Li Mo has been promoted from the ninth grade to the eighth grade, but there is no way, there are only a few officials in the prince's mansion who are five or six grades, Zhu Gaoxu asked him to do it for the time being, and then find a way later, Li Mo doesn't care, after all, Zhu Gaochu has never been short of his silver.

In fact, there are only a few high-ranking officials in the Prince's Mansion, and the rest of the officials are still quite small, most of them are eight-grade and nine-grade officials, which is not very different from the County Palace.

But everyone has followed Zhu Gaochu for so many years, and they know that Zhu Gaochu will not treat them badly, even if the officials are small, the annual salary is far more than that of the first and second grades.

Zhu Gaoxu originally only had more than 6,000 soldiers and horses, including 5,000 Han troops and more than 1,000 cavalry, but now he suddenly had to take 17,800 people away, so he was very busy during this time.

First of all, it is necessary to choose the generals and sergeants, and see who is willing to go with him.

If you are dissatisfied, there will be a court to assign it.

As a result, Zhu Gaoxu didn't pick it yet, and someone took the initiative to take refuge.

For example, Jin Rong, the former commander of Nanning Ningwei, was defeated under Zhending City, Zhu Gaochu spared his life and let him take Geng Bingwen's body away, and also came to join Zhu Gaoxu, and then some middle-level generals who had fought with Zhu Gaoxu also came to vote.

Zhu Gaoxu found Zhao Gui separately.

At the beginning, Zhao Gui took the infantry battalion and almost blocked him in the encirclement of the Southern Army, and he was also a fierce man.

Zhao Gui did not hesitate and decisively voted for Zhu Gaoxu.

and Zhao Gui came to vote, as well as the three people who were stabbed by Zhu Gaoxu after the city was broken.

Zhao Gui said that six of them survived at that time, and four of them came to vote for Zhu Gaoxu.

These people more or less brought some soldiers and horses, and Zhu Gaoxu quickly gathered 13,000 people.

But it was not enough to keep the three guards, so the imperial court sent some soldiers and horses to Zhu Gaoxu.

The soldiers and horses Zhu Gaoxu was very unhappy.

The soldiers and horses who took the initiative to vote were either colleagues in the Jingjing Rebellion, or strong troops in the Southern Army, such as Jin Rong's Nanning Wei and Zhao Gui's Shandong Wei, all of which were very fierce in the battle with the Yan Army.

And the imperial court dispatched the recruits recruited by Mei Yin when he was stationed in Huai'an.

But if you are unhappy, you are not happy, Zhu Gaoxu can only accept it.

But these people were not the only ones who followed Zhu Gaoxu to Yunnan.

According to the military law of the Ming Dynasty, these 'regular soldiers' have to be stationed in a place for a long time, and they have to bring their families, wives, and military personnel with them.

This surplus is also called a substitute, the substitute was not a soldier before, but to follow the guard, to participate in some military assistance, such as training, help to collect food, transport materials, etc., once a regular army dies, the rest of the army can replace the soldiers.

Generally speaking, the eldest son and grandson of the regular army are all military amateurs.

In fact, the whole family of the Zhengjun has to follow to the station, your eldest son is a military amateur, and it is impossible to leave the second son in his hometown.

Therefore, in the end, it is estimated that there must be 50,000 or 60,000 horses who followed Zhu Gaoxu to Yunnan.

It's still very troublesome for so many people to go to Yunnan together, Zhu Gaoxu arranged in batches, and arranged who went first and later, and the whole time span was also very large.

But he doesn't have to worry about these things, the prince's mansion chief Shi, and Chen Wen can arrange them very well.

There were other things that bothered him.

Before leaving Beijing, the emperor married his sons and his daughters.

This is all a political marriage to win people's hearts.

The prince married Zhang Fu's second daughter, Zhang Wu, and also planned to let him marry Guo Ying's granddaughter next year.

Zhu Gaoxu married Zhang Fu's eldest daughter Zhang Yan, and Zhu Gaosui married He Fu's niece Xu.

In addition, Zhu Di has two daughters, married to the two sons of Song Sheng, a general in the southwest.

