My Daming New Empire

Although the guardian envoy of the Shibo Division is one level higher than the chief officer of the Shibo Division, they supervise each other and restrain each other. He and Zhang Chong naturally have a tense relationship.

I have the support of His Royal Highness, the grandson, and the prefect Dong Yuan's support, which is naturally not comparable to Zhang Chongneng.So if he wants to frame Dong Yuan, it is very possible.

When the sedan chairs in Dong Yuan's mansion stopped, Dong Yuan lifted the curtain of the sedan chairs, bowed to Yu Xian and said, "I've seen the guard Yu."

Yu Xian returned a salute and said: "Master Dong, it is rare to see you in a sedan chair on weekdays, why do everyone come here in a sedan chair today?"

Dong Yuan is a real good man and an upright official, but his ability is not very good.He was able to be promoted to the prefect of Ningbo entirely because of the lack of talents in the early Ming Dynasty. He became an official early, and he worked as a prefect of Jinhua for nine years before he was promoted to the prefect of Ningbo.

It is precisely because of his character that he is a different kind in the officialdom. No matter what kind of people will like him, he also lacks help in the officialdom.

But he is old, and he doesn't have much self-motivation, just muddle through.He knew very well that Yu Xian was the grandson's confidant, so he had been cooperating with Yu Xian in Ningbo.

"I've heard for a long time that His Highness Grandson doesn't like luxury and noise, so I asked someone to change the sedan chair, so as not to scare His Highness by those animals."

Yu Xian sneered and said, "I'm afraid the Master doesn't know that at last year's Great Court Meeting, His Highness once suggested that people below the third rank and below sixty, except for patients and brides, regardless of age, gender, and sedan chair riders, should all be dismissed from office, right? "

Dong Yuan was shocked and said: "Although the Ming Dynasty stipulates that people below the third rank are not allowed to ride in a sedan chair, isn't this too strict? Besides, this sedan chair is comparable to an ox cart, and a horse cart costs money."

"Humans instead of animals, people are not as good as animals." Yu Xian shook his head and said: "This is His Highness's original words, and it is also because of His Highness's words. Although His Majesty did not cancel the sedan chair, he mainly travels by horse-drawn carriage. The shoulder chariot has been cancelled. Now in the whole Yingtian Mansion, apart from common people's weddings, there are almost no ministers of civil and military affairs sitting in sedan chairs,...the mansion should think about it carefully!"

This sentence is not difficult to understand. If you treat people like animals, it means that you yourself are not as good as animals.Hearing what Yu Xian said, Dong Yuan's expression changed drastically, and he said, "Dong Haoran misled me!"

He hurriedly said to his subordinates and followers: "Hurry up and send the sedan chair back, and come here in a carriage, there must be no mistake!"

The bearers were stunned for a moment, and their faces changed when they saw the crowd.

Yu Xian asked, "Who is Dong Haoran?"

"It's Zhongyuan's nephew from my family. I asked him to go to the capital to take care of it last winter, but what I didn't want to bring back was just hearsay."

Yu Xian quickly cast a sideways glance at his fellow-prefect Wu Zhongfu, and said with a smile, "Maybe someone deliberately confuses the public and lured the Master into going astray! The Master must not be ignored..."

Dong Yuan smiled, and said without squinting: "A talent that cannot be used, I will drive him back later... Zhenshou Yu, the pier is not far away, let's walk there..."

"Fu Zun, Wu Tongzhi, please get in the car, there is still more than one mile away, it is better to take the car faster."

The two were no longer modest, and got into the luxurious carriage that Yu Xian had just built to welcome Zhu Zhanji.

This Wu Zhongfu is a son of a prominent family in Changzhou. The Wu family is a prominent family in Changzhou. The family property is huge, and they have deep collusion with the prominent families in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

He failed to compete with Dong Yuan for the position of Fu Zun, and has always regarded Dong Yuan as a thorn in his side.

Although he treated himself quite politely, His Highness had ordered him to avoid colluding with the nobles and prevent them from colluding.

Therefore, he did not dare to have close friendships with the famous families in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, because everything he had was given by His Highness.

Moreover, Zhu Zhanji has set up a large number of eyes and ears in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to conduct comprehensive monitoring in business and politics. He dare not go beyond half a point.

Shibosi is not far from Ningbo Sanjiangkou Wharf. Sanjiangkou is the confluence of Yongjiang River, Fenghua River and Yaojiang River. It is also the most important trading port after Mingzhou was changed to Ningbo.

This is also the largest foreign trade port of Ming Dynasty. No matter which country's envoys arrive at Daming, this is the first stop.

Compared with Yingtianfu, although there is less simplicity, elegance and majesty here, it has more street atmosphere and hustle and bustle.

Yu Xian really likes this kind of living atmosphere. If possible, he would like to guard this place for His Highness for the rest of his life, rather than return to the palace where intrigues and oppression exist.

The fleet arrived in Dinghai, Ningbo in the early hours of the morning, but due to Zhu Zhanji's order, everyone should take care of their duties and not spend extravagantly.

Zhejiang Chengxuan's political envoy, Wang Weixin, was the former servant of the household department. Ge Cheng, the procurator of the punishment, once followed Zhu Zhanji in the northern expedition. He was a person who knew Zhu Zhanji's character well, so he had no choice but to stay put and sent his subordinates to Welcome to Ningbo.

