Desert.

The former site of Kaipingwei in the Ming Dynasty.

This place was originally the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, to the Zheng period, the Red Turban Army General, Mr. Guan, led more than 100,000 Red Turban Army, and his subordinates broke the head Pan, from Henan, through Shaanxi across the river loop, all the way to the north to break through the city.

The battle was also legendary, as the Mongols' own hometown of Shangdu was breached by the Han Chinese.

Since then, the capital of Yuan Shangcheng has been abandoned, and later Chang Yuchun broke through this city again, but he did not stay because he was seriously ill.

Then Xu Da led the army to the Northern Expedition, conquered the city again, captured the city, and renamed it the Ming Kaipingwei, which was repeatedly abandoned.

These days, because of the more frequent business travel, the Ming Dynasty instead shrank the front, abandoned the Kaipingwei, and the front was fully contracted, close to the Great Wall Pass, which has not yet been completely repaired.

Emperor Tianyuan of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, Usakhar Khan Tugusi Timur, was sitting on a high-headed horse, surrounded by important civil and military officials, inspecting the former site of Kaipingwei.

He was burly, with a rough face, his brows were tightly locked, and his eyes flashed with wolf-like coldness.

But looking at what he was wearing, in addition to the traditional Mongolian robe, there was also a jade gui that only the Han people would use, and the quiver was also decorated with fine jade ornaments from the Jiangnan region, and the robe was also made of Jiangnan silk.

Not to mention the two weapons he had around his waist.

One is a Mongolian scimitar with a golden sheath, and the other is a Han Chinese-style sword of the Central Plains inlaid with red and blue gemstones, which all show that the last emperor of the Northern Yuan Dynasty has not forgotten the prosperity and wealth of the Central Plains.

He shouted in a low voice: "Degren Timur, you say, why does this Zhu Di want to return most of the capital to me?" ”

The general known as Deyin Timur is naturally Wang Baobao's younger brother, the elder brother of Wang Min, the princess of Qin King Zhu Wei, he is the Pingzhang political affairs of the Northern Yuan Dynasty at the moment, commanding more than 100,000 elite soldiers retained by the eldest brother Wang Bao, and is the hardcore supporter of the Northern Yuan Emperor Timur.

Moreover, he and Timur have one thing in common, they are both deeply sinicized, so they will be together.

In today's Northern Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols attacked and killed each other very heavily.

Deyin Timur said: "Dahan, I guess that it is because they want us to trade close to the Great Wall Pass, this Yan King Zhu Di, cunning tight, he does not leave Kaipingwei, I and other ministries regardless of buying salt and tea, they all need to go to the Great Wall Pass near him Beiping to trade, one eliminates the other, and our tribes gradually move south." ”

Emperor Tianyuan's wolf-like eyes flashed and he nodded lightly.

He gritted his teeth and said: "This Great Wall is really a big trouble for my Mongolian tribes, firstly, it can resist our attack, and secondly, it makes us only close to the Great Wall pass to buy tea, Zhu Di and that Zhu Wei, there are so many passes in the north, but only three passes can be traded, and now the silk and tea used to reward the Asu army are not enough......"

After Emperor Tianyuan Timur finished speaking, he glanced at the guards behind him with jealousy.

And Taki Timur was also taken aback and frowned heavily.

The Great Wall is not just a military defense function.

It also has the function of economic regulation, when the Ming Dynasty controlled the economic lifeline of the Northern Yuan, when the Northern Yuan wanted to buy tea and iron pots, as well as salt, they could only trade at a few passes designated by the Ming Dynasty, which made the Northern Yuan pinch their noses and have to recognize, many small Mongolian tribes can no longer stand eating sand in the south and north of the desert, and secretly attach themselves, and live around the Great Wall to graze, and gradually form the prototype of Duoyan Sanwei.

And the guards that Emperor Tian Yuan said were clustering around him not far from him at this moment.

This large group of heavily armoured, burly guards was different from the other Mongols and Semu.

These guards have blue-eyed curly hair, the Han people call them "green-eyed Huihui" or "blue-eyed Huihui", they are also called Asojun, they are the Chechens of the Caucasian generation, because they are good at riding and shooting, and they are not afraid of fighting to the death, so they were recruited by many Dayuan Emperors as personal guards.

Just a few decades ago, their ancestors followed in the footsteps of the Mongolian iron horsemen on the banks of the Danube.

At that time, the Great Yuan had a territory of hundreds of thousands of miles, exceeding the Yin Mountain in the north, quicksand in the west, Liaozuo in the east, and the sea surface in the south, and the Han and Tang dynasties were not as prosperous as possible.

