Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 513 Ambition
Ma Wu smiled and nodded slightly.

If Zheng Zhilong asked to be crowned king, even if Li Jing agreed, Li Jing's subordinates would not agree.

What are you doing?Li Jing hasn't been crowned king yet?You just want to be crowned king?
As for the ministers in the court, they would not even agree. Except for the founding of the country and the Jingnan period, when did Ming Dynasty confer kings with different surnames?Zheng Zhilong has grown a few heads and dare to ask himself to be king?
If news spread that Da Ming was blackmailed by Zheng Zhilong and forced to make him king, would Da Ming lose face?We must know that the emperor of Ming Dynasty was not subdued when he was captured, but now he just cut off the trade channel, how can he be subdued like this?
Of course, Li Jing was just talking to Ma Wu. If Zheng Zhilong really made such a request, Li Jing would not be the first to agree.

However, it would be different if Zheng Zhilong became the king himself, but basically all rebels have been called the king, which is not the same thing as becoming the king.

Wanting to understand this verse, Ma Wu was determined in his heart.

At this moment, a guard outside the courtyard shouted: "Report! The emperor is here!"

"Oh? Why is the emperor here?" Li Jingqi asked.

"Hehe, I heard that Brother Li was going to Fujian, and I didn't know what happened, so I came here to ask." While speaking, Zhu Youjian Shi Shi ran in.

Li Jing got up and smiled, "The emperor came, but Li Jing never greeted him from afar, so I'm rude, I'm rude."

"Brother Li is being polite!" Zhu Youjian said with a smile.

"Chen Ma Wu has seen the emperor." Ma Wu hurriedly got up and saluted.

Zhu Youjian waved his hands and smiled, "You don't have to be polite, Aiqing."

Li Jing smiled and stretched out his hand to signal: "Please sit down, Your Majesty."

Zhu Youjian nodded, sat down beside Li Jing, then looked around and said, "Brother Li, since you moved to a new house, this is the first time I've come here."

After looking at it for a while, Zhu Youjian shook his head and sighed: "Oh! Brother Li, your yard is too simple, and the layout is a bit small. Look, it looks like that except for this pavilion. There is not even a forest in the yard.

I would say that the houses over there should not be built. If there were no such houses, a large pond could be dug here, with lotus flowers planted in it, some fishes raised in the water, the pavilion built in the middle of the pond, and a rockery built next to it. If you plant trees in the place where you come out, then your house will have a bit of a look. "

Li Jing shook his head and smiled wryly: "How much land would it take? How much would it cost? In fact, in my opinion, this is already a luxury. I have always advocated frugality, but I don't set an example. How can I ask others?"

Ma Wu smiled and said: "Brother, in fact, the building of your house is far from your identity. If you have time, go to the houses of the corrupt officials I raided before, and see what their houses look like. Compared with their house, your house is at the level of a private house."

Li Jing smiled and waved his hands: "Don't let your sister-in-law hear this, if she hears it, she must blame me."

Ma Wu smiled and said, "If you want me to say, brother, you don't need to worry about this matter, sister-in-law pays, what can others say?"

Li Jing shook his head: "It's not as simple as what you said. We know that your sister-in-law is rich, but others don't! When people see me building such a luxurious house, they will think that I may be greedy for how much money!"

"Dare! I'm not skinning him! Others don't know, but I don't know? Our Daming treasury still owes my sister-in-law money!" Ma Wu shouted.

"Well, the more you talk about it, the more excited you are. I said, the emperor, you are not here to study my house, are you?" Li Jing said with a smile.

Zhu Youjian smiled and said, "Of course not. I came here to ask you how you plan to go to Fujian."

"Is there something the emperor wants me to do?" Li Jingqi said.

Zhu Youjian shook his head quickly: "It's okay, just ask."

Li Jing looked at Zhu Youjian, and suddenly smiled and said, "I see, the emperor wants to go to Fujian with me, right?"

"Hey, you promised me before that you will look around with me in the future." Zhu Youjian laughed.

Li Jing shook his head with a smile: "Your Majesty, it's not that I broke my promise, but this trip to Fujian is very urgent, and the Chinese New Year will be in two months, and we don't have time to go around."

Zhu Youjian couldn't help showing disappointment when he heard the words.

Seeing this, Li Jing smiled and said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, what Li Jing said will definitely count. Next year, at the latest, the year after, I will definitely take the Emperor to see the great rivers and mountains of our Ming Dynasty."

"Next year, we have decided next year, Ma Wu, you will testify for me!" Zhu Youjian said hurriedly.

Li Jing smiled and said: "I can't decide on this, I guess there may be a war next year."

Zhu Youjian said in surprise: "War still to be fought? Brother Li, now Liaodong has been pacified, and North Korea will soon be included in the territory of Ming Dynasty. If you go to Fujian, I believe that Zheng Zhilong will be subdued. As for the bandits in the Central Plains, they will also be wiped out." It’s almost the same time, it’s time to rest and recuperate, so why fight?”

Li Jing sighed lightly: "Why don't I want to rest and recuperate, but some things are not what we want."

After a pause, Li Jing continued: "Do you know why I want to deal with Zheng Zhilong? He monopolizes the trade, and it's only one aspect that he doesn't pay the state. The main reason is that he doesn't listen to orders.

