The night wind blows the shadows of trees and hits the window lattices.

If it is in the north, the cold wind at the end of October is the buzzing sound of the bowstrings trembling, and the scenery outside the window is also a crazi dance.

In the south, the winter wind always seems to sway weakly, but it is as cold as a shadow.

King Yan Zhu Di sat in front of the window, his golden cup was filled with strong wine. He looked at the sometimes gentle and sometimes messy reflections of the branches on the window, and was stunned.

He was drunk at the old man's birthday party and was scolded for sobering again. He didn't want to get drunk at that time, but he was so drunk that he was so sudden and so unprepared.

Now, he wanted to sleep with the help of a little drunkenness of alcohol. But after drinking a lot, the more he drank, the more he was, the colder he felt.

This time I came to Beijing, it was a mess!

Zhu Di shook the liquid in the golden cup. Under the light, the thick wine seemed to have a layer of crystal clear.

Why bother with a little kid? Even if you beat him in words and even if you can suppress him, he is the crown prince chosen by the old man. What benefits can you get?

Zhu Laosi, you are in your thirties and are still so restless! You deserve this great humiliation!

Zhu Di smiled bitterly and raised his glass and raised his head, and drank it all in one go.

Putting down the wine glass, the eyes of King Yan Zhu Di's eyes became clearer and brighter.

After so many years, I still don’t fit in the large dye vat of Yingtianfu, and I haven’t learned to bow my head and talk to others.

A good man should speak with a sword and a gun, but he would not be able to make any noise with the crooked people in the big dye vat in the capital!

Thinking of this, Zhu Di laughed at himself again.

Brother, you really have a good son, but you are much better than you.

Well, if the opponent is too weak, this battle is of no interest!

The Crown Prince? If he is really a child like a quail, he will be invincible.

Suddenly, there was a light knock on the door outside.

Who? Zhu Di asked coldly.

father!

Hearing his son's voice, the expression on King Yan's face became much softer.

Come in!

Then, Zhu Gaoxu pushed open the door and came in with red eyes.

Is there anything wrong? Zhu Di asked.

Zhu Gaoxu sniffed and looked up and asked, "Dad, I really let Zhang Fu stay in Beijing!"

Zhu Di sighed slightly in his heart. Zhang Fu was the riding and shooting teacher of his sons, and he had a deep relationship.

Yes! Zhu Di said lightly.

My son didn't want him to stay here, so he wanted to take him back to Peking. He was our family! Zhu Gaoxu suddenly started shouting loudly.

Do you dare to disobey the will of the grandson? Zhu Di turned his head and asked coldly, "Son, do you dare?"

Zhu Gaoxu clenched his fists and gritted his teeth and said, "What's the point of not daring? He is not the emperor!"

What if he becomes emperor in the future? Zhu Di asked again.

He...he just relied on the power of the emperor and grandfather! Zhu Gaoxu roared.

Zhu Di smiled and poured the golden cup with northern liquor again, slowly pushing it aside.

Then, looking at his son, if he was not as powerful as your emperor and grandfather, would you be afraid of him?

Not afraid! Zhu Gaoxu shook his head and said, Dad, no one is afraid of his son!

Then let’s wait. When he has no power to rely on your grandfather, he will snatch back what we have thrown back! As he said that, Zhu Di pointed to the golden cup and drank it. After drinking it, he went back to sleep. Everything will happen in the future.

All are kept in my heart and don't say it to anyone!

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the golden cup without hesitation and poured it down in one breath.

Then his tender face turned red by the stimulation of alcohol, and he exhaled a hot breath in his mouth, stubbornly preventing himself from coughing.

Tomorrow, our grandfathers will go home and return to Peking! Zhu Di turned around and continued to look at the reflection outside the window. Although this place is good, it is not our home after all!

At the same time, Zhu Yunxiu in the deep palace did not sleep, but opened it excitedly, and the old man gave him a thin booklet.

Although the booklet is thin and light, it is as heavy as Mount Tai.

