"What you say is good, but is it really so easy to do it?"

Zhu Youjian did not believe that Jiangnan officials and merchants were fools.

To put it bluntly, trade with Japan began in the Tang Dynasty and reached its peak in the Song Dynasty. After the route was determined, a large number of maritime merchants in the late Ming Dynasty began to travel along this trade route.

Otherwise, there would not have been so many maritime merchants hiring Japanese ronin, which would have led to the Japanese rebellion along the southeast coast.

If you want to intervene in Japan's trade, you must make enemies of the merchants in the Jiangnan area.

Unless we can afford more money and support more officials to form an exclusive interest group, nothing Lu Jianxing said can be realized.

"Your Highness, please give me one year. If I can't alleviate the food shortage in Liaodong, and if I can't earn military salary for the imperial horse supervisor, I am willing to be sentenced to prison!"

Lu Jianxing gritted his teeth and uttered the oath of imprisonment.

This scene made Lu Wenzhao frown, and Wang Chengen sighed in his heart. He knew in his heart that Lu Jianxing had risked his life and death in order to achieve a successful career.

Zhu Youjian, on the other hand, was stunned by his poisonous oath, but he smiled the next second:

"Lu Wenzhao, your people are very courageous..."

"He is just a vulgar person with some courage. I have offended His Highness. Please forgive me." Lu Wenzhao quickly apologized. His words sounded like he was belittling Lu Jianxing, but in fact he was trying to protect him.

No one can be sure that doing business in the south will definitely make money. If he says that he will be sent to jail, if he really fails, Lu Jianxing will be ruined for the rest of his life.

Lu Wenzhao was reluctant to part with Lu Jianxing, but Zhu Youjian was not angry after hearing this, but smiled and said:

"Promote Lu Jianxing, the general banner officer of Fusi in Jinyiweinan Town, to the official of the Hundred Households!"

"When the three hundred thousand taels of silver from the internal funds are escorted and handed over to him to go south to do business, I want to see if you can do something!"

Zhu Youjian sincerely admired Lu Jianxing's character of risking his life for the sake of his future, and was not afraid that Lu Jianxing would flee overseas with 300,000 taels of silver.

Once three hundred thousand taels of silver were lost, it was not him who should be anxious, but Lu Wenzhao.

"Thank you for your support, Your Highness!"

When Lu Jianxing heard this, he quickly fell to the ground and kowtowed.

"Back off!" Zhu Youjian waved his hand. Seeing this, Lu Wenzhao also signaled Lu Jianxing to step back.

Lu Jianxing saluted repeatedly, then stood up and slowly exited Xu Qin Palace.

After he exited, Zhu Youjian said:

"Cheng'en wrote a handwritten letter asking Qi Yuanfu to send people to Fujian and Guangxi to look for three crops when he was recruiting troops in Zhejiang."

"One is called maize, another is called sweet potato, or potato, and the other is called potato, or Dutch potato."

"These three must be found. Once found, they will be sent to Yanshan Camp immediately. As many as there are available."

"In addition to these three kinds, I also ordered people to look for a crop called pepper, sea pepper, and Qin pepper."

"Slave, take orders..." Wang Chengen didn't understand why Zhu Youjian asked people to get these things, but this did not prevent him from agreeing.

Perhaps only Zhu Youjian knows the specific planting methods and yields of these things.

Although corn, potatoes, and sweet potatoes have been discovered for two hundred years, their yields are not as large as later generations thought.

Even in the Qing Dynasty, their planting area was not large, but this did not affect their use by Zhu Youjian.

These three crops can be mixed with rice to cook porridge for disaster relief, and can also be used to feed livestock.

The most important thing is that corn and sweet potatoes are very drought-tolerant, and the wasteland at the foot of Yanshan Mountain can be used for their cultivation.

Depending on the climate, planting them in the plains is a gamble.

Once a large-scale drought like the Little Ice Age occurs, river water will dry up one after another. Even if you are drought-resistant, you will not be able to survive without water.

