There is no need to doubt Zhang Fu's loyalty, and a veteran who fought bravely to the death at the age of seventy-five thirty years later, does not need to doubt his loyalty at all.

In fact, in the early days of the Ming Dynasty, whether it was the Hongwu Dynasty or the Yongle Dynasty, the vast majority of civil officials were not greedy for money, and military generals were not afraid of death.

Compared with the former Song Dynasty and the late Ming Dynasty, the difference between military generals and civil officials who were greedy for money is huge.

The reason for this is not that people's moral quality is higher. It is because today's civil ministers, military generals, and eunuchs have a reasonable way of restraining each other.

As long as Zhu Zhanji maintains this framework, neither side has absolute power to suppress the other two.

Zhang Fu was left behind, not because he was afraid that his high achievements would shock the master, but because he wanted to use him to stabilize the hearts of domestic generals.

Zhu Di obviously communicated with Zhang Fu for a long time, but as Zhu Zhanji, he must also reach a consensus with Zhang Fu.

Zhang Fu is not an ordinary person, and Zhu Zhanji, an ordinary person, still needs to remain unfathomable in front of them. But for Zhang Fu, who is a very popular minister and has a close relationship with the royal family, what is needed is for him to clearly understand the mind of the superior.

Zhang Fu is a smart person, and so is Zhu Zhanji.

Even if there is a gap between him and Zhang Fu in terms of experience because of his age, but there are millions of people in the industry controlled in his previous life, and Zhu Zhanji's gap in power and experience has long been made up, and it is even better.

So there is no need for a deep conversation between the two on this occasion, just a few words, a look, an expression, and a gesture can make the other party understand what they mean.

On the contrary, other nobles took this opportunity to play the emotional card with Zhu Zhanji, and this time Zhu Di went on an expedition, and almost every family had children to follow.

The generals of the Ming Dynasty also need to be inherited and trained, and the battlefield is the best school.

The nobles who can survive the wind and waves and perform well are really worth cultivating.

And the nobles who stayed in the capital can now be determined, whether the crown prince will succeed to the throne or not, Zhu Zhanji is destined to be the future emperor or the emperor in power.

Because of Zhu Di's expedition, the military and civil affairs of the Ming Dynasty were all handed over to Zhu Zhanji. There is a transition period of two or three years, and Zhu Zhanji will definitely not let the power go by.

Even if Zhu Gaochi can be remembered by Zhu Zhanji in the future, let him transition to the position of emperor for a few years, the power will still be controlled by Zhu Zhanji.

Zhu Gaochi will always be just a puppet.

What's more, according to Zhu Gaochi's current physical condition, whether he can survive until Zhu Di's return from the western expedition is still a question.

Zhu Di did not have twenty-six sons like Zhu Yuanzhang, he only had three adult princes.

Zhu Zhanji is definitely not Zhu Yunwen, he has the same cognition and scheming as the previous two emperors, and he is even better.

Today's Daming nobles almost all have common interests behind Zhu Zhanji, at this time, who can be his opponent?

No!

Zhu Gaoxu has already admitted defeat, and the news that he bowed to Zhu Zhanji during the Chinese New Year has long spread throughout the capital.

And this time he will go west with the emperor, and he wants to go to Xizhou to have a look, and he will prepare to lay down a piece of the country in Xizhou in the future.

Zhu Gaosui is even worse, his biggest supporter in the army is Chang Shanwei's commander Meng Xian, Meng Xian is also the eldest brother of the current Baoding Hou, the fifty-sixth generation Sun Mengying of Yasheng Mengzi.

Now that Meng Ying is standing closely behind Zhu Zhanji, it is also very doubtful how much loyalty Meng Xian still has to Zhu Gaosui.

And now Zhu Gaosui is all focused on making money, and he has long made it clear that he wants to be a rich idler.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanji is very likely to become the second Jianwen Emperor and ascend the throne directly as the emperor's grandson, but he will definitely not become the second Jianwen Emperor who was seized the throne by the emperor's uncle.

Of course, Zhu Zhanji knows the thoughts of these nobles, and he also needs these nobles to stabilize his position, so he will definitely not refuse their dependence.

It's just that whether to reuse or not is not determined by their titles and official positions, but by their abilities.

"Your Highness, now that the matter of new recruits, Your Majesty has entrusted the ministers, but this recruitment of soldiers is mainly to fill His Highness's young military camp, this recruitment is only standard, and I hope His Highness will show it."

