The First Corrupt Official of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 328 Master Ye’s final plan to seek death was arranged in advance by Zhu Yuanzhang. It was a merchant ship, not a warship!

Ye Qing could have completely ignored this imperial edict. He was just willing to go out and have a look out of curiosity.

It's just that this time, he will no longer give Zhu Yuanzhang the basic respect.

It's not like he's a death edict, so respect him!
  Ye Qing wore a pair of Ming Dynasty pajamas, then asked the two maids to bring some valuable money that was not as good as toilet paper in his eyes, and went out to send the imperial envoys.

Under the door plaque that read 'Ningbo Special Administrative Government', Ye Qing stood casually and just waved his hand.

He called to the doorman, took the plate from the maid's hand, and handed out the money.

Although they never brought good news, the fault lies with Zhu Yuanzhang and not with these errands. The tea fee should still be paid.

After the eunuch who delivered the order and several guards in Jinyi received the treasure notes, they all laughed.

"Master Ye, this is what you're wearing, I'm afraid it's not suitable!"

Ye Qing smiled lightly and said, "If it's not suitable, why don't you pay me back?"

The eunuch who conveyed the order and several guards in golden uniforms immediately pretended not to have seen him and were ready to continue the process below.

"Ye Qing, the magistrate of Ningbo Prefecture, accepts the order!"

Ye Qing reached out his hand casually and said: "Just give it to me, and there is no need to go through the other salutes and announcements. You can go back!"

"This"

With everyone's eyes widening, Ye Qing took away the unopened imperial edict and issued an eviction order.

With his attitude, not only the nine tribes suffered, but also the three tribes were wiped out. This is really not taking his own tribe seriously!

Although this eunuch who passed the order had never dealt with Ye Qing, he had heard many legends about him.

For example, his mysterious behavior when receiving the order has already become a topic of private discussion among the eunuchs and maids in the palace.

This eunuch had heard that Ye Qing would have a very good attitude before receiving the order, but once he received the order, his attitude would be extremely bad.

In short, it's just one sentence, just do whatever it takes to be rebellious and dishonest.

But he never expected that this time his attitude would be extremely bad even before he connected with the order.

Is this an escalation of the emperor's test?
  His previous attitude was half good and half bad. Not only did His Majesty not kill him, but he was even promoted!

Now I want to try it. His attitude was not good from beginning to end. Will His Majesty the Emperor not only not kill him, but also give him a promotion?

Just when the eunuch who delivered the edict was thinking like this, Ye Qing, who had already opened the edict and read it, suddenly decided to give Zhu Yuanzhang some basic respect.

"You wait!"

As soon as Ye Qing finished speaking, he ran back to his room.

After a while, he put on a red official robe and made a standard bow in the direction of Yingtian Mansion in front of the eunuch who was delivering the order.

"Your Majesty Ye Qing, accept the order!"

But when he raised his head, he waved casually to the eunuch who passed the order: "Okay, you can go."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Qing turned around decisively and disappeared from their eyes.

Seeing this scene, these people felt a little unhappy even after accepting Ye Qing's money.

It is said that scholars cannot be killed but not humiliated. He is treating them, the emperor's imperial envoys, like monkeys!
  "baffling!"

"It's simply baffling!"

The eunuch who passed the order cursed and left.

But one thing said, he still wanted to come to Ningbo Mansion next time to deliver the message. After all, no one would have trouble with money.

Compared with the high tea fee, if Master Ye treats you like a monkey, just act like a monkey!

Just as the eunuch delivering the edict was leaving, Ye Qing had already returned to his recliner with the edict in hand.

The reason why he underwent such a huge change after reading the imperial edict was because of the content of the imperial edict.

The content of the imperial edict: "The Japanese country is a country that cannot be conquered. It can be defended but cannot be attacked. It will always be customized!"

What's more important is that the edict's title is still "Fengtian carries the emperor, the edict says", which is the title of the announcement to the world.

Ye Qing also didn't know why this kind of imperial edict that was announced to the world was announced to him alone.

According to officials in the past, such edicts were sent directly to the Yamen.

Of course, Ye Qing didn't want to use his extra brain to think about why he had to declare such a decree to him alone.

But what he can be sure of is that Zhu Yuanzhang's mysterious behavior is undoubtedly giving him a reason to seek death.

If it was just a general crime of resisting an imperial decree, Ye Qing was really worried that he would not be punished to death.

Because of the imperial edict that was directed at him personally, he had resisted it more than once.

But the result?

Aren't you doing useless work and just lying in the sun under the Ming Dynasty sky?

But if he fails to comply with this imperial edict, which is titled "Heaven carries the emperor, the edict says", then he will resist the edict in front of the people of the world, and beat him in the face of Zhu Yuanzhang in front of the people of the world.

