In the Eastern Expeditionary Army, there is a very special army, that is, Zhu Zhanji's young army. They were not numerous, the total number was only eight hundred.

Whether it is a landing battle or a advance war, they are not pushed onto the battlefield, but are more as medical guards and reserve troops, responsible for cleaning up the battlefield and treating the wounded after the battlefield has subsided.

During the battle of the Northern Expedition, they amazed the entire army class of the Ming Dynasty, the soldiers who came out of the young army, horse warfare, foot warfare, firearms, swimming water are proficient, with this era, other soldiers of the Ming Dynasty can not compare with the comprehensiveness.

What's more, they are good at tracking in the wild, hiding, stargazing during the day, stargazing at night, and can also draw maps with extreme accuracy.

This is out of the category of half of the soldiers, and even most generals do not have such ability.

Therefore, after the first northern expedition, the 194 people at that time were snatched up, and most of them became training instructors for various military guards.

But this time, they were much more low-key, and because half of today's young army are the sons of nobles, it also made others begin to doubt the ability of the young army.

But what everyone didn't know was that the original B-word company of the young army, and the later A-word company, these two hundred people were assigned to Dongying together with Jinyiwei's spies before Ji Gang and them came to Dongying.

In the past year or so, they have drawn a complete map of the entire Dongying three islands, and many paths and valleys that are not clear to the people of Dongying have been walked over step by step.

It can even be said that the two hundred of them play a greater role than the original more than the six hundred people of Jinyiwei.

At this point, Ji Gang also felt shameless. But the other party is the young army, Zhu Zhanji's pro-army, and he also has his own communication channels, so he does not dare to hide the merits of the young army.

For this reason, he also sent a lot of reprimand letters to his subordinates, asking them to work hard and learn more from this group of young people.

The skills are not as good as others, even if they are not convinced, Jin Yiwei's meticulous work can only endure.

But the more they came into contact with the Young Army, the more they felt that the Young Army was more like a meticulous and professional group than them.

This point, in fact, is also Zhu Zhanji's unintentional move.

From the beginning, Zhu Zhanji wanted to train the young army to be his bodyguard. But his personal guards must be innocent, both old and young, from the capital or from the central capital, and these orphans are not qualified at all.

After understanding this, he wanted to train a group of special forces. But only after experiencing the battlefield did he understand that when thousands of troops and horses were facing each other, no matter what special forces they were, they would be finished with one sword.

Those hundred enemies, thousands of enemies, in the sparsely populated era of the Three Kingdoms, may still be somewhat useful. In today's era, unless it is a small-scale fight, it is still a little useful, and on the battlefield, it is just that it can resist two more knives on the battlefield.

Since the Song Dynasty, the mode of warfare, especially large-scale wars, has completely turned into a battle array confrontation. Thousands of troops, swords and guns are like a forest, hundreds of knives are cut down in an instant, hundreds of guns are stabbed, and no matter how high the kung fu is, it is in vain.

Coupled with the scout ability of the young army during the Northern Expedition, Zhu Zhanji basically cultivated this young army according to the spy.

In the future, some of the young army will be arranged to be spies everywhere, and some people will go to Jinyiwei to help him investigate the case, which may be the most suitable destination for these young soldiers.

During the Chinese New Year, Zhu Di once mentioned to him the formation of the Young Army. However, it is no longer this small-scale young army, but Zhu Di is ready to take Yangwu Marquis Xue Lu as the commander and give Zhu Zhanji a young army of more than 20,000 people.

Zhu Zhanji refused, because in the next year or two, his eyes will not be on the country, and now he will form a young army, he will not stare at it every day, who knows if this young army will be the young army he wants at that time.

What's more, he now has 6,000 forest guards, and these 6,000 forest guards already have 3,000 musketeers, 2,000 gunners, 500 shield troops, 500 baggage teams and auxiliary personnel.

In the future, he plans to reduce the number of gunners by a thousand and increase the number of musketeers to four thousand, and this batch of military forces will be enough for the time being.

As long as he only grasps the power of the navy in his hands, no one can turn the sky upside down.

