Xia Xun didn't stay in King Lu's mansion for a long time, King Lu was actually polite to him, most of the vassal kings in the early Ming Dynasty were very arrogant, even if you have great power in the court, you can't change the difference between the reality of the monarch and the minister, he doesn't need to flatter you for anything, King Lu is not such a prince.

This King Lu ...... He was only fourteen years old, had just inherited the throne, and was given a guard by decree of the emperor.

The previous King Lu was also good, intelligent and elegant, and he never caused a nuisance to the locality. However, the last King of Lu preferred ethereal things such as the Immortal Dao more than the King of Qi, and he always wanted to become an immortal and gain the Dao, so he invited some alchemists to practice Dan, take Dan, meditate and practice Qi in the mansion all day long, but as a result, he was poisoned to death by Dan Yào when he was just ten years old.

Fortunately, he already had a concubine and a side concubine at that time, and the concubine was not out at that time, but the side concubine gave birth to a son for him, and it was not yet a full moon at that time, and this child is now the king of Xiaolu. At the beginning of this year, King Xiao Lu had just received the golden seal of Emperor Yongle and inherited the throne of King Lu.

The little prince was instructed by his mother, he didn't dare to drink, he could only replace the wine with tea, so he found all the ministers of the Lu Wangfu to be a companion, Xia Xun raised his eyes and looked at it, he didn't know any of them, how could he drink this wine happily? The ministers of the Kelu Mansion had already arrived, and he couldn't leave immediately, so he had to sit patiently and grind for more than an hour to see that the time was almost up, and then he got up and thanked him and said goodbye.

King Lu stayed again and again, and then got up to see off the guests in person, and when he got up, King Xiao Lu also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, for Xia Xun, this kind of hospitality is a torment, and it is not for him. King Lu sent it to Ermén, Xia Xun bowed down and thanked him, and asked King Lu to stay, after all, the monarch and the minister are different, and King Lu will send it forward, then Xia Xun will be considered an arrogance, once he is found out by the imperial envoy, he will be impeached.

King Lu stopped, especially the lack of etiquette, the prince in front of him is a hot celebrity in front of the emperor, he is the emperor's nephew, he is the emperor's brother-in-law, when it comes to sīyi, it is the elder of the family, so he sent Xu Yida, the right thousand households of the palace guard, to escort Xia Xun back to the post house. This Xu Yida Xu Qianhu is in his early thirties, born tall and mighty, and after waiting for Xia Xun to get on the horse, this right Qianhu also saddled his horse and led more than 100 guards to escort Xia Xun Haohao dàngdàng back to the post house.

Xu Yida rode his horse close to Xia Xun and said earnestly: "Grandpa Guo, I haven't seen you for many years, Grandpa Guo is as heroic as ever." ”

"Oh?" Xia Xun glanced at him and said curiously: "Have you ever met the general and me?" ”

Xu Yida hurriedly replied politely: "When the emperor was still in the Beiping Hidden Mansion, the last general was a guard of the Yan Palace, and at that time he had a few encounters with the Duke of Guo, and since then, the last general has often heard the name of the Duke of the Kingdom and various deeds. Hehe, the nobles of the country forget a lot, I don't think they remember the last general, but the appearance of the national prince, the last general has always remembered it. ”

Xia Xun suddenly realized when he heard this, maybe this Xu Yida was a mén army in the Yanwang Mansion at the beginning, and he came out and went in by himself, and he did have a few encounters with him. Others don't know about saving King Yan, but the people in King Yan's Mansion know it, and it's not surprising that he can remember his appearance. But...... The emperor's former personal guards are now the protectors of the Yanwang Mansion, and it seems that the emperor is also wary of the kings. ~~~~

Xia Xun secretly pondered, did not speak, that Xu Yida had a heart, saw Xia Xun smiled and was silent, and hurriedly found the topic: "The last general heard that the front line of Texas is gathering the division of jīng Rui, ready to wait for the prince of the country to go to Cào to perform martial arts, as far as the last general knows, foreign envoys came to my Ming Dynasty, and the imperial court made a big move for this, and the military practice is unprecedented, and now showing off military power like this, is there a war to fight?" ”

Xia Xun glanced at him with a smile and asked, "So what?" ”

Xu Yida said excitedly: "Grandpa Guo, the last general has a reluctant request, if the prince can take command of the expedition, but don't forget the last general, the last general is a martial artist, and now he is the palace guard, it is idle but idle, but the bones are so idle that the bones hurt, the last general still likes to charge into battle, fight on the battlefield, if the prince is in command, you must give the last general a chance, even if you are a pawn, the last general is also willing." ”

Xia Xun said with a smile: "The DPRK has its own powerful generals, if you really want to fight, you may not be able to get your own duke." ”

Xu Yida said happily: "So, is there really a battle to be fought?" Haha, it's good to have a fight. Why should the prince be humble......"

