April in the prairie is not warm.

The Ming army was stationed at the foot of Sanfeng Mountain, neither advancing nor retreating, as if they wanted to consume it here, as if they were suddenly killed by Wara.

Zhu Zhanji's approach made everyone incomprehensible, not only Li Bin, Xu Heng and other soldiers with the label of King Wu, but even generals like Liu Sheng and Fan Zhong did not understand.

However, it turns out that military generals generally can't play politics as a thing.

Or it should be said that generals who can not only fight a good war, but also play politics well, basically do not exist, and it is estimated that only Zhang Fu can barely be regarded as the only one in the entire Ming Dynasty.

After all, compared with those veteran generals in the early days of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Fu is a person who understands politics more clearly, although he has his current status by shrinking his head, but I have to say that this is also a success.

But for generals such as Li Bin, Xu Heng, Liu Sheng, and Fan Zhong, the envoys who suddenly came to ask for war seemed to have thoughts only after they had fallen ill.

Let's ask, on both sides of the battle, the superior side has a large army pressing the border, but it is encamped at the enemy's doorstep, neither attacking nor speaking, and there is not even an attitude, which is very confusing, right?

But what is even more outrageous is the reaction of Warat.

Knowing that the overall strength was invincible, he asked both sides to fight with a cavalry, and with the final result, he determined the future of the Ming and Warat for ten years from then on.

If Wara wins, the Ming Dynasty will retreat to the south of the Yuqu River, reopen the mutual market, and increase the trading volume of grain, wool, mutton and tea for a period of ten years.

If the Ming Dynasty wins, then Warat will give way to Kulan and retreat to the north of the Nan River, and the King of Warat Shunning, Mahamu and King Anle, will apologize for the death of Vulat Polo in exchange for the ten years of peace before the Ming and Warat.

When they knew that the envoys of Warat came to the camp of the Ming army with such a purpose, not only Li Bin and Xu Heng, who represented the line of King Wu, but also Liu Sheng and Fan Zhong, who represented the line of the emperor, felt that Warat was whimsical.

However, the reality is often the most outrageous.

No matter who you are, no matter what you do, you are extremely careful when you plan it, because planning is such a thing as a very careful logic.

However, reality does not need logic.

Or should it be said that the logic of reality is often hidden where you can't see it.

Zhu Zhanji agreed to the suggestion brought by the Warat envoys, and bluntly said that he would personally lead the troops at that time, so that Mahamu on the Warat side would also personally lead the troops to fight, and each side would lead a cavalry to rush and kill, and the results of this time would determine the victory or defeat of the Ming Dynasty's northern expedition.

At this moment, for Li Bin, Xu Heng, Liu Sheng, Fan Zhong and other generals, the reality is illogical.

Zhu Zhanji had no reason or position to agree to Wara's proposal, let alone lead the army to charge in person.

You must know that in all dynasties, most of the so-called emperors' personal expeditions are actually just talking, because the imperial driving personal expeditions only say that the emperor is coming, but it does not mean that the emperor will come to the battle in person.

If the emperor came to the battle in person, it could only mean one thing, that is, this battle was sure to be won, and even if the universe exploded suddenly, it would not change the outcome of this battle.

So, is the reality really outrageous to this extent?

Not really.

Everything in the world is actually traceable, everything has logic, if not, it's just because you can't see it, not really there is no logic.

There is nothing to say about Mahamu's quest for war.

Wara's strength is not as good as that of the Ming Dynasty, and the reason why he has been able to directly border the Ming Dynasty for so many years is because Emperor Taizong did not think about killing the grassland, but wanted to leave some pressure on the younger generations.

After all, Sima Fa once said: The country is big, the warlike will perish, and forgetting the war will be dangerous.

The second reason is that since the Yongle Dynasty passed, Daming has actually been in chaos.

Emperor Taizong died, and no one could suppress King Wu's lineage, and King Wu's influence on the Ming Dynasty became stronger and stronger, so that the entire court set its eyes on King Wu's line.

In addition, coupled with the fact that Warat didn't do much to be a demon, naturally no one would pay attention to them.

Finally, and most importantly, Zhu Zhanyan has been looking farther in the past two years, and he has no heart and doesn't want to do anything to Wara, because he doesn't want to make a wedding dress for his cousin.

And no matter what it was at the beginning, now that the Ming soldiers are pressing, they are far inferior to the Ming Dynasty in terms of comprehensive strength, so they can only use some unconventional methods.

But just like the advice brought by the Warat envoys, even if they used unconventional methods, they didn't dare to ask too much for the final result, even if they were the victorious side in the end, they only dared to let the Ming retreat to the south of the Yuqu River and reopen the market.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, before that, the territory of the Ming Dynasty was to the Yuqu River, and the area from the Yuqu River to the Hunan River was actually a buffer area between the Ming Dynasty and Wara.

The mutual market should have been open, but it was later that King Wu entered Shuntian, and Zhu Zhanyan not only forcibly reduced many projects in the mutual market, but also forcibly changed the price of the mutual market with his power.

In other words, even if he won in the end, Warat didn't dare to think too much, he just wanted to restore the situation to the way it was in the last years of Yongle.

Because they know very well that Da Ming is not easy to mess with, even if Da Ming agrees to their request to go off the rails, even if they win on the way to the sword, if they make excessive demands, they will only ruin themselves in the end.

But in comparison, Daming's response to the battle is a little unreasonable.

No matter who it is, whether it is a human or an animal, in the situation of this advantage, it is normal to reject this kind of suggestion, which is obviously mixed with a lot of careful thinking, and choose to end the battle in the safest way.

