"Gone?"

"Gone!"

In the Forbidden City, when Zhu Yunwen was on his way to the early dynasty, Li Quan, the eunuch of the East Palace, also brought a piece of good news that made him happy, and Zhu Gaoxu finally left Nanjing City.

"It's a good ...... gone" Zhu Yunwen had a smile on his face, but he didn't care about Zhu Gaoxu in his heart.

Now that he has an extra mine map, it is more convenient to pick up the local squire.

As long as the gold and silver mines on the two mining maps can be mined smoothly, then he can continue to use money to deduct taxes to gain the support of the squires and wealthy households, but his third uncle has no bargaining chips to have a showdown with him.

As for Zhu Gaoxu......

"Hehe......" Zhu Yunwen didn't think he could make any tricks in Jilin, I'm afraid that when he arrived in Jilin, he could only deal with it in a hurry in the looting of Xiyangha.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yunwen touched the jade pendant on his waist, and the smile on the corner of his mouth became even worse.

It was the jade pendant given to him by Zhu Yuanzhang yesterday, although the value of the jade pendant was not high, but Zhu Yunwen remembered that it was given to his grandfather by his grandmother.

Therefore, the significance of this jade pendant is needless to say.

With the joy and joy in his heart, Zhu Yunwen's steps continued to move towards the Wuying Palace.

It was only a quarter of an hour later that he got off the step and came to the front of the Wuying Palace.

"Taisun ......"

He walked in as before, and sure enough, he saw the empty seat of Zhu Gaochi, as well as Zhu Jixi and Zhu Shangbing, who got up and waved at him one after another.

Looking at the two, although Zhu Yunwen responded with a smile on his face as always, his heart stayed on Zhu Jixi.

This Jin Shizi has been really haggard recently......

"Where's Gao Chi?"

Zhu Yunwen asked knowingly, and the eunuch on duty in the palace also replied when he heard this: "Yan Shizi sent the King of Bohai to the domain, and he will return to the Wuying Palace in the afternoon." ”

"Hmm" responded, Zhu Yunwen returned to his position, and dealt with the music in a comfortable mood.

After a quarter of an hour, Zhu Yuanzhang also walked into the Wuying Palace, and Zhu Yunwen and the three of them got up one after another, and Zhu Yuanzhang only bowed his head to this.

He walked back to his place and sat down, without asking Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaochu anything.

At this time, Zhu Yunwen picked up two books and walked up to him and said: "Grandpa, the Guangdong capital commanded the envoy to play, and said that there were nine Japanese boats in Jitouao, Chaozhou, and about 500 people berthed, and they plundered Nanzha and other villages on the 22nd of the lunar month last month. ”

Hearing that it was another matter of the Japanese Kou, Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and took the top book, and only after reading it roughly did he speak:

"The land of Liangguang is bordered by the sea, and the prefectures and counties are often harmed by the Japanese invaders, so the Liangguang Metropolitan Department should always order the guards and soldiers to patrol."

"Now that Chaozhou is being invaded by the Japanese invaders, it must be caused by the lax patrols of the imperial guards......" he said, and after pondering for a moment, he ordered:

"The edict ordered Cao Guogong to transfer Yang Wen to lead the boat division south to Liangguang, and control the coastal boat division of the Liangdu Division."

"Then order the Longjiang Shipyard to build 50 warships of 2,000 materials for the use of the imperial officers and troops of the Guangxi and Guangdong capitals after the suppression of the Japanese invaders, and the two Guangdu Divisions also each build 100 small boats of more than 200 materials.

Lao Zhu gave his own plan, that is, to pacify the Japanese first, and then strengthen the combat power and warships of the Liangguang Naval Division, so that they can patrol the sea well, so as not to invade the people from other places.

In the face of such a will, Zhu Yunwen did not object, but only signaled the celebrant and eunuch to handle it with his eyes.

Then, he handed out the second note: "General Ning Zhengshang of Pingyi said that the people of Taozhou had rebelled and asked for troops to be sent to quell the rebellion." ”

"Quasi-......" Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, but frowned after taking the song and reading it, the scale of this rebellion was larger than he thought, and there were more than 10,000 Xifan people participating in the rebellion.

"Let the King of Qin lead his headquarters to guard and control the Pingqiang general Ning Zheng to quell the rebellion."

Zhu Yuanzhang changed his tone, which made Zhu Yunwen frown after hearing this.

