"I heard that there were 100,000 people in this parade."

"So many people? Will we be able to get in line? ”

"I don't know about this, just follow along and take a look."

"Haha, I finally came back, and as soon as I came back, I encountered this kind of thing!"

Beijing East Railway Station, in the noisy and lively railway station, Zhu Zhanqi's ears were full of discussions about the military parade.

"Zhan Yan, go slowly, your uncle and I can't keep up with you."

Zhu Zhanyan's footsteps stopped because of the sound coming from behind him, he turned around to look, and sure enough, he saw his uncle who was pale and panting when he walked.

With a weight of more than 200 catties, although Zhu Gaochi is considered tall in this era, he is always out of breath because he did not exercise back then.

Zhu Zhanji and the others who were standing beside him helped him, and Zhu Gaosui, who was following behind him, walked up and said with a smile: "Boss, you have spent a lot of energy on women's bellies over the years." ”

"Brother is not as good as you, I heard that you have several concubines, and the music class that your second brother gave you is about to become your inner courtyard."

Although Zhu Gaochi is very tired, his combat effectiveness is still very high.

"Two uncles, let's be less noisy."

Zhu Zhanji looked at these two living treasures, comforted the two of them with tears and laughter, and helped Zhu Gaochi out of the train station with Zhu Zhanji

Outside the train station, more than a dozen four-wheeled carriages were looking forward to it, and when they saw Zhu Zhanqi and them coming out, they immediately stepped forward to pick them up and prepared fans for Zhu Gaochi.

"It's still cooler in the north, much cooler than in Yunnan."

Zhu Gaochi, who was relaxed, said this, and Zhu Zhanyun, the youngest next to him, kept fanning him with a fan.

"Shall we go to see Grandpa Ling first or where are we going?"

Zhu Gaochi asked Zhu Zhanyan, who was in the same car, and Zhu Zhanqi shook his head and said, "Grandpa ordered, let me go to Shiwangfang to rest first, and go to Daming Palace for dinner tomorrow morning." ”

"It's okay, I'm tired......" Zhu Gaochi panted, looking at his appearance, he always felt like he would lose his breath in a short time.

"Uncle, you have to lose weight, the doctors in Kunming have said that it will be difficult to treat if you get fat again."

Zhu Zhanyan kindly reminded, but Zhu Gaochi waved his hand and said: "Those are all lies, how can people resist this appetite?" Can you reach the place or call it a craving? ”

Don't let Zhu Gaochi eat and drink, this is no different from killing him.

Although the Zhang family has been in charge of Zhu Gaochi, there are various ways to steal food, and gradually, the Zhang family can't control Zhu Gaochi, so he can only let people get something that is not easy to eat fat for Zhu Gaochi.

This matter also spread to the palace last year, and after Zhu Gaoxu heard it, he also took the initiative to ask for the recipes of the Han Palace, and then personally compiled a recipe and asked someone to send it to Kunming Mansion to Zhu Gaochi.

Zhu Gaochi's recital to Zhu Gaochu is eating according to the recipe, but in fact, Zhu Gaochi is still doing his own thing.

Although he is only a vassal king, Zhu Gaochi's dinner table is much more wonderful than Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu.

Last year, Zhu Gaochi alone consumed 16 beef, 22 sheep, 5 donkeys, 124 pigs, and 12 roe deer, 3 deer, more than 300 pheasants, and more than 100 hares that he bought from the north at high prices in Yunnan......

In addition, there are seafood sent to Kunming from Jiaozhi urgently, as well as wild mushrooms from Yunnan.

Just a staple food, Zhu Gaochi also asked for steamed fragrant rice, steamed glutinous rice, steamed millet, rice porridge, coix porridge, Xiliang rice porridge, etc.

Pasta should have flowers, mullets, fruit filling, oil and sugar, and be subdivided into noodles, hot noodles, clear noodles and other practices.

Even if Zhu Yuanzhang, Queen Ma, and Queen Xu need to be vegetarian these days, Zhu Gaochi is also very picky.

Small vegetables only eat wild bitter cabbage roots, bitter cabbage leaves, dandelions, dragon's mustards, garlic sprouts, gourds, bitter gourds, celery, wild shallots, etc.

Snacks include millet jujube bean cake, millet cake, barnyard seeds, sorghum, mugwort juice, miscellaneous beans, alfalfa, elm money, etc.

In addition, every month the people of the palace have to buy all kinds of fruits in Yunnan, all the vegetables and fruits that Zheng He brought back from the West must also be tasted by him, and the delicious ones are sprinkled on the mountains, in short, they have to eat wild ones.