After two years, he gradually pinched Jingwei and Jingying in his hands, Zheng Heng in the north, Zhang Fu in the south, and Liu Sheng, a firearms battalion that cooperated with him more and more tacitly, sat in the middle, and it was really unnecessary to form a large-scale young army.

Later, he learned that this was Xue Lu's words. What Xue Lu thought was that since he had already taken refuge in him Zhu Zhanji, of course he wanted to get the name of the governor of the young army and be closer to Zhu Zhanji.

Knowing that it was Xue Lu's advance, Zhu Zhanji also comforted him, hinting that the already inflated Shenji Battalion would be split, and Xue Lu would be given the position of military governor at that time.

The Shenji Battalion is no longer worthy of its name, and the original number limit has long been exceeded. Moreover, everyone understands the attack power of the Shenji Battalion, and as long as everyone adapts to the new musket, they will be re-formed.

So Xue Lu didn't have any opinion on this arrangement.

What he didn't know was that in the original history, there was such a young army, and the commander was this Xue Lu who had already taken refuge in him.

Early in the morning of the 13th, tens of thousands of soldiers on Nangang Island were assembled, boarded the river boats in turn, and began to sail towards the upper reaches of the Yodogawa River.

This time, the young army was ordered by Zhu Zhanji to act as the vanguard of the army on foot.

At this time, Osaka, except for the port area, was almost in ruins. But here in the port, it is much more prosperous than before.

Countless Toying daimyo who defected to Chengcheng, they have now gained the power to trade with the Ming Dynasty. Truckloads of timber, tung oil, lacquer, pig iron, copper and tin, sulfur, and gold and silver were transported to the port and exchanged for cloth, tools, silk, tea, and grain from the Ming Dynasty.

Except for a small part of these materials that were transported back to the Ming Dynasty, most of the materials for the construction of the city were transported to the more north, Ezo Land, which was later Hokkaido.

Today's Hokkaido is not part of Toei, but is inhabited by the Ainu people. Because of their dealings with the Ainu on Sakhalin Island, which belonged to the Ming Dynasty, and their small numbers, they did not refuse to allow the Ming to build a city in Ezo.

Moreover, Zhu Zhanji is not building one city, but building two.

A Hakodate located in later generations, which was built as a military base to prevent Japanese from landing on the island.

The other is Sapporo, which is later in the future, and although the plains here are not likely to produce much due to the cold weather, the fishing grounds of Hokkaido will allow the islanders to become self-sufficient.

In Zhu Zhanji's plan, this place will be an important part of containing Dongying in the future, and it will also be the best springboard to enter the American continent.

From Hokkaido to Kamchatka, through the Aleutian chain of islands, there is an island for every few tens or hundreds of miles, all the way to Alaska.

Not to mention sea boats, when the weather is good, a river boat can sail along this island chain all the way to the Americas. Of course, there is no such name there now, but it was renamed Dongzhou by Zhu Di.

Of course, there is an abundance of wood in Hokkaido, but it takes people to cut it, dry it, and make it, and it takes a lot of time.

Since the Japanese now have a lot of timber and building materials, Zhu Zhanji is of course willing to save these efforts.

In addition to trading, at present, the Fufu group led by Jin Chun is also discussing with those daimyo about leasing Minzhuang. As soon as the war stabilizes, the task of building the city will be carried out.

Jin Chun has been very distressed recently, as a traditional literati and a literati who is bent on following the path of sages, he feels that he is getting farther and farther away from the path of sages.

Jin Chun was born in a medical family, and his father Jin Wenbing ordered him to study Confucianism from his father, Jin Wenbing. He was bright since childhood, diligent and studious, and in the twenty-five years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, he entered Taixue with excellent results in the township school and state school, and studied Confucian classics in the highest institution of learning in the Ming Dynasty.

After finishing Taixue, he was favored by Du Ze, the secretary of the ministry, with his outstanding talent. On the recommendation of Du Ze, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang named him as the secretary of the Ministry of Literature and Selected Division, and since then, Jin Chun has entered the official career. In the thirty-first year of Hongwu, he was promoted to the right of Jiangxi Buzheng to participate in politics.

This man is loyal, diligent in the affairs of the state, and destroys harm for the people, so that the people can be happy. His loyal, peaceful, and old-fashioned character, transcendent talent, courage, honest and honest official style, and outstanding political achievements have not only made him very good, but also won Zhu Di's high trust.

