Chapter 803 0798 [The first one to deal with is Zhenla]
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In a residential house in the suburbs, Li Yaoguang was writing furiously.
He learned traditional arithmetic when he was young, and also studied the mathematical manuscripts left by Hu Shuxiu. Later, he came into contact with "Tao Yong Ce" and specialized in studying the "mathematics chapter" in it, studying silently at home alone.
Li Yaoguang did not communicate with any colleagues, and he did not know the current development of mathematics, but he had already worked out dozens of formulas and theorems on his own.
"Have a rest, you have been doing math all day." Mother Yang Shu came in with tea.
Li Yaoguang said: "It's almost over."
Yang Shu sighed, put down her tea and left, closing the door gently.
Thanks to the rescue of relatives and friends, Li Zhiyi, who was almost eighty years old, was finally reunited with Yang Shu, an official prostitute. Being an old man and a young woman was criticized by people in Runzhou, so he moved to Dangtu.
But it was too conspicuous because they not only had a son, but also a younger daughter.
You read that right, after Li Zhiyi gave birth to a son at the age of seventy, he soon had another daughter...
A family of four originally moved to Dangtu County, but they couldn't stand the rumors and went to the suburbs to buy a house and land.
Nowadays, my daughter is married to a small businessman and is doing well in her husband's family.
But her son was still unmarried in his twenties, and Yang Shu was really worried. She kept lowering the standards for marrying a wife, but no one with any status was willing to do so, because everyone knew that Li Yaoguang was a nerd.
A bookworm who never leaves home, only knows how to read, never communicates with others, and does not take the imperial examination.
The mother and son depended on each other. Since there was not much land and little income, Yang Shu could only sell the calligraphy and paintings collected by her late husband in order to make ends meet. She didn't know how long she could last like this.
Back in the bedroom, Yang Shu took out the guqin.
She stroked the strings lightly, but did not dare to make any sound. Since her husband's death, she had not played or sang any more, fearing that others would say that she was a prostitute.
"Madam, madam..." The maid pushed open the door and entered, forgetting even basic courtesy.
Yang Shu did not blame, but asked: "What happened?"
The maid pointed outside: "The angel is here, the emperor sent someone to conquer the prince!"
Yang Shu hugged Qin and stood up: "What did you say?"
"The emperor sent someone to conquer Langjun!" the maid said happily.
Yang Shu ordered: "Go and call Sanlang out quickly. Remember to change into clean clothes."
She herself went to rummage through the cash box and found that there was not much left, so she rummaged through her own gold and silver jewelry. However, she also sold a lot of gold and silver jewelry, leaving only a few fine items given to her by her late husband.
For the sake of her son, she stuffed the remaining jewelry into her arms and called the servants to carry the money box out.
The official messenger who delivered the order had arrived in the courtyard, and Yang Shu pulled her son to greet him.
When Li Yaoguang heard that he had been conscripted, he was excited and frightened at the same time. He was a senior social terrorist. He was even afraid of dealing with county sergeants and had no idea how to deal with the emperor.
The mother and son went to the courtyard to pay their respects and welcomed the imperial officials into the main hall.
The servants were boiling water to make tea, and at the same time they were bringing preserved fruits to entertain them.
The person responsible for delivering the decree was called Xu Du, who was the second Jinshi of the Ming Dynasty. He smiled and handed over his hand: "Madam, you are welcome. The officials heard that your son is talented and famous, so they sent me to conquer the capital. The Ming Dynasty did not have many false etiquette like the previous dynasty. You guys
Take a shower and wash yourself tonight, and don’t eat any more fishy things like garlic. Put on clean clothes tomorrow and you can receive the order.”
"Thank you for the angel's care," Yang Shu took out a golden hairpin. "The family has no money left, and the angel is traveling all the way. There is nothing else to thank..."
Xu Du pushed the gold hairpin back and said with a wry smile: "Madam, please don't harm me. I was born as a Jinshi in the second class. I was lucky enough to stay in the cabinet to observe politics, and was elected as a member of the Tongzhengyuan. As long as you work hard, you can be directly awarded the title after three years.
County magistrate, once you accept expensive gifts, your future will be ruined."
