Zhu Yuanzhang in the cellar

Chapter 38: In the Ming Dynasty, just stepped down from the throne

Zhu Biao lived in Chengqian Palace, and had to go through the west gate of Jingyang Palace and pass Zhongcui Palace to return to his bedroom.

The Treasure House is located in the northeast Yangxing Palace of the Forbidden City in Nanjing. You have to pass through the Yangxing Hall, then pass the Yonghe Palace Gate, and reach the Chengsu Hall from the Ceramics Museum before you can go back.

It was already dark at this time. It was raining in Yingtian Prefecture recently. Although the rain had stopped, the sky was still filled with haze.

Palace lanterns were lit on the road to the palace gate, and it seemed that there were figures walking by in the distance.

But only vague human figures could be seen, which seemed slightly different from the heavily guarded palace imagined.

Of course, this was because Zhu Biao had the guards along the way block the passage, and no one from the Treasure House to the Qianqing Palace was allowed to pass.

The guards kept everyone outside, so Zhu Di and Zhu Yunfeng were able to pass unhindered.

The two men swaggered around the palace.

Zhu Yunfeng returned with a full load. He held an electric saw in his right hand, a compound bow bag on his left hand, and a backpack filled with gold and Tang Sancai pottery figurines on his back. He felt very happy.

After leaving the Treasure House, Zhu Di looked back at Zhu Biao who was standing at the door of the Treasure House and watching them leave, and couldn't help but said sourly: "Brother treats you so well."

Zhu Yunfeng smiled and said, "This is because Grandpa Taibo agrees with my ideas, and the old ancestor really has a bad temper. It's time for someone to take care of him. Grandpa Taibo is of course happy to see this happen."

"Can you control my father?"

Zhu Di said in disbelief.

"It's not about control, but about speaking with facts!"

Zhu Yunfeng raised the chainsaw in his right hand and said, "The truth is in my hands. I have the initiative. The old man has to listen to me, otherwise the Ming Dynasty will perish. As long as I know what he cares about, I can naturally make him compromise."

"So what does he care about?"

Zhu Di asked casually.

"What do you say?"

Zhu Yunfeng looked at him as if he were an idiot.

Who could have imagined that the future Emperor Yongle would speak so thoughtlessly at the age of nineteen?
"Big brother?"

"No."

"Mother?"

"Not at all."

"Then me?"

Zhu Di showed an expression of disbelief on his face.

Zhu Yunfeng rolled his eyes and said, "It's the Ming Dynasty! The Ming Dynasty is the most important in the hearts of our ancestors, followed by Empress Ma and Grandpa Taibo. I guess you can only rank behind them."

Zhu Di did not think it was inappropriate and said cheerfully: "We should care about the Ming Dynasty. It is good for me to rank behind my mother and elder brother."

After he finished speaking, he thought of something wrong, looked at Zhu Yunfeng with a bad face and said, "You grandson, you said bad things about me in front of my brother before, what do you want to do?"

Zhu Yunfeng said speechlessly: "I've already said it's for your own good."

"How is it good for me?"

"Remember what I said before, as long as Grandpa Taibo is not dead, you can't make a breakthrough?"

"Yes."

"Isn't this just to find a way out for you?"

"A way out?"

"You will most likely not be a vassal in the future, but will often communicate with me in the modern world. Do you think your status will be low if you have control over modern resources?"

"Seems to be."

"Even if you want to return to Ming Dynasty in the future, if you can't be the emperor of Ming Dynasty, it's the same as going overseas to be the emperor."

"Go overseas to be an emperor?"

Zhu Di scratched his head and said, "What's so good about going overseas? The envoys from Annan and Champa looked like a bunch of monkeys."

Zhu Yunfeng raised his left thumb and said, "You are really good at judging people. From now on, all the people in that area are monkeys."

As they were talking, the two of them had already passed through the Chengsu Hall. On the right was the Zhai Palace Gate. Beyond the Zhai Palace Gate was the large square outside the Qianqing Palace. The entrance to the underground palace could be seen from afar.

They walked and talked as night fell. Candles were lit in the Qianqing Palace in the distance, and they could vaguely see someone watching them from the high platform outside the palace.

The man stood with his hands behind his back, looking down. Zhu Di hurried over and came to the bottom of the platform to bow to him.

Then the two of them talked for a few words, and Zhu Di hurried back.

"What did the old man tell you?"

Zhu Yunfeng asked.

"Let me keep an eye on it over there. He will come over tomorrow and I will pick him up then."

"Won't he come by himself?"

"What do you say?"

Zhu Di also looked at Zhu Yunfeng as if he were an idiot.

Only then did Zhu Yunfeng remember what happened to Zhu Yuanzhang.

The first time he came, he was beaten up.

The second time he came, he was arrested and taken to the police station.

The third time I came, I was almost electrocuted into a pig's head.

Suffered from old sin.

What a miserable word.

Just thinking about it makes me shed tears. No wonder Lao Zhu didn't dare to come over.

