My Daming New Empire

Li Liang sighed: "The snow here in Yingtian Mansion is not too heavy. It is said that the snow in Jiangbei is already half deep. The personnel who counted the materials did not delay at all, but it is still a bit late."

Zhu Zhanji frowned and pondered for a while, sat up and said: "Seeing that spring is about to start, there has been such a heavy snowfall, and now the grain is not picked up. It is better not to use the grain in the major granaries. It is better to help the poor and disaster relief. It is too late today. You go to Huang Yuanhuang for defense tomorrow and ask him to come see me."

Li Liang asked: "Your Highness wants to transfer food from Jiaozhi?"

Zhu Zhanji hummed and said: "There are already two hundred large and medium-sized treasure ships on the side of the Xinjiangkou Navy. Over there, bring a batch of grain back."

Li Liang said with a smile: "This servant wants to ask His Highness for an errand. Chen Xuan has been with this servant for a long time, but he has never had a chance to let him go. Can Your Highness let him go to Nanyang with Huang Shoubei?"

Zhu Zhanji gave him this face, nodded and said: "Then do it like this. If you do things properly, you will inevitably reuse them in the future. And...Liu Wan, although he is not old, he does things well, so he was promoted to Feng. Let's be on errand!"

Liu Wan, who was standing at the door, knelt down excitedly and said, "My servant, thank you for your kindness."

Standing inside the door, Li Liang's expression was calm, showing no signs of happiness or anger.

Now the eunuchs around him, Jin Kuo is the chief supervisor, Sun Lin is the intelligence chief, and then Li Liang has taken over the job of getting close to Zhu Zhanji.

It is not a good thing for him to be alone, and although Liu Wan has been working with him, he was originally with Jin Kuo, and his relationship with Li Liang is not close.

Li Liang wanted to promote Chen Xuan, so of course Zhu Zhanji also wanted to promote someone who was not too close to him to check and balance.This has nothing to do with trust, it's just that the balanced system cannot be relaxed.

After dismissing Li Liang, Zhu Zhanji said to Li Zhaoxun, "It's getting late, I'll look at the information for a while. You should rest for a while, and don't do needlework anymore. Be careful not to hurt your eyes."

Li Zhaoxun said with a sweet smile: "The concubine obeys, so don't be too late, Your Highness."

Zhu Zhanji held up her delicate little face, kissed her on the lips, and said with a smile: "Such a delicate and beautiful woman, how can Gu let you stay alone in the empty room? Gu will come to accompany you at the latest."

Li Zhaoxun smiled like a flower, helped Zhu Zhanji light two more oil lamps, and then obediently entered the back room.

Zhu Zhanji opened the oil-paper package to check the storage of naval granaries in various places.

Since the era of Zhu Yuanzhang, the military granaries and local granaries have been managed separately.Every year, summer grain and autumn grain are put into storage, and they are divided into local grain depots and army grain depots, and there is no relationship between the two.

No matter how difficult the place is, the army's ration supply will never be less.

However, this kind of stability is based on the fact that ordinary people have to endure two months of neglect every year.

Although in recent years, the situation of land abandonment has been greatly improved, and the lives of ordinary people are much better.But if you encounter natural disasters and man-made disasters, there will naturally be times when you don't pick up.

What is a prosperous age?Zhu Zhanji believes that not only the national strength is needed, but also the common people need to live a good life.

Seeing that there will be natural disasters this year, we should have made preparations early. It would be more appropriate to save the grain stored in the army and use it for relief later. It would be more appropriate to directly transfer grain from the south.

Otherwise, in a few months, the local people will have no food to eat, and no matter how full your army is, Zhu Zhanji will not be happy at all.

Prosperity is not something to brag about, and politicians must be fully prepared and sympathetic.If we really have to wait until a natural disaster occurs, it will be too late even if we want to buy food.

As for money, Zhu Zhanji was not worried at all. Daming’s grain was only two cents and eight cents a stone, which was one tael and 450 catties. He only needed to spend 10 taels to buy [-] tons from Nanyang.

Of course, this is only theoretical. Even if Nanyang is a grain-producing area, it is difficult to raise so much grain in a short time.

Thanks for the bamboo sticks, the lights see people, I spit on you, a reward for a different enjoyment, thank you for your support

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Since Yongle entered Beijing in the spring of 13, Huang Yuan experienced a dreamlike year.

At first, he just wanted to use the opportunity of coming to the capital to prepare for his father's return.

Huang Fu was the Minister of the Ministry of Industry during Zhu Yuanzhang's period, and he was the Minister of the Ministry of Industry in the early years of Yongle.In the third year of Yongle, because Chen Ying impeached him for not caring about craftsmen, he was changed to Beijing Xingbu Shangshu.

