Xia Xun's return to China seems to have brought a new and prosperous atmosphere to ***.
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu sent off the two heavenly angels with a grand ceremony. Returning with Xia Xun, there were more than 20 Japanese merchants and dozens of merchant ships. These were the daimyo who had obtained the quota for the joint trade.
They collected various commodities that were most popular among the people of Ming Dynasty as quickly as possible, and the ballast stones were replaced by some metals such as gold, silver, copper and tin.
Because the goods of the Ming Dynasty are generally more expensive than the goods of the Ming Dynasty, the goods exchanged for barter cannot fill these merchant ships. They need to use real money and silver to buy the luxury goods of the Ming Dynasty. This will greatly alleviate the shortage of gold and silver in the Ming Dynasty.
Regarding the issue, gold and silver are recognized universal currencies in any country in the world, representing real purchasing power. This kind of storage is extremely popular in the Ming Dynasty, both official and private.
In addition, those copper, tin and other items were prepared to ask the Ming Dynasty to mint coins for Japan. Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, who was in urgent need of a name and wanted to expand his influence, was very interested in issuing coins with his name or image.
Xun just proposed this idea, and he couldn't wait to put forward the conditions: choose three out of ten. All the required casting materials will be provided by him, and the Ming Dynasty only needs to return 30% of the weight of the total casting materials in coins, and the rest will be used as losses.
and remuneration.
The ship landed in Hangzhou Bay, and the military and political dignitaries from eastern Zhejiang, led by Chen Xuan, rushed to the dock to greet Duke Fu and Zheng He. There were also dedicated personnel responsible for inspecting and receiving the merchant ships and cargo.
A banquet was held in the city of Hangzhou to entertain the two envoys upon their return.
Xia Xun seemed to be very excited to return to his hometown after a few months apart. Zheng He did not drink alcohol, so Xia Xun did the work for him. After the wine was dry, they parted happily. On that day, Xia Xun and Zheng He lived in
Gushan Plum Garden in order to set off for Beijing early the next morning.
There are ready-made villas on Gushan. During the Southern Song Dynasty, Song Lizong built a villa here, covering most of Gushan. After the wars of Yuan and Ming Dynasties, most of them were destroyed. In the early Ming Dynasty, some manors were rebuilt, hidden among the greenery.
, very beautiful.
The villa where Xia Xun and Zheng He are located faces the beautiful West Lake. When you open the four-part red lacquer door, you can see the scenery on the lake. Standing at the top of the building, you can see the "Autumn Moon on the Flat Lake" at the end of the Baidi. The scenery on the lake is overwhelming.
Painted boats are moving around, music is playing melodiously, water birds are flapping their wings, and flowers and butterflies are dancing around, just like a paradise on earth.
The villa is winding and beautiful, covered with flowers and trees, green and fragrant. The two small buildings of Xia Xun and Zheng He are like the spread wings of butterflies, facing each other. The two small buildings are stacked with rocks to form a peak and are surrounded by flowers and trees
, small pool and Zhanbo, adjacent to the pavilions and corridors, it is a quiet and elegant place.
"Master Fu and Eunuch Zheng, please stay here tonight. Early tomorrow morning, Chen Xuan will bring his colleagues from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to see you off."
Chen Xuan led the two of them into the plum garden and said with a smile that sergeants had been posted outside the courtyard to guard them. They were heavily guarded. There were also neatly dressed servants in green hats and white-collared black shoes in the courtyard, with delicate features and delicate features.
At first glance, she is a pretty little maid from a local girl in Suzhou and Hangzhou.
"Hurry up, hurry up, Mr. Guo is drunk, please help Mr. Guo back to rest."
Chen Xuan said loudly, and immediately two little maids who were both happy and angry came over and supported Xia Xun, whose legs were a little swaying. Zheng He turned around and thanked Chen Xuan and other officials: "Thank you for your kindness, sir."
Hospitality, early tomorrow morning, we have to set off back to Beijing to reply to the emperor's decree. It's already getting late, so I won't leave you my lords any more."
"Okay, okay, you two imperial envoys, please take a rest early. I'll take my leave later."
