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Qianqing Palace.

"I heard that General Tang He fought a battle with those barbarians on the grassland and won a great victory."

"General Tang is really brave, he is the pillar of my Ming Dynasty!"

"I heard that General Tang also successfully joined forces with General Tang Ding."

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The ministers had apparently heard the news of Tang He's great presence on the grasslands.

The sound of bustling discussions came from the mouths of the civil and military officials, and for a while the Qianqing Palace was extremely noisy.

At this moment, the celebrant and eunuch shouted at the top of his voice: "Your Majesty has arrived!" ”

The entire Qianqing Palace quickly quieted down, and the needle drop could be heard.

Zhu Yuanzhang was wearing a dragon robe and strode in.

Zhu Yuanzhang slowly sat upright on the dragon chair, looking at the ministers with a pair of tiger eyes.

Li Shanchang took the lead in saluting: "The ministers greet Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

"All the Qing family is flat!" Zhu Yuanzhang's majestic voice came from the dragon case.

Zhu Yuanzhang opened his mouth and said: "Now we have a good thing to share with all Aiqing. ”

"Do you know that a few days ago, we sent Tang He to lead an army to support Tang Ding."

"Now there is a battle report from the front line, General Tang He defeated all the grassland departments on the grassland, and successfully joined forces with Tang Ding, and my Ming frontier should be able to rest easy."

Although the ministers had already gotten the news, the news came out of Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth again, and they were still excited in their hearts.

Li Shanchang came out and said: "General Tang He is really a big tiger general for me!" ”

"How can the barbarians of the various tribes of the grassland compare with the iron cavalry of my Ming Dynasty, General Tang's trip is really to promote the prestige of my Ming Dynasty!"

"Not bad! Now that the problem in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty has the addition of General Tang, it should be considered to be over. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was also in a good mood and said: "Now General Tang He is already guarding the city at Datong Pass, waiting for the best opportunity to attack. ”

"The current situation of the grassland departments is still unknown, but after being defeated by General Tang He's army, the grassland departments temporarily retreated and did not make the next move."

"Yichen came to see the matter of the glass wolf, they couldn't solve it so easily, there must be something strange in it." Yang Xian came out of the queue.

"What Yang Aiqing said is extremely true, so let's let him stick to it."

"But there's a problem."

The ministers looked at Zhu Yuanzhang suspiciously.

"It's the season of spring rain in the north, and in recent days, the spring rain has been continuous, and some of the weapons and armor of my Ming soldiers have been rusted."

Yang Xian continued: "Your Majesty does you want to say that there is a shortage of lard in the north. ”

"Yes, due to the repeated invasion of my Ming Dynasty by this group of barbarians, several cities adjacent to the grassland have been looted, and it is a problem for the people to eat, let alone lard."

"How about we call some lard from the Jingshi in the past? The minister is going to take care of this matter. Liu Bowen said.

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand, "That's it, although my Beijing division has lard, but there are a large number of troops on this expedition, I'm afraid this will not solve the problem." ”

"Besides, there is not much lard among my Jingshi."

"Let's worry about this!"

"You Aiqing have any good ideas, but it's okay to say it!"

For a while, the ministers also stood in place, not saying a word.

Bowing his head in contemplation.

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but show a trace of bitterness on his face, and then said: "Since you Aiqing don't have any good way to solve it now, then go back and think about it for us!" ”

"Don't let my Ming sergeants wear rusty armor and carry rusty weapons to the battlefield to fight those barbarians."

"Okay, that's the end of today's court."

After that, Zhu Yuanzhang stroked his sleeves and left the Qianqing Palace.

At this time, Yang Xian came to Zhu Tong's face, and said with a worried face: "What is Lord Zhu's way to solve this matter?" ”

Zhu Tong shook his head helplessly, saying that he had not come up with any good way to solve this problem for the time being.

"Even you don't have an idea, it seems that this time things are difficult, the amount of lard needed by so many armies must not be a small amount!"

"Yes, I'd better go back and think about it later." Zhu Tong said.

After that, Zhu Tong and Yang Xian went to the Qianqing Palace together.

……

On the way back, Zhu Tong thought as he walked, I am afraid there is no chance of getting so much lard in a short period of time.

But if there is no lard, and the continuous spring rain in the north cannot be controlled, is it really impossible for the soldiers to wear rusty armor to fight?

But what if you think about it differently? If you can't get lard, how about changing to other oil?

Other oil, other oil, all of a sudden, Zhu Tong had a flash of inspiration, rapeseed oil, yes, rapeseed oil should be fine.

Thinking of this, Zhu Tong's pace couldn't help but speed up a lot.

After a while, Zhu Tong came to Zhu's mansion.

The subordinates hurriedly came to worship, Zhu Tong interrupted them, and hurriedly said: "Don't be so polite first, you go and find me some rapeseed oil, I have a wonderful use!" ”

The subordinates on the side saw Zhu Tong's serious expression, and hurriedly said, "Okay adult, let's do it for the small one." ”

With that, the servant turned and left.

After a while, the subordinate quickly ran to Zhu Tong with a large jar in his arms, "My lord, time is in a hurry, and I can only get some of this for the time being." ”

Zhu Tong heard this, and bowed slightly.

Then he took the rapeseed oil, found some iron weapons, and made a quick attempt.

In the end, Zhu Tong found that although the effect was worse than that of lard, it was still very effective.

Zhu Tong thought about it, now rapeseed oil can indeed be used to replace lard, but the front-line army has so many armor and weapons, and the amount of rapeseed oil needed must be an astronomical amount.

If you want to get rapeseed oil instead of lard to apply on armor and weapons, you will need a lot of rape, which is better than lard.

But where can you find plenty of rape now?

Zhu Tong couldn't help but keep pacing in the courtyard.

The subordinate on the side cautiously asked, "What's the problem, my lord?" Need something smaller? ”

Zhu Tong muttered in his mouth: "Rape, I need a lot of rape now." ”

"Then why don't you buy it? It should still be possible to buy rape this season, do you need to buy small ones? The subordinate replied earnestly.

"Buy, buy, buy......"

Zhu Tong suddenly slapped his thigh and laughed: "I have a way, I have a way." ”

"Follow me to Shen Wansan's house, I have something urgent to find him!"

"Yes, sir." The subordinates hurriedly agreed

After that, Zhu Tong turned around and left the Zhu Mansion with a group of subordinates.