Zhu Hongsan finished dressing in the palace early and was in front of Zhengyang Gate to accept the send-off of his wives and children.

More than a dozen wives, headed by the imperial concubine Ma Ruyan, and the children headed by Zhu Huai, the king of Chu, knelt down to Zhu Hongsan one after another, wishing the emperor a triumphant expedition.

Zhu Huai is fourteen years old this year, he is the same age as Zhu Jiang, the king of Qin, but he was born a few months late.

Zhu Huai knelt on the ground and said loudly: "Erchen congratulates my father on the success of the Imperial Horse and returns to the old capital!" ”

Zhu Hongsan doesn't like this son much, because he already has several brothers and sisters above Zhu Huai. Zhu Hongsan's favorite is the eldest daughter Zhu Luo, the most beloved is the second daughter Zhu Yu, the most important is the crown prince Zhu Hai, and the most admired is the Qin King Zhu Jiang. And Zhu Huai's mother does not have a high status among Zhu Hongsan's many wives and concubines, so Zhu Huai has no status.

But Zhu Huai's mother was born in a famous family, so Zhu Huai showed a super high literary literacy when he was a child, and made a few good poems when he was ten years old.

Zhu Hongsan stepped forward to help his third son Zhu Huai, patted his son on the shoulder and said, "Third brother, your eldest brother and your second brother are not at home, and you are in charge of the family." If there is anything you don't understand about state affairs, please ask Mr. Chen and Mr. Ma, don't you know how to pretend to understand? ”

Zhu Huai heard his father say this, and hurriedly bowed down and said: "Please rest assured that my father will definitely follow my father's orders!" ”

Seeing that his son was obedient, Zhu Hongsan nodded with a smile, and said to Ma Ruyan behind: "Ruyan, the affairs of the harem will be handed over to you, you have to manage the harem well, I estimate that I will be able to take Nanjing in the spring next year, and then you need to lead the harem personnel to Nanjing to accompany me!" ”

"Please rest assured, the concubines and sisters wish Your Majesty success in Guangdong!"

Zhu Hongsan nodded, looked at a few wives and other minor children, and said: "Go back, little underage guy, I don't know what's going on this year, it's only September and it's very cold in Guangdong, go back quickly, don't freeze your body!" ”

In the Ming Dynasty, there were no antibiotics and cold medicines in later generations, and Zhu Hongsan now gave birth to more than ten children, and only eight or nine have survived until now, and the others either died of dystocia or lost their lives by cold. Although Zhu Hongsan is not as good as a pig or a dog, every time he sees his child die, he still feels heart-rending pain.

In the past, when Zhu Hongsan was in Huguang, he didn't know that the infant mortality rate in this era was so high, and even in the era of peace, the survival rate was only half. In times of war, infant and pregnant women are 90 per cent. Zhu Hongsan came to Guangzhou and immediately began to increase the protection measures for infants and pregnant women, at first the effect was not obvious, Zhu Hongsan only knew to disinfect the production tools, and did not know anything else, but the means of disinfection made the survival rate of infants and young children rise by two layers, and the postpartum mortality rate of pregnant women was reduced by half. Later, after Zhu Hongsan occupied Luzon, he brought in a large number of European doctors, although these guys were similar to the Ming Dynasty in pathological research, but a special tool made the survival rate of newborns increase significantly, that is, the use of forceps.

The main reason for dystocia in pregnant women is the abnormal position of the fetus, if this situation is encountered in the Ming Dynasty, it is basically a corpse and two lives, but someone in Europe invented forceps in the 16th century. Zhu Hongsan has seen this kind of thing, which is a bit like the large cake tongs in the cake shop in later generations. It was this humble tool that allowed Europe's population to rise steadily after the Great Voyage, and Britain finally surpassed Spain as Europe's hegemon with a population of 10 million.

The use of forceps and disinfection means has greatly increased the survival rate of newborns in Guangdong, which has reached eighty percent, Chen Zizhuang estimated that this year, Guangdong has increased 500,000 newborns, and with the increase in the number of displaced people from the north to the south, there will be more and more newborns.

Zhu Hongsan knows that people are resources, and talents have everything, so every year a large amount of food subsidies are given to children before the age of eight to increase the survival rate of children, and this policy has also become one of Zhu Hongsan's few virtues.

After saying goodbye to his wife and children, Zhu Hongsan took his second son, Zhu Jiang, the king of Qin, to Zhengyang Gate, where several ministers were waiting for him. After Zhu Hongsan met with several cabinet premiers, he took Tong Yangjia and Qian Qianyi and got on the horse and rushed along Nancheng Street to the Tianzi No. 1 Wharf outside Guangzhou.

The Guangdong Navy's first-class warships had too deep a draft to enter the Pearl River, so they had to stop at the waters off the mouth of the Pearl River, and today they came to pick up Zhu Hongsan with a 500-ton second-class warship. 500 tons is in line with the Ming Dynasty's regulation of 2,000 materials, and it is also a big ship. In addition, the warships of the navy are equipped with multi-layer artillery decks, and the sides of the ships are much higher than those of other Ming Dynasty ships.

Zhu Hongsan, like all rich landlords, likes to brag about his wealth. Zhu Hongsan got on the boat and saw that his warship was so majestic, and said to Qian Qianyi and Tong Yangjia beside him: "What do you think of the two gentlemen, my warship is majestic!" ”

It's just that Tong Yangjia and Qian Qianyi are both shameless villains, and hearing the emperor say this, it was even more flattering, and Zhu Hongsan's face was full of red.

