Jingtai Fengyun: The First Absurd Emperor of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 810: Send his confidants to promote the country’s prestige and general Dongsheng sets a bait to lure the enemy.

Early the next morning, Zhu Qiyu woke up, and it started to rain lightly outside.

"It's raining well. I won't go out today. Let's have a good reunion at home."

Qianxue smiled and said: "There are five large vases outside. Husband, go and move them in."

"What big vase?"

Qianxue smiled and said: "Ruan Xi brought it back from Jingdezhen, Jiangxi. Those porcelain merchants specially ordered skilled craftsmen to bake it and come in to honor our fifteen imperial concubines.

My concubine has already asked the supervising young eunuchs to move them outside the Hehuan Hall. You go and move them in and place them in the inner room. "

Zhu Qiyu praised: "These businessmen are really good at doing business, and they know who is the most cost-effective to flatter."

The dignified emperor personally moved the five large vases into the inner room and removed the wooden frames fixed outside.

The vase is one foot long with a square base and three feet high. All four sides are square rectangles.

On each bottle, there are four portraits of an imperial concubine. One portrait on each side.

Zhu Qiyu looked at it carefully, and then he was full of praise: "I didn't expect it, I didn't expect that the current porcelain firing technology is so amazing.

The jade statues of each beloved concubine are lifelike and vivid.

I thought that when they fired porcelain, they could only make patterns with flowers and plants. "

Lin Xiangyu smiled and said, "My husband used to look down on others, right?"

"Yeah, it's true. I underestimated them before. It seems that the craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty can do anything as long as they are pushed into a hurry."

Lin Xiangyu also praised: "These five pieces of porcelain are really good. It shows that a lot of effort has been put into it. But if you take advantage of others' shortcomings and eat their shortcomings, you have to give them some benefits."

"Let's choose a eunuch to command the fleet to sail to the West, and let these porcelain merchants provide a batch of porcelain. Just choose who to go to the West, you all have a say."

Zhu Qiyu originally wanted to make a democratic recommendation, but Qianxue directly proposed the candidate: "The four eunuchs of your mansion are definitely not willing to go.

Huang Qi, Pei Dang and Ruan Zhu couldn't leave, and a few others went out to supervise the army.

Therefore, the most suitable person is Chen Jing. He is a man's confidant, and he likes to play with rare gadgets on weekdays.

Western countries are full of fresh specialties, so it’s just right for him to take a look around.

Besides, as the chief manager of Hongyun Palace, something like this happened recently, and he felt very depressed. Let him go out and relax, just think of it as a sightseeing tour. "

Zhu Qiyu nodded: "Okay, whatever my concubine says is true, I will form a super fleet of 500 warships and 500 treasure ships to show the majesty of my Ming Dynasty to other countries.

Those small countries are all afraid of power but not moral. Only by letting them know how powerful it is can they honestly surrender.

In addition, there are talented people in the far west. They can catch some for me by sailing to the West. "

Qianxue smiled and said: "Tell me something new, my husband. This year, no foreign vassals will come to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty. I just want to ask you whether you are surprised or not?"

"No one comes to pay tribute? Why?"

"Why, Hami, who was loyal to the Ming Dynasty, was destroyed by the coalition forces of the Khanate from the west. North Korea, Japan, Burma, and Annan were destroyed by the husband himself.

This time, the capture of the Malacca Strait offended Majapahit again.

Wu Si Zang was wiped out by you. Ryukyu was in internal strife and could not pay tribute. So the outer vassals have been tortured to a great extent, and who else will pay tribute? "

Zhu Qiyu thought it over again: "It seems to be true, then forget it, I don't want to make a fortune by paying tribute. This is a loss-making business, so I don't have to worry about having no one to pay tribute."

From now on, the borders will be opened to mutual trade, and the coastal ports will be opened to allow free trade, so that there will be no need to pay tribute. "

"Then how to collect taxes? Is the court going to make a fortune again?"

Zhu Qiyu shook his head: "Let's take it one step at a time. Reform is just about crossing the river by feeling the stones. First conduct experiments in a few places, and then promote them after the experiments are completed."

I have thought about it and spent decades slowly grinding it out. It is not something that my generation can worry about.

Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. If I kill Meng Yuan, I will be worthy of them. What's more, there are so many gold, silver and copper mines in Japan, which I mined for them. "

June 19th.

Agabarji took the initiative to send his troops northward and retreated from Yulin to Ordos. After setting up the old camp here, Agabarji personally led 50,000 elite troops across the Yellow River and camped outside Dongsheng City.

The Mongolian army turned north and south and marched unhindered.

The Ming Dynasty's strategy is very clear. The Mongolian cavalry will go wherever they like, and the Ming army will not attack or pursue them.

Agabarji did not dare to go deep into the mountainous area, so he could only wander around the Hetao and its surrounding areas.

In Dongsheng City, He Yi and Xu Yongning took Wei Wang Zhu Wenying to handle military reports.

Although King Wei is young, it feels really different to have a prince sitting in charge.

Without King Wei, the soldiers had the option of abandoning the city and running away. But with King Wei here, we can only protect King Wei and coexist with Dongsheng City.

Anyone who dares to abandon the King of Wei and run away will have to wait for his whole family to be executed by the court. From the generals to the soldiers, no one can escape.

He Yi smiled at Xu Yongning and said: "Our battle is interesting. Agaba Jikong has hundreds of thousands of cavalry and cannot capture a single city.

We have an army of 100,000 people, but we are shrinking in the city and not going to fight.

The decisive battle between Yuan and Ming Dynasty was really weird.

Not surprisingly, Agabarji must have felt a little cold while sitting in the tent. "

Xu Yongning sighed sympathetically: "I stood in Agabarji's position and deduced it dozens of times, but I couldn't figure out how to break through the hedgehog formation set up by the Holy One.

We were able to attack Shanxi first because Dongshengwei and Kaipingwei were abandoned. So there is no need to worry about the flanks and back roads.

Now, large armies are stationed in Dongsheng and Kaiping, and the Great Wall defense lines in Shanxi have been renovated.

I feel that even if Han Xin is resurrected, he will not be able to reach the capital from Shanxi. "

He Yi smiled and said: "I am worried about ourselves. If we don't expose our flaws, how can we let the enemy fight a decisive battle with us?"

Xu Yongning asked curiously: "You asked the Holy One for one million stones of military rations. Isn't it just to lure the Mongolian army to rob the rations?"

　I got caught in this chapter again, so I just deleted a few hundred words and reposted it.

　　

　

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