"Your Highness! We're back! ”

Spring goes to autumn, just a moment of time, and more than a month has passed.

With the time coming to the end of August, in the anticipation of Jilin City, Zhang Chun and other 200 people finally escorted Yang Bin and more than 2,000 carriages and thousands of people from Liaodong Capital to Jilin City.

When they arrived, Zhu Gaoxu was in the palace, so when he heard Zhang Chun's voice, he immediately put down his pen and ran to the study window to watch.

Under this wait-and-see, Zhang Chun really walked into the courtyard of the palace under the support of Yishaha, Lin Su, and Fu Rang.

Zhu Gaoxu beckoned to everyone, then retracted his body and walked towards the main hall.

When he reached the main hall, all the people went into the temple.

"The last general Zhang Chun, Your Highness is blessed and healthy!"

As soon as he entered the hall, Zhang Chun was about to kneel, and Zhu Gaoxu also stepped forward to drag his hands, and said with a smile:

"When I went to Jiangnan, didn't I forget my rules?"

"I was confused for a while." Zhang Chun was not very old after all, and scratched his head with a smile, causing Fu Rang and the others next to him to laugh.

"Sit down first, what about Yang Bin?"

Zhu Gaoxu beckoned them to sit down, and he also sat down on the main seat, and Zhang Chun replied when he sat down: "I came from Jixi Fort first, and they estimated that it would be more than ten miles before they arrived." ”

"Your Highness, this time Yang Bin didn't do what you said." Zhang Chun smiled:

"He paid out of his own pocket, and made up for it all the way, until Jixi Fort, and there were still 30,000 stone of grain on the car." Speaking of this, Zhang Chun also said with embarrassment:

"It's just that the official is not easy to find, we searched for more than sixty of them, but we went all the way north and they returned the money all the way and left, and now they only brought thirty-one ......"

Zhang Chun seemed to feel a little guilty for not completing Zhu Gaoxu's words, and couldn't help lowering his head.

Zhu Gaoxu had already been prepared, so he could only comfort: "It was Yang Bin who asked you to come back and tell me first, right, it's okay, I expected this situation a long time ago, it's good if you can bring thirty-one." ”

Although he comforted Zhang Chun, the other three people who were familiar with him could hear a little regret in his words.

In order not to let the atmosphere continue like this, Fu Rang took the initiative to speak: "It's time for you to come, we are going to train soldiers for a few more days to avenge you." ”

"Revenge?" Zhang Chun was confused for a moment at first, but quickly reacted, got up excitedly, and stared at Zhu Gaoxu:

"Your Highness, the last general is willing to be the vanguard and go straight to the nest of the old slave in Xiyang Hana!"

Obviously, the prosperous Jiangnan did not corrode Zhang Chun's heart of wanting revenge, and he didn't even expect that this thing could come so quickly.

Regarding his actions, Zhu Gaoxu smiled and raised his hand to signal him to sit down, and then said:

"Don't say that you want to be a pioneer, I want to be a pioneer too, but this time we are only able to take this road with Commander Fu, so you can't help if you want to be a pioneer."

Zhu Gaoxu said this, and Lin Su also explained the route of this northern expedition to Zhang Chun.

Hearing that Fu Rang and Zhu Gaoxu were actually preparing to go straight to Buyan Fort by land, Zhang Chun felt a little difficult at first, but after hearing Lin Su say that there were now more than 900 horses in the city, he immediately changed his mind.

"I didn't get a thousand, but it was enough."

Fu Rang said this, and Zhu Gaoxu also took the opportunity to say: "This time, Lin Su took 227 people to stay in Jilin City, Wang Yi led a hundred people to lead the boat and pretended that we were going to march by water, and I and Fu Rang, Yishiha, and Zhang Chun led 400 cavalry, and 600 horse infantry went straight to Yishiha's lair. ”

"There are still 200 people left, I will leave a hundred people to guard the three minerals, and a hundred people to escort Yang Bin south."

Zhu Gaochu said, looking at everyone with his eyes, among which Fu Rang, Lin Su and Zhang Chun were high-spirited, only Yizha obviously didn't expect that he would really follow Zhu Gaochu to the battlefield.

