"Your Highness! Your Highness! ”

In King Ning's Mansion, when the sound of hurried footsteps and shouts came, Zhu Quan, who was reading the military book in the study, frowned slightly.

He looked up at the window, and also saw the long history of the layman in the study.

"What?"

Putting down the military book in his hand, Zhu Quan frowned and asked, and Na Changshi also trotted all the way into the study, with an incredible expression on his face.

"The Bohai Shu people attacked Daning City, Daning City has been taken, Chen Heng was captured by his subordinates in front of the battle, and has been ordered by the King of Bohai County to take him into custody."

"What did you say?"

Zhu Quan stood up, the expression on his face was as incredible as Changshi's.

He has been in Daning for many years, so he naturally knows the situation in Daning, if there is no other fork, Daning will need at least 30,000 or 40,000 people to attack it.

"How did he get in?"

Zhu Quan opened his mouth to ask, and Changshi also shook his head: "It's too chaotic outside, I only know that he led the cavalry into the city when the city gate was opened, and then Chen Heng was bound to the front of the battle by his defective subordinates." ”

"It's so simple......" Zhu Quan sat down, the reason why he didn't dare to raise troops was because he was afraid of the strength of the imperial court, but he never thought that Zhu Gaoxu would take Daning so easily.

Although there are twenty-two guards in the Northern Parallel Capital Division, once Daning is taken, the other guards will not be able to resist and can only follow and surrender, because the food in the other guards is not much, and the imperial court will transport the grain to Daning, and then Daning will distribute it to the following guards according to the needs of a season.

Now that Daning City has been taken, this also means that the twenty-one guards of the Northern Parallel Capital Division will surrender.

Bu Wan in the south and Liu Song in the east, although they have enough food and grass, once the soldiers under their command know that the rear has surrendered, the soldiers and horses under their command will collapse without a fight.

"My fourth brother... How many soldiers and horses are there at the moment. ”

Zhu Quan asked with a complicated expression, and Changshi also made a statement according to his own news: "About sixty or seventy thousand people." ”

"Where's Gao Xu?" Zhu Quan asked again, and Changshi also continued to answer: "About forty or fifty thousand." ”

"Ah......" With a long sigh, Zhu Quan closed his eyes: "I'm afraid that after this battle, Gao Xu's soldiers and horses will exceed the number of my fourth brother." ”

"Indeed." Changshi bowed his head, and at the same time, there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside the study.

After a while, a commanding envoy ran into the study and hurriedly said: "Your Highness, the king of Bohai County invites you to go to the capital to command the yamen to reminisce about the past." ”

The commander's words were about reminiscing, but Zhu Quan knew very well that at this juncture, if he didn't give Zhu Gaochu this face, Zhu Gaochu would not take into account the uncles and nephews of both parties, and the previous relationship between the robes.

"Let's go, come with me to meet my brave nephew."

Zhu Quan got up without hesitation, and after tidying up his clothes, he walked out with Changshi and the commander......

"Daning City has more than 767,600 stones of grain, 226,400 pieces of money, 320,000 catties of iron, 17,000 stones of beans, 9,400 pieces of cloth, 23,400 catties of cotton, and ......."

In the yamen of the commander, Zhu Gaoxu stood in front of a sand table, and there was something similar to a command stick in his hand.

Zhao Mu took the thick treasury book and told what else was in the Daning Mansion, and read again: "Daning has a total of 212,676 acres of tuntian, 126,300 military households, and more than 429,600 people. ”

"Monthly rations of 126,300 stone are required, and the amount of food is mostly about 50,000 stone."

"At present, Yingzhou, Muyu and other guards have 5,000 soldiers and more than 20,000 soldiers, and Songtingguan and Guangning have respectively transferred 27,000 soldiers and more than 60,000 soldiers to serve as civilian soldiers."

Zhao Mu told the general situation of Daning, and Zhu Gaoxu had been observing Daning's sand table, picked up a banner belonging to Hu Bing and planted it more than 70 miles north of Daning.

