The sky is already dark, the moon in the sky is particularly conspicuous, there is still some distance from the county seat of Zhenping County, Zhu Yunwen has already sent someone to inform the county order of Zhenping County, prepare hot dishes and hot meals, and stay in the jungle for more than ten days, and the birds are about to fade out of their mouths.

As for the Ertian who left, Zhu Yunwen didn't see it, no one mentioned it, and no one would mention the soldiers who hung up in the jungle, only Kuramiya Minoru would sigh about the widows who died to find the way for the Ming army, he felt that he deserved to be a prince.

Marching in the dark is a very boring thing, only the cuckoo calls in the woods on both sides of the official road can bring a little noise, after all, after a day of walking in the jungle, it is enough to be tired.

However, there was one thing that aroused everyone's interest, because many people had never seen it, and it fell from the sky.

Originally, some soldiers in the army thought it was a Japanese Korko, so they raised their bows and arrows and shot them, so they had to shoot down the thing in the sky.

As a result, those soldiers were dragged into the ditch next to them by Zhu Yunwen one by one, it was a sharp weapon of the Ming Dynasty, so you could shoot it down?

Hu Ye didn't expect Zhu Yuanzhang's people to master the hot air balloon so quickly, it seems that the Ming Dynasty people accepted new things quite quickly.

"Your Highness, I can be regarded as having found you."

After the hot air balloon landed, three soldiers jumped down and knelt respectfully in front of Zhu Yunwen.

"If you go back and tell Grandpa Sù, just say I'm fine, and I will dare to go back before the year." Zhu Yunwen waved his hand and asked the soldiers to stand up.

He knew that these people were his imperial grandfather's people, otherwise who else would be able to master this thing as a hot air balloon? It was something that his imperial grandfather listed as the most important weapon of the country.

Hu Ye looked at the hot air balloon that was slowly rising again, but he sighed in his heart, maybe it is now regarded as an important weapon of the country, or it will not be long before it will become a soldier's nightmare, and even he doesn't know whether it is a blessing or a curse to get this thing out.

"Boy. When I go back to Nanjing, you have to make me a thing of this, now the bird can't go to the sky, but the old man wants to go up to the sky to see. Gong Yiji looked at the slowly disappearing hot air balloon and said with a hint of envy.

Hu Ye rolled his eyes, obviously he hadn't forgotten about the matter of Gongyi and Er Tian uniting to pit himself, let me make you a hot air balloon? You're beautiful! Don't you know that this thing has become military supplies? Want to play? I went to Zhu Yuanzhang to ask for it.

Seeing that Hu Ye ignored it, after the public lost and cursed the little fox, he stopped nagging Hu Ye. I still think about building my own glider when I go back.

When Zhu Yunwen came to Zhenping County with the army, it was already the third watch, but after they entered the city, they found that all the people inside had not slept, and they were standing on both sides of the street, because they had never seen a big man like Zhu Yunwen.

After letting most of the army be stationed outside the city, Zhu Yunwen took a group of guards into the city, and looked at the people around him who looked at the treasures and looked at his people, Zhu Yunwen smiled helplessly.

Definitely. This Zhenping County is located in a remote place in Lingnan, and it is estimated that these people will never see an official who is bigger than the county order in their lives, so who will have nothing to do with running to a place like Zhenping?

The county magistrate had already come out to greet him, and it looked like he was in his sixties. It's really a county master. I heard that he was still a county official of the previous dynasty, and in such a remote place, it was only after Zhu Yuanzhang became the emperor for several years that he knew that the Yuan Dynasty had been destroyed. Replaced with the Ming Dynasty.

However, for them, whoever becomes the emperor is the same, he only needs to continue to be his county commander. Managing a good party is the way to go.

That night, the county order moved out all the delicious things in the county, there are many things that Hu Ye has never seen, the taste is delicious, of course, this may be the sequelae of eating dry food in the jungle for a long time, everything is fragrant, I didn't see those guards eating like beggars?

Zhu Yunwen was no better, although he tried his best to maintain the demeanor of the crown prince, but the content in his mouth revealed the fact that he was hungry.

In the meantime, Zhu Yunwen also inquired about the villages in the jungle, and the county order said that the jungle was so large that even the locals did not dare to enter it lightly, and there were many large and small villages in it, many of which were primitive tribes and had not yet been civilized.

Zhu Yunwen did not plan to stay in Zhenping for long, and after sleeping until three o'clock in the morning the next day, he began to prepare and go to the last stop, Guangzhou Mansion, where there is the Guangdong Metropolitan Division, and the main purpose of this trip to Guangdong is to meet the commanders and political envoys there.

The old county order is naturally trying his best to keep it, and it is not easy to come to such a big man, and he must also entertain and entertain well, as well as the people in the county, one by one, take their yellow flower girls to the streets, to see if they can be favored by these big people.

After all, they are too poor here, and it would be nice if they could let their daughter fly on the branches and become a phoenix.

One by one, the soldiers looked at those flower-like girls, their eyes were green, and they hadn't touched a woman for several months, but Zhu Yunwen didn't speak, and they only dared to think about it in their minds.

