In the Yuan Dynasty, the official ship was regarded as the main body of overseas trade, and the government completely monopolized the maritime foreign trade, and implemented the government-business joint venture model. Among them, the ship and capital are provided by the government, and then the government selects merchants to operate, and the profits from going to sea are seventy-three.

The Yan family has been operating for several generations to get three sea ships, and under the strong money offensive in the past few years, they have gradually completely controlled these sea ships in their own hands.

Now, it is a gift to Zhu Yuanzhang.

On the shore, all the generals were stunned.

When had they ever seen such a behemoth!

In the midst of everyone's dumbfounding, Yan Ling walked down from the ship with his subordinates.

Left and right looked around the crowd, his gaze was fixed in the middle, the plainly dressed but extraordinary young man, all the stars surrounded him in the center, and his respect and obedience to him could be seen between his gestures, different from the violence of his later years, Zhu Yuanzhang at this time was famous for his love and courtesy.

All the generals are convinced of it and are willing to die for it.

Naturally, it is not a crescent shovel, but a good-looking and majestic superior.

In fact, there is a point that the popular portrait in later generations is very outrageous, it is very different from the picture scroll officially issued by the Ming Dynasty, to put it mildly, you are scandalizing the royal family, and you are going to lose your head.

If this picture scroll is real, it means that someone has treasured this thing at the risk of killing his head for nearly three hundred years.

Anyway, if you hide a Yongle ceremony or something, it's understandable, you take such a big risk to hide a portrait?

So it's clearly not true.

Here, the heroic young man had already greeted him, with the group of generals behind him.

Yan Ling hadn't moved yet, he had already taken a deep look:

"Tens of thousands of soldiers of the righteous army behind a certain generation, thank you for the support at your feet, please accept a certain worship at your feet!"

"How dare you." Yan Ling hurriedly turned sideways to avoid his salute, and solemnly replied after he straightened up: "Marshal, Ling admires your name for a long time, and I finally see you today, if it is very human, Ling is willing to worship you as the lord and make great things together!" ”

This is the first meeting between 27-year-old Zhu Yuanzhang and 25-year-old Yan Ling beside the Quarry River, this is the fifteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty, the fifth year of Tianwan (Xu Shouhui), the second year of the Great Zhou (Zhang Shicheng) Tianyou, and the first year of the Great Song Dynasty (Han Lin'er) Dragon and Phoenix.

At this time, everyone no longer had the dissatisfaction just now.

You must know that when the Chaohu Navy defected, although it was claimed that there were thousands of warships, it was called a warship to put it mildly, that is, some fishing boats, originally this sailor was formed spontaneously by the people, and there could be no giant ships at all, but even so, it was still leaned on by Zhu Yuanzhang as the center of gravity, so you know how eager he is for the navy.

Compared with these three giant sand boats, the entire Rebel Army sailors are like toys, and the faces of the generals of the Chaohu Naval Army are not very good-looking, after all, they are directly dwarfed by a comparison.

Zhu Yuanzhang was pleasantly surprised at this time, these three giant ships will undoubtedly play a pivotal role in the future water war, and the preparation of the previous inner mind to give Yan Ling some petty officials were all left behind, and he had already begun to think about what position was worthy of him, and the credit for this performance was not small.

At this time, Yan Ling took out the second gift he gave to Zhu Yuanzhang - a wooden box.

"I heard that this man was hated by the marshal, and I specially booby trap him to you."

The wooden box opened, and a familiar face appeared in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, with round eyes and unwilling eyes.

"Chen Yexian!" Before Zhu Yuanzhang could speak, the generals beside him had already shouted, and their voices were full of incredulity.

He's a general in charge of tens of thousands of troops! How could he die at the hands of a mere squire and merchant?

Yet no matter how many times they wiped their eyes, they still recognized the face, the man who had turned his back on them at the most critical moment.

"Marshal Du (Guo Tianxu)! Right Deputy Marshal (Zhang Tianyou)! Your souls in heaven rest in peace! Zhu Yuanzhang took the wooden box with trembling hands, and in an instant, he burst into tears and couldn't cry. He fell to his knees, held up the wooden box, and bowed to heaven.

Yan Ling had expected this scene, and as soon as he turned around, he ran behind Zhu Yuanzhang and knelt down with everyone.

This move made Zhu Yuanzhang, who was kowtowing, secretly praise in his heart, and he is a master who understands interests and etiquette.

After kowtowing three times, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was already in tears, raised his head, but his howl still resounded throughout the four fields, tearing his heart, so that everyone who heard it couldn't help but cry sadly, and the surrounding soldiers couldn't help but sigh when they saw this: The marshal is really a person who values love and righteousness!

"Congratulations to the marshal, today the marshal and the right deputy marshal have been avenged, for a joy; The marshal got these three huge ships for the second joy; Add a good minister under his command, this is the three joys. Three joys are coming, and it should be celebrated. Li Shanchang was the first to speak, he smiled and made a gesture towards Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Yes, a great event!"

"Don't be sad marshal, the two marshals must have turned their eyes on each other when they saw the enemy ambushing him."

When the surrounding generals heard him say this, they immediately echoed, and Zhu Yuanzhang stopped crying when he heard this, and a smile bloomed on his face again.

Thinking that after owning three giant ships, the righteous army no longer needed to fear the Yuan army's sailors, his heart blossomed.

The human head lying in the box was bloodstained, but he felt more and more cute.

Yan Ling, who was following behind him, liked it more and more he looked at it, so he laughed loudly:

"I have Rui Xuan (Yan Ling Zi Rui Xuan), such as a unicorn!"

Zhu Yuanzhang style praises people (๑•̀ᄇ•́)و✧.

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From this day on, there was an additional staff officer in Zhu Yuanzhang's department of the Red Turban Army, and a military aircraft staff officer whose status was second only to Li Shanchang.

Zhu Yuanzhang originally wanted to seal him a general's position, firstly, the ship was brought by him, and secondly, in today's troubled times, generals are the easiest position to get credit, and at the same time, they are the most lacking.

But in the end, Yan Ling refused.

The group of generals at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty were very capable, Xu Da often met spring needless to say, even those Chaohu naval army generals who were not famous in later generations, they were also the existence of the twenty-eighth marquis of the founding of the country, they were poorly equipped, but their ability to fight was also first-class.

He himself knows that he belongs to Jiang Wei's kind, "Wen is worse than Zhuge and Wu is worse than the Five Tigers", he doesn't mean that he can't lead soldiers at all, after all, there are still hundreds of soldiers at home, and there are two military books to read, Fang Guozhen and Yuan Ting did not deal with those scattered chaotic soldiers when they were fighting, and they would still be able to fight, but if they went to deal with the military generals under Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng on the other side, it might not be possible for Lao Zhu to be overturned by himself.

In terms of managing logistics, he is not as good as Li Shanchang, a masterpiece in the world.

But he also has the experience of running a family for 99 times, bringing a family that is not very famous in Yinxian County to the establishment of the Southern Ming Dynasty and the accession of Emperor Hongguang to the throne when the 98th game, and even once there were rumors that "Yan and Zhu, Jiangnan", it can be seen that there is still ability.

In addition, he has been in charge for several years now, and it is more than enough to be a staff officer.

Moreover, it's not that we don't lead the army at all, we are operating in our spare time, and when it's time to fight, we can also be a partial general.