"The Emperor of Heaven, the Emperor of the Earth, don't be surprised by my little son...... Come on, don't panic, my military master will resist ......"

Time flies, seven days have passed in a blink of an eye, and the time has come to the first day of the third month.

At the beginning of March, the snow in places like Jilin began to melt on a large scale.

In the city of Jilin, thousands of men and women are working in full swing on two construction sites.

The women dig the soil, the men pick the soil, and some dolls, although small, can also pour the soil into the basket.

On the construction site, the soldiers and civilians of Jilin City, who had migrated from Shandong, sang folk songs, and the Japanese people mentioned in the folk songs also reminded Zhu Gaoxu, who was watching on the city wall, to the south.

It's just that this thought was quickly dispelled by him, because he didn't think that those coastal would-be robbers could escape from the hands of Li Jinglong, Yang Wen and others.

If you talk about the Japanese in Liangguang, then there may be a way to live, but there is only one dead end for the coastal Japanese in Shandong and Liaodong.

Thinking so, Zhu Gaoxu also sat on the horse and quietly watched the foundation work on the construction site that was nearing completion.

"Your Highness, this field was distributed, and after explaining it clearly, everyone is working hard."

On the city wall, Zhang Chun, who was wearing a mandarin duck jacket, ran over with a smile, and Zhu Gaoxu also smiled: "I said I want to go down to work, but you don't want to, if I go down, I guess everyone can work harder." ”

"Don't ......," Zhang Chun chuckled, "Everyone in the city regards you as a sage, and if you are allowed to go down to work, someone will definitely throw stones at my courtyard tonight." ”

As soon as Zhang Chun's words were spoken, the two soldiers standing behind Zhu Gaoxu also grinned.

These two people were not soldiers who followed Zhu Gaoxu from the south, but soldiers from Jilin City.

But even so, they believe that Zhang Chun's words are not wrong.

Perhaps in the eyes of later generations, Zhu Gaochu just did ordinary things, but in the eyes of people in this era, not to mention Zhu Gaochu personally working, even if he came to the construction site, it was a move to break all their lives.

In this era when the grain in the military tuntian was generally handed over, and the remaining fields also had to be given three out of ten, Zhu Gaoxu not only distributed six buckets of grain to everyone in the institute every month, but also distributed the military tuntian to them, even if it was only two acres of land, but it was also a great kindness, not to mention the abolition of Ding tax and miscellaneous taxes, and only the benevolent government of collecting ten and two field taxes.

Now this project, Zhang Chun and Lin Su have explained clearly to the soldiers and civilians that it is a place for them and their children and grandchildren to learn to read and write.

If it was placed in the past, they would rather skip meals to save food, but also build such an academy to let their children become talents, after all, there are only two ascending channels for military households in the guard, one is military merit, and the other is the imperial examination.

But at the moment, His Royal Highness not only bought books, paper, pens and inkstones out of his own pocket, but also invited the officials who taught, but also did not charge them a penny of food.

In the face of such kindness, they only need to exert a little strength, and they really have a conscience.

It can be said that although Zhu Gaoxu only came to Jilin City for seven days, he did more things in these seven days than he did in the past seven years in Jilin City.

Right now, even if Zhu Gaoxu wants some of them to die, they feel that they deserve to die.

Zhu Gaoxu's sense of morality brought from later generations is no different from that of a sage in this era.

"Your Highness! I am back! ”

Before the sound of horses' hooves sounded, Lin Su's voice came from outside the city, Zhu Gaoxu and Zhang Chun turned to look, but saw Lin Su returning with more than ten cavalry.

In a short time they entered the gate, gave their horses to the soldiers at the gate, and ran up to the city.

Looking at this scene, Zhang Chun also said: "Your Highness, although Jilin City is built according to the regulations of Weibao, it is not a big city after all, do you want to wait for the expansion after spring ploughing, and your palace......"

"Not necessarily." Zhu Gaoxu knew what Zhang Chun meant, but he shook his head and said:

"You don't have to be busy with these this year, wait until there are more people next year, and the most important thing this year is to train the troops after the spring ploughing and reclaim the wasteland."

"The palace should not be moved like this, but the city wall should be expanded and thickened."

