masterpieces of Layman Dongpo, the beauty of rhetoric makes people feel refreshed. The Ming Dynasty and our country are separated by a narrow strip of water. If the flowers of the east wind bloom in our country hundreds of years later, it must be extremely beautiful."

This is where the real bull's head is wrong, and what everyone is talking about is not on the same channel at all.

Li Yunze was rather dull, his taunts were meaningless if people couldn't understand him.

"Jian Zhongjun." Li Yunze raised the wine glass in his hand, "Drink Sheng."

To put it bluntly, this banquet was to blackmail the country of Wa. If the blackmail was not possible, it would be a fight. After all, Li Yunze had already talked through Zhu Di, and sent a small fleet of professional mining people to a small island in the north of the country of Wa for prospecting.

This island is known locally as the Golden Town, Treasure Island, and its real name is Sado Island!

Li Yunze believed that when the news about Sado Island came back, the ruling and opposition parties would definitely be screaming and screaming.

Because this is the largest gold and silver mine in the world at this time.

Daming, who is short of money and crazy, will certainly not let him go.

"Let's go." Li Yunze warmly greeted Jianzhong Guimi, "Let's enjoy the singing and dancing."

Jianzhong Keimi saluted respectfully, "Please grandson."

He is not stupid, he knows very well what it means that when something goes wrong, there must be a demon.

Daming suddenly became so enthusiastic about himself that he even sent envoys to Wa country a few days ago.

But anyone with a little brain knows that something is wrong.

But there is no way, the strength of the country lies there, and he has no other choice.

Daming's face is here, and Zhu Di is very rejoicing.

Now countless national envoys from the southeast, the north, and the west are here. Of course, this banquet is extremely grand.

The entire square of the palace hall was filled, and the night sky was filled with brilliant fireworks, countless lantern braziers, completely lighting up everything around.

The banquet tables and chairs scattered all over the place are filled with delicacies from mountains and seas, as well as fine wines.

All the disciples of Liyuan were mobilized, performing all kinds of singing, dancing, acrobatics, novel performances, and even taming animals.

The people who come and go are very happy.

Zhu Di gained face, all the officials and nobles ate all kinds of things, the disciples of Liyuan received rewards, foreign envoys were able to eat and drink after seeing the big scene, and even the maids of the inner eunuchs, while feasting their eyes, could get some rewards. Residual soup and water.

Indeed, almost everyone was happy, except for Zhu Gaochi, Li Yunze and the Japanese envoy Jianzhong Guimi.

It is normal for Zhu Gaochi to be unhappy, because he is paying for this grand banquet.

When he thought of the terrifying amount of expenses, he felt dizzy and dizzy. In Li Yunze's words, he had high blood pressure.

Li Yunze was used to seeing the market, so he didn't care much about it, because what he was thinking about was how to drive the Wa country to a dead end.

As for Jianzhong Guimi, it is even simpler. He is keenly aware of the good grandson around him, and intentionally or unintentionally wants to deceive the country.

Just like at this moment, when the two of them were standing outside an animal taming pen, watching the animal trainer waving a whip and urging the lion brought back by Zheng He to jump through the fire hoop, Li Yunze suddenly said, "Looking at ancient books recently, I saw The story of Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty.
Sister Ono sent a letter to Emperor Sui Yang, what is the first sentence at the beginning?"

Hearing this, Jianzhong Guimina's wrinkled forehead was already dripping with sweat.

How could he not know about such a big event, the opening sentence is "The Son of Heaven at Sunrise respects the book of the Son of Heaven where there is no place for the sun!" '

"The Son of Heaven at the Sunrise respects the Son of Heaven's book, and the day is not at the Son of Heaven." Li Yunze read this sentence with his hands behind his back, and then his face suddenly sank, "Yang Guang, a prodigal son, a waste, an idiot! How could he not be so humiliated by a bastard?" Dare to send troops to destroy the country! Waste, waste

! ”

Jian Zhong Gui Mi's legs were already trembling with fright, and he was about to fall down.

If another person said such things, Jianzhong Guimi Jun would be farting.

Just say it, can you say that the Wa country is gone?

But the problem is that the young man in front of him is actually the great-grandson of the Central Plains dynasty, Daming, who is almost destined to be the next emperor.

Once you really have an extremely strong hostility towards the Wa country, the consequences are unimaginable.

Kenzhong Keimi responded with a strong salute, "Your Highness, the Japanese do not understand Chinese, and the words do not express their meaning, please forgive me"

Li Yunze looked at him with a half-smile, "Don't play word games, I don't like it, I just like to gallop around the world with a horse and a gun."

"okay."

He waved his hand, "Let's talk about business."

Of course, Zhu Di would not come forward for things like blackmailing the Japanese country, he wanted to protect his face.

The prince is also not suitable. In Zhu Di's words, reading sage books is stupid, and I really think of myself as a sage.

As for Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaosui, their identities are even more inappropriate.

Picking and picking, only Li Yunze, the one who proposed this matter, is the most suitable one.

In Zhu Di's view, this is also a consideration of his ability.

"Is Wa Kingdom loyal to Ming Dynasty, is it a subject of Ming Dynasty?"

Jianzhong Guimi immediately saluted, "Wa's heart is towards Ming Dynasty, so naturally he is a minister of Ming Dynasty."

"But you paid too little tribute." Li Yunze shook his head slowly. "The gifts you sent are so few, you can't see your loyalty."

"this."

The reason why Ashikaga Yoshimitsu chose to be a minister to Daming was that he could earn income from Daming through tribute, which could be used to suppress the samurai daimyos everywhere.

