"I've sung Beijing and Nanjing, I'll sing the tune for you to listen to......"

"The plum blossoms in the first month are the New Year, and the Yongle Emperor sits in Nanjing, ......"

At the end of the first month, when the sound of humming and singing sounded in the Han Palace, Zhu Gaochi, who was much fatter than a few months ago, stood in a courtyard, holding an orange cat in his hand, humming a song that he heard from nowhere, and he could see that he was in a good mood.

While he was humming, Zhang came from outside with several female officials, and when he saw Zhu Gaochi humming a tune, he became angry.

"The king of Zhou and the king of Su have all gone to the domain, and only you, the vassal kings who have been sealed in the southwest, are still waiting for the imperial court to repair the palace, and stay in this Nanjing city all day long and have nothing to do."

"Yo, who provoked the princess?" Zhu Gaochi saw that his daughter-in-law was angry, and walked over with a smile when he hugged the orange cat.

Zhang sat on a stone pier under a tree, and when he saw Zhu Gaochi say this, he was angry: "Are you embarrassed to ask?" ”

Zhang said angrily: "After the third child came out of the Great Sect, he ran to Wuying Hall and Qianqing Palace all day long, either to ask His Majesty for rewards, or to ask Her Royal Highness the Queen for rewards, they are also sons, and you are still the boss, and you will know that you will tease your cat at home." ”

"Hehe...... Zhu Gaochi was not angry when he was complained, and said with a smile: "The money and food in this palace are enough to call, and besides, the household is controlled by the second child, how much can my father reward the third child." ”

Zhu Gaochi touched the cute civet cat in his arms, but Zhang said: "A month, more than 5,000 yuan, you think about it yourself!" ”

"So much?" Zhu Gaochi was stunned for a moment, and only after reacting did he smile: "It must have been saved by the old man from the inner court." ”

Although Zhu Gaochi did not participate in the government affairs, he also knew that half of the world's military power and the world's money and grain were in his own second-hand hands, and it was not a small amount for the old man to allocate 5,000 yuan.

However, the expenses of the inner court are large, ranging from more than 2 million yuan to 16.7 million yuan a year, and it is relatively easy to save tens of thousands of yuan.

"I don't know where Your Majesty came from, I only know that the third child has benefited, and you, who are fathers and sons, know how to squat in the house."

Zhang complained about Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Gaochi sat aside, and said with a smile: "You said you, what are you in a hurry, show you something." ”

"Don't look!" Zhang turned his head to the side, and Zhu Gaochi was immediately stupid: "Really don't look at it?" This was sent by someone from the East Palace. ”

"East Palace?" Hearing that it was sent by Zhu Gaoxu, Zhang immediately turned around, and then saw a red post.

She took a look at it, but found that it was a gift list, which contained all kinds of things such as gold, silver, copper coins, silk and satin, and was worth no less than 10,000 yuan.

"What an expensive gift!" Zhang looked at Zhu Gaochi in surprise, but Zhu Gaochi stroked the cat and said proudly:

"I told you, don't worry about money and food, anyone can be hungry, and we will definitely not be hungry."

"Look at it, the third child has been running for a month, and it is not as good as this gift list given by the second child."

"Mediocre people disturb themselves... Philistines disturb themselves......"

Zhu Gaochi got up and hugged the cat, shook his head and walked back to the hall, while Zhang took the gift slip and handed it to the female official next to him with a smile: "Go to the treasury to see if this is the number." ”

"The slave takes the command." The female official saluted, and Zhang also got up to tidy up herself, and put on a smiling face to catch up with Zhu Gaochi.

"Your Highness, you are waiting for your concubines......"

Zhang's coquettishness, Zhu Gaochi immediately felt that his legs were a little weak, and he was chased by Zhang's after a while.

"Eh, I'm not fit today."

"There is no reason why it can't be done......"

"Huh! Huh! Wait... Wait for ......"

After a while, the slaves and maids outside the hall were scattered, and Zhu Gaochi was dragged into the side hall by the Zhang family.

But the same troubles are not only with him, but also with Zhu Gaoxu.

"These two hundred women are carefully selected by Her Royal Highness the Queen for the crown prince, you see if you like anything, the slaves and maids should write it down, and when they enter the capital, they will take a good look for you."

In the Chunhe Palace, when the female officials of the Qianqing Palace suddenly appeared, Zhu Gaoxu, who was dealing with government affairs, was forced to receive 200 portraits.

"How about I'll look at it later?"

