Zhu Yuanzhang is a generation of geniuses, with super high IQ and EQ of the generation of emperors.

He was a cowherd since he was a child, illiterate, and later entered the temple as a monk, and had no chance to read.

After the age of 25, he participated in the uprising, and gradually began to come into contact with the literati and had the opportunity to learn.

Yuanzhang deeply knew that his cultural level was too different from that of the intellectuals he managed, so he was determined to study hard and strive to catch up with these intellectuals.

He himself was very disgusted by the ridiculous practice of "serving knowledge with ignorance". After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, he said in the edict: "Since I reigned, I have done what I have done, so that I can be knowledgeable and not vain." His predecessors will want to serve with ignorance, and I don't know why. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's reading life is very complex and rich, and he has a wide range of knowledge. From the beginning of the establishment of the Nanjing regime to the death of Hongwu at the age of 71 in the 31st year.

It is often "wearing the stars and going to bed", and the intensity of learning is getting bigger and bigger day by day, and often "forgetting to eat every day", and after dealing with daily government affairs every day, it is to read.

Sometimes I squeeze out a little time in the "time of all opportunities" to finish reading the book of the day.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang studied in order to be knowledgeable and not to be deceived by those who know.

Zhu Yuanzhang admired the knowledgeable people very much, he was able to issue the money for the talents, and if he raised people, the Jinshi would not pay taxes, which shows his respect for the knowledgeable.

At the same time, although the Ming Dynasty has the most stringent household registration management system, all people can participate in the imperial examination, which can achieve the purpose of changing the fate of knowledge.

But he respects knowledge and is not superstitious about it.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, his holy decree was extremely elegant, and the spring was white. But the further he went, the more his decree began to become, and he didn't pay attention to the choice of words at all.

This is not because he is free of himself, but because he deeply understands that knowledge is only a tool used by people, and people cannot be limited and enslaved by knowledge.

In the same way, he was fully aware of the influence of knowledge on man, and the enslavement of man's mind by this way.

He re-established the criteria for the evaluation of officials, and selected scholars with eight shares.

Except for the grandson, he has always stayed by his side to teach, and the other emperors and grandsons, he hopes to use Confucianism to assimilate, so that they will not become the shackles of the grandson, but help.

Zhu Gaochi was just an ordinary imperial grandson at the beginning, and the education he received was the education of auxiliary ministers, not the emperor.

But when Zhu Di fought and seized the throne, he was not able to break free from Zhu Yuanzhang's initial positioning of him, which was his tragedy.

Looking at him who vomited blood, Zhu Zhanji's heart was full of pity.

He is really a joke, a tragic figure in the tide of the times.

But that's all.

Although he is the father of his own body, he is destined to be eliminated because of his backwardness.

Moreover, there is a large part of the reason for this.

In the original history, he was the emperor for at least ten months, but now, because of the butterfly effect he bringed, he can no longer keep up with this era.

Zhu Di, who had calmed down, was angry again by Zhu Gaochi's vomiting of blood, and ordered the chamberlain. "Transfer the prince to the front hall and let the imperial doctor carefully diagnose and treat him."

Zhu Zhanji turned around and knelt down facing him, kowtowed and said: "Grandpa Huang, my father is not in good health, I hope that Grandpa Huang will take back his life and let my father stay in the capital to recuperate." ”

Zhu Di immediately understood Zhu Zhanji's intentions, he sighed and said, "It's not a good thing for you that he stays in the capital. ”

Zhu Zhanji said firmly: "If my grandson can't even cope with this little thing, how can I bear the thousands of miles of the Ming Dynasty." ”

Zhu Di's eyes stared at Zhu Gaochi's face for a long time, then turned around and walked out. "I'll just wait and see how far you can go."

Zhu Zhanji really didn't have any worries, he had the money bag in one hand and the army in the other, and the Jinyi Guard, the Criminal Department, and the Ministry of Industry were all used by him, and no one could resist his pace of advancement.

Zhu Gaochi was sent to the front hall by a group of chamberlains, and the concubines who had calmed down were now panicked one by one.

Zhu Gaochi can't see it, what should they do?

