My Daming New Empire

This moment and that moment, the world is unpredictable!

Looking at the endless factory buildings and densely packed waterwheels on the shore, you can't see the edge at a glance.Not far from the shore, several thick chimneys emitting black smoke are even more shocking.

In addition to emotion, even the well-informed Huang Fu felt a strong shock.

Although he had already heard his son introduce the development of Jiajiang Industrial Zone, what he heard and what he saw with his own eyes lacked the strong visual impact.

When the industrial age came, the magnificence of industrial products and equipment would definitely make anyone in an agricultural society stunned.

"It's so spectacular, are these really built within a year?"

"It's been a year and a half, and the scale here is still expanding. After the boy left Beijing, there are many more water trucks."

Under the protection of a guard, the six-year-old Bao Ya quickly ran over on the deck. "Daddy, daddy, is this the capital city? It's so big!"

On the tenth day of the return trip, because of his flattery, the six-year-old Bao Ya was no longer unfamiliar with him at first, and became familiar with him. These days, he has been pestering him every day, listening to his stories.

Huang Yuan was about to go to war again, he was afraid that his son would have trouble with him, so when getting along with him, he didn't show his father's majesty.

Seeing his son running over, he leaned over and hugged him, and said with a smile, "Yes, this is the capital city, which is much more prosperous than Shenglong City. Whatever you want to eat and play, you can find it here."

Although Huang Fu did not approve of his son being so affectionate to his grandson, he always thought that he had taken his place.The current social atmosphere is to care about grandchildren but not sons, and fathers must pay attention to majesty.

However, he regretted that his grandson hadn't seen his father for more than a year, and Huang Yuan was going to go to war soon, so he couldn't say any words of reproach.

The inner eunuch Fengyu Liu Wan who came to greet him also came over surrounded by several young eunuchs at this time, saluted and said with a smile: "Our family has seen the Shangshu and the special envoy, this giant treasure ship is really amazing, I want to see it all , I'm afraid it won't work if you don't have a day's work. Fortunately, His Highness has cleared the riverbank of Jiajiang, otherwise such a huge boat would not be able to stop at all."

Huang Fu just nodded with a smile. As a Shangshu, he is very old, so he should be more reserved when dealing with internal eunuchs like Liu Wan.

Huang Yuan immediately put down Baoya, and said in return: "Liu Fengyu will also go out with His Highness this time, and then I will let someone show you this huge boat."

Baoya leaned on his father's lap, stared at the handsome Liu Wan with wide eyes, followed his father's example, and saluted respectfully.

He just thought it was fun, and he didn't know how to talk face to face, but this appearance still made Liu Wan laugh.

He touched his body, took out a pure gold model money, and stuffed it into Baoya's hand. "When we met for the first time, I didn't specially prepare a gift. This gold coin is a pure gold coin that was cast during the trial production of Qian Fan. Your Highness said that this kind of gold coin is an orphan, and there are only [-] pieces. It may be worth a lot in the future. Your Highness If you reward me, give it to the young master today."

The father and son of the Huang family, the father is a minister, and the son is also a naval garrison, and is highly valued by His Royal Highness.

Liu Wan had just gotten close to Zhu Zhanji at this time, knowing that he was far inferior to them in terms of importance, so naturally he would not take Joe, but instead intended to curry favor and win over the relationship.

It was just a gold coin, and no one paid attention to it.

Huang Yuan touched his son's head, and said with a smile, "Thank you, Mr. Internal Supervisor!"

Bao Ya was only six years old, and when he usually bowed down in the back house to thank him, he knelt down on the ground with a plop, kowtowed, and said in a childlike voice, "Huang Ting thanked Mr. Inner Supervisor. "

Liu Wan didn't dare to accept the full salute, so he knelt down and bowed sideways, then helped him up and said with a smile, "What a sensible boy, Huang Shangshu, Huang Shoubei is a very lucky man!"

As for Chen Xuan, who watched Liu Wan fight fiercely with the Huang family and his son after only half a day's work, he was also reflecting in his heart.

Is it too self-confident to go on a mission this time?He has been with Huang Yuan and his son for two months, and it seems that they have never been this close!

The ship has slowed down and is slowly preparing to dock. Hundreds of sailors lowered thick straw curtains from the deck.Above the waterline, more than 100 wooden piles also protrude from the reserved wooden holes, and they must first contact the pier for buffering.

In this era, the docking of ships is basically such a hard effort.

Huang Yuan patted his son's head again, and said softly: "Go to mother's place, and after I finish my work, I will take you back to your home in the capital."