Jilin City was very slow to reclaim wasteland due to the lack of men and animal power before, and now after Zhu Gaoxu came, he was ready to use the three hundred horses to reclaim more wasteland as soon as possible.

Not only that, but he also had to attack Xiyangha before the autumn harvest.

Fighting Xiyangha is not only to eliminate potential threats, but also to expand the strength of Jilin City.

Although the Jurchens were fishing and hunting, they could actually farm, and with the friendship with the Uliangha, some tribes did not have a lot of animal power in their hands.

There are more than 10,000 people in Xiyangha, and there are thousands of horses and cattle, and Zhou Xing and Song Sheng have not been able to catch up with Xiyangha in history, but they still captured more than 600 people and more than 400 horses along the way.

But if he can defeat Xiyang Ha once, then Jilin City will be able to eat all at once.

"Your Highness, it's back!"

When Zhu Gaoxu was planning how to fight Xiyangha, Lin Su and others also went up to the city wall, carrying bundles of fur on their backs.

"Ten stones of grain, in exchange for these more than forty furs, the Shanchu Fort in the east also asked us when the next transaction will be."

Lin Su said about his harvest, and his trip to Shanchu Fort this time was also instructed by Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhu Gaoxu wanted to see the strength of Shanchu Fort, so he asked Lin Su and other eighteen people to go to Shanchu Fort with ten stones of grain and trade furs with it.

Now it seems that the strength of Shanchu Fort is good, and he actually exchanged more than forty furs, including bears, deer, and mink.

"If these things are sold to Yang Bin, I'm afraid I can get eighty yuan."

Zhu Gaoxu squatted down and looked at the stack of furs, although most of them were deer skins, there were also more than a dozen valuable mink skins and bear skins.

"This money is enough to buy 200 stone of grain."

Zhu Gaoxu sighed, and at the same time, he also knew why there were so many smugglers in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, after all, this was too profitable.

"Have you visited their warehouse?" Zhu Gaoxu raised his head and asked Lin Su, very anxious, after all, Yang Bin would come to Jilin City to collect furs in May.

"Look!" Lin Su grinned: "They have stocked up on goods for a year, there are hundreds of deer skins and a hundred mink skins, more than a dozen bear skins and three tiger skins, and a box of ginseng. ”

"The good out of the castle means that these things are worth five hundred stone of grain."

Lin Su quoted a very low price, of course, this is for Zhu Gaoxu.

Five hundred stone grain can't do much here in Zhu Gaoxu, but for Shanchubao, it is their ration for a month.

In this regard, Zhu Gaoxu did not lower the price, but nodded and said: "Tomorrow, you take two hundred brothers to the treasury to fetch five hundred stone millet and escort them to Shanchu Fort, and exchange the fur and ginseng for me." ”

"In addition, tell Ezhen of Shanchu Fort that after the autumn harvest, let them send someone to quote, and I will buy as much fur ginseng as I want."

After the autumn harvest, he had 8,000 stone of surplus grain in his hand, and he was not afraid that he would not be able to eat the fur of Shanchu Fort.

"Good!" Lin Su smiled and responded, Zhu Gaoxu also looked at the construction site in the city when he saw this, and asked Zhang Chun beside him: "How many days will it take to complete?" ”

Although Zhang Chun is young, he is extremely old, Zhu Gaoxu is very relieved of him, and temporarily let him supervise the construction of the academy in the city.

Zhang Chun did not disappoint Zhu Gaoxu in this regard, and continued to count the treasures: "It will be completed in about 12 days." ”

"Good!" Hearing Zhang Chun's words, Zhu Gaoxu also made the next arrangements.

First of all, the snow had begun to melt, and the Ming armor in the city was not enough, so Zhu Gaoxu asked Zhang Chun to arrange craftsmen to supervise the construction of 300 sets of farm tools after the completion of the academy.

Because the temperature in Jilin during the Ming Dynasty was lower than in later generations, crops such as wheat had to wait until early April to be cultivated and harvested in mid-August.

These 300 sets of farm implements should be able to be built before the spring ploughing, and the 300 horses brought from the south will be useful.

Although the ploughing of horses is not as good as ploughing cattle, a spring ploughing can only plough 30 acres of land, and needs to be fed with beans, but Zhu Gaoxu has more than 10,000 beans supplied by the Liaodong Dusi behind him, and he does not have to worry about the shortage of beans at all.

