The grand military parade not only left a deep impression on people, but also made a strong and colorful note in the history books.

I heard that the historians who specialize in recording historical records have been fighting for this for several days, and dozens of people have used all the literary skills they can use in this life, and have written historical records that they think will shock future generations.

Whether it is true or not, Zhu Zhangui doesn't know, and he doesn't have the interest to watch, Zhu Zhangui doesn't care about how to record him in history, whether it's a tyrant or a saint, as long as he is alive and comfortable.

With the passage of the Spring Festival, the Ming Dynasty officially entered the first year of Hongxi.

In the new year, the imperial court seemed to have a new look, changing the state of war of the Yongle Dynasty, and began large-scale production and construction, as well as the people to recuperate.

The emperors of the old Zhu family are all workaholics, and since he became the emperor and took up the burden of the entire Ming Dynasty, Zhu Fatpang has been busy in the study room every day.

That is, on the day of Zhang's birth, he went there, and he usually didn't even have the time to go back to eat.

At the end of January, Zhang gave birth to another daughter to Zhu Panpang, although it was not the grandson that the old man wanted, but he could accept the granddaughter.

After Zhang's birth, the old man began to live a free life.

Every day, I take a group of veterans out to hunt, or go to the port of Tianjin to catch marine fish.

No, February 2 has just passed, and after the old man confirmed that the airship was not in danger, he took a group of veterans to visit the great mountains and rivers of Daming.

The old man who put down the throne felt that he was relaxed, and after he was idle, he began his dream when he was young, to be precise, and his current dream, that is, to visit every corner of the Daming Mountains and Rivers, and leave his mark on the territory he guarded.

On the third day of the third month of March, Zhao Ling'er, who was pregnant for a period of time later than Zhang's, gave birth to another daughter for Zhu Zhangui.

There was another small padded jacket, and Zhu Zhangui happily named it Miaoyin.

The family has two people a year, Zhu Chupang is also very happy, and he is also very fond of this youngest granddaughter, and he directly gave this little guy who was born less than a day ago on the same day as the lord of Jinling.

Jinling is a companion, and she gives this little girl this title, but you can imagine how much Zhu Chubby's grandfather loves her.

You must know that Zhu Zhangui's eldest daughter, Zhu Miaoyan, was named the lord of Xiangyang.

For the royal family, the difference in fiefdom represented a different degree of favor.

For example, in the later period after Li Shimin, he was named the king of Qin, which was a great grace.

During the Ming Dynasty, it was also a great favor to be named King of Wu, because Zhu Yuanzhang was the King of Wu before he was called emperor.

"Prince!"

Zhu Zhangui, who was holding his little daughter and supervising the homework of other little guys, heard a resentful cry in his ears.

Hearing this shout, Zhu Zhangui trembled with goosebumps all over his body, and looked helplessly at Zheng He, who was sitting next to him and playing chess with Zhu Zhangui's third daughter, Zhu Miaoxuan.

"I said Lao Zheng, you have something to say, there is no need to look at me with such eyes."

"Grandpa Zheng He's up to you!"

Zheng He was just about to speak, but after Zhu Miaoxuan, who was sitting opposite, dropped his chess pieces, he saw that Zheng He did not move, and hurriedly reminded him loudly.

"Oh oh oh sorry, sorry, I forgot!"

Zheng He, who was thinking about his own affairs, hurriedly accompanied the smiling face, pretended to think about it, and dropped a son on the chessboard.

"My prince, don't you know what I think, it's not for the ships and artillery, it's been almost two years, my fleet hasn't moved at all, and in a few years I'll be old, and I won't be able to run ships."

Zhu Zhangui was speechless.

He said, Lao Zheng, this guy has been running here every day for the past two days, and his feelings are not to accompany him, but to come over and ask for ships and cannons.

In fact, Zhu Zhangui was also quite entangled in his heart.

When the navy saw the new ships and new artillery, they sent people to wait in the shipyard and gunsmith every day, and when a ship came out without the help of the people from the shipyard, they drove it to the sea trial themselves.

Artillery is even more exaggerated.

In order to compete for the new artillery, people from both the navy and the army almost fought in the artillery factory.

Although Zhu Zhangui told them that the new warships do not use the army's artillery, their habitual cognition still feels that this kind of quick reloading of short guns is more reliable.

The artillery factory saw that the noise between the two parties affected their work, and they could not afford to offend both sides, so they reported the matter to Zhu Panpang.

In the end, the two people were called over by Zhu Fatpang and reprimanded, and the action of grabbing the cannon came to an end.

