People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 484 Our dream is great!

Although Xia Yuanji knew very well that whether he said it or not, the probability of these people surviving was very low, but there would be a huge difference between saying it and not saying it.

Because Xia Yuanji knew very well that even if he didn't say it, there was a very high possibility that these people would be killed by the king. After all, the Ming Dynasty required an attitude. If your king didn't give this attitude, it was very likely that there would be no future cooperation.

But it was different when Xia Yuanji said it. It was a threat. You people from Annan actually dared to treat people from my Ming Dynasty like this. The fact that you are still alive is the greatest insult to us.

So Xia Yuanji said this to tell An Nengguo that no matter what, you all must die for whatever reason.

The king was also very smart. He didn't say anything and directly pronounced the sentence. All the ministers who committed crimes would be killed.

Only the official named Nguyen did not panic at all even after hearing the news of his execution. He was even still laughing heartily, which made the king very furious.

He hoped that he would die suddenly so that these people would leave a good impression on Xia Yuanji and Xia Yuanji would stop pursuing the matter. However, this official named Ruan still did not give him face and laughed so arrogantly in front of Xia Yuanji.

This really slapped the king in the face. He shouted angrily: "You are still ungrateful now. It would be fine if you died alone, but do you think your family can escape? Your family will have to pay the price for the benefits you have gained in Annan over the years."

Hearing that his family would be implicated because of this incident, the official surnamed Nguyen finally showed some restrained expression on his face. He looked at the king and slowly said, "Your Majesty, I have been with you for more than ten years and have watched you grow from a commander to the king you are today. Your courage and strategy are indeed admirable to us, but your horizons are really not broadened, and you cannot see the distant future."

He looked at Xia Yuanji and said coldly, "Our assassination of you is indeed morally shameful, but my king is such a person. He kowtows at the feet of your Ming Dynasty. I won't say anything else about this person. I do want to make some money to make my life better, but I want to consider the people of Annan more."

He was frank at this time. After all, he was about to die, and he had nothing to hide. He looked around and saw the officials kneeling at Xia Yuanji's feet. He scolded them very rudely, "You are all so mean and cunning that you have never thought of helping His Majesty solve the problems you see."

The officials kneeling on the ground were quite aware. They did not object when they heard what the official surnamed Ruan did. Anyway, he was about to die, so they just thought that he was just talking too much.

Xia Yuanji looked at the official surnamed Ruan coldly. He did not think that this man was so great because of what Ruan said. Anyway, he felt that he did nothing wrong.

What the Ming Dynasty is doing now is correct. Even if the Ming Dynasty wants to annex them in the future, that will be dozens or hundreds of years later. At least the current generations of the Annan people will be able to benefit from it.

Moreover, the fall of dynasties is a cyclical relationship. Even if the Ming Dynasty did not annex Annan, there would be other dynasties that wanted to annex Annan.

In history, the Kingdom of Annan eventually became a colony and was trampled upon again and again.

At least now the Ming Dynasty has not thought about trampling on Annan, but is really thinking about making use of this land.

In particular, since this is the first piece of land controlled by the Ming Dynasty, the best policies should be used to encourage the people to farm, thereby leading the surrounding countries to follow suit. This is the long-term benefit that the Ming Dynasty wants.

This official named Ruan repeatedly pushed the Ming Dynasty to the opposing side, hoping to prove that his methods were correct and that the Ming Dynasty's threat theory was correct.

Such a person will never be successful anywhere, and such a person with a dark heart will never have a good ending wherever he goes.

The king also hated this official named Nguyen, not only because he almost ruined the trade between Annan and Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, he was extremely disrespectful to him in the court, which he could not tolerate no matter what.

Now he can find a reason to execute him openly and warn other officials, so why not do it?

So he ordered: "Now that the facts are clear and the evidence is irrefutable, you people have plotted to murder the imperial envoy and the governor of Ming Dynasty. You have really failed the grace of the emperor and the trust of the people.

In order to serve as a warning to the entire officialdom, I have decided to drag you out of the vegetable market and immediately behead you for public display."

After hearing the king's order, the officials who were kneeling on the ground suddenly collapsed to the ground and crawled towards the king: "Your Majesty, please spare my life, Your Majesty, please spare my life!"

Official Ruan, however, did not appreciate this at all. He swung his sleeves and snorted, sneering at the spineless officials kneeling on the ground: "Do you think he will tickle you if you beg him like this? It's really embarrassing.

"If I die, I die. Why should I be afraid? When we were discussing this matter, we had already considered that if it was leaked, it would mean death. Why should we be afraid now?"

Unexpectedly, some officials directly scolded him, "It would be fine if you died alone, but you are a burden to us, we don't want to die. He was the one who came up with all the ideas and threatened us.

He said that now that we know his secret, no matter how much we tell him, Your Majesty will not believe our excuses. We were forced by him. Your Majesty, please forgive us this time!"

It was just as the official Nguyen said, even though these people begged for mercy and banged their heads on the ground, the king did not forgive them.

They were pulled down by the surrounding warriors, and then, in the presence of Xia Yuanji and all the civil and military officials, these people were first put into a prison van and paraded through the streets for public display.

The official surnamed Ruan probably felt that he was doing this for the sake of the people. He was doing this to let the people see that those of us who eat your taxes and salaries are still considering you.

But what he didn't expect was that their crimes were revealed by the petty officials who were beating drums and gongs in front.

The people along the way hated them so much that many of them even picked up rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs and threw them at them.

He was smashing things and cursing at the same time.

"How dare you, a bunch of thieves, assassinate the envoy of the Ming Dynasty? You are so bold!"

"Kill these people!"

"Yes, kill them, kill them!"

