If only Zhu Mingxi could be as carefree as his daughter, Luo Mingyue, every day.
Rosen was currently sitting by the lake, fishing.
Recently, his magical power had made some Breakthrough, and he hoped to turn to the sixth page of the Black Book.
Just then, a servant came over.
"Master."
"Hmm, has Fourth Old Zhu encountered another problem?"
"The news of His Highness the Prince of Yan raising an army is already widespread in Shuntian Prefecture, causing grain merchants to frantically hoard and raise grain prices. His Highness the Prince of Yan wants to ask you if there's a way to get grain."
"Half a month later, send at least 10,000 people to East Blue Port. There will be two million piculs of provisions and five million catties of meat there."
"This humble one thanks Master on behalf of His Highness the Prince of Yan."
"Tomorrow, put some fish fry in the lake. I've been fishing all morning, and no fish have bitten." Rosen put down his fishing rod and stood up.
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When Zhu Di received two million piculs of provisions and five million catties of meat, his head was buzzing.
He hadn't expected Rosen to be so Divinely Able, and he even felt a bit of fear towards Rosen.
If ten million taels could be accumulated through Ore mining, then two million piculs of provisions and five million catties of meat would be enough for a million-strong army for a year.
"Your Highness, the situation is a bit troublesome now." Yao Guangxiao hurried to Zhu Di's presence.
"What's wrong now? Not enough money? Or not enough provisions?"
"It's the meat. So much meat cannot be preserved for long. Millions of catties of meat, even if our people eat their fill, we can only watch it slowly spoil. It's winter now, and there's ice and snow for temporary preservation, but once the weather turns warm, then these millions of catties of Physical Body will have to be thrown away."
"Ride quickly to Yingtian Prefecture and ask Mr. Rosen if he has any other solutions."
Zhu Di was now experiencing a happy dilemma. In the past, he lacked money, provisions, and troops, but now he had everything, all thanks to Law Ming's father.
Zhu Di even felt that the other party was sent by Heaven to save him.
Now he actually had the chance to see his food spoil because he couldn't finish it.
Half a month later, he received Rosen's reply: the saltpeter ice-making method.
Subsequently, Zhu Di began to massively recruit soldiers and buy horses. Now that he had no shortage of money, provisions, weapons, and armor, he no longer concealed anything. He wanted everyone in the World to know that he was going to Rectify the Imperial Court.
On January 30th, the second year of Jianwen, Zhu Di officially raised his army, under the banner of Rectifying the Imperial Court.
This was more than half a year earlier than in the original history.
Originally, Zhu Di was imprisoned in Yingtian Prefecture for a full year.
This time, he was eight months early, plus three months of preparation, bringing his forces to 150,000.
Although his troops still had a huge gap compared to the Great Ming Dynasty's million-strong army.
However, among these million troops were also the forces of several feudal lords, and these feudal lords would not help Zhu Yunwen. The best outcome would be for them to remain neutral, and secondly, the border garrisons could not be withdrawn.
The maximum number of troops Zhu Yunwen could mobilize was 600,000.
Zhu Yunwen, on the other hand, dispatched Li Jinglong, the Duke of Cao, leading 500,000 troops to suppress Zhu Di.
Before this war began, Rosen specifically went to the scene to observe.
Li Jinglong was truly a person sent by the Prince of Yan.
After all, a normal person couldn't make such an anti-intellectual move.
The vanguard was about to break through the Yanjing city gates, and the city gates had already been breached, but Li Jinglong actually ordered a retreat.
In this battle, Li Jinglong was defeated miserably. He caused the loss of over 100,000 of the 500,000-strong army, and Zhu Di absorbed 200,000, with the remaining 200,000-plus fleeing back to Yingtian Prefecture in disarray.
In this battle, Zhu Di also lost tens of thousands of troops, but he replenished 200,000 from Li Jinglong, and now Zhu Di's forces have increased from the original 150,000 to 300,000.
This battle also caused an uproar in the Yingtian Prefecture imperial court. No one had expected Li Jinglong to lose, and to lose so badly.
Zhu Yunwen had no choice but to deploy troops and recruit soldiers.
Of course, he now also had to seek help from those feudal lords, not to ask them to send troops, but at least to make them remain inactive.
Especially the Mu Prince's Mansion in Yunnan, the Mu Prince's Mansion was the strongest feudal lord, commanding 300,000 troops.
Rosen, meanwhile, collected a large number of corpses during this war to expand the volume of the Twisting Space.
In other Worlds, Rosen could be indifferent to the deaths of countless people.
But here, watching those farmers, who might not even have been trained, being conscripted and sent to the battlefield, Rosen was still deeply moved.
These common people, they probably hadn't even killed a chicken, yet now they had to face the well-equipped Yan army.
However, this was the reality of this era, this was the sorrow of this era.
The Yan army was usually treated to rice and meat, and their equipment consisted of swords made of fine steel.
But the imperial army only had coarse rice and hardtack, which would choke one's throat if not accompanied by a bowl of Water, and their weapons were crudely made.
Even with a disparity in numbers, even in a head-on confrontation, the imperial army might not necessarily win.
Perhaps due to Rosen's help, the Yan army's offensive was much smoother than in the original history.
It originally took four years to break through Yingtian Prefecture, but now it was two years earlier.
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