June 23, Jinling.

Zhu Yuanzhang officially set off, leading 20,000 people from Jinwu, Yulin and other pro-armies to Bianliang in the north, planning to personally command the battle of Dadu.

Because he left at least March, Lao Zhu made a lot of arrangements in advance.

The first is to transfer back from the Western Front the general of the expedition, the doctor of Ronglu, the right imperial doctor and the right prince of the prince Deng Yu, to take charge of the 30,000 pro-troops left in Jinling and guard the center.

Deng Yu, who has become an official from a product, is actually only 31 years old this year.

When he took refuge in Lao Zhu, Deng Yu was only 18 years old, but he was already the leader of more than 10,000 righteous troops.

Hence the cronies.

In addition to Deng Yu, the military general who guarded the town, Lao Zhu also issued an edict to Li Shanchang, the left minister, Yang Xian, the Chinese book, Fu Xuan, the Chinese scholar, the imperial history, and Tao An, the Hanlin bachelor, all performed their duties, and their mothers had to slack. If there is an urgent matter, the crown prince will decide or send someone to play Bianliang.

It seems that an ordinary edict is actually enough to make people smell a lot of unusualness, and the biggest unusualness is that in the past, the old Zhu Qinzheng could monopolize the power of the Zuo Prime Minister, this time, he obviously did not have so much power.

After all, just look at these people in the edict, or Jiqingxun, or from Jiangxi, or Wenchen from eastern Zhejiang, almost all of them represent a group, and none of them are completely dependent on the left minister.

Even if Deng Yu, the military general who guarded the town, was originally from Sizhou, he was not from the Huaixi lineage.

Sizhou was located in Huai'an Province during the reign of the Yuan Dynasty and belonged to Huaidong Province in Jiangbei. Because it is the ancestral tomb of the Zhu family, it was only under the jurisdiction of Linhao Mansion last year.

No one dared to discuss Lao Zhu's arrangement publicly, but some civil servants inevitably pondered in private, feeling that Lao Zhu's speed from the feudal town to the emperor was really fast.

It is not a good thing for those in power to trust their subordinates too much, or to distrust them too much. Such a way of checks and balances is the skill that a qualified emperor should have.

So there are some associations.

His Majesty the Emperor already knows how to check and balance the left minister, so ...... Someone in Mingzhou can't be too indulgent!

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June 25, off the coast of Mingzhou.

At the end of the summer flood, the Yinghai Division informed that tens of thousands of soldiers and men who had been busy for two months would have a ten-day holiday.

However, some people can't rest.

The sea area in front of you is two hundred miles away from Dinghai, east of the Shengsi Islands and north of Huang Dayang, and the Yinghai Division is marked as Huang Zeyang on the surveying and mapping map, and the landmark is Langgangshan Island.

Mingzhou fishermen have a good mouth.

There are three mountains in Langgang, and it is difficult to go up and down, and there is a bowl of thin porridge soup at home, and I would rather die than Langgang Mountain.

The three mountains refer to Langgang Mountain and two other small islands nearby.

As for the content of the smooth mouth, it is easy to understand.

In this area, which still belongs to the offshore in later generations, in this era, like Sheshan Yang outside the mouth of the Yangtze River in the north, Huang Zeyang is also a dangerous place that fishermen dare not easily set foot in.

What Yinghai Division has to do is to make a breakthrough.

At the moment, Hu Weiyong stood on the side of a ship under the Yinghai Division, watching the surrounding Yinghai Division's officials busy measuring the water depth and marking it on the map immediately, while there were dozens of large and small boats around him, trying to pull nets to fish.

Even though he has become accustomed to the rocking of ships in recent days, Hu Weiyong is still instinctively afraid of the vast expanse around him.

If he could, Hu Weiyong didn't want to go to sea.

However, since he has accepted this errand, Hu Weiyong also understands that he does not have the treatment of the little adult of the camp sea envoy, and it is impossible not to go to sea if he hangs up the position of the deputy camp sea envoy.

Just like this time, the little master of the camp sea envoy didn't ask him and Wu Liang for their opinions at all, and directly made a decision to let the two of them lead the team to conduct this survey.

After just a few days of getting along, Hu Weiyong was also quite touched.

On the surface, a young boy who is not yet fifteen years old, but his mind seems to have lived for decades and is used to seeing the world.

Therefore, not to mention what to do in front of the little boy, even, a little child, but he seems to be born with a superior temperament, so he has to subconsciously obey the other party's various orders and arrangements.

was suddenly appointed to such a position, although the official position was reduced from Taichang Siqing of the third grade to the third grade, Hu Weiyong was happy in his heart.

Taichang Siqing, after the lord ascended the throne, became an idle position. And this deputy envoy of Yinghai from Sanpin, just look at the various scenery of the little master of Yinghai in Mingzhou, even if he goes to Quanzhou, he can't compare with the other party, and he can imagine the great power of the real power.

