Mixed with salted fish in Hongwudang

Chapter 621 The sky of Daming really doesn't know what color it is!

In fact, what Tang He said was conservative. As the old man in Fengyang who first rebelled against Lao Zhu, Tang He never supported Zhu Yuanzhang's wanton distribution of vassal kings from the beginning, and even tactfully advised him.

But at that time, Lao Zhu was too selfish, he only believed in his own family, and ignored the words of outsiders.

If he talked too much, Lao Zhu would get mad and kill people.

Therefore, Tang He, who doesn't like to make troubles at all, is even more unwilling to persuade him.

But now that Lao Zhu is asking, don't blame him for public revenge.

After listening to Tang He's words, Lao Zhu remained silent for a long time. He believed that as long as he was alive, those rebellious sons would not dare to move.

But my family knew about my own affairs, and his life was snatched from God. What if God reacts one day and arrests him again?

Therefore, Lao Zhu has always cherished the hard-won chance of survival, but at the same time, he is also ready to die at any time, so as not to cause turmoil to Daming due to his sudden death.

This is why Lao Zhu has been reluctant to show up, or even take over the government.

He just wanted to hide aside and see if Daming could do without him!

Lao Zhu pondered for a long time, and looked at Tang He with some searching eyes.

"Brother Tang, according to what you say, you don't support that kid Yunxi's expedition to the Western Regions?"

Tang He heard this and said with a chuckle.

"Superior, you can't say that."

"Oh?"

"Then what do you mean?"

Tang He scratched his head in embarrassment.

"What do you say!"

"Just now we were only on the side of the royal family and the vassal king, but if we were on the side of the courtiers and Daming, I still think that the kid Yunxi did the right thing!"

"This……"

Seeing Lao Zhu's increasingly confused eyes, Tang He hurriedly explained.

"Your Majesty, think about it, if we follow our Daming's existing enfeoffment system, where princes are divided into county kings, county kings are divided into junior kings, and junior kings are divided into generals. If this happens within a hundred years, our Daming will not have tens of thousands of kings." ?”

"The more countries this kid Yunxi conquers, the more places he will be crowned king in the future, won't he?"

"If 1 people raise a king, and if [-] people raise a king, the burden on the latter will be lighter."

When Lao Zhu heard this, his expression became displeased. He could tell that Tang He was blaming him for becoming king.

"Brother Tang, don't mention this again in the future!"

"Didn't we just seal some of our own family members as kings, why are they always staring at us!"

Seeing what Lao Zhu said, Tang He immediately shut up wisely.

This kind of thing is not good if you don't know how to do it. Those people who didn't know how to do it back then can now build a house with a tree on the grave!

"What is His Majesty's decision?"

"What decision do we have..."

Old Zhu shook his head blankly when he heard the words. He stayed in the workshop to watch the gate during this time, and he always wanted to look at the changes in Daming from the perspective of ordinary people.

However, he stayed in the workshop for several months, and he didn't understand anything.

I only know that the people of Ming Dynasty are very busy, they don’t have time to cook, they don’t have time to take care of their children, they don’t have time to hang out...

But it seems that they are enjoying this kind of busyness.

After all, you can eat in the workshop cafeteria, and you can take your children to the nursing home in the factory area. The government collects money from the workshop owners and hires special people to look after their children.

Therefore, they can spare more time to work and earn money, and then run their own small family.

Although the scene he saw was quite harmonious and prosperous, but Lao Zhu always felt that something was wrong.

Because according to the records of previous dynasties, Zhu Yunxi's militaristic behavior of expanding the territory on the sea while competing with other countries for hegemony on land has long made the people miserable and complained.

However, Daming seems to have escaped from historical conventions and embarked on an unimaginable path.

When Lao Zhu frowned and thought, Tang He kept watching Lao Zhu secretly, until he heard a gurgling sound coming from Lao Zhu's stomach, Tang He suddenly smiled.

It seems that the superior was so angry by the kings that he didn't even have a full meal in the palace.

Thinking of this, Tang He couldn't help but thumped his old cold legs.

"Your Majesty, this humble minister is no match for you. Our old cold legs are most afraid of getting wet. You should hurry up and push this humble minister back!"

Hearing this, Lao Zhu woke up from a dream. He doesn't want to kill this old man now. If Tang He is gone, he really doesn't know who to tell.

"oops!"

"Look at our heads, we actually forgot about this!"

Lao Zhu immediately got up and pushed Tang He out of the lake pavilion.

"where to?"

Tang He pointed to the front, and Lao Zhu immediately pushed him to the hall of Tang He's mansion.

