In March, the peaches are red and white.

From Nanjing to Peiping, you only need to pass the Grand Canal of Beijing and Hangzhou. Although it is late spring, the colder the north you go, it seems that the colder you are.

Zhu Qi, wearing a furry cloak, stood on the two-story official boat, watching the ship sailing on the canal, but unexpectedly, it was not as much as he had imagined.

First of all, it is because it is March, and it is not the season when food and supplies are transported.

Secondly, it was because the Yuan Shizu bypassed the Beijing-Hangzhou Universiade and launched the first sea transportation. It successfully transported more than 46,000 stones of grain from 60 flat-bottomed ships. In fact, the center of gravity of the north-south transportation line has shifted towards the sea transportation.

The Ming Dynasty inherited the legacy of the Yuan Dynasty, and the habit of shipping was naturally preserved. However, the Ming Dynasty's shipping in history did not last long, and it was suspended in the late Hongwu year due to the increasingly harsh ocean weather.

Although the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were determined to reopen shipping in the future, they were eventually left unresolved for various reasons.

However, it is the eighth year of Hongwu, so there are naturally shipping, but there is no large number of warships to escort it. If the prince is robbed by someone, it will be for nothing.

Lan Xian'er's health has recovered. This time, Zhu Qi went to Peiping Prefecture, and she followed him as Zhu Qi's personal female guard.

But unlike what Zhu Qi thought, dressed in a chivalrous woman and stood beside him with a three-foot Qingfeng sword in his hand. Lan Xian'er dressed in a palace maid. According to her own words, staying next to Zhu Qi in such a disguise will not attract attention, and it is easier to protect Zhu Qi's safety at critical moments.

Zhu Qi thought what Lan Xian'er said was very reasonable. The most important thing was that she was wearing a palace maid's clothes, which was very beautiful and pleasing to the eye.

You can already see the dock in the distance, but unfortunately you don’t see it very clearly. Zhu Qi doesn’t bring a telescope in his backpack. After all, whoever would have a backpack stuffed with it when he goes out?

However, the process of telescopes is not complicated, that is, the combination of various lenses or reflectors. As long as you can make glass lenses, you have enough patience and hand-made ones.

When he thought of glass, Zhu Qi thought of the layered steelmaking furnace in the local steelmaking process. What a guy, that's a magical tool.

Can you imagine that in the 1930s and 1940s, the ancestors who resisted the invasion of Japanese invaders built open-air yurt-like earthen kilns built with bricks in the countryside, could burn cement, glass, or even steel from it.

I will also do it again.

Zhu Qi was thinking about his future inventions, and he acted like he was "not doing his job properly". There was a boatman who had already pulled the official boat to the dock on the dock.

The boatmen in the eighth year of Hongwu are different from those of the Cao Gang who are familiar to later generations. These boatmen are recruited by the people, that is, the people who serve labor, and are very different from those who use money to drive boats in later generations.

Of course, there are no social organizations like the Caobang these days.

After the ship docked, someone came to pick him up. Zhu Qi was a little surprised when he saw the person coming. It turned out that Li Wenzhong came to greet him in person.

Before Li Wenzhong could get off the boat, he stepped onto the deck with one arrow and immediately saluted Zhu Qi and Zhu Di.

Li Wenzhong is a rough man in his thirties and forties. He is not handsome and heroic. He even looks a bit honest, but his armor is bright and magnificent, and his body is quite strong, and he looks like a killing aura.

He is Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew and the cousin of Zhu Qi and Zhu Di, but because of the huge age gap, there is actually no deep relationship between us.

But when Zhu Qi saw Li Wenzhong, he was crying: Brother, I depended on you this time!

"General, no, cousin, don't be too polite!"

Zhu Qi hurried forward and grabbed Li Wenzhong's hands. He was so kind that he was shocked by Li Wenzhong. I wonder when he had such a good relationship with His Highness the King of Liao, his cousin?

"Cousin, you are busy with military affairs, why do you come to pick us up in person? Just let me ask you a deputy in the future."

Li Wenzhong hurriedly said:

"Your Highness is not busy, your highness doesn't know. Since Your Highness defeated the conspiracy of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, Wang Baobao knew that it was impossible and had already stopped the offensive. The city of Beiping, which was stationed at the last time, was the original Yuan capital. The city was strong and the walls were high, and there was no need to repair any defense. The soldiers were busy with spring plowing, and even less training."

