Chapter 22 The Family of the Ming Dynasty

Xu Zheng said: "Your Majesty, just now Secretary He and Princess Anqing had a private meeting in the small bamboo forest in the southwest corner of the Qianqing Palace. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned for a moment and said, "Is this serious? ”

Xu Zheng immediately said: "The slave doesn't dare to say half a lie. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang also knew that Xu Zheng would never dare to talk nonsense about this kind of thing. Because one is not good, it will cost Xu Zheng's life. It's just that this thing is very strange in Zhu Yuanzhang's opinion. Before this, Anqing had no contact with He Xi.

That's how the two of them came together.

And He Xi came here for only a month.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not delve into these details. Instead, he felt a sense of relief. secretly said in his heart: "In this way, there is no need for me to make a big move." ”

He Xi himself may not know that within this month, Zhu Yuanzhang has been paying attention to He Xi all the time, maybe in other places, some things can be hidden from Zhu Yuanzhang, but in the Daming Palace, which is an acre and three points of land, it is impossible to hide anything from Zhu Yuanzhang.

The more He Xi showed, the more Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking about one thing, that is, if he mastered He Xi. If you let He Xi die for his own use.

It is rumored outside that He Xi is the illegitimate son of Zhu Yuanzhang. He Xi didn't know it himself. But how could Zhu Yuanzhang not know? If he didn't know, so many people in Jinyiwei were eating and waiting to die. Even Zhu Yuanzhang has a bit of a sense of fueling the fire.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang wants everyone to know that He Xi is his Zhu Yuanzhang's person.

With the label of illegitimate child, everyone in the world will not be stupid to win over He Xi to betray him.

Of course, in Zhu Yuanzhang's view, the label of illegitimate child is not safe.

The best thing is a more intimate relationship, so that He Xi will be inseparable from the Zhu family for the rest of his life.

It is also the oldest and most effective relationship, that is, marriage.

That's why illegitimate children have always been rumored. Zhu Yuanzhang did not mean to hammer it.

If you want to get married, in Zhu Yuanzhang's opinion, the best is a concubine. That is, Princess Anqing. Because Zhu Yuanzhang only has two concubines. Princess Anqing is the youngest one. The other princesses were all concubines. Zhu Yuanzhang himself attaches great importance to his concubines, on the one hand, Zhu Yuanzhang pays attention to etiquette. On the other hand, Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma have a deep relationship between husband and wife. The daughter of Queen Tsushima is not the same as the daughter of other concubines.

It's just that because of the attention, a lot of things are not easy to do.

Princess Anqing's marriage has always been a long-standing problem. If Zhu Yuanzhang really doesn't pay attention to Princess Anqing's feelings, Princess Anqing will work hard. It is also impossible to redeem Zhu Yuanzhang's decision. It is precisely because Zhu Yuanzhang attaches great importance to his own daughter-in-law that he is worried about this and that. only to be delayed.

It's the same issue.

Zhu Yuanzhang wanted Princess He Xishang. It's for marriage. It was to let He Xi get on the ship of the old Zhu family, and from then on for the sake of the old Zhu family, not for the sake of revenge. If he begged for forced arrangement, he would have made a resentful couple. This is not what Zhu Yuanzhang wants to see.

Zhu Yuanzhang is an all-round military and political talent, but he is not very proficient in this child's private affairs.

I didn't know how to start for a while.

Now that I heard the news, I was both happy and annoyed for a while. Happiness is that people do what they want. Annoyed, He Xi was bold. Dare to peep at my daughter.

There is time, and being an old man is so contradictory. It doesn't work, it doesn't work either.

"Got it. You can just know this thing, and you are not allowed to say a word to the outside world. Zhu Yuanzhang cleaned up his mood and said.

"Yes." Xu Zheng is naturally measured and knows what to say and what not to say.

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He was busy all night, just doing one thing, gathering information on the military manufacturing of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the prince said that everything is complete, but many things, if he doesn't live by himself, He Xi can't rest assured.

The Ming weapon manufacturing system is divided into three parts, one part is the Ministry of Industry, one part is the inner government, and one part is the field guard.

Under the Ministry of Industry, there are departments such as the Ordnance Bureau. There is a staff bureau under the inner house, and the foreign guards have a part of manufacturing weapons, and even some guards have manufacturing tasks, how many weapons are escorted to the Beijing division every year, and so on.

He Xi checked it, and the archives of all the guards in the southwest have been archived by the Ministry of Industry and the weapons of the Inner Government.

In fact, he also knows that the Kumon system in these years is not as good as the one-click Internet in later generations. Even if you are far away on the other side of the ocean, if you want to check the inventory, you can check it. Now he can find out the data, all of which were reported at the end of last year. As for what the inventory is at the end of the year. He Xi didn't know.

But He Xi took a look at the situation of the use of troops in the southwest.

I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it.

