Chapter 230: Valuable

Although Zhang Anshi said the oath of faith, but Zhu Di still heard confused.

Sailing west, but coming back from the east.

Is it, like, spared again?

However, Zhu Di good on good, he does not understand the matter, will not spend more energy to think, just said: “Deng Jian this person, I have a few impressions, he is rare, but …… this ship in the end is the Japanese ship, or with this Deng Jian related, now but not necessarily, I ordered these people, escorted Capital to, you personally go to identify, a look will know.”

Zhang Anshi was already rejoicing.

Ken Deng is actually back?

If it really is Deng Jian, does …… it mean that his plan has come true?

That’s a real feat.

Ten deaths and no life.

In Zhang Anshi’s plan, there is almost no possibility of survival.

But the reason why still let Deng Jian to go, in fact, is just a kind of usual management science, put forward an unattainable goal, and then you can complete how much is how much, so that you do your best to over-deliver the task, but still did not reach the overall goal, so that the future continue to PUA you.

Therefore, Zhang Anshi’s prediction was that Deng Jian might at most reach the limit of Zheng He’s seven voyages to the West, that is, the coast of the Red Sea and the east coast of Africa.

At that time, Ken Deng should know better.

But where do you think …… that this guy is a eunuch, but he is physically disabled, directly sent a ruthless, when really …… accomplished a Zhang Anshi all feel unable to complete the feat.

Zhang Anshi’s heart was in turmoil now.

Didn’t have the heart to continue babbling with Zhu.

Seeing Zhang Anshi’s absent-minded look, Zhu Di couldn’t help but say, “What are you rambling about?”

Zhang Anshi said, “Your Majesty, I actually find it unbelievable, and I always feel …… some …… some ……”

Zhu frowned, “What exactly are you trying to say?”

Zhang Anshi said, “Your Majesty knows …… that if Deng Jian is really returning from the east, it may …… be that this voyage of his will directly break the greatest feat in the world since the chaos of the world, and then since the present day. ”

Zhu Di still didn’t understand what Zhang Anshi was trying to say, so he said, “What do you mean ……”

Zhang Anshi said: “Let’s put it this way, Zheng Gong Gong’s flotilla, arrived is the Great Food sea, this Deng Jian if so back, its voyage, it may exceed the lower Western Ocean more than five times, and …… along the way of the supply, than the lower Western Ocean is more difficult, the universal world, no one has ever done this kind of thing. Overseas situation, nowadays only afraid of this Deng Jian most clear.”

When Zhu Di heard this, he was surprised, but he couldn’t help but be quite moved.

He murmured, “Quickly identify the authenticity of this Deng Jian, and if it is Deng Jian, immediately bring him into the palace to see him.”

Zhang Anshi said, “Obey the decree.”

Having obtained the emperor’s permission, Zhang Anshi then left the palace without further delay and in a hurry.

He couldn’t wait any longer, so he just took the people directly and went all the way towards Songjiang.

The men and horses had just reached Zhenjiang and finally intercepted the escort.

These are all the errand boys of Songjiang Prefecture and Songjiang City Hublot Department.

Instead, these ‘sea bandits’ were not escorted to the prison wagon, but were only kept under strict guard.

There were more than seventy people, and when they met the lieutenant of the Inner Thousand Households, who only gave them a glance at the iron plate, one of the capitals at the head was immediately startled, and hastened to say respectfully, “I have seen the superior officer.”

“Step aside, Marquis Annan wants to be personally screened.”

The errand boys didn’t dare to make a scene, and hurriedly stood aside with their hands tied.

When Zhang Anshi beat his horse and came over, he saw that many of the people in this procession were wearing Japanese attire, and one of them had a disheveled head, and some had even shaved their hair.

They were bronzed and weary looking, holding each other, and some …… were being carried by their partners on door boards.

It was then that Zhang Anshi realized why these people would be treated as Japanese pirates.

At that moment, he quickly dismounted his horse and went up to him, “Where is Deng Jian?”

He exclaimed.

At that moment, one of the men who had been lying dead on the door panel immediately rolled over on his back in a single bound and screamed, “Here it is, here it is.”

