Li Jinglong, the word Jiujiang.

Seven out of twenty, a native of Xuyi (now Xuyi, Jiangsu).

The son of Li Wenzhong, the Duke of Cao, inherited the title of Duke of Guo in the nineteenth year of Hongwu.

Not long after, Cao Guogong Li Jinglong came to the Heart Cultivation Palace.

"Minister, Li Jinglong has seen the emperor's grandson."

"Li Qing is exempt."

Zhu Yunwen received him warmly, without the slightest.

"The emperor summoned the ministers, is it because of the disaster of the frontier?"

Li Jinglong arched his hand, but his heart was beautiful, he inherited the position of the prince of the country at a young age, in charge of the Governor's Mansion of the Left Army, and the prince and the prince.

It's a pity that he is in a high position, but he has never made any achievements, and he hopes to have the opportunity to prove himself by making military achievements.

Zhu Yunwen said excitedly: "Li Qing is smart, I called you here to discuss this matter with you, is Li Qing willing." ”

Li Jinglong was young at this time, young and frivolous, and high-spirited, even if he knelt on one knee, his right fist was crossed in front of his chest, and said: "I am willing to serve the work of dogs and horses, and I will kill the screaming Tartars, and I dare not offend my Ming again!" ”

Zhu Yunwen said: "Okay, I will make you a general, give you a tiger talisman, go to Beiping to take over the military affairs of Beiping, sweep out of the customs, and kill the sharp spirit of the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty!" ”

As he spoke, he looked at Qi Tai and said, "Qi Tai, the intention is intended." ”

"The emperor and grandson are slow."

Li Jinglong arched his hand: "The minister still has a reluctant request." ”

Zhu Yunwen said: "Li Qing, please speak." ”

Li Jinglong analyzed: "Beiping is a place where King Yan has been in charge for a long time, and the ministers are afraid that they will not be able to control the local military attachés and will be unfavorable to the war, so please give the ministers a few available people." ”

Zhu Yunwen said: "I just served as a supervisor and was in charge of government affairs, and I don't know much about military affairs, does Li Qing have a suitable candidate?" ”

Li Jinglong nodded and said: "There are several candidates for the ministers, all of them are brave generals, Sheng Yong, Cui Neng, Guo Ying, there are three generals who are generals, and they must be successful!" ”

Seeing that Li Jinglong was so confident and so professional, Zhu Yunwen was even more sure that he was right, this Li Jinglong is really a talent, I am afraid that given time, his strength is not inferior to Lan Yu and Zhu Di.

"Yes, I want to!"

The next day, outside the Fengtian Temple.

Zhu Yunwen and hundreds of officials gave Li Jinglong a tiger talisman and sent him to the expedition!

Li Jinglong wore armor and accepted the holy decree and tiger talisman, the first time he was so beautiful, his heart was full of ambition, and he was even more energetic.

Meanwhile.

Huangshan, Anhui.

Zhu Yuanzhang has settled in Huangshan at the moment, with troops stationed around, and there are brocade guards on the mountain to patrol strictly, which is impermeable.

At this moment, outside a hall in Huangshan, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di were sitting on a stone table and a stone bench, drinking tea and chatting between father and son.

In front of them, there was a group of arithmetic gentlemen who were scratching around with papers, calculating something.

"Father, these people have been busy just now, what are they doing?"

During the conversation, Zhu Di couldn't help but look away, and he was slightly curious.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said: "A few days ago, there was a young man who said that we were stubborn and didn't listen to persuasion, one of which was that he was too good to the vassal kings, and said that he would eat the Ming Dynasty." ”

Hearing this, Zhu Di was slightly stunned.

This young man, could it be Li Xiao

If you think about it carefully, it's definitely Li Xiao, no one else.

Li Xiao, Li Xiao, you are so bold, you actually said that the saint is just for his own use, and I don't dare to say it

But don't blame those who don't know, I guess you don't know that you're facing the current saint.

Thinking of this, Zhu Di helped explain: "Father, you say that you are a young man, and you can't believe it if you don't have a hair on your mouth." ”

"Whether it's true or not, you'll know if it's done."

Saying that, Zhu Yuanzhang pointed to the body of those reckoning officials and said, "The young man said that he wanted us to give him some grain, one grain of rice in one grid, two grains in the second grid, four grains in the third grid, and so on until sixty-four grids." ”

"What's so hard about that?"

