Zhu Di, the king of Yan, sat on a tall horse and walked forward with a heavy heart.

He wore the new cotton armor of the Ming Dynasty, bright yellow, with dragon patterns that could only be used by vassal kings, and the key parts of the cotton armor were sewn with iron and ceramic pieces with fine stitches, and an armed belt was tied to his waist and abdomen, with telescopes and short firecrackers hanging on it, which also made his figure more burly.

On the belly of the yellow horse hung his bow and arrows, his firearms, and his broadsword.

His beard, which was neither long nor short, had been carefully trimmed and maintained, and now it was short and dense, making him both ambitious and impulsive, with a pair of falcon-like eyes that sometimes shimmered.

Because of his long-term dealings with the Mongols of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Di has both the pride of the grassland and the astuteness and strategy of the Han people.

At the same time, he has the characteristics of the northerners' fierce combat power.

As one of the most capable of fighting among the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Di often personally led the elite soldiers and cavalry to charge and lay the victory.

The descendants who can almost fight with him, like Zhu Quan, the king of Ning, and Zhu Ao, the king of Su, are still young, and they have not yet led the army at the moment, they are older than him, and Zhu Wei, the king of Qin, is trapped by love, and is fascinated by a Mongolian woman to die and live, and keeps the palace alone, and has not been out of the mansion for more than two years, does not like to cut people, and is obsessed with creating people, and his princess Wang, side concubine Deng, and gave birth to several children.

And Zhu Li, the king of Jin, likes to be a commander, and is more in the center to observe and command.

The rest of the kings have not yet had the opportunity to show their military talents.

Therefore, now he can be called the first god of war of the Ming royal family.

This time, his six-year-old son Zhu Gaochi also followed him, riding on a little maresque, Zhu Gaochi is not very old, his body is a little fat, he looks more like Xu Da, but his face looks like Zhu Di.

Although he was young, he had great strength, carrying a small bow on his back and a small sword at his waist.

As one of the founders of the reign of Daming Renxuan in that time and space in his previous life, Zhu Di trusted Zhu Gaochi as much as Zhu Yuanzhang did to Zhu Biao, and took his second son Zhu Gaochu out to fight many times, and let his eldest son Zhu Gaochi stay in Yanjing and preside over political affairs.

In his previous life, his most famous record was, of course, with an old and weak remnant army of about 10,000 people (note that it is a so-called name), plus the women and children in Yanjing City, in the face of the attack of 500,000 people (120,000 regular troops, more than 300,000 auxiliary army and civilian husbands, known as 500,000 people) led by Li Jinglong, the master of water release, and stubbornly held the attack of 500,000 troops and resisted the monstrous flood!

On that day, the waters of the four seas stood and the waters of the nine heavens drooped!

It's just a pity that because Li Jinglong released too much water in this battle, after Zhu Gaochi, the great tomorrow left an ancestral disease that was good at drowning.

At this time, he is just a relatively sensible little fat man, and he can't control water.

In the previous life, after Zhu Di succeeded in appalling the trouble, he pushed Li Jinglong as the first credit for the appeasement, many people were puzzled, if they had personally experienced Li Jinglong's attack on Yanjing, the flood relief battle, they would understand.

What a horror it is for 500,000 people to let out the water!

Even if 500,000 words are released into the water, it can flood the North China Plain, let alone a small Yanjing City......

Zhu Gaochi rarely has the opportunity to go far away, walking on the road at the moment, he is very excited, looking left and right, and asks Zhu Di: "Dad, Uncle Prince, and Brother Xiongying, when will you arrive?" ”

Zhu Di turned around when he heard this, smiled vigorously, and said, "Soon, when we arrive in Haijin Town, they will be almost there." ”

Zhu Gaochi asked puzzledly: "Dad, why do we want to go to Haijin Town." ”

Zhu Di smiled again: "Because your uncle is the head of our Zhu Ming royal family, so we have to go to greet us, and in the future, Haijin Town will be renamed Tianjin, the place where the Son of Heaven is overpowered." ”

"Oh......"

Zhu Gaochi was all mouthful.

His eyes flickered, and he bit his mouth and muttered: "I think that the most powerful person in my Zhu Ming royal family is the Zhu Undefeated Senior who was heroic that day, if there is a chance, child, I want to go and meet Zhu Undefeated Senior." ”

Zhu Di couldn't help it.

