The eldest grandson of Emperor Ming Dynasty!

Chapter 174 The Grandson's Money and Food Are Really A Lot
5000 people in the capital are like a drop of water in the ocean.

After all, there are twelve guards in the palace alone.

But the concept of these 5000 people is completely different, because under Zhu Ying's command, there are no tasks to be performed, and they are completely at the disposal of Zhu Ying.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked Lan Yu to choose people, and the meaning was obvious. It was obvious that he asked Lan Yu to choose Huaixi soldiers to follow and form a core of soldiers and cronies dominated by Zhu Ying.

"Brother, how many people can you get?" Sapphire asked after thinking for a while.

Lan Rong frowned, and said puzzledly: "You came to me because of this matter. You are in charge of the Chinese military governor's mansion, and you have no predecessors. Isn't it easy to adjust?"

Sapphire is currently an official worship general, let alone 5000 people, even 5 people can be dispatched easily.

Lan Yu shook her head and said: "That can't be the case. Although His Majesty didn't say it, His Highness Changsun doesn't know about it yet, but there are at most 1000 people on my side, and the rest can only be selected from other places. The most elite soldiers."

When Lan Rong heard this, his gaze towards his younger brother Lan Yu suddenly changed, and he couldn't help asking, "Are you still afraid of avoiding suspicion?"

Lan Rong understands his younger brother's character best, he has always been fearless, grew up with his brother-in-law Chang Yuchun, and also learned that kind of arrogance.

In battle, he takes the lead and is the most valiant. Although he is known for his strategy, in other respects he is reckless and has no scruples.

When Lan Yu heard her eldest brother Lan Rong teasing herself, not only did she not disagree, but she said in a deep voice, "Brother, you have never met His Highness Changsun, and you don't even know the details of His Highness Changsun."

"I was at His Majesty's place yesterday and saw information about His Royal Highness Changsun. Only then did I know why Your Majesty is so sure of His Highness Changsun's real identity."

"To be honest, His Highness Changsun does not look like a brave general, but his personal bravery is far superior to mine. The day before yesterday, I had a small trial with His Highness Changsun and failed badly."

When Lan Rong heard this, he couldn't believe it: "What did you say? You were defeated by His Royal Highness, how is this possible."

As the eldest brother, the younger brother Lan Yu's ability is the best. He may be a little worse than his brother-in-law Chang Yuchun, but he is also an absolute fighter.

The younger brother Lan Yu said this, it can only be that he was really convinced by His Royal Highness the eldest grandson.

However, what Lan Yu said afterwards was the beginning of Lan Rong's shock.

As Lan Yu revealed Zhu Ying's detailed information, Lan Rong's mouth could barely close, and his eyeballs almost fell to the ground.

"This, this is too legendary."

It was hard for Lan Rong to imagine that it took ten years for an eight-year-old child to establish such a huge influence.

It's simply too exaggerated, as outrageous as listening to a fairy tale.

Is this something that humans can do?
Before seeing Zhu Ying, the seed of Zhu Ying's invincible figure had already been planted in Lan Rong's heart.

From the beginning of the Western Regions, to the desert and grassland.

His Highness Changsun created a huge power group without any help.

"Sure enough, His Majesty's grandson is the true grandson of the dragon, a born emperor, and only with such a bloodline can he forge such brilliance."

Lan Rong was amazed, that is, the present Daming, did not have the concept of lying.

Otherwise, it would be nothing more than Lan Rong sending out dozens of shits in a row.

It was at this time that Lan Rong really understood why His Majesty trusted His Highness the eldest grandson so much, and didn't think it was something ordinary people could control.

Such a character, there must be ten more shit.

Just like Zhu Yuanzhang looking at Lan Yu, Lan Yu also looked at her elder brother Lan Rong with a smile, showing an inexplicable pleasure in her heart.

"So, His Royal Highness Changsun's 5000 people can only be mobilized from different places, otherwise His Royal Highness Changsun's suspicion will not be worth the candle."

Sapphire said.

Lan Rong nodded. This is absolutely true. From these matters alone, it is possible to control such a large and scattered force.

His Royal Highness Changsun's mental methods are beyond ordinary people's imagination.

He is really His Majesty's eldest grandson, and such methods can be said to be in the same category.

In fact, in Lan Rong's heart, he always felt that His Highness Changsun was more clever than His Majesty's methods.

"How do you plan to allocate personnel?" Lan Rong asked seriously.

Sapphire pondered slightly, and said: "I plan to send out five hundred elites each, and gather five thousand for His Royal Highness to drive. It is best to understand the priority of firecrackers. Your Highness is especially good at firearms, and there will be no shortage of firearms in the future."