Zhu Di was still puzzled, and said: "What is the relationship between this and the vassal king's defeat of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"We don't know, isn't that counting?"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled.

The two continued to drink tea, waiting for the results.

Zhu Di's mind was also running wildly, and he said in his heart, why did Li Xiao talk to his father about this, but he was just some vassal kings, can he eat the Ming Dynasty?

Is there some alarmism.

At the same time, Zhu Di also found that his father seemed to say to this young man that he was stubborn and did not look very angry, but on the contrary, he was very calm.

Could it be that Li Xiao got along with his father to this extent and became a friend of the year?

Just when Zhu Di was full of thoughts, his thoughts were interrupted.

Zhu Yuanzhang was a little dissatisfied, and suddenly said: "Why has it been so long, this has been an hour!" ”

An arithmetic officer came over sweating profusely, knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, please forgive your sins. Extrapolating to thirty grids, it is already an astronomical number, the number of digits in the abacus is no longer enough, and our paper is full, and we can't go down."

This arithmetic official is right, because the Ming Dynasty has not yet had the birth of the Alaba number, and it is written with a capital number, and it is calculated to thirty grids, which is already as high as one billion, and the abacus is not enough.

"What?"

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di stood up at the same time and looked over incredulously.

The arithmetic paper on the ground is already full, one is not enough to write, and several sheets are connected together, dense, like ants, and it is dazzling to see.

Who would have thought that what seemed like a simple problem could be so complicated.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and asked, "Is it so difficult to calculate?" ”

The teller said: "It's not difficult in the front, the more difficult it is to the back, the number is rising at an astonishing speed, and the minister didn't expect that when it comes to thirty grids, the abacus is not enough, and if you want to calculate it, you must cast a longer abacus." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked in his heart and said, "What is the result of the thirtieth grid?" ”

The arithmetic officer took out the paper, presented it to Zhu Yuanzhang, and said, "Your Majesty, look, when there are thirty grids, the number of this grid alone already has 100,000 rice grains, plus the rice grains in the previous grid, there are almost 150,000 rice grains.

There should be 9,000 rice grains in one catty of rice, so to 30 grids, the rice grains needed are 160,000 catties.

If you continue to calculate, 31 grids are 320,000 catties, 32 grids are 640,000 catties, 33 grids are 1.28 million catties, and 37 grids are 20.48 million catties

There is no need for sixty-four squares, only a few more squares will roll extremely fast, and the grain of the whole country will not be supplied together. ”

The voice fell.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di were stunned.

It seems simple, but it will roll bigger and bigger when you calculate it.

"Good boy, I'm afraid that when he brought it up, he thought that we wouldn't be able to take it out."

Zhu Yuanzhang was a little dumbfounded, originally he also planned to reward Li Xiao with these grains, so it seems that it is better to forget it.

"Father, it seems to have a deep meaning"

Zhu Di has already noticed the connection, but his father is here, and he is not good at competing for the limelight.

If this is the case, the vassal king can indeed eat the Ming Dynasty.

In the same way, the number of vassal kings and county kings is also increasing, and the vassal kings can still be hereditary, which means that the number of vassal kings will only increase.

What's more, the first step in calculating this grain is just a grain of rice, and the sum of the grain in the whole country is not enough.

And the prince's current food is more than a grain of rice

The prince is 50,000 stones, the county king is 6,000 stones, and the son of the county king is the general of the town country.

In this way, the base number is the starting point to roll down, and it will not take more than a dozen steps, and it has become an astronomical number!!

"It does have a deep meaning!!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes lit up, "We know, that young man is actually going to tell us this truth."

Zhu Yuanzhang silently deduced in his heart, and then understood, and suddenly realized: "I see, Da Ming is not eaten down now, the evil consequences are in the future, it will not take seven or eight generations, one or two hundred years later, the food provided to the vassal king will accumulate into an astronomical amount, and Da Ming may really be eaten down!" ”

"This young man, it's really amazing, he can actually think of this!"

Zhu Di naturally knew that this young man was his son-in-law, but he still pretended not to know, and praised fiercely: "The previous group of ministers stopped it, and they couldn't say why, this young man, telling his father in this way, is really clear at a glance!" ”

"Yes, it does make sense."

