A gilded picture frame, seven feet high and four feet three inches wide, is placed on a bamboo frame converted from a sedan chair. The bamboo frame has been brushed with vermilion lacquer, and the whole body is red. The soldiers of the eight guard companies carried gilded picture frames, starting with Chen Youfu, who was holding the military flag of the caravan, and slowly walked in front of one company after another, even the recruits and the people did not let go.

Zhu Pingjin and Luo Yuhong came to the playground, took the lead in dismounting, and half-knelt in front of the military flag. The military generals led by Zheng Anmin knelt behind the military flag.

There was no kneeling in the audience, except for the eight guards who carried the picture frame, only Song Zhenzong who followed the picture frame on a horse. As the physical horn arranged by Zhu Pingjian, every time he came to a company, he tore open his famous loud voice and shouted: "Everyone raise your heads to see the truth, this portrait is the true face of my Ming Taizu Emperor Gao!" Long live Emperor Taizu Gao! Long live the Ming Dynasty! Hooray! ”

The first to raise his fist and shout long live with Song Zhenzong were Zhu Pingjian, the prince of the Shu Domain, and his de jure fiancée, the de facto old wife Luo Yuhong. As soon as they shouted, the whole audience shouted; As soon as they raised their arms, the whole audience followed suit.

The entire Pine Forest Mountain base was shrouded in a feverish and exuberant mood. The sound of a tsunami of hooves is like a military parade on Red Square in Moscow; The bushy arms resemble the Black Party rally in Munich. By the time the portrait had finished circling the scene, Zhu Pingjin had quietly pulled his wife to stand up. Standing up this time, Zhu Pingjin himself was also a little drowsy, this extremely devastating storm-like long live sound, are people shouting at the distant portrait, or at me Zhu Pingjian?

A soldier half-knelt on the ground, raising his fist and shouting long live, while staring at the true face of Taizu on the portrait. It wasn't until the portrait slowly left out of sight that he turned his head and shouted to the brother next to him, "Did you see it?" Isn't the man in this portrait the prince of the world? ”

The question was not drowned out in the sound of a raging wave. The soldier next to him also looked carefully.

He affirmed: "It's the prince!" It's just that the prince hasn't grown a beard yet! ”

Another soldier heard them talking and scolded: "Who dares to say that the prince has no beard? The one without a beard is the eunuch's father-in-law! I saw it clearly just now, the prince has grown a beard! It's so long! ”

The first soldier to speak hurriedly explained: "I said that the person on the portrait is like the prince of the world." When the prince grows a white beard, he will be exactly the same as the grandfather in the painting! ”

"!" The surrounding soldiers scolded him together, "That's the ancestor of the prince, can they not be like it?" You weren't born to your parents? Not like your mom and dad? ”

……

Using Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang as Zhu Pingjun's political banner was Sun Hong's suggestion when he summoned Shu Guoping and the four on Chinese New Year's Eve last year. When Zhu Pingjin summoned the Shu clan and civil and military forces on the platform a few days ago, he tried to test the county kings, and the effect was surprisingly good. There was a cry on the platform at that time, which shows that many clans do have true feelings for their ancestors.

A spotted leopard. It is conceivable that if Zhu Pingjin competes for the world in the future, once the banner of Emperor Taizu is raised, most of the clans from the Taizu family will sympathize with or even support Zhu Pingjian.

But the support of the clan was just Zhu Pingjin's attempt to grab a little marginal profit. The real boss is not in the clan, but in Zhu Pingjin, he wants to use Zhu Yuanzhang's actions in his life to build his image among the civil and military officials and the gentry and the common people.

Zhu Yuanzhang was born in Huazi, and his family starved to death, froze to death, and died of illness, and only a few of his relatives were left in the end, with his nephew Zhu Wenzheng and nephew Li Wenzhong. In the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty for more than ten years, he expelled the Tatars, cleared the Middle Earth, rebuilt the sun and the moon, and rebuilt the rivers and mountains. After the founding of the country, in view of his own painful experience, he sympathized with the people's feelings, severely punished corrupt officials, simplified the government, and lightly punished the poor, and created a peaceful and prosperous era for the people in a very short time.

If it weren't for Chengzu Zhu Di and his descendants to change their ways, relying on the butcher's knife stained with the blood of their subjects, and overthrowing the "Emperor Ming Zuxun" and "Ming Dahu" as the Zhu family's family law, the Ming Dynasty might not have been so quickly corrupted. Only twenty-five years after Zhu Di's death, because of the power of the eunuch Wang Zhen in the court, he lost an emperor, most of the heroes of the Jingjing martyrdom and 500,000 elite soldiers in the capital camp in Tumubao. This is not over, a few decades later, the Ming Dynasty appeared again Liu Jin, the biggest corrupt official in Chinese history.

