Chapter 1 The Year of the Snow Trillion Harvest

"It's snowy." Zhu Qizhen stood on top of the regimental city, looking at the boundless snowy scene.

This is a pavilion in the middle of Yingtai.

Of course, it's better to say it's a warm pavilion.

Although this pavilion is facing the lake for three years, you can see the snowy scenery in the sky. But inside, it is warm as spring, because the fire bricks are embedded underneath, as long as you step on it, there is a steaming feeling.

And all the supporting pavilions are iron pillars, which contain hot water to preach, and are paved in a lattice shape on the top of the head, hidden in the carved beams and painted columns.

Although the heat is steaming up and down, it can't withstand the cold of the sky, but only a few clothes are added, and you can't feel the cold.

There was even a slight sweat.

This is the impact of Zhu Qizhen's original promotion of the briquette furnace.

If something is good at the top, it will be followed by the bottom.

Zhu Qizhen was just an idea, and it was built into this shape by the craftsmen of Ouchi, and this Guanxue Pavilion was repaired by Wang Zhen a few years ago.

It's just five snows in a row, and even if there is snow, it's still dotted. Not enough to see.

Only in the eighth winter of orthodoxy, a heavy snow finally came.

For Zhu Qizhen, this snow is the best good news Zhu Qizhen has received in the past three months. Although I don't know if the continuous spring drought will end, as long as this snow is there, the winter wheat harvest in Hebei next year is worth looking forward to.

"Your Majesty, Lord Xu is here." Zhang Huan said cautiously.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Please come to him." ”

Zhang Huan agreed, an old minister in a red official uniform, walked along the long twenty-four bridge, heavy snow fell in the lake, also fell on the bridge, only the middle of the bridge was cleaned, and both sides of the bridge have been piled up with palm-thick snow, even if it has been cleaned, there are layers of thin snow.

The person who came was Xu Xi, the secretary of the military department recommended by Yang Pu.

At the beginning of this year, the body of Shang Shuchaiche of the Ministry of War could no longer hold on, and he died of illness. After Zhu Qizhen's burial, the court began to compete with each other for the position of the secretary of the military department.

But Zhu Qizhen was silent, no matter who reported it below, Zhu Qizhen didn't agree.

So much so that the military department was empty for half a year. Kuang Yu temporarily acted as the secretary of the military department as a squire of the military department. When everyone thought that this position was Kuang Yu, only Yang Pu knew that this position was reserved for Xu Xi.

Zhu Qizhen didn't have a special inclination towards Xu Xi and Kuang Wei before, why he is so positive about Xu Xi and denies Kuang Wei now, because Xu Xi has done something that Zhu Qizhen never thought of.

In the sixth year of orthodoxy, Zhu Qizhen casually asked Xu Xi to inspect the defense of the Ninth Frontier. It's just that Zhu Qizhen didn't expect that Xu Xi was finished

It took two full years to accomplish this.

From the banks of the Yalu River. All the way to Jiayuguan, it took two years to conduct a very detailed investigation of various places.

You must know that later statistics show that the Great Wall has more than 6,300 kilometers, that is, more than 12,000 miles. Xu Xi rode a horse during the day and wrote a note on the lights at night. One by one, they were sent to the imperial court.

Zhu Qizhen didn't care about it at first, but later, he had to admit that it was very terrible for people to be serious.

Xu Xi's recitals written in the past two years have more than 100,000 words, and when they are compiled together, it is a complete "Daming Border Town Examination".

Zhu Qizhen even asked Jinyiwei to verify some details in Xu Xi's recital, and he had to admit that Xu Xi was not lying. This made Zhu Qizhen attach more importance to Xu Xi.

Therefore, it is better to wait for Xu Xi to come back from Gansu to serve as the secretary of the military department.

And Zhu Qizhen also has different expectations for Xu Xi, the secretary of the military department.

After Xu Xi walked into the warm pavilion, he glanced at Zhu Qizhen, and immediately saluted and said, "Xu Xi, the servant of the Ministry of Ministers, has seen Your Majesty. He secretly said in his heart: "Your Majesty has grown up." ”

Indeed, now Zhu Qizhen is already the father of the eldest son Zhu Jianjun. The fluff on his mouth also turned black, but it hadn't hardened yet, but Zhu Qizhen had also kept it. Therefore, when Xu Xi came to Beijing today, Zhu Qizhen met once, and when they met, they didn't have this beard.

