"Look at you, look at you, what are you thinking in each of your minds? Can there be a little trust between people?
I just wanted to ask about Lan Yu’s current situation and see if I scare you.
Don't you feel embarrassed that some of you are running away and some are pretending to be dead?
What on earth are you afraid of?
Do you think that your Emperor is as full of dark thoughts as you are? Can't you be more sunny in your life? Can't you be healthier in your mind? Whenever something happens, you will think wildly and think about it all to cause trouble for yourself. If you want to be like me, I will
Have full confidence in your Majesty the Emperor! Look, isn’t the blue jade very good? The holy family is in full swing!"
With an awe-inspiring look on his face, Yang Feng angrily rebuked the civil servants and generals who had their heads lowered in front of him, and in his hand was a copy of the Di Bao, which was less than four hours later than the imperial edict on the conferment of the emperor's grandson.
This Di Bao is a series of public decrees issued by His Majesty the Emperor ten days ago, one of which is about Sapphire.
Lan Yu, Duke of Liang, who was still commanding the Jianchang Guard against Yuelu Timur's rebellion, had received a new appointment before the battle was over.
Went south to Guangxi to train troops.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang is not ready to kill Lan Yu for the time being.
Although he made Zhu Yunxi the emperor's grandson, he did want to guard against Lan Yu becoming Yang Jian, but the problem was that he already knew that the feudal king would seize the throne after his death, which meant that the army commanded by the emperor could not defeat the feudal king, which led to this
The main reason for the result must be that he killed too many generals, so that the remaining ones were all second-rate. After all, he also had self-awareness. Originally, after killing Lan Yu in history, he was already in such a state that he needed Yang Wen.
Although Yang Wen can indeed play a leading role at this level, compared with Wang Bi, he is not at the same level after all.
He had already started to restrain himself when he let Zhou Dexing go before, intending to leave some capable players for his heirs. However, Zhou Dexing was too old, and there was no guarantee that he would still be able to use them by then.
As a general in his prime, Lan Yu is worth much more than Zhou Dexing.
Moreover, he has a special relationship with Zhu Yunxi, and there is basically no possibility of surrendering to the vassal king, although there is the possibility of becoming Yang Jian...
And the possibility is not small.
But if the vassal king's strength can dominate the world, of course he can also be frightened.
So it's like intimidating each other.
Besides, Lan Yu only has this possibility, and it’s not like he is really determined to be Yang Jian. Even if he really wants to be Yang Jian, he may not dare to take action. After all, he is not his brother-in-law, not to mention Xu Da.
The mutual restraint of these factions in the court and the intimidation of the vassal kings from outside were enough to ensure that he did not dare to take action.
The key is that Zhu Yuanzhang really has no generals of this level available now.
The veterans are Tang He who pretends to be dead every day, Zhou Dexing who was kicked out, and Feng Sheng and Fu Youde who lead the troops, but these two old guys are unreliable.
Feng Sheng's son-in-law is the King of Zhou.
Fu Youde's son-in-law is the King of Jin.
Rely on these two old guys?
Aren't you afraid that they will turn around and cooperate with their son-in-law?
Feng Sheng had already had a private meeting with his son-in-law. They knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was most taboo about this kind of thing, but they still dared to take the risk to meet in secret. Who would believe that it was just a matter of deep love between Feng Sheng and his son-in-law?
The only younger ones left are Li Jinglong, Sun Ke, Cao Zhen, Wang Bi, and Song Sheng.
These generals who do not command the entire army can fight back and fight, but the generals are not handsome.
Besides, there is no problem with these people? Wang Bi and his son-in-law are the kings of Chu. Zhu Yuanzhang and these old brothers are all married to each other. How can there be any innocence that can be rest assured? Cao Zhen was originally a wave of people in history.
Lan Yu was dissatisfied with him because he killed Lan Yu's in-law Ye Sheng. Lan Yu had always been worried that Ye Sheng would betray him back then.
"But you can rest assured that I have always been a strict person and will not tell you anything. But if you tell it yourself, you can't blame me."
Then Yang Feng said immediately.
"Ambassador, you said so much, I didn't understand a word of it!"
Commander Xu raised his head and said angrily.
Hu Bingzhong and others also said that they could not understand what Yang Feng was talking about.
"Then send these things of mine to Jinzhou in bits and pieces. Do you guys understand? Don't blame me for saying ugly things in front of you. If one or two is missing, then I can't guarantee anything!"
Yang Feng said with a sneer.
"Don't worry, Ambassador, I won't be greedy for your money."
Hu Bingzhong said angrily as well.
They also knew that this bastard had been caught. It was a conspiracy for this bastard to ask Lan Yu what to do, and their reaction was that they had fallen into a trap. As long as he told the emperor their reaction at that time, then everyone would probably be very happy.
It's hard to end well. With Zhu Yuanzhang's temper, he didn't look for opportunities to kill their whole family. It's hard to get such a bad temper. This is how you see me as the emperor. I am a tyrant in your eyes. I make Zhu Yunxi the emperor's grandson, so you just
Think I'm going to kill Sapphire?
