Seeing that his son was unwilling, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care, and the prince didn't want to do it, so he handed it over to Wang Guangyang, and he was going to go down about him, and finally disgusted Hu Weiyong.

There was such a big thing in the six yamen, and it was naturally difficult for the left minister to escape his responsibility, and Wang Guangyang also connected several petitions, but Zhu Yuanzhang never replied.

The father and son had a lunch together, and there were only four dishes and one soup on the table, the drought in Shaanxi and Gansu, seeing that there was going to be a famine, Queen Ma had ordered that the palace strictly prohibited the waste of food, and in addition to the extra care of being pregnant, the rest of the dishes were all reduced, and the concubines and princesses were also organized to weave and embroider clothes together.

As a result, even the emperor and the crown prince did not have a few dishes to eat, of course, the staple food was still full, and the father and son did not dare to have any opinions, so they ate whatever they wanted, and they would eat some baked cakes after a while.

In the afternoon, he suddenly received an urgent document of 800 miles from Chang Yuchun, at first Zhu Biao thought that the Mongolian Ministry had raised troops, but the result was that the current Great Khan of the Mongolian Department was killed by Kuangkuo Timur and Ye Sudieer, and the Mongolian civil war broke out.

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately urgently summoned Xu Da, Li Wenzhong, Wang Guangyang, Hu Weiyong and others into the palace, and then turned around in the house, Zhu Biao looked at it carefully, and Timur was the younger brother of the former prince of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, that is, the former King Yi of the Northern Yuan Dynasty.

At the beginning, after Zhu Biao captured Shangdu, he captured a lot of Northern Yuan royal families, in order to appease the Mongolian tribes, and in order to divide them, he did not kill them all, and Zhu Yuanzhang canonized them after being escorted to Shuntian Mansion.

This person's mediocre ability is far from convincing the public, and the other Mongolian kings with the blood of the golden family are very dissatisfied, but the Ming Dynasty naturally will not help Mongolia elect a wise Mongolian Great Khan, this person and his eldest son Tianbaonu are people who have broken their backbones by extravagant pleasures, which is very suitable.

After he was put back to inherit the throne, he still only knew pleasure, Zhu Yuanzhang was originally worried about whether this person had the courage to taste the salary, and after observing it for a long time, he was relieved, and since then, the internal contradictions in Mongolia have become more and more acute, and the kings do not recognize his status, and he does not need it.

After a while, Xu Da and the others hurriedly walked in, probably they also knew the situation, after entering the palace, they first saluted the emperor and the prince, and then Xu Da was the first to speak: "This Mongolian Khan was erected by my Ming Dynasty, and if you dare to attack him, you will be dissatisfied with my Ming Dynasty. ”

Wang Guangyang immediately answered: "The minister thinks that he should be a wall-by-side watcher, no matter what the Mongolian Department is like and my Ming Dynasty is only beneficial, if it starts a war in vain, it will cost the people and money, my Ming Dynasty's family background is really a little thin, how can I lose it in the grassland in vain, or send envoys to deal with it." ”

Xu Da frowned and said: "Wang Xiang, this is not the time to consider the loss, it naturally doesn't matter to my Ming what the Mongolian Ministry is secretly fighting, but they shouldn't move the Gusi Timur, that is the face of my Ming Dynasty's control of the grassland, if there is no reaction when I am beaten, then Mongolia will see that my Ming is weak, and there will be chaos in less than two years." ”

Wang Guangyang stopped talking after being refuted by Xu Da, what he should have said has already been said, and the future has nothing to do with him, the person who is about to retreat.

Hu Weiyong sighed and continued: "Xu Shuai is right, you should put pressure on the grassland, but you still have to pay attention to proportion, how can porcelain be hard to fight with crockpots?" ”

Li Wenzhong shook his head: "It is a matter of the dignity and system of my Ming Dynasty, we must not be perfunctory, all the departments of the grassland are wolves, if we relax the control of the grassland, we will inevitably bite my Ming in the future, and then the greater war will not be far away, we cannot condone the ambition of the Mongolian department because of the temporary pros and cons." ”

Hu Weiyong is not unaware of these truths, the Mongolian Ministry has been so honest for two years now, it is because His Royal Highness the Crown Prince first beheaded the king to protect the capital and then leveled the capital in the Northern Expedition, and captured the princes and nobles of the Northern Yuan Dynasty in one fell swoop, so that they realized the power of the Ming Dynasty, did not dare to form an alliance wantonly, and paid tribute to cattle, sheep and horses every year.

But the imperial court is now there to supply a big war, this year just sent troops to recover Bashu, Yijing is to transfer the grain storage in various places, Shaanxi and Gansu areas are now going to have signs of drought, the imperial court has to prepare relief grain, and all parts of the country have to levy and send conscription to consolidate the river embankment, and tens of thousands of mouths need to eat, these grains do not know where to get, if the north fights again, there is no other way but to forcibly requisition people's grain.

After a while, the new six Shangshu also came, except for the military department Shangshu, the rest of the Shangshu were all trying to oppose the war, and they all hoped to spend it in harmony, especially the Hubu Shangshu, as soon as he heard that there might be a war, he began to shout at the top of his throat, and tears were about to flow out.

I don't know how poor the imperial court is now, and now the saints are exempting and exempting local taxes at every turn, but all the places in the early days of the country are in ruins, where do these food and materials come from?

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was on the throne, had been frowning, and at this time, the report of the pro-army Governor's Mansion also came, some of them were directly placed on the side of Timur, most of them had died in the turmoil, and the rest of the people rescued Timur's eldest son, Tianbaonu, and fled to the army of Chang Yuchun, King of Kaiping, under the cover of other pro-Ming Mongolian kings, so this letter was a little later than Chang Yuchun's.

Zhu Yuanzhang read it and circulated it to everyone, Xu Da said after reading it: "Tianbaonu is also beneficial to my Ming Dynasty when he is alive, in the end, it is the orthodox golden bloodline, and he can call on the Mongolian kings to strangle it together in his name, and I only need to send a few troops." ”

Hu Weiyong thought for a while and said: "I heard that the ancestor of Sudieer is Ali Buge, but the younger brother of Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, if it is also a golden bloodline, I am afraid that it will be supported by many Mongolian tribes who are already dissatisfied with my Ming Dynasty, once the war is not successfully wiped out in one fell swoop, I am afraid that more and more people will stand on their side." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang asked the eunuch on the side to take the Mongolian topographic map, and the imperial court has never relaxed its monitoring of the Mongolian tribes, so it is natural to know the general political tendencies of the Mongolian tribes.

Since the death of Genghis Khan, the Mongolian department has never stopped, and it is not uncommon for the various departments to fight for power and profit and suppress each other, Kublai Khan and his family are very harsh to other Mongolian kings, and now they have lost the Central Plains, so it is not surprising that Sudieer can raise troops to attack and kill Timur.

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