The main hall of the outer courtyard of the Navy Governor's Mansion is similar to the Mingyuan Hall next door, with a long table, at this time, only Hua Gao and Zhu Yuan are sitting next to each other, and they are reading the front-line battle report that Wenzao has just sent from the north.

Today is the twenty-second day of July.

Lao Zhu arrived in Bianliang on July 16, and Wenzao went north together, which was the first time to send a letter back.

Compared with the two-day journey from Mingzhou to Jinling, the distance from here to Bianliang is more than 2,000 miles, and the one-way transmission of letters has also increased to five days, which is still without considering the cost of manpower, horsepower and so on.

As for the common '800-mile expedited' in the annals, it is actually very difficult to achieve. It's not that the horsepower can't run, the main thing is that, in most cases, the road conditions don't allow it.

In addition, the ancients calculated the distance very roughly, and the short distance may be more accurate, but once the road is lengthened, it will be completely inaccurate.

Just like the most typical one, the shallow area off the coast of the Jianghuai River was previously known as 'Wanli Long Beach', and after the actual measurement of the Yinghai Division according to the latitude ranging method, it was actually less than 1,000 miles.

Inside the lobby of the Navy Governor's Palace.

The fighter plane is changing rapidly, and what should have been said has been said in advance, Zhu Yuan does not plan to give Lao Zhu any more opinions, but judging from the news fed back from the front, Lao Zhu still accepted most of his previous suggestions.

For example, Hua Gao is holding two sketches and portraits in his hand.

Portrait of Emperor Zhizheng father and son.

Since Lao Zhu asked Wen Zao to deliberately bring back the two portraits, it means that there must have been hundreds of them on the front line.

It is conceivable that in the future, there will be no shortage of leading generals at all levels on the front line, which will prevent Emperor Zhizheng's father and son from escaping from the capital unknowingly to the greatest extent.

Moreover, before Wen Zao left, Lao Zhu had just issued an edict to reward the whole army. The hundreds of thousands of soldiers who participated in the Northern Expedition not only had silver coins and cloth rewards, but also celebrated for three days.

This is clearly intentional.

Those who are familiar with Lao Zhu understand that under normal circumstances, Lao Zhu is not a person who can engage in these tricks.

Since it has been done, it is obviously for some people to see.

Who is it for?

is still the father and son of Emperor Zhizheng.

Lao Zhu should hope that Emperor Zhizheng's father and son think that the Ming army has taken Bianliang, and they are already very satisfied, and may not be in a hurry to capture Dadu.

Zhu Yuan felt that as long as Emperor Zhizheng's father and son were not too stupid, or, even if the father and son couldn't guess it, there was definitely no shortage of smart people around Emperor Zhizheng's father and son, and there was no shortage of people who were familiar with Lao Zhu. However, Zhu Yuan also believes that people are always easy to paralyze themselves.

Sometimes, even if you know it's fake, you still can't help but have the greatest luck mentality.

This is not Zhu Yuan's words.

In this land, there are dozens of thick historical books that record too many similar stories.

Just like the Bianliang City where Lao Zhu is at the moment, the Jingkang Change, I began to feel that the Jin people would not come over, and when they did, they felt that they were just asking for money, and they gave the money, and they came again in a blink of an eye, and comforted themselves, this city can still be defended, and the result is ...... Didn't hold ......

Hua Gao's military rank is high enough, and Zhu Yuan does not hide many things from him, and the two talked on paper for more than an hour, and in the blink of an eye, it was evening.

He was forcibly dragged to eat here.

Inside the dining room.

Seeing three good-looking women in their twenties personally serving the meal, Zhu Yuan was very helpless.

This is after Zhu Yuan gave a suggestion a few days ago, Hua Gao pulled him to personally help select it. For most of the month, in addition to the affairs of the Camp Sea Division, in private, Zhu Yuan was tossed the most was the little thing about the Navy Governor.

As a result, Zhu Yuan even completed another book called "Scientific Fertility Handbook".

Huagao is regarded as a treasure.

After the three women served the food, they were sent away by Hua Gao, Zhu Yuan looked at the various fish and shellfish sitting on it, and shook his head helplessly: "My lord, it's too much, even if the seafood is very replenished, you can't eat like this, right?" ”

Hua Gao had already swallowed a garlic oyster neatly, and when he heard the words, he gestured to the table: "Green vegetables, there are green vegetables." ”

Zhu Yuan: "......"