Zhu Yuanzhang said fearfully: "Fortunately, we know, otherwise it will cause a catastrophe, and the offering of this vassal king should also be changed."

After speaking, he looked at Zhu Di again and said with a smile: "Fourth, you don't have any thoughts in your heart, do you?" ”

Because Zhu Di is also a vassal king, cutting the vassal king's food will also affect him.

"Never."

Zhu Di arched his hand and looked determined: "Erchen is only for the Ming Dynasty, how can he let his personal interests affect the development of the Ming Dynasty." ”

This is also Zhu Di's true words.

If the country has such hidden dangers, it is better to eradicate them as soon as possible.

Besides, if you have a chance to ascend to the throne of the Great Treasure soon, you need to uproot it even more

"Good! For the sake of the country, it should be so. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded with satisfaction, "Fourth, in the past few days, our father and son have been studying the issue of food provided by this vassal king." ”

Zhu Di arched his hand, "Erchen takes orders!" ”

At the same time, he admired Li Xiao in his heart, son-in-law, you are really powerful, you can simply make your father change his mind, what the Manchu Dynasty civil and military can't do, but you have done it, you are worthy of being a good son-in-law of this king, and you are as lucky as a mountain!

At this time, a guard came to report.

"Report - outside Datong City, the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty led an army of 150,000 to attack and harass."

The voice fell.

Zhu Di's eyes widened, it seemed that he had been away for too long, and those remnants of the Northern Yuan began to move.

He hurriedly got up and arched his hand: "Father, the son of the emperor asks for war and returns to Beiping to meet the enemy." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand disapprerovingly: "What are you anxious about, can't Beiping run without you?" ”

After speaking, he looked at the guards and said, "How did Zhu Yunwen decide?" ”

He asked Zhu Yunwen to supervise the country, naturally to see how to supervise the country.

The guard said: "The emperor has sent Cao Guogong Li Jinglong as the general, Guo Ying as the deputy general, Sheng Yong, Cui Neng, and others as the generals, to Beiping. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang bowed slightly: "I know, let's go down." ”

After the guards left.

Zhu Di said: "Father, the son-in-law is familiar with the military affairs of Beiping, so it is better to let the son-in-law go back." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "You can accompany me here with peace of mind, don't say more." ”

Zhu Di had no choice but to nod, "Yes"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled, "Fourth, do you really think that you can fight in this world?" In two months, you will be in prison. In the future, if you become the prince, we will hand over the throne to you, every time you encounter a war, do you have to drive the royal conquest in person? ? ”

Zhu Di thought about it and felt that there was some truth, so he calmed his excited heart and sat down slowly. "What my father said is true, it's his son Meng Lang."

After Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, he did not participate in any war.

The son of a daughter can't sit down.

How can the king of a country easily risk his life and go to war at will?

This is also the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang secretly taught Zhu Di to be the emperor.

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled slightly, pointed to the chessboard, and said, "Come, talk about a game with us." ”

The reason why he was so indifferent was that after hearing the names Zhu Yunwen said, he felt that it was not a big deal.

He himself is optimistic about Li Jinglong, and there are several experienced generals, so it is good for Li Jinglong to go through the experience, and he may not be a famous general in the future.

Subsequently, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di began to play Go.

After a few rounds in a row, Zhu Yuanzhang felt bored and scolded: "Fourth, do you make us interesting like this?" It's not comparable to the young man we met, he dares to scold us, do you dare? ”

Zhu Di's face was full of consternation, "Father, the son doesn't dare"

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted, "I don't dare to forgive you." ”

Zhu Di: "."

Son-in-law, son-in-law, what happened to you with your father

Peiping.

These days, Li Xiao is handling affairs in Dong'an County.

In fact, there is no big deal, Li Xiao arranges people to do the main things.

The dormitory has also begun to operate, first let the dormitory be familiar with the work, and then start to engage in village enterprises after it is stable, everything is tightly organized.

The main reason is that Li Xiao was entangled in some trivial cases, and in the Ming Dynasty, when he was the magistrate of the county, he not only had to manage all affairs, but the most nonsense thing was that he had to be promoted to handle the case.

This is tantamount to handling the affairs of the police station, and he wears many hats.

With such a volume, how could Li Xiao be willing?

Since it is a special zone, you can do whatever you want.

He immediately set up a new department, called the New Yamen of the Changing People.

