Desert.

The wind swept through the desert, and a troop of cavalry struggled to make a prospect in the gale.

This place is still hundreds of miles away from Kaiping.

Zhu Yunwen sat on a tall horse, his face was resolute, and he ordered the umbrella cover and honor guard to be removed left and right to prevent the flagpole from being blown off by the strong wind.

The long history of King Meng's Mansion, the Taixue student stepped forward safely and said: "His Royal Highness King Meng, the honor guard must not be abandoned!" ”

Zhu Yun glanced at him vigorously and said, "It's okay, if there is a royal history to participate in you, this king will bear it." ”

He looked at the team behind him, many eunuchs, palace maids, and craftsmen who followed him to Kaiping, struggling to move around the mule cart and donkey cart, the wind here was too strong for people to move forward.

"Is there a place around for a break?"

A long time ago, in the Yuan Dynasty, from the capital of Beiping to the capital of Kaiping, there were post stations along the way.

It's just that with the frequent wars in recent years, many post stations have been abandoned.

Mr. Guan, the leader of the Red Turban Army, led a Red Turban Army to the Northern Expedition and broke through Kaiping, the capital of Shangdu, and all the post stations along the way were burned down.

For example, Zhang Yu, the general under the command of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, is a Han born in the Mongolian steppe.

Ping'an pointed not far away and said: "Five miles ahead, there is a small barricade, which used to be a post station and can rest for a while. ”

Zhu Yunwen immediately ordered: "The army will pull out the front and rest for a while, and then leave after this sandstorm." ”

Ping'an didn't want to say anything, looked at the eunuch next to him, and the two went to give orders.

The army then marched to the small fortress in front of them.

Surprisingly, the area is still inhabited.

Looking at the way he was dressed, he was a Han Chinese.

Ping An is busy, and Zhu Yunwen only has two confidential secretaries accompanying him, Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng.

These two people were also born in Taixue, and they were specially named by Zhu Xiongying and assigned to Zhu Yunwen, and came to Kaiping in Monan.

Huang Zicheng won the first place in the examination in the eighteenth year of Hongwu of Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, accompanied by the East Palace, and was very insightful about economics in Taixue, and engaged in local money and grain taxation, and put forward some constructive suggestions, such as lightly repaying and resting with the people.

Qi Tai is the seventeenth year of Hongwu should be Tianxiang to try to solve the Yuan, and he was also very good in Taixue, and Ping'an and others were the same batch of Taixue students, and he had been on a temporary job in various places before, helping to measure the acres of land, helping the grain chief, the chief, and compiling the household registration Huang Ce.

According to Zhu Xiongying.

Both of them have read a certain amount of books and have certain abilities, but they lack experience.

If they are placed in the Central Plains and other places, they will only be turned into waste.

Therefore, they have to be sent to the desert, this place in the south of the desert, practice well, there are few people in the south of the desert, which is suitable for light and thin endowment, and people like Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai are easy to play.

In order to help Zhu Yunwen gain a firm foothold in Monan, Zhu Biao, the son of heaven, also sent Geng Bingwen, the Marquis of Changxing, to lead the army to lead 10,000 people to Kaiping to help Zhu Yunwen build the Mengwang Mansion.

Huang Zicheng saw that the Han people were dark-skinned and dirty, and frowned: "Where are the guards, bomb these little people away!" ”

Zhu Yunwen frowned when he heard this.

He glared at Huang Zicheng and said, "Zicheng, you are walking beside me, as a confidential secretary, why are you still angry with a book, since I am the king of the Ming Dynasty, this is my Ming people, how can I be driven away?" ”

Seeing that the wind was making the rudder, Qi Tai immediately ordered someone to come forward and summon the Han people for questioning.

Huang Zicheng's face turned red, and he lowered his head and confessed.

Strange to say.

may be too deeply influenced by Zhu Xiongying, Zhu Yunwen does not have a good impression of those officials who like to pretend to be forced, put on a show, and make faces to their subordinates, and he does not have a good face for civil officials.

On the contrary, he is more interested in Geng Bingwen and generals like Ping An.

When the Han people were brought, they saw Zhu Yunwen wearing a dragon costume, and knew that this was a big official, so he immediately knelt on the ground and called the king.

Zhu Yunwen asked someone to give him food, rewarded him with some silver coins, and asked him to sit down next to him and talk about the situation here.