Zhang's face was still calm, and he didn't insert it into the group of concubines at all, but instead found an opportunity to pull Zhu Zhanji aside, and asked with concern: "Your Majesty really let Ji'er supervise the country?" ”

Zhu Zhanji nodded with a smile and said, "Mother, please don't worry, the child must hold this Ming dynasty in his hands." ”

Zhang raised his hand and touched Zhu Zhanji's face, and said with a smile: "Ji'er has never let me down. ”

Originally, he only vomited blood once, and the imperial doctors were still seven points sure, but Zhu Gaochi was in a agitated mood and vomited blood again, which made a group of imperial doctors nervous.

His physique is full of holes, and his deficiency is not replenished, but he is unhappy with or without women, and eats aphrodisiacs as meals every day.

If he hadn't been born in the royal family, with his body, I'm afraid he would have been buried long ago.

This time he vomited blood, and Zhu Gaochi began to fall unconscious. The atmosphere of the entire palace was solidified, and Zhu Di didn't even watch the big dramas he liked to watch on weekdays.

Zhu Zhanji couldn't do anything these days, and could only stay in front of Zhu Gaochi's hospital bed every day and be a filial son.

Now is not the next generation, his father is sick, and if Zhu Zhanji's son still goes to work or something, it will be a big rebellion.

In some villages, such an unfilial son is directly beaten to death by the clansmen, and the government will not take care of it, and it will be rewarded.

Why do ministers want to worry about it, why do they want to win love, this is closely related to the times.

The palace seemed to be stagnant because of Zhu Gaochi's illness, but outside the palace, because of the prince's serious illness, it set off huge waves.

On the second day of the second month of February, some students in Guozijian came to Chengtianmen outside the Chengtian Gate to pray for the prince.

Because it was just a blessing, Zhu Di did not strictly manage it, and asked Jinyiwei to send them ginger soup.

never thought that on the second day, a student Jiang Changqing and others sent a blood letter, imploring the emperor to keep the prince in charge of the country.

This angered Zhu Di and ordered Jinyiwei to investigate thoroughly who was behind his back.

Jin Yiwei came out, these students who have not yet entered the officialdom will be opponents, just take them into a prison full of torture instruments and walk around. A group of students recruited Zuo Yude Fan Cheng of the James Mansion, Zuo Zhongyun Cao Jin, and Liao Wanzhong, a bachelor of Hanlin Chamberlain.

Yang Zhangde received the holy order and personally led the Jinyi guard to capture the three and put them in the prison of the Criminal Department.

From the twelfth year of Yongle to Zhu Zhanji, Yang Zhangde was promoted from a general banner to the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and in the eyes of others, he was already lucky.

But for him, he still feels that he has not risen fast enough and his reputation is not good enough.

At the beginning, Ji Gang was much faster than his promotion.

However, Zhu Zhanji went to sea for three years, and he had no other support in the DPRK and China, so he did not dare to make a big move.

Now that Zhu Zhanji has returned to China, it is time for his knife to be unsheathed.

What Jinyiwei needs is for the ministers to be afraid, fearful. Ji Gang got a good result, which also made him not worry about the future, not to mention that he hadn't reached that point yet.

He now has three higher positions than him, aside from the old Saihazhi, there are still left and right commanders who are higher than his official positions.

If you want to get ahead, you have to work hard.

In the fourth year of junior high school, he used these three people as a breakthrough to implicate Yang Pu, a scholar of Youchunfang University, and the bachelors and officials of the James Mansion who were involved accounted for more than thirty percent.

Zhu Di showed no mercy, and directly ordered all the implicated personnel to be imprisoned in the prison of the Criminal Department.

These people are all die-hard members of the prince, although it is too shameful to arrest them at this time.

But in Zhu Di's view, all people with ill intentions cannot be spared. What kind of father-son relationship, compared to the world, is not worth mentioning at all.

Yang Shiqi didn't get into trouble this time, which made Zhu Di a little strange.

In his opinion, Yang Shiqi should be the mastermind behind it. But this time, on the contrary, he dissuaded many times and did not let others take any action, but the others did not listen to him.

Seeing that other people were mercilessly arrested by the emperor and put in prison, Yang Shiqi was not surprised, Zhu Di, the emperor, has always been an arbitrary emperor, and anyone who wants to stop him in front of him will only be crushed by him.