With that, the man rolled and crawled, and with a whoosh, leapt to Zhang Anshi’s face.

He was dark-skinned, also dressed as a bonobo, ragged-looking, with a cloak of hair and a somewhat dirty face, his eyes protruding out because he was too thin, the corners of his mouth cracked, and his lips dried up as if they were cracked land, screaming, “Zhang Gongzi, Zhang Gongzi …… ”

The voice was tired and hoarse, with a few familiar twangs.

Zhang Anshi squinted his eyes and looked closely, trying very hard to recognize it, but for a long time he could not see that it was Deng Jian.

“It’s us, it’s us, you forgot, we ……” Deng Jian is eager to defend.

Zhang Anshi heard this sound with Deng Jian’s characteristic word “we”, and then it dawned on him, “Why are you dressed like this?”

“No clothes to wear.” Teng Jian said, “The clothes on the body, early was hammered rotten, hard as a stone, fortunately on the way back, met a small Japanese ship, a look is the Japanese …… so by the way to annihilate, they robbed their clothes …… ”

Teng Jian added: “Those without hair, but also no way, no fresh water to comb and wash, long in the head, hard enough to make a broom, lice and more, really can not stand ah, then simply shaved.”

Teng Jian said, wow will cry: “Miserable ah, miserable ah, dozens of people …… months, daily rely on pig boots and leather armor for food, the rest of the rice, can not afford to eat …… this way, starvation deaths, and ………… sick to death, there are as many as seventy percent, if not encounter those Japanese, I am afraid that I will never come back.”

Ken Deng whimpered as he spoke.

The people behind him seemed to be in extreme pain, and they also howled.

“When we got to the city hall, they still didn’t recognize us, saying that we were Japanese pirates and that they had to arrest us. I …… I ……”

Zhang Anshi then asked, “Where is your waistplate, and the paperwork?”

Teng Jian said, “Early lost, as for that ship s books …… all boiled and eaten.”

Teng Jian smacked his lips as if he was afraid that Zhang Anshi wouldn’t believe it.

Zhang Anshi looked at the withered Deng Jian, where is the appearance of a human being, he still underestimated the horror of crossing the heavy seas in this era.

Zhang Anshi’s heart softened for a while, and touched his head, saying, “Alright, alright, aren’t you back now? It’s good that you didn’t die, and there’s still me in the East Palace, who misses you day and night.”

Teng Jian’s lips trembled as he raised his head up, “Your Highness the Crown Prince, Your Highness the Crown Princess, and Your Highness the Imperial Sun, are they alright?”

“Not good.”

When Teng Jian heard this, his face changed slightly.

Zhang Anshi said, “Can it be good without you, Deng Jian, waiting around?”

Subconsciously, Ken Deng grinned happily, revealing pitch-black teeth.

Zhang Anshi lamented, “Where did you come back from?”

“Not according to your charts?”

Zhang Anshi was shocked, “Following my charts? Follow the ocean currents?”

“Yeah.” Ken Deng said, “That’s what you said in the first place.”

Zhang Anshi said, “This …… at that time I also just said.”

The eyes watched as Ken Deng’s face became violently oozy.

Zhang Anshi immediately said, “I said this because I know that under the sky, only a person with great wisdom and courage like you can break through the many obstacles and accomplish such a feat. Sure enough, I Zhang Anshi did not look at the wrong person, Eunuch Deng ah Eunuch Deng, you are going to be famous in history.”

Deng Jian cried, “We’re just a guy with no balls, all we want to do in life is serve people, what else can we expect?”

The scene of meeting each other was touching.

Ken Deng cried emotionally.

Those who accompanied them also wept bitterly.

Zhang Anshi couldn’t see this touching scene and couldn’t help but have slightly red eyes.

“That, this journey, what have you been through, and did you bring what I taught you to bring?”

“Bring, bring.” Teng Jian said with tears in his eyes, “Those things, one did not fall, according to your command, searching on that big island, finally set up, but also brought a lot of, this way, we are a few times want to eat them, but …… can be …… ”

Zhang Anshi couldn’t help but stand in awe, “But when you think of a promise that is worth a thousand words, you die and refuse to eat it, don’t you?”

