Chapter 108                           

In Confucianism, there has always been a vision of educating the world. It was just suppressed by various reality and had to enter into restraint. It was like the Confucianism of the Song Dynasty, who really did not want to educate the barbarians in the past. It was just that it could not be defeated.

Now the Ming Dynasty's complete victory in the foreign war has also cultivated the different spirits of Confucian scholars and officials.

This kind of thought tear a hole from the Confucianism, which has a great support for Zhu Qizhen's national policy.

Zhu Qizhen was naturally happy.

However, he also easily found other different things from these ideas. For example, in addition to supporting Zhu Qizhen's national policy, overseas expansion also has a great positive effect on many big merchants and sea merchants. Not to mention anything else, they can not only seize the markets in various places, drive back merchants out of here, but also do military business.

The Xian family's fleet almost operated with the Ming army and became the war merchants of the Ming Dynasty. Some of the spoils distributed to the soldiers were in the hands of the Xian family, and the previous ones were huge profits.

Therefore, the first dividend of the Ming Dynasty's external expansion was that it was swallowed up by these big merchants.

Zhu Qizhen changed his words and said, "Is Chongqing okay in Guangdong?"

The prince didn't know why Zhu Qizhen asked this.

Although Chongqing is Zhu Qizhen's favorite daughter, Zhu Qizhen's favorite is always the Ming Dynasty, not any child. The prince had known this long ago.

Even if Zhu Qizhen really misses his daughter, the Chongqing princess is in Guangdong and can send people to inquire at any time. It is even more convenient to tell the news. Beijing may be more convenient than Nanyang or the West.

The prince was puzzled, but he still replied: "Father, the emperor is very good. I heard that the emperor's eldest son is already an adult this year. She was about to send the child to the capital's main hall, but she didn't know if it was appropriate."

After hearing this, Zhu Qizhen frowned slightly before digging out a name from the depths of his memory. He said, "Is it Xian Lei?"

Not to mention Zhu Qizhen’s ruthlessness, he can’t even remember his grandson’s name.

Zhu Qizhen has eight sons, seven daughters, a total of fifteen children, and each child has several sons and daughters.

Although many of Zhu Qizhen's third generation have not yet grown up, there are already 100 people.

How could Zhu Qizhen remember everything?

And just as the prince thought.

Perhaps Zhu Qizhen himself thinks it is not wrong to be right for his children, but in fact, Zhu Qizhen has devoted too much energy to government affairs.

I don’t have much thought at all, I put it on my children.

Even if he cares about the prince, he doesn't know how much he cares about his political successors and how much he cares about his son.

It is already rare to remember the eldest son of Chongqing at this moment.

The prince said, "It's Xian Lei."

Zhu Qizhen said with a little sigh, "It's so big." Then he said, "Is Xian Jing's family business very big?"

When the prince heard this, he felt aroused in his heart and said, "This is indeed the case."

Zhu Qizhen said: "How much have you participated in it?"

When the prince heard this, his heart skipped a beat.

No, he participated too much in the Xian family. Many things that he could not get on the table in private were hidden under the condom of the Xian family, such as three thousand private soldiers.

This is something that cannot be shamed. As the prince, he is rich in the world. If he wants to use troops, he will be ordered by the Ming Dynasty. No one dares to obey the orders. In this case, if he wants to maintain a private army, what he wants to do is self-evident.

When the prince heard Zhu Qizhen’s question, his first thought was that his father knew. The second thought was how much did his father know?

Even though the prince is a very mature politician now and is a big shot in politics, he is still a son in front of Zhu Qizhen.

Therefore, in front of Zhu Qizhen, it is inevitable that he lacks confidence.

Fortunately, his experience over the years has been enough, which has made him feel turbulent and naked on his face, but he was slightly stunned.

When Zhu Qizhen saw the prince like this, he immediately determined in his heart that the prince must have participated in the Xian family, which also verified all the previous information.

He added a little, saying, "Tell the truth."

The prince said silently: "Yes, Erchen did not participate in the management of the Xian family, but the Xian family worshipped Erchen between one million and two million taels every year. Erchen also needs some businesses to cooperate in many things. In the South and West situation, many military, political, commercial and business matters are inseparable. Erchen knows that it is inappropriate to do this, but Erchen also wants to take care of his Chongqing sister Yi Er."

Zhu Qizhen nodded, he knew that the prince said something.

People who really do things know that many things are not black or white, but gray. A gentleman who truly upholds morality often cannot do things.

The prince also wanted to play the family card to defend himself.

This is also a common means to fight for the throne.

Zhu Qizhen was not surprised at all.

The father and son, from the beginning, faced each other with the king and his subjects, gradually turned into a game between two politicians, but they were completely unaware of it.

It seems that this is the most familiar way they get along with others.

