In a small Buddhist temple in the grate lane of Changzhou City, the peach trees in the courtyard are luxuriant, it is the late spring and early summer, the pink peach blossoms fall down, looking at it from afar, like a fairy scattering flowers.

The smell of earth and the faint aroma of the Ming Dynasty, coupled with the white walls and gray tiles of the Ming Dynasty Hui-style architecture, seem to constitute a Chinese-style ink and blue picture, which nourishes the soul of Jiang Xinghuo like a poem.

Jiang Xinghuo was sitting in the pavilion and sipping tea, when his eyebrows suddenly moved, he heard slight footsteps, and Wang Bin did not warn.

"You're back."

The person who came was not someone else, it was Huikong.

Although Huikong broke the silence, he was still as silent as ever, and he handed a letter about the situation in Changzhou Mansion to Jiang Xinghuo without saying anything.

Jinyiwei has the way of Jinyiwei, and Yao Guangxiao naturally has his own intelligence channels.

Wang Bin held the knife and looked at the national teacher, but secretly thought in his heart, it seems that the national teacher is not at ease with Jinyiwei. The stumps of these brocade guards are hard to guarantee that they will not collude with the magistrates.

After Jiang Xinghuo finished reading the first letter, Huikong sent the second letter, but it was Yao Guangxiao who told him about the changes in Beijing and the new atmosphere, which were very colloquial.

"In the military academy, Liu Sheng's research on artillery tactics was ridiculed by other instructors, and the officers of the older generation looked down on the role of artillery, but Zhu Yong, Zhang Anshi, and Xu Jingchang were quite interested in the new artillery tactics, and began to study with Liu Sheng with a group of people."

"In the Guozi prison, the students showed great enthusiasm for the hot air balloons that could fly into the sky, and they all formed groups privately in accordance with the principles announced in the "Di Bao" to raise funds and try to make hot air balloons.

"In Shilinli, the first adherents of the scientific method of learning from things have broken out, and they are using this method to study the contradictions of everything in the world, put forward hypotheses, and conduct arguments.

"In terms of changing the law, the shelf of the president's reform affairs yamen has been erected, and the capable officials are also supplementing one after another, and the formulation of the examination law indicators is the main work of the yamen at present, and the examination law indicators of the six departments and temples in Beijing have been almost set, and it is expected to be implemented this summer."

"Regarding the test pilots that Jiang Sheng specially instructed him, during the artificial rainfall, three of the six hot air balloons successfully landed, and there were three test pilots who parachuted, two of them were found, and the other named Ding Xiaohong was missing, and some people said that he made a forced landing near the Yangtze River and was washed away by the river."

"Regarding the relief grain, there is no need to worry at present, the grain that has been transported from Sichuan and Huguang has arrived in Nanjing one after another down the river, Xia Yuanji is doing the overall planning, and when he arrives in Songjiang, he will definitely be ready."

“.”

There are all kinds of affairs, and Yao Guangxiao's letter is a summary of what happened during Jiang Xinghuo's journey after he left Nanjing.

Everything in Kyocaka seems to be running well.

The seeds of science have been planted, and with the end of artificial rainfall, it is like a rain of new ideas falling on people's minds, beginning to let the seeds of science take root and sprout.

The most advanced group of people of this era, the shackles of old ideas in their minds were broken, and then new ideas spontaneously and savagely grew.

In the letter, Yao Guangxiao vaguely reminded him that the news from Annan's side was very bad.

At the same time, Zhu Neng, the Duke of Chengguo, and other generals have been writing letters to ask for war.

Emperor Yongle has already mentioned that he wants the national division to speed up the progress, quickly rush to Songjiang Mansion to quell the civil unrest, and use work for relief to control the floods, so as not to delay on the road.

The meaning here is that we must quickly start the cotton textile industry in Songjiang, and then start fighting in Annam, knocking down Annam, and dumping goods frantically, anyway, large-scale transportation along the coastline, when the number of goods is large enough, the cost of sea routes is infinitely close to zero.

"It's under pressure."

