The eldest grandson of Emperor Ming Dynasty!

Since ancient times, people have not fought with officials, let alone low-status businessmen.

In fact, the most important thing is to figure out your own position, thinking that if you bring a lot of benefits to others, others will definitely protect you.

As we all know, for the nobles, their own power is the most important.

Money is a thing, if it is gone, it will be gone. As long as the power is still there, it can still be earned back later.

In terms of extermination, the nobles are surprisingly unanimous. Those who put loan sharks in the prison, as well as those who followed along with them, all died tragically in the prison without exception.

"Drink it, drink it and go on the road early, so that our brothers will not come in and start."

"I have already killed dozens of people today, and my hands are sore when I lift the corpse. If you do this again, you will really lose the strength to eat later."

"Acquaintance points, and you can avoid some pain. The things in it are added to the amount, and they are stored in the shortest possible time. It won't be painful for too long."

Outside the cell, several jailers tried to persuade him.

They are really tired.

The housekeepers of the big bosses from all walks of life came to visit the prison one after another, and their ranks were higher than each other. It is not at all that they can violate it.

The arsenic in the nearby pharmacy is almost sold out.

All these people caught in prison recently must die.

After the key is dead, because of some relationship, they have to carry it out by themselves, which is a manual job.

Everyone has been exhausted since they started working in the morning.

The businessman in the prison cell who heard this had a frightened expression on his face, begging for mercy repeatedly: "I follow Li Shilang, if you do this, Li Shilang will definitely not let you go."

"Do you know how much money I gave him as a tribute? This is an amount that you can't imagine in your dreams."

"Quickly release me, I will definitely not pursue it after I go out."

The assistant minister doesn't seem to be very big in the court, but looking at the boundaries of the capital, he is also a first-class official.

Basically, most things can be settled easily, without even needing to come forward.

The jailer smiled, and said: "Return the servant, I don't care which servant you are, if you know what the backstage of the one in front is, it's already a minister, so it's useless."

"Even if it has something to do with the palace, it's still the same. I can still save myself after drinking it. If we brothers do something later, it won't be so easy."

"Besides, you are dead in prison now, and you are the only one who will die. If you really want to struggle, you will die in the whole room."

"Our brother really has no strength, there are still hundreds of numbers behind, and the top is pressing hard."

"Here is the bowl for you, let's be more sensible."

"Remember, drink it all up, if the dose is not enough, you will be the one who suffers."

The jailer put the bowl filled with the potion on the ground, and after he finished speaking, he walked towards the next cell, leaving the businessman with a dead face and his eyes blank.

After a long time, the businessman seemed to have figured it out. He walked to the cell door and held up the medicine bowl tremblingly, for fear of spilling it.

And then drank it all in one gulp.

Even the residue inside was licked clean.

Just like the jailer said, drinking less will only lead to more torture.

For a moment, a miserable cry sounded, this was the last torture before death.

Throughout the prison, screams echoed one after another, echoing continuously.

The prisoners who had nothing to do with this incident were so frightened that they curled up in the corner of the cell and trembled constantly.

Such scenes are really the shadows in the hearts of ordinary people for a lifetime.

Even the jailers seldom saw such a scene, and they felt a little panicked in their hearts.

Turning around, the jailers could only swarm up and forcefully irrigate those who were unwilling to drink, which took a lot of effort.

Jailers are not allowed to commit suicide privately, especially for injuries such as swords.

The most basic execution power has nothing to do with them.

The saber at the waist is mostly a decoration.

Going into the cell to wipe the neck of the prisoner is not allowed by the law, and secondly, ordinary jailers don't have the courage to do it with their own hands.

Taking poison would be considered suicide.

This time the incident was so big that the jailers had no other choice.

Fortunately, when people from above give orders, they will give a lot of rewards. After removing the cost of buying medicine, they earn the rest.

This wave can be regarded as a windfall.

There are only a dozen or 20 guards in a normal cell, but now there are several hundred guards in each cell.

