"Xifan has seen the strength of the Celestial Empire, and Xifan also thinks that he is a subordinate of His Majesty the Ming Emperor.

At the end of the sixth year of Yongle, when the Western monk Halima, who was sent to the Ming Dynasty, stood in the Chunhe Hall and cautiously tested Zhu Gaoxu's attitude, Zhu Gaochu was holding the recital in one hand and the Zhu pen in the other hand to deal with the recital.

In the face of Harima's words, Zhu Gaoxu did not raise his head and said: "Xifan is the territory of this dynasty, and Ma Fu was also established by Emperor Taizu Gao and many senior monks in Xifan, and now Ma Fu has been reduced a lot, if you think that it needs to be reduced, then the court can only accept gold and silver." ”

"As for the garrison, Lone has already said that before the post road and the city guards are built, the 10,000 soldiers and horses who have entered the west cannot be returned."

"As for whether the post roads and city guards will be reduced to the western soldiers and horses after they are built, this is naturally certain."

Zhu Gaoxu gave his own answer, and Harima didn't dare to force him to continue to ask, so he could only ask: "His Royal Highness Prince Xie is kind......"

"Stand down." He didn't raise his head and motioned for Harima to leave, and Harima could only leave under the guidance of the eunuch on duty in the Chunhe Palace.

Not long after he left, Yishaha bowed down and asked Zhu Gaoxu: "Your Highness, didn't you say that stationing tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in Xifan is a bit expensive and food-consuming?" ”

"In that case, why don't you take advantage of this time to lay off some soldiers and horses and give Harima some favors."

Zhu Gaoxu also put pen to paper, solved a book and put it on the table, and said lightly: "Things that are too easy to get are often not cherished, let them beg for a few years first, and then hand over the Sakya North and South Temple." ”

"Where is Zheng He?" He looked up and asked, and the other party also replied:

"I have just arrived in the Champa country and are preparing to divide my troops to Luzon to transport artisans, cement, grain and other supplies."

"Hmm......" Zhu Gaoxu replied casually, pondering for a moment before speaking:

"After this military parade, plus the four guards stationed in Nanyang, these small countries will not dare to touch the beard of the imperial court."

"Now it depends on how many subject countries Zheng He can appease in the east and west of the small Western Ocean (Indian Ocean) and how many officialdoms he can set up in the West Ocean this time."

"By the way, have you counted the number of merchants who followed the West?"

Zhu Gaoxu mentioned the number of private merchant gangs that followed the fleet to the West, and after hearing this, he nodded and introduced:

"On this trip to the Western Ocean, there are 127 armed horse ships of 3,000 materials from the private merchant gang, including 107 from the merchant gang of this dynasty, 12 from Korea, 3 from Japan, and one each from Siam, Champong, Manraka, Chenla, and Majapahit."

"However, among them, those who really want to trade with the fleet in the Western Ocean are probably only the merchants of this dynasty and Korea, and the rest of the countries are probably to arm the Hongwu iron cannons on the horse ships."

Zhu Gaoxu did not find it strange that he said what various countries thought.

The 3,000-material armed horse ship made by the imperial court carried six Hongwu iron cannons, and the cost price was 1,200 yuan, but the price sold to the merchants was 5,000 yuan.

This seems to be the imperial court in order to make money, even the artillery technology is sold, but in fact, Zhu Gaoxu is not just to make money.

At present, although the pirates in the South Seas have been suppressed and suppressed by Zheng He, there are still many pirates in the Indian Ocean, Arabia and other places.

The Merchant Gang must have enough strength to trade at sea, and it doesn't matter if the Hongwu Iron Cannon technology is exposed to these countries.

The difference between the Hongwu iron cannon and the Ming naval gun does not seem to be very big in appearance, but the gap in the interior is very large.

Whether it is iron-smelting technology or relevant knowledge of artillery modulus, this does not mean that it can be imitated, it is a technical threshold.

Take iron-smelting technology as an example, although the artillery in Europe at the end of the Ming Dynasty was advanced, the metallurgical technology was not, so the Ming Dynasty used metallurgical technology to imitate European artillery, and the artillery produced was often better than the Europeans, which was also recognized by the Filipino Spaniards and the Portuguese in Haojing at that time.