Teng Jian said, “We are thinking …… If I eat it, Zhang Gongzi must break me into pieces.”

Zhang Anshi body shocked, busy comforting: “Aiya, how do you say so, what things in the world, can have our Duke Deng’s life is important? Hey …… where are the things?”

“In the back ……”

Zhang Anshi then sheds Deng Jian, and the back is really pulling a few large carts of things, all broken tiles and jars.

Zhang Anshi then asked the errand boy to unload the stuff.

Here, at the head, is a single, tightly sealed tile jar.

Zhang Anshi carefully unveiled it, and inside were all kinds of grain seeds.

Each kind of seed, was kept in separate categories, Zhang Anshi saw something familiar that he had only seen in his last life, his eyes instantly glistened and his mouth was about to water, “Baby, my baby.”

Deng Jian limped over, and when he saw Zhang Anshi in this state, tears flowed out again.

Zhang Anshi held this one tile jar and resealed it, while then he looked up, only to see Deng Jian looking at him angrily.

So he said, “Uh, what’s up?”

Deng Jian said angrily, “We …… are really blind, how did we raise a white eyed wolf like you?”

Zhang Anshi was busy pulling Deng Jian to one side: “What? What?”

Teng Jian said indignantly, “Let’s not talk about the time when we have been taking care of Mr. Zhang, this time, we have survived nine deaths, and when we came back, you were holding this altar as a treasure, and when you saw us like this, did you ask if we were cold and hungry?”

Zhang Anshi, however, said, “Oops, you’re confused.”

“What?” Ken Deng was dumbfounded.

Zhang Anshi painfully said, “You eunuch do …… really have no pattern. Do …… these still need me to teach you?”

“……”

Deng Jian was still clueless, but in his heart there was a heavenly resentment.

To be honest, he felt that Zhang Anshi was a white-eyed wolf.

Zhang Anshi, however, lowered his voice and said to him, “Do we still need to tell outsiders about our relationship?”

After a pause, he added, “But now, we’ll have to have a pattern.”

Deng Jian frowned, “What the hell does that mean?”

Zhang Anshi patiently said, “Think about it, I’m very close to you, right, and you had my orders for this trip to the sea, so you came back after nine deaths and a lot of hard work, right?”

Deng Jian still didn’t understand what Zhang Anshi was trying to say, and only said angrily, “Yeah, is there anything wrong with that?”

Zhang Anshi shook his head and said: ”No, no, even if this is true, but we can’t say it is true. You went out to the sea this time because you concluded from my mouth that you can find some treasures that are of great value and can save the lives of the people, and can also repay the king’s favor, that’s why you resolutely went out to the sea, and you drifted in the sea for two years, and suffered a lot from the winds and frosts, but every time you wanted to give up, you thought of the lives of the people, the people, and His Majesty’s love for you, and so you still summoned up your courage, and rode the winds and waves.”

Deng Jian’s face turned odd and hesitantly said, “Would …… it be …… possible to say that?”

Zhang Anshi said with certainty, “No one is a roundworm in your stomach, if you bite the bullet, who dares to say anything?”

Ken Dunn said, “That’s right, but ……”

“But I’m cold to you, aren’t I? Ai, you don’t know my bitterness. I also pretended in front of His Majesty that I am not familiar with you. If we are very familiar with each other, the nature of the matter, it will appear to be a little pattern small, it will become …… you and I have a very shallow relationship, you are for me, only to go through the sea of the sea of the big storm, how can this become? Everyone will only say, you Duke Deng is a man of love and justice, but there is love and justice has a bird use?”

Deng Jian is extremely intelligent, and now roughly understands Zhang Anshi’s thought process, “So ……”

Zhang Anshi said, “So I have to not care if you live or die, and you don’t care how I am, you and I are both aiming at these seeds, we are both trying to repay the king’s favor, it’s for the sake of the country, for the sake of the people.”

