Zhu Yuanzhang, who commanded the wind and rain, lived a long and arduous life.

Zhou Ji quickly straightened up, and his face also changed to a more imposing manner.

He glanced at Zhu Xiong Ying secretly, only to find that Zhu Xiong Ying seemed to be in a very good mood, wearing a warm smile the whole way.

Ok?

What's the situation?

Could it be that the eldest brother encountered some good news while leaving the palace today?

Zhou Ji clicked his tongue. He was unhappy when his boss was happy. How come his boss always got all the good things? Was he really the chosen one?

As he was lost in thought, a golden light flashed in his eyes, just for a moment, but it was so bright that he closed his eyes.

Melting gold can result in significant financial losses, in addition to exorbitant labor costs.

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Zhou Dexing was silent for a moment, then exhaled and said, "According to you, does this mean our plan has fallen through?"

Zhou Ji suddenly remembered something. He remembered that he had just heard his eldest brother say that it was a gift from their master.

Zhou Ji slapped his thigh and exclaimed, "Dad, of course! You didn't see the bundle that the eldest brother was carrying; it was bulging with gold pendants."

Zhou Ji sighed: "That's one way to understand it."

Zhou Ji took a deep breath, his cheeks trembling, and said, "Father, we exchanged it for that gold seal that had the worst possible fortune! The Mongol Yuan dynasty's imperial gold seal!"

"I have been with the Emperor since the end of the Yuan Dynasty. How many storms have I weathered? What could possibly make me angry? Speak, without missing a single word."

Zhu Xiong Ying nodded. He was in a good mood today and asked with a smile, "Why did you call out just now? Is something bad happening?"

After much thought, it was decided that it would be more appropriate for Da Sun Xiong Ying to take him along.

She was also going to Tianyun Temple later.

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P.S.: It's been released, but I forgot to mention the update issue.

It's gold!

Yes.

Veins bulging.

Zhou Dexing was somewhat bewildered.

His father did him such a big favor, and he was eager to share it!

Fu Youwen held up three fingers and laughed, "Three hundred thousand taels, Your Majesty! We don't need to worry anymore. With these three hundred thousand taels, everything can be done!"

Zhou Ji was startled. He hadn't expected his father to be so calm just moments before, and now he was about to go crazy. He grabbed his father around the waist and quickly said, "Father, Father, please accept my condolences, please accept my condolences... Don't be impulsive."

"What do you mean?"

Back in Zhujia Village, when Zhu Yuanzhang was still a child, he often listened to his father talk about important national affairs.

Zhu Xiong Ying took the two large baskets full of vegetables and said with a smile, "No problem!"

The more I think about it, the more I realize that the colors are consistent!

Thinking of this,

They were absolutely identical!

Damn!

"Osmanthus cake, red bean and lotus seed soup..."

Our dad is still amazing!

Zhou Dexing was somewhat bewildered.

Zhou Ji's teeth had started to chatter.

Empress Ma was troubled.

Nowadays.

Empress Ma had two considerations in choosing to have Zhu Xiong Ying bring the dishes.

The gold seal that I gave to Tianyun Temple before, and the gold pendant around the eldest brother's neck, have a color that looks similar to my own family's gold seal!

Zhou Ji instinctively cried out and began rubbing his eyes.

Zhou Ji hurriedly nodded: "Your Highness, this gold pendant is indeed exquisite and looks extremely valuable."

Let's cook!

Also at this time.

Fu Youwen quickly put down his umbrella and bowed respectfully, saying, "Your humble servant greets Your Majesty."

The minimum daily word count is approximately 10,000 words.

Zhou Ji arrived in a hurry, his face ashen, and shouted.

"The area around Tianyun Temple is full of the old master's men, all of them are Jinyiwei. If you go there, you'll probably be killed by the Jinyiwei before you even see him. Calm down, we can't beat him head-on right now, don't be impulsive."

Fu Youwen was genuinely happy, and even when reporting to Zhu Yuanzhang, he dared to keep him in suspense.

As a result, I developed excellent cooking skills.

Could it be that I'm mistaken?

Zhou Ji tried to convince himself that the gold pendant was obtained from elsewhere by the abbot of Tianyun Temple.

Isn't the old master the abbot of Tianyun Temple?

Fu Youwen was also extremely shocked. He had always believed that the foundation of the nation's tax revenue should lie in agriculture, not commerce. This ingrained mindset led Fu Youwen to think that merchants could not make much money at all.

Yes, all talk and no action.

He acted like a Monday morning quarterback.

Zhu Xiong Ying smiled with satisfaction: "Indeed! This was a gift from my master. As expected, everything my master gives is excellent, there's no bad one!"

But he couldn't convince himself that, apart from the Imperial Seal, where else could the abbot get gold to make a gold pendant for his eldest son?

Beside her was Zhu Xiong Ying, whose face and heart were both outwardly focused.

However, he was still worried about his younger sister's stay at Tianyun Temple. He had to remind her that since she had never met her father, she should treat him the way she wanted to, and that following his advice was always the right thing to do.

"Wait a minute, let's think about it. The only major events recently are Yunnan's financial difficulties and the army needing rewards. Did you manage to get the money?"

This was handled in a truly appalling way.

Despite being an empress, when she accompanied Zhu Yuanzhang in his conquest of the world, the country was in turmoil and the situation was unstable, with frequent instances of poisoning.

Then, when he opened his eyes, he saw that the thing was still glowing and was hanging around Zhu Xiong Ying's neck.

"Perhaps the golden seal has been completely melted down!"

Fu Youwen bowed respectfully and hurriedly said, "Your humble servant obeys the decree!"

Zhou Ji suddenly felt as if a huge hammer was slamming into his chest, making it difficult for him to breathe.

