Five years later.

Daming, the spring of the twenty-second year of Hongwu.

Inside the Imperial Palace in Beijing.

"Meet Your Majesty."

The eldest princess of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, the eldest princess of the Northern Yuan Lu Kingdom, who had surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, led a group of former ministers of the Northern Yuan Dynasty who had surrendered to meet His Majesty Zhu Yuanzhang, the Emperor of the Northern Tour.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang looked a little old, his spirit was still strong, and he talked with these Northern Yuan courtiers casually.

Zhu Di, Li Shanchang, Feng Sheng, Xu Huizu and others were all waiting on the side.

In the twenty years of Hongwu, a major event occurred in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the son of Hongwu, took the prince Zhu Biao to be benevolent and humble, Zen was located in him, he was the emperor, after two years of preparation in Nanjing, he supervised the town of Beijing, migrated 100,000 rich households from all over the world to Beijing, expanded the city of Beijing, built various guards, and built a mausoleum for the emperor Zhu Biao in Wanshou Mountain in Beijing, which was called Beiling in later generations.

Emperor Zhu Biao, grateful, announced the next year, forever Hongwu, generation after generation.

And to the surrounding Fangong countries.

Because of his benevolence and righteousness, the people often called him Emperor Ren.

In the 20 years of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty overfulfilled the first five-year plan to protect the people's livelihood, and the land reform and division of land in the country reached more than 20 million hectares, and there were more than 300 acres of land in the country, but more than 10,000 households.

Basically, it has been done, and every family has its own land.

Now, the Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, together with the crown prince Zhu Xiongying, has come to Beijing from Nanjing to live for a period of time, and is about to tour Xijing Chang'an, inspect the Gansu Health Office, and go down to Chengdu to meet the heads of the Buddha in Tibet, and also go to Kunming to meet Mu Ying, the prince of the Ming Dynasty who was depressed and seriously ill because of the death of Queen Ma.

Today's Ming Dynasty is rich and the people are sufficient.

Cassava was planted in large quantities in the south, and the officers and soldiers of the guards in the north could eat dried cassava sent from the south, rye grown by the Kipchak Slavs in the north, cold-tolerant rice grown by themselves with the old Goryeo farmers, millet and sorghum rice from Shanxi and Shaanxi, and even barley wheat purchased from Qinghuang by Xiningwei of the Ming Dynasty.

A kind of bean called "peanut", called "peanut" in the Liangguang area, is also widely cultivated, this thing is native to the southwest, but after it was transmitted to Southeast Asia, it was taken by the Cantonese people to plant, it is productive and oily, and it is very suitable for Liaodongwei to plant.

If you want to eat green vegetables, there are Zhuge vegetables, radish, Chinese cabbage, carrots, alfalfa grass, various kimchi, and lettuce, which is called goose vegetables by Cantonese people.

This dish is planted a lot in summer, and the dried leaves are made by baking, and boiled in millet noodles, sorghum noodles or barley noodles in winter, which is very sweet.

All this is because the Daming Royal Bank is getting stronger and stronger, and the Daming silver dollar is valuable.

They wore warm cotton clothes and cotton shoes, burned coal from Shanxi, and oil from Gansu and Shaanxi, and there was no shortage of fuel in winter, and they could also burn hot tea and soup to drink, and there were many fewer diseases.

Because Zhu Xiongying once went to Gansu to patrol the border in person, he brought the method of health preservation eight treasure tea.

The officers and soldiers of the guards in Gansu and other places gradually became popular with the custom of drinking canned tea in the morning, adding red dates and wolfberries to the conditional conditions, baking some cooking cakes and eating, and enjoying it.

They no longer have to eat mint leaves, herb leaves, and the unpleasant smell of dried Houttuynia cordata.

The generals who graduated from the martial arts hall brought a lot of novel weapons to the officers and guards in various places, such as the more convenient flintlock breech gun, the grenade that can be triggered by igniting it with a fire fold, the shell fired with ceramics, and a kind of arrow miss, known as a rocket, which is more than three feet long, and one arrow is enough to blow a galloping horse into pulp.

This kind of arrow misses, faster than a musket, and the soldiers like it very much, because the flintlock breech gun has to be loaded.

If a large number of such rockets are prepared, they will shoot faster, more accurately than a gun, and their lethality will be greater.

What's even more powerful is that this kind of arrow can also shoot poisonous arrows, according to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince Zhu Xiongying, what inspired by the battle of Li Rusong's Biho Pavilion, but who is Li Rusong? Isn't Bihokwan a place in Goryeo?

There is also a kind of artillery called mortar, this cannon is simple to erect, can be disassembled, placed on the crossbow bed of the god arm bed crossbow, can defend the city, disassembled and placed on the ground, can be used to adjust the height, shoot a hundred zhang away Mongolian cavalry.

