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Chapter 454: A Journey to the North

"Graduated......"

Before Chinese New Year's Eve, looking at the graduation certificate in his hand and the Jiangning Middle School in front of him, Zhu Zhanyan had a lot of reluctance and emotion for a while, but in the end he only turned into this sentence.

"Guo Yan, are you going to study military studies next?"

A familiar voice sounded from behind him, Zhu Zhanyan turned his head to look, and sure enough, it was Jianghuai, who had known him for five years.

In five years, Jiang Huai was already a twenty-one-year-old young man, handsome and handsome, not like his parents, more than five feet seven inches (182cm), tall and handsome.

In the past five years, he has been ranked first in the fifth grade in a row, and he has been targeted by those dignitaries and dignitaries early, and he can't wait to push his daughter to his bed.

Turning over the horse, Zhu Gaoxu didn't need to shake the reins of the horse, and the red horse carried him along the official road and trotted away.

This was the beginning, and the next thing to be created was oil painting.

In the past five years, he has been a first-class student in nine subjects every semester, and in addition, he has earned sixty yuan by giving Zhu Zhanqi and them supplementary classes.

Guo Shao looked at his back, shouted and turned to leave.

If we want to restore the ecology, we have to solve the fuel problem, so increasing coal production must be on the agenda.

Daming's horse policy has long been effective, especially after owning such a large horse farm in the Songnen Plain in Northeast China, the number of horses in Daming is growing day by day, and now there are more than 200,000 military horses in reserve, and nearly 200,000 have been equipped.

Although the poems of these people are not as good as Du Fu, Li Bai, Xin Qiji and others, if they disappear, it will be a great loss to Chinese culture.

Standing on the deck, the father and son talked a lot, and it was not until dusk that the boat docked in Yangzhou City, and the father and son ended the topic.

By comparison, last year, the Ming Dynasty's population reached more than 82 million, but its coal output was only more than 12 million tons.

Zhu Zhanyan asked Zhu Gaoxu, but Zhu Gaoxu didn't raise his head and said, "I'll leave after the Lantern Festival with you, but you don't have to be sad." ”

This is the second time he has left Nanjing City, compared to the last time he left, he was inspired to prove his ideas, and now he has no regrets except that he is in the prime of his life but has to be trapped in the palace.

However, these fifty guan were placed in Xijiang Town, and that was the money that his parents had only saved in the past seven years.

Although there have been expenses in the past five years, there are still 50 pieces left.

The exploration of several towns and villages did not give Zhu Gaoxu a good reply.

Yangzhou is the land of fish and rice, and the local people want to eat and drink well, after all, just to dredge the canal, it is necessary to recruit tens of thousands of people every year, and in the next 12 months, at least millions of people participate in the work of dredging the canal, and it is easy to make some money.

"Coal, Railroad, Steam Engine......"

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu said: "In the future, when you graduate and join the army, I will write a first to you." ”

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Gaoxu took his whole family to climb the Purple Mountain and came to the Ming Tower of the Ming Tomb.

"Dad, can you still write words?"

The thought fell, Jiang Huai glanced back at his alma mater where he had studied for five years, and after a moment of silence, he turned around and left the land.

"On the white-haired fisherman Jiangzhu, I am used to watching the autumn moon and spring breeze. A pot of turbid wine is happy to meet. How many things in ancient and modern times are laughing and talking. ”

"I left home at the age of thirteen, and when I was your age, I had already shot Xiyang Ha and fought Ha Ra Wu in blood."

He had to bring paper, pen, ink, and ink, and the other was the money he had saved for five years.

"Envy?" Jiang Huai turned his head to look at Guo Shao, but Guo Shao was speechless: "You don't know about my family?" There are dozens more such horses. ”

Standing in the East Palace and glancing at the fireworks blooming outside, Zhu Gaoxu turned around and returned to the Chunhe Hall to continue to review the music.

For Zhu Zhanyan, Jiang Huai was not polite, but stepped forward to take the reins of the horse and opened the leather bag.

In fact, he has nothing to prepare, in the past few years of official school, he only has four sets of regular clothes for all seasons, and he wears school uniforms the rest of the time.

Not far away, Guo Shao walked over slowly, looked at the horse and sighed: "This should be a skewer of the Hequ horse and the big food horse, which is worth a hundred yuan." ”

Not to mention the officials who went to Beijing from Jiangnan, even the envoys from Korea, Annan and other countries who came to worship wrote about the harsh environment in Beijing in their books.

