The new book "The Rise of Great Powers 1900" seeks collection.

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After the results of the Japanese cavalry were transmitted back to Japan, the Tokugawa shogunate was also very surprised, and never mentioned the topic of sending troops again, these 800 people were actually their vanguard troops, they came to test the Qing army, if they found that the Qing army was nothing more than that, they planned to send a large army, the Tokugawa family was not the Toyotomi family, they did not have so much ambition for the Chinese land, and they sent troops purely for the sake of political influence.

But they didn't expect to fight so badly, and the first battle was almost wiped out.

Tokugawa Ietsuna, who had just succeeded to the throne for only two years, hurriedly invited Chen Yuanyun, a native of Hangzhou who lived in Japan and had learned boxing in Shaolin Temple, to inquire about the combat effectiveness of the Eight Banners.

This Chen Yuanyun is a strange person, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism are very proficient, to what extent, probably the level of the later Nan Huaijin master, this kind of person is naturally respected as a master in Japan, he also learned boxing in Shaolin Temple, that is, he introduced Shaolin boxing to Japan, and later developed Japanese jiu-jitsu.

But at this time, he did not come to Japan because of the fall of the Ming Dynasty, but came to Japan a few years earlier, probably to preach.

He already has the ability, is a master level, has taught many apprentices in Japan, and has the identity of Chinese, and has a higher status.

Chinese and monks, these are all halo effects in Asia, there is the so-called "Japanese law does not kill the Tang monks, there is a crime to stop at expulsion, and then to kill and the same boat", Chinese monks in Japan to commit capital crimes are only expelled, if they dare to return, generally do not kill. Rather, it was a warning to kill the people who were in the same boat.

Chen Yuanyun accounted for both. Therefore, it is especially respected. In addition, he has real skills, from civilians to generals, when encountering Chinese problems, and even many major Japanese affairs, they will ask him for advice or two.

Chen Yuanyun told Tokugawa Ietsuna that the Tartars were indeed strong and not afraid of death, but fighting was different from martial arts. It's not that you can win a war if you're strong personally, and you have to rely on the art of war to tell Tokugawa Ietsuna that you have to fight a war.

The master's words were deeply approved by the Tokugawa Ietsuna, so he sent a copy of Sun Tzu's Art of War to the Wenchen generals for them to read, and asked Chen Yuanyun to help him practice the formation, but Chen Yuanyun told the general that he didn't understand this, and told the Tokugawa Ietsuna, the book is ultimately shallow, and the war must be actually combated. After losing three games in a row, he fought the famous battle of Kun.

Tokugawa Ietsuna then asked people to give orders to Matsudaira Mitsunaga, the daimyo who led the troops. Tell him that he must stay in Daming all the time, pay attention to learning the art of war of Daming, and master the art of actual combat, don't care about the lives of samurai, as long as ten people come back, as a seed.

That's all for later.

Yang Chao felt that it was not a matter for Emperor Longwu to stay in Burma, after he escaped, it was a great blow to morale, although Jiangnan had already known Zhu Tianzi, but Li Dingguo's subordinates aimed to rescue the emperor, so Yang Chao sent a messenger to Burma to meet the king of Burma, hoping to take back Emperor Longwu.

As long as Zhu Cihuan is brought back, then Li Dingguo's 50,000 people will be liberated, and the Kuidong Army recruited by Wen'an can also obey the orders of the Northern Expedition, which will have 100,000 people, these 100,000 people Yang Chao plans to still let them attack Sichuan, Yang Chao really doesn't worry about the Manchu Qing playing slavery in Sichuan, the center of the place is a plain, there are mountains on all sides, Shu Road is difficult, it is more difficult to fight than Shaanxi, if you don't take advantage of their unstable foothold to beat away this group of slaves, it will be troublesome in the future.

Hitting children on rainy days, being idle anyway, Yang Chao does not plan to go on a northern expedition this year, and is still accumulating strength.

No matter how you look at it, next year we will have to go on a northern expedition to the Central Plains and end this long war that lasted ten years.

Therefore, it is imperative to send an envoy to bring back the emperor.

But Yang Chao didn't expect that this gave his subordinates a chance.

The envoys were King Fu and Xu Sinan, but before Xu Sinan left, Huang Fengfu secretly talked with him in detail all night.

As a result, when Xu Sinan came back at the end of the year, he brought a holy decree, which made Yang Chao feel inexplicable.

Because this holy decree is the holy decree of Yang Chao as the king, there is nothing strange about this, Sun Kewang is the king, Li Dingguo is the king, Liu Wenxiu is the king, and it is not surprising that another Yang Chao is the king.

To Yang Chao's surprise, Zhu Cihuan actually named Yang Chao the king of Daming!

Zhu Cihuan is the son of the Great Tomorrow, he named Yang Chao as the King of the Ming Dynasty, what kind of egg is this?