What chilled his heart was that the ministers in the court were indifferent one by one, and they didn't care if they were the prince in charge of the country, or even whether he was alive or dead.

This also allowed him to see the situation in the court clearly, and he originally thought that the crown prince's destiny was just a joke.

They support the crown prince only because the prince is the eldest son, the crown prince. What they support is just ethics!

The crown prince is weak, and it is natural for the prince to let the grandson supervise the country, so there are no ministers willing to confront the emperor.

But they didn't think about it too much, what caused the prince to vomit blood and become seriously ill.

However, he is a five-grade university scholar and has no position, and the prince is seriously ill, so there is no one to give him face.

In just three days, he experienced the heat and coldness of the world.

If the crown prince can supervise the country, he must be in the market now!

Compared with his loss, his son Yang Dao seemed quite complacent.

Even Yang Pu was arrested for others bewitching the prisoners to make trouble, only his father did not participate in it because of his dissuasion, how could this not make him happy?

Even if the crown prince is not critically ill, he has no hope of being in charge of the government, and now he is critically ill, which just makes it more natural for the prince to supervise the country.

Now, he has been promoted to the first fleet of the navy, Xinjiangkou Shuizhai Shiyin 1,000 households, under the jurisdiction of 1,000 people, one first-class warship, four second-class warships, soaring, just around the corner.

However, he regretted that most of the troops drawn by the emperor this time were veterans of the other three fleets, and he had no chance to go west this time.

If someone loses power, someone will naturally gain power. The Governor of the Chinese Army, Peng Chengbo and Zhang Chang are the biggest beneficiaries of this turmoil.

Although he is the governor of the Chinese military and the governor of Zuo, he does not have the right to lead the army, so he can only be a rich idler in the capital.

In contrast, his younger brother Zhang Sheng, because of the official to the command of Jin Wuwei, has more real power than him.

However, from the first day of the second month of February, the crown prince was sent to the northwest, and then vomited blood, and his grandson's own uncle, the family began to become lively.

A generation of emperors and a courtier, although Zhu Di is not dead now, but he wants to go west, and this will be two or three years.

And he is already sixty years old, how many years can he still be the emperor? With his love for Taisun, he is now going to start paving the way for Taisun.

Zhang Chang, as the grandson's own uncle, when the grandson takes power, he will definitely be reused, not to mention anything else, as long as the post of the left governor of the Chinese military capital is turned into a real position, he has already ascended to the most prominent and noble level of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the Zhang family is a proper person, not only did they not snort, but because the prince was seriously ill, they simply closed the door and did not dare to make any publicity.

All of this was seen by Zhu Di and Zhu Zhanji, who was tossing, who was happy, and who was making some small moves, they all wrote it down one by one.

In the hall, Zhu Di wrote dense words on a blank piece of paper and dropped the pen. "Give this list to the cabinet Yang Rong and them, and ask them to draw up a new will."

Li Qian carefully lifted the entire paper, not daring to look closely, just waiting for the ink to dry and rolling up the paper.

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This is the desert north in February, when the southern land has gradually returned to spring, it is still covered with ice and snow, and the cold is biting.

A string of horse-drawn carts was sandwiched between the long lines of grain transporters, driving smoothly on the wide concrete road.

In the past few years, the development of Beimingshan copper mine has gradually entered a vigorous period, and every day, a large number of copper ore is transported from Beimingshan to Kaiping Qiantunwei.

These ores were refined into gold and copper in Kaiping Qiantunwei, and then transported to Daming.

And these wagons for transporting ore are specially made and unusually strong, they can transport ore, and naturally they can also carry large quantities of grain.

Transporting ore to the south and grain to the north has become the most dazzling scenery on this thousands of miles of cement road.

Every 100 miles, Daming has set up maintenance points and defense points, and these convoys are not afraid of encountering some unsightly robberies on the road.

In fact, in recent years, bandits and horse thieves have become less and less, and they do not dare to attack the convoys on the official road.

Although Zheng Heng, Marquis of Wu'an, was a kind man, he spared no effort to fight horse thieves, and divided the responsibility to each small tribe with more than 1,000 people.