Despite this, Kim Chun is not proud of his credits and does not want to enjoy privileges. Zhu Di has repeatedly wanted to give Jin Chun's descendants official titles, but Jin Chun's favor to the emperor has always insisted on not accepting it, and he does not want his descendants to lie on his own merits and enjoy the benefits and privileges of high-ranking officials.

Zhu Zhanji has always respected such a person, but the more Zhu Zhanji respects him, the more distressed he becomes.

Because the path Zhu Zhanji took was not the path he wanted to take at all, or even the opposite direction.

However, he could not say that Zhu Zhanji had made a mistake.

Today's Ming Dynasty has experienced three emperors, except for Zhu Yunwen, who is close to Confucianism, whether it is Zhu Yuanzhang or Zhu Di, they are not close to Confucianism.

However, Zhu Yunwen was ousted by Zhu Di after four years as emperor, and the two emperors who were not close to Confucianism did very well.

He had always wondered if Confucian governance was really wrong.

Now this grandson Zhu Zhanji is even better than the blue, whether he kills the enemy in person on the grassland, or sets fire to the city in Dongying, he can't see his benevolent actions.

He is not close to Confucianism either, although he is very good to Xie Jin's family now, but it is more because of personal feelings.

But this grandson has a good reputation among the people. Even when the old peasant in the countryside mentions him, he will say that he is a good saint chosen by God, and he has even been in the sky.

This time the envoy was blocked, and when he waited on Tsushima Island for the arrival of the grandson, he had been secretly observing the words and deeds of the grandson.

Although he is less than twenty years old, this grandson can twist all the generals into a rope, even if Zheng He, a eunuch, is the deputy commander, no one is dissatisfied.

He originally thought that Anyuan Marquis Liusheng would be unconvinced, but he was also subdued by Taisun Zhi.

When the two countries go to war, they naturally can't talk about benevolence and righteousness, but burning down the city will damage the peace of heaven.

But Jin Chun saw that the morale of the generals was high and he was loyal.

As for the blackmailing generals in the back, the daimyo is even more of a businessman's face. But when it came to business, those widows smiled one by one.

What's more, hundreds of thousands of troops went out on the expedition, which cost a lot, and in just a few days, the Ming Dynasty earned back these expenses, and also earned materials that could build two big cities.

Those Japanese people were originally afraid of the Ming Dynasty like ghosts, and the Jingguan of 5,000 people made the Japanese people hate the Ming Dynasty, but now why did those Japanese people dig out gold and silver and want to trade with the Ming Dynasty?

The grandson asked him to serve as a soothing envoy to appease the people, which he originally thought was a chore. However, in a few days, the ruins of Osaka were close to the left, and the Japanese people seemed to have forgotten their hatred. You don't need to be appeased, just trade with them, and they will be overjoyed.

It seems that this grandson has never taken the right path, why did all the things accumulate and get the best results?

He felt that he still needed to look at it again, and the more he couldn't understand it, the more he should look at it and think about it.

On the evening of the army's departure for Kyoto, a convoy from the Ming Dynasty arrived at Osaka Bay.

They brought in the food needed by the army and all kinds of supplies for repairing the warships. When I came, I found that in addition to food, the army was now full of other supplies and hundreds of cargo ships.

And on South Hong Kong Island, there are mountains of various materials.

Yang Zhangde was anxious all the way, and after seeing Zhu Zhanji, he knew that the Shenji Battalion had already left Kyoto, and the action on Jinyiwei's side had been arranged, so he was extremely disappointed.

He came to Dongying to make war achievements, but he was no longer needed here.

On the second day, Yang Zhangde, who had not slept all night, visited Zhu Zhanji.

At this time, it was useless to be anxious, he could only report to Wudang and his party in detail, and then called the thirty-six people sent by Wudang.

These thirty-six people are led by Xuan Cheng, who is nearly thirty years old, and most of the others are only in their early twenties.

No matter how hard work is, but their group of people are dressed in green clothes and robes, and they are all magnificent, and the scene is more than enough.