He is obviously so picky, but he can still eat so obese, which shows how much he consumes.

"Although the north side is cool, it is still not as rich as Yunnan, and there are no wild vegetables and fruits to eat here, let alone any delicacies from the mountains and seas."

Sitting in the carriage, Zhu Gaochi, who had only shown off a few catties of fruit on the train, began to eat and drink again.

Zhu Zhanji sat on the side and was embarrassed, and Zhu Zhanji also persuaded: "You better say less, if grandpa sees you......"

"Isn't it just being scolded...... Zhu Gaochi also knew it, he touched his belly:

"Let me tell you, this man has a thick skin, you see how thick-skinned the old man is, he wants to go every time he goes to the five northern expeditions, but the people are saying that His Majesty forced him to go, you tell me, the old man is ...... cheeky."

Zhu Gaochi sighed a few times, and at the same time praised himself: "It's okay to be scolded, you can watch it tomorrow, the old man will definitely use me as a shabu to scold." ”

"It's a pity, I have a good attitude, as long as your grandfather can still scold people, then I will be happy, I wish he could scold me for a few more years, until he is a hundred years old."

He smiled happily, and he really thought so in his heart.

Maybe for Zhu Zhanchi and Zhu Zhanji, they really don't understand why they are willing to be scolded, but for Zhu Gaochi, if Zhu Di can scold him until he is 100 years old, then he will be very happy.

If you can scold to be a hundred years old, you can live to be a hundred years old.

For Zhu Gaochi, in addition to what he eats every day, the rest is Zhu Di's body.

Zhu Di is sixty-six years old, and this time he summoned Zhu Gaochi to come, Zhu Gaochi also wanted to persuade him not to go north, he was very worried that something would happen to Zhu Di's northern expedition, resulting in the father and son not even seeing each other for the last time.

He knew he couldn't stop it, but he still had to say it.

"Your Highness, Your Majesty has summoned His Royal Highness the King of Han and His Royal Highness the King of Zhao into the palace."

Suddenly, a voice sounded outside the carriage, and Zhu Zhanqi also looked at Zhu Gaochi when he heard the words.

Zhu Gaochi nodded, and Zhu Zhanchi responded: "Got it, let's change the route." ”

"Yes!" Hearing this, the carriage began to divert and walk towards Xihua Gate.

At this time, Zhu Gaochi opened the car window, and outside the car window was the wide road of Beijing, as well as the bustle and prosperity of the people.

"How many people are there in Beijing now?"

"It's almost 760,000."

Zhu Gaochi asked, Zhu Zhanchi replied, and the number obtained made Zhu Gaochi couldn't help but sigh a few times.

"I heard that my father is going to expand the city of Beijing, but this time he will not build a city wall, but use a house as a city wall, with a circumference of about 120 li, which is slightly smaller than Nanjing."

"In addition, I heard that this time there will be a railway to bypass the entire city of Beijing, I don't know if it's true."

Zhu Zhanchi told the news of Beijing's expansion, and Zhu Gaochi said when he heard this: "Your father is really rich, but didn't I hear that the treasury doesn't have any money?" ”

"It's just that my dad doesn't want to use the vault." Zhu Zhanyan responded with a chuckle, and Zhu Gaochi didn't say anything more when he heard this, and changed the topic to chat with Zhu Zhanyan about his interesting things in Longchuan.

When he learned that sugarcane and durian could be grown in Longchuan, he began to drool.

It has been 20 years since Zheng He brought back durian, and there are not many people who like to eat this fruit, but Zhu Gaochi happens to be one of the few people.

Therefore, after hearing the news, Zhu Gaochi said to Zhu Zhanji: "Zhanji, you have to remember for your father, and after you go back, let someone go to Longchuan to get some durian to eat." ”

"Isn't there one for Cochin?" Zhu Zhanyan asked curiously, but Zhu Gaochi smiled when he heard this:

"Every place and every place has a taste, and I will taste the difference between Longchuan and Jiaozhi and Nanyang durian when the time comes."

Saying this, Zhu Gaochi couldn't help but look forward to it.

While he was expecting, the carriage slowly stopped, which meant that they had arrived at the Xihua Gate of the Forbidden City.

More than a dozen people from the two families got off one after another, although Zhu Gaosui was lustful, but he had relatively few heirs.

Among the sixteen boys, thirteen were born to Zhu Gaochi, and the remaining three were born to Zhu Gaosui.

In addition, the three sons born to Zhu Gaosui are all a little frail and sickly, and last year a wind chill almost killed the fifteen-year-old Zhao Shizi Zhu Zhankun.