Although the two sides are not blocked in the artillery factory, they both have informants in the factory, and as long as a batch of artillery leaves the factory, these two groups will find Zhu Chupang and ask for the distribution of artillery.

As for why he didn't look for Zhu Zhangui, it was because Zhu Zhangui had instructed him.

Now is the era when his father is in charge, Zhu Zhangui has already assigned it to his father, and the internal affairs and logistics are handled by his father, and he is responsible for managing the affairs of foreign warfare.

So as long as it's not about fighting, Zhu Zhangui won't choose to intervene, this is a respect for his father, and he also wants to be lazy.

Since he came back a few years ago, he has hardly been idle, either on foreign wars, or on the way to foreign wars, his wife and children have not been accompanied.

So he wanted to take advantage of the time when his father was still in good health to spend more time with his wife and children to make up for the mistake of not being by their side in the past few years.

Seeing that Zhu Zhangui fell into silence, Zheng He thought that Zhu Zhangui was thinking about taking care of the army and navy first, and wanted him to wait for a few more years, so he said a little urgently: "Your Highness, now that I am old, and I have a disability, my body is not as good as day by day, I have been dreaming about those brothers who died in the West, they have been asking me when to pick them up, my heart!" ”

As he spoke, Zheng He's eyes were slightly red, and he thumped his chest in pain.

Seeing the painful appearance of Zheng He, a partner who was also a teacher and friend, Zhu Zhangui sighed helplessly.

"Well, you win!"

Zheng He's eyes lit up.

Zhu Zhangui handed his youngest daughter to the palace maid next to him, walked to the table next to him and wrote a warrant and handed it to Zheng He.

"In June, there will be two ironclad ships launched at the Quanzhou Shipyard, and the navy was keeping an eye on them, but I am now in charge and will grant them to you."

"In addition, on the Navy side, I will approve 10 more warships and 20 transport ships with you, and the Marine Corps will send a legion to you, obey your command, these are enough!"

Unexpectedly, Zhu Zhangui gave so much at once, Zheng He stood up in surprise, stretched out his hand to take the warrant, and nodded again and again.

"Enough is enough!"

"By the way, Your Highness, I heard that a batch of new muskets will also be issued to the army, see if you can..."

When he folded the warrant and put it in his arms, Zheng He was a little embarrassed and put forward another demand.

Zhu Zhangui waved his hand angrily, "It's all for you, it's all for you..."

"Hehe, thank you, Your Highness!"

Zheng He was so excited that he almost knelt down, and after taking the warrant for the new rifle, Zheng He didn't care about playing chess with the little girl, so he turned around and left in a hurry.

He wanted to go to Quanzhou as soon as possible, but the little cubs in the navy were very close, and if the ship was snatched away by them if it was too late, it would be difficult to come back.

"If you leave again in August, you go to Quanzhou first and wait, I may have to go with you."

Zheng He, who trotted out of the house, for fear that Zhu Zhangui would regret it, waved his hand without looking back, indicating that he knew.

Looking at the back in the distance, Zhu Zhangui shook his head helplessly, picked up the little daughter next to him, picked up the ring ruler and twitched it hard, and then distracted Zhu Qirui, who was not good at homework.

"I heard that you approved some boats and weapons for Zheng He today!"

At dinner, Zhu Chupang was eating while confirming the news he received today.

Maybe the family is used to eating together, Zhu Chubby doesn't have the rules of the old man.

Every day when eating, as long as Zhu Panpang is not busy, the family will gather together to eat together, in Zhu Panpang's words, such a lively meal.

"I've been running for a few days, and if I don't agree to him again, it is estimated that he will live in the East Palace and not leave."

Taking the rice handed over by his wife, Zhu Zhangui nodded and replied while enjoying the delicious dinner.

"So, you're going to sea." Zhu Chupang nodded slightly and asked about his guess.

"We use more and more machinery for oil, although Daming has oil output, but this is what our ancestors left us behind, we can't waste it all, and we must leave a little for our descendants."

"My idea is to use the outside first, so that I can save the ones at home."

"After all, we can hold such a large land, and future generations may not be able to hold it, so we have to leave them some family background, leave them some hole cards, and turn the tables in the future."

Zhu Zhangui said while looking at Zhu Qirui who was lowering his head to pick up rice next to him.

Zhu Qirui noticed that his father's gaze grinned, as if he was not talking about me, and continued to eat with a thick skin.

Zhu Chupang nodded slightly in agreement, then hesitated for a moment, and whispered: "The court has no money." ”

Zhu Zhangui's hand that was picking up vegetables froze in place, looking at his father's innocent appearance with a shocked expression.

