Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 1358 King Yan’s Stubbornness
Tamra General Administration Office.

There was a grand banquet in the main hall, with wine, meat and seafood, and graceful and fair Korean women dancing gracefully.

Shen Liuniang carried the food box to the quiet backyard. After a strict inspection, she was finally able to approach the three prison vans parked side by side in the yard.

"Oh, as a landlord, why don't you stay in the front to entertain the guests instead of coming here to visit the prison?" Zhu Di smiled at Shen Liuniang while sitting cross-legged in the prison car.

"The Sixth Prince ordered to bring food to the Prince, how could I let anyone else come?" Shen Liuniang sighed and said, "It's hard for the Prince."

"It's not hard, I asked for it." Zhu Di said with a smile: "It's just that I got them both into trouble."

"It's okay, we both volunteered." Zhang Yu and Ping An said in unison.

"You three are really open-minded. You can still chat and laugh like this." Shen Liuniang admired and asked the guard standing by while holding up the food box, "Can you open the door?"

"The door is not locked," the guard said.

"Ah?" Shen Liuniang was stunned, and saw Zhu Di and the other two pushed open the door of the prison car.

"What's so surprising about this? Lao Liu has never locked the door. It's just that I don't want to go out myself." Zhu Di chuckled.

"Since the prince won't go out, we can only accompany him." Ping An and Zhang Yu said with a wry smile.

"Who is the prince angry with?" She hurried to the side of the carriage and sent the top food box in. Then she gave the other two boxes to Ping An and Zhang Yu.

Women are very sensitive to emotions, and they touched the heart of the fourth child. He was just angry with his father. My father wants to send me back to Beijing, fine, then I will eat, drink, defecate and urinate in the prison car, and I will never get out of the car...

Of course Zhu Di would never admit it, so he smiled and said, "Why are you angry? I am strictly following the imperial edict. The Sixth Brother has already taken responsibility for the eldest brother for me, and I cannot cause him any more trouble."

"Your Highness, you are really a brotherly man." Shen Liuniang was very tactful and agreed with him. Then she brought out a jar of wine like a magic trick and said, "This is the sorghum wine made on the island. It's just barely drinkable. Your Highness and the two generals should use it to warm themselves up."

"Haha, if your Sixth Lady says that the wine is drinkable, it must be good." Zhu Di rubbed his hands happily and said, "Pour it up."

Shen Liuniang poured him a bowl of wine. Zhu Di took it and tasted it. He couldn't help but praise it: "I told you, it's pure and spicy, it's really fucking addictive!"

After tasting it, both of them praised it highly and felt that it was the best wine they had tasted in the past few years.

"Drink more if you like." Shen Liuniang said happily, "I'll bring you a few hundred more jars when I leave. This is the advantage of making your own wine - you can have as much as you want."

"How many hundreds of jars?" Zhu Di asked in surprise, "How many did you brew? Is the demand on the island so great?"

"The herdsmen and common people on the island can't drink such good wine." Shen Liuniang replied: "This is sold to the princes and ministers of Goryeo."

"Why sell it to those poor people?" Zhu Di's biggest impression of Goryeo was poverty. The small plates and bowls were not enough to fill the state banquet. "You can only make a lot of money if you sell it to the wealthy people in Jiangnan, right?"

"Your Highness is right." Shen Liuniang smiled and said, "But we sell wine to them not for money."

"If it's not for money, then it's for grass?" Zhu Di laughed. "Your Highness is right, it's for grass. But it's not ordinary grass, it's for fodder." Shen Liuniang answered seriously, "We sell wine to them, and they exchange it with alfalfa and ryegrass."

"Is that so?" Zhu Di suddenly realized, "I was saying that with your business acumen, Shen Liuniang, it wouldn't be this bad."

"Is there not enough grass on the island? Do you need others to help you grow it?" Zhang Yu asked curiously. He has been on the grassland for so many years and has never heard that grass needs to be bought.

"It was enough originally, but later we followed the prince's instructions and changed from nomadic to fixed grazing. This way, the same grassland can support several times more livestock." Shen Liuniang replied:

"But in this case, not only will the number of people needed double, but there will also be a shortage of fodder. It's easy to say that there are enough people because there have been a steady stream of prisoners exiled here over the years. But as for fodder, there is only one layer of land, and we can't grow more even if we want to. So I discussed with Lee Seong-gye and Chung Mong-ju and asked them to help grow fodder, and we can exchange it for food and other things they need."

"At first they were exchanging food, but after they found out that the Tamra-sho on our island was delicious, they only wanted it." Shen Liuniang continued, "It doesn't matter to us anyway, and it's more cost-effective to exchange wine for fodder."

"What a fucking reactionary." Zhu Zhen appeared in the backyard at some point and spat, "The rich are feasting and drinking, but the poor are freezing to death on the streets."

"Your Highness is right. Goryeo is a mountainous country with little land and a dense population but a shortage of food. However, these princes do not buy food but only wine. They really do not care about the lives of the common people." Shen Liuniang hurriedly said softly, "So every year a large number of Goryeo people flee to the island. We have taken in as many as we can. However, the population on the island has now exceeded 100,000, and we are really unable to take care of them."

"It's okay. Send the extra people to Yunnan. They're short of people there." Zhu Zhen waved his hand.

"Okay." Shen Liuniang responded happily.

"I finally understand why there are so many animals on the island every year." Zhu Di said to Lao Liu, "Such a good method, why not promote it in Daning?"

"Who will grow grass for them?" Zhu Zhen shook his head and said, "Traditional grazing is fine."

"Yes, Your Majesty, although pasture grass is grass, it must be taken care of properly, and it also encroaches on arable land..." Shen Liuniang also said. The implication is that this cannot be done in the country, otherwise it will be the people who suffer.

"I understand." Zhu Di said immediately, "Then we can only let the people of Goryeo suffer, and let Agui bear the blame."

"It's okay. He has already been called Cao Cao by the Koreans." Shen Liuniang smiled while covering her mouth.

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The two of them accompanied the fourth son to eat the prison meal. When they were about to leave, Shen Liuniang quietly reported: "My lord, your godson wants to see you."

"Oh, you're talking about our Ah Gui." Zhu Zhen said without any surprise, "He's well-informed."

"He has a liaison officer on the island, so he knew the prince was coming the first time." Shen Liuniang replied: "Hurry here, he will probably arrive tomorrow."

"Okay, I haven't seen my eldest son for many years, so let's wait for him." Zhu Zhen agreed, and then asked with a smile: "Are you familiar with him?"

"You're already in your fifties, and you call me aunt. How disgusting." Shen Liuniang got goosebumps all over her body and said, "You don't care whether others want to hear it or not."

“Hahaha, it’s not his fault.” Zhu Zhen couldn’t help but laugh. “I wrote to him saying that you are my godsister, so of course he has to call you aunt.”

"The prince is quite protective of his son." Shen Liuniang smiled.

(End of this chapter)