He doesn't believe it. He resisted the decree on this matter, but he still can't die?
  Unless he, Zhu Yuanzhang, is really shameless!
  Obviously, he, Zhu Yuanzhang, is just a person who does shameless things, but he is very face-conscious!

As long as he, Ye Qing, dares to resist the decree on this matter, it will be a super crime of resisting the decree, aggravated by the crime of rebellion, and the crime of leading the army as a civilian official!

Boss Zhu gave him such a gift that would definitely kill him. He must thank Boss Zhu for his great kindness.

Although Ye Qing is not a good person, he is definitely a person who repays kindness and revenge, and he is also very principled.

Previously, I had neglected Boss Zhu because of my habitual thinking. After learning that Boss Zhu was so kind, I had to correct my attitude.

This is the reason why he asked the eunuch who delivered the order to wait for him to come out in formal disguise to receive the order!
  "Call Shen Wan'er over."

After Ye Qing placed the imperial edict on the altar, he gave instructions to the maid.

After a while, Shen Wan'er, who was busy in the accounting room, came to Ye Qing.

Shen Wan'er was very happy. She thought Ye Qing was feeling guilty because of his bad attitude toward her last time, so he wanted to make up for her in a way she wanted.

Under Shen Waner's expectant gaze, Ye Qing just asked seriously: "How is the progress of the deep-water dock on Meishan Island in Beicang County and the deep-water dock in Ningxiang Bay?"

Shen Wan'er smiled sweetly and said, "Replying to your lord, it's already halfway through!"

After Ye Qing nodded, he came to the hanging administrative map of Ningbo Prefecture. He didn't see Shen Wan'er at all, only his almost crazy plan that guaranteed to kill him.

In fact, Ye Qing had long known that Zhu Yuanzhang would designate Japan as a country without conquest.

Using his handed down regulations of the "Emperor Ming Ancestor Instructions" to torture himself to death was originally one of his death plans. It can also be said to be his [ultimate death plan]!
  And he built these two deep-water docks just to serve his [ultimate death plan]!
  The deep-water dock on Meishan Island in Beicang County faces the open sea. It is nominally designed to handle merchant ships coming from the north and south coasts of the Ming Dynasty, as well as Japanese merchant ships.

Nominally, it is also affiliated with the ‘Ningbo Shipping Division’ under the Ningbo Special Administrative jurisdiction, and is a nominally official deep-water terminal.

The deep-water terminal project in Ningxiang Bay, located between Ninghai County and Xiangshan County, has nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty official.

It can be said that it is Ye Qing's private property here, and it can be said that it is part of Ye Qing's [ultimate death plan].

The reason why he designed the private deep-water dock here is because there is land in Xiangshan County in front of it, land in Ninghai County in the back, and there is only one outlet to the sea in the south.

It is not only calm and calm, but also suitable for naval training and docking of naval ships. It is also easier to defend and harder to attack! The key is that such terrain conditions are also very suitable for creating a shipyard!
  Ye Qing thought that he would probably not need this [ultimate death plan] and he would be able to go home successfully.

If he managed to get home without using them, he would give the commercial deep-water dock and the military deep-water dock to Zhu Yuanzhang as a thank-you gift.

But he never expected that the regulations that listed the Japanese country as a country without conquest would actually appear in advance, and so far in advance?
  As for the reason for the early appearance, he didn't want to waste his brain thinking about it. It was probably because he traveled through time!
  He only knew that since Boss Zhu offered him such an opportunity to torture him to death, if he didn't seize it, it would be Ye Qing who was doing him a disservice.

Thinking of this, Ye Qing immediately ordered: "Tell the people in the Construction Department to speed up the progress as much as possible while maintaining quality and quantity."

"Remember, don't beat or scold the workers. Everything should be solved with money. You can also raise the unit price."

"Here, we must fully support them financially!"

Shen Wan'er still smiled sweetly and said: "Yes, sir!"

Immediately afterwards, Ye Qing continued to give instructions: "Tell the business promotion people to go to Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Suhang, and Yingtian to promote it."

"I just said that I want to set up a group called 'Donghai Mining Development Group'. Now I will issue [-]% of the shares. Anyone who is interested can come to me."

"I will guarantee them a huge profit with my personal guarantee!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Qing fixed his gaze on the Ninghai Bay Deepwater Terminal landmark located between Ninghai County and Xiangshan County.

Yes,

In terms of design, this is indeed a military deep-water dock, but it must wait until he is executed by Zhu Yuanzhang in this era before it can become a clearly military deep-water dock.

But before that, we have to use the name of the group company to cover up!

When Shen Wan'er saw that Ye Qing was still carrying him and had nothing else to say, she immediately smiled sweetly and stopped laughing.

Shen Wan'er's silver teeth bit secretly: "Is it gone now?"

