Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Chapter 507

"It's human nature, why bother to thank you!" Gao Kan said with a smile: "But marriage is a major event in human relations. Saburo is in the prime of his life, and his knees are still empty. It's really a bit late, but it's not too late, give birth earlier Heir, there is hope for everyone in the family!"

"Yes, yes!" Wang Wenzuo smiled awkwardly. According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, men over fifteen years old and women over thirteen years old can get married. Wang Wenzuo is in his early thirties and has not yet married. Now that he is in a high position and has a lot of money in his pocket, no one will think that he is a "leftover man" that no one wants.But even so, getting married and having children is extremely important.

To put it bluntly, swords and guns have no eyes, and medical conditions were poor in ancient times. Even if he has great power and wealth like the sea, it is not surprising that he suddenly "died from a sudden illness".At that time, he will have no wife and no children, and no matter how loyal his subordinates want to be, they will not know who to pledge their allegiance to. It means that all the hard work is making a wedding dress for others.Gao Kan's words were really out of good intentions, but he didn't know that although Wang Wenzuo had never married a wife, he already had children, and there were more than one.

Gao Kan saw Wang Wenzuo's embarrassment, so he didn't say much, and let him leave after chatting casually.Looking at the back of Wang Wenzuo leaving, Gao Kan said with a smile: "Wang Changshi, Wang Changshi, I am definitely not as good as you in terms of official career, military art, and holy family, but there is one thing that you are not as good as me—my old man!" Gao already has six boys and eight daughters, and the oldest one already has a son of his own."

Back at the residence, Wang Wenzuo washed his face and was about to deal with the letterhead on the desk as usual, but he was surprised when he found that there were two red horizontal lines on the letterhead envelope on the top—according to the original agreement, In the Japanese letters, only those who are in a hurry can use three red horizontal lines, those who are less urgent can use two red lines, and those who are more urgent can use one horizontal line.As the chaos in the Japanese country gradually subsided, Wang Wenzuo hadn't seen an urgent message with two red horizontal bars for a long time.

"Could it be that the remnants of the imperial family of the Japanese kingdom are making trouble again?" Wang Wenzuo said to himself as he unwrapped the letterhead.With the deepening of the understanding of the Wa country at that time, he gradually understood why Fujiwara Bubi would hunt down the descendants of the emperor so cruelly. At the beginning, he only asked to kill the members of the royal family who went back five generations, but Fujiwara Bubi expanded it to seven generations, even Even babies who are still breastfeeding are not spared.

It is not without reason that Fujiwara Bubi did this. The ancient Japanese had a hopeless belief in the "noble species", that is, only when the ruler had blood that could be traced back to the gods, could his rule be legal.In addition to blood, the Japanese also believe that children are closer to gods than adults, so even a baby who can only suckle can quickly make dozens or even hundreds of rebels who refuse to obey each other quickly form an organized Rebel group.Only by making Yan Liang the only person who inherited the emperor's blood can the seeds of rebellion be eradicated fundamentally.From another point of view, due to the publicity of the Izumo Daikunizhu Shrine, the legend that Wang Wenzuo is the descendant of the Daikunizhu God's blood spread like wildfire in Japan. People with the blood of Amaterasu and Great Country Lord, even if they are rebels, cannot attack him legally.

"Oh?" Wang Wenzuo opened the letter and was relieved to find that it wasn't the news of the rebels: "It turns out that it was about the children. Isn't Fujiwara confused? How about sending me some urgent letterheads about the children?" Seeing this, Wang Wenzuo couldn't help frowning.

It turns out that when Wang Wenzuo was in Japan, the one who shared the bed with him was not only Saitama's daughter, but also Saitama's maids, and some maids offered by local tyrants when he led the army outside. Some of these women also gave birth to children. Yes, after Fujiwara Bubi confirmed that Wang Wenzuo's blood was correct, he took his mother and son to live near Kyoto. Except for Liangyan who inherited the Datong, there were six boys and three girls.But Fujiwara Bubi suggested in the letter that Wang Wenzuo should not follow the customs of the Tang people and give these children the surname Wang, but should reduce these children to the status of ministers and give them another surname.

