Throughout the night, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Yunxi talked a lot.

From the time when the old man was a cowherd boy outside Fengyang City, to the Ming Dynasty when he was preparing for the journey to the Western Regions.

He also talked about the girl in the village who was as beautiful as a flower, and she coveted the old man. Now, the Ming Dynasty royal family is flourishing, with descendants everywhere.

Zhu Yunxi coaxed the old man to bed and watched him sleep peacefully. He didn't know the time anymore.

When he exited the house, closed the door gently, and turned around, he realized that the sky was already dark.

This is the coldest time of the day.

Dew covered the branches and leaves, the morning sun did not heat up, and the morning breeze was a bit cold.

Zhu Yunxi shrank his head, arched his shoulders, rubbed his hands together slowly, and walked forward.

As soon as he left the hospital, he saw Zhu Gaochi holding a tureen in front of him.

Zhu Yunxi blinked his tired eyes: "What is this?"

"It's for you." Zhu Gaochi murmured and sent the bowl to Zhu Yunxi: "Can you bear it with the old man nagging me all night? This is what the imperial doctors prescribed after my people caught a snake in the mountains last night.

A few herbs and the qi-tonifying snake soup are stewed. Let’s drink it while it’s hot.”

Protein does not dissolve in water, and the umami flavor of chicken soup and snake soup is produced by another substance that has no nutrients.

But once people from Taiyi Hospital are mixed into it, then this bowl of snake soup will definitely be able to replenish qi.

Zhu Yunxi didn't think much, took the tureen, opened it, and saw the snake soup with a light layer of oily water.

He raised his head and drank the entire bowl of soup in one gulp.

Seeing Zhu Yunxi finish drinking the soup, Zhu Gaochi had a smile on his face, took the empty bowl, and handed it to the attendant beside him.

Zhu Gaochi added: "There is nothing important in the past two days. The projects on the construction site are progressing according to the construction schedule. The people who continue to come from the mountains are also allocated according to the previous plan.

You go and get some sleep first. If there is any important military information coming from the front, I will call you."

As he spoke, he pushed and shoved Zhu Yunxi into a room in the back office of the Dayong County government office.

Zhu Gaochi did not dare to arrange several graceful women for Zhu Yunxi, but the house had obviously just been tidied up again, it was clean, and a light incense that was not too strong was lit.

Seeing the soft and neatly made bed.

Zhu Yunxi skipped the steps of washing up and directly took off his coat and got into bed.

Within two seconds, he was already snoring loudly.

In the next few days, the entire Dayong County was calm.

The emperor's body is also recovering quickly.

On the third day, the old man was already wandering around Dayong County with his sixth son.

The food list in the Southwest is very different from that in the Central Plains.

Even Zhu Zhen, who also lives in Huguang Road and has lived in Wuchang City all year round, knows little about the types of food in Dayong County.

The father and son were busy all day long, looking for delicacies they had never seen before in the streets and alleys of the city.

It is a rare leisure time.

Outside the county seat, the number of projects in Dayong County is now increasing.

The total number of people who rushed to Dayong County from all over the country has exceeded 50,000.

This also resulted in the rapid progress of various projects.

Now the imperial court is at an unprecedented height in the hearts of these people.

If someone says at this time, the court is exploiting them.

The biggest possibility is that he will face a violent blow from the excited people.

Not to mention, the imperial court further carried out teaching work in Dayong County.

After the common people finished their work during the day, at night before going to bed, literate people from the army and the city would go to various places to teach the common people how to read and write.

What is knowledge?

In the long past, it was something only wealthy families could possess.

In recent years, power has only been held by those who are either rich or noble.

The court now doesn't want them to spend any money. It lets them learn to read and calculate accounts for free.

This is a great kindness.

That's right.

Zhu Yunxi and others are trying to promote basic education in Dayong County.

Although the imperial court has been actively building more local government-run schools in the past two years, it has never been able to better solve the basic education for all people due to the huge cost problem.

After all, people at this time cannot study completely off the job.

For most people, studying cannot change the current situation. The most important thing is to have a full stomach and live a better life.

Instead of learning to read and then continue to devote yourself to more imperial examinations.

But the current nighttime literacy learning in Dayong County is another attempt.

At least it can be guaranteed that the common people who are doing the work will be able to read in the future.

So after Zhu Yunxi and Zhu Gaochi summed it up, they felt that it was not so much basic education as it was literacy.

In short, here in Dayong County, except for the fact that there is no more fighting, everything else is going on in full swing.

Leaving Dayong County, the entire southwest Tusi region also experienced an eerie silence during this period.

Since the Peng family of Xuanweisi in Yongshun and the Peng family of Baojingzhou were successively annihilated by the imperial army, the two places were undergoing a process of returning to their native land.

All parties in the southwest maintained a standstill attitude.

Even though the imperial court was still recruiting people from the southwest chieftain region, those chieftain officials who had been hereditary for hundreds of years were still unmoved.

It seemed that even if the imperial court removed everyone, they would not have any dissatisfaction or reaction.

For a time, there was a calm situation in the entire southwest region.

Capital.

Inside Yingtian City.

Zhu Biao had just finished his regular court meeting, and walked into the side hall of Wenhua Palace a little tiredly and lay down.

The news that the old man had gone to the southwest had already been rushed back eight hundred miles away.

But as long as the old man is not in Beijing, Zhu Biao will not feel at ease.

Although there have been no major disputes between the DPRK and China recently.

But what I have been doing is not always smooth.

With the establishment of the Zhili Governor's Office in Southern Zhili, the power struggle between Zou Xueyu and the local Shangfu County is still ongoing.

The imperial court dismissed many people.

However, the lowest level officials cannot be completely solved by just one assessment.

The rule and governance of the empire at its most basic level has been a long-standing problem since thousands of years ago.

Zou Xueyu wants to do something that no one has done.

He hoped that the power of the Southern Zhili and Zhili Governor's Yamen under his control could be directly extended to every township in every prefecture, county, and town.

This requires huge power and resources to do.

The result of this is that Zou Xueyu alone owns a room in the Metropolitan Procuratorate specially used to store impeachment memorials.

Zou Xueyu is the only one who possesses such an honor in the country.

Zhu Biao was very sad.

He knew that Zou Xueyu was a capable person, but the local conflicts had not been resolved and had begun to affect many aspects.

The headache in Southern Zhili is not over yet.

Zhu Biao had to worry about the construction of the western railway again.

Although the construction of that large project, which requires tens of millions of money and food investment, has already begun, the massive amounts of materials required need to be transported within the entire empire.

The imperial court solved the problem of local people's dissatisfaction with railway crossing, but another problem arose that no one had thought of before.

I don’t know when the local governments began to compete for the right to have railways pass through their own borders.

For this reason, the conflict has escalated to two neighboring counties in Shaanxi Province. The county magistrate, together with government officials and ordinary people, started fighting privately on the border.

Is this even official?

A local official in one county takes his own people to work with the neighboring county.

If the poor prefect hadn't run away with his clothes torn and his boots missing, and brought troops and horses to control the situation, there might have been many casualties.

But if something like this happens first, there will inevitably be a second one.
To be continued...