Moreover, it is easy to make merits.

As long as you have merit, in the future, can't you go further?

Of course, there are problems with this.

The point is that he and Zuo Xiang have parted ways.

Before getting this appointment, Hu Weiyong hesitated again and again, but still did not take the initiative to visit Zuo Xiang, which can be regarded as showing his attitude. Because, he always felt that His Majesty the Emperor should be staring at him.

Hu Weiyong can also feel the estrangement of His Majesty the Emperor from Zuo Xiang, just like before, Wang Guangyang was transferred from Jiangxi Province to Shandong Province, and Hu Weiyong immediately set his sights on that position.

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It's a pity that His Majesty the Emperor would rather let Jiangxi Province participate in politics vacant than give it to him.

At that time, Hu Weiyong went to visit Zuo Xiang again, hoping that Li Shanchang would help him say that he had quietly inquired about it, and it was rumored that His Majesty the Emperor seemed to want Tao An, a bachelor of Hanlin who was the same as him, to serve as a provincial politician from the second grade.

For some reason, I dismissed the idea again.

Because he paid too much attention, Hu Weiyong inevitably considered it, so he realized it.

Most likely, it was because of Zuo Xiang that His Majesty the Emperor did not let Tao An go.

Tao An belongs to the old minister of Jiqing, not only once served in the local government, has experience in governance, but also read poetry and books, participated in the formulation of many court laws and decrees, and has a strong ability.

The key is that Tao An and Zuo Xiang are not all the way.

Following this line of thought, looking at Yang Xian, Fu Xuan, Zhang Yi and others, things couldn't be more obvious.

Therefore, when he was appointed as the deputy envoy of the battalion, Hu Weiyong actually hesitated for a long time, but in the end he still made a decision and took the initiative to cut off with Zuo Xiang.

It wasn't an easy decision.

The two of them are not only from Dingyuan, but they naturally have the friendship of fellow villagers, and over the years, Hu Weiyong has also invested a lot in Zuo Xiang.

In short, from attaching one favored minister to attaching another favored minister, for the sake of one's own future, one has to do this.

Thinking of this, Hu Weiyong couldn't help but turn his head to look at Wu Liang on the top deck of the stern.

This is really interesting.

Wu Liang, who was holding a monocular and looking around for a long time, had just put down this magical little thing, and intuitively felt that someone was looking at him, turned his head over, and saw that it was Hu Weiyong, but he just nodded slightly.

Wu Liang didn't like Hu Weiyong and felt that this person was too snobbish.

However, there is no intention of making enemies, anyway, the two will take office separately in a few days, and they will have less to do in the future.

Listening to the officials around him report some of the situation in this sea area, Wu Liang changed his position and raised the telescope again, perhaps because of Hu Weiyong's gaze just now, which made his thoughts a little off.

Wu Liang also didn't expect the sudden arrival of this deputy envoy of Yinghai.

However, a few days ago, he was suddenly summoned to Jinling by the lord and reprimanded him in person, Wu Liang thought that he was going to be idle, and he made plans to fight all these years, perhaps, he could also take a break and read or something.

Unexpectedly, after the training, the lord sent him directly to this Mingzhou.

Wu Liang just accepted this.

No complaints.

After all, he is already a monarch and a minister at the moment, and the prince of heaven and earth is a teacher, and of course he will do whatever the lord asks him to do. Moreover, the lord made it very clear to him that since he always couldn't help but meddle in the locality, he should completely turn into a civilian official.

There was also a bit of a lesson in the words.

However, then, the lord mentioned that he would still remember his past exploits.

Wu Liang felt that with this sentence, there was nothing to say.

So we set off.

For a certain master in the world who shouted 'send 500 years of national glory', Wu Liang has also been famous for a long time, and there has been a small intersection. However, there was no intention of dealing with it before. He likes to make friends with Confucian scholars, but he doesn't like this kind of crazy man who talks nonsense.

However, in these days in Mingzhou, Wu Liang also had to change his mind.

Whether it is the real feats made by the other party, or the knowledge of the other party that he has been studying in recent days, Wu Liang can be sure that even if the words of the 'five hundred years of national glory' are destined to be unverifiable, but it is indeed a great talent.

is so big that he is obviously just a little boy, but the whole Mingzhou is obedient to him.

I also talked to my younger brother Wu Zhen in private

It's really Mingzhou's 'up and down'.

Because, this Mingzhou, even if it is a naval governor from the first grade, he has to listen to the naval envoy of the third rank, and Wu Liang then saw it with his own eyes, it is really, and it is almost the same as obeying words.

What about yourself?

The young man said, this time to explore Huang Zeyang, just the two deputy envoys of the battalion and the sea should lead the team, which can also be regarded as experience, so they came obediently.

I didn't think about refuting anything, I instinctively took it for granted.

Thinking of this, Wu Liang, who was holding a telescope to watch the fireworks in the direction of Langgangshan Island, couldn't help but shake his head and laugh, this matter itself is the problem.