Jiang Xinghuo rubbed his forehead, picked up the pen and wrote a reply letter to Yao Guangxiao, explaining other matters related to the change, such as the focus on adding Xunzi content when compiling the "Yongle Canon", Cao Guogong is about to return to China, the conquest of the day is the year after tomorrow (the second year/third year of Yongle), and the training of the Shandong Bei Japanese army should not be delayed.

Subsequently, he wrote a letter to Zhuo Jing, asking the old man to speed up the training and partial exchange of blood for the Qin Tianjian personnel, these people will be of great use in the next voyage, whether it is the expedition to Annan or Japan, their help is indispensable.

After writing the letter, sealing the fire paint, and stamping his seal, Jiang Xinghuo breathed a sigh of relief.

"The national teacher seems to be a little upset, but what is happening in Changzhou Mansion in front of you?"

Huikong took the letter and said with some difficulty.

Jiang Xinghuo glanced at Huikong in a little surprise, this taciturn monk was really the second time to hear him speak.

"That's not the case."

Jiang Xinghuo opened the folding fan and said with a smile: "What is the matter of Changzhou Mansion?" It's just a matter of fixing. ”

Huikong spoke more and more neatly, and asked again: "National teacher, the little monk has actually always had a doubt. ”

"Say." Jiang Xinghuo raised his eyes and said.

"There may indeed be a problem in Changzhou Mansion, but the time is so tight that the civil uprising cannot be delayed, why don't we go directly to Songjiang Mansion? There was the most violent civil uprising, the most severe floods, and the relief efforts were also ineffective. ”

Huikong's words were very tactful, Jiang Xinghuo knew that Huikong's doubts were probably also the doubts of many people in the team.

"You just want to ask, why do we have to delay time in Changzhou Mansion, Changzhou Mansion is obviously so close to Nanjing City, it is impossible to cause a civil uprising, the officials are relatively honest, and the speed of disaster relief seems to be decent, just take a look at it directly."

Huikong nodded, that's what he meant, but he was embarrassed to say it to his face.

Jiang Xinghuo groaned for a moment, but turned his head to Wang Bin and asked.

"This morning, you and I looked at the whole city at the height of the restaurant, what kind of city do you think this Changzhou capital city is? Or rather, what is the most important thing about the city? ”

Wang Bin thought back to what he saw in the early morning with rivers and sailboats, and replied, "Water trade." ”

"Exactly."

Jiang Xinghuo got up and paced slightly in the pavilion of the temple.

"It is precisely because it is in the middle point of the Jiangnan Canal and the Yangtze River, which is responsible for transshipment of goods, that it can develop into today's 'Tongjin of the Southern Kingdom'.

Huikong also nodded, he was actually the first governor team to arrive in the city of Changzhou, stayed in this small temple in the city, the first time to see the boat along the line shuttled back and forth, the teahouse restaurant was also quite surprised, and the literary style here is extremely prosperous, Houhe Baiyunxi lives mostly for the official eunuchs, often hold the literati group of calligraphy and painting appreciation activities.

"That's why I want to clean up the Changzhou Mansion first."

The folding fan in Jiang Xinghuo's hand closed and waved it heavily.

"When marching and fighting, there is no reason to rashly send troops regardless of the logistics and the unsafe starting place."

"If you want to carry out large-scale disaster relief, water control, and law change in the south of the Yangtze River, Changzhou Mansion, the hub of the east, west, north and south water systems, is the top priority."

"Only when this place is made into a stable rear can we go all out, understand?"

"Otherwise, the country heroes, the city officials, what are they in my eyes? Why do you need to spend so much energy? ”

That is to say, compared with Suzhou, Song, Jia, Hu and other places, Changzhou has no absolute advantage in crop yield, and the handicraft industry is also developing slowly, and the reason why Changzhou can have the status of being on a par with the other four provinces today is entirely because of the water transportation, especially the southeast-northwest direction of the canal running through the south of the Yangtze River, and the advantage of being at the intersection of the Yangtze River as a water transport node, so that it has become an important economic center of the five prefectures around the Taihu Lake.