But when planted at the foot of the mountains, not to mention the water source that can be provided by the melting snow in the north, the small mountain streams in the Yanshan area alone can feed them.

In Zhu Youjian's memory, although drought broke out in the Changping area in the late Ming Dynasty, the water source of Yanshan Mountain was not cut off.

Therefore, it is best to plant it here. Once it reaches a large scale, you can then go to Da Liuqiu to plant it.

In addition to money, the problem in the late Ming Dynasty also included people's hearts. But in summary, there was only one problem, and that was food!

As long as the food supply is good, Zhu Youjian will have the strength to work with his good brother to overthrow various parties.

Thinking this way, he felt much happier, and at this time a young eunuch also walked into Xu Qin Palace and said:

"Your Highness, long live the morning classes are over. I would like to ask Your Highness if you have had breakfast. If so, go to the back left door to ride the horse."

"Okay!" After hearing that he finally had time to learn to ride a horse, Zhu Youjian became interested and quickly arranged for people to get ready to go out.

But when the elephant carriage walked out of the East Palace, Zhu Youjian encountered groups of officials withdrawing from the Wenhua Palace.

"Looking like this, it doesn't look like I'm leaving for the early morning court, but it does seem like there's something big going on."

Zhu Youjian was suspicious, and then said to Wang Chengen: "Chengen, send someone to ask what the matter is?"

"Yes..." After hearing this, Wang Chengen sent a Jin Yiwei to inquire, and then the Jin Yiwei came back to report:

"Back to Your Highness, the cabinet is discussing to invite Young Master Ye Xianggao to rejoin the cabinet and ask all officials to listen."

"Ye Xianggao?" Zhu Youjian frowned when he heard the name.

In his memory, Ye Xianggao gained support from the Donglin Party in the palace transfer case, thereby squeezing Fang Congzhe, Sun Ruyou and others out of the center of power.

After excluding the two men, the Donglin Party welcomed Ye Xianggao back into the cabinet as the first assistant. However, although the Donglin Party welcomed back Ye Xianggao, later generations also believed that Ye Xianggao was a Donglin Party member.

But in fact, Ye Xianggao is a non-party person. Like many people in the court who are considered by later generations to be Donglin Party members, they are actually officials who claim to be Qingliu.

The reason why people say they are the Donglin Party is because during the Wei Zhongxian period, anyone who disobeyed Wei Zhongxian and offended the eunuchs was the Donglin Party.

Ye Xianggao was a somewhat talented chief assistant in the late Wanli period.

However, his personal ability was not outstanding, and he could not hold power and manage the court in an orderly manner like Gao Gong, Xu Jie, Zhang Juzheng, and Shen Shixing.

However, his only advantage is that he is very friendly with Ni Ni.

As a Qingliu official, he was not partial to the Donglin Party, which was also a Qingliu party, but worked hard to calm disputes between various parties.

From a political perspective, Ye Xianggao's pattern is relatively large.

However, in the situation of the late Ming Dynasty, where the rule of law would lead to death, Ye Xianggao and Xini accelerated the demise of the Ming Dynasty in disguise.

When he entered the cabinet as the chief minister, he neither helped the Donglin Party to suppress the Qi Chu Zhe Party with Yang Lian and others, nor helped the Qi Chu Zhe Party to suppress the Dong Lin Party.

Maintaining the situation of party strife is a disguised way of continuing this meaningless internal strife.

In politics, every cabinet minister's appointment is the result of compromise between multiple forces.

Therefore, when Zhu Youjian heard that Ye Xianggao was going to join the cabinet, he immediately understood what the various parties wanted to do.

The Donglin Party thought that when Ye Xianggao came back, he would occupy a position in the cabinet for them and suppress the Qi, Chu, and Zhejiang Party.

But the Qi Chu Zhe Party could see that the Donglin Party was so powerful in the current situation that it would be a good idea to find someone who could work with them to minimize the fighting between the various parties.
Chapter completed!