After the financial meeting of the second year of Yongle, the issue of military spending for the Northern Expedition was basically coordinated, and the next step was the process of not interfering with each other in the military field and the political and economic fields.

The center of the imperial court as a whole has not changed much, because Beijing has already set up a branch with Guo Zi as the Shangshu, plus Gu Cheng, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, and Xu Huizu, the Duke of Wei, of the military capital of the military capital, have a complete set of small civil and military teams to run the government affairs of Beizhili and even the entire north, so there is no need to empty the entire imperial court, and the civil officials only need to bring some accompanying personnel.

For example, Jin Zhong, Jin Youzi, and Yang Rong and others will follow the northern expedition together.

Before leaving, Zhu Di also summoned Jiang Xinghuo.

When Zhu Gaosui, who made a cameo appearance, came to Jiang Xinghuo's house, Jiang Xinghuo and others were eating soup pots.

The reason why the soup pot is eaten in late spring and early summer is not for any other reason, mainly because Li Dashuai specially loaded back a box of mushrooms from the Annanto military transport ship, which is said to be a local specialty, which can not only be preserved, but also tastes delicious.

I had planned to eat it a long time ago, but I heard that Li Dashuai himself was lying on the board, so he didn't dare to eat this mushroom, and then Jiang Xinghuo felt that it was a waste to throw it away, and after making sure that it would not hallucinate or cause death, he took it to shabu and ate it.

The soup pot of various mushrooms is a pot, and some people don't like mushrooms, so they eat mutton.

Since the time of the Northern Song Dynasty, mutton has become one of the most popular meats in the land of China, and the other pot of soup pot is called red and white soup pot, the reason why it is called this name means that the mutton is bright red, the cabbage is refreshing, and the white radish is tender, it tastes very good, and has the effect of replenishing qi and blood.

However, although it looks like an ordinary soup pot, many things in reality have to be looked at separately, why is it said that there are frozen bones on the stinky road of Zhumen's wine and meat, the reason is here, for example, the soup bowl that Jiang Xinghuo is holding in his hand at the moment looks like an ordinary bowl of soup, but it is actually a broth made of beef bones, with a few green onions, shiitake mushrooms and tofu slices in it, which looks full of color and fragrance, and smells very attractive.

The mushroom soup pot was made by Jiang Xuan, and this thing was naturally not made by Jiang Xuan, but the designated chef of the old monk.

To tell the truth, every time he saw the dumb uncle hunched over his back and holding a sharp knife in his hand, Jiang Xinghuo felt that when this person was young, he was designated as a dead man raised by an old monk.

As for whether it was, Jiang Xinghuo didn't ask.

Even if it is an intimate relationship, some things are not easy to ask, and people always have to have some privacy.

For example, Jiang Xinghuo never cared about where Yao Guangxiao's intelligence came from, nor did he care about how many idle chess pieces he left after his intelligence network was dismantled.

Zhu Gaosui seemed to be in a good mood, and he didn't have a gloomy face, but hummed a little song and walked in with his hands behind his back.

The afterglow of the setting sun shone on his body, and his slightly long face and narrow eyes looked a little warmer.

"What is this?"

"Oh, I'll talk about it later, I just haven't eaten."

Zhu Gaosui then threw the holy decree he was holding in his hands behind his back to the table next to him, without any respect for his father.

"His Royal Highness the Third Prince has come down."

Jiang Xinghuo hurriedly handed the empty bowl at hand to Yu Qian beside him, and asked him to serve a bowl of mutton blood soup.

He stood up with a smile and faced Zhu Gaosui.

Zhu Gaosui also responded with a smile: "I haven't seen the national teacher for a long time, how are you doing lately?" ”

"Make do, make do."

The two sat down together.

Zhu Gaosui took out a bag of things and opened it, took out one and handed it to Jiang Xinghuo.

Jiang Xinghuo smiled and waved his hand: "Don't eat it, this thing eats too much and has a rotten mouth." ”

"Fuck it."

If nothing else, it was the betel nut that was introduced from Luzon and other places, which was originally used by sailors to refresh the spirits, but later found that the audience was quite large, so it gradually became popular.

However, Jiang Xinghuo knew the dangers of betel nut, so he ordered the city department to strictly investigate betel nut smuggling, but he did not let "Ming Pao" vigorously publicize it, because people have a rebellious mentality, you don't let him do anything, he has to try.

But the treasures in this world, no matter what they are, Zhu Gaosui, as the prince, can always get them.

Zhu Gaosui chewed twice, probably knowing that it was not good to numb himself like this, so he spit directly into the waste basket next to the dining table, and then sighed: "Alas! We haven't seen each other for almost a month since I was taken to hard labor. ”

Jiang Xinghuo bowed his head slightly in agreement.