The reason for Fujiwara's incomparability is very simple. After the death of Saitama, Wang Wenzuo swore to kill the white horse with many warriors.If Wang Wenzuo allowed these two children to get their own surnames, they would also be named kings according to the habits of the Wa Kingdom after they became adults. Know whom to pledge allegiance to.And if it is reduced to a subject, then naturally there is no need to be a king, and there is no need to divide too many territories. After being reduced to a subject, it can be allowed to take over the famous surname that was suppressed because of rebellion, which can not only show the emperor's Rende can actually strengthen the power of Wang Wenzuo's heirs, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

"To come up with such an idea, the Japanese know the Japanese better!" Wang Wenzuo couldn't help sighing when he saw the end. Wang Wenzuo of the society immediately understood the beauty of it.At the beginning of the War of the Three Kings of the Japanese Kingdom, many great clans from ancient times were hit hard because they stood in the wrong team, and they sank down. Some even simply died of their descendants. The name is cut off.

But the centipede is dead but not stiff. These big clans have been in the country for two to three hundred years, seven or eight hundred years or even thousands of years. There are many potential supporters. If they are left alone, it will take at least a few generations before they gradually dissipate. .Fujiwara Bubi's idea was to reduce the children of Wang Wenzuo and the maidservants to subjects, and then change the surnames of these big families so that they could be the heads of these families and inherit the strength and reputation of these families.In this way, the past crimes of these families are naturally washed away, and they have blood relatives with the reigning emperor, and they have transformed from hopeless perishers into nobles of the new dynasty; naturally they are very happy.

For Wang Wenzuo, not only does he not need to use the financial resources and land in the hands of the central government to entrust his cheap sons, but he also does not have to worry about the civil strife caused by the dispute between his son and concubine in the next generation. He can also turn a large number of potential enemies into friends at once. It is really a coup that kills two birds with one stone.This is also when Oda Nobunaga changed the surnames of his concubine sons Oda Nobutaka and Oda Nobuo to the Kobe family and the Kitabata family respectively, leaving only Oda Nobutada to inherit the family business; Toyotomi Hideyoshi threw his adopted son to Kobayakawa The family is the head of the family; Tokugawa Ieyasu throws the eldest son of the concubine to the Yuki family to be the head of the family. This is the same operation.

"It is estimated that Fujiwara Bubi, Yuan Aolie and He Bayong have already said it! But they probably disagree, so they wrote to me directly!" Wang Wenzuo smiled, and it is not difficult for him to understand Fujiwara Bubi's mentality. As the saying goes, you can't keep close. Although his strategy is a good one, it didn't suit the appetite of the Tang people at that time. He dared to write this urgent letter to himself without the consent of Yuan Aolie and He Bayong. It is estimated that it has been thrown out.I really should come forward to support him.

"The rest of you should know that my concubine is under the arrangement of the courtier Fujiwara, so don't talk too much!"

Wang Wenzuo put down the brush, took a few breaths, and waited for the ink to dry.The sound of crickets came from outside, stirring up the melancholy and lonely air at dusk.He stood up and walked to the window. Through the window on the courtyard wall, he could see the barrenness in the courtyard next door.He couldn't help sighing, how cold-blooded it was to take away the original surnames of his own flesh and blood that were still breastfeeding, then change them to new surnames one after another, and then throw them into new families one after another?

"If you want to blame, blame you for being my Wang Wenzuo's children!" Wang Wenzuo sighed: "Since you are my children, you are doomed not to live a life of wealth and idleness. You will either become strong, or you will not live to be an adult. There is no third option!"

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Yangzhou.

Ataka.

"Master Cao, someone paid a deposit for the fur and sugar yesterday, the pine nuts are also selling well, and the sulfur is also in good condition, but—" An Taishun carefully peeped at the side of Cao Sengnu, who was lying on the armchair , asked the maid to trim his beard with golden scissors, with a careless look.

"Just what?" Cao Sengnu asked.

"Those copper bars—" An Taishun replied carefully

"What's wrong with the copper bars? The quality of that batch is good, right? No one wants it?" Cao Sengnu waved his hand, and the maid stepped back carefully, and stood aside with the bronze mirror.

"Cao Dongzhu's goods are naturally good, but the copper goods are not ordinary goods, they are very eye-catching, and the quantity is too large. If so many copper goods are sold, there will be a lot of movement. He is not blind, he will definitely send someone to investigate, then it will be troublesome!"

