Beiping, Yanwangfu.

When it was already night, Zhu Di was still sitting alone in the study, he kept looking at the book in front of him, reading it over and over again. After a long time, Zhu Di's tears fell in a stream, dripping on the white paper, and then Zhu Di threw himself on the table, crying loudly, unable to help himself for a long time.

There was an urgent knock at the door, "Lord, lord!" What happened to you? Can concubines come in? ”

Hearing the knock on the door, Zhu Di slowly stopped crying, but did not answer. It was the voice of the princess Xu Yihua, who had been raising eyebrows and kissing each other for more than 20 years, and had already made them familiar with each other, when Zhu Di's crying stopped, but she hadn't called her in, Xu Yihua understood her husband's intentions, she sighed gloomily, but she didn't leave, but sat on the chair and waited for her husband to come out.

Xu Yihua knew that her husband had a trace of resentment against him, and just yesterday, her younger brother Xu Huizu conquered Juyong Pass and almost forced her husband to a dead end. After the military meeting in the afternoon, the second son, Zhu Gaoxu, rushed to Beiping, and when he said goodbye to him, he informed him of the astonishing news: the Mongols demanded full control of the Xifeng Pass, and her husband had agreed. In the evening, Qingshou Temple came to report that Master Daoyan had passed away, and he thought that her husband would visit Qingshou Temple, but she didn't expect her husband to lock him in the study, and no one saw him, and he was very worried, but he didn't dare to disturb the prisoners of war, so he had to stay outside the study.

In fact, Xu Yihua thought too much, and Zhu Di didn't have much resentment about Xu Huizu's affairs. When his father Zhu Yuanzhang was alive, he naturally thought that anyone who was not loyal to his father was a rebellious minister and a thief, and everyone would be punished. It's just that since he rebelled, this idea has changed, and his subordinates have followed him to do the business of killing heads, to put it bluntly, they are all for the glory of the ancestors, such as Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng, Chen Xuan and others, so there will naturally be similar people in the court, such as Ping'an, Sheng Yong, Qu Neng, etc.; As for people like Xu Huizu, they are the dukes of the Ming Dynasty who retired with the country and were hereditarily replaced, and it is natural to be loyal to the imperial court, but it is not normal if they are loyal to themselves.

In the afternoon, when Master Daoyan's disciple Fa Neng came to report the news, he brought him a book of the master's poems, but he didn't say a word, and at that moment, he understood that the master didn't want him to see him, and that was the end of it......

After Fa Neng left, Zhu Di opened the poetry collection and looked through it little by little, there were not many poems, less than a hundred, but these poems were annotated, from which we could understand the course of Daoyan's life.

The master is a disciple of Buddhism, not only has the feelings of Buddhism to be compassionate and compassionate, but also the pursuit of Confucianism to calm the world and help the world and save the people.

So he has been looking for the Lord and waiting for the right time. Even if his father drove out the Yuan soldiers and mixed with one Yu, he did not get his approval, and finally chose himself, and since he came to Qingshou Temple, he has been provoking himself to rebel.

Zhu Di is not sure now, if there is no master, he will rebel, maybe, maybe not, but at least he will not be as resolute as now. Back then, he and the master planned all night to find the weaknesses of the imperial court. Lan Yu plotted against the case, and there were countless cases, but he was overjoyed, thinking that the obstacles were gone, and the rebellion would be successful.

When his father died, Zhu Yunwen adjusted the candidates for the Beiping Metropolitan Division, the Political Envoy, and the Inspectorate, but he did not transfer the garrison near Beiping, and even did not deploy the commander of the three guards of Yanshan, which made it very easy for him to get into trouble, and overnight, he had 100,000 troops, plus the armies of Chen Xuan, King of Zhou, and Feng Sheng, the army exceeded 200,000.

Geng Bingwen's death was completely unexpected, but what surprised him even more was that Zhu Yunwen actually used two inconspicuous generals Ping An and Sheng Yong to lead the eastern and western armies.

But these two people let themselves suffer a lot, and they made a surprise attack on the Xishan camp in peace, almost breaking through Beiping, and then defeated themselves under the city of Baoding and captured Baoding. Sheng Yong attacked Tongzhou, but he quickly withdrew, allowing himself to pounce; The second time he went north, he conquered Tongzhou day and night, and the troops came to the city of Beiping.

The imperial court's strategy of not fighting in the field is like a mouse catching a turtle, and there is no way to start. The successive victories of the imperial court also affected the morale of both sides, and Sheng Yong's 100,000 people dared to attack the city of Beiping, but his subordinates did not dare to fight easily.

In view of the lack of troops and the inability to break the deadlock, he had to cooperate with the Mongols, carry out mutual markets, cut land and ask for help, and the 30,000 cavalry of Eseku came in this way, and the master was a little dissatisfied at that time, but he did not fiercely oppose it.

It's just that as the situation became more and more critical, he had to ask for help again, this time the master didn't say anything, but carefully helped himself to plan, and even let the Mongolian army cut off the grain route of the imperial army, which was also proposed by Master Daoyan. This arrangement was the best strategy, the Mongol army looted food from the imperial court, so there was no need to provide for them themselves, and the Mongol army's combat method was more suitable for this ambush and plunder. It's just that there is a joint in it, no one has broken it, that is, the people near Beiping are going to suffer, and the Mongols can't always loot the grain of the imperial court, once they are short of food, then they will inevitably plunder the people nearby, this point, the two of them know it, but they didn't say it.

It's just that since then, the master has never helped him with advice, but in the name of old age and infirmity, he no longer enters and leaves the Yanwang Mansion.

Today's military meeting was forced by himself, and perhaps when he decided to meet the conditions of the Mongols and give up the Xifeng Pass, the master was completely disappointed, and he would return to the temple and die soon after.

Alas, but what can I do?

Master Dao Yan passed away, Zhu Di was grief-stricken, in his heart, Dao Yan was like his father, even closer than his real father, in the last few years, the father became more and more defensive of himself, and devoted himself to cultivating his grandson ------ Zhu Yunwen. Sometimes, Zhu Di thinks that everything he does is forced out by his father, his excellence is obvious to all, the second brother King Qin and the third brother King Jin are all incompetent people who are flying and domineering but timid as a mouse, the prince's brother is dead, why don't you choose to be your heir? Since ancient times, they have been passed down from father to son, how can there ever be a truth from ancestors to grandchildren?

So Zhu Di had a fire in his heart, and wanted to fight in Nanjing, in front of his father's spirit, and let him see, who is the more suitable heir?

Thinking of this, Zhu Di opened Daoyan's poetry collection, flipped to the middle, and chanted softly:

The sword is straight to the gold, and it once entrusted life and death.

I don't know who is a confidant between Yan and Zhao.

This is Master Daoyan's "The Song of the Heroes".

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After a long time, Zhu Di put away Daoyan's poetry collection, walked out of the study, picked up the sleepy princess Xu Yihua, and walked to the bedroom.

Looking at the stars in the sky, Zhu Di emerged from the bottom of his heart with a sense of pride, a strong man! Who is the strong man? Master, you watch from the sky, Zhu Di will not let you down.