Hongwu Survival Guide

Chapter 129 Personal expedition
June [-]rd, Jinling.

Zhu Yuanzhang officially set off, leading 2 pro-armies including Jinwu and Yulin, to Bianliang northward, planning to personally command the battle of Dadu.

Because he will be away for at least three months, Lao Zhu made a lot of arrangements in advance.

The first one was to bring back the General Conscript, Doctor Ronglu, Doctor You Yushi and Crown Prince Youyude Deng Yu from the western front to take charge of the [-] pro-army left behind in Jinling and guard the center.

Deng Yu, who has been an official from the first rank, is actually only 31 years old this year.

Deng Yu was only 18 years old when he took refuge in Lao Zhu, but he was already the leader of more than ten thousand rebels. These years of conquests not only proved his loyalty, but also had a relationship almost like father and son with Lao Zhu.

So you can see the cronies.

In addition to Deng Yu, the guarding general, Lao Zhu also ordered Li Shanchang, the prime minister of the left, Yang Xian of Zhongshu to participate in politics, Fu Yu of Zhongshu to participate in politics, Zhang Yi of Yushi Zhongcheng, and Tao An, a scholar of Imperial Academy, to perform their duties and not to slack off.If there is an urgent matter, the crown prince will make a decision, or someone will be sent to play Bianliang.

A seemingly ordinary edict is actually enough to make people smell a lot of unusual things. The biggest unusual thing is that in the past, Mr. Zuo Xiang, who was able to monopolize the power of Lao Zhu himself, is obviously not so big this time. power.

After all, just looking at these people in the imperial edict, either Ji Qingxunjiu, or from Jiangxi, or civil servants from eastern Zhejiang, each almost represents a group, and no one is completely attached to the left.

Even the guarding general Deng Yu, whose ancestral home is Sizhou, is not from the Huaixi lineage.

Sizhou was located in the territory of Huai'an Prefecture during the Yuan Dynasty's rule and belonged to Huaidong Road in Jiangbei.Because it is where Zhu's ancestral tomb is located, it was only placed under the jurisdiction of Linhao Mansion last year.

Regarding Lao Zhu's arrangement, no one dared to discuss it publicly. However, some civil servants couldn't help thinking about it in private, and felt that Lao Zhu's speed from being a feudal town to being an emperor was really too fast.

It is not a good thing for the superior to trust or distrust his subordinates too much.Such a way of check and balance is the mastery of mind that a qualified emperor should have.

So there are some associations.

His Majesty the Emperor already knows how to check and balance the left, so... a certain person from Mingzhou can't be too indulgent!
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On June [-]th, off the coast of Mingzhou.

At the end of the summer flood season, the Yinghai Division notified that the tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians who had been busy for two months will have a ten-day holiday.

However, some people cannot rest.

The sea area in front of me is two hundred miles away from Dinghai, east of Shengsi Archipelago, north of Huang Dayang, marked as Huang Zeyang on the surveying and mapping map of Yinghai Division, and the landmark is Langgangshan Island.

Mingzhou fishermen have a catchphrase.

There are three mountains in Langgang, and it is difficult to go up and down. There is a bowl of thin porridge soup at home, and I would rather die than go up Langgang Mountain.

Sankuaishan refers to Langgang Mountain and two other small islands nearby.

As for the content of the jingle, it is easy to understand.

In later generations, this area still belongs to the offshore area. In this era, just like the Sheshan Ocean outside the Yangtze River Estuary in the north, the Huangze Ocean is also a dangerous place that fishermen dare not set foot in easily.

What Yinghai Division has to do is to break through.

At the moment, Hu Weiyong was standing on the side of a ship of the Qianliao Ship belonging to the Yinghai Division, watching the officers of the Yinghai Division busy measuring the water depth and marking it on the map in real time, and there were dozens of ships of all sizes in the surrounding area , is attempting to pull the net.

Even though he has gotten used to the shaking of the ship in recent days, Hu Weiyong is still instinctively afraid of the boundless surroundings.

If possible, Hu Weiyong didn't want to go to sea.

However, now that he has accepted this job, Hu Weiyong also understands that if he does not have the treatment of the young master of the Yinghai envoy, it is impossible for him not to go to sea if he is appointed as the deputy envoy of the Yinghai.

Just like this time, the little adult sea envoy didn't even ask him and Wu Liang's opinions, and directly made a decision to let the two of them lead the team for this survey.

Hu Weiyong was also quite moved after only a few days of getting along.

On the surface, the young boy who is less than 15 years old, with that mind, seems to have lived for decades and is used to the world.

Therefore, let alone fooling around in front of that young boy, even this small child seems to be born with a temperament of a superior, so he has to subconsciously obey the other party's various orders and arrangements.

Hu Weiyong was very happy when he was suddenly appointed to such a position.

