In the first month of the spring of the 12th year of Hongwu, Xu Da led a large army to return, and the court ministers all welcomed him outside the city. Zhu Yuanzhang brought civil and military officials to the temple, and the 100-year-old Chinese sarcasm was over. After the ceremony, he comforted the meritorious soldiers. Seeing that it was too late, Guo Pu, Wu Anguo and others were resting in the inn. The next day, he met him. He brought his common brother Xu Da and his son Zhu Di back to the palace to talk.

The next morning, everyone came to the court gate and saw the lower-level officers who came back from the Northern Expedition waiting for Zhu Yuanzhang to meet him. The Huangmen officials came in and out and sent the meritorious soldiers into the palace. The officers who came out were all flirting with each other, either being appointed as officials or having wives and children. How could they be so proud! After finally, the Huangmen officials came out and announced the officers under Zhu Di first. After a while, the Huangmen officials came out again and announced that "the great defeat of the Mongolian bandits and the great contributions of the Beiping Prefect Guo Pu, the governor of Beiping, Wu Anguo, led Huairou and many righteous men to meet Jin." Everyone walked into Jin with the eunuchs. In the palace, three bows and nine bows made Wu Anguo dizzy. He finally got to the point of not being able to watch his body, and he saw a middle-aged man in his fifties sitting on the dragon throne and constantly looking at everyone. "This is Zhu Yuanzhang. It's really ugly, but he didn't know how he gave birth to a heroic son like the King of Yan." Wu Anguo was secretly complaining in his heart, but he heard a loud bell-like voice asking, "Who is Cao Zhenqing's family?" Shisanlang, who thought he had nothing to do, did not expect that the first person to come to him was himself. He stepped forward with a grievance and bowed again. The voice of "Long live, I will see Cao Zhenzhu" was lower than that of a mosquito.

Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that he was in a grudge, and sighed, "Your master had saved me and made great contributions to the country many times, but in the end he died because of me. I didn't want to kill him, but I still hurt him. I felt guilty when I remembered." After a pause, he said in a slightly higher voice: "I have found out that your master has no descendants, and you are the only disciple who inherits the mantle. Today, I will give you the wealth and honor I originally planned to give to you, I hope you don't refuse." Seeing that Cao Zhen did not thank him, he lowered his voice and said in an almost negotiating tone: "If you want to be a wild crane like your master, you can leave at any time, I will never stop him." He sighed and said, "I am the only hero I admire in the world. The master should be the first."

Cao Zhen remembered his master's kindness during his lifetime. He was very resentful to Zhu Yuanzhang. Now, seeing Zhu Yuanzhang ignore the nobles of the nine fives in front of the ministers and begging him in such a low voice, most of his anger has been relieved, and he kowtowed to thank him. Zhu Yuanzhang immediately issued an order to commend Li Buyi for saving the emperor and helping the rebel army fight against Mongolia. His disciple Cao Zhen's great achievements in killing the enemy in front of the army, and appointed Cao Zhen as commander of Shanhaiwei, and was awarded the title of Marquis of Dinghai, and was ordered under the command of King Yan. The ministers only knew Zhu Yuanzhang Today, I was going to wholesale official positions, but I didn't expect to give Cao Zhen such a great favor. In addition to being surprised, the comments gradually rose. The Shanhaiwei was originally built by General Xu Da, and it was the throat of the north. The commander of the Shanhaiwei was a second-rank official, which was equivalent to promoting Cao Zhen by several levels. It is no wonder that everyone was surprised. Last year, in order to appease the soldiers of the Northern Expedition and show their importance to the military, he imitated the central system and changed the Beiping Wei to the Beiping Grand Governor's Office, divided the front and the back , left and right five armies. Xu Da was the chief commander to show that he was entrusted with his troops to sway the country. He was in charge of the left guard of Yanshan, Yanshan Right Guard, Yanshan Forewar, Daxing Left Guard, Yongqing Left Guard, Yongqing Right Guard, Jizhou Guard, Pengcheng Guard, Tongzhou Guard, Jizhou Guard, Miyun Guard, Yongping Guard, Shanhai Guard, Zunhua Guard and Juyongguan Qianhu Station. Later, Xu Da had Jianda Ning Guard, Helin Guard, and Yingchang Guard. After Xu Da's triumphant success, the northern defense was handed over to the King of Yan and Yan The king's jurisdiction added Taiyuan Left Guard, Taiyuan Right Guard, Taiyuan Forewar, Zhenwu Wei, Pingyang Wei, Zhenxi Wei, Luzhou Wei, Puzhou Qianhu Office, Guangchang Qianhu Office, Qinzhou Qianhu Office, Ninghua Qianhu Office, Yanmen Qianhu Office, Datong Zuowei, Datong Right Guard, Datong Qianhu Office, Weizhou Wei, Shuozhou Guard. Zhu Yuanzhang gave Cao Zhen a commander, and the rest of the guards under the command of the King of Yan would probably be replaced by new people in Peking today. Everyone was talking about it.