All in all, Zhu Pingjin strongly praised his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang, and politically he was essentially singing red songs in the Ming Dynasty!

However, there are pros and cons. Zhu Pingjin's ancestors left a reputation for murder in the history of the Ming Dynasty because of the suppression of corruption and punishment of evil. How to avoid the negative effects of supporting the ancestors, Zhu Pingjin is still thinking about it.

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After the parade, the portraits were re-installed in the middle of the temporary school reading stand on the north side of the playground. The companies began to move at the sound of the officers' orders, and re-formed several large phalanxes in front of the review stand. The recruits and civilians on the south side of the playground also gathered under the school parade platform under the leadership of the officers and Zhuang Tou.

Zhu Pingjin boarded the school review platform and watched the transfer on the playground with a cold eye. It wasn't until the chaos on the playground basically subsided that he said to Luo Yuhong:

"The speed of troop mobilization is an important indicator of the army's combat effectiveness. If the battlefield suddenly encounters the enemy, whoever starts first will have the first chance to win. Today, I deliberately changed Song Zhenzong's scheduled proofreading procedure, and there is also the meaning of temporary inspection. The army is the life of the country, the life of the nation, and even more so our life! My work schedule is to spend at least three days out of five days on the army! ”

"I see, Savior!" Luo Yuhong smiled mischievously and asked, "How are they doing today?" ”

"On the Tsing Yi River, it took two moments for a thousand of us to finish the formation; At the mouth of the Pengshan River, 1,500 of us unfolded according to the plan, and it took less than a quarter of an hour. Although it is slower today, there is no plan, and it is much more difficult for various units to assemble in a hurry, and it is normal to be slower. You see, how big the gap is between a well-trained soldier and an untrained civilian! ”

Luo Yuhong disagreed. She pointed to a group of people at the edge of the queue and reminded Zhu Pingjian: "I don't think so!" Look at the performance of that team of people, it is better than the recruits in Leshan! ”

Zhu Pingjin also noticed. He summoned the guards around him, and soon the guards came to report that the group of people was a grain transport team sent by Renshou Wangzhuang. The leaders were two village heads: one was originally a homeless man bought by the prince in the human market, named Wei Gan; The other was originally a eunuch in the palace, named Ding Yuan.

"Wei Gan is my father." Wei Chen, the commander of the guard company standing on the side, suddenly spoke.

"No wonder! Your father is very good, he can train the people like an army! Your brother Wei Shen also did a good job in Xindu, but unfortunately he was not here this time. Zhu Pingjin said, "If you have time in the evening, bring your father to visit!" ”

When the army was in formation, all the officers were together.

Zhu Pingjin, who was on the review stand, took a few steps forward, stepped on a big bench, and delivered an important speech to thousands of soldiers and people.

The conversation started with that portrait:

"Today is a big day! This prince specially invited Emperor Taizu Gao in the temple of the palace to this pine forest mountain, not only to invite the ancestors to see the pine forest mountain, but also to recognize the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty! Why do you want to know Emperor Taizu Gao? Zhu Pingjin's eyes scanned the audience, and several important ministers knew it, but they would not be more and more depressed at this time.

"What is the basic purpose of our caravan, and who will answer? Flag bearer Chen Youfu! Zhu Pingjin directly called names.

"Loyal to the Ming Dynasty, protect the country and the people!" Chen Youfu in the audience did not hesitate.

Zhu Pingjin pointed to the portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang beside him and said:

"A model for protecting the country and the people, there is no one better than my Taizu Emperor Gao!"

"In the past, the Northern Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Song Dynasty, and China was lost. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the dynasty was sluggish, and the officials were greedy for ink; Bandits rose together and plundered all directions; Drought locusts alternate, famine and plague successively; Hungry for thousands of miles, ten households and nine empty...... The people in the world are all looking forward to peace! My Taizu Emperor Gao, originally from the cold. The body of cloth clothes embraces the will to protect the country and the people! Take advantage of the time, Haojie Jingcong, destroy the chaos, clear the sea, and lay in Kyushu! Chen Youliang came from the empty country, claiming to be 600,000, even the giant boat was in array, looking at it like a mountain, stretching for dozens of miles. I, Emperor Taizu Gao, took it as my mission to save all the people, and I went to ......"

Zhu Pingjin waved his arms and fists, and spoke for a quarter of an hour with great contagion, and finally said that Zhu Chongba had become Emperor Gao of the Ming Dynasty.

