Chapter 22 Daming’s family background
Xu Zheng said: "Your Majesty, just now Secretary He and Princess Anqing had a private meeting in the small bamboo forest in the southwest corner of Qianqing Palace."
Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned and said, "Is this serious?"
Xu Zheng immediately said: "I dare not say anything false."
Zhu Yuanzhang also knew that Xu Zheng would never dare to talk nonsense about this kind of thing. Because if one mistake is made, Xu Zheng will be killed. It's just that this thing seems very strange to Zhu Yuanzhang. Anqing had no contact with He Xi before this.
The two of them came together so well.
And He Xi has only been here for a month.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not study these details in detail. Instead, he felt a sense of relief. He thought to himself: "This way, I won't have to go to war."
He Xi himself may not know that during this month, Zhu Yuanzhang has been paying attention to He Xi all the time. Maybe in other places, some things can be hidden from Zhu Yuanzhang, but in the three-thirds of an acre of Daming Palace, anything can be done It is impossible to hide it from Zhu Yuanzhang.
The more He Xi showed up, the more Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking about one thing, that is, how to control He Xi. If He Xi is allowed to be completely dedicated to her own use.
There are rumors outside that He Xi is Zhu Yuanzhang's illegitimate son. He Xi didn't know. But how could Zhu Yuanzhang not know? If he didn't know, so many people in Jinyiwei were just eating and waiting to die. Zhu Yuanzhang even seemed to be adding fuel to the flames.
Because Zhu Yuanzhang wanted everyone to know that He Xi was his Zhu Yuanzhang's person.
With the label of illegitimate son, no one in the world would be stupid enough to win over He Xi to betray him.
Of course, in Zhu Yuanzhang's view, the label of illegitimate child is not safe.
The best thing is a more intimate relationship, which makes He Xi inseparable from the Zhu family for the rest of his life.
It is also the oldest and most effective relationship, that is, marriage.
This is why illegitimate children have always been a rumor. Zhu Yuanzhang had no intention of taking action.
If there is a marriage, in Zhu Yuanzhang's opinion, the best thing is the legitimate daughter. That is Princess Anqing. Because Zhu Yuanzhang only had two legitimate daughters. Princess Anqing is the youngest. The other princesses are concubines. Zhu Yuanzhang himself paid great attention to concubines. On the one hand, Zhu Yuanzhang paid attention to etiquette. On the other hand, Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma were deeply in love as husband and wife. Queen Ma's daughter is different from the daughters of other concubines.
Just because of the emphasis, many things are difficult to do.
Princess Anqing's marriage has always been a difficult issue. If Zhu Yuanzhang really doesn't pay attention to Princess Anqing's feelings, no matter how hard Princess Anqing works, she will do it. It is impossible to undo Zhu Yuanzhang's decision. It was precisely because Zhu Yuanzhang valued himself as his legitimate daughter, he was worried about this and afraid of that. That was the delay.
This is the same problem.
Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to make Princess He Xishang. It's for getting married. It was to let He Xi get on the old Zhu family's boat and think about the old Zhu family from now on, not to make enemies. If he asks for forced arrangements, he will become a pair of enemies. This is not what Zhu Yuanzhang wants to see.
Zhu Yuanzhang was versatile in military and political affairs, but he was not very proficient in personal relationships with women.
I didn't know how to start for a while.
Now after hearing the news, I felt happy and angry at the same time. Happily, things come true as one wishes. Annoyingly, He Xi was so bold. How dare you peek at my daughter.
Sometimes, being a father-in-law is so contradictory. This won't work, and that won't work either.
"I understand. As long as you know about this matter, you are not allowed to say a word to anyone." Zhu Yuanzhang calmed down and said.
"Yes." Xu Zheng was naturally measured and knew what to say and what not to say.
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"Ah-----" He Xi yawned.
He was busy all night doing one thing, gathering information on Ming Dynasty's military manufacturing.
Although the prince said everything was ready, there were many things that He Xi couldn't rest assured unless he got his hands on them.
The weapons manufacturing system of the Ming Dynasty is divided into three parts, one is the Ministry of Industry, one is the inner government, and the other is the foreign defense station.
Under the Ministry of Industry, there are departments such as the Ordnance Bureau. There is a weapons and staff bureau under the inner palace, and the outposts have weapons manufacturing departments. Some of the guards even have manufacturing tasks, such as how many weapons are escorted to the capital every year.
He Xi checked the archives of all the guards in the southwest, as well as the archives of the weapons of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
In fact, he also knows that the official document system of today is not as good as the one-click networking of later generations. Even if you are far away across the ocean, if you want to check the inventory, you can check it. Now he can find the data, which was reported at the end of last year. As for what the inventory will be at the end of this year. He Xi doesn't know.
But He Xi took a look at the troop situation in the southwest.
You won’t know if you don’t look at it, but you will be shocked when you look at it.