If it weren't for Zhu Gaoxu's appointment of a skilled doctor to Zhao Wangfu, it is estimated that Zhu Zhanyu would have passed away.

Because of this, Zhu Zhankuo, Zhu Zhanyu, and Zhu Zhanpei of Zhao Wangfu were all very thin, as if they would fall down when the wind blew.

Zhu Gaosui came to Beijing this time, in addition to attending a family banquet, and secondly, he wanted to ask Zhu Gaochu to send an imperial doctor to diagnose his three sons.

As soon as everyone got out of the car, they saw hundreds of people standing beside a dozen pacemakers waiting for them.

"Your Majesty has a decree, please go up to your Highness!"

Hong Bao, the eunuch of the outer court, sang, and Zhu Gaochi and others could only bite the bullet when they saw this.

Hundreds of people carried them to the Forbidden City, and after a detour, they went to the Wuying Palace.

Since there are many children, it is a bit noisy.

Wang Hui in the Wuying Hall couldn't help frowning when he heard the noisy noise.

When he got up and looked outside the hall and saw more than a dozen people coming on foot, he sat down and spoke to Xu Shuo, Yang Rong and others around him: "The crown prince, the king of Han and the king of Zhao have come down. ”

Hearing this, the five palace ministers got up one after another, waiting for Zhu Zhan to walk into the hall and saluted: "Ministers, see Your Highness's ......"

Since he is either a prince or a prince or a county king, his Royal Highness is enough to be called.

"What a big palace!"

"That big position up there looks so imposing!"

"Eh, that can't be discussed casually, that's only for His Majesty to sit."

Looking at his sons, Zhu Gaochi hurriedly explained.

"Shut up!" Zhu Zhanji frowned and spoke, and in an instant, more than a dozen younger brothers closed their mouths.

For a while, the Wuying Hall was quiet, and footsteps sounded in the side hall.

Just in the middle of breathing, a figure bypassed the screen of the side hall and appeared directly in front of everyone.

"Ministers, see Your Majesty's ......"

Suddenly, everyone bowed down.

Zhu Gaoxu was dressed in a silver-white round-necked robe, and he did not wear a wing crown on his head, but simply tied it with a jade crown.

"Flat!"

His voice was low and majestic, and the whole person was tall and straight, Rao was the first time that the dolls in the Han Wangfu saw him, and they couldn't help but put away their voices.

"Boss, why are you so fat?"

As soon as Zhu Gaochu spoke, Zhu Gaochi couldn't help but roll his eyes in his heart, thinking that you, a guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes, also started to say this about me.

It's just that on the face, Zhu Gaochi still smiled embarrassedly: "This Kunming is a good place, there are fruits and vegetables in all seasons, so I can't help but eat fat." ”

"Dad sees you like this, I'm afraid you will have to be scolded again." Zhu Gaochu shook his head helplessly, and at a glance, he knew that Zhu Gaochi did not eat according to the recipe he gave him.

"Let's go into the side hall and sit down, I called someone from the Tai Hospital to auscultate for you."

Zhu Gaoxu motioned for them to go to the side hall opposite, which was the place where he had people deliberately pack up and temporarily entertain the two families.

He took the lead in walking to the side hall, and Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaosui also followed him with their dolls.

When they walked into the hall, Yang Rong couldn't help but sigh: "It's only been a few years, and there are so many heirs." ”

"It's okay, Zonglu has already been restructured, and having more children has nothing to do with the imperial court." Yang Pu retracted his gaze, and Wang Hui and the others also retracted their gaze and sat down, continuing to deal with the mountain of sparseness.

While they were quietly dealing with the music, the side hall was full, and Zhu Gaoxu looked at Zhu Zhankuo and the other three princes of Zhao Wangfu.

In the case of the three of them, Rao is shallow level of medical skills can be seen to be riddled with congenital diseases, otherwise he would not be so thin.

However, he didn't say much, just chatted with Zhu Gaochi and others: "Are you still used to living in Kunming and Changsha now?" ”

"Kunming is very good, and the feudal clan is used to it." Zhu Gao Chile smiled, for him, the place where there are fruits and wild vegetables and mountain delicacies to eat in all seasons is a good place.

"Changsha is too sultry, and the Xiangjiang River often floods, and even my Zhao Wangfu was flooded once."

Compared with Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Gaosui was a little dissatisfied with his own domain.

