"It's too small......"

Standing in the carrier hall, Zhu Di looked around casually, with indescribable disgust on his face.

Not only him, but Qiu Fu, Zhu Neng, and Ma He all had constipated expressions on their faces.

Compared with Zhu Gaoxu's palace, their Thousand Households Mansion and Command Mansion seem to have become palaces.

Guo Yan blushed when he was said, but Zhu Gaoxu said cheekily:

"When I went out of Beijing, my grandfather said that the boy should not be arrogant and lascivious, and he should not seek to build the palace too well, so the boy made do with it."

"That can't be ......" Zhu Di still wanted to say something, but when he heard what his father said, even if he closed his mouth and just looked back, his eyes were full of sympathy when he looked back.

"The second child of my family, I guess I was scared by my father, and now I am so sincere."

Zhu Di is complaining about Zhu Gaoxu, after all, Zhu Gaochu can be said to be flying and domineering, and he also chooses the best food and clothing.

Now when I come to Jilin City, I see that this life is not as good as a thousand households in the Guan.

After seeing the shabby Bohai Palace, Zhu Di walked back to Zhu Gaoxu with some embarrassment, and said with a guilty face:

"Second child, Dad didn't expect you to be here...... Alas! ”

Halfway through his words, he comforted Zhu Gaoxu again: "I asked someone to give you the armor and weapons that Ping Bao'er seized outside, and the more than 2,000 cattle and sheep I captured when I pursued Nahara Wu just now were also given to you, so that you can live a good life with your daughter-in-law." ”

"Huh?" Zhu Gaoxu didn't expect his father, who is not empty, to be so generous today.

Although he felt that something was wrong, he still smiled and said, "The kid got it, thank you father." ”

"What's the ...... about this" Zhu Di still felt embarrassed, he wanted to say something more, but someone came from outside the hall.

Yishaha came to Zhu Gaoxu and others to make a gesture: "Slaves and maids see Your Highness." ”

"Your Highness, it's time to pass the meal."

"Pass it in." Hearing Yishuha's words, Zhu Gaoxu bowed his head, and Zhu Di, who had been hungry for a long time, was also interrupted what he wanted to say, and couldn't recall it for a while, so he simply sat on the main seat, and signaled to Zhu Neng and Qiu Fu:

"Sit down, we've had our fill, and we'll go back tomorrow."

"Yes!"

Facing Zhu Di's words, Zhu Neng and others responded and took their seats one after another.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhu Gaoxu also began to have time to look at them.

Zhu Neng and Qiu Fu, both of them are brave generals.

The difference is that Qiu Fu is easily impulsive and is only suitable for being a pioneer or leading an army alone, while Zhu Neng is more calm and can coordinate the three armies, which is a rare general.

In terms of appearance, military generals who run around all year round are often a few years older than their faces, and Zhu Neng and Qiu Fu are no exception.

Zhu Neng and Qiu Fu are both the old team of the Yan Palace, and the old team in the Yan Palace, to put it bluntly, is the officers and soldiers of the Beiping and Daning Divisions that Zhu Di has controlled all the year round.

In the Battle of Jingyan, the old team was divided into the Beiping left-behind group with Zhu Gaochi and Yao Guangxiao as the core, and the front-line core team such as Zhu Gaochu, Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng, and Qiu Fu who followed Zhu Di to fight on the front line.

In the early stage of the Battle of Jingyan, among the generals around Zhu Di, Zhang Yu, Chen Heng, Zhu Gaoxu, Tan Yuan, Qiu Fu, Li Bin, Zhu Neng, and Meng Shan were the most important.

Needless to say, Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng are the two main officers that Zhu Di trusts the most.

Chen Heng, Zhu Di's good friend, is also the main contributor to helping Zhu Di solve the problem of Daning Dusi and King Ning.

Among the Daning generals, except for Bu Wan and Liu Zhen, who are not close to Zhu Di, the rest of Fang Kuan, Liu Cai and other Daning generals are the same as Chen Heng, and they admire Zhu Di very much.