Li Xiao set up the yamen of the watchman as a formal department, that is, it was counted as a national establishment, and he enjoyed the treatment of a seven-rank official.

Select a few good ones from the original fast catching class to become gongs, and look for good candidates to enter.

Set aside a separate small yamen in the county yamen, so that if the people have any problems, they can directly go to the yamen to report the case.

At the same time, Li Xiao set up an upward channel, and the watchmen were divided into golden gongs, silver gongs, and copper gongs, and the golden gongs were the best, and everyone started to climb up from the gongs.

The case-handling rate and case-solving rate are assessed once a quarter.

If the case solving rate is high and the people's satisfaction is high, they will be promoted and their treatment will be improved.

With such a reward mechanism, the gongs who beat the people are very highly motivated.

In the past few days, Li Xiao has also compiled a "Manual Guide for Solving Crimes" and distributed it to Tongluomen, so that Tongluomen can study hard.

After staring at and teaching for a while, Li Xiao estimated that it would not be long before the yamen would not have to handle the case himself.

You can be completely in charge, and you only need to be in charge of the overall work.

"Family master, Princess Yan asked you to go back in the afternoon, General Li Jinglong arrived in Beiping today and went to visit King Yan's mansion."

At this time, a subordinate of the Li Mansion came to the county government and conveyed a message to Li Xiao.

"Got it."

Li Xiao nodded, got up and left the county office.

"Lord Zhixian walks slowly."

When he left the county government compound and passed by the office of the watchman, a gong greeted him warmly.

"It's Jiu'an, do it well, I see what you've done during this time, I'm more optimistic about you, and I'll focus on you when I'm promoted next quarter."

"Lord Xie Zhixian, the lower officials must do their best."

Li Xiao nodded slightly, patted Xu Jiu'an's shoulder, and left the county office with a smile.

Xu Jiu'an is a talent he found from idle people in society.

Quick thinking, strong logic, and martial arts are also very good, so that a good knife technique, a leader is needed to set an example, and Li Xiao intends to cultivate this person.

Not long after,

Li Xiao rode back to the Yanwang Mansion.

Zhu Gaoxu took the soldiers in the city out of the city to greet him.

And Princess Yan prepared a banquet in the hall, and Li Xiao also entered the hall to wait.

After waiting for half an hour, it was almost time (1 o'clock in the afternoon), Zhu Gaoxu led Li Jinglong and a group of soldiers from the capital to arrive.

"Li Jinglong has seen Princess Yan, the situation is urgent, and he came in a hurry without a gift, and he asked Princess Yan not to be surprised."

Li Jinglong bowed his hand when he entered the door, although he was a prince of the country, but when he saw the landlord Yan Domain's palace, the etiquette still had to be brought.

"You're welcome, you have come from afar to clear the disaster for the frontier, and it's too late for me to be happy."

Xu Miaoyun smiled slightly, and spoke very decently, followed by the greetings on the scene, and then took their seats one after another.

Speaking of which, Li Jinglong and Zhu Di are still cousins and nephews, but this relationship is relatively far away, and it is only briefly mentioned at the dinner table, and the relationship is won over on the scene.

"This is Li Jinglong, he looks really handsome, a talent, if you put it in a TV series, it is simply the appearance of the protagonist."

Li Xiao on the side is also one of the accompanying guests, there is no way, people are sophisticated, so they can only toast with these unknown generals.

"This is Li Xiao, right? King Yan's love son-in-law? ”

Li Jinglong's eyes fell on Li Xiao and asked curiously.

Subsequently, the generals' eyes were on Li Xiao, looking up and down.

There is no way, Li Xiao has been making a lot of noise in the court recently, and his reputation is so famous that no one can help but take a few more looks.

"It is Li Xiao under it, I have heard the name of Cao Guogong for a long time, it is better to meet than to be famous, I see it today, Guogong is imposing, this time I came, I will be able to easily break the enemy, Li Xiao is here to give you a cup, I wish you a great victory."

Li Xiao also learned some hospitality in Yanwang's Mansion, so he said politely, raised his wine glass to toast, and then drank it all.

In fact, Li Jinglong's current age is about the same as Li Xiao, and he is three or four years older.

In the past, Zhu Yuanzhang was partial to Li Jinglong, but recently, the limelight was completely robbed by Li Xiao.