But when Yang Chao listened to Xu Sinan's description of Emperor Longwu's situation, he basically figured it out, and Zhu Cihuan was also forced to do so, he wanted to exchange Daming for Yang Chao to save him.

It turned out that the little emperor really suffered in Burma.

The king of Burma did not see him from beginning to end, because the king of Burma, Pingdali, did not know what etiquette to use to meet the great emperor, and used the courtesy of the vassals, but the king of Korea could pull down his face and kowtow to the great tomorrow, but the king of Burma really couldn't pull his face, so he simply disappeared, and placed Emperor Longwu and his gang outside the city of Donghu and built a simple fence for them.

At this time, there were many civil and military generals who followed the emperor, but there was no more courtesy, righteousness and shame, but all those who were a little polite and shameful had committed suicide when their wives and daughters were snatched away by the Burmese as slaves.

At this time, these officials often blended in with the people of Burma who came to the enclosure of the Great Tomorrow for fun, "wearing short clothes and stomping feet, blending in with Burmese women, sitting on the ground and laughing." The Burmese sighed: "The ministers of the Celestial Empire are so frolicking, and the world will not die? The local official said: "I think these old men are becoming less and less like a person who wants to be a tyrant." ”

The emperor was annoyed and sent officials to take turns to patrol the night, but the officials on duty took the opportunity to "drink with lamps and sing all night". With Ma Jixiang and Li Guotai as the first night, they drank in the house of the imperial prince Wei Gong, who had a Cantonese female actor named Li Yingxiang, who became their best place to have fun. Suining Bo Puying, eunuch Yang Guoming and other powerful people opened casinos, shouting day and night, and there was a lot of noise. The emperor was furious, and ordered the brocade guards to go to demolish the casino, and the ministers were gambling in a hurry, so what did the emperor's holy decree be, reopen the casino in another place, and the noise was the same.

The most infuriating thing is that Ma Jixiang and others finally have no money, Ma Jixiang and Li Guotai told the emperor that the courtiers and entourage are living in difficulty, and some people have no food to cook. asked the emperor to take out the internal money and send it out. Where does the emperor have any property? In a fit of rage, he threw the gold-made seal to the ground. Let them chisel and divide them among the ministers. Li Guoyong, the eunuch of Dianxi, kowtowed and said: "The ministers dare not break this treasure if they die!" Ma Jixiang and Li Guotai had no scruples, and immediately chiseled the national seal and distributed it to the ministers to count the money to one or two taels.

After the autumn harvest, the king of Burma sent a batch of newly harvested rice, which the emperor instructed to distribute to the poor entourage. Ma Jixiang regarded it as his own and distributed it to people who had close friendships with him, which caused great dissatisfaction within the small court. Deng Kai, the chief of the guards, shouted: "The situation is so far, I still dare to be blinded and listen." The benefits of promotion are not given to officials. Where is the conscience? Ma Jixiang ordered his men to knock Deng Kai to the ground, injured his foot and unable to walk.

This is what Xu Sinan told Yang Chao about the emperor's situation in Burma.

After listening to Yang Chao, he couldn't help but sympathize, an emperor should have reached this level, and there was only a sigh.

However, Yang Chao was curious about this Ma Jixiang, this person has always been deeply trusted by Emperor Longwu, even if he once took refuge in Sun Kewang, he was still convinced by the emperor later, Zhu Cihuan went to Myanmar was instigated by him, and the traitor should be a talent in this role.

But at this time, this thing is completely a traitor. Dare to force the emperor to break the gold and jade seal in front of the emperor, I'm afraid the emperor should see through what kind of goods this is. It is estimated that Ma Jixiang's heart has been eaten.

It's just that why didn't Zhu Cihuan kill Ma Jixiang, at this time, it shouldn't be difficult to kill a powerful minister, after thinking about it, Yang Chao guessed that Ma Jixiang was not really good at gambling by pulling others to gamble, maybe it was to win over people and horses to cultivate power, not that the emperor didn't want to kill Ma Jixiang, but that the emperor couldn't kill Ma Jixiang at all.

Yang Chao's guess was not far from ten, but he didn't guess that Ma Jixiang was already dead at this time, in the hands of Xu Sinan, under a glass of poisoned wine.

Why did Xu Sinan kill Ma Jixiang, because he needed Ma Jixiang to help him do something, and he couldn't let anyone know about it.

And this matter is the canonization of the King of Daming.

This matter was what Huang Fengfu had a secret conversation with Xu Sinan before leaving.

Huang Fengfu asked Xu Sinan at that time if he was willing to die for the Metropolitan Governor, and Xu Sinan resolutely promised that as long as the Metropolitan Governor said a word, he would immediately cut off the head and personally present it.

Huang Fengfu told Xu Sinan the idea, everything was planned by Huang Fengfu and executed by Xu Sinan, but they were all willing, especially Xu Sinan, the younger brother of many men, he was really a young officer in the army who could die for Yang Chao.

