"Wow roar" Countless crowds around cheered, Zhu Di's face was flushed, and he was extremely excited.

The outer city wall of Yancheng has finally been built.

At this time, it was the end of the fourth year of Hongxi, and Zhu Di's group of people came to Tai O for nearly four whole years, after migration, hard work, and tens of thousands of manpower, they finally built the outer city wall of Yancheng in his dream.

That's right, after four years, only an outer city wall was built, and many of the buildings in the city were temporary wooden and muddy buildings, which were very simple.

The city wall of Yancheng is mainly bluestone and blue bricks, supplemented by wood, and the quality is worse than many cities in the Ming Dynasty, but in Tai O, it is already a strong city.

The city is two feet high, and it is also quite short, but it is enough in Tai O, and the local natives will not even build a cloud ladder before the Ming army comes, let alone attack the city.

In fact, there are no important enemies here that can threaten Zhu Di, but Zhu Di is probably a Han tradition, and he still has to build a city, not to mention that Zhu Gaoxu also asked him to build a city.

After the outer city wall of Yancheng is built, the back is to improve the buildings inside.

Jin Zhong said at this time: "Starting next year, we will build the Yan Palace." ”

Zhu Di's expression froze, and he suddenly asked, "Now, what year?" ”

He has forgotten all the days and nights he spent in Tai O.

But the subordinates remembered that Jin Zhong whispered: "Count it up, Hong Xi has not been in four years, and it is the third day of the first month of November." ”

"Bring the drawings." Zhu Di said loudly.

Some of the generals around him took the drawings and laid them on the ground.

Zhu Di looked at it and pointed to one side: "Strengthen the granary first, and then build a good house for the sergeants, Yanwang Mansion, and talk about it later." ”

The generals were moved and looked at Zhu Di with emotion.

"Report." That's when someone came to report.

"The prince returns, and the copper coin is made."

"Oh, let's go, come with me." Zhu Di was overjoyed.

They have been here for four years, only about 20,000 when they first arrived, and after four full years, the population is nearly 30,000.

Among them, three or four thousand are local natives who have been captured, and they have nothing to do, and all the military families are crazy about having children, even if the survival rate is low now, the population is still increasing, and they are all children.

Before, everyone worked here like prisoners, but after a few years, everyone's mentality has changed, and Zhu Di finally found an iron mine and a copper mine last year, and began to make iron tools and copper coins.

After months of preparation and exploration, the first batch of copper coins was only made today.

He rushed to the mint room and saw Zhu Gaochi from a distance, he shook his head, almost thinking that he had seen Gao Xu.

In recent years, Zhu Gaochi has become colder and colder, just looking at the background, he already looks a bit like Zhu Gaochu.

Special mother, Zhu Di scolded in his heart, he had already given birth to a little son with the Wang family, named Zhu Gaoyu, I hope that this little son will shine all over the world in the future and take over his class.

Zhu Gaochi doesn't seem to care, anyway, Zhu Di asks him to do things, so he does things seriously and usually accompanies Zhu Zhanji.

Seeing Zhu Di coming, Zhu Gaochi took a basin of water, in which were a few cooled copper coins.

Zhu Di patted Zhu Gaochi on the shoulder: "Gao Chi has worked hard." ”

Zhu Gaochi's skin is now dark, I don't know if it's tanned or hot-tanned.

"What a child should do." Zhu Gaochi said lightly.

Zhu Di nodded and scooped up the copper coin from the water.

It's a little rough to start, after all, the appliances are limited now, and the surface is still frizzy, the front is Daming Tongbao, the north is a swallow word, and there is a number.

Zhu Di said that it was a Daming Tongbao, and he didn't dare to say Yongle Baoqian, or Yanwang Baoqian or something like that, after all, there was an emperor Zhu Gaoxu above them.

There are four denominations: one, five, ten, and fifty.

He was going to cast a batch and send it to his subordinates.

Now so many of them have been in Da'ao for a few years, all of them are rationed, like the army, but now that the city is cast, there may be shops in the future, which need to be consumed, and copper coins must be obtained.

Anyway, these copper coins are still in Yancheng.

"How did you build it, and how long did it take to build 10,000?" Zhu Di asked Zhu Gaochi, his face was a little serious.

With such a face value, if you want to build 10,000 yuan, you may not be able to get it right in a year.

The Daming Baoquan Bureau has a special machine for making money, but they don't have it, and it is more difficult.

Zhu Di can't help it, he now knows the importance of population and productivity.

Suddenly, he thought of the information left by Zhu Gaoxu, and he was afraid that it would be difficult to make a difference in his lifetime.

Only after tens or hundreds of years later, when the population of Tai O exceeds one million, and the productivity and population reach a certain level, can there be a qualitative breakthrough.

When he thought that he had been busy for a few years, he was still no different from an ordinary landlord, and he was so depressed.

Equivalent to a guard commander of the Ming Dynasty? He couldn't help but think in his head.

His current situation is indeed no different from that of a guard commander in Daming.

There are more than 5,000 people in the Ming Dynasty, plus family members, exactly 20,000 or 30,000.

The matter of making copper coins is probably empty again in the short term.

Zhu Di turned back sullenly, he found iron ore and copper ore, but it was okay to build and repair tools, and it was really difficult to make money.

"Let's go to the Ship Division." Zhu Di actually set up a ship department.

However, at that time, in order to guard against Zhu Gaoxu, his Yancheng was a little far away from the sea.

