At this moment, marching to the official road of Xingji County, Hejian Prefecture, Beizhili, Wu Junzhen and his party who lived in the Deyou Inn were eating, Wu Junzhen picked up the wine glass and took a sip, then picked up the chopsticks and swallowed the food.

After that, he continued to ask: "Then Brother Ma dares to ask, did the Ming Dynasty become rich and the people strong?" ”

However, after taking a bite of the dish, he put down his chopsticks and looked at Yao Qiuyue's Ma Wei, and sighed, "Alas! Brother Wu is hard to say! ”

Speaking of June 30, 1399 in the first year of Ming Jianwen, Ming Huizong, the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty: Zhu Yunwen, that is, after the emperor's throne, the Ming military department left the waiter: Qi Tai, Ming Han Forestry Academy scholar: Huang Zicheng, the two of them participated in national politics and tried their best to govern the country left by Taizu, and abolished the fetish government that stayed during the Hongwu period.

For example; The redress of unjust murder cases and the cessation of the previous practice of killing by the nine clans and the imperial court, and the reuse of literati to govern the country with benevolence and righteousness to appease the people, known as the "Jianwen New Deal" in history.

But the good times didn't last long, and then the Jinyi Guards of the Northern and Southern Towns, as well as the Ministry of War, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and the Minister of Politics, all discovered the reason why the power of the vassal king could not be reduced!

Therefore, the ministers led by Zuo Shilang of the Ming Military Department and the scholars of the Ming Han Academy of Forestry began to play, suggesting that the imperial court weaken the power of the vassal king as soon as possible to avoid accidents!

This is also what Ming Huizong thinks in his heart, but the vassal kings everywhere are his imperial uncles, and the troops are scattered and it is difficult to collect them in one fell swoop! Only a few of the feudal kings with heavy troops could be taken to cut the feudal domain, so as to achieve the role of "killing chickens and monkeys" to make the rest of the feudal kings submit.

However, after thinking about it, Ming Huizong decided that the first target of cutting the feudal domain was the fifth emperor uncle, Prince Ming Zhouding: Zhu Hu, because Prince Ming Zhouding was the younger brother of Prince Ming Yanwu, the fourth emperor uncle, and the purpose of this was to force Prince Ming Yanwu, who was stationed in the Northern Parallel Capital, to hand over his military power.

First of all, Ming Huizong secretly ordered the Ming Cao Guogong: Li Jinglong, in the name of going north to prepare for the border, to Henan Chengxuan, the political envoy of the Kaifeng Mansion, and suddenly sent troops into the palace of the Prince of Zhou when the Ming Zhou Ding was unprepared, and he was arrested and sent to the Jingshi Yingtian Mansion.

Prince Zhou Ding of the Ming Dynasty, who was escorted to Ming Huizong, was immediately sent to the Yunnan Chengxuan political envoy Si Mengshe to guard the palace of a thousand households, but on the way, he felt uneasy and recalled him to the capital to imprison him.

Then Ming Huizong deliberately sent people to arrest Prince Ming Xiangxian, the uncle of the Twelfth Emperor, by destroying the system of privately printing treasure money: Zhu Bai, I didn't expect Prince Ming Xiangxian to directly move his family, and then falsely accuse Prince Ming Qigong, the uncle of the Seventh Emperor, on the charge of rebellion: Zhu Rong, want to raise troops to rebel? On this ground, Prince Qi Gong of Ming was arrested and detained in Tianfu.

Then the irascible thirteen emperor uncle Ming Dynasty Prince Jian: Zhu Gui, directly arrested and abolished as a concubine to move to Wanquan to command the envoy to take care of it, the eighteenth emperor uncle Ming Minzhuang Prince: Zhu Yang, because of the oppression of the people of Minzhou Wei, so he was Ming Xi Pinghou: Mu Sheng, reported to the imperial court to abolish the Ming Minzhuang prince as a concubine and moved to Fujian Chengxuan political envoy Si Zhangzhou Mansion.

After that, Ming Huizong aimed directly at the four emperor uncles, Prince Yanwu of the Ming Dynasty: Zhu Di, but on the issue of cutting the domain, the courtiers had different opinions, and some ministers represented by the left judgment of the military capital of the Ming Dynasty: Gao Wei, and the right servant of the Ming Household Department: Zhuo Jing, represented by some ministers advocated the use of the Han Dynasty's "Tui En Order" method to cut the domain.

They suggested that Ming Huizong divide the power of the vassal king among all the descendants of the vassal king, not just the eldest son (His Royal Highness), and divide the feudal power in different places, so that the power of the vassal king would gradually weaken and no longer threaten the imperial court.

The right attendant of the Ming household department even suggested that Ming Huizong immediately move Prince Ming Yanwu to the Nanchang Mansion of the Cheng Xuan Political Envoy in Jiangxi, which not only maintained family affection but also greatly weakened their strength, but Ming Huizong only thought it was very good on the surface, but did not really implement it.

