At the end of April, as Zhou Ding brought news of the promotion of military attachés from various departments of the Bohai Navy, Zhu Gaoxu also recalled the promoted military attachés to Jilin City.
Back in Jilin City, both Lin Su and Fu Rang sighed at the brand-new Jilin City.
Compared with last year, the new city is more than three times larger. The city walls have been lengthened and thickened. They are constructed using rammed earth on the inside and concrete on the outside, so they are very strong.
In the city, although the roads paved with concrete are not as beautiful as the blue bricks, they are still much more beautiful and easier to use than the rammed earth roads of the past.
Fifty-two folk houses are scattered in an orderly manner. The people walking on the street are neatly dressed, unlike before, with mud stains on their bodies.
Drainage channels, sewers, fire tunnels, fire walls, public toilets...
These livelihood facilities that benefit the people are all well-constructed. The fifty-two civilian squares and the two official and military squares on the left and right are even more neat and tidy, and the buildings are extremely solid.
Most of the houses in the square are built using bricks and concrete from brick kilns. They are beautiful and practical.
The people in the city, regardless of the number of people in their family, all built a small courtyard with two entrances and exits for each household as a model. It occupied four quarters, including a main house, two wing rooms, two wing rooms, and four reverse houses.
By using one part of the house to store firewood, one as a kitchen, and one as a toilet, six empty houses can be made. Even one house per person can satisfy a family of six, and if there are more, it can accommodate ten people. A few mouthfuls.
Such a courtyard, located in the south, cannot be built without twenty strings, but in Jilin City it is built and distributed free of charge.
The houses of the common people are so 'luxury', let alone Zhu Gaoxu, the King of Bohai.
According to the regulations given by Lao Zhu, Zhu Gaoxu's Bohai Palace is forty-six feet wide from east to west, sixty-two feet long from north to south, with four gate towers, a transport hall, a kitchen and a rice warehouse, and fifty-six halls and corridors. There are two hundred and sixty houses.
In addition, the original design of the palace also included defensive military facilities such as royal city walls and moats, but Zhu Gaoxu did not let people build them because he did not want to create an atmosphere that was isolated from the people of Jilin, so he only let people build them. The palace wall of the palace was built one foot three feet high and one foot wide.
Except for the moat and city walls, Zhu Gaoxu did not interfere with other regulations.
The layout of the Chengyun Hall, Cunxin Hall, the front and rear bedrooms, as well as the Prince's Mansion, Shanchuan Altar, Sheji Altar, Lumi Granary, warehouse, stable, family temple, and three east and west palaces were all built according to regulations. The only difference is that , just the way of construction is different.
Zhu Gaoxu liked the outward-extending cornices during the Han and Tang Dynasties, although the craftsmen who built the palace told him that such cornices were made because the walls and columns were not waterproof during the Han and Tang Dynasties, and were made to prevent the walls and columns from being eroded by rain. The original extension method is no longer needed when using brick walls, but Zhu Gaoxu still asked the craftsmen to extend the cornices as much as possible.
After this design, the buildings of the Bohai Prince's Mansion almost look more grand than the Prince's Mansion.
"That's the way it is, so I'm preparing to go ahead with the expedition to Hu Lawen."
In the Chengyun Hall, which covers an area of two acres, Zhu Gaoxu sat on the throne on a high platform and told more than a hundred military attachés sitting on the left and right sides of the hall about their promotion.
After receiving the news, more than a hundred military attachés from more than a hundred households fell silent, and Fu Rang and Lin Su, who had returned, also frowned secretly.
Fortunately for Fu Rang, Lin Su had gone through so many things and was much calmer than when he was in Nanjing.
In the past, when he heard this kind of thing, he would definitely blurt it out like Zhang Chun, but now he is weighing it.
He wanted to be promoted, but he also didn't want to leave Zhu Gaoxu.
He knew very well that his promotion was not due to his ability, but because he followed the right person.
Now that he has left Zhu Gaoxu and gone to Kaiping, can he still climb up?
"It's good to go out. You don't need to bear such a heavy burden. It will be harder than here. After all, after you go out, you will have to lead a much larger team than now."