Lao Zhu has a very good nose, and as soon as he entered the main room, he could smell the smell of roast duck.

"Brother Tang, have you hidden something delicious?"

Tang He exaggeratedly stared.

"no!"

"What can we hide?"

Old Zhu chuckled when he heard the words, then subconsciously bent over and rummaged in the room, and as expected, he found a plate of roast duck under the table in the middle of the main room.

"Okay!"

"Caught by us!"

"We remember your illness, you can't eat such greasy and fishy food!"

While Lao Zhu blamed Tang He, he tore off a duck leg and began to chew it.

"Not to mention, you have a good taste, this is the roasted duck from Quanjude!"

Tang He heard this and said with a chuckle.

"Your Majesty has good teeth, you can tell that it is Quanjude's roast duck in one bite!"

"But I would like to test His Majesty. Does Your Majesty know whose family this Quanjude belongs to?"

Old Zhu's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. Tang He never joked with him. If he dared to ask such a question, it meant that this thing had something to do with their old Zhu's family.

"Could it belong to our old Zhu's family?"

Tang He laughed loudly when he heard the words.

"Even if it doesn't hit, it's not far away, hahaha!"

Lao Zhu said irritably.

"Old Tang, who does it belong to? Tell us quickly, or we won't be able to eat well!"

Tang He heard the words and smiled.

"Actually, this is the property of the four princesses of the prince's family!"

"what?"

When Lao Zhu heard this, his heart was shocked, and he recalled in his mind the scene when he beat Zhu Yunxi because of a misunderstanding, which caused the four little granddaughters in the Prince's Mansion to cry and go to him to intercede.

When Zhu Yunxi was only in his teens, he knew how to earn dowries for the four sisters.

Now that he is the emperor, he can give the four sisters countless glory and wealth with just one imperial decree.

But he seemed to have forgotten about this, and he just named the four sisters as princesses at the beginning of his ascension to the throne, without any other rewards.

This caused a lot of controversy at the time. Whether it was in the court or within the royal family, many people had opinions on Zhu Yunxie. They secretly said that he was mean and ungrateful, and even if he treated his own sisters like this, he did not know how to treat the clan in the future. Woolen cloth.

However, it was precisely because of this that Zhu Yunxi's aunts did not dare to make a fuss, and did not wantonly occupy people's fields in the name of being named the eldest princess, build workshops, etc. privately.

Just when Lao Zhu thought that his grandson was afraid that he would not be able to restrain other royal families, so he wronged his younger sisters, he suddenly realized that he still underestimated this grandson.

This grandson has long thought of all the preparations, and prepared enough family wealth for the four younger sisters, and it is a rich family wealth that does not show the mountains and show the water!

"Tanghe, Quanjude's business should be pretty good, right?"

Tang He nodded when he heard the words.

"Is the store opened by that child Yunxi who personally directs the shop still bad?"

"Usually no one wants a duck for [-] renminbi, but now [-] renminbi a duck is being snapped up like crazy!"

"As far as Weichen knows, Quanjude has a total of [-] stores in the capital, large and small, and each store can sell about [-] ducks. This is the [-] ducks before death!"

"Let's not count too much, let's make a net profit of 40 taels for each one, and it will be [-] taels of silver in one day!"

"A year is 400 taels!"

"The four princesses share the 4000 taels equally, and each has a net balance of 600 taels!"

"Counting the farms, fields, and shops they married as dowry, plus the property of the husband's family, it can easily exceed [-] yuan a year, enough to live a luxurious life!"

"The most important point is that they didn't take a penny from the imperial court. Neither the civil and military officials nor the people of the world can find fault with them!"

When Lao Zhu heard this, the interest he had finally brought up suddenly faded.

He could tell that Tang He had done something with Feng Wang.

However, can boys and girls be the same?

Conferring a king is not only a fief, but also an army. There is a small court in the palace, and it is necessary to shoulder the responsibility and obligation to guard the country for the old Zhu's family.

As for princesses, princesses, etc., they are just married daughters, and it is enough to give more dowry money.

Tang He also saw that Lao Zhu was unhappy, so he immediately ended the topic and grabbed the roast duck with Lao Zhu.

After the two showed off most of them, Tang He wiped his mouth in satisfaction and said.

"Boss, why don't we go out for a walk!"

"Turn around?"

"Yes!"

"You don't know how lively our Nanjing night market is now!"

"Don't look at this hour, there are at least 10,000+ people in Xuanwu Lake Night Market and Dajiaochang Night Market!"

"what?"

Lao Zhu had also heard of the night market when he was in the matchbox workshop, but he didn't expect it to develop so exaggeratedly.

"Then go and see?"

"Okay!"