Although Zhu Rong is the eldest of the current kings, his military merits are not high, so he does not have much military power, far inferior to Zhu Di, and even inferior to Zhu Di.

If Zhu Fan is allowed to restrain Ning Zheng this time, so as to obtain the military power of Shaanxi and Shaanxi Xingdu, then things will be a little worse.

Zhu Yunwen remembered that Qi Tai said that Shanxi was the weight of the northern part of the imperial court, and it was very easy to divide and sweep the Central Plains, Hebei and other places.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yunwen also asked carefully: "Grandpa, Taozhou is bad, isn't it good to send the second uncle?" ”

"It's okay, just let him exercise." Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care about Zhu Yunwen's opinion, but insisted on letting Zhu Fan lead the troops.

Seeing Lao Zhu insisting like this, Zhu Yunwen had no choice but to let the eunuch of the celebrant do the same.

But after he got up, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly spoke: "By the way, the fifth secretary of the edict, let him send more than 34,000 Ma Bu officers and soldiers of Henan to command the subordinate guards to go to Saibei, and choose a place to build a city and Tuntian, so that it can be used as his pasture in the future." ”

"Yes......" Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, Zhu Yunwen breathed a sigh of relief.

At present, the Saibei ranch in the Hetao area is managed by Zhu Li, and now his grandfather is ready to divide the pasture in the Saibei Hetao and further weaken the influence of the Jin Mansion.

Zhu Yunwen responded, turned around and returned to his position, during which he also glanced at Zhu Jixi carefully, but found that he was clenching his teeth, it seemed that he could guess what Lao Zhu's purpose was, but he could know it, but he couldn't change it.

At the end of a performance, the four people in the hall also returned to the state of governance, and this lasted until after noon, when everyone dispersed after Zhu Yuanzhang got up and left.

At the same time, Zhu Gaoxu, who had been down the river for two hours by boat, also arrived at Yangzhou Shuiyi by ferry before noon.

Yangzhou Water Station is the starting point of the North-South Canal, although the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal has not yet been fully completed at this time, but the capacity of the canal has been developed, so there are countless merchant ships coming and going here.

For Yangzhou in this era, Zhu Gaoxu is very curious.

It's a pity that due to the cold in the early Ming Dynasty, the snow in the cold winter has not yet melted in early spring, so when Zhu Gaoxu and his team arrived in Yangzhou, they did not see a scenery that was very different from Nanjing.

"Appeal ......"

On the wharf, Zhu Gaoxu personally led Chiyu off the ferry, and then walked out of the ferry under the guidance of Lin Wuliu, and saw 200 guards who had been resting for a long time outside Jiangpu Town.

Each of them led a Qin horse, and this Qin horse was the war horse of the cavalry in the early Ming Dynasty, and it was related to the Hequ horse in later generations.

"Are you ready for beans and water?"

Zhu Gaoxu glanced at Lin Wuliu, who was helping him feed the red donkey, and Lin Wuliu also smiled when he heard it:

"It's all ready, and the water stations on both sides of the canal have also said hello."

"Good!" Hearing Lin Wuliu's words, Zhu Gaoxu looked to the west.

Over there, the clusters of buildings and dense rivers attract everyone's attention, but it is worth noting that such a commercial city has no walls, or its walls are under construction.

For this situation, Zhu Gaoxu, Lin Wuliu, Yishiha and others did not find it strange.

After the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, the city walls of many important military sites were demolished, including the Lianghuai area.

In this catastrophe, except for a few city walls that survived, the walls of other places were destroyed.

Although the Yuan Dynasty ordered the rebuilding of the city wall to defend against the Red Turban Army during the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, due to the tight time, the city walls built at that time were rammed earth structures.

When Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, the infrastructure plan he formulated included the construction of the world's city walls, and the demolition of the rammed earth city walls and the large-scale construction of the masonry city walls.

However, in terms of the current productivity of the Ming Dynasty, it is too expensive to build the city walls of more than 1,000 counties in the world into brick and stone structures, so the construction of city walls in the interior is slow.

For example, the city wall of Yangzhou, Zhu Gaoxu only glanced at it a few times, although it was far away, it was not difficult to see that the city wall of the entire city only laid the foundation, and there were not many workers working.

At their speed, I am afraid it will take more than ten years to build the city wall of Yangzhou.