"Your Highness, according to the document of the envoy commanded by Daning, even if Daning's grain is added to the food of other guards, it will at most support until Layue."

Zhao Mu's eyes were a little worried, and this worry came from Daning's situation.

During the Hongwu period, Daning was a place where 180,000 stone of grain had to be swallowed every month, and because of this, it and Liaodong, Shaanxi Xingdusi and other places were pure input places, and the capital could not receive a penny of tax grain from them.

Now that Zhu Gaoxu has taken over Daning and Liaodong, what he has taken over is not a golden bowl, but two burdens during the Jianwen period.

"According to our rules, how long will this Daning's grain be enough to eat?"

Zhu Gaoxu seemed to look at the sand table without distraction, but in fact he was very aware of the predicament he encountered.

"There are more than 176,500 mouths in the Bohai Sea, more than 317,000 mouths in Liaodong in our hands, and now with nearly 430,000 mouths in Daning, the total is more than 920,000 mouths."

"According to our method, each person will be given two catties of rice a day to calculate ......"

Zhao Mu knocked on the abacus, after all, he was a person who had gone to Jilin Weixue, and this arithmetic still couldn't bother him.

After a short time, he raised his head and explained to Zhu Gaoxu: "They have to eat 360,000 stone every moonlight, and if you add the 37,000 soldiers of Daning and the military salaries of our brothers, it is almost ...... More than 537,000 stones, plus 73,000 military salaries. ”

"It's okay to say that the military salary, plus the money from the Liaodong Treasury, can last at least six months, but the grain, our grain will last until the autumn harvest in September at most."

Zhao Mu looked up at Zhu Gaochu as he spoke, and Zhu Gaochu also understood the situation in Daning more clearly from here, and also understood why Zhu Di moved all the more than 400,000 people in Daning back to Yongping and Shuntian.

In the final analysis, although Zhu Di had enough money and food when he took Daning, Daning needed to consume more than 2 million stones every year after all.

With only 200,000 mu of local tuntian, at most one-tenth of the grain problem can be solved, and the remaining 2 million grain has to be taken from the Yanfu treasury.

Not to mention where Zhu Di took an additional 2 million stones to Daning, the amount of soldiers and horses and the number of people who transported this money and grain alone could stump him.

Now that he is here, he is also facing such a dilemma, and the method he wants to use is similar to the method that Zhu Di wants to use.

"Please come to General Chen Heng."

Zhu Gaoxu raised his head and asked the soldiers in front of the middle hall to invite Chen Heng, and after a while, he saw Chen Heng, who was still restrained on the streets of Daning, and now walked over with a relaxed face.

Regarding Chen Heng's acting skills, Zhu Gaoxu is no longer able to look directly.

"Your Highness."

Chen Heng made a fuss with Zhu Gaoxu, and Zhu Gaochu did not hesitate, because he still had to deal with Haragu and protect the peace of the people of Daning, so he had to ask Chen Heng to help him solve the remaining twenty-one guards and three guards in Daning in the fastest time.

"I want to ask the old general to take my people to take over the remaining twenty-one guards and three institutes in Daning immediately, I don't know how many people the old general needs?"

"This ......" Hearing Zhu Gaoxu's words, Chen Heng paused: "The three guards in Yingzhou are my sons Chen Gong, Chen Zhong, and Chen Mao, and they are stationed separately, and as long as I have three letters from home, I can take them." ”

"As for Mu Yu and other guards, most of them are my old subordinates, and they are familiar with His Royal Highness King Yan, as long as they relay that Daning has been taken down, they will also follow His Highness."

"The only two problems are Bu Wan of Songting Pass and Liu Song of Guangning, these two people cannot get along well with His Highness, but many of his army are close to me."

"As long as I write to the past, and His Highness brings their family members to the front of the battle to call for battle, they will inevitably defect, so the minister does not need His Highness's soldiers and horses, but only needs His Highness to make two trips in person after repelling the Uliang Hahu cavalry."