"How is it possible, when the statistics were made at the beginning of the year, didn't the household department have 20 million taels of silver, and it was only two or three months later, and you spent all the money, which is too loser."

Zhu Chupang sighed helplessly, put down the fast son in his hand and said worriedly: "Can you not be defeated, there are so many railways to be repaired, as well as the road smoothing over Shandong and the roads around the Beijing Division, as well as the mausoleum of me and your mother, as well as your grandfather's imperial record, the navy is shouting to change ships and guns, and a large number of people on the army side are waiting to change firearms. ”

Zhu Chupang looked at Zhu Zhangui, "Do you know how much the military spending of the National Defense Force is this year?" ”

Zhu Zhangui shook his head, this is a court affair, according to the agreement between the two of them, this is the father's responsibility, and he didn't worry about it.

Zhu Chupang sighed again, stretched out his index finger and thumb, and made a gesture of eight.

"8 million taels, this still does not include the replacement of weapons and equipment, if you count the replenishment of weapons and ammunition for later training, this number will at least double."

"Oh, by the way, and the Sanbangzi mechanized force that you and your grandfather proposed, if it is formed, it will burn more money."

"As for the more than 20 million taels of silver in the imperial court, this is a simple calculation, not including the formation of the three collapse troops, and the army alone can take more than half."

Scratching his head worriedly, Zhu Chupang said tiredly: "Millions of troops seem to be mighty and powerful, but these are all smashed with money, we can't just let the soldiers eat food, and don't give them money!" What's more, there is the gold-swallowing beast of the navy waiting over there, as well as your airship formation plan, which is the kind that costs money like flowing water and can't be blocked. ”

"I've been keeping in mind with Xia Yuanji for the past two days to see if I can save some money, but we broke our fingers for a long time, and we were so close to counting our feet that we couldn't even save a tael of silver."

"When I think of the money I will spend this year, as well as the military expenses and various expenses of the imperial court that will be advanced in the future, my head is worried. Now I finally realize the mentality of your grandfather who wanted to use money to say good things to me as a son. ”

Seeing that his father couldn't even eat, Zhu Zhangui asked helplessly: "How much do you need, if the amount is not much, the Chamber of Commerce can make up a little." ”

Zhu Chupang's face didn't show any excitement, he spent all his own money, what was there to be excited about, he was not an old man.

"Xia Yuanji gave me a calculation, if according to the plan of the imperial court and the reorganization and training of the army, excluding the Sanbangzi mechanized troops and airship troops, at least 60 million taels of silver will be needed."

"If you want to add your Beiju Luzhou development, you will have to make up another 5 million taels of silver."

"The imperial court's autumn harvest and commercial taxes this year, excluding various expenses and basic budgets, can leave about 30 million taels of silver, if you want to make up for it, you must make up at least 35 million taels of silver for me, otherwise the imperial court will not be able to move next year."

Hearing this amount, Zhu Zhangui frowned and pondered.

Now the imperial court can make money, but it also spends a lot.

The construction of railways, cement roads in Beijing and Shandong, and even the popularization of major roads across the country in the future, will all need to be smashed with money.

That is, the Chamber of Commerce and the colony have some money left over in the past two years, otherwise the imperial court may not be able to afford such a big move.

Although there was money in the bank, the father and son didn't think about moving the money over there.

The bank has only been established for a few years, and the trust in the minds of the people is not high, if the imperial court takes out the money in it and uses it, once the news spreads, it is easy to cause turmoil.

In the unlikely event of a run, the little trust that the bank had built up would collapse in an instant, affecting the rule of the imperial court.

Once the trust in the minds of the people collapses, it is not so easy to pull it back.

Therefore, the money in the bank, unless it is absolutely necessary, the imperial court will not use a penny.

"I will first take out 30 million taels of silver from the Chamber of Commerce and my personal side for you to use, and in August, I will go to sea with Zheng He to see if I can go to the West to make a profit, no matter how much I can earn, at least I must support the expenses of the two years."

"The railway can't be stopped, this is the capital of our old Zhu family to control the world, and it is also the confidence of the imperial court to control the world, even if your old man's and my mother's mausoleum stops, this can't be stopped."

Now that the court is his own family, Zhu Zhangui is not as clear as his father is to calculate as clearly as he is with the old man.

As the first prince in history to hold the military power of the whole country, Zhu Zhangui's position can be said to be the most stable.

To put it mildly, Zhu Fatpang's mobilization of the army is not as fast as Zhu Zhangui's mobilization of the army, and if the two of them give orders at the same time, the military is likely to carry out Zhu Zhangui.