In the end, Zhu Yunwen didn't stay long, and after lunch, the whole army set out and left Zhenping County.

By the time Zhu Yunwen's army arrived in Guangzhou, it was already the beginning of November, and it had already entered winter.

Although Guangzhou is as cold as Nanjing in the far north, it is not the time when you just left Nanjing, and you can live in single clothes, especially when the soldiers are still wearing iron armor.

So all the way into the team were adding clothes, and by the time they arrived at Guangzhou Mansion, they had already worn two or three pieces of clothes, and then put on armor, they all looked like they had gained a lot of weight.

In fact, without Zhu Yunwen's notice, the commander of the Guangdong Metropolitan Division knew that Zhu Yunwen was coming, after all, such a large team had been wandering around his jurisdiction for nearly a month, and he didn't know that it was a strange thing.

Therefore, when Zhu Yunwen came to Guangzhou Mansion, they all commanded Xie An, Guangzhou Governor Xu Huankai, and political envoy Wang Jun to greet each other outside Guangzhou Mansion.

Of course, the pomp and circumstance is not comparable to the scale of Zhenping County, but in terms of mentality, Hu Ye thinks that these people are not as excited as the old county order when they see Zhu Yunwen, after all, these people are big shots, and they will also go to Beijing from time to time to report, Zhu Yuanzhang has seen it many times, especially the political envoy Wang Jun, who also saw Zhu Yunwen a few years ago, but at that time Zhu Yunwen was just a little doll who didn't do anything, and he had not yet become the emperor's grandson.

Now there are two months before the end of the year, so Zhu Yunwen is going to stay in Guangzhou for a long time, which is also clear to several officials, after all, Guangzhou is the southern gateway of the Ming Dynasty, although it is not as good as Nanjing in all aspects, but Zhu Yunwen needs their support.

They also all know the current situation, and Zhu Yuanzhang sent Zhu Yunwen to come this time, which must have meant to let them support.

In order to show his support, Xie An arranged for Zhu Yunwen to visit the army's training, and asked Zhu Yunwen's army to practice with his army, but Zhu Yunwen's army was severely suppressed.

This made Zhu Yunwen reacquaint himself with the army in the south, although he looked not tall and not strong, but he was not inferior to his army in hand-to-hand combat, or with knives, guns and clubs, and then he understood why his grandfather had to ask him to come to Guangdong.

In addition to visiting the training of the army, Wang Jun also took Zhu Yunwen to learn about Guangdong's taxation, but he was not much interested in this seemingly Zhu Yunwen, because he found that there was a huge Guangdong province, and the taxes paid were not as much as those in Suzhou and Hangzhou, which made him a little disappointed.

For this, Hu Ye only shook his head helplessly, how long has Lingnan been developed now, plus the Tang and Song dynasties all paid attention to the development of the Central Plains, and now Guangdong can develop to this point, which is already very good.

Look at the city of Guangzhou, it was only after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne that the three cities of the east and west were integrated, and the city of Guangzhou had its current scale, but it still can't be compared with Suzhou City, let alone Nanjing City.

However, Hu Ye is not worried about the development of Guangzhou, as long as Zheng He takes the fleet to the West in a few years, the countries along the way will naturally know about the existence of the Ming Dynasty, and Guangzhou will become the most important treaty port at that time, and it will definitely develop rapidly.

After that, Xie An took Zhu Yunwen to inspect the coastal defense, although the Japanese only attacked and harassed Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian, but Guangdong's defense did not fall, and some new guards were added along the coast.

With the lesson of Quanzhou Yongningwei, Zhu Yunwen naturally focused on investigating the situation of eating empty salaries, and found that there was another set of Xie An's governance, although there were some discrepancies, but there were more than 5,000 people in one guard, basically full, and the combat effectiveness was not low, no wonder the Japanese did not dare to come to Guangdong to find trouble.

This investigation took more than a month, Zhu Yunwen almost learned all aspects of Guangzhou, and finally wanted to go to Hainan, but the time was urgent, and it would take a month to make a round trip, plus the return trip, I am afraid that he would not be able to return to Nanjing before the end of the year.

Therefore, Zhu Yunwen still gave up the idea of going to Hainan, and began to leave for Beijing in early December, to return to Nanjing before the Chinese New Year.

During this period, Kuramiya Minoru would be shocked every day, whether it was the population of Guangzhou, or the coastal defense, or the combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty army, it gave him a new understanding, and then think about their Southern Dynasty army, compared with the Ming Dynasty army, it was scum.

Especially the huge eight-bull crossbow in Guangzhou City, as well as all kinds of novel gadgets, made Kuramiya Minoru come out of decadence. What are the lost subordinates, didn't Ida Eryi bring hundreds of troops to Dongfan, as long as he tried his courage in the Ming Dynasty and got these good things back from the Ming Dynasty, he would use the hundreds of people taken away by Ida Eryi to restore the country or anything.

So when he heard that Zhu Yunwen was going back to Nanjing, he was very excited, a Guangzhou city can have this kind of momentum, and when he arrives in Nanjing, he may not know how many things he can learn. (To be continued......)