According to this official's career trajectory, it was obvious that he was specially trained by the imperial court, and his promotion speed was faster than that of ordinary Jinshi.
Yang Shu was quite embarrassed because she couldn't deliver the gift.
Xu Du said: "If Madam is worried, you can prepare some food. It doesn't need to be too rich, just wine and meat. After receiving the order tomorrow, we will entertain the officials I brought. But don't give gold or silver. This is not the case now."
It’s a taboo now.”
"Thank you for your advice!" Yang Shu saluted quickly.
Li Yaoguang didn't speak the whole time. He actually knew how to deal with outsiders, but he couldn't say anything when it came to his mouth.
Gradually, he turned his thoughts back to math problems and completely forgot about the mundane things in front of him.
While Xu Du and Yang Shu were talking, Li Yaoguang suddenly ran out of the main hall and ran briskly to the study.
This move immediately stunned Xu Du: "Your Majesty, this is..."
Yang Shu said in fear: "Angel, calm down. My son is an idiot. I'm afraid he thought of something again and went to the study to study mathematics."
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Xu Du clapped his hands and laughed: "You are truly a wonderful man. Your Majesty will definitely be happy to see you."
At this moment, the daughter's husband's family suddenly came to visit, probably because they heard about the emperor's conquest.
My daughter and son-in-law, as well as my parents-in-law, and my son-in-law's brothers, there were more than ten people who came to congratulate me.
After some pleasantries, Yang Shu invited her father-in-law to the side and asked him to help deal with the house and property. She sold the money and paid her family an agency fee. The rest was sent to the capital, where both her mother and son would move.
Kaifeng.
The in-laws were naturally willing, and they even took out money to give to the officials, but Yang Shu stopped them and explained in detail.
The next day, a table was set up to burn incense to receive the edict, and a banquet was held for these officials who delivered the edict.
Then he took his important collection of books, calligraphy and paintings, and headed straight to Runzhou on an official ship.
After boarding the ship, Xu Du asked: "I heard that the Li family has two portraits. Can I borrow them for a look?"
"Angel wait!"
Yang Shu found the portrait.
One is Su Shi, the other is Shen Kuo, both were painted by Li Zhiyi himself. They can be carried with him anytime and anywhere, even when he is in charge of other places, just like carrying photos of two good friends with him.
Xu Du looked at it seriously for a while and then said in a low voice: "The officials want to borrow it from the Hanlin Academy of Painting so that the painters there can copy it. I can offer it to you, and I will definitely return it after copying it. The officials will not seize the genuine article."
"Thanks for the advice." Yang Shu said gratefully.
After arriving in Runzhou, they did not go north immediately, but waited for Zhu Yu's group.
After waiting for half a month, Zhu Yu finally arrived.
This little old man brought a large wooden box with him, which was full of geographical information about the southern provinces and a lot of trivial information about overseas countries.
An old man and a young man went to Beijing together.
There was no idle time on the way. Zhu Yu was sorting out old materials in the cabin, while Li Yaoguang was sorting out his mathematical research results.
On the second day after entering Beijing, they entered the palace to meet the saint.
When meeting the emperor, Zhu Yu was calm and unhurried, while Li Yaoguang was nervous and uneasy.
"We all sat down and talked," Zhu Ming said with a smile. "In the past few days, I read "Pingzhou Can Tan" whenever I have free time. The old gentleman once settled in Huangzhou?"
"I don't dare to be called sir," Zhu Yu said with his hands raised. "My father was falsely accused by Cai Jing and demoted because of his poetry writing. He was also accused of having friends with Mr. Dongpo, and was dismissed from office by the former Song Dynasty. In the following years, my father briefly recovered.
I was an official, but was demoted back and forth, and finally died in a foreign country without being able to travel by boat. I followed my father wherever he was demoted, so I was able to see the local customs and customs of various places. After my father died of illness, I went to settle in Huangzhou."
Zhu Yu said it very tactfully, it was probably because the clan members were fighting over the family property, and he was too lazy to bother with such a matter, so he simply moved far away after receiving a sum of money.
Ju Ming asked: "I sent troops to capture Huangzhou, why did you run away then?"
Zhu Yu replied awkwardly: "I'm afraid of suffering from military disaster."
"You don't want to stay in the rebel territory, right?" Ju Ming revealed ruthlessly.