Originally, there were more than 5,000 civil and military officials, but now only 1,500 is enough, and only 5,000 officials are retained.

The houses in these villages and towns are not pretty, but they are by no means simple, and there are wells and archways in the villages.

After half an hour of walking and stopping, Zhu Gaoxu still didn't see a single wood, which was expected by him.

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help laughing as he spoke, and Zhu Zhanyu was very helpless when he heard this.

Zhu Gaoxu's new policy was implemented, and the officials went to the countryside to make the people's lives further better, and at the same time, to sort out the taxes and let the money be used effectively.

Among them, Zhu Gaoxu's main concern is the northwest region.

Although it is not as cunning as a rabbit, at least it is safe.

At this rate, it is estimated that his ass will have to be turned into several petals.

For leaving Nanjing, Zhu Gaoxu was a little happy and a little reluctant.

After all, this is the place where he has lived for nearly 20 years.

"Haha! It's hard to tame, and no one can tame him but me. ”

"That's a bit too much......

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu slowed down his pace, turned his horse's head and walked into the country road.

It was precisely because of such a large herd of horses that the Ming army was able to follow the footsteps of the Mongols in several northern expeditions and engage them in Mobei.

Seeing Zhu Gaoxu and his group, he couldn't help but look curiously, and at the same time looked at the horses they were riding with envy.

It seems to be impersonal, but it is to protect the people.

"So be it, farewell!" Zhu Zhanyan chuckled, then turned around and left with the guard.

Although he was almost sixteen years old, he had never left his parents' side after all.

"Alright, let's go have dinner with your mother."

Although it was already afternoon, two hours was enough for him to know a lot of news.

Under the escort of the two guards on the left and right in Zhaozhou, Zhu Gaoxu's golden bridle was pulled onto the boat.

If the results of the township examination are out, he can go to the capital to take the examination.

On the way back, Zhu Gaoxu muttered these things, he knew that only these things could make Daming go to a higher level and make the people's lives better.

At the same time, Zhu Zhan Yan also returned to the palace in a carriage, and met the busy Donghua Gate defenders and eunuchs.

Zhu Zhanyan turned to look at Jiang Huai, his eyes looked around from time to time, and only then did he speak: "You want to return to your hometown to participate in the imperial examination?" ”

After the implementation of the new policy, there was no curfew from Chinese New Year's Eve to the sixteenth day of the first month, and this half month was the day when the people of Daming could enjoy nightlife.

"When you take the entrance examination, come to Nanjing to catch up with me and talk about the changes in your hometown."

Many ministers had already gone north early, and those who stayed in Nanjing and had not left were left only Zhu Gaoxu, Li Shi, Li Cha and other military attachés and soldiers who escorted him north.

"See you in the future......"

"Let's go, let's see how the suburbs of Yangzhou are doing!"

As he spoke, Zhu Gaoxu looked back at Zhu Zhanyan: "If you graduate and want to go to the battlefield, I will hand over the red horse to you, and you will take him to the battlefield." ”

"Hmm" Jiang Huai replied, he had to return to Kunming to participate in the imperial examination.

Jiang Huai watched them leave, and reached out to touch the black horse.

As he expected, it contained a Yongle Tongbao with a denomination of 100 Wen, with a thickness of at least a dozen hangs, worth thousands of yuan.

He may be reminiscing about Lao Zhu, and Lao Zhu in his twilight years feels like a drowsy dragon to Zhu Gaoxu.

"......" Hearing Zhu Zhanyan say this, Jiang Huai wanted to speak again and again, and finally nodded heavily:

Hearing that he could still accompany him for a distance, Zhu Zhanyan breathed a sigh of relief, and just wanted to enjoy the moment.

After taking Zhu Zhanyu to the former dormitory for dinner, Zhu Gaoxu returned to the Chunhe Palace to deal with the music.

When Zhu Zhanyan spoke, a person walked not far away, holding a horse in his hand, and a leather bag the size of a juju ball on the horse's back.

"Good!" Hearing his father's words, Zhu Zhanyan felt inspired.

They are moving, and not only them, but most of the officials in the entire capital are moving.

As for the bedding or something, there is no need for him to take it away, just bring it a little and give it to some old people.

Zhu Zhanyan is only fifteen years old, although he is not as tall as Zhu Gaoxu, he also has a height of five feet and seven inches, about half a head taller than an adult man.

Zhu Zhanyan and the others, who were standing behind him, couldn't help but be stunned when they saw him suddenly read out a poem.