Song Sheng is very on the road, in Jingnan, the court asked him to send troops, his soldiers and horses slowly swallowed, from the southwest to the Beijing Division, Jingnan is finished, not yet there, and then Zhu Di just entered Beijing, announced that he came over, Song Sheng immediately came to visit.

Zhu Di admired him very much, married his two daughters to his two sons, and let Song Sheng garrison the original Liangzhou.

This place is also a good place, not only to produce horses, but also to support Sichuan in the south.

Zhang Fu used to delay his marriage for a period of time in the name of filial piety, but now Zhu Gaoxu wants to divide the foreign domain, and there is really no reason to delay.

So in April of the first year of Yongle, Zhu Gaoxu and the other three princes all got married in Beijing, and then prepared to go their separate ways.

The day after getting married, Zhu Gaoxu came to Xu Miaojin and asked Xu Miaojin to go to Yunnan with him again, but Xu Miaojin still refused.

Three days later, in the early dynasty, Xie Jin suddenly impeached the king of Han, saying that the king of Han deliberately delayed time and did not settle for the vassal state.

The courtiers were in an uproar, Qiu Fu was not used to him, and immediately scolded, people who are newly married always have to stay at home for a few days, and it is inconvenient for the bride to leave these two days.

There was laughter all around, and Xie Jin's incomparably solemn impeachment dissipated in laughter.

But Xie Jin may have a problem with his brain, and he was impeached the next day, and Qiu Fu scolded again.

He is not afraid of Qiu Fu, and there are a lot of pieces of meat after scolding.

On the third day, the impeachment was repeated, and the impeachment lasted for three consecutive days.

The emperor was not angry, but he also did not reprimand Xie Jin.

On the third day, Qiu Fu stopped scolding, and seemed to feel that something was wrong.

On the fourth day, Xie Jin was impeached again, and at the same time, Huang Huai, Yin Changlong, Jin Zhong and others impeached the King of Han for violating the law, delaying the law far beyond the Ming Dynasty.

April is the season of spring flowers, but Zhu Gaoxu has to set off for Yunnan in this beautiful season.

On the eighth day of the first month of April, Zhu Gaoxu decided to set off, they were already the fourth group of people to set off, and many people had already left in front of them.

When Zhu Gaoxu left, there was only Chen Wen as a left guard, plus the rest of the army and some officials and craftsmen, and the accompanying civil officials were Hou Hai, Li Mo and their families.

Most of the front of the journey is waterway, from Longjiang Pass to the boat, all the way to Huguang, after passing through Dongting Lake, continue to take the water post road to Yuanzhou, and then from Yuanzhou into the territory of Guizhou political envoy.

The water post road in the southwest of the Ming Dynasty is also here, through Yuanzhou to Guizhou Zhenyuanfu, the back is all land, and there is no longer a water post road.

They were going to cross Guizhou into Yunnan.

The whole trip, because of the crowd, is estimated to take more than three months.

The day before Zhu Gaoxu's departure, there were about 100 people in each of the other two waves, but they took a different route.

The first was Mao Xiong Mao Xin led a wave of people, and they were going to Hanwangzhai to bring all the people there to Yunnan.

There is also a wave of people led by Yang Lishan, they take the water post road from the south, through Jiangsu, Fujian, Guangdong, and then from the water post road in Guangdong can go to Longan County, Guangxi, which is very close to Yunnan, and it is also very convenient.

It's just that the water post road here is small, otherwise most of Zhu Gaoxu's people would also want to take this road.

From Long An County, you can go straight to Guangnan Province in Yunnan, and it is also a road to Yunnan.

Yang Lishan has been doing business here all the year round, so he is very familiar with it, and the time Zhu Gaochu gave him was about half a year, in fact, it would not have been so long, but Zhu Gaoxu asked him to collect Langzhong and craftsmen along the road.

No matter what means are used, whether it is bribery, smashing and looting, and the blacksmiths, carpenters, and other craftsmen who can build ships and make cannons on the southern coast can all be brought to Yunnan.

At this time, the best shipwrights in the Ming Dynasty were concentrated in the coastal areas, and there were more blacksmiths, carpenters, and langzhong in the south.

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Changle County is located in the coastal area of Fuzhou, Fujian, the imperial court decided to build a new shipyard here last year, because Zheng He played, this side was renamed Taiping Port, the new shipyard design is as long as 20 miles, a total of more than 30 shipyards.

