"This, this is for checking smuggling." Yunxi said.
"I established the Municipal Shipping Department for my brother, and stipulated that goods exported from the Ming Dynasty must go through the Municipal Shipping Department. However, there are always merchants who are unwilling to pay customs duties, and are willing to smuggle goods. Differentiate between the silks and satins sold in the Ming Dynasty and those sold outside the Ming Dynasty.
Patterns and even batches of silk sold by the Li family can be distinguished, and careful inspection can reveal who is smuggling it and where it is being smuggled from."
"However, there are so many merchants in the world, and many of them are smugglers. Moreover, Brother Emperor, you encourage the development of industry and commerce. Do you want to ban all smuggling merchants?"
"Of course not. Of course there are so many smuggling merchants that we can't stop. My brother's purpose is just to know how many people and who are smuggling things from the Ming Dynasty abroad."
"What's the use of knowing this?"
"Of course this is useful." Yunxi smiled and said: "Any smuggling businessman will not smuggle just one kind of thing, but smuggle all goods. It's just that some foreigners need more, and some foreigners need more.
Less. So if you know who is smuggling silk, you will know who is smuggling other goods that are more important to foreign countries."
"As for knowing who is smuggling goods that are more important to foreign countries, well, I'm afraid it can't be explained by just reasoning. Let's take Mongolia as an example. For Mongolians, tea is a very important thing, and they eat cattle all year round.
Mutton and drinking cow, sheep and horse milk require tea to remove the greasiness, and many of the nutrients that people need cannot be achieved by just eating meat and drinking milk. For Mongolians, tea can also provide nutrients that meat and milk cannot provide. This does not mean that
Mongolians cannot drink tea without it, but it is extremely bad for their health. And at least until now, there is nothing else that can replace tea. This is why the imperial court controls the export of tea to the Mongols."
"If one day my brother wants a certain Mongolian tribe to do something, and this tribe consciously stays away from the Ming Dynasty, and can drive cattle and sheep to other places at any time, and does not obey my brother's orders, and it is impossible for my brother to do it for me.
It is not cost-effective for a tribe with tens of thousands of people to send tens of thousands of troops to fight on the grasslands. Moreover, the Mongolian princes also know that the Central Plains dynasty will not be able to sustain such a war. In history, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty conquered the Xiongnu.
The result has already been explained - at this time, I can order the arrest of all the merchants who smuggled tea to this tribe, and even to the tribes nearby, so that they can't get tea for a while, and in the end, the tribe leader will be killed by his men.
Either die, or surrender to brother Wei. Brother Wei has achieved his goal. As for why he chose silk and satin to find the goods of smugglers, of course it is because silk and satin are exported more and it is easy to mark the number. Tea cannot be marked. "
"Can't this Mongolian tribe no longer find unscrupulous businessmen to smuggle tea to them? Or risk going south to attack the border prefectures and counties of the Ming Dynasty? Won't other Mongolian tribes help this tribe?" Yunzhi asked three questions in a row.
"Of course you can find other unscrupulous businessmen to smuggle, but you won't be able to find them for a while; there may be other Mongolians who help, but most tribes will not help other tribes for no reason, most of them want to take advantage of the opportunity
The annexation is also not a good thing for the original tribal leaders. If the tribal leaders think about it, they might as well serve the Ming Dynasty."
"As for going south to attack the states and counties on the border of the Ming Dynasty? If the Ming Dynasty's military strength was weak, or the Mongols thought that the Ming Dynasty's military strength was weak, they would naturally go south to attack. But now the Mongols are very afraid of the Ming Dynasty soldiers. Even if the leader wants to go south to plunder, the strong men of the tribe
They would also feel that the possibility of dying in battle was greater than the possibility of robbing tea leaves, so they would not want to go south to plunder."
"Yunzhi, just because I can't let the Mongols think that the Ming Dynasty's military is weak, so although I have a tough attitude towards the Mongolian tribes and have to force them to bow before giving some charity, I have never accomplished all my achievements in one battle and passed several major battles.
