In late February of the third year of Yongle.
The latest battle report from the Annan battlefield came.
At the beginning of the year, the Ming army broke through Thang Long City and captured a lot of loot. The loot was already on its way to the capital.
Mu Sheng led his army to pursue the remnant troops of the Hu Dynasty, and reached Menhaikou, where a disease broke out among the army.
Mu Sheng could only move his army to Xianzi Pass and form a stronghold to prepare for war.
The battle report finally requested Zhu Di to send doctors and pharmaceutical support.
An outbreak of disease in the army is no small matter. If it is not handled well, the army will definitely suffer heavy losses.
Zhu Di did not dare to delay, so he immediately transferred imperial doctors from the imperial hospital and sent them to Annan.
He also sent an order to local officials in Guangxi to prepare medicinal materials.
In March, Hu and his son assembled an army of tens of thousands, claiming to be two hundred thousand.
A decisive battle broke out with the Ming army at Xianzi Pass.
Although the Ming army was unable to exert its full combat power due to the epidemic, the equipment of the Ming army was much better than that of the Hu Dynasty army.
Coupled with the fortification and defense, the Hu Dynasty army was unable to break through the Ming army's camp.
Subsequently, Mu Sheng used artillery to disrupt the formation of Hu Chao's army.
Then he personally led the cavalry and infantry to fight out.
Drive the Hu Dynasty army into the river.
After the first battle, the army that Hu and his son had finally assembled was destroyed.
The father and son escaped from the battlefield with the desperate protection of their confidants.
Mu Sheng did not pursue rashly, after all, the epidemic in the army has not yet been resolved.
He quickly organized manpower, cleaned the battlefield, and captured prisoners.
At the same time, he sent someone to inform Zhu Neng about the situation of the war.
May.
The Hu family and his son were captured by the Ming army at Qiluo Haikou. At this point, the Hu Dynasty was destroyed.
After that, Annan was included in the territory of Ming Dynasty.
Later it was changed to Jiaozhi, and the Jiaozhi Chief Envoy Department was established.
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Beijing.
The news of the great victory in the Battle of Annan came back, making Zhu Di very excited.
Preliminary statistics show that apart from the consumption of the Ming army, this battle also made a lot of money.
Now, he had money to spend again.
This time, he planned to build a palace in Peiping based on the Forbidden City in Jinling.
By the way, after Zhu Di ascended the throne, he changed Peking Prefecture to Shuntian Prefecture and Peking to Beijing.
At that time, Li Zhigang, the Minister of Rites, reported that Peiping was Zhu Di's "Longxing Land" and should follow the example of Taizu Emperor Gao in Fengyang and establish it as a companion capital.
As a result, Peiping, now Shuntian, became "Xingzai".
Zhu Di was somewhat glad that he agreed to Li Zhigang's proposal.
Otherwise, there will be considerable resistance to building a palace in Peiping.
After all, this is related to a big plan in his mind.
Zhu Di expressed his idea of building a palace in Peiping at the court meeting.
Naturally, there was opposition from some people.
The reason given was nothing but a waste of money and people.
Zhu Di is very much like Lao Zhu. He will not give up what he wants to do just because of the opposition of his ministers.
Besides, Prince Zhu Gaochi and most officials agreed.
The matter was thus settled and handed over to the Ministry of Works.
Then, he asked about the progress of the canal dredging.
The canal has been abandoned for many years and is severely clogged.
The dredging work cannot be completed in a year or a half.
Zhu Di also knew that asking at this time was to express his concern.
After all, the grain output in the north cannot compare with that in the south, and grain needs to be transported from the south.
But taking the land route would cost too much.
Generally, to transport one truck of grain, two trucks must be prepared, one of which is for the transportation personnel to eat on the road.
Sometimes, the rations prepared for transport personnel are more than the grain to be transported.
Zhu Di knew this account, so he wanted to dredge the canal.
After all, the cost of transporting food through canals is much less than traveling by land.
Moreover, after the canal is dredged, it will also bring many benefits to the people on both sides of the canal.
More importantly, it can strengthen exchanges between the north and the south and accelerate the economic development of the north.
At the end of the court meeting, Zhu Di ordered the Ministry of Rites to collect books across the country, of all types.
Because he still has to do something big.
After the court meeting, Zhu Di summoned someone in the imperial study.
This person's name is Xie Jin.
"Your Majesty Jie Jin, long live my emperor!"
"Flat body!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Xie Jin was a Jinshi in the 21st year of Hongwu. He came into Lao Zhu's eyes because of his article "Ten Strategies for Peace".
But later, when Lao Zhu wanted to kill Li Shanchang, Xie Jin actually helped his friend write a letter to defend Li Shanchang.
This move made Lao Zhu very angry, so he drove Xie Jin back home in the 24th year of Hongwu, leaving the words "I won't use him again in ten years."
But Jie Jin couldn't wait ten years.
So after Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne, he found his former friends and asked them to help him speak kindly to Zhu Yunwen.
Finally, Xie Jin became an official again, but he went to a remote place to become an official.
This was different from what he thought.
He responded quickly and immediately mobilized his network.
In the end, he stayed in the capital as he wished and worked in the Hanlin Academy, but his official position was not large.
However, Xie Jin firmly believes that if he wants to climb up the ladder and become rich and powerful, he can only have a chance by staying in the capital.
Therefore, when Zhu Di led his army to the capital, Xie Jin used all his strength to run outside the city and surrender.
And Xie Jin also gained Zhu Di's attention because of his timely surrender.
Of course, this also included the reason why Zhu Di killed the ten clans of Fang Xiaoru.
After all, before entering the capital, Yao Guangxiao had told Zhu Di not to kill Fang Xiaoru. If he killed him, the world's reading seeds would be wiped out.
But Zhu Di did not listen to Yao Guangxiao and killed Fang Xiaoru.
But the problem Yao Guangxiao mentioned cannot be ignored.
So Jie Jin became the example Zhu Di set for scholars all over the world.
However, Xie Jin is not Fang Xiaoru. He cannot completely solve the problems Zhu Di encountered, nor can he change Zhu Di's image in the minds of scholars.
His existence is more like Zhu Di's method to win over scholars.
Of course, Xie Jin's own talent cannot be ignored.
Zhu Di looked at Xie Jin in front of him and started chatting with Xie Jin like a family.
The latter was also keenly aware that Zhu Di had a task assigned to him.
Since the completion of "Records of Taizu", he has been staying in the Hanlin Academy with nothing to do.
Sometimes he even wondered whether Zhu Di had forgotten such a person.
Fortunately, his waiting was not in vain.
"It can be seen that the accumulation of these two years has made you more stable."
After chatting for a while, Zhu Di commented.
"Thank you for your majesty's cultivation!"
Xie Jin said.
Hearing this, Zhu Di smiled and then said:
"This time, I have an important task for you."
"Your Majesty, please tell me!" Xie Jin said, suppressing the excitement in his heart.
"I want to repair the book."
"The most complete, perfect and excellent book from ancient to modern times."
"Even a thousand years later, it will still be an extremely brilliant book."
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