Zang Feng did a good job in the position of governor of Xuanda, but because of his unclear relationship with the new emperor, he was involved in factional disputes, so that he was ordered to return to the dynasty before his ambition was rewarded.

The name given is not to ask for guilt, but to return to the dynasty to continue to be his right attendant of the criminal department, which is equivalent to saying that he just took away the position of governor of Xuanda.

When Zhu Si discussed this matter with the courtiers, he obviously had the intention of "protecting" Zang Feng, and did not issue an order to ask for the guilt, but only said that after Zang Feng returned to the capital, he would investigate and handle the case with Dongchang and Jinyiwei, and would not put Zang Feng in prison for the crime of falsely reporting his military exploits.

As for the candidate to succeed Governor Zang Fengxuan...... Originally, there were two, one was Li Kun, the right attendant of the military department, and the other was Chen Jiuchou, the governor of Shaanxi.

These two people, without exception, are both people from Peng Ze, the current secretary of the Ministry of War, which is equivalent to saying that Yang Tinghe wants to arrange two henchmen who Peng Ze trusts to the position of governor of Xuanda, so as to gain control of Xuanda's military and political power.

Zhu Si originally wanted to fight for it in this matter, but the problem was that he did not have a suitable candidate to control the army, if there were any, there were only two, one was Wang Qiong, who was convicted and still wore a sinful body, and the other was Tang Yin.

Needless to say, Wang Qiong is ......

It has only been a year since the questioning, and Yang Tinghe is still in the court, so he will definitely not allow his political opponent Wang Qiong to be reactivated, let alone let him sit in the position of governor of Xuanda as soon as he comes up.

Besides, the situation in Xuanda is far from dangerous enough to use Wang Qiong, so Zhu Si can't win it at all.

Let's talk about Tang Yin......

That's even more.

A court official with a high background, who has only been a member of the Ministry of Industry for more than half a year, wants to be directly promoted to the governor of Xuanda? This is equivalent to an official position at the level of a squire, and you Tang Yin are not worthy.

Besides, do you Tang Yin have any achievements in governing the army? Don't talk about anything to prevent thieves when Anlu, the imperial court is not certified, and there is no basis for what he says, and even if it is true, can it be compared with the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses on the front line of Xuanda?

So......

This position fell to Chen Jiuchou, the governor of Shaanxi.

Zang Feng returned to Beijing, and Chen Jiuchou was directly transferred from Shaanxi to Datong to take office, but the corresponding temporary administration of the governor of Xuanda was changed to Datong, because Datong was closer to the three sides, so Chen Jiuchou could arrive faster, after all, there are still sporadic wars on the front line of Xuanda.

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"I don't know what Elder Yang Ge thinks, doesn't he think that this will lead to erosion in the border battle? If the outer gate collapses for a thousand miles, and the inner gate is in an emergency, can Elder Yang Ge bear the responsibility?"

In the official office, Zhu Si, Zhu Hao, Tang Yin, Jiang Lun and Zhang Zuowei sat together to eat, eating spicy hot pot, Tang Yin took out a towel to wipe the sweat on his forehead, and casually expressed his opinion.

Zhu Si stuffed a piece of crispy hairy belly into his mouth with sesame oil, garlic paste and coriander, and said with a smile after swallowing his stomach: "Mr. Tang, in fact, all this is expected by Zhu Hao, now the front-line battle situation of Xuanda seems to be inconsequential on the surface, and there is even a suspicion that the local sporadic battles are falsely reported to the local government in order to defraud the imperial court financial subsidies, plus Peng Shangshu of the military department feels that Chen Jiuchou has rich experience in leading the army, so he will not make a mess."

