Daming: Refining zombies at the beginning, Lao Zhu was shocked

Chapter 177 177: Zhu Li started to sympathize with the fourth child!

After communicating with these businessmen, Zhu Di became more and more looking forward to Hanzhong Mansion!

Xi'an Mansion is already prosperous to this extent, so how prosperous must the most famous Hanzhong Mansion be?

After Zhu Di was shocked again and again, he gradually changed his mentality towards Lao Jiu!

Previously in Beiping Mansion, whenever he heard the news about Lao Jiu or the movements in the northwest, the first thought that came to his mind was: Why?

To sum up, I just can’t give in!

He felt that the gap between himself and Lao Jiu shouldn't be that big!

He also felt that what Lao Jiu could do, he could also do, and maybe even do it better!

But reality slapped him in the face over and over again, telling him how ridiculous his obsession was!

After seeing the prosperity of the northwest with his own eyes, Zhu Di actually had a hint of admiration for Lao Jiu Zhu Yue!

There is a prerequisite for not being reconciled!

That is, your opponent is at least not far behind you, and it can also give you hope of catching up, and if you work hard, you can surpass the opponent!

But judging from the current situation, it was completely a unilateral crushing by Lao Jiu!

In front of Lao Jiu, he actually had no advantage at all!

Under such a huge gap, even if you are not willing to give in, you can only admit defeat!

Of course, this admission of defeat was only in certain aspects. For example, he admitted that he was indeed no match for Lao Jiu in terms of how to do business and how to develop the economy!

But that doesn't mean he thinks he can't be a good emperor!

In his opinion, Lao Jiu's development is not up to standard after all, not to mention that Lao Jiu still has such a 'stain' as practicing Taoism and refining alchemy!

If he really wanted to compete for that position, he felt that he might not be worse than Lao Jiu!

Just like his eldest brother Zhu Biao, Zhu Di doesn't have many thoughts!

Because Zhu Biao is indeed a qualified elder brother and a qualified prince, and he will definitely be a qualified emperor in the future!

Under this premise, Zhu Di was naturally convinced!

Zhu Di is ambitious, but he is also magnanimous, otherwise he would not be able to become a being like Emperor Yongle!

This is why as long as Zhu Biao is still alive, he cannot think of becoming the emperor!

As long as you can suppress Zhu Di, then Zhu Di will naturally have no evil intentions!

Of course, this means that Zhu Di still doesn't know that the old man is ready to pass the throne to Lao Jiu, otherwise his expression will be quite exciting!

Zhu Di did not stay in Xi'an Mansion for too long!

After staying for one night and seeing the prosperity of Xi'an, he set off directly the next morning and set off again for Hanzhong!

Because they were traveling lightly, Zhu Di and the others set out in the morning and arrived outside Hanzhong City in the afternoon!

However, when he arrived at Hanzhong City, Zhu Di was shocked again by the sight in front of him!

The prosperity of Xi'an Mansion exudes the atmosphere of a thousand-year-old ancient capital. After all, the heritage lies there!

Because the original city size of Xi'an Mansion was large, and Lao Jiu had only been in charge for more than a year and was still in the early stages of development, Zhu Di could still accept it!

But the situation in Hanzhong City is completely different!

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is something from scratch!

The city size of Hanzhong City is smaller. It can be said that the overall scale is not much larger than when Zhu Yue first became a vassal. Basically, some adjustments and new buildings have been made on the original basis!

But in the past few years, the population of Hanzhong Prefecture has exploded like a well. Now, whether they are coming from all over the northwest to seek jobs, or want to put down roots in Hanzhong, or want to come to Hanzhong to do business, or they are simply here to The number of people coming from the factories run by Zhu Li is in the hundreds of thousands!

Coupled with the various caravans that continuously come in and out of Hanzhong, as well as the original Hanzhong people, there are already one million people!

Therefore, the prosperity of Hanzhong Mansion at this moment is more direct. If I use four words to describe it, it is crowded!

For example, the carriageway dedicated to carriages and horses is quite good, but it is only congested occasionally!

However, the pedestrian passages on both sides are basically full of human heads, and it is very difficult to walk a few steps quickly!

These are the most intuitive manifestations of Hanzhong’s small yet prosperous nature!

And even in this seemingly small and prosperous Hanzhong City, there is also a huge building standing tall, the Hanzhong Business Building!

