Daming, originally wanted to destroy it, but the system came

Chapter 157 This Highness is not that Highness

Afterwards, Zhu Chu first followed Shen Rong to the granary, which contained a hundred thousand stones of grain, which was piled up like a hill.

Zhu Ming didn't hesitate. He walked up to the mountain of food without carrying Shen Rong on his back. He waved his hand to the mountain of food, and as if by magic, he put all the food into his backpack.

Shen Rong behind him seemed to be used to strange things. Obviously this was not the first time and he had seen it more than once.

Zhu Ming had also hesitated whether to let Shen Rong know some of his secrets.

But later he thought that he needed Shen Rong to continuously collect grain and grass, and this grain could not be entered into the granary of the government treasury, let alone be known to Li Shuran and others.

So he still exposed the existence of the backpack, but Shen Rong didn't know the existence of the system. He only knew that Zhu Zhen had such a method.

And the backpack system is very powerful.

As the vassal king, Zhu Zhen has a total of five hundred grids, and the size of each grid is infinite, but it can only store the same type of things.

For example, if Zhu Zhu used one of the grids as a grain warehouse, then only grain could be placed in this grid.

There is also a grid that contains silver. From now on, only silver can be placed in this grid.

After Shen Rong's operation over the past few months, Zhu Zhen had accumulated millions of shi of food and several hundred thousand taels of silver without knowing it.

This is all private money from his small treasury. Apart from Shen Rong, even Mu Qiu only knows a rough idea, let alone others.

Remembering that in July, Li Shuran was overjoyed because of the good harvest this year, Zhu Chu found it funny.

The tax revenue that Dali City can afford is only a few tens of thousands of dan.

Most of them are used to support the officials and barracks in the city.

If you want to recruit troops or even start a rebellion just by relying on the tax revenue of this city, it will not be enough.

One million shi of food was enough to consume an army of [-] for a month, and it was still open to eat.

However, it can also be seen that in ancient times, wars were fought with money and food. If there was not enough food, the war would naturally not go on.

It's no wonder that Zhu Zhen has begun to let the Curie family secretly engage in agricultural development.

After collecting the grain, Shen Rong planned to hand over tens of thousands of taels of silver to Zhu Zhen.

He is just Zhu Chu's business consultant. These transactions are actually Zhu Chu's. Of course, the money he makes should be given to Zhu Chu.

But Zhu Ming said: "Don't worry, when you take care of these businesses, you also need money. There is also the distillation issue I mentioned before, you also need to find someone to study it, and this all requires money."

Zhu Chu had thought about distillation technology before and also wanted to develop perfume.

That is something that transcends the times. Since soaps and soaps are sought after by many ladies, it is conceivable that once perfume comes out, it will definitely cause a sensation.

What's more, distillation technology is not only that, it can also produce distilled liquor and even be used to purify it, such as Western synthetic drugs and so on.

For example, penicillin can be obtained by distillation and purification.

Zhu Qi could also directly purchase a set of advanced distillers. The problem was that he wanted to pile up the technology trees step by step, rather than splitting the eras and skipping the process and getting the results directly.

Although it is very convenient to do so, manpower is sometimes poor. What Zhu Zhen wants is the progress of the whole society and the entire era, rather than unilaterally doing whatever he thinks.

Otherwise, he could have bought a generator, and even a computer, and downloaded a computer game to play?Like stand-alone games or something?

But what's the point?

"As for Yongchang Mansion, I don't know what happened to Yan Shitai's cement factory and brick factory," Zhu Ming muttered.

It turned out that Zhu Min had been making secret arrangements in the past few months. For example, at Yongchang Mansion, although he could not go to Yan Shitai in person, he also sent someone to get in touch with Yan Shitai.

After Zhu Yuanzhang scolded Zhu Zhen, he did not remove Yan Shitai from his official position as magistrate. After all, Hu Yuan's family was dead, and now Zhu Yuanzhang could not care about Yunnan's affairs.

So Zhu Chu bought the technical drawings of cement and red bricks from the system store, and asked Yan Shitai to prepare to build a factory in Yongchang Mansion.

The bridge on the Nu River must be rebuilt, and a wider and larger one must be built. The specific scale must be such that if Zhu Chu wants to use troops against Burma one day, a hundred thousand troops can directly cross the bridge quickly.

Not only Myanmar, Annan, and Siam are all over there, and they all have to find a way to cross the Nu River.

"Is there any news from Long Qu and Wu Yong?" Zhu Ming then asked.