Hua Gao swallowed a mouthful of oysters before he said: "Hanlin, I really think that according to the recipe you gave, and the recipe that he researched with Rebirth, it has been ...... recently." It's different, I just want to discuss with you? ”

Zhu Yuan unceremoniously pulled a plate of green vegetables in front of him, took a bite and ate it, puzzled: "Huh? ”

Hua Gao lowered his voice a little: "Three times a month, is it less, how about six times?" ”

Zhu Yuan shook his head: "You insist on it for at least half a year, if it really doesn't work, my method doesn't work, you can be casual." ”

"It works, it works," Hua Gao nodded again and again: "I've said it, I can feel the change." ”

"Then you should insist even more," Zhu Yuan actually didn't like to discuss similar issues with Hua Gao, and always felt embarrassed, but he could only say: "My lord, to be honest, you are not young anymore, so you should pay more attention to 'quality' rather than 'quantity', otherwise, it will only backfire." ”

Hua Gao sighed: "I'm in a hurry." ”

"I can't help it."

Hua Gao sighed again, then looked over, with a smile: "Hanlin, your yard...... No movement? ”

"I'm still young."

"But be tighter, tighter," Hua Gao persuaded again: "If there is, there will be a man and a woman, and in the future, we will be a family of children." ”

Zhu Yuan's expression was strange.

This generation...... It's a bit messy again.

After eating, Hua Gao brought the "Scientific Fertility Handbook" again.

Make comments.

About a few of the illustrations.

The Governor of the Navy was very serious, and he was serious: "Hanlin, I've been thinking about it recently, it's just a pillow, is it still a little worse, or else, upside down green onions, how do you feel about this posture?" ”

Talking about it, he made a comparison.

Zhu Yuan: "......"

I'm just a kid, so why do I have to carry all this weird? For a few broken pictures,It's already been felt that it's not serious by the Nizi around me.,Painting the Spring Palace at a young age.,Is it easy for me?

Pull out your legs and go.

The next day was July 23.

Entering the dog days, Zhu Yuan's spirit is not very good, if it weren't for Fu Shou sending a batch of ice cubes over, piled up in the house every day to physically cool down, I'm afraid he wouldn't even be able to sleep well.

And again, he prefers to sleep alone.

There are people around, no matter how beautiful they are, they are hot.

Things still have to be done.

Lao Zhu personally sat in charge of the battle of Dadu, if it ended successfully in August and returned in September, it would be difficult for Zhu Yuan to stay in Mingzhou at that time.

Therefore, it is necessary to make a layout for yourself after leaving.

Wu Liang and Hu Weiyong had already rushed to Guangzhou and Quanzhou respectively to take up their posts, and each of them left with 100,000 taels of silver, as well as a group of officials personally selected by Zhu Yuan.

It's not a bare pole, but there are many things for the two.

Taking over the sea trade is one thing, and the main thing is sea fishing.

Behind the simple two words, it involves organizing fishermen, building boats, repairing ports, surveying fish conditions, drawing maps and so on.

This is just the beginning of the two's task.

Zhu Yuan's expectations are actually more, for example, the two large islands corresponding to Guangzhou and Quanzhou must be focused on management.

After all, the south is not as good as Mingzhou.

The Changguo Islands stretch outward for more than 200 miles, which is equivalent to providing many natural harbors and shores for this era, ensuring the safety of fishermen to the greatest extent. Moreover, the Zhoushan Fishery itself is the largest fishing ground along the coast of China, and Zhu Yuan's personal management can be said to be the right time, place and people.

Fujian and Guangdong, Zhu Yuan is not very familiar, but relatively speaking, if you want to carry out large-scale sea fishing, the offshore waters do not have such good conditions, so you can only develop far-sea fishing.

This is not the far-sea fishing that will be hundreds of years from now.

At the moment, two or three hundred miles away from the coast is already considered a high sea.

Coincidentally, those two large islands happened to be in the corresponding position, and with the level of productivity of this era, as long as the two large islands were managed, just the development of sea fishing along the periphery of the islands was enough to have a considerable harvest.

Again, the state.

There are three successors of Zhu Yuan, Liu Lian, Yao Feng and Fang Li.

Because of the success of shipping and sea fishing, Zhu Yuan had already asked Lao Zhu for credit for them at the beginning of the month, and applied for the re-establishment of the official position of the Yinghai Division.

All three were promoted by two levels.

They were promoted from the previous five-grade camp sea division to the newly established four-grade camp sea division, and their grade was equivalent to that of the prefect, only one level behind Wu Liang and Hu Weiyong.

Next, there is the question of who will be in charge after Zhu Yuan leaves.

The result of Zhu Yuan's private deliberation was Yao Feng.

The reason is very simple, like He Huai, who is also the deputy envoy of the camp in Shandong, he is a 'technocrat'.

In this regard, Liu Lian, who is diligent and studious and willing to accept all kinds of new learning, is actually not bad, and is willing to combine knowledge and action, but Liu Lian's too upright personality and without his suppression, it is easy to go too far and hinder others from doing things concretely.

Zhu Yuan even considered whether to bring this person back to Jinling when he left, so as not to make everyone too constrained here.

No decision has been made yet.

And then there's Fang Li.

At the beginning, Lao Zhu sent Fang Li over, mainly to coordinate and convene the old Fang family who had fled.

