"I only have the code of the first king, born with a name and a death, so show his virtue and show his deeds, the feudal princes of the king, Yu Jin for the national domain, Yu Zi has a young person, because of illness and eternal death, especially in accordance with the classical gift of Gong."

"Woohoo! The public discussion of the ancient and modern law-breakers cannot be abolished, and they have knowledge and service, and the treasures of the book of favor are like the system of the Qin king......"

In mid-March, Zhu Li, the king of the Jin Dynasty who had single-handedly handled all the nobles in Huaixi, Shanxi, in the Lanyu case, finally passed away in a hurried death.

When the news of his death reached Yingtian, Zhu Yuanzhang cried until he fainted and dropped out of the dynasty for three days.

In these three days, he sadly dealt with many matters after Zhu Li's death.

Although Zhu Li is brutal, he is still a little better than Zhu Zhang, especially after Zhu Biao's death, his character is even more restrained.

Although this kind of convergence is an appearance made for the sake of competing for the reserve, at least this makes his image much better than Zhu Zhang.

Because of this, in terms of nicknames, even the temple ministers who didn't like Zhu Li did not give him harsh insults, but gave 'Gong' as his nickname.

As a nickname, 'Gong' is not a bad one, but it is not a good one, and it can be said to be a clear compliment.

It's just that for Zhu Yuanzhang, he did not refute the nickname given to Zhu Li by the ministers, but thought that this nickname was very suitable for Zhu Li's life.

After establishing the nickname, Zhu Yuanzhang selected 800 acres of land in Shanxi Camel Mountain to build Zhu Li's mausoleum.

After all the things were over, the news of Zhu Li's death also began to spread to the north and south of the river.

When I heard the news, whether it was in the temple or in the wild.

As long as they have a hint of political sense, they can guess who is most beneficial to Zhu Li's death and who is least beneficial at the same time.

If it is said that the greatest benefit, it is undoubtedly the grandson Zhu Yunwen, after all, it is no secret that Zhu Li is competing for the crown, but anyone who has a tendency to enter the government knows about Zhu Li's struggle for the prince.

However, everyone also knows that Zhu Li is dead, and those who are still threatening the grandson Zhu Yunwen are only Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou.

For a while, everyone watched from the wall, wanting to see how these two kings would react to the news of King Jin's death.

When Zhu Hu, who was in Kaifeng, learned the news, he immediately sent his eldest son Zhu Youlian to Taiyuan to mourn, and at the same time asked Zhu Yuanzhang to ask him to preside over the funeral of the third brother, but Zhu Yuanzhang rejected it.

But even if it was rejected, Zhu Hu did not do anything out of the ordinary, but spent all day in the fields of the palace with more than a dozen Confucian scholars of agriculture compiling a book on famine relief.

His actions made many people dismiss their attention to him, and instead set their eyes on Zhu Di in Beiping.

Just comparing their attention, Zhu Di at this moment is not more concerned about the power struggle, but ......

"Old monk, how's it going?"

In the carrying hall of the Yan Palace, Beiping, when Zhu Di asked Yao Guangxiao in front of him, Yao Guangxiao, who was sitting next to him, also put away his hand to diagnose his pulse.

"Your Highness's pulse is strong, and there are no symptoms of qi and blood deficiency, so don't worry."

Yao Guangxiao and Zhu Di said the answer to their pulse diagnosis, which made Zhu Di breathe a sigh of relief: "It's okay, it's okay......"

When he learned the news of Zhu Li's death, Zhu Di's first reaction was impossible, and it was not until he was repeatedly sure that Zhu Li was really dead that he gradually became happy.

In the final analysis, he and Zhu Li didn't deal with each other in the first place, and in order to ask Zhu Biao and Zhu Yuanzhang for power, Zhu Li turned a deaf ear to the two of them, saying that he was plotting against them......

Thinking of these things, Zhu Di couldn't wait to beat Zhu Di hard, naturally it was impossible to be sad about his death.

After being happy for a while, he reacted.

My eldest brother and Zhu Li both died of qi and blood deficiency, so will I also have such symptoms?

Thinking of this, he hurriedly asked Yao Guangxiao to call him to check his pulse, and now after making sure that he was safe, he said comfortably: "The third child is dead......

"The poor monk already knew it when he came." Yao Guangxiao counted the Buddha beads, and at the same time looked at Zhu Di with a solemn expression, which made Zhu Di think of his own situation.

