In August, autumn is crisp......

According to common sense, such a day should be a day to be happy.

However, outside the Fengtian Hall in Nanjing City, there was silence.

On the square of Fengtian Temple, hundreds of officials above the fifth grade looked at their noses and their noses.

At the gate of Fengtian Palace, the same is true for officials above the third grade.

The only one who was not silent was the official of the Zhengwupin Rites Department who was bowing his head.

"At noon on Ding Sishuo, the capital of Shaanxi, Suzhou Wei Shangshu, the envoys Fu An, Guo Ji, and more than 1,500 soldiers arrived in the capital of Timur in February this year."

However, Timur was arrogant and said, "If China is far away from me, how can the Son of Heaven be like me?" ”

"Zhang Zhu, an official of 100 households, led more than a dozen people to flee in time, and returned to Suzhou Wei in July, so he asked the imperial court to send troops to rescue the envoy ......"

The officials of the Ministry of Rites finished speaking, but the Fengtian Hall was even quieter.

There was no sadness or joy on Zhu Yuanzhang's face, but Zhu Yunwen's eyes flickered.

"He's really right......"

Zhu Yunwen's face was very ugly, and he instantly thought of the face that had disappeared for several months.

At the beginning, Zhu Gaoxu's words in the Wuying Hall were still vaguely in his ears, but now it has only been less than two years, but the incident has happened by him.

That Timur, is he really going to send troops to invade my Daming......

Zhu Yunwen set his eyes on his imperial grandfather, compared to him, Zhu Yuanzhang still sat firmly in Diaoyutai.

"Where is that bottle now?"

Zhu Yuanzhang spoke slowly, and Shangshu Menke of the Ministry of Rites took a step forward, holding the wat board and said:

"That bottle is now waiting outside the Fengtian Gate, waiting for His Majesty to see him."

"Pass him up." Zhu Yuanzhang opened his mouth without thinking, and Menkexin also responded, and then ordered someone to pass Zhang Zhu.

When he was about two words, Zhu Yuanzhang saw a military attache being led through Fengtian Square and up to Fengtian Palace.

After a short time, the man came to the door of the Fengtian Palace, and bowed five times and knocked three times: "Zhang Zhu, the official of the hundred households, see Your Majesty, Your Majesty is blessed and healthy......"

"What is the strength of the country of Timur?"

Zhu Yuanzhang still remembered that Zhu Gaochu said that Timur had more than 20 million people and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, so he wanted to know if Zhu Gaoxu's kid was talking nonsense.

"The ministers and envoys traveled all the way to the west, and the further west they went, the more prosperous they became, and the population of Samarkand was no less prosperous than that of Susong and other prefectures."

"The soldiers and horses under his command, although they are not as complete as the Ming armor of the national dynasty, but they can also equip their troops with chains and Ming armor, and they will see no less than tens of thousands of soldiers and horses along the way."

"According to its officials, its most elite soldiers and horses are still fighting outside, and there are no less than 300,000 people who control the strings."

"This time, they not only detained the envoy of our DPRK, but also the envoy of the Lumi (Ottoman) state in the west to show the strength of his country."

Zhang Zhu told everything he had seen along the way, and the various things he told made the six Shangshu in front of Jintai, the governor of the five armies and other civil servants and nobles frown.

Simply speaking, the Timurid officials may be exaggerating their strength, but for the Ming Dynasty, they have just driven the Mongols back to Mobei and they have not enjoyed peace for a few years, and now such a powerful Mongol state has suddenly emerged.

What's more, the remarks of Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Bohai County, who exonerated Fu Youde and Feng Sheng in the Wuying Palace, were basically heard by officials above the fourth rank in the court.

Now that the matter of detaining the envoys has been said by Zhu Gaoxu, will Timur really use the Beshin Bali Kingdom as a springboard to invade the Hexi Corridor of the Ming Dynasty from the Western Regions?

"What do you think ......?"

Zhu Yuanzhang sat under the yellow tent, on the golden platform, and spoke softly.

In front of him, everyone urged their brains to use their brains, and only after a long time of silence did one person step forward.

"Li Jinglong, the minister of Cao Guogong, thinks that Timur is thousands of miles away from the country, even if he loses the help of the country, it is not so easy to violate my Ming Dynasty."

"The top priority at the moment should be to send an envoy to the country of Beshbali to find out what its attitude is."

"If it is really as the king of Bohai County said back then, then it should be guarded against."

"How can I prevent it?" Zhu Yuanzhang had his own idea in his heart, but he still asked Li Jinglong.