Among the Mongol guards, except for the Wanhu Tixue army in the headquarters, the Asu army was the most revered, and this group of professional guards was responsible for protecting the emperor's safety.

Because since the death of Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, the Great Yuan has changed many emperors in the past few decades.

And the emperors were short-lived.

At its most frequent, there were seven emperors in four years.

The power struggle between the Great Khan and the Taishi, the prime minister is very powerful, and it is ironic to say that the Mongols who kill the most Mongols and the most ruthless are the Mongols, and the Mongols who kill the most Mongol emperors.

The nomads are different from the Han people, like the Khitan, Mongolian, Jurchen and other ethnic minorities, after the eldest son grows up, he will divide the account and start a family on his own, and pet the stove alone.

The so-called Shouzaoer, is the youngest son, because the older sons are separated in adulthood, only the younger son is around, the benefits of the family are naturally the younger son, when Meng Ge Khan died in Diaoyutai, his younger brother Shouzao Ali Buge is very popular with the Mongolian Khans, and succeeded to the throne in the steppe.

However, Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, succeeded to the throne in the Central Plains with the help of Han Confucian ministers and Buddhist lamas.

Since then, this has opened the way for the Mongols to fight frantically for the throne of the Great Khan.

The emperor of the Yuan Dynasty couldn't trust his own people, so the guards all used the blue-eyed Asu army to return, and even the Han people, the Goryeo people, and the Mongols in their headquarters were tightly guarded.

Deyin Timur frowned heavily, he is somewhat similar to his sister Wang Min, not quite like an orthodox Mongol, because he has grown up in Henan in the Central Plains for a long time, and was born in Henan, he has received Confucian education since he was a child, and he is also familiar with the subset of scriptures and history, he does not like to grow beards, only has two goatees, his face is white, and his figure is thinner than those strong men of the Asu Army around him, more like a Han minister.

He said softly: "Dahan, you don't have to worry, my sister Guanyinnu, now the princess of Qin in the Ming Dynasty, she asked someone to hand me a letter, through the border guard of the Ming Dynasty, secretly transport some tea bricks and Shu brocade to us, and then I will find a way to buy some silk and tea bricks from Goryeo." ”

"Hmm!"

Emperor Timur nodded, thinking of Goryeo, his wolf-like eyes flashed with hatred.

"The Goryeo barbarians are more hateful than the southern barbarians, and the king of Wu, Zhu Yuanzhang, still knows that he respects me and other great northern lords, and the lieutenant officials I sent to Goryeo to proclaim that they pay tribute were actually whipped and insulted by the Goryeo barbarians, hateful, hateful!"

The Northern Yuan and Goryeo kingdoms have always been tributary.

In the past, the king of Goryeo had to kneel to greet the envoys of the Northern Yuan Emperor when he saw him.

During the period of Emperor Yuan Shun, because the King of Goryeo slaughtered the family of Empress Qi, Emperor Yuan Shun sent a force to teach the King of Goryeo a lesson.

Moreover, the Northern Yuan did not expect that the Goryeo people would dare to resist.

As a result, the famous Goryeo general Cui Ying gave them a profound lesson, and only a dozen horsemen fled back from Goryeo.

This battle gave Goryeo a lot of confidence, and from then on, Goryeo no longer birded the suzerainty of the Northern Yuan, and made things difficult and humiliating everywhere.

After Emperor Timur ascended the throne, he held a ceremony to sacrifice heaven and earth, and according to the tradition of the Heavenly Empire in the Central Plains, he sent eunuchs and lieutenants to Goryeo to deliver a decree and let them come to the Hajj to pay tribute.

Who knows, the Koreans not only did not bird him, but also humiliated the Goryeo lieutenant he sent, whipped and scolded him......

The Korean people have been like this since ancient times, fearing power but not virtue.

And Emperor Tianyuan can't help it, he wants to fight but there is no one under him, this group of Asu troops can be invited to fight, but they can't afford to give chips, the Yuan Dynasty because of the implementation of the tax system, officials are corrupt, officials at all levels have to give gifts when they meet, meet their superiors to "meet money", superiors ask their subordinates to "spend money", "festival money" during the New Year's holidays, gifts for birthdays, gifts for lawsuits, and gifts for officials after the lawsuit regardless of whether they win or lose.

This ethos naturally affects the military.