Why Zhu Yuanzhang is not interested in Yunnan is because since Guizhou, Guangxi, Sichuan, southeast, and southwest Sichuan entered the territory of the Ming Dynasty, there have been no major wars, and there have been continuous small wars. Based on the small amount of inventory, plus nine months this year, there are large and small number battles. There was a rebellion in Wuxi and a rebellion in Yaomin twice. More than a dozen guards were dispatched successively, with a total of more than 100,000 troops before and after. Of course, not all of them are dispatched, and many times they are dispatched to the guard. Several guards gathered together and attacked together. There are also guards who play several times in a year.

The cost of weapons is considerable.

This made He Xi not dare to have much hope for the weapons reserves in the southwest.

However, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Internal Affairs have sufficient weapons reserves. At this point, the prince did not lie.

It's just that there are all kinds of weapons in the Ming Dynasty, and He Xi is a little dazzled to see it. I don't know, the ratio of weapons in the Ming army, I don't know at all, how much ordnance is needed for the 300,000 army. It's like a lot of people say that to fight a war, you need an army of 10,000, tens of thousands. Actually, there is no such thing at all. Whenever there is a war, it is always in accordance with the system. In modern times it is several divisions, several army groups. In the Ming Dynasty, there were several guards and several thousand households. The decision did not say anything about tens of thousands of troops.

The same goes for army weapons. An army of 300,000 needs how many spears and how many bows and arrows. How many pairs of armor. How many long knives. How many firecrackers. The plan did not say anything about the armament of tens of thousands of people. After all, even between armies and armies, because of the location of deployment, the climate of the location, the weapons required are different.

He Xi didn't know anything about it. Naturally, it is impossible to read from the account books of the Ministry of Industry how many thousands of troops and ordnance there are. Is it enough for the southern expeditionary army?

And how many gaps are there?

He Xi simply did not look at the number of these specific weapons.

First of all, look at the inventory of the Ministry of Industry, the amount of pig iron is quite sufficient. The numbers are huge. 37,430,000 catties.

It's just that He Xi estimated it and counted it from catties to kilograms. 18.715 million kilograms. Tons are a thousand kilograms. Move the decimal point to the back. 18715 tons. 18,75 tons. How to say it. This seems like a lot of money.

But He Xi was a little unhappy.

For a person to have so much pig iron, whether in later generations or in this era, it is a huge wealth. But for a country, there are only so many steel reserves. Isn't it a little less?

Oh, and it's important to note that this is just pig iron reserves. And not steel reserves.

He Xi suddenly felt that this more than 10,000 tons of pig iron made 300,000 pieces of equipment. Is enough enough?

He didn't have time to find out the military weapons establishment, first check the consumption of steel for each weapon, and exclude the names of those unknown armors, He Xi looked at it from the perspective of steel consumption. It seems that the armor of the Ming army is divided into two kinds, one is the armor of the soldiers, which consumes forty catties of iron. One is the armor of the auxiliaries, which consumes twenty-four pounds of iron. A spear head, one or two or three coins, and a long knife according to the different shapes. It's probably between two catties, three catties, and four catties.

In fact, the most iron consumption is actually firearms, thousands of catties and tens of thousands of catties of firearms, He Xi did not see it in the information of the Ministry of Industry, it is estimated that there is either none. Either it is cast separately. Not included in the list of conventional weapons, there are no stocks. However, there are too many firearms that consume tens of catties to 1,200 catties of iron.

Let He Xi countless.

Here comes the problem again. How are these firearms equipped in the military? How much equipment is each thousand households? Is it scattered throughout the army and equipped, or placed in fortifications, such as the head of the city, the barracks. It is still in the hands of the chief general in the army, and there is an independent artillery unit.

If you don't know this, you can't estimate how much iron is needed.

He Xi looked at it in the middle of the night, and only felt nerve-wracking. I rummaged through my laptop and mobile phone.

He Xi regretted countless times, if God gave him a chance, he would definitely save all the storage space in his mobile phone and computer as the technical information needed for crossing, instead of now, among the countless information that I don't know when, I won't know when, and rummage to see if it is useful.

To be honest, it is easy to find information on history and technological development. After all, I read some occasionally when I was in school. Especially history, those things in the Ming Dynasty, so-and-so talked about history. It is also very famous. But this kind of professional weapon building, and even smelting technical data. If I gave it to He Xi before, He Xi wouldn't have seen it.

Now I'm completely dumbfounded.

I can only vaguely see what a blast furnace, coke, preheating, blast, converter, open hearth, and it seems that there is also a martin furnace.

As for who Martin is?

The devil knows.

He Xi was confused, relatively speechless, and didn't know where to start.

He secretly said in his heart: "How can I show Zhu Yuanzhang the power of modern technology?" ”

For a while, He Xi had an impulse to throw the laptop and mobile phone in front of him to Zhu Yuanzhang. Let him find it himself. It's just embarrassing.

But that's just the thought.

When it was almost dawn, He Xi seized the time to squint for a while. I didn't even take off my clothes. Because he knows that tomorrow day there is a lot to do.