My Daming New Empire

If those merchants are allowed to hide their money in their homes and bury it underground, how will the imperial court regulate the country's economy?

Therefore, even if he endured it for a while, Zhu Zhanji couldn't deal with them clearly, unless he found definite evidence, and then he could divide and destroy them.

As for Zheng He, Zhu Zhanji is going to take another look. He has become a representative of Nanyang and Western countries in contact with Ming Dynasty.As long as there is no dissent, Zhu Zhanji can accommodate him.

The ship finally landed...

The reception on the wharf was even warmer than that in Ningbo. The chief officials of Fujian Chengxuan's Political Envoy, Judicial Procuratorate, and Commanding Envoy, including Quanzhou's local parents' officials, all showed up.

When in Ningbo, Zhu Zhanji also strictly ordered the chief officials of Zhejiang to appear, mainly because Zhejiang is closer to the capital, and some chief officials can often go to the capital to see Zhu Zhanji.

But here in Fujian, the mountains are high and the rivers are long. Once they come out, they are not summoned by the emperor, they can only be promoted, and they have the opportunity to meet the members of the royal family when they are transferred.

Therefore, for the image of being close to the people, these two places should be treated differently.

All the procedures are arranged by the Ministry of Rites and internal supervisors. Zhu Zhanji has only one role, which is to act cool and handsome in front of the people and officials.

His height of nearly 1.9 meters stands out from the crowd no matter where he is, and he even surprised everyone when he came to Fujian, which is short in stature.

Such an image will not disappoint anyone.

He is more popular than those later superstars, and countless people cried bitterly to see him with their own eyes.

Kneeling is a procedure, no matter who it is, they must kneel when Zhu Zhanji passes by.But crying excitedly, it can clearly show their inner recognition of Daming and the Zhu family's dynasty.

Those three fat men can become great helmsmen, and Zhu Zhanji is no worse than him.

And the people of this era have less knowledge than the people of that great cosmic country hundreds of years later.

Because the Quanzhou Shipping Department was re-established, the conditions here are far worse than those in Ningbo.

At the beginning, the internal supervisor asked Zhu Zhanji to choose the place to stay in Quanzhou. Zhu Zhanji ticked off and chose Fashizhai in the southeast of Quanzhou City.

Many people who moved from Quanzhou to Dongfan boarded from here, including conscription and training.

After accepting the visit of Fujian officials, it was inevitable that a banquet would be held in the barracks at noon to welcome Zhu Zhanji.

In Quanzhou, Zhu Zhanji will stay for three days, waiting for the order ship to arrive in Cochin, and then send orders to the grain transport ship in Cochin.After an agreed time, the two parties met at the Xuanwei Division of the Old Port.

Before that, Zhu Zhanji's main fleet will first go to Daming Street on Luzon Island to inspect Luzon.

That afternoon, Zhu Zhanji was not in a hurry to meet with Quanzhou businessmen.Because of the sea ban, most of the businessmen in Quanzhou today have turned into landlords.

Even those Semites gradually changed from merchants to landlords.Of course, it's not that they don't do trade, but they have degenerated to only do domestic trade, acting as the connection point between Guangdong and Jiangnan.

The Semites include Jews and Arabs. They have always been the main force in world trade. Even in this era of sea ban, they still persisted.

Therefore, [-]% of the large merchants in Quanzhou today are Semites.

In the past, Zhu Zhanji's understanding of them was only superficial, but from Zheng He, Zhu Zhanji can also see that their situation here is far more complicated than it appears.

Before fully understanding the details here, Zhu Zhanji didn't want to see them first.

Others don't know, but Zheng He has already seen Zhu Zhanji's mind from Zhu Zhanji's refusal to meet the Quanzhou businessman first.

In Ningbo, in order to avoid suspicion, he ignored officials and was close to businessmen.

But when I arrived in Quanzhou, it was the other way around. The biggest reason for this was that I had done something wrong.