Zhu Gaoxu chatted with it, but he couldn't find any useful information.

Zhu Gaoxu planned to send these portraits to their heirs, and sent court painters to sketch and paint them for the Yongle generals.

Although Zhu Zhanyan also ran on the official road of Yingtianfu, the highest was only one hundred and sixty miles a day.

They had a hangover last night, and they didn't have to be so polite today.

Looking at him growing up, Zhu Gaoxu sighed a little, but he was lamenting that he hadn't accompanied Zhu Zhanyan much.

Although this kind of argument is not convincing to everyone, it is always a good phenomenon that the phenomenon of trafficking is becoming less and less.

From the Yuan Dynasty onwards, due to the grazing of the Mongols and the felling of the Han people for their livelihood, as well as the drop in temperature around the world, the desert area on the steppe began to expand.

Before coal dominated the fuel market, firewood was one of the few fuels available to the people.

Fortunately, Guo Yan's education is no problem, and Zhu Zhanyan is not crooked, otherwise he may have a headache for the heir for a long time.

Zhu remembers that Beijing was hit by more than 100 sandstorms during the Ming Dynasty, most of them between the first month and the fourth month.

Jiang Huai stretched out his hand to take it, but Zhu Zhanyan raised his hand to stop him, and said with a smile on his face: "That's it, take this money and stabilize your family, this will be very helpful for you to be an official outside." ”

Even when the people were asked, they said that the days were much better than before.

The Ming that Zhu Gaoxu needs is not only a Ming who crushes the world in terms of science and technology, military and economy, but also a Ming who crushes the world in terms of culture and art.

Although the Ming Dynasty during the Hongwu period was revitalized by Lao Zhu's great infrastructure, it was generally the life of the people in the feudal era.

Zhu Gaoxu didn't say anything, but only dealt with it for a moment before he spoke: "I know you are a little reluctant, but this can't be helped." ”

Walking into the East Palace, all Zhu Zhanyan saw were soldiers, eunuchs, and palace maids who were busy carrying luggage, which made him feel a little uncomfortable.

For some village elders who have no heirs, the village chief and the grain chief will discourage them from picking up their children from the nursing home to raise them, instead of buying other people's children.

I thought he was asleep, but he could still kill when he was sleepy.

If Zhu Gaoxu is not mistaken, the sandstorms in the Beijing area were not obvious before the Yuan Dynasty, and although sandstorms were blowing, they were not frequent.

After arranging for the concubines and heirs to bow down, Zhu Gaoxu let them all go out.

The horses were brought in, and Zhu Gaoxu saw his old buddy Chiyu.

Painting is one of them, followed by music, dance, literature, drama, architecture, sculpture, calligraphy, and so on......

There is a quota for officials, and after the capital was moved to Beijing, although Nanjing still retained six departments, it did not need so many people.

"Of course, I can't use me to force you to benchmark, after all, I am forced by life, and your living environment is also created by me after being forced."

"Exercise hard at the military academy, if you are superb in equestrianism, maybe you can survive until the winter and summer vacations, and you can ride a horse north to Beijing to play for a few days."

When Zhu Gaoxu saw Zhu Zhanyan's expression, he immediately put down the pen with a smile, got up and patted him on the shoulder, and motioned for him to follow.

Zhu Zhanyan asked curiously, Zhu Gaoxu wanted to say that he didn't write it himself, but after thinking about it, he changed so many things in the world, such as Yang Shen, Tang Yin, Nalan Xingde and other poets of the Ming and Qing dynasties, modern and later generations, I am afraid that they will not appear.

"Grandpa, Yongle is just the beginning, the Ming Dynasty is in its youth, like the sun is rising, when I sit in that big position, the Ming Dynasty will be more prosperous, the sun and the moon shine, all of them are the concubines ......of the Han family."

"Grandpa, your grandson is no worse than your eldest grandson, right?"

Looking at the sketch in his hand, Zhu Gaoxu was quite proud.

"The rolling Yangtze River is passing away, and the waves are sweeping away the heroes. Success or failure turns empty. The green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red several times. ”

In recent years, with the establishment of the Terracotta Division, as well as the increase in the punishment of the crime of harvesting and cutting, and the issuance of policies such as the same crime of buying and selling, and the introduction of policies such as township officials, the phenomenon of abduction and trafficking has become less and less.

The village chiefs and grain chiefs, who were village officials, had long known that Zhu Gaoxu was going to pass through the canal, so when they learned that a large group of people was coming, they hurriedly walked out of the village officials' office and greeted Zhu Gaoxu and them to warm up.