Zhu Gaoxu comforted everyone and said at the same time: "I am going to let Wang Yi take over Zhaozhou City, while Andong City will be handed over to Chen Chang."
Zhu Gaoxu looked at Wang Yi, who was sitting third from the left, and Chen Chang, who was sitting seventh from the right.
Both of them were from Baihu before, but now Wang Yi has become the commander, Meng Zhang has become the commander, and Chen Chang has also become another commander in Jilin City.
Chen Chang is an old brother of Xu named Baihu. He is taciturn, but Zhu Gaoxu can be sure that he is not a Jinyiwei, because Chen Chang is one of the few people who brought his whole family to the north, and he also married a wife and had children in Jilin City.
Before going north, he was just an ordinary soldier in Xuzi Baihu, but now he has become a commanding officer.
He doesn't talk much, but he does whatever Zhu Gaoxu says, and he does it well.
Just as Lin Su thought, he was not the most capable person. Speaking of Chen Chang, his ability to lead troops was superior to Lin Su's. However, when comparing the two, Chen Chang suffered the disadvantage of being young.
He is seven years younger than Lin Su and is only twenty-one now, but this is not a problem in the Bohai Navy.
Most of the soldiers in the Bohai Navy are in their early twenties, and even the generals are generally between twenty-five and forty.
A thirty-six-year-old general like Wang Yi is already considered an 'old antique' in the Bohai Navy.
"Your Highness, Meng Zhang is gone, who will hand over the three games?"
Yishiha, who was sitting in the first place on the left, raised his head and asked. After hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu also turned his attention to the person in the back.
"Cui Jun!"
"Here!" Suddenly hearing Zhu Gaoxu calling his name, 20-year-old Cui Jun stood up subconsciously.
When he realized that it was Zhu Gaoxu calling him, he immediately bowed, and Zhu Gaoxu also looked at him and smiled: "I am going to let Cui Jun lead the troops to take care of the coal field, iron field and lime field."
"Your Highness, this..."
Yi Shiha looked at Cui Jun and frowned slightly. He knew the secrets of Sanchang very well, so he preferred his old brother Xu Zibaihu to Cui Jun who joined him from other guards.
Seemingly seeing Yi Shiha's worry, Zhu Gaoxu smiled: "Cui Jun is also an old brother who came all the way from Nanjing. Although he is young, he fought with me in Xiyang Ha and also followed me out of the city to fight against Ha Lawu. "
"I'll be relieved to have him guard the three games."
"Yes..." Seeing that Zhu Gaoxu said so, Yishiha no longer struggled. He just secretly had some thoughts and wanted to protect this family for Zhu Gaoxu.
Seeing that he stopped talking, Zhu Gaoxu also looked at Fu Rang: "Fu Rang, you have been promoted to the highest official position this time, and you are still serving in the Liaodong Capital Division. I will have to rely on you in the future."
"I don't dare..." Fu Rang responded with a bow.
If someone else said this, Fu Rang would just think that they were ridiculing him, but if it was Zhu Gaoxu who said it, then he would have to think about it carefully.
Since arriving in Jilin City, he has not mentioned leading troops to fight for the time being. He has gained a lot of experience by just handling the land reclamation of Andong City and the construction of Zhaozhou City.
As one of Zhu Gaoxu's close confidants, he knew very well what Jilin City relied on to make a living, and he knew even more clearly that Zhu Gaoxu had always asked Yang Bin to transport grain.
It is indeed beneficial to Jilin City to go to Liaodong Dusi by myself, but due to my identity, after I go to Liaodong Dusi, I am afraid that people from the south will follow my every move, so I have to be careful in everything I do.
"Lin Su, you go to Kaiping. That's where my father practiced temperance. You can learn something from my father."
Zhu Gaoxu mentioned Lin Su, who had been silent, but Lin Su, who used to be able to chat with everyone, just bowed in response to his words.
Everyone could see that Lin Su was not happy, but he did not choose to take the lead in making trouble, but stayed quietly in his position.
This is already a big improvement for him.
"Brothers who are going south, don't worry. I have written letters for you in these days. Although it may not be of much use, it can be considered a comfort."