For example, today's Yuan Emperor Timur is a puppet guard of honor, although he has great ambitions, but there is nowhere to show, and there is no money to buy the army, at this time he gradually understands that after Emperor Yuan Shun was expelled from the capital, why would he learn from Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty of the Han people, and write poems and mourn every day to be a woman.

It's hard to be a man, and it's even harder to be an emperor, especially the last emperor!

Seeing that Emperor Tianyuan was so angry, he couldn't, he thought about it, and took out a large stack of banknotes from his pocket, all of which were full of brand-new Daming treasure banknotes, ten yuan each, wrapped in oiled paper, enough for 20,000 yuan.

According to the market price, this is about 10,000 taels of silver.

"Great Khan, this is the money obtained by me and other tribes from selling cattle and sheep with the Ming people recently, I know that the concubines, princes, slaves, and rewards in your palace need to spend money everywhere, and you hold this banknote."

Seeing this, Emperor Tianyuan Timur wrinkled his wolf eyes and wanted to get angry, but in the end he gritted his teeth and took the banknote into his arms.

Today's Northern Yuan is not right to say that it is a tribe.

It also retains the honor guard of the Great Yuan and many treasure books, household registrations, and even the heirloom jade seals passed down from generation to generation by the Chinese emperors.

It's more like a loose big tribe that plays brains at each other.

But you say it's a tribe, it has an emperor, a prince, a prime minister, a Pingzhang political affairs, all the official positions it should have, and the military strength of the military leaders everywhere is still very strong, and there are more than 100,000 people who pull out any of them.

But the embarrassing thing is that Emperor Tianyuan can't command those military leaders, they all have soldiers and money.

Emperor Tianyuan can't afford to collect taxes now, so naturally he has no money to entrap those generals and leaders, plus their own expenses of the Northern Yuan royal family are not small, hundreds of concubines in the palace, monks and lamas, Buddha heads, color eyes in charge, Asu army guards, cowardly Xue army headquarters, everywhere to eat, drink and Lazar.

No one pays the taxes, and there is nowhere to get the money.

Compared with the national fortune of the Ming Dynasty and the Northern Yuan Dynasty, one is thriving, like a dragon in the sky, and the other has decayed, like a candle in the wind.

Emperor Tianyuan Tugusi Timur pinched the banknote, and said bitterly: "Decause, you said that my Dayuan also issued the Zhizheng, Zhongtong treasure banknote, why can't it be strong, this Daming treasure banknote issued by the Ming Dynasty is so valuable?" ”

Decaine Timur shook his head.

Although he knew poetry and books, he couldn't explain the economic problems.

Emperor Tianyuan took out a piece of the Ming treasure banknote in his hand, and took a look, it was actually printed with a picture of the fishing sea, and the words "Ming fishing the sea" were also marked below.

"Lord Wu has a bold ......"

Emperor Tianyuan Timur sighed.

"I believe that the sea is returned to the Lord, and I also like that there are talented people in the south of the Yangtze River......"

He whispered a poem.

In that year, after Zhu Yuanzhang recovered Beiping by King Chang Yuchun of Kaiping, he once wrote a letter to recruit Emperor Yuan Shun, and the messenger who sent the letter was still the internal servant of Emperor Yuan Shun in the palace back then.

But the banner they are waving is the red flag of the Ming Dynasty!

After receiving the letter, Emperor Yuan Shun smiled bitterly three times, and composed a poem "Gift to King Wu" on the spot, and asked the envoy to bring it back.

The envoy of Jinling crossed the river, and the desert opened up.

The king's anger is sometimes self-contained, and the emperor's grace is not revealed.

I believe that the sea is returned to the Lord, and I also like that there are talented people in the south of the Yangtze River.

Returning to the sincere annoyance, the spring breeze came to Phoenix Terrace first.

……

Haijin Town was originally a small seaport, and during the Yuan Dynasty, it was relatively busy.

After the Ming Dynasty captured the capital, changed to Beiping, the sea ships here come and go more closely, now here is the "Tianjin Port" of the Ming Dynasty, specially designed to welcome the prince Zhu Biao and other arrivals, along the way all the guards and soldiers, all raised the flag, because the national flag is to be raised to play the national anthem, firecrackers, so many people around have come.

In the seventeenth year of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the prince personally came to the land of Yanyun, which was the first time.

Zhu Di personally inspected the troops everywhere, instructed them to lead the cattle and horses, and restrain the people.

As for the people around, when they heard that the Prince of Daming was coming, they all came to see the surprise.

In the land of Yanyun, the people have been fierce since ancient times.

And it's a great place.