After the navy warship and everyone else boarded the ship, the yellow dragon flag representing the emperor was hoisted, and he left the Guangzhou dock and sailed for the open sea. The Grand Fleet stopped in the open sea five miles outside the Humen Fort, and when Zhu Hongsan's ship passed by the Humen Fort, the defenders of the fort fired nine salutes to greet His Majesty the Emperor.

If what Qian Qianyi and Tong Yangjia said at the Guangzhou dock was a sycophant, now they are really shocked to see the Grand Fleet parked off the coast of Guangzhou.

In order to organize the Nanzhili Campaign, Zhu Hongsan transferred back all the 1,000-ton warships in his hands, and now there are nine first-class warships of 1,200 tons parked in the open sea, and eight of these ships were transferred from the Nanyang Navy, and the largest of them, a 1,500-ton warship, had just been launched from the Guangdong Shipyard, and this time, as Zhu Hongsan's flagship, he also had to go north to participate in the battle. There are more than 30 second-class warships of 500 tons left, and hundreds of various supply and transport ships, and these ships have formed a large fleet with those nine large warships as the core, which is really majestic.

Tong Yangjia is in charge of munitions manufacturing, and he certainly knows how many ships the navy has built in recent years. But the numbers on paper have this kind of shock to see with your own eyes.

Tong Yangjia stammered and asked, "Your Majesty, are these our ships?" ”

Zhu Hongsan was amused when he saw Tong Yangjia's bear-like appearance, "Of course, Lord Tong, don't you know that you are in charge of the military?" ”

"Of course I know how many ships have been built in the past few years, but seeing such a majestic fleet with my own eyes is really exciting!"

On the side, Qian Qianyi also took the opportunity to beat the side drum, and the horse's fart was loud, "Your Majesty has such a large fleet, this time you will definitely be able to return to the old capital and the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains!" ”

Listening to Qian Qianyi's inner fart, Zhu Hongsan laughed, "Then borrow Mr. Qian's auspicious words!" ”

The three of them were talking, and the boat they sat on slowly approached a huge and incomparable sea ship, which was Zhu Hongsan's flagship this time, the 1,500-ton "Ying Tianfu", Zhu Hongsan's first-class battleships were named after Fucheng, and the second-class battleships were named after the county seat, for example, the ship that came just now was called Dongguan, which was Zhu Hongsan's car in the past. This time, when the new warship was launched, the Military Aircraft Department reported to Zhu Hongsan his name, and Zhu Hongsan did not hesitate to give the largest warship the largest warship, Yingtianfu, where the Beijing division was located. (The Ming Dynasty does not say Nanjing and Beijing, there is only one Beijing teacher, Nanjing is called Yingtianfu, Beijing is called Shuntianfu, Nanjing and Beijing in this book are just called convenience, book friends don't care!) ）

The largest warship had just been launched for less than a month, and some of the paint on it had not yet dried. Zhu Hongsan boarded the warship along the gangplank, and some officers of the Nanyang Navy were waiting for him on the deck.

This time, the Nanyang Navy is the main force, and the commander of the Nanyang Navy is Zhang Quan, the son-in-law of Zhang Da Scarla, who was old two years ago, and Zhu Hongsan proposed to go back to Dongguan for retirement, and Zhu Hongsan handed over the command of the Nanyang Navy to his son-in-law Zhang Quan. Most of the ships that went north to participate in the war this time were from the Nanyang Navy, and Zhang Quan, as a family member, was not at ease and personally led the team to the north to participate in the war.

Zhang Quan has been exposed to the Nanyang sun in recent years and is similar to an African savage, but he is full of ability and strength, and after seeing Zhu Hongsan come up, Zhang Quan led hundreds of officers of the Nanyang Navy to welcome the arrival of His Majesty the Emperor.

"Minister Nanyang Navy Admiral Zhang Quan, with all my colleagues from the Nanyang Navy to meet His Majesty the Emperor, long live His Majesty the Emperor, long live Long live!"

Soldiers do not have the privileges of intellectuals, but they do not have to kneel on both knees, but only on one knee.

Zhu Hongsan saw Zhang Quan kneeling, stepped forward to help Zhang Quan and said: "Zhang Quan, get up quickly, you have a lot of experience, I will ask you to go north to fight the navy this time!" ”

Zhang Quan was overjoyed when he heard Zhu Hongsan say this, originally he thought that he could only be Yan Qingshan's deputy when he went north, but he didn't expect the emperor to hand over the entire Grand Fleet to himself, this is a great favor!

"Thank you for Your Majesty's trust, please rest assured, Your Majesty will definitely do your best and die!"

Hearing Zhang Quan such a pirate drop his bookbag here, Zhu Hongsan smiled and said: "Okay, Zhang Quan doesn't need to drop the bookbag, I know that you don't have much knowledge, you just need to give me Yingtianfu is a great achievement!" ”

Zhang Quan was overjoyed when he heard Zhu Hongsan say this, "His Majesty the Emperor is still good to the ministers, the governor of Nanyang Fu asked the ministers to study, and the ministers did not use idioms to speak to make the Taiwan adults unhappy!" ”

Zhu Hongsan laughed when he heard what Zhang Quan said, "Zhang Quan, you guy really doesn't know the hearts of good people, the governor Fu is promoting you and letting you study cultural classes, by the way, how is your Spanish literature?" ”

Zhang Quan's face turned green when he heard Zhu Hongsan ask, and he quickly lowered his head and said: "Please punish Your Majesty, this Spanish is really difficult to learn, and the minister can only remember more than a hundred words after studying for half a year!" ”