Zhu Gaoxu looked at the more than a hundred military attachés in the hall, stood up with a smile, and everyone also stood up when they saw this.
"Come! Let's have good wine and good meat, but before we eat, I have to say that in the next few months, I will hand over the things at hand properly. Even if I have to leave, I must leave a flawless fortress! "
"The last general takes orders!!"
Zhu Gaoxu gave an explanation, and everyone responded with a roar. The voice rushed out of Wuying Hall and shook away the birds on the eaves.
Not long after, dozens of large tables were carried into the hall, and the square in front of Chengyun Hall was also filled with tables.
The soldiers in the city were notified that they would eat mutton in the palace today, but they were not allowed to drink alcohol.
Soon, except for the soldiers on duty who had to wait for their shift to change, the rest of the people poured into the palace.
Chengyundian Square, which covers an area of ten acres, is enough to accommodate five to six thousand people. Less than two thousand soldiers come to eat, which is nothing to the square.
In order to cope with this situation, Zhu Gaoxu asked his chefs to recruit dozens of apprentices as early as last year.
Although their craftsmanship is average, it is enough to handle this kind of banquet.
What's more, after the ingredients they needed were brought into the palace, they were quickly handled by the army's leading soldiers. They just cooked the vegetables and it was enough.
However, despite this, the cook's spatula almost flew over.
Nearly two thousand civil and military officials gathered in the outer court, and hundreds of pigs and sheep were slaughtered. In addition, hundreds of pigs and ducks were also captured from the chicken and duck houses in Beiwan outside the city.
At this banquet, the table was almost full of meat, and the soldiers ate with their mouths full of oil. However, Zhu Gaoxu hardly ate anything at this meal, and he went around the tables to drink tea instead of wine.
After the banquet, he didn't eat a few mouthfuls of mutton, but he drank about two hundred cups of tea and ran to the hut three times.
After drinking and eating, many soldiers spontaneously began to clean up.
When the sky turned dark, Chengyundian Square not only did not become dirty, but it was cleaner than before the banquet.
In the evening breeze, Zhu Gaoxu sat on the steps in front of Chengyun Hall, looking down at the empty square in front of him.
At the same time, footsteps came from behind him, and a figure sat next to him.
"Your Highness..."
Lin Su looked at the dark square, pondered for a long time and then said: "The general doesn't want to leave."
His words were very plain, but you could hear his struggle.
The corners of Zhu Gaoxu's mouth raised, but his words were very realistic: "In this world, it's not about whether we want to, but whether we can."
"You should know that the imperial court doesn't want you to be with me all the time. It's easy for you to lose your tail."
He said this, but Lin Su was worried: "If we leave, how many of the people who stay will truly love His Highness?"
Obviously, Lin Su and the others knew that the imperial court had already started adding sand to the Bohai Navy. Maybe most of the people left behind this time were sand.
Regarding Lin Su's words, Zhu Gaoxu gradually put away his smile, nodded and said: "You and I both know, but there is nothing you and I can do about it, because we don't make the decisions in this world."
"If they want to mix it with sand, let it be. I treat my sincerity with my sincerity. If I am let down, there is nothing I can do about it."
Although Zhu Gaoxu said this to Lin Su, he knew better than anyone what his true "sincerity" was.
It is not unconditional trust, but a deep binding of interests.
Zhu Gaoxu did not have many resources at his disposal, but he could put all the limited resources in the hands of those who followed him, which the imperial court did not have.
Take farming as an example. Jilin City allocated 300,000 acres, but Zhu Gaoxu didn't leave any of it in the palace's books, and distributed all of it to the people and soldiers.
If you are single, it is indeed difficult to impress these soldiers with three or four acres a year, but what if you have a family?
More than ten acres of cultivated land is handed over to the hands every year. Who can not be tempted by such benefits?
The imperial court was rich, but they would not be willing to spend hundreds of dollars on an ordinary soldier. But Zhu Gaoxu dared to do so. This was his confidence.
If he is still here, the people of Jilin City will receive farmland income every year, but he is gone, not to mention that there will be no farmland income in the future. The ownership of the existing farmland alone is enough for them to cause trouble.
