Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Chapter 430

"I met Zhang Slutty once."

Zhu Xuan said: "I didn't think about this at that time. If I had known, I would have kept him. I would have sent people to Wudang Mountain to find Zhang Slutty."

"I guess Your Highness must have had people go to Wudang Mountain before, but they couldn't find anything, right?"

Ji Wenjing seemed to understand Zhu Xuan's heart, and added: "That old sloppy man has been traveling all over the world for a long time. He has not been back to Wudang Mountain for I don't know how many decades. It is impossible to find him in Wudang Mountain."

that's the truth.

Back then, Zhu Xuan wanted to help Grandpa Huang maintain his health. He once looked for Zhang Sanfeng, who lived a long life, but couldn't find anyone, so he brought Liu Chun back.

Zhang Sloppy is really hard to find.

"Then how can I find him?"

Zhu Xuan asked expectantly, hoping that Ji Wenjing would have any good ideas.

Ji Wenjing said: "It all depends on luck, or fate! Only Zhang Sloppy has always been looking for someone, and no one else can easily find him. Even his disciples may not know where the person is."

Zhang Sanfeng’s disciple?

Zhu Xuan first thought of the Seven Heroes of Wudang and Zhang Wuji.

But those were all novels, and all kinds of messy thoughts were quickly forgotten by him.

"Does his disciple know how to interpret poison?"

Zhu Xuan found new hope.

Zhang Sanfeng is not easy to find, so Zhang Sanfeng's disciples, Song Yuanqiao, Yu Lianzhou and others should be easy to find.

Zhu Xuan doesn't know whether the other six Wudang Seven Heroes exist, but Song Yuanqiao definitely exists.

"Your Highness, you can give it a try."

Ji Wenjing couldn't give an exact answer because he didn't know it yet. He just knew that Zhang Sanfeng could figure it out.

Zhu Xuan immediately said: "Hou Xian, inform Yan Guan and ask him to arrange for a few guards to go to Wudang Mountain and invite Song Yuanqiao out."

Regarding his second brother, he has a heavy responsibility.

As long as there is hope, we must help the second brother fight for it.

Zhu Xuan must try his best to fight for it.

After asking about the situation related to Ji Wenjing, Zhu Xuan left the side hospital and began to look forward to what would happen after returning to Beijing.

However, there are other things to deal with here in Guangzhou, and I have to make a trip to Yunnan before going back.

In this case, he decided to go to Yunnan in two days, and then go directly north to return to Beijing. The time was almost up.

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Quanzhou Prefecture, Jinjiang.

Pu Shougeng was originally an Arab businessman. He lived in Champa City during the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty. Later he moved to Guangzhou. After surrendering to the Yuan Dynasty, he served as Zuocheng, Zhongshu of Fujian Province.

Since then, the Pu family has taken root in Fujian.

After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, he believed that Pu Shougeng, who had defected to the Yuan Dynasty, was a disloyal person, and turned all the men of the Pu family into slaves. The once-high family has now plummeted.

Although the people of the Pu family have been slaves for generations, some people don't want to be like this, so they try their best to break away from it, change their genealogy, change their names, etc. In addition, Lord Hongwu can't control that much. Some people of the Pu family do Successfully, the place of birth they recorded no longer has the surname Pu, but they still call themselves by the surname Pu.

This group of people couldn't live without the Ming Dynasty. If they left, they would have nowhere else to go, so they stayed in Quanzhou.

In the early years, they went out to sea for smuggling and teamed up with Fujian merchant gangs, and they could still make a lot of money. However, now that the imperial court has abandoned the maritime ban, they can go out to sea for trade openly. However, Quanzhou's business is basically taken away by Guangzhou, and the Pu family and other maritime merchants make a lot of money. Not enough money. They are also worried about this.

The Pu family gathered the Fujian merchant gang and maritime merchants from Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and Fuzhou to discuss how to break the situation in Jinjiang.

When this matter was brought up, not only the Pu family, but also all the businessmen started talking about it. Some people even cursed Zhu Xuan for taking away their business, so that now there are no ships to go to sea.

Because if you go out and can't sell the goods, you basically lose money.

Over in Guangzhou, Zhu Xuan has machine production, whether weaving cloth or firing porcelain, it is more convenient, better quality and higher output than them.

Manual production is inferior to machine production.

"That grandson of the Fifth Emperor of the Ming Dynasty just wants to cut off our financial path."

"When will the Ming emperor's grandson be qualified to do business? Isn't Lord Hong Wu the most unhappy with businessmen?"

"What a shame! Emperor Zhu himself set up an official business and did business in the name of the imperial court. He suppressed us and took away a lot of our business. He also changed the policy on selling salt a few years ago. Now even salt is imported. None of them are given to us.”

"In the past few years, there must have been experts within the imperial court to help with reforms, not only in official business, but also in taxation!"

……

While they were discussing, they scolded Zhu Xuan, and finally started talking about why Zhu Yuanzhang did what he did.

"Zhu Yuanzhang just wants to kill us!"

One of the businessmen cursed angrily.

Dare to call Emperor Zhu by his name, all the businessmen present were startled. When they followed the sound, they saw that the organizer of the gathering, Pu Yuhua from the Pu family, was the organizer of the curse, so everything was normal.

The Pu family was forced by Zhu Yuanzhang and was almost desperate.

Pu Yuhua and others have separated, but many of their relatives have been relegated to slave status or low status, and will always be slaves and maids. It is normal for them to hate Zhu Yuanzhang. When everyone gets together, they often hear Pu Yuhua complain about what Zhu Yuanzhang did. things.

"Brother Pu, it's better to restrain yourself."

A Quanzhou businessman named Shi Lianghui warned.

They were not worried about Pu Yuhua, but worried about themselves and all the businessmen present.

If word spreads, wouldn't the entire Fujian merchant gang be brought to justice by Emperor Zhu?
  Pu Yuhua snorted coldly and said without any respect: "Let's not talk about Zhu Yuanzhang. We should talk about how to survive."

When this was mentioned, everyone felt sad.

Zhu Xuan was doing business in an official capacity and had all the advantages. They, the private merchants, had no way to compete with the imperial court and could not compete with him.

Duan Yiwei, a Zhangzhou businessman, said: "This is the first time we have seen the court competing for profits with the people, but the court's methods are indeed very strong. If he wants to compete with us, we will definitely not be able to compete! Even if many overseas businessmen are willing to come to Quanzhou to trade , but according to what I know, you have to pay a lot of tax when passing through Malacca, so if you don’t want to pay too much tax, go to Guangzhou.”

"It's not easy to object."

Pu Yuhua said: "Unless we can win against Zhu Yunxuan."

Another businessman from Fuzhou named Shan Xi shook his head and said: "If we can't win, we can't use the power of the court. In addition, many overseas businessmen will not be able to eat so many goods if they don't go to Malacca."

Shi Lianghui agreed: "Even if we smuggle, we can only smuggle with Japan, Ryukyu, etc. It seems that Luzon was beaten by the Five Emperors last year, and now they no longer dare to interact with us, and the way out by sea has basically been cut off."

The only merchants they could contact in Quanzhou were Ryukyu and Japan.

But how much goods can two small countries eat?

Cut off people's money and kill their parents.

They felt as if their parents had been killed by Zhu Xuan, and no one could give them any feasible advice.

(End of this chapter)