Chapter 1249 The Horse Is Alive

Early the next morning, 120,000 soldiers and civilians who participated in "Operation Ice Sky" gathered in front of Ran Dengtao, an octagonal and thirteen-story pagoda built in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, to listen to the Sixth Prince's farewell speech to them.

"In one month, we transported four thousand miles round trip and transported two million stones of military rations. This is an unprecedented miracle! And all of you here are the creators of this miracle!"

Zhu Zhen stood on the double-layer Xumizuo and spoke loudly to the dark crowd under the stage. They were wearing shabby cotton-padded jackets, and they were all dirty after a month of dust. Many of them had frostbite on their faces, but they were still smiling happily.

Zhu Zhen also smiled, and then he continued: "History will remember this great miracle and the contribution of all of you. I will never forget that in the past month, we braved the wind and snow together, Brothers who work day and night, you will always be my brothers!”

"Ouch..." The crowd became even more excited, and many people were wiping away tears.

Eleven Twelve, who was behind Lao Liu, also had a lot of emotions. Others only saw Brother Six creating unimaginable miracles one after another, but they didn't know that he worked hard for these miracles and made every detail perfect.

For example, today, supposedly the task has been completed and there is no need to waste energy with these people, but Brother Six still treats them as before, starting well and ending well.

In this way, if there is another mission in the future, as long as he says hello, these soldiers and civilians will naturally gather in response.

Finally, Zhu Zhen announced loudly in the midst of excitement: "Operation Ice and Sky has ended successfully, and we have successfully completed the mission! Brothers can go home!"

The soldiers and civilians could no longer contain their excitement, and they cheered without emotion. They hugged each other, jumped and shouted, venting their inner joy.

Of course, Zhu Zhen would not let them go back empty-handed. He prepared a farewell gift for each of them - a sea ticket of two taels of silver for each of the soldiers and civilians, and a certificate describing their achievements.

The certificate was printed overnight and still smelled of ink.

As for the 100,000 ice trucks that were still new, Zhu Zhen kept 20,000 of them to continue transporting supplies, and let Shandong truck drivers drive the remaining 80,000 to return them to the people who donated the wood.

The structure of the ice truck is simple, and its main consumables are flat plates. By simply disassembling it, you can get the complete plate, which can be used for building ships, furniture, and coffins. There is no problem at all.

As for the Kong family, the Meng family, and the Lu Prince's Palace, they donated it and they still want to take it back? Dream on...

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At the same time, a fast horse galloped out of Tongzhou City and rushed towards the capital.

The knight on the horse has a red flag on his back and a copper whistle hanging around his neck. He looks like a fast horse delivering an urgent military report. All pedestrians, carriages and horses must avoid and give way.

Tongzhou is two thousand miles away from Nanjing. Naturally, one horse cannot run down, so it is necessary to change horses.

When the fast horse army reports that they are approaching the post station, they will blow the copper whistle. Upon hearing the whistle, the post soldiers will immediately lead the horses from the stables to the door of the post station, and let the sergeants change horses and rush to the next post station.

From north to south, the official road is smooth and wide, and one post is sixty miles away, so each horse only needs to run sixty miles, and naturally it can always maintain high speed. In this way, dozens of horses can travel eight hundred miles a day!

Two days later, this urgent military report was delivered to the prince.

After Zhu Biao read it, he quickly rushed into Wuying Palace with the military report.

In the Wuying Hall, there are piles of case files. These are all the Guo Huan case files sent by the Criminal Division. Boss Zhu was reading while listening to Wu Yong's report with a sullen face:

"Your Majesty, the matter of sending an imperial envoy was not going well. No one took the initiative to sign up. Those who were appointed were all looking for various reasons to avoid going. For this reason, some people even deliberately broke their legs."

"They won't go if they don't want to go?" Zhu Yuanzhang became furious when he heard this: "Tell them whoever doesn't go will be treated as if Guo Huan is a party member. Even if he breaks his leg, he has to go to us!"

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wu Yong responded first and then said with a grimace: "But these people sympathize with those corrupt officials in their hearts and disapprove of the court's punishment of corruption. It is conceivable that even if they are escorted to the place, they will definitely It’s hard to work hard.”

"Then what do you think we should do?" Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him. Usually, those who say this are just making demands.

Sure enough, they heard Wu Yong say: "This time, the Emperor has favored him and ordered the Criminal Division to try the Guo Huan case. All of us in the department are grateful and vow to do our best to repay the Emperor's favor! It's just that we have too few manpower. In addition, there are only five people serving as ministers. It is really inconvenient to borrow people from other yamen for everything. Just like this time, there is no way to do it. "

"So I dare to ask the emperor to allocate more manpower to the interrogation department so that we can better investigate and handle this case!" Wu Yong couldn't help but raise his voice and looked at the emperor with longing eyes.

"Well, let's think about it." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, and his eyes lit up when he saw the prince walking in quickly from outside the palace.

Then he put the file in his hand on the table and said, "Go down first."

"Yes, I resign." Wu Yong knelt down and kowtowed to the emperor, with his butt sticking out. Then he got up and bowed to the prince again: "Greetings to the prince."

The prince ignored him.

Wu Yong felt bored and retreated dejectedly.

"Hey, you're a rare visitor. I thought the prince had forgotten that he had a father." Boss Zhu snorted at the prince. Ever since the prince scolded the official Guo Huan for interceding several times, he has not been to Wuying Hall for more than ten days.

"I don't dare." The prince smiled and said, "Isn't this just to make my father less angry?"

"Don't come here, why are you here again today? Is there any good news?" Zhu Yuanzhang was relieved to see the smile on his face. Seeing the boss's stern face, he was also scared.

"Yes, great news!" Zhu Biao presented the memorial sent by Xu Da to his father and said, "The Sixth Brother has transported all the two million shi of military rations to Tongzhou!"

"Really? This kid has done it again!" Zhu Yuanzhang was originally sitting on the dragon throne. He jumped up when he heard the words, picked up the memorial and read it carefully, saying, "If you say he can have a baby now, I will believe it."

"The casual sentence on the paper is actually the result of him and the Fourth Brother leading more than 200,000 soldiers and civilians from three provinces and six prefectures, braving the wind and snow, and traveling back and forth for 4,000 miles in a month. How much effort, hard work and sacrifice are involved, ordinary people can never imagine it."

"Of course, how can our Sixth Brother be an ordinary person?" Zhu Yuanzhang's face was round with joy, and he praised it endlessly, saying, "Great, great, at first we were desperate, thinking that this time we would lose everything. Letting the Sixth Brother go to Beiping is just the idea of ​​trying everything."

As he said, he laughed and said, "Unexpectedly, when he went there, hey, the horse actually survived!"