For Zhu Gaoxu, the Lianghuai area without a city wall is a woman who has taken off her clothes, which is very suitable for cavalry to drive straight in.

"Let's go."

After just a few glances, Zhu Gaoxu beckoned everyone to set off.

Soon, they changed to three long cargo ships of about ten zhang and sailed north at a slow pace.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was not as wide as in the middle and late periods, and the narrow river limited the speed of the boats.

They will arrive in Huai'an County almost tomorrow morning, and then travel overland to Dengzhou Prefecture.

Calculating the distance, they had to travel 1,200 miles by land this trip, and at the speed of getting off the horse and moving forward, it would take them about ten days to reach Dengzhou.

When I arrived in Dengzhou, I had to take a day and a night on a sea boat before I could arrive at Lushun in Jinzhouwei.

If they catch up with the early spring in eastern Liaodong, they can even take a boat all the way to Kaiyuan in northeastern Liaoning, and then they only need to walk 500 miles to reach Jilinwei.

Thinking of this long journey, Zhu Gaoxu did not continue to stay on the deck, but returned to the cabin to rest.

He was busy traveling last night and didn't sleep all night, but now he can get a good night's sleep.

Although there is some noise on the canal, compared to Nanjing, where firecrackers have been ringing all day long in the past few days, this sleep is already the most comfortable time Zhu Gaoxu has slept recently.

Maybe he left the city of Nanjing, left Lao Zhu's side, Zhu Gaoxu finally didn't have to be afraid, in short, he slept from noon to early morning.

He washed up and went to the deck, where there were still groups of escort brothers, even though it was early morning.

Zhu Gaoxu chatted with them, and most of them joined Jilin Wei after listening to the recommendation of their friends.

On their faces, Zhu Gaoxu could see their confusion about going to Jilin, their desire for military exploits, and their yearning for getting ahead.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't say much, just blew a cold wind on the dark deck, and then returned to the cabin.

About two hours later, they arrived at the Huai'an Water Station in Huai'an Province.

When they got here, Zhu Gaoxu and the others had to get off the boat.

It's not that they can't go on the waterway, but if they continue to go and get off the boat from Jining or Tengxian to Laizhou, they will have to face the problem of broken roads.

The Ming Dynasty communicated with Shandong in the south of Zhili only one water post and two land posts.

One is from Huai'an to Muyang, Ganyu, Gaomi, Pingdu to Laizhou, and the other is from Jining all the way to Beiping.

If you want to take Jining to Laizhou, you can also go, but the road is not as easy as the post road from Huai'an to Laizhou.

Therefore, after the ship arrived in Huai'an, Zhu Gaoxu and others spent half an hour to move things off the ship, and then a group of more than 200 people began to go to Laizhou by land.

In just an instant, Zhu Gaoxu and the others drove for three days and came to the boundary of Ganyu County.

Among them, it is worth mentioning that along the way, not only the city walls in Lianghuai have been bulldozed and rebuilt, but also in Shandong.

However, Lao Zhu's strategic vision is indeed the existence of the first level in history, and he let the people of Shandong build complete brick and stone city walls in key points such as Jinan, Jining, Dongping, and Tengxian early.

From this point of view, it is not surprising that Zhu Di hit his head in Jinan and Dongping and bled down, after all, it was the defense line built by his own father.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu also put his mind at ease and immersed himself in the return to the north.

On the way, Zhu Gaoxu saw many abandoned fields, and there was a group of people who were busy cultivating them.

In addition to this, he was able to see many people grazing their herds.

Some eight- and nine-year-old dolls with a few hunting dogs herded a dozen sheep, and when they saw Zhu Gaoxu and his group of people riding tall horses, these dolls would still stand on the side of the road, looking at them with envy.

"There are more herders than farmers......

Lin Wuliu on horseback looked at the herdsmen who were more than farmers in surprise, but Zhu Gaoxu said calmly:

"Although Kublai Khan himself was good at governing the country and paid attention to agriculture, the group of nobles below him did not care about these at all."

"After the death of Kublai Khan, those nobles who did not know how to do affairs abandoned a large area of arable land in the north and the Lianghuai region, and converted the cultivated land into pastures.

"Coupled with the flooding of the river, farmers who were not supported in the first place have naturally turned into herders."