It was Zhu Yong, the Duke of Chengguo, who spoke as the son of Zhu Neng, the second hero of the Battle of Jingyan, who was only seven years older than Zhu Zhanji, and was just thirty years old this year, and now he is the right governor of the Chinese Military Governor's Office.

In his early years, Zhu Neng served as the deputy guard of Yanshan, and accompanied Zhu Di to Mobei, brave and good at fighting.

During the Battle of Jingyan, he captured the Nine Gates of Beiping, successively defeated Geng Bingwen and Li Jinglong, captured Ping'an and other famous generals of the Southern Army in Lingbi, collected and surrendered 100,000 Southern Army, and accumulated the merits to the Zuo Governor of the Left Army's Governor's Mansion, and was named the Duke of the Kingdom and the Prince and the Prince.

In the fourth year of Yongle, Zhu Neng served as the general of Zhengyi, conquered Annan, unfortunately died of illness in the army, and was posthumously crowned the king of Dongping, and was called Wulie.

In the memory of Zhu Zhanji's previous life, this person was also loyal, and he died in the Tumubao Incident.

In this life, he has long understood Zhu Yong's deeds clearly.

He died of his father at the age of fifteen, and became the Duke of the Kingdom at the age of sixteen, although he is now close to the age, but because he has never fought in battle, no one dares to guarantee his ability to lead the army.

Although he is now the right governor of the Chinese military governor's office, he is not in charge of government affairs, that is, he has no real power.

However, the Governor's Mansion of the Chinese Army has always been in charge of the Beijing camp, and he cannot lead the army, but some auxiliary work will still be handed over to him.

Zhu Zhanji's young army originally numbered 22,000 men, but on the way to sea, he left some in Nanzhou, some in Ceuta, most of the guards in Crete, and nearly 10,000 in Suez.

So much so that back in the Ming Dynasty, there are now only a few thousand people left in the young army of the four guards, and there is only a little more than one guard.

Therefore, Zhu Di ordered to recruit the sons and daughters of the nobles and martyrs from Yingtianfu and near Zhongdu, not only to make up for more than 22,000 people in the four guards of the young army, but also to increase the number of men and horses in two guards to gather 35,000 elite soldiers.

These 35,000 people are Zhu Zhanji's pro-army, and they are also the main security force in his hands in the future, and Zhu Zhanji will naturally decide how to select them.

But in reality, although 35,000 men had to be selected, in reality, more than 50,000 soldiers had to be recruited.

Although there is now Zhu Zhanji's First Fleet of the Navy, with nearly 50,000 people defending the capital, the number is still slightly insufficient.

The First Fleet had the largest number of men and horses among the four fleets, with 150,000 men.

However, the area under the responsibility of the First Fleet is also very large, from the Yangtze River to the Yellow River, from Dongting Lake to Taihu Lake, to Qinghai Lake, all of which are under the jurisdiction of the First Fleet.

In particular, the Huai River area is now unsafe and full of thieves on the water, and the First Fleet also has various tasks.

Being able to pull out 50,000 people to come to the capital is already compressing the power of various places to the extreme.

In addition to the First Fleet, the biggest force in Zhu Zhanji's hands now is the 12,000 people of Yulin Wei Siwei. However, these 12,000 people are responsible for protecting Zhu Zhanji, and they will definitely not be sent abroad.

If someone rebels, Zhu Zhanji will have few usable soldiers in his hands.

Of course, now that there are 48 guards in Beijing, Zhu Di will not take all of them away, but only the military guards responsible for foreign campaigns, such as the Shenji Battalion, the 3,000 Battalion, and so on.

What is left is the guard battalion like the government military guard and Jin Wuwei, and they have no problem setting up honor guards in the capital, but they are really on the battlefield, and their combat effectiveness is worrying.

Therefore, whether it is for the sake of the present or the future, the expansion of the young military camp must be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said: "Now that the young army has been incorporated into the Beijing Guard, it is responsible for foreign wars, and the selected soldiers must also be able to kill the enemy bravely. I already have a plan for this matter, Cheng Guogong will enter the palace tomorrow, and he will talk to Qing in detail again. ”

Zhu Yong also knew that it was Zhang Fu's birthday banquet, and it was impossible for Zhu Zhanji to talk to him now. He hugged his fists and said: "Your Highness, the minister has obtained a syllabus of Yulin Weixue, and after careful study, he found that Yulin Weixue has been set up to cultivate generals. It's just that most of the ministers still haven't been able to study thoroughly, and I hope that His Royal Highness will allow the ministers to enter Yulin Weixue to study. ”

Everyone around took a breath of cold air, although Yulin Weixue is now famous, Zhu Yong is already a first-class noble family in the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, the nobles of Zhu Yuanzhang's era were not mentioned for the time being, except for the Xu family, there were not many public mansions.