The official surnamed Ruan was very puzzled at this time. He was imprisoned in a prison car. As the horse-drawn carriage was pulling the prison car, he saw the people along the way who wanted to bite off his flesh and drink his blood. At that moment, he was confused.

He claimed that he was thinking about the issue from the perspective of the people of Annan, and he claimed that he had done nothing wrong.

At one point, he even understood better than many other officials that if the Ming Dynasty continued in this way, sooner or later it would send troops to annex the entire Annan, and everyone would become slaves, which would be a tragic time.

But these ordinary people and some officials have no idea how great it is for them to think this way. Now they hate me instead. This is simply ungrateful.

So he yelled at the people who were throwing rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs at them, "What do you stinky people know? You only see the benefits in front of you, you only care about those copper coins and banknotes, but never think about what harm there will be in the future." The people were immediately outraged.

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

"You are so amazing. You are the only one who saw it. It is still unclear whether the rest of us can survive to see it."

"Under the oppression of you officials, do we still have a future?"

Official Ruan was still unconvinced after hearing this. "But at least I am looking for a better way out for your future. The current situation is that you are blindly relying on the Ming Dynasty. Once the Ming Dynasty withdraws all aid, you will become beggars. Your fate is in the hands of others. Is this the result you want?"

The official surnamed Ruan is still young and doesn’t understand anything.

Ordinary people don’t care about the so-called future, they only care about whether they can have a full meal tomorrow.

Even if the Ming Dynasty had not come, could they have continued to live?
It is simply impossible to survive. The officials of Annan are greedy and want to put everything into their own pockets.

Now this official named Ruan is actually here telling them that the so-called future is simply ridiculous.

"We can't survive anymore, and you're telling us about the future?"

"We were able to survive after the Ming Dynasty came. The prices offered by the merchants of the Ming Dynasty were three to four times higher than those of the merchants of Annan. You made money from us, but the merchants of the Ming Dynasty did not make any money."

"You didn't let us live, but the people of the Ming Dynasty let us live."

Hearing such ridiculous words, the official surnamed Ruan sneered, "It is said that the buyer is not as smart as the seller. Do you think they make no profit at all from the grain you sell?

What a joke! Although they spent three to four times the price to buy grain from Annan, they could make a fortune by selling it to the Ming Dynasty at ten times the price. Only idiots like you would be deceived by Ming Dynasty merchants."

But even though he had said this, the common people still had no complaints, and many of them were even more perceptive and said loudly:

"That was also the method used by merchants in the Ming Dynasty. Their methods were more sophisticated and they could make more money. We should not be jealous of them.

It would be good if we can get three to four times the profit, which will enable us to live better and more decently.

On the contrary, you all boast that you are thinking about us, but what have you done? You just squeeze us to fatten your pockets."

The people no longer listened to his nonsense and shouted loudly, "Kill them, kill them."

Xia Yuanji rode a horse and followed the escort team with the king. He listened to the people's words from behind and felt very gratified.

At least after using the high price, people are now in high spirits. Even if some individuals have seen the so-called future, they cannot change in the face of overwhelming public opinion.

At the beginning, many merchants in the Ming Dynasty were wondering why the imperial court had to pay three to four times or even ten times the price to purchase grain from Annan.

Even the grain in our own country is not that high, why should we give so many benefits to the people of Annan?
Later, the people understood that only in this way could the enthusiasm of the people of Annan be mobilized.

Because only in this way can Annan follow the footsteps of the Ming Dynasty and create a rich grain-producing area together, so that the Ming Dynasty will be able to buy more grain in the future.

After Chen Han purchased the grain at such a high price and brought it to the Ming Dynasty, he did not squeeze the price of the grain in the hands of the common people, but instead raised it a little.

Moreover, even though these grains are purchased at high prices, they are not sold easily, but stored in warehouses. Once the country encounters any disaster, they can be taken out and fed to the people free of charge.

After all, what Chen Han wants to ensure is not the price of food or something like that, but to store enough food.

On the one hand, it can stabilize the price problem in the market, and on the other hand, it is also a preparation for emergencies.

He even wanted to transport the purchased grain to the northwest region through convenient means so that the people there could also eat cheap food.

Even though this would cost the court a lot of money, Chen Han never hesitated to spend money on such livelihood projects.

This is also the benefit brought by Chen Han's reform. After the reform, there have been great improvements in ideology, technology and life. Grain is stored in large warehouses and is well preserved.

Although the speed of transporting food to distant places is not particularly fast, it can be transported day and night by rail. It can reach the northwest from the south of the Yangtze River in less than half a month. This is something many people dare not imagine.

Xia Yuanji understood Chen Han’s dream very well, so he could not do as he pleased when dealing with issues in the countries in Indochina.

You can't vent your anger all at once.

What he wanted was for countries like Annan to express their attitude and let them all understand that the current Ming Dynasty was not something they could fight against.

Even if we don't send troops directly to suppress you, you should be able to imagine that the Ming Dynasty has now driven away powerful pirates like Chen Zuyi, so it is actually very easy to deal with you.

But we didn't do that in order to give you a very stable environment to develop.

Even the technology of the Ming Dynasty can be provided to you free of charge, so that we can all grow food together and produce more food.

In this way, you can sell your grain to my Ming Dynasty, and my Ming Dynasty can solve the current food shortage problem, and you can get countless treasures. Isn't this the best of both worlds?
As a result, Xia Yuanji's attitude in diplomacy is still relatively mild.

Even if he had been assassinated, even if he had not replaced the postman in advance, he might have been in danger.

In the face of such a vicious incident, Xia Yuanji did not necessarily demand the killing of these officials, but rather their king had to show such an attitude before killing these people.

From this, we can see how much Xia Yuanji and Chen Han worked hard for the development of Ming Dynasty...

(End of this chapter)