Five thousand people in the capital are like a drop of water in the ocean.

After all, there are twelve guards in the imperial palace alone.

But the concept of these five thousand people is completely different, because under Zhu Ying's command, there are no tasks to be performed, and they are completely at Zhu Ying's disposal.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked Lan Yu to choose people, and the meaning was very obvious. It was obviously to let Lan Yu choose the soldiers in Huaixi to follow him, forming a core group of soldiers and confidants headed by Zhu Ying.

"Brother, how many people can you spare?" Lan Yu asked after thinking for a while.

Lan Rong frowned and said in confusion: "That's why you came to see me because of this matter. You are in charge of the Central Military Governor's Mansion and you only have no predecessors. You can adjust it at will..."

Lan Yu is currently a high-ranking general, and can easily dispatch even 50,000 people, let alone 5,000.

Lan Yu shook his head and said: "That can't be the case. Although His Majesty has not said anything, His Highness Changsun is not aware of this matter yet, but I can only have a thousand people on my side, and the rest can only be selected from other places, and

Select the most elite soldiers."

When Lan Rong heard this, his eyes towards his younger brother Lan Yu suddenly changed, and he couldn't help but ask, "Are you still afraid of avoiding suspicion?"

Lan Rong understands the character of his younger brother best. He has always been fearless. He grew up with his brother-in-law Chang Yuchun and learned that aura.

When fighting, he takes the lead and is the most courageous. Although he is always strategic, he is reckless and has no scruples in other aspects.

When Lan Yu heard her eldest brother Lan Rong teasing her, instead of saying anything, she said in a deep voice: "Brother, you have never met His Highness Changsun, and you don't even know the details of His Highness Changsun."

"I was at your Majesty's place yesterday and saw the information related to His Highness Changsun. Only then did I know why Your Majesty is so sure of His Highness Changsun's true identity."

"To be honest, His Highness Changsun doesn't look like a brave military general, but his personal bravery far exceeds mine. The day before yesterday, I had a small trial with His Highness Changsun when we dined at the Great Tribulation of Chang Mansion, but failed miserably."

Hearing this, Lan Rong was a little in disbelief: "What did you say? You were defeated by His Highness Changsun. This, how is this possible?"

As the eldest brother, he knows the abilities of his younger brother Lan Yu best. He may be a little worse than his brother-in-law Chang Yuchun, but he is still an absolute warrior.

When my younger brother Lan Yu said this, he could only be convinced by His Highness Chang Sun.

However, Lan Yu's subsequent narration was the beginning of Lan Rong's shock.

As Zhu Ying's detailed information was revealed by Lan Yu, Lan Rong's mouth could hardly close, and his eyes almost fell to the ground.

"This, this is too legendary."

Lan Rong could not imagine that it took an eight-year-old child ten years to build such a huge force.

It's simply too exaggerated, as outrageous as hearing a fairy tale.

Is this still something that humans can do?

Before even meeting Zhu Ying, the seeds of Zhu Ying's invincible figure were already planted in Lan Rong's heart.

From the beginning of the Western Region, to the desert and grassland.

His Highness Changsun created a huge power group without receiving any help.

"Sure enough, your majesty's grandson is a true grandson of the dragon and a born emperor. Only with this kind of blood can he create such glory."

Lan Rong was amazed, that is, the current Ming Dynasty has no concept of shit.

Otherwise, Lan Rong sending out dozens of fucks in a row would be nothing more than...

It was at this time that Lan Rong truly understood why His Majesty had so much faith in His Highness Changsun, and why he did not think it could be controlled by ordinary people.

Such a character needs ten more fucks.

Just like Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Lan Yu, Lan Yu also looked at his elder brother Lan Rong with a smile, and felt an inexplicable pleasure in his heart.

"So, His Highness Changsun's five thousand people can only be mobilized from different places. Otherwise, it will arouse His Highness Changsun's suspicion, which is not worth the gain."

Lan Yu said.

Lan Rong nodded, this is absolutely correct, just from these things alone, it is possible to control such a huge and scattered force.

His Highness Changsun's thoughts and methods are beyond ordinary people's imagination.

He is really His Majesty's grandson, so these methods can be said to be only half as good as the other.

In fact, in Lan Rong's heart, he always felt that His Highness Changsun's methods were more clever than His Majesty's.

"How do you plan to allocate personnel?" Lan Rong asked seriously.

Lan Yu pondered slightly and said: "I plan to send five hundred elites each, and gather five thousand for His Highness to use. It is best if he can understand the priority of fire guns. Your Highness is particularly good at firearms, and there will be no shortage of firearms equipment in the future."

Lan Rong felt the same and said, "Then I will mobilize the five hundred most elite soldiers to supply His Highness."

Lan Yu said again: "I will write a letter to ask Taiping to come back and follow His Highness."

Lan Rong couldn't help but ask: "Why didn't you ask Nao'er to come over?"

