Great Ming: I, Zhu Di, Declare My Intentions to Seize the Throne from the Start!

Outside Yanjing Bay.

Three miles away.

The dark sky was filled with white light.

A new day is about to begin.

But the hazy light in the sky is too weak. With the naked eye, human eyes can see the gray light in the sky that looks like mist in the distance.

The surrounding sea area was still pitch black.

Driven by steam power, the cruise ship pushes the sea surface and makes a "clatter" sound as it moves forward rapidly.

The carbide lamp on the deck emitted a dazzling light.

The surrounding formations and the warships escorting the cruise ship rely on the light between them to ensure the distance between warships when traveling at night.

In the darkness of dawn.

Zhu Biao stood at the bow of the cruise ship.

Looking at the lighthouse emitting bright light in the distance.

That lighthouse should be what Lao Er and the others call Yanjing Bay, a lighthouse that guides ships to locate and enter the harbor at night.

Last night I saw this light from a hundred miles away.

It was just that it was far away and very weak at the time.

This is his first time going to sea.

When my father went to sea before, when Xiongying was still young, he stayed in Jinling to supervise the country.

To be honest, he only knew about Yan Jing, the fourth child, from the information compiled by Jin Yiwei.

Almost everything about the fourth son Yanjing is imagined based on the words in Jin Yiwei's secret memorial.

This kind of imagination did not give him much impact.

It was completely different from the intense impact described by the courtiers who had been to Yanjing and returned.

Could it be that the impact I witnessed with my own eyes was really that great?

He didn't know.

However, you can see it with your own eyes soon.

'Here we go, see the fourth child...'

Rather than being curious about Yanjing, he was more hesitant and struggling. When he went to see his fourth brother, how should brothers get along with each other?

More than thirty years have passed by in a hurry.

Unexpectedly, the brothers who loved each other in the past would end up in this embarrassing situation now?

Really, entirely his fault?

Is there nothing wrong with the fourth child?

…

Just when Zhu Biao was having complicated thoughts.

On the east sea.

Suddenly, a dazzling golden light broke through the hazy 'white mist' and jumped onto the sea.

Zhu Biao subconsciously raised his hand to shield himself in order to adapt to the dazzling golden light that suddenly jumped out of the sea.

In an instant.

The entire sea surface seemed to come alive instantly.

The golden light advances with the momentum of sweeping thousands of armies...

Before the golden light arrived, the darkness quickly collapsed like a defeated army without any resistance.

An instant later, the darkness had been swept away by golden light.

A flock of birds came from a distance, chirping, and flew overhead from the forest on land.

Under the sea.

As the cruise ships and warships advanced, groups of fish that had been 'sleeping' all night were disturbed.

Schools of fish splashed in the water and jumped out of the water on both sides of the warship.

…

All kinds of frosty days compete for freedom!

Zhu Biao looked at the scene in shock.

After tossing and turning, the depressing mood that made it difficult to sleep all night seemed to suddenly relax at this moment.

The sea breeze, waves, and all things that rely on the sea to survive, are blowing in front of you...

Zhu Biao raised his head and looked into the distance, where the light shined all night long, scattering the coast and pointing the way to the wanderers on the sea.

At this moment, it was very close.

No more than a mile.

At the top of a giant square cement pillar more than ten feet high, there was a huge flame burning inside a huge glass lampshade about two meters in diameter.

Zhu Biao opened his mouth slightly...

Glass is no longer a rare thing.

After pulling in Chen Chao, he stole and misappropriated the glass-firing technology of Laosi Yanhua.

The Ming Dynasty had also been able to make glass for a long time.

However, the firing technology is very rough.

Before Fujian merchants were authorized by Yanhua to teach the firing process step by step.

The Ming Dynasty could only bake green glass with low purity.

This kind of green glass could not be used by the wealthy Ming people in Yanhua, and wealthy families did not like this kind of green glass, so it was only used in the homes of Yanhua people.

Thinking that this kind of green glass is a civilian thing and cannot match their identity.

As a result, for a long time, the glass produced by Ming merchants fell into the embarrassing situation of having no market.

The gentry under the imperial court cursed Laosi Yanhua, but secretly bought Yanhua's kind of transparent glass with higher purity.

But even now.

Along with the Fujian merchants and Yanhua engineers, they completely mastered the glass firing technology.

It is also impossible to blow such a huge glass vessel!

What is most commonly used is glass for doors and windows.

Under the escort of the fleet, the cruise ship slowly passed the lighthouse and sailed into the newly awakened, quiet bay.

