King Xiang of the Red Chamber

Chapter 170 Old Thirteen, You Hid It Deep!

Don't think the emperor is strict with Zhu Jinghong, but he is a serious and sensible person.

Through what happened in Jinling, he has changed his view of his youngest son, knowing that this guy really has a wonderful idea, and it is the kind that is likely to come true.

So at this moment, even though his face looked very unhappy, Zhu Xianming was actually looking forward to Zhu Jinghong's next words.

"Father, the elders in the pavilion talked about displaying money, food and military equipment, and some said that the performance of martial arts will shock people's hearts... but my son thought that we can do this together!"

Sure enough, it was interesting, so Zhu Xianming asked, "How can we do it together?"

"That is to show not only the army, but also the military equipment and food!"

Hearing Zhu Jinghong's nonsense, Zhu Xianming said coldly: "If you are here to talk, I don't mind giving you another [-] court sticks!"

"Son means... a military parade!"

Hearing this, the three cabinet ministers all laughed, only to hear Chen Jinyun say: "Master Thirteen, it is not appropriate for tens of thousands of people to perform martial arts, and you still need to use 10,000+ people to review?"

Facing his father's unkind eyes, Zhu Jinghong immediately said: "I didn't say to use 10,000+ people, in my opinion... two to 3000 people are enough!"

"Two or 3000 people? Such a small number actually weakens the momentum!" Xie Changen shook his head, secretly thinking that it was indeed a child's nonsense.

"Mr. Xie Ge, haven't you heard...the story about how three thousand Yue Jia can swallow Wu? Who said that two or three thousand people must be no better than twenty or thirty thousand people?"

Not to mention Zhu Jinghong's strategy, just judging from the way he argued with several cabinet ministers, in Zhu Xianming's opinion, he is already much stronger than the prince.

That's right, the crown prince suffered an indiscriminate disaster even if he was not around, and Zhu Xianming despised him at this moment.

Stopping everyone from questioning, Zhu Xianming asked directly: "Just tell me, how do you plan to parade with these two 3000 people!"

"Father... as far as my son knows, my Ming Dynasty has light and heavy cavalry, artillery and infantry. The infantry is divided into musketeers, crossbowmen, and heavy infantry. The heavy infantry is divided into..."

Zhu Jinghong was good at martial arts in his previous life, and he knew all these knowledge like the palm of his hand, and now he can speak eloquently.

"Okay, okay, pick up the important ones!"

"What my son means is that we choose two or three hundred people from each branch, equip them with the best armor and weapons, and train them with the most rigorous military appearance, so as to show the mighty military power of the Ming Dynasty!"

Zhu Jinghong came up with such a method, completely referring to the military parade in his previous life, using the best weapons and the strongest military appearance to show the strength of Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Xianming was the emperor immediately, so he roughly understood what Zhu Jinghong meant, and then asked the most critical question.

"What does your so-called strict military appearance look like?"

Zhu Jinghong replied calmly: "The most important thing in the army is to enforce orders and prohibit. My son plans to train ten, hundred, or thousand people until they advance and retreat as if they were one!"

"Like a person?" Zhu Xianming was thoughtful.

"If there is a strong will, there will be mountains and seas. Although there are only two to three thousand people, they are by no means weaker than thirty to fifty thousand people!"

After hearing Zhu Jinghong's impassioned statement, Zhu Xianming asked in a cold voice: "You said that thousands of people are like one person. Although it sounds novel, it is extremely difficult to do...Can you do it?"

"Father, although my son has no talent in reading, he has great ideas about martial arts. My son is willing to issue a military order!"

This point, Zhu Xianming is really not easy to deny, after all, Jinling suppressed the Japanese cleanly, and Zhu Jinghong has indeed proved himself.

"You elders, what do you think?"

How the three cabinet ministers see it depends of course on the attitude of the emperor.

At this time, the emperor was obviously moved, and since such a plan was indeed a compromise, everyone didn't have much motivation to refute it.