However, in this regard, Zhu Gaoxu also reassured: "This Xiangjiang River is already under control, and it will not take a few years to settle down, and as for the sweltering heat, then you can only store more ice in the ice storage of the palace." ”

Although there were no refrigerators in ancient times, the history of the Han people using troops in summer was very long, and in the Song and Ming dynasties, there were merchants who specialized in selling ice and small vendors who made ice drinks.

They take ice at the coldest time of winter, and then transport it to a designated ice storehouse, which is sealed with yellow mud and masonry.

Because you don't need ice in spring, you have to wait until the hottest days of summer to open the cellar to get ice.

After the storage is opened, the ice in the freezer will be sold out quickly, even if it is sold cheaply, it will have to be sold out, because after the air outside the freezer enters the freezer, the ice in the freezer will melt faster and faster, and if it is not used up in a short time, then all the ice will become water.

This is also why the ancient emperor always rewarded the minister with ice cubes in the summer, because there was too much ice in the royal ice stock, and the emperor couldn't use up tens of thousands of catties of ice, so it was better to be a favor.

Zhu rarely rewarded his ministers with ice, because after the advent of cement, building an ice bank was not as expensive as it used to be.

Spending a few dollars is enough to build an ice storage house that can hold tens of thousands of catties in your own house.

"I heard that there are people in Liaodong, Beizhili, and Shandong who sell ice cubes to go abroad, is this true?"

Zhu Gaochi suddenly opened his mouth to ask Zhu Gaoxu, this question seems like a fantasy, but it is a real thing.

As ice storage became more common, more and more people were harvesting ice in winter, and many people even started an ocean-going ice business.

Hundreds of thousands of catties of ice are stored from winter to summer, and then transported onto ships at night and transported thousands of miles across the ocean to countries in North Korea, Japan, the South Seas, India and Arabia.

It sounds incredible, but it's true in history.

Historically, the United States relied on the ocean to sell ice cubes to earn foreign exchange at the beginning of the country's founding.

Since Europe had already started the first industrial revolution at that time, many rivers were polluted, so many countries in Europe imported ice from the United States.

They believe that the waters of American lakes are unpolluted and relatively pure, so they would rather buy pelagic ice than ice sold by their own ice miners.

Before steamships were widespread, the United States was transporting ice from North America to Europe, the Middle East, and India.

Of the three tonnes of ice destined for India, less than a third of them melted.

"It's indeed true, a hundred-pound ice cube costs only 200 wen in Beizhili, and it is 300 wen when sold to North Korea, 400 wen in Japan, 600 wen in Nanyang, and the price is higher in Tianzhu and Hezhong and Persia."

Zhu Gaoxu nodded and admitted, but Zhu Gaosui said when he heard this: "Didn't the imperial court not allow the Ming Dynasty to do business in the East and South Seas?" ”

As soon as he said this, Zhu Zhanji looked at his father, but saw that Zhu Gaochi kept silent, obviously he had guessed what his second uncle was going to do.

"Hehe, I have to give them some way to live." Zhu Gaoxu chuckled.

Although the Ming Dynasty did not allow the people to do business in the East and South Seas, they usually used the pretext that cargo ships needed counterweights, otherwise the empty ships would not be able to withstand the strong wind and waves.

Zhu Gaoxu also knew about this matter, but he chose to turn a blind eye.

After more than ten years of maritime trade development, there are only sixteen surviving private merchant gangs left, so what goods they sell, Daming can easily find out and punish.

There is nothing to sell ice cubes, but once you sell some goods that are closely related to the imperial court's finances, you will have to face the end of being deprived of your trade qualifications.

In this period when the imperial court was strong, no merchant gang dared to do such a thing.

It can even be said that Zhu Gaoxu asked them to sell ice cubes, which was already fishing.

Once they felt that selling ice cubes would not be discovered by the imperial court, and turned to selling other goods, that was when Zhu Gaoxu made a move.

These sixteen big merchant gangs, to say the least, all have a wealth of millions of yuan, which is enough for Zhu Di to work in the north for two months, and enough to build a railway of more than 200 miles by himself.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu hoped that this group of people would be bolder.

His thoughts were guessed by Zhu Gaochi when Zhu Gaosui asked questions, but he chose to pretend to be stupid and not speak.

Showing some political ability is not a good thing for him.

The generals of the Bohai Sea did not attack him not because of kindness, but because of his interest.

If he showed some political talent at the beginning and did something to compete with Zhu Gaoxu for the throne, then he probably wouldn't have survived the Yongle years.

Pretending to be stupid is a life-saving means for him to live so nourishing until now.

"Actually, if you want to say that, then this ice cube can also be sold to the northwest?"

