Rebirth of the Ming Dynasty: Sixth Generation of Glory, I don't want it

The Prince of Yan's Mansion organized a family banquet, so everyone naturally gave face.

By evening, everyone was there.

Princess Ning brought her two sons with her, while Li Jinglong attended the meeting alone.

Accompanying them from Prince Yan's Mansion were Xu, Zhu Gaochi, Zhang Xin, Wei, Zhu Zhanji, Zhu Anle and Zhu Zhiming.

There were too few people, so after Zhang Xin asked Princess Ning in advance if she minded, there were no separate tables and everyone sat in a circle.

After finishing their meal, Zhu Gaochi took Li Jinglong, who was not used to it, and his two little nephews and the young Zhu Zhanji to another place to have some fun.

All the women in the room started chattering.

"My niece's cooking skills are amazing!!!"

Princess Zhang of Prince Ning was very satisfied with the meal.

"I always feel like Aunt Seventeen has taken advantage of me..."

Zhang Xin smiled and pushed Princess Ning.

Prince Ning said he was the elder, but in fact he was born in the same year as Zhu Gaochi.

Prince Ning was a few months older and got married following the previous wave of princes, so he was born a few years earlier than Zhu Gaochi.

At this time, the eldest son of Prince Ning was already six years old.

The Queen of Prince Ning has the same surname as Zhang Xin. She is two years older than Zhang Xin and also comes from the common people.

The people who arranged for Prince Ning to go out to sea to make money and do tea business, all used the names of people related to Prince Ning's wife.

Moreover, Princess Ning followed Prince Ning to his fiefdom very early and was in charge of the entire palace. Although she was not very old, she was very experienced in doing things and had a very straightforward personality.

When Zhu Gaochi wanted to take the letter from Prince Ning to the palace to invite the three of them to live in the palace, they were directly refused and said that they had had enough of the palace.

Later, when Zhang Xin went to invite her again, she still refused to come. Instead, she was very interested in following Zhang Xin to inspect the workshop and visit the girls' school.

As time went by, the relationship between the two people became better and better.

It’s because of this generation relationship that Zhang Xin feels at a disadvantage.

"Hehehe, who made you born two years late!"

Princess Ning smiled.

"There is a little sister-in-law in the capital who is only three or four years old!"

Xu made the final move.

"...Mother and aunt are both bad people!"

Zhang Xin acted aggrieved.

"My sister-in-law is not much better..."

Wei said weakly.

She was the only person in the palace who knew nothing. She only found out about her father-in-law, husband, uncle and brother-in-law killing people on the evening of the fourth day of the seventh lunar month.

It must have been so painful for her to keep it a secret.

She knew that everyone was worried about her, but she also wanted to do something for the palace.

"Isn't it because I'm afraid my sister-in-law will worry? My sincerity, after all, has gone astray—"

Zhang Xin took out a handkerchief, swung it pretentiously, and touched the corners of her eyes, which had no tears at all.

"Hahahahaha - does Fourth Sister-in-law wake up laughing every day?"

Princess Ning laughed so hard that she held her stomach and asked Xu.

"Almost. Mommy's face is almost broken from laughing."

Zhu Anle, Zhu Zhiming and Wei said the same thing.

"Ha ha ha ha--"

While the women were overjoyed, Li Jinglong and Zhu Gaochi were a little sad.

The three little boys, the oldest only six years old and the youngest only two years old, already know what naughtiness is.

As soon as they leave their mother and grandmother who can control them, they will run away.

The two grown men were so full that they didn't want to move, but they had to move.

After playing with the little ones for a while, Zhu Gaochi saw that they did not seem sleepy or tired at all, so he called their nanny over to keep them company. The two of them went into the house under the pretext of chatting about serious matters, so as not to see anything.

"The children in my eldest cousin's family are all grown up now."

Zhu Gaochi took a sip of tea, half leaned back in his chair, and asked.

"Well, when I have grandchildren in two years, I will divide them up. Babies are difficult to deal with."

Li Jinglong has a headache.

"Hahaha, no matter how much you divide it, you can't take away the boss, brother."

Zhu Gaochi laughed.

"Who knows? We don't know how long this war will last. You and your fourth uncle have been in Yandi for so long, and you haven't repaired your Beiping city! If a war really breaks out, how many shells can it withstand?"

Li Jinglong has not yet figured out how to fight this battle afterwards.

The city of Beiping is very prosperous, but compared with the capital, it is small and shabby.

Although there was a moat and a city wall, the situation was 500,000 against 10,000, and Zhu Yunwen also asked him to bring the latest generation of cannons.

How to take losing for granted then really becomes a technical job.

If the Prince of Yan cannot quickly capture the capital, he will eventually have to go back and give an explanation to Zhu Yunwen.

It doesn’t matter if he is gone, we still have that big family.

"Did you really build a cannon?"

Zhu Gaochi was a little excited.

"It has been built a long time ago. It was already there during the time of the previous emperor. It is very big, weighing more than 100 pounds, but who can it hit? Those who are too far away will have bad luck, and those who are close are all in our own land."

Li Jinglong felt that the artillery and fire systems in the warehouse were almost rusting.

After finally coming out to show himself, he turned out to be beating up his own family.

"Humph, our great grandfather was confused by those civil officials. If he had transported the land to Yan earlier, and Uncle Prince Ning had also sent it to him, wouldn't the Ming Dynasty have had more territory earlier?"

Zhu Gaochi complained casually.

"When people get old, their minds become strange."

Li Jinglong didn't want to say more.

The Zhu family's likes and dislikes change from time to time.

He couldn't say that the late emperor was old and confused in front of his grandson.

"I don't know when my dad will come back. After October, it will start to get really cold."

Zhu Gaochi understood the unspoken meaning of Li Jinglong's words and quickly changed the subject.

His father hasn't sent back any news yet, and he doesn't know how the situation in Daning is going now.

These 500,000 troops stayed outside the city like this for a long time. After a while, the news leaked out, which was not good for Li Jinglong and the Prince of Yan's Palace.

It was clearly a matter of clearing the court of corrupt officials, but if one is not careful it could become a serious conspiracy for treason.

"We have to wait for you to come back! How can the ten thousand defenders in Peking swallow up my five hundred thousand? Let's discuss what to do next."

Li Jinglong was not blind. Coming from the capital, the territory of Shandong Province became more desolate as he got to the north.

He asked people out and found out that there was a severe drought in Shandong in the first half of the year.

The common people all fled from famine.

The strange thing is that they all fled north, and very few went south.

The specific reason was not found out, but the fact that Beiping was able to attract disaster victims and resettle them well showed that there were capable people in the Prince of Yan's mansion.

The resettlement of disaster victims has always been a major problem for the state governments that took in the victims. It is common for a large number of disaster victims to suffer outside the city for a year or two.

When their army was stationed outside the city, they did not see a single disaster victim stranded outside.

He came into the city today. The prosperity of the city could not compare with that of the capital, but looking at the smiling faces of the people on the street, it was real.

Everyone is very comfortable.

He didn't even see a beggar, so he couldn't possibly clean up the whole city just for a family dinner.

Now that the disaster victims in Peking have been resettled, there will be extra labor to reclaim wasteland and cultivate the land, so at least they don't have to worry about food and fodder.

This military force was not strong enough at the moment, but after two or three years of fighting, it quickly grew stronger.

His visit was not to help as he thought it would be, but merely to add icing on the cake.