After all, which of the emperor or the crown prince has the greatest interest in supporting the army, those in the military can still distinguish between them.

Zhu Fatpang didn't care about this aspect, and even said to Zhu Zhangui after becoming the emperor.

When does Zhu Zhangui want to be the emperor, just talk to him, don't bother to rebel, anyway, he doesn't care about this throne, and if he retires early, he can accompany his wife to spend his old age early and enjoy the joy of family.

Sometimes Zhu Zhangui thinks that with the old man and his father as an example, when he is old in the future, he also chooses to abdicate to his son, will it bring a different change to the throne for future generations.

Regarding his son's idea, Zhu Chupang also nodded in agreement.

He and the old man are very aware of the importance of the railway, so no matter how much money is spent on building the railway, they must grit their teeth and support it.

As for his son's way to go to the West to make money, Zhu Fatpang can guess it without thinking about it.

If his son had gone to other countries to loot and kill like this before he became emperor, he might have objected or even stopped it.

But after becoming the emperor, he realized that the people under his name were his people, and those foreign barbarians had nothing to do with him, and he couldn't make a good deal by worrying about it.

As an emperor, if you want to ensure your status and reputation, you must have the support of the people of the world.

But if the people of the world are living a hard life, then why should you let the people support it.

Therefore, for the sake of the common people of the Ming Dynasty, for the inheritance of the royal family, Zhu Fatpang chose to acquiesce to the matter of his son using the blood of other countries to nourish the Ming Dynasty.

At the time of the meal, the father and son set the tone for Daming's next.

Zhu Fatpang managed government affairs in the country to stabilize the situation in the imperial court, and by the way, let the people recuperate and prepare for further expansion in the future.

Zhu Zhangui took Zheng He's naval fleet to the West to earn development funds for the imperial court for the next few decades.

As for how to earn this money.

Hehe, this is Zhu Zhangui's old business.

In the blink of an eye, in June, Zhu Zhangui accompanied his wife and children in Beiping for half a year, under the reluctance of several wives and the excited expressions of several little guys, he left Beiping and went to Tianjin Wei Wharf, ready to take a boat to Quanzhou.

Quanzhou Shipyard.

Today is the day when the two ironclad ships are officially launched for sea trials.

After a period of accumulation and experience summarization, at the beginning of last year, the Quanzhou shipyard finally began to manufacture large ironclad warships.

These two warships are the first pure iron large warships manufactured by Daming Shipyard.

Since the news spread that these two ships had been built, the navy had gone crazy, and Li Hu had no time to go here, looking at these two warships like a son, taking shape little by little.

To be honest, even his own son has never received such a level of care.

Watching the battleship take shape little by little, the mood of the naval officers and men became more and more excited.

But at the beginning of March this year, a thunderbolt from the sky made the officers and men tremble.

Before the two ironclad battleships were launched, they were snatched by others.

Now the navy officers and men were angry, you must know that in their minds, the entire Ming Dynasty can float on the water is under the control of their navy, which guy who ate the bear's heart and leopard gall actually robbed the navy.

Just when a group of people were blocking the Quanzhou shipyard, ready to clean up the robbery guy to death, Zheng He walked in front of them leisurely, patted Li Hu's shoulder very steadily, said I want the ship, and then swayed to see the ironclad battleship.

The whole Navy cried.

There are 5 people in the entire Ming Dynasty, and their navy does not dare to provoke, one is the old man who abdicated, the other is Zhu Fatpang who has just ascended the throne, and the third is naturally the prince who manages them, and their top boss Li Hu.

And the last one is Zheng He, one of the founders of the navy.

All the navies looked at each other, looking at each other without tears, and Zheng He, who was very happy next to the ironclad ship, didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

What should be crying is that their ironclad ship is gone, and it is the court that is laughing, and there is going to be a big move at sea.

In the end, Li Hu, who was unwilling, wanted to rely on his relationship to see if he could get a ship from Zheng He.

But as soon as he arrived in front of Zheng He, before he opened his mouth to speak, he was stunned by Zheng He's surging eyes and fled.

In this way, the navy, which was about to find the robbery guy theory, was sent away by Zheng He alone, saying a word, and a surging look.

"Your Highness!"

Zhu Zhangui, who rushed to Quanzhou from Beiping, had just come off the ship, and a large number of generals of the navy, under the leadership of Li Hu, surrounded him with bitter faces.

"What's wrong? Why are you crying and mourning, and you go out and step on shit. ”

Zhu Zhangui laughed and teased, the expressions of these guys, he naturally knew in his heart that it was nothing more than a duck flying to his beak.

