Zhu Di had nearly 20,000 people in his hands, of which there were about 1,000 natives, and the natives within a radius of 100 miles were either killed or captured, and basically emptied.

He divided the people into three groups, one group including the natives who were responsible for building the city, one group for building their own houses, and one group for farming and hunting.

Because he was the emperor, Zhu Di wanted to build a big city, so he invested the most manpower in Yancheng.

Now that nearly a year has passed, Zhu Di knows that he is wrong again, and he didn't listen to Zhu Gaoxu's words back then.

At the beginning, we should first build a small town by the sea, and then try to store grain in the fields, first make sure that there is enough food, and then think about other things.

He put the cart before the horse and devoted himself to building the city, but not only the progress of the construction of the city was slow, but the supply of food was a little inadequate.

Recently, Zhu Di has demanded that the supply of women and children be reduced, and that priority be given to ensuring the youth and labor.

But this is not a long-term solution, and it is still necessary to prepare good fields.

"How many fields do we have now?" Zhu Di asked at this time.

Jin Zhong said: "Eight thousand four hundred acres. ”

"How many fields can be used?" Zhu Di asked again.

"At least 50,000 acres." Jin Zhongdao.

"So much?" Although Zhu Di was an emperor, he was really not very clear about farming.

Jin Zhong said: "With two stones per mu, one acre of land can raise one person." ”

"There are more than 20,000 of us, and it is estimated that 25,000 acres is the minimum requirement."

"But taking into account the loss of harvest and lack of harvest, grain storage, and population growth, we must ensure that we can have at least 50,000 mu in hand."

After more than 20,000 of them arrived in Tai O, many of them had a bad environment and casualties, but the population was not small.

Because almost all of them have their families, everyone has children when they have nothing to do, and even though the survival rate is far less than that of future generations, even if they are subject to medical conditions, the population is actually growing slowly.

Of course, the good weather and temperature here also ensure the survival rate of newborns, and even ensure their good living conditions.

As long as they do not easily set foot in the farther mountains and deep forests, and do not have a small number of people to provoke a large number of natives, their population will only increase.

"Five thousand people were sent out of the city to be stationed in the fields." At this time, Zhu Di finally corrected his mistake and prepared to strengthen Tuntian.

In the past, he relied on a large number of men and horses to go out hunting and get a harvest.

But now, within a radius of dozens of miles, it is already difficult to hit the prey.

On the same day, Zhu Di discussed with Zhu Wenwu and decided to strengthen Tuntian and reduce the number of people who built the city.

"Xue Lu."

"The end will be." Xue Lu hugged his fists.

"Tomorrow you take a team of 1,000 people and continue to the northeast, I see a lot of mountains in the northeast, there should be a lot of beasts and natives."

"Whoa."

"If the natives try to catch the work, they can use it to work."

"The last will understand."

Zhu Di turned to Jin Zhong at this time: "How are you communicating with them?" ”

Jin Zhong smiled bitterly: "Please give the minister a little more time." ”

Zhu Di asked him to learn to communicate with the natives, but Jin Zhong was confused and didn't know what to do.

Zhu Di could only nod, and then said, "Liu Rong." ”

"The end will be."

"You take 200 people and some craftsmen to the east for 20 days to see if there is a mine, Gao Xu said that this is a place to sit on a minecart, I have never seen a mine until now, this time you go farther and go around."

"Whoa."

After some orders, Zhu Di disbanded the crowd.

He walked to a high place, looked around, and suddenly saw his eldest son, Zhu Gaochi.

Zhu Gaochi has not paid much attention to Zhu Di since he arrived in Tai O, because Zhu Gaochi has no desires and no desires.

But almost a year after Gao Chi arrived here, his weight dropped sharply, and recently this body shape has become more and more like Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu, which can be said to be an unexpected joy.

Zhu Di was happy for him, but Zhu Gaochi didn't seem to be happy at all.

His son and he drifted apart, and he now has only one son.

He thought about it, sighed secretly, walked down the high place, and slowly walked towards Zhu Gaochi's side.

Zhu Gaochi is chatting with Lu Xizhi in the former Tobu Langzhong.

Lu Xizhi made the county order under Beiping Mansion, and was exiled here as the prince of Yan.

Lu Xizhi knows a little about farming, and now he is the agricultural technical guide of Tai O.

However, it seems that the planting was not good last year, and Lu Xizhi has been researching with Zhu Gaochi recently, whether the sowing time is wrong.

Because the weather in Tai O is different from that of Da Ming, and the temperature here is slightly higher than that in the south of Tai O, Lu Xizhi thought that he could learn from Jiaozhi or Guangdong and try to plant two crops of rice.

But Zhu Gaochi believes that the second brother Zhu Gaochu said in the message that it is better to grow wheat here.

The two were discussing this matter, and Zhu Di came over.

"Ahem," Zhu Di coughed lightly in the back.

"Meet the King." Lu Xizhi turned around, first met Zhu Di, and then understood and retired to Zhu Gaochi.

"Father." Zhu Gaochi screamed faintly.

He originally wanted to call his father, because his father had been deprived of the title by Gao Xu, but since he arrived in Tai O, everyone called the king again, and he couldn't help it.

Soon there were only father and son in the field.

Zhu Di frowned and looked at his son, and said slowly: "Gao Chi is still holding a grudge?" ”

"Erchen doesn't dare, Erchen doesn't." Zhu Gaochi's answers were very perfunctory.

Zhu Di was very unhappy in his heart, but he still endured: "On that day, Gao Xu led his troops to break through Beiping City, and I was also forced by the situation. ”

"When I say I regret it, I don't regret giving the crown prince to Gao Chi."