The idea of wiping out large-scale wars to wipe out the Mongols. The nomads on the grasslands are very tenacious and cannot be eliminated by a few large-scale wars. In fact, before the advent of the industrial age, there was no way to completely eliminate the nomads. And once a certain time
The defeat in the war against the Mongols will restore the Mongolians' confidence in the Ming Dynasty war, which has hit rock bottom, and it will not be so easy to deal with the Mongols with both soft and hard tactics." Yunxi educated him again.
"Industrial era? Brother Huang, what is the industrial era?" Yunzhi asked curiously.
"This," Yunxi realized that he had accidentally said something stupid just now, and hurriedly explained: "I just imagined it for my brother. For example, if in the future, fire guns are much more convenient to use than crossbows, and their range is
It is also far more than the crossbow and has become a weapon equipped by all soldiers; generals can contact armies thousands of miles away in an instant; there is a kind of transportation volume and transportation cost that is dozens of times more than that of a rail carriage, and it is dozens of times more economical.
To ensure logistics, the Mongolian cavalry that now dominates the world will lose the capital to do so, and these things that Brother Wei mentioned must be made in factories. If they can't make them, the time has come to eliminate the nomads."
"In the future, fire guns will be more convenient to use than bows and crossbows. This is not necessarily true. The bows and crossbows of the pre-Qin Dynasty are far behind the current ones. Weapons are always being improved; but it can allow generals to contact armies thousands of miles away in an instant.
Things, and things that can transport dozens of times more transportation and cost dozens of times more than a railcar, and save dozens of times, my sister doesn’t believe there will be something in the future. Brother Huang is too whimsical." Yunzhi said with a smile.
Yunxi smiled and said nothing. Because Yunzhi was slightly interested in military affairs, she had studied the military history of the past dynasties and the changes in weapons in the past dynasties. She still had an idea of the firecrackers that had appeared and continued to improve, and the telegraph and the train were both
It was far beyond her imagination, and it was normal for her to not think of it. Yunxi didn't want to say anything more.
"But my sister understands what Brother Huang means. It is to master the smuggling channels of goods that are important to a certain country. Once this country is disobedient, the smuggling merchants will be arrested so that this country cannot get this kind of goods.
, thereby subduing the enemy's army without fighting." Yunzhi said again.
"That's right. Fourth sister, you have a good understanding." Yunxi said with a smile.
"Why is my sister so smart? Brother Huang, you only talked about some things for the clan a few years ago, and you even published them in books. You talked about this truth in it, but you didn't explain it clearly at the time. We thought about it for a while before we figured it out.
Understood." Yunzhi said.
"Really? Oops, the emperor forgot." Yunxi smiled awkwardly. A few years ago, he once told the clan children about his knowledge of future generations in a slightly convulsive manner, but now he has long forgotten what he said at that time.
"We have to take back all those books." He said to himself again. Although he had asked that they must not be shown to non-clan members, non-clan people may also see it, so it would be safer to take them all back. And at that time He actually does not have a complete plan for his own governance, and it is not a good thing to tell the clan some knowledge too early.
Just as he was thinking about it, the brother and sister had already arrived at Qianqing Palace. Yunzhi saluted and said, "Brother, since there is nothing else to do, my sister will go back first."
"Why, you've come this far and don't want to listen to what the Minister of Etiquette said about the progress of the wedding ceremony?" Yunxi joked.
Yunzhi blushed a little, but said calmly: "I originally wanted to hear it, but now I don't want to hear it anymore. And brother, my sister-in-law cares so much about my sister, how can I not arrange my sister's wedding properly? My sister can do it. Think more about how to decorate the princess's mansion in the future."
She was a little excited when she said this. She had long wanted to personally arrange the layout of her residence, but the palace she lived in now did not belong to her, and she could not modify it without authorization; but the Princess Mansion belonged to her, and she could not change it no matter what. Someone will say something.