In fact, whether it was Zhou Guifei or Zhu Yuanzhang, when they walked on the streets of Hanzhong Mansion in casual clothes for the first time, they would be amazed by the huge flow of people on the streets!

But now they have long been used to it!

After all, you can see it every day when you go out, so don’t be surprised!

Of course, this situation cannot continue forever, otherwise Hanzhong City will only become more and more crowded!

The only way to solve the current situation is to expand the city, so Zhu Di can also see that there are already a large number of workers outside Hanzhong City, busy with the construction of the Second Ring City!

At first, Zhu Di didn't understand what these workers were doing!

But after asking around for a while, I had to sigh again!

No wonder the businessmen I met before said that there is gold everywhere in Hanzhong, and every inch of land is precious!

Today's Beiping Prefecture is much larger than Hanzhong. After all, it is still the capital of the Yuan Dynasty in the past, right?

But the population size is simply incomparable!

Only a few hundred thousand people were able to hold the Peking Mansion to death. That was also the heritage left by the previous dynasty, not Zhu Di's credit!

But even so, the population of Beiping Prefecture is only about half of that of Hanzhong today!

Hanzhong Mansion is already expanding its city, but Beiping Mansion is still thinking about how to quickly develop its population and economy!

If you fall behind one step, you will fall behind step by step. It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to accept it!

Soon, Zhu Di arrived at the west gate entrance of Hanzhong City, which should now be regarded as the west gate of the inner city, because the outer city, the second ring city, was already under construction!

And along the way, he also heard a lot of new terms!

Like real estate, residential buildings, commercial buildings, development zones, etc...

At the moment, Zhu Di naturally doesn't know how serious it is, and he doesn't have the time to understand it in detail, but Zhu Di believes that as long as he stays in Hanzhong for a while, he will understand what he needs to know!

Even if you can't compare with Lao Jiu in this aspect, you can always steal his teacher, right?

In the past, I just listened to what others said, and then followed the Hanzhong model blindly, which looked a bit different!

But now that Zhu Di can see it with his own eyes, copying it will naturally get twice the result with half the effort!

Thinking of this, Zhu Di couldn't help but feel a little happy!

But before he could be happy for long, a team appeared at the city gate ahead, blocking his way!

Moreover, this team is all dressed as the King of Han's personal guards, but each one is wearing armor, almost all of them are armed from head to toe, which is very conspicuous!

Right in front of the team, there is a figure that makes Zhu Di feel a little strange, but at the same time he should be familiar!

Zhu Di remembered that the last time he saw Lao Jiu was probably in the fifteenth year of Hongwu, when Empress Ma died of illness and asked him to return to Beijing for the funeral!

At that time, Lao Jiu was only fourteen years old and not yet married!

But he was already very impressed!

At that time, Zhu Di had already felt that Lao Jiu should be the most handsome among the many princes. He was famous for his handsome appearance and upright appearance. He was also good at both civil and military affairs and had extraordinary abilities. It was said that he was not envious of him. Fake!

Unexpectedly, after so many years, this boy is still as graceful as a tree, with a bit more fierce momentum, giving people a feeling of being heroic and extraordinary!

Sure enough, the name of the Ming God of War is not hidden!

In this regard, Zhu Yue also had his back, King Zhu Di of Yan!

Zhu Yue naturally knew Zhu Di's whereabouts very well. It can also be said that since Zhu Di and his party entered the northwest boundary, people have been reporting news about Zhu Di to him!

After learning that Zhu Di had arrived outside Hanzhong City, Zhu Yue led his people out in person to greet the fourth brother whom he had not seen for many years!

If it were in the past, Zhu Li would definitely have a hint of hostility towards Zhu Di, his fourth brother!

After all, the two will still be competitors in the future. Even if he has absolute confidence that he can control Zhu Di, he will not look good on him! But now, after the old man made it clear that he would hand over the throne to him, and was planning to use the prosperous Ming Dynasty more than six hundred years later to attack Zhu Di, Zhu Li felt more sympathy for the fourth brother!

I just hope that during this trip to the northwest, this fourth brother will not be hit too hard!

"Fourth brother, long time no see!"

Zhu Li smiled and said hello to Zhu Di who was still dazed.

"Lao Jiu, I haven't seen you for many years, and you have become more mature!"

Zhu Di came back to his senses and realized that his whereabouts should have been completely controlled by Lao Jiu, otherwise it would be impossible for him to have Zhu Yue appear at the city gate just after he arrived in Hanzhong!