Zhu Qi pulled Li Wenzhong with a look of relief and said as he walked: "Anyway, thank you for your hard work."

Everyone exchanged greetings for a while and then headed to Peiping Prefecture together.

Peiping was the original Yuan capital, and the Yuan Dynasty Palace was naturally here. However, the Yuan Dynasty Palace was already a piece of rubble and ruined after years of war and chaos.

Zhu Qi and others naturally would not live in the rubble and ruins. Li Wenzhong had already packed up the Beiping Post Station. According to the Ming Dynasty, court officials went to the local area to do business and all of them had to live in the post Station.

This Beiping Inn is a bit similar to the local VIP building that currently hosts foreign guests and leaders. It is not only not as dilapidated as in the TV series, but is built quite grandly.

In addition to the vermilion gate at the door, there are two stone lions. After opening the door, there is a yard that can enter and exit, which looks as spacious and beautiful as an palace.

During the period when Zhu Qi and others were in the north, they lived here.

Since he arrived in Peking, he would start working next, but Zhu Qi didn't know what to do, but fortunately he brought Liu Bowen.

Liu Bowen is an experienced political expert and knows the maritime process clearly. Since he wants to clear the maritime affairs, the first thing is to understand the various populations, household registrations, number of ships, troops in various garrisons, etc. at the seaside.

He quickly went to the official office to mobilize files. Zhu Qi also called Zheng Shiyuan together, nominally asking Zheng Shiyuan to study hard with Mr. Liu Bowen, but in fact he pulled Zheng Shiyuan away, otherwise he would not be convenient to do anything with him.

As for what to do...

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"Your Highness, is this force... OK?"

"Okay, okay, good."

Zhu Qi was lying on the bed, and Lan Xian'er next to him was helping him with a massage.

Originally, Zhu Qi wanted to take off all his clothes and make a full set of oil pushes, but the March days in Peking were too cold, which was different from the weather in Yingtianfu. The room was burning with a cool air.

While I was pressing here, I suddenly heard a sound of walking outside. Lan Xian'er hurriedly sat up as if she was scared, and then she heard the inner official say at the door:

"Your Highness, Chengyi Bo and the others are back."

Zhu Qi responded, then caught Lan Xian'er and came to the hall. When he saw that Liu Bowen and Zheng Shiyuan had already brought back a lot of documents, Liu Bowen took the lead and said:

"Your Highness, the household registration status and ship status of this nearby generation are all here. In addition, the largest dock of this northern generation is the Dagu Dock, which is not far from Peking. If Your Highness wants to build a new ship, you can build it in the Dagu Dock."

Zhu Qi nodded and then asked in detail about the situation about Dagu Dock. He was shocked when he heard that there were as many as thousands of craftsmen in Dagu Dock, and the dock facilities were complete and had unique port conditions. He could build any ship allowed by current technology.

In fact, the shipbuilding technology of the Ming Dynasty was not as bad as everyone thought. The treasure ships of the Zheng He period were ahead of the world's shipbuilding technology by about a hundred years, which shows that the technological level of the early and mid-Ming Dynasty was still ahead of the world.

Even though it fell a little in the later period, the Ming Dynasty had already noticed fresh Western technology. The Ming emperors in the middle and late period also paid great attention to imitating and learning Western craftsmanship, which led to the famous Red Barbarian Cannons and other weapons.

Zhu Qisi thought about it and said that since you want to clear the sea routes in Peking, you will definitely have to meet with the miscellaneous forces at the sea. The most effective diplomacy these days is fists. If your fists are hard enough, you will have diplomacy. If you are weak and bullied, then you will have no diplomacy.

The most important thing in naval battles is of course the ships! The ships owned by the Ming Dynasty are inherited after the destruction of the Yuan Dynasty.

Although the ships are of good quality, they are all hard sailboats or 1-ball sailboats. It’s not that they can’t beat them, but they use these ships to fight. If the other party is all light ships and runs fast on the sea, you really have no choice but to do anything to them.

You can build a light ship to chase after you, but you can't break the equipment gap. At that time, you can fight the pirates for 50% and win the next step. Zhu Qi is secondly embarrassed. If the soldiers died too many times, that would be a sin.

So before Zhu Qi came, he had decided to build a new warship, but the ships Zhu Qi wanted to build were not the hard sailing ships that were often available now, and of course they were not soft sailing ships, but even more powerful black technology.

