As it turns out, it's absolutely right to be cautious and thoughtful.

After reading the recital sent by Meng, Emperor Yongle was very satisfied, especially the Daning garrison's grain storage and reclamation of wasteland, which made Meng get a lot of praise.

Daning and Kaiping Wei Miscellaneous Bureau have meritorious service for offering "fire and thunder", and they have been rewarded from top to bottom.

It was learned that the craftsmen of the Daning Miscellaneous Manufacturing Bureau spontaneously improved the tools to help Tuntian, and there were many farmers or merchants in the eight provinces of Shuntian, so as to get the convenience, Zhu Di was even more happy, and immediately said, and then rewarded the Daning Miscellaneous Manufacturing Bureau with ten to twenty ingots, and those who have made great contributions to agriculture will be rewarded with five taels of silver and two pieces of cloth.

As the guardian of Daning, who organized and led a series of work, Meng also contributed a lot, and not only received verbal praise from the emperor. He was also rewarded with fifty taels of silver and two hundred ingots.

Before the silver was issued, Meng already felt hot.

Since Zhu Di started the army, people who started by Jing Nan know that the eight characters are not hard enough, and it is not a good thing to be praised by Zhu Di.

In the same way, after being treated favorably by the emperor several times, the sweat shed will be doubled. When the silver arrives, there will be an imperial order. And the difficulty of the matter is directly related to the amount of reward.

In this case, you can only face the difficulties.

Returning the Emperor's bounty? The first person in the army, Zhu Neng, the Duke of Chengguo, didn't dare to do this, let alone Meng with thin arms and legs.

Thinking of this, Meng felt bitter in his mouth.

As for the military rations, the Son of Heaven did not set a fixed deadline, but he did not say that the number would be reduced, and the wise should know that 300,000 stone of grain still had to be raised, and no less should be sent to the Son of Heaven. Otherwise, Emperor Yongle would have done him sooner or later.

If you have time, you can't get things done, either because of your lack of ability or because you are deliberately slacking.

If you don't punish him severely, it's not Zhu Di.

In terms of high standards and strict requirements for his subordinates, Zhu Di is ten percent like Zhu Yuanzhang.

He works overtime, and the people below him can't be lazy.

If you can't do it, you won't do anything with your salary, and you will be replaced directly.

Go home and eat yourself or go to the entangled-greedy-dirty-rotten-corrupt department to drink tea and chat, the emperor has the final say.

Meng pondered the emperor's intentions and weighed the silver that had not been received, and he really had no bottom in his heart.

If the emperor assigned that it was impossible to complete the task and didn't want to find a piece of tofu to kill him, he could only resign, take up a spear and ask for the border to fight from scratch.

Of course, this is the worst-case scenario.

Fortunately, Emperor Yongle was not too embarrassed for Meng, and he didn't explain much, only three.

First, during the period when the holy driver was stationed in Daning, Meng accompanied the driver, chatted, walked, and worked together, and at the same time acted as a commentator and commentator, responsible for answering all the questions raised by the Son of Heaven.

Secondly, the Daning Miscellaneous Bureau is very good, and the things and craftsmen are very good.

Good things to share with good friends.

Therefore, the ambassador of the Daning Miscellaneous Manufacturing Bureau was promoted to the Nanjing Ordnance Bureau and continued to engage in weapons research and development. The deputy envoy was transferred to Beiping and joined the Beiping Miscellaneous Construction Bureau. Capable craftsmen also divided a part to work in the Beiping Miscellaneous Manufacturing Bureau. The specific list was submitted by Meng, and the household registration of the craftsmen and their families was moved.

In the end, as the governor of the military capital left behind, Meng couldn't just grasp the work of Daning. It is also necessary to put forward good opinions and suggestions on the work of tuntian and resettlement in Beiping, and when necessary, it is even more necessary to cooperate with Shen Xuan's work.

Emperor Yongle decided to move the capital, and it was useless for anyone to oppose it. During the Northern Tour, the Northern Parallel Department was renamed the Beijing Branch, and the Shefuji was built in Shuntian Mansion, and the officials of the Administration Department were ordered to worship at the right time, which shows that their determination is firm.

The branch will continue to expand, six departments and six departments will be gradually established, and Guozijian will also be established in the near future.

In this way, the cultivated land population in Beiping must be enriched. Direct immigration is one way, but Zhu Di was inspired by Daning's recruitment of displaced households, and there is always a difference between spontaneous reclamation of wasteland and forced relocation.

