Chapter 211 Visiting King Ning
As Zhu Yuanzhang turned his attention to Guizhou, Liaodong calmed down for a moment. It was soon April of the 27th year of Hongwu. Ye Sutong's belly bulged significantly again. Because he was worried that Zhu Yuanzhang would send someone to kidnap his family, Li Weizheng simply moved his wife and daughter to the strict Goryeo Palace, which was in a strict manner. There was also a female medical officer who was responsible for delivering her baby.
Li Wei was sitting on a big ship, and the exchanges between Liaodong and Goryeo were already known by Zhu Yuanzhang, so he simply let go. The first thing Yang Heng did was to replace all the commanders of the ten guards of Liaodong. He had changed them once before, but that was only a single one. This time, it was a full replacement, not only the commander, but also the commander and other senior officials, but also the promotion of a large number of young generals he usually reserved and firmly grasped the military power. This is the most important thing he needs to do.
But there is one principle he grasped very well, that is, he would never rebel. Everything he did was done within his general's authority, but it was slightly overstepping its authority. As long as he did not rebel, his army would be loyal to him.
In the second step, he began to recruit mercenaries among the Goryeo people, most of which were the elites of Li Chenggui in the past. It was completely different for the disbandment and reorganization of the Goryeo army. One was the Goryeo army and the other was the Li Weizheng army.
The recruitment went smoothly. In half a month, he recruited 40,000 troops. With his original 60,000 troops, he had actually had a 100,000 army. Li Wei was dispersing the Goryeo Army into the Ming Army, enjoying the same treatment as the Ming Army, and conducting strict training with the Ming Army every day.
Secondly, the large number of guns and cannons were made on the Liaodong Peninsula. He recruited 5,000 people from Liaodong immigrants and established three factories, namely steel factory, gun factory, gun factory and ammunition factory, and carried out assembly line-like production according to standardized operations. In fact, during the Qin and Han Dynasties, China's official weapons workshops mastered a modern production method. Every worker did not need to master comprehensive technology, just be good at one of them, and then produced according to the prescribed standards. However, in Liaodong, it went further. Not only did the manufacturing work according to the assembly line standard, but all material procurement was also purchased according to certain standards to prevent the production of defective products from the source of the materials.
In order to encourage workers to innovate, Li Weizheng specially implemented an innovation award, rewarding workers' innovation with up to 100 taels or even thousands of silver. For some difficulties, such as how to solve the bubble problem that arises during the artillery casting process, he also specially set up a special reward for offering rewards.
In addition to military preparations, Yang Heng spared no effort to develop in the private economy. In Liaodong, he completely relaxed the restrictions on doing business and was located to facilitate transactions. He specially imitated the Tang Dynasty Chang'an in Jinzhou Wei, and established two major cities, east and west. The eastern and western cities mainly engaged in luxury goods such as gold, silver, jewelry, silk, satin, precious porcelain, high-end medicinal materials, while the western cities were trading for ordinary items such as grain, cloth, sugar, salt, tea, ordinary porcelain, and pen, ink, paper and ink. The two major cities established municipal offices to manage and collect taxes according to what they were.
In addition, Li Weizheng also did something that was enough to make Zhu Yuanzhang angry. He officially relaxed the sea ban in Liaodong, allowed fishermen to go fishing, encouraged merchants to trade with foreign countries, and established flights between Liaodong and Goryeo. One flight every day was between the Liaodong Peninsula and Goryeo opened Beijing, which was mainly to facilitate merchants. Of course, all this was carried out with the Goryeo flag, and he did not want to overstimulate Zhu Yuanzhang.
In terms of culture, in addition to continuing to run schools in Liaodong, Li Weizheng also began to run a large number of schools in Goryeo. He hired scholars from Shandong, Liaoxi and other places to teach in Goryeo, vigorously promoted Sinology, and the Queen of Goryeo issued a death order. Children under nine years old must enter the school, otherwise his parents would bear the heavy taxes of three taxes and one.
In March of the 27th year of Hongwu, the first newspaper of Goryeo, the Goryeo Miscellaneous Newspaper, was officially released. However, Li Wei was playing a slut. Since Goryeo and Ming dynasties used both Chinese characters, Goryeo Miscellaneous Newspapers can be read in Liaodong. The purpose of publishing newspapers is only four words: "Enable the wisdom of the people."
In fact, most of the newspaper writers are scholars who teach in Goryeo and Liaodong. Because of the high manuscript fee and the innocent of the speaker, scholars write according to the requirements of the newspaper, tell historical stories, evaluate the gains and losses of the past dynasties, tell the customs of various places, and also appreciate poetry, serials of novels, interesting news from all over the country, etc. The newspaper prints a lot. In addition to those who can read, they mainly supply schools and let the school children take them home to read them to their parents.
Just when Liaodong and Goryeo were governed by Li Weizheng, in May of the 27th year of Hongwu, in early summer, the land of Liaodong was descending. Li Wei was guarding three thousand horses to Daning, 300 miles away from Liaodong, and visited Ningwang Zhu Quan. This was the first time Li Weizheng had visited Ningwang since he was the general of Liaodong.
This year, Ning Wang Zhu Quan is already eighteen years old. He is no longer the young man who was the premature young man, nor is he the young prince who was resentful because of his disobedience. He has grown taller and stronger, and has a short beard on his jaw.
He was already a general who commanded an army of 80,000. The three guards of Duoyan and the most sharp cavalry of the Ming Dynasty were in his hands. Last year, he led the army to attack Mongolia and swept across the northern part of the world. Under his military power, more than 100 tribes and hundreds of thousands of Mongolians surrendered to the Ming Dynasty one after another.