The Xu family is a poor military household of Xiaolingwei, but there are many heirs in the family, probably because the boss took many men, and then gave birth to sons one after another, from Xu Ernan to Xu Sinan, and there is a younger sister named Xu Xiaomei.

There are four sons and one daughter in the family, and the burden of the Xu family is too heavy, and many men and their fathers are already hunched over at a young age, and their hair is gray.

Many men followed Yang Chao at the age of fifteen, when Xu Sinan was only nine years old, and many men did not think about marrying a daughter-in-law after earning military salaries, but first built a house for the family and for the younger brothers to study, which was the fourteenth year of Chongzhen.

Five years later, Xu Sinan told his brother that he also wanted to join the army, many men refused because he was young, and six years later, Xu Sinan wanted to join the army again, until seven years later, in the third year of Longwu, many men had become officers to the general army, and Xu Sinan was already sixteen, and many men allowed his younger brother to join the army.

After reading the book for nine years, he was determined to be a hero like his brother since he was a child, influenced by his eldest brother, he has always worshiped Yang Chao fanatically, and he also believed that Yang Chao was the benefactor of their family, he naturally would not forget the things before the age of nine, he had never eaten meat in his memory, until his brother became a soldier, the family situation improved, after the victory in Haizhou, his brother rose step by step, and became a celebrity in the area of Xiaolingwei, and it was then that Xu Sinan had a strong desire to join the army.

When he was studying, this kid preferred military books, read all the military books he could buy, and asked the veterans about the war when he had nothing to do, and after their family was assigned to the fields in Xinjiangkou, he ran to the barracks even more if he had nothing to do, and before he joined the army, he was already familiar with all the military training, and practiced and mastered all the skills by himself.

After joining the army, starting from a small soldier, although he was a scholar, he was unusually brave in battle, and he was wounded many times after repeated military exploits, and finally passed the imperial examination in the army and was admitted to the military department.

Obviously, people like Xu Sinan got the opportunity because of Yang Chao, and even the entire family changed their fate because of Yang Chao, and they are the descendants of Yang Chao's lineage and the cronies of their cronies.

Like Huangfeng Mansion, he dreamed of seeing the day when Yang Chao ascended the throne and became emperor, but he conspired with Huangfeng Mansion and came up with this canonization of King Daming. Bought Ma Jixiang, let Ma Jixiang lobby and persecute the emperor, promised to canonize Yang Chao as the king of the Ming Dynasty, and finally killed Ma Jixiang to extinguish his mouth, when he left Donghu with the canonization edict, Ma Jixiang's body was already cold.

But the question is, does Yang Chao dare to accept it, this name is too sensitive, King Daming, King of Daming, what does this mean, it means that the emperor intends to give Zen to Yang Chao, and others will rumor that this Zen concession was forced by Yang Chao.

Looking at Xu Sinan's eager eyes, and thinking of the comments of later generations, Yang Chao could only sigh in his heart.

Then kneel on the ground and respectfully throw yourself to the ground.

The eunuch Yang Guoming, who delivered the decree, hurriedly finished reading the holy decree, and then immediately helped Yang Chao up, and said with a smile on the side:

"Our family congratulates the prince, the prince is a thousand years old, and his longevity is boundless!"

There were quite a few people watching the ceremony on the sidelines, including large and small nobles, gentlemen, and civil and military officials in Nanjing.

There are ecstasy, lamentation, and a blank brain.

Zhu Cihong was also present, Yang Chao actually accepted the title of King of Daming, Zhu Cihong felt that his heart was sinking, as if he had fallen into an abyss.

When he was still stunned, he suddenly felt someone patting him behind his back, and when he saw it, he found that it was Huangfengfu.

"Lord Wang, it's time to express it!"

Huang Fengfu said coldly.

Zhu Cihong took a deep breath.

Suddenly took a step forward, desperately squeezing out a smile:

"Congratulations to King Daming, congratulations to King Yang, the prince is the king of Daming, and he deserves his name!"

Zhu Cihong's words made a large group of literati who considered themselves loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty feel like they had eaten flies.

Then, in the congratulatory voices of a group of officials, the canonization ceremony ended successfully.

"My lord, it's time to customize the dress."

Huang Fengfu said quietly.

Zhu Cihuan has fallen to the point that in addition to a holy decree, he can't be rewarded with anything like a python robe or jade belt, so Yang Guoming only brought a holy decree.

And the robes that a prince should have had to be made by Yang Chao.

The speed of Huangfengfu was very fast, so fast that Yang Chao thought that he had been prepared, and ten days later, before the Chinese New Year, he sent a python robe.

Yang Chao didn't care, so he put it on with him, and after a long time, he noticed that this python robe was a dragon with five claws! (To be continued......)