This method can be done in Daning, why can't Beiping?

"Qing is the governor of the military capital after Beijing's stay, and he should be able to take on this important responsibility."

"Minister...... Obey! ”

With difficulty saying these three words, Meng's heart was bleeding.

He knew that it was no good to be praised by Emperor Yongle!

Grain has to be raised, people have to give, and in the end, we have to be responsible for solving the food and population problems in Beiping, which is squeezing, naked-naked-squeezing!

Rao is heart is cold, the surface can not be revealed, but also to express gratitude, Your Majesty handed over such an important matter to him, is to trust him, is the glory of the courtiers, is the supreme glory!

After the glory, Meng bowed his head and wept silently.

I was so excited that I had to cry for a while.

It is comforting that Emperor Yongle did not treat him differently, Shen Xuan, Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Gaosui, one declined, and all of them were arrested.

Kaiping Beibian, Xuanfu Tuntian, Shuntianfu reclaimed wasteland, according to the Daning regulations to appease the displaced households and the people outside the border, and with Yingzhou Zhuwei to govern Kaiyuan and Guangning, to prepare for the establishment of the city.

After a showdown, Meng found that in fact, he had not been squeezed to the end.

For his own son, Emperor Yongle's hand is even darker.

Kaiyuan and Guangning belonged to Liaodong, but they were handed over to Zhu Gaosui by Emperor Yongle.

In a word, if you don't manage it well, you can't open the mutual market, and the whip is waiting.

Once the mutual market is opened, it cannot completely change the situation in northern Xinjiang, but it can also contain the Wuliang Ha Sanwei and a certain number of grassland tribes.

With the binding of interests, and then using both soft and the Tatar Khan, unexpected results will be achieved.

Warat was far from the Ming border, and its strength was inferior to that of Tatar. According to Meng's line of thinking, first pick the hard stubble and gnaw it, weaken the Tatars, and continue to provoke a few times, without the border army, the steppe tribes themselves can pinch it.

In fact, if it weren't for Emperor Yongle's intention to send troops, the Tatars and Warat would have already fought. Carrying the black cauldron of robbing Uliangha on his back, Ghost Lichi hated Mahamu so much that his teeth itched.

Although Mahamu was innocent, he was pointed at his nose and scolded by the Ghost Li Chi faction, and spread all kinds of unfavorable remarks against him on the grassland, so that some tribal leaders misunderstood him as a villain behind the insidious and treacherous schemes, and dragged his family to the Tatars, even if it was a clay man, he would spew sparks.

Once the Tatars and Warat fought, and then released the Uliangha, the border army was probably only left to watch the excitement.

Meng thought well, and it was quite feasible.

Zhu Di affirmed his plan, but did not adopt all of them.

After twenty years of guarding the northern frontier, Emperor Yongle was accustomed to confronting these warriors on horseback. He knew the tribes of the steppe better than Meng, and stratagem alone could weaken them, but not subjugate them.

Only absolute strength can make these eagles of the steppe submit.

Even though the Yuan Dynasty has become history, the Northern Yuan Dynasty was also destroyed in the Battle of Yuerhai, but the pride of the warriors has never disappeared.

The only thing that can make a warrior bow his head is strength and toughness.

The so-called convincing people with force may be criticized by the literati in various ways, but in some cases, it is indeed more effective than convincing people with reason.

In the class opened by Emperor Yongle, Meng Zha taught a solid lesson.

Also in the same hall were brothers Shen Xuan and Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhu Di is not really unreasonable, and if the conditions are met, he is also willing to take up the dogma of Confucianism and establish the demeanor of a great country in the world.

The fact that he has a demeanor does not mean that he will make concessions on issues of principle.

Not at all.

According to Zhu Di's thinking, the truth can be said, and it is okay to convince people with reason, but it is up to him to decide how to operate.

This idea, pioneered by Emperor Hongwu and carried forward by Emperor Yongle, has changed with the rise of Wenchen, but its essence has never changed.

Iron bones, a backbone that will never bend.

This is the king who pushed a dynasty to the pinnacle, following Zhu Yuanzhang, who created the most glorious Yongle Emperor of the feudal dynasty.

At this moment, Meng suddenly felt that being pitted by Zhu Di a few times was nothing.

Even if it is squeezed again, it is this land, this country, that will benefit in the end.

The instantaneous sublimation of his thoughts made Meng himself feel incredible.

Suddenly having such a high thought, a very important point, due to the continuous improvement of the level of Yongle Emperor's speech, listening to his speech, it is difficult not to think about the surging blood.