Hongwu short gun, Hongwu fire gun, have been out of the Hongwu nine style, according to the words of the generals of the martial arts, these guns are breech guns, compared to flintlock guns, this breech gun has a fire cap, only need to put the fire cap on the fire door, and then it can be fired directly, convenient and fast, not afraid of rain and wind.

The most powerful, of course, is the Hongwu flying cannon, which is transformed with the crow flying fire, is a lot of rockets are added, pushed with a four-wheeled vehicle, if the enemy comes to attack, a round of salvo, can shoot out twenty rockets, earth-shattering, Hongwu flying artillery can be called many new weapons, the most popular by the border guards, to deal with the Mongolian cavalry that comes to attack, if not tens of thousands, as long as a dozen Hongwu flying cannons, you can hit them crying dad and mother.

The arrows inside are filled with gunpowder, and they can be removed and ignited to shoot with a bow and arrow, or fired by a ballista, with a fast rate of fire and great power.

Lecture halls, county schools, and government schools in various places have widely recruited good families, promoted simplified characters, and taught science, mathematics and geography.

Today's Daming, Beijing Beiping, Xijing Chang'an, Chengdu, Wuchang, Chongqing and other big cities, newspapers can do once a week, Nanzhili because of the flourishing style of writing, has been able to do one issue a day, Daming Daily, have been renamed Daming Daily, newspapers can be advertised, looking for people, and even can ask for marriage, marriage is even quite popular, and there are also some magazines, specializing in serializing all kinds of strange legends.

Today's Ming Dynasty, the treasury has 70 million silver dollars, and the national bonds released are 120 million yuan, equivalent to 60 million taels of silver, which is enough to do many big things.

Naha in the north asked for attachment five times in a row and surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, but Zhu Yuanzhang was not allowed.

This is because Zhu Yuanzhang, the Son of Heaven, wants the Northern Yuan and Liaodong to be attached to each other and make a big dowry...... What's more, Nahachu and Goryeo are still unclear.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Jin Zhong beside him, squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "King Zhongyong, this time, I will ask you to make a matchmaker marriage proposal for the crown prince Zhu Xiongying." ”

Jin Zhong, the loyal and brave king of the Ming Dynasty, is now almost ninety years old, but he is still in good spirits, and his body is tough, he is the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, Kublai Khan, the master of the prince Zhenjin, and the king of Hengyang of Taibao is not a descendant.

Among these nobles who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, if it comes to the status of the Mongolian golden family, he is more respectful than the status of the eldest princess of the Northern Yuan Lu Kingdom, and he is the oldest of the Northern Yuan nobles who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.

It is unimaginable that a few decades ago, he had met Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, and had communicated with Yelu Chucai and others.

At this time, during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, he was still alive......

Strange to say, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, Kublai Khan, ascended the throne, and the guards around him were all Han people from the north.

In the previous life of Zhu Xiongying, Zhu Dijing was difficult to succeed, and the guards around him were all Mongols, and even the general Zhang Yu was also the privy council of Dayuan......

And the current Tianyuan Emperor of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, the guards around him are all Chechen Asu Army or Kipchak Slavs.

Jin Zhong this person, not only erudite and talented, but also the Yuan Shizu Prime Minister Yelu Chucai disciple, followed Yelu Chucai to learn a lot of Confucianism, and also with the Quanzhen Taoist head Zhao Zhijing to learn Taoism, and Ba Si Pa compiled Ba Si Pa Mongolian, learn Buddhism Tantra, but also followed the Chinese history, the famous calligrapher, Yuan Renzong, Yuan Yingzong period of the Han important minister Zhao Mengfu, learned calligraphy.

He is erudite and elegant, and he is not like an ordinary Mongolian nobleman, so the emperor Zhu Yuanzhang likes to talk with Jin Zhong very much.

Hearing the words at this time, Jin Zhong, the king of loyalty, hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the minister will definitely live up to the trust!" ”

On the side, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, asked a little worriedly: "Father, do you really not discuss this matter with Xiongying?" ”

Today, the crown prince Zhu Xiongying led the generals of the guard to go out of the city to test the new style of rifle, so he was not in the palace.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang's beard is white, his superior momentum is still very strong, he stretched out his hand and stroked his beard, his eyes flashed, and said: "I want to set the north in the Ming Dynasty and marry the Dayuan Golden Family before I can set the north." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled, and muttered in his heart, Xiongying wants the north and south of the Ming Dynasty to be in rotation, so as to control the north and the south and prevent the division of the north and south of the Ming Dynasty, we agreed.

He asked us to abdicate, let Biao'er be the emperor, let us be the emperor in Beijing, the Son of Heaven guarded the country, and repaired Biao'er's mausoleum in Beijing, and we agreed.

Now, we just want a grandson, isn't that too much?

For the sake of the great tomorrow, for the prosperity of the world, for the stability of the north, Xiongying, you can only sacrifice your happiness......