In addition to Zhang Yu and Chen Heng, the two most important generals in the early stage, Li Yuan and Li Bin are balanced in attack and defense, and Meng Shan has strong defensive ability.

Tan Yuan and Qiu Fu are fierce generals who belong to the brave assault category, and they are not suitable as commanders of one side.

In addition, the younger generation such as Zhang Fu, Chen Mao, and Meng Ying are also excellent middle-level backbones.

Of course, in addition to these people, the most important thing is naturally Zhu Gaoxu, the predecessor who controlled the Yanfu cavalry during the Jingnan period and always performed the most critical tasks.

Zhu Gaochu was brave and martial during the Jingnan period, and Qu Neng at that time was recognized as the first fierce general of the Ming Dynasty, but it was such an existence, but he was picked by Zhu Gaochu led by the team, and it was the father and son who were picked by Zhu Gaoxu together.

Zhu Gaochu had always been worried that he would not be able to lead the troops before, the reason was that Zhu Gaochu in history did not mention corps combat, and the assault tactics alone were definitely the first in the Yan Army.

If he can't achieve his achievements, maybe Zhu Di will really be picked by Qu Neng's father and son and Ping'an with the troops, and Jing Nan will naturally fail.

However, from the current point of view, his achievements are higher than those of Zhu Gaoxu in history, just in case, it is best not to let Zhu Di's lone army contact with the Southwest Corps led by Qu Neng, Gu Cheng, and He Fu.

"How do I feel that His Highness's silence is a little terrifying......"

Zhu Neng was younger, so he turned his head sideways to communicate with Qiu Fu, who was more familiar with Zhu Gaoxu, and Qiu Fu also bowed slightly when he heard this, and the expression on his face was a little indescribably stiff.

It stands to reason that it takes three years to change a pampered and domineering nobleman, which is too short.

But now it seems that no matter what his second highness has experienced, his changes have indeed made him dare not recognize him.

What Qiu Fu can perceive, Zhu Di can naturally perceive, but in this regard, he only regarded it as a personality change that occurred when Zhu Gaoxu was intimidated by Lao Zhu too many times.

"Dick......"

The meals were served one by one, and Zhu Di also looked at this plate of chicken, duck, mutton, fish, bear, venison, and at the same time, he also moved his chopsticks to ask about Zhu Gaoxu's experience in Nanjing.

The experience of Nanjing City was an experience that Zhu Gaoxu didn't want to recall, and just Fu Youde and Feng Sheng didn't know where to start.

But in the face of Zhu Di's inquiry, he had to say, otherwise it would not be enough to explain why his personality had changed so much.

In terms of topics, he avoided such things as the "Money Law", "The Theory of Cutting the Domain", and "The Theory of Equalization".

Zhu Di also knew that there were some things that he could listen to and some things that he couldn't listen to, so he just listened to Zhu Gaoxu's affairs with Fu Youde and Feng Sheng, and he couldn't help but be speechless.

In his opinion, Lao Zhu was cruel enough to do these things.

knew that Fu Youde and Feng Sheng would be killed in the end, but he still asked his second child to follow these two people to learn the art of war, cultivate feelings, and finally took his second child to witness Fu Youde's death.

If these things are thrown on ordinary people, it is already a miracle that they are not crazy.

A table of food became boring under Zhu Gaoxu's narration, and Zhu Di led people to move chopsticks constantly, as if he wanted to end this heavy topic.

Until the meal was finished, Zhu Gaoxu also stopped talking, and Zhu Di also raised his hand to signal him not to speak.

"Okay, second brother, I know everything about you, and I know how to tell your mother when I go back, but ......"

Zhu Di paused, glanced at Guo Yan, and then got up and said, "You come out with me, I have something to tell you." ”

Zhu Di took the lead in getting up, Zhu Gaochu followed, and the father and son walked out of the Bohai Palace, and while taking a walk on the streets of Jilin City, Zhu Di began to point out in detail Zhu Gaoxu's various shortcomings in this battle.

There are some shortcomings, he couldn't say it in front of Qiu Fu and Zhu Neng just now, but now there are only father and son, and he is not shy about it.