The so-called "arrest and hard labor" refers to the investigation and unmasking of the post.

Ji Gang was not beheaded, he handed over a few caught Tyrant Zhao Yu Party, since the matter was solved by Jiang Xinghuo through the Taixue Society, Zhu Di didn't bother to pursue him, anyway, Ji Gang is quite useful.

But this matter could not be investigated, so Zhu Di handed over the task to Zhu Gaosui, who had nothing to do all day.

Zhu Gaosui took a small number of people and began to run around in the entire Nanzhili.

As a result, it can't be said that nothing has been gained, only that there has been no progress.

This is also normal, people are not stupid, at the beginning there was no experience in the confrontation of the intelligence front, and there were more people who were caught, but now they are all mixed into old fritters, all of them are single-line contacts, and the organizational structure is very tight, it is really difficult to catch these few remaining Jianwen diehards.

"Eat first."

Jiang Xinghuo pointed to a plate of mutton on the table, and greeted with a smile: "How about tasting it?" ”

Whether it is an old monk or Jiang Xinghuo, they basically don't pay much attention to living conditions, whether it is coarse tea and light rice, or delicacies from the mountains and seas, there is no difference, but at their level, they really don't have to worry about things like eating, drinking, clothing, and housing.

Jiang Xinghuo is a bit of a moral cleaner, and he doesn't want his life to be very different from ordinary people, but the helplessness is that even if he takes the initiative to ask for various local products such as mushrooms sent by Li Jinglong, he will still receive a lot.

In the early Ming Dynasty, officials attached great importance to this kind of social atmosphere, and if they really regarded themselves as saints, they would have no contact at all, and it would not be very realistic.

Jiang Xinghuo can only give gifts of appropriate value during the New Year's holidays, but he will not accept excessively expensive gifts.

This kind of food can't be thrown away when you receive it, and the amount of gift is too small, so you can only eat it yourself.

And these mutton, that is, in winter, Zhu Gaoxu sent it from Kaiping, it was still cut and frozen with ice cubes, and it was also put in the ice cellar when it arrived in Nanjing, and it was not very fresh to eat, but it was obviously a fat sheep on the grassland, and the taste of the sheep raised in the grassland in Huaixi was very different.

The goat's meat is thinly sliced, poured into boiling water, and slowly simmered, and in addition to the steppe sheep, a variety of condiments and side dishes are prepared.

"Yes, I've been in Nanjing for several years, and I haven't tasted this kind of mutton for a long time."

After Zhu Gaosui finished eating, he gently inhaled the aroma wafting out of the soup pot, and exhaled with satisfaction, feeling warm all over his body, as if the whole person was soaking in a hot spring.

"You won't have to go to Luzon."

"It's enough to have it this year."

Jiang Xinghuo paused before saying, "I heard that you are also going to join the war." ”

"That's right."

Zhu Gaosui said helplessly: "After this battle, let me go to Luzon, the old man said this, I don't know if it's true or not." ”

"After this battle, there is usually the next battle."

The old monk who has been bored with the mushroom soup pot has the truth.

If it is easy to use, it will be used in death, and after this battle is over, it will be followed by the next battle, and the father and son soldiers must be the most relieved when they go into battle, this truth is the same as robbing the tomb of the son and the father on it.

Zhu Gaosui: "."

Jiang Xinghuo pondered for a few breaths, then diverted the topic and asked: "I don't understand the specific things of marching and fighting militarily, I don't know as many of you who have been in battle for a long time, not to mention the Qin and Jin domains, not to mention the two feudal domains, not counting the hand-held pinch, it is not much different, mainly the Tatar department in the north, do you think you can win smoothly?" ”

Zhu Gaosui frowned and thought for a while: "To be honest, it's hard to say...... The Tatar cavalry was fierce and cunning, much stronger than the Warat Department and the Uliang Ha Department, and basically inherited the main elite of the Northern Yuan Dynasty. ”

"And it's not a question of whether you can beat it, the main problem is logistics, hundreds of thousands, more than 200,000 people mixed with infantry and cavalry, if you want to fight to Mobei, the logistics line is too long and too easy to be cut off, even if the enemy doesn't move, when encountering some bad weather, he will break the logistics line, and the more people there are, the more blind they are, so do you say that there are fewer people who can be brought? No, if you bring fewer people, you may not be able to hit the Tatars hard. ”

"Therefore, I am still afraid that the Tatar Ministry will go around in circles and avoid fighting."

"That's pretty much it."

Jiang Xinghuo shook his head confidently, revealing a mysterious smile.

This smile looks like a wise man with a wisdom pearl in his hand, but in fact, he has already been sure in his heart that Zhu Di will win.

