Back to Ming Dynasty as Zhu Biao

Chapter 19 The Spoils of the Northern Expedition

He slept well, but Zhu Biao suddenly woke up at what time outside, and Yu'er and Jin'er next to him lifted the curtain: "It's time for the son to wake up."

Zhu Biao looked outside lazily, and then sat up with his head supported.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, good news came from the north again.

As soon as he got up, Zhu Biao was startled by Zheng Sanbao's shout.

Since last year, the old Zhu sent Xu Da as the general who conquered captives, and Chang Yuchun as the deputy general, leading an army of 25 cavalry in the northern expedition to save the common people.

Last October, when he was invincible and swept all parts of Shandong and recovered Henan, Zhu Yuanzhang went to the front line of Bianliang on the south bank of the Yellow River in person to discuss with Xu Da the next strategy.

Because of repeated victories, Lao Zhu decided to build Daming on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year tomorrow, with the reign name Hongwu.

Zheng Sanbao was out of breath as he ran, bowed his waist and said: "Master, the superior asked you to go to the lobby."

"Sambo, what's the matter?"

"Master, the superior said that General Xu sent people back from the north and sent back a lot of things. The superior asked you to pick them."

"Understood, wait for me outside the door."

Zhu Biao stretched out his arms, Yu'er immediately brought clothes to help him put on, and Jin'er picked a solemn crown hairpin to help him tidy up his hair.

At three poles in the sun, when Zhu Biao went to see Zhu Yuanzhang, he saw the servants in the yard rehearsing with a yellow umbrella cover, and there was a huge yellow dragon and a chariot in the middle.

This is for tomorrow.

Yu Yi smiled slightly and said, "Master, I'll be waiting for you, come in with me."

As he spoke, he shook his whisk and turned around to go in.

Entering the hall, Ma Shi and Zhu Yan were already sitting on both sides.

I only heard Zhu Yuanzhang holding the letter in his hand and saying to Ma Shi: "Di'er's calligraphy has improved, Xu Da told me to make you the empress."

"What about those women?" Ma asked with a smile.

"You can arrange it. When you write back, tell Xu Da that there is no need for a maid. This time, I will take care of him. I don't care if you are fat or not, ugly or not, I will do it for you. Just keep it here. Send it again."

Ma said with a smile: "It must be that those beautiful ones were taken away by the Yuan army, and the unremarkable ones were left behind. Xu Da and the others sent them back to serve as maids."

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed loudly when he heard this, and said heartily: "He acts recklessly, we can't act recklessly, but we can't ignore him, sister, just answer him according to our original words."

They didn't forget Zhu Biao when they talked, Ma Shi asked him to pick things together with Zhu Biao and Zhu Biao.

There are several large boxes on the ground not far from me, which contain a lot of pearl porcelain, gold leaves, jadeite, gold hairpins and the like.

When Zhu Yu and the others were about to run to the box to open their eyes, Zhu Yuanzhang shouted to them: "Seniors are in order, let your elder brothers pick first."

"Yes, Father." The brothers agreed and stood aside.

Zhu Yuanzhang gave him a wink, and Zhu Biao was not restrained, and came over to open some large boxes.

Several boxes were filled with gold, silver and jewels, presumably they were good things that Xu Da and the others got when they recovered various places.

Zhu Yuanzhang carefully looked at the expression on Zhu Biao's face, and found that his son was not surprised at all.

This kid doesn't like jewelry?
He didn't give up, and said again: "Open the box at the back and have a look."

Zhu Biao nodded, tore off the seal on it and asked, "Who are these yellowed papers?"

The boxes in the back are all stacks of yellow paper, and after writing, they are so densely packed that they can't be seen clearly for a while.

"This Xu Da said that some of them were officials of the Yuan court during their attack. He thought about the evidence in it, so he sent it back together. You can see what it is."

Zhu Biao picked up the yellow paper and found that there were some farm tools and a lot of food and grains painted on it.

"From north to south, the customs are different... Sericulture, gardens, fish..."

The more Zhu Biao turned back, the more nervous he became, until he saw the two words on the last signature.