Time passed little by little, and half a month of nightlife came to an end.

"But I say this mainly to let you know that the Heavenly Family is not like an ordinary family, and the ordinary family is about to break up at your age."

"Take advantage of this opportunity, you accompany me to Huaixi to have a look and see how the people there live."

In their minds, their father had never shown such a talent for poetry.

Passing by some villages and towns, Zhu Gaoxu would dismount and walk into them to take a look.

Zhu Gaoxu rode away from the canal and walked towards the countryside.

Slowly getting up, Zhu Gaoxu walked out of the Ming Building, and the portrait in the Ming Building was also shaken by the wind, as if in response.

If the horse and money were stolen, he would be able to use the money to go home.

"Good ......"

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu slowly got up, lit three sticks of incense and inserted them on the incense burner, and meditated in his heart while kneeling sincerely.

Putting away the sketch portrait, Zhu Gaoxu dismissed Yi Shuha, sat cross-legged on the futon, looked at the portrait of Lao Zhu, and didn't know what he was thinking.

The happy thing is that he has not stepped out of the scope of Ying Tianfu for almost seventeen years, which is undoubtedly a huge cage for him who once went north to catch tigers and south to catch dragons.

In addition, there are nearly 500,000 riding horses and more than 1 million pulling horses.

Zhu Zhanqi and Zhu Zhanqi rode their horses in unison to follow, and Yishaha, Li Shi and Li Cha also hurriedly shook the reins of their horses and led more than 100 cavalry to follow Zhu Gaoxu.

"I'm just sighing that you're going home for the imperial examination, and I still have to go to military school for five years, and I have to go to the battlefield in the last year."

"Dad, when are you leaving?"

The distance between the two capitals is 1,700 miles, and normal people ride horses, and they only rest for seventy or eighty miles every day.

He took a chair and sat next to Zhu Gaoxu and watched him deal with the music.

Looking at the distant city of Nanjing, Zhu Gaoxu unconsciously read Yang Shen's poem.

There are no forests in the south of the Yangtze River, but if there are no forests in the north, the wind and sand will continue to advance southward, and the grass grid is also fuel for many people in the Ming Dynasty, and it is also forage that can be fed to livestock.

Since the imperial court was about to move the capital to Beijing completely, he would have to travel overland from Kunming to Xuzhou, then take a boat to Nanjing, and travel north to Beijing before February.

Soon after taking Nanjing, Zhu Gaoxu asked the court painter to go to the hospital to learn anatomy, and after learning about light and shadow and the human body, he sent the pencil developed by Taixue to them, and finally painted this sketch portrait with Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance and temperament.

"I know that I will come to Nanjing to see you then."

His voice fell, but he did not insist on riding a red donkey, but changed to a silver-colored sweat horse sent by Timur.

In the 276 years of the Ming Dynasty, except for the first 71 years because of some tree planting projects of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, Beiping was rarely invaded by sandstorms, and in the remaining 205 years, the frequency of sandstorms in Beijing was not high.

Walking down the Purple Mountain, Zhu Gaoxu and the others did not stay for too long, but took the golden chariot directly to the Jiangdong Gate.

Horses have a lifespan of about thirty years, and occasionally they can live up to fifty years, but in any case, the twenty-three-year-old is already in his twilight years.

At this time, there are many children playing on the road.

In contrast, those places that don't have too many big projects are more difficult to work for a living.

Calculated by both sides, the Ming Dynasty mined too little coal, but the population was more than twice that of the United Kingdom.

Looking at it, Zhu Gaoxu sighed a little: "Yes, Emperor Gao originally wanted me to fight with it for the Ming Dynasty, but unfortunately since I went south, it has never been on the battlefield, and now it has reached its twilight years......"

The Yangzhou city wall in the distance has been built for I don't know how many years, and the market town where he was stationed when he confronted Sheng Yong has also become much larger.

"This is my parting gift to you, you can be polite to others, you don't have to treat me, I don't want you to break your bones for a few buckets of rice."

Zhu Gaoxu commented with a smile, and Zhu Zhanyu was also blushed by Chiyu's action: "I will definitely do it!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu naturally believes in this sentence, but this so-called "good" depends on what it is compared with and what the standard is.

Different from the portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang hanging high in the Ming Tower, this portrait is a sketch drawn with a pencil, and restores Zhu Yuanzhang's appearance and temperament.