Zhu Gaoxu discussed with the female official who had served Empress Xu for more than 20 years, but saw that the female official only smiled and did not respond.

She dared to do this to Zhu Gaoxu, it was because she was not only the female official of Empress Xu, but also the nurse of Zhu Gaochu and their three brothers.

"Okay, I'll take a look at ......"

Seeing that it didn't make sense, Zhu Gaoxu could only signal to Yishaha on the side to help, and then opened the portraits one after another.

Zhu Gaoxu was not proficient in painting, but he was also a person who had seen oil paintings and sketches in later generations, so when he saw the traditional portraits of the early Ming Dynasty, he immediately became a little blind.

"Didn't you draw something like it?" Zhu Gaoxu looked at the female official helplessly: "Who can recognize this." ”

"This is already the best painter sent by the Inner Court." The female official responded calmly, and Zhu Gaoxu could only say to Yishaha when he saw this:

"You asked someone to find the painter from the East Palace."

"Yes!" It didn't take long for people to find five painters from the East Palace.

After they arrived, Zhu Gaoxu briefly asked a few words about his painting skills, and then waited for the five of them to relax before asking:

"Why can't you actually paint people?"

After that, Zhu Gaoxu also got up and used Yishiha as a model and turned his face sideways.

"You see, this person's face is obviously different under light and shadow, why is it that the person we draw is always flat?"

"If you just pursue freehand, then you can paint landscapes, birds and beasts, but I look at the landscapes, birds and beasts of the Song Dynasty, and there are also very realistic paintings, why can't you paint people?"

Zhu Gaoxu asked the question he was curious about in his previous life, but the five painters looked at each other, and finally walked out of one of the painters:

"Your Highness, if you only pursue technique and realism, you can only be called a painter, because they only regard painting as a craft to support their families."

"Ridiculous!" Zhu Gaoxu retorted: "Painting can be freehand or realistic, in ancient times, everyone painted birds and beasts also had realistic picture scrolls handed down, why no one ridiculed them as painters?" ”

"I don't want to listen to these empty heads, I just want to know if I can draw realistically."

Zhu Gaoxu questioned the leading painter, but saw that he couldn't speak, but at least one seventeen or eighteen-year-old painter took the initiative to stand up and say:

"Your Highness, if you really want to say it, it can't be drawn......"

"Can't draw?" Zhu Gaoxu frowned, and the young painter also replied: "When Chen learned painting in his early years, he wanted to paint realistic portraits, but no matter how he painted people, it always seemed to be painting on a flat surface, and he couldn't paint the layering of landscapes. ”

"Layering is light and shadow." Zhu Gaoxu interrupted and motioned for them to follow.

When they get to the window, pull out an artist from where the sunlight is shining in and signal them to see clearly.

The sun shone on the painter's face, and half of his face was clearly illuminated, and the other half of his face was in the dark, except for the part that was illuminated at the base of the mountain.

"See, this is light and shadow."

"It is disrespectful to paint like this, which is considered disrespectful in etiquette." The young painter hesitated to answer, leaving Zhu Gaoxu speechless.

He thought back to some sketches from his previous life before trying to explain: "Even if there is no light and shadow, there is a sense of layering on that person's face." ”

"You can see the nose, brow bones, cheekbones, eye sockets, these are all things that can be layered, and ......"

Zhu Gaoxu said a lot of things, and finally thought of the information fragments he had seen in his previous life, and said at the end: "There is also perspective, which is available in the paintings of Zhang Shengqian in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, but few people paint them." ”

"In addition, there is also a sense of structure of the human body and landscape animals, because painting people must have structure, especially to master the structure of the human body, once the structure is missing, the painted things have no sense of skeletal muscle, no sense of three-dimensionality......"

Zhu Gaoxu said a lot, and at the same time used Yisha as a model to explain, but this time the painters understood what he said, but many terms were not well understood, so they asked again.

After Zhu Gaoxu patiently explained, he didn't know if what he said was right or not, anyway, the painters nodded frequently.

It's just that in the end, the painters still say, "But if you blindly pursue the image of the painting, what is the true meaning of the painting?" ”

......Listening to the words of this group of people, Zhu Gaoxu was speechless, feeling that they did not study painting as a science at all, but used it to express their spiritual activities like poetry.

In addition to referring to objective objects, the starting point of the image created by the poetic pen is more of an anthropomorphic, self-metaphorical and life-giving attitude.

From the perspective of art and philosophy, Chinese painting is no longer as simple as copying objective things, but is an allegorical scene.

