What's more, Zhu Ao is so obsessed with the Hami area, in addition to its extremely important geographical location and Dilinazha, there is also a very important factor - ore. There are many ores in Hami, and the most attractive is tin ore.

Zhu Ao didn't know how much tin ore had to do, he only knew one thing - it could be used to produce tinplate, and tinplate was a sharp tool for producing canned food.

The appearance of canned food can be said to be a revolution in military history, thanks to Napoleon, this old man has been fighting in the north and south all his life, the battle line is too long, and the transportation of grain is very inconvenient. The appearance of cans helped him a lot in his conquest career, because the military genius no longer had to worry about the headache of logistics.

Zhu Ao also saw this introduction on the website, but he didn't know exactly how to make tinplate and cans, so he could only hand it over to the craftsmen to solve, and we began to use tin in the Shang Dynasty, and it shouldn't be difficult to coat tin on the iron sheet. The quality of the canned food produced by Daming is definitely not comparable to that of later generations, and the food inside can be kept from deteriorating for several years, and Zhu Ao does not plan to make such a rebellious existence, as long as the food quality can be maintained for about half a year, it is definitely the existence of hanging everything.

After having this artifact, he used the vast grasslands in the northwest to raise his own war horses and train tens of thousands of elite cavalry, so that the widow would be able to smash the royal court without whirling.

After all, there have been two huge difficulties that cannot be overcome in the final dynasty's attack on the nomads, the first is the problem of grain and grass, and transporting grain for thousands of miles is really not as simple as moving your mouth, and the Han Dynasty's powerful national strength has also been hollowed out? But with canned food, there is no need to think about this problem, it is equivalent to your own army can go without food for half a year, what a bug existence.

The second is the problem of mobility, the infantry can fight the cavalry defense, but if the attack is too ridiculous, and the widow's Shandan military horse farm is built, plus the war horses produced by other horse farms, as well as the war horses exchanged for tea and horse exchanges with ethnic minorities, the widow can organize a well-equipped, huge number, and no need to eat for half a year.

The widow wants to clear the desert forever and complete the cause that all the great emperors have not been able to complete since the Qin, Han and Tang dynasties!

"Agriculture is the foundation of our country, and we can't relax at any time. However, the development of a country requires the development of all industries, and it is not enough to rely on agriculture alone, but also to develop industry and commerce, which is not a technique of abandoning the basics, but an industry that can promote each other with agriculture. For example, don't we make large waterwheels and hand presses, which promote the development of our agriculture? Without them, we wouldn't be able to harvest so much food. Therefore, among the three million taels of silver, this king also took out one million taels as the capital to develop the industry and commerce of our country. After Zhu Ao approved the report of Zhang Wenyuan, the judge of Hu Cao, he groaned a little and said to himself.

"The king is sage, and the ministers obey the king's orders." The ministers replied in unison, although they did not know what the king was going to do with his money. But since he said he wanted it, he would definitely want it, and the money was his.

"Your Majesty, this time Warat took advantage of the westward advance of our army's main force to attack, although it has been repulsed, but Hu Lu all have the heart of a tiger and a wolf, and must not be guarded against, the remaining one million taels of ministers asked the king to allocate it for the construction of side walls, armor and other ordnance, to prevent the invasion of the northern captives." Speaking is the soldier Cao Jushu Guan Ziyu, although the invasion of Wara did not cause any big losses, but also let the officials of the Su State pinch a sweat, the other party's cavalry came and went like the wind, while the main force of the Su army has not been withdrawn, concentrate on striking a point of the Ming army's defense line, so that the Ming army responsible for staying behind is a headache, if it is not for His Royal Highness King Qing to send troops to support in time, the remaining troops of the Su State are afraid to suffer greater losses.

With this lesson, Guan Ziyu believes that it is very important to strengthen the defense line in the north, after all, the strategy he formulated is to defend the north, and the defense in the north must be solid. In the end, it is a person of this era, Guan Ziyu doesn't know that there is such a thing as canned food in this world, in his cognition, it is very unrealistic to clear the desert, if Zhu Ao proposes to do this now, he will definitely fight to the death.

"Your Majesty, this time I have raised the strength of the whole country to fight the Uighurs, and the people have been living a very hard life because of this, and the ministers think that in addition to what the judgment says, it is also necessary to improve the lives of the people, so please divide some silver taels to improve the lives of the people, so that the people of the whole country can come together to sing the praises of the king's kindness." It was the official Cao who judged the book and Ji Jun to speak. Although Cao Cao is in charge of personnel, he is the head of civilian officials, and this kind of military affairs naturally has a great say. He believed that the people of Su had made great efforts to deal with the Uighurs in the west and the Warat in the north at the same time, and had endured a lot of hardships, and had sent all the strong laborers of their families to fight the war and build the border wall, which had delayed the agricultural season and greatly reduced the standard of living.

