Chapter 222: No Regrets in This Life
When night fell, in the study room in the quiet garden of Yanwang Mansion, an old monk wearing a black robe with an ugly face seemed to open and close, as if he was in a state of mind, quietly listening to Zhu Di, who was wearing a python, tell the experience of following the Blue Jade Northern Expedition. å―Đ@æīŠ*æÂĨåĶ%Xue is Zhu Di's teacher, Yao Guangxiao of the Law Name Daoyan, he has been traveling since Zhu Di set out on the expedition, and he only returned to Yingtian today.
When Zhu Di was speaking, he heard a slight knock in his ears, and he couldn't help but be very unhappy. It turned out that the study room here was the place where he and Dao Yan discussed important matters, and Mo said that the maid of the palace was Zhang Yu, who was regarded as a confidant, and Zhu Neng did not dare to trespass without being summoned.
After taking the strange letter in Zhang Yu's hand with a clean cover and no signature, Zhu Di's face was slightly pale, and he opened it and looked at it carefully under the candlelight.
Zhu Di looked at what was written on the letter, and couldn't help but be angry, Huo Ran stood up, stretched out his hand and slapped the page of the letter on the table beside him, and said with a smile angrily, "A good person doesn't hurt the tiger's heart, and the tiger has the intention of swallowing people." This Liangguo Duke really has to be the enemy of this king. He said this in his mouth, but he was secretly glad in his heart, but it was not in vain that the king interceded for Bai Zheng that day and left him a small life, and the king could also know a little about the things in the palace.
Dao Yan opened a pair of triangular eyes and looked at Zhu Di, but he did not have the slightest interest in the letter in his hand, because he had already penetrated it in his heart, because although His Royal Highness the Prince in front of him, who was known as a strategic prince, was valued by His Majesty the Emperor, he was not the crown prince. Lan Yu is loyal to the current crown prince Zhu Biao, and he decided that there is only life and death between the two, and sooner or later there will be a life and death victory, this battle involving imperial power is even more dangerous than the battle with a knife and a gun on the battlefield.
Dao Yan said lightly with a smile on his face: "Right now, this tiger can be described as a holy family, what can Your Highness do?" â
Zhu Di couldn't help but sigh when he heard this, sat down and said with a somewhat helpless look: "My father didn't say a word about the death of the concubine of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and he led the army to attack Xifengkou, but praised him as Wei Qing in the Han Dynasty and Li Jing in the Tang Dynasty in front of the Manchu Dynasty. With the current situation, this king really can't help him. â
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince before the Northern Expedition of the Great Army, I wish Hou Huo, the champion of Lanyu Jian, the merit of illness. Although the praise of Wei Qing in the Han Dynasty is not stingy with praise, it also has the deep meaning of His Majesty the Emperor. After Dao Yan looked at Zhu Di, who showed a slightly puzzled look on his face, he said leisurely, "Huo Quai, although Wei Qing's nephew and uncle were the two pillars of the army when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty were the twin pillars of the army, their temperaments are very different. Li Dang, the son of the flying general Li Guang, mistakenly complained to Wei Qing that his father committed suicide, and drew his sword and injured Wei Qing. Huo Qu was furious and shot Li Dare with his own hands to avenge his uncle. It can be seen that Huo Qu's disease is also like a fire, and his publicity is abnormal. Changping Hou Weiqing and the Xiongnu won seven battles and seven victories, and the official was the general of the Great Sima. His sister Wei Zifu is the queen, and his wife is Princess Pingyang, the sister of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and her three sons are still in infancy. If it is said that his power is monstrous, he is afraid that no one can match it among his relatives in the Han Dynasty, but this Marquis of Changping never formed a party, and he did not even raise a soldier. â
Zhu Di heard Dao Yan say this, his heart was calm, and he asked lightly, "It seems that my father hopes that Lan Yu can be the Wei Qing of my Ming Dynasty, not Huo Quai." â
Dao Yan twisted the Buddha beads in his hand, slowly closed his eyes and said, "Right now, the King of Qin and the King of Jin have already led their own troops to garrison Shanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu, the more flamboyant the blue jade is today, it will only allow Your Highness to obtain military power as soon as possible." â
The snowflakes flew and galloped under the horses, and the cold wind rose in the face, filling the ears with the wails of the Yuan soldiers. The bloody, resentful, resentful, and frightened faces in front of him seemed to be the commander of the Yuan army, Hailanda, or those Northern Yuan soldiers who were killed by their own hands.