Fang Li completed the task well.

Not only that, in the past few months, Fang Li has also been conscientious about the other work assigned by Zhu Yuan, just like the previous summer flood sea fishing, from early May to mid-June, Fang Li has been drifting at sea for more than a month, and there is no shortage of hard work.

What's more, there is also the Fang family's private devotion to Zhu Yuan.

If it weren't for Lao Zhu's troubles, Zhu Yuan would even want to send Fang Li to Fujian or Guangdong to run a province alone. Compared with Wu Liang and Hu Weiyong, who had just started, although Fang Li's talent was not as good as Liu Lian and Yao Feng, after all, he was familiar with the various operation processes of the Yinghai Division, and when he was released, Zhu Yuan believed that Fang Li would most likely do better than Wu Liang and Hu Weiyong.

Now that both pits are occupied, what to do with Fang Li is also a question.

Among the three previous Ying Hai Si Lang, the current Ying Hai Si Shi Shi is nothing, if they are listed under Zhu Yuan, but when their respective merits are not bad, Zhu Yuan asked Yao Feng to replace him, even if the reason is very legitimate, it will inevitably make the other two have ideas.

It really didn't work, so Zhu Yuan planned to bring Fang Li back to Jinling with him.

There is still a lot to do in the future, and there will be no shortage of places to place Fang Li.

In any case, this matter is important.

The experience of being a human being in two lives made Zhu Yuan firm in one thing, this world, from the country to the family, has always been made because of people.

Personnel is really important.

In addition to the three backbones, there are also various departments and companies set up by Zhu Yuan in recent months, and the management structure also needs to be improved as soon as possible to ensure that he can operate freely after returning to Jinling.

These are still all kinds of cumbersome things.

The work started at nine o'clock in the morning, and until the sun set on this day, Zhu Yuan returned to the Yinghai Envoy's mansion and continued to look through a statistical document that had just been made.

From June 20 to July 20, the sea fishing team under the Mingzhou Marine Development Group harvested fish in this relatively hot season.

Zhu Yuan's previous goal was to catch 100,000 quintals of fish per month, even in the season.

At that time, I felt that this goal was not low, 100,000 quintals of fish, as rations, enough to feed more than 100,000 people, and the Navy Governor's Mansion and Yinghai Division in Mingzhou could be all-inclusive.

In fact, in the past month, the total harvest of various fish caught by the sea fishing team has reached 130,000 quintals.

30% over-completion of the task.

While Zhu Yuan was happy, he also had to be cautious, and went through the harvests of various fish in detail, and invited some officials and fishermen to inquire in detail, and also found some problems.

For example, there are 17,000 quintals of mud snails that are found on many islands in Changguang.

That's more than 1.7 million catties.

Zhu Yuan has tasted this kind of mud snail before, it is not big, and the mud snail in April and May is the fattest, and the taste is also good.

The problem is that in just one month, more than 1.7 million catties were looted, which is a bit excessive.

Now that the problem was discovered, Zhu Yuan summoned a group of people in charge on the spot, elaborated on the concepts of 'fishing without exhaustion' and 'sustainable development', and asked the sea fishing team to immediately stop harvesting mud snails.

At the same time, Liu Lian and others were also asked to go to the sea to personally explore and determine the fishing standards for various fish and shrimp, shellfish, sea vegetables and other products.

Probably, you can't overdo it, you can't catch too small fish, and if it's a breeding season, you need to be restrained.

In fact, the goal of fish gathering in all kinds of fishing in the waters off Mingzhou is to reproduce, but at present, for large and small yellow croaker, and the hairtail fish that will be fished this winter, because the volume is large enough, there is no need to converge for the time being.

However, other marine life needs to be restrained now.

He also said that the mud snails on the tidal flats of the islands are really convenient to harvest, and if you don't know how to restrain and blindly pursue yield, maybe after three or five years, there will be no more production.

At the same time, Zhu Yuan also thought about the problem of artificial breeding.

Marine fish is not easy for the time being, but this shellfish that lives on the tidal flats may be able to be specially demarcated and specially cultivated, at least, through artificial intervention, to increase production.

It took more than half an hour to deal with the problems that were discovered temporarily.

Zhu Yuan returned to the inner house, still according to his personal timekeeping standard, and the time was already more than eight o'clock in the evening.

It was hot, and I didn't have much appetite, so I went to take a shower first, and then went back to the cool main house covered with ice cubes to slow down, and then I ate something under the urging of the woman next to me, and then went directly to the bedroom to rest.

A certain thought occurred before going to bed.

Let's make it rain.

and hurriedly dispelled.

Don't.

Mingzhou is okay here, in the north, opposite Hangzhou Bay, Susong and other prefectures, these days have been rained, and further north, only separated by a big river, the Huaidong boundary represented by Yangzhou Mansion, but it is a large area of drought.

Coupled with the ongoing wars in various places......

What a bad year!