Xia Xun put his arms firmly on the young girl's shoulders. With his drunken eyes and a big tongue, he greeted Chen Xuan and others. Zheng He sent Chen Xuan and others out of the door. When he turned around, Xia Xun was already there.
After being helped into the building, Zheng He asked a servant in green clothes and a small hat: "Where is my residence?"
A servant hurriedly said: "Sir, please go this way. The Duke of Guo and you both live in Lianbi Building. The Duke of Guo lives in the left room, and you, Master, live in the right room..."
As the servant said this, he led the way. Zheng He stared at his back and his eyes suddenly shrank. When the man stopped, looked back and said with a smile: "Master, this is the room."
His demeanor has returned to normal, he smiled faintly and walked towards the building...
It was getting dark, and two little maids walked out of Xia Xun's small building with lanterns on their hands and walked side by side along the verandah.
"My lord, you are so young and very handsome!"
"The young Duke of Guo is not only the Duke of Fu. Cao Guo and Duke Ding are both young, but they all inherited the legacy of their fathers and ancestors. This Duke of Fu is different. He earned his income by his own ability.
Fame... eh..."
"What are you sighing for?"
"You don't care!"
"Hee hee, are you a little disappointed? You are so young, handsome, and so old. If I asked you to serve as my bedside servant, you would rise to the top in one step. It's a pity. I should have known that a prince of the country was coming today.
I dress up like a bride, ah! But the prince is as drunk as a dead pig, and he has wasted all the efforts of my little girl!"
"Damn girl! What nonsense are you talking about!"
Another girl was so embarrassed that she chased after her and tried to pinch her waist. The little girl in front hurriedly twisted her waist to avoid it, and ran away with a smile. The two maids chased her away one after another.
Go, the lights in your hands are dancing in the night, like two happy fireflies.
They are all girls from poor families. If they are really attracted by a nobleman and become his concubine, it will not be a tragedy for their lives, but a blessing. They have the right to pursue happiness, and this is their pursuit of happiness.
opportunity. But tonight, they did not seize this opportunity, which is obviously a kind of luck. Otherwise, before the chance of a sparrow turning into a phoenix comes, they may lose their lives.
Because they had just left, several figures appeared outside the verandah. They gestured to each other, jumped over the fence briskly, and quickly moved towards Xia Xun's residence with a dragon's step. They landed silently and were as light as flying feathers.
There is an assassin!
A moment later, there was an explosion in the red building, and a figure crashed through the window lattice and flew out. After landing, he rolled several times until he was as long as a banana. His feet were very stable. A servant with superb skills was a bit weird.
And his behavior is... quite... quite..."
Xia Xun smiled and said: "It's quite the style of military service!"
Zheng He was silent. The assassination of an imperial minister was a shocking event. If the assassin had a military background, the complexity of the case would have been even more unimaginable.
At this time, the movement in the small building had attracted the attention of the soldiers patrolling outside the garden. A group of generals, holding torches and swords and guns, swarmed towards the small building. Xia Xun glanced out the window and said: "Father, please step aside.
, let Yang answer them, we will leave for Beijing early tomorrow morning, it is best not to keep us awake all night."
Zheng He nodded, turned around and jumped out of the window. When he used his strength to jump on the top of the rockery and returned to the small building where he lived, he suddenly remembered something. Just now, Yang Xu, the auxiliary prince, was sober and unfazed.
He was drunk, and when he arrived at Meiyuan in the evening, he was so drunk that he couldn't walk. Why did he sober up so quickly? Or... did he already know that someone would assassinate him?
That night, they really couldn't sleep well. As soon as Xia Xun told him about the assassination, the soldiers in charge of the guard became extremely nervous. They immediately searched the entire Gushan with the small building as the center, noisily.
After finally calming down, Chen Xuan, Si Hanchao and other Zhejiang civil and military officials arrived like their butts were on fire after hearing the news. Xia Xun and Zheng He had to brace themselves to deal with it again.
When Chen Xuan learned what happened, he couldn't help being shocked and angry. After a thorough investigation, he found that there were four missing servants in the mansion. Three of them were dressed as night walkers and were lying dead outside the window, while the other one had escaped.
Their whereabouts are unknown. These four people were temporarily transferred from other places by the steward because they felt that there were not enough servants in Meiyuan.