"I don't dare." Zhu Yu quickly denied.
Ju Ming laughed and said: ""Pingzhou Can Talk" is very interesting."
The book is mixed with various interesting stories. For example, the Korean envoy passed by Changzhou and heard that the brushes there were of excellent workmanship, so he wanted to buy a batch of brushes to take back to Korea.
The accompanying officials of the Song Dynasty colluded with Changzhou pen dealers to deceive the Korean envoys.
The merchants did not bring the writing brush until the Korean envoy was about to board the ship. The Korean envoy was in a hurry to leave, and did not have time to inspect the goods in detail, so he left in a hurry to make a transaction.
As a result, half of the batch of brushes had no bristle tips and only had empty brush tubes.
Zhu Yu said: "Just some interesting stories."
Ju Ming asked again: "Can Guangdong's sea-going ships also be leased in partnership? This is what I read in the book."
Zhu Yu explained: "There are some businessmen who own sea-going ships, but they are willing to rent sea-going ships due to insufficient inventory, lack of turnover, or other matters."
I only have two to three hundred dollars in hand, so can I go overseas to sell goods?
Can!
Maritime trade in Guangdong is extremely developed, and you can even join a boat to go out to sea, and you can also rent cabin space.
Some small businessmen have insufficient financial resources and can only buy one or two boxes of goods. After paying the ship owner according to the volume or weight, they can take the goods on board, and then sleep on the cargo box the whole time (for fear of being packaged during the voyage), and then
Pay the meal fee and have the crew bring food to you.
When a merchant ship goes to sea, probably more than half of the cargo does not belong to the ship owner himself, but comes from scattered small businessmen.
There are even companies that do not transport their own cargo but only charge cabin rental fees for running ships.
They also agreed to go out to sea, and only when there were many people and ships did they set off, and everyone united to guard against pirates.
Ju Ming asked: "Are there many pirates in Southeast Asia?"
Zhu Yu replied: "There are too many to count. If there are only one or two ships, they will not dare to go to sea at all."
Ju Ming said: "When I take care of the Kingdom of Jin, I will send the navy to Nanyang to wipe out the pirates."
Zhu Yu said: "There are not many pirates who specialize in robberies. It is often the merchants who turn into pirates. It is useless to send the navy. Because as long as there is a navy, these merchants will do business honestly. The Ming Navy cannot destroy merchant ships randomly, right?"
"That's true." Zhu Ming nodded.
Zhu Yu said: "The countries that really deserve to be fought are the countries in Nanyang."
"How do you say it?" Zhu Ming became interested.
Zhu Yu explained in detail: "Most of the countries in Nanyang did not levy commercial taxes, but took away goods as tribute. Although the former Song Dynasty also imposed taxes, and the tax rates changed, at least there was a general regulation. Overseas states did not
Without regulations, you can draw more or less based on your will. If you know a local consignee, you can bribe the officials to draw less. If you don’t have any acquaintances, even the cargo on board the ship may be swallowed up.”
Ju Ming's face darkened: "Even Champa and Zhenla dare to devour the goods of Chinese merchants?"
"Why don't they dare?" Zhu Yu said, "It's a blessing to only have the goods swallowed up. If the ship is confiscated, you can still take other merchant ships back home. If you encounter cruel foreign officials, they will even kill people at the port to steal the goods! For example, one person
The goods arrived at Champa, but the wind and waves drifted to Chenla. Officials in Chenla would ask the person to whom he sold the goods. If he could not name a local merchant or official who was familiar with him, then the goods would most likely be sold to Chenla.
The officials swallowed it up."
Ju Ming sneered: "These vassal envoys were extremely respectful when they saw the Ming Emperor in Tokyo. But they didn't expect that they didn't even follow the rules when doing business, and actually dared to seize the goods of Ming merchants. They even robbed people and ships, and even killed people to steal the goods!
"
Zhu Yu said: "This has always been the case. The previous Song Dynasty court had no control over it, and Ming officials could not control it either."
"Which country does this happen most?" Zhu Ming asked.
Zhu Yu said: "Zhen La."
Chenla is the Angkor Dynasty.
Zhu Ming slammed the table: "The first one to clean up is Zhenla!"