After Zhu Quan turned over and sat up, he only felt drenched in cold sweat, and then he woke up with a wry smile on his face, and the vivid scenes that appeared in front of him were just Nan Ke's dreams. After picking up the cold tea on the table that had already been cool, he poured half a pot and walked down the small building where he lived with a long sword in his hand, and practiced his sword by the lake.
In the middle of the moon, only the chirping of insects was heard in the silent courtyard, and after waiting for half a pillar of incense, Zhu Quan was comfortable, stopping at the lakeside and staring at the bright moon reflected on the water, and couldn't help but sigh secretly This lingering feeling is afraid that he has not been on the battlefield, and it is difficult for people who do not know the danger of the battlefield to understand it in their lives.
Under the oblique light of the warm autumn sun, hearing Fang Xiaoru's subdued recitation, Zhu Quan only felt that his upper and lower eyelids were fighting, and he couldn't suppress his sleepiness anymore, and finally fell asleep on the table. Fortunately, the teacher in today's Guozijian class is not Li Xiyan, and after reciting Confucius's book, Fang Xiaoru shook his head and enjoyed himself, not knowing that Zhu Quan, who was sitting next to Zhu Di like a clay sculpture and wood carving, had already dreamed of Zhou Gong.
When Zhu Quan, who was stretched and in good spirits, walked out of the national prison, he didn't see Xu Ying, and then he remembered that he heard his master Qin Zhuofeng say that his father Xu Da, the Duke of Wei, had been seriously ill for several days, and Xu Ying had not come to class.
Feng Xuan, the beloved daughter of Song Guogong in a white shirt, saw that the sky was clear today, and she wanted to invite Zhu Quan to go boating on the river, but seeing Zhu Quan's lonely look, she also dispelled the thoughts in her heart.
In the mansion of Wei Guogong in the night, Xu Da, who looked sick, woke up from the hospital bed, and saw his son Xu Huizu and daughter Xu Ying standing in front of the bed with a concerned face, so he reluctantly took the medicine bowl in the hands of Xu Fu, the old housekeeper of Xu Mansion, and after drinking it, he looked at the moonlight outside the window, turned his head and said slowly to his children, "You go back to your room to rest, for my father I have a few words to say to Xu Fu." Since he was a teenager, he has followed Zhu Yuanzhang through many years of warfare, and he has many traumas, and since the attack of the old disease a few days ago, he has become more and more heavy, and he understands that God has not much time left for him, and some things must be arranged early.
Although Xu Ying wondered in her heart, she didn't dare to disobey her father's wishes, so she had to close the door and return to her boudoir.
When the footsteps outside the door disappeared, Xu Da looked at the gray-haired housekeeper Xu Fu in front of him, and said with a smile, "You have followed me for more than 20 years, and you are also dying, so you should enjoy the joy of family." Hui Zu has already prepared a hundred taels of silver, and after I go, I will take your children back to my hometown to farm. â
Seeing his master's arrangement, Xu Fu suddenly found out in his heart, and he threw himself to the ground and muttered, "If you hadn't saved the life of the old slave from the Tartar army, how would the son and grandson of the old slave come to this world?" But the hateful villain did such a thing that is not as good as a pig and a dog......" At this time, he was already in tears, and it was difficult to help himself.
"We are all fathers, and there are some things that we can't help ourselves." Xu Da coughed and said slowly.
Xu Fu couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this, and he couldn't raise his head anymore when he was prostrate on the ground, and it was only at this time that he suddenly realized that the bedridden Marshal Xu Da in front of him had experienced many ghost tricks in his life, and the actions he thought had already been known to his master.
After not seeing Xu Ying for several days, Zhu Quan also guessed that Xu Da, the Duke of Wei, was only afraid that his illness would be extraordinary, so he took the scholar Ma Sanbao to the mansion of the Duke of Wei on the bank of the Qinhuai River in the afternoon of this day.
When the gate of the Wei Mansion was visible from afar, there was a sudden commotion on the other side of the long street, and with a rude shouting and panicking of pedestrians, a red horse galloped in, and the side of the horse was closely followed by more than 20 soldiers.
