Zhu Yuanzhang's anniversary festival was November 13, except for the seriously ill King of Jin and the rebellious King Yan and King Zhou, all the vassal kings went to Beijing to pay respects. Zhu Yunwen ordered the Ministry of Rites and the Zongren Mansion to raise the spirit of twelve, and to do a good job in the anniversary sacrifice of the first emperor, starting from the entry of the vassal king into Beijing, the reception, residence, reward, crying sacrifice, and spiritual wake, all must be foolproof. So after a trip to the procedure, not only the officials of the Ministry of Rites and the Zongren Mansion were tired of shedding a layer of skin, but even Zhu Yunwen himself was exhausted. Now that we are in an extraordinary period, we must let these vassal kings feel their sincerity and appease people's hearts. Although none of these vassal kings were capable of rebelling, Zhu Yunwen still didn't want to go that far. Although the heavenly family has no family affection, they still have to be face-saving, this time Jingnan actually made the government and the opposition see enough jokes, and the number of people who sarcastically mocked Zhu Yuanzhang behind his back gradually increased, Zhu Yunwen didn't want to care, but in the end he found that these people were making more and more trouble, so he had to order not to criticize the first emperor, and finally exiled the whole family of several leaders to Taiwan, and the matter slowly calmed down.

Before the clan king entered Beijing, Zhu Yunjiao had already ordered the concubine and concubine to accompany him into Beijing, and he prepared to hold a banquet on Chinese New Year's Eve at the Empress Dowager's dormitory, Cining Palace, mainly to show royal harmony, and also invited the princes in Beijing, as well as the horses and foreign relatives to attend the meeting, which was for the concept of governing the country in the unity of the royal family and the nobles, so as to calm people's hearts.

In all fairness, Zhu Yunwen doesn't like this kind of occasion, and his relationship with these vassal kings is also commonplace, the royal family relationship is indifferent, these vassal kings have been separated from each other since they were teenagers, and they haven't met a few times, to be honest, some vassal kings don't know each other very well, let alone their sons and princesses, and more importantly, Zhu Yunwen understands that he will still have to attack these vassal kings in the future, but after experiencing so many things, Zhu Yunwen understands that he can't be too hasty and can't do too much. He prefers to find a way to get the best of both worlds.

In addition, Zhu Yunwen also asked Ma Hui to reward the palace attendants, according to their grades and closeness, they were given one month to one year to win people's hearts; For the courtiers, Zhu Yunwen personally came forward and rewarded them with a salary ranging from one month to half a year according to their grade and remoteness, which was actually a disguised increase in the salary of officials. In the Hongwu era, the courtiers were very low, and many law-abiding and honest ministers lived very poorly, among which the typical one was that after Wu Lin, the secretary of the Hongwu Dynasty, retired, he had to go to the land and farm by himself.

Zhu Yunwen did not forget the front-line soldiers, and gave a large amount of money to the front-line generals headed by Ping'an, Sheng Yong, Xu Huizu, Geng Xuan, etc., and gave a bonus of one month's salary to the grassroots soldiers. When the proclamation arrived at the front line with supplies and rewards, the soldiers on the front line shouted with joy and shouting long live.

Zhu Yunwen won praise for throwing money this time, especially eunuchs and middle- and low-level civil officials and military generals, but some people also accused him of "losing the family", "spending money indiscriminately", "undermining the rule of Hongwu officials" and so on.

However, Zhu Yunwen turned a deaf ear to this voice and didn't care. In his opinion, compared with Zhu Di, his advantage is that there are more people, more soldiers, and more money, and at this moment he has to give full play to his advantages and defeat Zhu Di, otherwise what is the point of being missed and remembered by future generations? I don't want to be myself in my previous life, remembered by everyone, but I died without a trace. However, he also believes that he can hold on, the commercial tax has gradually increased in the past two years, and there have been as many as 300,000 taels in the first year of Jianwen, plus the opening of the city and the city next year, the business tax and the income of the city will continue to increase; In addition, the sailors controlled Taiwan and the Ryukyus, and the income of the Penghu Inspection Division would also increase, after all, most of the ships from Southeast Asia to the Ryukyus and Japan had to take this waterway, and as long as the sailors were strong enough, the merchants had to pay the silver obediently.