"In this battle, you were too dull in command a few days ago, but fortunately, you know how to fortify Hadaling, so you can avoid being breached at the beginning."

"In the face of people like Harawu, you should have led a light horse out of the city in advance from the beginning, gathered the healthy women and men in the city, and pressed the city with tens of thousands of people to intimidate him."

"Seeing that he did not dare to move, you led a light horse behind him to interfere with him."

"It's three or five hundred light cavalry, as long as it is well dispatched, it can still make this group of Hu soldiers uneasy day and night."

"Alas...... That is, your grandfather won't let you go back to Beiping, otherwise I will have to teach you well. ”

Zhu Di mercilessly pointed out Zhu Gaoxu's mistakes, and Zhu Gaochu didn't know about these mistakes.

It's just that he got the wrong information at the beginning, so he made a wrong step and a wrong step.

He thought that Haragu only led more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, but he didn't want 30,000.

If there were only 10,000 soldiers and horses, and Khalagu saw that the Ming army was defending the city with thousands of people, he naturally did not dare to attack, and at most plundered the Haixi Jurchens and retreated.

It's a pity that there are 30,000 people in Haragu, and Zhu Gaoxu didn't have time to revise the plan, so he had already begun to make a meal.

War is all about intelligence, but intelligence is also changing anytime and anywhere, and unless there is absolute certainty, any piece of information is confusing.

He fought Xiyang Ha before, and to be honest, it was similar to fighting bandits and robbers, but this time he fought Haragu, although a large number of soldiers and horses under Haragu were ordinary soldiers and horses no different from Xiyang Habu, but the thousands of armored soldiers in Haragu were real regular troops.

Most of the casualties brought to the soldiers and horses in Jilin City also came from them.

In the same way, the Ming army gave the greatest casualties to the Hu soldiers It was the armor soldiers in the Ming army, not the unarmored subordinates.

Training, training enough armor soldiers, this is what Zhu Gaoxu needs to do next.

In this regard, he said to Zhu Di, who was walking in front of him: "The kid is ready to ask his grandfather for some more military immigration, I don't know if my father thinks it will work." ”

Zhu Di's political vision and military vision are above himself at this time, and he is not embarrassed to ask him about Zhu Gaoxu, and he also believes Zhu Di.

"Look, your grandfather probably won't give it to you." Zhu Di hit mercilessly:

"When I hadn't toured the north yet, I heard that someone in the Governor's Mansion had gone up and asked for the addition of Kaipingwei's guards, and on the basis of the current one, four guards on the left and right, the front and back were added."

"Most of the additional health centers this time are mainly from Fengyang homeless people, and four health centers are set up in one go, or they are relocated from Lianghuai, which cuts off the way to organize civilian households from Jiangbei to military households."

"In addition, many Tusi in the southwest were pacified because of the rebellion, and the Governor's Mansion set up three guards in one go, immigrating from Jiangnan and other places, and immigrating from the south and north to seven guards, think about it yourself......"

Zhu Di revealed the news he knew, and I have to say that his news was indeed well-informed, and the matter of the Seven Guards also cut off Zhu Gaoxu's idea of immigrating.

The population of the Ming Dynasty is indeed very large in the world, but there is absolutely no more than enough to migrate more than ten or two hundred thousand people without pain.

This kind of volume, if it is put into the future according to the proportion, it is equivalent to the existence of tens of millions of immigrants.

Such a volume of immigration is not easy for future generations to enter the electric age, let alone the current Ming Dynasty.

These 100,000 or 200,000 people eat horses and chew horses, and it will take at least half a year to walk from Huaibei to Kaiping and from Jiangnan to Yunnan.

To maintain their food rations, at least 6,700,000 stone of grain is needed, which is equivalent to the tax paid by many poor provinces for a year.

And that's just the relocation, not to mention the cost of distributing farm tools, cloth, cattle, and so on.

After all, this immigration will cost at least two or three million stones.

Regarding the addition of the four guards in Kaiping, Zhu Gaoxu does not remember, maybe he missed it from reading the book, but for the immigration to the southwest, Zhu Gaoxu dares to guarantee that the old Zhu in history will definitely not maintain so much strength.