His voice lowered a little, and said: "In the past, if it wasn't for the courage and resourcefulness of the Duke of Guo, the entire Yanwang Mansion would have been blown up, how can there be the world today, how can there be today's emperor, you have made outstanding achievements, the most favored by the emperor, the governor of the five provinces in the past, the record of suppressing the Japanese is remarkable, if you really want to go west, maybe this generalissimo is the generalissimo of the country!" ”

Xia Xun smiled dumbly, and said with a haha: "It's impossible, the Texas military parade is not about fighting, don't think about it, even if the Timurid Kingdom really wants to fight, it won't ......."

"Really hit our Daming border" Before the words were spoken, Xia Xun's voice suddenly stopped.

Xu Yida just talked about the fact that the Yanwang Mansion in Beiping was almost bombed, and then mentioned Timur again, and a strange thought came to his mind irrepressibly: "If it weren't for me, Zhu Di would have been blown up in Beiping as early as possible, and Beiping would never have become Beijing, and there is no Yongle Emperor in the world, and now Zhu Yunwen is still in charge, so ......, is it inevitable or an accident that Timur the Great went on his crusade to the east and died of a violent illness halfway?" ”

Xia Xun didn't remember the exact time of Timur the Great's crusade, what he thought was that if there was even a slight deviation in history because of his appearance, for example...... prompted Timur to advance the time of the Eastern Crusade, would Timur, who should have died of a violent illness in the middle of the road, still die of illness in the middle of the road?

If Timur's expedition had been a year earlier, then his army would have been able to reach the border of the Ming Dynasty, and there would have been a bloody battle between the two sides, how many soldiers would have died on the battlefield, and how heavy the Ming Empire would have suffered. What if his presence prompted Timur to postpone the crusade? Without waiting for Timur's crusade, he fell ill and died, and within the Timur Empire, the war crisis was solved.

Originally, Xia Xun was only worried about his own appearance, changing the time of Timur's crusade, extending from this idea, and suddenly thought of another possibility, another question: "Timur is not a brave and unscrupulous horseman, he from a weak tribal chieftain, gradually annexed the Golden Horde, conquered the east and killed in the west, compared to Genghis Khan, who "destroyed the country for forty", the record is not inferior, and finally ruled the incomparably vast territory of West Asia, Asia, and South Asia, this is a heroic British lord.

In order to go east, he from the early years of Hongwu, he continued to send people to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute, in fact, to spy on the reality, before the east, and made very adequate preparations, first built Samarkand, stabilized his rear, and then with 700,000 people, drove millions of cattle and sheep as military food, Hao dàng came to the east, such a bold and cautious commander, if his body was already sick and weak, he really dared to take this risk with the strength of the country?

He made such a careful arrangement, clearly regarded Da Ming as his strongest opponent, such a person, should understand that it is impossible for him to conquer Da Ming in a very short time, and should understand that if he, the supreme ruler, has something to do on the way to the east, even if he is seriously ill, it will be enough to cause serious consequences.

If he had been seriously ill before the Crusades, would a high ruler, a prominent statesman, or a military strategist, have kept Samarkand well to ensure that his regime succeeds smoothly and his kingdom continues, or will he be as the poets of the historians say: what old lion will seek his last glory and insist on the Crusades, even if all his jīng rui is buried in the East, and his life's work will be wasted?

A trace of yīn shadow quietly crawled into Xia Xun's mind: "If Timur hadn't died of a violent illness halfway, then he would definitely have come to the border of the Ming Dynasty." The Tatars and Warat would not have become Timur's allies, but they would not have come to the aid of the Ming Dynasty, and it is likely that they would also send troops south to get a piece of the pie. Under the ravages of the lion and tiger, even if Daming can win, what a heavy price will it have to pay? ”

Xia Xun's heart pounded: "Timur...... How the hell did he die? ”

As a result, Xia Xun suddenly thought of Genghis Khan, who was very similar to Timur, and Genghis Khan's cause of death also had a heavy group, and the history books of Yuan Renxiu said that Genghis Khan fell from a horse while hunting, and died violently that night with a high fever that night. Genghis Khan, who grew up on horseback since childhood, fell from his horse and was injured? Well, even if you fall and get injured, at most you bleed too much, or you will be old and break a bone, how can you have a high fever that night?