At the banquet on Chinese New Year's Eve, in front of all the princes, princes, and foreign relatives, Zhu Yunjiao did a shocking thing, making everyone mourn for the soldiers who died on the front line for a moment of silence (five minutes), and ordered the establishment of the Jingzhong Temple outside the gate of the imperial city of Xi'an, which displayed the spiritual positions and portraits of the generals who were born and died for the Ming Dynasty and made contributions to the Hummer, and the first batch of selected were Xu Da, King of Zhongshan, Chang Yuchun, King of Kaiping, Li Wenzhong, King of Qiyang, Muying of Qianning, Deng Yue, King of Ninghe, Tang He, King of Donou, Fu Youde, King of Lijiang, Geng Bingwen, the Duke of Lieguo, as well as the loyal Hou Song Zhong, the righteous Hou Xie Gui, and Juyong Bo Chen Zhen. At the same time, Zhu Yunwen ordered the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Rites to select other candidates, and only after his own approval could he stay in the Jingzhong Temple.

Also ordered to build Shechen Pavilion opposite the Jingzhong Temple, recording those who collaborated with the enemy and betrayed the country, plotting rebellion and rebellion, Zhu Yunwen imitated the model of Qin Hui kneeling statue, so that the Ministry of Industry will shape the statue of Shechen, kneel and worship the Jingzhong Temple opposite, the first batch of selected are the former Song Dynasty Duke Feng Sheng and Dingyuan Marquis Wang Bi, the same other candidates also need Zhu Yunwen's approval to live in the Shechen Pavilion.

In the end, Zhu Yunwen ordered the recruitment of meritorious veterans to take care of the Jingzhong Temple and the Shechen Pavilion, the royal spring and autumn sacrifices every year, and the vassal king and the prince must go to the Jingzhong Temple to burn incense when they go to Beijing.

The holy decree was struck, the audience was shocked, Xu Da's sons in Beijing, such as Xu Zengshou and Xu Yingxu, Fu Youde's son Fu Zhong, Chang Yuchun's grandson Chang Jizu (Chang Sheng's son), Geng Bingwen's second son Geng Zhen and others appeared to bow down and thank the emperor, and even more such as Fu Zhong cried loudly, Xu Zengshou and others couldn't cry and couldn't do it themselves.

After the news spread, the government and the opposition were shocked, Wenchen thought that the emperor's praise of the generals was too much, which was not conducive to the long-term peace and stability of the country, but when the news reached the garrisons and the Pingyan front line, the three armies were thunderous and their morale was greatly boosted, especially Xu Huizu and Geng Xuan, the two of them were like chicken blood, planning day and night, planning to break through Juyong Pass and Yongping, and attack Beiping on both sides, after all, they also wanted to be side by side with their father and enjoy the royal incense.

After presiding over the royal banquet, Zhu Yunwen went to the Academy of Sciences to express his condolences to the hard-working craftsmen, the life of these craftsmen is getting better and better, as long as they work hard, there will be bonuses, and they can also enjoy higher treatment through the evaluation of professional titles such as assistant engineers, junior engineers, intermediate engineers and senior engineers, Zhu Yunwen also set up corresponding grades for these titles, such as intermediate engineers from the nine products, senior engineers are nine products, and the engineers with excellent performance are also rewarded with flying fish suits, and enjoy the treatment of not kneeling when seeing officials, This made the dean Wang Quan happy, but also felt a great responsibility, so he was very concerned about the research of the weapons hand-picked by the emperor, especially gunpowder and artillery, and did not go home during the New Year, and shared weal and woe with the craftsmen in the Academy of Sciences.

