Chapter 307: The Old Pawn in the Mountains

And there is also the development of Daning, the land in Daning is full of flat land, as long as you are willing to go, most of them can get a piece of their own land.

No matter how it is calculated, it is better than in the mountains, so there are many people who go out of the Shanhaiguan and go to farming outside the customs.

Others can ignore these signs, but Zhu Yuanzhang can't ignore them, in his heart, the threat of Mongolia or the ethnic minorities in the north going south has always been very well remembered.

Zhu Yuanzhang's generation can be regarded as subduing this group of people, but what about the future?

Don't talk about the far, just say the near, there is a report in the northwest of Hamiwei Shaanxi, and the local people are also a little impatient, as if they want to unite with the Tartars on the grassland, against the Ming Dynasty.

If Zhu Yuanzhang gave up, Zhu Di would probably be able to suppress it, but Zhu Yuanzhang knew better than anyone about the difficulties of fighting on the grassland.

Xu Da has fought a defeated battle in his life, didn't he appear when he fought the Northern Yuan?

If you let it go like this, let the Great Wall be completely destroyed, once the Tartars go south, whether the future monarch can hold the Yanyun area, whether they can drive the Tartars out of the Great Wall, this is the question.

So this time, Zhu Yuanzhang personally took Zhu Gaochi, Lan Yu and He Qiu, and led hundreds of guards to cross the mountains and mountains, and inspected more than a dozen dock forts along the line of the Great Wall.

These places are now deserted, and they have become a paradise for small animals.

Even He Qiu had to sigh that nature's cover for human activities is stronger than anything else, and it has only been a long time since this restructuring has become like this.

What makes He Qiu feel even more strange is that the current Ming Dynasty may not repair and build the Great Wall on a large scale, and the famous scenic spot of the Ming Dynasty in the future, the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, will probably disappear in his hands.

Because He Qiu went to Zunhua last time, he had already communicated with the local blacksmiths, and learned that he had developed something similar to the firing pistol of later generations, and also made black technologies such as customized huo yao.

In this era, the Ming Dynasty, who developed these things, can be called invincible.

What is the saying? Since the formation of firearms, the famous clans of the grassland have become more and more capable of singing and dancing music.

He Qiu believes that in the coming days, the Mongols and Warats in Monan and Mobei will also become good at singing and dancing.

It is true that a group of people in the army are now asking Zhu Yuanzhang to repair the Great Wall, and they must be prepared for danger in times of peace, and Zhu Yuanzhang also agrees with this statement in his heart.

But Zhu Di objected, what he took out was the musket produced by Zunhua, and he proved to Zhu Yuanzhang with facts that the cavalry charge of the barbarians in the future was no longer a threat to the Ming Dynasty.

What's more, the training of musketeers is simple, and with the huge population of the Ming Dynasty, it is easy to mobilize millions of musketeers who are out of production.

Zunhua's musket production capacity can't keep up now, but it will definitely be able to catch up in the future, and it won't be a pipe dream to install millions of musketeers.

And Zhu Di also said one thing to Zhu Yuanzhang, if you want to repair the Great Wall, it will not cost a small amount of money on the border gates.

And he still has to throw money into it every year, if it is calculated, it is enough for Zhu Di to connect the entire Ming Dynasty with cement.

After thinking about it, Zhu Yuanzhang put down the matter of repairing the Great Wall, after all, there are still many things to pay attention to in the army, and the change of the military system is not as simple as imagined.

The army is intertwined, although Zhu Yuanzhang is the founder of the country and has a very high prestige, it is still quite difficult to move.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the somewhat decadent side walls in front of him, and his thoughts were a little confused for a while.

Zhu Yuanzhang knew that he had risen from a beggar to become the Ninth Five-Year Emperor, although his own efforts were indispensable, but there was also a little destiny in it.

He, Zhu Yuanzhang, chased the Northern Yuan in his life, dismissed the prime minister, and killed corrupt officials, he once thought that he was omnipotent!

But when he got old and Zhu Biao died, Zhu Yuanzhang found that the previous ones were actually illusions, and he himself was just a passerby in the Ming Dynasty.

Does Zhu Yuanzhang have any good way to deal with Zhu Yunwen? Can you do anything about the assassination of the crown prince by the king of Jin? What can be done about the hundred officials slowly snatching back the power?

If you are old, you will be old, and sooner or later, he, Zhu Yuanzhang, will be like this Great Wall, forever staying in Hongwu Nian, staying in this solidified history, waiting for the comments of future generations.

At that time, even if someone slandered him, what could he do?

Zhu Yuanzhang walked without saying a word, and the few people who followed him didn't dare to speak.

Suddenly, Zhu Yuanzhang saw a wisp of cooking smoke in the distance, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who was interested, pointed to it and said.

"Let's go, let's go up and have a look!"

After going around several mountains all the way, I found that this was originally a sentry post, and it was also a beacon tower before, maybe dozens of people were stationed here to guard it day and night!

Now it has become a simple dwelling, the cooking smoke is curling, and there are a few chickens in the fenced yard, hearing the movement caused by the arrival of the large number of people, the chickens in the yard are a little panicked, and they have fluttered their wings, trying to stand on the tree to hide.

An old man with gray hair, armed with an old musket, came out of the house and looked around vigilantly.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked He Qiu to step forward and explain.

He Qiu arrived at the gate of the courtyard and said to the old man.

"We are the generals of Liang Guogong, and we have come to inspect the Great Wall this time."

The old man looked left and right, smiled, and came down to speak.

"I don't think you are the generals of Liang Guogong, and his generals are probably not so polite."

Lan Yuqi, who was following Zhu Yuanzhang, had itchy teeth, and he didn't know what to say, but he also knew that he was at a loss.

The generals under his command were indeed a bit domineering before, and there was a reason why this old man had a bad impression of his generals.

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Lan Yu with a smile, he also knew this, Lan Yu dared to lead someone to directly attack and kill the prince, how good could his generals be?

He Qiu bowed unhurriedly and said.

"The old man has a good eye, we are indeed not the generals of Liang Guogong, but the old generals of Zheng Guogong, but my master has been away from the army for too long, and this time I received an order from His Majesty to inspect the Great Wall, and I am worried that the border army will be contemptuous, so in the name of Liang Guogong, don't blame, don't blame."

The old man was a little startled, and hurriedly bowed and saluted, calling him a general.

He Qiu asked carefully, it turned out that this old man was still Zheng Guogong's subordinate in the past, but because he was injured, he had to turn into a military household, withdraw from the front-line team, and guard the frontier.

Zhu Yuanzhang stepped forward and talked to the old man with some sadness about the old things that often met spring, and slowly the old man let down his vigilance.

It was at this time that He Qiu noticed that he had just said a lot, and the old man had never put his hand down from the fire gun at all.

He Qiu couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, he couldn't compare to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Just when He Qiu was secretly alert, Zhu Yuanzhang had already talked to the old soldier, and after chatting, he realized that this old soldier was also experienced.

When he was young, he served as Chen Youliang's soldier, and later lost the battle with the general, and then defected to the Ming army.

But his temper is not very good, and he is not very good with his boss, so the credit is deliberately suppressed, not to mention that he is a demote, and he naturally has a layer of stains, and it is difficult to be promoted.

So after decades in the army, he is still an ordinary veteran, not even a hundred households.