Hongwu thirty-one years, this year is destined to be unpeaceful.

Following the collapse of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the country, the Ming Dynasty was also full of instability.

Lucheon Daogan Meng rebelled and surrendered, and the 'Prince Rebellion' also broke out in Korea, the founding king Yi Sung-gye was sick in bed, the prince Yi Fangyuan and his two half-brothers were in trouble, and the son Li Fangsuo was forced to leave the palace and was killed in the road.

After the incident, Li Fangyuan took the sword and asked Li Chenggui, who was sick in bed, to set up his brother Li Fangguo as the son, and Li Chenggui was forced to admit the status quo and make Li Fangguo the son.

The matter was reported back to the Ming Dynasty by the merchants in the DPRK, but Zhu Yunwen was busy cutting the feudal domain and implementing the new policy, and had no intention of interfering in the internal strife in North Korea.

Not only Korea, but also Annam, which was also a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, also broke out in civil strife, and the powerful minister Hu Jichen coerced the three-year-old Chen An, who was not in order, and was forced to enter the Yuqingguan of Tamsui Village to become a Taoist priest, and respected him as the emperor of Taishang Yuanjun.

Soon Hu Jichen wrote a poem suggesting that Chen Hao commit suicide, but Chen Hao did not comply, so Hu Jichen sent someone to hang him, and the power of Annan fell into the hands of Hu Jichen.

It's just that Zhu Yunwen didn't know about this matter, and he continued to be immersed in his new policy of 'world harmony'.

"I left this time, I don't know what it will be like to come back next time......"

On the wharf of Jiangdongmen in the capital of Yingtianfu, Zhu Gaochi, who had lost a lot of weight than at the beginning of the year, looked back at the capital, feeling tired.

Since the king of Zhou was cut, he has been frightened every day, so he has lost a lot of weight.

Not only him, but also Zhu Gaosui, who was unruly at the beginning, is now in a panic.

The third son of Yan, who was protected by Zhu Di and Zhu Gaochi, now finally understands how difficult it is for his father, eldest brother and second brother.

"Let's go, I hope we don't have to come to this place again in the future."

Zhu Gaochi greeted Zhu Gaosui, who was pale, and took him to the northbound ship.

They didn't know that Zhu Di was pretending to be crazy and stupid, so they were depressed along the way.

Perhaps only when they return to Beiping will they know what their father and Zhu Gaoxu are busy with.

However, compared with their episode, Yunnan, which is more important at the moment, has caused a lot of emotions because of the implementation of the Jianwen New Deal.

Zhu Yunwen raised the civil officials and reduced the number of military attachés in the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and the merger of the guards into counties made many military attaches worry about their future, fearing that they would become the targets of the merger of the guards as soon as they finished the war.

Not only in the southwest, but also in the northwest, southeast, and Guangzhou, and other places, everyone is in danger.

The entire Ming Dynasty was suffering from turmoil and unrest because of Zhu Yunwen's new policy, among which the change of generals in Liaodong, Beiping, and Daning made many military attaches in the Sandu Division unable to hide their complaints.

Although the year name is Jianwen, the military attaches did not expect that Xinjun would suppress them like this.

A large number of military attaches were transferred to Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian, and Huguang, and most of those who were transferred to the front were military attaches in Henan, Shandong, and other places who had not been engaged in actual combat for many years.

Due to the military attache inheritance system in the early Ming Dynasty, many of these military attaches were commendable in terms of personal skills, but once they arrived at the dispatch of troops, they immediately fell behind.

They are in the interior of the Second World War Batun, and the guards are not like the border plugs to fill or even exceed, some guards even only have two or three, and the soldiers who can pull out are less than 1,000 people.

When they were accustomed to commanding hundreds of people, they suddenly came to the border fortress that needed to command thousands or even thousands of people, and many military attachés were in a hurry, and for a time the border fortress was in a mess, and the impeachment note flew to the capital like a piece of paper.

However, Qi Tai had already prepared for this, and persuaded Zhu Yunwen not to worry, as long as these military attaches were given enough time, they would be able to restrain their soldiers and horses.

After all, Zhu Yuanzhang had long expected that the military attachés in the mainland would not fight for a long time, so it was very likely that they would not be able to participate in the border patrol mission, so he arranged for Li Jinglong, Xu Huizu, Fu Youde and Feng Sheng to train the military attachés of the mainland guard station very early.

These military attaches have long been trained, but they just lack opportunities.