Before Lan Yu rode his horse to the gate of Wei Guogong, he stretched out his hand and patted his forehead, remembering that he was here to visit the sick, and it was very disrespectful to come back and forth like this, and after jumping off the horse, he was about to ask Xu Fu to pass the gift, and took off the three-foot long sword from his waist, turned around and handed it to the hands of Wang Erhu, the pro-army hundred households, and ordered in a deep voice, "You are waiting at the gate of the mansion." â
Xu Fu saw that it was the famous Duke of Liangguo who arrived, and he didn't dare to slack off, but when he was about to enter the mansion to make a report, he saw a young man wearing a python running on a horse with four hooves like snow and a black body coming to the gate of the mansion, and he couldn't help but feel a shock in his heart. Although he didn't know Zhu Quan, he also knew that this python robe could only be worn by the prince today, so he hurriedly stepped forward.
Seeing Zhu Quan's arrival, Lan Yu had to bow to one side.
Under the guidance of the subordinates of the Xu Mansion, Zhu Quan and Lan Yu came to Xu Da's bedroom one after another.
Xu Ying couldn't help but feel very relieved when she saw Zhu Quan coming to visit her father, but she didn't speak.
Although Xu Huizu didn't like Zhu Quan in his heart, because the other party was a prince after all, and he came to visit his father in person, he had to give a big gift.
At this moment, I could only hear a sound of footsteps outside the door, and the housekeeper Xu Fu said outside the door, "The head of the imperial study, Father-in-law Xue Jing, came to visit the master by order." â
With a burst of figures shaking, an old man with gray hair and wearing eunuch clothes stepped inside, it was Xue Jing. Behind him was a fifteen or sixteen-year-old young eunuch.
Xue Jing saw that His Royal Highness King Ning was also here, and couldn't help but be quite surprised, and after seeing the ceremony, Xu Huizu, who hurriedly knelt down to the ground to receive the order, Xu Ying helped him up, shook his hand and smiled, "The old slave came to visit the sick by His Majesty's dictation, not to pass on the decree." After that, he pointed to a porcelain jar on the tray in the hand of the little man behind him and said, "Wei Guogong has been sick for a long time, and His Majesty is very worried, so he specially gave a hundred years of ginseng soup." â
Zhu Quan looked at the slightly steaming porcelain pot, but his fingertips were slightly cold.
Xu Da, with the support of his beloved daughter Xu Ying, struggled to kowtow on the hospital bed, but when he saw his son Xu Huizu touching the porcelain pot with both hands and holding it to the bed, his wrist couldn't help trembling slightly, and he said slowly, "Do you know why countless heroes and heroes in this world are folded in the hands of Your Majesty?" After a violent cough, he smiled and said, "Because these people love to be smart, but they far underestimate His Majesty the current Emperor." After that, he took the medicine bowl full of ginseng soup in Xu Ying's hand and drank it all.
Waiting for Xue Jing to leave the room and return to the palace shortly after returning to the palace, Xu Da, who was lying on the bed on his back, only felt that his eyes were a little blurry, and when he turned his head, he saw the black and white words hanging on the wall, and the four big characters of his book "return my rivers and mountains" were vaguely recognizable, but what flashed in his mind in an instant was his own life, since he was a teenager, he followed His Majesty the Hongwu Emperor and commanded thousands of troops and horses to resist the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty. â
Xu Huizu, who was lying on the side of the bed, couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this.
Seeing that Xu Da was already in this situation, Lan Yu, the Duke of Liangguo, was extremely sad in his heart, recalling that he had heard his brother-in-law tell about the most proud battle in his life many years ago, and said in a loud voice: "On the first day of December in the first year of Hongwu (1368 AD), the general Xu Da was captured, and the vanguard often met the spring to conquer Taiyuan, beheaded 40,000 Yuan troops, and the Tartar King Bao Bao took more than a dozen horsemen to escape into the wilderness. â
Xu Ying, who was in tears, saw her father shaking her head slightly, came to the desk in her heart, and hurriedly turned out a yellowed paper that was obviously old and old, and recited aloud after unfolding, "When the soldiers arrive, the people don't avoid it." The order is serious, there is no offense, those who belong to me will always be in China, and those who carry me will run outside the plug. Cover my Chinese people, and heaven will command my Chinese people to be in peace, and how can they be governed! I am afraid that the Middle Earth will be filthy and bloody for a long time, and the people will be disturbed, so he will lead the heroes to work hard to clear up, aiming to chase away the Hulu, eliminate the riots, so that the people can get their place, snow the shame of China, and the people will wait for their bodies.