This is heroic, it is said that there are many clan fortresses here, and the common people take the clan as a unit to build fortress autonomy, which is especially obvious in the Yuan Dynasty, because the Yuan Dynasty implemented the tax system, just like the sub-feudal system of the grassland tribes, the emperor waved his hand, this piece belongs to you, and you can collect the tax as you like, anyway, I don't care.

This has led to the emergence of many powerful people in various places.

In the Yuan Dynasty, there were only 14 imperial examinations in total, once every three years, but among these 14 imperial examinations, there were very few Han people.

"The Great Luo of the Worlds"

This directly leads to the fact that there are many Han people, who are powerful and wealthy, who have learned martial arts for generations, hoarded fields and grain, built weapons and weapons, and know the strategies of military books and world affairs, but have not entered the system.

Even if it is a Han person who has won the imperial examination, it is not allowed to be reused.

For example, Shi Nai'an, in the 100-year imperial examination of the Great Yuan Dynasty, there were only a handful of Han people, and he was a great talent, so he was asked to go to Qiantang County to be a teacher.

Liu Bowen is also knowledgeable and talented, and he was sent to Zhejiang to work as an idle person and manage teaching materials.

There are also most Han Chinese who are used as governesses, housekeepers, storekeepers, and librarians after passing the imperial examination......

As we all know, my teachers in China are amazing, and they have their own national conditions.

In this way, in the long run, the Han people have more wisdom and talents, but they are not allowed to be reused, and there is no ladder to rise.

Therefore, the Haoqiang quickly gathered together to do big things, so at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, such as Mr. Han Shantong Liu Futongguan and the like, they were not ordinary peasant rebels, they were able to fight with the regular army of the Great Yuan in the dark, and defeated the encirclement and suppression of hundreds of thousands of Yuan troops several times, because they were all Han landlords Haoqiang, both rich and human, and they practiced soldiers and guns when they were idle, and they had long sharpened their knives and Huo Huo was preparing to do great things.

In today's land of Yanyun, there are still many such heroes......

The land of Yanyun, since the emperor Shi Jingjiao ceded this place to the Khitan, after the Liao State, the Jin State, and the Mongol rule, the common people are accustomed to the change of dynasties.

The local people have formed clans and villages.

Whether it is to the Mongols or the current Ming Dynasty, the people of Yanyun Land are very wary.

A child in the land of Yanyun carried a knife on his waist, straddled a tree, looked at the Ming army flag not far away, the military majesty was grand, and grinned: "Hey, do you say that this Ming army martial arts temple is really worshipping Yue Wumu?" ”

The young man under the tree he asked also had a knife on his waist, and he was very strong.

Yan Zhao and Shandong and other places, the martial style is prosperous, especially rampant in the Yuan Dynasty, the common people walk on the road, the body is draped with swords, to prevent being robbed, and later the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, Kublai Khan, also issued a ban on martial arts.

By the end of the Yuan Dynasty, this ban on martial arts had existed in name only, because of the chaos in various places, the common people traveled with knives, and even now, this trend has not diminished in the north, and because the north is often invaded by the Mongols, Zhu Yuanzhang did not order to prohibit the people from wearing swords.

When the common people go out and go long distances, they must prepare weapons with them.

Today's great tomorrow is coming, these Yan Zhao young men, have to wear their own good clothes, wearing short swords and small swords around their waists, doing brave martial arts, going out to follow the military lang shouting and cheering, and admiring the mighty officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the literati Shi Nai'an carried the Water Margin, a monk and a Taoist, who had a knife hanging on his waist when he traveled, which was actually a true portrayal of Yanyun and other places in northern Shandong.

First, there are many strongmen who come here to block the road and rob the road, and secondly, the people are fierce and practice martial arts.

When the young man under the tree heard this, he scolded angrily: "You fool, Yue Wumu beat it, that's your ancestor!" ”

The young man with the knife on the tree said: "What's the matter, storytellers all say, 'It's easy to shake the mountain, but it's a pity that the Yue family is in trouble', we can't worship heroes!" ”

"Besides, your ancestors are the Jin Tartars, and we are the Han people!"

The prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty took off and compiled the history of the Song Dynasty, collected the words of the old people of Liaojin, and gave Yue Fei a high evaluation.

You must know that the history of the previous dynasties, the compilation of the annals of the previous dynasties, basically all kinds of black, the history of the Yuan Dynasty did not lack the black Song people, and the things that were contemptuously called the Southern Barbarians were not less, and the skull of Song Lizong was made into a tantric wine set, and the tombs of the emperors of the Song Dynasty were dug up, and when they were compiling the history books, there was no need to write how brave Yue Fei was.