While passing the lighthouse.

Zhu Biao looked up.

A worker in blue overalls came to the bottom of the lighthouse, pulled the rope with both hands, and pulled hard.

At the top of the lighthouse, the flame in the giant spherical glass lampshade went out.

Ta-ta-ta...

Zhu Biao lowered his head and looked towards the depths of the bay.

There were footsteps behind me.

Turn around.

Zhu Yuanzhang came with the support of Zhu Yunxu.

"My son, I pay homage to my father." Zhu Biao saluted hurriedly.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and looked at Zhu Biao's tired face, "You haven't slept all night?"

Zhu Biao couldn't help but feel embarrassed.

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't say anything. He walked past Zhu Biao and came to the bow of the ship, signaling Zhu Yunxu not to help him.

Holding the guardrail with both hands, his old eyes looked at the depths of the bay, turned his head, and smiled kindly at Zhu Yunzhen, "How many years has it been since we last came to Yanjing?"

Zhu Yunxuan glanced at Zhu Biao, who was neither standing awkwardly nor talking.

He smiled and said: "Grandfather, the last time I came to Yanjing was in the 25th year of Hongwu, when my fourth uncle founded the country. Now it is the 30th year of Hongwu, which is a full six years after two months."

Zhu Yuanzhang gently touched the iron guardrail with his hand, "When I came here six years ago, the cruise ship my grandfather took was also a gift from your fourth uncle. It was still a hybrid cruise ship at the time, and the guardrail was also made of wood. In six years, it has changed. It is made of iron, and the power is steam power, replacing the old sail and animal power..."

…

Zhu Yuanzhang's face was filled with emotion.

As he said that, he turned around and said with a smile: "I don't know how much Yanjing has changed in these years. Your elder brother is not here this time. Please take a good look at it and tell it to your elder brother when you get back."

"Yeah!" Zhu Yunxi smiled and nodded seriously.

Zhu Biao watched Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Yunxu interact.

He has four sons.

Two daughters.

Of four sons.

Yunwen's character is most like him.

Yunxi has a somewhat weak character, and his qualifications are relatively mediocre. He doesn't cause trouble, but he doesn't have outstanding performance.

Even, she was a little afraid of him.

Anyway, avoid him.

As for the third son Yunzhen, he is completely a die-hard supporter of Xiongying.

If he and Xiongying disagree, he will probably support Xiongying.

…

Zhu Yunxuan and Zhu Yuanzhang were talking, and Zhu Biao's thoughts emerged again.

Zhu Xi and others also walked out of the cabin one after another.

Zhu Xi stretched, raised his hand, deliberately patted Zhu Yunzhen on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Follow your brother well. In the future, when our Ming Dynasty revolutionizes, your brother must be surrounded by someone who is hardworking and uncomplaining."

"Um."

Zhu Yunzhen smiled and nodded.

Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head and glared at Zhu Xi, "A dog can't spit out ivory from its mouth!"

As he spoke, he glanced at Zhu Biao from the corner of his eye.

The second child was making insinuations and blaming Biao'er.

Zhu Fang glanced at Zhu Biao and reminded with a smile: "Father, when you scolded me, you also scolded yourself."

snort!

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed angrily, raised his cane, and slapped the crook of Zhu Xiang's leg moderately, "Do you think I can't beat your legs anymore because I'm old?"

Woo woo woo...

A long whistle sounded suddenly from front to back, left and right.

In the forward coastal defense battery.

The whistle sounded instantly.

Zhu Biao saw soldiers wearing white navy uniforms running out of the fort while adjusting their uniforms.

Line up on the shore.

"salute!"

As the fleet passed by, the navy coast guards on both sides of the coast, under the dark and thick gun barrels of the forts, raised their hands in salute.

In the fleet, admirals and soldiers on warships and transport ships also stood on the deck and in the cabins and returned the salute to the fort.

Zhu Biao looked at this scene and remained silent.

He noticed that the commander on the side was inside.

The dignified Yanhua, the First Division, the Navy Minister, and Lu Zhen all stood in front of the glass window and saluted the soldiers on the shore.

You know, this is just an ordinary entry into Hong Kong.

A lot of things can be seen from some details.

At least, in the imperial army.

In addition to the generals headed by Lan Yu and Yu Tongyuan, they hope to imitate Yan Hua in making innovations.

Other generals, most of them, never bothered to salute the soldiers at the bottom.

After the fleet passed by.

The officers of the coastal defense battalion on the shore put down their hands and began to jog out, and the slogans of "one, two, one, one" also sounded one after another.

