Chapter 32: The World Shakes

"Tang Shengzong deserves to die." In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Yunwen said angrily, "Didn't you say that it was difficult for Tang Shengzong to fight? How can this be, the first battle will be defeated, the land will be abandoned, and the first battle will be like this, how will the people of the world think of me?"

Han Gong Li Qi immediately said, "Your Majesty, the minister has affection."

Zhu Yunwen took a few deep breaths, tried to suppress his anger, and said, "Say."

Li Qi immediately told Tang Shengzong all the details of the battle, such as the power of firearms and so on. Overall, though, it's a bit vague.

First of all, although Tang Shengzong felt this change, the two sides fought too little, making it difficult for Tang Shengzong to figure out the changes in the Northern Army, so that he didn't know what the new firearms tactics were as the core and how to use them.

Moreover, Li Qi is a civil official, he is not Li Shanchang. Although Li Shanchang is a civilian official, he followed Zhu Yuanzhang to fight, and said that Li Shanchang did not understand military affairs at all, which was false. But Li Qi took the civil official route.

He didn't understand much militarily. But he is Tang Shengzong's backstage, and he can't help but speak for Tang Shengzong, Tang Shengzong's own words are not comprehensive, and he has been relayed by Li Qi. And how much can you keep.

Finally, Does Zhu Yunwen understand military affairs?

Zhu Yunwen's previous teachers were all Confucian students, and Fang Xiaoru was afraid that Zhu Yunwen would go astray, so he was very strict about Zhu Yunwen's studies and did not let him come into contact with heresy. To say that Zhu Yunwen has no feeling for the military at all is false. But Zhu Yunwen's feeling for military affairs is probably a book of Sun Tzu's Art of War.

There is no doubt that the Art of War is a sacred book of soldiers, but the vast majority of those who fought with the Art of War were defeated. Because of the principled issues that Sun Tzu talked about, the Art of War was useful in ancient and modern times. But how to use it depends on the technology and tactics of the time.

Most of the people who think they can win every battle just by reading Sun Tzu's Art of War are fools.

Therefore, even if He Xi is asked to explain the new tactics to Zhu Yunwen, from cold weapons to hot weapons, from physical strength, number of people, to firepower. Wait a minute. Zhu Yunwen probably didn't understand either.

After all, Zhu Yunwen has missed too many classes on this.

Even some of the mathematical principles used in firearms are not well understood, let alone anything else.

So, Li Qi told Zhu Yunwen about these things, what was Zhu Yunwen's reaction? Two words: "quibble."

Zhu Yunwen wanted to let Li Qi be dragged down and beheaded, but he couldn't, the Korean Gongyi line was very important to him.

Zhu Yunwen said: "Although it is said that there is a reason, but in the end it is a defeat, I feel that General Tang Lao is not enough to entrust the important task of the north, what do you think?"

Zhu Yunwen has said everything here, what else can he say?

Han Gong Li Qi sighed secretly in his heart: "Uncle Tang, it's not that I won't help you, it's really this battle, it's too ugly."

Zhu Yunwen looked at Fu Youde and said, "Guogong, let's go on my behalf."

Fu Youde said: "Your Majesty has an order, and the minister dares to disobey."

Zhu Yunwen looked at Ding Xian, Ding Xian nodded, and then began to arrange the troops.

In the past month or so, Zhu Yunwen has completed the preliminary cleanup and rectification of the imperial court, and many people have new arrangements, such as Zhang Du, the secretary of the Criminal Department, Huang Zicheng, the Shaofu Ling, and Su Boheng, the bachelor of Hanlin, have all been taken down.

Zhang Du committed suicide at home.

As a result, it is not very good for Zhu Yunwen's reputation to spread out.

In fact, Zhu Yunwen didn't care about the life and death of these people, and Fang Xiaoru didn't care about them.

The reason why Zhu Yunwen didn't care about their life and death was because what Zhu Yuanzhang said before he died, Zhu Yunwen didn't have much prejudice against changing the law and He Xi's new learning, but the same Zhu Yunwen didn't have much interest in implementing the new law. It doesn't matter if these people are killed or not. At least not to the point where you have to kill.

And Fang Xiaoru himself is still relatively upright.

Fang Xiaoru opposes He Xi, opposes Zhu Xiongying's accession to the throne, and opposes all this, as far as Fang Xiaoru himself is concerned, he feels that he has no selfishness

The heart is almost a Dan heart can feel the sun, and what he wants is to overthrow the new law, not kill people.

