Daming: I, Zhu Di, threatened to seize the heir apparent at the beginning!

Chapter 532 The end of an era
Thirty-three years of Hongwu.

Zhu Di's eldest son, Zhu Gaochi, also named Yongming.

With the help of Zhu Yuanzhang, Yu Fengyang, the hometown of the Zhu family, married the daughter of Zhang Qi, the co-president of the Beijing Camp.

Zhu Di had been away from Ming Dynasty for ten years.

Return to the Central Plains again.

He stayed in the Central Plains for half a month, and after Yongming's wedding was over, Zhu Di returned to Yanjing.

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Time flies to the thirty-fifth year of Hongwu.

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In the rhythmic collision sound.

A train, with its whistle blowing white steam, entered a tunnel.

in the dark.

In several simple yet luxurious carriages, the golden light of oil lamps illuminates the carriages particularly warmly.

Led by Xu Miaoyun, Wu Yun, and Qihua, a group of women were drinking tea and chatting in the carriage, curiously looking at the dark tunnel outside the window.

Until the bright light shines through the car window again into the car.

Everyone started talking in low voices again.

Xu Miaoyun subconsciously looked towards the car in front.

The brilliance of pride and happiness in his eyes could not be concealed.

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Inside the closed carriage door.

At the end, there is a large desk made of mahogany.

Headed by Ye Mao, the important cabinet ministers who followed Zhu Di on his inspection were lined up on both sides of the carriage.

He was also quite proud, looking at Zhu Di, leaning against the window to check out the scene outside.

Zhu Di watched the train rush out of the tunnel, looked at the rolling mountains that were left behind, and went further and further away. He turned around and came to the desk. After sitting down, he looked around and said with a happy smile: "Luzon Province, this northern city Once the tunnel is completed, our Yanhua Railway construction technology has fully met the technical conditions for building bridges over water and opening roads over mountains. "

As he spoke, Zhu Di turned his head and looked out the window again.

The window is open.

The wind blew the gauze curtains.

On both sides of the railway, there are vast stretches of green crops.

From time to time in each village, chimneys emitting thick smoke come into view.

Ye Mao and others couldn't help but look.

I feel very emotional inside.

Everything in front of them, to be honest, before they followed the prince, they didn't even dare to think about it.

After nearly two decades of construction.

Today, rural water conservancy and road infrastructure are all completed.

Moreover, all the way up to now, the village-run factories and handicraft workshops have basically completed the steam transformation.

They not only witnessed everything in front of them, but were also participants.

Later generations will write this history.

Those of them who follow the prince will definitely be written down heavily.

Ye Mao led everyone to stand up, "Yanhua's unprecedented prosperity is all due to the prince."

Haha ...

Zhu Di laughed heartily and waved his hands: "Don't flatter me."

After pressing his hands, Zhu Di's face gradually turned serious after everyone sat down again.

Ye Mao and others hurriedly suppressed their smiles.

Zhu Di said: "In the past twenty years, we have achieved great results. There is no doubt that no one can deny the hard work of me and everyone here. But we must also learn from history. The more prosperous times like this, the more intense the fire is. Nowadays, we must guard against arrogance and impetuosity.”

"In history, there are many examples of prosperity and decline, such as the Sui Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty."

"In my opinion, the Tang Dynasty is the most typical and the most worthy of learning from us. During Li Longji's Tianbao period, the Tang Dynasty reached its peak."

"But if we look at history, what happened during this period?"

"Economically, Li Linfu served as prime minister and completely abolished the heavy commission system. By changing the currency system, he vigorously promoted an economy that avoided reality and replaced reality. What is even more frightening is that the money banks in the Tang Dynasty were almost monopolized by Li Linfu's tribe and his disciples and former officials."

"Politically, the extravagance of the prosperous times caused officials to lose the courageous spirit of struggle in the early Tang Dynasty. Intrigues and fights for fame and fortune gradually became the mainstream in the court, and eventually evolved into party struggles."

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"In the military, soldiers have lost their sense of honor. Generals regard military power as private property and as a bargaining chip for their own power. However, the officers and soldiers below simply regard the military as a way to support their families. They will give their lives to whoever gives them money, and they will lose it. The feelings of family and country in the early Tang Dynasty were lost, and the sense of honor of the soldiers in the early Tang Dynasty was lost.”

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"Li Longji himself was even more obsessed with his achievements in the prosperous times, completely forgetting that his achievements were the result of generations of accumulation starting from Taizong. He became arrogant, extravagant and indulged in corrupt habits such as robbing his daughter-in-law. Something that loses people’s support.”

"I have long said that what kind of atmosphere a group or a country wants to create depends largely on the elite."

"Because the common people are learning and imitating the elites. When technology cannot develop and ordinary people can have enough influence, the elites are the leaders and source of the overall atmosphere of a country."

