"What? Yang Xingzhou is coming to the Central Plains?"

"Is he coming to pay homage to the emperor as the king of a country?"

"Could it be that when Zhou came to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, he also wanted to become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty?"

"Are you kidding? Today, the Great Zhou Dynasty dominates the countries in the South China Sea, regains Goryeo, and destroys the Tatars. The territory is huge and the number of capable people is far greater than that of the Ming Dynasty. If I don't emulate others' ambitions and destroy my own prestige, what if we really have two countries?

At the beginning of the war, although our Ming Dynasty has strong military strength, it is still a few points behind the Zhou Dynasty! This is not what I said, but what the current Pavilion Elder Li Boyuan said. Li Boyuan's son, Li Tanhua Li Xunfeng, is now

The Prime Minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty held a high position of power, and because of this relationship, Mr. Li Boyuange had the opportunity to enter the territory of the Great Zhou Dynasty and see the strength of the Great Zhou Dynasty's military force!"

"This incident has been heard all over the world. It was because of Mr. Li Ge that the Zhou Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty signed a non-aggression treaty, which stabilized the border, increased trade, and reduced many casualties among the people."

"Who would have thought that Yang Xingzhou was just a martial artist more than ten years ago, but now he has become the emperor of a country and the emperor of overseas countries! He used to be called the Marshal and the Sharpshooter, but now this nickname may need to be changed."

"What should I change?"

"It should be called the Great Emperor's Divine Spear!"

At this time, Yang Xingzhou's dragon boat had arrived near Taizhou. Officials from the Ming Dynasty had been waiting for him at the dock. When they saw Yang Xingzhou and his party disembarking, they hurriedly came to greet him. They boasted and led Yang Xingzhou to Taizhou city and held a banquet in his honor.

"I haven't been to this place for more than ten years, and when I come back today, nothing has changed."

Yang Xingzhou walked around Taizhou City and smiled at the local magistrate who came to greet him: "In the past, I set out from Taizhou to kill the Huangyan Japanese pirates. I went all the way south along the coast to collect Ryukyu, destroy the Japanese country, unite the Taiwan Yuan, and establish the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Navigating the South China Sea, conquering Goryeo, and destroying the Tatars, we made the Zhou Dynasty famous and powerful all over the world. And the starting point of all this is in Taizhou City."

He sighed with regret on his face: "In more than ten years, I have established a country and proclaimed myself emperor. I have been working hard to protect my people from the suffering of cold and hunger, from being bullied by foreign enemies, and to live and work in peace and contentment. The country is rich and the people are prosperous. And

This Taizhou city has not changed at all in more than ten years, and is even a bit shabby than before. The people along the way have no food and even food and clothing, which is really pitiful!"

Jia Tongxin, the magistrate of Taizhou, said awkwardly: "What the king is saying is that when Brother Xunfeng governed Taizhou in the past, it was indeed much better than it is now. However, in the past two years, there have been droughts and two years of floods, and the people have suffered greatly from natural disasters. Now the court does not

If the common people are allowed to go to the sea, they will naturally suffer hardship."

He sighed and said: "You, the Zhou Dynasty, are secretly extraditing the victims. I actually know this, but I can't bear to see the victims suffering from the disaster, starving to death, or causing a civil commotion, so your country is secretly extraditing the victims."

When I go to sea, I turn a blind eye and do nothing to stop him."

Jia Tongxin saluted Yang Xingzhou and said: "I would like to thank the king for taking care of the people of our dynasty over the years. If it were not for Zhou Dynasty, the number of victims who would have starved to death would probably be at least hundreds of thousands. And because the king killed Japanese pirates overseas, I

There are no more Japanese pirates in Taizhou City, and there are countless living people. The people of Taizhou have kept this in mind."

Yang Xingzhou smiled and said: "Don't mention these things again, but the Ming Dynasty has never opened the sea. It is very stupid to stop eating because of choking!"

Jia Tongxin looked embarrassed and did not dare to answer Yang Xingzhou's words.

At this time, officials from all over the coast knew that opening up the sea would be beneficial without any harm, especially some big families in the south of the Yangtze River. They only wanted to annex land, and more often they secretly formed fleets to communicate with the caravans of the Zhou Dynasty.