Now Xu Xi looks like he can see at first glance the shallow beard on Zhu Qizhen's lips. Naturally, I feel that Zhu Qizhen has grown up a lot. In addition, Zhu Qizhen's temperament is already mature.

Nowadays, few ministers evaluate Zhu Qizhen as a young monarch.

And the name Zhu Jianjun, the eldest son of Zhu Qizhen, was carefully considered by Zhu Qizhen, he knew that the historical Ming Xianzong was called Zhu Jianshen, so Zhu Qizhen obviously avoided this name.

In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang set the seniority, Zhu Qizhen has little room for consideration, his son must be called Zhu Jian, and the third word must have three points of water.

Zhu Qizhen thought about it, and then thought of the word Jun. Because Zhu Qizhen felt that the biggest achievement he had made so far was the Hebei Water Control Project.

The word Jun has two sounds, and when he does dredging, it doesn't mean what he does in Hebei, and the eldest son often wants to be the prince, and he wants people to avoid it. So I specially chose a different character of Jun, that is, 濬.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Xu Qing is old. Sit. ”

Indeed, Xu Xi is also much older than he was at the beginning.

Xu Xi was admitted to Yongle in the early years, and now he is more than sixty years old, this 10,000-mile trek, although there is a local government reception, the border army escort, but Xu Xi's body, is also a great torture.

Xu Xi's original hair was black hair mixed with a few white hairs. If you comb it carefully, you can still cover it up, let's

People can't see gray hair, but at this moment, white hair completely exceeds black hair. It seems that the last bit of gray hair is just holding on to the last stubbornness.

Zhu Qizhen actually sat opposite Xu Xi, and there was only one person in the middle. Zhu Qizhen personally picked up the teapot, poured a cup of tea for Xu Xi, and said, "Xu Qing has traveled thousands of miles and worked hard. ”

When Xu Xi and Zhu Qizhen sat opposite each other, they already felt restless, and at this moment, when they saw Zhu Qizhen pouring tea for themselves, they immediately knelt on the ground and said, "The minister never dares to be." ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Why is Xu Qing like this, I have this cup of tea, not for you, but for you to travel thousands of miles for the country, but for the country's meritorious heroes, the court will not treat meritorious ministers badly, but now Xu Qing is, how different is it from the ransom of Zigong?" ”

Xu Xi naturally knew the allusion of Zigong's redemption.

The law of the Lu country, after the foreigners redeem the people of the Lu country, and return to the Lu country, the Lu country rewards. But Zigong didn't want it, Confucius sighed when he heard it, and said, "It's a loss." From now on, the Lu people do not redeem people. If you take the money, you will not be harmed, and if you don't take the money, you will not redeem the person. ”

Sure enough, from then on, the people of Lu will never redeem their people again.

Having said this, Xu Xi naturally picked up this cup of tea with trembling hands, and then drank it all.

Although it was just a sip of hot tea, Xu Xi felt that his whole body was hot, but he didn't know if he felt Zhu Qizhen's courtesy, or if the temperature in this pavilion was really high.

Zhu Qizhen's method of winning people's hearts has indeed made great progress.

Xu Xi sat down again, and at this time, he seemed to have calmed down. 、

Zhu Qizhen said: "Xu Qing east to the Yalu River, west to Jiayuguan, east and west thousands of miles, although there are constant, but it is better than not to talk about it, today I don't see anyone, I have to talk to Xu Qing in detail, talk about my Ming nine sides." ”

Xu Xi said: "Since Your Majesty asked. How dare the minister not speak. It's just the nine sides set up by Emperor Taizong, where does Your Majesty want to start listening? ”

The nine sides of the Ming Dynasty are Liaodong, Jizhou, Xuanfu, Datong, Shanxi, Yansui, Guyuan, Ningxia and Gansu. The so-called nine sides are also.

But there are also light and heavy, and the emphasis is different depending on the times.

Zhu Qizhen said: "Let's start from Liaodong, how is Phoenix Guard? ”

Fenghuangwei naturally mentioned above, moved Jinzhouwei to Phoenix, and ordered Shi Li to take it, nominally to maintain the Korean post road, but in fact, it was to fill the area west of the Yalu River and cut off the ambition of North Korea.

Xu Xi said: "Although Fenghuangwei is newly built, it is full of vitality, with as many as 30,000 or 40,000 people, and the only problem is that there are too many North Korean people, and the North Korean side is very dissatisfied." ”

Zhu Qizhen smiled faintly and said: "I act in a bright way, why should I be satisfied with a small country." ”