Tang Yin soaked a piece of mutton and ate it with sesame sauce, and then said: "That's right, Zang Zhongcheng was the governor of Cao before, and he didn't show the slightest ability to govern the army, I'm afraid that the people in the military department looked down on him from the beginning, and now he is replaced by a civilian official from the three sides to supervise the military affairs of Xuanda, I am afraid it will be more beneficial to stabilize the situation at the front, but they have never considered the contradictions between the three sides and Xuanda, and I am afraid that it will backfire."

In the past few years, the three sides have always had a vendetta with the Xuanda garrison.

Originally, the trilateral defense level has always been higher than that of Xuanda, and the trilateral governors often take charge of the military affairs of the nine sides, but because Zhu Houzhao lived in Xuanfu for a long time a few years after he became emperor, and Jiang Bin was born in Xuanda, the strategic level of Xuanda was directly raised, but it overwhelmed the trilateral one, and the bilateral rivalry has continued to this day.

Previously, the imperial court asked Zang Feng to go to Xuanda to be the governor, but it was not transferred from the three sides, because it was considered to use Zang Feng to balance bilateral relations.

This time, Chen Jiuchou went from the governor of Shaanxi to Xuanda to become the governor, and he did not dare to go directly to the Xuanfu to take office, but moved the administrative office to Datong

, which shows that Yang Tinghe and Peng Ze took into account that Chen Jiuchou's foothold was unstable after the past, and it was easy to be put on the side by the Xuanfu generals, so they made a compromise choice.

Zhu Si couldn't stop laughing while feasting.

This time, it seemed that he had lost, but he knew very well in his heart that everything was in Zhu Hao's calculations.

Zhu Hao deliberately changed the topic and said, "Mr. Tang, Xuanda Military Affairs, everything is okay at present...... I don't know how the mining situation is in Yongping Mansion, what's going on?"

Tang Yin was stunned.

It's not about me, why did I talk about business directly at the dinner table?

Yongping Mansion opened a mine, saying that Zhu Hao was preparing to mine iron ore near Tangshan in the future, Tang Yin, as one of the most important advisers around the emperor, Tang Yin was qualified to participate in the manpower and project progress there, but Tang Yin obviously didn't want to care, and rarely asked.

"It's fine."

Tang Yin glanced at Zhu Si first, and then replied to Zhu Hao's painless answer.

Zhu Hao smiled: "Sir, you have to be careful, now that our coal production has come up, if we can't speed up the iron ore production, then why mine so much coal?" Only when the production of iron ore keeps up can we make the best use of it......

Zhu Si interjected, "Zhu Hao, how is our shipyard in Bohai Bay?" As the emperor, Zhu Si was not interested in mining or anything, he was concerned with shipbuilding, which was related to Zhu Hao's indoctrination of the "theory of sea power" in him from below.

Zhu Hao looked at Tang Yin again and asked Tang Yin to answer.

Tang Yin knew that Zhu Hao was giving himself a problem, and immediately said: "Your Majesty, after more than half a year of preparation, a shipyard has now been established in the bay near Tianjin Wei, but it is still in the trial operation period, and it is difficult to build a big ship at most."

"It's slow."

Zhu Si was not very satisfied with this progress.

Zhu Hao asked, "Then Mr. Tang, at the end of the year, can you build the first big ship?"

Tang Yin glared at Zhu Hao, as if to say, can you make it, don't you know better than me?

Are you embarrassed to ask me?

He was a little impatient, but he knew that Zhu Hao was creating an opportunity for him, after all, he was now a big and small person, in the position of governor of Xuanda, he Tang Yin was actually qualified to be a candidate, although he was taken down as soon as he came up, but it showed that he could be among the top positions.

It seems that the position of Wailang, a member of the Ministry of Works, is not the hour of his career.

"If all goes well, it will be ready by the end of the year, but it depends on whether the timber arrives in time, because there are pirates going on in some parts of the south, and if you transport timber by sea, you may be attacked by pirates, and if you take the canal, you will ...... There are long routes that are difficult to transport and require a lot of manpower......

Tang Yin made an analysis.

