Chapter 124: Riding a tiger is hard to get off (2)
Zhu Yunxi didn't say anything, and looked at Lan Yu quietly, waiting for the next step.
His Highness's words today are a revelation to me! Over the years, the high officials, high salaries, titles, and power have made me forget my duty. With a little merit, it's okay not to be grateful for God's grace. Instead, I become more and more indulgent!
Fortunately, His Highness never gave up and defended her many times, so Lan Yu can be where she is today!
As he spoke, Lan Yu's face became more serious. Back then, before His Majesty ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, the ministers and other people discussed privately, "What titles will we bestow upon His Majesty when he proclaims himself emperor? What rewards will we receive?"
At that time, the capital city was not so big, and His Majesty's palace was just an official residence snatched from Dayuan Daru Huachi.
There was no trace of the Jinluan Hall at all. They just decorated the lobby of the government office and held the founding ceremony!
That day, His Majesty said to his ministers, "You have followed me to get up with difficulty, and have fought hundreds of battles for the rest of your life to achieve today's achievements. Remember, it is difficult to start a country, and we are from a humble background."
The founding of the country today is not about the honor of one family and one surname, nor is it to give you glory and wealth. It is because the Meng Yuan Dynasty has lost its virtue and is not worthy to be the master of China. The Ming Dynasty has come from heaven and must replace it and become the master of China!
In the past, you were my generals! From today on, you are all Ming ministers!
A general for me is like an arm, I cherish it!
To be an Ming minister, you need to be wise, sensible, considerate of your family and country, and know your dignity and inferiority!
After talking for a long time, Lan Yu sighed and said, Your Majesty has already made it very clear. After the founding of the country, rules are greater than love, and national laws are greater than merit! However, at that time, we, the people, only thought about the Duke and the Duke.
His title was completely forgotten!
In fact, some of Lan Yu's achievements in life were not made by Lan Yu for His Majesty. Rather, Lan Yu was made by the Ming ministers and the Ming Dynasty!
As a minister of the Ming Dynasty, it is my duty to dedicate myself to the Ming Dynasty! But I always confuse these achievements with His Majesty's rewards. I always want this or that, and I always think that before the founding of the country, meritorious service will be rewarded heavily!
Forget about dignity, forget about national laws, forget that you are a subject of the Ming Dynasty!
I even feel a little disrespectful in my heart. I always think secretly that it was us who helped His Majesty conquer this world. We are complacent and proud of ourselves, forgetting that in the past, without Your Majesty's shelter, we might have been nothing more than nothing.
In troubled times, nameless corpses!
I have also forgotten that the path His Majesty takes us is a path that will be remembered in history.
Having said this, Lan Yu straightened out her clothes and cupped her hands in the direction of the Forbidden City. I'm so confused!
Zhu Yunxi smiled and said, just think about it! What is in the past is in the past!
Your Highness! Lan Yudao, in the future, Xu Chen will die on a horse! If he dies, his body will not need to be transported back to the Central Plains, but his bones will be buried in the border desert. His back faces Mobei, and his head faces towards the Central Plains. This is worthy of the name.
Minister of the Ming Dynasty!
As he spoke, his eyes became wild. On the second day after Your Majesty ascended the throne, two hundred thousand soldiers were ready to go. Your Majesty personally went to the army to toast. I still remember what Your Majesty said at that time!
Since the Zhao and Song Dynasties, the Hu people have gone south many times, occupying our country and homeland, and killing our innocent people!
Today, the Ming Dynasty rises, and the Han wind rises!
Raise the spear and decide the country!
Sons of the Ming Dynasty! Drink this bowl of wine from the Central Plains and recover the sixteen states of Yanyun!!
As he spoke, Lan Yu became excited, clenched his fists, with tears in his eyes, and roared, Northern Expedition! Northern Expedition!
He figured it out and understood it!
I figured out why the emperor hated him so much! I also understood what he had lost in these years!
Okay! Zhu Yunxi smiled and said, I promise you! After saying that, he stood up. One day, I will build a city at the place where you died, the Great Ming Jade City! After saying that, he turned around, and then smiled and said, when you come to the capital, you will live there.
Let’s go to the founding government office!
Lan Yu bowed silently.
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The emperor's grandson drove slowly towards the imperial city.