In fact, they do not agree with using some method to deter the envoys of various countries. What scholars pay attention to is the general trend and the right way.

"I have no objection, please Your Majesty's order!"

"I...have no objection!"

Although everyone has no objection, military and state affairs are not child's play after all, so Zhu Xianming said: "Then let the generals discuss it at the military meeting tomorrow!"

Tomorrow's military meeting has been scheduled a few days ago, and it is specially organized to discuss the situation in the Northwest, but additional topics can also be temporarily added.

Although Zhu Xianming found it interesting, he was a cautious and open-minded person, and he was more willing to listen to the views of the generals below.

"Old Thirteen!"

"My son is here!" Zhu Jinghong was extremely respectful and ready to take on the heavy responsibility.

"Go back and write a draft to figure out how to train your troops, and tomorrow's military discussion will tell the generals!"

"My son leads the order!"

Seeing this scene, the three cabinet ministers felt complicated because they thought far ahead.

Now that Prince Rui is fighting with the crown prince, the court has already caused unrest, and now Zhu Jinghong has started to accept errands again, in their opinion, the future changes will be even greater.

But still the same sentence, they will not meddle in the affairs of the royal family, the emperor can do whatever he likes!
At this point in the discussion, Zhu Jinghong had nothing to do, so he voluntarily withdrew from the main hall, and several cabinet ministers stayed to continue the discussion.

After leaving the Qianqing Gate, Zhu Jinghong immediately smiled, he didn't expect this to happen.

But since the opportunity came, he would definitely take it seriously and try his best to be perfect.

As long as the matter of presiding over the military parade is used properly, meritorious service is secondary, and it is undoubtedly more important to show ability and get close to officers and soldiers.

"Writing a booklet...isn't it just a plan, I'm familiar with this thing!"

After returning to the palace, Zhu Jinghong asked Yu Hai to spread the paper and rub the ink, and then thought hard.

It was difficult to hide things in the palace, especially Zhu Jinghong was still under the spotlight, and it took less than two hours for Zhu Jingyuan to know about the palace break-in.

It's just that his eyeliner is outside the hall, and he doesn't know the specific situation in the hall.

He was very curious, so he found Zhu Jinghong's office.

"Closing the door in broad daylight? What's going on here?"

"Returning to the prince, the thirteenth master was writing in it, and he didn't want the slaves to disturb him, so he closed the door!"

"Write something? What to write?" Zhu Jingyuan became more curious.

"The servant doesn't know either!"

"Open the door and I'll go in!"

"Yes!"

As Zhu Jingyuan is a dignified prince, no one would dare to disobey what he said, so the door of the room was opened.

Zhu Jinghong was concentrating on writing, when he heard the door open and voices outside, his thoughts were immediately disrupted, which made him fly into a rage.

These dead eunuchs are too unruly, taking their own words as fart?

In anger, Zhu Jinghong yelled loudly: "Who... Didn't I just say that no one is allowed to come in?"

However, the next moment, I saw Zhu Jingyuan walking in with his hands behind his back, with a faint smile on his face.

It turned out to be this fellow rushing over, he is really well informed, I am afraid that he will test me later, so he has to be careful...

Thinking of this in his heart, Zhu Jinghong immediately withdrew his angry expression, and said with a happy smile: "Sixth brother, why are you here, why don't you let someone notify you, so I can come out to meet you!"

Ignoring Zhu Jinghong's politeness, Zhu Jingyuan came to the desk, picked up one of the papers filled with writing, and asked, "Thirteenth brother, what are you writing?"

Zhu Jinghong smiled, and replied: "The old man sent me an errand, saying that since I like being in the army, he told me to find a way to train a group of people, so that I can make a fortune for the Shengshou Festival!"

Zhu Jinghong opened his mouth when he told a lie, anyway, he mixed up the water first, and he didn't care whether he went to verify it or not!
With a smile on his face, Zhu Jingyuan picked up the second piece of paper from the desk, looked at it and said, "Thirteenth brother, I can't tell...you are hiding it very deeply!"

(End of this chapter)