After death, even if it is carried out and thrown to the prisoner's family, everyone has to carry dozens of them on their backs.

This turmoil in the capital, like a thunderstorm, came and went even faster.

In two or three days, more than 1 people lost their lives.

More than 1 people may seem like a lot, but in fact, it has no major impact on the entire city of Nanjing.

Perhaps the only thing that stood out was that almost all the money houses and pawnshops in the neighborhood were closed and sealed.

According to the current Ming law, the title deeds of these shops will be invalidated, and they will be checked into the internal funds and entered into the emperor's private treasury.

Among them, of course, are the other property of these usury merchants, which will be confiscated and confiscated.

Sometimes money is really that easy.

Zhu Yuanzhang also sighed a little.

It turns out that these merchants have so much money in their hands, if they had known about it back then, they would have stared at the merchants a lot, so they wouldn't be as embarrassed as before.

Zhu Ying no longer has much feeling for money.

His current idea is to develop internal affairs on a large scale, as well as various industrial bases, and then expand the territory of Ming Dynasty.

After three months, the Beiyuan Employment Guild has already reached a certain scale.

The direction of development now lies in the protection of caravans, especially in the Western Regions.

Feeling that the timing was almost up, Zhu Ying called Zhang Bo.

"If I remember correctly, there was a Mongolian member in our Chamber of Commerce earlier, he was a good Weiwu son, named Batu, right?"

Zhu Ying asked after recalling.

Over there is the branch of the Qunying Chamber of Commerce in the Golden Horde, which is very far away. Between Daming, there is a difference between the Western Regions, the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, and then the Golden Horde.

The spread of news is naturally very slow.

At the beginning, Zhu Ying ordered all the Mongolian chambers of commerce to withdraw to the Western Regions, and then entered the Ming Dynasty.

The news from the Golden Horde was late, and the loss was much greater.

Among them, when Zhu Ying checked the information, he was more impressed with Batu described in the file.

In name, the Western Regions belong to Daming, so Daming cannot casually attack the Western Regions, as this will affect Daming's reputation.

The Mongols are different. They are notoriously fierce, especially the small countries in the Western Regions, who have been ravaged by Mongolian cavalry many times.

If you want to stir up the water in the pool of the Western Regions, it is naturally more convenient for the Mongols to come forward.

Zhang Bo replied: "After the Mongolian men like Batu withdrew, they have been staying in our city of heroes in the Western Regions."

"If His Highness has any orders, I think they will be able to handle them."

Zhu Ying nodded and said, "Send them some money and food to support them, recruit soldiers and horses in the Western Regions, and go on conquests everywhere, causing chaos in the entire Western Regions."

"Bei Yuan hired a team of [-] cavalry from the mercenary guild to help Batu win more territory."

"Don't worry about logistics, but if there's anything you can't see, just call it."

"Tamerlane should have a lot of advantages over the Golden Horde. Timur himself is very proud. I think he will prepare to launch troops against the Eastern Chagatai Khanate in the near future."

"Let Batu and the others participate in the past, and when they have enough troops, they will sweep the borders of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate at the same time."

"In terms of funds, take 2000 million treasure notes and gradually support the past within two years."

The Western Regions are too hip.

Especially the Western Regions now.

At the beginning, Zhu Ying had thousands of riders in his hand, so he could run rampant throughout the Western Regions, but in the Western Regions, there is no point in having too many territories, and the land is vast and sparsely populated, so maybe not a single person can be seen for several days.

Zhu Ying's original idea was also in business. Apart from building a city of heroes, he didn't deliberately conquer several countries to show his force or anything. It was just for fun.

It is different now, and the integration of the Western Regions is of greater significance.

High-yield crops can still have a very good output value in the Western Regions.

The Western Regions is at the junction of Timur and the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, and its geographical location is also relatively important.

Although Timur died on the march in history, some things have changed. Whether he will die like that, Zhu Ying has no idea.

It's better to play it safe.

There's no need to bet on something that hasn't happened yet.

The Western Regions are too big, almost half the size of the current Ming Dynasty.

