The matter of the crown prince has settled for the time being, and before the next turmoil, the Ming Dynasty is not calm.

Yongle for three years.

Jiaozhi Hu Yiyuan's murder of the monarch was revealed, and what is even more outrageous is that Zhu Di sent 5,000 people in the third year of Yongle to escort Chen Tianping, the heir of the prince of Jiaozhi, to return to the country.

The Ming army did not expect that they would be so bold as to attack the army of the suzerain.

Huang Zhong, the deputy general of Zhengnan, was also a veteran and immediately moved forward, but Hu Yiyuan's army was cunning and destroyed local bridges, making it impossible for the Ming army to pursue.

Can this be endured? Zhu Di was furious, and immediately ordered Zhu Neng to be the general, Mu Sheng and Zhang Fu (Zhang Yu's son, who has repeatedly made military achievements) as the left and right deputy generals, and led a total of 300,000 soldiers from Gyeonggi, Jing, Hu, Fujian, Zhejiang, and Gui, known as 800,000, to go out of Guangxi and conquer Vietnam.

However, Zhu Neng died of illness in Longzhou, and Zhu Di was so sad that he dropped out of the dynasty and posthumously named him the Duke of the Kingdom.

The leading general is gone, which is considered a disadvantage for the division, but the battle still has to be fought.

The veteran Zhang Yu was sent to the battlefield.

Facts have proved that there were not many people who could defeat the Ming army in that era.

In October, the Ming army broke through the pass and Jiling Pass, and the northern gate of Jiaozhi was opened.

Then Mu Sheng led the army to capture the fierce gate and Huaguan Pass, and "the thieves ran together".

In December, Zhang Yu led the army to attack the heavy city of many states, and attacked the city at night with the title of armor, defeated the Jiaozhi army, and pursued all the way to the umbrella round mountain, the marshal Liang Minxian and the sacrifice Bole were all killed, and the Jiaozhi army died countless people.

In the same month, the eastern and western capitals of Jiaozhi were broken successively.

In the first month of the fourth year of Yongle, Zhang Fu and Mu Sheng first broke the Jiaozhi army in the Zhujiang Zha and then defeated it in Pulai Mountain, beheading 30,000, and then defeated it in the Pantan River, three battles and three victories.

In the same month, in the Battle of the Mumaru River, the Ming army won another big victory, and more than 100 people including generals Ruan Ziren and Huang Shigang were battled.

It has only been two months since the Ming army entered Jiaozhi, and the so-called "two million army" that Hu Yiyuan was proud of had collapsed.

In May, the Hu father and son were captured and sacrificed to their majesty. Emperor Yongle set up the political envoy of Jiaozhi, with Zhang Yu as the general soldier of Jiaozhi, and Jiaozhi was included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

And when it was time to conquer Jiaozhi, the northern neighbors of the Ming Dynasty did not stop.

Yongle for three years.

The Nth time the Mongols invaded the border, they broke through the Great Wall and ravaged the northern land of the Ming Dynasty, from Liaodong to Shanxi, where beacon fires were not ignited.

Zhu Di was furious, but he soon discovered that he could not find the main person responsible for the incident, or rather, he was the culprit who led to the unscrupulous Mongol invasion.

Except for the King of Qin, who had been staying in Nanjing, and the King of Jin was deposed, none of the remaining kings were left behind, and they all followed themselves to Nanjing. Their troops also followed to the south and were stationed around Nanjing.

The Northland is not empty, then hell.

After all the calculations, in the end it was still me who was to blame.

Emperor Yongle's eyes sharpened, his brows straightened, and the words of the imperial driver's personal expedition came to his lips.

I just haven't cut someone for too long, and my hands are itchy.

He was originally a very warlike emperor.

But the next moment, he held back because someone proposed a better option.

Sapphire.

The bright stars of the previous era, even Zhu Di had to lower his eyes in front of him.

So the former Liang Guogong, who had been imprisoned for five years, finally walked out of the dirty and damp prison.