Lan Yu shook her head and said: "Nao'er's character is too out-of-the-box. On the other hand, Taiping is more honest, honest and steady. When doing things in front of His Highness, he should be steady."

Lan Yu knew the two sons, Lan Nao'er and Lan Taiping, very well. Although Lan Nao'er was the eldest son, Lan Taiping obviously met the requirements better.

Besides, as the eldest son, Lan Nao'er can inherit everything from him in the future. The second son, Lan Taiping, will follow His Highness the Grand Sun and will also be able to accomplish something in the future.

Along the Qinhuai River.

Zhu Ying didn't expect that the old man would come over at this hour, and he was told to let her enter the palace tonight.

Why did he come directly here?

"Why, we can't come here yet?" Zhu Yuanzhang pretended to be angry.

Zhu Ying was helpless, feeling that the old man always liked such a childish attitude recently, but after looking at the old man whose temples were turning gray, he understood.

"No way, the place where my grandson lives is also my grandfather's home. It will be the same whenever I come over," Zhu Ying replied.

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy, and then said: "Today you go to the palace to sleep. Later I will take you to meet someone. I used to tease you a lot when I was a child."

Zhu Ying nodded, knowing without even thinking, it must be some elder who knew about his existence and wanted to meet him.

When we meet in the palace at night, based on this information alone, it is not difficult to guess that the person we meet must be a concubine in the harem.

The person who can be mentioned by the old man personally has a very noble status in the harem. However, Zhu Ying is not familiar with the harem, and he can only know who it is by meeting him.

"Yueqing, make tea and bring it directly to the study later." Zhu Ying casually ordered.

"Yes, my boss." Ye Yueqing, who was accompanying Zhu Ying, bowed his head slightly and left directly.

"Why, you are the roundworm in our stomach, aren't you? I guess I have something to talk to you about?" Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile.

"Grandpa, it's already this time. Just ask your grandson to prepare dinner. If your grandson still can't guess it, I'm afraid it will be an insult to your reputation." Zhu Ying said with a smile.

Zhu Yuanzhang felt very comfortable when he heard his grandson indirectly flattering him.

Dasun's flattery can't be compared to others, but after thinking about it carefully, he even praised himself.

The grandfather and grandson entered the study, followed by Jiang Yu and Liu He, who were waiting in the yard.

Zhu Yuanzhang took a sip of the tea brought by Ye Yueqing, took out a memorial from his arms, handed it to Zhu Ying and said:

"Let's see, these things really make us feel extremely upset, so we came here to see if there is anything we can do about it."

Zhu Ying took the memorial. He originally thought that the old man came here to discuss the situation there with the work-for-relief program.

I didn't expect it to be something else.

At that moment, I no longer hesitated, opened the memorial, and began to look at it carefully.

It was still a familiar classical Chinese text, but now Zhu Ying was more accustomed to it, and even if there were no sentence breaks, it would be smoother.

Huh.

After just reading the first few paragraphs, Zhu Ying let out a sigh in his heart. He was planning to read from the back. Most of the memorials were extremely complicated and could be omitted.

But this is the only one available at the moment, so Zhu Ying read the beginning. The reason why Zhu Ying was so excited this time was that he found that this memorial was different from the others in that it told the whole story from the beginning.

Zhu Ying then began to study it carefully from the beginning.

This memorial talks about things related to the famine in the Henan area. Zhu Ying was a little surprised at first. In the case of famine, work-for-relief work has a good effect, so he would not let the old man come to find him personally.

However, as she watched, Zhu Ying's expression began to become more and more serious, her brows furrowed.

In fact, the scale of this disaster is too huge, and the number of people involved is beyond imagination.

Reading between the lines, although there is no specific statistical data, the disaster almost summarizes nearly half of Henan.

It’s not just one disaster, it’s multiple disasters.

Floods in the south, droughts in the north, locust plagues in the east, and even the most shocking plague.

It is completely conceivable that the entire Henan region has almost become a hell on earth.

The memorial said that there were about 300,000 people, which made no sense at all. Such a huge disaster affected at least millions of people.

Only then did Zhu Ying understand why the old man came to look for him in a hurry.

Today's Ming Dynasty, faced with a famine of this scale, has no other way but to print a large amount of treasure money and buy food to provide disaster relief.

After closing the memorial, Zhu Ying also noticed the old man's thoughts. If it was really that simple, the old man would have come over specially to find him, presumably because he had encountered some kind of problem.

It is not difficult to guess that nine times out of ten there is not enough food, or even insufficient purchasing power of treasure money.

As the big boss of the Qunying Chamber of Commerce, Zhu Ying understood very well that in this special situation, those grain merchants hoarding goods, especially in places far away from the capital.

Most of them only accept real gold and silver transactions. If people from the government use Daming treasure money to buy, they will lie and claim that they have no grain.
To be continued...