Zhu Gaosui's eyes flickered, and Zhu Gaochi guessed his mind when he saw this, and hurriedly interrupted: "Haha, whether this ice cube can be sold is also a matter for the imperial court, and it has nothing to do with us." ”

"Why is it okay?" Zhu Gaosui still has zero political acumen, and has even lost his vigilance because of his comfortable life for many years.

He seemed to have forgotten Zhu Gaoxu's kick back then, and actually said, "Second brother, can I do this business of selling ice cubes?" ”

"What do you want to do?" Zhu Gaoxu looked at him with a smile, and Zhu Gaosui actually nodded.

"It's really not enough to spend a little money, although you give enough second brother, but now it's not that you are not allowed to buy land, you can only manage the farmland issued by the imperial court."

"Those thousands of acres of farmland have an annual income of more than 1,000 yuan, and it is impossible to maintain the palace."

Seeing that Zhu Gaosui actually dared to talk about the conditions, Zhu Gaochi only felt that this guy had stool stuffed in his head.

Zhu Gaoxu's control over the clan is very strict, although he rarely seems to make a move against the clan, but once he makes a move, it is impossible to resist.

Not long after Zhu Zhen, the king of Chu, died of illness, the guards in his hands were cut by Zhu Gaoxu, and only one remained.

In addition, the guards of the King of Qin and the King of Jin were also cut by him for various reasons.

Zhu Jixi and Zhu Shangbing may not be afraid of Zhu Di, but they must be afraid of Zhu Gaoxu, after all, they were not less hammered on the ground by Zhu Gaoxu when they were in the main hall.

In the face of Zhu Gaoxu's situation of dealing with them, it is difficult for them to have any means of resistance, and they obviously already have a psychological shadow on Zhu Gaoxu.

Therefore, compared with Zhu Di's twists and turns in cleaning up the Qin and Jin dynasties in history, Zhu Gaoxu's cleaning up of them can be described as a wave of taking them away.

Now Zhu Jixi and Zhu Shangbing are honest in Xi'an and Taiyuan, for fear that if something happens, Zhu Gaoxu will order them to change the domain, or they will be directly abolished.

Even Zhu Rong, the king of Qi who was dissatisfied when Zhu Di governed the world, is now honest after receiving dozens of boards sent by Zhu Gaoxu.

It can be said that when Zhu Gaoxu became the emperor, except for the ordinary people and the officials with a relatively straight temperament, the rest of the people were not very happy, but they couldn't help it.

Seeing that Zhu Gaoxu is getting better and better, the taste is more uncomfortable than killing them.

They now seem to have only one option left to survive Zhu Gaoxu, or be boiled to death by Zhu Gaoxu.

"Actually, I've been thinking about it for the past few years, and I feel that although the income for you is high, the speed at which you reproduce children is also very fast, so I'm thinking about whether to let go of some things for you to do."

"Second brother, it has to be you!"

As soon as Zhu Gaochu spoke, Zhu Gaosui hurriedly patted his ass, and Zhu Gaochi was shocked by his words.

With his familiarity with his second brother, he eats everything that has a good bite to eat, and his attitude towards the vassal king is exactly the same as his attitude towards the hundred officials, how can he let the vassal king eat well?

"I recently looked at the Shandian mine on a map of Kunlun Zhou, so I found a relatively large gold vein."

"Therefore, I wonder if I should let the feudal clans go to Kunlun Continent to mine gold......"

As soon as Zhu Gaochu spoke, Zhu Gaochi calmed down, sure enough, the second child is still the second child, this thing is in the soil thousands of miles away, if you want to eat it in your mouth, you have to spend money, and the second brother of his family probably wants the vassal king to open up the wasteland, and then take it over directly.

"No, I can't do this wronged ......"

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaochi smiled and said: "This matter is naturally good, but I am weak and sick, and Zhanji also has to take care of me, so we will not mix this matter." ”

"I'll do it!" Zhu Gaosui's head was hot, and he thought that the boss was really a fool, and he didn't fight for gold mines.

"Hehe......" Zhu Gaoxu chuckled, glanced at the boss meaningfully, and then continued:

"I will draw up the charter for this matter, and whether it can be done or not will have to be disagreed with by many uncles and brothers."

"It shouldn't be delayed for too long, that is, these two years."

When the words fell, Zhu Gaoxu didn't continue to speak, when he saw the eunuch on duty at the door of the side hall:

"Your Majesty, the imperial doctor of the Tai Hospital is here."

"Xuan!" Zhu Gaochu responded, and then looked at Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaosui:

"Okay, let's see a doctor first, I see that both of you don't look right, it's good to see the imperial doctor for examination......"

(End of chapter)