Chapter 20: Sunset in the West (1)

Finally, the officials discussed a compromise plan, and five types of businesses were strictly prohibited, including tea, cloth, salt, iron (weapons and armor), and grain. Once discovered, the merchant was punished by collusion with the enemy and was imprisoned for half a year, and the goods were levied with a 300% penalty tax; other non-strategic materials, such as luxury goods, can not only be bought and sold, but also reduced by 20% of the tax.

Zhu Zhi's bad idea for the dumping of luxury goods was Zhu Zhi. He patiently explained to everyone: "Now, luxury goods in Liaodong have accounted for 30% of the total trade volume, which shows that the Jurchen nobles and rich people have become dependent on these things. If you should buy them, they will still buy them. These things will only further weaken the Jurchens' ability to fight.

Therefore, it should be distinguished from those five strategic materials. Not only should it not be prohibited, but it should also be encouraged."

The law also stipulates that for five types of strategic materials, merchants report to the government based on the transaction books of last year, and the government subsidizes 50% of the losses and subsidizes them to the merchants in the form of tax cuts in five years. The other 50% of the losses will be subsidized by the government in other forms.

The law was implemented on the first day of September 27, Hongwu. As for the other 50% of the losses, Zhu Zhi said he would find a way.

As soon as the law came out, the whole of Liaodong was in an uproar. The officials were surprised, the merchants were surprised, and even the people were surprised.

The Haixi Juzhen reported the news to Zahaqi of Laru Mansion overnight. After learning about it, Zahaqi not only jumped up in anger, but instead looked calm and continued to drink.

When the first snow fell in Liaodong, a merchant called "Liaodong Lianhao" appeared in Guangning. The major shareholder unexpectedly turned out to be the Liaodong government! It owned 50% of the shares, and each of the four major merchants invested 5,000 taels of silver, each accounting for 10% of them. The other 10% were formed by other small merchants that suffered losses due to the laws.

As for what business this business is, even the officials in Liaodong don’t know. But some scholars in Liaodong have already complained about the business that the government has participated, sayings of “competing for profit with the people” and “corrupting the rules” are rampant.

Zhu Zhi ignored these statements. He did two more things that everyone could understand even more.

The first is to establish a school. In Guangning, Zhu Zhi took out 3,000 taels of silver from his own Wangzhuang income, bought 100 acres of land based on the mountain-bangshui, and built several school buildings and dormitories, named "Liaodong School".

Zhu Zhitong ordered all children over the age of seven to enter school for free in Liaodong. He only needs to be responsible for the children's meals.

As soon as this move was made, Confucians applauded again and sang praises to Zhu Zhi, saying that he respected teachers and education and benefited the people.

It's not true, because Zhu Zhi posted a list of recruitment articles for the recruitment of gentlemen: each gentleman costs five taels a month, and sixty taels a year, which is equivalent to the salary of a seventh-rank magistrate in the mainland. Scholars from all over the country are eager to try.

The farthest place is even related to Neidongping Prefecture.

Some old Confucian scholars were thinking about the sixty taels of silver to see the fun. Who knew that when they saw the recruitment requirements, they were immediately stunned. There were only four men who taught the saints to learn.

Other subjects such as arithmetic, geography, and geography. The most surprising thing is that there is another subject called "Alchemy". Moreover, the teacher who teaches the saints must understand other subjects.

Some scholars who know how to do arithmetic covered their mouths and laughed, but those scholars who only read the books of sages cursed and insulted their ethics. The school was in a noisy moment. It was bustling around, and it was very lively.

However, Zhu Zhi was very disappointed. After choosing for a long time, he picked three scholars who knew how to learn arithmetic. Another scholar who traveled from Jiangnan to Liaodong was named Li Jiawei. This person was a bit interesting.

According to him, after passing the exam for the scholar at the age of 18, he thought he had read thousands of books and should go out and travel thousands of miles.

So from then on, I traveled through the beautiful mountains and rivers of the motherland. In six years, I went to Leizhou in the south and Dunhuang in the west. I even went to Liuqiu, and used my experiences to write a travel notation of China.

Zhu Zhi talked to him and said that this was an ancient hiker. His understanding of various places happened to become a geography teacher.

As for the "elixir" genre, it is unique. Zhu Zhi knew that some ancient sorcerers who tried to refine alchemy and ascend to immortality were quite a bit like chemists. Maybe one or two such figures could be found.

It’s just that I have been posting the list for a month, and no one has applied for the job. There is not even a Taoist priest.

There was no choice but to let these four gentlemen organize the school first. The first batch of students ranged from seven to ten years old, with more than fifty people, most of whom were children of various merchants in Liaodong and some military officers.

