King Luhuang of the Ming Dynasty: My father, Ming Taizu

Chapter 59 The secret of the Japanese pirates and the secret of the royal meal

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned when he looked at the banknote in Zhu Tan's hand.

"How much money is that in your hand?"

Zhu Tan smiled and said: "Probably more than 140 million taels!"

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao looked at the banknote in Zhu Tan's hand with shock on their faces.

Even though the two of them are the current and future rulers of the Ming Dynasty, they have seen countless amounts of money.

But I was still deeply shocked by Zhu Tan.

After all, he is just a feudal king!
  If he relied on his own salary to save more than one million taels of silver, he would have to go without food or drink for hundreds of years.

As for him, he first took out 1000 million taels of silver. This was considered an unexpected gain, so he paid it back.

Why do you still have more than 100 million taels of silver in your hand now?
  You must know that when Lao Zhu and Zhu Biao apportioned money to the six departments, it was usually tens of thousands taels once, and even hundreds of thousands taels was considered a lot.

How is it possible to see millions of taels of silver in one day?

Zhu Yuanzhang asked in disbelief: "Where did you get all this money? Are you still hiding it?"

Zhu Tanqing coughed and said: "This money was obtained from raiding a bank. That bank colluded with Japanese pirates!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned for a moment, a hint of suspicion flashed in his eyes.

"Seriously? You're not looking for an excuse to rob people's property, are you?"

Zhu Tan said with a smile: "It was precisely because there were clues that we found out that this bank was colluding with Japanese pirates. We then arrested the owner of this bank, and then based on the clues provided by the owner, we eliminated the Japanese pirates and saved Rizhao County!"

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly fell silent when he heard this.

It can only be said that Tan'er is very lucky.

I didn’t expect these Japanese pirates to be so rich!

What kind of harm have they caused to the southeastern coast in recent years?
  A group of 2000 Japanese pirates could steal more than million taels of silver after being wiped out!

in fact.

If the Japanese pirates only relied on robbing, they would not be able to have so much money.

Zhu Tan also personally asked the Japanese pirate leader.

A small part of their money was stolen.

Most of them are actually obtained through trade!
  The most direct consequence of the Ming Dynasty's closure of the country and the sea was that the prices of Ming Dynasty's products soared!

Whether traditional commodities such as silk, porcelain, tea, or emerging commodities such as gunpowder and ironware, they are in hot demand around the world.

Today, Japan is most rich in gold and silver. In addition, the things stolen by Japanese pirates will be sold to Southeast Asia, the West and other places. Then they discovered that overseas trade is faster than robbing money!
  At the same time, the Japanese pirates will also play a very new game.

That is to cooperate with some maritime merchants.

The merchants transported the goods along the coast, and the Japanese pirates robbed them within the agreed time.

Afterwards, the Japanese pirates would try to find a way to find a merchant in Shanghai to settle the payment.

It is also a way to break the Ming Sea ban.

The Qinglong Bank that was inspected by Zhu Tan was an important transfer station responsible for settlement.

After operating in this way for more than 20 years, the Japanese pirates have just acquired such abundant capital.

In fact.

The Japanese pirate leader Zhang Tieniu was not just a poor man wandering on the islands off the coast of Ming Dynasty.

According to him.

He has territory in Japan.

Not even small.

After all, a force with hundreds of people around him dared to call himself a daimyo.

His strength is still much stronger than those native Japanese.

Just because the locals felt that Zhang Tieniu was not from Japan, they were very wary of him.

Zhang Tieniu was also worried about being assassinated and murdered by those insidious villains, and he felt unsafe no matter how he stayed, so he often organized Japanese pirates to plunder along the coast of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the banknote in Zhu Tan's hand, and his eyes suddenly turned red. He looked at Zhu Biao and said, "Prince, should we also clean up the areas on the southeast coast where Japanese pirates are more prevalent? Maybe there will be surprises too!"

Now it seems that these Japanese pirates are no harm, they are clearly a treasure trove!

Zhu Tan said sternly: "Father, what you just taught your children is that it is not the right way to develop financial resources just by robbing them."

Zhu Yuanzhang glared at Zhu Tan.

"Can the affairs of the imperial court be called robbery? What kind of good thing are the Japanese pirates? We are taking it!"

As he spoke, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the banknote in Zhu Tan's hand.

"Tan'er, what did you just say? Take these two hundred thousand taels of banknotes and give us the rest?"

Zhu Biao immediately covered his face when he heard this.

Father, what happened today?
  No mention of royal majesty at all?

Did the tenth brother say that just now?
  Zhu Tan looked at Zhu Yuanzhang with wide eyes.

Is this the emperor?

Why didn't he give up any face for money?
  I clearly said I would give him 20 taels of silver to honor him, but now I only have 20 taels left?
  Zhu Tan took out 20 taels of silver notes and put them on Lao Zhu's desk.

He smiled and said: "Father, the remaining sons and ministers who have money have to enjoy themselves, right?"

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted.

"You can't handle that much money."

Zhu Tan took advantage of Lao Zhu's eyes to turn red and quickly put the banknote back into his pocket.

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed with regret.

But he had no intention of spending any more money.

Zhu Tan is already so sensible. As a father, he can't really steal his son.
  Unless he still has 1000 million taels.

Seeing that the education of Lao Shi failed, Zhu Yuanzhang ate his meal with his head down.

And Zhu Tan also began to taste the "four dishes and one soup" with concentration.

Zhu Tan tasted the green vegetables.

Startled slightly.

The taste of this green vegetable is surprisingly fresh!

It was countless times fresher than the dishes with chicken essence and MSG that I had eaten in my previous life, and it didn't taste dry at all.

The taste is extremely mellow and the aroma is tangy.

Although the chefs in Prince Lu's palace use extremely luxurious cooking materials, their taste is far inferior to that of the royal chefs in the palace!
  Thinking it tasted good, Zhu Tan started to eat it.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Tan feasting here and was slightly in a daze.

"Can you bear to eat our simple meals?"

Zhu Tan couldn't help but smile when he heard this.

If nothing else, the cost of the "four dishes and one soup" in front of me is not much worse than the more than 20 dishes I had at Prince Lu's Mansion, and is even more expensive.

In my previous life, I was used to eating MSG, chicken essence, and oil-consuming flavors, but there was no comparison with this natural umami flavor.

In this era, there is no even MSG. If you want to eat delicious food, you can only use a variety of extremely luxurious ingredients to boil soup or grind them into powder.

Zhu Tan gave a dry laugh and said: "Father, this is not just a simple meal. This dish tastes amazing! I believe the imperial chef put a lot of thought into making it!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned for a moment, frowned and said: "What kind of effort can you put into just frying vegetables?"

Zhu Tan smiled and said nothing.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while and said to the old eunuch Chen beside him: "Go and call the eunuch Shang Shan!"

Soon, a middle-aged eunuch walked in.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the eunuch and asked: "Prince Lu said that your food is good and you put a lot of thought into it! Tell us what kind of thought you put into it?"

　Please support me, brothers!
  　　
  　
  (End of this chapter)