As for Long Qu and Wu Yong, also known as Simodian, they were also entrusted with important tasks by Zhu Chu.

Zhu Zhen once used Shen Rong's caravan to secretly transport a batch of bronzes and gunpowder to Simodian.

Smoudian was already located in the deep south, and Zhu Chu's idea was very simple. Give them a batch of bullets used in big pineapples and ask them to use them as they please, trying to figure out the principles of modern bullets in the most crude and stupid way.

Zhu Zhen also knew that modern bullets are manufactured in advanced modern military factories.

He also didn't expect Simoden to be able to replicate it using the most primitive technology.

He was just lucky, what if there were capable people in Simoden?In case someone directly skips the matchlock gun and flintlock gun, and relies on modern bullet technology to develop advanced firearm principles, as long as the problem of priming the bullet can be solved, the kind of firearm can be used directly.

Shen Rong could only smile bitterly: "Your Highness, you are too anxious. Mr. Yan Shitai had successfully mixed cement last month, but the output was too low. Just following your request, he wanted to pour the Nujiang Bridge. It’s very difficult to build roads, let alone the fact that you plan to build roads throughout Yunnan.”

"But last time I heard Master Yan say that he has already started building a factory and is preparing to bake bricks. Although the quality of the red bricks is not as good as the green bricks, it is cheaper and simpler. It should be possible to produce a batch quickly."

"As for Simodian, I haven't received any news. I'm afraid the people of Simodian are simple and simple, so it's difficult to complete the task you assigned."

Zhu Chuxin said, if you just say they are stupid, it will be over and the people will be honest.

Zhu Zhen himself sighed.

In fact, he also knew that if you want to produce cement in large quantities, you need to build a factory and use modern machinery.

Nowadays, it is really difficult for Yan Shitai to produce it by manpower.

As for letting the Smodeans research gunpowder or even modern bullets, it's even more nonsense.

But Zhu Ming himself had no choice.

He also wants to develop these things himself. Whatever is missing and what is needed in each step, there will be a system to assist him, which can quickly solve problems and complete research.

But now he doesn't dare to move, even these things are divided and let others complete it for him secretly.

Although Wang Fu had already pledged his allegiance to him, Zhu Zhen knew very well that with Zhu Yuanzhang's extremely suspicious character, he might not know how many Jin Yiwei there were around him.

So that's all.

If Lao Zhu doesn't die, he will still have to lie dormant.

Just like before, he suppressed the local snakes by powerful dragons and easily wiped out the previous chieftain clan in Smoden.

Now Lao Zhu is a powerful dragon, but Zhu Ji is not even a local snake.

"Speaking of which, where has Mu Chun been?" Zhu Ming sighed, feeling a little sad when he mentioned Mu Chun. A few months ago, he and Mu Ying fought side by side, but now they are separated forever. It is really too sudden. .

As the eldest son of Xipinghou, Muchun has now become the new Xipinghou, and according to Zhu Yuanzhang's will, he is escorting his father's coffin back to the capital for burial.

It is said that when Mu Ying's coffin left Jinma Mountain in Yunnan, tens of thousands of people in Yunnan spontaneously went to pay their respects.

Even the many poets who were in Yunnan or who had been to Yunnan and the exiled eunuch Mo Qing whom I met along the way often wrote poems to commemorate his memory.

It can be seen that Muying's achievements in Yunnan during the past ten years have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

It's October now, so Spring has already arrived, right?
Sure enough, Shen Rong said: "When I came back, I heard that Master Muying's coffin should arrive in Yingtian in a few days."

It was on October [-]th that Mu Ying's coffin arrived at Yingtian Mansion.

Zhu Yuanzhang naturally cried bitterly again.

Finally, Mu Ying was buried at the original site of Guanyin Mountain in Changtaibei Township, Jiangning County.

On the day of the funeral, hundreds of officials sent the coffin to the outskirts of the capital. Even Zhu Yunwen, who was now the emperor's grandson, sent people to pay homage.

Although Mu Ying was posthumously named King of Qianning, he was the well-deserved King of Yunnan before Zhu Chu became a vassal.

Wu Neng led his troops to quell chaos many times and guarded the peace and stability of Yunnan.

Wen Neng governs the local area, not only vigorously develops farmland and solves the food problem, but also evaluates the performance of officials based on the increase or decrease in farmland, and rewards and punishes officials.

During his nine years in charge of Yunnan, it is said that the total number of farmland was more than one million acres.