Now Qi Tai has given them the opportunity, just so that the mainland military attachés can participate in the border affairs and deal with the southward movement of the northern Hu soldiers in the future in advance.

I have to say that after all, Qi Tai is still a candidate for the military department selected by Zhu Yuanzhang, and he may not be able to lead troops to fight, but it is still easy to coordinate the training of the three armed forces.

Under his command, soon the people related to Zhu Gaoxu in the Sandu Division of Beiping went to the south one after another, and the Bohai Sea completely became an isolated island.

"Yang Wen was transferred to Guangxi as a general before the conquest, and was responsible for the Tusi west of Guilin and Guangzhou."

"One of Yang Zhan and Lin Su was transferred to Nanning as a commander, and the other was transferred to Huguang Chenzhou as a commander."

"Fu Rang was transferred to Guangdong to serve as the commander of the capital, responsible for Lianzhou Tuntian."

"There are also Wang Hui, Liu Jun and others, who have also been transferred to the local area to serve as commanders or commanders."

In mid-September, when Zhu Gaoxu overlooked the people's autumn harvest from Fort Hill outside Jilin City, Yishiha, who was standing behind him, also relayed the situation in the south to himself.

Listening to the words that came out of his mouth, Zhu Gaoxu didn't expect that history would change so much because of himself.

As a famous general in the late Hongwu period, Yang Wen was very relied on by Zhu Yuanzhang, and Yang Wen also led the Liaodong soldiers to besiege Yongping many times during the Battle of Jingnan, pinning down the southward movement of the Yan army and cooperating with the actions of the southern official army.

Although he was too inferior to Song Sheng and others in military discipline, and never won the three prefectures of Beiping, which was Zhu Di's basic plate, this was also due to the lack of unified command of the imperial court over various armies, which led to the repeated defeats of the Liaodong soldiers under his command.

He himself is not good at fighting in the north, but he can still contain the Beiping soldiers and horses under Zhu Di.

Now that he's been transferred south for his own sake, that's a good thing.

With his experience in fighting in the southwest, I am afraid that the transformation of Guangxi Tusi will be very smooth, after all, Yang Wen is much better than Liu Sheng in the Yongle period.

Zhu Yunwen's move can be regarded as promoting the sinicization of Guangxi.

"Fu Rang is a neighbor with Zhang Chun."

Zhu Gaoxu was talking about Fu Ranghe and Zhang Chun, who had gone south early and was now serving as the commander of Shendianwei in Gaozhou, Guangdong.

There was no trace of worry on his face, which made Yishaha a little surprised: "Your Highness, aren't you worried?" ”

"Worried about what? Do you think that if they are in Liaodong, we can easily deal with the soldiers and horses of Liaodong? Zhu Gaoxu shook his head: "Not to mention whether Yang Wen will really help me, Wu Gao alone is not so easy to deal with." ”

"Yang Wen and Wu Gao, and the current Liu Zhen and Wu Gao, these two pairs of generals are no different from me."

"To fight a war, you must seize the opportunity for the opponent to make mistakes, but you can't wait for the opponent to make mistakes all the time."

"Only when the main soldiers attack and beat the opponent in a hurry, can we seize the opportunity of the opponent's mistake to pursue the victory."

"Counting on the surprise army to win, it is better to think about how we can attack with the army."

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the Bohai Navy camp at the foot of Fortress Mountain, where tens of thousands of Bohai soldiers were training, including the three thousand households under the command of Liu Wu and the others.

"What happened to Liu Wu and the others?"

He asked knowingly, and the corners of his mouth twitched: "According to what His Highness said, the slave maid did not let people go to find Liu Wu's group of generals, but asked people to find those ordinary soldiers, registered them, and told them that their enlistment fields would be distributed on the winter solstice." ”

"Do you think ten acres of enlistment land per person can lure them?" Zhu Gaoxu asked Yizha, and Yizha also said confidently: "This group of soldiers are all military households whose families went north, ten acres of enlistment fields, plus four acres of fields divided according to the head of the winter solstice, if you calculate carefully, if you are a family of five, you can get 30 acres of arable land." ”

"Forgive the slave and maid bluntly, the imperial court will not give 30 acres of cultivated land to the people for nothing, and even if it does, it will be taxed heavily."

"So that's our strength." Zhu Gaoxu chuckled: "I can take out hundreds of thousands of acres of cultivated land every year to buy people's hearts, but Zhu Yunwen is reluctant." ”

"It would be naïve for him to expect twelve stone of military rations a year to buy soldiers."