Zhu Gaoxu didn't have much ill feeling towards the Yuan Dynasty, after all, the Ming Dynasty had already avenged the Han people on behalf of the Han people.

Therefore, he did not ignore the good side of the Yuan Dynasty like many people.

It is true that the Yuan Dynasty caused massacres in the north, Lianghuai, and Sichuan, but Kublai Khan himself still paid great attention to agriculture.

From the perspective of the entire historical process, the contribution of the Yuan Dynasty to the agricultural promotion of the Central Plains during the period of Kublai Khan is still obvious.

It can be seen from the three agricultural books of the Yuan Dynasty, such as "Agricultural Mulberry Compendium", "Agricultural Book" and "Agricultural Mulberry Food and Clothing Summary".

In addition to agriculture, the Yuan Dynasty during the period of Kublai Khan had its own unique features in terms of commerce, economy, culture and religion, and in many respects it actually had advantages over the Song Dynasty.

It's a pity that Kublai Khan was an outlier among the Mongols after all, and since his death, the agriculture of the Yuan Dynasty began to be frantically destroyed by the Mongol aristocracy.

A large amount of cultivated land was abandoned and converted into pasture, causing nearly 700 million mu of cultivated land in the Jin and Song dynasties to plummet to more than 300 million mu in the early Hongwu period.

However, Zhu Gaoxu believes that with Lao Zhu's major water conservancy repairs in recent years, more and more people will switch from herding to farming, and more and more land will be restored.

But the only thing that worries him is who belongs to the reclaimed land......

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu looked at the people who were reclaiming the wasteland in the distance.

While they were clearing the wasteland shirtless, a coarse cloth pergola was erected on the path behind.

Several men who looked like subordinates brought chairs, a squire in a silk robe sat on the chair, and then a flag was erected.

【Hole】

"It's the Yansheng family who is hiring people to open up the wasteland, but they can actually open up the wasteland from Qufu to Ganyu, this hand is long enough."

Yisha looked at the banner of the Face's Mansion with a look of surprise on his face.

From Qufu to Ganyu, how can there be more than 400 miles, Confucius can actually stretch his hand so long, and it is still a wasteland, which is very interesting.

Zhu Gaoxu listened to Yishu's words, and his face gradually became worse.

He didn't have a good impression of Beikong, and now Beikong actually started land annexation during the Hongwu period, and if he continued to indulge, I don't know how many fields they would annex.

It's just that he is now soft-spoken, and he can't punish Confucius, otherwise he will inevitably play.

"Let's go" Zhu Gaoxu did not stay for long, but continued to hurry.

An hour later, they arrived in Ganyu County as scheduled and stayed at the post station in Ganyu County.

Ganyu County is a small county near the sea, and Zhu Gaoxu remembers that in his previous life, it was only a district of Lianyungang, but in this life...... Lianyungang is still soaking in the water.

"Your Highness, are you going out for a walk? The brothers wanted to see the sea. ”

After three days in a row, Lin Wuliu was on the road except for wandering around Muyang County, so he was very interested in coming to the coastal city of Ganyu County.

He and many of his brothers in the guard had never seen the sea yet, and wanted to take advantage of the rest to see the sea.

Since he was staying at a post station outside the city, Zhu Gaoxu was not worried about the curfew, so he also opened the door and pinned the swing of the round-necked robe into the belt: "Let's go, take a look!" ”

Zhu Gaochu took Lin Wuliu to the beach, during which he met Yishiha, but Yishaha was not interested in the sea, so in the end, only Zhu Gaoxu and Lin Wuliu and more than 100 people came to the beach.

I have to say that even in this era, the sea from Qingdao to Lianyungang in the later generations is not particularly clean, at least not as clean as the sea that Zhu Gaoxu saw in Hainan and abroad in his previous life, this is a matter of latitude and river, and it is difficult to change.

However, compared with Qingdao where Zhu Gaoxu went in the previous life, the sea in Ganyu County in this era is a little clearer than that in later generations.

On the beach, Zhu Gaoxu played Jiaodui (wrestling) with Lin Wuliu and others.

For the sake of fairness, Zhu Gaoxu divided the two sides into fifty to eighty-nine.

There are eighty-nine people on Lin Wuliu's side, and fifty people on his side.

After deciding on the people, Zhu Gaoxu stood in front of the team.