Zhu Qi took out the drawings, handed them to Liu Bowen, and said:

"Mr. Zheng, please ask you and Mr. Zheng to go to Dagu Dock and supervise the construction of warships according to the drawings drawn by Xiao Wang. The more the better, it will be of great use to turn back."

After Zhu Qi finished speaking, Liu Bowen took the drawings and took a look. He saw that the ship on the drawings was strange in shape, without any sails, but instead looked like a big box, with two rows of oars extending from the side.

Liu Bowen is a miscellaneous scholar. He knows a little bit of everything, and he naturally understands it when he looks at the shipbuilding drawings. At first glance, he thinks this new warship is quite strange. When he takes a closer look, he knows how powerful the warship is. Above the drawings, there are two words written - a turtle ship.

Obviously it is the name of this ship.

Liu Bowen looked at the drawings, touched his beard and laughed:

"Your Highness is really a talented person. With such warships, our Ming army will definitely be invincible at sea!"

Zhu Qi smiled embarrassedly. Of course, this turtle ship was not invented by him, but invented by Lee Sun-sen, a famous Korean general in the Wanli period in history.

Speaking of Li Shunchen, we have to mention the War of Resistance and Aid Korea in the three major expeditions of Wanli.

When the Japanese pirates invaded North Korea, they were like cutting melons and vegetables. They occupied all the state routes of North Korea in just a few months. North Korea went to the Ming Dynasty border to pray for entry and refuge.

If it weren't for Lee Sun-sen's leadership of a navy to fight guerrillas, North Korea would probably not have resisted the day when the Ming Dynasty's army supported it.

In the later naval battles, Lee Sun-sen also had a lot of roles, and he can be said to be the most shining general in North Korea.

Of course, Li Shunchen's role is only for naval battles. Land battles still depend on the Ming army. General Li Rusong was chasing Japanese pirates and blasting the hammer, so I won't mention it much.

However, after the war, the Koreans fully utilized their spiritual victory laws. The support for the Ming Dynasty was rarely mentioned in history books, and even if mentioned, they were mostly negative.

Many foreign historians also have a crooked butt. When looking at this history, they mainly use Korean historical materials. However, they rarely adopt the Wanli War against Japan and Aid Korea recorded in China.

We dug out all the Sanxingdui cultural sites and put them under the eyes of others. They all pretended to be blind and couldn't see them, and they kept yelling that China's Sanxingdui culture was fake.

As for the reason, South Korea has successfully applied for the Dragon Boat Festival to the World Heritage. I don’t need to explain the nature of the academic public opinion controlled by the United States?

Liu Bowen took the drawings and went to do things quickly, so Zheng Shiyuan naturally followed him, learn, learn more!

As soon as the two left, Zhu Qi was happy to start to enjoy life again, but before he could enjoy it for a few days, Li Wenzhong came over and said that the tribal envoys outside the pass asked for a visit, wanting to ask when the Damingtian Army would arrive.

They were originally looking for Li Wenzhong, but Li Wenzhong knew that the court did not mean to send troops out of the Northern Yuan Dynasty. However, if the envoys of these tribes were left alone, they might be likely to turn to Nahachu of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and they could only use a drag-on method.

Just say that the court would send special personnel to deal with this issue, and it was only a garrison in Peking and had no right to send troops.

This time they asked again, where could Li Wenzhong decide? He came to inform His Highness of the King of Liao. After all, His Highness of the King of Liao is now the commander of Ping Liao. According to this level, the entire Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun are under the jurisdiction of His Highness of Liao. Even General Xu Da from Datong Prefecture, His Highness of Liao has the right to command, let alone Li Wenzhong in Peking.

When Zhu Qi heard Li Wenzhong report on this matter, he was not as anxious as Li Wenzhong and said with a smile:

"That's all? Don't worry, lead the way."

I don’t have the ability to fight a war, but I will definitely be fine if I fool people. What’s more, the court is not without actions. It is ready to fight an agent war, so I definitely can’t leave these little brothers alone.

As for how to fight an agent war and how to make me lose rationality and rush around like taking guns and drugs, that's simple. See how the United States does now, and just follow it and follow it.

Ukraine dares to challenge the hairy bears. This is not just about feeding chicken blood and feeding chicken soup, I'm afraid they'll be fed into the brain stem.

The old god on Zhu Qi was quite calm. Li Wenzhong couldn't help but give him a thumbs up. People said that His Highness the King of Liao had great talents. At first he thought it was strange that the little cousin was so powerful now?
Chapter completed!