Ye Qing turned around and saw that he was still standing here, and then said seriously again: "What else do you want? Do you still think you don't have enough things to do?"

Shen Wan'er just took a deep breath, so that her Ming Dynasty Hanfu was in danger of coming out.

Shen Wan'er just smiled tenderly, then bowed and saluted: "There are many things to do, so you should arrange for someone else to send the message!"

"you"

Ye Qing looked at Shen Wan'er who just walked away and smiled helplessly and shook his head.

He was never stupid, he just pretended to be stupid about it.

He is not angry with Shen Wan'er at all. As the saying goes, rabbits bite when they are anxious, not to mention she is a very nice woman.

Ye Qing quickly called other people to help him pass the message, and then he was ready to continue lying down and mess around.

But as soon as he was about to lie down, he realized that he could no longer lie down doing nothing.

Now that the [ultimate death plan] has been advanced, he has to make more detailed preparations.

Now Ningbo Mansion already has his private mansion, and he also has a private luxurious study. There is no need to go to the prefect's office study to do work.

Under the candlestick in the study, Ye Qing asked his two dedicated maids to help get the four treasures of the study and long scroll drawing paper.

In the eyes of the maids accompanying him, Ye Qing was drawing.

Drawing a structural diagram of a large ship that they had never seen in their lives, the key was that there were cannon barrels protruding from the notches in the deck parapets of these battlefields.

The special maid standing on the left asked curiously: "Sir, do you want to build a warship?"

The special maid standing on the right just rolled her eyes and said curiously and excitedly: "Sir, if you succeed, we don't want to be a queen or a noble concubine, we can just be ordinary concubines."

"Cough cough!"

"Cough, cough, cough!"

Ye Qing was so angry at their imagination that he suddenly started coughing.

Immediately afterwards, Ye Qing gave them a serious ideological education: "I am the most loyal minister in the world, what are you thinking in your little minds?"

As he said that, he looked at the special maid standing on the left and scolded seriously: "Are you dazzled? I spent so much money to maintain it for you in vain?"

"This is a purely merchant ship, do you understand?"

"The thing sticking out of the notch in the parapet of the deck is not a gun barrel, but a fishing rod!"

As he spoke, he increased his voice and said, "Remember, it's a fishing rod!!!"

The two maids were startled and nodded quickly like chickens pecking at rice: "Yes, yes, yes, whatever you say is what it is."

"You said a deer is a horse, we all said you were right!"

Ye Qing rolled his eyes at them and said, "You dare to say that I call a deer a horse? Are you saying that I am as domineering as Zhao Gao?"

"No, absolutely not!"

"We don't have enough education and don't know who Zhao Gao was in the Qin Dynasty!"

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Ye Qing ignored them and continued to draw the 'super large merchant ship' he used to develop the Japanese country's Dayin Mountain!
  After a while, Wu Yong ran to him again and brought a greeting note.

Wu Yong cupped his hands and said, "Sir, the great merchant of Japan, the Ashikaga family, would like to pay my respects. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the great general of the Northern Dynasty of Japan, is invited to visit us tomorrow."

After Ye Qing read the greeting card, he just smiled lightly and said, "This kid is even more shameless than me."

"When did I invite him?"

Wu Yong reminded: "On that day, the great merchants of Japan came to congratulate the opening of the mansion, but they were beaten out by our gatekeepers. It was you who asked the gatekeepers to pass the message. Looking at the entire Japanese country, only Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is qualified to see you."

Ye Qing suddenly realized: "So, this is an invitation!"

"It seems that I bought my title of candidate, but I don't even know the word invitation. How can I explain it like this?"

Wu Yong also laughed out loud on the spot: "Who says it's not the case!"

"Are you seeing me or not?"

Ye Qing nodded and said: "See, how can we not see the big business that came to our door?"

"Not only do you want to meet, you have to go out and publicize it now, saying that I will be at the Ningbo Restaurant tomorrow to negotiate a big deal with the Japanese general Ashikaga!"

Wu Yong asked in confusion: "Why is this?"

"Just do it if I ask you to do it. Are you asking so many questions?"

After Wu Yong nodded, he suddenly saw the 'super large merchant ship' drawn by Ye Qing: "Sir, your warship is so majestic!"

"I've never seen this warship. Who are we going to fight?"

Ye Qing kicked Wu Yong in the butt and said, "Go and do your business, are you blind?"

"It's obviously a merchant ship, but you have to say it's a warship?"

Wu Yong just raised his eyebrows slightly, and suddenly realized: "Yes, yes, it is a merchant ship, a large merchant ship. The many black tubes protruding from the deck are not gun barrels, but thicker fishing rods."

As soon as he finished speaking, Wu Yong followed Ye Qing's request and went out to promote and build momentum!
  (End of this chapter)