He asked tentatively: "The third child is dead, do you think Yun Wei will do something to me next." ”

"This ......" Yao Guangxiao hesitated for a moment, he thought about it seriously: "It's hard to say, but Your Highness has no second thoughts, and you don't have to worry about what the grandson will do to you, besides, Your Majesty is still here, even if the grandson wants to do something, it will be difficult to do it." ”

"It's also ......" Zhu Di bowed his head, he didn't have two hearts, he just wanted to be a carefree vassal king in Beiping.

If the eldest nephew in the south doesn't want to stay in the north by himself in the future, then he can also go to the south, anyway, he has already prepared for such a thing.

"Actually, it's okay for His Highness to say here, but the poor monk is worried about His Second Highness."

Yao Guangxiao suddenly opened his mouth to mention Zhu Gaoxu, which made Zhu Di stunned: "What's wrong with the second child?" ”

"The poor monk always feels that there seems to be something hidden by His Second Highness." Yao Guangxiao said the reason for his concern:

"His Royal Highness went to Jilin City and saw rice and something called cement, what did His Royal Highness say at the beginning?"

Yao Guangxiao asked Zhu Di, and Zhu Di replied without thinking: "The second child said that those things have not yet been completed, and they will be promoted when they are completed." ”

"Now two years have passed, and it hasn't been done?" Yao Guangxiao asked Zhu Di rhetorically, and told the news he had: "Judging from the news that the poor monks learned, the commander of the Liaodong Metropolitan Department has begun to prepare for Tuntian in recent days after he went to southern Liaoning. ”

"However, even though many people knew that Jilin City had the technology to grow rice, Na Fu Rang did not let people grow rice, let alone hand over the cement."

"Maybe Fu Rang doesn't know ......" Zhu Di tried to explain, but in Yao Guangxiao's lowered gaze, his explanation couldn't even convince him.

Zhu Di was silent, and Yao Guangxiao said after he was silent for a moment: "There is news from the south, Your Majesty seems to be ready to let His Highness lead the troops to the north again, although it is not specifically stated, but judging from the whereabouts of the governor of Xu Zuo, it should be aimed at the Wuliangha tribes." ”

"Your Highness, this year, you should also obtain the military power of the Sandu Division, and continue to preside over the northern patrol and border affairs."

Yao Guangxiao said this, and at the same time said: "During the northern tour, the poor monk wanted to send a disciple to Jilin City. ”

"This is not good...... Zhu Di frowned, he knew the current situation, and he should not make extraneous branches.

"Because of this, the poor monk prepared to send people to Jilin City after His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness, and King Ning sent troops."

Yao Guangxiao explained his thoughts, if he did what he said, then Zhu Yuanzhang would not think that Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu were plotting something, after all, the father and son were both on the front line, and there was no need to send one to Jilin City to do something.

If there is anything, it can be clearly explained in the camp tent of the Northern Tour.

Yao Guangxiao's move was more like spying on Jilin City for Zhu Di.

But doing so made Zhu Di even more uncomfortable.

He has a good relationship with Zhu Gaoxu, and if he is provoked because of Yao Guangxiao's move, it will be a little troublesome.

It's just that he also knows that his second child does hide many secrets, and as a father, he must figure it out, so he took a deep breath: "Second brother, you don't have to send someone to go, you go with me on this northern tour, and I will ask the second child in person." ”

"So, it's very good......" Yao Guangxiao returned the salute, which made Zhu Di realize that he had fallen for this old monk.

"This old monk!" Zhu Di blew his beard and glared, but Yao Guangxiao slowly got up and saluted back, and said in a low voice:

"Your Highness, sometimes, you have to plan ahead."

"Me?" Zhu Di was stunned, and subconsciously wanted to ask Yao Guangxiao, but Yao Guangxiao didn't give him a chance, got up and left the carrier hall.

Looking at his back, Zhu Di didn't know why, and he didn't know what Yao Guangxiao's words meant.

He was still figuring it out, but he hadn't come up with anything after thinking about it all morning.

But when he was figuring it out, in the capital thousands of miles away, Zhu Yuanzhang was also busy ending Zhu Li's funeral.

Zhu Jixi was sent to Taiyuan to inherit the prince, and only the two grandchildren of Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Gaochi were left in the Wuying Palace.

Sitting on the chair, Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Gaochi, who were dressed in plain clothes, looked at their grandfather cautiously.

On the dragon chair, Zhu Yuanzhang's body was a little thinner than a few days ago, which made people worry.

It's just that even with this body, he still came to handle government affairs after the funeral, as if he wanted to turn his grief into strength.

In the next ten days, Zhu Yuanzhang tirelessly came to Wuying Hall every day, and even if he returned to the Qianqing Palace, he often dealt with the negligence until the early hours of the morning.

As time passed, the news of Zhu Li's sudden death began to calm down.