"Why, do you really want to leave the palace and stay away from your brother? After you get married, there will be no sister of the same generation as your brother in the palace, and I feel a lot empty in my heart." Yunxi said deliberately.
"How could it be! Brother Emperor, you have wronged my sister again! My sister just wants to be able to remodel her own house at will. Even if she gets married, my sister will often go to the palace to see Brother Emperor. And Brother Emperor, what you said is wrong, Xianqin still lives there In the palace." Yunzhi said.
Yunxi realized that he had made a slip of the tongue and temporarily forgot about Xianqin, who had been living in the palace since the second year of Jianye. However, Yunzhi's words also reminded him. "Xianqin used to live with you. If you got married, she would live with you." Where? It’s not appropriate to continue living where you are.”
"Brother, please let Xianqin live in the palace. Sister Xianqin is also fifteen years old this year. She is already a big girl. She is also the daughter of the seventh uncle. It is not appropriate to continue living in the palace. Choose a place for her to build a princess palace. This is not appropriate for the government. Just, brother, please arrange a marriage for her."
Yunzhi said: "Xianqin is fifteen years old, which is the age that should be married in the past. After all, she is not her father's biological daughter. It is not good for the emperor to arrange her marriage age too late. At the very least, he can help her first If you choose a family, you can delay marriage for an extra year or two, until you are seventeen or eighteen years old."
"Does she like anyone?"
"No. Emperor brother, you are so open-minded. If she has anything, she would dare to say it. Moreover, my sister also asked his maid, and she said no."
"Then it's similar to Yun Yun's situation. That's good." Yun Xi suddenly discovered that he still had a sister who could be used for political purposes. Yun Ying got married before Zhu Yuanzhang was alive, and he couldn't arrange it; Yun Lan married her ex- The bodyguard is now a general, which is pretty good, but it has no political use to him; Yun Zhi also likes the former bodyguard, but Zhang Wuji is from the Wudang sect after all, and has some political purpose; Yun Yun follows the scope of his own arrangements He chose a husband who was close to him, which really played a political role. But he actually still had the idea of arranging a political marriage. He thought that there were no candidates available for marriage, but unexpectedly there was another one. Although Xianqin is not his biological sister, she has lived in the palace for more than seven years. Everyone will think that she is different from other princesses in terms of affection. If she is close to the princess, she can use it as long as she finds an excuse to make her a princess. A political marriage has been arranged.
Of course, if Xianqin also has someone he likes, he will of course follow her ideas; but if she doesn't have one now, he might as well take advantage of it. Anyway, he is not limiting the candidates to whom she must agree, but is looking for her within a range.
, just like Yun Yun, he was pretty good to her. Zhu Su's arrangement before Da Che really realized it was probably not as great as the freedom he gave her.
"When you go back, tell Xianqin that when you get married, let her come to live in Kunning Palace first; also let her not worry, the emperor brother will choose a good husband for her. If she likes someone, she can also talk to him at any time
Brother said, if she wants her biological brother Xian Yao to make the arrangements, I can also ask Xian Yao to come back once."
"Sister, I understand." Yunzhi agreed, turned around and left. Yunxi stood there and thought for a while, then walked into the hall.
There was nothing going on in the court for a period of time. The biggest event was Yunzhi's wedding. As spring gradually came, wedding preparations were officially put on the agenda. Various etiquette before the wedding also began to be prepared.
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Yunzhi didn't want to get married in the summer because it was too hot; she also didn't want to get married in the autumn because she felt that autumn had a bad connotation, so she chose spring, early May. After calculations by the original Qintian Supervisor, the third day of May was finally chosen.
After the official time was chosen, everything moved quickly. The time chosen by Yun Zhi was a little closer than expected by the officials responsible for organizing this time, so they had to speed up the progress. With great difficulty, the pre-wedding ceremony was completed at the end of April.
Finish.
Soon it was the third day of May, the day when Yunzhi got married. (To be continued)