Meng is like this, Zhu Gaoxu and Zhu Gaosui are the same, and even Shen Xuan has been affected.

Leaving the Yanwang Mansion, Meng did not return to the mansion immediately, but rode a horse and walked on the streets of Beiping.

The famous Forbidden City has not yet been built, and the Yanwang Mansion and the Sansi Yamen are the most iconic buildings in the city.

Within the nine gates, the streets and alleys of the market are far less prosperous than Nanjing, and outside the city, the peasant households and the border army of Tuntian walk between Qianmo.

The desert is lonely, not far away.

It is conceivable why Emperor Yongle proposed to move the capital, and there would be so many voices of opposition in the court.

Meng dismounted and bought a dozen wheat cakes from the side of the road and distributed them to the guards who followed him.

"I'm going to get out of town for a walk."

In short, the lunch is gone, so let's eat the cake and carry it.

After checking the waist card in front of the city gate, Meng Ze galloped on his horse, the wind blew on his cheeks, his brain was empty, all kinds of thoughts were far away from him, and all that was left was happiness.

When the guards saw Uncle Meng suddenly galloping on his horse, they were frightened, and immediately waved their horsewhips and followed closely.

After running for a while, a cavalry chased after him.

Compared with Meng's half-hanging horsemanship, the person who came seemed to be born as a cavalryman.

The sound of horses' hooves and rolling sand attracted the attention of the soldiers, who were already some distance from Beiping, and occasionally encountered border sentry horses. Some time ago, there were still small bands of Tartars running around, and they had to be vigilant.

As the horse's hooves approached, Meng slowed down and looked back.

The jujube red horse, the crimson unicorn suit, the action, like a long knife breaking through the wind.

Meng stopped.

Riding his horse back, waiting for someone to come.

When the horse approached, he suddenly put his finger to his lips, whistled, and gave the horse an order to run forward. The red steed became more and more excited, neighed, spread its hooves, and gave chase.

Shen Xuan was helpless immediately, but Meng smiled heartily.

He rarely had such a wanton time, and he had never thought about horse racing with Shen Xuan.

Unwilling to admit defeat, with stubbornness and persistence. This kind of Meng is the most real, and it is also the most unstoppable.

The two horses were almost neck and neck, and in a few moments, they threw the guards some distance away.

It's not that the border army's riding skills are bad, it's actually up, one is counted as one, and all of them have more riding skills than Meng Yida. Unfortunately, the war horses are different, the chassis cannot be compared, and with full strength, the biplane cannot catch up with the jet fighter.

Meng Zhilu said that Shen Xuan was letting him, ran a distance, and began to slow down, and the war horse shook his neck and began to pace.

"Not running?"

"Yes."

After answering, Meng was stunned for a moment and looked at Shen Xuan, this question seems to be ambiguous?

Shen Xuan's expression was as usual, he patted the neck of the war horse, and then looked into the distance, on the horizon, the sun was sinking in the west, illuminating a fiery red sunset. The herds of cattle and sheep seem to be covered with a red halo, and with the light-blazing-heating and weakening, they become a silhouette of the grassland.

There are herders singing.

In the Jingjing, in order to settle the grassland tribes who came to vote, Zhu Di ordered to set up a guard for a thousand households in the south of Huailai, and with more and more tribes attached, the cavalry of the Yan army continued to grow, and the number of guards for a thousand households was also increased from one to three.

After the summer harvest, herders and border troops work together to plant hardy crops and stock up on forage for livestock for the winter.

When spring comes, you can always see clouds of sheep scattered across the grassland, grazing on the grass, and growing fat and strong.

It's no wonder that Duoyan Sanwei hopes to get the land of Daning as a grassland, a good territory, who doesn't want to occupy it?

From the mouth of the cowardly Timur who came and went, Harathuan and Li Ra'er, we can know that the days on the steppe are not as good as year after year. Since their tribe was attached to it and obtained official positions such as thousands of households, friends on the grassland asked people to bring them to the occasion, hoping to move inward.

Since March, through the matchmaking of Timur the Fierce, there have been tribes such as Bo Timur, Abduhan, and Tokhtar Buhua donkey and donkey returning. Tribes ranging from 100 to 1,000 could not, such as Abduhan, not only the tribe was attached, but also the land of Tatan where they lived was offered.

Abduhan's tribe was a Mongolized West Asian people, similar to that of Warat.

Before, the cowardly Timur begged to see Zhu Gaoxu, saying that he had something important to report, that is, this matter.