You may already know that the Spaniards in Luzon are showing signs of anti-Chinese again. If I ignore it, the massacre of China during the Wanli period will definitely happen again.

However, the naval forces of the imperial court were not strong enough to deter the Spaniards. If they wanted to deter the Spaniards, they had to rely on Zheng Zhilong, but Zheng Zhilong had trade relations with the Spaniards in Luzon, so how could he use troops against Luzon?It is precisely because Zheng Zhilong did not obey orders that I decided to deal with Zheng Zhilong.

Now that Zheng Zhilong is rebelling, the Spaniards are even more unscrupulous. The tragedy in the Wanli period is about to happen, so I want to subdue Zheng Zhilong as soon as possible, and then use my energy to deal with the Spaniards. "

"But once we fight those barbarians, who do we trade overseas with?" Zhu Youjian wondered.

Li Jing smiled: "You may not know that countries such as Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands are small countries. Their land area is not as large as our province, especially the Netherlands, which is even smaller, about the size of our province.

Regardless of the tyrannical strength of these countries at sea, if there is no maritime trade, these countries will have to eat chaff.

In addition, businessmen are profit-seeking, especially those barbarian businessmen. They don't care whether the country is fighting or not, as long as they can make money.As long as we can make a quick decision and open up trade channels, they will definitely find ways to come to Daming to do business with us. "

After a pause, Li Jing asked, "Your Majesty, I asked you to recruit some potters from Jingdezhen, have you recruited them?"

Zhu Youjian nodded: "Recruited. But during this period of time, the ceramic factory mainly produces ceramic bricks, and hasn't started firing porcelain yet."

Li Jing shook his head: "The craftsmanship of pottery bricks is simple, don't let those experienced old potters focus on firing bricks, let them hurry up to study firing porcelain.

The pottery bricks you sell now are all purchased by the government, and all the money you earn is from the country. If we want to earn money, we will earn money from foreigners. When overseas trade channels are opened, we will sell porcelain to foreigners.

You have to hurry up and ask the people below to research and produce. If you don’t sell one or two ships at a time, wouldn’t it be a waste to open such a large factory?Isn't such a big porcelain kiln opened in vain? "

"Two ships per ship? This is a newly opened kiln. How can I have such a high output?" Zhu Youjian said in surprise.

Li Jing said with a smile: "Do you think that what you produce is a tribute? As long as the quality can be guaranteed, there is no need to be too elaborate."

Zhu Youjian shook his head hastily and said, "If you don't carve it carefully, won't that damage my royal brand?"

Li Jing smiled and said: "Of course there must be finely crafted ones, but not too many. Rare things are more expensive, just like the porcelain used in your palace, only so much is produced every year, so each of those porcelains is priceless.

Can you sell such porcelain in a boat?Not to mention whether it can be burned or not, even if it can be burned, can it still be sold for a price?A hundred or so pieces of that kind of standard porcelain can be fired, and a piece can be sold for at least a few thousand taels of silver.Let the royal families of the Yi people be proud of owning such a piece of porcelain, that is your royal signature. "

"A few thousand taels of silver? You really dare to ask for it!" Zhu Youjian said in shock.

Li Jing curled his lips: "What is a few thousand taels of silver? This is the porcelain made by our Ming Dynasty royal family. When those Xiyi local turtles see such a good thing, they will buy it for tens of thousands of taels of silver. Of course, we have to leave it to those merchants. Some profits, we can’t earn all the money.”

"A profiteer! A complete profiteer! I said that your sister-in-law earned such a large family fortune, is it all because of you?" Zhu Youjian murmured.

"What are you talking about? Your sister-in-law still needs me to teach you how to do business? The industries that Jingji Company operates are all your sister-in-law's own ideas." Li Jing laughed.

"No, I have to let the queen learn how to do business with my sister-in-law." Zhu Youjian said.

Li Jingwen waved his hands again and again: "Pull it down, don't drag the queen into the water, the queen's mother is beautiful all over the world, you want to train her to be a profiteer, do you still want the image of the queen?"

"My sister-in-law has earned such a large family fortune, and you haven't seen her image damaged?" Zhu Youjian said.

"Do you think that there are so many people who know about the insider's business? Except for the few factories in Pingyang Prefecture, many people know that the insider is running the business, and the rest of the industries, few people know that only the insider is in charge behind the scenes.

In addition, besides the Jingji Bank and Jingji Chariot and Horse Company, Jingji’s business houses in the capital now carry the Jingji brand, and all other industries that should be donated are given away, and many industries have changed their names. "Li Jing said.

Zhu Youjian wondered: "I know you are giving it away, why change the name? How good is the brand of Hangjingji?"

Li Jing shook his head: "Many people in the capital now know that Jingji Company is my family's property. I am the prime minister and governor of the cabinet now. I have to give everyone a good leader, right? I run so many businesses, selfless and selfish, how can I do that? Can you set a good example for everyone?"

Zhu Youjian nodded slightly when he heard the words.

Li Jing waved his hand: "Don't talk about me, you do as I say in the ceramic factory, we must strive for the maximum benefit.

Also, your royal watch factory is about to start production, right?Ask the people below to make the appearance of the clock more beautiful, and the shell of each clock must be carefully crafted to show a royal style.Those barbarians can also make this thing, we must do better than them, so that they will buy it. "

(End of this chapter)