After this martyrdom, less than ten people were crowned dukes, and they could be posthumously crowned kings after their deaths.

The first is Qiu Fu, the Duke of Qi, who is the first contributor to Jing Nan and was named the Duke of Qi. However, because of the careless loss of Jingzhou, it caused the biggest defeat in the early Ming Dynasty, and the loss of 100,000 people in World War I.

Then Zhu Di was furious, deprived the world, and the family was exiled for 3,000 miles.

The second is the Zhu family, if Zhu Neng hadn't died of illness, there would have been no rise of Zhang Fu at all. In other words, Zhang Fu, a junior, did not rise so fast.

How good Zhu Neng is, there were many famous generals in the early Ming Dynasty, but he can be called the god of war. Zhu Di decided to march south, the coach was Zhu Neng, the deputy commander was the current Duke Mu Sheng of Qianguo, and the British Duke Zhang Fu.

Because he died of illness, Zhang Fu was able to become the commander of the Eastern Route Army, and according to the strategy left by Zhu Neng, he won a big victory.

Because of this big victory, Xiping Hou Musheng became the Duke of Qianguo, and Xincheng Hou Zhang Fu became the British Duke Zhang Fu.

The Zhu family is already a first-class family, but Zhu Neng wants to enter Yulin Weixue to study, how does this make other nobles deal with themselves?

It's like a country's deputy defense minister, deputy chief of general staff, who now proposes to go to school for further study, but he doesn't care about face at all.

However, Zhu Zhanji's impression of Zhu Yong was better, and he smiled: "Why is Aiqing like this? Although Yulin Weixue cannot be called a class of education, it will never prohibit the noble from enrolling. However, Aiqing, as a minister of the imperial court, would be too much to promote Yulin Weixue in the name of studying. If Aiqing has any questions, she can go to Yulin Health School to check the information and let the professor explain. ”

Zhu Zhanji gave Zhu Yong face, and he also hugged his fists with a more respectful attitude and said: "So, thank you, Your Highness!" ”

At this time, when the others saw that Zhu Zhanji was so easy to speak, they immediately asked for it.

However, these people are more like opportunists, Zhu Zhanji did not directly promise, but said: "Yulin Weixue has a limited number of instructors, and at the beginning, they were only dozens of soldiers, and they were taught all kinds of knowledge by Lone to be able to teach six hundred students. It was not until the second batch of students became successful and nearly 100 more instructors were added that the expansion began in the thirteenth year.

However, after three years of solitary walking, the students who came out in these three years were snatched away by the military guards, and there are still only more than 140 instructors today, but the number of students has reached more than 2,000.

Lonely wanted to compile the textbook, and I was afraid that other countries would learn from it in the middle of the country, and turn their heads to deal with my Daming, so I didn't expand the scale.

If you are really confused, you can submit what you have learned into a book, and then the instructor will guide you purposefully according to your different strengths.

But if you don't volunteer in the army, don't bother my instructors, they have a lot of tasks on them! ”

Saying this, the others were a little embarrassed.

But Zhu Zhanji was telling the truth, if it weren't for his strict secrecy, Ying Tianfu now has many envoys from various countries, and I am afraid that he would have learned it a long time ago and went back to train his own soldiers.

The Ming Dynasty wanted to maintain its own advantages, and knowledge like Confucianism had the influence of great unification, and the wider it spread, the better.

But the advantages of industry, technology, medicine, and military in this regard, the stricter the absolute secrecy, the better.

Most of them didn't want to go to Yulin Weixue to learn things, they just wanted to make a good impression in front of Zhu Zhanji.

That's why Zhu Zhanji brought it up, if you want to learn, you have to write down what you know clearly, and then I decide how to teach you.

Zhu Yong saw that the scene was a little embarrassing, and he regretted it. He wanted to curry favor in front of his grandson, but not to cause contradictions.