Yishaha agreed with his head and said bluntly: "As long as you master these hundreds of soldiers led by Liu Wu, the dozens of them will not be able to make any waves." ”

"How long will there be enough food in the treasury?" Looking at the harvested grain, Zhu Gaoxu asked.

In this regard, Yizha also calculated for Zhu Gaoxu in an orderly manner, and also mentioned Fu Rang: "Fu Rang will use some more means to transport 26,000 stone of grain to us before leaving." ”

"Counting the batch he helped before, we can at least last until mid-June, which is a month longer than expected."

"That's enough." Hearing Yishiha's words, Zhu Gaoxu went down to the Fort Mountain Stone Fort with him.

As they walked down the mountain, they saw a caravan of horses carrying iron ingots and cement from three fields.

Since the cement production has increased, the cement yard has been moved to the limestone yard, which is not only convenient for production, but also convenient for the people.

"Over there in the six cities, I have already instructed Xu Sheng to transfer troops to go, you are ready to prepare, and take the waterway to transport half a year's military salary in one go."

"Yes."

The two talked about everything they could talk about, and finally they went back to Jilin City.

The autumn harvest grain book in Jilin City was also completed a few days later, and more than 600,000 mu of cultivated land produced a total of 570,000 stone of grain, which was more than 30,000 stone higher than Zhu Gaoxu expected.

In addition to Jilin City, Andong City and Zhaozhou City, the grain books also arrived successively, with 26,000 stone grain and 3,400 stone beans respectively.

Although there is still a long way to go before self-sufficiency, more than 370,000 mu of cultivated land have been opened up in the four cities of Bohai this year, which has exceeded one million mu of cultivated land in Bohai.

In other words, if the autumn harvest of next year can maintain this year's yield per mu, then the people of Bohai will basically achieve self-sufficiency.

The only thing that was lacking was the military salary and food of the 50,000 army, but Zhu Gaoxu was not going to obtain these things through reclamation outside the Guan, but through Liaodong.

Such an idea reached its peak at the end of September.

Before going south, Fu Rang learned about the reserve warehouse and military cantonment warehouse of the 25th Guard of Liaodong through a banquet with officials at all levels of the Liaodong Metropolitan Division.

After Zhu Yuanzhang's dispatch before his death, as well as Qi Tai's follow-up supplements, the reserve warehouse and military cantonment warehouse of Liaodong Dusi totaled more than 750,000 stones, and the number of guards in Liaodong was about 420,000.

The local military tuntian in Liaodong can probably produce about 800,000 stones, which can only meet 40% of the rations required by the military and civilians in Liaodong, and the remaining 60% needs to be transferred from Shandong by the imperial court.

Among them, most of the allocation time is after autumn and early spring, and each time the allocation is more than 780,000 stones, and the less is 450,000 stones.

It can be said that Fu Rang basically figured out the old bottom of Liaodong.

With this information, Zhu Gaoxu also knew when it was best to send troops to Liaodong.

In order to fight Liaodong, you can't just rely on regular soldiers to break through 30,000 guards, so in that case, it is very likely that Wu Gao and Liu Zhen will feel that the general trend has gone, and then retreat to southern Liaoning to burn grain.

Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu must use both the Zhengqi soldiers, the Zhengbing in the 30,000 Wei to contain Wu Gao and Liu Allah, the Qibing to go to the mountainous area of the former Yuan Dongning Province, learn from the old slave more than 200 years later, go straight to southern Liaoning, cut off the retreat of Wu Gao and Liu Zhen.

The good news of this method is that there is no Great Wall in Liaodong at the moment, so as long as you can pass through Dongning Province, you can go directly to the hinterland of southern Liaoning.

For this plan, Zhu Gaoxu also began to select the old soldiers of Jilin Wei from Zhuwei, and organized them as Jilin Zhongwei, going back and forth between Sanchang and Jilin City every day to train their mountain cross-country ability.

However, when he was planning Liaodong, Zhu Gaochi and the others, who were released by Zhu Yunwen, finally returned to Beiping.

When they saw the Beiping city wall after a six-year absence, their emotions were very complicated.

Xu ordered Wang Yan (Gou'er) to pick them up and took them to the outside of the Cunxin Palace.

"Get out! Get out of here! Kill my brother! You bastards!! ”

"Bang!!"

The sound of tables and chairs smashing on doors and windows made Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaosui's faces pale, they didn't expect their father to really suffer from madness.

"Mother, is my father really dead?"