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Everyone listened carefully.

At the same time, he reflected on whether the various phenomena mentioned by Zhu Di had happened to himself, his family, and Yanhua.

There are some signs!

In recent years, the power struggle in the court has begun to take shape.

After all, Yanhua now has a population of seven million.

Abundance and prosperity.

It has reached a prosperous age unprecedented in all dynasties.

It can be said that starting a business has been completed, although the struggle is not as fierce as in the Ming Dynasty, and all means are used.

But everyone has already begun to make plans for the future, both before and after.

Second.

Although these officials are wealthy, they are not as wealthy as those businessmen.

But with the salary given by the court and performance, after retirement, you can still get a retirement salary.

There is also a lot of wealth.

More importantly, they have power that businessmen, workers, and farmers do not have.

They can be self-denial, but their family members, especially children, will inevitably become arrogant.

Just like.

In recent years, children of civil servants and generals often meet up in the suburbs of Yanjing to ride bicycles or engage in bicycle races.

Or, just start a group fight.

What do people think when they see this phenomenon?
They ignore these small problems and small signs.

But the prince obviously noticed it, and this was a warning to everyone.

When Zhu Di finished speaking, Jiang Jinzhong said, "Your Majesty, the children of each family have indeed been very noisy in the past few years. Although they have not done anything to the people, after all, they have caused bad phenomena. I think it can be , let them go to exercise, such as going to the military camp? "

Everyone nodded.

"This is a good idea." Zhu Di nodded with a smile, "I am planning to form a youth reclamation corps, mainly recruiting young people aged 16 to 23, including officials, generals, businessmen, workers, and farmers' children. , the number of people is tentatively set at one hundred thousand.”

One hundred thousand!

Everyone couldn't help but be shocked.

But he also waited patiently for Zhu Di's next words.

"In the past few years, we have gone to Longzhou many times to conduct preliminary and more detailed explorations of Longzhou. I am planning to send this youth colonization army to Longzhou so that this group of children from various groups can go there. To prepare for our future reclamation and construction of resettlement settlements, we adopt a rotational training system. After the two-year period is over, the children will come back and can continue to study, obtain official careers, or do business. "

"The main purpose of this move is to let our children understand and experience the hardships of starting a business, and to exercise their physical and mental strength. At the same time, children from various groups can contact each other and promote mutual understanding."

"Our generation understands workers and farmers, but our next generation and the next generation are born with golden keys in their mouths and have received the best resources and education. It can be said that everyone is excellent, but they really understand, Workers, farmers, businessmen?”

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"Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty, I support you."...

After everyone heard Zhu Di fully describe the purpose of the Youth Reclamation Corps, they all expressed their support.

The prince revealed it very early.

Yanhua is not opposed to it and comes from a political family.

But at the same time, Yanhua's supervision of political families is also unprecedentedly strict.

The Disciplinary Inspection Bureau alone, with its group of enthusiastic young people recruited from workers and farmers, is enough to give any family a headache.

Every son of an aristocratic family takes every step forward in military and political affairs.

They will all be stared at with a magnifying glass by the Disciplinary Inspection Bureau.

In addition, Yanhua's special political and economic structure.

If children don't have strong enough skills and a golden body that can withstand the test, they won't be able to go far at all.

It was a wake-up call for the ministers.

After agreeing on the Youth Reclamation Corps.

Zhu Di dismissed everyone, leaving Mao Xiang and Fang Rui alone.

His hair looks gray, and he has basically retired from Jinyiwei two years ago.

Zhu Di stood up and poured Mao Xiang a cup of tea himself.

"Master..."

Mao Xiang stood up at a loss, but was held down by Zhu Di.
Fang Rui stood behind Mao Xiang, looking at it with envy and emotion.

He is very clear.

In the future, no one who serves as the director of the Military Intelligence Department will be able to receive such kindness from the prince like the master.

Zhu Di sat down next to Mao Xiang, "You have been resigning all these years. Well, you are getting older. You should completely quit this time when you go back. After you quit, you can have fun with your grandchildren at home. Or, you can come to the palace to help me, or if you want to see Yanhua, you can go to various places. "

Mao Xiang smiled and said: "Young master, if you retreat, if you don't mind that my old arms and legs are in the way, I still want to stay with you and give you a hand."

"Okay, then it's decided."

Zhu Di immediately responded and turned silent. After a long time, he asked: "How much do you know about the situation in the imperial court?"

Mao Xiang knew what Zhu Di wanted to ask, the smile on his face disappeared, and he said in a low mood: "Neither your Majesty nor your empress are in very good condition..."

Thirty-four years of Hongwu.

That was last year.

Your Majesty and your empress fell ill in their front and back legs one after another.