But now what Zhu Gaoxu needs is not a philosopher or an artist, he needs a pragmatist.

Thinking of this, he glanced back at Yi Shiha, who had been fiddling with him as a model for a long time: "How is the construction of Nanjing Hospital, and how are the doctors in Bohai transferred south?" ”

"Yes!" Suddenly asked, Yisha responded first, and only after reacting did he reply: "It was completed three days ago, and now fifty-two doctors have been transferred to the south, including internal medicine, pediatrics, gynecology and surgery. ”

"Take a few of them to surgery, don't surgeons often bring wood carved human specimens, let them see the structure of the human body clearly, when can they draw realistic paintings and come back."

Zhu Gaoxu instructed Yisha, but the five painters were stunned, not understanding what the human specimen meant.

Soon, they were taken away by Yishaha's arrangement, and the female official who watched a scene said: "Since Your Highness can tell it so clearly, why don't you paint it yourself?" ”

"I paint?" Zhu Gaoxu was a little embarrassed, it was okay to let him draw a map, let him draw people, I am afraid that he would draw villain books at most, and he would not be able to draw a little bit of portrait realisticism.

"I'm busy with government affairs, if it weren't for the drag of government affairs, I guess I would have gone to paint a long time ago."

Although he won't, this doesn't prevent Zhu Gaoxu from pretending, anyway, he is the crown prince, who can force him to paint.

"These two hundred picture scrolls all look the same, when they arrive in the capital, you can choose some good-looking ones, I don't have high requirements for beauty."

Zhu Gaoxu dared to say this, because he knew that the old Zhu family was very good at choosing concubines, and besides, he might not be able to stand the twenty-two Fengyi plus the three in his harem.

He is very sorry for his life now, for fear that he will walk in front of the old man, after all, the old man said that he would pass on the throne to him in his fifties.

Even if it is delayed in the future, Zhu Gaoxu will wait for the old man for more than ten years at most, after all, maybe he will die in front of the old man, and the old man retired ten years early, maybe he can live longer.

I just don't know if the baby Guo Yan is pregnant with now is a man or a woman, if it is a man, then calculate the time, maybe he can take over his own class after the old man retires, otherwise this government affairs is really a headache.

"Since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said so, the slave and maid will retire first......"

Seeing that Zhu Gaoxu made it clear, the female official stopped staying, and turned around and left with the slaves and maids of the Qianqing Palace.

When they were far away, Zhu Gaoxu touched his bare chin before walking back to his place and sitting down.

Yishiha came up to add tea for him, but Zhu Gaoxu looked at Yishiha and said, "How is Sun Cheng doing in the north?" ”

"There are officials he likes, but they are too young for a while." Yizha knew what Zhu Gaoxu was asking, so he gave the answer without thinking.

Sun Cheng is a civil official trusted by Zhu Gaoxu, and he is also the only civil official in Bohai who has been knighted.

If he can entrust the affairs of Guanwai and Shandong, then when he enters Beijing, Zhu Gaoxu's burden will be much lighter.

How busy Zhu Gaoxu is now, only Yishuha and Guo Yan know best, and he can't wait to split himself in half to use it.

If it weren't for Guo Yan's successful pregnancy, Zhu Gaoxu would have to deal with government affairs for five hours during the day every day, and he would have to pay public food every night when he returned to the front dormitory.

The pain of this kind of career-oriented married man must be understood by many people who have participated in the work, not to mention that he basically has little time to fish in five hours.

When there is nothing to do, beauty will not get tired of enjoying it, but if you have to add five hours of work before beauty, I am afraid that many people's interest will evaporate.

"Can the population from Shandong to Liaodong be completed this year?"

Zhu Gaoxu opened the recital and asked while dealing with it.

Yisha nodded when he heard this: "If it is only the three prefectures of Qingzhou, Dengzhou and Laizhou, then it should be able to complete the migration, that is, it depends on whether the three prefectures of Jinan, Yanzhou and Dongchang need to migrate." ”

"No need." Zhu Gaoxu shook his head, in his plan, except for Yan Shenggong and Shandong squires who had not yet grasped the big handle, the people of the three prefectures of Yanzhou were not in the plan to move to Liaodong.

The direction of their migration is mainly Henan and Beiping.

It's just that now Guanwai is still not self-sufficient, and Yunnan's Jianwen Liutai has not yet produced steadily, if there is another large-scale immigration, it will be a little unbearable to come to the imperial court.

