Daming Greedy Wolf Star

Chapter 227 The Chaos of the Grassland
"Right or wrong, we have no way to comment on this."

Facing Zhou Xin's question, Xia Yuanji was stunned for a moment, and then spoke slowly.

"What we have learned, whether it is right or wrong, is the experience summed up by the predecessors. There may be mistakes, but obviously it is not something we can change."

"Just talk about the Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism we have learned. You can say it is wrong, but Meng Yuan used it to build a huge empire and govern all the Han people in a submissive manner."

"But if you want to say that it is right, Meng Yuan only used this Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism when he ruled. In war, it is exactly the same as His Royal Highness."

Speaking of this, Xia Yuanji looked up at the sky, but it was a pity that the dark clouds covered it, and he couldn't see a single star.

"Perhaps, the only one who can change all this is His Royal Highness..."

"Weizhe, I understand you now." Hearing the last sentence, Zhou Xin laughed.

"In the past, I always thought that the reason why you like to get close to His Royal Highness is that His Royal Highness will bring huge benefits to the treasury every time, which can relieve the urgent need of you, the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs."

"But now I find out that you are really..."

"Hey! Stop!" Xia Yuanji interrupted Zhou Xinhua with a smile.

"I, Xia Yuanji, am an ordinary person. The only thing that can make me happy is money. I like to be close to His Royal Highness for no other reason, but because His Royal Highness can bring money to the treasury and solve the urgent needs of the Ministry of Accounts."

"Look, during the Northern Expedition to the Grassland, His Royal Highness made more seizures. It took two full years to sell all the cattle, sheep and horses."

"The attack on Annan did not bring any substantial benefits to the Ministry of Household Affairs, but I think that this year's autumn tax in Yunnan will definitely surprise everyone."

"I won't talk about the Eastern Expedition to the Wa Kingdom. Iwami Yinshan is still sending money to the Ministry of Households in a steady stream."

"I am the Minister of the Household Department, can you be unhappy if this happens?"

Saying that, Xia Yuanji stretched out the flagon in front of Zhou Xin, Zhou Xin also smiled, picked up the flagon and touched Xia Yuanji.

Under the night, the two officials sat next to each other, but they smiled knowingly under the sky full of dark clouds.

The next day.

Early in the morning, Xia Yuanji and Zhou Xin got up, and even the officials with Daming got up, and started to continue the work of the previous day.

The mutual market is not something that can be accomplished overnight, and the price will change every year. This year, there are more things about wool, and the work is even more complicated.

Wool is a very difficult thing to define, because according to Zhu Zhanhe, only the wool of Ujimqin sheep and Baiyang (Tan sheep) can be purchased, and the others are not.

White sheep is not found in the grasslands, and it is only distributed in the area from Lintao Mansion to Xiningwei in the Ming Dynasty, while Ujimqin sheep was something that the Mongolian and Yuan nobles could enjoy during the Yuan Dynasty.

Nobles, even the royal family, can know how precious Ujimqin sheep are from this point.

Therefore, although this year is the opening of the wool market, in the end it is just setting the tone, and there will not be much wool even next year.

That's why things are so troublesome.

But fortunately, after Xia Yuanji moved Zhu Zhanhe out yesterday, Tuo Huan compromised, and with the matter of wool settled, other things became easier.

After all, both Grassland and Daming are experienced in other aspects, so just adjust the price according to this year's situation as appropriate.

"Okay, let's settle it like this." Xia Yuanji put away the account book in his hand.

This thing has to be taken back to the household department for filing, so there must be no loss.

"I hope that next year you will follow the rules, instead of violating the agreement with Daming repeatedly like before."

Hearing this, Tuo Huan smiled awkwardly.

As the saying goes, when you hit someone, you don't slap someone in the face.

This is the basic "morality" of being a human being, especially for Confucian scholars, this situation will be even more ashamed, but Xia Yuanji is an outlier.

When discussing the price of wool before, Xia Yuanji shamelessly carried out Zhu Zhanhe's big killer, and now he kicked him on the ass that had just been hit by the board again.

You know, because of the cross-border grazing, Wala failed to apologize like usual last year, and returned the property of the Daming border residents, and finally got a reward from Daming.

On the contrary, in addition to returning the looted goods last year, they also made compensation to those Daming border residents who were looted by them.

It's nothing more than a little compensation, and it's not that Wala can't afford it. The most important thing is that they had to increase the amount of tribute in the tribute at the end of the year.

It can be said that because of Zhu Zhanhe, it was a matter of making money in the past few years, but this year it abruptly turned into a loss.

However, Xia Yuanji did not go too far.

After all, it is in the grassland now. Although the Three Gorges Pass is Daming's chassis in name, in fact, Daming doesn't have much control over this place.

If it really annoyed Wala and made Tuo Huan lose his mind, then something really might happen.

Therefore, Xia Yuanji also accepted as soon as it was good, and after a brief conversation with Tuo Huan, he began to lead the team back.

However, what Xia Yuanji didn't expect was that his unintentional idea came true.

On the first day that the officials from the Daming Household Department returned, Xia Yuanji only took people away in the afternoon because he was talking with Wala about the exchange market in the morning.

For this reason, at sunset, Xia Yuanji decided to camp at Sanfeng Mountain, which is on the south side of the Luqu River.

Nights on the grasslands are never completely silent. On the grasslands, especially in summer, the sounds of insects and running water merge into a pleasant tune that lulls you to sleep.

However, just after half an hour, when almost everyone fell asleep, a sharp whistle sounded.

The whistle was too sharp, and on the grassland where there was no noise other than the sound of running water and insects, almost everyone was awakened instantly.

"What's going on?" Xia Yuanji came out of the temporary tent with a sullen face, looking at the panicked camp.

"Is there a need to ask this?" Zhou Xin and Xia Yuanji's reactions were completely different, as flat as his usual.

"Isn't this whistle the signal for an enemy attack given by Tan Zhong when we first left the Great Wall?"

That's right, Tan Zhong.

I don't know if Zhu Di did it on purpose, but this time when the household department came to the grassland, Zhu Di specially asked Tan Zhong to escort him.

Not only that, but the people Tan Zhong led were also a little special, they were not ordinary soldiers, but soldiers who had been sent by the imperial court to Japan to fight with Zhu Zhanhe.

He even helped Zhu Zhanhe build a Beijing temple in the palace of the Japanese kingdom.

"After crossing the Luqu River, this is the territory of Daming. Anyone who dares to ambush Daming here is an official of Daming..."

Xia Yuanji's eyes narrowed, Zhou Xin was taken aback by that look.

Although he didn't have much contact with him, Zhou Xin was deeply impressed by this expression, but it was not Xia Yuanji, but Zhu Zhanhe.

When Zhou Xin was still in Taizhou, Zhu Zhanhe led people to encircle and suppress the Japanese pirates, and Jin Yiwei Commander Ji Gang said that under Zhu Di's order, all the Japanese pirates would be handed over to Zhu Zhanhe.

At that time, Zhou Xin saw this expression on Zhu Zhanhe's face.

(End of this chapter)