In the past few years, the "Zhu Undefeated" in this Zhu clan has undoubtedly made too much of the limelight.

In charge of the Daming Jinyi Wei Guoan Division, he proposed to set up the Daming Royal Bank and open the Taixue Officials Department, so that the small officials also had the opportunity to be promoted, and proposed to improve the grain seeds, improve the armor for the soldiers of the Northern Guard, and purchase cotton clothes and cotton shoes.

Now, it has transformed the fire gun, and the craftsmen of the Weapons Bureau, according to the suggestions of this Zhu Undefeated predecessor, have created the Hongwu style.

Before the official appearance of Hongwu, some were made for a short time, and the North Earth Guard, especially the Yandi front-line troops on Zhu Di's side, were distributed to the Military Intelligence Department to use spies at night.

The bow and arrow of the Mongols are invincible in the world.

Their archery and archery skills are unsolvable in the world.

And it was not easy to bargain in the head-to-head confrontation of the Northern Yuan Mongol cowardly Xue army.

That Zhu undefeated predecessor not only considered that the gunpowder of the flintlock pistol might burn in the north because it was too dry in the summer, but also considered that the gunpowder of the flintlock pistol might not burn in the north because it was too cold in winter.

Therefore, the craftsmen of the Ordnance Bureau were specially entrusted to make a few Hongwu styles in Beiping, and asked Zhu Di's subordinates to try it out in the extremely cold weather and desert wind and sand weather in Liaodong and other places, Mobei and other places.

As a result, nature was unexpectedly good.

Although the cost of Hongwu is too high.

The cost of a Hongwu style is as high as the Ming silver dollar, seven yuan.

Converted into silver, which is equivalent to three and a half pieces of silver.

It is destined not to be installed on a large scale and extensively.

However, as long as a small elite force similar to the three battalions is equipped, the Hongwu style will play a decisive role in the large-scale battle with the Yuan army.

Just imagine, the two armies were fighting fiercely with cold weapons, and at this time, about one battalion of soldiers from the Da Ming Shenji Battalion, armed with Hongwu style, appeared in the most critical and fierce place on the battlefield.

This kind of mass killing weapon has a decisive impact on the battle situation!

Moreover, a new type of tiger squat cannon and a kind of "Hongwu cannon" that can be pushed by a wooden car on a small car appeared.

This kind of Hongwu cannon, the barrel casting is more compact, it is cast with iron pipe steel, the casting process is strictly confidential, only the Weapons Bureau of Nanjing in Yingtianfu can cast, it is said that the casting method is developed by the craftsmen in Taixue, and it can be pulled and run by horses, and the barrel can be fired on the back and can also be rotated.

This kind of Hongwu cannon is simply an excellent killing weapon on the large-scale battlefield with the Northern Yuan Mongols.

It is more lightweight, can be pulled by horses, pushed by manpower, and when the battlefield reaches a decisive stage, a shot with this kind of Hongwu artillery can directly destroy the enemy's morale.

The only drawback is that it is expensive......

It's more expensive than the Tiger Squat Cannon.

A tiger squat cannon, equivalent to Ming silver dollars, needs to get Ming silver dollars 65 yuan, equivalent to about 33 taels of silver.

This Hongwu cannon, one is equivalent to Ming silver dollars, and it is eighty-five yuan, which is equivalent to about forty-three taels of silver.

This kind of cost, the entire Ming Dynasty, only a small group of special forces, or elite offensive troops can be equipped, no way, although the Ming Dynasty is very rich, and a lot of national bonds have been issued, but there are too many places that need to spend money.

Take Jiubian, Yunguichuan and other border guards as examples.

Every month, the expenditure of military salaries and food salaries alone, converted into physical goods and treasure money, will cost more than 5 million Ming silver dollars, which is still the result of the local government's self-raising of grain, and military salaries are not guaranteed to be paid on time at any time, and there are often delays.

It's like Yunnan and other local health centers, like Jianchangwei.

The officers and soldiers who guarded the guard post were all Mongol soldiers from the former Yuan, and their homes were in the north, so they were not adapted to the southern climate.

If the payment of food and wages is too long, in a few days, these soldiers will become bandits.

If the local military garrison does not grow its own grain and find a way to solve a part of the grain and salary, the Ming Nine Frontier Guards will be self-defeating.