Three hundred horses are enough to plough the existing cooked land in Jilin City in five days, and the rest of the days, except for the occasional need for them to go to Futijin City and Shanchu Fort to haul furs, they can be kept to reclaim wasteland at other times.

Zhu Gaoxu observed that although the current Jilin Bay is not as wide as that of later generations, after all the clearing, at least hundreds of thousands of acres of cooked land can be reclaimed.

Judging by the 4,000 people left in the city, excluding soldiers, craftsmen, and children.

These 4,000 men used 300 horses to open up the land for three months, and they were able to open up at least 5,000 acres of cooked land, and it was a clean and mature land where all the stones and roots were removed.

In ancient times, the land of wasteland, the grass roots are deep, the soil is firm, it is very difficult to cultivate, the first year can only be cultivated, the next year can be governed, and the harvest is expected in three years.

However, if the field can be cured in the first year, then the second year will produce normal crops like normal ripe fields.

According to the method of land reclamation in Jilin City, the land opened this year can be directly used as cultivated land if the grass is burned next year, and the output is the same as that of other cultivated fields.

These 5,000 stone acres of cultivated land will be able to produce 3,000 stone of grain next year, which can feed at least 500 people.

Under the condition that the number of people and animal power in Jilin City remain unchanged, it only takes more than ten years for Zhu Gaoxu to make Jilin City self-sufficient.

If he can snatch thousands of ploughing oxen and horses from Xiyangha and other departments, then this speed can be shortened to one or two years.

In this era, animal power is the productive force, and arable land is the means of production.

As long as there is more arable land in Jilin City, Zhu Gaoxu's burden will be smaller, and in the end, the current policy of allocating six buckets of rice per month will be lifted and more soldiers and horses will be raised.

The biggest problem in land reclamation is animal power and grain, and once these two points are solved, land reclamation will not be a problem.

Zhu Gaoxu was very short of time, he had to solve the problem of self-sufficiency in Jilin City in the shortest possible time, and he also had to store military rations in case he could go south at any time.

According to history, he only had four and a half years, so he was in a hurry.

Now he has just begun to decorate Jilin City, and internally he still needs to make cement, study firearms, and build a gunpowder factory.

Externally, he needs to defeat Xiyangha once this year, and cooperate with Zhu Quan to patrol the border next year and fight with Wuliangha.

If he has gone for two years, then he will only have two and a half years left......

"After the farm tools are built, we will first build 600 sets of Ming armor, and as for the iron materials, we will transport another 30,000 catties in early April, so we don't have to worry about the lack of materials."

"In addition, things such as spears, hammers, swords and arrows have to be made."

"Find a few more stonemasons, I need them to go to the mountains and find me something."

Zhu Gaoxu continued to explain to Zhang Chun and Lin Su, and the two also wrote down Zhu Gaoxu's words to each other according to their duties.

After saying all this, Zhu Gaoxu explained to Zhang Chun: "These things come one by one, don't rush the people for the sake of progress." ”

"In addition, pay attention to the dynamics of Xiyangha at any time, the shipyard also began to supervise the construction of warships after the completion of the academy, and I brought a few craftsmen from the Longjiang shipyard from the south, who have experience in supervising the construction of two thousand large ships."

"If they were short of supplies when they were overseeing the construction of warships, they sent their brothers with them to cut wood in the mountains."

Zhu Gaoxu is not worried about the matter of wood, compared with the Jiangnan and Central Plains Qilu area, the northeast of this era is more than a hundred years of trees, and there are countless trees around Jilin City.

What he was worried about was that Zhang Chun and Lin Su were fishing for efficiency, and he had to know that anyone in Jilin City was Zhu Gaoxu's heart.

"Your Highness, rest assured, we know how to do it."

Seeing that His Royal Highness was so urgent, he remembered to remind them to be kind to the people, and Zhang Chun and Lin Su also thought that they were not following the wrong person.

In comparison, some of the feudal kings in the south were a bit brutal......

"!!Uhh

Almost on the same day, when Zhu Gaoxu was working with the people of Jilin City, there were terrible screams in the palace of King Qin in Xi'an.