Chen Heng is worthy of being the person who was awarded the title of the Duke of the Kingdom, in his three words, the entire Daning has been taken, no wonder in history after Bu Wan and Liu Zhen were defeated, Chen Heng dared to directly lead people to Zhu Di, except for Bu Wan and Liu Zhen, most of the others were his old subordinates.

"Okay, with the words of the old general, my heart is settled."

After saying this, Zhu Gaoxu was also relieved to explain his intentions to Chen Heng.

"Daning has not been out for a long time, and I may encounter Hu cavalry at any time, so I am ready to move 100,000 military households and their families to Liaodong to settle down after repelling Hu Cai."

"As for Daning, it is to build more stone fort cities in the original place where there was Tuntian, and arrange 15,000 soldiers and their relatives to garrison them."

The relocation of the population of Daning to Liaodong was the most important move for Zhu Gaoxu to develop Northeast China.

Now that Daning has been taken, except for the more than 40,000 soldiers and horses in the Liaoxi Corridor and Songting Pass, Zhu Di's rear has been safe.

As long as Zhu Gaoxu solved the 27,000 soldiers and horses of Bu Wan and Liu Song, there would only be more than 13,000 remnants left in Liaoxi, and they could be defeated in an instant.

In this way, the Bohai Sea and Liaodong have become the rear areas, among which Liaodong is the safest, because the prince's rebellion is breaking out in Korea, and it is impossible to look at Liaodong.

Migrate more than 300,000 people to Liaodong to carry out large-scale land reclamation, and then leave 50,000 or 60,000 people to defend Daning, and at the same time cultivate more than 200,000 mu of cultivated land that was previously reclaimed, this is Zhu Gaoxu's arrangement of Daning and Liaodong.

Daning must be defended, but Uliangha has suffered many blows and is no longer able to storm the fortress, so it is completely fine to leave 15,000 soldiers to garrison and 30,000 or 40,000 of their families to cultivate the fields, and the local expenses will also be reduced.

After Zhu Gaoxu's operation, Daning's expenses may drop from 170,000 yuan per month to 40,000 stones.

Although the burden on Liaodong has increased, as long as Zhu Di transports grain from the western Liaoning corridor, then Zhu Gaoxu will be sure that after the construction of the sea ships in the coming year, he will take Deng, Lai and other important cities in Shandong, and then go south to Huaibei to seize the water storage on the canal road.

As long as he succeeds in grabbing a water warehouse, it will be enough to maintain the 920,000 soldiers and civilians outside the customs for half a year or even a year.

"It's probably very difficult to relocate more than 300,000 people, and can Liaodong support so many people?"

Chen Heng raised his concerns, but Zhu Gaoxu said: "Don't worry about the problem of food, on the way to migration, our army will also distribute real food to the people of Daning with two catties for adults and one and a half catties for adults." ”

"After arriving in Liaodong, while organizing the reclamation of wasteland, our army will still distribute rations according to this amount, and it will not stop until the people have their own fields to cultivate and feed."

"Real grain?" Chen Heng was stunned, he didn't expect Zhu Gaoxu to dare to say such "wild words".

Take the previous Daning situation as an example, according to Daning's standards, if 170,000 stone is spent every month, each military household can also get one stone and three buckets, and it is unprocessed rice, except for 30% of the wheat bran loss in processing, each person can get one catty and four real grains.

Now Zhu Gaoxu is opening his mouth with a big mouth of two catties and a small mouth of one and a half catties, and he does not want the military households to help the guards farm for free, but to help them open up the wasteland by themselves.

Chen Heng didn't know how to describe Zhu Gaoxu for a while, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a living bodhisattva.

"If that's the case, I don't think any Daning military household will refuse."

Chen Heng spoke firmly, and Zhu Gaoxu also nodded when he heard this: "Then the twenty-one guard's appeasement will be handed over to you." ”

"The last general commands!" Chen Hengzuo responded, and at this time, there was also the sound of footsteps outside the middle hall.