Zhu Di and his entourage soon came to the edge of a forest, where he built a lot of warehouses for Yin wood.

In the past four years, he has organized local natives to cut down many large trees in preparation for future shipbuilding.

But among the people Zhu Gaoxu gave him, there were no shipbuilders, so he could only ask the carpenter.

Carpenters say that large timbers for shipbuilding, especially for sea navigation, need to be dried in the shade for many years before they can be used.

In just four years, Zhu Di has prepared more than 5,000 large trees.

He looked at these big trees, and then looked into the distance, everyone knew that King Yan wanted to go back to Daming.

"Burn all the wood." Zhu Di suddenly said loudly.

"The King." The crowd exclaimed.

"It's been four years, and I can't even build a small boat, what's the use." Zhu Di said sharply.

The boat can be built, but it is not used, and the farthest one, it leaks less than a mile away, and it is frightened to drive back.

Shipbuilding is a systematic project, and it is not something that these people can complete in just a few years after they arrived in Tai O.

Jin Zhong frowned, he actually wanted to persuade King Yan, stop building ships, it's useless to build them, Daming's ship is comparable to our ship?

Even if you can build a big ship, you will have to sink if you can't drive Java, isn't this Tai O very good now?

Anyway, Jin Zhong feels good now, and he also married a local native mother-in-law as his little wife, and his life is very happy.

Suddenly.

A familiar voice came, Zhu Di was stunned at first, and after a while, an incredible expression appeared on his face, he immediately squatted down, wanting to put his ears on the ground, but when he turned his head, he saw a faint black shadow in front of him.

"Horses?" Everyone at the scene was stunned.

Is there a horse in Tai O?

"Prepare to meet the enemy--" Zhang Wu hissed, Zheng, Zheng, Zheng, and there was a sound of drawing a knife at the scene.

Everyone surrounded Zhu Di, and some people signaled Zhu Di to hurry back to Yancheng.

But Yancheng was not far from them, Zhu Di pushed everyone away, did not return to the city, walked a few steps forward, and looked fixedly: "What are you panicking, only two rides." ”

There were two rides in the distance.

Waiting a little closer, someone was surprised: "It's Tang Baihu." ”

Tang Baihu is their sentinel, and they will go out for four rounds every day, first looking for the natives, the main looking for the natives, and the mines along the way, specifically looking for the natives gathering place, and then coming back to move troops and arrest people after finding them.

Then after hundreds of miles in the vicinity, he began to take the master and craftsman to look for mines, and really found two mines.

But when Tang Baihu went out, there were no horses, and sometimes it took a month or two to come back after going out.

Where did this horse come from?

Are there other countries in Tai O?

"King, King." Tang Baihu ran closer, waved frantically here, and ran in front of Zhu Di in the last way, jumped off the horse, and knelt on the ground: "I met the Ming army, I met the Ming army-" I couldn't breathe when I spoke.

"You can rest and talk about it." Zhu Di's expression was moved, and he was surprised, happy and scared in his heart.

Tang Baihu said that he took a team to the northeast, walked for more than half a month, found a valley, met a group of natives, the two sides fought, the other party had bows and arrows, killed a group of them, and captured a group alive.

Then I took it in and took a look, there were a lot of Ming troops inside.

"Two years ago, His Majesty's people came in to look for us, but they didn't find it, but they found a gold mine, and His Majesty sent someone to occupy the gold mine over there and start mining, and we happened to meet it."

"There is a thousand households stationed on the other side, and those thousand households have given us two horses."

"Qianhu said that His Majesty misses the king very much, and hopes to find the king."

Zhu Di's face turned red, and he said sharply: "Is there a Ming army coming back with you?" ”

"No, no." Tang Baihu Road.

Zhu Di looked up at the generals, some of the generals around him showed a look of fear, some seemed to be more excited, and some were surprised, and everyone had different reactions.

They lived in Tai O for four years, and it was amazing to suddenly meet someone from Chu Gaoxu.

Obviously, they are all Han people of the same clan, and they are still relatives and friends, but they are afraid of encountering them.

That Xue Lu died unrepentant, and a sharp voice flashed in his eyes: "Xu Baihu are sure that they only have one thousand households?" ”

"It is indeed a thousand households, and the largest military general is a thousand households."

"Is there a Ming army nearby?"

"Probably not, we've been to many places."

"Special mother, don't do it endlessly." Xue Lu's face showed a hideous expression, and he lifted the knife in his hand: "King, let's go -——" made a motion to wipe his neck with the knife.

It means that they attacked the thousand households and killed all the Ming troops, or captured them as slave laborers.

"How can you kill your own people, by no means." Xu Li immediately said loudly.

Tang Rong also nodded hurriedly: "Zhu Gaoxu knew at a glance that we did it, wouldn't it be troublesome." ”

Xue Lu said: "What are you afraid of, he is coming to fight us now, and he will send at least more than 50,000 troops." ”

"Tai O, we are more familiar with this place than him."

Zhang Wu also greeted him: "That is, now we are the head snakes of the land, and we really can't retreat eastward, I don't believe he can find us." ”

After coming to Tai O for four years, they know that this Tai O is about the same size as Da Ming, and they are much more familiar with the nearby terrain than Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhu Qixu wanted to send troops over to fight them, as long as they didn't want to fight Zhu Gaoxu in a decisive battle, it was impossible to meet them.

Zhu Di watched the two waves of henchmen arguing, not saying anything, his eyes rolling around, not knowing what he was thinking.

(End of chapter)