Cao Sengnu nodded. An Taishun's embarrassment also had a reason. Unlike modern society, copper was not just a metal in ancient society, but a raw material for currency, or simply currency. After all, casting fake money is not a big deal Difficult technical work.Putting so much copper into the market is still in a commercial city like Yangzhou. This is equivalent to someone injecting a large amount of liquidity into the financial market without telling the central bank. If the government can't even find out this, it is no different from a blind man.

An Taishun saw that Cao Sengnu did not speak, and continued cautiously: "Master Cao, I dare to say something, if you are not in a hurry, can this batch of copper bars be pressed for a while? There are not many such fine copper bars. Besides, What's the big deal about hard goods like copper? If it doesn't work, you can just use it as money!"

Cao Sengnu is not a young boy who has just debuted, so I can't hear An Taishun's implication. There are two ways to spend copper bars directly as money. You can either mint money in private or sell it directly to people who mint copper coins privately. Otherwise, who has the ability to swallow such a large batch of copper goods at once?A copper pot only weighs six or seven taels, and those who can afford it are at least well-off people. How much copper material do those copperware workshops use in a year?
"Brother An has a wide range of contacts!" Cao Sengnu laughed and said, "Even the private minter of copper coins has been cheated. Cao Mo really underestimated you back then!"

"Cao Dongzhu, why did you say that!" An Taishun was about to distinguish, but he saw Cao Sengnu waved his hand: "You don't know the person who minted copper coins privately, so you must have done it yourself? Otherwise, how could there be so many copper coins?" Use it directly as money?"

"This—" An Taishun was dumbfounded for a moment, and beads of sweat the size of soybeans had already oozed from his forehead, flowing down his plump and plump cheeks.

"Looking at you like this, it should be because I have a money-making furnace in my hand!" Cao Sengnu smiled: "Let me think about it, how should the Tang Dynasty punish private money? It seems that the money-making is a death penalty, and the family members are not slaves." .Brother An, you deserve what you did, but your family will follow you, how pitiful it is!"

An Taishun's knees softened, and he knelt on the ground and kowtowed. Cao Sengnu looked at An Taishun and kowtowed on the ground. After a while, he said: "Forget it, get up and talk!"

An Taishun raised his head, his forehead was already covered with blood, and said: "Xiao Ke didn't mint money by himself, but just knew a local householder who had a money minting furnace in private, and bought tin ingots from me twice. That's why I know. How dare I do such a thing myself?"

"Okay, if you don't report what you know, you will be exiled for three thousand miles. Congratulations Brother An, your life is saved!"

"What did Dongzhu Cao say?" An Taishun said with a wry smile, "There is someone in his superiors. I will report to the government. I am afraid that he is not injured. I have already killed everyone."

"Oh? There are people like this!" Cao Sengnu was taken aback: "You can't even hide the matter of making money?"

"Hey, most of the money minted by others is sold to barbarian merchants. Even if the money is poor, as long as you are careful, how can it leak out?"

It turns out that in ancient China's overseas trade, in addition to porcelain, silk, cloth, ironware, etc., copper coins were also a very large export "commodity".The reason is that in ancient society, both mining copper mines and casting coins were quite high-tech industries. The neighboring countries of ancient China either had poor mining technology or had not yet mastered the coin casting technology, so most countries did not have their own. To cast money, they simply imported a large amount of copper coins from ancient China for their own commercial use.

For example, Japan is like this. Although the country has very rich copper, gold, and silver deposits, it did not start to cast its own coins on a large scale until the Tokugawa shogunate. The outflow of copper coins is prohibited.A large number of ancient Chinese coins can be found in Vietnam, Myanmar, and even further countries.Although the master who privately minted copper coins minted many copper coins privately, most of them were sold to foreign businessmen, so it was naturally not easy for the government to detect.

"Since it was sold to barbarian merchants, that's another matter!" Cao Sengnu patted An Taishun on the shoulder: "I blamed Brother An wrongly, please don't take offense!"

"I won't be offended!" An Taishun breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a wry smile, "Xiao Ke has a few lives, how dare you blame Dongzhu Cao!"

(End of this chapter)