For the attachment of these tribes, the Ming Dynasty welcomed it, except for Abduhan, who brought his own territory, the resettlement of the rest of the people was a problem. If it is not handled well, it will also give birth to chaos.

This is also one of the reasons why Zhu Di insisted on moving the capital.

Accepting the return of the steppe tribes has the advantages and troubles of not being small. For example, when Bo Timur led 500 people to move inward, he was hindered by the Tatar cavalry, and He Fu, the governor of Zuodu, the chief military officer of Ningxia, sent cavalry to rescue Bo Timur.

Every time a tribe returns, there is a spark at the border.

Accumulate to a certain extent, sooner or later it will explode.

It is not difficult to understand that Emperor Yongle will go out of the border five times, and only by absolute force can he deter in exchange for the stability of the border, but unfortunately, a change in the civil fort has made the glory of Yongle Nian a history.

The herders' singing continues.

Meng followed Shen Xuan's example and looked into the distance.

As far as the eye can see, as far as the eye can see.

"The north is barren, but I would rather live here." Shen Xuan turned his head, and the smile on his lips seemed to melt into the sunset, "Do you know why?" ”

Meng didn't speak, he had the answer in his heart, but he couldn't express it in words. If you say it, you won't be able to say it. The first time was good, and I realized what it was like to hate less when the book was used.

Shen Xuan didn't ask again, as if he knew that Dao Meng already had the answer in his heart.

Gently stroked the horse's mane, and glanced at the sunset in the west, Shen Xuan turned the horse's head and said to Meng: "Go back." ”

"Okay."

The two didn't say much, but they seemed to get much closer.

Meng even felt that just now, he had touched the deepest place in Shen Xuan's heart. It was a strange feeling, so strange that it felt unreal to him.

After returning to the city, the two met Yang Duo again.

Commander Yang was still dressed in a big red brocade robe, clasped his fists at the two, and smiled politely.

Compared with before, Yang Duo seems to have changed again.

Seeing his back go away, Meng couldn't help but say, "Master Hou, have you been familiar with Commander Yang before?" ”

"How?"

"What kind of person is he?"

"Twelve Lang is curious?"

"Sort of."

"Oh."

The voice was elongated, and Meng's back suddenly felt a little cold.

Looking up, Marquis Shen was smiling, but with a smile, why was something not right?

That night, Meng failed to refuse Shen Xuan's gracious invitation, and was invited home by the second generation of Hou to talk at night.

The next day, Emperor Yongle summoned him, Shen Hou was always as usual, but Meng Shishilang was not in good spirits.

The reason is known by God and by the two.

In June, Ding Wei, the Son of Heaven went out of Beiping and moved to Daning.

The Tatar Khan, who paid close attention to Zhu Di's movements, sweated on his forehead, Daning to the north is Kaipingwei, and the Ming army is out of the fortress, mostly from here, could it be that the Ming Dynasty really wants to fight?

Gui Lichi convened the prime ministers on the left and right to discuss the return of the Ming Dynasty, and at the same time sent a "letter of state" to Zhu Di to express his friendship.

In a sense, Ghost Power is subdued.

It's not much of a problem to rob threshing grass, but in a real battle with Zhu Di, the ghost power is really bottomless. What's more, there is a warat who is eyeing him around, and his subordinate Taibao Privy Council Arutai has always been dissatisfied with his ascension to the throne of the Khan.

This is the time to go to war with the Ming Dynasty, and it is definitely worth the loss.

Sending the envoy to get through, first stabilizing Zhu Di, strengthening his strength, and solving the hidden dangers around him is the first thing Ghost Lichi has to do.

When the Tatars sent an envoy to Kaipingwei to deliver the "letter of state", hoping to express their friendship to Emperor Yongle in person, the Son of Heaven had already left Beiping City.

What everyone didn't expect was that Zhu Di was not in a hurry, but ordered to change the route, and said to the accompanying Wenwu: "At the beginning of my life, it was difficult to raise troops, and the people of Beiping all contributed to the conquest, and the losers and wealth benefited the military needs." I have not forgotten it. Both nuclear counties and townships, after this, should face the compensation. ”

The oracle was given, and everyone had an epiphany.

The Son of Heaven wants to go to the countryside to offer condolences, and everything that should be prepared is ready.

Money, food, silk and wine are indispensable.

The condolences were ready, the Yulin Army opened the way, the standard-bearers were behind, and the first stop was Mengjiatun, who set an example when donating grain.