He was not afraid, but he was eager for it, but he really didn't expect that he would be lucky enough to go to the battlefield as a eunuch.

"This time, it is best to slaughter the old slave of Xiyang Hana, take his head to sacrifice to the brothers of Jilin City who died in the previous battle, and by the way, tell the departments outside the Guan, who is in charge of this place under their feet!"

Zhu Gaoxu is heroic, he must fight this battle, and he must win it, because he has a reason to win, and there is no way out.

"I am willing to be a pawn of His Highness!"

Hearing this, everyone got up and saluted, but Zhu Gaoxu returned to normal after saying this:

"Let's wait for Yang Bin to put the grain into the warehouse, there is not much grain in the treasury now."

Zhu Gaoxu smiled, but everyone smiled bitterly, Zhang Chun saw this and inquired before learning that in order to exchange for these more than 600 horses, Jilin City had paid more than 3,000 stones.

In addition to various other supplements, medicines and furs, there were more than 50,000 stones in the treasury of Jilin City in May, but now there are only more than 20,000 stones.

Even if Yang Bin and the others brought 30,000 stone of grain, it would only be enough to eat until June of the next year.

If you deduct the unpaid soldiers' salaries, you can only eat until mid-April.

Although the Liaodong Metropolitan Division brings grain to Jilin City in early April every year, if they are a few days late, Jilin City will have to face the risk of running out of food.

Therefore, the fight against Xiyangha was not only for revenge, but also for the plundering of food and population.

After understanding everything, Zhang Chun didn't say anything more.

However, after finishing the business, everyone's topic became a little lighter, and they basically asked Zhang Chun how he felt about going to the south.

Although Zhang Chun was a native of Shandong, he was moved to Liaodong at the age of five, and at the age of eleven, because the previous Qianhu in Jilin City was transferred, he came to Jilin City with his father to take office.

I just don't want to think that it's only been three years, and the father and son are separated by heaven and earth.

Zhang Chun had already passed the sad time, so he told everyone about his experience of going south.

Like Zhu Gaoxu and them, Zhang Chun kept lamenting that there were many people in the south on the way south, and after arriving in Jiangnan, he felt that there were people everywhere around, and he was a little uncomfortable.

He went to the Governor's Mansion to report on his duties, and was told that in order to inherit his father's official position, he had to go to the Great Teaching Center to take the examination.

Considering that he was a serving military attaché and was also a frontier military attaché, the Governor's Office arranged for him to take the exam with several veterans.

The examination school for the children of military attachés was very easy for Zhang Chun, a child of a military household who had practiced archery on horseback since he was a child, and he passed all the examinations in just one day, and then went to the Governor's Mansion to officially receive a new military seal.

At the same time, the Governor's Mansion also posthumously awarded Zhang Chun's father, Zhang Ben, as the Governor's Office, which was inherited by Zhang Chun.

Therefore, the current official position of Zhang Chun should be the governor of the city, not the former thousand households.

But Zhang Chun didn't care, although he often followed his father, but he didn't fight many times, and starting from a thousand households was already a big challenge for him.

Fortunately, in the past few months of going south, he has been able to skillfully command about 200 soldiers and horses, so he is still very confident in this surprise attack on Xiyangha.

After talking about all this, there was also a boiling sound outside the hospital, obviously Yang Bin and they had arrived in Jilin City.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu got up and greeted: "Let's go, let's go out and see what was shipped this time." ”

"Yes!" Everyone smiled and got up and prepared to go out with Zhu Gaoxu, but Zhang Chun stood up and said, "Your Highness, the last general still has something to tell His Highness." ”

"Huh?" Zhu Gaoxu was a little suspicious, but he still beckoned Fu to let them: "You go first." ”

Although Fu Rang and the others were also puzzled, they still left the Carrier Hall.

However, after making sure that they were gone, Zhang Chun stepped forward and whispered to Zhu Gaoxu:

"Your Highness, there are people from the south among the brothers......"

Zhang Chun noticed that there were people in Jilin City, which Zhu Gaoxu didn't expect, he instinctively wooed Zhang Chun to Jinyiwei and guessed: "They found you?" ”

"It's not ......" Zhang Chun shook his head: "I found that a few brothers from the south often went to the deck in the middle of the night, and after arriving in Nanjing City, they left the Great Church under the pretext of going to find their former brothers to drink. ”

"But then I got into it, and followed them for some distance, and saw them get into a carriage of fine sandalwood."