The time entered April, and Zhu Yuanzhang summoned Yang Wen, who had returned from the end of the counterinsurgency in Guangxi, on the third day of April.

Although Yang Wen is only nine out of forty, he once fought with Feng Sheng in the northwest, and then has been performing military affairs in the south, and is not famous.

It was not until the seventeenth year of Hongwu that he was promoted to the hereditary commander of Jianchangwei after following Fu Youde to conquer Yunnan.

In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, Jianchangwei commanded the Yuelu Timur rebellion, Yang Wen went to the conquest with Lan Yu, and after the war, he was promoted to the governor of the right army, and was named the hussar general, and the hereditary commander.

In the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu, because Zhu Gaoxu recommended him to be peaceful, he got more opportunities to appear on stage.

During the period of counterinsurgency in Guangxi, the number of soldiers and horses directly in charge reached 60,000, so he was squeezed into the power center of the Ming generals.

Maybe he saw that Yang Wen was doing well in Guangxi, so he specially summoned Yang Wen today.

Yang Wen looked mediocre, but Zhu Yuanzhang could see that he was very calm, so after Yang Wen bowed five times and knocked three times, he said to Yang Wen: "King Yan of Zhenzi is in Beiping, and Beiping is the gateway to China. ”

"I am calling you here now in the hope that you can go to Beiping as the chief military officer to Counselor Yan Wang, and at the same time select elite horse infantry soldiers from the Beiping Metropolitan Division, the Northern Parallel Metropolitan Division and the guards of the three mansions of Yangu Ning, and follow King Yan to the north of Kaiping."

"What do you think?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked Yang Wen, perhaps because Zhu Li died, so he accelerated the pace of the northern tour originally scheduled for July.

"Appointed by His Majesty, the ministers must do their best!" Yang Wen didn't have any superfluous words, just bowed his head and responded to this errand.

Seeing that he didn't have any requirements, Zhu Yuanzhang was also very satisfied, and asked: "You can deploy the people of your old department at will, just draw up a roster for me." ”

"The last general commands!" Yang Wen did not refuse Zhu Yuanzhang's kindness, after all, he had never led his troops to fight in Hebei, and without the manpower he was familiar with, it was indeed difficult to control the army.

It was only when he did it that Zhu Yunwen frowned, because if he remembered well, Yang Wen seemed to have a few people close to Zhu Gaoxu.

He thought about it carefully, and soon thought of the two of them, so he smiled and said:

"Governor Yang Dudu went north to patrol the border with the fourth uncle, and the general trend in the north can be stabilized."

"Recently, however, there have been Japanese robbers from the south who have caused chaos in the Leizhou area of Guangdong, and if they are not contained, I am afraid that they will resume the early years of the Japanese rebellion."

"I heard that Yang Li's father and son under the command of Yang Dudu are fierce generals in water warfare, why don't you appoint the two of them to Liangguang and lead the water division to level the Japanese?"

Zhu Yunwen said, but his eyes peeked at his grandfather from time to time.

Seeing that his grandfather was silent, he looked at Yang Wen more confidently.

However, Yang Wen pondered for a moment after hearing this, and then said: "Yang Li's father and son are indeed fierce generals in water warfare, but if they are peaceful, either Yang Li or Yang Zhan can do it." ”

Obviously, Yang Wen still likes these two subordinates who have the same surname as him and also fight from Zhejiang to Guangxi with him.

"Yang Yu is older, so he will be sent to be the commander of the Liangguang Water Division."

At the critical moment, Zhu Yuanzhang gave his own advice, Zhu Yunwen didn't say anything more when he heard this, and Yang Wen also breathed a sigh of relief.

"After you go to the north, all orders are decided by King Yan, you just have to follow it, don't be suspicious, and learn from King Yan how to deal with the northern captives."

"Command!" Yang Wenzuo returned the salute, and Zhu Yuanzhang also waved his hand: "You are ready to prepare, let's set off this month." ”

Seeing that the emperor said this, Yang Wen also left the Wuying Hall after saying "the minister retired".

It's just that he has only been gone for a short time, but Guo Ying, the Marquis of Wuding, appeared at the door of Wuying Palace, which made Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Gaochi look surprised.

"Minister Guo Ying, see Your Majesty, the grandson, the prince, ......"

Zhu Yuanzhang understands Guo Ying, so he doesn't have to bow five times and knock three times, he just needs to make a gesture.

After he got up, Zhu Yuanzhang did not greet his old brother, but explained the reason for summoning him:

"Although the imperial court is peaceful, and Hu Lu has been away for a long time, but in the final analysis, Hu Lu still has troops to harass the border fortress, so it is necessary to guard against it."

