Daming heir

Throughout the night, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Yunxi talked a lot.

From the time when the old man was a cowherd boy outside Fengyang City, to the Ming Dynasty when he was preparing for the journey to the Western Regions.

He also talked about whose girl in the village was as beautiful as a flower, and she drooled over the old man's name. Nowadays, the royal family of Ming Dynasty is flourishing and full of descendants.

Zhu Yunxi coaxed the old man to bed and watched him sleep peacefully. He didn't know the time anymore.

When he exited the house, closed the door gently, and turned around, he realized that the sky was already dark.

This is the coldest time of the day.

Dew covered the branches and leaves, the morning sun did not heat up, and the morning breeze was a bit cold.

Zhu Yunxi shrank his head, arched his shoulders, rubbed his hands together slowly, and walked forward.

As soon as he left the hospital, he saw Zhu Gaochi holding a tureen in front of him.

Zhu Yunxi blinked his tired eyes: "What is this?"

"It's for you." Zhu Gaochi murmured and sent the bowl to Zhu Yunxi: "Can you bear it after nagging the old man all night? This is what the imperial doctors prescribed after the snakes were caught in the mountains last night. A few herbs and qi-tonifying snake soup are stewed, drink it while it's hot."

Protein is not soluble in water, and the umami flavor of chicken soup and snake soup is produced by another substance that has no nutrients.

But once people from Taiyin Hospital are mixed into it, then this bowl of snake soup must be able to replenish qi.

Zhu Yunxi didn't think much, took the tureen, opened it and saw the snake soup with a light layer of oily water.

He raised his head and drank the entire bowl of soup in one gulp.

Seeing Zhu Yunxi finish drinking the soup, Zhu Gaochi had a smile on his face, took the empty bowl, and handed it to the attendant beside him.

Zhu Gaochi added: "There is nothing important in the past two days. The projects on the construction site are progressing according to the construction schedule. The people who continue to come from the mountains are also allocated according to the previous plan.

You go and get some sleep first. If there is any important military information coming from the front, I will call you. "

As he spoke, he pushed and pushed Zhu Yunxi into a room in the back office of Dayong County Government.

Zhu Gaochi did not dare to arrange several graceful women for Zhu Yunxi, but the house had obviously just been tidied up again, it was clean, and a not too strong incense was lit.

Seeing the soft and neat bed.

Zhu Yunxi skipped the steps of washing up and directly took off his coat and got into bed.

Within two seconds, he was already snoring loudly.

In the next few days, the entire Dayong County was calm.

The emperor's body is also recovering quickly.

On the third day, the old man was already wandering around Dayong County with his sixth son.

The food list in the Southwest is very different from that in the Central Plains.

Even Zhu Zhen, who also lives in Huguang Road and has lived in Wuchang City all year round, knows little about the types of food in Dayong County.

The father and son were busy all day long, looking for delicacies they had never seen before in the streets and alleys of the city.

It is a rare leisure time.

Outside the county seat, the number of projects in Dayong County is now increasing.

The total number of people who rushed to Dayong County from all over the country has exceeded [-].

This also resulted in the rapid progress of various projects.

Now the imperial court is at an unprecedented height in the hearts of these people.

If someone says at this time, the court is exploiting them.

The biggest possibility is that he will face the excited people and get a hammer blow.

Not to mention, the imperial court further carried out teaching work in Dayong County.

After the common people finished their work during the day, during the time before going to bed at night, literate people from the army and the city would go to various places to teach the common people how to read and write.

What is knowledge?
  In the long past, it was something only wealthy families could possess.

In recent years, power has only been held by those who are either rich or noble.

The court now doesn't want them to spend any money. It lets them learn to read and calculate accounts for free.

This is a great kindness.

That's right.

Zhu Yunxi and others are trying to promote basic education in Dayong County.

Although the imperial court has been actively building more local government-run schools in the past two years, it has never been able to better solve the basic education for all people due to the huge cost problem.

After all, people at this time cannot study completely off-the-job.

For most people, studying cannot change the current situation. The most important thing is to have a full stomach and live a better life.

Instead of learning to read and then continue to devote yourself to more imperial examinations.

But the current nighttime literacy learning in Dayong County is another attempt.

At least it can be guaranteed that these common people who work will be able to read in the future.

Therefore, after Zhu Yunxi and Zhu Gaochi concluded, they felt that it was not so much basic education as literacy.