Li Jinglong picked up his wine glass and clinked glasses with it, but only took a slight sip.

Then he put down the glass and did not look at him.

I, Nima, gave you face Li Xiao scolded in his heart, and obviously saw that this Li Jinglong was putting on a show, and he couldn't look down on Li Xiao at all.

is also surnamed Li, why are you so careful?

Zhu Gaoxu was also a little unhappy when he saw this scene, but he was not easy to attack, after all, Li Jinglong had been appointed as a general.

Seeing this, Xu Miaoyun raised her wine glass and toasted together, relieving her embarrassment.

"Hey, I haven't seen it yet, this is."

Li Jinglong looked at Zhu Ningyun, beautiful and immortal, captivating the country and the city, he was a little strange, who is this person?

Xu Miaoyun explained: "This is the little daughter Yong'an County Lord Ning Yun, after some diagnosis and treatment by the younger son-in-law, her face has recovered. ”

Zhu Ningyun nodded slightly and said, "Ningyun has seen all the generals. ”

What?

Hearing this,

Those generals were dumbfounded, and they just thought it was incredible.

"I heard that Yibin Li Xiao's medical skills are outstanding, and it was an eye-opener to see it today!"

"Yes, this is comparable to a miracle doctor, even a miracle doctor can't do it."

"I've heard that Li Xiao even saved Gu Cheng's mother"

"Come, Li Xiao's son-in-law, I, Guo Ying, will have a drink with you."

Several generals brought by Li Jinglong raised their wine glasses one after another and took the initiative to toast with Li Xiao.

After all, if you can make friends with such a miracle doctor, if you have any headaches and brain fever that can't be treated in the future, can't you all help?

Suddenly, Li Xiao became a fragrant dumpling again, which made Li Jinglong's face subtle and a little jealous, obviously he was the protagonist, okay.

"No wonder a farmer is willing to marry the county lord, it turns out that there is such a means"

Cao Guogong Li Jinglong snorted and took a sip of wine to himself, although the voice was not loud, everyone heard it, and the scene was instantly cold.

Obviously, Princess Yan was also a little displeased, but the other party was a prince and a general, so it was not easy to fall out, so she didn't say much.

Zhu Gaoxu on the side was as wide as a copper bell, pinched the wine glass, drank a certain stuffy wine, and secretly said in his heart, When I become the king of Yan, if you dare to say this, Lao Tzu will beat someone on the spot.

"Alright."

After eating a few more bites of food, Li Jinglong drank the wine in the cup, pressed the wine glass on the table, got up and said: "Princess Yan, the situation is urgent, we will leave here, and we need to immediately gather the soldiers and go to Datong to investigate the enemy's situation." When you return from a big victory, come back to visit. ”

Seeing this, several other generals had no choice but to get up.

Princess Yan smiled: "The situation is special, so I won't keep you." ”

Zhu Gaochu stood up at this moment, looked at Li Jinglong and arched his hand: "General, you just came to Beiping, and the situation is not familiar, Zhu Gaochu asks for battle." ”

Zhu Gaoxu was still a little worried, if this goods folded his father's soldiers and horses, it would be a big loss.

Li Jinglong smiled slightly, and asked rhetorically: "Are you worried that General Ben will break your soldiers and horses in Beiping?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu said: "I don't dare, just to better cooperate with the general, I grew up here since I was a child, and I am familiar with the terrain, so I can reduce the damage of soldiers and horses." ”

Li Jinglong felt a little annoyed and angry, a junior, he dared to point fingers at himself, when he went to the battlefield, he didn't know where he was.

Li Jinglong pointed to Zhu Gaoxu's chest: "Remember, the soldiers and horses in Beiping are not yours, nor are they Yan Wang's, they are Ming and holy, understand?" ”

After speaking, he took a few soldiers and left without looking back.

When Li Jinglong walked away, he left the Yanwang Mansion.

Zhu Gaoxu finally couldn't help it, pointed in the direction of the door and scolded: "The surname is Li, you are arrogant, I am your ancestor!" ”

Li Xiao's forehead was oozing with sweat: "Gao Xu, don't hurt the innocent." ”

Zhu Gaoxu scolded again: "Li Jinglong, I'll join your mother, wait for me!" ”

Li Xiao: "Good scolding! This goods owe scolding! ”

(End of chapter)