The purpose of paying tribute is to make money, and if there are too many gifts, it will be a loss.

But at this time Li Yunze's words have reached this level, Jianzhong Guimi can only grit his teeth and report within the scope of his authority, "Waguo is willing to increase [-] tribute gifts every year."

When he said this, his heart was bleeding, this is three thousand guan.

His own annual salary is only a few hundred guan.

For the Wa country, three thousand guan is already a huge sum of money, after all they are too poor.

But here in Daming, Wan Guan's wealth is nothing.

"Three thousand strings? Sending off beggars." Li Yunze waved his hands disdainfully, "Could it be that you look down on me, Huang Ming?"

This is too little, and there is nothing that Jianzhong Guimi can do. His authority is so much.

If Daming wanted more, he could only write to General Ashikaga Yoshitake for a decision.

"How about it." Li Yunze simply offered the conditions, "From now on, every year, the Wa kingdom will pay 50 taels of silver, 1 taels of gold, and 100 million shi of rice."

Glancing at Keimi Kennaka, who was about to fall down, he smiled and said, "The Emperor's ship is going to the Wa country, and needs a place to dry the goods and stop for supplies and rest. I heard that there is a Sado Island in the Wa country, so why don't I borrow it for the time being?" .”

"this this"

Guimi, who is tough, is almost about to yell, I've seen someone with a black heart, but I've never seen someone like you who is completely black from top to bottom!
You are trying to force Wa to die.

"Return to Your Highness." Keimi Jianzhong took a deep breath and saluted in a calm and good mood. "This matter, the Wa Kingdom will never accept it! Even if the Wa Kingdom is carefully searched, it will not be able to find so much gold, silver and food."

He didn't mention the land cession because it was simply impossible.

"That's another way of saying it." Li Yunze looked at Jianzhong Keimi, who had his eyes closed, with a smile, "How about I, the Emperor, use copper coins and other materials to exchange for the gold and silver rice of the Japanese country?"

'uh~~~'

Hearing this, Keimi Keimi who opened his eyes was a little dazed.

There is almost no coinage technology in the country of Japan, and almost no one wants to use the coins made by itself. The copper coins of the Ming Dynasty are really in circulation.

Because of the lack of copper coins, Japan's deflation was caused, and even many places were bartering, which greatly affected the development of commerce and trade.

If you don't ask for it directly, but exchange it for purchase, it is mainly the copper coins that the Wa country urgently needs, which is okay.

As for selling merchandise, Keimi Kinaka wasn't worried at all.

He has been in Daming for a long time, so many things are naturally clear.

Although Huangming's goods are very popular in the Wa country, and they want almost everything, the consumption power there is actually not high.

After all, there are only a handful of rich people in the Wa country.

Even if Huang Ming is allowed to sell goods, the market will soon be saturated and not much can be sold.

It is possible to exchange gold, silver and rice for copper coins.

"It's not up to foreign ministers to decide on this matter." Keimi Kennaka thought carefully for a while, and responded calmly, "Send a letter to General Ashikaga as a decision."

"it is good."

Li Yunze nodded with a smile, and once again raised the wine glass in his hand, "Drink well."

"You kid is a mallet!"

In the imperial study room, after listening to Li Yunze's narration, Zhu Gaoxu jumped on the side, "What's the matter? I didn't get the benefits, but I have to pay copper coins instead?"

"That's right." Zhu Gaosui was also on the sidelines, "Nephew, you can't do this. Our Daming is also short of copper coins, so there is no reason to sell what we lack. You are really ignorant. "

The two brothers sang together and stepped on Li Yunze desperately in front of Zhu Di.

This is actually stepping on the prince Zhu Gaochi, and it would be best to step on the prince's position.

Zhu Gaochi didn't speak at the side, he didn't think Li Yunze was so stupid.

Coincidentally, Zhu Di thought so too.

"Zhan Ji." Zhu Di propped his elbows on the armrest of the dragon chair, resting his face on his palms, "Speak clearly."

"Yes."

Li Yunze clasped his hands, and said his plan, "Emperor Ming is short of copper coins, but he is not short of copper. There are many bronze wares in various temples and houses. You can buy them with gold and silver."

"Ha~~~" Zhu Gaoxu laughed loudly over there, "I wanted to make a fortune, but now I have to pay for it myself?"

Li Yunze ignored him, and explained to himself, "We said we bought it with copper coins, but we didn't say we used the copper coins we use now. We can specially make a batch of copper coins with extra tin and lead, which look good on the surface and are not light in weight. In fact, copper coins with a small amount of copper are exclusively for
In exchange for gold and silver rice from the Wa country. "

Zhu Di, who squinted his eyes, nodded slowly, "Continue."

"Emperor Ming's exchange rate for gold, silver, and copper coins is low, but the exchange rate for gold, silver, and copper coins in Wa Kingdom is very high. In this aspect alone, you can get at least three times the profit every time."

"What's more." Li Yunze's smile became more cordial, "There are endless turmoil in the country, and the various towns are attacking each other. We don't sell porcelain and tea, and we don't make much money. We sell them weapons, armor and military supplies! Let them fight well, It's best to beg for our support after being beaten to the point of bleeding."

"Many mountains of gold and silver are under the control of local vassals and towns. We can use the eliminated military funds to buy mining. We can also bid for captives and use these captives to open mines."

Li Yunze took a deep breath, "First touch and infiltrate, then gradually control through righteousness and material support, and finally swallow them one by one!"

"It doesn't matter if Wa country doesn't give it to us, let's get it ourselves!"

(End of this chapter)