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 one bad move would kill Xu Zheng. But this thing seemed very strange to Zhu Yuanzhang. An Qing is here Before, I had no contact with He Xi at all.
The two of them came together so well.
And He Xi has only been here for a month.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not pay attention to these details. Instead, he felt a sense of relief. He thought to himself: "This way, I don't need 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 It was impossible to hide it from Zhu Yuanzhang.
The more He Xi showed up, the more Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking about one thing, that is, if He Xi could be controlled. If He Xi could be used for his own purposes.
There are rumors outside that He Xi is Zhu Yuanzhang's illegitimate son. He Xi himself doesn't know. But how could Zhu Yuanzhang not know? If he didn't know, so many people in Jinyiwei were waiting to die. Even Zhu Yuanzhang somewhat contributed to the situation. mean.
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 the illegitimate child has always been a rumor. Zhu Yuanzhang had no intention of confirming it.
If there is a marriage, in Zhu Yuanzhang's opinion, the best one is the legitimate daughter, that is, Princess Anqing. Because Zhu Yuanzhang only has two legitimate daughters. Princess Anqing is the youngest. The other princesses are all concubines. Zhu Yuanzhang himself attaches great importance to legitimate concubines. On the one hand, Zhu Yuanzhang paid attention to etiquette. On the other hand, Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma had a deep love as husband and wife. The daughter of Empress Ma was 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 long-standing problem. If Zhu Yuanzhang really doesn't pay attention to Princess Anqing's feelings, Princess Anqing will not be able to reverse Zhu Yuanzhang's decision no matter how hard she tries. It is precisely because Zhu Yuanzhang attaches great importance to his legitimate daughter and is worried about this, I was afraid of that, so I delayed it.
This is the same problem.
Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to make Princess He Xishang for the purpose of getting married. It was to let He Xi board the boat of the old Zhu family and think about the old Zhu family from then on, not to make enemies. If he had asked for forced arrangements, they would have become a couple. Grudges. 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 the affairs of women.
I didn't know how to start for a while.
Now that I heard the news, I felt happy and angry at the same time. I was happy that things came true as I wished. But I was angry because He Xi was so bold that he dared to peek at my daughter.
Sometimes, being a father-in-law is so contradictory. This doesn't work, and that doesn't work either.
"I understand. As long as you know 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 stations.
There are departments such as the Ordnance Bureau under the Ministry of Industry. There is the Arms Bureau under the Inner Palace, and the outposts have arms manufacturing departments. Some 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 these days is not as good as the one-click Internet in later generations. Even if you are far away on the other side of the ocean, you can check the inventory if you want to check it. Now the data he can check are all reported at the end of last year.
It's coming up. As for the inventory in various places at the end of this year, I don't know.
But He Xi took a look at the situation of troop deployment 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, southeastern Sichuan and southwest Sichuan entered the territory of the Ming Dynasty, there have been no major wars but constant small battles. Based on the original inventory, which was not large, plus this year's nine
During the month, there were several battles, both large and small. Wuxi barbarians rebelled once and Yao people rebelled twice. More than a dozen guard posts were dispatched successively, with a total of hundreds of thousands of troops. Of course, not all were dispatched. In many cases, guards were mobilized.
A unit. Several garrison units gather together and attack together. Some garrison units also go into battle several times within a year.
Weapon consumption is quite large.
This made He Xi not have too much hope for the weapons reserves in the southwest.
However, the weapons reserves of the Ministry of Industry and the Imperial Household are quite sufficient. The prince did not lie about this.
It's just that the various weapons of the Ming Dynasty were a bit dazzling to see. I don't know the weapon ratio of the Ming army. I don't know how much ordnance is needed for an army of 300,000. It's like many people say that fighting a war requires
An army of ten thousand or an army of tens of thousands. In fact, there is no such thing at all. Whenever a war is fought, it is based on organizational structure. In modern times, it is several divisions and several group armies. In the Ming Dynasty, it was several guard posts and several thousand
Hu.Jiejie did not mention tens of thousands of troops.
The same is true for army weapons. An army of 300,000 people needs how many spears, how many bows and arrows, how many pairs of armor, how many long knives, and how many firecrackers. I definitely don’t say this about the weapons and equipment of tens of thousands of people. After all, even for an army
The weapons required are different from those of the army due to the location of deployment, local climate, and the weapons required.
He Xi knew nothing about this. Naturally, he could not read from the Ministry of Works' account books how many thousands of military ordnance the Ministry of Works had. Whether it was enough for the Southern Expedition Army.
How many gaps are there?
He Xi simply doesn't look at the specific number of weapons.
Let's first look at the inventory of the Ministry of Industry. The quantity of pig iron is quite sufficient. The number is huge, 37.43 million kilograms.
It's just that He Xi made an estimate and calculated it from kilograms to kilograms. 18.715 million kilograms. A ton is a thousand kilograms. Move a decimal point back. 18,715 tons. Eighteen thousand and seventy-five tons. How do you say this number?
It seems not too small.
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, having only so many steel reserves is a bit too little.
Oh, I also want to point out that this is only pig iron reserves, not steel reserves.
He Xi suddenly felt that these more than 10,000 tons of pig iron were enough to make 300,000 yuan worth of equipment.
Before he had time to find out the army's weapon structure, he first checked the steel consumption of each weapon and excluded those armor names that were unknown. Judging from the steel consumption, it seemed that the Ming army's armor was divided into two types, one
It is a soldier's armor, which consumes forty kilograms of iron. The other is an auxiliary's armor, which consumes twenty-four kilograms of iron. A spear head, one or two or three coins, and a long knife depend on the shape. It is about two kilograms,
Between three and four pounds.
Firearms consume the most iron. Firearms weighing several thousand kilograms or tens of thousands of kilograms. He Xi did not see it in the Ministry of Industry's information. It is estimated that they either do not exist or are cast separately. They are not included in conventional weapons and are not in stock. However,
There are too many firearms that consume tens of kilograms to one hundred, two hundred kilograms of iron.
Let He Xi be countless.
The question arises again. How are these firearms equipped in the army? How much is equipped for each thousand households? Should they be dispersed throughout the army, or placed in fortifications, such as city walls and camps? Or should they be in the hands of the general in the army?
, 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 in the middle of the night, feeling it was nerve-wracking. He rummaged through his notebook 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 is 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, and so-and-so talked about history. It is also very famous. But this kind of professional weapon production,
As for the technical information on smelting, it was given to He Xi before and He Xi would not read it.
Now I am totally dumbfounded.
I can only vaguely see the blast furnace, coke, preheating, blast, converter, open hearth, and what 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 an impulse to throw the laptop and mobile phone in front of him to Zhu Yuanzhang. It was simply embarrassing to let him find them by himself.
However, this is just a thought.
When it was almost dawn, He Xi took the time to squint for a while without even taking off his clothes. Because he knew that there were many things to do tomorrow.