This truth is clear, and everyone naturally unifies their thinking, and there is no confusion before.

"So what was the national teacher worried about just now?"

Huikong asked curiously.

Jiang Xinghuo didn't hide it, he nodded to the south and the east.

"Annam, Japan."

Speaking of which, Jiang Xinghuo really misses Li Jinglong very much

Whether it was the candidate for the previous conscription of Annan to command the army, or the embarrassing situation of himself as the vice principal in the military academy later, Jiang Xinghuo has already seen that there are few right-hand people in the military circles, and the chain is really dropped at the critical moment.

But military power is too sensitive, and it is easy to commit Zhu Di's taboo, and Jiang Xinghuo is not easy to get close to Xu Huizu, Ping'an, and Sheng Yong.

The disciples he made in prison before, or his friends, Zhu Gaoxu can certainly fight, but if he dies, he is at the level of commanding thousands of people, and he can really take charge of himself with hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of troops to go out to destroy the country.

Ridicule is ridicule, leading troops to fight such a thing, there are really not many handsome talents of Li Jinglong's level.

At the very least, Li Jinglong's marching, logistics, strategic planning, and campaign command were basically above the horizontal line, but the specific tactical arrangements and on-the-spot command decisions were stretched to a certain point.

In other words, as long as the fight is not at the moment, then Li Jinglong is a first-class commander.

And the command in the immediate battle can be compensated by a qualified staff team.

Jiang Xinghuo is not sure if he has the opportunity to participate in the expedition to Annan, but in the next expedition to Japan, he will definitely try to leave the opportunity to Li Jinglong, and he will definitely participate in it.

There is no doubt that Annam is the first large-scale dumping ground for the nascent cotton textile industry, and as the so-called rainy day, as another huge dumping ground for commodities, Japan has to start planning from now on.

We can't wait for the production capacity of Songjiang cotton textile industry to explode, and then think of a way.

At that time, most of the solutions I came up with were to impact the domestic cloth of the Ming Dynasty inward. But the problem is that the food must be eaten one bite at a time, and the handicraft industry cannot be expanded indiscriminately to interfere with agriculture, which will undoubtedly disrupt its own deployment.

It's as if the dragon itself hatched and raised it.

And the evil dragon needs to eat to grow up, and he, the dragon rider, has to be responsible for finding food for it.

Otherwise, the evil dragon will turn back and bite at its own flesh.

The logic couldn't be simpler.

The first step was to clean up the insects in Changzhou Prefecture, establish a stable rear for disaster relief and flood control in Jiangnan and the development of a large-scale cotton textile industry, and wait for Xia Yuanji to raise grain from Sichuan and Huguang.

In the second step, with the availability of grain, we had the confidence to fight the grain price war, and then struck in one fell swoop, completely defeated the opposition forces of the Songjiang Prefectures, and took this opportunity to snatch the population and popular hearts from the gentry, and cultivate a new large-scale cotton textile handicraft workshop to produce goods that could be dumped.

The third step is to conquer Annan to find the first commodity dumping ground for the handicraft products born in the early Ming Dynasty and help it expand recycling manufacturing.

The fourth step is to conquer Japan and release handicraft products that have expanded the amount of manufacturing.

Just when Jiang Xinghuo cleared his mind and set goals and plans for every step of his future actions.

Outside the pavilion of the temple, suddenly two plainclothes warriors brought by Huikong, with a person who was swollen with blisters and bleeding from wounds on his body, walked in.

Jiang Xinghuo looked at it, but he always felt that this person was familiar, but for a while, he really couldn't remember what his name was.

"Huh?"

Wang Bin suddenly said: "This is not the guy in the restaurant?" How did it come to this? ”

With that, he stepped forward to examine the wound.

"It's not a fatal injury, it can be saved, the other party's technique is very professional, but this guy exercises well on weekdays, and subconsciously clamps his muscles, and the knife edge doesn't go deep."

Jiang Xinghuo looked at this guy, raised his head and asked quickly.

"How did you find out?"

"Floated up from the river behind the temple."

(End of chapter)