Although Zhu Li and Zhu Di's achievements are not as bright as Zhu Di, they have also made a name for themselves over the years, and no one wants to offend these two vassal kings to death!

Of course, the small and medium-sized tribes don't have the courage, but if it is the Warat or the Tatar tribe that gathers a large army, they may not dare to touch the King of Jin or the King of Yan! But the possibility of this is not high, and if the current Ming Dynasty does not go deep into Mobei to beat them, they will already be regarded as burning high incense!

Therefore, this small group of Tartars who went south is basically speculative, and they make a lot of money if they succeed, and if they fail, it may be the end of the head falling to the ground! Once they are met by the Ming army, the tribes that are lucky enough to escape will also decline rapidly because of the loss of a large number of young adults, and the final fate is also to drag the family and directly merge into other tribes! .

In comparison, it is the situation in the northwest that reassures Zhu Yuanzhang the most!

Outside the northwest, with Hamiwei as a base, there are often patrols by border army squads, basically as long as you encounter the team of Tartars, you don't need to report if you can't get a customs clearance document or a commercial bond communication card, you can directly cut it all!

But how could an ordinary small tribe get Ganzhou's merchant coupons? Even if they had merchant coupons, they still had to have caravans and materials to buy and sell!

For example, cattle, sheep, horses, etc., the trade of these livestock can only be realized by those large grassland tribes!

Otherwise, these Tartars won't have to go south to take risks!

For example, these small tribes have no fertile grassland pastures, and basically do not have many livestock, and even if they do, they will be kept for the winter, and it is impossible to sell them to you! These small tribes can only do things with some small villages in the Ming Dynasty, and they all rely on dozens or hundreds of young and middle-aged people to support the entire tribe!

The land of the grassland is not suitable for farming, and the tribes at the bottom are also struggling to survive like the ordinary people of the Ming Dynasty!

It is even more impossible for a tribe with merchant bills to do such a thing, and it can only offend King Su!

Therefore, in the past few years, the situation on the border of the Ming Dynasty has been relatively stable, and there is no need for too many troops to deal with the Tartars going south, so there is no need to give these vassal kings too much money and food at all! This is also the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang is so angry, it is really the wool of the imperial court that is addicted!

At lunchtime, Zhu Yuanzhang specially asked Wang Chen to instruct the imperial dining room to make potato vermicelli! At the same time, he also summoned Zhang Zhen, the head of the household department, into the Fengtian Palace! Since it was decided to build the road, then Zhang Zhen must be taken care of, and as long as the person in charge of the money bag is loosened, everything else will be easy to say!

By the time the potato vermicelli was served, Zhang Zhen, the head of the household, had already arrived at the Fengtian Palace.

"Zhang Aiqing, dine with us'~!"

"Try the potato vermicelli from Ganzhou at noon today!"

After Zhu Yuanzhang greeted the monarch and ministers, he beckoned Zhang Zhen to sit down and eat together.

Zhang Zhen was flattered, there were definitely few people who could be invited by Zhu Yuanzhang to Fengtian Hall to dine together, there may have been a lot, but they were almost dead! Anyway, it was the first time he was summoned by Zhu Yuanzhang to Fengtian Hall to dine together!

Flattered, my heart also began to be suspicious.

His intuition told him that the emperor must have asked for money, otherwise there was no need to be so polite to himself!

Zhang Zhen, who is the head of the household department, is in charge of the money and grain in and out of the entire Ming Dynasty, and the pressure is also conceivable, even if the emperor wants to use money, he has to accurately calculate and weigh the pros and cons before he can agree!

Looking at Zhu Yuanzhang's posture, the money to be used this time is definitely not a small amount!

Although the treasury of the Ming Dynasty is now much fuller than in previous years because of the light of Su Wang Zhu Ao, and there is still at least a few million taels of silver surplus, in Zhang Zhen's opinion, this surplus is far from enough, and if he encounters any catastrophe, he will have to pour it all out!

From this point of view, Zhang Zhen, the head of the household, is still very competent!

Zhu Yuanzhang has recently fallen in love with eating potato vermicelli, and basically makes the imperial dining room cook a meal every day!

In fact, the method of this kind of potato vermicelli is also very simple, and it is specially made by the old 14 in order to be able to store potatoes for a long time!

Now the potato vermicelli in Ganzhou has also begun to be produced in large quantities and sold to the whole country of Daming!

Even those foreign caravans placed orders in large quantities!

Mainly because the price was not expensive, the common people could afford to eat it, and it was easy to store, and they were not afraid that it would go bad!

Especially after it was paired with the chili sauce produced in Ganzhou, Zhu Yuanzhang tasted a completely different feeling, and he could eat a bowl full of oil every day!

Compared with the delicacies of the mountains and the sea, he still preferred to eat this kind of grain that the common people could eat every day!

Zhu Yuanzhang is holding his bowl of potato vermicelli here, and the food is relatively casual, and the movement of the noodles is a bit big!

As soon as he finished half a bowl of noodles, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes couldn't help but fall on Zhang Zhen's body!

"̈~ Zhang Aiqing, this potato vermicelli has to be eaten to be fragrant!"

"Eat more!"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhang Zhen, who had not moved much chopsticks, and couldn't help but remind! How can Zhang Zhen have an appetite now? Although the treasury has been full recently, because Zhu Yuanzhang wants to expand rubber planting, he has already allocated a large amount of money to go out, which has already made him very distressed!

Rubber trees are just that, and the ministers also support a large number of planting, after all, this thing is indeed a good thing! But Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to use money in other aspects, and said in his heart that Zhang Zhen was reluctant!

Of course, that's only one aspect!

Not having the heart to eat is only one of them, and more importantly, Zhu Yuanzhang's movement of eating noodles is really a bit big, how can he have an appetite?

Moreover, he, as a courtier, did not dare to care how the emperor should eat!

The Ming Dynasty was different from the Tang Dynasty!

During the Tang Dynasty, some civil officials could even directly control the emperor's private life, such as the pair of Wei Zheng and Li Shimin!

But Zhu Yuanzhang was different, he himself was a beggar (Li Haozhao) and a peasant, and he never cared about this set of Confucianism!

There are some things that Confucianism can learn and can use!

But there are some things that Zhu Yuanzhang hates in Confucianism, and he will not give face if he doesn't listen to anyone's words!

" Your Majesty, you eat slowly.

"

As soon as Zhang Zhen wanted to move his chopsticks, he heard Zhu Yuanzhang's voice starting to snort again, and couldn't help but remind! "It's okay, it's fun to be squirming in this way, aren't all the people in the world living like this?"

While Zhu Yuanzhang was talking, a bowl of noodles had already been finished by him!

Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang had already put down the empty dishes and chopsticks, how could Zhang Zhen, a courtier, be embarrassed to continue to eat? Anyway, he had no appetite, so Zhang Zhen simply put down the dishes and chopsticks.

"Zhang Aiqing, let's come to you this time, we have something to discuss with you!"

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care, but stared at Zhang Zhen with burning eyes and said.

"Your Majesty, please speak!".

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