The current Zhu Gaoxu is more calm than after he just conquered Nanjing, and he will no longer take too big steps, but strictly control the whole country.

In modern times, he would choose to put most of the money in the treasury into the market, build large infrastructure and support all kinds of industries, but this is the Ming Dynasty.

If he dares to empty the treasury, then when the natural disaster breaks out, he will wait for millions of displaced people to eat each other.

Unless the military operation has to be mobilized, he does not move much.

Lao Zhu left behind 26 million stone of grain, which was enough to deal with the famine in any province.

These 26 million stones are the red line of grain reserves, and no one can touch them.

"By the way, what was the number of mouths and cultivated land in Shanxi last year?"

Zhu Gaoxu rummaged through the music and asked a question, and Yisha rummaged with him, and soon found the population and acres of land in each province submitted by the household department.

[Shanxi Koukou has 4,167,000 people, and 39,44,237 acres of cultivated land is 6 points]

"Hehe, in the past eleven years, there has only been an increase of 100,000 people, and the cultivated land has disappeared by more than 5,000 acres, do you think they copied the old or wrote it casually?"

Zhu Gaoxu took the song and asked Yi Lost, and with the experience of Shandong, Yi Lost Ha also spoke boldly: "The slave maid thought it was copying the old." ”

"Although Shanxi is located in the border area, it has not suffered too many casualties except for the loss of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the Jingjing."

"According to the situation of the imperial court's inventory of Shandong, the number of mouths in Shanxi may have exceeded 5 million, and the cultivated land is not easy to say, but it should be 40 million mu."

After saying that, he waited for Zhu Gaochu to speak, and it didn't take long for Zhu Gaochu to take the piece and look at it for a while, and then shook his head and said:

"The apportionment into the mu is bound to the official school household registration, and the measurement of the acres of land must be clarified, the imperial court had more than 58 million mouths 21 years ago, and now although there are more than 66 million people newly registered, this must not be the amount of the real population."

"The farther away from the capital, the easier it is to hide the population, which is the case in the north and southwest now, and if the capital is moved to Beiping in the future, it will definitely be the case in the south of the Yangtze River."

Lao Zhu's control over the population of Jiangnan is very strong, and there is not much concealment, which can be seen from Zhu Gaoxu's liquidation of Jianwen Yuchen.

What has moisture in the south of the Yangtze River is the identity of the upper, middle and lower households of the people, as well as the quality of the fields.

Zhu Gaoxu remembered that Zhu Di set up Beijing as his residence, and after Zhu Qizhen moved the capital to Beijing, the Ming Dynasty's control over the population of Jiangnan also declined, and the population of Jiangnan not only did not increase in the following time, but began to decline.

However, from the perspective of the people, many literati and writers believed that the actual population of Jiangnan was more than the registered population, and in the Wanli period, some literati even felt that the actual population of Jiangnan was twice or even three times that of the Yellow Book.

This is a matter of no way, the emperor is far away, in the era when there were no trains, the farther away from Beijing, the weaker the control of the imperial court, so the Ming Dynasty would dismantle Nanzhili into eighteen Zhili prefectures, rather than two provinces.

If it is abolished into two provinces, God knows how many taxes will be withheld by the eighteen state capitals.

In the later period of the Ming Dynasty, it was completely dependent on the eighteen split state capitals of Nanzhili to continue its life, and if it was really to be split into two provinces, it was estimated that it would not even be able to keep six million stone taxes and grain.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu was just about to say something, but saw a eunuch with a raw face walking at the gate of the palace.

"Your Highness Chitose, Your Majesty has summoned you to the Wuying Palace."

The eunuch saluted and reported the matter, and Zhu Gaoxu bowed his head when he heard this: "I know, I'll go now." ”

Hearing this, the eunuch withdrew from the Wuying Palace, and Yizha also prepared a golden chariot for Zhu Gaoxu to travel.

After a while, with a few notes that could be handled in the car, Zhu Gaoxu went to the Wuying Palace.

It is not surprising that Zhu Di summoned Zhu Gaoxu at least once or twice a day, and this time was just the first time today.

Originally, Zhu Gaoxu thought that Zhu Di was here to urge the Northern Expedition, but when he walked into the Wuying Hall and saw a man who looked like a Western Regions but was wearing a military attache robe, he became puzzled.

"Father, this is ......"

Zhu Gaoxu looked at Zhu Di suspiciously, but Zhu Di smiled and said: "Second brother, you came just in time, I just took him as an adopted son, and I am going to send him to Hami." ”

"......" When he heard that Zhu Di had adopted an adopted son and was still thinking of sending him to Hami, Zhu Gaoxu knew who this person was.