In the carriage, Zhu Yunxi opened the curtains and looked at the streets of the capital.
Seeing this, Li Jinglong, who was following on horseback outside the carriage, leaned over and said, Your Highness, it is rare that you have time to spare. Why don't you give me a favor and go to my house to sit?
As he spoke, he said in a low voice, "There is a Suzhou cook in my family. He has good skills. Please give your Highness a try! There is also good Shaoxing yellow rice, and...
Having said this, he lowered his head and looked around, and whispered, there are also some Yangzhou thin horses, good at singing and dancing, playing the flute...
Tsk! Zhu Yunxi said displeased, why do you always talk to Gu about these irrelevant things! After saying that, he also lowered his voice and said, Lao Li, you are living a good life in this little life! Isn’t your wife a tigress? How dare you raise her?
Home!
He said with a bluffing face, "You don't know the laws of the imperial court, officials are not allowed to raise singers!"
It’s not what I wanted to raise! Li Jinglong whispered, it was sent by someone from King Ning, how dare I not accept it?
Prince Ning? Zhu Yunxi frowned and asked clearly, what's going on?
Li Jinglong simply dismounted, walked outside the carriage, and whispered, didn't His Highness grant Chen the salt monopoly in Pyongyang and other places in Goryeo? At that time, Chen felt that transporting salt from the Huaihe River was too far, so he directly bought a salt farm in Jiaodong!
Zhu Yunxi glared at him, did he really buy it?
He knew in his heart that it was absolutely impossible to be as relaxed as Li Jinglong said. The salt farm was the lifeblood of the local salt merchants, who would buy it?
However, when you meet Cao Guogong, you have to sell even if you don't want to! After all, those salt merchants are not good people. As long as Li Jinglong doesn't go out of his way, it's not a big problem.
Really bought it, fair trade! Li Jinglong said quickly, "How can I be so worthless and do things that are beneath my status when I am following His Highness!"
You continue, why are you involved with King Jin? Zhu Yunxi continued to ask.
Li Jinglong whispered, I have a salt farm in Jiaodong, so selling salt will be much more convenient. A few days ago, several Shanxi businessmen came to me, and there was a handwritten letter from King Ning, asking me to give these merchants 50,000 yuan in the Jiaodong salt farm.
Pounds of salt! He said, and said, those few Yangzhou thin horses are the benefits that King Ning asked people to give to his ministers!
Speaking of this, he whispered even more, it is said that those thin horses were bought by the businessmen to honor Prince Ning!
Zhu Yunxi's face was ashen. Prince Ning Zhu Quan thought he was just a face-saving young man. He hadn't paid much attention there in the past few years, but he didn't expect him to appear here again.
Prince Ning's fiefdom was in Daning. There was no shortage of soldiers and horses, no shortage of iron tools, and no shortage of salt. But he was short of money, so it made sense why he wanted to buy salt privately.
He's just a prince, why does he need so much money?
There are so many ways to get money, why does he have to sell salt?
Did you agree? Zhu Yunxi thought about it and asked.
How dare I agree! Li Jinglong said in a low voice, people, I accepted it, and I also listened to what I said. But I only have one word, procrastinate! Even if I want to give it, Your Highness has to say it, so I dare! I am yours
Man, although he, Prince Ning, has a noble status, he still has to step aside!
Fifty thousand kilograms, the tone is not small, I am not afraid of supporting him to death! Zhu Yunxi said angrily.
Then, he suddenly thought of a question.
I buy salt from the Jiaodong salt field and transport it to Daning. It’s such a long distance and there’s no waterway there. Isn’t there any fear of inspection along the way?
After listening to Zhu Yunxi's words, Li Jinglong looked left and right again and whispered, those businessmen and ministers said that they had already taken care of things along the road and no one would check!
Oh? Zhu Yunxi sneered, his hands and eyes are so powerful that he can hide fifty thousand kilograms of salt from the sky. Then in the future, the ordnance, food and fodder of tens of thousands of troops can also be hidden from the sky!
Li Jinglong's face tightened, his eyes rolled, and he pretended not to hear and refused to answer.
You fellow, it is a lie to let Gu go to your home as a guest, but it is true to complain! Zhu Yunxi looked at him and sneered.
Your Highness knows everything, so I can't hide this little thought from you!
Zhu Yunxi came closer, are you the only one who knows about this?