Instead, he listened to the ideas of the ministers led by Zuo Shilang of the Ming Military Department and the scholars of the Ming Han Forestry Academy and resolutely ordered the reduction of the feudal domain, but there were differences in the specific strategy of cutting the domain, and the scholars of the Ming Han Forestry Academy believed that the strength of Prince Ming Yanwu was the strongest, and the power of the remaining kings should be weakened first, so as not to prevent them from uniting with Prince Ming Yanwu to rebel, and then when the time was ripe, Prince Ming Yanwu would be cut.

However, the left squire of the Ming army advocated that the thief should capture the king first, as long as the prince of Ming Yanwu was eliminated first, the other kings would naturally be powerless to resist when they saw this!

It's a pity that Ming Huizong listened to the opinions of the scholars of the Ming Han Forestry Academy, and did not realize that his actions had actually taken a startle, so that Prince Ming Yanwu, who was in command of the envoys in the Northern Parallel Capital, began to develop his power and was ready to go, and a big war was imminent.

It can be said that Huizong's cutting of the feudal domain is mainly aimed at Prince Ming Yanwu, but his wrong decision hurt him, in the decision-making of major issues, there is no decisive killing This is his first mistake, after the abolition of the four vassal kings, Ming Huizong decided to attack Prince Ming Yanwu, it was too late!

Ming Huizong first let the Ming Rite Department Shangshu: Zhang Yu, as the political envoy of Beiping Zuobu, in the Ming Guangwei general: Xie Gui, as the commander of the Northern Parallel Capital, Ming Hanlin Academy: Zhang Xin, responsible for the command of the Northern Parallel Commander of the Embassy Division, the soldiers and horses of the Metropolitan Division, and in addition, the Ming Nanbei Town Fu Si Jinyi Wei commanded the envoy: Song Zhong, Ming Wanquan commanded the envoy: Xu Kai, the Ming Hou Military Governor's Mansion Governor: Geng Xuan, and the garrison of Kaiping Right Guard, Linqingzhou, Shanhaiwei and transferred the soldiers of Prince Yan to protect the command of the envoy, so as to strengthen the preventive measures against Prince Wu of the Ming Dynasty.

Prince Ming Yanwu, who was suffering from suspicion, felt that the imperial court was going to take him under the knife? He listened to the commander of the guards of Prince Mingyan's Mansion: Deng Yong, the suggestion began to pretend to be crazy and stupid, but he didn't think that Zuo Shilang of the Ming Army Department still believed it, but decided to start first, and directly arrested the guard commander of Prince Mingyan's Mansion and put him in prison for interrogation, and learned through torture that His Royal Highness Prince Yan, the fourth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was actually deliberately pretending to be crazy and stupid?

Therefore, he directly sent troops to Prince Yan's Mansion to arrest the officials, and sent a secret letter to the Ming Hanlin Yuan to arrest Prince Ming Yanwu immediately, but unfortunately the Ming Hanlin Yuan was the old department of Prince Ming Yanwu, and he told the news to let the Yan Prince Mansion guard command envoy and the northern parallel command of the envoy to prepare for the incident.

On July 13th, Prince Yanwu of the Ming Dynasty pretended to be crazy and stupid, and the imperial court sent the political envoy of the Ming Beiping Zuobu: Zhang Yu, and the commander of the Northern Ming Parallel: Xie Gui, the two of them were arrested and killed and ordered to be the commander of the left guard of Ming Yanshan: Zhang Yu, and the deputy Qianhu of the guard in the Ming Yanshan Mountain: Zhu Neng, and led the troops to attack the Northern Parallel Capital by night to command the nine gates of the envoy to control the capital of the capital.

After rescuing Prince Yanwu of the Ming Dynasty, he pointed out that he respected his ancestors and punished his traitors; Qi Tai, the left attendant of the Ming Army, and Huang Zicheng, a scholar of the Ming Han Forestry Academy, swore to go on the expedition for the name of the Qing monarch of the country.

At the beginning of the war, because most of the generals in the north were the old troops of Prince Yanwu of the Ming Dynasty, there were many soldiers who surrendered to the Yan army, which made the Yan army grow to 100,000 soldiers and horses, and successively captured the left guard of Tongzhou, the right guard of Tongzhou, the right guard of Tongzhou, the town of Tongzhou, Jizhou, Juyongguan, Huairou County, Shanhaiwei and other cities, among which the commander of the Jinyi guard of the north and south towns of the Ming Dynasty: Song Zhong, and the garrison of Jizhou in Ming: Ma Yi, the general soldier of Jizhou Town: Mao Sui, and other generals died in battle!

On August 11, Ming Huizong learned that the matter was urgent, and the Yan army was unstoppable, and he immediately led an army of 130,000 (300,000) to attack Prince Yanwu of Ming with the old general of Emperor Hongwu Gao, the former general of Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty.

Its vanguard was attacked by the Yan army when it arrived in Xiongxian, and all 9,000 people were killed! The second battle was defeated again in Zhendingfu!

After Ming Huizong knew about this matter, he directly changed the emperor's relatives Ming Qiyang Wujing County King: Li Wenzhong, and his son Ming Cao Guogong: Li Jinglong, instead of also transferring 300,000 troops, known as (500,000), to the north parallel to the command of the envoy to build a fortress and besiege the city wall.