"I regret it-—— "I regret that I didn't leave Gao Xu in Jingshi at the beginning, then he is an immortal and has no way to rebel."

Zhu Di also thought about this for a long time before saying it.

Because in the past year, I really feel that Zhu Gaochi has become more and more estranged from himself.

"Father don't regret it." Zhu Gaowei sighed and said: "The world is like chess, unpredictable, and no one knows what will happen in the future." ”

"Erchen has figured it out, maybe everything is providential, this is all destined by God."

"Even if my father left Gao Xu in Jingshi, maybe he would have a change in Xuanwumen."

"I really don't want to mention the past."

"Right now, we're still thinking about how to survive."

Zhu Gaochi's meaning is also obvious, don't fool me, our father and son are clear, do you regret it in your heart, you have it yourself, let's not talk about the past.

Zhu Gaochi is sure that his father, Zhu Di, regrets that he made himself the prince and the prince in the first place.

Zhu Di's expression was a little embarrassed, he was used to fooling Zhu Gaojie before, but he didn't expect the prince to not eat this set.

His face was a little red, and after thinking about it carefully, he reached out and hugged Zhu Gaochi's arms, and said earnestly: "What Gao Chi said is right, let's not worry about the previous things, and now everything will look backwards." ”

"The top priority is to work together and lead everyone to live."

The father and son talked about the conversation, and neither of them was very satisfied with each other, because there was a tendency to discord between faces and hearts.

Zhu Di returned to his room with a dark face.

His house is the first batch to be built, the main material is wood, and many houses in the same batch are built in a hurry, he is better as a king, some houses will leak in rainy days, and then make up.

Not long after returning to the room, Zhu Di called Hou Xian.

"Tonight, summon the Wang clan - let her prepare."

"The slave knows." Hou Xian slowly withdrew.

Wang is Yongle in the early years of the palace, a native of Wu County, Suzhou, because of his calm and tactful behavior, he can understand the meaning, so he was liked by Queen Xu, and Queen Xu managed the affairs of the harem, and even Zhu Di attached great importance to her, and was later named a concubine.

After the death of Queen Xu, Zhu Di relied on her even more.

But in history, Zhu Di did not have children with concubines other than Queen Xu.

After Hou Xian found Wang, he whispered: "Please princess prepare tonight, the king may want-" Hou Xian stopped in the middle of speaking.

Wang's face showed a look of joy: "The concubine understands. ”

King Yan wants to prepare to have a child with her, the original history Wang has been with King Yan for more than ten years, and he has not given birth to a son and a half daughter, which will be really exciting.

What woman doesn't want to have a child.

Hou Xian said at this time: "The slave and maid will go to Imperial Doctor Yang and ask him to think of a way to make adequate preparations." ”

When the time comes, she will be able to conceive a dragon.

"There is Father-in-law Laohou, thank you Father-in-law." Wang was thrilled.

After Hou Xian finished speaking, he withdrew from Wang's house, standing outside the door, he could still see the prince Zhu Gaochi in the distance, he couldn't help but shake his head secretly, the king seemed to want to give up the prince? Is it still too late?

Hou Xian doesn't think that Zhu Di can definitely train the new prince to grow up.

——

Rumble.

With a loud bang, a huge target on the shooting range was blasted out of countless holes.

Zhu Gaoxu nodded with a little satisfaction: "It's not bad, thirty steps away can have such an effect." ”

After that, he said to Yang Yuanfeng, the master craftsman of the Firearms Bureau: "Try changing armor." ”

Yang Yuanfeng waved his hand backwards, and many people walked to the front with old leather armor and chain mail, and then fixed it on the target.

Many civil and military officers at the scene stood behind the emperor.

Today, the Firearms Bureau tested scattered bombs, and many of the civil and military personnel of the Beijing Division were called by the emperor to come and see the scene.

Truth be told, the civil servants were not interested in this kind of thing.

But at the beginning of this month (November of the second year of Hongxi), the emperor said that at the end of the year, it would be determined how much year-end bonus would be given to the imperial court's overseas expansion and plunder.

Suddenly, the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty began to attach importance to ordnance and armament.

At this time, the front is loading and armoring, and the civil and military forces behind are discussing, and some people think that this is too close.

The artillery is only thirty paces away from the target, and if the opponent is in a battle, the opponent can rush up in a few breaths.

But there are also humane, the area of the scattered bombs is large, and if you hit it down, you can hardly stand within fifty steps in front.

By sacrificing range, you get a lot of damage.

Because when countless pieces of iron and nails fly out, they will only spread in all directions, and they can't fly too far.

The craftsmen are inconvenient to improve, try and try, limited by the technology of this era, the effective killing distance is still within fifty steps.

The best killing distance is 20 to 30 steps.

The distance is a little short, but the victory lies in the large killing area, and the shot just now covered the range within fifty paces in front, of which thirty paces in the middle were hit hard, and ten paces on each side, a little worse.

"It's a good camp." Meng Shan said to Li Jinglong beside him at this time: "If this cannon goes down, you will have to kill and injure a large number of people." ”

Li Jinglong stroked his beautiful beard, and said in a very experienced tone: "It also depends on the other party's armor rate, only these iron pieces and iron nails, if you wear iron armor and pierce the armor, I am afraid that the effect will not work." ”

"The key range is still short, and after this cannon is fired, the infantry battalion will rush up."

"It's for defending the city." Meng Shandao.

“。。” Li Jinglong's face turned red instantly.

(End of chapter)