"Palembang overseas Chinese Liang Daoming Nanyangwei commander envoy, Zheng Bozengcheng 1,000 households, Shi Jinqing 1,000 households in the monument, Wang Mian ......"

The day after Zheng He's fleet arrived in Palembang.

Accompanied by Zheng He's chanting of the holy decree, Liang Daoming and others, who had been shocked yesterday and considered it overnight, sent someone to hand over the royal seal of the Three Buddhas in the middle of the night and officially accepted the appeasement.

After learning the news, Yang Zhan ordered Cui Jun to lead the army to take over Palembang.

Most of the people in Liang Daoming's small group were willing to return to Liangguang and Fujian and Zhejiang, and only Shi Jinqing was willing to stay in the local area to serve as a thousand households, so Zheng He gave him a position of a thousand households in Zhanbei City that he had not yet taken, and asked him to temporarily control the original army in Palembang.

However, for this army, Yang Zhan's request is to let the soldiers voluntarily choose whether to join the army.

In the end, Palembang, which originally had more than 4,000 troops, only more than 1,600 soldiers remained, and they were temporarily under Shi Jinqing's control.

After solving the problem of the local army, he transferred 10,000 soldiers and horses to unite with Shi Jinqing's 1,600 soldiers and horses, and at the same time divided the troops into five routes to take over other Sriwijaya towns except Palembang.

For the possible invasion of Majapahit, Yang Zhan gave only one military order, that is, to counterattack and recover our lost towns.

That's right, in Yang Zhan's view, the prince of the old Srivijaya and the current king of Manraka has handed over the territory of Sumatra to the imperial court, and Liang Daoming of the new Srivijaya has also expressed his submission.

In this way, once the Majapahit is looking for death to attack, the Ming Dynasty can just take the opportunity to drive the other party out of Sumatra, and then appease the many city-states in northern Sumatra.

For the local campaign, Yang Zhan was only worried about malaria and miasma, so while sending troops, he also let the old troops under the former Liang Daoming lead the way to avoid his own side from entering the area of miasma and malaria.

At the same time, Zheng He also began to send more than 500 officials who accompanied the Western fleet, and led the soldiers to organize households with the people of Palembang and measure the land.

For the existing land, the Ming army only carried out registration and registering, but for the land to be cultivated in the future, it was evenly distributed according to the labor force of each household.

Liang Daoming and others were also interested, and took the initiative to take Zheng He and them to visit Palembang, and Zheng He also took the officials who studied in Bohai to start planning the floor plan of Palembang City, and planning and designing it.

In the process of visiting, Zheng He also obtained Chen Zuyi's information from Liang Daoming's mouth.

On April 17, with the Ming army completely taking over all areas of Palembang, Zheng He named the entire area as the Old Port Xuanwei Division according to his will, and Yang Zhan set up Nanyangwei and Jiugangwei in the local area as the naval governor.

Nanyangwei is the South China Sea Fleet, with an establishment of 6,000 households, and the old Gangwei has only two Palembang 1,000 households and a 1,000-tenant Zhanbei for the time being.

However, in any case, with 8,000 soldiers and horses stationed in the South China Sea and the Old Port, the safety of the Old Port can be guaranteed, but the various forces in the Sumatra region cannot be guaranteed, so the merchant ships spying on intelligence are constantly coming and going to the Old Port, and they are all faces of the South Seas.

"It's not okay for this group of guys to make a fuss, especially Chen Zuyi in the south."

Holding the "Yellow Book" and "Fish Scale Atlas" of the Old Port Propaganda Department that had just been compiled in his hand, Zheng He, who was sitting in a small courtyard in Palembang City, told Yang Zhan about the current situation.

The two sat on a stone bench, and the stone table in front of them placed various tea sets.

"I don't care about these clowns, as long as they threaten the court, I can send troops to destroy them."

"What I care about now is when we will go to Majapahit, and at the same time go north to Boni and Sulu, and go to Luzon to set up the Nanhaiwei and Luzon Propaganda Division."

Yang Zhan was a little anxious, the reason was that his father Yang Yu had recently contracted a cold, and Zheng He understood it very well, so he explained: "This place is not yet settled, at least we must thwart the attack of Majapahit first, and then go to its capital in the form of Xingshi questioning." ”

"I know, what is the population and arable land of Palembang?" Yang Zhan was reluctant to continue chatting about this aspect, so he inquired about government affairs.