After a short time, a thousand-household official walked into the courtyard and said, "Your Highness, His Royal Highness King Ning has arrived outside the door." ”

"I'll personally greet Uncle Seventeen." Zhu Gaoxu turned his head to look at Chen Heng, and Chen Heng also coughed: "It is inconvenient for the general to appear, so he will retire first." ”

What happened to Daning's surrender, others don't know, but the three of them know very well that if Zhu Quan sees it, and Zhu Quan is looking south, then Chen Heng's lame scene will be in vain.

Not long after, Chen Heng left, and Zhu Gaoxu also walked out of the yamen and saw the high-spirited Zhu Quan at the beginning.

However, compared with the time when the two joined forces to pursue Harawu, Zhu Quan at the moment seems a little down, but Zhu Gaoxu is heroic.

"Uncle Seventeen......"

Zhu Gaoxu enthusiastically walked down the steps and invited Zhu Quan to enter the yamen to discuss matters.

Zhu Quan felt Zhu Gaoxu's enthusiasm, and was relieved, and asked at the same time: "Gaoxu, how did you win Daning, and what are you going to do?" ”

"Let's go in, I'll talk to Uncle Seventeen slowly......"

Zhu Gaoxu took Zhu Quan into the middle hall of the commander's yamen and sat down, and then told the story of his confession with Chen Heng and Zhao Mu, and at the end of the day, he told his arrangements for Daning.

Hearing these words, Zhao Mu was nervous, but Zhu Gaoxu knew very well that Zhu Quan's control of Daning was limited to his three guards, and as for the 80,000 armor of King Ning said in later generations, it was actually just an exaggeration.

Zhu Di didn't say anything to Zhu Quan about dividing the world, even if he did, it was strange that Zhu Quan dared to agree to the situation that all the soldiers and horses in Daning surrendered in history and Zhu Quan only had a few thousand guards.

It is not so much that Zhu Quan took the initiative to hand over the military power, but that Zhu Quan was coerced by Chen Heng to hand over the military power.

In order to show his loyalty, Zhu Quan also persuaded Zhu Di to ascend the throne in Beiping after Zhu Di repelled Li Jinglong.

Of course, Zhu Gaoxu forgot the specific situation of history, anyway, he roughly remembered this kind of thing.

"If Gao Xu has to abandon Daning, will he forget the will of the imperial examination?"

After hearing that Zhu Gaoxu was going to relocate more than eighty percent of Daning's population to Liaodong, Zhu Quan asked him about it.

His words are about Zhu Yuanzhang's idea of taking the ground of Wuliangha after getting the map of the Northeast sent by Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhu Gaoxu naturally didn't dare to forget this idea, because he wanted to control the Wuliangha grassland more than Zhu Yuanzhang, and even went to Mobei through Wuliangha, and fought all the way along the Nan River to Hulan and hypothermia!

"Of course I haven't forgotten!" Zhu Gaoxu replied in a deep voice: "It is precisely because I have not forgotten that I want to immigrate to Shibian to enrich the population of Liaodong." ”

"Could it be that Uncle Seventeen has forgotten, how did I go from Jilin to Wuliang Ha Bald Mountain?"

Zhu Gaochu reminded Zhu Quan instead, and he also knew Zhu Gaoxu's thoughts when he heard this, so he couldn't help laughing and said: "Are you planning to reclaim Liaodong, and then let Liaodong be self-sufficient in the future, and finally transport grain to Zhaozhou, and go north to Wuliangha directly by waterway?" ”

"Naturally!" There is no need for Zhu Gaoxu to hide his ambitions for Modong, because Zhu Quan knows the route and situation of his several expeditions to Modong.

"Right now, the four cities of Bohai are already self-sufficient."

"Starting from next year, Bohai will be able to pay more than 200,000 stone tax grain to the government treasury every year, and if this more than 200,000 stone tax grain is transported to Wuliang Ha Bald City, or even Wuliang Ha Bald Mountain, it can maintain the reclamation of tens of thousands of people."