The Ming Dynasty repaired the "History of the Yuan", and Fang Xiaoru's master, the great Confucian Song Lian, only used twenty words to treat the cause of death of a generation of Tianjiao, "Autumn and July are noon, and there is no hesitation." He was ugly, and collapsed in the palace of the old man in Surrey River. said that he was seriously ill and died, and the cause of death was still unclear.

The papal envoy John Plannor Gabbini said in his chapter that Genghis Khan may have been struck by lightning, but I wonder if this statement is more religious.

Marco Bōro said that Genghis Khan was killed by the poisoned arrow of the Tangut people, and it stands to reason that Genghis Khan was already more than ten years old at that time, and with that status, it was unlikely that he would personally charge into battle, and the shè range of arrows was limited, this statement is debatable.

As for the last statement, it is not recorded in history at all, not in the official history, nor in the wild history, but in an oral legend that circulates among the ancient Méng, saying that when Genghis Khan conquered the Western Xia, he captured the princess of the Western Xia, and when he saw that she was young and beautiful, he asked her to shì 寑, and was killed by the fierce princess.

There are two theories about how the Western Xia princess killed Genghis Khan, one says that she was poisoned, and the other says that she bit off Genghis Khan's shēngzhí organ in one bite when she was in her sleep. Even Genghis Khan's own concubines have to be inspected naked when they go to bed, not to mention the captured princess of Western Xia, it is unlikely that the empty-handed princess of Western Xia will be poisoned, and her most lethal means of violence may only be "biting".

Genghis Khan did have every conquest of the place, set sail to renew the group] to occupy the hobby of the monarch there nv people, by later historians jokingly called the seeding machine, it is estimated that there are currently 10 million people in the world related to Genghis Khan. Among the kingdoms conquered by the army of Gengji Khan, the Western Xia Kingdom was indeed the most severely slaughtered, and almost everything in the entire kingdom was destroyed. And although this incident is not recorded in history, it is widely spread among the ancient people who revere Genghis Khan like a god.

So Xia Xun has always felt that it is very likely that this is the real truth. It's just that such an unspeakable scandal happened to an emperor, of course, it can be concealed. The truth of history is always whitewashed beyond recognition for one reason or another. Now what Xia Xun thinks of is a topic that he can't think about and dare not think about.

He felt that his thoughts were absurd and crazy, but he couldn't help but think: "Timur, will he die like in history?" He...... How the hell did he die? ”

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"There are five mountains in our country, and Mount Tai is the first of the five mountains. Standing on Mount Tai, looking at the sea in the east, the Yellow River in the west, surrounded by Wenshui, looking forward to the holy city of Qufu, back to the spring city of Jinan, standing majestically in the east with the momentum of pulling out the earth to the sky, so it is respected as 'the first mountain in the world', since ancient times, the emperor, the world of Zen, all have to go to Mount Tai, sacrifice to the sky at the top of the mountain, report the merit of the sky, sacrifice the ground under the mountain, repay the merit of the earth, this is the auspicious place! A few noble envoys, how do you look at this scenery? ”

Standing on the top of the mountain, Aldusha looked at the splendid mountains and rivers, and said infinitely intoxicated: "Beautiful, so beautiful, like a fairyland on earth!" ”

Xia Xun smiled slightly, and said: "Envoys live in the far west, the scenery here, I'm afraid I won't have the opportunity to see it again, just put down your heart, walk around, and enjoy it, please ......."

Aldusha and the others arched their hands to him, and then scattered, Xia Xun still stood in front of the Emperor Temple, and asked in a low voice to a person dressed as a shì guard who came closer: "Over there in Texas, are you ready?" ”

"Yes, according to the orders of the Duke of Guo, the soldiers from all over the country are dutifully dispatched, and the Texas military camp performs every day, and the battle formation is already proficient, just waiting for the Duke of Guo to go."

"Okay, after leaving Jinan, we'll rush to Texas."

Xia Xun accompanied the people of the Timurid Empire out this time, originally just playing soy sauce, the emperor attached great importance to this powerful country in the West, but he didn't take it to heart, because in his thoughts, it was impossible for the Ming Dynasty and this great empire in the West to have any jiāo set. But now he has changed his mind, he wants to show the power of the Ming army, and use a strong psychological deterrent to the "military expedition" of the Timurid Empire, and postpone the time of the Timurid Empire's eastward crusade indefinitely, until Timur dies of illness in Salahan.

If the Cripple Emperor still came east as scheduled, he would like to see: "How did Timur die?" ”

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