So he hurriedly turned around again and said, "Today is the British public birthday, and this matter will be discussed another day." His Royal Highness, the minister and the Duke of Wei formed a team that has been juju, although they did not dare to claim the first place in the capital, but they also won the first place in the first royal competition in 14 years.

Now there are only two or three companies in the capital that can compare with my family's Keju team, so today I want to seek a seat in the arena with His Highness.

This arena costs a lot of money, so naturally we can't let the inner treasury pay for it, and the Ministry of Industry will contribute to it, and we will enjoy it in vain, so Your Highness has a life, and you can do everything. ”

At this time, the master Zhang Fu walked in with Mu Xin, and said with a smile: "But true, this matter should not let you be beautiful, I will also fight for a place in this arena." ”

Zhang Fu's original mind has been crossing, and he did not form a Keju team in the capital at all, but in the Southern Xinjiang Army, Keju still spread.

The first time the capital organized a Keju tournament was three years ago. Then the internal supervisor made a profit by sitting in the village, and then it was out of control, and it was held every year.

Today's Keju team naturally does not have a professional league, and there are only two round-robin tournaments per year.

After the spring ploughing, before the summer harvest, there is a month-long competition, which is called the preliminary competition.

Sixteen teams were selected in the preliminary round, and in mid-October, after the autumn harvest, the final round was held, which also lasted for one month.

The winning team will not only be rewarded with money, but also gain more important fame, because Zhu Di is a fan and will take time to watch the game every year, and will personally present awards to the champions.

In the spring of the seventeenth year, Zhang Fu and Mu Sheng, the Duke of Qianguo, united to form a southern Xinjiang team.

Although it was their first time to participate, they were very strong, not only successfully breaking through in the preliminary round, but also winning the championship in the final.

Their Keju team's number one star Wang Sledgehammer is now the hottest Keju idol in the capital, and it is said that when you go to visit the Qinglou, there are Oiran who are willing to be accompanied by silver.

Zhu Zhanji couldn't help but be a little amused when he heard the news, in the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago, there was already the first generation of football idols.

Nowadays, the various Keju teams have actually had a profitable momentum, and some Keju teams formed by ordinary people often rent some venues and hold some competitions. Those who watch can survive if they receive five copper coins and ten copper coins.

Of course, the team formed by the nobles is embarrassed, and they don't bother to make this little money, because the general venue is flat, and it can accommodate thousands of people to watch, which is too much.

But now with the arena, it's different, an arena of 100,000 people, even if it is only half a seat, and one person receives fifty copper coins, and one game can earn more than 2,000 taels of silver.

At a time when silver is still very valuable, this amount of money is not a small amount to anyone.

A North Korean gets 150 taels of gold a year, and 700 taels of silver is still bitter. It's not because there's too much money, it's because the amount of gold and silver is extremely limited today!

The so-called waist wrapped around 100,000 under Yangzhou, and regardless of whether it can be wrapped or not, in the Southern Liang period, 100,000 refers to 100,000 copper coins, not 100,000 taels of silver.

Why did the Song Dynasty use Jiaozi, but also because there was no cash and no cash.

The Ming Dynasty issued money to officials, why did they use grain and cloth, but also because there was no gold and silver.

As for the Tang and Song dynasties written in it, and even in the earlier period, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were used at every turn, which was a joke.

In the original history, until the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Dongying's gold and silver production accounted for more than half of the world's production. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, Spain had discovered countless gold and silver mines from the Americas, and the use of gold and silver trading became mainstream.

Because he had already seen the salute at the beginning, Zhang Fu said that this time he just greeted everyone, which was regarded as a greeting.

And Mu Xin, who came in with him, was a long bow and saluted everyone. "Xin has seen His Highness and seen his comrades."

He is his uncle, Zhu Zhanji also returned the half-salute, and the others also returned the salute according to their identity.

After seeing the ceremony, Mu Xin couldn't wait to say: "But true, your team won the championship three years ago, but last year, our two teams won, this arena, we must have one." ”

Zhu Yong's title is high, but Mu Xin's age and noble status make Zhu Yong unable to play prestige, so he can only pout: "We have negotiated with the Treasure Banknote Division, and we will cooperate with the Treasure Banknote Division in the future to hold a competition every ten years." Excluding the cost, we can make a profit of 50% for tickets and 20% for bets......"