After the war with Zhu Di in the first year of Jianwen, Zhu Yunwen found that the cavalry was indeed a fighter of this era, and he made a surprise attack on the Xishan camp in peace, beheading nearly 20,000 and capturing 30,000; After Zhu Di Zhending's victory, he only rested for two days before heading south, and attacked Xiongxian and Mozhou, losing nearly 30,000 people and nearly 20,000 horses. Both battles were fought in a matter of days. If the enemy situation is discovered on the front line, let alone reported to the Beijing Division, even if it is reported to the main general Ping'an or Sheng Yong, the war may have already ended.

Under the threat of Zhu Di's cavalry, our army's ability to siege the city can not be displayed, Zhu Di only has Beiping, Yongping and Baoding, as long as a point is pulled, Zhu Di's end can basically be announced, but our army can only have three or four days of siege time at most, in the current situation, it is simply impossible to do. Therefore, it can only rely on the explosive ability of gunpowder, Zhu Yunwen combined with the experience of later generations, and put forward several ideas, but although the principle is simple, the craftsman can make a prototype in a few days, but it will take time to reach the level of actual combat.

In the last few days, Zhu Yunwen inspected the Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Plant and the Longjiang Shipyard, and found that the blast furnace ironmaking, steel frying, steel filling and cold forging have been relatively mature, but the craftsmen have not yet solved the problem of unstable steel quality, for example, some steel is of good quality, while others are brittle and easy to break. Zhu Yunwen knows a little about this problem, which is caused by excessive sulfur content, but explaining to the craftsman what sulfur is is beyond Zhu Yunwen's ability, he only remembers that it can be desulfurized by lime, calcium carbide and magnesium, but what is magnesium? Zhu Yunwen also smiled bitterly, so he could only let the craftsmen experiment more, choose high-quality coke, and then test various desulfurizers.

After the craftsmen experimented, they found that after adding quicklime to the molten iron, the steel really became tough, and they couldn't help but regard Zhu Yunwen as a celestial, and Zhu Yunwen was also very happy, but still encouraged the craftsmen to conduct more experiments to find a better desulfurizer; For coal, the coal near Wuhu, Tongling and Taiyuan and Datong in Shanxi Province is relatively high-quality and can be used. In order to obtain more coal, Zhu Yunwen called on the people to open mines and build cement and stone roads to increase transportation capacity.

Therefore, Zhu Yunwen did not rest in the second year of Jianwen for the New Year, and has been running around. When the Queen Mother Lu complained that she didn't see her family much and didn't accompany the queen and the crown prince much, Zhu Yunwen hurriedly apologized, but there was nothing she could do, because now is not the time to enjoy peace, but almost no one can understand him, even Wang Du, Zhuo Jing and others......

On the tenth day of the first month of the first year of Jianwen, Zhu Yunwen invited all the vassal kings to review the exercises of the First Guards Army, the Second Guards Army and the newly formed Third Guards Army. The scenes of spears like forests, swords like mountains, cavalry like the wind, and muskets like anger greatly shocked the vassal kings of all walks of life. In the end, Zhu Yunwen also let the Shenji Battalion and the Firearms Battalion conduct a drill, and the Shenji Battalion practiced three-stage shooting, in order to make the drill real, Zhu Yunwen also let people drive cattle, sheep and horses to the musket battalion, but these animals all fell fifty steps away, and they couldn't move forward at all; As for the firing scene of the 100-door tiger squatting cannon, the dummies on the front of more than 200 zhang were all shattered, and the dead bodies of poultry, cattle and sheep were in disarray, and the blood flowed like a river.

After the drill, the vassal kings were as pale as earth and more respectful to Zhu Yunwen, but Zhu Yunwen comforted them one by one, telling them not to worry, this is all the force of our Zhu family, and it will bless our Ming dynasty forever......

Looking at the backs of the vassal kings, Zhu Yunwen's original personal bodyguard, Liu Tie, the current commander of the Shenji Battalion, said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, what if they tell the Yanshu people about the exercise?" ”

"Hehe, isn't that great? If the rebels don't even dare to charge, they are not far from destruction. ”