"My prince, we're worse than stepping on shit."

"We have been looking forward to these two ships for many years, and the officers and men of the whole army have been waiting for these two ships to enter service, but they have not yet gotten out of the dock, and the ship is gone, so let's go back, how to explain to our brothers."

Li Hu's lieutenant complained of bitterness with a sad face.

"Come on, what kind of bear does a big man pose, isn't it just two ships, it's not that it won't be built in the future, anyway, there has been no big battle in the past two years, you just have to wait for another two years, you kid is still young now, and you have the opportunity to drive an ironclad battleship."

Zhu Zhangui waved his hand at everyone, then smiled, and walked towards Zheng He, who ran over with a happy face.

The admirals wanted to talk more, but as soon as they saw Zheng He coming, they quickly closed their mouths, and the expression on their faces immediately turned into a smile on their faces.

Glancing at the admirals led by Li Hu, knowing what they wanted to do, Zheng He was in a very good mood and didn't bother to take care of them, and said to Zhu Zhangui: "Your Highness, these two ships are simply amazing, if it weren't for waiting for you to come, I would have let them go to sea a long time ago." ”

Zhu Zhangui smiled and patted Zheng He's shoulder, "Isn't it good, if it's average, as for letting some people, it's the same as if his daughter-in-law was robbed." ”

"Hahaha..."

The two of them walked to the shipyard laughing in the speechless expressions of the admirals.

These two steel warships were almost entirely made by Da Ming's own technical experience, and except for the design and shape of the ships, they did not receive the slightest guidance and help from Zhu Zhangui.

Looking at the steel battleship in the dock ready to be launched for sea trials, Zhu Zhangui was excited.

Daming Science and Technology Industry, under his cultivation, finally blossomed and bore fruit.

"Your Highness!"

The chief engineer in charge of building the steel battleship saw Zhu Zhangui coming and hurriedly ran down from the ship.

"Liugong, tell us about these two ships."

Although he had already seen the information of the two ships, Zhu Zhangui still wanted to hear the introduction of the person in charge in person.

"Yes!"

Chief Engineer Liu Gong responded, and then proudly introduced: "The two battleships are made of pure steel, they are sister ships, and the data is the same. ”

Stretching out his hand to the ship, Liugong said excitedly: "The hull of the ironclad ship is 79.5 meters long, 14 meters wide, has a displacement of 5,322 tons, and has 18 reserved artillery positions. ”

"In our forecast, the speed of the warship is about 15.5 knots, and it can carry about 200 people."

After a brief introduction to the speed of the ship and its own basic information, Liugong walked to the side of the ship and knocked on the steel hull, and said with fanaticism in his eyes: "The thickness of the iron deck on the surface is 230mm, and the underwater is 200." ”

"Driven by three steam engines inside, the daily coal load is 500 tons, and the limit load can reach 750 tons of coal."

After talking about generating the defense system and the delivery system, Liugong excitedly said to everyone: "These two ships, as His Highness says every day, are products of the era. ”

"I can responsibly tell you that the defense of this ship, in addition to its own artillery, the artillery in the world and even on the side of the army is tickling it, and they are an invincible force in this world."

With Liugong's fanatical introduction, Zheng He and the members of the navy, who knew the information one by one, were short of breath when they listened to it, and they couldn't wait to rush forward and immediately take this iron guy away.

Zhu Zhangui nodded with a determined expression, without any excitement or ecstasy in his expression.

In later generations, I am used to hearing about tens of thousands of tons of large ships, these ships with a displacement of more than 5,000 are really nothing, as for ironclad ships, well, in later generations, except for fishing boats, which one is not made of iron, there are no surprises at all.

"Your Highness, please give names to the two ships!"

After the ecstasy, Zheng He turned to Zhu Zhangui and knelt down on one knee and asked Zhu Zhangui to name the two ships.

Stretching out his hand to help Zheng He, Zhu Zhangui looked at the ironclad battleship that was still making final preparations, pondered for a while, and said to Zheng He: "Since they are long-distance warships, let's call them Zhenyuan and Dingyuan." ”

Calm and far-reaching, it is the eternal pain in the heart of the Han family boy who cares about the navy, and Zhu Zhangui also felt sorry for the Beiyang Navy Division more than once.

Now that he has the opportunity, he has decided to bring these warships back to the army to serve, so that they can earn back their former glory, and he also hopes that they will use these names to make a great name in this world.

Zhenyuan, Dingyuan, the enemy of the world, and the health of the world.