Nanjing's imperial palace is already in ruins.

During the orthodox years, thunder struck a fire and burned down the palaces such as the body and the canopy. Then there were storms and floods, and the walls of the imperial city had not yet fallen, and the rest of the wooden buildings were all rotten.

Even Nanjing Taimiao was burned down!

Zhao Han took his wife, children and sister and temporarily moved into the garrison mansion in Nanjing.

The Ming Dynasty had three sets of teams in Nanjing, the inner garrison was the office of the eunuchs and civil servants, and the outer garrison was the office of the military generals.

The last time Nanjing was occupied, all the eunuch leaders were killed, and the ordinary eunuchs were retained and hired by the government to clean up.

Now, the sign of the Inner Garrison Mansion has been removed and replaced with a new one: Governor's Mansion.

"Ah, this place is much bigger than the Ji'an General Military Mansion!" Zhao Zhenfang ran around in the back house.

Pan Qimei also ran along, the yard was bigger than she imagined, and it seemed that it was not suitable for feeding chickens.

With a smile on her face, Fei Rulan instructed everyone to carry things, and some of the houses had to be cleaned up.

The relocation of the ruling center from Ji'an to Nanjing was not only due to the issue of status.

There is another important reason, that is, the city of Ji'an is too small. With the expansion of Zhao Han's territory, more and more institutions were set up, and the Ji'an General Military Mansion could not fit at all.

"Headquarters, there are a lot of eunuchs petitioning outside!" The guards hurried over to report.

Although the official yamen and the noble garden in Nanjing City are not used for the time being, they will definitely be useful in the future. The eunuchs who survived were thrown everywhere to work as handymen, cleaning and maintaining buildings with a meager salary.

When these eunuchs heard that Zhao Han had moved in, they privately connected and ran to petition.

Zhao Han walked to the gate of the Governor's Mansion, and saw a large number of people kneeling outside, frowning and scolding: "Hurry up!" ”

A eunuch knelt down and climbed forward, kowtowed, and said, "The slave and maid knock to see the handsome." Dashuai wants to be the emperor in the future, and in the palace, it is inconvenient for the guards to do things, and they have to use eunuchs to do it. We are all crippled people, and we ask the marshal to be gracious and stay and serve the marshal. ”

"You're the lead?" Zhao Han asked.

The eunuch thought that there was an opportunity, and hurriedly replied: "The slave maid is named Yuan En." ”

"Arrest this guy and sweep the streets, be punished for three months, no salary, just food!" After Zhao Han finished speaking, he turned around and left.

A group of eunuchs knelt there, looking at each other, not knowing what to do.

Even if Zhao Han really wanted to use eunuchs one day, he would order them to be summoned, not a group of eunuchs running to instigate them.

……

Cheju.

Hu Dinggui, Wang Yaochen, Lu Xiangguan, and Chen Tangong looked at the more than 400 horses in front of them, and there was only indescribable shock left in their hearts.

"Isn't this Tenmaye?" Lu Xiangguan exclaimed.

Hu Dinggui looked at his mount, and then looked at the horse breed that had just been transported, just like a person who had been eating bran for a long time, and suddenly encountered the delicacies of the mountains and seas.

More than 30 of the 500 horses that were transported from India to Shanghai died, and more than 60 fell ill and stayed for recuperation. Only 402 good horses were actually shipped to Jeju Island.

These horses were bought from the Mughal Empire, and they were all Mawari horses.

The average shoulder height of a stallion is close to 1.55 meters, the average shoulder height of a mare is nearly 1.53 meters, and the average shoulder height on the Jeju side is only 1.22 meters.

A difference of exactly 30 centimeters!

These are most likely mixed descendants of Arabian and Turkmen horses, brought to northwestern India by the invaders.

When the Mughal Empire expanded, several princely states with such horses fought back and forth with the Mughal army. Eventually, thanks to internal divisions and political marriages, the Mughal Empire was able to annex the princely states and grant them a high degree of autonomy.

After a long distance of transportation, everyone was reluctant to ride, so they were sent to the pasture to recover their energy.

It wasn't until ten days later that Hu Dinggui cautiously took a test drive.

It's like a tractor changing to a top-of-the-line sports car!

"Drive!"

Hu Dinggui sat on horseback, galloping, as if driving clouds.

Lu Xiangguan also chose one, and immediately became arrogant, rode a horse to catch up with Hu Dinggui and said: "General Hu, with this magic horse, you can sweep Mobei!" ”

Hu Dinggui stopped after two laps and said, "Let this Tianzhu horse breed by itself first, and if the stallion still has the strength to spare, choose the best Jeju mare to breed." Pregnant in October to give birth to a horse, the pony can be bred at the age of one and a half years, and many good horses can be born in five years! ”

Chen Tangong caught up and asked, "How much is this kind of horse?" ”

Wang Yaochen replied: "150 taels and one horse, guaranteed to be transported from Tianzhu to Macao, and those who die halfway will not be paid." Zheng Zhilong sent a ship to transfer it, and took out another sum of silver, which was estimated to cost 160 taels per horse. ”

"That's tens of thousands of taels of silver, and I bought hundreds of horse breeds." Chen Tangong said.

The reason why it is so expensive is mainly due to the problem of transportation.

Portugal bought horses to be shipped to Macao, and had to bear the risk of the horses dying halfway. They also hired a professional horse breeder to take care of them all the way, so that the mortality rate was reduced.

Hu Dinggui was afraid that the horse would be tired, so he turned over and kept petting, and he couldn't wait to sleep with the horse.

The ears of the Mawarima are very cute, the ears are raised high, and the tips of the ears are turned inward as if to "compare the heart". With a muscular body and shiny fur, this is the best war horse in the entire South Asian region!