Zhu Yuanzhang was born in a rampant family, and most of the ministers were from the army. After he ascended the throne, everyone was still used to it. There was no order in the court and made him very unhappy. He referred to the opinions of Confucian scholars several times to rectify what he is today. It was just an overcorrection, and all the ministers had to kneel down to report any matters. However, the ministers, especially military generals, were still in the nature of the rebel army back then, and when they encountered curious things, they became a mess again.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned unhappily. Prime Minister Hu Weiyong saw the opportunity quickly, coughed a few times, came out to sue and retreat, and then everyone calmed down and listened to Zhu Yuanzhang's following. Next, Zhu Yuanzhang asked about Guo Pu's resettlement of immigrants the year before. Guo Pu came forward to report the truth and explained the plan of Wu'anguo in detail. Seeing that he was not greedy for merit, Zhu Yuanzhang admired him very much, and asked about his origin and gave him a hundred pieces of brocade. Guo Pu received the order to thank him and stood at the end of the civil service team.

Except for Zhang Zhengwu, who looked like a civil official, Wu'anguo, Zhou Heng, Lin Huofeng and others were all big guys. Zhu Yuanzhang had long heard of the name of Wu'anguo from fresh things such as the water stove that was introduced into the palace. The great achievements of how to reward him a month ago really gave Zhu Yuanzhang a headache. Today, the biggest person who recognized the biggest from the official uniform was the legendary hero. Zhu Yuanzhang was about to comfort him. The King of Yan, who had been waiting in the court for a long time, took the lead and reported that all the ministers in Peking paid tribute.

Last night, the King of Yan specially customized the items from Huairou craftsmen. Various ingenious items such as colorful crystal glass wind chimes, and pine and cranes ringing bells, which made Zhu Yuanzhang feel great comfort. When Zhu Yuanzhang heard that the King of Yan had gifts to pay tribute to the court the next day, he was very puzzled. However, the King of Yan said with great sarcasm: "Tonight's thing is a son's filial piety to his parents, a family ceremony. Tomorrow, the son ministers presented it to his father on behalf of the ministers of Peking, which is a courtesy." Today, he saw the King of Yan take it out at this critical moment, and knew that it must be to invite credit for Wu Anguo and others, so he ordered it to present it.

After a moment, a eunuch thought of each of them, holding a vermilion tray covered with brocade, and knelt on the golden hall. The ministers raised their eyes and watched, but saw that the brocade on the first tray from the left seemed to be a long piece of item under the brocade. The second and third ones were square, several inches higher than the first tray. The fourth tray was obviously different from the others, but the brocade was neatly folded on the tray, and there was no item below it.

The King of Yan started a loud voice, "Father, please look at it." He strolled to the first tray, reached out to uncover the brocade, revealing a bundle of huge rice ears. The King of Yan raised the tray with both hands and presented it to the imperial desk, and said loudly: "This is the northern dry rice trial planted by the villagers of Huairou County. The harvest per mu of the country is more than 500. The people of Peking will be able to eat without worries." At that time, the yield of rice in the south could reach 400 kilograms per mu. The north of the Yellow River was basically mainly wheat-growing, with a yield of only 200.

If there is drought and flood, there will be famine. Zhu Yuanzhang was born in a farmer family and knew the sufferings of the people. After becoming emperor, in addition to his own world, the most concerned thing was the people's meals. For a moment, the dragon's face was very happy and asked the eunuch to hold the rice ears and pass them among the ministers. Immediately, those who are good at flattering came out to praise "The saint is blessed, and auspiciousness comes from the sky". Zhu Yuanzhang nodded gently on the dragon throne, and after the ministers read it, he asked how he could plant rice in the north.

Zhu Di smiled and said, "This is dry rice, which requires less water, so the yield is all the two things made by General Wu." He opened the second pallet. On the pallet was placed a water wheel and a windmill, both of which were reduced in proportion to the original wooden model, and the workmanship was very exquisite. He ordered the eunuch to make a basin of water and take an empty basin. He put the water wheel on the basin, took a cup of water to impact the leaves, and the water wheel rotated, and dripped the water from one basin to another. In the Jiangnan and other places, there were originally objects such as overturning, but Zhu Yuanzhang, who was familiar with farming, could see that the efficiency of those things was incomparable to this. When the ministers were amazed and praised, Zhu Di set up a windmill and blew it gently with his mouth, showing a sharp weapon to lift water. At this point, there is no need to explain, everyone already understood why dry rice was produced with high yield.