Zhu Biao stared at it for a long time.

On both sides of the coast, rows of three- and four-story buildings appeared.

And when the noise of various hawking sounds came from the shore, he looked back.

Look towards the shore.

First the beach comes into view.

Behind the beach, behind rows of coconut trees, you can vaguely see people on a wide gray cement road.

There are stalls set up on the streets.

A new-style carriage passed by.

More dense bicycle traffic.

There are so many bicycles!

In five or six years, bicycles were no longer a rare thing in Daming.

You can see them everywhere in Jinling City.

But compared with the dense traffic on the road behind the coconut trees in front of me, it is still completely incomparable.

It seems that in Yanhua, almost everyone has a bicycle.

Zhu Fang seemed to see Zhu Biao's surprise and introduced: "Last year, Shang Bing wrote to me. According to the year-end statistics of the Fourth Brother and others, Yanhua's bicycle popularity rate has reached two, every five people. In recent years, , in order not to impact the imperial court’s bicycle manufacturing, almost all of the six to seven million bicycles manufactured by Yanhua were internally digested..."

Bicycle manufacturing in Yanhua.

Thanks to the use of steam engine production lines.

and the cheapness of the origins of steel and rubber.

The cost is already very low.

If it were dumped to Daming, my niece's bicycle factory would not be able to compete with Yanhua in terms of cost.

However, the internal potential of the fourth-year-old Yanhua has almost been tapped to its limit.

Two bicycles for every five people.

Almost every family in Yanhua has two bicycles.

At least there is one for adults.

A car for children going to school.

He guessed that the fourth child seized the opportunity of the boss to target Yanhua and destroyed the Chen Dynasty, not just to counterattack the boss.

I'm afraid, there is also the purpose of finding a way out for Yanhua Industrial Products.

Today, Yanhua does not dump industrial products to the Central Plains.

We can only develop sales markets westward.

As for the Chen Dynasty that blocked the Strait of Malacca, while Yanhua's internal industrial product market was becoming saturated, it could only use war to defeat the Chen Dynasty and open up Malacca.

Of course, he was able to analyze this.

Thanks to Shang Bing, he has been studying in Yanhua these years.

The great monk Yao Guangxiao analyzed the letters sent back word for word.

Zhu Biao glanced at Zhu Xi and asked, "Shang Bing and Gao Chi are the same age, I guess. They have been studying in Yanhua for more than ten years. When are you going to return to our Ming Dynasty?"

Zhu Xi looked at Zhu Biao and sighed.

His original intention was to remind the boss how much Yanhua had given up on his own interests for the benefit of Ming Dynasty over the years.

He didn't believe it, and the boss couldn't hear his reminder.

But the boss changed the subject.

Zhu Xi forced out a smile, "Now Shang Bing doesn't want to go back to our Ming Dynasty. Over the years, every year during the Chinese New Year, he goes back to visit me and Guanyin Nu. He always says that our Ming Dynasty is too backward and boring. He also asked me to ask his uncle, When will Ming Dynasty catch up with his fourth uncle Yanhua..."

Zhu 㭎 kept tugging on Zhu Ping's sleeves quietly.

Zhu Ming turned his head angrily, "Lao San, why are you pulling my sleeves!"

The corners of Zhu's lips twitched.

He rolled his eyes angrily.

He had been unlucky for eight lifetimes to have a second brother like Zhu Laoer.

This time the eldest brother and the fourth child are having a conflict. Zhu Laoer has already been reprimanded by his eldest brother because of his radical persuasive remarks. Now he kindly reminds Zhu Laoer not to be too fierce.

Lu Dongbin was bitten by a dog? !

Zhu Ru turned his head and looked towards the side.

Just treat Zhu Laoer as air.

Such a fuss.

The atmosphere on the ship suddenly became tense.

No one spoke.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Xiuying saw all this and said nothing.

Dong dong dong...

The loud hourly chime sounded, breaking the stiff atmosphere on the ship.

Zhu Biao followed the sound.

Not far ahead, there is another concrete pillar more than ten feet high.

Yanhuang Tower!

Also known as the four-sided bell tower.

He already knew about this bell tower.

However, this is the first time I’ve seen it.

He looked at the clock tower with solemn eyes.

Such a tall bell tower is enough to show the infrastructure construction capabilities of Laosi Yanhua.

The line of sight extends to the back of the bell tower.

The magnificent Century Bridge comes into view.

Representative of Yanhua’s infrastructure construction capabilities.