Those Confucian disciples and the children of civil servants simply disdained to study in such schools. Zhu Zhi didn't care. It would be enough to have these fifty people, and a spark could set off a prairie fire.

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Snowflakes fluttered outside the window. Since winter began, heavy snow has fallen in Liaodong. Zhu Zhi shrank in the royal palace study and looked at the information sent by the scouts, and he couldn't believe his eyes.

The two-month trade war had no effect at all. The prices of iron, cloth and grain of the Jurchens only rose slightly by half a century, and the prices of tea and salt fell instead of rising.

Zhu Zhi threw the information in front of Tie Xuan and Yang Rong with a "small" and said, "Look at it, why is this happening?"

After reading it, the two couldn't help but frown. Yang Rong said: "I have investigated all the merchant transaction accounts from the whole summer to September. The Jurchens' inventory should not be able to last for so long."

Tie Xuan pondered for a moment and said, "Do they have other ways to buy goods?"

With a word, he reminded Zhu Zhi. He pulled the map and observed it carefully. As he looked, he punched the map: "Korean kid, I actually ruined my big deal."

Tie Xuan and Yang Rong looked up at the map and looked at each other. Tie Xuan looked up and said, "What is your highness?"

Zhu Zhi said: "There must be a trading channel between the Goryeo and Jurchens in Ji'an, Hu'er's literary department, and Helan City. I said, "What's going on? The Goryeo people must have secretly exported these goods to the Jurchens."

So the Jurchens have no shortage of talents and supplies. So hurry up, send scouts to these places immediately and find out how many goods were sold to the Jurchens."

Yang Rong said: "In addition to Goryeo, will Mongolian departments also have transactions?"

Tie Xuan said: "I don't think so. The Mongolians don't produce these things. From the trading of several horse markets to the goods, they are barely enough."

Zhu Zhi said: "Just in case, we must send scouts to the west."

...

"Is it cold?" A veteran changed a fur coat to a young man who was trembling with cold.

"Long, why aren't it cold? Brother, I can resist it young, you can wear it yourself."

"Hehe, my body is trained. Just get through this winter, please give me a thumbs up."

There were 2,000 households, 300 households, and 50 scouts from the General Banner were already ambushed on a mountain road in Changbai Mountain near Helan City, but Guang was frozen for a night. But it was "The birds in the mountains flew away, and the people in the thousands of paths were destroyed."

The sun rose, and the sunlight spread through the gaps between branches and leaves on the road. The snow shone with dazzling light.

The chef brought a big cake to each scout, which was cold and stiff. Each scout was warm in his arms for a while before a slice of cake could be eaten in the snow.

It was a bit painful, but the morale of the scouts was high. They had been wandering around the mountains for ten days, hoping to find something to look for.

"All people come, get up, beware!" General Banner walked past and whispered to remind the scouts who were having breakfast.

A crisp ringtone vaguely came from a distance, "Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding..." in the morning of nature, which seemed particularly clear and pleasant. A strong mule had a white breath on its nose and walked on the Yangchang Mountain Road with a sled. The drivers on the sled kept whipping the horses.

"One, two, three...thirty-five, thirty-six" the general flag counted silently in his heart. A total of thirty-six drove sleds and more than fifty bodyguards were guarding the car.

"Look at my signal, each person aims at a stadiumer and passes it on."

"Boss. What if it is a Han Chinese?"

"…kill, kill without mercy."

"Ji..." A whistlebrating thunder was accurately inserted into the bodyguard, and he staggered and knocked off the horse.

Not far from the hillside, the scouts stood up at the same time, fifty arrows flew out at the same time, and more than twenty people fell off the horse. In winter, the nerves of humans and earth were a little stiff, and it took a while for the stadiumers to react and shout in words that they couldn't understand.

He quickly dismounted, but the second round of arrow rain had already arrived, and several more people were shot.

"Kill..." The scouts got on their horses and rushed out of the jungle, waving their sabers and whirlwinds into the sled team. The studs, who had lost 50% of their horses, could not stop the elite scouts. The moment the two sides met, several more studs fell down.

The remaining people were already angry and ran around on the mountain road. The chief flag shouted: "I will find good clothes and catch five living people, and no one else in the other place will be left."

The mountain road was calm again. The sled team of nearly a hundred people had been slaughtered. Five living people were taken to the head of the general flag. One of them, wearing a Liaodong-style fur robe, was so scared that he was soft on the ground and dragged over by two scouts.

"Is there anyone who can speak Chinese?" The general flag spoke immediately. No one answered, "Okay, each person cut one foot, and the rest would run away."

"Uncle, uncle, I can speak Chinese." The man in a fur robe fell to the ground like a sieve.

"Slowly, don't hurry to chop it up first! You will say why you are not honest just now. Who are you from? What's your name?" said the chief flag.