The top didn't move, Dong Yuan was not familiar with Zhu Zhanji, seeing Zhu Zhanji's confidant Yu Xian didn't dare to greet him, let alone greet him in advance.In Ningbo, only the magistrate of Dinghai County and the garrison of the local Third Fleet greeted Zhu Zhanji and his party.

In Dinghai, Zhu Zhanji summoned all the clans and strictly ordered them not to disturb the people during their stay in Ningbo. Then they replaced the lucky boat of two thousand shi, went upstream along the Yongjiang River, and came to Ningbo Mansion.

In addition to bringing 3000 people from one of the four guards of the Habayashi Guards as guards, the First Fleet and the Third Fleet each sent 3000 people. Zhu Zhanji and his party entered Ningbo with ease.

"That is Ma Shi, the youngest concubine of His Highness. Her elder brothers are highly valued by His Highness. The binoculars we use are produced in the glass kiln in her home. The taller one is Mrs. Liu, who is said to be a female doctor. He took her with him during the Eastern Expedition to Dongying and this trip to the West, and it is obvious that His Highness loves her very much."

Zhu Zhanji chose Sunan's warship as the flagship to enter Ningbo. Duan Renzhi and Ma Dezhong also got involved with this flagship because of their relationship with Sunan's confidants, and wanted to get in touch with Zhu Zhanji up close.

Duan Renzhi has become acquainted with Xiamaqiao Farm these days, and he has a better understanding of Zhu Zhanji's surroundings, and at this time he acts as an ear god.

Seeing Liu Chenghui's size, Ma Dezhong sighed: "Such a height is even taller than me, how could Your Highness like such a giant!"

Sunan's eyes were fixed on the flag on the mast, observing the wind direction and the distance from the ships on both sides, and issued instructions from time to time.Hearing Ma Dezhong's words, he reprimanded softly: "How can we judge His Highness's preferences? Be careful!"

Duan Renzhi smiled and said, "If Your Highness likes petite and dainty ones, can your Feng family fall into your hands?"

Ma Dezhong glanced at him, and said in a low voice, "Your Highness likes tall people, but he didn't attack your Fang family. It seems that His Highness still doesn't catch his eye."

Duan Renzhi said angrily: "You bastard, quickly give me the money I lost in the food game last night!"

People in this era don't have the habit of reneging on debts. Ma Dezhong was a little embarrassed, and retorted: "If we fight again tonight, maybe I will win it back."

"With your skills, you will only be my defeater when playing cards!"

Sunan commanded to lower the hard sail on the right front, turned back and said in a low voice: "You don't think it's embarrassing, I still want to save face, if the servant on the ship, Habayashi Wei, hears it and hears it in the ears of His Highness, look I won't take care of you two."

Ma Dezhong fell silent, and Duan Renzhi couldn't help but said: "The grain plate was invented by Director Zheng, and the code plate was invented by His Highness, just to pass the time during our voyage. Maybe they are more obsessed than us!"

A young eunuch passed by and laughed when he heard Duan Renzhi's words.He leaned over and said in a low voice: "Your Highness taught us another way of playing cards yesterday, and we played it when we were free."

After he finished speaking, he quickly ran over, leaving Sunan and the three of them feeling a little embarrassed, and Sunan gave them a hard look again.

The so-called Liang Pai is actually the mahjong of later generations.

Mahjong originated from the Huliang Pai in Taicang, Jiangsu Province. It is used to record the rewards of bird catchers in the granary. It is divided into three types: tube, cable and ten thousand.

The pattern of the barrel is derived from the cross-section of the gunpowder gun, and the number of barrels represents the number of gunpowder guns; the strings refer to the birds strung together with thin ropes, indicating how many birds have been eliminated. Therefore, the pattern of one string is represented by birds, and the number of strings It is just a few bunches of birds, and the bonus is calculated according to the number of birds.Ten thousand is the unit of the reward, and tens of thousands is the amount of reward that will be received in the end.

When Zheng He sailed to the west, he spent at least a few months at sea, and the soldiers were bored at sea. Zheng He improved this kind of food protection card and formed the mahjong of later generations.

The name Mahjong comes from the sparrow in Taicang dialect.

However, it is inconvenient to play bamboo mahjong at sea. After Zhu Zhanji knew about this, he asked the printing house of the internal supervisor to print [-] sets of mahjong on cardboard according to the format of mahjong.

When traveling, a deck of cards was distributed for every ten people, so that the soldiers could have fun in their spare time.

Now that even mahjong has been printed, Zhu Zhanji will certainly not forget the poker cards, and there are only 54 poker cards, which are cheaper than mahjong and have more ways to play.

Zhu Zhanji interpreted the black and red plum square as spring, summer, autumn and winter, JQK, these three suits, it is of course inappropriate to use English letters to replace these three suits in this era, so J becomes a warrior, Q becomes a general, and K becomes a general. Became a marshal, and then there are big and small kings.

Because when printing poker, the color will be printed on the back to block the other side and prevent light from passing through, so poker becomes a coded card, which means a coded card.

He didn't know if the current western playing cards had been invented. Anyway, in the East, they would be called code cards in the future.

Life at sea was boring, and the soldiers' love for mahjong and poker exploded from the very beginning.It's only been three days since I went out, and everyone is about to become a gambler. Most of them quickly accepted poker, and other games were quickly derived besides the few games marked by Zhu Zhanji.