Tokhtar Timur, the nephew of Ankh Timur, King of Hami.

In the original history, Anke Timur was poisoned by the Northern Yuan Great Khan because he was too close to Zhu Di and often paid tribute to Zhu Di, which strengthened the cavalry team of the Ming Dynasty and accepted the canonization of the Ming Dynasty as the king of Zhongshun.

After losing Hami, a springboard to the Western Regions, Zhu Di let Tokhtar succeed him as King Zhongshun, but although Ankh Timur was poisoned, his wife and children were still alive.

Although Zhu Di let Tokh succeed him as the king of Zhongshun, Tokhtar was young and incapacitated, coupled with Anke Timur's wife and son forming a gang, Hami civil strife continued, and the number of tribute horses to the Ming Dynasty became smaller and smaller.

Faced with this situation, Zhu Di could only ask Song Sheng to transfer 500 people to obey the dispatch of Toto, and transfer 2,000 cavalry from Suzhou to and from Hami and Suzhou to deter Hami.

Later, Tokhtar deliberately appeased Hami's Huihui, Wu'er, and Riha's stabbing, but it didn't take long for him to suddenly die.

When his son was still young after Tokhtar's death, Zhu Di did not have the energy to solve Hami's problem, so he compromised instead, and canonized Tokhto's subordinate brother Tuli Timur as the king of loyalty and righteousness, making Hami a situation of one country and two kings.

For Zhu Gaoxu, Hami Wei must be set up and controlled, and now the Ming Dynasty has arquebuses and cannons, plus a large number of horses produced by Bohai, it is fully capable of taking Hami, and there is no need to be as gentle as in history.

After the butcher's knife of the Mongols' westward expedition, the population of Hami today is only more than 10,000 people, and the soldiers and horses that can be pulled out are only two or three thousand.

The Ming only needed to mobilize 3,000 horse infantry and carry more than 20 field guns to take Hami.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu asked Zhu Di: "Why did my father want to send someone to make Hami?" ”

"Last year, I asked the Ministry of Rites to send an edict to Hami, and opened their mutual market, a few days ago, the king of Hami gave the court 4,740 horses, I am ready to let Tokh canonize Ankh Timur as the loyal king of the Ming Dynasty, and give him a golden seal to manage Hami."

Zhu Di wanted to transform the Hami Kingdom from a feudal state of the Northern Yuan Dynasty to a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, which was the same as Zhu Gaoxu's understanding, but for Zhu Di's approach, Zhu Gaoxu, who knew history, reminded: "Father can send envoys, and he can also canonize Anke Timur as king, but father must know one thing." ”

"You say." Zhu Di frowned, as if he smelled something wrong from Zhu Gaoxu's words.

"According to the news received by Erchen, Ugqi, the leader of the Krunuguti clan of the Warat tribe, had a conflict with Maham, another leader of the Warat tribe, and the Erchen estimated that Mahamu would make a move with Ugqi, and at that time the Great Khan Kun Timur of the Hu people would probably be killed by Mahamun."

"Once Kun Timur is killed, there will be no Yuan descendants in the hands of Navarat and the Tatar tribes, and they can only support the ghost power of the descendants of Wokotai and the descendants of Hedan."

"Erchen hopes that his father will not have illusions about Ghost Lichi, although this person is herding horses outside the border of Gansu, but he is very hostile to the imperial court, once your father canonizes Anke Timur as the loyal king of the imperial court, then Guilichi will definitely attack Anke Timur."

Zhu Gaoxu told Zhu Di what he knew about the history of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and Zhu Di also felt very tricky after hearing it, and couldn't help scolding: "This group of Hu people in the north does not stop, it is not enough to change the four Great Khans in fourteen years, and now I want to change the fifth." ”

After that, Zhu Di realized that Tokhtar was also a Mongol, so he couldn't help but smile and said: "Tokhtar, you go down to rest first, and then I will decide whether to send an envoy to Hami after discussing with the prince." ”

"The minister retired." Tokhtar was adopted by Zhu Yuanzhang since he was a child, and he spoke fluently in official language, although he was also eager to make contributions, but as soon as he heard that Wara would send troops to fight Hami, he immediately reined in his ambitions, after all, saving his life is the most important thing.

Watching him leave, Zhu Di also set his eyes on Zhu Gaoxu, which was meaningful.

"Second brother, your hands in the West Factory are really long......"

(End of chapter)