"I summoned you here today to appoint you as the chief military officer, and lead the governors Liu Zhen and Wu Gao to lead the Liaodong Metropolitan Division to garrison the foreign army and horse infantry, and go to Quanningwei with the King of Liao, and choose the danger to garrison the embankment, and all the orders are subject to the control ......of the King of Yan."

Zhu Yuanzhang's words made Zhu Yunwen's heart sink.

If it is acceptable for the former to send Yang Wen to assist Zhu Di in controlling the soldiers and horses, then he is a little uneasy about sending Guo Ying to take the King of Liao to participate in the northern tour and at the same time obey Zhu Di's moderation.

Guo Ying's third daughter married Zhu Zhi, the king of Liao, and the eldest granddaughter married Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Bohai.

Now if he goes to the north and marries Zhu Di, his in-laws, then he will cut the feudal domain in the future......

Zhu Yunwen's mood gradually became bad, as for Guo Ying, he didn't think so much, in the face of Zhu Yuanzhang's will, he just asked: "When will the minister go to Liaodong, and when will he lead his troops out of the Saicanton?" ”

"Leave as soon as possible, preferably in May, when the snow on Gao Xu's side should have melted and troops can be dispatched."

Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's ......explanation, Guo Ying took the order and retreated, and Zhu Yuanzhang also set his eyes on the music on the table after he left.

After thinking about it, he asked the eunuch to fetch the paper, and he took a pen and wrote a letter to his family on the paper.

[When I looked at the Zhou Dynasty, the world was governed, and the Duke of Zhou still told the king that Errong was safe, and he did not forget the way of danger. 】

[Although there is nothing to do in the sea today, but the heavens show warnings, how can the trouble of Yidi not be prevented? 】

[My sons, you are only talented and intelligent, Qin and Jin have died, you are really long, who is not you outside and inside? 】

[Yang Wen has been ordered to be the commander of Beiping, the capital of Xingdu and other armies, and Guo Ying, the general of Liaodong and the Liaofu guards, and they have listened to the moderation. 】

[Erqi always led the kings, the camera measured the situation, and used the border to prevent troubles and peace with the people, in order to answer the heart of heaven, with the meaning of the deputy I entrusted, and his respect and caution should not be lazy......]

sprinkled with more than 100 words, all of which are explanations to Zhu Di.

After Zhu Yuanzhang finished writing, he looked at Zhu Gaochi: "This letter is a family letter, you send the palace guards to send it to your father." ”

"Grandson takes the order...... Zhu Gaochi got up respectfully, came to the dragon case and took the family letter.

Looking at the family letter, Zhu Yunwen was very uncomfortable, but he could only watch Zhu Gaochi walk out of the Wuying Hall with the family letter.

He thought that his grandfather would say something to him, but to his surprise, Zhu Yuanzhang continued to devote himself to the handling of government affairs after writing the family letter.

As for the family letter, after a few days of traveling, it was sent back to the Yan Mansion in Beiping by the guards of the Yan Mansion.

Zhu Di, who got the letter from home, soon began to prepare for the northern tour.

At the same time, Zhu Gaoxu, who was in Blackwater City, didn't know about the various things that happened in the pass.

"It's April, so my third uncle should be gone......"

On the arrow tower of Blackwater City, when Zhu Gaoxu sighed the news that Zhu Li was afraid that he had died, what was in front of him was the green mountains that were gradually turning green in the distance, and the water of Heilongjiang that had thawed most of them.

"One-two-one!"

"One-two-one!"

"One! Two! ”

While he sighed, passionate slogans sounded outside the city.

He looked down and saw that outside Blackwater City, thousands of soldiers wearing mandarin duck battle jackets were running on the road in front of Blackwater City.

Their line was very long, from the east of the city to the west of the city, each row of a small flag of ten people, the line stretched for nearly a mile before the tail could be seen.

After a minute or two, Zhu Gaoxu saw the tail of the team, and at this time, a figure also came up from the staircase behind him.

"Have all the Jurchens who came just now been arranged?"

Zhu Gaoxu didn't reply to the inquiry, and Meng Zhang, who walked out of the staircase, also had a smile on his face: "It's all arranged, one hundred and twenty-seven households, four hundred and sixteen people, and there are one hundred and sixteen men who can join the army." ”

He stepped forward, stood behind half of Zhu Gaoxu's body, and looked at the orderly procession outside the city: "Counting these one hundred and sixteen people, the reserve of Blackwater City will reach seven thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven. ”

"It's almost eight thousand." Zhu Gaoxu bowed his head, and was already very satisfied with this recruitment speed.