"Based on the situation on their military register, it is absolutely impossible to know a noble person who can ride in such a car, so ......"

Zhang Chun didn't continue, but Zhu Gaoxu picked up: "So you think they are from the southern court?" ”

"Well......" Zhang Chun's face was worried, he had not been deeply involved in the world before, but he could also know the sinister officialdom from the behavior of the military attachés who came to Jilin City from time to time to inspect from the Liaodong Metropolitan Division.

This time he went south, and he saw many ugliness that he had never seen in Jilin City.

He didn't know if it was his father who protected him too well, or if his father hadn't experienced that either.

In short, after experiencing those things, Zhang Chun cherished Zhu Gaoxu's days in Jilin City even more.

If it wasn't Zhu Gaoxu who came, but someone else, Zhang Chun wouldn't dare to think about what Jilin City would be like now......

"Just write down people's names, you don't have to debunk them." Zhu Gaoxu patted Zhang Chun's shoulder and said with relief:

"Don't worry, we can sit up straight, not afraid of being watched, they won't want my life."

Zhu Gaoxu smiled and comforted Zhang Chun, but he didn't know in his heart that Lao Zhu at the moment might not want his life, but after Lao Zhu died, he ......

Suddenly, Zhu Yunwen's face appeared in his mind, but he didn't think deeply, but beckoned Zhang Chun to follow.

After a short time, the two of them left the palace and came to the treasury of Jilin City, which was already crowded with soldiers returning from the south.

Not only them, but also many soldiers who had just finished their studies in the academy also rushed to laugh and joke with the soldiers who had gone to the south.

They talked about the scenery of Jiangnan, but more about the women of Jiangnan and the prosperity of Jiangnan.

The people next to him listened in fascination, but were quickly awakened by those who had been.

"Alas, although the south is good, it is better for us to stay in this Jilin City."

A hundred household officials who explained sighed and said, and the people next to him were anxious when they heard it: "Why? ”

"You don't know...... "The hundred household officials sighed and said the disadvantages of seeing them all the way to the south.

Needless to say, there is no need to talk about the cliché of the military households of the guard station and the delivery of grain, and they discussed more about the Confucianism of the southern border guard.

In the Wei Confucianism in the south, where there are many people in the country, since there are generally only three or five professors who teach and study, the people who can be taught are military attachés of high rank, and the children of military families like them do not have the opportunity to enter the study.

Even if some health centers open schools for military households because of the large number of professors, there are often hundreds of people crowded into such a school, and a child of a military household can only attend a class once in three days.

Even if they can go to the lectures, the children of the military family will not learn anything at all in the day after listening to the professors talking and learning as they walk.

In comparison, they had previously felt that the crowded Jilin City Academy was simply a paradise, not to mention that this time they went south to the palace to recruit thirty-one more officials, I am afraid that the number of their academy will soon drop.

Other than that, take the fields.

Although the fields in the south had a high yield per mu, and the imperial court also used the military households of the wasteland as surplus land for cultivation, the imperial court did not bear the grain used during the wasteland period.

Without additional food, they had to rely on the military households' monthly ration of 12 stone and 35 stone of grain every year to clear the wasteland.

This bit of grain can also support a family of three to open a few months of famine, and in a few months, at most one or two acres of land will be opened, and 30% of the next year's harvest will have to be handed over to the health office as a tax.

In comparison, Jilin City, where six buckets of rice is distributed to each person every month, and the fields are divided equally among military households, is the place where they can live a nourishing life.

Not only that, but there are also a lot of unfairness and various differences in front of them, which make many of them even more reluctant to leave Jilin City after they go out.

Listening to the various shortcomings of the south mentioned in the military households that have been to the south, the other military households are very embarrassed, and they no longer want to go to the south.

Indeed, the south is prosperous, has a good climate, and the grain yield per mu is also high......

It's just that no matter how good all this is, if it can't make them comfortable, then no matter how good it is, it doesn't matter much to them.