There are many other things that I can't finish talking about, such as building water conservancy projects, which saved Zhu Zhen countless troubles.When Zhu Chu came to Yunnan, he was just picking up the slack. It was equivalent to Mu Ying giving him a well-managed base.

In order to express his gratitude to Mu Ying, Zhu Yuanzhang even had a statue of Mu Ying made and enshrined in the Temple of Meritorious Officials (also called the Temple of Meritorious Officials), allowing her to enjoy the Ancestral Temple.

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang personally met with Muchun and asked the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunwen to accompany him.

"Mu Chun, Dad is our adopted son, and you are also our family," Zhu Yuanzhang said cordially.

Zhu Yuanzhang was indeed very kind to Mu Ying's two sons, Mu Chun and Mu Sheng.

For example, when Muchun was 17 years old, he followed his father in the Northern and Southern War, and Zhu Yuanzhang promoted him to the post of Chief Minister of the Rear Army Governor's Office.

As a result, the ministers requested that Mu Chun be allowed to try his job first to see if he was competent.

At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang said that this was my family and there was no need to try, so he directly asked Muchun to take over.

Later, Mu Ying took advantage of Zhu Chu's appointment in Yunnan and asked Mu Chun to become one of the commanders, and Zhu Yuanzhang had no objection.

It can be seen that Zhu Yuanzhang is a person with very complicated emotions. He loves his children a lot, but sometimes he has to be suspicious of them.

But as long as you don't betray him or rebel, Zhu Yuanzhang will not treat anyone badly.

At the same time, he was so petty that even Li Shanchang failed to enter the Temple of Meritorious Officials until his death.

Muchun was naturally grateful and thanked him repeatedly.

"By the way, how is my incompetent son doing in Yunnan? You were one of his escort commanders before, so you should know what bad things he has done, right?" Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly changed the topic and actually asked about Zhu Ming. .

The person who became the king of Yunnan was not Zhu Ming.

Muchun was stunned.

Zhu Yunwen on the side also looked curious.

If it weren't for the sudden death of Prince Zhu Biao this year and the subsequent taking away of Mu Ying, the national tragedy and many other things that suppressed the previous matters about Zhu Biao, I am afraid that there would still be people discussing that almost impossible and unfinished thing to this day. Worldly merit, right?

What's more, Zhu Chu is only 13 years old this year. The 13-year-old prince dared to lead [-] troops to face hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, and even won with such a huge disparity. This is unimaginable, and even novels dare not do this. Write.

But it happens to be true.

In fact, in history, Mu Ying was more powerful. He defeated Silunfa's 3 army with 30 people.

In the end, Zhu Zhen defeated Silunfa's army of more than 10,000 with an army of 30+.

(That’s why I’m still being cautious and don’t dare to exaggerate.)
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty King Min," Muchun was about to speak.

Zhu Yuanzhang interrupted: "He is now the King of Dian."

When Zhu Yuanzhang issued the order at the beginning of the month, he coincided with Muchun's team, so Muchun knew that Zhu Chun's feudal title had been changed.

"Yes, His Royal Highness the King of Dian is considerate of the people and is very benevolent and righteous. He never treats the people harshly. Even the native people are treated equally. Even the native tribes who once made trouble will not break their promises as long as His Highness makes them."

"His Highness also opened warehouses several times to release grain, because those chieftains were so abominable that they treated their own people as slaves and animals. His Highness couldn't stand it and redistributed land and food rations to the people. His Highness also said that these people were Those who were innocent were the ones who rebelled, and they had to rebel because it was the imperial court that gave the chieftains the power."

"Humph," Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly. Is this the blame on us?
Mu Chun was startled and knew that he had said the wrong thing. He quickly knelt down and whispered: "Your Majesty, your Majesty is wise and martial and has the style of your Majesty. He even risked his life and personally led the troops to resist the rebellion of Siren. To Dao Gan Meng's ambition, he did not hesitate to rush hundreds of miles to destroy Dao Gan Meng's ambition. His Highness's loyalty to the court can be learned from heaven and earth."

Muchun lowered his head to the ground, but his face was covered in cold sweat.

If it weren't for the fact that he was wearing a sackcloth and a white cloth tied around his head, the floor might have been wet.

Mainly because Muchun didn't expect that Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to be dissatisfied with His Highness?

Why is this?

As a vassal king guarding the border and guarding the country, His Highness single-handedly pacified Yunnan without causing any trouble to the court. Isn't this a great achievement?

But how did Muchun know that instead of receiving a reward, Zhu Ming was scolded.