——Wang Zhen!
Wang Zhen, a native of Dongping in the Yuan Dynasty, was an agricultural mechanist and agronomist.

His "Wang Zhennongshu" is divided into three parts: "Nongsang Tong Jue", "Bai Gu Pu" and "Nong Qi Tu Pu". "

There are quite a lot of content, such as food crops, sericulture and animal husbandry, horticulture, forestry, fruit processing, etc.

Zhu Biao reached out and picked up another stack, all of which were bound with thick threads. They were the map of the living method and the map of the national agricultural situation.

If these are used, they will be rare good things after sorting out and recovering.

For a large agricultural country, farming is always very important. It is the foundation of the country and the foundation for the people to survive.

Zhu Biao thought for a while, and found that the words Guo Shoujing had leaked from the bottom corner of the book.

He immediately squatted down and removed the piles of paper above, revealing the old blue book cover in the air.

"Teaching the calendar, pushing steps, establishing success, mathematics, optics, hydraulics, astronomy..."

When Guo Shoujing was born, he was kept by the Yuan Dynasty to prevent him from retiring. I don't know if these things are still written by himself.

Presumably Xu Da and the others found it from some Yuan official's mansion.

Zhu Biao felt that his hands were shaking. Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Shi saw their son's behavior in front of the wooden box, and thought he was bewitched by something.

He stood up and said, "Sister, we told you a long time ago that you can't keep the things belonging to the Yuan thief. You must listen. What's wrong with Biaoer?"

Zhu Biao stood up suddenly and said, "Father, give me this box of paper."

"This?" Zhu Yuanzhang picked up Xu Da's book and said in faith: "I found a box of books from the stone room of the son of Yuan Guan Wang Zhen in Shandong, and several boxes of jewelry in Henan. I think it is a secret of the Yuan court, and I dedicated it to the superior."

According to what Xu Daxin said, it should be that Wang Zhen is no longer around. According to history, Wang Zhen died in 1368.

It seems that Guo Shoujing's books are also collected by this Wang Zhen.

Zhu Yuanzhang put his hands on his hips and said, "Why do you want this?"

Zhu Biao said: "It can make the world's farming a step further, how about I tell a story to my father and mother."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, he likes to listen to stories told by literati, and his son's story is not right.

Then he said to Zhu Xun and the others: "Zhu Xun, Zhu Xun, you go and pick."

Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Shi were not disgusted, Zhu Biao began to tell the story of the era of great navigation.

Including the Industrial Revolution and the discovery of the New World by the West, they have more advanced weapons.In order to satisfy their desires, they began to plunder the country called Donghua Dynasty.

In the development of Wenhua in the Donghua Dynasty, various technologies have always been ahead of the red-haired ghosts. Later, because of backwardness and no progress, capital sprouts died in the bud.

The great powers invaded, the homes of the people in the Donghua Dynasty were divided, life was worse than death, the people were displaced, and the dynasty collapsed. I told Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Shi all about it.

Zhu Yuanzhang was annoyed when he heard that: "The powerful dynasty has collapsed. If we can really learn the skills of that red-haired ghost, our Ming Dynasty will not worry about not being strong."

"My son believes that science and technology are the primary productive forces. Although these books were left by the Yuan court, my son wants to use them and go back to study and study to contribute to the people of Ming Dynasty."

"Okay, it's rare for you to think so, we and your mother support you."

Mashi also nodded.

Zhu Biao nodded, since there was no reform at the end of Ming Dynasty, let's start from the beginning of Ming Dynasty.

Reform, start from scratch...

Zhu Yuanzhang felt that it was a pity that the self-sufficient, wealthy and powerful Donghua Kingdom was destroyed.

Because Zhu Biao spoke too truthfully, Lao Zhu actually began to reflect on the reasons for the demise of Donghua Kingdom.

Especially when those Maozi ghosts could attack the defense built by the whole country with strong ships and cannons, he was angry.

Just like what his slogan said, those Maozi ghosts first learn from others, and learn from whoever is good, and finally improve.

Then he ran to attack Donghua Kingdom.

Then his own Daming can also learn from this story and learn a lesson.

(End of this chapter)