“Eunuch Deng ah, you can not care about these, but think about it, so many generals and soldiers followed you nine deaths, how much suffering, how many deaths, which in exchange for today, this time, your pattern must be high, from now on, don’t always talk to me about what personal feelings, open your mouth to say Cangsheng, close your mouth also to end with the emperor.”

Deng Jian froze, “But …… these things are also related to the Cangsheng society?”

Zhang Anshi laughed and said, “You are listening to me, as for whether there is a relationship or not, this is something that I will go and prove. And as far as you are concerned, if there is a relationship, of course it is another great achievement, even if there is no relationship, so what? At most, it is swindled by me. But …… this loyalty of yours to the king and the country is something less.”

Teng Jian came to a realization and couldn’t help but say, “Gongzi, you’ve grown up and your mind’s eye is getting more and more full of mind’s eye.”

Zhang Anshi did not care about Teng Jian’s words at all and laughed, “There’s no way ah, the trees want to be quiet but the wind won’t stop, in order to protect brother-in-law, I have offended many people, have you seen my guards? It’s too difficult for me, I don’t dare to venture out without seventy to eighty guards now.”

Teng Jian’s body was shaken, he had been away from the capital for too long and did not know much about the situation in the capital, but when he thought of his departure from the capital, it was true that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was in a great deal of crisis.

So he said, “Hey, we are all difficult ah, but what method? To be a human slave girl, you have to fight for your highness and your son, as for your son …… you also have to hold on ah, a thousand difficulties, but also have to grit your teeth and hold on. Wooooooo ……”

Deng Jian and excitedly dropped tears, side said, “We are difficult brothers, but again bitter and difficult, and what can be …… counted.”

Zhang Anshi responded earnestly, “I will.”

When Teng Jian said that, he finally remembered something, so he added, “Where were we talking about just now?”

“Against All Odds ……”

Teng Jian shook his head and said breathlessly, “No, when it comes to …… why don’t you ask if we are cold, and if we are hungry. We are going to starve to death, quickly go to prepare a good meal for us, we also want to take a good bath, we still want to ……”

Zhang Anshi, however, said, “Eunuch Deng, you are confused again.”

“What?”

Zhang Anshi said in a serious manner: ”I came to take you into the palace for an audience, think about it, if you eat and drink enough, bathe and change your clothes, and go to see his majesty in high spirits, people who don’t know, they would think that you have got some kind of fat job. Do you think I don’t really care about you? You’ve grown up with me, you’re like half a nurse to me, can I do you any harm? I can’t do you any harm, can I really not warm up to you?”

“You have to go and meet the Emperor like this, in front of His Majesty, and teach him to know that the journey has been difficult, otherwise, even if the words are good, they will not be as effective as if His Majesty had seen it with his own eyes.”

Deng Jian heard, again body trembled, suddenly, the suspicion is all gone, can not help but once again tears in their eyes said: “I thought you changed, no, we thought you did not change …… and not right …… ”

Deng Jian can not say for a moment, said Zhang Anshi changed, is to feel that he has no conscience. But to say that he has not changed, but not right, because the former Zhang Anshi, indeed heartless.

Has it changed or not? This has risen to the level of philosophy.

Deng Jian decided not to think about such a complicated problem, at this time the anger has been dissipated, look at Zhang Anshi’s gaze is also unnaturally affable, said, “Good, all listen to the son of ……”

Said the dry cracked lips, whispering, “Back, we’re back.”

At this time, Teng Jian’s feelings, is the ordinary people can not imagine, the joy of the traveler returned home, and what is it? Teng Jian is not just a traveler returning from overseas, but he has really experienced countless sufferings, life and death.

Now, looking at the deceased and the homeland, so real in front of his eyes, that once again and again dreamed only appeared in front of his eyes, so that he could not help but lose his voice and cry again.

Zhang Anshi patted his shoulder and said in a warm voice, “Good boy, don’t cry.”

“Well, uh, don’t cry.” Deng Jian sniffled, “Go, back to the capital …… back to the capital ……”

Zhang Anshi said, “The capital is not the same as before, we are all the way to the capital, some words, I explain, then see his majesty, how to resume, but there is a big mystery inside.”