The Minister of Taichang Temple became a idle job after the lord ascended the throne.As for the Deputy Envoy of Yinghai from the third rank, he only looked at the various scenery of the little adult Yinghai Envoy in Mingzhou. Even if he came to Quanzhou and was incomparable with the other party, he could imagine the real power.

Moreover, it is also easy to make achievements.

As long as you have credit, will you worry about going further in the future?

Of course, there are also problems.

The point is, I and Zuo Xiang have parted ways.

Before getting this appointment, Hu Weiyong hesitated again and again, but he still didn't take the initiative to visit the left minister, which can be regarded as showing his attitude.Because, he always felt that His Majesty the Emperor should be staring at him.

Hu Weiyong could also feel His Majesty's estrangement from the Left Prime Minister, just like before, Wang Guangyang transferred from participating in politics in Jiangxi Province to participating in politics in Shandong Province, and Hu Weiyong immediately set his sights on that position.

It's a pity that His Majesty the Emperor would rather let Jiangxi province participate in politics vacant than give it to him.

At that time, Hu Weiyong visited Prime Minister Zuo again, hoping that Li Shanchang would help him talk about Xiang, and even inquired quietly in private. There are rumors that His Majesty the Emperor seems to hope that Tao An, a third-rank Hanlin scholar like him, will be the second-rank official. Provincial participation in politics.

For some reason, he gave up the idea again.

Because of too much attention, Hu Weiyong also inevitably deliberated, so he realized something.

Most likely, it was because of the left minister that His Majesty the Emperor did not let Tao An go.

Tao An is a veteran minister of Jiqing. He not only has served in the local area, has political experience, but also has a lot of poetry and books.

The point is, Tao An and Zuo Xiang are not the same people.

Following this line of thought, and looking at Yang Xian, Fu Yu, Zhang Yi and others, things couldn't be more obvious.

Therefore, when he was appointed as the Deputy Envoy of Yinghai, Hu Weiyong actually hesitated for a long time, and finally made a decision to cut off from the left.

The decision was not easy.

Not only are the two of them from Dingyuan, they naturally have a fellowship, but also, Hu Weiyong has invested a lot in Zuo Xiang over the years.

In short, from attaching to one favorite minister to another, for the sake of one's own future, one has to do the same.

Thinking of this, Hu Weiyong couldn't help turning his head to look at Wu Liang on the top deck of the upper deck at the stern.

This one is really interesting.

Wu Liang, who had been looking around for a long time with a binoculars in his hand, had just put down the magical little thing. He intuitively felt that someone was looking at him, turned his head, saw that it was Hu Weiyong, and just nodded slightly.

Wu Liang didn't like Hu Weiyong, and thought he was too snobbish.

However, there is no intention to turn against each other. Anyway, the two will take up their respective posts in a few days, so there will be less contact with each other in the future.

Hearing some reports from the officials around him about the situation in this sea area, Wu Liang changed his position and raised his binoculars again. Perhaps it was because of Hu Weiyong's gaze just now that his thoughts went astray.

Wu Liang also did not expect this Deputy Envoy from Yinghai to come suddenly.

However, a few days ago, he was suddenly summoned to Jinling by the lord, and was reprimanded face to face. Wu Liang thought that he would be left idle, and made a plan. After all these years of fighting, maybe he could just take a break and read a book What.

Unexpectedly, after the training, the master sent him directly to Mingzhou.

Wu Liang just accepted it.

No complaints.

After all, he is already the ruler and minister, the master and teacher of heaven and earth, and of course he will do whatever the lord asks him to do.Moreover, the lord made it very clear to him, since he can't help but meddle in things, then he should completely become a civil servant.

There is also a bit of a lesson in the words.

However, afterward, the lord mentioned that he would still remember his past achievements.

Wu Liang felt that with this sentence, there was nothing to say.

So set off.

Wu Liang has also been known for a long time for a certain worldly expert who shouted "Send 500 years of Guozuo", and had a small intersection.However, there was no intention of dealing with them before.He likes to make friends with Confucian scholars, but he doesn't like this kind of madman who speaks lies.

However, these days in Mingzhou, Wu Liang had to change his mind.

Whether it is the real achievements made by the other party, or the knowledge of the other party that he has been studying recently, Wu Liang can be sure that even if the words of "500 years of Guozuo" are destined to be unverifiable, it is indeed true. A great talent.

He was so old that he was just a young boy, but the whole Mingzhou was obedient to him.

I also chatted with my younger brother Wu Zhen in private
Really Mingzhou 'up and down'.

Because, in Mingzhou, even a certain first-rank navy commander would listen to the third-rank envoy, and Wu Liang saw it with his own eyes afterwards.

What about yourself?
The young man said, for this expedition to Huang Zeyang, you two battalion deputy envoys will lead the team.

I didn't think about what to refute, and I instinctively felt that it should be taken for granted.

Thinking of this, Wu Liang, who was watching the fireworks in the direction of Langgang Mountain Island with a telescope, couldn't help shaking his head and laughing. This matter itself is the problem.