If it weren't for the fact that the Portuguese had accidentally hired Foshan craftsmen in the process of helping the Ming Dynasty cast cannons and obtained the corresponding technology from them, the Portuguese would have had to wait until the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs to obtain it in the war.

As for the threshold of artillery modulus, it also depends on the person and the country, for the Ming Dynasty, which has advanced metallurgical technology, as long as they get a physical artillery, they can immediately imitate it.

However, for the countries whose metallurgical technology is not up to standard, even if they get the Hongwu iron cannon of the Ming Dynasty, it will take a lot of time to imitate it, and the cannon with the knowledge of artillery modulus, not to mention that they cannot obtain the real thing for reference, even if they get the real thing for reference, it is difficult to cast.

What's more, if they can really cast it, then with the productivity of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Gaoxu really can't think of what these countries will fight with the Ming Dynasty.

Just as Zhu Gaoxu is holding a booklet in his hand at the moment, this is a booklet counted by the Governor's Office of the Six Ministries and the Six Armies, which contains all kinds of national data and handicraft output value.

[It is a year of 72,598,337 people in the world, 35 million stone of tax grain, and 19,850,000 stone of seed grain for Juntun. 】

[240,000 ......]

[Silk cotton, cotton velvet 760,000 ......]

[5,756,427 pounds of treasure money, 27,627 taels of gold, 1,788,852 cents of silver, and 5,276,427 pounds of copper ingots]

[The government and private communist production of 26,725,400 catties of iron, ...... lead]

Zhu Gaoxu simply read the contents of the booklet, and in short, calculated that the imperial court's income from grain was close to 55 million stones, and the income from various silks, cloths, cotton, tea, salt, mines, and commercial taxes was about 6 million yuan.

This is not counting Zheng He's harvest from this trip to the West, if it is counted, then this year is undoubtedly a bumper year.

"According to the performance of the six ministries and six prefectures, there should be a surplus of about 14 million yuan this year."

Yishaha stood aside and spoke, and the balance he said was the credit of Zheng He's trip to the West.

Although the realization of folded things is slow, it can always be sold, which makes the Daming treasury a little more bulging.

It is precisely because of such a large surplus this year that Zhu Gaoxu dared to start preparing for the four major toasts in Guizhou, hundreds of small and medium-sized toasts.

Zhu Gaoxu was still thinking about how to change the land of Guizhou and return to the stream, but there was a sound of footsteps at the gate of the palace.

Not long after, a eunuch walked into the Chunhe Hall with a smiling face, and gave Zhu Gaoxu good news from afar:

"Your Highness, there is news from Annan Hospital, there has been progress in physiotherapy!"

As soon as the eunuch's words were spoken, Yishaha didn't wait for Zhu Gaoxu's instructions, so he trotted forward all the way and took over the recital from Annan Hospital from the eunuch.

He trotted all the way back and handed the song to Zhu Gaoxu, who couldn't wait to open it.

There is not much content in the recital, mainly to report that the surgical operation is not effective, but the effect is achieved in physiotherapy.

Doctors at Annan Hospital compared Empress Xu's physiotherapy process with other physiotherapy procedures and applied them to 30 patients.

Under the same conditions, the five patients who used Annan's physiotherapy process were significantly better than those who used Queen Xu's physiotherapy process.

At first, they were not sure, but it was not until two months later, when the condition of the five patients was slightly under control, that they dared to take the matter into action and write and submit the physiotherapy process together.

"Quick, send this to my father, and let him change it according to the physiotherapy process on the song."

Although there were no surgical results, the progress in physiotherapy also made Zhu Gaoxu excited.

In this era when there is no modern medical equipment, it is indeed difficult for him to entrust Empress Xu's life to the doctors under his command.

Traditional Chinese medicine physiotherapy, on the contrary, is the only existence that Zhu Gaoxu can hope for.

Thinking of this, the invisible burden on Zhu Gaoxu's shoulders seemed to have become a lot lighter.

It was rare for him to be happy from the bottom of his heart, and when he saw this scene when he was escorted back, even he couldn't help but feel a little more relaxed.

The master and servant are like this, not to mention Zhu Di and them.

Zhu Di, who was in charge of the government in Wuying Palace, learned the news and immediately grabbed the song to look at it.

