Villager of Daming

Chapter 786: Annexation Debate to Stabilize the World

Seeing that it was almost eleven o'clock, everyone temporarily put down what they were doing and prepared to eat.

I don’t cook vegetables for lunch, I’m too busy. I eat beef noodles in the village, braised beef cut into pieces, and some bone soup. After adding the noodles, run them under cold water and put them in a soup bowl. It’s delicious and warm.

As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang came with a group of people: "Oh! Do you want to eat noodles? Let's just worry about what to eat at noon. We want to have a big meal in the evening. Sure enough, we came to the right place."

Chief: "..."

He wanted to ask, 'Why didn't you say hello in advance? '

Everyone is busy!There are so many of you here to have a meal together, eleven o'clock is the key!Do you think I own a restaurant?
"Your Majesty, please come quickly." Li Chang said with a smile on his face.

"I came in a hurry, do you still have a meeting?" Zhu Yuanzhang understood.

"Yes, I squeezed out more for emergencies. It's not hot yet, so I sprinkled it with dry noodles and kept it for two days. I'm afraid I won't like to move on the first day of the new year."

The director nodded, yes, the noodles are cooked too much and the temperature is not enough, so they will not ferment quickly.

"Babies can eat noodles...oh! The older ones have thin noodles, and the younger ones have beef pimple soup. This is good. You don't have to make other time-consuming meals."

Zhu Yuanzhang was about to ask when he suddenly saw something on the table.

Some people like to eat wide noodles, some eat normal noodles, some eat capillary noodles, and those who are not breastfeeding eat pimple soup, and the beef in the soup is shredded.

Now it’s easy to handle, everyone goes to wash their hands and find a place to eat according to different positions.

The pimple soup is not much extra, but don’t worry, you can make it first and it will not be slower than the noodles below. The beef in it is made by patting the beef chunks with a knife.

There are no stir-fried dishes, but a lot of side dishes, salty, sweet, sour, spicy, and bitter. But even the bitter melon has been processed and is not particularly bitter, just slightly bitter.

Or the dandelions, plantains and other medicinal wild vegetables grown in greenhouses are a bit bitter.

After a while, everyone had dinner. Zhu Yuanzhang took a sip of soup first. After feeling the heat in his stomach, he exhaled comfortably.

"After tonight, it will be the new year. Everyone is waiting for the arrival of the new year. Everything will be better next year."

Zhu Yuanzhang was a little anxious, looking forward to the time passing quickly so that he could be busy with the six years of Hongwu.

If we lay a good foundation in the new year, there won't be any major issues. It mainly depends on whether Beiyuan can come over.

"What your Majesty said is absolutely true." The mayor also looked forward to it. He was pursuing a sense of accomplishment.

If you can help many people live a good life through yourself in this life, why will you cry when you look at the future?snort!
No, you don’t have to wait until you die before you gain new mileage. You can enjoy the blessings in advance, travel around the mountains and rivers, etc. The world is so big...

"Yichang, where can Bei Yuan go?" After eating two more bites of noodles and a few pieces of beef, Zhu Yuanzhang looked to the north.

The village chief knew: "Your Majesty, if they don't go south to fight back, they must go northwest. They can't go all the way north. There are no other tribes.

According to the method of the Yuan Dynasty, we have to arrange some manpower in the northwest to prevent them from attacking the Silk Road on our land.

Fortunately, there are mountains over there, and they should integrate Tatar and Oara first.

During the Tang and Song dynasties, the Turks and post-Turks were roughly where the Northern Yuan is now.

Due to resource shortages and especially serious internal pessimism, they either use war to transform internal conflicts, or find some means to sort things out internally first.

The best thing in a war is of course to win a battle with us, but it doesn't matter if we lose. For example, we can send disobedient people to beat us and use our hands to consume those people.

If they can't attack us, they can only attack their own nomadic groups. Generally, they should first ask the other party to merge. "The village chief learned from Hanhan. He used to be the village chief, so he didn't know the situation in the world outside.

Now he understands that the current grassland peoples like to plot and annex each other. The big fish eats the small fish, and the small fish eats the shrimp.

Well, this will take time. It's not just a fight. First ask the smaller tribes to surrender, and then look at the strength of the small tribe. If the tribe is strong, stabilize it first. If it is weak, kill the original leader.

It is no different from the teams fighting each other before the founding of the Ming Dynasty. The difference is that once the other party surrenders, Zhu Yuanzhang will not kill him, but will take away the other party's military power and then grant the other party a title.

Including the former subordinates of Zhang Shicheng and Chen Youliang, as well as Xia Guo of Sichuan, they would not kill them if they said they would not kill them.

Zhu Yuanzhang was in a much better mood: "We think the same way. The place is big and they are running around. They can only be a thief for a thousand days, but there is no way to guard against thieves for a thousand days."

"Your Majesty, the same is true for the coastline. It is too long. Since the people of Ming Dynasty can make money by fishing and drying fish, they are not willing to take risks.

The Yi people always know what good things we have here, especially porcelain and silk. The prices were not high when they were exchanged.

At the same time, the things they brought, such as pepper, pearls, tortoise shells, etc., could be sold at a good price. As a result..."

"In the end, they were restricted by us. They were definitely not willing to accept it. They were probably thinking of finding a secluded place to go ashore and exchange it themselves. Unfortunately, we have a way to lead the way. Hehehehehe!"

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed happily as he spoke, and Lu Yin came into play at this time.

"Your Majesty is wise." The chief praised him.

"Don't praise me for eating noodles. If you don't eat noodles, you'll be lumpy." Zhu Yuanzhang happily put down his hands, lowered his head and sucked...

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Everyone ate a bowl of noodles without feeling full, so they could take a bath and change into new clothes for the banquet in the evening.

It's getting dark, and the lights on Nanjing's streets are on. Starting from the New Year, they will be on every night until the [-]th day of the first lunar month.

The power of the generator is too small, otherwise there is no need to put candles in the lantern, just light bulbs.

Electric wires don't use much copper. Compared with the copper coins circulating every day, the copper in the wires is nothing.

Everyone sleeps under the light, and the children are forced to lie down. Don't bother, they won't be able to survive the night.

The guards began to place tables and chairs outside Chengtian Gate, and the invited ministers also took a bath and rested, including their families.

There will be a song and dance performance tonight, but many of the ministers’ families have never seen it.

Time passes slowly, and the longer you wait, the longer it feels.

When it was almost Haishi, Zhu Yuanzhang and others got up and set off with the team. The people in Xiaqiu Village did not follow. Zhu Yuanzhang worshiped his ancestors on the first day of the Lunar New Year. There was a grand ceremony. The people in Xiaqiu Village worshiped their ancestors tonight and then went over.

At the same time, the team of ministers arrived at the designated location in advance, and it was not cold at all.

Wei Su, Liu Bowen and others also arrived, but they didn't get along well with the previous civil servants. They nodded when they met, said hello, and went to take their seats according to their positions.

Our family members tried their best to keep quiet, especially the children. They were curious about everything they looked at, but kept their mouths tightly shut. It was obvious that they had been warned over and over again before going out.

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't go there directly from Xiaqiu Village. There was no ceremonial guard, so he had to go through the main entrance. It was against etiquette to walk along the outer city wall.

(End of this chapter)