In the second year, due to the corruption case of the Ministry of Industry, he was arrested and sent to Jinyi Prison because of the corruption case, and was later demoted to be an official.Soon, he resumed his official position, and was responsible for the governor's salary because the Ming army attacked Annan.

After Annan was pacified, the Ming Dynasty changed Annan to Jiaozhi.Zhu Di ordered Huang Fu to take the title of Shangshu and concurrently serve as the Chief Envoy of Jiaozhicheng and Announcement of the Political Envoy and the Secretary of the Inspectorate for Mention of Punishment.

Although he has become a member of one party, he is busy with cochin affairs and far away from the center.Huang Fu was also unwilling to end his life like this, and actively planned to return to the center.

Huang Yuan was placed in the navy that escorted Zhang Fu back to Beijing. Originally, he just wanted to be the liaison between the Jiaozhi Navy and the Navy Headquarters to discuss reorganization.

Unexpectedly, he was appreciated by the grandson and the new navy commander Liu Jiang in the capital, not only promoted two ranks, but also made great contributions during this expedition.

Because he did not directly lead the army in battle, although Huang Yuan made great contributions as a liaison officer this time, he could not be named uncle, but he was named Changyi son of his hometown Changyi, and he officially entered the ranks of military generals.

In Daming, there were many examples of two generations of father and son, or even three generations of grandparents and grandchildren being in the court together.But most of them are civil servants or generals.

The example of father and son, one civil and one military, and both occupying high positions, is the only example in the entire Ming Dynasty.

It was snowing heavily, but Li Liang, Zhu Zhanji's most trusted young supervisor, came to call him in person, and Huang Yuan knew that the grandson must have an important task for him.

Stuffing one of his own jade biscuits into Li Liang's sleeve, Li Liang did not take Joe, but directly revealed: "After the Ming Dynasty, it will snow heavily, Your Highness is afraid that there will be no food in a few months, so I want to send guards to Nanyang to buy food. Of course, our family is not familiar with Nanyang, so I won’t say much, as long as the guards know what to do.”

Huang Yuan was stunned for a moment, then he was overjoyed.Born in the capital and raised in Jiaozhi, Huang Yuan knows Jiaozhi, including several countries near Jiaozhi, like the palm of his hand.

If it is other tasks, it may be difficult to handle, but if it is to buy food, it is a matter of mutual benefit. Even if he goes to Nanyang, he will be warmly welcomed.

Cochin was hit by a catastrophe last year, and grain production was reduced, but Siam and other countries had enough grain.And he has his own father in charge there, which can be described as an easy feat.

But he also knew that the main reason why he was selected by the grandson was because he had a father who was a civil affairs official in Jiaozhi.

If other people went there, they might not be able to buy enough food.

He bowed with a smile and said, "Thank you Shaojian Li for reminding, Yuan will keep it in mind."

Li Liang gave up half of his body with a smile, introduced a 20-year-old Fengyu and said: "This person is Chen Xuan, who has been ordered by His Royal Highness to go to Nanyang with the guard. This journey is thousands of miles away. , I also hope that Huang Shoubei can take care of him a lot."

"Of course. Of course."

It is common practice for the general to go out to the army, and the internal supervisor will supervise it.Huang Yuan is only on defense, and it is customary not to be the general of an army, but seeing that there is only a Feng Yu accompanying him, Huang Yuan's heart also jumped.

Could it be that he will really use himself as the main general to go to Nanyang to buy food?

Following Li Liang to the newly built intelligence office at Donghuamen, Zhu Zhanji met Huang Yuan here.

This is a small courtyard that was just built half a year ago. The area is small, and the courtyard is pitifully small, but this small courtyard, which is attached between the city gate road and the east garden of Wenhua Palace, is extraordinarily quiet.

It was snowing heavily outside, but the newly built house was installed with earth dragons, so it was very hot inside.

Zhu Zhanji was actually not used to the heat in the room, but except for the 200 people sent by the chief of ceremonies at the beginning, most of the people in the intelligence department were old eunuchs recruited by Sun Lin in the palace.

Although their mobility is a bit poor, they are experienced and well-informed.When sorting out information, sorting out information, it is far more reliable than the young eunuch.

They are old and naturally afraid of the cold, so in order to take care of them, the ground dragon here is burning hot.

"My humble minister Huang Yuan pays his respects to His Highness."

"You don't need to be too polite, get up and watch the seats."

Liu Wan helped Huang Yuan take off his cloak and hung it up for him.Huang Yuan thanked him, and then sat down under Zhu Zhanji's hands.