One hour later, everyone returned to Zhu's mansion, and the child had already been sent back for treatment, and the carriage of the Zhu Houzhao brothers did not come back in a hurry, so it was late.

When they arrived at the main hall, Huang Deliang was already waiting there. Zhu Houwei hurriedly asked, "How is the child?" Huang Deliang replied, "It's not a big deal, the wound is not big, and now I just need to take some time." It's just that "Zhu Houzhao interjected" is just something, don't spit it out. Huang Deliang said with a serious expression, "This child has suddenly changed greatly, and this spirit doesn't seem to be very good, and now her two brothers are in the house with her." ”

Zhu Houwei said to Zhu Houzhao: "I'll take a look." Then he walked to the wing, and Zhu Houzhao said as he followed, "I'll go and see it too." ”

Before he arrived at the wing, he heard the crying of several people, and Zhu Houwei paused, thinking to himself, "As long as you cry, it's okay, and the emotions in your heart must be vented." Zhu Houzhao also caught up at this time, "What's wrong?" ”

Zhu Houwei shook his head, "It's nothing, wait for them to cry for a while before going in." Zhu Houzhao nodded. After about 10 minutes, the crying gradually became quieter, and the Zhu Houzhao brothers went in. The door was not closed, but the three brothers and sisters heard the footsteps, and quickly stopped crying and sobbing, and looked at the door.

Seeing that it was the two young masters, the two brothers hurriedly wanted to salute, but were stopped by Zhu Houzhao. The two brothers, one is 13 years old and the other is 11 years old, both studying in Chaoyang Courtyard, and the two are still red-eyed and keep wiping their sleeves. Zhu Houzhao said calmly: "Do you still have elder relatives?" The two brothers' eyes darkened and they shook their heads slightly. Zhu Houzhao continued: "Your parents' affairs will be handled by the Zhu Mansion for you, as for the future, if you two brothers continue to study, the Zhu Mansion will give you 10 taels of silver every month until your sister is 16 years old." Now that she is still young, after these things, it is not appropriate to suddenly take her to Chaoyang Courtyard. In this way, Li Zhen and our brothers have a trustworthy family, first send your sister to recuperate outside the Zhu Mansion for a year, and then send it to Chaoyang Yuan to study when the school starts next year, during this time, if you have a holiday, go to Li Zhen to see your sister. ”

After speaking, he looked at the two little brothers, but obviously the two of them were a little uncertain, after all, they had never asked the two of them to do the big things in the family. Zhu Houwei looked at the eldest of them and said kindly, "You are now the pillar of the family, your younger brothers and sisters need you to take care of them, and men sometimes have to be decisive and take their own responsibility." The eldest looked at his younger brothers and sisters, then at the two young masters, nodded heavily and said, "Okay, just according to the meaning of the two young masters." ”

At this time, the second child said very urgently, "Young master, I want to join the army." When his eldest brother heard this, he tugged at his clothes, but the younger brother twisted his body and broke away from the eldest brother's tug. Zhu Houzhao brothers glanced at each other, and Zhu Houwei said, "You are only 11 years old, and you won't want to join the army, so let's do it, you study in Chaoyang Academy, and when you are 18 years old, I will help you enter the barracks, or the kind of army that often has to go to the battlefield." The second child nodded and retreated to his brother's side.

Zhu Houzhao said, "You can stay today, Chaoyang Courtyard is not in a hurry." After speaking, he went out with Zhu Houwei.

When he arrived at the main hall, he began to report in detail on the gains and losses of this operation. First of all, I arrived at the temple so late because there were thieves guarding every distance along the way, so I could only approach slowly, and then use a bow and crossbow to kill the thieves before they could report the news. To get close to the thief, you can only approach slowly in the woods, but the thieves also set traps in the woods, which are basically traps for hunting, and a brocade guard caught the ankle of the beast, but even if he is cured, it is estimated that he will walk with a limp. The most important thing is that he didn't scream after suffering so much pain, which attracted the attention of the thief. Brother Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but nod when he heard this, saying that he would reward him well.

In the end, no enemy was found within 20 miles of the surrounding area, and it should have been wiped out. In the temple and the enemy, I found 500 taels of silver, 20 taels of gold, and 50,000 taels of silver tickets. There was also some food, weapons and so on. The cash Zhu Houzhao was the master and gave the 80 Jinyi guards in this operation, and each person could also share a few taels, not to mention the merits, and the Jinyi Wei would also be rewarded. As for the silver ticket, Zhu Houzhao discussed it with Zhu Houwei, and while exchanging the silver and taking it to Zhu's mansion, after all, there is still a gold-swallowing beast called Huangzhuang, and it costs a lot of money to make firearms. Then send Jinyiwei to Shanxi to secretly investigate this Jufeng Qianzhuang, because the road guide of these thieves is in Shuozhou Mansion and Shuozhou Mansion in Shanxi, so this Jufeng Qianzhuang is a little sensitive.

This temple is not dedicated to Shakyamuni, Guanyin, but Maitreya Buddha, because it is a new temple, there are not many people who come to burn incense and worship Buddha. However, this shows that this sect has spread from Shandong to other places, and there may be many enemies sent by Tatars, which has attracted the attention of the Zhu Houzhao brothers.

Back in the palace, Empress Zhang asked the two with concern what they were doing to return to the palace so late. Both brothers smiled and said, "It's okay, it's just that I forgot the time." Empress Zhang thought about it and stopped asking.