In this regard, Li Jinglong did not show timidity, but analyzed the situation in Hexi according to what he knew: "The land of Hexi is now often maintained by transporting grain from Shaanxi, and there are often rebellions among the local Semu, Hu Tatars, and Fanren. ”

"The minister thinks that he can increase the number of guards, increase the number of soldiers, and open up his fields to support the army."

"If this method is practiced, within three years, all the guards in Hexi will be self-sufficient."

After all, Li Jinglong has skimmed the northwest and also presided over the tea and horse trade in the Songpan area, so he still knows the topography west of Longshan very well.

In his opinion, although the Hexi Corridor is much poorer and worse than that of the Han and Tang Dynasties, it is not impossible to cultivate the fields, and at least the places with guards on the map are basically close to the rivers flowing down the Qilian Mountains.

As long as these rivers are used wisely, they can still be cultivated and the quality of the irrigated fields is second only to the paddy fields.

However, if you want to have enough manpower and material resources to reclaim wasteland for watering your fields, you need enough tuntian soldiers.

Without affecting the number of soldiers, the number of soldiers in Tuntian can only be increased by immigration.

Li Jinglong knew this, and Zhu Yuanzhang was more decisive, he glanced left and right, and then said:

"The edict ordered Sichuan to announce the political division, move 5,000 households in Chengdu to Hanzhong, Shaanxi, and transfer 3,000 households in Hanzhong, Shaanxi to be organized as military households to go to Shaanxi Xingdu Division."

"Minister, the ...... of the command" The six books were written one after another, and Zhu Yuanzhang then spoke:

"The Ministry of Rites sent someone to the country of Beshbali to inquire about the current situation of the lord of the country, and if Beshin Bali would help Timur's heart, he would return quickly."

"The minister is ordered to ......" the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Menke made a new work.

Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang also got up and left Jintai, and the Honglu Temple Qing next to him sang when he saw this: "Scattered Dynasty-"

"Hooray, hooray, hooray......"

The ministers sang the salute, and then after Zhu Yuanzhang left, they left the square in an orderly manner.

After they left, Li Jinglong and others from the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies also left.

However, Zhu Yunwen and the six Shangshu stayed, but not all of them stayed, at least Hubu Shangshu Yuxin turned around and left.

Looking at the back of Yu Xin's departure, Zhu Yunwen didn't feel strange, but stepped forward and frowned and said to the other five Shangshu such as Storm Zhao:

"This matter has been met by Gao Xu, do you think the lord of the country of Don't lose Bali will marry his daughter to Timur?"

"This ......" Storm Zhao and the others looked at each other, but they couldn't say a word or two.

In their group of people, even the violent Zhao of the northern Shanxi people have never understood some things west of Longshan.

It's not that they don't want to understand, but even if they do, they have to understand what the local officials have to say.

What's more, the military households of the Gansu Xingdu Division have not studied for a few years, and basically none of them have participated in the imperial examination, so it is very difficult for them to understand Longxi.

At this time, everyone couldn't help but miss Fu Youde and Feng Sheng.

At least the two of them know the west of Longshan very well, and they are famous generals in the world, if they are in ......

"That's it." Zhu Yunwen was a little displeased, but he still kept his calm.

He waved at Tyrant Zhao and the others, and everyone returned the salute, and then watched him turn and leave.

When they saw him depart, they also departed.

At the same time as they left, the matter of Timur's detention of the Ming envoys also spread through the Tang newspaper to the yamen in various places.

Many of them were a little worried that the Mongols would make a comeback, but only Zhu Gaoxu, the initiator, knew best that Timur simply did not have the strength to expedition to the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Highness, aren't you worried?"

In the Jilin City Carrier Hall in mid-August, looking at Zhu Gaoxu, who had finished reading the Tang newspaper with a smile on his face, it was difficult to hide the worry on his face.

"Worried?" Zhu Gaoxu put down the Tang Bao, and the smile on his face was even worse: "Instead of worrying about these, it is better to worry about when my rice field will mature and how much real grain it can produce." ”

Zhu Gaoxu was indeed not worried about Timur's affairs, because if he remembered correctly, Timur should have prepared for war with Delhi in the northwest of India.

The war would drag him on for more than half a year, followed by the war in Syria and Angola.

When he turned around, the Battle of the Great Ming Dynasty had ended, and he had missed the best time for the Eastern Crusade.

Of course, this is information that only Zhu Gaoxu, a person who knows history, can know.

If the current Ming Dynasty went to inquire about the news of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, then they would get a lot of news that shocked the government and the opposition.