For example, Mongolia and Semu, although they are not of the Chinese race, but between the same heaven and earth, there are those who can know etiquette and righteousness, and are willing to be subjects, which is no different from the people of Zhongxia. Therefore, I would like to inform you that it is advisable to know. â
When Xu Da was dying, his daughter's recitation echoed in his ears, but the last scene that flashed in his mind was many years ago, after he and Chang Yuchun commanded thousands of troops and horses, and drove into the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, the soldiers posted the scene of "Fengtian Seeking the Northern Expedition of the Yuan Dynasty" on the street.
Zhu Quan heard Xu Ying reciting the "Fengtian Seeking Yuan Yuanwen" in his ears, and when he saw Xu Da die of illness, he couldn't help but burst into tears, and said loudly, "Since the fifth generation of Shi Jingjiao ceded Yanyun, countless Han family sons and daughters are deeply ashamed. General Xu Da realized Yue Wumu's lifelong ambition the most. Today, don't say Yanyun, even Liaodong is all owned by my Ming Dynasty. The eldest husband has built this deed, which is enough to have no regrets in his life. â
In the night, in the study of King Ning's mansion, Jing Kun, who had just returned to Yingtian today, sighed after hearing the news that Zhu Quan had told the Duke of Wei that Xu Da had died of illness.
Zhu Quan came to the window and looked up at the blue sky and bright moon, and sighed, "Since the end of the Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang have descended, countless heroes in troubled times have risen up, and there are countless short-lived ones, such as Liu Bang, and there are almost a few people who dominate the world like Your Majesty today, all because even if those heroes know how to fight and are resourceful, they can only start well, but it is difficult to end well. â
Jing Kun couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and asked with a smile, "Dare to ask Your Highness, what is a good beginning?" And what is a good death? â
Zhu Quan said in a deep voice: "In the troubled times, harsh government abuses the people, and officials force the people to rebel, which is undoubtedly a very appealing slogan of rebellion. At the beginning of the uprising, the slightly intelligent heroes would restrain military discipline and try their best not to burn, kill and loot indiscriminately, so as to win the hearts of the people. After a moment's pause, he turned to look at his teacher and said in a deep voice, "It's a pity that once these self-proclaimed leaders of the rebel army achieve a partial victory, there will be two situations. â
"I want to hear about it." Jing Kun said with interest while drinking tea.
Zhu Quan let out a long sigh and then said in a deep voice: "Once these guys face an inexhaustible supply of rich women and magnificent carved beams, they will immediately leave the so-called military discipline behind and become even more unbearable than bandits." Saying this, what I think of in my mind is Li Zicheng, a rogue in the late Ming Dynasty, who turned into a real bandit after breaking through the city of Beijing. Thinking of this, he said lightly, "The other type of people are tired by Gou An's thoughts, which are small and rich, and do not want to forge ahead, and then kill each other, burying the good situation in vain." This kind of guy loses not so much to the enemy as to his own eyes and power**. It can be seen from this that don't be carried away by a momentary victory, it's easy to say, but for these rebels who hold military power and take life and death, it is simply difficult to climb to the sky. Speaking of which, what I thought about was the Taiping Rebellion of the Qing Dynasty, the complacent Hong Xiuquan, after Yang Xiuqing occupied Nanjing and the south of the Yangtze River, he was impatient to engage in infighting, killing his own people more ruthlessly than killing Qing soldiers.
Jing Kun slowly bowed his head and said, "Self-control has been indispensable to famous generals since ancient times. Only those who make self-control can control and obey the public. The one who controls the people and subdues the people takes the world. â
Xu Da
Self-denial and strict discipline and military discipline
Sacrifice life and forget death to chase the tyrannical element
Success or failure is heroic
The broken string also comforts the small heavy mountain
The mountains and seas are still there
The Great Wall of China is two heroes
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