After more than a year of self-taught medical skills, Zhu Di can also understand a lot of things.

In the face of the physiotherapy process on the song, he also saw the merits in it, so he directly announced the replacement of the physiotherapy process.

In the following days, he has been paying attention to his sister-in-law's body, and all government affairs have been lost to Zhu Gaoxu.

Zhu Gaoxu also knew that Zhu Di was not easy, so he took them all, which was regarded as experiencing the taste of an emperor in advance.

"Crackling ......"

The firecrackers sounded, and it was another good spring to leave.

The sixth year of Yongle passed faster than Zhu Gaoxu thought, and until the Zhengdan Dynasty meeting, he didn't react to the fact that another year had passed.

"Congratulations ......"

"His Royal Highness Chitose, Chitose, Chitose......"

Because Zhu Di accompanied Empress Xu in the Qianqing Palace, the Zhengdan Dynasty in the seventh year of Yongle was presided over by Zhu Gaoxu.

In the singing of the ministers, Zhu Gaoxu sat in the position of supervising the country under the dragon chair.

For him, the governance of the early Ming Dynasty was easier than he imagined, and of course this is the reason why he has a base and the country is on an upward trend.

It is precisely because the country is on the rise, so things like the middle and late Ming Dynasty gangs and mouths rarely happen in the temple, after all, only a few years have passed in the Hongwu period, and everyone still remembers how Zhu Yuanzhang cleaned them up.

Even if they win the case between the north and the south, with Zhu Di's coming to power, more than 400,000 people were directly purged, and now those more than 400,000 people are still cultivating land in Yunnan.

The fate of this group of people made everyone realize that they could discuss with the emperor, but they must not be tough.

Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu, the father and son, eat soft or hard, whoever dares to come hard, they have to try whether this person's neck is hard or not.

For the sake of their own big heads, everyone reported their work as always, and retired respectfully after the report.

After the court meeting, Zhu Gaoxu changed his clothes and went to the Qianqing Palace, while the ministers of the scattered dynasty were looking at the steps that were going to the Qianqing Palace not far away, thoughtful.

"In this year's imperial examination of Bingxuke, there are more new topics in the East Palace."

Walking to Xie Jin's side, Yang Shiqi looked at the disappearing Buyu not far away with him, and there was something to say.

Yongle's six-year imperial examination ended in April, and this time the top of the list was Lin Huan, who was born in Putian, Fujian.

Due to the restructuring of the East Palace of Jiashenko in the fourth year of Yongle, Jiangxi did not get the position of champion as in history.

Counting the time, Jiangxi Ji'an Mansion has not obtained the title of champion for many years, which makes Xie Jin's group of Jiangzuo officials gloomy.

"I've read the exam papers, and the main ones that have been added are "Arithmetic" questions, and as for the strategy theory, it is biased towards military warfare."

Xie Jin's eyes were calm, and he said lightly: "In the next Wuzike, Jiang Zuo must get a champion, and he must take the southern volume of Sancheng Jinshi, otherwise this temple will have no place for us." ”

Xie Jin was very embarrassed by the two imperial examinations, and as the most famous person among Jiangzuo officials, he has been privately ridiculed by officials in western Zhejiang and Jiangdong in recent years.

No matter how they ridiculed, in short, Xie Jin already had the certainty of winning the champion of Wuzike and the vast majority of Jinshi seats.

He began to prepare for it the year before last, and this year's township examination is the time for Jiangxi students to raise their heads.

"The Jinshi seats in Liaodong and Shandong have also increased a lot, and this year they occupy three percent of the Jinshi in the northern volume."

Yang Shiqi further stimulated Xie Jin: "I have read the list, and thirty percent of the Jinshi are from the official school of the East Palace. ”

"At this rate, I am afraid that the Jinshi produced by the North and Middle Volumes in the future will all be from official schools."

The official school is a protégé of the East Palace, which is already an unwritten unspoken rule of officialdom.

These people were used to threaten them, but Zhu Gaoxu's ruthlessness was much more powerful than they thought.

"Shandong's inventory of Xu officials, this batch of so-called East Palace protégés, more than 900 people have been arrested for corruption, which is much more powerful than us."

