Ming Dynasty: He was ordered to give lectures in prison, but Lao Zhu eavesdropped and made people nu

Chapter 162 The Ming Dynasty’s elite set out to explore the Japanese island
In the Jinshen Palace.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the box with half of the sweet potato seedlings missing and cursed a bastard.

But no one was sent to chase back the sweet potato seedlings that Zhu Xi had taken away.

You can't put eggs in one basket.

Zhu Yuanzhang still understood.

If all sweet potato seedlings are planted together.

If something unexpected happens, we can only wait for the inspection and find new sweet potato seedlings from Qiongzhou.

Furthermore, Zhu Xi had learned how to grow sweet potatoes from Lin Che.

I don't think anything could go wrong.

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang found the eunuch who managed flowers in the palace.

Let him find a few who are most proficient in planting.

In front of them, Zhu Yuanzhang followed the planting method given by Lin Che.

I personally planted the sweet potato seedlings one by one in the newly opened experimental plot in the Imperial Garden.

Zhu Yuanzhang used a solemn tone to give instructions to the somewhat confused eunuchs.

“Each of you is responsible for one sweet potato seedling, so remember to take good care of it!
"This product can be used as a staple food. Its yield is several times higher than all current grains. It is not difficult to produce a thousand kilograms per mu."

"If we cultivate it well, the people of our Ming Dynasty will no longer have to worry about hunger in the future, and the reign of our Ming Dynasty will also be extended, and you will all be meritorious ministers."

As soon as these words came out, the eunuchs who stood aside blankly were all dumbfounded.

What His Majesty planted like weeds turned out to be a staple food with a high yield.

Once planted, can the Ming Dynasty be extended?
Several of them were pale-faced and timid eunuchs, and they immediately planned to retreat.

You know, they have never grown this kind of crop called sweet potato.

If it is not planted well, His Majesty will beheaded directly as it is detrimental to the Ming Dynasty.

That would be too wrong!

However, the few remaining eunuchs were a little scared.

But what they thought was that if they successfully planted sweet potato seedlings, they would surely enjoy endless prosperity and wealth in the future.

So these eunuchs looked at each other and all knelt down in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Your Majesty has entrusted such important responsibilities to disabled people like slaves. Even if they risk their lives, they must grow sweet potatoes for our great Ming Dynasty."

The remaining timid eunuchs would say such things when they saw their companions.

He knew that if he didn't kneel down, he might not end well.

Then he also knelt down and accepted Zhu Yuanzhang's oral instructions.

I learned how to take care of sweet potato seedlings from His Majesty.

……

Two days later.

Five hundred elite soldiers equipped with wolf spears and three hundred armed with muskets.

There are also two hundred sword and shield players who cooperate with Langzhen.

When the sun first rose, we boarded the Ming Dynasty warship at Yingtianfu Pier.

This time we explore Sado Kaneyama and Honshu Ginzan Island.

It seems that they can't make a big splash, so in addition to the supply ship, the fleet only has three large ships.

Hu Yunqiang went into battle lightly, without any armor.

Waiting at the bow of the ship were the Ming Dynasty elites equipped with new weapons.

After everyone boarded the battleship, Hu Yunqiang waved his hand and said:

"set off!"

The sailors on the ship followed Hu Yunqiang's order to raise the sails and lift the anchor.

However, apart from Hu Yunqiang’s high morale.

The other soldiers, after getting on the boat, each found a corner to nest in.

The staggering appearance is worse than the remnant soldiers of Bei Yuan.

Hu Yunqiang stood on the bow of the ship and scanned around, finding that the soldiers on the three ships were like this.

He couldn't help but ask with a gloomy face to the short and stocky middle-aged man beside him:

"General Lin, why are these soldiers acting like this?"

"Could it be that the silver reward from their expedition was pocketed by some people?" General Lin Pian was a veteran who followed Tang He in fighting Japanese pirates in Fujian and Zhejiang, and followed General Xu Da in the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

He has a calm personality and is quite familiar with military affairs.

He was the partial general specially equipped by Tang He for Hu Yunqiang.

When facing Hu Yunqiang, he directly blamed him without asking the reason.

Lin Pianjiang sighed helplessly:

"General Hu, don't talk nonsense. The money for the expedition was distributed by you and me together. Where is the opportunity to enrich your own pockets?"

There is another sentence that Lin Pianjiang did not say clearly.

That is if he does line his own pockets.

Hu Yunqiang, who also distributed the Zhengyin, must have taken a share from it.

No matter what the truth is, if this word gets out.

In the eyes of others, both of them were corrupt people who drank the blood of soldiers.

Hu Yunqiang, with his mind full of thoughts, led a thousand elite soldiers to sweep across the two islands of Sado and Honshu.

So when he saw that the morale of the soldiers was low, he said something mindless in a hurry.

After he realized this, he immediately apologized:

"General Lin, I'm just worried that the soldiers' morale is low and they will miss His Majesty's plan."

"I made a slip of the tongue in a hurry, please forgive me!"

Hu Yunqiang lowered his posture so low.

General Lin didn't care much, just sighed and said:
"General Hu doesn't know something. These soldiers were originally carefully selected to clean up Japanese pirates along the coast."

"But suddenly I received an order from His Majesty to explore the Japanese pirates' Nalaoshizi island."

"It doesn't matter that the sea route is dangerous, but the soldiers are not satisfied with the newly replaced wolf spears and bird cannons."

"You know. The swords of the Japanese pirates are extremely sharp. These bamboos can withstand it. Although the bird blunderbuss is more powerful than the previous fire blunderbuss, how many shots can it be fired in the battle?"

In just a few words, Hu Yunqiang knew it.

Why is the morale of these elite troops on the ship worse than that of the remnants of Bei Yuan?

Due to the spread of rumors among the people.

The Japanese pirates still formed a terrifying image in the hearts of the people of the Ming Dynasty. Although they were short in stature, they were fast, powerful, and could hold a sharp blade for blowing short hair.

As a result, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were slightly afraid of the Japanese pirates.

But these elite warriors also know that no matter how brave they are, they are all made of flesh.

As long as they have familiar weapons, they have the confidence to fight against the Japanese pirates.

however.

Your Majesty does not know whose slander he has listened to.

It actually made them give up the long spear that they had been using for who knows how long.

Replace it with moso bamboo that has not even been shaved cleanly...

Have you ever fought against Japanese pirates?

No one believed that this guy named Lang Zhen could stop the Japanese pirates' sharp long knife that beheaded and cut bones.

The bird gun replaced by the Fire Gun Soldier has reloading speed, but also has power and accuracy.

They are much improved than before.

But their melee sabers were gone.

Instead, they were given a short bayonet with a wooden handle.

This thing is called a sleeve bayonet.

In close combat, it is more useful than a long knife when inserted into the head of a fire gun.

If it weren't for the strict discipline of the Ming army.

There are many fire musket soldiers who want to take their big swords and let the quartermaster take the musket holster and bayonet and have a good fight with him.

The only weapons that have not been changed are the two hundred sword and shield wielders.

But they were cooperating with the Langzhen soldiers.

Now the main attackers are all broken.

It is understandable that the morale of these sword and shield players has plummeted.

(End of this chapter)