Zhu Yunfeng was embarrassed for a moment and said awkwardly: "It was an accident, it was all an accident, I didn't do it on purpose."

"Humph."

Zhu Di snorted coldly: "If you did it on purpose, your father will chop off your head the second time you come here."

Zhu Yunfeng rolled his eyes at him, and the two of them went into the underground palace.

The process was quick. It only took a blink of an eye to return to the modern era from the underground palace, and they quickly appeared in the cellar of Zhu Yunfeng's house.

In fact, although the two sides seem to be separated by more than 600 years of time and space, the round trip is actually closer than going to Sixth Uncle's house.

To go to Sixth Uncle's house, you have to go around the fish pond next to his house. To go to Daming, you can go directly to Zhu Yuanzhang's bedroom by going into the cellar.

But now both sides are on guard. Zhu Yuanzhang has suffered three times during his three visits, so he is naturally much more cautious and can only send Zhu Di to act as the vanguard.

Zhu Yunfeng was afraid of his ancestor's capricious character, and he knew that two fists could not beat four hands. Although he was well prepared, if Zhu Yuanzhang really wanted to kill him and send thousands of guards, no matter how much pepper water he used, it would be useless.

So even though they are close, neither side dares to visit each other casually, and it takes time for both sides to let down their guard.

After crawling out of the cellar, Ji He was still watching TV in the living room, with Pippi lying next to him.

Hearing the noise, Pipi jumped up, ran to Zhu Yunfeng, and wagged its tail wildly, revealing its excitement like a small electric fan.

Compared to his previous sadness, Ji He's mood has now stabilized a lot. When he heard the noise, he looked outside in the corridor and saw Zhu Yunfeng and the others coming back, so he asked, "What happened?"

"It's OK. Things went relatively smoothly. I brought back an antique and a few pounds of gold."

Zhu Yunfeng touched Pippi's dog head, then put the electric saw in his hand on the table in the main room, walked into the living room, took off his backpack and threw it on the sofa with a heavy sound: "But I haven't done what you asked for for the time being." Antiques and gold?
When Ji He heard this, his eyes lit up and he walked over to open the backpack. The backpack had compartments separated by a layer of cotton. One side contained gold, and the other side contained Tang Sancai pottery figurines.

That gold was not the official gold minted by the Ming Dynasty, but gold tributed from foreign countries. The smelting technology was not very good, so it appeared to have an irregular shape.

He took out a piece of gold and looked at it for a few seconds, a little excited, but quickly put it back and asked, "Is it difficult to handle?"

"That's not it."

Zhu Yunfeng sat down on the sofa and said, "I feel that the time is not yet ripe. Now is the time to discuss conditions, not demands. Only when the cooperation between the two sides is on the right track can our influence be greater and affect the development of the world over there. Otherwise, it is not realistic to ask Lao Zhu to help destroy Japan before doing anything."

"Didn't Zhu Yuanzhang want to expand his territory? He should go to Japan."

Ji He wondered.

"You don't understand the situation in the early Ming Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty had just been established and the finances were very tight. Yunnan had not yet been recovered. Zhu Yuanzhang had sent envoys to Japan before, but the envoys were killed by the Japanese. He had no choice but to close the country and not allow trade with Japan."

Zhu Yunfeng shook his head and said, "At present, we still have to improve the national strength of the Ming Dynasty first. When our army is strong and we have the ability to fight at sea, we can talk about destroying Japan."

"So what are you going to do?"

Ji Hyuk asked.

"look by youself."

Zhu Yunfeng handed over the plan.

Ji He took it and quickly saw the first step of the plan, which was to provide seeds and fertilizers to Daming. He couldn't help but say, "Fengzi, provide seeds and fertilizers to Daming?"

"Yes, only by doing this can we quickly make the Ming Dynasty strong."

"Wouldn't the cellar be exposed then?"

"It can't be exposed. Let's move three times."

"Are you kidding me? We're relying on the three of us to move all the seeds and fertilizers for the entire Ming Dynasty? Do you know how many kilograms it will take?"

"I know, but we definitely can't just start right now. There will always be a way to get there. When the time comes, we can think of a way to make it bigger. For example, we can ask them to send people over to help. Anyway, it shouldn't be a big problem to be exposed in ancient times."

"Okay, so what are you going to do these few days?"

"We'll try to buy seeds and fertilizers in the next few days. We'll get 5,000 kilograms, which will be enough for them to plant a few thousand acres of land to test the waters. Once they're on the right track, it won't be so troublesome."

Zhu Yunfeng knew what he meant.

How many bags of seeds and fertilizers would be needed to provide the entire Ming Dynasty?

It is estimated that even if they buy up all the fertilizers and seeds in their county and even the city, it would not be enough, let alone the entire province of Hunan.

With so many seeds, even if they were delivered directly to the door, how long would it take for the three of them to move them to the cellar?

However, we cannot directly expand to the whole country as we are just starting out. Instead, we should try planting first and see the results.

In the past two years, after Zhu Yunfeng returned home, although he did not farm himself, he had some understanding of it.