Why Zhu Yuanzhang has little interest in Yunnan is because since the large area of Guizhou, Guangxi, Sichuan, Southeast, and Southwest Sichuan entered the territory of the Ming Dynasty, there have been no big battles but small battles. Based on the originally small inventory quantity, coupled with the nine months of this year, there is a large and small quantity war. The Wuxi barbarians rebelled once and the Yao people rebelled twice. More than a dozen guard posts were dispatched, with a total of hundreds of thousands of troops before and after. Of course, not all of them are dispatched. In many cases, some of the guards are dispatched. Several guards gathered together and attacked together. Some guards also go to war several times a year.
The consumption of weapons is quite large.
This made He Xi not have much hope for the weapons reserves in the southwest.
However, the weapons reserves of the Ministry of Industry and the Interior Ministry are quite sufficient. The prince did not lie about this.
It's just that He Xi was a little dazzled by the various weapons of the Ming Dynasty. I don’t know the weapon ratio of the Ming army. I don’t even know how much ordnance is needed for an army of 300,000. Just like many people say that to fight a war, you need an army of 10,000 or an army of tens of thousands. In fact, there is no such thing. Whenever a war is fought, it is done according to the establishment. In modern times, there are several divisions and several army groups. In the Ming Dynasty, there were several health centers and several thousand households. Jiejie did not say tens of thousands of troops.
The same goes for army weapons. How many spears, how many bows and arrows are needed for an army of 300,000 people? How many pairs of armor. How many long knives? How many firecrackers. Determination did not say that about weapons and equipment for tens of thousands of people. After all, even between armies, the weapons required are different due to the location of deployment and the local climate.
He Xi knew nothing about this. Naturally, we cannot read from the Ministry of Works' account books how many thousands of weapons and equipment the Ministry of Works has. Is it enough for the Southern Expedition Army?
How many gaps are there?
He Xi simply didn't look at the specific number of weapons.
First, we went to see the inventory of the Ministry of Works. The quantity of pig iron was quite sufficient. The numbers are huge. Thirty-seven million four hundred and thirty thousand kilograms.
It's just that He Xi made some calculations and calculated from kilograms to kilograms. 18.715 million kilograms. A ton is one thousand kilograms. Move one decimal point back. 18,715 tons. Eighteen thousand and seventy-five tons. How to say it. This number seems quite large.
But He Xi was a little unhappy.
For a person, owning so much pig iron is a huge wealth, whether in later generations or in this era. But for a country, there are only so many steel reserves. Isn't it a little bit missing?
Oh, and it’s important to note that this is just pig iron reserves. rather than steel reserves.
He Xi suddenly felt that these more than 10,000 tons of pig iron could make 300,000 yuan worth of equipment. Is it enough or not?
Before he could find out the military's weapons organization, he first checked the steel consumption of each weapon and excluded those unknown armor names. He Xi looked at the steel consumption. It seems that the Ming army's armor is divided into two types. One is the soldier's armor, which consumes forty kilograms of iron. One is the armor of the auxiliary soldiers, which consumes twenty-four kilograms of iron. A spear head, one or two or three coins, and a long knife depending on the shape. Probably between two kilograms, three kilograms, and four kilograms.
What consumes the most iron is actually firearms, which weigh several thousand to ten thousand kilograms. He Xi didn't see it in the Ministry of Industry's information, so he probably didn't have any. Either cast separately. It is not considered a conventional weapon and has no inventory. But there are too many firearms that consume tens of kilograms to one hundred or two hundred kilograms of iron.
Let He Xi be countless.
The problem comes again. How are these firearms equipped in the military? How much equipment does each thousand households have? Should the equipment be dispersed among the entire army, or placed in defensive fortifications, such as city walls and camps. It is still in the hands of the military commander and has an independent artillery force.
If you don't understand these, you can't estimate how much iron is needed.
He Xi looked through it for half the night and found it very nerve-wracking. He rummaged through his laptop and cell phone again.
He Xi regretted it countless times. If God gave him a chance, he was determined to save all the storage space in his mobile phone and computer as the technical data needed for time travel, instead of saving the data now, in countless unknown times. Among them, look around to see if there is anything useful.
To be honest, it’s easy to find information on history and technological development. After all, I occasionally read some when I was in school. Especially history, things about the Ming Dynasty, so-and-so talks about history. It is also very famous. But this kind of professional weapon building and even smelting technical data. I gave it to He Xi before, and He Xi wouldn’t even read it.
Now I am totally dumbfounded.
We can only vaguely see the blast furnace, coke, preheating, blast furnace, converter, open hearth, and there seems to be a Martin furnace.
As for who Martin is?
Only the devil knows.
He Xi's forehead was blurry and he was relatively speechless. He didn't know where to start.
I thought to myself: "How can I show Zhu Yuanzhang the power of modern technology?"
For a moment, He Xi had the impulse to throw the laptop and mobile phone in front of him to Zhu Yuanzhang. Let him find it himself. It's simply embarrassing.
However, this is just a thought.
When it was almost dawn, He Xi took the time to squint for a while. He didn't even take off his clothes. Because he knew there would be a lot to do tomorrow.