Xie Jin mocked these so-called official seedlings that Zhu Gaoxu had quickly cultivated, and Yang Shiqi also nodded:

"This group of people is really not good, but they are too ...... over there."

"Taixue" Hearing these two words, Xie Jin couldn't help frowning.

Taixue's defense was tight, and until now he has not been able to obtain any useful information.

However, it can be proved that compared with the batch of officials who were arrested in Shandong, the quality of Taixue is definitely a lot higher.

"Of the hundreds of thousands of graduates, less than 1,000 people are selected, which can be described as one in a hundred."

Yang Shiqi meant something, and Xie Jin could only instruct when he heard this: "Let the township schools and social studies in Jiangzuo promote the teaching materials of official studies, and see who is more capable of the same books!" ”

After that, he turned around and left, but Yang Shiqi glanced at the direction in which Zhu Gaoxu left, and left with Xie Jin after a while.

Also when they left, Hu Lun, who had dispersed the dynasty, wore court clothes and followed Zhu Gaoyu's steps, Zhu Gaoxu raised his hand to signal the steps to stop, and also lost Ha to let the soldiers and eunuchs leave three zhang away.

After they left, Hu Lun stepped forward and said:

"Your Highness, the matter is almost investigated, the place where the textbook was leaked is Pingdu Prefecture, Laizhou Prefecture, Shandong, and now the textbook has been widely spread in Jiangnan, and many people are trying to bring it to the provinces and overseas."

"Can you stop it?" Zhu Gaoxu frowned and asked, he didn't want his hard work to be stolen by other countries.

"This ......" Hu Lun's expression was embarrassed, obviously he couldn't stop it.

Zhu Gaoxu was a little melancholy, but he didn't blame Hu Lun.

Although there are more than 7,200 people in the West Factory, half of them are widely active overseas, and less than 3,500 people are in charge of China.

It would be too difficult to rely on these 3,500 people to stop the spread of teaching materials.

"At present, the number of non-governmental textbooks has reached one or two silver per book, and there is no shortage of profit-seeking people in various places."

"Although Jinyiwei also assisted us in intercepting, the minister feels that Jinyiwei's internal problems are already very serious......"

Hu Lun is from Jinyiwei, and he naturally knows the changes in Jinyiwei.

In forty years, let alone a yamen, even a country is corrupt enough.

"I will go and tell my father about Jinyiwei, you try to intercept the flow of teaching materials overseas, and I will let the criminal department send you a driving post for a while, and whoever is involved in this case, regardless of the official position, will take it down for me."

"Yes!"

Zhu Gaoxu gave the West Factory the right to enforce the law, which made Hu Lun happy and worried.

In the past, the West Factory was only responsible for intelligence gathering, and the arrest of criminals was usually handled by Jinyiwei and the Criminal Department.

Now that the West Factory has the right to enforce the law, he can't help but worry that the West Factory will be as depraved as Jinyiwei.

He was still worried, but Zhu Gaoxu had already continued to take Buyu to the Qianqing Palace.

A quarter of an hour later, when his footsteps stopped in front of the gate of the Qianqing Palace, after a simple search, he walked into the palace gate and walked along the palace road to the palace.

After more than ten steps, Guo Yan saw him inside, and hurriedly got up to greet him.

Seeing her, Zhu Gaoxu also asked in a low voice: "How is my mother these days?" ”

"After changing the physiotherapy, I am much more comfortable, and the exudate is not as serious as before." Guo Yan's eyes were full of joy, and Zhu Gaoxu was also relieved after hearing this.

He patted Guo Yan's hand and walked into the Qianqing Palace comfortingly.

As soon as I walked in, I saw that the dining table was full of food, and Zhu Di was tired of picking up vegetables for Queen Xu.

"Gao Xu, come and sit down, your father won't wait for you to pass the meal, urgent!"

Empress Xu still shouted softly to Zhu Gaoxu in front, and scolded Zhu Di in the next second.

Zhu Di is a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water, anyway, for him, Sister Xu is the most important.

He took the trouble to pour tea for Queen Xu, but although Queen Xu was in good health, her appetite was not as good as before, a bowl of ordinary small bowl, she only added half a bowl of rice, and she couldn't eat it halfway through.