Mu Xin laughed and said, "Do you think we didn't negotiate with the Treasure Banknote Division?" How could Zhong Rui, that old fox, only talk to your family? ”

Zhu Yong was taken aback, looked at the two old foxes, and was speechless.

The other little fox was snickering on the side.

Zhong Rui, the chief eunuch of the Treasure Banknote Division, was an old man who worked in the Treasure Banknote Division when he first issued the treasure banknotes in the seventh year of Hongwu.

He has been obsessed with one thing all his life, and has unparalleled experience in the printing and issuance of treasure money, as well as financial coordination.

As early as when Zhu Zhanji invented the new Keju rules, he thought of opening a gambling game, and came up with the betting methods that were common to several major spinach groups in later generations.

Who will carry out this task, of course, is the treasure banknote division, because they are originally printing experts, and the betting tickets they print are also extremely difficult to prevent, and they can easily distinguish the real from the fake.

However, Zhu Zhanji handed over this matter to him, and he didn't expect that in a few years, this business would really be done.

Although spinach is not a legitimate source of money, it is indeed an industry with a very large cash flow.

In this era when everyone from civil and military officials to ordinary people like to gamble, they can also revitalize the wealth of the people through spinach.

Of course, he will not easily break the rules when it is necessary, because the rules are difficult to establish, but they are easy to break.

He had now established a bank, and the common people had come to believe in the credit of the imperial court and began to deposit their money in the bank.

However, the larger the merchants, the more they did not trust the imperial court, and the large gold and silver transactions of the people are still thriving.

However, these businessmen have realized that the purity and quality of gold and silver coins are trustworthy, and the internal supervision and banking bureau has die-minted hundreds of millions of silver dollars and hundreds of millions of copper coins worth hundreds of millions of taels of silver in recent years, and dozens of die-casting machines have been broken.

However, the total amount of deposits and liquidity in the bank is less than 70% of the amount of die-minted coins.

The reason why there are seventy percent is because the internal supervision restricts merchants to trade with the court, and they must deposit money in the bank.

Moreover, all kinds of public expenses of the imperial court, project expenses, and officials and soldiers are also through banks.

There is still a difference of 30%, except for a few gold, silver and copper coins that circulate abroad, there are only gold and silver coins privately hidden by large merchants.

In order to go to sea, Zhu Zhanji has not managed the gold and silver cash transactions, and Zhu Di has not realized the importance of this matter, thinking that the imperial court has set up cards everywhere, which consumes manpower and material resources, and will increase the links of corruption, so there is no control.

However, Zhu Zhanji knew very well that if a large amount of gold and silver were stored privately as a surplus, it would only cause a shortage of coins in the market.

The development of society requires the circulation of money, and gold and silver cannot be eaten, drunk, or used again, and gradually there will be a shortage of money and thirst for wealth.

Changing people's perceptions is difficult, but the first step must be taken.

While checking bank accounts and promoting the circulation of goods, it is also necessary to promote the circulation of money, so that the economy will not become unbalanced.

In the era when gold and silver were used as currency, and in the era when there was no tertiary industry, there was no need to worry about the financial crisis, but we should beware of the crisis of currency shortage and the crisis of currency abundance.

A group of old guys with all kinds of poisons pulled the topic from Keju to women, and the old guys were triumphant. The younger generations pretended to be shy one by one, but in fact they listened disdainfully to the old guys exposing each other's shortcomings, or showing off their romantic history.

Zhu Zhanji saw that the topic was gradually moving away, and coughed dryly. Although everyone seems to have been talking nonsense, they have actually been paying attention to Zhu Zhanji's expression.

Hearing his dry cough, everyone stopped talking and looked at Zhu Zhanji.

Zhu Zhanji said: "When it comes to the treasure banknote division, I think of one thing. The Daming Development Bank has only been open for three years, and now it has a deficit of three million silver coins.

Lone has recently prepared to check the accounts, if you have a account in the bank, if it is not due, you will not mention it for the time being, and if the deadline is exceeded, it is better to smooth out the accounts as soon as possible. It's only right to repay debts! ”

(I'm going to get a day's injection today, and I'm afraid it's too late to update, so I got up to code words after sleeping for two hours last night.) If you are in good shape in the afternoon, add more...... But don't expect too much, although the toothache has been relieved somewhat, but for the sake of the code word did not rest well, I am afraid that today will be uncomfortable for another day. Thank you for your understanding! ）