Perhaps, some people are born like this.

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Dinghai, same day.

After lunch, Zhu Yuan got up and left the city after a short rest, and first came to the tooling workshop that had just been set up outside the West City.

Lao Zhu agreed to Zhu Yuan's 'tooling' plan, so he began to implement it.

There were some hiccups that happened.

Seeing that it was the little master of the camp Haisi who was high up, a woman who worked in the workshop suddenly grabbed a girl by the head and stepped forward, so frightened that Zhu Yuan's guards thought that this person was going to assassinate.

A false alarm.

It turned out that the woman wanted to give her daughter to Zhu Yuan as a maid, and Balabala said a lot in a dialect that Zhu Yuan didn't understand, probably to praise her girl's appearance.

It's really a Peugeot girl.

Of course, Zhu Yuan didn't want it, and the yard really couldn't fit it.

And then there's business.

According to some previous concepts, the garment-making process of the workshop was roughly standardized, and a small problem was solved.

Button.

There were also buttons in this era, but they were not popular.

For the common people, the so-called buckle is mainly knotted weaving.

This is obviously not suitable for tooling.

Some time ago, I had the idea of making crystal buttons, but it was unrealistic to use crystal buttons for tooling. After discussing with his entourage and workshop officials, the matter was easily resolved.

Since it is by the sea, local materials are used.

Shells.

All kinds of shells, as long as you pick up the size of what it is, wear holes, whether it is a jacket or pants, you can use it.

There is also a belt for trousers.

It can't be helped.

At present, all kinds of leather, especially cowhide, are still strategic materials, as for the shark skin made from local materials, this is more expensive and unrealistic, so it is still according to the tradition, tie the rope.

Then cross the river.

This time, the main thing is to look at the preparation of the Mingzhou Maritime Academy and the location of the affiliated primary school.

In addition, it is planned to build a bazaar next to the resettlement community of displaced people in Shandong. In later more fashionable terms, it could also be called 'high street'.

In the just-ended summer flood, the soldiers and soldiers who participated in the sea fishing are expected to give an average reward of 3 times according to the plan taken up by the Yinghai Division. Of course, there are many and few different positions.

When money is there, there is demand for consumption.

What's more, in the future, more than 100,000 people will gather here, which is itself a consumer group with great potential.

Since he thought about it, Zhu Yuan will not do good things this time.

It is planned to build a street, and the real estate will be under the name of Yinghai Division, which will be mainly used for rent, and will be used for various businesses to open restaurants, cloth shops, rice shops, etc. Fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders, and the Mingzhou grocery chain company under Yinghai Division itself will also participate.

After the launch of Lao Zhu's summer tax hemp material delivery plan, the Mingzhou grocery chain company, which had just been established not long ago, seemed to have no need to exist.

Zhu Yuan didn't think so.

After experience, Mingzhou grocery chain company not only has a skilled sales team, but also opened up a sales network, as a former businessman, Zhu Yuan is very clear, sales team and sales network is very important.

In the future, even if you don't need to buy hemp materials, you can buy others.

Moreover, not only buying, but also chain companies can sell it.

Just like the commercial street that is about to be built, this is only the first one, there will be many in the future, and on each street, you can introduce Mingzhou grocery chain companies to operate various businesses.

After the matter here was over, Zhu Yuan rushed to Dongcheng Wharf in the evening.

A speed test of the ship and the oarboat was arranged in the morning.

With the same 200 materials and the same six manpower, the result is that a steamship built by Zhu Yuan in the past can travel about 50 miles in one hour, compared to a paddle ship of similar size, which can only travel 20 miles of waterway in an hour.

Maybe the oarboat will be faster enough to add some manpower and a few large oars, but the difference in efficiency between them is also obvious.

Zhu Yuan saw the results and made a decision.

It is planned to mass-produce 50 ships of 200 materials, half of which will be supplied to the Navy as daily patrol vessels, and the other half will be used to create a ferry system between the offshore islands.

Steamships have appeared early on, and they are significantly faster, why haven't they become popular?

Zhu Yuan has gradually understood these days that the key problem is wear and tear.

Most of the structure of traditional ships is made of wood, so the structure is too simple to be compared to oars. Paddle Wheel ...... Even if the hinge is made of some metal, it is actually very undurable.

Until the appearance of the bearing.

Traditional paddle wheels, when operating, may have problems in a month, but not only save effort but also greatly reduce wear and tear of bearings, as long as they are properly maintained, they may be no problem for a year.

In this way, it was not until it was dark that Zhu Yuan finally returned to the city.

Such a daily busyness and all kinds of tediousness, except for a breakthrough from the 'Stone Age' to the 'Iron Age' of sea fishing, Zhu Yuan understands that after all, it is just an accumulation of quantitative changes. However, in the case that another breakthrough cannot be achieved in the short term, it is also a necessary process to continuously accumulate quantitative changes.