Jilin City is a health post, and the fields cultivated are military garrison fields. Zhu Gaoxu does not think that the group of people in the south will be willing to give out hundreds of thousands of acres of cultivated land to the people, because once this opening is opened, other health posts will follow suit, and the system will be destroyed, which they cannot bear.
System and interests determine everything. Zhu Gaoxu's position in Jilin City, even if Lao Zhu comes in person, it will be difficult to shake him without using force.
The exchange of sincerity for sincerity is just rhetoric, and the involvement of interests is the real thing...
"Unconsciously, I became such a hypocrite."
Zhu Gaoxu was dejected, but Lin Su was convinced by this rhetoric.
"Don't worry, Your Highness, I will definitely repay you if I have the opportunity in the future."
Lin Su said these words solemnly, and Zhu Gaoxu also patted him on the back: "Go back and rest early. Tomorrow, you and Chen Chang will return to Andong City to hand over the matters in hand."
"Then we're leaving..." Lin Su reluctantly stood up, and under Zhu Gaoxu's gaze, he turned back three times and left the Prince's Mansion.
However, a moment after he left, Yi Shiha came over.
When he came to Zhu Gaoxu's side, he looked around: "Your Highness, Lin Su is not here?"
"He just left." Zhu Gaoxu chuckled, and at the same time looked up at Yi Shiha and said curiously:
"Have you ever been envious watching them being promoted and transferred one by one?"
"It's a lie to say I'm not envious..." Yishiha smiled bitterly and sat down, but after sitting down he sighed and said, "But seeing them leave, I'm still a little happy in my heart."
"At least I am the eunuch of the royal palace. No one else dares to ask for her, so I can stay with His Highness for the rest of my life."
"There is some ambiguity in what you said." Zhu Gaoxu looked strange, and Yi Shiha couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "When the princess hears this, I'm afraid she will doubt Your Highness."
"What you said..." This time it was Zhu Gaoxu's turn to be helpless.
But to be honest, he had some uncomfortable moments in the years since he came to Ming Dynasty. It was just that when he was in Nanjing, he didn't have the courage to go to the sixteenth floor, and when he arrived in Jilin City, he didn't have a good relationship.
After finally waiting for Guo Yan, it turned out that Guo Yan was too young, so Zhu Gaoxu endured it.
He is also a human being, and sometimes he wants to find someone to act wild, but Jilin City's resources are not very good, so he can't find anyone good-looking even if he wants to act wild.
"Have you finished planting the rice?"
Zhu Gaoxu got down to business, and Yishiha also put away his smile and nodded: "Last year's rice seeds were screened and cultivated. This time, 26,427 acres were planted."
"Except for these fields, which are used as rice fields, the rest of the fields are planted with beans and wheat respectively according to the rules."
"We can open up wasteland tomorrow. Based on this year's animal power, we can open up at least 300,000 acres of floodplain land."
"However, after the development is completed this year, the floodplains in Zhongwan will be developed. Next year, we will probably have to open up the floodplains in North Bay."
"Although North Bay is vast, most of it is bushes and swamps. It would probably take decades to open up millions of acres of floodplain land."
"Therefore, I want to open up dry land to the hills west of Jixi Fort."
The floodplain land in Jilin City is limited, and the land that can be reclaimed for rice fields is even more limited. Therefore, Zhu Gaoxu did not think that Jilin City could grow all rice.
Compared with the situation in Beiwan, it seems more cost-effective to open up the hills to the west of Hadal Ridge.
However, there is also a problem in opening up the hills over there, that is, this place is flat and there is almost no danger to defend except for the mountain passes more than a hundred miles to the north and three hundred miles to the south.
Previously, the Bohai Navy was small in number, so Zhu Gaoxu would naturally not consider reclamation to the west, but now the Bohai Navy's strength has expanded, and two thousand military households will go north to join them before winter.
With such power, Zhu Gaoxu would be fine if he didn't trouble others. No one would dare to trouble him.
Haragu, the only one who had the ability to cause trouble for him, was chased by Zhu Di for hundreds of miles. He was now hiding in Ulianghatu City, licking his wounds and had no time to look around.