Time can only be considered in the long-term direction.

On Timur's side, the overall situation now is similar to what Zhu Ying expected.

When Timur got the cement formula, he naturally started a big construction without hesitation.

Timur itself attaches great importance to cavalry, and the post stations in Timur's entire territory are also extremely distributed, which is similar to Meng Yuan's idea.

Today's Timur is as imposing as a rainbow, with a powerful force fighting unscrupulously in many ways, and he has won consecutive victories all the way.

For now, in the entire Central Asian region, Timur is already a veritable overlord, and none of the surrounding countries can fight.

The Timurid Empire has a territory about the same size as the actual territory of Ming Dynasty now.

Among them, the strength is also around 200 million, not much less than that of Daming.

Unlike Daming's self-sufficient guard system, Timur's side is a slave system, that is, he uses slaves to forcefully support his army.

A large part of the army is also a slave army.

With the way of fighting to support war, Timur didn't have to worry about his lack of troops. He would always think about how to consume the slave army on hand.

Because if you consume it too slowly, it will become your own burden.

Led by Mongolian iron cavalry, these slave armies also have considerable combat effectiveness. They are said to be slaves, but in fact, many of them were the backbone of small neighboring countries in the early days.

It's not that these small countries are not well developed, but that compared with the Mongolian Khanate, they are indeed far worse. The quality of the Mongolian cavalry is equivalent to a natural gap in all aspects.

There are many plains here, and on the plains, hundreds of Mongolian cavalry can easily kill thousands of infantry.

It is a gap of ten times.

In addition, on Timur's side, the number of cavalry itself is more than the infantry of ordinary small countries, so what can they resist.

If it was more than 100 years earlier, the places where these small countries are located were still conquered by Genghis Khan.

According to Timur, this is not aggression, but recovery.

Of course, Timur only ruled the king in Central Asia.

There is Ming Dynasty in the east.

In name, Timur was still a courtier of Ming Dynasty.

In the West, there is the Ottoman Empire, which is now at its peak.

The Ottoman Empire was at the intersection of Eastern and Western civilizations, and it had controlled the land transportation lines of Eastern and Western civilizations for hundreds of years.

Not long after Kublai Khan moved to the Central Plains, that is, in the fourth year of his death, the Ottoman Empire was established.

The Ottoman Empire, which has developed for a hundred years, is in a period of rising sun.

The ancient Byzantine Empire farther west faced the newborn Ottoman Empire in a completely retreating situation.

Today's Ottoman Empire already spans the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa, and its influence is extremely powerful.

Even Timur was cautious when facing the Ottoman Empire.

Of course, as a Mongolian, he is born with a strong psychological advantage over Western European countries.

Because since the rise of the nomads, in this world, wars in the west have never been lost.

This is not an exaggeration.

And it's not just the Mongols, either.

For example, the former Xiongnu Empire was the strongest and most expansive empire on the Asian continent. It once galloped and plundered everywhere, and became a terrible civilization-destroying force lying between east and west.

It's just that when the invincible Xiongnu Empire in the West encountered a big man from the East, it almost never won.

They were chased and beaten all the way.

Speaking of the final demise of the Roman Empire, it also has a lot to do with the big man.

All kinds of kneeling Huns in the east, strictly speaking, are the Northern Huns, who were expelled from the Mobei Plateau by the Han Dynasty.

The northern Huns gradually retreated westward until the Don River and the Danube River basin, and based on the southern Russian steppe, they finally launched a war against the Roman Empire.

The Northern Huns, who had experienced the hell mode in the East, finally discovered that they could hang and beat everything at will when they came to the West.

So in the end, the Huns did not return to the East, and gradually integrated into the Western countries.

Although the ethnic groups are different, the Mongols and the Huns are both nomadic peoples.

The Mongol Empire after the Hun Empire was roughly the same.

Timur could submit to Ming Dynasty, but in his heart, he had no fear at all of the approaching powerful Ottoman Empire.

Recently, I was thinking about whether I should have a fight with them first to try the situation.