Because this book is the most core military secret of the Ming Dynasty, apart from the emperor and several confidant heroes, even the Minister of War cannot know it.

The former Minister of War was impeached and dismissed from office because he asked the military list of the Ming army's military commander for the Five Army Governor's Office.

With the light, Zhu Yunyu opened the book, which was neat and densely packed with small calligraphy.

Military officers in Beijing, two thousand seven hundred and forty-seven!

Soldiers, 206,280!

War horses, four thousand,751!

There are 13,742 military officers outside the country!

Sergeants, ninety-ninety-one hundred and fifty-four!

War horses, forty thousand and three hundred and twenty-nine!

This is the number of troops in the Ming Dynasty. After a rough estimate, the total number exceeded one.2 million.

Zhu Yunqiu couldn't help but be shocked. He was a soldier and naturally knew what this number meant.

Now these soldiers are not the beggar soldiers who cannot even eat at the end of the Ming Dynasty. They are real founding troops, absolute war soldiers, strong soldiers, and field troops.

One million and two million soldiers, even if the garrison system has not collapsed yet, is a huge burden for the country. Even in modern society, many countries in the world cannot mobilize so many armies.

They were mobilizing, and the Ming Dynasty's army was an elite force who could draw their swords directly.

And he knew that even this confidential sergeant roster might not be correct.

The statistics of sergeants and war horses in the capital skipped past the emperor's twelve guards. When Zhu Yunyu went to the camp before Lan Yu went to the battle, he heard Lan Yu privately say that the most elite in the capital were the three under the command of the old man.

Ten thousand-strong iron cavalry.

In addition to the emperor's personal army, the army of the vassal kings in various places was not counted. The King of Yan's armed forces and the King of Jinning's border were full-time soldiers. Those soldiers were completely professional soldiers, unlike the officers and soldiers of the garrison, who had to farm on weekdays.

They are fighting every day, 365 days a year.

The equipment is well-equipped, and the commanders are all famous generals in a hundred battles.

After doing so, the Ming Dynasty could mobilize and pull nearly 1.8 million soldiers on the battlefield.

One hundred and eight hundred thousand troops need to be supported by the state, which shows the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty. Now it is only the early days of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and it is the Ming Dynasty that is in ruins.

The horses and soldiers in the world have two stones of rice every month, one stone is one stone and five dou of infantry flag, one stone is one stone and two dou of small flag, and one stone is one stone. Those who guard the city give as many as possible, and half of those who farm farming are.

One stone is a leopard, about 120 kilograms, and one kilogram in the Ming Dynasty was sixteen kilograms.

Well, if there are more than four soldiers, one stone is more than three, six dou. If there are salt for a month, two pounds, and one pound is less than three!

I give winter clothes, cotton cloth, cotton cloth, summer clothes, summer cloth, and cotton jackets, shoes and pants when I go to war!

Zhu Yunxiu couldn't help but feel a little excited. No wonder he won consecutive battles against the powerful Northern Yuan in the early days of the founding of the Ming Dynasty. No wonder he went out of the frontier five times and fought the arrogant Hu cavalry outside the frontier, and did not dare to look north at the Central Plains during the Yongle period.

The war is about economy and money and food. The Ming Dynasty provided such a comprehensive supply of soldiers, and soldiers and their families had no worries. Who wouldn't scream?

Moreover, these food and wages were completely separated from the civil service system and were all distributed by the Governor's Office of the Five Army, which was in charge of the world's garrison and the power of the world's troops.

Although the old man was not from a high background, he had a great understanding. He knew the harm of the civil servant system to the army, so the Ming Dynasty was completely differentiated from the civil and military. He used the meritorious generals who knew the soldiers to lead the troops and set up a garrison to allow soldiers to farm in their spare time and during wartime.

Fight.

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The information comes from books such as the records of the Ming Taizu, the Ming Food and Message Book, the Ming Military System, etc., which I did not make up by mistake.

Happy Lantern Festival to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
Chapter completed!