Looking at this posture, it is obvious that he is waiting for him!

"Dad is already waiting in the palace. After meeting him, we brothers can reminisce about old times!"

Zhu Yue didn't waste any words and reminded Zhu Di directly.

"That's fine, we can't keep our dad waiting any longer!"

Zhu Di nodded in agreement, and then led Zhu Yue straight to the Han Palace.

Although the prosperity of Hanzhong City along the way gave Zhu Di an eye-opening feeling, it was not the time to talk about this now. It would not be too late to learn more about Hanzhong after meeting the old man!

Soon, the two brothers arrived at the Han Palace and saw Zhu Yuanzhang drinking tea in the pavilion!

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, father and son, finally met each other after many years, and it was inevitable that they would exchange greetings and greetings!

Looking at Zhu Di today, Zhu Yuanzhang also felt a lot of emotion in his heart!

I remember that when Laosi first came to the vassal, he was still a young man, but now he has grown a beard!

Of course, there are some things that Zhu Yuanzhang cannot say directly.

After all, if he and Lao Jiu hadn't stirred up the situation and changed the course of history, maybe he would still be the famous Yongle Emperor!

In fact, compared with the emperors of the past dynasties, Zhu Di is by no means bad, at least he can be ranked in the top ten!

But it is precisely because of the appearance of Lao Jiu and the fact that this kid's descendants are more and more weird than the last, that he can no longer be the Yongle Emperor!

After the father and son exchanged greetings, Zhu Yue also notified his three wives to bring his sons out to meet King Yan Zhu Di!

"I've met Fourth Uncle!"

Among the four children, only brothers Zhu Xiafeng and Zhu Xiaqiu can say hello to Zhu Di now!

Zhu Di looked at the two children and nodded with a smile, but he was somewhat surprised!

What surprised him the most was naturally the boy Zhu Xifeng, who looked like a teenager. How old is Lao Jiu this year?

Although he knew that Lao Jiu had an illegitimate son on the grassland, it seemed that Lao Jiu had not yet become a vassal more than ten years ago, right?

"Lao Jiu, how old is your eldest son this year?"

After Cao and others led several children away, Zhu Di lowered his voice and asked Zhu Yue.

"Feng'er is only over five years old, almost six years old!"

Zhu Li explained with a smile.

Zhu Di: "..."

You call this only five years old?

Good guy!

He's as big as a calf, and he's even stronger than his current second child, Zhu Gaoxu!

Today, Zhu Gaojie is only twelve years old. Among the many imperial grandchildren, he is considered relatively strong. But compared with Zhu Xifeng, who is only five years old, the gap widens instantly!

"Old Jiu, you still have the ability!"

"Fourth brother only has three sons now, but you already have four. You really have a prosperous lineage!"

Zhu Di couldn't help but sigh, but he was wondering in his heart what did Zhu Xifeng eat when he grew up?

Doesn't this look a little too anxious?

When they first arrived at Hanzhong Mansion, the relationship between the father, son and brother was quite harmonious, and they mostly talked about family issues and asking for welfare.

Zhu Di didn't ask the old man why he summoned him. Anyway, the old man would definitely tell him. What he wanted to test more now was Lao Jiu's attitude towards him!

Anyway, judging from the old man's attitude, summoning him to Hanzhong this time was not for the purpose of raising an army to hold him accountable, so that was enough!

After coming to Hanzhong, Zhu Di realized that he might really have to have a good relationship with Lao Jiu for the time being!

Otherwise, you will only be pushed further and further away from him!

Soon, the sun had set.

Dinner is also ready!

After dinner, the father, son and brother started hanging out in Hanzhong Mansion!

Zhu Di finally came to Hanzhong Mansion. Naturally, what he wanted to talk to Lao Jiu the most was business matters. He could learn from his experience and go back to develop Beiping Mansion!

Of course, the premise is that Lao Jiu is willing to help him!

But seeing that Lao Jiu is quite enthusiastic towards him, he shouldn't refuse, right?

Hanzhong Mansion is even more lively at night!

It also allowed Zhu Di to once again see what true prosperity is!

The father and son shuttled among the crowd like this, and at the same time, Zhu Di discovered more details!

Especially the neat streets in Hanzhong City and the small tall buildings that can be seen everywhere!

(Dividing line!)

ps: 嘤嘤嘤! ! ! Brother, can you give me a recommendation ticket? Monthly tickets are also fine! I beg you on your knees!

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