Ken Dunn said, “Good ……”

He’s dry.

…………

Who’s Ken Dunn?

The court is full of people, confused.

But news came that Deng Jian, the deputy envoy of the fleet that went to the West, had returned to the sea.

It also seems to have accomplished some feat.

Of course, this so-called feat, in fact, many people in the court, are indifferent.

It’s just going down to the ocean.

In the eyes of the civil ministers, in their eyes, the …… people who go to the sea are eunuchs and untouchables, and the people, if they are restless to stay in their own land and cultivate, belong to the typical of those who can not be at peace with themselves.

Originally, many people in the dynasty, for the next sea is quite critical, and now came back a eunuch, apparently counts for nothing.

The military ministers were puzzled by this; everyone was working feverishly on the hot air balloon and had nothing else to spare.

Although some people are concerned about the water division, but the Ming’s so-called water division, mainly or the inner river, responsible for patrolling the river with, and only as a supporting role.

But Zhu Di still summoned all the officials and performed a ceremony.

When Deng Jian appeared in the Chongwen Hall.

When the hundred officials saw his appearance, some couldn’t help but cover their noses, while others only thought that this was a beggar from one of the streets.

Teng Jian is salute as a ritual, although it is away for a long time, but the rules of the palace, he did not fall a little bit.

Finally, Teng Jian kowtowed and said, “The slave girl …… does not dishonor her mission, and has come here to restore her order.”

He was short of breath and his speech was slurred.

Zhu Di sized him up carefully and couldn’t help but be moved.

Then Zhu Di’s voice was unnaturally gentle as well, saying, “I heard that you drifted overseas for two years?”

Teng Jian said, “Your Majesty, the slave girl has not been adrift for two years, but has been patrolling the sea on behalf of Your Majesty for two years.”

Zhu Di listened to it, but even more used, gazing at Deng Jian said, “How is this overseas ……?”

“Overseas is not very peaceful, they heard that the slave girl came from Daming, but they were all confused.”

Zhu smiled and said, “These Fans, they are deservedly ignorant.”

Teng Jian said, “But they learned that the slave girl is to fight the east, but occasionally someone …… mentioned a word to the slave girl ……”

Zhu couldn’t help but be curious and said, “What’s the word?”

Teng Jian said, “Say that the slave girl is a Yuan.”

This statement was made ……

Xie Jin and the others immediately knew that something bad had happened, and one by one, they carefully observed Zhu Di’s reaction.

Sure enough, Zhu Di rose up with an open mind, pacing up and down, wrinkling his deep brows, “Yuan?”

“Yes, when the Tartars marched westward and established many khanates, they also brought the situation in the Central Plains to all corners of the world, so everywhere in the world, they all know that there is Yuan.”

Zhu Di this person …… has two things, you said he is inevitably not painful.

One is the Tartars. After all, for Zhu Di, sweeping across the desert is a shortcut to establishing an unparalleled career.

If you want to compare with Emperor Tang Taizong, what is better than teaching Hu Ma to go to Yinshan Mountain, or losing my Yanzhi Mountain, so that my women have no color. Losing my Qilian Mountain, so that my six animals do not reproduce, more than future generations to remember?

Zhu Di said in a deep voice, “Outside, will I still treat my Ming as the Yuan Dynasty?”

“Yes, the farther the fleet sailed, the more everyone thought so, and no matter how much the slave girl tried to explain, they refused to listen.”

Zhu Di sighed, “Although Meng Yuan’s kingdom is short, it has its strengths.”

After saying that, he looked at Teng Jian again and said, “What else have you seen on this trip?”

“There are many strange and exotic treasures overseas, there are many things that the slave girl can’t name, it’s just that what the slave girl is going for is not these strange and exotic treasures.”

The horizontal flesh on Zhu’s face trembled, and his heart silently ached a little.

Baby …… I can’t believe you didn’t bring it back?