Now that the Ministry of Rites has sent to the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, it should be possible to hear that the Great Khan's sons have sent his eldest son, Shami Ghan, to Samarkand to negotiate peace with Timur.

Not only that, but after the negotiations between the two countries were over, the Black Son of Fire Khan married a princess of the clan to Timur and signed an alliance with Timur.

Not only did he marry his daughter to Timur, but he also verbally promised that he would prepare food and pay for Timur's crusade in the future.

Although these news are just some of the fake news and compromises made by the Black Son Fire Khan in order to stabilize Timur, in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, isn't this the means of forming an alliance between them?

Therefore, if Zhu Gaoxu did not guess wrong, then when the Ming Dynasty learned the news of the alliance between the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and Timur next year, he would definitely increase the number of troops stationed in Gansu, and he would not withdraw until Timur and the Eastern Chagatai Khanate tore their faces.

However, these two countries will have to wait until the first year of Jianwen three years later.

In the first year of Jianwen, the whole world of this year can be said to be very lively......

The Black Son of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate died, and his son succeeded to the throne and led the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and Timur to tear their faces apart, and the war between the two countries resumed.

Secondly, Elbok Khan of the Northern Yuan was killed by his subordinates, and Kun Timur was made king.

Looking to Southeast Asia, Li Jichen, the prime minister of Annan, killed his lord Chen Rikun and established his eldest son Yi as king.

As for Europe, if Chu remembers correctly, King Henry IV of England would succeed him, and a noble rebellion would break out in England shortly after his accession.

All of the above is only a foreign thing, and if you talk about China, it is even more lively.

Zhu Yunwen ordered to besiege the palace of the king of Xiang, the king of Xiang committed suicide, and then abolished the three kings of Qi, Dai and Min as concubines, and Zhu Di was forced to worship Tianjing......

This year, whether it is the East or the West, there are major events in all countries, which can be described as lively.

At that time, Zhu Yunwen didn't have time to get the news of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, and he didn't dare to easily transfer the guards and horses from Gansu and other guards.

By the time he reacted, Zhu Di had already solved Daning, and he was ......

The corners of Zhu Gaoxu's mouth hooked up a smile, but it made Yizha in front of him unable to understand what he was thinking.

In fact, at this time, Zhu Gaoxu was wondering if he had a chance to win the Western Regions.

It is true that the current Eastern Chagatai Khanate is very deferential to the Ming Dynasty, but this is because the Ming Dynasty is powerful.

If Zhu Gaoxu is not mistaken, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di also understand this truth, so Zhu Yuanzhang began to set up Andingwei west of Suzhou from the eighth year of Hongwu, and then set up Handongwei in the thirtieth year of Hongwu next year.

Although these guards were all ruled by the Mongols, they were still vassals of the Ming Dynasty after all, and Zhu Yuanzhang's layout also allowed the Ming Dynasty to gradually form a strategic encirclement of the Hami region, laying the foundation for Zhu Di to pass through Hami in the future.

After the end of Zhu Di's martyrdom, after three or four years of recuperation, Zhu Di began to further penetrate into the northwest.

First, he canonized Ankh Timur as the king of loyalty, but this man's foundation and prestige in Hami were unstable, making it difficult for him to manage even the three or five thousand Hami.

At the same time, because he accepted the canonization of the Ming Dynasty and helped the Ming Dynasty to explore the news of the Western Regions and Moxi, Hami unknowingly became the frontier outpost of the Ming Dynasty to the northwest.

Such a situation has aroused uneasiness among the forces around Hami.

After learning that Hami had fallen to the Ming Dynasty, the Great Khan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, immediately sent people to Hami to spy on the news.

After learning that Anker Timur had no prestige, Ghost Power Chidang even sent someone to poison Anker Timur to death.

After the death of Ankh Timur, although he had children of his own, because his nephew Tokhtar was captured in the Ming Dynasty since he was a child, Zhu Di decided to send him to Hami to succeed him in order to better control Hami, and continue to stabilize Hami for the Ming Dynasty.

This move can be said to be a major move for Zhu Di to directly intervene in Hami's internal affairs and re-carry out the strategic layout of the northwest.

Under the pressure of Zhu Di, the Hami nobles could only be forced to accept the fact that they were betrayed and conferred the title of King Zhongshun.

Not only that, in order to protect Toto, Zhu Di also sent a hundred armor soldiers to serve as his guards.

One hundred armor soldiers is definitely a great deterrent force for Hamiwei, who has only three or five thousand people.