In the history of his previous life, Zhu Di's five northern expeditions, several of them were armed marches, but the first northern expedition did have great results, that is, in the eighth year of Yongle, history records that Ming Chengzu Zhu Di mobilized 500,000 troops (the actual number is much less than this number), on May 8, the Ming army marched to the Yuqu River (now the Krulun River, Zhu Di renamed it "Drinking Horse River") basin, and learned through the capture that the Tatar Khan Benyasuri led his army to flee westward to the Warat Department, and the prime minister Arutai fled eastward, and Zhu Di personally led his soldiers to the west to pursue Benyasuri, On 13 May, the Ming army defeated Benjamin at the Nan River, and then waved its division to the east to attack Arutai, and the two sides fought in the northeast direction of the Nan River, the Ming army killed countless enemies, and Arutai fell off his horse and fled.

The results of the First Northern Expedition were remarkable, as the Tatars surrendered to the Ming Dynasty after this blow from the Ming army and paid tribute to Zhu Di with horses.

But it also had a great impact on the pattern of the grassland, Arutai actually controlled the Tatar Department in place, and accepted the title of "King of Hening" given to him by Zhu Di, and at the same time, the Tatar Department was greatly injured by the Ming Dynasty, and the Varat Department in the west took advantage of the rise of the situation, eroding and infiltrating the sphere of influence that originally belonged to the Tatar Department, and it is getting bigger and bigger, and even part of the root cause of the civil engineering change can be traced back here.

Now, the time of the first northern expedition has been advanced by six years, which can be said to have greatly accelerated the course of history.

However, as a result, Jiang Xinghuo thinks that there should not be much change.

The Ming army is obviously much stronger in terms of firearms than in the history of his previous life.

With the acceleration of the process of firearms in the Ming army, the cavalry gradually began to look a little weak in the face of fully iteratively developed firearms.

As long as the command is proper and the fighter is keenly grasped, then the victory must belong to the Ming Dynasty.

After eating, Zhu Gaosui announced the decree in person.

The reason why this time it was not a verbal decree, but a formal decree, was because it also brought some reward.

"Jin Luo weaves clothes, three baskets of bayberry and loquat."

It can be understood that the emperor received a tribute, could not eat it or wanted to share it.

They are all seasonal fruits, and the quality is guaranteed, Jiang Xinghuo doesn't know much about the division of these fruits, but the taste is definitely much better than what is sold on the market.

"Let's go, Master Kuni."

Jiang Xinghuo entered the palace with Zhu Gaosui, and in the carriage, Zhu Gaosui only told him one thing.

——Zhu Di has been very restless recently.

In the square of the palace, Jiang Xinghuo met Zhu Di.

It's really restless, and the targets are all tied into hedgehogs.

Jiang Xinghuo counted the empty quivers on the ground, and when they were three and a half empty, about seventy arrows were shot out.

Anyone who has ever shot an arrow knows that a normal person, let alone shooting seventy in a row, is twenty or thirty, and the arms and hands begin to tremble inevitably, because it is not just a casual shot and it is over, and the archery must be aimed at and ensure that the bow is drawn sufficiently.

Moreover, Zhu Di still uses a big bow with horns, and it is a question whether ordinary people can pull it away.

Obviously, there is no compound bow technology now, so this traditional bow is really deadlifted by force.

What's even more perverted is that Zhu Di is fully draped, the Ming army general's official-style Mingguang armor, including the battle skirt, arm cover and other protective gear, weighs a total of 45 catties, the hood weighs 7 catties, the heart guard and the soft chain mail of the neck and rib guards weigh 5 catties, the full set of bows and quivers weighs 11 catties, the waist knife is three and a half catties, the tribulus terrestris bones are three catties, the upper and lower clothes are a total of eight catties, and the total is more than 80 catties.

"Your Majesty is really a natural general."

This sentence is not all blowing, Zhu Di is really able to go to the battlefield fully armed to cut people and cut people for a day, if the force and physical strength exclude the existence of a talented monster like Zhu Gaoxu, then it is basically first-class.

In Nanjing, Zhu Di rarely showed his demeanor as the world's number one general.

Zhu Di took off his armor, and his eyes showed a little fierceness that could not be concealed.

"I was very upset when I thought that Jianwen, the little rabbit cub, hadn't been found today."

Obviously, deep in Zhu Di's heart, he was a little uneasy that he was about to leave Nanjing, and that Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunwen was still missing.

He was worried that after he left, Emperor Jianwen would not know from which horn to emerge and affect his rule.

Although this kind of thing can be exterminated immediately, and claims that the other party is a pseudo-emperor, and Emperor Jianwen has long been dead, but this kind of thing can deceive others, don't really believe it.

In short, the fact that Emperor Jianwen's whereabouts are unknown is like a thorn in the flesh next to his fingernails in Zhu Di's heart, which has no big impact, but it is very disgusting.