Zhu Gaochi looked at Xu uncomfortably, and Xu couldn't bear to shake his head in the face of Zhu Gaochi's inquiry: "The imperial doctor has also come to see it, and I was scared by your father." ”

"Daddy! I'm Gao Sui! My big brother and I are back! ”

Zhu Gaosui lay in front of the window and shouted for Zhu Di inside, but Zhu Di smashed things hard and let Zhu Gaosui get away.

Zhu Gaosui was so frightened that his face turned pale, and Zhu Gaochi was also very uncomfortable when he saw this.

Looking at their appearance, Lu Zhen, the commander of the guards of the Yanwang Mansion who came with him, had a twinkle in his eyes.

Not long after, Xu took Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaosui to the former dormitory, while Lu Zhen walked out of the palace.

He searched his way to a tea shop, where he met an old farmer dressed as a farmer.

"Crazy." Lu Zhen didn't say anything else, and the old farmer calmly confirmed: "Are you sure you're not pretending to be crazy?" ”

"I've been crazy for more than a month, and today the prince and the third son didn't see him getting better when they returned home, but they continued to smash and scare the third son to the ground, if this can be pretending to be crazy, then there will be no real madman in the world."

Lu Zhen swore an oath, and the old farmer also bowed his head to express his approval: "I will spread the news to the south, and you will continue to monitor the mansion." ”

"Don't worry." Leaving a word, Lu Zhen got up and left the tea shop.

Not long after, the old farmer also left the tea shop, and only the head of the tea shop slowly watched the direction of the two of them and put down the abacus in his hand.

He went to the back kitchen, where an ascetic with a hat sat down.

"As you said, Master, the person who came is indeed the one who passed by the tea shop before."

The chief said to the dervishe, and the ascetic also took out the usual money from his sleeve and put it on the table beside him: "Keep an eye on them, I will come every day at noon from now on." ”

"Eh... Good! Happily picking up the money on the table, the head of the tea shop smiled from ear to ear.

As for the dervishe, he also left the tea shop after a while and walked towards the Qingshou Temple in Beiping.

After about two quarters of an hour, he walked to Qingshou Temple and found Yao Guangxiao in a black robe in a meditation room.

"As you expected, master, then Lu Zhen has indeed been in contact with His Majesty's people in private, and more than once."

The ascetic took off his hat, Yao Guangxiao also stopped thinking about the Buddha beads in his hand, and slowly opened his eyes: "Not only Lu Zhen, after going south this time, I'm afraid that Ge Cheng will also take refuge in the south." ”

"Then aren't we in the Yanwang Mansion alone?" The thirty-year-old ascetic had a solemn face, but Yao Guangxiao slowly spoke: "If you don't break it, you can't stand it, let them be happy first." ”

"The matter in the east, Huiming, have they had any news."

"The King of Bohai didn't react at all, I think it's the same as what Meng Ying said, the King of Bohai is very calm." The dervishew replied and exclaimed, "In the face of such a situation, it is amazing that the one can still stand still like a mountain." ”

"It is indeed a strange person...... Yao Guangxiao thought of Zhu Gaoxu's face and appearance, and it was really difficult for him to understand how Zhu Gaoxu's temperament changed so much after he went to the capital.

Judging from his current performance, it is not at all like Zhu Gaoxu before, but he has a bit of a heroic posture.

He is not like Zhu Yuanzhang, let alone Zhu Di, and the contact time between the two is too short, Yao Guangxiao can't tell who he looks like.

It's just that Yao Guangxiao knows very well that if the father and son really come to the day when they want to raise troops, then I am afraid that they will end up in trouble because of a position.

Thinking of this, Yao Guangxiao thought of Zhu Gaochi and the others who had just arrived in Beiping.

"It's a pity ......"

He was sighing, not knowing if he was sighing Zhu Gaochi or Zhu Gaochu.

However, when he sighed, the Cunxin Temple, which had been smashed for a long time, also quieted down.

"I'm tired ......"

Zhu Di, who was out of breath, dropped the broken wood in his hand, took a look at the mess in the heart hall and walked to the left hall.

After he walked into the left hall, although it was also very messy, the bed was very clean, and there was a wine, meat and roast chicken on the coffee table next to it.

Zhu Di sat back on the bed, holding a wine jug in one hand and roast chicken in the other, eating and drinking as if revenge.

His hair was loose and his clothes were dirty, and the smell was disgusting even to him.

"I really don't know how long it will take me to ...... such a day" Zhu Di disliked, but when he thought of Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaosui, who had just returned to Beiping, he had a smile on his face: "But it's okay, at least the eldest and third are back." ”

He smiled contentedly, rested for a while, and then began to go to the main hall to smash again.