However, Zhu Zhanji agreed.

There is no other reason, just because at this time, he is no longer thinking from the perspective of Emperor Daming, but from the perspective of a father and an emperor who is about to lose the throne.

Accepting Warat's request to fight was the best decision he thought he had made after weighing the pros and cons.

Because Zhu Zhanji expected that Warat would not dare to go too far, and for the current Warat, if it was too much, it would be equivalent to self-destruction, so Zhu Zhanji would make the decision to fight.

However, as soon as this news came out, the Ming army, which was originally high morale, suffered a blow.

Military generals and soldiers are just not good at political struggle, but that doesn't mean they're stupid, and they can't see it at all.

At this time, even Liu Sheng and Fan Zhong didn't know what position to stand on, and in what capacity to face Zhu Zhanji, the emperor, and Zhu Zhanji, the prince of Wu.

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Ying Tianfu, Han Wangfu.

In fact, according to the convention, after the vassal king became a vassal king, the palace would generally be used for other purposes, but whether it was Yingtianfu or Shuntianfu, the Han Wangfu was a special existence.

Today's Han Wangfu is still located on Chang'an Street, the most prosperous street in Yingtian City, and the plaque on the gate is still written with the three big characters of Han Wangfu, not Wu Wangfu.

During the Yongle period, whether it was when King Wu had just gone to the domain, or when Emperor Taizong was dying of old age more than ten years later, this Han palace has always been taken care of, and it can almost be said that it is no different from when they left.

In the two years from Hongxi to the first year of Xuande, the people who took care of the Han Palace's palace stopped with the change of power in the court, but this stop was not an order from the imperial court.

In this world, the sedan chair carries people.

Later, with the entry of King Wu into Shuntian, there were naturally more people who slipped away and patted horses, and the Yingtian Han Palace, which had been abandoned for two years, was also repacked in a very short time, and returned to the same as it was during the Yongle period, and it was cleaned every day.

Until King Wu withdrew from Suncheon and returned here.

"Dad, you said that cousin he would really ......"

In the backyard of the Han Palace, Zhu Zhanyan sat opposite his father, his face full of doubts.

Unlike Shuntianfu, Yingtianfu has obvious signs of spring in April, and the temperature has warmed up a lot.

King Wu's father and son, who were sitting under the tree, were more or less comfortable.

It's just that this is only on the surface, and in fact, their hearts are not as relaxed as they seem.

Perhaps, it should be said that Zhu Zhanyan is not so easy.

"It's inevitable, as you can see from your cousin's choice." Zhu Gaoxu looked at the petals floating into the teacup, thought about it, and spilled the cup of tea.

"To be honest, I really didn't expect ......" Zhu Zhanyan seemed to be a little disappointed.

"I thought that my cousin would take advantage of this opportunity to make a final counterattack, but I didn't expect him to choose to accept his fate......"

Speaking of this, Zhu Zhanyan couldn't help but raise his head to look at his father, and then looked north.

He was not looking at Shuntian in the north, nor at the grasslands in the north, but at the north of the Han Palace, the Yingtian Palace where the Yongle Emperor had stayed for most of his life.

What he thought of was the saying that "a good saint grandson can ensure the prosperity of the three generations of the Ming Dynasty".

What he thought of was that his eldest brother had paid so much for the court and his grandfather, killing foreign enemies, building a capital view, exterminating profiteers, and punishing corrupt officials......

memorized all the infamy, but in the end, it was only the use of Emperor Taizong, and what Emperor Taizong wanted was still to pave the way for his good saint grandson.

But who would have thought that the good saint grandson back then would now come to such a point.

Thinking of this, Zhu Zhanyan couldn't help but shake his head and laugh, but his smile was full of ...... Taunt.

Zhu Gaoxu noticed his son's movements, turned his head and looked at it, as if he saw something, and it seemed that he didn't see anything, but whether he saw it or not, he didn't mention the relevant things, but changed the topic.

"Zhan Yan." Putting down the teacup and looking straight at his son, Zhu Gaoxu's eyes were full of seriousness.

"You should know what your eldest brother thinks, your second brother is not a son-in-law, and your third brother's health is not good, so you are the only choice."

"You...... What do you think? ”

"Father......" Zhu Zhanyan was stunned when he heard this, but it was only for a moment that he returned to his father with a firm gaze.

"There are some things that Zhan Yuan can do, but there are some things that Zhan Yuan can't do."

"If half of the Ming Dynasty is now achieved by relying on Zhan Yuan, then Zhan Yuan will not hesitate at all, but now, you go out and ask someone casually, who has contributed the most to the strength of the Ming Dynasty now?"

"You should get the answer you have in mind."

"Besides, you and your eldest brother always feel that your eldest brother kills too much, has a bad reputation, and can't be the emperor, but who in this world stipulates that if you kill too much, you can't be an emperor?"

"Also, even if the eldest brother is too heavy to be an emperor, this is not an unsolvable dead end."

Speaking of this, Zhu Zhanyan straightened his back and looked to the north, his tone full of meaning.

"What my cousin did seemed to be giving up everything just for Qi Zhen's sake, everything was paving the way for Qi Zhen, but why wasn't it for ...... What about the big brother paving the way? ”

Zhu Gaoxu was stunned when he heard this, and turned his head to look at the north in a daze.

Yes, Emperor Xuande's decision was indeed for himself and his children, but in the place he didn't see, it seemed that he had indeed done a good thing for the enemy he was most unwilling to help.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but smile.

This person is really cheap.