They could have changed the way and made Yue Fei vulnerable.

However, the Mongols and the old people of Liaojin sighed that Yue Fei was powerful for many years after his death, and the history books were not stingy with pen and ink, so you can imagine how good Yue Fei was back then.

In particular, Yue Fei is still a northerner, so the people of the north have been praising his story for many years, and many storytellers will praise Yue Fei's loyalty, righteousness and bravery, and in later generations, because a certain Manchu emperor with pockmarks liked to listen to Yue Fei's story very much, and formed the story of Yue Quanchuan, and the Manchu Eight Banners Martial Temple at that time, inherited the Ming system, has been worshipping Yue Wumu and Emperor Guan, and the border general school guard has a statue of Yue Wumu and Emperor Guan.

But at this time, Emperor Guan has not been named a martial saint, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms has not yet become popular, Emperor Guan was named a martial saint, until the end of the Ming Dynasty when Chongzhen, the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, but all the northerners who have the idea of joining the army to serve the country, all admire Yue Wu Mu Jingzhong's idea of serving the country.

The young man under the tree was furious when he heard this, and scolded: "You are a Han man of a bird, your family is composing, you are a Khitan from Liaodong who moved to Yandi, you fool who has forgotten your ancestors, that Yue Wumu, you have not killed your ancestors!" ”

The boy in the tree wanted to talk back, but suddenly froze, pointed to the sea in the distance and said, "Wow, look at it, it's such a big ship!" ”

Hundreds of warships, mighty and mighty, sailed from the sea.

Gongs and drums are noisy, and firecrackers are ringing in unison.

The warships on the sea all hung the Ming five-clawed red dragon flag, and the red flag was displayed.

The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty on the battleship were uniformly wearing new-style cotton armor, and the guards were all wearing pheasant feathers in their armor, which was majestic and towering, and the front-line soldiers were all wearing iron helmets and red tassels.

In order to show the prestige of the Son of Heaven this time, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that the honor guard that the Son of Heaven could use was given to Zhu Biao, and among the officials and generals of the Ying Tianfu, hundreds of tall honor guards were specially selected, in order to give the people of the north and see the majesty of my Ming Prince.

At the same time, the latest armor and the latest Hongwu style are all pulled out, showing the martial arts style of the Ming Dynasty!

And Zhu Biao was dressed in a bright yellow gown, wearing a crown, surrounded by civil and military ministers, standing at the bow of the ship and waving slightly to the people on the shore.

After the head boat docked, someone handed over the sampan and began to set off firecrackers.

And the battleship of the Ming Dynasty faced the sky and fired empty shells.

The honor guard, armed with a slender Hongwu with a three-edged bayonet, disembarked from the ship first, waited until the firecrackers were finished, and fired three shots into the sky.

Salute, salute.

The Da Ming brocade clothes and the Han generals on the ship, all of them were tall and burly, first lined up neatly, and got down from the ship to maintain order, they lined up, all of them glared angrily, and their majesty was unapproachable.

Their armor is both good-looking and close-fitting.

The young men who watched were envious.

The Hongwu style in his hand, the bayonet is even more cold and fierce in the sun, and the brown gun body of the pine, slender and yingying, is the size of all men's dreams.

The officials and soldiers of the Yan Army who greeted them around were forced by the momentum of these honor guards and retreated one after another.

The crown prince Zhu Biao, wearing a gown, walked with a tiger, and led Zhu Xiongying, who was already tall to his shoulders and wearing a military uniform, and walked down from the boat.

Their faces were solemn and majestic.

Zhu Biao's eyes were soft at first, and he met the eyes of the fourth brother Zhu Di in front of him, said hello, and then raised his hand and waved, shouting: "The sun is clear, protect me Daming!" ”

"Every day is clear, protect me Daming!"

"Every day is clear, protect me Daming!"

The generals of the Southern Army brought around shouted hard, and the Yan soldiers had already received the order of the generals and colonels who came from the boat, and shouted together, and the shouts of tens of thousands of iron-blooded soldiers were very powerful on the edge of this harbor, and the sound was rumbling in the four fields.

The spies and Mongolian remnants mixed in the crowd all showed frightened expressions.

Zhuhu was frightened and knelt directly on the ground.

The two teenagers on the tree before were in tears, raised their hands and shouted, the young man with the knife looked at the surging crowd, the red flag fluttering, and his eyes were moist and murmured: "I want to join the army......"

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