Lan Rong felt the same way, and said, "Then I will gather the most elite five hundred soldiers to supply His Highness."

Lan Yu said again: "I will write a letter right now, asking Taiping to come back and follow His Highness."

Lan Rong couldn't help asking: "Why didn't you let Naoer come over?"

Lan Yu shook her head and said: "Nao'er's personality is too out of character, but Taiping is more simple and honest, more stable, when handling affairs in front of His Highness, it should be based on stability."

Lan Yu knew the two sons, Lan Nao'er and Lan Taiping very well. Although Lan Nao'er was the eldest son, Lan Taiping obviously met the requirements better.

Furthermore, as the eldest son, Lan Nao'er can inherit everything from him in the future, and the second son, Lan Taiping, will follow His Highness the eldest grandson, so he can also do something in the future.

Qinhuai River.

Zhu Ying didn't expect the old man to come here at this point, and someone sent a message to let him enter the palace tonight.

Why did I come here directly.

"Why, can't we come here?" Zhu Yuanzhang pretended to be angry.

Zhu Ying is helpless, feeling that the old man always likes such a childish mentality recently, but looking at the old man whose temples are already turning white, he understands in his heart.

"No way, the place where grandson lives is also grandpa's home, so it's the same whenever you come here." Zhu Ying replied.

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy, and then said: "Today you will sleep in the palace, and we will take you to meet someone later. I used to tease you when I was young."

Zhu Ying nodded, knowing without thinking, it must be some elder who knew of her existence and wanted to see her.

When we meet in the palace at night, based on this information alone, it is not difficult to guess that the person we see must be the concubine of the harem.

The person who can be mentioned by the old man himself is very honorable in the harem at present, but Zhu Ying is not familiar with the harem, and he can only know who it is by meeting.

"Yueqing, make tea, and bring it directly to the study later." Zhu Ying ordered casually.

"Yes, my boss." Ye Yueqing, who was by Zhu Ying's side, bowed his head slightly and left directly.

"Why, are you a roundworm in our stomach, guess we have something to talk to you?" Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile.

"Grandpa, it's all over, so let your grandson prepare dinner. If your grandson still can't figure it out, I'm afraid it will insult your reputation." Zhu Ying laughed.

Hearing the grandson's indirect flattery, Zhu Yuanzhang expressed his comfort.

Grandson's flattery, can it be the same as others, but after thinking about it carefully, he even praised himself.

The grandfather and grandson entered the study, and Jiang Yu and Liu He who came with them were waiting in the yard.

Zhu Yuanzhang took a sip of the tea sent by Ye Yueqing, took out a memorial from his bosom, handed it to Zhu Ying and said:

"Let's see, these things really make us feel extremely depressed, so I just came here to show you, if there is anything we can think of."

Zhu Ying took over the memorial. He originally thought that the old man's coming was about the situation there.

I didn't expect it to be something else.

He no longer hesitated at the moment, opened the memorabilia, and examined it carefully.

It is still the familiar classical Chinese, but now Zhu Ying is used to it a lot, even if there are no sentence breaks, it is relatively smooth.

what.

Just after reading the first few paragraphs, Zhu Ying let out a sigh in his heart, and he was going to start reading from the back. Most of the writing in the memorial is extremely cumbersome, and a lot can be omitted.

But this is the only book at the moment, so Zhu Ying read the beginning. The reason why Zhu Ying was surprised this time is that this memorial is different from the others. It tells the whole story from the beginning.

Zhu Ying began to study from the beginning seriously.

This memorandum is about things related to the famine in Henan. Zhu Ying was a little strange at the beginning. For the famine, the effect of using work as relief is good, so it is not possible for the old man to come to him in person.

But looking at it, Zhu Ying's complexion became more and more serious, and his brows were furrowed.

It is true that the scale of the disaster is too large, and the number of people involved is beyond imagination.

Reading between the lines, although there is no specific statistical data, the disaster almost sums up nearly half of Henan.

Not just one disaster, but several disasters concurrently.

Floods in the south, droughts in the north, locust plagues in the east, and even the most disconcerting plague prevailed.

It is entirely conceivable that the entire Henan region has almost become a hell on earth.

The number of 30 people mentioned in the Memorial does not make any sense at all. Such a large disaster affected at least millions of people.

Only then did Zhu Ying understand why the old man hurried over to find him.

In today's Ming Dynasty, facing a famine of this magnitude, there is no other way except to print a large amount of treasure money and buy food for disaster relief.

After closing the memorial, Zhu Ying also sensed the old man's thoughts. If it was really that simple, the old man would have rushed over to find him, presumably he had encountered some kind of problem.