The Hanmin wept with gratitude, and began to speak.

This place is called Kuquan Ziyi, and it is still 270 miles away from Kaiping City, the capital of the former Great Yuan.

At the time of the Great Yuan, this place was an important trade route, there was a post station, more than 50 households, but the well water was difficult to drink, there was only one bitter well, so it was called Kuquanzi.

When Mr. Guan of the Red Turban Army and the broken head Pan attacked Shangdu, this place was breached and has been abandoned since then.

The Han people are the people who have been here for generations, and although their homes are broken, they are inseparable from their homeland and have been guarding here.

Zhu Yunwen's heart was silent when he listened.

Ask how this post household survives, saying that there are bitter springs here, there are often yellow sheep, yellow rats, wild horses and camels come here to drink water and hunt, and there are often business trips around, do some food and accommodation, you can live.

However, there were many horse bandits in the vicinity, and they were often plundered.

In particular, the great emperor of Mongolia is now weak, and these Han people outside the customs are basically the objects of fish and meat, and they are struggling to survive.

Zhu Yunwen and Ping'an, Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai, and Geng Bingwen all frowned when they heard it.

Command the station to go down.

Huang Zicheng was puzzled: "Since it is difficult to survive here, why didn't this Han people go to Guannai?" ”

Zhu Yunwen glanced at him.

Huang Zicheng can get the first place in the exam, he will take the first exam, naturally he will not be from an ordinary family, he has no money to read these years, and he is the landlord class who cultivates and reads heirlooms.

Although after entering Taixue, he intended to let him exercise.

But most of his work was at the grassroots level in the rich Nanzhili region in the south, and he never came to the north.

Therefore, I am very surprised that this Han Min, in such a difficult deserted post station, still does not leave, and sticks here.

Zhu Yunwen said: "Zicheng, why do you say that this Han people can understand the Chinese characters we left?" ”

Huang Zicheng said: "This is because Dayuan is fluent in Chinese, and when Emperor Yingzong of the Yuan Dynasty, he also liked Chinese characters very much. ”

Zhu Yunwen asked again: "Then do you know what it means to be difficult to leave your homeland?" ”

Huang Zicheng nodded.

Zhu Yunwen shook his head.

He said meaningfully: "Although you are deeply educated, but you don't understand the hardships of the people, when the queen mother wanted you and Qi Tai to be my companions, the eldest brother strongly objected, I didn't understand at the time, but now I know the deep meaning." ”

Huang Zicheng was still confused.

Qi Tai was a little sleek, but he didn't understand too much.

Zhu Yunwen said: "Huang Zicheng, in the future, from Kaiping to the post station in Beijing, because I am responsible for the repair and maintenance, I will deploy 2,000 soldiers for you, and then you will recruit local refugees to form a post station, and open up the hundreds of miles from Beijing to Kaiping. ”

"If you do this, you'll be a great achievement."

Although Huang Zicheng knew that this matter was not easy to do, he did not shirk it, and gave it up with confidence.

Zhu Yun glanced at him with a smile, a scholar......

The eldest brother is right, useless is a scholar.

This Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai, what is the use of nothing but rhetoric?

But he remembered another sentence from his eldest brother Zhu Xiongying.

Anyone can change, Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai, in Nanzhili, can only raise a gentle lamb.

In this desert north, they are used to seeing the wind and sand and the Gobi, and they will become more rugged, don't you hear that when Cen Shen did not join the army, he was just a small official who couldn't make up for his official body?

Zhu Yunwen stood up and said, "After Kaiping, let's change the name to Mengcheng." ”

Thinking of the Hanmin post station just now, he was dressed in rags, his skin was dark, and he looked like a flower child, he gritted his teeth and clenched his fists tightly: "Since I am the first feudal king of the Ming Dynasty, I will definitely make a career for the Ming Dynasty through the ages, and my Ming Dynasty will never do worse than the Yuan Dynasty!" ”

During the Yuan Dynasty, the post station residents in this place were able to live like individuals......

At least, the horse bandits did not dare to rob the post station casually.

Because the officials and soldiers of the Yuan Dynasty were more bandits than bandits.

He couldn't help but think of Zhu Xiongying's instructions, my Ming Monan Army must be like a wolf and a tiger, and military law is like a mountain, it is a mighty army and a civilized army!

"Big brother, Yun Wei will never let you down......"

Zhu Yunwen muttered.