However, in the future, you can marry a few more concubines, our old Zhu family is capable.

Zhu Xiongying is fifteen years old, at this age, it is time to marry a wife.

But Xiongying is a good emperor and grandson, and I don't like civil official women, saying that noble civil official women will inevitably form a friend party in the future, don't you hear what happened to Empress Cao when Song Renzong?

The Great Song Dynasty shared the world with scholars, so the emperor was many of them.

There is also Song Renzong who met with the envoy of the Liao State and shouted that Empress Cao, the daughter of Cao Bin, the founder of the Great Song Dynasty, rebelled, and the court immediately judged that he had hysteria, and his eleven sons died and died insanely.

Zhu Yuanzhang squinted, looked at the Mongolian princes and ministers who surrendered, and remembered Zhu Xiongying's words.

The main point of the Ming Dynasty's future strategy is the sea, it is the sea trade, only a strong navy and sea trade, can make the Ming rich and strong, the important place of the Ming strategy, is the Yuan ancestor Kublai Khan did not conquer the Luzon, Java Island, the Wa Kingdom, and even the side of the jumping Zhenghuan Goryeo, not the Northern Yuan Desert.

The Northern Yuan Desert, even if it is captured, the cost of governance at this time far exceeds the income of sea trade.

Without hundreds of millions of silver nuggets in reserve, this account cannot be afforded.

Nowadays, the Ming Dynasty can take back Liaodong at any time, and even take back many places in Mobei, but most of them are desert grasslands, and the mineral division is further north, and mining requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and it has to be guarded against being plundered by other Mongolian tribes.

Defend the north and attack the east.

I am a Ming and need a stable north.

And a stable north, it is necessary to reconcile with the Northern Yuan Golden Family, so that the north and south of the desert, for my Ming Dynasty's fence, the border guards, no longer have to face each other with the Mongols' swords and soldiers, but like the Ming Dynasty's nobles and Wenchen, they got on the sea ship and went to the South Seas for me to pan for gold in the South Seas, and sell Wu cloth, silk, tea, and porcelain of the Ming Dynasty.

If Xiongying and my grandson marry the daughter of the current Emperor Tianyuan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Ming Dynasty can survive and be reduced, return to their hometowns and farm, and at least hundreds of guards can be cut in the north, so that the Ming can concentrate on attacking the ocean, as well as the Western Regions, and then take Liaodong, Mobei, and tens of thousands of miles of territory as a dowry, why not!?

I believe that Xiongying and my grandson can understand......

Zhu Yuanzhang did not have a narrow national view, his second son, Concubine Zhu Weizheng, the king of Qin, married the Sinicized nobleman of Dayuan, the sister of Wang Baobao.

Moreover, in the Ming army and the imperial court, there were many Mongols or Semu people, as long as they were familiar with Chinese customs, appointed Chinese etiquette, and followed the Chinese system, they were all regarded as Chinese.

Zhu Di sighed again: "Father, now the Emperor Tianyuan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty is competing with Timur in the Western Regions, the Warat people have rebelled repeatedly, and there are different voices in their accounts, I don't want the Emperor Tianyuan to march west, I want them to start a war with my Ming Dynasty and plunder my Ming, I am worried that the envoys who proposed marriage have not yet arrived in the desert, and the Emperor Tianyuan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty will ...... because of the grassland disputes."

Zhu Di said a hidden concern.

Today's desert north and south, because of the Ming Dynasty's powerful economic and trade war, have gone crazy and become a pot of porridge.

Those who are close want to take refuge in Daming, but Daming does not allow it.

The resettlement fee collected is more expensive than the resettlement center.

They can only be second-tier dealers near the Great Wall and make a lot of money.

However, the distant Warat tribes, that is, the Virat Mongols, were extremely dissatisfied, and they had to buy grain, salt and tea from the Mongol tribes near the Great Wall, which led to repeated disputes between the Mongol tribes.

And Emperor Tianyuan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, who wanted to revive the glory of the Great Yuan, took Timur and others to win over the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and the Kipchak Slavs in the Western Regions, and the Asov people, and fought dozens of battles with the lame wolf Timur in West Asia, and only won a few battles......

Today's Northern Yuan Emperor, Emperor Tianyuan, has less than 20,000 household accounts, living in the Western Regions, Monan, and Mobei.

Zhu Di was worried that Emperor Tianyuan would not be able to hold on to the Ming Dynasty and asked him for a dowry.

The second is that if the Ming Dynasty takes in Emperor Tianyuan, after Mobei and Liaodong are recovered, then Shaanxi, Gansu and other places will have to fight directly against Timur.

Today, the Ming Empire in East Asia is rising strongly, and at the same time in West Asia, a powerful power across Asia and Europe, the Timurid Empire.

This is also extremely rare in the entire history of the world.

Two empires, there will be a war!