The military households changed the topic, and at the same time, while they were discussing lively, Zhu Gaoxu also took Zhang Chun to the treasury.

At this moment, Yisha was entertaining the thirty-one officials who had gone north, while Fu Rang and Lin Su were directing the military households to carry grain and a basket of copper coins.

Yang Bin stood next to Fu Rang and talked to him about something, and when he saw Zhu Gaoxu's figure, he hurriedly stepped forward:

"Your Highness, 30,000 stone of grain and 10,000 yuan have been brought, and they are not bad."

"Hmm......" Zhu Gaoxu smiled and bowed his head, looked at the treasury at the same time, turned his head to Yang Bin and smiled:

"How? Are you satisfied with the goods in the treasury? ”

"This ......" Yang Bin was stunned and pointed to himself: "These goods are all for me?" ”

"Hehe, you're the only merchant under my name, who else could it be if you weren't you?"

Zhu Gaoxu teased Yang Bin, and at the same time greeted Fu Rang not far away with a smile: "Load all the goods into the car, Yang Shanren may not be able to wait to go to the south tomorrow to do business." ”

"Good!" Fu Rang also smiled and turned his head to order the soldiers to carry things, and this scene was like a dream in front of Yang Bin's eyes.

Looking at Yang Bin, who had not come back to his senses for a long time, Zhu Gaoxu patted him on the shoulder:

"The price of these goods is the same as before, we have calculated, and handed over to you about 150,000 yuan, as for how much you can sell when you take it to the south, that is your own ability."

"150,000?" Yang Bin almost bit his tongue, you must know that according to the previous price, if the palace takes 150,000 yuan, then he Yang Bin can earn at least 40,000 yuan.

Forty thousand......

This is a lot of Huai'an clans can't get out, even if you put it in Nanjing City, you can buy several streets.

If he Yang Bin has no ambitions, he can buy a few streets after completing this business, and he can live on rent for the rest of his life.

"Your Highness is very kind to me, I don't know what else Your Highness needs?"

Yang Bin reacted and immediately wanted to kneel, but Zhu Gaoxu supported him as always and pulled him to a secluded place.

After Zhang Chun saw it, he should have sentry for Zhu Gaoxu and the others, and Zhu Gaochu also said honestly after pulling Yang Bin to a secluded place:

"Did you ever attract the attention of the local yamen when you bought grain this time?"

"Nature." Yang Bin said without hesitation: "After buying more than 2,000 stones, the local yamen came to look for the grass people, and the grass people showed the seal of the palace at that time, so that they could continue to buy grain. ”

Yang Bin said this, and Zhu Gaoxu also muttered:

"My 150,000 yuan this time, whether you sell or spend it, I'm afraid it won't be easy to ......."

"Your Highness, rest assured." Yang Bin was afraid that Zhu Gaoxu would not do business for himself, so he hurriedly said:

"The grass people also thought of a way on the way here, that is, to ask His Highness to send ten more seals, and then the grass people will distribute the seals to the guys below, so that they can go to the place to collect grain."

"These ten fellows take twenty fellows to collect grain, and each fellow goes to a township, and each fellow only collects 500 stones, so that one Yinxin fellow can receive 10,000 stone of grain, and ten is 100,000 stones."

"At that time, they will transport grain in batches, staggering the time, and the government will not notice it."

Yang Bin didn't know why the government cared so much about the Bohai Palace's purchase of grain, but he had his own way to avoid it.

"100,000 stones, I'm afraid it's not enough......"

Zhu Gaoxu spoke softly, Yang Bin was like a lightning strike, he didn't expect this highness to be so big this time.

"Then His Highness wants to ......" Yang Bin asked cautiously, and Zhu Gaoxu thought about it before he spoke:

"I want to buy 200,000 stone grain, and you can find me two or three hundred scholars who can be officials, and the condition is still 20 yuan per year, if you drag your family to bring your mouth, it's okay, come to Jilin City, and give the land to the average in the coming year, no poll tax, and the field is given ten to two."

Zhu Gaoxu said what he needed, and Yang Bin only felt a little suffocated after hearing it.

It is not easy to transport 200,000 stone of grain, even if he has the seal of the Bohai Palace.

"Don't worry, I will send a hundred people to escort you south this time, and this time I will not ask for a one-time transportation to Jilin."

