According to the information from the Brocade Guard, Zhang Che's father, Zhang Yong, and his brother, Zhang Chen, were both in the Blue Jade Army.
The two of them were supposed to retire after this expedition.
However, the heavens were playing tricks on him.
The father and son had died in battle in the North Desert last month!
Seeing this message, Old Zhu was not very moved.
He had been fighting for most of his life and knew better than anyone else that as long as he was on the battlefield, it was not just you who killed others. Others would also kill you!
Whether or not he could survive, other than martial arts, luck played the biggest role.
Zhang Yong and his son had died on the battlefield, but Old Zhu did not feel much about it.
However, the news that followed made him tremble.
According to the investigation of the Embroidered Uniform Guards, Zhang Che wasn't Zhang Yong's biological son!
The Embroidered Uniform Guards visited Zhang Che's family's neighbors and learned that he was adopted by Zhang Yong when he was two years old.
As for where Zhang Yong had brought this child, no one knew.
The only person who knew the truth, Zhang Yong, had died on the battlefield!
At this point, the clues seemed to have been cut off!
However, this was enough for Zhu Yuanzhang!
Empress Ma was certain that Zhang Che was Zhu Che because the birthmark, jade pendant, and fragrance pouch all matched.
However, Old Zhu felt that these things might be coincidences. If they were a little more sinister, they might even be faked.
But now, even her background and age matched!
What did this mean?
Zhang Che was most likely his son, Zhu Che, who died young!
Even if Old Zhu wanted to find a reason to refute, he really couldn't find one.
Moreover, he had the most important evidence!
He trusted Empress Ma's intuition!
As the saying goes, mother and son are connected by heart. If Zhang Che wasn't related to her, why would she feel so close to him?
Understanding this, Old Zhu's thoughts were a little complicated.
At first, he felt extremely angry.
Back then, he was the one who personally arranged Che 'er's death and burial.
Now, it seemed that Che 'er was not dead at all at that time.
If that was the case, then what exactly happened back then?
Then, Old Zhu felt extremely lucky.
No matter what happened, the heavens had treated him well.
Even though it was a bumpy period, I still met Che 'er.
As long as this result was good, everything else could be put aside for the time being!
As night fell, Old Zhu's loud laughter suddenly came from the pitch-black Canopy Hall.
The eunuchs who had just been driven out by him heaved a sigh of relief.
Mr. Zhu asked someone to go in and light the lamp, preparing to eat.
At this moment, the eunuch brought in another memorial.
"Your Majesty, this is a memorial from the Ministry of Works.”the old eunuch said in a low voice.
Old Zhu nodded.
Because of Zhang Che, he really didn't do anything today.
Old Zhu was a well-known workaholic.
The highest record for a paper memorial was reading more than 100 catties a day.
This level of diligence was unimaginable in the eyes of ordinary people.
Even if there were occasional delays, he would get people to pick out the more important memorials and at least deal with this part.
The memorials sent by the Ministry of Works that the old eunuch had mentioned belonged to this category.
Zhu Yuanzhang took it and flipped through it. He immediately couldn't sit still.
The memorial said that the salt-making technique he had sent to the Ministry of Works two days ago had been verified.
The Ministry of Works followed Zhang Che's instructions and easily produced a large amount of white snow salt without any impurities.
Moreover, it was just as Zhang Che had said.
This salt-making technique did not have high requirements for the raw materials of the salt.
Whether it was rock salt, sea salt, or well salt, they were all suitable.
This time, Old Zhu didn't even eat. He held the memorial in one hand and walked around the hall.
Old Zhu was not to be blamed for being useless.
This news had really shocked him too much!
In feudal society, salt was a necessity for the people. It was a hard currency that was harder than gold and silver!
Its status could be roughly compared to oil in the future.
No matter which dynasty it was, this kind of strategic resource would be firmly controlled by the country.
It was not wrong for the imperial court to treat salt as a strategic resource.
However, just because salt was produced by the imperial court didn't mean that it had high production and good quality!
On the contrary, this item had always been in high demand.
Refined salt was definitely a luxury among the people!
In fact, for thousands of years, there had never been a time when there was no shortage of salt!
If people did not eat salt, they would have no strength. This was a principle that everyone understood.
However, the production of salt was low, and it was not something that ordinary people could afford.
Ordinary people would usually use vinegar cloths to solve the problem of eating salt.
Occasionally, even if they had some money saved up, they could only afford to buy lumps of coarse salt that looked like stones.
Did Big Ming not have salt?
No, there were many salt mines in Ming Dynasty.
It was just that there was no way to turn the ore into real salt.
And now, Zhang Che was giving this method to him.
The moment he saw this news, he thought of too many things.
Just a salt-making technique, who knew how many troubles it could solve for Da Ming!
Old Zhu was delighted!
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