When he first arrived in the Ming Dynasty, there were only 300,000 military households in Yunnan.

In his memory, this number has been maintained for decades, but the current number of military households in Yunnan may have exceeded 350,000.

Such immigrants have accelerated the pace of sinicization in the southwest and also promoted the local economy.

Zhu Gaoxu still likes to see this, but it is this immigration that affects his plan, which makes him a little regretful.

During the conversation, Zhu Di took Zhu Gaoxu to the arrow tower of the city wall, and he pointed to the rice fields in the south and asked:

"I wanted to ask about this earlier, how can you grow rice in this place?"

When Zhu Di came to Jilin City, the most surprising thing was not that his second child could pull out five hundred horses, but that Jilin City, a ghost place, could actually grow rice.

Regarding his doubts, Zhu Gaoxu could only explain to him "raising seedlings first and then planting seedlings", as well as using various means to make the temperature of the seedling field slightly higher than that of ordinary cultivated fields.

After listening to his words, Zhu Di's first reaction was that this was a good solution, so he smiled at Zhu Gaoxu and said: "If your method is promoted in the north, I am afraid it can solve the problems of most military camps." ”

Zhu Di is still looking at things from the perspective of King Yan of the Ming Dynasty, but Zhu Gaoxu knows very well that if he really promotes this rice technology to the entire Liaodong and Daning, then their father and son will have a hard time.

Daning, Gansu and Liaodong, these are the three places with the heaviest burden on the Ming Dynasty at the moment, among which the difficulty, Zhu Gaoxu saw it when he was in the Wuying Palace.

There are more than 80,000 military households in the border areas of Daning, including nearly 350,000 family members, and the local self-sufficiency level is extremely poor due to the low grain yield per mu and the fact that they have to face plundering from the north from time to time.

In order to maintain the local population of more than 300,000, Lao Zhu not only had to distribute enough silver ingots every year, but also needed to levy a large number of northern civilians.

In the nineteenth year of Hongwu alone, in order to transport grain to Daning, the Ming Dynasty requisitioned more than 200,000 people and transported more than 1.23 million stones of rice for Daning.

As a result, the 1.23 million stone grain only lasted for two years of Daning's consumption, and in the 21st year of Hongwu, Daning returned to Shangshu and asked for rice to be exported.

What is the concept of consuming 1,230,000 stone of grain in two years?

Zhu Di's five expeditions to Mobei, on average, consumed less than 2 million stone of grain, even the first northern expedition, which cost the most heaviest, only used 950,000 stones, and the second and third northern expeditions only used more than 300,000 and more than 400,000 stones.

In other words, the amount of food spent on raising a Daning can make Zhu Di's northern expedition twice on average.

Faced with such a big logistical pressure, Zhu Di had to move to the three prefectures of Beiping with the people of Daning after taking Daning.

Zhu Yunwen has been urging Geng Bingwen and Li Jinglong to go north to destroy Yan in the Battle of Jingjing, regardless of the difficulty of the winter march, but also because if Zhu Di is not solved, Beiping manpower and material resources will be mobilized to help Daning, and Daning will run out of food.

Compared with Da Ning, Liaodong, which can be transported by sea, has less logistical pressure, but it is not so small that it can be ignored, and it is still a large expense for Daming.

Promoting the rice planting method is, in Zhu Gaoxu's view, a 'capital enemy', and this is not in line with his ideas.

He once thought about enriching Guanwai with a foreign population, and this so-called foreign population was actually the more than 300,000 people in Daning.

The relocation of more than 300,000 people to the three prefectures of Beiping was a loss for both Daming and Zhu Gaoxu, but if they moved to outside the Guan, it would be a great wealth.

However, whether this wealth can be received depends on whether Zhu Gaoxu can make Bohai self-sufficient and feed more than 300,000 people at the same time.

As long as the technique of 'raising seedlings first and then transplanting seedlings' can be successful, and rice can produce higher grain yields than millet and millet outside the customs, then he can increase the population capacity of Jilin Bay in a short period of time.