"You can start shipping in batches from the beginning of April and deliver it before winter."

Zhu Gaoxu said this, but he himself knew that except for the winter period, there was only six months left for Yang Bin.

This difficulty is equivalent to transporting more than 30,000 stone of grain every month, although it is much easier, but it is easy to be noticed when there are more times.

"The grass people will do their best!"

Faced with the temptation of 40,000 yuan of profits, Yang Bin still couldn't bear it, and finally took the job head-on.

Seeing him take it, Zhu Gaoxu didn't say anything anymore, just beckoned him to go to the palace to rest, and he himself walked to Yishaha's side.

"How?"

The thirty-one officials who were greeted by Yishaha had already been led by the soldiers to their newly repaired courtyard, and Zhu Gaoxu came to inquire just to know their level from Yishaha's mouth.

"They are all children, but the slaves and maids didn't want to recruit Xiucai."

Yizha smiled and said the level of this group of people, and Zhu Gaoxu was also relieved, at least Yang Bin didn't find some random people to deceive him.

For Jilin City, a child who has read the Four Books and Five Classics and is proficient in arithmetic is enough to call.

In the entire Hongwu Dynasty, there are only a few thousand people who can pass the examination every year, and there are countless yamen who need these people, and they may not be able to grab a few.

With hundreds of children, this can already greatly help Jilin City at this stage.

Not to mention hundreds, even the thirty-one new arrivals can make Zhu Gaoxu's work much easier.

"Of the thirty-one children, thirteen are working under you, and the remaining eighteen are still transferred to the academy to teach."

"After they are transferred, there will be forty teachers in the academy, and they will teach the children of military families in the academy in the future."

"But now that there are more people, the previous division is a little crowded."

Zhu Gaoxu thought for a moment, and then continued:

"The soldiers are still the same, studying in the morning and training in the afternoon, divided into 20 classes, each class has 51 people, studying in shifts and on duty."

At present, the soldiers of Jilin City need to be on duty in the city defense, Fort Mountain, Taoyuan Mountain and three fields, and about 500 people are needed, and each business trip is basically about a month, so the academy only needs to fix 20 teaching exercises and teach 1,000 soldiers is enough.

Regarding Zhu Gaoxu's arrangement, he also has no opinion.

After explaining the military study, Zhu Gaoxu talked about children's learning again: "The children's school is also divided into 20 classes, and the teaching and learning are fixed. ”

Zhu Gaoxu really wanted to make the children's school small, but the current conditions did not allow it, so it could only be the same as military school.

In the coming year, if Yang Bin can really find hundreds of children, Zhu Gaoxu can also start to study in small classes, and I am afraid that there will be many Jurchen children in Jilin City at that time, and language is a big problem.

Thinking of the problem of language, Zhu Gaoxu also said to Yisha:

"The officials of the military academy don't need to go to the palace to do business in the afternoon, they just take classes in the military academy."

"Class?" Yisha was a little surprised: "What to learn?" ”

"Learn Jurchen language......" Zhu Gaoxu chuckled and looked at the dozen or so Jurchen family members brought by Yishaha in front of him.

Seeing this, Yishiha also thought of the reason why Zhu Gaochu did this, and Zhu Gaochu also took Yishiha, Fu Rang and others back to the palace after explaining.

By the time they arrived at the palace, the two cooks hired by Zhu Gaoxu on the way north had already begun to pack up the ingredients.

Although their cooking skills are not as good as those of the imperial chefs in the inner court, they can't stand the freshness of the ingredients.

Top ingredients such as bear paws, pheasants, silly roe deer, and Songhua river fish are cooked in their hands, and even if the craftsmanship is ordinary, the products made are extremely delicious.

After a short time, Zhu Gaoxu had already called someone close to him, and he and Yang Bin began to push the cup and change the lamp in the palace.

As time went by, the sky gradually fell, and it was not until Yang Bin was finally made unconscious by Zhu Gaoxu that Zhu Gaochu turned his head and explained to Fu Rang, who had never drunk:

"Tell the 1,000 brothers who are candidates in private, set off in three days, and follow me to attack the old slave Xiyang Ha......"

(End of chapter)