However, Tokhtar led a hundred Ming troops to enter Hami, which also made the local nobles uncomfortable, after all, Anke Timur had his own heirs, and Tokhtar belonged to the dove and magpie's nest, so they began to send people to conspire with the Northern Yuan Ghost Li Chi to drive Tokhtar away.

This news was quickly learned by Zhu Di, so Zhu Di sent more than 1,000 cavalry to and from Hami and Suzhou for many years.

However, even with the Ming army on the side, because Tokhtar had no prestige and was incapable, Tokhtar was finally expelled from Hami by the local nobles, which Zhu Di was extremely disappointed about.

After all, Zhu Di pinned great hopes on Toto, hoping that he could defend this bridgehead for the Ming army to enter the Western Regions.

As a result, the five or six hundred Hami people who escaped and supported the Ming Dynasty were driven away, and after fleeing back to Suzhou, they were all happy, planting melons and lending money all day long, making a living, and regarded Gansu as a paradise on earth, and they were completely happy.

Their appearance made many Wenchen think that Zhu Di had done something wrong, and even Zhu Di fell into self-doubt, and then despised Hami.

However, even so, Da Ming is not without the possibility of taking the Western Regions again.

After all, after Tokhtar was driven away, the Hami nobles were still willing to be weakly restrained by the Ming Dynasty, and the Eastern Chagatai Khanate also undertook the task of reconnoitring the Tatar and Warat intelligence for the Ming Dynasty, and cooperating with the Ming army from time to time.

Such a situation should have been well maintained, but it changed during the Xuande period.

In the third year of Xuande, the Great Khan of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate was killed in battle, and at this time, because of the throne issue, the nobles of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate were divided into two factions and made trouble for seven years.

It can be said that in the past seven years, it is the best opportunity for the Ming Dynasty to intervene in the Western Regions, but the Ming Emperor at this time is Zhu Gaoxu's future nephew Zhu Zhanji.

Zhu Zhanji once clearly expounded his own military theory, he opposed the strategic thinking of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty of "waste at home" and Tang Taizong's strategic thinking of "relying on his heroic military force and being diligent and far-sighted", and advocated the garrison strategy of "taking advantage of the opportunity to arrest the Kou, and there is no need to pursue the Kou if he goes."

This strategy looks the same as Lao Zhu's strategy of "coming to defend it, and don't chase it if you go", but the problem is that Lao Zhu's strategy of guarding the border is that he did not follow it.

There were no immigrants to the real border, and there was no restoration of the Monan Guard Station in the Hongwu period, so that the soldiers and horses along the border in the north were not trained, and they let the Wara sit big.

I didn't copy the ready-made homework, but I was concerned about the millions of stone of grain and shrank in the pass, missing the two important strategic opportunities to send troops to the Western Regions and to attack Tatar and Warat.

Thinking of his eldest nephew, Zhu Gaoxu became a little angry.

His ten-year lifespan, it is better to give it all to Zhu Gaochu's good brother Zhu Gaochi, at least Zhu Gaochi knows how to guard the border.

is obviously a good horseman, Zhu Di's performance was also very eye-catching when he was alive, but he was afraid to become the emperor.

"Sure enough, I have to do this big position!"

Zhu Gaoxu was secretly determined, and at the same time stood up and said to Yishiha: "Go, accompany me out to have a look." ”

"Yes" Although he didn't know what Zhu Gaochu thought, he never questioned him, because Zhu Gaochu never made a mistake in the general direction.

Since he is not worried about things in the northwest, it means that it is difficult for things to happen in the northwest.

Following Zhu Gaoxu out of the Bohai Palace, Yisha glanced back as he walked out, and then said to Zhu Gaoxu's back: "Your Highness, does the palace have to be repaired and expanded?" ”

"Huh?" Hearing Yishaha's words, Zhu Gaoxu also stopped and turned around.

He looked at his low Bohai Palace, although he didn't feel shabby, but this palace was indeed repaired by Zhang Chun and them in a hurry, so there were many problems.

For example, fire walls and fire tunnels cannot heat all rooms, and some rooms are flooded and damp returns.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu looked around, only to see that most of the houses around the palace had been demolished, and the ruins were full of people who were working for themselves.

The houses were demolished, not because they were all dilapidated houses, but because the current Jilin City was being rebuilt.

Heating pipes are being laid in the city to connect the nursery fields, and if nothing else, all houses built this year will have separate street heating with fire walls and fire paths.

The water vapor after heating combustion will pass through the seedling field through the inclined angle of the fire channel and flow into the Songhua River.

The fire tunnel is combined with a fire wall and horse manure to keep the heat in the nursery field for a longer time, so that the seedlings can grow in March and then the seedlings can be thrown in April.