The news that came at that time was that the imperial doctor had secretly asked the prince to prepare the funeral arrangements for his majesty and his empress.

Fortunately, as the new year comes, the weather gets warmer and better.

The situation of Your Majesty and Your Majesty has improved.

But this incident has shown that Your Majesty and Your Majesty are really old.

How far we can go, no one can say.

He knew very well that the prince wanted to go back and take a look.

In fact, last year, when His Majesty and the Empress became seriously ill one after another, the prince wanted to go back.

But His Majesty sent someone to deliver a decree to the prince, telling him sternly and clearly that the prince was not allowed to go back.

Zhu Di was silent for a while and then asked: "Where is the railway? How is the construction of the railway?"

Fang Rui hurriedly answered for Mao Xiang: "Your Majesty, the north-south longitudinal line, Jinfu Line and Jinmeng Line have been completed. Last month, we received news that the branch line from Jinling to Fengyang will not be completed in more than a month. Can penetrate.”

"Where is the east-west horizontal line?" Zhu Di asked with a frown.

Fang Rui knew that his prince wanted the Grand Cross Railway to be fully completed before his Majesty and his wife left.

But the time is too short!

Moreover, during the construction process, we also encountered various overt and covert constraints.

To be honest, it was not easy to build the vertical line in five years and using eight million people.

Engineering teams to assist the construction of Daming Dynasty went to Daming Dynasty in batches.

After going there, it is impossible to achieve such great achievements without losing a few layers of skin.

Fang Rui gathered his thoughts and replied, "The East-West Horizontal Line has just been constructed for 100 kilometers in Liaodong. According to the predictions of the construction team, it will take at least three years to complete the Liaodong section. Liaodong has a small population and a small available labor force."

Zhu Di nodded silently.

Fingers tapped lightly on the arm of the chair.

In fact, he knew the inside story of the constraints on railway construction.

After all, he had been watching the Grand Cross Railroad since its construction.

"The speed of relocation will be accelerated this year. Fang Rui, go discuss it with Mr. Ye and the others and convey my message. The number of relocations this year must reach at least 500,000. We don't have enough cruise ships, so we will hire merchant ships and send naval logistics ships." go out."

"Yes!" Fang Rui took the order and left.

Silence fell in the carriage.

Mao Xiang looked at Zhu Di, moved his lips, and said in a trembling voice: "Young Master is worried..."

"Ah."

Before Mao Xiang could finish speaking, Zhu Di did not hide anything. He nodded and said, "I'm worried that if my father and mother leave, the court will not implement the terms of the treaty. In the past five years, we have moved. With a population of 1.6 million, we are rushing to transport 500,000 this year. Even if the court cheats and fails to implement the terms of the treaty, our losses will not be huge. "

Mao Xiang sighed silently.

The young master's worries are not groundless.

from last year.

The imperial court began to urge Yanhua and asked Yanhua to provide enough parts of the locomotive heads.

Yanhua is also constantly urging Yanhua to complete some aid projects as soon as possible.

Why did the imperial court suddenly ask Yanhua to complete the aid project as soon as possible after His Majesty became seriously ill?
It's worth thinking about.

"Young Master..." Mao Xiang asked tentatively: "If it's Your Majesty, Your Majesty... Do you want the Young Master to go back?"

If the young master wants to go back.

The Military Intelligence Department must make arrangements in advance.

"Go back! Even if my father doesn't let me go back, I have to go back!" Zhu Di said solemnly.

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at the same time.

Fengyang Station.

The Imperial Guard has secured the station.

Several carriages arrived.

Yong Ming and Xiong Ying were the first to open the door and get out of the car.

He helped two trembling old men walk down.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Xiuying were hunched over, and with the support of Yong Ming and Xiong Ying, they looked at the newly built station that they had visited for the first time.

Two old men, thin and stooped.

They seem to be much shorter.

"Okay! Good! Good!" Zhu Yuanzhang looked at it, his voice was old and weak, and he said three good words in a row.

Then, with the help of Yong Ming, he slowly boarded the special carriage.

"His Majesty!"

In the carriage, when Xu Da and Tang He saw Zhu Yuanzhang, they stood up one after another. They also lost their former glory and only remained a hero in his twilight years.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Xu Da and Tang He, walked a few steps quickly, and grabbed their hands, "Liu Ji Hongwu left in the thirty-first year, Li Shanchang Hongwu left in the thirty-third year, and that old guy Song Lian left earlier, Hongwu He left after twenty-eight years. The second and third sons, our era is coming to an end."

Young children Yong Ming and Xiong Ying couldn't help feeling uncomfortable when they heard this.

Zhu Yuanzhang continued: "Now that the north-south longitudinal line has been opened to traffic, we three old guys will take their place and take a look at the country we conquered for the last time!"

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