It is not difficult to guess that nine times out of ten it is the lack of food, and even the lack of purchasing power of treasure notes.

As the big owner of the Qunying Chamber of Commerce, Zhu Ying knew very well that under such special circumstances, those grain merchants who hoarded their goods, especially in places far away from the capital.

Most of them only accept real gold and silver transactions. If people from the government buy with Daming banknotes, they will falsely claim that there is no food in storage.

Slightly pondering, Zhu Ying asked, "Grandpa, how much grain has been prepared for this famine in Henan."

Zhu Yuanzhang hesitated for a moment, and stretched out three fingers.

Zhu Yingjian frowned and said: "Although 30 shi is not enough, it can solve the urgent need. It's just that we need to mobilize more food to stabilize the current situation."

"It's not enough in terms of food alone, Plague."

Before Zhu Ying could continue speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang interrupted him and said helplessly, "It's not 30 shi, it's [-] shi."

"what!"

Zhu Ying exclaimed and stood up directly from her seat.

What can you do with [-] shi of grain? Isn’t this just watching the people in Henan starve to death? From transportation to mobilization, it will take half a month to say the least.

Moreover, it can be seen from the memorabilia that the famine has been going on for nearly half a month, and the front and back are already the limit of the victims.

A lot of people will definitely starve to death on the way, but with the food in place, most of the people can still survive.

But how long will these [-] shi be enough to last? No matter how thin the porridge is, it will definitely not be able to last the next wave of food.

At that time, the number of people who starved to death will be the real corpses everywhere.

Those people who are extremely hungry may even roast and eat their corpses, hell on earth!

"Don't we know, we are also people who came out of the famine. Thirty thousand shi of grain may not be enough for the whole of Henan, even a few bowls of porridge per capita."

"Over there at the Banking Bureau, we have already asked them to print precious banknotes, but the current [-] shi of grain is still the limit that the Ministry of Households can mobilize."

Zhu Yuanzhang said sadly, the people in Henan are all his people, watching them starve to death, how does Zhu Yuanzhang feel good.

Zhu Ying was only silent for a while, and then called Ye Yueqing who was outside.

"I'm waiting at the Chamber of Commerce in Daming. How much money and food can be mobilized at present? All, I mean all, all the money and food!"

Zhu Ying asked Ye Yueqing.

Ye Yueqing didn't hesitate at all, and said directly: "Treasure banknotes are 200 million guan, silver is more than 87 taels, and grain is about 160 million shi."

Zhu Yuanzhang who was on the side, his eyes widened, looked at Ye Yueqing in disbelief, and even suspected that he had heard it wrong.

He knew that Dasun was rich, but he never thought that Dasun was so rich.

Daming's fiscal revenue last year was quite a bit. If Zhu Yuanzhang remembered correctly, the annual revenue was no more than three million taels.

Dasun is just a businessman, and the movable bank he controls is more than half of the annual revenue of the Ming treasury. This is simply, too exaggerated.

This is something Zhu Yuanzhang never thought of.

The most critical of these is the grain of 160 million shi.

This is more than five times more than the grain mobilized by the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang also knows that this sounds a bit exaggerated. In fact, the grain currently controlled by the Ministry of Households is far more than 3 shi, even 300 million shi.

It's just that these grains are the amount of grain that can be mobilized under the premise of ensuring the capital and other disaster-stricken areas.

It is impossible to ignore other disaster-stricken areas because of the Henan area, and the officials and people in the capital will not eat. It will only cause turmoil in the entire Ming Dynasty.

After Zhu Ying finished listening, she calculated in her heart, and then said solemnly:
"According to my instructions, except for the personnel expenses for two months, the rest of the mobile money will be used to purchase food and send it to Henan for disaster relief."

"The grain merchants under his command used all the grain reserves, and under the condition of ensuring that they can eat themselves, all the rest will be sent over."

"Also, in the name of the Qunying Chamber of Commerce, we can borrow as much grain as we can from all the traded grain. It doesn't matter how much the interest is, as long as we can borrow grain."

"Be sure to prepare enough food in the shortest possible time to alleviate the famine in Henan."

Zhu Ying just paused for a while, and continued: "There is still a question about medicinal materials. Immediately call all the doctors of the chamber of commerce to start researching the situation of the plague. We must research a usable prescription in the shortest possible time."

"According to the prescription, send all relevant medicinal materials to the plague-stricken areas in Henan."

"Admonish the doctors to strictly follow the Chamber of Commerce's standards for dealing with the plague, and not be negligent."

(End of this chapter)