Finally got out of prison. Facing the bright sunshine that he had not seen for a long time, he sighed softly.

Heaven still favored him, and the old man died before him.

And now, the newly enthroned Emperor Yongle is going to reuse him.

Five years of prison life smoothed his edges and corners, and now Lan Yu no longer has the frivolity and pride he once had, only composure and steadiness remain.

Leading an army of 100,000, he set out on the journey again.

However, this is only a temporary measure, just like how badly Hongwu beat the Mongols when he was there, but in the Yongle period, they had the strength to attack repeatedly, and the recovery was very fast.

It is true to say that Nanjing is not suitable as a capital. It was so far away from the north that, at the rate of Mongol recovery, it would not be a few decades before they would be able to organize a large army again. And now is the beginning of the founding of the country, the combat power of the Ming army can still block the invasion of the Mongolian iron hoof, but later, when the combat effectiveness of the Ming army begins to decline, a careless, unified Ming will become the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Not only that, Zhu Di has been in the north for a long time, the north is his basic plate, and the south side is more or less not so directive.

So, in the third year of Yongle, Zhu Di finally decided to move the capital after thinking about it many times.

However, if you want to be the capital of such a huge regime as the Ming Dynasty, Beijing (Zhu Di changed Beiping Mansion to Shuntian Mansion, and then deprived Kaifeng Beijing of its title, and took Shuntian as Beijing) is still a little insufficient, after all, it has been abandoned for a while.

The first thing is to build the capital, just like Xi'an at the beginning.

However, when he expressed his advice to his courtiers, he received the following reply:

Oppose.

The ministers raised objections in unison, and the leader was his good son Zhu Gaochi, who believed that Nanjing was the land of Longxing, and it was where the king's spirit was, and Jiangnan was the hometown of the literati, taking root in the second, which was completely in line with the national policy of the Ming Dynasty to give preferential treatment to scholars.

Even his confidant Yan Keng does not approve of moving the capital, at least not in favor of moving the capital now.

"Your Majesty's use of troops, the conquest of the Mongol tribes, and the compilation of the Great Dictionary have already cost a lot of money, resulting in an empty treasury. Now, if the capital is moved again, I am afraid that the finances will be unsustainable, and please Your Majesty to be aware of it! ”

That's what he said. And although he didn't like what he said, Zhu Di couldn't refute him, because he himself knew that the biggest weakness of the Ming Dynasty was now-

Lack of money.

The Ming Dynasty was short of money.

The northern expedition to Mongolia, the compilation of the canon, the southern expedition to Jiaozhi, and now the construction of Beijing is simply a burning of money. Zhu Gaochi is indeed a little expert in governance, and with his assistance, Zhu Di governed the Ming Dynasty very well, but he couldn't help but make such a fuss, and some people also suggested that the capital should be moved to Xi'an directly.

But in fact, Xi'an is also in Zhu Di's plan. He planned to use Xijing and Xi'an as a strategic fulcrum in the west to control the Western Regions, and Beijing would be the fulcrum to control the northeast and the outside of the country, in other words, both were indispensable.

But even if you have thousands of pride, you are an egg if you don't have money.

The head of the household department complained on the spot, saying that the household department has been in deficit for a long time, and the treasury can run horses.

Fortunately, someone has proposed a solution:

"The difficulties of the imperial court today are nothing more than money."

"In the past, the Song and Yuan dynasties were rich, and the reason for this was nothing more than trade. And the matter of maritime trade is the top priority of trade. Turning foreign barbarians, yearning for the prosperity of China, every time there is a ship carrying Chinese things, they compete to buy it, and get a lot of money. And the specialties of the place can also be sold at a good price in Daming, which is for huge profits. The Song and Yuan dynasties became rich because of it. ”

Zhu Di raised his head suddenly, his eyes flashed, and there seemed to be a phantom of copper coins swirling in his eyes.

"Tell me more!"

(End of chapter)