After finishing the gossip, Li Zhu talked about serious matters with Qin Che.
"From the current point of view, there is no doubt that the person who leaked military secrets during the death of my father is a source of income."
"Emperor Ming also played a disgraceful role here."
"But now is not the time to settle accounts with Emperor Ming, so I have negotiated a series of compensations with Emperor Ming."
"First of all, the supply of resources to you must still be the same as when my father was there. However, all resources will be borne by the royal family.
When the time comes, if you need any resources, just make a list and hand it over to the eunuch in the palace."
"Secondly, you will inherit your father's title. Originally, Emperor Ming planned to canonize you as Prince Ze, but now you will be directly crowned Prince Ze."
"Daoshan City is your fiefdom, and this forbidden land also belongs to you."
"Finally, you will appoint the generals of the Red Flame Army, as well as the appointments of officials of all sizes in the nine and twenty-seven counties in the southwest."
"We can collect taxes ourselves and don't have to pay them to the national treasury. The allocation from the court every year remains unchanged."
"It can be regarded as turning the southwest into a country within a country."
After Qin Che waited for Li Zhu to finish speaking, he said to Li Zhu: "You can make your own decisions about the appointments of generals and officials."
Lizhu had guessed this outcome early on, so she was not surprised at all by Qin Che's instructions.
After agreeing to this matter, Li Zhu said to Qin Che: "I will reorganize here for two or three days, and then I will lead my troops back to the southwest."
Li Zhu wanted to go back to the southwest to guard her, but Qin Che didn't try to persuade her to stay.
Because Qin Che knows that he can’t stay even if he tries to persuade him to stay.
The southwest is where Prince Yan has been guarding, and the enemy who killed Prince Yan is also in the southwest. How could Lizhu leave.
"Do one more thing for me before you leave. Find a set of health-preserving exercises to teach Lu'e." Qin Che said to Lizhu.
Lizhu glanced at Lu'e and nodded: "It's easy to find health-preserving exercises. I'll come and teach her tomorrow."
Suddenly thinking of something, Qin Che said: "Do you have any craftsmen in your army? I want the general to build something."
Lizhu nodded and said: "There are many craftsmen in the army. Whatever you want to build, I will let them work on it overnight."
Qin Che thought for a moment and said, "Let them come in and stand by. After I draw the drawings, I will watch them build it. If there are any problems, I can let them adjust it in time."
"Okay."
Now the entire forbidden area and Daoshan City are Qin Che's own territory.
It’s not a big deal to let a few craftsmen in.
After a night of silence, Lizhu returned to the wooden house the next day with seven or eight capable craftsmen and a set of health-preserving exercises.
Although the health-preserving exercises can also produce true energy, the amount of true energy produced is much smaller. The key is that all the true energy is mainly used for health maintenance and cannot form a strong attack power.
At most, it can increase your strength, delay aging, and extend your lifespan. Other than that, it has no special effects.
Therefore, health-preserving exercises can be purchased directly even in the market.
Li Zhu instructed Lu'e in her practice, while Qin Che asked the craftsmen brought by Li Zhu to hammer it after he finished his practice.
Lizhu did not go to see what Qin Che was doing.
Three days later, the craftsmen brought by Li Zhu finally made the things according to Qin Che's requirements.
Qin Che handed the finished product to Li Zhu: "This is my parting gift to you."
Lizhu took the gift Qin Che gave her, looked at the thing that looked like a bow but not a bow for a while and asked: "What is this?"
Qin Che took the thing and installed an arrow while saying: "I call this thing a crossbow, it has the same function as a bow.
However, it has several advantages over the bow. One is that it can shoot farther, the other is that it can be operated with simple training, and the third is that its power is not worse than that of a heavy bow.
The disadvantages are that the rate of fire is relatively slow and the cost is relatively high. There are no other disadvantages."
After Qin Che finished speaking, he pulled the trigger directly, and an arrow shot out.
"Bang!"
The arrow easily penetrated the wooden stake as thick as a bowl not far away.
Lizhu looked at the crossbow in Qin Che's hand, and her beautiful eyes couldn't help but brighten.
This crossbow is definitely a great help to Li Zhu.
It is difficult to train good archers, but crossbows can turn everyone into an archer.
And this crossbow can be used offensively or defensively, and it can play a great role.
Qin Che looked at Li Zhu who was holding the crossbow as if he had found a treasure and said: "These craftsmen already know how to do it.
I also told them how to make some repeating crossbows and cart crossbows, and then you can just let them show you how to make them."
When Lizhu heard Qin Che say that there were new weapons, her beautiful eyes became even more gorgeous.
Lizhu expressed excitedly: "This crossbow of yours will definitely become a big killer on the battlefield. This crossbow will definitely play a huge role on the battlefield.
With this crossbow, I can make them pay for their blood debt by returning to the southwest."
After finishing speaking, Li Zhu said to Qin Che seriously: "Qin Che, thank you."
"You come to take charge of the Red Flame Army on my behalf and collect various resources for me. Naturally, I don't want anything to happen to you."
After a pause, Qin Che added: "If you really encounter the person who killed your father and you are outmatched, find a way to lure him over. Don't resist forcefully."
Lizhu nodded: "I will."
After knowing Qin Che's strength, Li Zhu was not too resistant to this matter.
Suddenly Lizhu remembered something and said to Qin Che: "By the way, news came from Qianjing today.
Emperor Ming established a new supervisory agency called the Embroidery Department, and the person in charge of the Embroidery Department was the old eunuch.
All members of the Embroidered Clothes Department were eunuchs who had contributed a lot to pacifying the metal phase that day.
The Department of Embroidery and Clothes was directly under the Ming Emperor, and could be executed first and reported later, and had unlimited power to supervise all officials.
At the same time, the Embroidery Department will also dispatch governors to all states and counties to perform supervisory duties."
When Qin Che heard about this embroidery department, he only thought of Dongchang.
In fact, after Qin Che heard that a group of eunuchs saved Emperor Ming, he thought that Emperor Ming might establish something like Dongchang.
"The Great Zhou Dynasty may be destroyed in the hands of these eunuchs." Qin Che said with emotion.
Li Zhu disagreed with Qin Che's words: "Although I think it is against etiquette to let eunuchs supervise.
But these eunuchs had no one to rely on. The only one they could rely on was Emperor Ming.
Therefore, they will definitely work for Emperor Ming wholeheartedly, and they can only be completely loyal to Emperor Ming.
They do such offending things so they don’t have to worry about being liquidated.
I think the decision made by Emperor Ming was quite wise.
At least he doesn't have to worry about being betrayed by these eunuchs."
Lizhu's idea should be the same as Emperor Yongle's initial idea.
However, the development of things often does not go in the best direction expected.
Especially for such a group that is somewhat psychologically distorted.
However, Qin Che didn't explain much about this. Just watch this kind of thing quietly.