And Zhu is undefeated and put forward the idea of forming the Daming Royal Bank, which has solved many problems and solved the urgent need for military salaries for Daming!

Military, banking, espionage, newspapers, all kinds of astronomical and geographical ......

Zhu Di's heart rose with admiration, this Zhu undefeated predecessor is really the genius of my Ming Zhu royal family, but the savior of the Ming Dynasty who came down from heaven to help me!

He didn't inquire about it all at once, who Zhu Undefeated's predecessor was.

As a result, I only learned that Zhu Undefeated's predecessors did not want to see people, because he leaked too many heavenly secrets, his old age was unknown, and he was covered with red hair......

Alas, alas, alas!

Zhu Di sent the horse over, approached Zhu Gaochi's little mare, reached out and touched his head, and said: "This time your prince and uncle are here in person, you have to be close to Brother Xiongying, you were born in Fengyang, and I haven't seen your brother Xiongying, he is not only the eldest son of the prince's uncle, but also the disciple of Zhu Undefeated senior, you have to communicate with him." ”

Zhu Gaochi nodded.

He said regretfully: "Dad, let's still have a question, why we are preparing to build a newspaper in Beiping, those Confucian students, after arguing for a long time, did not argue about the beginning, our newspaper in Beiping, if only it was made like Nanjing." ”

During this time, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Son of Heaven, ordered that the kings of the Nine Sides publish a newspaper in large cities, such as Kaifeng, Beiping, Taiyuan, Xi'an, and other big cities, within a month.

The content of the newspaper is roughly the same as that of Nanjing.

It is mainly used to publicize the national policy, military merits, and border affairs of the Ming Dynasty, and by the way, advertise for the market, restaurants, tea shops, green buildings, etc., and generate income for the local government.

But the Confucian scholars and scholars in Beiping were embarrassed......

Since ancient times, the land of Yan Zhao has been a person who sings sadly.

However, in the land of Yan Zhao, there are few Confucian students, and most of the Confucian students in Beiping today are all students from the land of Qilu in Shandong, and they quarrel over whether the newspaper should be compiled for the imperial court.

Because, in the military garrisons, the scattered officials who are in charge of grain, money, and documents and books, and there is also a loose rank of eight products, and this compilation of newspapers is a major matter of the country.

However, Confucian scholars and scribes from all over the country entered the newspaper office to compile the "Daming Daily", but none of them were compiled, which caused strong dissatisfaction among the students in the north, and the Confucian students in Yanzhao, Henan, and Shanxi were fine, but the Confucian students in Shaanxi, especially in Qilu and other places in Shandong, broke out with strong indignation.

Gifts must not be wasted!

Moreover, how can there be no compilation!

We have been studying for decades, following the way of Confucius and Mencius, assisting the imperial court and society, and compiling newspapers......

Elsewhere, Zhu Di is not clear.

But in Beiping, those Confucian scholars in the Beiping newspaper, for this matter, almost beat out the brains of the civil officials in charge of this matter in Beiping, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the scholars were still very backbone, whether it was the north and the south, the scholars were very backbone, and if they disagreed, they would really do it, and the brains would come out.

Not to mention the fact that it is a major matter of preparation.

Zhu Di also sighed: "Confucian scholars in Qilu and other places pay attention to 'etiquette', and this 'ceremony' is the identity and compilation. ”

"I've heard that there are two kinds of Confucian scholars in Shandong."

"One is organized."

"There is another one, which is wild."

"If there is no establishment, in Qilu and other places, dogs will look down on them."

"Therefore, these Confucian scholars in the land of Qilu will not give them the establishment of the newspaper for how to arrange their seats, quarrel endlessly, and even start fighting to insult Sven."

Zhu Gaochi sighed.

He pursed his lips in regret.

"It's a pity, Dad, the second brother Gao Xu said that there are some tabloids in Nanjing now, which will secretly engage in yellow snakes, and also insert various pictures, very exciting, according to him, his yellow snake can be thick or big or long, can we also engage in this kind of tabloids in Beiping?"

Thinkers

"Also, what is a yellow snake?"

Zhu Di's face darkened when he heard this, he pinched the horsewhip, lowered his head and was silent for a moment, then raised his head and said, "Zhu Gaoxu!" ”

"Zhang Yu, you immediately return to Beiping, confine Zhu Gaoxu for me, copy the Confucian scriptures a hundred times, if you can't finish copying, you are not allowed to leave the palace!"

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