In short, here in Dayong County, except for the fact that there is no more fighting, everything else is going on in full swing.

Leaving Dayong County, the entire southwest Tusi region also experienced an eerie silence during this period.

Since the Peng family of Xuanwei Si in Yongshun and the Peng family in Baojing Prefecture were successively annihilated by the imperial army, the two places were undergoing a process of returning to their hometowns.

All parties in the southwest maintained a standstill attitude.

Even though the imperial court was still recruiting people from the southwest chieftain region, those chieftain officials who had been hereditary for hundreds of years remained unmoved.

It seemed that even if the imperial court removed everyone, they would not have any dissatisfaction or reaction.

For a time, there was a calm situation in the entire southwest region.

Capital.

In Yingtian City.

Zhu Biao had just finished his regular court meeting, and walked into the side hall of Wenhua Palace a little tiredly and lay down.

The news that the old man had gone to the southwest had already been rushed back eight hundred miles away.

But as long as the old man is not in Beijing, Zhu Biao's heart will not be stable.

Although there have been no major disputes between the DPRK and China recently.

But what I have been doing has not always been smooth.

With the establishment of the Zhili Governor's Office in Southern Zhili, the power struggle between Zou Xueyu and the local Shangfu County is still ongoing.

The imperial court dismissed many people.

But the lowest level officials cannot be completely solved by just one assessment.

The rule and governance of the empire at its most basic level has been a long-standing problem since thousands of years ago.

Zou Xueyu wants to do something that no one has done.

He hoped that the power of the Southern Zhili and Zhili Governor's Yamen under his control could be directly extended to every township in every prefecture, county, and town.

This requires huge power and resources to do.

The result of this is that Zou Xueyu alone owns a room in the Metropolitan Procuratorate specially used to store impeachment memorials.

Zou Xueyu is the only one who possesses such an honor in the imperial dynasty.

Zhu Biao was very sad.

He knew that Zou Xueyu was a capable person, but the local conflicts had not been resolved and had begun to affect many aspects. The troubles in Nanzhili are not over yet.

Zhu Biao had to worry about the construction of the western railway again.

Although the construction of that large project, which requires tens of millions of money and food investment, has already begun, the massive amounts of materials required need to be transported within the entire empire.

The imperial court solved the problem of local people's dissatisfaction with railway crossing, but another problem arose that no one had thought of before.

I don’t know when the local governments began to compete for the right to have railways pass through their own borders.

For this reason, the conflict has escalated to two neighboring counties in Shaanxi Province. The county magistrate, together with government officials and ordinary people, fought privately on the border.

Is this even official?

The parents of one county took their own people to work with the neighboring county.

If the poor prefect hadn't gone with his soldiers and horses to bring the situation under control, his clothes were torn and his boots were missing, he might have caused many casualties.

But if something like this happens first, there will inevitably be a second one.

When the news came back to the capital, the prince was furious and ordered a thorough investigation.

Finally, it was discovered that there was a fool in the Ministry of Industry who actually spread the news that the imperial court would increase investment along the western railway line, mobilize local people to produce, and sell local output elsewhere through railways and river transportation, thereby increasing local income.

The imperial court has had an unwritten rule in the past two years.

That is, wherever the economy of a place is doing well, the people are better fed and clothed more warmly, and the fiscal revenue can increase at the same time, then it will inevitably be selected by the officials, given a favorable rating, and promoted.

The imperial court must take economic development as the core condition for evaluation.

When officials along the western railway line heard that the railway line would receive investment from the court and improve the local economy, they did not immediately start fighting.

The angry prince naturally couldn't tolerate it.

That idiot from the Ministry of Works was transferred to a certain industrial group under the name of the Ministry of Works.

I heard that he was going to work in the iron mines in Qiongzhou Prefecture.

Officials along the Western Railway also received the most severe warning from the court.

Anyone who dares to lead the people to fight again should go home and farm by himself.

In this way, the official disputes in the west were somewhat calmed down.

But privately, those people feel that martial arts are not good enough, so they will write letters.

As a result, all kinds of things to slander each other and smoothen relations between the DPRK and China emerged in endlessly.

Although it was all for promotion, it was also for the development of the local economy. Zhu Biao had no choice but to stop them from causing trouble at this time.

After all, the Ministry of Industry also discovered many problems in the early planning during subsequent surveys.

At least the western railway route has not been completely determined.

Things are complicated and confusing.