Zhu Yuanzhang had already supported the Dragon Case, and was overjoyed. He ordered the Ministry of Works to imitate it immediately and promote it nationwide. He turned around and asked King Yan again, "My son, what else is there? Present it!" In the third pallet, there was a piece of white and bright steel. "Huairou Steel", and Hou Muying, who went to the battle for Tubo and returned to win, whispered, and the generals' queues were immediately in chaos. As we all know, the serial hand crossbow made by Huairou Supple Steel was the key weapon for Xu Da's victory this time, and the sword made by Huairou Supple Steel had long been regarded as a treasure by the generals. Zhu Yuanzhang was also famous for this, but he didn't know what the story of Zhu Di taking a piece of steel.

Zhu Di was not in a hurry this time. After everyone was full of appetite, he said slowly: "When Wei Qing led the Han soldiers to the frontier, the Han soldiers could fight against five, all relying on our Central Plains to use iron as soldiers and the Huns as soldiers." These are the "high theory" published by Cao Zhen inadvertently in Peking. Zhu Di had the ability to remember it, so he repeated it. "Now, he is soft and steel, and he is a weapon of the world. He uses this as a firearm, which is light and solid; if he is a strong crossbow, he cannot penetrate it. If we have this treasure, why worry about the uneasiness of the border! If we use this 100,000 troops, it is enough to penetrate the Ming Dynasty! "

"Hahaha~", Zhu Yuanzhang laughed loudly, "Another one is always one hundred thousand! The King Ru of Kaiping is alive, and there is another friend who is close to you. My son is very ambitious. What do you think?"

"Wait, please see the last gift from my father and then make a decision!" Zhu Di stopped all the ministers who had been unable to hold on and walked towards the last tray. The military general who read less had long ignored the court etiquette and stretched his neck and slowly gathered over without getting angry.

The fourth tray was opened and it turned out to be empty! There was nothing on the plate, and everyone was shocked. The King of Yan dared to be arrogant and teased the emperor with the empty tray. The hall was silent, and only the slight breathing of everyone could be heard.

In less than a blink of an eye, the King of Yan had shaken the brocade in his hand and spread it flat on the hall. From under his feet to the front of the imperial desk, there was a colorful landscape. Everyone looked closely and saw four powerful and powerful characters on the brocade, "like a painting of the country."

"Father, this is the situation in the world that the general told his sons." Zhu Di pointed with his hand and pointed at one of them, "This is my Ming Dynasty, this is the Yellow River, this is Yanshan Mountain. Out of Shanhaiguan, it is my hometown of China, but unfortunately it was given to Goryeo by the Mongols. The desert above is where the Mongols are located. When Huo Qubing sealed the wolf's residence, he pointed to the near to the Alutuhun River in the north of the desert. "To the west are the Mongol Khanate, which is not subordinate to each other, and to the west are the Western countries. The Yuan people collectively called Semu, and there are more than a hundred big and small kingdoms, and the scenery is different from the Central Plains. There is Annan in the south, Chameng, and to the east is Japan. Most of the pirates come from their country. Japan is not far from the east, there is a continent with thousands of miles of fertile land, without a country, and there are savage people living...

"Zhu Di pointed out the country and recited the world countries introduced by Wu'anguo in a reciprocity. "The ancestor of General Wu and his ancestors escaped wars and went abroad. He traveled to Western countries and returned. The specific mountains and rivers were painted according to what he said. My sons remembered not much. If the father wanted to understand the geography, customs and customs of the countries in the world, he could ask in detail." Seeing that the fire had arrived, Zhu Di pushed Wu'anguo to everyone. At this time, the court was no longer a court. Zhu Yuanzhang himself had already gone out of the dragon case and walked to the front of the map. The ministers even surrounded the map. Seeing that the King of Yan recommended Wu'anguo, everyone gave way. They glanced at the emperor from the corner of their eyes, but they saw that the emperor had no time to be serious with everyone and were carefully checking the terrain of Liaodong.

After asking about Wu'an Kingdom a few words, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the envoys of Ryukyu. After a moment, the envoy was called from the inn. Zhu Yuanzhang asked about the terrain of Ryukyu in the map and the city asked him. The envoy was shocked and knelt down with a thud, saying "Ryukyu has always regarded the Central Plains as the country of parents. He is respectful. Please calm down and do not send people to attack him. If there is disrespect, I will change it immediately." Kowtowed like pounding garlic. Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and asked someone to help him up, telling him that he had just obtained a map, so there was no need to panic. The envoy stood up tremblingly, looked carefully, and was amazed, and reported to Zhu Yuanzhang that he had been to Goryeo and Japan. The map was painted exactly the same as what he saw.
Chapter completed!