What's more, after a few days, I will clean up Ataiwailan, and the next one to clean up will be Halawu, so there is no obstacle to reclaiming wasteland to the west.
Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu also said to Yishiha: "Before winter, take people to the west to choose a piece of land and build a town."
"We won't sell food this year. By then, many tribes will be unable to survive and come to seek refuge with us."
"First divide the two thousand households from the south into three, arrange one part in that town, and the other two in Andong City and Hulawen after the conquest."
He has already begun planning the city before sending out troops. This is not because Zhu Gaoxu is arrogant, but because he has a clear understanding of himself.
Most of the armored soldiers of the Xiyang Ha tribe were captured and destroyed in the Battle of Daheishan. If Atai Wailan had the strength to counterattack, he would not hide until now.
When Harawu invaded, it was the best time for Ataiwailan to seize Anton City.
If he misses it, he will never get another chance.
"I will go on an expedition this time and I won't come back again. You should plan your time and go to Zhaozhou City to prepare food and draft horses. When I come back, I will take a boat all the way north to patrol the border."
"Arrows and armor weapons, as long as I don't speak, don't stop and continue to build them."
Zhu Gaoxu is preparing for the future. If he wants to fight against Liaodong Dusi, he must have enough armored soldiers.
Liaodong Dusi has more than 40,000 soldiers. Excluding the defensive ones, he can draw at least 30,000 people to fight with him in the wilderness.
There is no need to elaborate too much on what defeating Liaodong Dusi represents. Now I just need to go step by step.
Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu stood up and walked to the harem.
Yi Shiha watched him walk towards the harem, but did not follow him. He just signaled with his eyes that the two Jing soldiers who followed him should follow Zhu Gaoxu.
Soon after, he left the palace and returned to his yard.
As for Zhu Gaoxu, he returned to the former palace, where he met Guo Yan who stayed up late at night reading "Di Bao".
"you are back?"
Seeing Zhu Gaoxu enter the room, Guo Yan put down the newspaper in his hand, and two maids also stepped forward to undress him.
Since the palace was too big, Guo Yan recruited twenty maids in the city who were fifteen or sixteen years old. Therefore, when someone was undressing and taking off Zhu Gaoxu's belt, other maids had already swarmed up with toiletries.
Zhu Gaoxu, who had taken off his clothes, sat on a chair and watched the maids taking off his shoes, washing his feet, washing his face and brushing his teeth.
After one word, when he had done everything, he took off the wooden hairpin on his head, turned his attention to Guo Yan, and then moved to "Di Bao".
"Have you read it all?" Zhu Gaoxu asked, and Guo Yan nodded: "I have read it for the second time."
She looked a little unhappy. Zhu Gaoxu thought she was worried about Guo Ying going to Shaanxi to quell the rebellion, so he comforted him: "My grandpa went to Shaanxi to quell the rebellion. This time he was with Marquis Changxing. It won't take long." The counterinsurgency is over.”
"I am not worried about this." Hearing Zhu Gaoxu's comforting words, Guo Yan laughed and put one hand on the "Di Bao".
"My concubine took a look and saw that the incident in the south has just started, and there is no result yet, so I feel a little worried."
Guo Yan was worried that this time the North and South List case would involve the old heroes of Huaixi. After all, the previous major cases basically involved the old heroes of Huaixi.
However, Zhu Gaoxu, who is familiar with this period of history, consoled him: "Old cases may be involved, but the surviving ministers will not be involved. You can rest assured about this."
"Even so..." Guo Yan was a little worried, and after pondering, he looked at Zhu Gaoxu and asked:
"Your Highness, do you think your Majesty didn't punish the officials involved immediately this time?"
Guo Yan asked Zhu Gaoxu about things she didn't understand because she felt that her Highness seemed to know everything.
Regarding her question, Zhu Gaoxu also thought about the results of the North-South List case in history, and then thought about the current situation that Lao Zhu might face in Nanjing.
Seemingly thinking of Lao Zhu's plight, Zhu Gaoxu leaned on the chair, looked at the ceiling of the front bedroom, and said with complicated emotions: "This case may disappoint some people..."
(End of chapter)