"Uncle, the small land is from Lianjin, North Korea National Day North, and is called Li and Li Zhenguo."

The chief flag smiled and said, "Brothers, do a good job, go back to Guangning."

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It was indeed done by the Koreans. I was trying hard to figure out the Jurchens. You kid took this opportunity to do a big deal with them?! Zhu Zhi looked at the interrogation records of North Korean merchants, and was so angry that he was so angry that he was itchy.

Tie Xuan said: "The current plan is to ask the court to report to the court and ask the court to issue an imperial edict to denounce North Korea's Li Chenggui, and order him to restrict businessmen from doing business with the Jurchens."

Zhu Zhi said: "Report to the court, as soon as you go, the flowers will bloom next spring. No, Mianren, you immediately draft a document for me, reprimanding Li Chenggui to help the Jurchens invade the border of the Ming Dynasty.

Tell him that I have rice ears in one hand and sword in the other, so I don’t know how to lift it. In addition, the four guards in Dingliao, left, front and back will set out to enter Jiuliancheng today.

In addition, the Goryeo trade route must be cut off. Isn’t the Guangning Zhongwei already trained almost all? He pulled out to fight Qiufeng and ordered them to go deep into the border border of the Goryeo Jurchens in units of thousands of households, sweep all the Jurchen tribes there, and cut off all the Goryeo border trade routes. He did not allow a grain of salt or a piece of tea to be entered into the ground in the west of Haixi.

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Tie Xuan quickly recorded Zhu Zhi's order. He looked at the order and said, "Your Highness, should we also put some pressure on Zahaqi in the north in order to cooperate with the actions of Guangning Central Guard?"

Zhu Zhi thought, and said, "Yes, Dingshi is a good reminder. In this way, Yulin Right Guard, Tieling Guard, Dingliao Right Guard, gathered towards Anlezhou, and Liaohai Guards together to make a stance to go out of the border."

Zhu Zhi looked at the snow scene outside the window and felt uncomfortable. Although he was posing to intimidate the Koreans, he knew very well that Liaodong could not start a war on two fronts now. If the Koreans aroused... No, the dishes should be eaten one by one.

But you can't always let the Goryeo people make trouble for themselves here. Wang Luchao, this name suddenly jumped into Zhu Zhi's mind. Yes, this piece should move.

After making up his mind, Zhu Zhi decided not to hide it from Tie Xuan and told him everything about Wang Lu's local affairs. Tie Xuan was frightened by such a bizarre and tortuous thing. "This matter is confidential, I hope Ding Shi understands it. I will explain it to you until today.

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Tiexuan hurriedly bowed: "Thank you Your Highness to trust."

Zhu Zhi said: "Although we set up troops to scare the Goryeo people, this can only be a scare. We do not have the strength to start a war on both sides at the same time.

So I want to use the Wang surname to let him take Li Chenggui's energy, so that he can't do anything all day long and plot against us. Mianren, what do you think?" Zhu Zhi knew that this was the job he was best at.

Yang Rong said: "The court has always been unfair to Li Chenggui's North Korea. From the perspective of his subordinates, your highness might as well put him back to the country. Even if the court asks us in the future, let's talk about the transaction between Li Chenggui and the Jurchens."

Tie Xuan said: "Yes, Your Highness doesn't have to worry too much. Now that North Korea's state-owned handle is in our hands, we are also famous for our military leadership."

Zhu Zhi said: "From you see, how to use this chess piece."

Yang Rong said: "There are three ways. First, lend troops to Wang Luchao, help him to capture a piece of territory on the border, and then let him absorb the former king's troops. But this disadvantage is that it will still attract North Korea's troops to the Ming Dynasty border; second, help Wang Luchao establish a navy and constantly harass the coastal areas of Goryeo. This will take longer, and it will not be drained in two years. Third, Beizhi has observed the map, and there is a large island named Danluo at the southern end of Goryeo. His Highness also mentioned it to Wang Luchao.

It would be better to send him to the island, allocate some of his troops, and use it as the base of our navy, so that he can not only protect him but also gain a foothold for the navy in the foreign countries.

"Yang Rong, Yang Rong, he is really a strategic strategist. It turns out that he has always been planning this matter.

Zhu Zhi nodded to Yang Rong with satisfaction and asked Tie Xuan: "What do you think of Dingshi?"

Tie Xuan said: "The third method is good. As Mianren said, it can also attract the soldiers of the Li Dynasty to the south. Reduce our pressure. In order to cooperate with the Wang Luchao's actions, we can continue to set off the border.

When he makes some noise in the south, he will withdraw his troops immediately. Your Highness is relieved that Li Chenggui will definitely look south. According to my opinion, Li Chenggui is much more active in being a thief in the family than to humiliate foreign countries.
Chapter completed!