You know it very well!
Can you guess the next step with every move I make?
Then can you guess that I will kill your whole family?
What an emperor hates most is that his ministers are too smart. Even if you can guess what he does, you have to pretend that you can't guess it.
You can't presume to speculate on your intentions, let alone this kind of speculation.
In fact, killing Yang Feng to silence him should be a good choice at this time, but the problem is that this guy's equipment is too good.
It’s hard to do!
And until now, these guys don't know what kind of situation he is in Zhu Yuanzhang's place, but just talking about your emperor at this guy is obviously very arrogant. They all talk like this, and they haven't been skinned by the emperor yet, then
It’s definitely the Holy Family that is flourishing.
But just transporting the gold he extorted from the Kong family was a trivial matter.
After all, what everyone needs to do about this kind of thing is to keep it secret. If he does tell anyone, he will be in trouble as well.
This is just a guarantee of mutual trust.
"That's good, but I still have some small requests."
Yang Feng said with satisfaction.
"Ambassador please speak."
Commander Xu said.
"I want to hire some people from you. A hundred or ten people will be enough. It's better if they can ride horses. In addition, I need to buy some horses and equip them with some weapons, such as bows, arrows and crossbows."
"Ambassador, please excuse me. There are no restrictions on horse weapons, as long as they are not firearms."
"In addition, you have to provide guides for me and these people. I want to take them to Liaodong, and I need to use a false identity. I don't want to cause too many things along the way."
"It's a crime to use false traffic signs."
"Can you?"
Yang Feng said.
Then a group of civil servants and military generals looked at Yanzhou Zhizhou, who nodded slowly, this small matter is still okay, anyway, it is Yang Feng's own, and those he hired did not need fake ones, so everyone looked at Yang Feng together
Feng nodded.
"My maid is following the princess, and she lacks someone to serve her. I think there must be some orphans here."
"There are several almshouses, but buying and selling people is a serious crime and this is absolutely unacceptable."
"Nonsense, I am obviously adopted."
"Adoption is naturally a good deed."
"Then if there are those whose families are really poor and have a large population that they really can't support, I would also like to adopt them. Since I have adopted them, then I can be considered somewhat related to her family members. Seeing that their lives are too poor, I can give them some money to support them. This is
Isn’t it illegal?”
"If you don't commit a crime, but you really can't support her, you can ask someone else to adopt her. As for relatives, it's human nature to exchange relatives, but the subordinates need to make it clear that since she is an adopted daughter, if she goes out of line, she will be considered an adulterer."
"He Zhizhou is joking, I'm not buying women."
"Well, I don't want to be an ambassador, but I'm a gentleman."
He Zhizhou stroked his beard and smiled. He seemed to have a close confidant. He was probably also a refined person.
"There's no quantity limit on this, right?"
"It's just an adopted son and an adopted daughter. You can have any number, but you have to remind the ambassador that the adopted son will have to divide the family property in the future."
…
So Yang Feng quickly got what he wanted.
First, he would accept a dozen adopted men. In fact, he could also accept a few adopted daughters. Ambassador Yang had no evil intentions. He just wanted to educate his direct descendants from an early age from now on. After all, education starts from childhood. As for the people he hired, he
It is to protect these people. Of course he cannot protect so many by himself, so he hires a guard and disbands it after he comes back. Zhu Yuanzhang will definitely not watch him cultivate a private army, but he temporarily hires some short-term workers.
acceptable.
Then these day laborers followed him, being influenced by him along the way and learning new knowledge from him.
Especially practical ones, such as handicrafts, is it okay to teach them iron smelting? The Ming Dynasty did not prohibit private iron smelting. The so-called official iron smelting was only a few state-owned iron smelting places. But apart from these official iron smelting, as long as the private sector had the ability, they could do it.
If you smelt it casually, you just need to pay taxes.
Teach them new farming techniques.
Teach them new textile techniques.
Printing.
All can be taught.
Then when we come back, we will disband and let them go home.
They can rely on these things to develop in their hometown.
And Ambassador Yang, who taught them all this and gave them money to live a good life, naturally became someone they supported, so a letter could summon them when necessary.
Zhu Yuanzhang would not pay attention to this, and Yang Feng would not even bring these people to the capital. They are just temporary workers.
When you go to a place and need it, hire a group of them, take them with you for a period of time, and send them money back home.
As for the adopted man and adopted daughter, he will definitely follow him, but if they are just children, Zhu Yuanzhang should be able to accept it reluctantly. Anyway, he only has a few years to live. These children will also grow up when he dies. The most important thing to them is
Modern thought, even if it is not truly modern, must at least be modern. The thought of being a slave to a feudal monarch for a hundred years is definitely not acceptable.
Therefore, Yang Feng is taking a crash course in anti-theft.
Of course, even if it is a quick success, it will take more than ten years. After all, the Zhu Yuanzhang era is not the Chongzhen era. It has to be said that with such an emperor who has more rebellion experience than himself, Yang Feng also has a feeling of lamenting that he is so good that he can be so good.