"More than 57,000 mouths, more than 156,000 acres of cultivated land." Zheng He said, and at the same time put down the yellow book:

"But this is only the situation of one city, and the real situation that should be verified is the population of the local towns and villages."

"According to Liang Daoming, the people in the jurisdiction of the old Three Buddhas should not be less than 1.5 million, and the current jurisdiction should not be less than 600,000."

"This group of people has to be integrated, otherwise it will be difficult for us to deal with the malaria and miasma in the local area with the people we have."

Malaria and miasma, which have become obstacles in the hearts of all officers and men of the Navy.

It's fine if they only fight at sea, but the navy needs to do more than just fight at sea, but also need to cooperate with the rest of the five military governors who fight on land, and it is either in the central and southern regions or in the Nanyang region.

Once these places go deeper, they are prone to being unaccustomed to water and soil, and are infected with miasma and malaria, which is very terrifying.

Because of this, the local overseas Chinese can be said to be the best soldiers, but Zheng He does not want to fish with all his might.

Once these men are wiped out, they will have to move people from other places, and it is estimated that a large number of people will die when they arrive there.

Only by letting the Han people who are willing to stay reproduce first, and at the same time sinicizing the local minority people, and then starting to recruit soldiers after there are more men, is this in line with the experience of Zheng He and Yang Zhan in Annan.

"Take a step by step, first tell His Highness the general situation of Palembang, and then wait for Palembang to settle down, and wait for the news from Chen Zuyi."

Yang Zhan took a sip of the teacup, and after a pause, he seemed to think of something, and couldn't help but say: "Speaking of which, the imperial examination should be over for a month, right?" ”

"Indeed......" Zheng He responded, and their thoughts drifted to the north thousands of miles away with the wind.

"Don't run!"

In late April, in the mountains and forests south of the Yangtze River, when the sound of horses' hooves and people's shouts sounded, I saw a man with dark skin, wearing a red velvet silk and waist-length armor, so he opened his bow and shot arrows at a wolf fleeing in front.

The wolf's body was shot through by the arrow, and he ran forward dozens of steps before falling to the ground.

"Haha!"

Seeing that the wolf had fallen, the swarthy man also stepped forward, and in the midst of his gallop, he pulled the wolf's corpse sideways from the ground, and rushed to the road where he was carrying it in his hand.

In a short time, he ran into a speeding group of cavalry.

Seeing this black man cavalry, one of the generals in his early thirties couldn't help but complain: "Your Majesty, you ......."

"Okay, okay, you are also becoming verbose now."

In this period, there is no doubt that the only person who can be called His Majesty is Zhu Di.

He impatiently told his brother-in-law to shut up, and then rushed back with the wolf corpse.

In a short time, the mountains and rivers became shorter, and the front suddenly opened up.

On the plain beyond the mountain, a palace that has just been erected stands, surrounded by thousands of soldiers and horses.

Zhu Di carried the wolf corpse and rode inside, and soon threw it in front of a big tent.

"Dick!"

He shouted and called out to Zhu Gaoxu, and the next moment Zhu Gaoxu, who was dressed in armor, also lifted the curtain of the big tent, and when he came out, he saw the wolf corpse.

"Look, this has just been encamped, and the shore has seen this beast, and hunted it to prevent it from hurting the people."

"It's a lone wolf." Zhu Gaoxu squatted down and checked for a while, and then raised his head and said to Zhu Di: "There are indeed wolves in this Baohua Mountain, so it's good to take advantage of this eradication." ”

"That's nature." Zhu Di walked into the tent, and Zhu Gaoxu also got up and walked in.

In the tent, the court music class that was debugging the musical instrument saw Zhu Di coming, and they all got up to salute, but Zhu Di waved his hand, signaling that he didn't need to be surprised, sat on his desk, took a sip of the teacup, moistened his throat, and picked up the pastries that had just been placed and ate two bites.

"Wait for the two of us to take fifty people to hunt the wolves, in addition to the wolves, there are also leopards and tigers, so as to avoid the beasts of this Baohua Mountain from hurting people."