“…… Emperor Taizu went through hardships and finally became an emperor in fifteen years! Since then, my Chinese sons and daughters have regained their freedom, and our Chinese people have regained peace! If you pay lightly, there will be no more hunger in the world; Suppress Haoqiang, there is no ...... in the country" According to the current rhythm, there is still 31 years of Taizu's reign behind.

Many of the young soldiers listened in fascination. The tall image of Emperor Taizu Gao, Wei Guangzheng, took root in their hearts for the first time.

Zhu Pingjin's speech style is passionate and incendiary. He took special speech training in college, practiced many times after work, and generally responded well. Zhu Pingjin had reason to believe that the young, long-suffering soldiers were not immune to his speech.

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Zhu Pingjin desperately stuck himself on Zhu Yuanzhang, but several of his old ministers had their own ideas.

The right elder Shi Zheng Anmin looked at the impassioned prince on the stage with great attention, but his eyes quietly slipped to the portrait next to him.

The portrait of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty is majestic, with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, and a broad face with a gray beard. If it weren't for the winged crown on his head and the dragon robe on his body, at first glance, he might have thought it was the elder of the high hall. Zheng Anmin set his eyes on the prince again, and the son was strikingly similar to the old man in the portrait, just like Emperor Taizu when he was young.

Is there such a coincidence in the world? He has been a long history of the palace for a short time, and he only went to the temple of the Shu Wangfu once during the Zhengdan sacrifice, and was responsible for the honor guard in front of the palace, and he did not have the opportunity to enter the main hall and see the true face of Taizu. But regardless of whether there is doubt or not, Zheng Anmin still believes in his heart that this is the will of God! Following this young and heroic son, maybe he will be like Liu Bowen in the future, pay homage to the marquis, leave his name in history, and become the immortal who can pinch and calculate in the eyes of the people. Maybe one day he will return to his hometown, and the prince will also send a poem "The career is worthy of the four elders of the same business, and the merit is humble and the merit is lowly and the Yiwu (Note 1)." The same famous poem was given to him.

He Youyi stood next to Zheng Anmin, squinting his tired eyes, and observed the effect of the portrait with satisfaction. The author of this painting is a new staff officer of the General Staff, named Zhu Yicai, in his thirties.

Zhu Yicai's father was originally a craftsman who did not enter the stream of the paintings painted by the Gongzheng of the Shu Wangfu. Because he was old and his hands were shaking, he was ashamed to recommend his son to the prince through Wang Gongzheng. The prince asked Zhu Yicai to copy a picture of He Xiangu picking lotus according to the murals of Qingyang Palace, and was amazed by his line drawing skills. Zhu Yicai passed the political trial, and was thrown by the prince to the General Staff to draw a map. In addition to this Zhu Yicai, there are also changes in the General Staff. walked a training staff officer, He Zengshan's son He Gui went down to the Jiading Prefecture Huzhuang Brigade as the deputy captain; There was a logistics staff officer, and this person was his old friend, Wu Tai, the second son of Wu Yuying's concubine in the matter. Wu Tai has been in Beijing all the year round to help his father check the accounts of the household department, count the treasury and hoarding, and the abacus crackles. With He Youyi's wooing promise, he agreed to join the caravan. The prince directly appointed him a battalion-level staff officer to manage the logistics of the whole army.

"This official is also at the regimental level, not half a point lower than you. In terms of qualifications, this official is still a few days ahead of you! He Youyi's eyes glanced at the green robe on his body, and then glanced at the red robe on Zheng Anmin's body.

"With Wen Yuwu? Bah! My father and Hou Liangzhu died at the hands of you self-righteous civil officials! ”

Liu Hongting's attention was neither on Zhu Pingjin nor on the gold-inlaid portrait. She quietly paid attention to Shu Guoping beside her, and saw that he was fascinated by what he heard, and his mouth was still muttering to himself. Liu Hongting knew that he was imitating Shizi's speech style, so he was embarrassed to disturb him in the future so that he could mobilize the soldiers. The authentic official portrait of Taizu carved in the city gate cave of Nanjing Jubaomen (now Zhonghua Gate), she went from Taicang to Chengdu, and went in to see it when she passed through Nanjing, and it was not too similar to the people painted today, but she didn't tell anyone.

She looked at the passionate young Shizi, thinking in her heart that she would unload Peng Shan's mess this time and return to the General Staff, not knowing what the Shizi would arrange for her to do.

Either way, as long as you can stay by his side!

Liu Hongting thought about it, and her pretty face blushed.

Note 1: Liu Ji resigned and returned to his hometown, and Zhu Yuanzhang's parting poem.