After the smashing sound sounded, many slaves and maids who passed by the Heart Hall walked away one after another, which shows how disgusting Zhu Di is at this time.

But when he was like this, Zhu Gaoxu, who was in Jilin City, also received something sent by Wang Xuan at the beginning of the year.

It was a pile of ore, and it was much heavier than iron ore.

"It took four years to find this guy, and if he was a few months late, I wouldn't need it."

Looking at the pile of stones on the table, Zhu Gaoxu picked up a piece and tested the weight, then selected the unqualified ores from them, and finally instructed Yishiha, who sent the ores: "Let people hand over these ores to the ironworks, and let the craftsmen of the ironworks add a small amount of these ores to the ironworks, and try to make drill bits with higher hardness." ”

"If you can get it out, it will be much easier to drill the barrel in the future."

Zhu Gaoxu said a word to Yishuha, and his mood could be described as happy.

Perhaps it was Wang Xuan's act of sending ore that let Zhu Gaoxu know that his heart was still on his side, so he was very happy.

Since it was already the end of September, snow had begun to fall over Jilin City, and it began to become cold inside the city.

Looking at this scene, Zhu Gaoxu also left behind and walked out of the palace with Sun Cheng.

He walked towards Liu Wu's three thousand households, and after a while, he heard the sound of knocking and knocking.

When he walked into this people's house, the surrounding military households waved at him, and Zhu Gaoxu smiled and waved his hand: "It's starting to snow, how is the laying of the fire kang and the fire path and the fire wall?" ”

"Back to His Royal Highness, it was all paved, we tried to live for a while, it was much more comfortable than when we lived in Shandong, and it was not cold at all."

"Yes, yes, there is a lot of firewood here, and you can eat hot meals every day."

"Your Highness, you have given too many rations, and we can't finish them."

"Hahaha......"

In the people's square, the soldiers smiled and talked to Zhu Gaoxu, which showed that it was not the first time they had seen Zhu Gaoxu.

Whether it was buying people's hearts or what, Zhu Gaoxu would visit them from time to time since they moved to Jilin City, asking if they lacked food and clothing.

Cement masonry houses and fire roads, fire walls, and fire kangs are all things that can only be enjoyed by the gentry and wealthy families in Shandong, but after coming to Jilin City, they not only have a small courtyard with two entrances and exits without spending a penny, but also have these luxury things to enjoy.

Not long ago, the palace also divided the enlistment fields for them, and promised that the winter solstice would be divided according to the number of people.

These policies made the 3,000 military families and their families who migrated to Jilin City extremely grateful.

"I came to tell you about the division of the land today, and I think you should have heard about it."

Zhu Gaoxu said to the surrounding military households and their relatives: "If you don't know, you will spread the word after listening to it." ”

As he spoke, Zhu Gaoxu took a deep breath and began to say to the surrounding military households: "This enlistment field and Juntian, you can cultivate it independently after you get it, and then pay 20% of the regular tax every year, and the rest will not have any miscellaneous taxes." ”

"Of course, you can also continue to participate in the reclamation of wasteland, cultivate the fields like the same as the fields, hand them over to the royal government for coordination, and distribute grain, coal, firewood, and vegetables to everyone every day."

"When you want to live separately, then go to your head and the officials of your house and tell them, and they will mark you out."

Zhu Gaoxu talked about the big pot rice policy in Bohai, and after the military households heard it, many people gave a direct answer: "There are more than 30 acres of land, but we are still willing to live with the palace!" ”

"That's right! Living with the palace, there is cloth and coal, and you can eat meat every month! ”

The output of 30 acres of land outside the gate is not a lot, at least there are more than 20 stones of grain, but for many people, all they need is stability.

Like the people of Jilin City at the beginning, they were worried that after separating from the palace, if they encountered any difficulties, the palace would not help them, so they would rather continue to eat the big pot of rice.

"Okay, good ......" Zhu Gaoxu said with a smile: "Since you don't want to split up yet, then let's continue to live together, and when each of you can get more than a dozen acres of arable land, then we will live separately." ”

"Good!!" Hearing Zhu Gaoxu's words, everyone applauded.

This scene of harmony between the monarch and the people was seen by Liu Wu and the others who rushed over, and they hated it in their hearts, and at the same time decided to write these actions of Zhu Gaoxu to buy people's hearts as intelligence, and send people to the south before the winter.

(End of chapter)