A man strutted in and was immediately greeted by two women wearing gorgeous kimonos and wearing wooden clogs. He hugged her from left to right and staggered in, snorting a breath of alcohol and shouting joking words.
No one paid any attention to him as he passed by. Similar scenes abounded in the bathhouse, and some even showed off their prostitution in public. Compared to those behaviors, he was still pretty decent.
In modern times, most of the mixed-sex bathhouses are high-end consumption places, and they disdain to link pornographic activities with them. However, this was not the case in ancient times. At that time, there were dozens of bathing girls in each bathhouse, also known as female generals.
Yes, you can drink, sing, and take a bath. When the guests become more interested, you can imagine what else they will do.
There was a separate bathhouse, quiet inside, with only one man. There was an exquisite lacquer plate on the side of the pool, with a pot of sake in it, and a few simple foods. The drunk ronin walked into this small bathhouse,
After saying a few words in Japanese to the soup girl, the two soup girls kissed him hard on the cheeks twice and went out laughing.
As soon as the soup girl left, the ronin immediately pulled the curtain, took off his clothes and walked into the water naked. He paddled to the side of the man who was concentrating with his eyes closed, and leaned against the wall of the pool comfortably next to him, with the scars on his cheeks.
With several big red lip marks.
The man opened his eyes and asked, "How is it? Did you find out more about it?"
He spoke in Chinese, and the drunken ronin's eyes regained their clarity. He nodded slightly and said: "Yes, I found out clearly that the person who massacred our Xiangshan County town was Owari's little guardian Dai Oda Tsunetake."
Seeing the huge profits from robbery, this man was very jealous. He once asked his younger brother Oda Tsunemei to gather a group of shabby samurai and ronin to rob the coast of the Ming Dynasty. With the support of the Oda family, several groups of Japanese pirates organized,
Their power is the greatest.
All along, they have obtained many benefits at a very small cost. However, when they were in Xiangshan, they were ambushed by Yi Shaozong Qianhu. After a melee, Oda Changmei died, and Oda Changzhu was very angry.
, For this reason, they have been planning revenge. They selected Xiangshan as their target, sent a small group of troops to lure away the nearby officers and soldiers, and created this murder."
"That's good. Boss Xia has told us to find the culprit behind the scenes and bring him to justice! Our plan can begin!"
The person who spoke was Dai Yubin. When Xia Xun set his sights, a group of capable spies were sent over. Dai Yubin did not understand Japanese, but it did not matter. In fact, despite the imperial court's maritime ban, the smuggling trade between the private sector and the private sector continued.
It is very common with the connivance of coastal officials turning a blind eye.
Porcelain from Raozhou, silk floss from Huzhou, gauze hats from Zhangzhou, cotton cloth from Songjiang, books, copper coins, famous paintings, etc., all arrived through some secret channels. Therefore, there are many Chinese merchants here, and not all of them may be proficient in Japanese, so
The appearance of Dai Yubin and a group of people will not attract the attention of interested people.
The man who pretended to be Ronin was named Cui Yong. He was one of the earliest secret agents recruited by Metal Dragon. He was originally a Shuangyu pirate. Shuangyu Guard rarely plundered and mainly engaged in smuggling. Because
Being close at hand was an important target for their smuggling, so he could speak fluent Japanese. When he pretended to be a human, it was difficult for even people to tell the truth from the fake, so he became Dai Yubin's right-hand man.
They used smuggling and business as a cover and soon took root in Edo, Kyoto, Osaka, Nagasaki and other places. They now have their eyes and ears in Edo, Kyoto, Osaka, Nagasaki and other places. In addition to spying on intelligence, their other important duty is to find the person responsible for the murder in Xiangshan County.
The real culprit behind the scenes has finally been found.
I don’t know what conspiracy they planned against the Oda family. The two whispered for a long time. Cui Yong stood up and was about to leave. Suddenly he remembered something, sat down again and said, "Ah! By the way, I just got a piece of news.
Beishan Temple is looking for a businessman who has just arrived and is familiar with the situation in the Ming Dynasty. I am worried that someone has noticed our whereabouts and made a special inquiry. It is said that their General Zhengyi wants to know about the situation on our side."
"Oh? Do you know the situation in our Ming Dynasty?"
Dai Yubin thought for a moment and said: "You should find a way to contact them and recommend Dongfang Liang to them. What kind of medicine does he sell in his gourd?"
"yes!"
Cui Yong agreed, stood up, and walked out naked. Of course, he couldn't leave right away, otherwise it would inevitably arouse suspicion. Although the people in this bathhouse were suspicious, they couldn't think of why they were suspicious, but they were cautious.