When the boat docked, the drums and gongs shook the sky.This ceremony is not to welcome Huang Yuan, nor does he have such a big face, it is mainly to welcome Huang Fu who has been away from Beijing for 12 years.

In order to show respect, the current Minister of War, Zuo Shangshu, Fang Bin, personally went to the government-run rice pounding farm wharf to meet Huang Fu.

But he didn't know that Zhu Zhanji had already obtained a lot of evidence of his corruption, and he was waiting for Huang Fu to arrive in Beijing. After this war was over, he would start to deal with him.

Zhu Zhanji has never been afraid of greed, as long as the rules are not broken, he is willing to do things.Nowadays, the salaries of officials are not high, even if they are ministers of the second and third ranks, if they have no land in their families, they will live a tight life.

Therefore, as long as receiving gifts does not exceed a certain amount, it is commonplace.The problem of corruption has not been solved in later generations, and being an official in this era is all about fame and fortune.

Before he took the throne, he didn't want to go against the trend of the whole society.Anti-corruption cannot be solved simply by improving the treatment of officials or by strict laws, but also by changing the atmosphere of the whole society.

This is a long-term and arduous task, and it will be something that Zhu Zhanji will have to work hard in his life.

But this Fang Bin is not just a crime of collecting gifts and making money.In order to earn money, he actually seized a large amount of fertile land in his hometown of Hangzhou, embezzled military rations and sold them off-season, and even took in more than a dozen concubines.

In order to give him a gift, the subordinates of the forced military department had to do everything possible to collect money, which made the military department's atmosphere worse.

And he still openly prostituted at home, and often invited those beautiful girls to sing and dance at home, living an extremely extravagant life.

Zhu Zhanji has no tolerance for such a cancer. If he hadn't been able to intervene in the civil service system now, he would have dealt with this person a long time ago.

Even though this Fang Bin was respectful to him, he gave him a lot of convenience.

After the welcome ceremony, Huang Fu and Fang Bin took the same car to Huang's old house in Taipingmen.

Although Huang Fu suffered relegation and left the capital, he never gave up the idea of ​​returning to Beijing, and the house in the capital has been kept.

A few years ago, Huang Yuan studied hard in the capital and was admitted to Jinshi, but he lived in an old house.

But he can't go home at this time, and he has to go to the palace to return to Zhu Zhanji.Huang Fu didn't need to see Zhu Zhanji, he went home first and waited for Zhu Di to summon him.

In the Donghuamen Counseling Department, Zhu Zhanji summoned Huang Yuan, who was on an envoy, but got fatter instead.As soon as we met, I couldn't help laughing and said: "Qian Jiu has been hard on this trip, I thought you would lose a few catties, but I didn't think you would gain weight instead."

Huang Yuan was also a little embarrassed, and said: "On the way back, my mother and Zhuo Jing cooked dishes according to my taste every day, and served chicken soup every day. Yuan's greedy appetite made His Highness laugh."

During Huang Yuan's trip, he first went to Jiaozhi, and then went to Champa, Khmer and Siam.

With the help of Huang Fu, a local snake who has been in Cochin for ten years, he easily purchased 200 million shi of rice in these four places, even if converted into rice, it is more than 140 million shi.

This is mainly because the price of rice in Nanyang is lower, because the quantity collected is large and it is in a hurry, it will cost [-] silver, otherwise, the price will be lower.

Zhu Zhanji didn't pay much attention to the experience of buying grain this time, because these had already been passed on before Huang Yuan came back.

Zhu Zhanji attaches great importance to establishing food supply channels with Southeast Asian countries to prepare for the future.

If this channel is established, and Jiaozhi will not give up, even if it encounters the Little Ice Age in the future, Daming will not worry about lack of food.

And in this era, as long as the government controls well, there is never any need to worry about the depreciation of food when there is too much food.

Because there are still all kinds of snacks and liquor, the two major categories of food consumption, the scale of development in this era is not large, and we are not afraid of too much food, but only of not enough food.

Stories like overcharging three or five buckets of grain and hurting farmers are more human-made.

Moreover, Zhu Zhanji still has the idea of ​​personally suppressing food prices, forcing the people of Ming Dynasty to move out. Whether it is Lake Baikal in the north, or Australia, America, and Africa, there are only some tribes and not many countries at this time. !

Such a colorful world is waiting for Daming to occupy it.If you are still only in love with your own one-acre three-point land, you are really giving up a forest for a tree.

But the common people in the east are too able to endure hardships. As long as they can survive, they are not willing to leave their hometowns to work hard, let alone rebel.