Yes or no, everyone is extremely rich by making huge profits from it, but the people are unable to fish because they cannot go to the sea. It is like guarding against food and not being allowed to eat. It is really miserable.

After these large families in the south of the Yangtze River made huge profits from the sea, in order to prevent more people from participating in it and worrying about diluting their profits, the family officials in the court became representatives of their family interests.

In the hall, they firmly opposed the imperial court's opening of the sea, and put pressure on the imperial court on the grounds that "the laws of the ancestors cannot be abolished" and did not allow the emperor to think about the sea ban.

For these people, "the Holy Emperor rules from the top", they don't care about anything, everything is decided by their civil servant group, that is the best state, once their interests are violated, even the Emperor and others will stop it

, they uprightly did not allow the court to compete with the people for profit, but in fact it was these officials who competed with the people.

Therefore, even though Yang Xingzhou went to sea for more than ten years and allowed the caravans under his rule to conduct large-scale trade with the Ming Dynasty, the profits were only made by disciples of the famous families. The country did not benefit at all, and it could not even collect business taxes.

As a result, the national treasury was in deficit and could not make ends meet.

Yang Xingzhou understood this, Jia Tongxin understood it, everyone in the aristocratic families in the Jiangnan area understood this, and many people in the court also understood it, but the emperor and I did not understand it.

"Forget it, it's useless to talk about this kind of thing. When I have time to meet the Ming Emperor, I will have a good talk with him!"

Yang Xingzhou knew that Jia Tongxin couldn't handle this kind of thing, and he didn't dare to. The power in the Jiangnan area was too great in the imperial court. Forming cliques and fooling the imperial court were what these scholars liked to do most, and they wanted to overthrow this group of people.

, is almost impossible.

After all, those who hold power are all scholars. The civil and military forces in the entire dynasty are colluding, and few have a clean family background. Even if they are from a clean background, as soon as they enter the court, their cleanliness will soon become unclean.

You also have no chance to enter the court.

Yang Xingzhou had been the emperor for so many years and knew this kind of thing better than anyone else. He was too lazy to talk about it now. After staying in Taizhou City for a few days, he set off again and rushed to Beijing City.

When he came to the Central Plains this time, he had more than 3,000 followers, and there were many gifts, not to mention gold, silver and jewelry, pearls, gems, all kinds of fancy Western gadgets and things unique to the Zhou Dynasty.

, they were all put in big boxes and checked by horse-drawn carriage.

In addition to these things, Yang Xingzhou also brought many special animals as gifts to the Emperor of Heaven. Kangaroos, platypuses, large lizards, koalas, emus and other strange animals from the southern land were regarded as rare birds.

From overseas to the Central Plains, officials and people along the way looked at it and were all amazed.

His team was extremely eye-catching along the way, and officials along the way did not dare to neglect him. They paid homage to him one after another on the way. By the time they arrived in Beijing, it was already a month later.

Along the way, Yang Xingzhou was still sitting in his flaming chariot, and the red flame dragon horse was still the main force pulling the chariot. The officers and soldiers of the Zhou Dynasty on both sides cleared the way, holding various ceremonial weapons, showing great majesty and solemnity.

When they arrived outside Beijing, the Ming Emperor had already led hundreds of civil and military officials to greet him outside the Suzaku Gate. After all, Yang Xingzhou was not paying tribute to a small foreign country at this time, but an emperor whose power exceeded the Ming country. He came in person. The Ming Emperor was unreasonable.

Everyone went out of town to welcome him.

When Yang Xingzhou walked out of the carriage, he saw a young man in yellow, surrounded by officials, looking at him with curiosity on his face. Seeing Yang Xingzhou looking at him, the young man in yellow raised his hands and smiled.

: "Brother Yang, when you established your country overseas, weren't the places overseas said to be barren lands? How come your Great Zhou Kingdom is so powerful?"

Yang Xingzhou knew the identity of this person. The young man in yellow clothes was named Zhu Houzhao.

ps: It’s not working anymore, I can’t finish it. I’ll finish the third chapter tomorrow.
Chapter completed!