Outside a row of upside-down rooms, Zhu Zhang, the king of Qin who had returned from the expedition, was taking Changshi and several palace people to watch the scene inside the house outside the window.

The chief of the palace and the palace people all turned their heads because the pictures in the house were too cruel, but Zhu Fan watched them with relish.

Due to the insufficiency of anesthetic, castration was carried out after wrapping it in a white cloth.

Zhu Fan watched back and forth in front of the inverted room, and seemed to be very satisfied with his "masterpiece".

The palace chief Shi couldn't bear to look at the last room, where there were still dozens of people who were locked up, and his face was extremely frightened at the moment, because they all heard the voice next door.

"Look, you have to let this group of people listen to the screams of their own clan, so they will be obedient after being castrated, and they will never dare to resist again."

Looking at the fear on the faces of the group of children, Zhu Fan felt great satisfaction in his heart, and from time to time he showed off his skills to the palace people around him.

One of the palace maids was also from a fan, so tears flowed out of his eyes, but he didn't want Zhu Fan to be angry when he saw it: "Hold him down!" ”

"Your Highness! Your Highness! The slave knows that she is wrong! Slave ......"

The palace maid kept begging for mercy, but Zhu Fan squatted down and said viciously; "You fanzi don't know about the king, and you are asked to serve the king, but you still sympathize with these rebels."

Between the words, Zhu Fan gestured left and right: "Bring pliers and scissors!" ”

"Yes ......" Although they are both fans, in the face of the tragic situation of the same clan, the other fans who entered the palace did not dare to resist, so they could only follow Zhu Rong's words and bring pliers and scissors.

During this period, the palace maid kept howling, and it was not until Zhu Fan got the pliers and smashed her head a few times that the palace maid fainted.

It's just that Zhu Fan has to do more than just stun her,

It's just that she took a few steps forward, and Zhu Fan slammed the back of her head with pliers, but after a few strokes, she convulsed and lost her breath.

Zhu Fan was stained with a few drops of blood, and immediately threw the pliers aside, and threw the robe on his body to a palace maid behind him.

However, as if frightened by the brutal scene in front of her, the palace maid did not receive the robe in time, causing the robe to fall to the ground.

"Your Highness!"

The palace maid knelt on the ground and hugged the robe into her arms, and Zhu Fan was also angry when she saw this.

Seeing this, the head of the palace, Shi Shi, hurriedly stepped forward and said: "Your Highness, this is the grandson of Mama Li of the Houfu, please forgive your Highness." ”

"Bastard!" Zhu Fan could have suppressed his temper, but after hearing Changshi's words, he immediately scolded: "A granddaughter who helps the cook dares to insult my robe?!" ”

Zhu Fan looked at the palace people around: "Drag it down, thirty rods!" ”

"Your Highness spares your life! Your Highness spares your life! Hearing the words of the cane thirty, Mama Li's granddaughter was so busy that she knocked her head on the ground, but after three or five strokes, she saw blood.

It's just that her plea for mercy did not get Zhu Rong's forgiveness, and under the drag of the palace people, the palace maid was still dragged to the front of the carrier hall, and was beaten to death in front of the palace by two wrestlers with thirty rods......

Zhu Fan didn't care about her death, but continued to watch the hundreds of children he captured, watching them being castrated, trained in etiquette and waiting to enter the palace.

His brutal behavior has not been once or twice, almost everyone in the palace of King Qin is in danger, and there are often people in Xi'an City who try to flee to Henan and Huguang to report him, but without exception they were intercepted and escorted back to Xi'an City, and finally died by Zhu Fan in accordance with the "Da Ming Law".

Compared with his complacent and reckless behavior because he got the military power in Shaanxi, Zhu Li, who was in Shanxi, ushered in round after round of blows.

First, the in-law Fu Youde died, and then the Marquis of Dingyuan Wang Bi was given to death, and the Hetao ranch under his jurisdiction was divided among his other younger brothers by his father, and his cronies were transferred to Dongshengwei......

This incident made Zhu Li jump like thunder, and he was depressed and fainted many times.

In this context, on the second day of the first month of March, Zhu Li's father-in-law, Yongping Hou Xie Cheng, was given to death, and when the news reached Shanxi, Zhu Li knew that the general trend had gone.

