Chapter Twenty-Four: Raising Armaments and Beginning the Construction of Ports

"Since the eldest brother and the fourth brother asked you to come, they are your own people, so you don't need to be polite."

Zhu Zi's heart became warm, and when he came to Qiongzhou, he had deviated from the track with the court and the royal family, and slowly faded out of the court, many people forgot him, but the eldest brother and the fourth brother did not forget him, and specially sent someone to become the prefect of Guangzhou Prefecture to take care of him.

Among them, including Zhu Yuanzhang, they all remember him, Guangzhou Mansion is one of the top five prefectures, without Zhu Yuanzhang's nod, it is not so easy to install his own people.

"By the way, there is one more thing, King Yan and the crown prince asked me to bring you a message."

"If you're not happy in Qiongzhou, go back, they will write to Your Majesty and let you go back to the imperial capital."

Jin Wushi's face was solemn, this sentence was instructed by the prince and King Yan to tell him to bring it to King Qiong.

Arrived in Qiongzhou smoothly, and naturally wanted to bring this sentence.

"Tell the fourth brother and eldest brother, thank them for their kindness, but my brother and I are prosperous in Qiongzhou, and they may have to rely on my brother and me in the future."

Zhu Zi smiled, the eldest brother and the fourth brother have always been related to him, even if they came to Qiongzhou, thousands of miles apart, they didn't forget him.

The current situation is very good, there is no need for him to go back to the imperial capital, it won't be long before the hegemony of Qiongzhou will unfold in his hands, and it will be no problem for any Haikou.

Since I made this choice, I didn't think that I would go back easily, but now it's too embarrassing to go back, and if I want to shock everyone, I will go back as a king.

"The crown prince and King Yan are really worried, with King Qiong in Qiongzhou, it won't be long before they will surpass the Five Mansions."

"I said that I would take care of King Qiong, and I'm afraid King Qiong will have to take care of me in the future."

Jin Wushi said with a wry smile.

If he had never been to Qiongzhou before, had not seen what had just happened, and had not seen Zhu Zi's methods and that field, he might have thought similar to those prefects, but after today, he would definitely be impressed by Zhu Zi.

No wonder the crown prince and King Yan attach so much importance to King Qiong, King Qiong is far smarter than he imagined, not the reckless man who is spread in everyone's mouth, the reckless man who openly contradicts His Majesty above the court has already planned in his heart to come to Qiongzhou, otherwise it would be impossible to achieve this level in a month's time.

In a month, it is extremely difficult to manage personnel, hand over positions, and serve the public, not to mention that there is still the strength to do so many things.

"You're welcome, we don't have to say too many polite words."

Zhu Zi waved his hand, and after the two briefly said a few words, they separated.

The news that Jin Wushi is his own person is also an additional choice for him, and it is absolutely powerful for him.

The arrival of more than a dozen prefects also saves him a special trip and wastes time, so that after these prefects go back, they will be able to transport the grain as soon as possible, which will shorten the time a lot.

"How's it going?"

After sending all the prefects away, Zhu Zi asked Wang Zhi on the side.

"The needs have been told to the prefects, and they are also very face-saving, the nearest one, the grain can be delivered in two days, and the farther ones will take a little longer."

"Thanks to His Royal Highness King Qiong, otherwise Qiongzhou would be finished."

Wang Zhi said with a smile on his face.

Because of the food problem, he was sad day and night, without food, everyone in Qiongzhou would face famine.

Fortunately, King Qiong is here, otherwise the food problem would not have been solved so quickly.

"Where, as the king of Qiong, this is my duty, and it is impossible to watch the people have no food to eat."

"Now that the problem has been solved, the receipt of these grains will be handed over to you, and I can rest assured that it will be handed over to you."

"By the way, explain your affairs, how are you doing?"

Zhu Zi thought of something and asked suspiciously.

A month has passed, and since such food has been sent, it must not be taken out for nothing, and it is impossible to use so many people for farming.

"Everything has been arranged, according to your orders, the displaced people and many people, adding up to more than 3,000 people, have all been trained, and they are ready to be sent by His Highness at any time."

"The rest of the people are trained according to your instructions, and the people you brought can get started."

Wang Zhi nodded, reporting the results of these days.

These days, Zhu Zi asked them to mobilize the entire Qiongzhou people, including training, Zhu Zi told them what they should do, and they had never heard of the word training, but it was the first time they heard it here in Zhu Zi.

In the past month, Qiongzhou has also undergone qualitative changes, the number of troops has directly doubled, and in a month's time, it has doubled, what an astonishing number, and they have not relied on external forces, but they have relied on Qiongzhou.

Before the change, it was something they couldn't think of, expanding armaments, for Qiongzhou, the worst thing is weapons and food, there are too many poor resources, the problem of food, Zhu Zi solved, the problem of weapons, from the hands of those pirates, there is capital to expand armaments.

"Well done, go ahead."

"Sang Zhao, how many troops are there in the entire Qiongzhou now."

Zhu Zi nodded with satisfaction and looked at Sang Zhao on the side.

As the guard of Qiongzhou and the commander of Qiongzhou, Sang Zhao is solely responsible for the training of soldiers on weekdays.

"Tell Your Highness, not counting the Haikou of Zhao'an, there are already 7,000 people who can be put into battle."

Sang Zhao took a step forward and said.

If you want to say who feels the deepest, he is still the only one, he used to live a very idle life every day, no, it should be said that it is very boring, because there is nothing to do, and there are few Haikou who come to Qiongzhou.

But in the past month, he has a heavy burden, when there are pirates, he leads the army to resist the pirates, and when there are no pirates, he trains soldiers, and every day is extremely fulfilling.

Originally, there should have been more people, there should have been more than 8,000 people, but because of several raids by pirates, there were serious casualties and many people died.

"Okay, you can call for manpower and build a port, Qiongzhou doesn't even have a decent port."

"There is also a ship, Wang Zhi, this will be handed over to you, if you need anything, feel free to mention it to me, and Jin Wushi, the prefect of Guangzhou Prefecture, you can also find him."

Zhu Zi briefly explained a few times, and then asked the king to leave them and go back.

Looking at the field in front of him, Zhu Zi was full of emotion for a while.

What can be done in a month is still too little, and the increase in armaments, as well as the problem of population, cannot be improved by leaps and bounds.

The main thing is that his crops, which grow once a month, including potatoes, take a month to ripen.

There are still two months before the time he told Chen Zuyi, and the reason why he is in a hurry to expand his armament is because he is afraid that Cheng Zuyi will not be reliable.