It’s not Yanhuang Tower.

But this big iron bridge.

Huh!

Zhu 㭎 exclaimed, "The Century Bridge is different from last time. There is an extra layer underneath. It should be a train track, right?"

His eldest son is also studying in Laosi Yanhua.

There was frequent correspondence between father and son.

So he knows something.

Ta-ta-ta...

Woo woo woo...

At this moment, the whistle and the rhythmic crashing sound suddenly came from the direction of the North Bank City.

When everyone followed the sound and looked.

In the billowing steam, a strange, square steel 'behemoth', like an ink dragon, rushed out of the white mist.

You can also see someone inside the glass window.

Molong towed more than a dozen carriages, the first three of which were enclosed carriages with glass windows.

The next few sections are just a board mounted on wheels, with sacks neatly piled on top.

With everyone watching, he made a roar and rushed across the iron bridge.

Disappeared from everyone's sight.

Everyone watched in shock as Molong disappeared among the many factories on the south bank.

Before he could recover, he was attracted by chimneys with billowing black smoke coming into view.

"This is the train, right?" Old Thirteen Zhu Gui whispered, the shock in his trembling voice clearly evident.

Zhu Fang came back to his senses and put his arm around Zhu Gui's shoulders. "Thirteenth, how much money have you saved over the years? The second brother has decided. Regardless of whether father and fourth brother can negotiate, the Grand Cross Railway Cooperation Plan, the second brother has decided." Brother is going to build a railway in the fiefdom. When the time comes, will you invest some money in the second brother?"

Zhu Gui rolled his eyes and pushed Zhu Ming's arm away.

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his hand angrily, pointed at Zhu Xi with trembling fingers, and scolded angrily and funnyly: "Why did we give birth to such a shameless person like you?"

"Old Thirteen is rich, but if I can't build a railway in my own fiefdom, why should I invest money in you!"

In an instant, Zhu Laoer was denounced by a group of brothers.

The atmosphere has become much more harmonious.

Zhu Biao looked at his brothers and denounced Zhu Ping, but kept a distance from himself, and couldn't help but feel bitter.

Ever since the relationship between him and Lao Si became worse and worse.

The brothers gradually became alienated from him.

Was he really wrong?

Why can't the relatives around him understand him?

…

The brothers were laughing and quarreling.

The fleet slowly sailed towards the naval port.

The laughter gradually disappeared.

The atmosphere was somewhat solemn.

Everyone knows that soon, he will meet the fourth child.

This time, there was no grand welcome, which was enough to feel Yanhua's indifference.

It is simply incomparable to the grand occasion when my father came to Yanjing during his last tour to the south.

Zhu 㭎 stared at the industrial area and sighed in a low voice: "Come back this time, there are so many chimneys in the industrial area. There are almost chimneys everywhere. I can't wait to see them. I want to see them after the steam transformation. Yanjing Industrial Zone.”

When Zhu Biao heard this, he couldn't help but look towards the industrial area again.

In fact, he seemed calm on the surface.

In fact, only he himself knows the impact on his heart.

It turns out that the Yanjing depicted in Jin Yiwei's Secret Memorial does not even reflect one ten thousandth of the shocking impact.

No wonder everyone says Yanjing is good.

No wonder Lao Si dared to fight back strongly.

Just seeing an appearance gave him a very strong shock and impact.

In fact, he couldn't wait to go in, go deep inside, and take a good look.

Of course, he couldn't express these thoughts.

Bang bang bang...

Cannon fire rang out.

Zhu Biao's thoughts were pulled back, and he noticed that he had entered the naval port.

Forts, cement-hardened docks, assembly gantry cranes...

This was the first time he had seen such a complete military port.

In comparison, the Songjiangkou Division Camp was like a Caotai team.

On the pier, a group of people were waiting.

The leader, surrounded by people in the middle, a tall figure who had not been seen for several years, familiar yet unfamiliar, looked majestic.

The familiar tenderness disappeared.

All that remains is the mature and steady power of the superior.

Fourth child!

Zhu Biao's fingers hidden in his sleeves were slightly curled.

For a moment, my heart was in a state of confusion.

Now, the fourth child is the winner, and he is the loser whose guns are aimed at Jinling City by the Yanhua Navy!

The conversation between brothers Zhu Xi and Zhu Yu gradually died down.

Everyone was looking at Zhu Di, who was surrounded by people on the pier, and Zhu Biao beside him.

No one knows that at this moment, Zhu Biao is obsessed with losers and winners.

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