"That damned Taoist priest is going too far! Does he think I'm someone to be trifled with? I'm going to kill him! Don't stop me, I'm going to kill that so-called immortal!"

Zhu Xiong Ying was originally going to Tianyun Temple, but Empress Ma summoned her, saying that the abbot of Tianyun Temple had helped her family so much, and since her family had nothing to give, she would bring some vegetables for the abbot.

"Your Majesty, I conducted a pilot program in Southern Zhili, increasing commercial taxes by 10%. In just seven days, the tax offices of all the prefectures and counties in Southern Zhili submitted their taxes... Your Majesty, guess how much silver that was?"

Zhou Ji had advised his father to think twice before using such a valuable item as the gold seal to cause trouble for Zhu Changye, but Zhou Dexing was confident, saying that it would be a sure thing and plunge Tianyun Temple into an abyss.

Empress Ma smiled gently.

What gold was melted down?

Fu Youwen, beaming with joy, exclaimed, "Your Majesty, this is wonderful news! Absolutely wonderful news!"

Instead of taking care of himself, he was busy cooking.

Grandma, are you feeling better yet?

If I get a lot of monthly votes that day, I can try to update it again.

Moreover, judging from what the boss said, this gold pendant wasn't just one, but a whole bunch; many princes had them.

Zhou Ji said with a long face, "Dad, please don't be angry after I told you."

Zhu Xiong Ying gradually faded into the distance.

Zhou Dexing merely raised his eyelids lazily, appearing somewhat impatient. He took a sip of tea. As a retired marquis, and having retired to Fengyang, a small county town known for its slow-paced lifestyle, Zhou Dexing still valued a Buddhist-like attitude.

Some people change a lot after a year apart, and their preferences also change.

Old Zhu and his father haven't seen each other for decades, and he wonders if his father's tastes have changed.

She wanted to cook some dishes herself and send them to her father-in-law, whom she had never met.

So, in addition to cooking her father's favorite dishes, Empress Ma also made some dishes that were popular with the general public, such as lotus fish and Queen Mother's rice.

This was all an idea that Xiong Ying came up with by our father.

At the time, Zhu Yuanzhang scoffed at it, but now that he's grown up, looking back, if he carefully examines his father's words, he finds that doing things according to his father's ideas can indeed yield good results.

He fell silent for a moment, his eyes filled with disbelief.

"You brat, look at you, you're really outrageous!"

Zhou Ji hesitated for a long time before finally saying, "The golden seal... was... was given away."

He wanted to hear other people's opinions.

Watching Zhu Xiong Ying's retreating figure, Zhou Ji chuckled: "Heh, even as a child, you've already shown off like this. What doesn't your Zhu family have? Why flaunt your gold?"

These dishes were all recommended by Lao Zhu and were all her father's favorites.

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned.

"If you have such a narrow vision, what future can you possibly have?... Ah, wait a minute!"

“We let you pilot the commercial tax, and you later raised the commercial tax by 10% in Southern Zhili. In seven days, you collected 300,000 taels of real silver from us?”

There are a whole bunch of things like, "Cao Cao shouldn't have been so infatuated with the beauties of Wancheng," "Liu Bei should have been more restrained and not attacked Eastern Wu," and so on.

But after receiving such a large sum of money, Fu Youwen couldn't help but be surprised.

and also,

Zhu Yuanzhang squinted: "Minister Fu, if I remember correctly, you're not usually an impatient person. What's the matter that you're in such a hurry?"

Zhu Yuanzhang beamed with joy: "This is indeed a good thing. Alright, you don't need to share this news with us."

Damn it!

Such a large piece of the Imperial Seal was melted down by the abbot of Tianyun Temple?

Is the abbot a fool?

Zhou Ji was dumbfounded.

The temple looked dilapidated. Although it had been renovated and expanded, the Taoist priests were generally poor. Some priests couldn't even support themselves, so where would they get the money to buy a gold pendant for their leader?

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It's all psychological.

He lowered his head to take a sip of tea, then suddenly spat it out. The tea was too hot, and it burned off a piece of the skin on his lips.

After handling some official business, Zhu Yuanzhang, having nothing else to do for the time being, hurriedly headed to Kunning Palace.

Zhu Xiong Ying picked up the pendant and took it out: "I'm sorry, it's my fault, but look, isn't it pretty?"

"The Imperial Seal! That scoundrel Taoist priest melted it down! How could anyone be so despicable!"

"I never expected these merchants to be so wealthy. This is equivalent to a month's worth of agricultural taxes in Southern Zhili!"

He said calmly, "What's wrong? Why are you in such a panic?"

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"Take a breath, have some water and rest for a bit. Then, quickly disburse all the funds that are due. The people of Yunnan are suffering terribly, so remember to be fast!"

Zhou Ji said angrily, "That stinky Taoist priest, he went to a smelting shop and melted down such a fine gold seal, and even made a lot of gold pendants to give to the boss and the prince."

Zhou Dexing: "..."

His verbal skills are as sharp as ever!

Zhou Dexing: "..."

"This is the first time I've made osmanthus cake. I don't know if Dad will like it."

On the marble road outside the Fengtian Hall, Fu Youwen walked anxiously towards this side, holding an umbrella.

They look like they were made from the same mold.

After saying that, Empress Ma began packing the dishes.

"Dad, dad!"

He was going to continue delivering gifts.

The weather has been very kind to us lately, with occasional light rain, as if it's been helping people get through the difficulties of planting.

Zhu Yuanzhang stood outside the Fengtian Hall with his hands behind his back, feeling the sound of the rain falling and smelling the fishy smell of the rain.

"If I don't go to Tianyun Temple, my master might think I've disappeared."