Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Yuanzhang took a nap at noon, and after waking up, he ate a little bit and began to review the recital. Because the windows have been replaced with glass, the Qianqing Palace is much brighter than before, and it is raining lightly outside, gathering on the eaves and dripping down, everything seems so leisurely, so quiet. Suddenly, Zhu Yuanzhang remembered something and said, "Changfu, has Mu Sheng's recital come?" ”

"It's already here, it's raining today, so it's a little late, and it didn't arrive until after noon."

"Okay, I'll take a look."

Zhu Yuanzhang has now developed a habit of reading the reports of Mu Sheng and Jinyiwei every day, which contain the whereabouts of martial arts, Taisun's guards, and several important subordinates of Taisun. The half-life old emperor, who is nearly seventy years old, will not really believe in anyone, relatively speaking, Zhu Yunwen's trust here is still relatively high, at least higher than his father Zhu Biao, but Zhu Yuanzhang still arranged for someone to monitor, what Zhu Yuanzhang admires is that Zhu Yunwen's subordinates' character and dedication are quite good, so far, I have not found any two hearts of these people that Zhu Yunwen values, which makes Zhu Yuanzhang a little breathtaking.

The old emperor's surveillance of his grandson has three purposes, the first is to see if he has the idea of being unwilling to be lonely and wants to ascend the throne as soon as possible, which is resolutely not possible; Then there is to see if his subordinates are loyal, after all, the grandfather still wants to check for his grandson, which is also normal; The last one is to find out about my grandson's problems as soon as possible and stop him before it gets serious. Therefore, in general, the old emperor still loves his grandson.

The intimidation of the Bai family was also Zhu Yuanzhang's order, when he knew that Zhu Yunwen gave the token to the Bai family brothers and sisters without authorization, he felt wrong, after summarizing the descriptions of the people present at the time, Zhu Yuanzhang keenly felt that Zhu Yunwen had a different feeling about the eldest lady of the Bai family. After knowing the news, Zhu Yuanzhang even wanted to destroy the Bai family for a moment, and later wanted to marry the eldest lady of the Bai family, but after hesitating for a long time, he decided to let Jinyiwei command Song Zhong to hint at the Bai family and not to marry Bai Fangrui. He also didn't want to get too stiff with his grandson, because he found that his grandson was not as weak as he imagined, after experiencing the Lanyu case and the assassination case, his grandson became more and more sharp, he was happy and worried, because Yun Wei was not as peaceful as before, and no longer followed his baton.

The training of martial arts is what Zhu Yuanzhang is more interested in, so he asked his godgrandson Mu Sheng to report on the training content and change trend of martial arts every day, and when the imperial grandson went to inspect, he had to describe it in detail. Based on Mu Sheng's description, the old emperor found that although Sun Er did not understand military affairs, he had very detailed regulations on the walking, sitting and lying of soldiers, as well as queue walking and assassination training, so the old emperor thought that Sun Er could indeed train strong soldiers, and the problem was not nothing, but it cost too much money. The trainees of martial arts have a very high training intensity every day, so the amount of food is very large, and the imperial grandson also requires the trainees to eat more meat, and the food cost alone is more than three times that of the same guard. When his grandson wanted to form a protector, Zhu Yuanzhang realized this problem, these three standing guards need a lot of military expenses, but fortunately, grandson took the initiative to say that he would sell glass to solve it, but Zhu Yuanzhang still asked the military department to allocate military funds to the protector according to the emperor's pro-army standards, and let his grandson raise the rest.

In Zhu Yuanzhang's opinion, it is normal for his grandson to be young and have many ideas, as long as it is not too out of line, let him try, such as the creation of an agricultural college and an engineering college, in fact, the old emperor did not think so, but since his grandson insisted, let him go, anyway, the court does not need to pay too much money.

According to the information that Zhu Yuanzhang has, Sun Er is indeed working hard to cultivate cronies in the army, but the target is not himself, but his uncle in the north, Zhu Yuanzhang can only sigh at this problem, he is actually aware of the problem of his military system, it is indeed not a good thing for the vassal king to control the military power, the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms in the Han Dynasty and the rebellion of the Eight Kings in the Jin Dynasty are all lessons from the past. But he thinks that the Ming Dynasty is still different, for example, the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty only have military power, no local governance power, and the number of troops under his command is not very large, and there is a big gap with the power ratio of the central government. But the old emperor also understood his grandson's panic, he killed too ruthlessly in the Lanyu case, and the main ones he killed were the central army, and the generals in the frontier were often spared due to the protection of the vassal kings, for example, Qu Neng was the king of Shu who proved his innocence, and the other kings of Qin, Jin, Yan, Ning, and Liao all did the same thing, trying to protect their subordinates, so the central army was weakened a lot, but the power of the frontier kings was not greatly weakened. It is understandable that the grandson is nervous and scared.

Since the assassination, Sun Er wanted to reuse Fu Youde and Feng Sheng, and he hesitated for several days about this matter, and finally decided to wait and see what happened. Fu Youde has made great achievements in war, and has no bad deeds, the only problem is that he has asked for land; Feng Sheng is more troublesome, he is a pro-army commander, and in the early days, he was even ranked before Chang Yuchun, but Feng Sheng was greedy for money and couldn't tolerate people, so he finally became third in the list of meritorious heroes; In addition, Feng Sheng has many times disobeyed orders and made decisions without authorization, which is very headache, such as the second year of Hongwu, he consciously pacified Long, and brought the army back without authorization, and Hongwu five years, he completely abandoned Gansu without playing, if it weren't for Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, and Li Wenzhong were dead, he would have abandoned him a long time ago.

Recently, Zhu Yunwen has begun to deal with the twists and turns again, and he is more conscientious than before, never domineering, humbly inquiring about things he doesn't understand, and even checking the information until he understands, so the six books are all praised, and he is naturally very satisfied, but there are occasional disputes on the issue of punishment, but this is an old problem, starting with his father.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but smile slightly, in fact, he didn't object to his grandson's kindness, he had been like this in his life, he had done his best for the Ming Dynasty, and the edges and corners were removed, and the emperor behind him could not be like himself, otherwise it would be difficult for the Ming Dynasty to last forever.

For Bai Fangrui's matter, he didn't care whether his grandson cared about it or not, as long as it was a possibility, he would help his grandson solve it, as for the possibility of delaying a woman's life, the old emperor didn't take it to heart, at this time, he was just a grandfather who loved his grandson. And according to the secret report I saw, Wang Du, a close confidant of Sun Er, went to the Bai family in person and brought a lot of glasses, but when he came out, he was empty-handed, probably asking the Bai family to help sell the glass. This shows that his estimation is not wrong, and his grandson does look at the Bai family differently.

After the old man Bai waited for the new mirrors and beads to arrive, he began to make preliminary preparations and write invitations, and asked business colleagues to come to Bai's house on August 15, because it was a festival, and they could bring their families with them. The invitation was sent through Jinyiwei, which frightened the invited businessmen, and when they read the invitation, they immediately understood the intention of the old man Bai, the Bai family was a nobleman, and even Jinyiwei ran errands for them, so how could it not give face? So they replied one after another, and they must be there on time to attend the banquet.