But like all the Ming dynasties, Zhu Quan was also full of desire for the position of emperor. What kind of virtue did Zhu Yunwen be? Why couldn't that boy do it? He also worked hard to ascend the throne with great effort. He sent a large number of spies to the mainland of the Ming Dynasty to spy on the intelligence of the court and the princes. Unfortunately, his position was too biased and no one considered him in the chess game, and even his father Zhu Yuanzhang did not consider his possibility.
When he heard that Li Weizheng had arrived, Zhu Quan went out to meet him for fifty miles. Of course, he also knew about Li Weizheng and was afraid of Li Weizheng. He even knew that Ye Tianming informed the whole country and cut off all relations with Li Weizheng. Li Weizheng knew about this, but he did not tell his wife.
Zhu Quan is an independent person. During his years of dating with Li Weizheng, he knew that Li Weizheng would not rebel, but it was never easy to subdue him. Working with him could only exchange interests, plus a little emotional factor.
Of course, Zhu Quan knew what it meant to cut off Ye Tianming and Li Weizheng. This meant that Li Weizheng's original backstage Zhu Yunwen abandoned him. If someone wanted to pick him up, it depends on who would take action quickly. But Zhu Quan didn't know that his fourth brother had already taken action.
Zhu Quan brought 10,000 people to greet Li Weizheng. A large tent that stretched for several miles was built on the endless grassland. The bonfire was burning, and the drums were ringing. The warriors wrestled sumo in the drums. The whole cattle and sheep were barbecued on the racks. The fat oil flowed down and burned in the fire. The tempting golden yellow and fragrance scented for several miles.
Next to the bonfire, there were a row of low tables, covered with white tablecloths, and the gold pot on the table was filled with milky white horse milk wine. The wine was intoxicating. The agate plate next to it was filled with various fruits. In a large silver platter, there was a freshly baked beef leg, and several soldiers were cutting it with daggers.
There were two girls sitting around Zhu Quan, one peeling grapes for him and the other pouring wine for him. Li Wei was sitting cross-legged on a carpet, and there was a beautiful Mongolian girl lying on his legs like a cat. Li Wei was holding a glass of wine and laughing at Zhu Quan, "When did you learn to seduce me with beauty?"
Zhu Quan laughed, "This is etiquette, and the most beautiful woman is used to entertain distinguished guests. Irsu's father is a famous chief in Mongolia. She ignored me, but he liked you, brother, this is your blessing."
"Okay!" Li Wei was hugging the waist of the woman beside him, and smiled boldly: "I will take her into account tonight, but I will declare first that I will not take her away."
"No! No!" Zhu Quan waved his hand and smiled: "She will return to her father's side. Her father will choose a good husband for her. Her father just owes me a favor and sends his daughter to thank me."
"You're just letting go! You're saying that you're interested in me? I didn't know how she came when I first met her?"
"Awesome! Awesome!" Zhu Quan bowed and smiled, "I admit that I specially invited you to entertain you. Just remember my favor."
Li Wei was taking a sip of wine and smiled slightly and said, "Your Highness Ning's favor is not easy to repay. If you owe someone a Mongolian woman, I would rather not."
"Brother Li, I'm convinced you, okay! Don't want you to repay any favors, it's OK now!"
"Since you are so generous, let Mei and me come! I'll give you a glass." Li Wei was just touching his glass, and the two of them drank it all in one go.
Li Weizheng filled Zhu Quan and himself with wine again, but he brought the wine to the girl on his legs and gave her a drinking position. The girl's face turned red, and she picked up the wine glass and drank it all in one go.
"Okay! generous, I like it." Li Wei was applauding loudly, and he pointed at the girl at her tent, winked her, and the girl's face turned redder. She picked up the garland on the ground and ran towards the tent.
While Zhu Quan was drinking, he glanced at Li Weizheng's every move. Seeing that Li Weizheng had received his tribute, he couldn't help but feel secretly happy. However, he also wisely guessed what Li Weizheng meant to talk to him alone, so he patted the two girls beside him and asked them to go back to his tent.
The women left, and the two of them had their eyes touched, and they couldn't help but laugh together. Zhu Quan immediately lowered his voice and said, "If you don't have to go to the Three Treasures Palace for nothing, Brother Li is here at this critical moment. It's not just to see me!"
Li Weijing nodded and smiled, "Everyone is only staring at the second, third and fourth princes, but he doesn't know that Longsheng Longzi is bleeding in his body. How can other princes be exception? Your Highness, am I right?"
Seeing that he had guessed his thoughts, Zhu Quan asked implicitly: "Can Brother Li point me a clear way?"
Li Weizheng pondered for a long time and said, "If Your Highness erects his own flag, no one in the world will support him. I believe Your Highness is not a stupid person. You should see that the emperor has already made a watch on Bishan. There are only three real chess players, including the East Palace, Xi'an and Beiping. In the future, there are only these three people who compete for the world. But those who win the world may not be them. Do Your Highness understand what I mean?"
Zhu Quan knelt down in front of Li Wei and begged mercilessly: "Brother Li, for the sake of our many years of intercourse, I beg you to show me a clear way."
"I've actually told you, don't you understand?" Li Weizheng smiled.
Zhu Quan thought about it, but he shook his head and said, "I seem to have seen something, but I just can't catch it. Please tell me Brother Li clearly."
"Okay! I'll tell you straight. What I mean is very simple. Only those who laugh until the end will win the world. Among these three people, you might as well sway the flag for one of them, but the one who is trying to make your own idea. Do you understand?"
Zhu Quan suddenly realized that he worshipped Li Weizheng again, "I will remember the kindness of Brother Li in my heart."
Li Wei was waving his hand and laughing: "I'm looking for you this time, not to talk about this matter. I have a business to cooperate with you."
Zhu Quan said solemnly: "Brother Li just speak, I will definitely cooperate."
Chapter completed!