Daming: Refining zombies at the beginning, Lao Zhu was shocked

Hearing that his father actually asked him to go to his second son, Zhu Xiaqiu, for armaments, Zhu Xiafeng was naturally very unhappy!

Originally, he and Zhu Xiaqiu were always at odds with each other, and it was true that they were not convinced by each other.

The main reason is that the two brothers have very different personalities and have different views on many things, which leads to them not getting along with each other on topics and methods of doing things!

Let him look down and go to Zhu Xiaqiu to ask for armaments. He was worried that Zhu Xiaqiu would take advantage of him, and he might even make things difficult for him!

However, Zhu Yue clearly didn't care about this matter and only gave him one way to find Zhu Xiaqiu, but she had no choice!

If you want armaments, you can only go to Zhu Xiaqiu!

This made Zhu Xifeng quite miserable!

After enduring it all night, Zhu Xifeng couldn't hold it back the next day and ran directly to the imperial study room to find Zhu Xiaqiu!

"Second brother, you are so prosperous now. Grandpa Huang and father have become the hands-off shopkeepers. You have the final say in the affairs of the court!"

After Zhu Xifeng entered the imperial study, he said to Zhu Xiaqiu with a half-smile, with a hint of sourness in his tone.

There is no way, who makes this person the grandson of the emperor, the future crown prince of the Ming Dynasty!

"Didn't Big Brother say that you want to train your personal guards to prepare for the vassal?"

"Why do you have time to come to the Imperial Study Room to tease me today?"

Zhu Xiaqiu put down the memorial and writing brush in his hand, stared at Zhu Xiafeng with interest and asked.

In fact, Zhu Xiaqiu had a clear idea of ​​Zhu Xiafeng's purpose. He knew that this guy must have come back to him to ask for military equipment. After all, Zhu Xiaqiu also had an idea of ​​the quality of the equipment of those guards!

With Zhu Xiaqiu's mind, he naturally knew that his father Zhu Yue also wanted to take this opportunity to give the boss a good beating and establish the relationship between their brothers!

Zhu Xiaqiu naturally has to seize this opportunity!

It's not that Zhu Xiaqiu has any bad taste or resentment towards Zhu Xiafeng. The main reason is that Zhu Xiafeng's character is too out-of-touch. If he is not restrained, he may cause big troubles in the future!

Compared to Zhu Xia Feng, Zhu Xia Qiu's temperament is more tolerant and calm, and he has no intention of causing trouble for Zhu Xia Feng!

But appropriate suppression and control are still very necessary!

After all, he is the crown prince, and the future crown prince must also make the other brothers clearly aware of this!

Otherwise, in a few years, I am afraid that as the grandson of the emperor, my words will have no effect in front of the remaining brothers. That won't work!

"Brother, isn't it true that the equipment of my personal guard is too poor?"

"You also know that the original equipment of the Imperial Army is far inferior to that of the Hanzhong Army!"

"Now that the Hanzhong Army has been given to that guy Lao San, my 20,000 personal guards are all selected from the imperial army. Although their combat power is good, they still need to be trained. The most important thing is that the equipment must be up to date. You have to go up there!”

"I told my father yesterday that I wanted to replace a batch of armaments for the Guards. My father said that I can come directly to you and ask for it!"

Zhu Xifeng explained in a carefree manner.

"Big brother's personal guards want to change their equipment, of course there is no problem!"

"I wonder how many sets of equipment Brother is going to replace?"

Zhu Xiaqiu asked calmly.

"It's not much. Don't I only have 20,000 personal guards?"

"Just go with this number of people. Thirty thousand sets is enough!"

Zhu Xifeng said a number nonchalantly.

In terms of equipment, one must be wealthy. After all, losses and other factors have to be taken into account. Zhu Xifeng naturally wants to get it right in one step. As long as 30,000 sets of equipment are available, he will not need it for a long time in the future. Come to Zhu Xifeng for equipment!

"Thirty thousand sets is not enough?"

"Brother, don't you know that firewood and rice are expensive when you are not a householder?"

"Did you know that even if the imperial navy reorganizes 20 people, it has only given 20 sets of equipment so far, and you still have a surplus here?"

When Zhu Xifeng heard this, he was immediately speechless!

He thought that Zhu Xifeng would definitely be a lion, but he didn't expect that this guy would be so exaggerated!

An army of 20,000 people needs equipment of 30,000 people. Are you kidding me?

When he was not a family member, Zhu Xiaqiu always felt that his father, Zhu Li, was very generous. He would give many things to people below him when he asked for them, so he also thought that Ming Dynasty should be very wealthy in this regard!

But when he really sat in this position, Zhu Xiaqiu realized that the Ming Dynasty today really lacked everything!

It was so generous in the past because at that time, the Ming Dynasty had not yet started to build railways, and there had not been all kinds of large-scale construction, demolition and city expansion!

Not to mention the subsequent construction of a city in Mobei, education and other reforms, and the construction of city defenses at the Hami Guard in the northwest, etc.!

The investment and consumption involved is simply a bottomless pit!

In terms of weapons and equipment, production capacity can only be said to be barely keeping up!

After all, there are hundreds of thousands of regular troops of the Ming Dynasty. Counting all the miscellaneous troops, there are nearly a million people!

Although the equipment produced in Hanzhong is good and the quantity is not small, the problem is that for the entire Ming Dynasty, it is really not that much!

It has not been long since Zhu Xiaqiu took over state affairs, but he fully understands the hardships and difficulties involved. After many policies were implemented, Zhu Xiaqiu discovered that the money in the national treasury was shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye!

The current situation of the Ming Dynasty's treasury is that one tael of broken silver wishes it could be broken into more petals and spent!

But having said that, Ming Dynasty could have dealt with all this more calmly. The main problem was that Zhu Yuanzhang was too impatient and spread the stall too big!

Because Zhu Yuanzhang always thinks about the affairs of three generations, and he wants to finish it in one generation!

Even though Zhu Yue often mentioned this issue to Zhu Yuanzhang, after admonishing him, Zhu Yuanzhang only calmed down a little!

Now the arrow is on the string and must be fired!

Many reforms have already begun to be implemented, and it is impossible to directly announce the stop. We can only try every means to finish it!

Zhu Xiaqiu knew this, but Zhu Xiafeng didn’t!

After listening to Zhu Xiaqiu's words, Zhu Xiafeng's brows immediately wrinkled!

"Second brother, what do you mean by this?"

"Are you reluctant to give me 30,000 sets of equipment?"

Zhu Xifeng's face suddenly turned ugly.

"That's not what you said. The 30,000 sets of equipment you mentioned include the soldiers' armors, weapons and flintlocks!"

"This equipment alone will require more than a month of production capacity at the military factory!"

"Although the production capacity of military factories has been increasing, Ming Dynasty's equipment is not rich at present!"

"I can only give you fifteen thousand sets at most. If there are not enough left, I can replenish them from other places in the future, but I can't give them to you all at once!"

Zhu Xiaqiu thought about it and gave Zhu Xiafeng a 50% discount on the spot!

The original 30,000 sets of equipment can only be given to 15,000 sets!