After returning to Yingtian Mansion after the Eastern Expedition, Zheng He was appointed as the deputy commander of the Eastern Expedition, and then it was reported that the grandson was going to go to the West in person, and he was still appointed as the deputy commander.

Within a few months of returning to Yingtian Mansion, he also formally started to handle the affairs of the voyage to the West.

Every time he went to the West in the past, he mainly used Quanzhou as the purchasing point and took care of the business of many Semites.

Because of the sea ban, these businessmen took the voyages to the west every three years or so as an important trade channel. The scale of this trade was several times larger than before, so countless people directly approached Zheng He.

For this matter, Zheng He was happy to see the results, including the Quanzhou businessmen who would rather borrow money than send their own goods to the inner prisoner, mainly because of his face.

He never imagined that Taisun, who had never been to the West, was more familiar with the situation in the West than he was.In the past four voyages to the west, it seems that Taisun has placed a lot of people in the fleet, and he has not even reported a lot of news to him.

This is not a big deal, Zheng He is upright and upright, he has no regrets in his heart, and he is not afraid of his grandson setting up a dark son.

But he made a mistake this time. As a grandson, he knew that the grandson hated traitors the most, but this time he extended a helping hand to the Pu family.

And his biggest mistake was that he didn't tell him about it at first because he was afraid that his grandson would disagree.

Thinking of Taisun's cold eyes, his heart was also cold.More than ten years of trust, because of this incident left a knot in my heart.

Moreover, Taisun's resolute opposition also let him know that he is not a human this time.

Accompanying Zhu Zhanji to meet officials from all walks of life in a daze, he kept thinking in his heart why he complicated such a simple matter.

After thinking about it, he found to his horror that it was himself who swelled up.

In the past, he was a chief eunuch, and he only took the post of commander-in-chief when he went to sea.However, being promoted to the director of the navy by the grandson, following the grandson's eastern expedition, conquering Dongying, and being made the Duke of Dian made him a little carried away.

He thought it was a trivial matter, and thought that his grandson would not be offended by his grandson's trust, but he forgot that it was not a matter of failure to do a good job, nor was it a "small matter" such as his own corruption and bribery, but a matter of principle. mistake.

I have failed my grandson's trust, and I took the initiative to plant a nail in the harmonious relationship between the two of them.

He regretted it in his heart, but it was too late now.

Now, he can only take the initiative to smooth this matter out, and don't let this matter continue to affect their relationship.

Even if he is an extremely human minister, he is still a minister and a retainer.

At noon, all the officials from Fujian greeted His Royal Highness, and at night, His Highness served an imperial meal to entertain all the officials.Zheng He had to accompany him during this process.

It was not until after dinner that Zheng He left Fashizhai and entered Quanzhou City under the protection of his guards and entourage.

Because the army is stationed inside and outside the city, there is no curfew in Quanzhou today.

When the convoy approached the Qingjing Temple, Zheng He heard a burst of scolding from the guards.He lifted the curtain of the carriage and saw the shadow of a lantern.

The close eunuch Jia Shiwen trotted over and said, "My lord, Ahmed is asking to see you."

"Please hurry up..."

After a while, Jia Shiwen walked over with a few Semites who were dressed similarly to the Han people but looked different from the Han people.Before they got close, they all bowed their hands and congratulated: "Congratulations to the Duke, originally planned to go to the capital to congratulate the king, but later learned that the Duke will come to Quanzhou after the next year, so I was lazy for a while."

Zheng He smiled and said: "We have known each other for many years, so we don't need to be so polite. I will arrive at Qingjing Temple soon, why bother to come out like this on the way?"

The big guy in the lead is about fifty this year, and he is the Ahmed that Jia Shiwen said.At the beginning, his family had contributed to the rectification of chaos in the Ming Dynasty, so it was not liquidated, and gradually developed into the leader of the Semitic people except Imam Habu.

Even the largest Qingjing Mosque in Quanzhou City was built by his father back then.

All the wrinkles on his face are blocked by a big beard, only the deep lines at the corners of his eyes reveal his age. "I just rushed over and met here. Please..."