It is an important principle and there is no need to expose this flaw to others.
The curtain was closed again, and then came the scream of a soup girl, followed by Cui Yong's lewd laughter, who had regained his ronin appearance. A man and two women chased and laughed out. Dai Yubin shook his head and smiled, and put a piece of
The wet towel covered my face...
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"He's so brave!"
Zhu Di patted the imperial book case and said with a sneer: "The Japanese have repeatedly landed ashore recently without finding anything. Every time they leave, they always leave dozens to hundreds of corpses behind. The Japanese pirates have retreated slightly, which shows that Yang Xu's suppression of the bandits has been quite effective."
.And the Fuzhou magistrate Wan Shiyu actually impeached Yang Xu and used torture and severe methods to eliminate the good and the bad, causing a depression along the coast and people in poverty! Huh! I originally heard that many gentry and officials along the coast are tempted by the profit of the sea market.
Those who do illegal things can be seen in this memorial by calling a deer a horse and confusing right and wrong. He is deceiving the public with his evil words and disturbing the morale of our army. He should be killed!"
"Your Majesty, how can the depression along the coast be due to the suppression of Japanese invaders? Could it be that by asking Japanese pirates to come and plunder our coastal areas in the Ming Dynasty, the common people benefited instead? I have just received a memorial from Huang Zhen's imperial envoy.
He also mentioned the poverty and depression of the people along the coast, but his view was very different from that of the Wan Zhifu. He was also a scholar, and his insight was really decisive."
Upon hearing Zhu Di's anger, Mu En, who had been prepared for it, immediately interrupted. He was now in charge of the inner study and had the opportunity to get in touch with the memorials earlier than the emperor. Because he was responsible for selecting, sorting, and classifying the memorials, it was natural for him to have a rough idea of the contents.
of.
"Oh? Are coastal areas really so poor? Does anyone else have a different opinion? Bring it to me."
Mu En immediately flipped through the thick pile of memorials, took out one and presented it to Zhu Di with both hands.
Huang Zhen's memorial is very persuasive to Zhu Di's temperament. It is said that it is to Zhu Di's temperament because the content of the memorial is rarely empty, unlike some people's colorful and colorful memorials, which are not really useful when implemented.
A few words. It is said that it is very convincing. For the same reason, other people's memorials mostly used reasoning, quotations from scriptures, and saints' remarks in order to persuade the emperor. In fact, the emperor also swept these things away, making it difficult to be truly convincing.
However, the style of Huang Zhen's memorial is very refreshing. He only tells the facts. The power of judging right and wrong is not left to the saints thousands of years ago, but to the emperor. Huang Zhen's memorial really took a lot of effort.
, he consulted a large number of ancient books and found that the Han Dynasty, the earliest era of sea trade with other countries, was clearly recorded in history books. He kept counting down and listed the pros and cons of each dynasty and each generation's maritime trade.
Then he talked about the earliest appearance of sea bans in the Yuan Dynasty, listed the facts, analyzed the reasons for the four sea bans in the Yuan Dynasty and the reasons for the abolition of the sea bans, and listed the impact on the tax revenue of the Yuan Dynasty before and after these sea bans.
In particular, there is a picture in his memorial that Zhu Di has never seen before after reading more than a thousand memorials every day: a statistical analysis and comparison chart.
The things to compare are the Southern Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. What is the proportion of the imperial tax revenue in the Southern Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and how high is the amount? What is the gap between the total tax revenue of the Southern Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty in a year? What is the difference between the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty?
Comparison of cultivated land area, grain output per mu, comparison of the amount of rice, noodles, meat and other foods that ordinary people in the market can eat every day...
Who has seen this kind of novel data comparison memorial? Huang Zhen did not find reasons from the "sage theory", he only listed these, which was enough for the emperor to think deeply.
Of course, Huang Zhen couldn't blame Taizu for this. He then talked about the reason why Taizu banned the sea in this dynasty: it was because the court needed to settle the internal affairs at that time, attack the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and deal with Zhang Shicheng, Fang Guozhen and other rebels who fled to the sea.
The remnants and pirates could not spare the time to clear them out, so they ordered a maritime ban. But this is no longer the case, the imperial court has the ability to clear the sea frontier.
The coastal people make a living by hunting. The sea ban is too strict and their physiological condition is getting worse. At this time, the sea ban policy should be changed. This matter is not only related to the livelihood of the coastal people, but also the capital of the military. Therefore, I invite your majesty.
Thinking deeply, after the coastal Japanese pirates were fatally attacked, the maritime ban policy should be relaxed to allow the people to make a living and so on...