Xu An succeeded his father as the commander of the Fujian capital, and he cooperated with the local promotion department to build it.

The responsibility of the Fujian Metropolitan Division is to equip the future big ships with sailors and horses, and at the same time be responsible for the guard of the shipyard.

Therefore, after Xu An arrived, he immediately transferred the original Fujian sailor and the new group of sailors for ocean training.

At the same time, arrange people and horses to guard the shipyard.

The main matters of the shipyard are the responsibility of the local lifting department.

According to the regulations of the Ming Dynasty, the promotion department is generally concurrently served by the local judge or the salt division.

Originally, the Ming Dynasty set up lifting divisions in Quanzhou, Fujian, Mingzhou, Zhejiang, and Guangzhou, Guangdong.

This time, in order to build a new shipyard, a new lifting department was set up in Fuzhou.

The Fujian Lifting Division was actually held by Wang Yanlai.

Zheng He was fully responsible for the shipbuilding matters, and Emperor Zhu Di also used his henchmen and eunuchs nearby.

Wang Yan, who had just entered the palace, was arranged to serve as the lifting department in Fujian, and was fully responsible for the construction of the new shipyard here.

In the hearts of Zhu Di and Zheng He, Daming will focus on building two shipyards, Longjiang and Changle, so people who must be trusted.

Zheng He was mainly in Longjiang, so the Changle Shipyard was served by Wang Yanlai.

Wang Yan is a vassal general, and in the entire Jingjing, he has never fought side by side with Zhu Gaoxu, he has always followed Zhu Neng, often fought side by side with King Yan, and also saved King Yan, so in the eyes of the emperor, Wang Yan is a person who has believed.

Wang Yan arrived last year, and then recruited shipwrights from Quanzhou, Fuzhou, Yanping, Zhangzhou and other parts of Fujian, totaling more than 600 households to Changle County.

At that time, Xu An had not yet come, and Wang Yan did not know that Xu An had gone to Fujian to serve as the commander.

In January of the first year of Yongle, Xu Xiang died on the road, Xu An took over his father's position and came to Fuzhou, and Wang Yan knew that it was a confidant of the king of Gaoyang County.

He was still considering whether to meet Xu An, but in February, Xu An sent someone to secretly send him a message.

At the end of February, Wang Yan organized an assessment of shipwrights, and among the more than 600 shipwrights, more than 20 of them were expelled from the worst assessment.

There are many shipwrights who are not convinced, and privately claim that they are good at craftsmanship, how can they be the worst in the assessment?

On this day, Wang Yan went to the house, and saw dozens of masters in the exchange of ears, everyone was discussing the first batch of ships to be built, most of them suggested that step by step, first build a 22 zhang fortune boat, which is also the largest in the Ming Dynasty at present, and the more popular fortune boat.

But there is a craftsman named Deng Chuan, a shipwright in Quanzhou, whose family has been building ships for several generations, and he said that he can directly build a big ship of more than 40 zhang, because of the requirements of the imperial court, the bigger the ship, the better, after all, the ocean ship does need to be big to be safe.

More than forty large ships, in the past rare, it is said that there were in the Song Dynasty, but into the Yuan and Ming almost extinction, Deng Chuan said that the family in the experience of building large ships.

A lot of people immediately sprayed him at the scene, what experience do you have, have you ever built such a big ship?

Deng Chuan was speechless, but insisted that it could be built, there was no need to waste time, and it was built from small to large.

Everyone was fighting and arguing, Deng Chuan was naturally attacked by a group, who made him so prominent.

If he can build it and others can't, it doesn't mean that he's better than everyone else.

After Wang Yan heard the meeting, he was furious, and angrily reprimanded Deng Chuan, supporting everyone to move step by step, focusing on stability, not to mention, this is to do things for the saint and the imperial court, how can you imagine it out of thin air, you can build as much as you want? In case of failure, not to mention the waste of manpower and financial resources, how much wood will be consumed?

Deng Chuan was scolded for being bloody, and all the craftsmen gloated.

A few days later, Wang Yan said that Deng Chuan had resigned angrily, and he also approved.

(End of chapter)