Zhu Qizhen took out a stack of documents and asked Huaien to hand them over to the prince, saying, "A gentleman loves his friends with virtue. It turns out that this is how you, the elder brother, love your sister."

The prince took the document from Huaien and opened it and looked at it. He was stunned.

His face changed slightly.

A burst of heart surged. He never expected that the Xian family and the Lu family would do such a thing in Jiangnan. They almost bit their teeth for a moment. Countless Cao Nima in his heart were about to spit out. If Xian Jing was in front of the prince now, the prince would have the intention to kill him.

The prince is shameless.

He said wholeheartedly that he wanted to inherit the throne. Therefore, he cherished his feathers very much. He was unwilling to offend some people unless he had no choice. When he was Tathagata, Wang Shu did not give the prince a good face, and the prince was just depressed afterwards and did not have an attack at that time.

If you do not do some secret things unless you have to, the prince will have a group of men and horses, all of which are selected from the Jinyiwei, and ensure that they are done properly and foolproof, and there will be no so many things that will be exposed at all.

Even so, the prince is self-careful. It is best not to do these things, because if you want others to know, don’t do it unless you do it yourself.

Calculate that the prince had done some private things in Jiaozhi and other places, but most of them were killed by the Li family of Jiaozhi and some Hui Muslims.

In the Ming Dynasty, I have never done anything.

The prince dared not do it himself.

The Xian family and the Lu family dared to do this, almost blatant and unscrupulous.

This is because the smaller the person has power, the more arrogant and domineering he is, and he doesn't know how to restrain himself.

The prince's anger was suppressed by himself. Because anger could not solve the problem, he could not kill Xian Jing now. Even if he could kill Xian Jing, he could not solve the problem.

What he has to face is the father's responsibilities.

He took a deep breath, placed the document on a table, knelt on the ground, and said, "My son, I have been in the army for a long time. I don't know that this generation is so arrogant and has a crime of inadvertent supervision. I also ask my father to punish him."

Zhu Qizhen said slowly: "Is it just a mistake to monitor?"

The prince gritted his teeth and said, "Yes. Please give me a chance to deal with this matter."

Zhu Qizhen said: "This is given to me by Wang Shu. If you didn't give you a chance to wipe your butt, some people wouldn't be alive."

This is Zhu Qizhen's original intention. On the one hand, he said that he missed his daughter, and on the other hand, he sentenced his son-in-law to death.

Perhaps Zhu Qizhen was still unable to do anything to kill his son and daughter, but Zhu Qizhen was never ruthless when he killed a son-in-law.

Moreover, Xian Jing was not what Zhu Qizhen wanted to kill, but had to take the blame for the prince.

How can I kill a few cats and dogs in this case? I have to have a few to give me the guillotine of the National Law.

The prince said, "Thank you for your tolerance." But he thought to himself: "Xian Jing must not die."

It is not said that the prince is a person with great affection and is reluctant to kill his sister-in-law. It can be said that the prince always respects Xian Jing too much. He just looked at Xian Jing with a high look at her sister's face.

Anyway, even if Xian Jing was killed, not the Xian family, there would be several sons in Xian Jing. If Xian Jing died, his sons were a Chongqing princess and said that they would never be convicted.

However, the Xian family must be investigated, which may leave many industries for the Chongqing princess, but more industries will be accepted as officials or auctioned to compensate those who were harmed by the Xian family.

But can the Xian family investigate? Is Xian Jing even willing to die?

It can be said that the matter of the prince raising a private army and mobilizing a private army is very secret. The prince knows very well that the king will not lose his country secretly, and the ministers will not lose their body secretly. If a few things are not secret, it will cause harm.

So keep the secret as much as possible. The prince’s confidant ministers such as Liu Daxia and Zhang Mao were not very clear about the matter.

The only person who knows it is Wang Zhi.

Because Wang Zhi directly led and selected people to train this private army.

Another person who knows is Xian Jing.

The reason is very simple. Nothing is missing from money, and it is even more so for raising soldiers. The military system of the imperial court naturally has the Ministry of War, and the local governments of the Privy Council support the logistics, so there is no need to worry too much, but private soldiers do not have such treatment.

Only Xian Jing can have the financial resources to support the private army from being discovered.

So this matter cannot be hidden from Xian Jing.

Xian Jing was willing to die with such a big handle on the prince? Or even if Xian Jing was willing to die and investigate the Xian family, how could he not find any clues?

You know, these are three thousand soldiers, not thirty or three hundred?

At this moment, the prince's heart was completely panicked.

Seeing that the prince did not mean to shelter Xian Jing, Zhu Qizhen breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Crown Prince, you must know that today nearly 70% of the money is in business tax, businessmen, and major affairs of the country. Many high-ranking officials and nobles have participated in business in depth. I also know that this is OK for a family, but the world belongs to my Zhu family, so my Zhu family can't do this."
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