Except for the grandchildren and daughters-in-law of Zhu Li's own lineage, the rest of the in-laws were all cut off, the military attachés of the Shanxi Metropolitan Division were all replaced, and the soldiers and horses who received the most favors from Zhu Li were also transferred out of Shanxi successively.

In today's Shanxi, except for the three guards of the Jin Mansion, Zhu Li no longer has anyone who can be trusted, and even the subordinate officials in the palace are either given death or exiled or transferred.

Sitting in the carrier hall, Zhu Li looked at the empty carrier hall in front of him, and his face seemed to be crying and smiling, which was extremely infiltrating.

His tragic situation was seen by the vassals, except for Zhu Zhang, the king of Qin, and the rest of the kings were all in danger.

Among them, Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, couldn't help but be glad that he listened to his son's words, otherwise his Zhou Mansion would probably be the second Jin Mansion.

Zhu Hu's happiness is a true portrayal of many vassal kings, but there are also many vassal kings who are as unmoved as Zhu Zhang, still maintaining the style of the past, and constantly doing evil in the feudal country.

Zhu Rong, the king of Qi, got Zhu Yuanzhang's will because of this turmoil, and Zhu Yuanzhang asked him to be ready to prepare for the Japanese at any time, and to line up to kill the enemy when he encounters the Japanese invaders, and not to compete with the generals after the war, and not to bully the people.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang's move made Zhu Rong think that there was someone in the palace who was informing, so he hammered and killed 17 palace guards, and in order to prevent the news from leaking, he also threatened the prince's subordinate officials......

These arrogant vassal kings gave Zhu Yuanzhang a lot of headaches, although he issued orders to scold these guys many times, but these guys never changed, because they all knew that their father could not kill him, and the biggest punishment was just to move to some poor places.

For the feudal lords, there are few places where they are stationed that are not poor, and even the vassal kings of Qin, Qi, and Lu do not have a prosperous city with more than 200,000 people, no matter how bad it is.

However, with the news that Zhu Gaoxu was canonized as the king of Bohai County and had taken office in Jilin City, Qilu and other feudal domains still restrained a little.

Jilin City, that is no longer a place that can be explained by the word poverty.

The emperor can do this to his favorite grandchildren, let alone his own concubines......

I have to say that the canonization of Zhu Gaoxu to Jilin City did make many Shu kings a little more restrained, which may be one of the few things that can make Zhu Yuanzhang happy in the past few months.

"What did he do after he went to Jilin, but he was ready to complain?"

In the Qianqing Palace on the sixth day of the first month of March, Zhu Yuanzhang asked the military attache of Jinyi Wei when he was changing his clothes and preparing to go to the early court, and the military attache also shook his head and said:

"The wind and snow are too big, the carrier pigeons have not been cultivated well, and the news has not been sent, but it is certain that His Royal Highness should not easily complain about his grievances......"

As he spoke, the military attache told Zhu Gaoxu the various conditions that he had promised to his guards before leaving for Jilin City, and Zhu Yuanzhang frowned.

Rao didn't expect that Zhu Gaoxu would be so generous to the soldiers, and actually promised eighteen times of military salary, and he didn't know if it was stupid or had other plans.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang also put on his regular clothes, turned around and walked outside the Qianqing Palace, and the military attache followed.

After Zhu Yuanzhang sat down, he continued to the military attaché: "The money and food allocated by the capital division and his annual salary, I'm afraid I can't support many soldiers. ”

"The people in the institute have calculated, and after exhausting the treasury, His Highness can only raise 3,000 soldiers." The military attache bowed his head back, and Zhu Yuanzhang was expressionless after hearing it.

Regarding Zhu Gaoxu's approach, he only regarded Zhu Gaochu as reining in his ambitions and expressing to the outside world that he had no quarrel with the world in Jilin City.

After all, with 3,000 soldiers, let alone pulling the flag and standing on their own, supporting the troops and respecting themselves, even the defense of the Jurchen tribes is stretched.

"I'm afraid he did this to show his weakness and didn't want people to notice him......"

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes dimmed a little, and he seemed to think of the things he had done to Zhu Gaoxu.

At the same time, Zhu Zhang, who was in Xi'an, also ushered in his retribution......

(End of chapter)