It can only be implemented step by step.

In addition to this matter, the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion has also presented a huge and grand development plan for the Western Region to Zhu Biao.

The plan of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion covered a territory of the Western Region that far exceeded the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

To the west, we must be able to directly contact the Central Asian countries, and to the south, we must meet the Southern Expedition Army led by Chang Sheng on the Ganges Plain.

This plan has far exceeded the Ming Dynasty's original plan to reopen the Western Regions.

Everyone in the governor's office is now fully hoping that the imperial court will issue an order so that they can lead the Ming Dynasty's elite troops in the westward expedition.

For this reason, a sand table exercise on how to march into the Western Regions spread from the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion to the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion, and then to the Martial Arts Hall.

The focus of the debate also changed from how to recover the Western Region to how to establish a new territory to the west of the Ming Dynasty that was not part of the existing territory of the Ming Dynasty.

When Zhu Biao saw the end of the plan, which stated that the Governor-General hoped that the imperial court would dispatch an army of [-], he was immediately dazzled.

This is not the Northern Expedition. The Great Wall can be used as a starting point to dispatch food and supplies.

Three hundred thousand Ming troops rushed thousands of miles away, leaving Yangguan in the west and engaging in successive wars.

The imperial court had to pay a huge price to ensure the food, grass and weapons needed for this [-]-strong army.

crazy.

The entire Metropolitan Government went crazy.

This is Zhu Biao’s final conclusion on the plan.

However, Zhu Biao had to think about the balance of the opinions of the Governor's Office.

Just when Zhu Biao was having a headache over these things, news came quickly from Dayong County.

The old man fell ill and could not return to the capital for a while, so he asked the imperial hospital to dispatch an imperial doctor to Dayong.

Zhu Biao couldn't sit still at all.

Lying on the soft chair, Zhu Biao finally couldn't bear to throw it away. He shouted angrily and smashed the ring ring in his hand that he had worn for a long time on the ground.

The trigger finger shattered.

"No one can worry!"

Gao Yangzhi stood up quickly and brought a cup of tea to the prince: "Your majesty has his own good fortune, and with God's blessing, he will be fine. If your majesty is really seriously ill, Dayong, whether it is the grandson Even His Royal Highness the King of Chu will definitely escort His Majesty back to Beijing as soon as possible."

He is a cabinet minister, although the cabinet works in Wenyuan Pavilion.

But in the Wenhua Hall, because the prince handles government affairs here every day, the cabinet rotates one person to take care of it every day to facilitate the transmission of information between the two parties, which can be regarded as fulfilling the cabinet's responsibility of assisting in government affairs.

Zhu Biao took the tea, but frowned: "If you don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are, the Ming Dynasty seems to be doing well at the moment, but if you are not careful, everything will be lost."

He didn't specify what happened.

But any matter in the imperial court is not a big deal.

Gao Yangzhi smiled silently and whispered: "Actually, as the country becomes stronger, things seem to be more and more troublesome than before. But in the end, they are still those things.

Your Highness has been a crown prince for a long time. He has been in the middle palace and has overseen state affairs for many years. When it comes to discussing state affairs in the court, no one can be more knowledgeable than His Highness. It's just that I haven't figured it out for a while, so it's better to rest for two days in order to meditate. "

Zhu Biao put down his teacup and looked steadily at Gao Yangzhi, who was smiling.

A smile slowly appeared on his face, and then he stretched out his hand and pointed to Gao Yangzhi, laughing heartily.

"Good for you, Gao Chunfeng!"

"He actually talked about being alone in a roundabout way!"

Gao Yangzhi also laughed out loud.

Just don't talk.

And soon.

The prince's edicts began to be sent to the cabinet one by one, forwarded to the court, and announced to the world.

The imperial court will fully support all the innovative initiatives of Zhili Governor Zou Xueyu, and those who resist will not violate national laws.

The western railway construction plan is completely negotiated by Cabinet Minister Xie Jin and the Ministry of Industry, and no one is allowed to interfere.

The Metropolitan Government also received an answer.

The prince said that whoever has the courage to lead [-] people to complete everything in the plan given by the governor's office will be appointed as the general of the Western Expedition.

All of a sudden, the prince's worries were swept away.

Shan Yongnian, the envoy of the old hospital of Taiyuan Hospital who had not been out for a long time, led a group of young disciples out of Yingtian and headed to Dayong County, Huguang Road.

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