Ming Dynasty: Abandoned baby at the beginning, Zhu let me be the emperor

After instructing Shen Miao on the matters that needed attention in disaster relief, Zhu Ming finally felt relieved.

"Your Highness, Your Highness."

The next morning, Zhu Ming was awakened by shouting outside the door.

A man came over holding an invitation. When he saw Zhu Ming walking out of the mansion, he immediately approached him with a flattering smile on his face.

"who are you?"

Zhu Ming asked coldly with his eyes squinted. The man chuckled and handed over the invitation in his hand.

"I am the butler of Master Wang's mansion. My master knows that Your Highness will be returning to the capital in the next few days, so he specially arranged for me to invite Your Highness to a banquet."

The man smiled flatteringly, and he wanted to stick to Zhu Ming.

"This……"

Zhu Ming looked at the housekeeper with some disdain, then looked at the invitation in his hand and hesitated for a moment.

"Okay, go back and tell your master that I will go to the banquet as soon as I get down."

Zhu Ming said this and took a step back.

He didn't need to guess what these gentlemen were thinking.

It was just because he offended me by cooperating with Wang Ganju some time ago.

Now that he was about to return to Beijing, he was afraid that he would have to complain to Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Liu Jin! Liu Jin!"

Zhu Ming turned around and shouted a few times towards the mansion, calling out the drowsy Liu Jin.

"What's wrong, your highness?"

Looking at Zhu Ming, who rarely got up early, Liu Jin was even more puzzled.

The sun rises from the west?

"Pack up your things and call Shen Miao and the others."

Zhu Ming just patted Liu Jin on the shoulder and chuckled: "Let's go eat."

These people have been working in Shanxi for many years. If Shen Miao wants to stay as the prefect of Shanxi, he must meet them.

I'm leaving, but before that, I have to give them a warning.

"A banquet? What kind of banquet?"

After knowing that she would have to attend banquets at the homes of those wealthy businessmen, Xu Miaojin did not panic at all to hide her disgust.

She is in the capital, and even the dignitaries can't invite her, let alone these local tyrants.

"Then Shen Miao and I can go, that's fine too."

Zhu Ming could understand why Xu Miaojin didn't want to go.

After all, if these wealthy businessmen had not come to Shanxi with me this time, they would never have met a person like Xu Miaojin in their lives.

Since Xu Miaojin doesn't want to go, then don't go.

All he had to do was let Shen Miao get to know these people.

Since I have arranged Shen Miao here, I can't just leave her alone.

"Then I'd better go, so you don't have to..."

Xu Miaojin stopped talking halfway and glared at Zhu Ming.

This guy thought of everything for Shen Miao so carefully.

By the afternoon, these wealthy businessmen had arranged for sedan chairs and parked them at the gate of the government office.

Zhu Ming, Xu Miaojin and others were respectfully welcomed into the restaurant.

"Welcome His Royal Highness the Grandson and several young ladies..."

As soon as Zhu Ming and his companions got off the car, these wealthy people came up to them, smiling fawningly and being extremely humble.

Zhu Ming and Xu Miaojin did not answer, but just glanced at them.

All the people that Wang Ganju had brought here are here without a single missing one.

Even Xu Miaojin and others standing by didn't even look at them.

Seeing this, these wealthy businessmen could only cough a few times awkwardly, and then turned to move towards Shen Miao and Liu Jin behind them.

Even if we can't persuade the young prince, it would be good if we could get these people to say a few good words about him.

"Shen Miao, let's go."

But before they could speak, Xu Miaojin spoke again from inside and called Shen Miao and the others over.

Even if Xu Miaojin didn't speak, Shen Miao didn't have a good face towards these people.

She still remembered that the last time she and Zhu Ming went to a banquet, these people treated her as Zhu Ming's female companion.

Several wealthy businessmen felt embarrassed but could not afford to offend them, so they could only follow them in disappointment and take their seats one by one.

Zhu Ming and Xu Miaojin sat there without saying a word, waiting quietly.

As the protagonist of the banquet, he didn't say a word, and the other gentlemen could only look at each other.

The lively atmosphere just now suddenly dropped to freezing point.

"Your Highness is able to attend the banquet this time, allowing us to practice for Your Highness. It is our blessing."

After a long period of embarrassment, the host, Mr. Wang, stood up, raised his glass and smiled.

"In this year of great disaster, why are you spending so much money?"

Zhu Ming did not stand up either. Instead, he lowered his head to look at the food on the table, which included all kinds of delicacies from land and sea.

If you only look at the food on the table, you can't tell that Shanxi is suffering from a disaster.

"This……"

The owner of the house, Mr. Wang, was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect Zhu Ming to speak like this.

"This... Mr. Wang is also thinking of your highness's hard work and great contributions in disaster relief."

The people on the side who saw this, smiled awkwardly and tried to help Mr. Wang out of the situation.

Zhu Ming picked up the wine glass in front of him and drank it all. Then he looked at the wealthy businessmen and said slowly: "I know the purpose of your doing this for me."

He stood up, and everyone else followed suit.

"You just feel that you offended me by colluding with Wang Ganju before, and you think I won't bother with you after I return to Beijing."

These wealthy businessmen lowered their heads one by one and dared not look at Zhu Ming again.

"I can let these things go."

Zhu Ming said as he poured a glass of wine and placed it in front of Mr. Wang.

Mr. Wang looked at the wine glass that Zhu Ming handed over with gratitude, and took it with trembling hands.

He was about to drink it but was stopped by Zhu Ming.

"I will not pursue your affairs, but this is conditional."

Zhu Ming said, and waved towards Shen Miao, asking her to come over.

"You should have heard the news. This person is the successor to the prefect of Shanxi."

"When she was in Shanxi, it was inevitable that she would come to your place for use..."

Before Zhu Ming finished speaking, all the wealthy businessmen raised their glasses.

The young prince's meaning at this moment could not be more obvious.

For them, this was just a matter of cooperating with Wang Ganju and then cooperating with the new governor of Shanxi.

"Sir, I was very sorry for my rude words to you before."

They toasted Shen Miao with a glass of wine and even changed the way they addressed Shen Miao.

"This is just one of them."

Zhu Ming chuckled. Just asking them to cooperate with Shen Miao's work would be too easy for these people.

These people have worked in Shanxi for many years and have taken a lot of the people's money. It's time for them to give back some of it.

"The disaster has not yet passed, and the people are starving, so I hope you can open the warehouses and release grain to help the people."

After Zhu Ming finished speaking, he poured himself another glass, raised it in front of these people, and drank it all in one gulp.

If these people are willing to agree to my suggestion and take out the food they have hidden, it is not impossible to let them go.

If he disagrees, then he won't be responsible for any investigation by the people sent by Zhu after they return to Beijing.

"Tomorrow, tomorrow I will arrange for people to open the granary and provide relief to the people!"

No matter how painful it was, these wealthy businessmen understood that there was no other way at the moment.