Whichever tribe is involved in the raid, it will be dealt with the most brutal blows, and no mercy will be spared.

At the same time, the Ming Dynasty also gave a large amount of profits to these tribes, such as the coal mines in Kaiping Qiantunwei, which were all handed over to the Wuliangha tribe.

The transportation of ore here in Beiming Mountain also involved the Tatar tribes, and the Ming Dynasty provided horse-drawn carriages for their people, so that they could also make profits by transporting ore.

After the Warat tribe was captured by the Tatar tribe by the Mahamu father and son and given to the Ming Dynasty, most of them gradually surrendered.

Zheng Heng involved them in the excavation of the mine, and now in the Beimingshan mine, all the miners are almost alien.

Of course, they were not Varat and Tatars, but the Semu, Xiyi, and Jurchens captured by the two tribes from the Northland.

These people were exterminated by them, and after they were captured, they were all transported to Beimingshan to open mines, and they didn't need wages at all, they just needed to be fed.

The wages given to them by the Ming Dynasty were all collected by themselves, and they made a lot of money, which also made them more interested in killing and robbing people everywhere.

The envoy of the decree, the young eunuch of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, Hai Shou, sat in the carriage and looked at the more and more convoys, full of interest. In one afternoon, he encountered two "car accidents", which was very unusual for him.

"How far is it from Beimingshan?"

"There are still more than forty miles, and at the current speed, it will take more than an hour to reach before dark."

Haishou is a Korean, and in his early years he was a disciple of the chief eunuch Huang Yan, and many years ago, he was promoted to a young eunuch, but with Huang Yan's loss of power, his life over the years has not been easy.

Huang Yan was the first eunuch to follow Zhu Di, and he was favored and trusted in his early years, earlier than the seven eunuch forces today.

But before the martyrdom between him and his son Zhu Gaochi, the relationship was not harmonious. And he has a close relationship with his second son Zhu Gaoxu and youngest son Zhu Gaosui, especially Zhu Gaosui, Huang Yan is his best friend.

When Zhu Di, the king of Yan, decided to raise troops, Huang Yan and Zhu Gaochi were on the same page, and framed Zhu Gaochi many times.

In the early years of Yongle, Huang Yan's power was amazing, and Zhu Gaochi was suppressed everywhere.

However, he gave birth to a good son.

He didn't have to do anything, as the grandson was favored, the originally powerful Huang Yan affected the grandson because of his opposition to him, and the emperor alienated Huang Yan and transferred him to the central capital to guard the tomb.

After Huang Yan lost power, Wang Yan, Li Qian, Zheng He and they rose rapidly.

And Haishou has been excluded because of his relationship with Huang Yan, and he is still a young eunuch for more than ten years.

Like the prison guards stationed in Beimingshan, they were all his subordinates.

A little eunuch on horseback rode his horse and ran to Haishou's carriage, and said through the carriage: "My lord, the Marquis of Wu'an and Lord Yisha have sent envoys to greet your lordship. ”

"Who's coming?"

"Led by Zheng Neng, the prince of Wu'an, and Cao Yi, the chief soldier, they are waiting for adults at the checkpoint two miles ahead."

Haishou nodded and ordered: "Change my clothes for me and prepare to meet guests." ”

The carriage came to a checkpoint, which was set up by the cavalry to verify the survey, and there was one at such a checkpoint every hundred miles, for fear that those convoys would not pay taxes and transport ore privately.

Although Haishou is a young eunuch, this time he is a eunuch of Qincha, and he is a senior official.

Zheng Neng and Cao Yi didn't dare to slack off, and warmly greeted Haishou and his party, and then were greeted by Haishou into their carriage.

His four-wheeled carriage is the latest horse-drawn carriage developed by the Ministry of Industry, which not only has a bearing transmission, but also has soft and hard springs, which is very comfortable to sit in.

It's just that the wheels are still wooden, which limits the speed, otherwise, such a carriage can run fast.

Before dark, the convoy finally arrived at the Beimingshan camp, five miles southwest of the mine, where a small river provided water and along which large barracks and shelters had been built.