"No, it's for education." Zhu Ao sat on the big throne, almost without thinking about it, and rejected the proposal of the two of them in one bite, his tone as hard as ice.

Bing Cao Judge Guan Ziyu and Judge Cao Judge Shu Ji Jun were instantly stunned with these two second-grade masters, this king is really not taking the usual path, since ancient times, the rulers have never walked this road, glanced at each other, and seemed to have a heart and said: "Your Majesty, the minister thought that he could take out a sum of money for education." However, armaments and people's livelihood should also be taken into account. ”

"No, it's all for education." Zhu Ao's face did not change in the slightest, as if he was frozen by solid ice, and said very resolutely.

Seeing this scene, no one dared to refute, the two judges glanced at each other again, and a trace of sweat appeared on their foreheads unconsciously because of Zhu Ao's majesty, although they didn't understand Zhu Ao's path, but they still saluted respectfully: "The minister obeys the order." ”

Zhu Aohuo stood up suddenly, put his hands behind his back, raised his eyes to look at the distant sky outside the main hall, looked like a dream, and said firmly and confidently: "Within five years, the widow will make everyone in this Su country literate. ”

Hearing this, all the civil officials in the palace looked at each other, the reason why they were able to occupy a high position was because they had mastered the skill of reading and literacy, which few people in the Ming Dynasty mastered, if it was really like what Zhu Ao said, let everyone be literate, then there would be too many people who would rob them of business in the future.

But seeing Zhu Ao's determined appearance, none of them had the courage to stand up and refute, so they could only bow their heads in unison and say, "The ministers obey the order." ”

Zhu Ao is very satisfied with their attitude, human beings are intelligent animals, so the future of a nation is fundamentally in education, the ultimate purpose of education is to cultivate people's creativity, so that they can create more useful tools to serve mankind. But the creativity of the people of Suzhou cannot be controlled, he does not have the ability to turn every Suzhou people into Einstein, what he can do is to let each of them have basic literacy skills, can acquire knowledge by themselves, and then establish a system similar to intellectual property rights to provide a good environment for their creation.

Having solved this problem, the next step is the highlight of this meeting - rewarding the meritorious heroes. The brothers just helped you win a battle, how can you do it without a reward, after all, people pin their heads to the waistband of their trousers to work for you, for the sake of glory and wealth, but they are not here to drink with you and discuss friendship.

Zhu Ao has already made a long list of rewards, and the three main ones are: the general Zhang Long, who sacrificed his life to protect the lord and made meritorious contributions, posthumously presented a first-class general, and his son Zhang Biao was awarded the third-class marquis, hereditary replacement; General Qu Neng, broke through the enemy's road, reversed the offensive and defensive situation, made great contributions, was awarded the title of third-class marquis, hereditary replacement; Commanding the envoy Wang Huchen, he captured the enemy general Borhu, and was specially allowed to be promoted to two levels and named a first-class general. The rest of the people have their own rewards, and they don't mention it.

In addition, the dead and disabled soldiers have generous pensions, and each family also pays a monthly subsidy of five buckets of food, so that their lives will not be in trouble, so that the soldiers of the Su Kingdom have all lost their worries and can serve His Royal Highness King Su with peace of mind.

Today's court meeting decided several major events, Zhu Ao was quite happy about this, out of the importance of education, he specially set up a minister of supervision to manage the school administration of the country, is the second grade of the official position, and the status of the six Cao judgments is the same. The first minister of school supervision was served by Yu Enyuan, a professor of the previous Su Wangfu, Yu Enyuan is also an old scholar, and he originally wanted to supervise His Royal Highness Su Wang to learn the study of saints, but this Royal Highness was very uninterested in this, and he was training troops in Tuntian all day to build weapons. It made Teacher Yu sad.

Although Zhu Ao did not like Confucianism, the post of school inspector must be given to people with good moral character, and if it is given to those who can only be opportunistic, wouldn't it be bad to teach all the people of Su State? And the purpose of his appointment of the Minister of Education is not for him to instill Confucianism or the so-called hard-won thinking of a certain family to all the people of Su Guo, but to let him urge all the people of Su to work hard to learn the skill of reading and literacy, as for the thought, Zhu Ao is not very careful, as long as it is not reactionary, each school has its own strengths, it should be used comprehensively, the reason is not clear, after the people of Su Guo are literate, they will read the books of each school, and when the time comes, they will learn that sentence if they think it is useful, why bother to indoctrinate it.