It's just that compared to his satisfaction, Meng Zhang felt a lot of pressure, and he hesitated to speak: "Although it is almost 8,000 people, their families are inevitably a little too much, and the final general calculates that there are more than 32,000 people." ”

"It's a lot, but there's no way."

Zhu Gaoxu looked into the distance, and he was very reluctant at this moment, because he thought of Lao Zhu.

"If Grandpa lived for a few more years, I might have a lot of time, but it's not enough now......"

He sighed in his heart, and at the same time was worried about the situation in Blackwater.

"How long will there be enough food in Blackwater City?"

"Less than two months."

During the conversation between the two, Zhu Gaoxu's pressure was fully revealed.

Population is a burden to him, but without recruiting soldiers, he will not be able to achieve what he wants to do.

Now Blackwater City has to spend 20,000 stone of military rations and rations every month, which is 240,000 stone a year.

The situation in Jilin City, throughout the winter, there were messengers who were skilled in walking sleds on the river to send messages back and forth, so he knew the situation of Jilin City and the other two cities very well.

After a winter, the Jurchen population of Zhaozhou City reached more than 12,000 people, and nearly 5,000 stone rations were consumed every month.

It was even more difficult on the Jilin side, where small tribes continued to flee from the southeast throughout the winter.

Since Zhu Gaoxu cut off the grain market, many tribes are unsustainable, and they are the neighbors of Jilin City.

At the moment, except for the Jurchens in the six cities who can barely survive, the rest of the slightly larger Jurchen tribes have already accepted the appeasement.

But in this way, the population of Jilin City exceeded 90,000 this winter, and the monthly ration expenditure reached 36,000 stones.

Counting the 1,000 military households of the Changchun Institute, which has not yet gone north, the number of regular troops of the Bohai Navy has reached 13,000, plus the current 8,000 reserves, which will cost more than 13,000 yuan and 30,000 stone of military rations every month.

From the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu to the present, Zhu Gaoxu did not expect that he would also become an existence with 150,000 people and 20,000 troops.

It's just that such a force is burdened with the financial pressure of nearly 16,000 yuan and 92,000 stone of rations every month for military and civilian craftsmen.

The increase in population and army meant that the Bohai treasury could only hold out until the beginning of June, and this was only in peacetime.

Once the war breaks out, where to find food is perhaps the most worrying thing for you.

There are still fourteen months before his father raised troops in history, and it stands to reason that he should wait until that time, but the treasury of Jilin City can no longer support that time.

The fur business was interrupted by Lao Zhu's policy of relocating wealthy households, and he lost his biggest source of income, so he could only hold on by selling part of his flock.

If nothing else, in the next few months, Lao Zhu will bring him more than 200,000 stone grain and monthly grain, and he can only rely on them to last until the grain harvest in early September.

Although it can harvest more than 500,000 stone of grain, this batch of grain can only last itself until March of the next year.

Even if they sell sheep again, at most they will last until April after paying their military salaries.

I lost myself in the expansion of strength, and gradually fell into the game that Lao Zhu laid for me.

Now it seems that there are only two ways for me, either to settle the difficulties in advance, and then defeat the Liaodong Dusi in the three months from June to September, and seize the Liaodong Army's grain and Changping grain, so as to feed the war with war.

Or, they can only temporarily disarm, reduce the rations of the people, and wait until next year when the army is about to start recruiting troops......

It was easy for the former to raise troops, but Zhu Yunwen had not yet cut the domain, and the king of Xiang had not yet set himself on fire, and once he raised troops, he would lose his righteousness.

Without this righteousness, he will change from a vassal king who is regretted by others to a hateful anti-king.

If this road does not work, then you may only have the option of disarmament.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the nearly 8,000 soldiers outside the city, and his eyes were tangled.

The 8,000 soldiers and horses that he had spent most of his half a year training really had to be cut off like this?

Zhu Gaoxu was reluctant, and the reason for his reluctance was that he had a plan in his heart that had not yet been implemented, because he felt that it might not be possible.

But it has come to this, whether it can be done or not, he has to take that step before he knows.

He turned around and walked down the arrow tower.

"Tomorrow, let's go back to Jilin City......

"Bohai Chronicle": "In April of the 31st year of Hongwu, Shangfu Beishan female straight, 8,000 men were arranged as an army"

"Ming Shizong Record": "In the winter of the thirtieth year of Hongwu, the savages were hungry and cold, and thousands of women and men were obtained, and they were afraid that the surrounding savages would invade, so they made hundreds of men into the army and prepared them."

(End of chapter)