"Mother's complexion is much better than before." Zhu Gaoxu praised Queen Xu's complexion, but Zhu Di nodded: "With me to take care of it, of course your mother's appearance is good." ”

"Go!" Queen Xu pushed Zhu Di, but she couldn't push it because she was too strong, but she still felt sorry for Guo Yan.

"If you want to take care of me, Yan'er also works tirelessly to take care of me, you only talk to me every time."

"I'm talking to make you happy." Zhu Di rubbed it up, and was patted on the shoulder by Queen Xu, signaling him not to go too far.

It's just that Zhu Di is unrestrained and still sticks to Queen Xu.

When he was sticking, Empress Xu thought of something and said, "I'm fine now, don't delay things in the north because of me." ”

"Although I don't like to lead the troops to the north after becoming the emperor, if you think you can do a good job, then don't worry about me, finish the fight in the north early, and come back early."

She knew that Zhu Di had never been able to let go of the Northern Expedition, because Zhu Di always felt that he could solve the problems in the north, so he was not at ease when he handed it over to others.

This time, he summoned Meng Zhang and others to the south, and discussed for more than a year without a single result.

On the surface, it seems that Zhu Di is dragging it, but in fact, Zhu Di looks down on their tactics.

"I won't go, I'll stay in the capital to accompany you."

Although Zhu Di wanted to go very much, he still pretended to be inseparable from Queen Xu.

"There is Gao Xu in the capital, Gao Sui will also come in a few days, and they will take care of me when you are not there, relax."

Empress Xu didn't want Zhu Di to give up something because of herself, so she was still persuading him, and at the same time her eyes were also looking at Zhu Gaoxu, as if she wanted Zhu Gaoxu to persuade him together.

Zhu Gaoxu was not very happy, but he didn't want to make his mother sad, so he hesitated for a few breaths before saying:

"If Dad wants to go, go there, Nanjing has me and the third child, and Yan'er can take care of my mother."

"I won't go, I won't go...... Zhu Di wanted to go, but he just didn't want to go.

"If you really don't go, when the Northern Expedition fails, I'm afraid you will have to record your mistake in the history books......"

Zhu Gaoxu knows how to handle Zhu Di very well, and sure enough, as soon as Zhu Di heard that the history books wanted to record his mistakes, a tangled look immediately appeared on his face.

"Go for it......"

Empress Xu patted his hand, Zhu Di glanced at Empress Xu's smiling face, then at Zhu Gaoxu, and finally put his eyes on Guo Yan's face.

Obviously, in his opinion, Zhu Gaoxu can't count on it, but his daughter-in-law can take better care of his sister-in-law.

"Dad, don't worry, if you go north, I will move to Kunning Palace to live."

Guo Yan smiled and gave the answer, and Zhu Di breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.

He looked at Empress Xu and cautiously asked, "That's... Just go north for a few months and then come back with you? ”

At this moment, he no longer has the high-spirited royal posture at the big military parade, but like a husband who can't do without his wife.

"It's better to go to the north to fight, so that the people in the north can be peaceful for a long time."

Empress Xu smiled softly, and at the same time helped Zhu Di clean his beard with her hands.

Seeing this, Zhu Di couldn't help but clench Queen Xu's other hand, and was silent for a long time before speaking: "Then I will go north in March." ”

"During the time I went north, you have to listen to the imperial doctors and doctors, if you have anything uncomfortable, you will find Yan'er, and if you need anything, you will find the second child."

"Okay......" Empress Xu nodded with a smile, and at the same time couldn't help but quip: "I only left in March, explain so early, what if I forget it?" ”

"That's not going to happen, I must have reminded you every day before I left, even if I don't, Gao Xu has to remind you."

After that, Zhu Di also looked back at Zhu Gaoxu: "If you don't take good care of your mother after I go north, I will settle accounts with you when I come back." ”

"Erchen will definitely take care of his mother." Zhu Gaoxu was speechless, and he only felt that he had really become the old man's temper trash can during menopause.

At this time, he couldn't help but think of the boss, if the boss was there, it was estimated that the old man would catch him and scold him.

Now the boss is gone, but he is scolded all day long.

But...... Zhu Gaoxu touched his mustache, and couldn't help but show an inscrutable smile on his face.

For him, this feeling is more like a home.

(End of chapter)