Of course Huang Zhen could not write a memorial in this style, and he had never seen it before.
The title, outline, style, and even the format of the table of this memorial were all written for him by Xia Xun. Huang Zhen was only responsible for looking up these detailed data from the pile of old papers accumulated by the previous dynasty, and then organizing them into words to form
A formal memorial. Even so, the workload was huge enough. There were no computers at that time, and there were no specialized books in this area. In fact, this task was given to Xia Xun long before he left the capital. Mr. Huang
After crawling in the mountain of books and the sea of books for several months, I was almost exhausted and "stealing sheep" again, and then I finally finished it.
Such a memorial with detailed data greatly touched Zhu Di. In fact, he did not know many of these things. The books the prince read were all moral chapters and words of saints. He only knew that the Song Dynasty was weak and
Little did they know that even in the weak Song Dynasty, the annual tax revenue of a mere corner of the Yangtze River was several times that of the vast Ming Dynasty, and the people's lives were actually better than those of the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Di had no doubts. The data listed in the memorial were very detailed, and the sources were clearly marked. Huang Zhen didn't dare to fake this thing even if he borrowed bear bile. Did the Japanese invasion originate from commercial ships or from maritime bans?
Zhu Di no longer considered this issue, but the huge disparity in tax income completely shocked him.
It was as if a window that had never been opened suddenly opened a crack, and from that crack, people entered a completely different world. On this day, Zhu Di had not finished approving the memorial, and he spent the entire afternoon
I read Huang Zhen's memorial over and over again.
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In Jinling City, the Duke Fuguo's Mansion has been built.
But Duke Fuguo is not in Beijing. According to Xie and Ziqi's wishes, they want to wait for him to come back before moving. The head of the family is not at home. How can it be done?
But Xia Xun doesn't know when the matter in eastern Zhejiang will be settled. There are already many servants in the Duke's Mansion, and it is not an option for the master not to stay for a long time. Furthermore, the consort Wang Ning is now separated from the second prince Zhu Gaoxu.
It was particularly close, and he had already fallen in love with the eldest prince Zhu Gaochi. It was not suitable to live in his other courtyard anymore. Although Wang Ning would not open his mouth to drive people away, he had better be more conscious. And he always lived here, which would inevitably give people a sense of
In order to reserve a way out and get entangled with the second prince, he sent someone to send a message back, asking them to move there first.
The door of Duke Fuguo's Mansion was opened, and everyone in the family took action, moving everything in. Because they originally lived in Wang Ning's Mansion, they didn't have much belongings, and most of the things in the new mansion were purchased one after another.
They had already been brought in, so the family originally moved easily and didn't have much to bring. However, Princess Ming'er, who often walked around the house and got along with them more and more harmoniously, learned that they were moving and gave them a lot of gifts.
, this time it became lively.
Kang tables, wine tables, square tables, benches, desks, picture tables, crescent tables, fan tables, chess tables, piano tables, offering tables...
Hainan huanghuali, black sandalwood, rosewood, small leaf sandalwood couches, Luohan bed, moon hole bed, canopy bed, eight-step bed, carved bed...
There are also various grades of stools, poufs, benches, official hat chairs, rose chairs, arm chairs, back chairs, high chairs... as well as bookshelves, shelves, Duobaoge, picture fans, screens...
The furniture alone is so dazzling.
"Thanks."
Zi Qi, who was in a daze, quietly called Xie aside while Ming'er wasn't paying attention, and expressed his doubts: "Thank you, something is wrong!"
Xie Xie blinked and asked, "What's wrong?"
Zi Qi bit his lip and looked at Ming'er and Xiaodi who were carefully stepping across the threshold while instructing eight servants to carry a blue and white porcelain vase that was half as tall as a person. He whispered: "Have you ever seen such a gift?
?It’s too exaggerated! Why do I feel... like a dowry?"
Xie Xie looked her up and down, and Zi Qi asked curiously: "What are you and I doing?"
Thank you and she made a face at him and said: "Hehe, our Ziqi is actually not stupid either!"
Zi Qi was annoyed: "Who are you calling stupid? You..., ah!"
Zi Qi exclaimed, covered his mouth, and lost his voice: "Is it possible that I was right?"
Thank you to Erluzi, who walked happily past carrying a huanghuali carved dragon-patterned stone surface with horseshoe feet, and said leisurely: "I...you are most likely right."
Zi Qi's eyes widened and he was shocked for a long time before he said something like: "He is so courageous!"
: It’s eight thousand again. I’m so tired that I’m confused. I want to celebrate the New Year. I want to celebrate the Chinese New Year. God, who can give me a day off?