Zhu Zhanji looked at Xuan Cheng and said: "Doing things by my side, kung fu is secondary, the most important thing is to be a deaf, blind, and dumb person, do you understand what I mean?" ”

Xuan Cheng does not have the immortal wind crane bones of ordinary Taoists, but he is extremely strong. He obviously knew the responsibility he was carrying, and said: "Senior Brother Xuanzhen has already explained the key points around His Highness in detail with Poor Dao, and Poor Dao is already silent, and anything about His Highness will never come out through Poor Dao. ”

Zhu Zhanji nodded and said, "You just stay by my side first, and I will let the other senior brothers act as guards." ”

Although I don't know how his kung fu is, it's obviously not too bad. For this candidate, based on his appearance alone, Zhu Zhanji is more satisfied with him than Xuan Zhen.

Xuan Zhen looks like a fairy wind crane bone, but he lacks popularity, and he can't deter people, Xuan Cheng looks much more majestic and domineering.

Zhu Zhanji waved his hand, and Yiqingzi, who was guarding behind him, walked out with a smile, saluted Xuancheng and said, "Poor Dao Yiqingzi, I've seen Xuancheng's junior brothers, let me take you junior brothers to settle down." ”

Xuan Chengqian gave in and went with him, Zhu Zhanji turned to Yang Zhangde and said, "You came just in time, now I have arranged Ji Gang and Zhuang Jing for Jinyiwei's errand, and I don't need you for the time being." But this time I made a small fortune, and I was still trying to get someone to ship it back, but now there is a shortage of manpower, and there has been no suitable person. You transport this batch of gold and silver back, by the way, you will be on an errand in Jinyiwei, don't be in a hurry to take power at first, learn more, watch more, and go to the Young Army more on weekdays to see the Young Army textbooks. Being a big official and being a small official are not the same thing at all, you have to understand this matter from the beginning. ”

Yang Zhangde responded: "Obey orders." ”

"In addition, go back to the capital, this batch of gold and silver does not need to be hidden, you have to publicize Dongying Duojin Mountain and Silver Mountain to me, so that those nobles and Jiangnan merchants want to come to Dongying to make a fortune."

Zhu Zhanji gave another explanation of the propaganda that asked him to return to Beijing, and then he had to replace Sun Lin and be responsible for counting the harvest of Dongying.

And now most of the intelligence system on Dongying's side is in the hands of Jinyiwei, and he wants to take these young soldiers back, so he also wants the internal supervisor to establish his own intelligence network here.

He wasn't worried that the current Jinyiwei had different intentions, but he was just supervising and restraining them. Although he was ready to put Ji Gang in Dongying as a-stirring stick, he couldn't let this-stirring stick get out of control.

He didn't want to create an East Factory, but the manpower of the Consultation Department must also be increased, as long as they are not given the right to enforce the law and let them supervise Jinyiwei, it is the most suitable.

In a few years, this group of young people in the young army will mature and be installed in the Jinyiwei, so they are not afraid that the Jinyiwei will get out of control.

When Yang Zhangde saw this "small fortune", everyone was stunned.

Once upon a time, he would kill his whole family for ten taels of silver, but now, in front of him was an entire ship of gold and silver, and more than twenty ships of copper, tin, and lead.

Of course, none of these so-called ships are already full. Because at that time, there was only one result, and that was that the ship was sunk.

However, each ship has been loaded to the highest draft, which means the maximum carrying capacity.

These ships are not the largest treasure ships of the Ming Dynasty, because the treasure ships themselves are not as strong as the lucky ships, so the ones used to hold these gold and silver, as well as metals, are all lucky ships.

Even so, this is a wealth that Yang Zhangde never thought of. He was also sure that not only him, but anyone who saw such a fortune at once would feel dizzy.

"How much silver is there?"

Liu Wan laughed and said proudly: "Here is a whole number, three million taels of silver, and 150,000 taels of gold." ”

In Dongying, the ratio of gold and silver is one to six, but in Daming, the ratio of gold and silver is one to eight, that is, there are more than four million taels of silver here.

For Zhu Zhanji, he salvaged the shipwreck in the second life, and harvested dozens of tons of silver several times at a time. And his private bank has far more gold stored than that, so it's a small amount of money for him.