"As long as it lasts for a few years, the local area will be developed and gradually self-sufficient, and the tax and grain in the Bohai Sea will continue to increase until it can support tens of thousands of troops to the west."

"The truth in this, you don't need your nephew to tell Uncle Seventeen again, right?" Zhu Gaoxu told Zhu Quan what he thought.

Zhu Quan is not a fool, he asked carefully: "What do you want me to do?" ”

"I want Uncle Seventeen to continue to sit in Daning and control these 15,000 soldiers and horses." Zhu Gaoxu said bluntly, but Zhu Quan was very surprised: "You're not afraid that I will lead my troops to the south?" ”

"Go south and be cut into a concubine?" Zhu Gaoxu asked Zhu Quan rhetorically, and then the uncle and nephew smiled helplessly.

Zhu Quan is different from Zhu Zhi and Zhu Sui, he and Zhu Yunwen are not as familiar with Zhu Gaoxu as Zhu Yunwen, and he handed over the military power to go to the south, what else can he do if he is not cut down.

"If you are willing, then I will guard this Liaodong for you."

Zhu Quan deliberately accentuated the word "for you", which made Zhu Gaoxu smile.

"In that case, please ask Uncle Seventeen to temporarily command his own 3,000 people, and wait for his nephew to clean up Harawu, and then implement the affairs of Daning."

Zhu Gaoxu got up to explain, but Zhu Quan shook his head: "This Harawu, you and I didn't hunt him last time, and this time we can hunt him down." ”

"Among the three thousand guards in my Ning Mansion, there are still three hundred cavalry, if you don't dislike it, I will personally go into battle and take them to kill that Hu cavalry with you."

Zhu Quan was showing his loyalty, and Zhu Gaoxu did not refuse: "Okay, since this is the case, I will ask Uncle Seventeen to lead the troops out of the North City Gate at noon, and I will wait for you there." ”

"Good!" Zhu Quan bowed, then turned and left.

Seeing him leave, Zhao Mu stepped forward and said carefully: "Your Highness is not afraid that this King Ning will occupy Daning?" ”

"What can he do with Daning? With the 50,000 or 60,000 people after migration, what can we do? Zhu Gaoxu asked Zhao Mu rhetorically.

It's not that he looks down on Zhu Quan, it's that Zhu Quan is only good at leading troops, and he can't control large-scale troops.

This is not surprising, after all, in the final analysis, Zhu Quan is only two years older than Zhu Gaoxu, and Zhu Gaoxu is a human being, which is easier to introspect, but Zhu Quan still has the impatience of young people.

"That's ...... too"

Zhao Mu bowed his head, but Zhu Gaoxu patted him on the shoulder: "Since Uncle Seventeen has brought 300 people, then I will leave 300 people for you, and you cooperate with General Chen to take down the remaining 21 guards of Daning for me." ”

"Yes!" Zhao Mu subconsciously made a move, and when he heard this, Zhu Gaoxu also turned around and left, preparing for the army to go north to fight.

However, when he turned to leave, Zhu Quan also walked out of the command envoy yamen with Shi Weiquan, the head of the palace.

After a short time after they returned to King Ning's mansion, seeing that the surroundings were safe, Wei Quan spoke: "Why do you want to attach yourself to the King of Bohai County, with your seniority, shouldn't you be attached to King Yan?" ”

Zhu Quan, who was wearing armor, heard this, but shook his head and asked Wei Quan: "Right now, my fourth brother and Gao Xu, who of them has more soldiers and horses?" ”

"Naturally, he is the king of Bohai County." Wei Quan subconsciously replied, and Zhu Quan continued to ask: "Then who are the more people under their rule?" ”

"It's also the king of Bohai County." Wei Quan understood what Zhu Quan wanted to say.

"Yes......" Zhu Quan put on armor under the service of the maidservants, and said at the same time:

"At present, my fourth brother has Gao Xu, and Gao Xu has nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses, and nearly one million people.