Especially when I was making plans, I also checked it online.

Generally, corn, rice, and sweet potato seeds weigh only a few pounds, and planting one acre of land requires about four or five pounds of seeds.

According to the seed information he searched on Taobao, conventional rice requires 15-20 kilograms of seeds per acre, while hybrid rice only requires 4-5 kilograms.

Corn and sweet potatoes are similar.

Fertilizer is not fixed. It depends on the nutrient supply of the soil and fertilizer. Some soils with poor nutrients require relatively more fertilizer. One acre of land often requires 20 to 30 kilograms of various fertilizers.

Some soils are high in nutrients, such as the black soil in the Northeast, so the demand for fertilizer is very small, maybe only two or three kilograms per mu, or even one or two kilograms.

Considering that the land in the Ming Dynasty had never been exposed to chemical fertilizers before, the first use would definitely greatly increase the yield. Therefore, based on hybrid rice, corn, and sweet potatoes, 4 to 5 kilograms of seeds and about 5 kilograms of chemical fertilizers would be needed per acre.

So 614 kilograms of seeds and fertilizers, at a one-to-one ratio, and considering that one acre of land in the Ming Dynasty was only square meters, basically to acres of land could be cultivated.

The three of them only needed to move things from outside the house to the cellar, a total distance of less than 50 meters. Even if they only moved 200 kilograms each time, 66 trips would be enough, an average of trips per person for three people.

It’s definitely tiring, but thinking about the Tang Sancai pottery figurines and gold in my bag makes me feel fulfilled.

After all, workers who move bricks on construction sites now have to move two to three thousand kilograms a day to get paid. Some skilled workers have to move tens of thousands of kilograms a day and only get two to three hundred yuan for all the hard work. Isn't this a thousand times better than moving bricks?
"alright."

Ji He responded with difficulty.

Being a civil servant is like being a slave. Now that there is an opportunity to make a fortune, you are still like a slave, pure and simple.

"Let's eat first."

Zhu Yunfeng commanded: "Chichi, go cook first, I'll go change my clothes."

"it is good."

Ji He nodded. Cooking was something he liked, and he always cooked whenever he came to Zhu Yunfeng's house.

"Then I'll go up and watch TV."

Seeing that he seemed to have nothing to do, Zhu Di felt itchy when he thought of the TV series.

Zhu Yunfeng then picked up the backpack filled with gold and went upstairs with Zhu Di. Tomorrow he planned to go down the mountain to find a way to sell some of the gold, and then use the money to investigate whether he could set up an agricultural company.

Otherwise, their land is only seven or eight acres, so it doesn't make sense to buy so many seeds and fertilizers.

After going upstairs to change his clothes, Zhu Yunfeng turned on the computer.

There are so many things to check now.

For example, how to circumvent supervision and exchange the gold, how to set up an agricultural company to rent land, and also how to check the records of famous calligraphy and paintings.

After turning on the computer, I habitually opened the novel website and read the readers' comments.

He hasn't updated his novel for six days, and the few readers he has are all cursing him, calling him a dead eunuch.

Zhu Yunfeng sneered.

Now that he has a source of wealth, how much money can he make by writing novels?

It seems that there are a lot of collections, but in fact, they are all used to read pirated copies. There are very few genuine readers, but they are exhausted every day, with back pain and many diseases.

If it weren't for survival.

novel?

Dogs don’t write.

I closed the novel website and opened Bihu again.

Because he has been searching intensively for things about the Ming Dynasty in recent days, Bihu pushed some questions about the Ming Dynasty to him, and some people also invited him to answer them.

One of the questions was, "If Zhu Yuanzhang is resurrected with full health after Zhu Di ascends the throne and knows all of Zhu Di's actions, what is the probability that Zhu Yuanzhang will execute Zhu Di?"

There are already several answers below. Some say that Zhu Di held great power after he ascended the throne, and even if Zhu Yuanzhang was resurrected with full health, he would not recognize him and would treat it as a fake execution.

Some say the probability is zero, because it is an established fact that Zhu Di became the emperor. Even if Zhu Yuanzhang was resurrected, he would not be able to find a suitable candidate, so he could only make the best of it.

Others said that Da Meng didn't like the drama of father and son killing each other, and Lao Zhu would only be secretly happy if he knew everything that Lao Si had done.

Zhu Yunfeng found this question interesting, so he wrote: "Thanks for the invitation. I was in the Ming Dynasty and had just stepped down from the throne, but not after Zhu Di ascended the throne, but before Zhu Biao died. I had already told Zhu Yuanzhang what Zhu Di had done. Zhu Yuanzhang was not angry, but Zhu Biao was very angry and had a very cold attitude towards Zhu Di. I need to observe more in the future. There are too many people in the circle, so I will remain anonymous. If Zhu Yuanzhang kills Zhu Di in the future, I will come back and tell you all."

After a while, someone replied: "What a boaster! I thought I was the bragging king, but I didn't expect there is another expert. Whose general is this?"

Ugh.

Why is it that no one believes the truth these days?

(End of this chapter)