Zhu Si asked, "Isn't it possible to use local materials?"

Tang Yin said: "There are many timbers in the north that are not suitable for shipbuilding, and even if they can be made, the timber that is cut before it is not dried cannot be used immediately for shipbuilding...... Since the Three Treasure Eunuchs went to the West seven times, the Ming Dynasty has stored a large number of high-quality timber from Fujian and Guangzhou in Nanjing Longguan Shipyard and Suzhou Taicang Shipyard. Ship it to the north and use it."

"Oh."

Zhu Si was stunned, and then smiled, "Mr. Tang knows a lot."

Tang Yin's face was full of shame, these were all taught to him by Zhu Hao little by little.

In the past, he only cared about poetry and articles, or picked up a pen to paint, regardless of what kind of wood he was.

But now it's different, after studying coal mines, then iron ore, and piggybacking on saltpeter, sulfur, and then firecrackers, machinery, and now even iron smelting and shipbuilding have to be cared about.

This is also the reason why Tang Yin feels hard, just being exposed to these new things makes him have two big heads.

Zhu Hao said: "Now we are building wooden ships, and when our steel production increases, we will build iron ships, equipped with cannons, and conquer the world."

"Okay, okay."

Zhu Si was very happy.

Jiang Lun didn't know why, and asked, "What is the world?"

Zhu Si said disdainfully, "Uncle Guo, there's nothing to learn more

You don't even know what the world is? In fact, the place where we live is a sphere, if the fleet goes all the way east, it will eventually return to Daming from the west, and most places in the world are seas, and there are many countries overseas, not only Daming and the surrounding barbarians."

"Now some countries in the west are studying large ships and artillery, if we can't prepare in advance and conquer them first, they will invade Daming in the future!"

"Huh?"

Jiang Lun was stupid when he heard it.

What is this?

Where did the new emperor hear this?

Tang Yin looked at Zhu Hao, he naturally knew that this was all taught by Zhu Hao to the emperor.

From childhood to adulthood, Zhu Hao is Zhu Si's closest husband, Zhu Hao taught Zhu Si for a longer time than other gentlemen combined, Zhu Hao talked about a small part of the content of the Four Books and Five Classics, and there are also subsets of scriptures and histories, but more of them are these strange knowledge.

In other words, ordinary people would not listen to these nonsense at all, but Zhu Si admired and trusted Zhu Hao very much.

Zhu Hao's life plan for Zhu Si is being realized step by step, if what Zhu Hao said is in line with reality, or has become a reality, then Zhu Hao's knowledge that can be called a fantasy must also be right?

I can't help but believe it.

Tang Yin asked, "At present, if a ship is made of steel, the weight must be not small, and the draft will be very deep, and it will be ...... It's hard to make a hull that's too big, isn't it......?"

Zhu Hao said, "Mr. Tang, we are going overseas, do you know what the biggest problem is?"

Tang Yin was asked for a while.

"There are so many places overseas, there are islands, there are reefs, and there are natives, and if our ships are too small or not strong, one reef can capsize and sink our ships, and no matter how many ships we take, we can't hold them and only a few thousand people...... Are you sure these people will be able to conquer those countries overseas? Let them be subject to my great Ming for generations?"

Zhu Hao's words made Tang Yin not know how to answer.

Now that the internal affairs of Daming have not been resolved, they want to send troops overseas?

Isn't it too anxious?

Zhu Hao said to Zhu Si: "In terms of technology, others can't provide it, the ministers will list it, and then they will find a large number of craftsmen to transform, and now Mr. Tang stays in the Ministry of Industry, and the main task is not to supervise the mining of ores and what to make, but because his current identity is suitable for discovering and recruiting craftsmen, and in the future, His Majesty can use a certain identity and status to give those craftsmen a certain identity and status to stimulate their subjective initiative."

"The most important resource of the Ming Dynasty is not the dead things, but the many talents!"