Due to the vast land and sparsely populated land, there is no doubt that there are more wild beasts in ancient times than in later generations, even in Baohua Mountain at the foot of the Son of Heaven, there are wolves, tigers, and leopards.

In later generations, this is a nationally protected animal, but in this era, they are animals that endanger the people.

"There shouldn't be many beasts in this Baohua Mountain, let's go back in two days."

Zhu Gaoxu sat on the chair next to the desk, holding an orange in his hand for some time, peeling and eating it, and asking Zhu Di.

Since this year's summer grain is not levied, and the imperial examination has ended, the period from mid-April to mid-June is undoubtedly the easiest period for the two fathers and sons.

After Zhu Di came back from the north, he wanted to move his body, so Zhu Gaoxu simply accompanied him to Baohua Mountain to hunt wolves.

"There are too few beasts in this Baohua Mountain, and there must be many beasts in Yanshan and Taihang Mountain."

Seeing that Zhu Gaoxu had just come, he discussed when to go back, and Zhu Di deliberately opened the topic.

Zhu Gaoxu was very smart and knew that the old man didn't want to go back too early, so he simply didn't mention it, anyway, he would deal with it the same when he came here.

"In the past, there were indeed many tigers in Yanshan, and I heard that Pei Min in the Tang Dynasty was good at shooting tigers, and once shot thirty-one tigers in one day."

Zhu Gaoxu said a little interesting story about the Tang Dynasty that he saw in his previous life, and Zhu Di also smiled heartily after hearing it: "This is a story of yours, I have also heard it in Beiping." ”

"The story says that after he shot thirty-one tigers, he looked around at the bottom of the hill and looked like he was complacent."

"After a while, an old man came up to him and said that he had shot these Biao, like tigers and not tigers, if you ......"

Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu told the stories he heard in Beiping back then, and said with their own experiences:

"When I first went to Beiping and had just had your brothers, I ran into Yanshan all the year round and hunted in it."

"After so many years, I have occasionally seen a few tigers, and when I see people, they all run away and don't fight people."

"Later, when I went again, I couldn't find them, thinking that they had been hunted or driven away."

He sighed a little, as if he thought of the time when he was young and frivolous and high-spirited.

Seeing this, Zhu Gaoxu peeled the orange and handed the flesh to Zhu Di, who took it and ate it.

He looked at Zhu Gaoxu with satisfaction, and couldn't help but say: "Although I often talk about you and feel that you have changed a lot, I still feel like you in my heart." ”

"Is this change good or bad?" Zhu Gaoxu took out a knife and asked with a smile while peeling pears for Zhu Di, but he was a little nervous in his heart.

"Nature is good." Zhu Di said without thinking: "In the past, you were irritable, I asked you to learn the art of war, and you said that you are an enemy of a hundred people, and no one in the entire palace can clean you up, so I can." ”

"I tease you on weekdays, but you get excited and leave in a few words."

"Later, when I came to Nanjing, not only did I have a better temper, but I also began to take the initiative to learn the art of war."

"Especially when you are actually the first prince to be allowed to enter the Wuying Hall to study in addition to your uncle and their father and son, when I knew about it, I felt very long-faced, and I couldn't sleep all night with joy."

Maybe he is old, Zhu Di has been reminiscing about the past with emotion, and Zhu Gaoxu also smiled and sat on the side to listen to him quietly.

"Let's eat pears." Zhu Gaoxu stuck the knife in the pear and handed it to Zhu Di.

Zhu Di took it and cut the flesh with a knife to eat, and asked Zhu Gaoxu if he remembered the past.

In this regard, Zhu Gaoxu naturally told the previous things.

However, compared with Zhu Di's reminiscences, Zhu Gaoxu is like a bystander, telling all the wrong things when he was a child, and expressing his own feelings.

In his opinion, Zhu Di's raising of his son is not successful, and even his grandson is the same, which may be related to his doting.

Because of this, the young Zhu Gaoxu understood what it meant to be pampered and arrogant, and he also knew that he had great strength and had overcome many problems.

Regarding these questions, Zhu Di basically fooled him in a few words, but Queen Xu kept scolding Zhu Gaoxu and taught him a lesson.

However, even so, Zhu Gaoxu was still relatively pro-Queen Xu, which made Zhu Di very uncomfortable, so he kept praising him.