The Hangzhou magistrate immediately ordered the steward of Meiyuan to be summoned. Following the magistrate's order, the detectives hurried to the house of the steward of Meiyuan, only to find that the steward and his wife had been killed in their sleep.
Despite what happened, Xia Xun and Zheng He were on their way as scheduled early the next morning. Chen Xuan felt guilty and repeatedly promised the two imperial envoys that they would severely arrest the murderer. Chen Xun was the person recommended by Xia Xun and had already been killed by Xia Xun.
Treating him as one of his own, and besides, public security matters are the responsibility of the Hangzhou magistrate, and he cannot be blamed in any case. Of course, Xia Xun will not criticize him harshly, but will comfort him greatly.
Chen Xuan and other officials sent the two imperial envoys ten miles out of Hangzhou, and then returned to Hangzhou. They gritted their teeth and started a city-wide manhunt, which caused a huge uproar in Hangzhou.
In the imperial envoy's car, Xia Xun yawned sleepily and put the blanket around his waist. Just as he was about to take a nap, He Tianyang came in from the outside, smiled at him, and reported: "Sir, Qianlong's
People have already followed!"
Xia Xun hummed, without opening his eyes, his body jolted twice with the car, and he suddenly ordered: "Hurry back to the capital and go to Dingguo Duke's Mansion to find Miss Qiaoyun."
"Yes, what do you mean by humble position?"
"Just say: I'm back!"
"that's all?"
"that's all!"
"……yes!"
He Tianyang got out of the carriage and quietly stuck out his tongue: "My Duke is really open to all rivers, and tolerance is great! All the girls in Duke Ding's mansion have been fucked by him!"
In the car, Xia Xun didn't know what he thought of, and a beautiful smile escaped from the corner of his mouth. He pulled the thin blanket to his waist and fell asleep leaning against the car wall.
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In the Jinshen Hall, Emperor Yongle had just sat down when he saw a memorial on the top of a stack of memorials tied with two yellow silk ribbons. Zhu Di pulled off the yellow silk ribbons and opened it, and it was Zheng He.
A secret message submitted.
Of course, the situation outside could not wait until the imperial envoy returned to the capital leisurely before letting the emperor know everything. All the details about the envoy's mission. Before Zheng He left the capital, he had already sent his confidant Xingye back to Jinling, the capital of the Ming Dynasty.
Already.
Zhu Di looked at it carefully. It not only described in detail how to annihilate the pirates along the coast of Japan, but also cleverly deployed Xia Xun to alienate the three leaders, slander the Sword God Palace, and successfully persuaded the deacon leader Si Bo who was hostile to the Ming Dynasty.
The story of the fall of the Righteous General and the complete eradication of the Oda clan, the culprit behind the Xiangshan Massacre, was narrated.
This is a secret memorial, something that only the emperor can see. The eunuchs in the inner study who are responsible for sorting and selecting memorials do not have the right to read it. This is a secret that bypasses the General Affairs Department and reaches the imperial palace directly from the inner study. When Yang Xu and Zheng He returned
After Beijing, it was absolutely impossible to hear these contents when the imperial edict was publicly recited in court.
The heavenly dynasty, the benevolent people and the far away people, can only convince the people with morality and scheming, how can they reach the palace of elegance?
Zhu Di smiled knowingly after reading it, put the secret notes into an envelope, sealed it, and added fire paint. Mu En immediately took it with both hands, and the secret notes were filed away, unless a certain generation of emperors was interested in seeing the previous secret notes.
The content of this memorial will only be decrypted according to the imperial edict. Otherwise, people know only that the Ming Dynasty envoy was sent to ***, and that King *** was morally loyal to the royal family, loved the king sincerely, was respectful and obedient, tried his best to suppress the bandits, and overcame the waves.
, sent envoys to pay tribute and do business. People will never know the rest.
"Yang Xu is very loyal, and he has made great contributions to the Japanese this time. Regarding the matter in eastern Zhejiang, I...it's time to give him a final explanation!"
Zhu Di thought for a while and grabbed the imperial pen...
p: Another 8,000 words, so exhausted~~,***! (At this time, I am still awake^_^)