After that, the Yan army went north to Yongping Mansion, and the garrisoned Ming Yongpingwei commanded the affairs: Zhao Yi, Ming Yongpingwei Qianhu: Guo Liang, Ming Yongpingwei Baihu: Wu Cheng, and other generals Kaicheng surrendered.

In September, the Marquis of Yin, Jiangyin: Wu Gao, Ming Shanhaiwei Commander: Geng Xian, Ming Left Army Governor's Mansion, Zuo Du Governor and Liaodong Commander-in-Chief: Yang Wen, led Liaodong Commander to besiege Yongping Mansion, while the Yan army sent troops to save itself.

In order to preserve the strength of the Yan army, the Marquis of Yinhou of Ming Jiang led the army to retreat to Shanhaiwei for the first time, and the Yan army Tongzhou Wei commanded the servant: Gu Xiang, and others stationed in the area of Shangyan Xiazhuang and Yangjiazhuang to fight with the Liaodong Army of the imperial court in Tuanlin, captured a lot of horses, and rewarded the sergeants with a large amount of silver money and cloth.

In October, because the Ming Cao Guogong led a large army to besiege the northern parallel capital to command the envoy, but this person is a brave and unscrupulous person who controls the military power but does not know how to use it, and the strength is several times that of the Yan army, and he actually ordered to stop the attack when he was about to break through the city wall, so the prince of Ming Yanwu took the opportunity to run out to find help.

Prince Ming Yanwu personally led the headquarters of the elite cavalry to the north to command the envoy to Daning, pretending to go to Mingning to offer the prince: Zhu Quan, Prince Ning's palace as a guest proposed to borrow the soldiers and horses of Wuliang Ha Sanwei, how could Prince Ming Ningxian refuse! But it didn't help, because Prince Ming Yanwu had already secretly bought the Wuliang Ha Sanwei Iron Cavalry with a lot of money.

The iron cavalry to which the three guards belonged was originally the elite cavalry of Shangdu Road in Zhongshu Province of the Mengyuan Empire, and now they are being bribed, so they are naturally going to use them to attack the imperial army, in case Prince Yanwu of Ming has to capture Prince Mingning Xian and Prince Mingning's princess: Zhang's family, as well as the concubine and Prince Mingning's son: Zhu Panyan, who went south and north together to command the envoys.

On the other side, Ming Cao Guogong is still commanding the envoy in the north parallel to the virtual attack, but he can't conquer it? Because there is the eldest son of Prince Ming Yanwu, Prince Ming Yan: Zhu Gaochi, who guarded him and froze the city wall, so that the imperial army could not climb the tower and break the city.

After Prince Yanwu of the Ming Dynasty returned to command the envoy from Daningdu, he broke the imperial army in Zhengba County, and the news came back to the court, and Ming Huizong was forced to dismiss the left attendant of the Ming Army: Qi Tai, and the scholar of the Ming Hanlin Academy: Huang Zicheng, and the two of them held positions to appease the Yan army to go south.

On April 20, 1400 in the second year of Jianwen of the Ming Dynasty, the army of Prince Yanwu of Ming Dynasty and Cao Guogong of Ming Dynasty fought in the Baigou River again, the Yan army was dominated by the three guards of Wuliangha, the fire team and the archery team were the left and right flanks, and the artillery battalion was the rear wing to advance slowly, and once again defeated the brave and unscrupulous Ming Cao Guogong, and the Yan army also took advantage of the victory to besiege the Jinan Mansion of the political envoy of Shandong Chengxuan and the nearby capital of the guard.

However, he was escorted by the Ming Shandong political secretary Zuo to participate in politics: Tie Xuan, and the commander of Ming Shandong: Sheng Yong, who led the army to stick to Jinan Mansion to wait for work, and repeatedly deceived the Yan army to make the Yan army unable to attack for a long time and suffered heavy losses, and had to withdraw under the persuasion of the Yan army's strategist: Yao Guangxiao.

In May, the Liaodong Commander sent the soldiers and horses south to the north, and the Parallel Commander of the Northern Parallel Command of the Envoy Si Yongping Prefecture Changli County, and the Yan Army Tongzhou Wei Commander Shi defeated the imperial Liaodong Army at the Tingliu River, so as to successfully resist them and encircle the Northern Parallel Commander of the Envoy in the south.

The chief general of the Yan army: Zhang Yu, followed Prince Yanwu of the Ming Dynasty to break through the Shanxi Xingdu command envoy Guangchang County, Ulzhou Wei, Datong Mansion, Datong Qianwei, Datong Rear Guard, and Datong Left Guard.

At this time, the Ming Cao Guogong immediately collected the defeated army and counterattacked again, and the main general of the Yan army said, "The soldiers are noble and fast, please let me wait for the Baigou River to work." ”

Sure enough, he was stationed on the river for three days, recuperating and recuperating in the elite cavalry attack to defeat the Ming Cao Guogong again, and also captured the Dezhou Wei, and pursued the Ming army of the imperial court to Jinan Mansion, but the siege of the city for three months still could not break the city and had to withdraw the army and return.