"However, I do not recommend that you bring the emperor's guard of honor, so as not to disturb the people who are eating and drinking at night!"

Old Zhu nodded his head in a good manner, immediately changed into a set of plain official robes at Tang He's house, and led a few guards in brocade clothes to drive a carriage from the backyard to Xuanwu Lake Night Market.

Before they reached the exit of peace, Lao Zhu saw the bright halo of lights on the exit of peace from the carriage.

This is the night scene that Zhu Yunxi built to celebrate his birthday. Unexpectedly, a few years later, instead of being demolished, the night scene has become more and more spectacular.

As soon as Lao Zhu's carriage passed through the city gate, he heard the sound of laughter, fights, jugglers shouting, peddlers hawking along the street and so on from outside the city gate.

Old Zhu couldn't sit still when he heard the lively voice, and ordered Tang He to be lifted off the carriage on the spot, and then pushed him around the surrounding night markets himself.

"Boss, this is not the night market yet, it's outside at best!"

"what?"

"Is it so lively outside now?"

Lao Zhu visited the night market a few years ago, but the night market at that time was only a few streets, and it was only derived from the Xuanwu Lake People's Park.

I revisited the old place after a few years, and found that this place has long been out of the scope of Xuanwu Lake Park, and it has become a new city.

Tang He is a regular customer here, and he brings a few concubines here for a walk from time to time.

"Sir, have you seen that tall building?"

"That tall building is Qianming Building. If you eat on the top floor, you will have to pay 100 taels of silver for a meal!"

"I invite you to try it some other day, the whole fish feast in that restaurant is not bad."

Lao Zhu frowned when he heard 100 taels of silver for a meal. When he passed by Qianming Building, he saw a group of merchants and officials coming in and out, and Lao Zhu's expression became even uglier.

"What a system!"

"When did the officials of our Ming Dynasty fall into the company of merchants!"

"Come on, let's check it out secretly. What kind of officials always come here on weekdays!"

"Let's find out where they got the money to eat and drink here!"

"promise!"

Upon hearing this, Qin Deshun bowed to accept the order, and then hurriedly arranged for someone to do it.

A smug smile appeared on Tang He's face when he heard the words, secretly thinking that the superior is still the superior, the worst thing to see an official have a good life!

However, Zhu Yunxi did some things too much, and he was too conniving to the people below.

In just a few years, Daming has been turned into a mess, officials are not like officials, and people are not like people.

Look at the silk and satin all over the street, you can't tell the difference between high and low!

Lao Zhu also noticed the extravagance of the passers-by on the street. Many people not only wore shoes made of silk, but even decorated them with pearls, agate and other jade stones.

"Too extravagant!"

"If things go on like this, our Daming will be ruined by propriety and happiness, and the people's hearts will not be old!"

"The superior is right!"

"Under the rule of the new monarch, the singing and dancing will be peaceful, but the details have to be checked by the superior!"

Lao Zhu nodded in deep agreement, and decided to reiterate the ban in a few days, and let the common people take off their brocade clothes and change them back to the coarse clothes they should have been wearing!

Especially those merchants and untouchables, we must catch a few typical people and deal with them severely, so that they can behave with their tails between their legs!

Lao Zhu pushed Tang He and walked for a while, and suddenly found a strange thing, that is, there were foreigners busy outside many shops on both sides of the street.

Some lit stoves and boiled water outside, some carried groceries, some carried sedan chairs, or pulled carts and two-wheeled carts to run all over the street.

"Where are there so many alien races?"

Tang He laughed strangely when he heard the words.

"Why else, of course it's because it's cheap!"

"Now our Daming wages are so expensive. An ordinary woman's monthly salary is two or three taels of silver. How can ordinary shopkeepers afford it?"

"So many people buy slaves from slave ships to work for themselves!"

"However, the price of slaves is not cheap, and the number of slaves who can speak a few words of our Ming Dynasty fluently is as high as several hundred taels!"

"Even if it's like those who only do some chores at the door of the shop, a slave will cost hundreds of taels!"

Seeing this, Lao Zhu became worried again.

"The sudden influx of so many foreign races will disrupt our Chinese bloodline?"

Tang He heard the words and smiled.

"This is really hard to say!"

"However, there are strict inspections in the vicinity of Gyeonggi, and they are supervised by the father-in-law in the palace. Regular inspections are carried out every year, and those who are found to be clean will be compensated!"

"As for remote places, it's hard to say. Many people think that clean slaves can't do heavy work, so they try to help conceal and escape."

"The higher-ups have to investigate this matter seriously!"

"Otherwise, after a few decades, we really don't know what color the sky in Daming is!"