It can be said that Zhu Di's guidance of Zhu Gaochu is no problem, at least in terms of the Battle of Jingyan in history, Zhu Gaochu is indeed an excellent cavalryman, even if it is placed in history, it can be regarded as the best.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu counted all kinds of things that "himself" had before.

Because his memory was too detailed, Zhu Di was a little confused, because he couldn't remember that Zhu Gaoxu had committed these things, and he only had a vague approximation.

"If only you could understand that."

Looking at Zhu Gaoxu's "confession", Zhu Di patted him on the shoulder, and then motioned for him to get up and follow.

Father and son walked out of the tent, their horses ready.

Zhu Gaoxu's big black horse, Zhu Gaoxu's red horse, the two horses stood in front of the tent and waited for them, especially when the red horse saw Zhu Gaoxu, the soldiers next to him couldn't pull it at all.

"Good horse, your grandfather is willing to pay for it." Zhu Di looked at Chiyu enviously, but he was not envious that it was a bloody BMW, but that he was envious that Zhu Gaoxu could get the favor of his father.

"Recently, I asked Xie Jin and them to compile the matter of Jingjing, and the actual record has also begun to be compiled."

Turning over and getting on the horse, Zhu Di suddenly talked about compiling history books, and Zhu Gaoxu also turned over on the horse when he heard this, and followed him to ride out.

"I want to change some of the content in it, what do you think?"

Zhu Di asked Zhu Gaoxu, after all, if Zhu Gaochu disagreed, even if he could change it now, Zhu Gaochu would be able to let people change it back in the future.

In this regard, Zhu Gaoxu, who had long known that Zhu Di had changed history in history, pretended not to care and said: "Father can change it if he wants to." ”

"But before the change, Erchen still wanted to talk to his father."

"Then Tang Taizong wanted to see that the living notes were said by the literati to try to revise the history books, if you really revised the content of the history books, I am afraid that future generations will scold you even more fiercely than this."

Zhu Gaoxu took Li Shimin as an example because Li Shimin was indeed very wronged.

He wanted to see the living notes, just to see the Xuanwu Gate and some political events, but it was passed on as a change in history.

In fact, after Li Shimin became the emperor, even if he didn't speak, the historians would favor him as appropriate.

Try to skip the ugly things, and don't skimp on the meritorious things.

In the final analysis, not every historian is a hard bone, and in order to get into less trouble, favoring the emperor at that time is definitely something to do.

Li Shimin just wanted to see that the living note was said to be changed by later generations, not to mention Zhu Di's direct change of history, even if Zhu Gaoxu was a researcher of geology, he knew about Zhu Di's change of history.

After all, changing history is a big project, but if there is a little mistake, whether it is unintentional or deliberate, as long as there is a mistake, then future generations can determine whether to change history according to the comparison of the private history written by the people at that time.

If Zhu Di hadn't changed history, there would have been no Hongwu for thirty-five years.

"If you don't change it, how will that person write it?"

Zhu Di was entangled in how to write Zhu Yunwen, and when Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he knew that he couldn't persuade Zhu Di, so after sighing in his heart, he took the initiative to say: "If you want to change it, change it, in the future, if your son wants to revise your record, he will also start writing it after you take the throne, you don't have to worry." ”

Zhu Di heard the answer he wanted to hear, and immediately stroked his beard, his face full of joy.

Obviously, since he returned to the big tent after hunting wolves, he has been playing the emotional card all the way, in order to let Zhu Gaoxu say this.

Zhu Gaoxu could also guess his thoughts, but so what, could he still refuse Zhu Di?

Even if he wants to pursue truth, when Zhu Zhanyan grows up and reads the history books, he won't think about changing it.

There is no way to know when this kind of thing began, but once this head is opened, the kings who come after it will not want too many stains on their own line.

"Let it be."

Zhu Gaoxu did not dwell on this matter, but talked to Zhu Di about the imperial examination: "In this imperial examination, I heard that eighty percent of the positions of the Jinshi in the Nanbang were occupied by Nanzhili, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi? ”

"Hmm." Zhu Di did not hide it, and after admitting it, he continued: "Many officials in other places were not convinced, and wrote a lot of notes to me. ”

"Looking at it now, your means of dividing the north and south papers and setting up three lists are really good, at least to ensure that the candidates in the north and southwest are not affected."