Or maybe Muchun was still working under Zhu Xi at the time and knew something about it?
After all, since the New Year's Eve, Zhu Zhen didn't even go out of the city gate. He stayed in the city all day, or simply stayed in the palace and never went out.

This contrast is too great.

That's why Muchun tried his best to say good things for Zhu Yuanzhang when he asked.

Of course, what he said was all the truth.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know that this was all the truth, and Jin Yiwei had been sending secrets in the past few months. Zhu Yuanzhang already knew that Zhu Chu had become a lot more honest in recent months, and suddenly turned into a happy and idle prince.

Zhu Yuanzhang also sighed secretly. Zhu Ming was supposed to be a tiger, a fierce general.

But what he was afraid of was that the tiger would one day kill the dragon.

This tiger is too fierce, which may not be a good thing.

"You should get up first," Zhu Yuanzhang said to Mu Chun again: "This is the emperor's grandson. Please be close to each other. Yunwen, grandpa is a little tired. You can take care of Mu Chun on behalf of grandpa."

Zhu Yunwen respectfully agreed: "Yes, Grandpa Huang."

Then Zhu Yunwen came over and said to Muchun: "Marquis Xiping, please come this way."

Muchun nodded, bowed deeply to Zhu Yuanzhang again, and then bowed and retreated.

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at the two people leaving, and couldn't help but sigh again: "Zhu'er (Zhu Chu), don't blame dad, if your nephew wants to ascend the throne, you uncles are like jackals, tigers and leopards, how can I Are you relieved?"

Muchun knew that Zhu Yuanzhang meant to let Zhu Yunwen win over him and to seek refuge with the emperor's grandson.

But Muchun felt helpless. He had been loyal to His Highness before and vowed to follow him until his death. Although Zhu Chun did not agree at the time, he was serious.

Moreover, when they first met, Zhu Zhen seemed to be not a serious person, but the dignified prince liked to take advantage of others by using his seniority and status, and he often called him uncle.

Muchun thought Zhu Zhen was young, so he didn't take it seriously.

But now that Zhu Yunwen is the grandson of the emperor, he is very careful. He seems to be close, but in fact he is unfamiliar. He calls Mu Chun directly by his title, Marquis of Xiping.

This courteous corporal's demeanor reveals aloof indifference.

You are just the Marquis of Xiping, Muying’s son.

I am the grandson of the emperor, the grandson of Emperor Hongwu, and the future emperor.

"What is Marquis Xiping thinking?" Zhu Yunwen suddenly realized that Muchun was in a daze.

Muchun quickly bent down and lowered his head, and replied: "Xiao Hou was distracted, please forgive me, Your Highness."

Zhu Yunwen smiled reservedly but gracefully, raised his hand to support him and said, "The Marquis of Xiping is serious."

Although the two were not close at hand, they were only a few feet apart.

Muchun couldn't help but make a comparison in his mind. If it were His Highness, whether it was him, Wang Fu or Zhao Kuo, even an ordinary soldier would be pulled up by His Highness, right?

Now that I think about it, I can call His Highness Uncle Wang, which is a high achievement.

His Highness seems to like to take advantage, but the one who really takes advantage is himself.

His Highness may not seem serious, but he is actually a polite corporal who is taking the initiative to get closer to him.

Then he raised his head and looked at Zhu Yunwen, who looked like a humble young master. Muchun raised his hand to wipe his forehead and couldn't help but said: "Your Highness, Xiaohou is a little tired from traveling all the way, so he wants to go back to the inn to rest. Please allow me. Resign."

There are also post houses in the capital, which are similar to guest houses. Officials from other places basically rest here when they come to Beijing.

Zhu Yunwen nodded and said, "Then you go and rest."

"Thank you, Your Highness," Muchun bowed deeply again, then turned and left.

Zhu Yuanzhang met Muchun in the side hall, and there were not many people there.

But Muchun felt as if he had fought a big battle, and his whole body was extremely tired. Moreover, although the palace compound was spacious, it always felt like Alexander.

"His Highness's palace is obviously not small, and it is patrolled by guards, but why do you feel so comfortable in front of His Highness?" Mu Chun couldn't help but think of Zhu Ming again.

"It's better to find a way to go back as soon as possible. Although this capital is prosperous, it is also complicated. I am just a little marquis, and I don't dare to get involved too deeply."

"But, can I still return to His Majesty's command and serve as a vanguard for His Majesty's command?"

(End of this chapter)