As long as Jilin can receive these 300,000 people and can feed them, then it only takes them two or three years to bring Jilin Bay to the next level.

Once Jilin City is stable and takes Liaodong, Zhu Gaoxu can liberate a large number of military households and let them reclaim in Liaodong.

At that time, there will be Zhu Di's three mansions in Beiping in the south, and he can completely carry out construction in the rear and support Zhu Di at the same time.

When the time is ripe, cross the sea from Jinzhou, take Shandong, and then drive straight into the land of Jianghuai.

Zhu Gaoxu had already thought about all the steps, and the only thing that stumped him was food.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu looked at the acres of rice fields, and said with a blushing face and a heartbeat:

"These rice seedlings are still being cultivated, if they are successful, then they will naturally be promoted to Liaodong and Daning, but not yet, this batch is only the first batch of children sown, and we have to wait until harvest to know."

"That's right." Zhu Di has no doubt about him, after all, for so many years, he has never heard of anyone growing high-yield grain in Liaodong, let alone rice.

Rash promotion, I am afraid that it will only cause losses to Liaodong and Daning, and it is still necessary to wait until it is complete to promote.

Zhu Di understood, but he quickly approached Zhu Gaoxu and whispered, "Second child, ......"

"You say..."Zhu Gaoxu noticed that something was wrong, but he didn't want Zhu Di to smile and say:

"I know that your kid secretly learned the ability to watch the mountain mines, you tell me honestly, do we have gold and silver mines in Beiping or something?"

"......" Zhu Gaochu made a lot of calculations, but he didn't count that Zhu Di was actually thinking about it like Zhu Gaochi.

"Dad, there is really no ......" Zhu Gaoxu sighed: "The kid learned this skill from ancient books, and when he looked at the terrain of Beiping, he found that good gold and silver mines have been mined until now. ”

"Huh?" Hearing Zhu Gaoxu say this, Zhu Di showed a touch of disappointment on his face: "I thought you could become my golden egg, but I didn't expect that you kid still didn't learn enough of this skill." ”

Zhu Gaoxu was speechless when he said this, he really didn't know if there were any hidden gold and silver mines in Yanshan, but he knew that there were enough mineral resources in the northeast.

It's a pity that he didn't dare to say it, once he said it, who knows if Lao Zhu would strengthen his control outside the customs.

In this way, his plan to survive the martyrdom would have to be shattered.

"Forget it, you take care of yourself." Zhu Di suddenly said this, and Zhu Gaoxu was a little surprised.

Facing his gaze, Zhu Di also sighed and said: "The old monk Daoyan said that it is better for our father and son to be rare, otherwise I am afraid that it will cause many people in the temple to be unhappy." ”

"I want to help you too, but your grandfather won't speak, and you know ......"

mentioned Lao Zhu, Zhu Di began to vomit, but this is also reasonable.

Don't say that Zhu Di is afraid, Zhu Gaoxu is not afraid, if he was not afraid, he would have pulled people in the mountains and started to engage in artillery and flintlock pistols.

However, now that Jilin City has suffered a heavy blow, in Lao Zhu and Zhu Yunwen, I am afraid that it will be difficult for Jilin City to recover in two or three years.

"Hopefully they'll turn their attention elsewhere and give me some time."

Zhu Gaoxu sighed at this thought, and Zhu Di next to him also continued: "Your mother misses you tightly, but you can't go to see him." ”

"I'm going to lead the troops back to the south tomorrow, you write more letters, and when I go back, I'll give her a copy from time to time, so that she can feel more at ease with you."

Zhu Di talked about Xu, his face was happy when he spoke, but there was a bit of helplessness in his eyes.

Maybe he blames himself, but for Zhu Gaoxu, his memories of the Xu family come from his predecessor.

The predecessor Zhu Gaoxu had a fierce temperament, even if Xu taught him a lesson, he had to speak up, so angry that Xu chased him several times, and Zhu Di didn't dare to say anything when he was next to him.

In fact, there were many misunderstandings between Xu and his predecessor, but the predecessor had a strong temperament and was unwilling to explain, so it caused many misunderstandings.