When they arrived at the wing, Hongji was already waiting for the two. So, the two brothers told Hongji what happened today. After listening to this, Hongji nodded and said, "Don't be so impulsive in the future, just wait for news in the house, and you don't need to run to the front." Zhu Houzhao said with a smile, "Heaven descends on the people, they must first suffer their minds, strain their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skin, empty their bodies, and act chaotically, so they are tempted to endure and benefit what they can't." Hongzhi looked at Zhu Houwei again, and got the answer of "How can you see a rainbow without experiencing wind and rain", and then his expression was a little complicated, I don't know whether to worry about the two of them, or to be proud of the maturity of the two sons.

After a while, he asked, "What are you going to do next?" Zhu Houzhao immediately replied, "Of course, I will go to Shuozhou immediately, and Shuozhou Mansion will check it, if they let people in again, Daming will only become more and more dangerous." Hongzhi looked at Zhu Houwei again, Zhu Houwei thought for a while, and said, "First send Jinyiwei to investigate secretly, and after two or three months, just with the evidence in hand now, it may not be enough, collect more, so that the officials can't refute the evidence and then investigate." Daddy, when the time comes, it's better to let the child go and investigate it together. Hongzhi thought about it, anyway, the place he went to was in the Great Wall, and it was surrounded by Datong Town, so there should be no danger, so he nodded.

The two walked out of Kunning Palace, and Zhu Houzhao complained, "Why wait a few months, it's better to go early." Zhu Houwei smiled, "Now if you send a minister to investigate, you will naturally not be able to hide from those people, and then they will bury the evidence, and even die without proof, after saying it, when do you think about it in a few months?" Zhu Houzhao replied angrily, "When can it be, isn't it June or July (July to September in the Gregorian calendar), and the autumn grain can be harvested" Suddenly Zhu Houzhao said with some surprise, "Wait, you mean the north?" Zhu Houwei walked by himself, and then three words came out: "Playing Grass Valley".

Time flies quickly, Bai Xiaode's team rushed back from Shandong, and the same as the last recruitment, they were all sent back by the Dengzhou Sailor, but this time the number of people is more, there are 60,000 people, and more than 40,000 were transported at a time, and some are to be transported back in the next batch, Bai Xiaode led the team to come back first, and less than 20,000 people behind were maintained by Jinyiwei and Zhufu students, and there was no problem.

Back in Li Zhen, Bai Xiaode came to Zhu Houzhao to report the situation to the brothers as soon as possible. Zhu Houzhao hosted a banquet in the Guanzhuang Mansion and invited several officials of Bai Xiaode and Jinyiwei. This time, the recruitment was as expected, and the civilian households did not respond much, but the military households were enthusiastic. This time, all the health centers in the two prefectures of Denglai ran down, and the number of people was limited, otherwise not to mention 60,000 people, 100,000 people could be recruited, Rao was so poor that more than one-third of the population was recruited, which was simply a few stabs in the hearts of the health center officials. The military households in the guard station basically had no training in normal times, and all they had to do in ordinary times was farming, working, and serving in conscription, which were the main sources of income for officials, but this time they lost a lot of money.

Of course, it is not that there are no people who have gathered to make trouble, but under the suppression of Zhuge Lian's crossbow and embroidered spring knife, there has been no chaos, and as for whether there are any ill-intentioned people among the 60,000 people here, they still need to be investigated. However, the Zhu Houzhao brothers first decided to arrest and interrogate all the household registrations that were originally from Shanxi, and the household registrations in other frontier areas should be strictly monitored to prevent accidents.

Recruiting so many people this time can greatly alleviate the shortage of manpower, and the renovation plan of Huangzhuang can be completed as soon as possible. In the recruitment process, the food and clothing of 60,000 people gave Bai Xiaode a headache, mainly because there were more people, and the more materials were needed, and those grain merchants and landlords took the opportunity to increase the price of grain, so that Bai Xiaode had to pay a lot more silver. The 200,000 taels brought with me cost 150,000. Zhu Houwei smiled coldly, "Mr. Bai, don't worry, don't look at their dancing joy now, sooner or later they will suffer." Bai Xiaode persuaded him, "Your Highness can't be impulsive, this grain merchant, the landlord has a huge power in the local area, and he will affect the whole body." Zhu Houwei smiled and shook his hand, "Mr. Bai, don't worry, I won't touch them now." Bai Xiaode nodded, and said no more.

60,000 people are going to live in, which is also a trouble, and Bai Xiaode asked what to do. Zhu Houwei thought for a while and said, "After the renovation of the previous farm, most of the houses were vacant, and there were also many houses in the craftsman village at the foot of the mountain, which should be able to accommodate about 20,000 people, and the others could only be squeezed first. Bai Xiaode continued to ask, "How do the personnel arrange their work, the farm work in the Huangzhuang, the breeding is not so many people, if they are all arranged to go to the Dahuangzhuang, the place of work and the place of residence will be too far away." Zhu Houzhao also looked at Zhu Houwei after listening, Zhu Houwei thought for a while and said, "In this way, the men who need to go to Dahuangzhuang to work are arranged to live near the construction site, and the family lives in the arranged house. We will also consume a lot of manufactured things, and we can also sell them in the Li Town business district, as for the materials, we mainly rely on buying, and then see if we want to plant them, and we must first save enough food. ”

Originally, there were 30,000 people in the crown prince's estate, and this time 60,000 were recruited, plus about 90,000 people in Dahuangzhuang, which belongs to Hongji's manor, so it was nearly 200,000 people. Due to the system of the Imperial Village, a lot of grain is consumed every day, but fortunately, there are less than 500,000 stones in the Imperial Prince's Village, which is enough to feed these people, and the autumn harvest will be in a few months.

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