But the people below are not of such high quality.

These people have been fighting for so many years, and now they have fallen, will they be gently let go? No way.

That's why, Xie Jin saw that the limelight was not right, and immediately ran to Beijing. If you don't run, you can't do it, and many times, heretics are more hateful than enemies.

But in any case, Zhang Du is also one of the six Shangshu, and he can't be punished as a sergeant. It is also one of the ideas of Confucianism, and these court officials don't want to let a Shangshu die in vain. They are really ready to list the evidence and justifiably send Zhang Du to die.

And Zhang Du's suicide broke their plan.

In addition, Zhu Yunwen wanted to be famous, which allowed He Xi's party members to survive. It's just a prison.

The imperial court has been cleaned up, and it is time to deal with the army.

And this expedition is no different.

Ding Xian and Zhu Yunwen discussed. The defeat of Yuxian County and the shaking of the world are not about how many people are lost and how many prefectures and counties are lost, but to let the people of the world see that it is possible for the rebels to win. Therefore, the imperial court must react and must send troops.

It's just that the clean-up and rectification of the hundreds of thousands of troops in Beijing is a more difficult matter than the rectification of civilian officials.

Without him, the court will be rectified, there will be too many people, and there is no big deal, Zhu Yuanzhang has already shown Zhu Yunwen that when Zhu Yuanzhang handled Hu Weiyong's case, he almost killed the court, but so what?

The imperial court was functioning normally.

But Jingying is different, if one is not good, Jingying will enter the Forbidden City. He who can kill people.

Much more caution should be exercised in this regard.

It can be said that it is almost impossible to completely return to Jingying in a short period of time and reach the degree of Zhu Yuanzhang's control over Jingying. But it is necessary to send troops immediately. This becomes a paradox.

Fortunately, Ding Xian still has some talent.

Ding Xian's suggestion was to let Fu Youde take Feng Sheng and Xu Da's people to the battlefield.

Those who remained in Beijing were all troops loyal to Zhu Yunwen.

This method made Zhu Yunwen's family applaud.

First, this method eliminates the hidden danger of the Beijing Division, for Zhu Yunwen, sitting on the throne is the first priority, although the affairs in the north are tricky, but it can be put aside, and the Beijing camp is unstable, but the ability to change color in the world overnight.

Second, it has been more than 20 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and in addition, during the previous period when Zhu Yuanzhang was called King Wu, Zhu Yuanzhang had been in power for thirty or forty years, and there was one thing that he had been doing, which was nothing else, that is, to integrate the army.

Don't think that Zhu Yuanzhang only began to rectify the army after the founding of the country?

No, Zhu Yuanzhang took more than 20 people out of Haozhou, but in just one year, he had more than 10,000 troops and came from all over the world to vote. His own descendants are not the majority of these people. Zhu Yuanzhang has been reorganizing the army almost all the time. Various methods, organized into Tuntian soldiers, leaving the elite in the army, treating the generals well, pushing the red heart into the belly, and not taking their own soldiers to sleep in the army, etc.

Zhu Yuanzhang's rectification of the army can be said to have been carried out from birth to death, without stopping.

And not without results.

That is, although there are many mountains in the army, but they are only mountains, and the generals in the army are only the heads of the army, not the princes, and the generals under their command are in the old department, and the main generals report to the group for warmth, and they want to compete for more interests in the Ming Dynasty. But they all admit and agree on the premise that they are soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, Fu Youde took Feng Sheng and Xu Dayan to fight, which was naturally possible.

The so-called Feng Sheng and Xu Da are related to the people, which refers to this army, which was founded by Feng Sheng or Xu Da, and followed them to fight for a long time, but it does not mean that there are only Feng Sheng and Xu Da in this army, who only know the generals and do not know the court.

There will be people from other factions in this army, but it is a matter of proportion.

Of course, there are still some differences between Fu Youde bringing his own descendants to fight and bringing other people's descendants to fight. Whether it is easy to use or not, whether there is a tacit understanding between each other, etc., will affect the performance on the battlefield.

But Zhu Yun

Zhu Yunwen didn't feel deeply about this, or rather, Zhu Yunwen's ignorance of military affairs made him feel confident. This kind of self-confidence is the thinking inertia of the Ming army to fight the invincible opponents all over the world during the Hongwu period, and he always feels that when Zhu Yuanzhang was there, he could win, and now he can win.

He forgot that Zhu Yuanzhang was no longer there.