Maybe some people are just born that way.

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Dinghai, the same day.

After lunch, Zhu Yuan got up after a short rest and went out of the city. First, he came to the newly established tooling workshop outside the west city.

Lao Zhu agreed to Zhu Yuan's "tooling" plan, and then began to implement it.

A few hiccups happened.

Seeing the aloof young master Ying Haisi appeared, a woman working in the workshop suddenly grabbed a girl and stepped forward, scaring Zhu Yuan's guards into thinking that this person was about to assassinate.

A false alarm.

It turned out that the woman wanted to give her daughter to Zhu Yuan as a maid, and Balabala said a lot in a dialect that Zhu Yuan didn't understand, probably to praise her girl for her beauty.

A pretty girl indeed.

Of course Zhu Yuan didn't want it either, the yard really couldn't fit it.

Then there is business.

According to some previous ideas, I roughly standardized the garment-making process of the workshop and solved a small problem.

button.

There are buttons in this era, but they are not popular.

For common people, the so-called buttons are mainly knotted.

This is obviously not suitable for use on tooling.

Some time ago, I had the idea of ​​making crystal buttons, but it is unrealistic to use crystal buttons for tooling.After discussing with the followers and workshop officials, the matter was easily resolved.

Since it is the seaside, we use local materials.

Shells.

All kinds of shells, as long as you pick up the size and use it, put it on the hole, whether it is a jacket or pants, it can be used.

There are also belts for trousers.

This is no way.

At present, all kinds of leather materials, especially cowhide, are still strategic materials. As for shark skin obtained locally, this is more expensive and less realistic. Therefore, it is still traditional to tie a rope.

Then cross the river.

This time we mainly look at the preparations for the Mingzhou Maritime Academy and the site selection for the affiliated primary school.

Furthermore, it is planned to build a market next to the refugee resettlement community in Shandong.In the later more fashionable words, it can also be called 'Commercial Street'.

In the summer flood that has just ended, the soldiers and civilians who participated in the sea capture are expected to give an average of 3 rewards according to the plan proposed by the Yinghai Division.Of course, different positions, more or less.

When there is money, there will be consumer demand.

What's more, in the future, more than [-] people will gather here, which itself is a consumer group with great potential.

Now that he thinks about it, Zhu Yuan will not do good deeds this time.

It is planned to build a street, and the real estate belongs to Ying Haisi, which is mainly used for renting out and supplying various businesses to open restaurants, cloth shops, rice shops, etc.If the fat and water don't flow to outsiders, the Mingzhou grocery chain company under Yinghai Division itself will also participate.

After Lao Zhu's summer tax hemp material delivery plan was launched, the Mingzhou grocery chain company, which had just been established not long ago, seemed to have no need to exist.

Zhu Yuan didn't think so.

After experience, Mingzhou Grocery Chain Company has not only a skilled sales team, but also a sales network. As a former businessman, Zhu Yuan knows very well how important a sales team and sales network are.

In the future, even if you don't need to buy hemp materials, you can buy others.

Moreover, not only for buying, chain companies can also sell.

Just like the commercial street that is about to be built, this is only the first one, and there will be many in the future. On each street, Mingzhou grocery chain companies can be introduced to operate various businesses.

The matter here was over, and Zhu Yuan rushed to Dongcheng Wharf in the evening.

In the morning a speed test of a steamship and a paddle boat was arranged.

The same 200-material ship, the same six manpower, the result is that a ship built by Zhu Yuan before Xing Zhizhi can travel about 50 miles in an hour. Compared with paddle boats of similar size, An hour can only travel 20 miles of water.

Perhaps adding some more manpower to the paddle boat and adding a few large sculls will make it faster enough, but the difference in efficiency is also obvious.

After seeing the results, Zhu Yuan made a decision.

It is planned to mass-produce 50 ships of 200 materials, half of which will be provided to the navy as daily inspection ships, and the other half will be used to create a ferry system between the offshore islands.

Steamships have been around for a long time, and their speed is obviously faster. Why haven't they become popular?
These days, Zhu Yuan gradually understands that the key problem is wear and tear.

Most of the structures of traditional ships are often made of wood. Therefore, compared with the simple structure of oars, oars can no longer be simpler.Paddle wheels... Even if the shaft is constructed of some metal, it is actually very weak.

until the appearance of bearings.

The traditional paddle wheel may have problems within a month of operation, but it not only saves labor but also greatly reduces the wear and tear of the bearings. As long as it is properly maintained, it may be fine for a year of use.

So Zhu Yuan finally returned to the city until it was dark.

Such a busy day, all kinds of tedious work, except for Haizhu's breakthrough from the 'Stone Age' to the 'Iron Age', Zhu Yuan understands that, after all, it is just an accumulation of quantitative changes.However, when another breakthrough cannot be achieved in the short term, continuous accumulation of quantitative changes is also a necessary process.

(End of this chapter)