Zhu Di shook the reins of the horse as he spoke, and Zhu Gaoxu also shook the reins of the horse to follow, and said at the same time: "The guarantee system is actually what they want most." ”

"They think it's beautiful." Zhu Di said, taking a bow and arrows, a rabbit was killed instantly.

Zhu Di didn't care, because the cavalry behind the two of them would clean up.

However, after saying this, he told Zhu Gaoxu about the matter again: "It seems that the power you gave to the household department is a little too great, and the treasury of the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Rites have all been handed over to them by you." ”

"Coupled with the city division, as well as your policy of disbanding the military tuntian of the inland guard and dividing the people equally, the power of the household department is getting bigger and bigger."

Zhu Di was worried that the power of the household department was too centralized, but Zhu Gaoxu was very helpless: "The system left by grandpa is not something that anyone can understand, let alone a child, even if it is your father, do you dare to say that you can completely sort out grandpa's set?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu understands very well that Zhu Yuanzhang wants to divide the power and wants the six departments to grasp a balance.

The problem is that this set of things is not something that people can play with, not to mention the emperor who is not good at finance, even in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, many people who are good at finance are confused.

Except for Zhang Juzheng, no one has sorted out the financial problems of the transfer department.

Zhu Gaoxu can sort it out, but he can remember these because his memory is beyond ordinary people, otherwise even Yu Xin, Guo Zi, and Xia Yuanji need to be prepared in advance to answer them fluently.

"That's what I said, but I'm still a little worried......" Zhu Di stroked his beard, a little uncertain in his heart.

He believes in himself and his second child, but for Zhu Zhanyan, who has not grown up, and his future children and grandchildren, he is undoubtedly bottomless in his heart.

He knows what Zhu Biao's personality is, but who would have thought that Zhu Biao would actually give birth to a Zhu Yunwen.

Thinking of this, Zhu Di couldn't help but look at Zhu Gaoxu, and sighed in his heart: "Fortunately, Sister Xu helped me give birth well, but I don't know how my daughter-in-law gave birth." ”

"Your Majesty!"

Suddenly, there was the sound of horses' hooves from behind.

Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu reined in their horses at the same time, turned their horses' heads and looked back.

I saw Xu Zengshou in the rear riding a horse with a letter in his hand.

"Your Majesty, it was sent by the Western Fleet."

Coming to the two of them, Xu Zengshou handed over the letter, and Zhu Di also took it and opened it when he saw this.

Soon he read the contents of the letter and handed it to Zhu Gaoxu on the side.

Zhu Gaoxu took it and looked at it, the handwriting of this letter was not Zheng He, Yang Zhan, or Cui Jun, it should have been sent to Nanjing through the flying pigeon with a note written by a mouse, and then copied and submitted on stationery by Jinyiwei.

The content of the letter mainly talked about the progress of going to Nanyang, and then talked about the establishment of the Old Port Propaganda Department, and the unresponsive matter of Chen Zuyi, the giant of Nanyang.

Zhu Gaoxu closed the letter after reading it, and Zhu Di stroked his beard: "Zheng He did a good job." ”

"Yes, yes, but Chen Zuyi must be exterminated." Zhu Gaoxu replied without thinking, and explained to Zhu Di the harm of Chen Zuyi.

If a person like him who gathered tens of thousands of smugglers did not return to the rebellion, it would undoubtedly affect the future Nanyang Trade Zone, and then affect the future customs tariff of the imperial court.

As soon as he heard that it was related to money, Zhu Di gave a categorical order: "Find a way to send news to Zheng He, and once Chen Zuyi refuses to surrender, he will be exterminated immediately." ”

"Yes!" Xu Zengshou responded, then turned around and rode away.

Looking at his back, Zhu Di whispered to Zhu Gaoxu: "Your uncle has done a lot of work, I will continue to take him with me on the next expedition to the north, and find him a duke when the time comes." ”

"So this northern expedition ......" Zhu Di was about to continue, but Zhu Gaoxu directly shook the reins of his horse and rode to the mountains on a red horse.

His actions made Zhu Di stunned for a moment, and the next second he scolded his back:

"Little bastard, your father doesn't listen well to you!"

(End of chapter)