Recalling those misunderstandings, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly had a lot of things to say to Xu, I don't know if it was because he wanted to help his predecessor explain, or because he wanted to comfort Xu's predecessor, in short, he now has a lot of things he wants to tell Xu.

"Dad, don't worry, the kid will write when he goes back in the evening."

Zhu Gaoxu's tone was a lot softer, which made Zhu Di a little surprised, and he said in his heart, "This kid's transformation is too complete." ’

"It's still scared of my father......"

Looking at Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Di really felt sorry for him, after all, being stared at all day long, it must be uncomfortable, after all, his eldest brother Zhu Biao was also shocked by his father Zhu Yuanzhang.

Thinking of this, Zhu Di stretched out his hand and patted Zhu Gaoxu on the shoulder: "Good boy, you have grown up." ”

"After all, the kid is seventeen." Zhu Gaoxu didn't think deeply, just explained with a smile, and at the same time went down the arrow tower with Zhu Di.

The two of them continued to wander around the city, and occasionally encountered something that Zhu Di was interested in, so he stopped to ask, especially the cement that Zhu Gaochu made, so that Zhu Gaoxu had more money in the future, and sent him a few craftsmen in this area.

In this regard, Zhu Gaoxu naturally agreed, but this verbal leniency, I am afraid that it will not be until the Battle of Jingjing.

If something like cement is mastered by the imperial court, then with the size of the current Ming Dynasty, it is completely possible to build a city and trap him and Zhu Di to death.

After wandering around for a long time, Zhu Di took Zhu Gaoxu back to the Bohai Palace.

Zhu Gaoxu still wanted to keep him in the palace to rest, but he said that he was not used to it, and the military camp outside the city was more suitable for him.

The father and son didn't say anything more, but before leaving, Zhu Di once again explained the words of asking Zhu Gaoxu to write a letter to Xu, and then left.

After all, it is father and son, and although the two can talk about a lot of things, they can't talk about it without distraction.

Zhu Di wants to maintain his father's majesty, Zhu Gaoxu wants to hide the secrets in his heart, and the two have their own hearts.

However, compared to facing Zhu Di, for the Xu family, who was thousands of miles away, Zhu Gaoxu didn't know why, and he was a lot less guarded.

When he returned to the Heart Palace, he was just going to write a few letters, but before he knew it, he was writing more and more, and it was difficult to stop.

The next day, Zhu Di did what he said yesterday, buried the pot to cook at the end of the day, and after eating a meal of mutton, he left Jilin City with the cavalry.

Before leaving, Zhu Gaoxu came to deliver the letter, but the father and son didn't say much.

When the team went north, Zhu Gaoxu rode and followed for a long time, Zhu Di saw it, but he didn't stop, until he couldn't see Zhu Gaochu anymore, he said to Zhu Neng and Qiu Fu on the left and right:

"Gao Xu has changed too much, maybe the incident in Nanjing hit him too hard."

"Indeed." Qiu Fu and Zhu Neng bowed their heads and subconsciously looked at the thick letter on Zhu Di's horse's back.

Just at a glance, there are probably no less than dozens of letters.

In the past, Zhu Gaoxu, who they were familiar with, would definitely not have written so many things to Xu Shi, who was very strict with him, but now it has been reversed.

While the two of them were thinking, Zhu Di also urged the war horse to take a few steps forward, walked out of the army, and came to the side of the team.

He reined in the direction of Jilin City, and even though he couldn't see anything about Jilin City, he could still feel the location of Jilin City.

Looking at the horizon, Zhu Di grinned: "The second child of my family, I will definitely be able to manage this ...... in the future."

"Bohai Chronicle": On the afternoon of April, Taizong returned from the Yuan soldiers and entered Jilin City, and was very happy with the Shangyan soldiers.

"Ming Shizong Record": On the afternoon of April, Taizong chased the Yuan soldiers to the Songhua River and returned, led the troops into Jilin City, and greeted the Chengxiao Ming Empress Guo out of the city, and the people of the Quartet saw the above and worshipped, Taizong was very happy to see it, and Qi Guogong, Chengguo Gong said "two sons of me"

(End of chapter)