Daming: Apocalypse of Longevity

Chapter 144

He bought a lot of various pregnancy health care products. Zhu Tianqi also bought all the fruits and vegetables that were not available in Ming Dynasty now. Those that were good for Zhang Yan’s health were all bought by Zhu Tianqi. He no longer cared about the cost-effectiveness, but these things were on krypton. The life store wasn't very expensive to begin with, and it was nothing to his current life span.

Moreover, Zhu Tianqi was very restrained to the outside world. Although this matter was a great joy for him and Zhang Yan, as well as for Ming Dynasty, Zhu Tianqi did not announce the matter to the outside world. Therefore, at first Except for a few people in the palace, no one knew the news.

However, Zhu Tianqi did not deliberately keep it secret or block the information, because it was impossible to hide this kind of thing, and the more deliberately he concealed it, the more interested people would come to spy.

The time when the officials really learned about this was already after the Zhengdan Festival. It was already the New Year's Eve, so it was not surprising that everyone could not see the Emperor. However, after the New Year, they heard that the Emperor Still locking themselves in the Qianqing Palace, without leaving the house, and not even seeing the cabinet ministers, they naturally felt strange, so they found out the news.

When all the officials learned that the emperor had been staying in Qianqing Palace because the queen was pregnant again, they all showed great understanding. After all, the emperor has been on the throne for more than eight years, but he has always had no owner of the East Palace. Before Several of his princes have died in infancy, and now that the Queen is finally pregnant again, it is reasonable for the Emperor to attach such importance to her.

And all the officials thought this was a good thing. If the queen could give birth to a prince this time, the Ming Dynasty would have a successor, which would be of great significance to the stability of the Ming Dynasty.

Furthermore, it is not necessarily a bad thing for the emperor to ignore political affairs. As long as the emperor locks himself in the Qianqing Palace, he is not holding back any evil and wants to deal with them!

Zhu Tianqi really doesn't have time to talk about their business now, and he doesn't need to ask too much about many things now. Even if he hides in the Qianqing Palace and doesn't see the courtiers and doesn't ask about political affairs, there won't be any trouble.

However, although Zhu Tianqi was open-minded, Zhang Yan was not willing to let him guard her all day long and waste the government affairs, so she always advised him not to always guard her in the palace, but to put state affairs first.

Zhu Tianqi was unwilling to listen at first, but when he saw that Zhang Yan was really angry and said that he wanted to move back to Kunning Palace, Zhu Tianqi had no choice but to obey him. After all, Zhang Yan was now "holding the little emperor to order the old emperor." Zhu Tianqi Don’t dare to disobey!

And to be honest, Zhu Tianqi didn't have any experience in serving pregnant women, which added to the confusion here, as those court ladies would serve others, so he didn't have to worry about it at all.

It is now March of the ninth year of Tianqi, and there are still more than six months before Zhu Tianqi plans to go to war with Jiannu. It is still early, so that even if Zhu Tianqi walks out of the Qianqing Palace, there is nothing to do.

In the past three months or so, although Zhu Tianqi has not summoned anyone, nor has he stepped out of the Qianqing Palace, he has been paying close attention to the several tasks he values.

The agricultural administration and disaster relief work of the various chief ministers are now handled by Xu Guangqi. He has already gained experience from last year. All the work this year is being carried out in an orderly manner. All the chief ministers in the north have completed spring sowing. Work, the newly cultivated fields last year have become more suitable for farming after careful plowing. I think this year's harvest will definitely exceed last year's.The northwest military industrial base has been operating at full capacity. It did not even take a day off during the Spring Festival. Now it has cast 110 new steel giant cannons, five 250 steel Hongyi cannons, one 860 steel tiger squat cannon, and flintlock muskets. One thousand, eight hundred and sixty six shots, all kinds of shells, gunpowder and bullets are not counted!

Judging from this production efficiency, it will take at most three months to produce enough firearms and equipment to equip this new army of 5000 people. In other words, in the remaining time, more can be produced. When the surplus comes, it can be distributed to other armies for use.

The training of the new army was also very smooth. According to Sun Yuanhua's secret letter, the soldiers in the new army can now manipulate artillery and firecrackers very skillfully. According to Zhu Tianqi's proposal, Sun Yuanhua and Taixi gunners jointly developed The gun table is suitable for all types of artillery, which can help the gunner to shoot the target area more accurately.

There is also the cavalry gunnery unit that Zhu Tianqi requested to establish. As the marksmanship of these cavalry soldiers gets better and better, the combat effectiveness and advantages of the cavalry gunnery force gradually become apparent. The cold weapon supporters headed by Zhang Boyu, After seeing the power of the flintlock gun, they all shouted "It smells so good!"
The last one is Liaodong. Sun Chengzong will send himself a secret report every month, reporting on the military affairs in Liaodong and also talking about other things.

In the past few months, Sun Chengzong's memorials have mentioned the repeated conquests of the Chahar tribe of the Tatars by the Jiannu. The reason for mentioning these is that Sun Chengzong was mainly worried that the power of the Jiannu would expand westward and might attack from the north of the capital. The capital launched a sneak attack.

When Zhu Tianqi saw Sun Chengzong's memoirs, he really became a little worried. He was not worried that Jiannu would detour to attack the capital, but that Sun Chengzong had taken some measures to prevent Jiannu from detouring to attack the capital. This year's work has been in vain.

So Zhu Tianqi quickly wrote back to Sun Chengzong, telling Sun Chengzong not to act rashly and not to be fooled by the appearance of Jiannu. Jiannu probably wanted to create this illusion and attract the attention of the Ming army to Liaodong. Go to the northwest, and then take the opportunity to sneak attack the Guan Ning Jin defense line. You must not fall into the trap of establishing a slave.

Zhu Tianqi also told Sun Chengzong that he didn't have to worry about the defense of the capital. He had already made complete preparations on his side, and he would not let Jiannu succeed. Let him just guard the Guan Ningjin line of defense.

After Sun Chengzong received Zhu Tianqi's reply, he thought about it carefully and found that what Zhu Tianqi said in the letter was quite reasonable. Slave creation was cunning, so he had to take more precautions.

Moreover, his duty is to guard the Guan Ning Jin defense line and Xu Tu to advance eastward. He cannot always be distracted by thinking about things behind him and to the northwest. The emperor has already said that he is fully prepared, so he should not go any further. It's over.

However, Yuan Chonghuan may not be able to figure out what Sun Chengzong himself can figure out, so Sun Chengzong immediately sent someone to send Zhu Tianqi's reply letter to Yuan Chonghuan, and asked Yuan Chonghuan to put all his energy in Liaodong and not to divide it. Don't think about other things, otherwise once you fall into the trap of establishing a slave, the consequences will be disastrous.

(End of this chapter)