Many soldiers who didn't know Zhu Gaoxu's strength cautiously stepped forward to test it, but Zhu Gaochu grabbed the collar, and the whole person was directly lifted up and slipped up, kicking his feet in the air.

Zhu Gaoxu's strength was even greater, he tried to lift the soldier into the air, and then boldly let go of a hand.

In this way, he lifted a man of more than 100 catties with only one hand.

His actions stunned people who were not familiar with him, and their mouths opened wide.

When he put the soldier down, the soldier also landed firmly under his control.

"Your Highness, we won't be able to play like this......"

Lin Wuliu smiled bitterly, and Zhu Gaoxu also wanted to speak when he saw this, but he didn't want to be interrupted by a group of people in the distance:

"Over there, don't you know that this beach belongs to my home?"

Zhu Gaoxu and the others turned their heads to look, but saw a middle-aged man on a pony with seven or eight guards standing on the road by the beach and questioning them.

"This beach belongs to the imperial court, when did it become your home?"

Lin Wuliu was not used to this person, and scolded back directly, the man wanted to argue again when he saw this, but he didn't want to panic and run to someone in the rear.

The man was wearing a robe, and he ran faster after seeing Zhu Gaoxu and the others.

After that, I didn't know what he said in the middle-aged man's ear, and the middle-aged man was busy saying: "You are right, this beach is indeed from the imperial court, and I just wanted to make a joke with you, I'm really sorry......"

After that, the middle-aged man hurriedly said, "It's almost curfew, and the little old man will leave first." ”

As soon as the words fell, he left with someone, and Lin Wuliu also turned his head and said indignantly:

"Your Highness, that little old man must be a rich local squire, otherwise it would be impossible to see more than a hundred of us here and dare to say that this beach belongs to his family."

"I think it was the man who came later who knew our identity, which made the squire escape."

"Hmm...... I know. Zhu Gaoxu shook his head, what Lin Wuliu could think of, he could naturally think of.

But compared to these things, he was more curious about which family the little old man was.

"Don't play, I'll go back first, don't play too late."

Looking at the sky, Zhu Gaoxu lost interest in the corner, and after explaining a word, he turned around and returned to the post station.

Seeing this, Lin Wuliu greeted the remaining brothers a few times, and then escorted Zhu Gaoxu back to the post station with his five brothers.

After returning to the post station, Zhu Gaoxu found the officials at the post station and asked them about the beach.

It's just that in the face of his inquiry, the post guards and officials at the post station are also hesitant.

"Even if you say it, I won't meddle in this matter, I just want to know."

Zhu Gaoxu appeased the little official and the two post guards, and only when he saw this did the little official truthfully explain:

"That's the side line of Confucius, and it has become a family in Ganyu County in the pre-Yuan Dynasty, not to mention the beach, at least thirty percent of the entire Ganyu County belongs to his family."

"I heard some servants in his house say that 20% of the rent of these lands will be paid to Qufu, so the county does not dare to take care of it."

He made it clear what he knew, and Zhu Gaoxu frowned slightly when he heard it, but he didn't say anything after all, just told them to prepare dinner and send it to the house, and then got up and left.

After he left, the little official and the post guard also breathed a sigh of relief and continued to get busy, after all, it was still a little difficult for them to prepare a meal for more than two hundred people.

Fortunately, Yishiha was dotted and called more than a dozen helpers to help cook in advance, otherwise this post station would really not be able to get more than 200 people's meals.

It's just that when they were busy, Zhu Gaoxu, who went up to the second floor of the post station and looked at the sea, frowned.

The power of Confucius in Shandong is probably even greater than he thought, and it is no wonder that Lao Zhu, a person who dares to criticize Mencius, will continue to attack Northern Confucius as the Holy Duke of Yan.

"In the future, if I have the chance, I will have to solve this matter."

Zhu Gaoxu remembered that at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Yansheng Mansion alone reported more than 1 million mu of fields, and it was even more difficult to calculate what was concealed.

Originally, he thought it was an exaggeration in the literature of the late Ming Dynasty, but from what he heard and saw during the day today to what he heard and saw just now, maybe the matter is really more exaggerated than the record.

"Sure enough, there are some things that can't be weighed."

"Once it is weighed, I'm afraid I can't even weigh the iron scale......

Leaving these words, Zhu Gaoxu closed the window and became more determined about his return to the north.

"In this world, only I will be in charge of the government will be better!"

(End of chapter)