"Let's try?"

Zhu Di stuffed the bow into Jiang Xinghuo's hand.

Jiang Xinghuo tried it, but he couldn't figure out how many pounds or catties, but it was very difficult.

Jiang Xinghuo does not lack exercise, and his physique is considered to be the standard level of an adult man with a balanced nutritional intake, but this bow will be stretched to the limit by more than half.

"Whew!"

The arrow flew out, and fifty steps were on target.

"The national teacher's archery skills are good."

For civil officials, being able to pull this kind of heavy bow and hit the target at a distance of fifty paces, although it did not hit the bull's-eye, it was already a very high level.

Because if you don't have a long time of training, it is a question of whether you can stably hit the target with twenty steps with an ordinary bow.

Obviously, Jiang Xinghuo's martial arts level may not be enough in the ranks of military generals, but in the ranks of civil officials, it is outstanding.

"The six arts of the gentleman occasionally play, but it is to strengthen the body, and it is not comparable to Your Majesty."

Zhu Di took the bow and shot a few more arrows, while shooting arrows, his mouth kept chattering.

"National teacher, you don't know, Jianwen, this little rabbit cub, let me eat pig in the pigsty for several years, and let me pretend to be crazy in the downtown of Beiping in the summer with a big quilt, so I endured it and won the world."

Jiang Xinghuo said casually: "Ten years of luck dragon trapped in the well, once the power into the clouds. ”

Zhu Di was stunned when he heard this, but his restlessness calmed down a lot.

In the history and culture of China, it is indeed believed that people who can achieve great things must go through the torture of the deepest suffering before achieving great things, and can only become what ordinary people cannot do.

"Anyway."

Zhu Di handed the bow to the eunuch beside him and said to Jiang Xinghuo: "In the future, during the time when I am not in Nanjing, I have already sent someone to explain to Hu Hu, if there is any news of Jianwen, I will report it directly to you." ”

"The boss is soft-hearted, he must not be able to do this kind of thing, and how to deal with it when the time comes, it will be handed over to the national teacher. If there is an incident, send troops to exterminate it, and the public opinion will not be pressed, and if it is a lonely person, he will cut off his head and send it to me. ”

"Okay."

Isn't it just doing dirty work, and it's the same for old monks.

Jiang Xinghuo looked at Zhu Di.

In the history of his previous life, Ming Chengzu Zhu Di was five cold words.

As a ruthless man who has been ranked in the entire 276-year history of the Ming Dynasty, his name not only represents the world's martial arts, but also represents forbearance.

Zhu Di was not only able to reproduce the military miracle of Li Yuxue's entry into Caizhou at night when he was marching and fighting, but also endured after the rapid march on a snowy day, surrounded and persuaded the Northern Yuan tribe, and when accumulating strength, he was able to pretend to be crazy all year round, run in the city, and eat pig, these means were all used to buy time for his own troops.

Frankly speaking, after more than two years of getting along, Jiang Xinghuo knows very well that Zhu Di is not just a ruthless hero, an iron-blooded famous general, and a strong emperor.

Zhu Di is also a "person".

Like his father Zhu Yuanzhang, as the emperor of his own country, the father and son rarely use depth to hide themselves, and usually, they will show their emotions, which is a reflection of their confidence in absolute control of the situation, to put it bluntly, it is like people rarely hide their emotions for their pets.

Zhu Di, who has the blessing of absolute strength, will also show emotions such as today's restlessness and hatred in front of Jiang Xinghuo, but this does not mean that Zhu Di is a person who is easy to be influenced by others.

In fact, no matter what, Zhu Di's character of combining ruthlessness, murder and a little caution determines that he will never sit back and watch the country he has worked so hard to fall.

And Zhu Di has great ambitions, he wants to do the hegemony of the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty that he can't do.

Zhu Di believes that only by becoming the emperor can the Ming Dynasty become the most powerful existence in the world, and only the world-beating feat of "governing the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, the Han and Tang Dynasties" can make Zhu Di go underground and say to Zhu Yuanzhang with peace of mind that this throne should be sat by himself.

Although Zhu Di has been on the throne for several years and has become the king of a country from King Yan, he still has not stopped this dream, and he has become more and more firm in his beliefs.

"National Teacher, in addition to Jianwen's matter, there is another important matter that I want to entrust to you before I leave."

Zhu Di's face was a little solemn, and he said to Jiang Xinghuo.

There are many people that Zhu Di trusts, among these people, Jiang Xinghuo is not the person he has the most close to, but there is no doubt that when there is something tricky, the first thing Zhu Di wants to believe is the national teacher he invited from the edict.

"Your Majesty, please speak."

"Before, you said that you would clean up the illegal land of the noble and powerful, and I plan to make a move."

(End of chapter)