Such a design can allow the people of Jilin City to have a warmer winter, and can also keep the seedling field warm at all times.

The only drawback is that it consumes too much fuel.

According to Zhu Gaoxu's calculations, more than 50,000 people in Jilin City will need more than 20 million catties of firewood in five months, starting with heating in November and stopping at the end of March.

Because of the large number of trees, even if they can be satisfied, all the surrounding trees will be cut down.

Fortunately, Zhu Gaoxu had already made clear regulations for the acquisition of firewood, and made plans for the mountains and forests in the upper reaches of the Songhua River, dividing the Changbai Mountains near the Songhua River into 20 areas, and changing one area every year.

Of course, the heating here is naturally not as good as the heating system of later generations, to put it bluntly, it is impossible to keep the house above zero degrees, and it is impossible to reach more than 18 degrees in the house of later generations.

But even so, such a policy would have been a remarkable act of benevolence in any era before the Industrial Revolution.

"How's the fire passage going in the city?"

Thinking of his various new policies in Jilin City, Zhu Gaoxu felt a sense of pride.

"It's almost finished, so the slave maid asked if the palace needed to be renovated."

Yisha explained, and at the same time gave a plan: "The slave maid thinks that the front yard can be demolished first, and then the fire path in the front yard can be laid, and then the fire wall can be built, the house will be built, and the princess and her will move from the backyard to the front yard, and then the backyard will be demolished, and so on." ”

"This palace is indeed a little small, and it is inconvenient to discuss it." Hearing what Yisha said, Zhu Gaoxu also walked around the palace twice, and finally said:

"In this way, according to the etiquette system of the imperial court, build a forty-six zhang wide from east to west, sixty-two zhang long from north to south, four gatehouses, a hall for transportation, a kitchen and a warehouse, a rice warehouse, fifty-six halls, and two hundred and sixty houses of the county king's mansion."

Zhu Gaoxu said this, but with just this sentence, the area of the current county king's mansion has increased several times.

The palace, which originally covered an area of only nine acres and three points, became a scale of forty-seven acres and six points of land after his words.

Of course, Zhu Gaoxu is not for his own enjoyment, but to prepare for the future.

He was sure that when Zhu Yunwen wanted to cut the Yan Mansion, he would be taken over with Zhu Di.

At that time, Zhu Yunwen is estimated to be the same as in history, pretending to leave a few hundred guards for himself.

At that time, these hundreds of guards will have to live in the palace, so it is not possible for the palace to be not big enough.

"The slave takes the command." Seeing that Zhu Gaoxu agreed to expand the palace, Yizha also had a smile on his face.

He walked to the side of an official who was directing the people to build rice, and pointed to the official who pointed to the Bohai Palace, and the official also bowed his head.

Zhu Gaoxu walked up curiously: "What did you say?" ”

"Hehe" Yisha smiled embarrassedly: "The slave asked him to find the craftsmen in the city and bulldoze and rebuild the palace earlier." ”

"Forehead......" heard Yi's words, although he knew that this was a good thing, Zhu Gaoxu always felt strange.

"That's it, you can do it yourself, just don't disturb the princess."

Waving his hand, Zhu Gaoxu mentioned Guo Yan, and he had a headache in his heart.

After repelling Harawu, Guo Yan often asked him when he would have sex with him, and Zhu Gaoxu thought about it, but not with Guo Yan, but with the two maids she brought.

For Zhu Gaoxu, he really can't do anything about the current Guo Yan, although it is legal in this era, but those ideas in his heart still can't be completely abandoned.

In this regard, he can only prevaricate on the grounds that the palace is too small and unworthy of her identity.

However, this prevarication has been going on for a long time, and it still has to usher in a result after all.

When this new palace is completed, Zhu Gaoxu will have no reason to avoid it, but even if it is at that time, it is estimated that Guo Yan will only ......

"Alas......" Zhu Gaoxu let out a long sigh, and when he saw this, he thought that he felt that the construction of the new palace was a waste of money for the people, so he deliberately diverted the topic: "Your Highness, it's time to go and see the construction sites of each workshop." ”

"Let's go." Leaving those thoughts aside, Zhu Gaoxu motioned for Yishu to go first, and followed behind him.

The two walked all the way, and the road was full of construction sites, and many people saw Zhu Gaochu and stopped their work one after another to make a gesture to Zhu Gaoxu.

On the way, from time to time, there were people shouting Yishiha, calling him an adult or a general.

Such a feeling made Yishaha puff up his chest, and Zhu Gaoxu was also very happy to see it beside him......

(End of chapter)