"I looked at the former golden book, and found that the Wanyan Agu who went out with Gao Xu to raise troops couldn't rule hundreds of thousands, so he dared to defeat the Liao State, and now I have lost Liaodong and Yanyun, my nephew, what do you think he looks like?"

"This ......" Wei Quan didn't dare to say it, but Zhu Quan was not taboo: "In addition to the addition of Yunnan and Sanxuan Liuwei, Shaanxi Xingdu Division and Wusi Zangdu Division, do you think the south is like the Northern Song Dynasty?" ”

"Then Song Taizong and Zhao Guangyi have not been able to clean up the Liao Kingdom, is he comparable to Song Taizong?"

Zhu Quan asked again and again, but Wei Quan said: "Although the king of Bohai County is strong and strong, King Yan is his father after all, and it is impossible for him to rebel against his father, and the throne of the prince has now been set by Emperor Gao, you ......"

As Wei Quan spoke, he suddenly realized that he understood Zhu Quan's intentions.

He slowly looked at Zhu Quan, who was dressed in armor, and said cautiously: "You mean, now is it a charcoal in the snow?" ”

"Not really." Zhu Quan looked at the armor he had put on, waved his hand to signal the maid to retreat, and while he sat on the main seat, he also let Wei Quan sit down.

After the two sat down, Zhu Quan spoke: "I'm more like icing on the cake now, but it's also the icing on the cake, and it's different for the fourth brother and for Gao Xu." ”

"The fourth brother is now forty years old, and Gao Xu is only twenty, and I am only twenty-two."

"I'm not familiar with Gao Chi, and I don't think Gao Chi can deal with Gao Chi."

Zhu Quan took a sip of tea: "Do you think that in this case, should I choose Gao Chi or Gao Xu?" ”

"Naturally, he is the king of Bohai County." Wei Quan didn't think about it, and Zhu Quan also nodded: "Choose the fourth brother, you will only be rich for more than ten or twenty years, but you can be rich for a lifetime." ”

"Besides, if I choose the fourth brother, the fourth brother will waver between Gao Chi and Gao Xu, I have to choose again, if I choose the wrong one, I will be jealous of Yan Shizi and Gao Xu."

"In this case, it is better to take advantage of Yan Shizi's lack of momentum, and take the first step to throw himself at Gao Xu, even if Gao Xu is defeated in the future......"

As he spoke, Zhu Quan suddenly smiled and shook his head, obviously he didn't think Zhu Gaoxu would fail.

As far as Zhu Gaochu's current power is concerned, let alone Zhu Gaochi himself, even if Zhu Di personally goes out to help Zhu Gaochi pull the bias, he may not be able to pull Zhu Gaochu.

Judging from the performance of the generals of the Yan Mansion during the last Northern Expedition alone, Zhu Quan could know that their relationship with Zhu Gaoxu was not bad.

Without the support of the generals, what did Zhu Gaochi rely on to compete with Zhu Gaochu.

Thinking of this, Zhu Quan didn't know what he thought, and suddenly squinted his eyes:

"The current situation is very similar to a certain family, do you know whose family?"

"Li ......" Wei Quan just wanted to say, but subconsciously closed his mouth, obviously not daring to say that sentence.

However, Zhu Quan didn't have so many taboos, and after Wei Quan opened his mouth, he said: "At the moment, it is like the situation at the beginning of Li Tang's founding of the country. ”

He lowered his head, glanced at the half-drunk tea, and muttered, "I hope the fourth brother won't be confused......"

"Bohai Chronicle": "Ren Yin, the city is counted in the city." However, Hu Bing went south, and Ning Wangquan said: "The people here are in danger, and my uncle and nephew should jointly defend against foreign enemies". ”

"Ming Shizong Record": "Ren Yin, up into Daning, Ning Wang Quan heard that he came to vote, when Hu soldiers went south, he took soldiers and horses to the north, and chased Hu to ride. ”

(End of chapter)