Although Zheng Heng has been stationed in Beiming Mountain all these years, he scolded Fang Xuan here and was full of ambition. In addition, the copper ore output of Beimingshan is amazing, and he has a lot of income here, so not only is he not depressed, but he has more of a superior bearing.

Yizha was originally a eunuch guarding the town of Nuer Gandusi, because of the huge interests of the Beimingshan copper mine, so he was ordered to change the garrison to Beimingshan and served as the supervisor of the army.

Zheng Heng is a delicate person, and he is not a strong person, although the two have some contradictions, it is only because the two of them are restrained from each other, and they get along quite well.

After Haishou arrived, the two led hundreds of officials, burned incense and lit the stove, bathed and changed clothes, and greeted the holy decree.

In the holy decree, Zhu Di ordered Zheng Heng to negotiate with the three tribes of Tatar, Warat, and Uliangha, so that they could draw out elite soldiers and send troops along the northern road with Zheng Heng after the Chinese New Year next year.

From Beimingshan to the northwest, there are tens of thousands of miles, and the best time to send troops is in spring.

Only after spring, when the grass grows, a large number of military horses do not need to prepare additional grain and grass.

As for sending troops next year, of course, it is because Zhu Di will not be able to arrive in the south of Timur until the summer, and this trip is mainly based on the battlefield on the southern road.

They will send troops next year to conform to the strategy of compressing the power of Timur and then taking it in one fell swoop.

Moreover, without a few months of contact, Zheng Heng's side may not be able to negotiate terms with the ministries.

Of course, Zheng Heng knew about this western expedition, but he didn't expect that the emperor would order him to lead the Northern Route Army, but Liu Sheng, who had always been in high demand, would take over his position.

However, he soon figured out that his advantage over Liu Sheng was that he had a close relationship with the Warat and Tatars, and was able to control them better.

Controlling them and going to the northwestern countries, those tribes will not have a rebellious mentality.

From this arrangement, it can also be known that the emperor sent him to the northwest not to kill people, because Liu Sheng is better at killing people than him.

He was sent to envelop and prepare for the expansion of territory to the northwest in the future of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, from this arrangement, he also knew that it was impossible for him to stay in Beimingshan any longer.

Over the years, he has made a lot of money in Beimingshan, and he should be satisfied.

After the decree was read, it was a sumptuous dinner specially prepared by Zheng Heng and them. At this time, Hai Shou handed over the two letters that Zhu Zhanji asked him to bring over to Zheng Heng and Yishiha.

Zheng Heng has been patient, waited for the dinner to end, and returned to his courtyard before opening Zhu Zhanji's letter.

Sure enough, as he thought, let him go to the northwest, not to kill many people, but to win over and deter.

In the letter, Zhu Zhanji also explained that when he went to the northwest, he could directly find Huang Fu for food and grass supplies, as long as he could win over the tribes in the northwest

, no matter the cost, we must help them on the chariot of the Ming Dynasty first.

Zheng Heng is a little strange, isn't His Highness afraid that those alien desires will be difficult to fill?

Unless, His Highness has a follow-up means, otherwise, he will not say such a thing as sparing costs.

Faced alone, Haishou is more open and honest. He waited until he finished reading Zhu Zhanji's letter before he said: "Now Your Majesty's expedition to the west, the twelve prisons, four bureaus, eight divisions, and the internal prisons have a total of twenty-four yamen, and the vast majority of people have surrendered to His Royal Highness the Taisun, and now our family is waiting for your letter." ”

Yishaha was silent for a long time before he said: "Your Majesty has not made a big trip yet, and now you are going to His Royal Highness Taisun, is it too anxious?" ”

Hai Shou shook his head and said, "Even if Your Majesty lets the crown prince supervise the country, you don't trust him. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince re-ministered the ministers, if we don't gather around His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, how can we resist the pressure of the ministers? ”

Of course, Yishaha knew this, and he was no longer hypocritical, and directly bowed to the south: "Our family is also an internal prison, so naturally follow His Royal Highness Taisun." Please inform Your Highness that our family is in Beiming Mountain, and we must take good care of your home for Your Highness. ”

(Yesterday I was drunk and in poor shape, and today it's only six thousand words.) ）