Zhao Han gave Jeju Island a cavalry establishment of 2,000 quotas.

Among them, 1,800 cavalrymen were transferred from the Grand Synchronous Pawn. With 200 people left, Hu Dinggui recruited from the island was one of the steps to assimilate the islanders.

The ethnicity of Jeju Island is very complex, there are Koreans, Mongols, and Han Chinese. After intermarrying each other for two or three hundred years, they have long been completely mixed, and because of the poor treatment, many of them are still criminals, and their sense of identity with North Korea is not very high.

As long as they are given equal treatment and taught to speak Chinese and write Chinese characters, they can be assimilated into their own people in the future.

Even if Zhao Han wanted to colonize, he would not engage in an extermination policy.

The Chinese nation has such an awesome talent for assimilation, why should it learn from the barbaric and bloody Westerners?

Of course, if there are stubborn people, they must still speak with guns.

……

"Boom!"

With a burst of thunder, torrential rain poured down.

Lu Xiangsheng studied behind closed doors in his hometown in Yixing, and recuperated to recover his body by the way.

After several years of military career and another year of imprisonment, Lu Xiangsheng's health was a little bad.

When I woke up in the morning, it was still raining heavily.

The rain has been going on for a day and a night.

Lu Xiangsheng felt that something was wrong, so he immediately went out with an umbrella and came to the small river in the village, where the water level had already exceeded the warning line.

He went home, took his younger brother Lu Xiangjin, and walked to the county government to report the situation.

Before he left the village, he saw several officials coming dressed in robes, running from house to door knocking on the door to give orders.

"Brothers of the peasant association, gather at the ancestral hall at the entrance of the village immediately!"

"Datong peasants, all assemble! Gather troops, gather troops! ”

“……”

Lu Xiangsheng looked at all this blankly, the peasant association and the peasant soldiers were all mud legs in the past.

They were allocated the land for just over half a year.

The peasant and soldier policy has been adjusted, not every family is out, and the only child can not be a peasant soldier. After the separation, there is only one strong laborer in the family, and it is not necessary to be conscripted as a peasant soldier.

As a result, the number of peasant soldiers in each village and town has dropped by at least one-third compared to when Zhao Han first started his army.

Farming exercises, only half a day a day, only one lunch in the town, training and treatment have also decreased compared with before.

At least the peasants and soldiers still have to take care of the food, but the peasant associations bring their own dry food!

If you don't get a salary and bring your own dry food, isn't it the former government conscription? The people should hate it.

But Lu Xiangsheng soon saw an unforgettable scene, a large number of peasant association members, not only went out by themselves, but also brought their families, even teenagers in their teens.

They walked through the rain and gradually gathered into a procession, singing songs and fighting spirits.

Lu Xiangsheng and Lu Xiangjin followed them, but saw two flags erected at the entrance of the village, one was the flag of the peasant association and the other was the banner of the peasant soldiers.

Everywhere along the way, the big families were lying on their stomachs at the door, and their eyes were full of fear.

Last year, the village was divided into fields, and at the beginning there was still an army, and after the peasant association was established, the army was immediately withdrawn. Some big landlords still wanted to resist the policy, and the peasant association issued an order, and countless grass people carried hoes and arrested the entire families of those landlords for public trial.

Dare to resist by force?

Killed on the spot!

"Brother, they're fighting the flood." Lu Xiangjin said.

Lu Xiangsheng nodded and said, "I know, that's it...... Inexplicably, I feel a little emotional. ”

Lu Xiangjin said: "It's really embarrassing. ”

Lu Xiangsheng sighed: "When I was commanding troops in the north, I often heard the name of the Zhao Heavenly King. He defeated the local governors several times, but I only felt that those governors were incompetent, and if he led the troops himself, he would definitely destroy the Zhao thief. But this situation made me realize that none of the Ming Dynasty's military generals could be Zhao Han's opponent. ”

"The will of the people." Lu Xiangjin said.

Lu Xiangsheng said: "In the past, the hearts of the people were the hearts of the people. The head of the Qiantou is ignorant, does not distinguish between right and wrong, does not know the interests and disadvantages, and cannot gather his heart. Haha, this is a big fallacy, Qianshou is not ignorant, but has nothing to do with them. Zhao Han's heart of gathering the heads of Qianqian with Tian Zheng is the real desire of the people. After the flood, my brother and I will also go to Nanjing to see what errand we can find. ”

The various armies that were being mobilized were delayed by heavy rains throughout the Yangtze River Valley.

Heavy rainfall fell in Jiangxi, Hunan, and Jiangnan, and eventually formed a large flood peak in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Susong Changhu Lake, these major tax-paying mansions, were all flooded, and countless farmland along Taihu Lake were flooded.

Great water in the south, great drought in the north!

Shandong not only has a drought, but also a locust plague, and the whole province is full of locusts.

Puzhou Prefecture was the hardest hit, and all the vegetation was eaten. The government dug pits directly outside the city gate to bury the corpses, and the hungry people dug pits and dug up the corpses, cutting the flesh and eating the corpses. There are also family members who starved to death, mortuaries in their homes, and many cannibals between fathers and sons.

Fortunately, Zhang Guowei was appointed as the Jiangnan Water Conservancy Envoy, and since last summer, he has been building Jiangnan Water Conservancy. And in the form of cash-for-work, many hungry people survived the famine.

This year's floods have caused far less damage than any other time in history.

"The order is that the garrisons in various places will postpone the dispatch of troops and rush to the disaster area to help the people!"

This was the first military order issued by Zhao Han after he moved to Nanjing.

There are floods in all provinces, how can they cross the river to fight?