Zhu Yuanzhang knocked another million taels of silver from Zhu Gui. He was in a good mood, so he did not continue to argue with Zhu Gui and let him go.
Zhu Guiru was granted amnesty and immediately went back to meet with representatives of the Datong Chamber of Commerce and several important business representatives in Nanjing, and then explained his current situation to them.
Although Zhu Gui had made a lot of money recently, he couldn't resist Zhu Yuanzhang's frequent extortion of him, so he planned to transport all the money back to Datong Prefecture and at the same time send people to Shanghai County to investigate the situation there.
But don't count on the people here in Nanjing. Although they are businessmen, they have a very strong sense of locality. They obviously look down on people from Datong Prefecture, let alone a small Shanghai County.
So Zhu Gui could only send the caravan from Datong Prefecture to Shanghai County, and assigned them several important tasks. One of them was to build a shipyard. Of course, all they did was the preliminary work, and the rest
We have to wait until Zhu Gui returns from this battle before we can continue.
Because of the support of the imperial court, the expansion of the Datong Chamber of Commerce during this period was very smooth. It successfully expanded its business to several neighboring provinces, and there was a lot of turnover every day.
Maybe this is the real reason why Zhu Yuanzhang blackmailed Zhu Gui, but it also made him realize that even in the Ming Dynasty, when merchants had a low social status, they could still make such profits, which illustrates the national policy of emphasizing agriculture over commerce.
It still makes sense.
But Zhu Gui still didn't want to be blackmailed by Zhu Yuanzhang all the time, so he could only lay the groundwork for what he would do in the future while he had money now.
Fortunately, the operation of the Datong Chamber of Commerce is now quite mature. As long as it gives a specific task, a caravan will complete it.
At the same time, Zhu Gui also issued a series of procurement tasks, mainly for the army's logistics support, weapons and armor, etc.
Originally, this kind of thing needed to be prepared a month before the battle, but now Zhu Gui had to leave in a week, and the court did not provide him with any guarantee, so he had to complete these things himself.
Fortunately, Zhu Gui had a system in hand, so he didn't panic, but he still had to do the superficial work, otherwise it would arouse people's suspicion.
In this way, the Datong Chamber of Commerce started purchasing work around Nanjing City. For a time, prices in Nanjing City and its surroundings began to soar. Many ministers began to complain to Zhu Yuanzhang about this, but Zhu Yuanzhang suppressed them all.
Zhu Yuanzhang also knew that there was no way around it, because an army of 30,000 was not a small force, let alone cavalry, and the court did not provide Zhu Gui with any logistical support.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang would send people to the military camp from time to time to inspect Zhu Gui's training. Fortunately, everything was going in an orderly manner, which surprised Zhu Yuanzhang.
He was wondering if someone was secretly giving advice to Zhu Gui behind his back, but he had counted all the famous ministers and generals of the Ming Dynasty, and found that no one except Lan Yu had this ability, but Lan Yu had already and Zhu Gui
If you are so angry, will he do this?
Lan Yu also knew about Zhu Gui's training situation, which made him so angry that he couldn't help it, because now the court's attention had been focused on Zhu Gui's side. Even if he wanted to make some small moves, he couldn't.
Dare to do it too obviously.
But Zhu Gui was very cautious, and Lan Yu's several small moves were blocked by the opponent.
Finally, three days later, the logistics team responsible for escorting the supplies was on the road, but it would take another two days for the army to be on the road.
These two days will be the time for the emperor and the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty to review the army.
Thirty thousand cavalry were lined up on the plain south of Nanjing. After several days of training, although they had not yet achieved the effect Zhu Gui wanted, they were able to effectively convey orders.
This is mainly because Zhu Gui simplified the previous flag language, and then set up many small flag officers under Qianhu. Their only task was to convey Zhu Gui's combat orders to the lower-level officers.
This set of semaphores is specially used for commanding in combat, with only a few simple key commands, which also greatly improves the army's response speed.
So, when Zhu Yuanzhang led hundreds of civil and military officials to review the army, Zhu Gui just showed his hand and restrained everyone including Lan Yu.
Thirty thousand cavalrymen were able to maintain an orderly formation and pass in front of Zhu Yuanzhang's cavalry one after another, and even the movements of drawing swords and shouting slogans were consistent.
"The Ming Dynasty will surely win!"
"The Ming Dynasty will surely win!"
"..."
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"Okay, okay." Zhu Yuanzhang said three times in satisfaction.
Seeing this, the civil and military officials behind him did not dare to discuss anything else. Only Lan Yu's expression was gloomy and uncertain, obviously very dissatisfied with the situation in front of him.
All this glory should have belonged to him, but now it was taken away by this young prince. How could he not hate it?
But he has nothing to do now. Even the troops under his command have been trained to be obedient by the other party. What can he do?
But Lan Yu knew that no matter how fancy Zhu Gui played, as long as he couldn't win the war against the Mongols, it would be useless.
For the battlefield, only the winner can win all the glory, and the loser will lose everything.
And this is Lan Yu's opportunity. Yes, Lan Yu has gone completely crazy. In order to breathe out, he even forgot about his identity as a general and wanted to ignore the interests of Ming Dynasty.
Even Zhu Gui didn't expect this at this time.
After the grand military parade, Zhu Yuanzhang held a banquet for his ministers for two consecutive days, making the whole city of Nanjing feel like a festival.
But few people know that all this is actually related to Zhu Gui. After all, his reputation in Nanjing was really bad before.
Zhu Gui didn't care either. He was still preparing various things. At the same time, he used carrier pigeons to keep in touch with Xu Yingxu and collected various intelligence from the front line.
Although Zhu Gui felt that he would not lose, war was war, and he would never underestimate any enemy.
Not to mention that according to intelligence, the strength and scale of the enemy this time far exceeded the Mongols he encountered the last two times.
This time the Mongols came from the Junggar tribe, one of the large tribes in the Northern Yuan Dynasty.
It was not easy for the Junggars not to do this. Historically, they almost unified the entire Tibetan region and were still a very powerful force until the Qing Dynasty.
And this time they actually disturbed the Ming Dynasty's border due to natural disasters, which Zhu Gui did not expect.
However, if the Junggar tribe can be defeated, the Wasi and Chahatai Khanates may be eliminated in advance, and the territory of the Ming Dynasty can be expanded by nearly one-fifth of the area.