Soon, late at night, Zhu Zhanyan and Zhu Zhanqi went out to visit Chinese New Year's Eve, while Zhu Gaoxu stood at the gate of the East Palace, looking at the lively scene outside, which was regarded as recovering a little bit of the former Nanjing City.

Among them, there are tens of thousands of big eating horses alone, and hundreds of sweat and blood horses.

If Zhu Gaoxu starts to change this environment now, let coal enter thousands of households, and make the price of coal no longer so expensive, then the people will naturally not cut down trees on a large scale, but will plant flowers and plants for the sake of beauty.

It's a pity that they were one step late, because Jiang Huai had already been recruited by Zhu Zhan Yan, and Jiang Huai's inquiry also represented his attitude.

As far as the exploits he has done, except for forcing Zhu Yunwen to death, which will make Lao Zhu jump like thunder, any other one is enough for Lao Zhu to be proud.

seemed to be dissatisfied with Zhu Gaoxu's words that he was old, Chiyu snorted, and Zhu Gaoxu also smiled when he saw this: "Okay, not old, you are still young, if you have the opportunity, you can go to the battlefield to fight." ”

Of course, compared to the thousands of guans given by Zhu Zhanyan, these fifty guans are not enough.

With the sketch, future generations will know what their group of people look like, and it will be much easier to restore it.

Putting the money into the leather bag, Jiang Huai thought about it, and took out a bunch of money in the denomination of Baiwen from the money bag and put it on his chest.

After they left, Yisha took out a picture scroll and slowly spread it out in front of Zhu Gaoxu.

Among them, the frequency of Jiajing was not high 20 years ago, only 40 or 50 times in 180 years, but in the following 102 years, due to the fall of the Xiaoice River and the sudden drop in global temperature, a total of 890 times of sand and dust weather were recorded.

A penny with a face value of 100 wen is worth 100 yuan.

"If you want to live in my kind of environment, you should say that I am incompetent with your grandfather."

"Let's go" Listening to Guo Shao's words, Jiang Huai showed a smile on his face, led the horse and walked into the school.

After he left, Jiang Huai led the horse back to the door of his dormitory and brought out the things that had been sorted out early last night.

In addition to Zhu Yuanzhang's sketch portraits, even the sketches and portraits of Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Zhu Wenzheng, Li Wenzhong, Feng Sheng, Mu Ying, Fu Youde, Deng Yu and others are available.

His momentum is not as fierce as when he was young, but his murderous aura has not been half restrained, like a blade hidden in a scabbard.

During this time, he stepped down from the golden brim, stood on the deck, and watched the city of Nanjing gradually become smaller.

Before they died, Zhu Gaoxu had to leave enough portraits of Hongwu and his ministers.

Before the First Opium War, Britain was supposed to produce about 3,000 to 40 million tons of coal, and its population was more than 27 million.

"Dad, is it really Emperor Gao who gave it to you?"

"Good!" Hearing this, Zhu Zhanyan's eyes lit up, and he stretched out his hand to touch the red donkey, but he was dodged by the red donkey tilting his head.

For Zhu Gaoxu, who has not walked out of Yingtianfu for seventeen years, the Yangzhou Mansion he once passed is so fresh.

This has not been converted by units, after all, the tonnage of Britain is 1,000 kilograms per ton, and the tonnage of the Ming Dynasty is 1,000 catties.

Since this year is the Yiwei Imperial Examination, he will be able to take the township examination in Kunming in August when he returns to Yunnan after the Lantern Festival.

There are fewer and fewer people who have seen Zhu Yuanzhang, and even the group of court painters who used to study sketches have only a dozen people who have seen Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Wow!"

They got off the boat and took Zhu Zhanqi to prepare to go to the rural suburbs around Yangzhou.

In the end, although coal has been mined in large quantities, the thermal efficiency of the steam engine is still insufficient and the operation is not perfect, so the pumping machine is only used on a small scale in a few copper mines in Yingtianfu, and the speed of coal mining has not yet reached the astonishing output of the first industrial revolution in the West.

Zhu Gaoxu used to be afraid of Lao Zhu, but now, he doesn't seem to be afraid of Lao Zhu.

Seeing this situation, he hurriedly walked into the Chunhe Palace, but fortunately he saw his father sitting on a chair as usual to deal with the music.

"Daddy, wait for us!"

In the early days of the Industrial Revolution, the oppression of workers by the imperial court and capital does not need to be repeated.

What I can do is to supervise the people below at this stage, so that the Ming Dynasty can get through this difficult transition period early......

(End of chapter)