But in this era, gold and silver in the Americas, South Africa, and Australia have not yet been dug up. Due to the lack of gold and silver in the entire Ming Dynasty, it was necessary to distribute the money in kind to the officials, even if the Ming Household Department and the Inner Treasury, no one had ever seen so much gold and silver piled up together.

After a while, Yang Zhangde came to his senses from the shock and asked, "What is Your Highness doing today, I want to tell Your Highness...... I can't take this burden! ”

"Your Highness said that this is a trivial matter, I'm afraid I'm studying Xuancheng's kung fu at this time!" Glancing at Yang Zhangde, Liu Wancai said again: "Do you really think that these gold and silver are for you to be responsible for transporting?" Just to escort the gold and silver, our internal supervisor sent 200 men, 100 Jinyi guards, 100 young soldiers, and the three major fleets of the navy, each of which drew 2,000 men to escort them. On this ship, the internal supervisor, the brocade guard, and the young army supervised each other, and except for the naval sailors, all other navies were forbidden to board the ship. So you can rest assured, I don't believe that anyone who ate the bear's heart and leopard gall dared to fight this batch of gold and silver. ”

Yang Zhangde found out that this time he came, for several days, Li Liang seemed to avoid him, and rarely met with him.

And the other chamberlains were originally quite polite to him, but now they also regard him as a plague god, Liu Wan, who dealt with him this time, although he has met many times, but because he has a good relationship with Li Liang, he is not close to Liu Wan, who belongs to the Jin Kuo family.

But Liu Wan never gave him a roll of his eyes in the past, but now he is unceremonious to him.

What's going on here?

Of course, he couldn't ask this, in order to win over the relationship, he asked with a smile: "Liu Fengyu is a person close to His Royal Highness, so naturally he is also well-informed, has the war report come over today?" How's it going? ”

Liu Wan didn't embarrass him too much, and replied: "Yesterday, Marquis Anyuan had already expelled Ashikaga Yoshimochi's army from Dongshan District, but unfortunately the royal family members also evacuated with him, and only arrested some royal family members in Ninnaji Temple, and set fire to Ninnaji Temple, the Emperor's Imperial Palace, and Ashikaga Yoshinori's Sanjobo General's Mansion. ”

"Then Ashikaga Yoshitsugu agrees?"

Zhang Fengshan, the deputy commander of the young army, said disdainfully: "If it weren't for Hino Yasuko and Ashikaga Yoshitsugu's begging, Marquis An Yuan would have almost prepared a fire to burn down Kyoto!" Only burn the royal palace, and cheapen them. ”

The two of them went to the deck, and the hands of several parties stared at Liu Wan and Yang Zhangde, as well as Zhang Fengshan, and the three of them locked the inner cabin with three locks, and each put away the key.

Yang Zhangde looked up in the direction of the flagship, and saw that there were many people standing on the deck, obviously watching the battle.

Xuan Cheng's kung fu has also been exquisite, not weaker than him, presumably, His Royal Highness should be satisfied!

But on the flagship, Xuan Cheng, who was originally arrogant, looked at Zhu Zhanji, who was light and breezy, as if staring at a monster, and his heart was full of shock.

He had already heard Xuan Zhen and Yang Zhangde introduce him, saying that His Highness's ability was not weaker than theirs. He originally thought that this was to raise His Highness, a young man who was less than twenty years old, and his bones had just grown, how could he compare to their bodies that were at their peak.

However, not only was he wrong, but even Senior Brother and Yang Zhangde were wrong, not only was he not weaker than them, but he was simply a cut above them.

It's just that he is flexible and ****, or he competes in strength and strength, and he loses.

Do you still need them to protect such people?

Yiqingzi came over at this time to help Xuan Cheng who fell on the deck, and said with a smile: "It's not a shame to be defeated under the hands of His Highness, even Lao Dao I, now I am not His Highness's opponent." Since the beginning of the year, His Royal Highness's skills have gradually become greater, and it is already a rare opponent. ”

Xuan Cheng was shocked and asked, "What's the use of us?" ”

Yiqingzi laughed and said: "Of course, it is used to decorate the façade, do you want His Highness to do it himself when something happens?" Let's just be a good second general, and just mix it up. ”