Teng Jian said: “This is because of the Annan Marquis, this time to teach the slave girl out of the sea, assiduously taught, said that the future of the hopes of the Great Ming, in the ocean, get the ocean, get the world also, the people want to live in peace and work happily, and then do not starve, it is necessary to go down to the sea can not be for the sake of the world’s people, for the sake of the countryside and the gods of earth and grain …… ”

Zhu Di pressed his hand and said impatiently, “What exactly was brought back?”

Teng Jian said, “The grain seeds explained by the Marquis of Annan.”

“Grain seed?” Zhu frowned up and couldn’t help but cry.

The hundred officials guffawed.

Zhu Di said, “Only this was brought back?”

Deng Jian said, “If it can be transplanted to my Ming, it will be an infinite merit, even the exotic treasures of the world, when added together, will not be as good as it.”

Zhu Di glanced at Zhang Anshi.

Then, smiled and said, “The value of the city is the value of the city, why need to say what adds up, is not as good as one case? But …… you have worked hard this time.”

Teng Jian then kowtowed and cried, “The slave girl is not considered to be hard work, but this journey, the generals who followed the slave girl, there are many deaths and injuries, when the slave girl separated from the godfather, there were three ships, three hundred and twenty-seven people, but now when they come back, there are only sixty-nine left. The wounded again account for a large portion. The families of those who died …… are still hoping that their families will return safely. Only now …… their bones can not be claimed back either, so they have to let them die in a foreign land …….”

Zhu Di could not help but lament, “Hey …… it is really not easy, you can rest assured that I will be compassionate.”

“Your Majesty.”

But at this time, Xie Jin stood out, said: “After the sea, the strong man’s depreciation is great, the treasure ship of the fleet, the strong man casualties are still acceptable, if they are like this Deng Jian, the people who survived the ten does not exist, I am afraid …… will greatly reduce the population of my Daming, not to mention the …… the families of this deceased …… pathos to the extreme, the heavens have the virtue of good life, in my humble opinion, under the Western Ocean is certainly a national policy, can not be changed, but like Deng Gonggong this, so adventurous, but is greatly shouldn’t.”

Zhu Di expressionless, for Xie Jin’s words, did not respond, but looked to Teng Jian said: “I also heard that you went to the West, but from the Japanese back?”

“Yes. The slave girl took the compass, and traveled all the way west, and after two years of work, she arrived at my Daming waters.”

“What’s this about?”

Teng Jian said, “Annan Hou once explained, said that we grow on a ball, if it is a ball, then …… as long as you walk towards a road, you can always return to the origin.”

At this moment, the ministers couldn’t help but start whispering, all of them finding it unbelievable.

Zhu Di was also shocked, “Is that so? Heaven and earth are actually a ball?”

“If not, Your Majesty …… would not be able to explain why the slave girl was able to return …… to the ship,” Teng Jian said, “This is what the slave girl saw with her own eyes. ”

Zhu Di felt more and more unthinkable, so he said, “If it’s a ball, it’s too weird, isn’t it the same as the sun?”

Zhang Anshi smiled and said, “Yes, Your Majesty, whether it’s the sun, or our feet, or even the moon, it’s actually a ball.”

Zhu was quite shocked in his mind.

After all, he was the commander-in-chief and had a basic knowledge of geography, it was just that this could not be disproved and could only be believed.

At this time, I only saw Teng Jian say again, “Your Majesty, there is one more thing that the slave girl wants to play.”

The finale, more often than not, is placed at the very end.

Hearing this, Zhu Di looked at Teng Jian with a suspicious face, “What is it?”

Teng Jian said, “The slave girl is in places such as the Great Food …… and also along the Western Ocean. I have heard of quite a few deeds, among which there are those that concern my Daming.”

Zhu Di saw the way Teng Jian said the first words and then wanted to say something later.

So he said, “Speak, what is there not to say? Speak with confidence and boldness.”

Teng Jian then reassuringly said, “Slave girl …… listen to the local natives talk about, my Daming to the Western Ocean various routes, and even to the Great Food and other places, there are a large number of merchant ships to and from, transportation of goods, profiteering.”

As soon as these words came out, the hall, which was still buzzing with discussion, was suddenly silent.