Chapter 1: The Twenty-Seventh Year of Hongwu
"Bell... Clang... Bell ......"
In the early morning, with the ringing of the morning bell in the quaint city walls, a huge city lying on the south bank of the Yangtze River slowly unfolded after the mist dissipated on the surface of the river.
When a high wall of yellow-brown soil appeared on the bank of the Yangtze River, a yellow-brown wall with no edge in sight followed.
Like a great wall, it appeared in front of the sailors on the fishing boats passing by the Yangtze River.
The city wall itself is dominated by hills and soil, and only in the city gate and other sections can you see the bluestone city bricks, which looks extremely simple, and the majestic city wall built with blue bricks in film and television dramas cannot be compared.
But if you can look down from the air, then this humble city wall may be hailed as one of the wonders of the world in this era.
When the sun rises from the east, the mist is completely dispelled, and the banner of the word "朙" is finally displayed in front of this era, like the rising sun, enveloping the whole land.
At this time, there was only one city of this scale that existed on the south bank of the Yangtze River...... That is Yingtianfu Nanjing City.
Nanjing City of the Ming Dynasty, which is the location of the Ming Dynasty's Jingshi Ying Tianfuzhi, is also the capital of the Ming Dynasty at this time.
As the largest capital city in the history of the Central Plains Dynasty, its scale is so large that it is difficult for all cities in history to match.
At the same time, it was also the largest and most populous city in the world at this time.
"Bell ......"
When the morning bell is over, the people living in the city have already gotten up to work or go to their fields.
However, compared to their departure, at this time, the Dajiao field in the south of Nanjing City was already full of soldiers wearing armor.
They stood on the big teaching field, with a team of 100 people, each wearing an iron helmet, a red fat jacket inside, a set of bright armor on the outside, a waist knife tied around the waist, a long bow, a bow bag, two bowstrings in the bag, and 30 arrows.
In addition, everyone carried a group card, held three spears and a spear, and was covered with armor and ordnance, and the weight was no less than 60 catties, and there were more than 20,000 such people, and they were like a great wall of steel, standing on this great teaching field.
The reason why they are here is simple, they are only there to serve the one who sits on the school platform......
Among the troops, a young man in heavy armor, only fifteen or sixteen years old, raised his head and looked up at the one sitting on the school platform.
He was over sixty years old, with a round face and a long white beard, and a charitable eyebrow, and he could see that he was very majestic when he was young.
He was five feet five or six inches tall, wearing a black gauze and a scarf with a yellow collar and narrow sleeves, and a belt around his waist made of gold, jade, amber, and rhinoceros, which was incomparably luxurious.
To his left, there was a righteous young man dressed in a red pan-necked narrow-sleeved robe, with thick eyebrows and big eyes and a beautiful face.
To his right, there was a young military general in his thirties, more than six feet long, with a handsome face, a dashing bearing, heavy armor, and a robe.
Left and right, there are many military attaches with heavy armor inside and robes outside, and then some civilian officials dressed in official clothes.
Beyond is a heavily armored but short, dark-skinned Zephanian soldier.
The sixty-year-old man sitting in the middle is Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and right now, it is the day when he sets the day to test the martial arts of the children of military attachés inside and outside Beijing.
March 15, 27th year of Hongwu......
For this day, some people have practiced their good skills for several months, excitedly waiting for themselves to shine, and some people have spent all day drinking and sweating nervously in the past few months.
The young man is very good, he does not belong to one of the two, but belongs to the gift.
"Your Highness, are you afraid?"
"I'm afraid of a ball!"
A person asked in a low voice, and the young man who looked at Zhu Yuanzhang subconsciously shouted back, and when he was unconscious, he looked up, and sure enough, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was in the upper position, had already looked at them.
Not only Zhu Yuanzhang, but also the people around him also looked over, and for a while, in the entire big teaching field, the young man became the most eye-catching conspicuous bag at the moment.
"After the calf......" looked at the people on the stage who were looking at him, the young man was more bitter than suffering at the moment.
"That's the second boy of the fourth family, right? Sure enough, it's hard to change your nature......"
On the stage, Zhu Yuanzhang looked displeased, and the middle-aged general next to him explained to Zhu Gaoxu:
"Your Majesty, this kid has been honest and has done a lot since he joined the army, and today I think I came to see Your Majesty, and I was a little happy that led to debauchery."
"Hmm......" Zhu Yuanzhang responded, and then looked at Zhu Gaoxu's phalanx, and couldn't help frowning.
In his eyes, this thousand-person phalanx full of many military attaché children was full of flaws, if it was when he was young, only a hundred-man spear team would be needed to defeat this group of military attaché children.
"Wei Guogong, let's start......" Zhu Yuanzhang motioned to the prime-aged generals to start, and the prime-aged generals hurriedly replied when they saw this: "The minister receives the order!" ”
After responding, he turned around and walked to the front of the school platform, and his eyes gestured to the four guard commanders next to him, and then the four guard commanders raised the red flags in their hands one after another, and waved their hands to call on the armies to disperse.
Soon, the most elite of more than 20,000 heavily armored elites in the Great Sect Field dispersed and retreated to the edge of the Great Sect Field, leaving only an empty field and the children of the 1,000-strong military attachés.
Subsequently, the children of the 1,000-strong military attachés were divided into 10 teams and dispersed, each with 100 people, each standing in the position set by the team during training.
However, on the way, many people couldn't tell which team they were in, so that the team order was messy, and Zhu Yuanzhang frowned when he saw it on the high platform.
It took a few minutes for the elite of the four guards to disperse, but it took twice as long to get to the military attaché's children.
When everyone finally stabilized their positions, more than 100 sturdy wrestlers on the high platform shouted the content of this assessment in unison.
In the audience, the young man took a deep breath, and looked at the children of military attachés who were staggering around, and the joy in his heart almost overflowed from his face.
"Today is the first day of my Zhu Gaoxu's makeover!"
Looking at the people around him, Zhu Gaoxu excitedly grabbed the gun in his hand, and even the armor of more than forty catties on his body was not heavy.
Since he had adapted to this body three months earlier, he knew that he had come to Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty for twenty-seven years, and that he was still a future county king.
This identity made Zhu Gaoxu happily close his mouth, but when he learned in the memory of his predecessor that his father was the famous Yan King Zhu Di, his mood fell directly to the bottom.
Based on the memories of his previous life, if nothing else, he will be canonized as the king of Gaoyang County by his grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang a year later, and then be left in Nanjing to continue his studies.
A few years later, grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang died, and his "eldest brother" Zhu Yunwen would start cutting the feudal domain a few months after his grandfather's death.
Zhu Hu, King of Zhou, Zhu Bai, King of Xiang, Zhu Yu, King of Qi, Zhu Gui, King of Min, Zhu Rong, ......
In less than a year, a quarter of his nineteen uncles who were still alive were killed at once, and his father was forced to pretend to be crazy and stupid, and finally forced to be martyred in Fengtian.
And himself, although he was lucky enough to run away and returned to Beiping, but he was taken by his father to embark on the road of rebellion, and staged a world-class performance known as the "Battle of Jingjing" in this land.
Later, the dispute for the crown was unfavorable, his subordinates were killed, and he was imprisoned by his eldest nephew after the death of his father and good brother.
Afterwards, he tripped his eldest nephew, and then his eldest nephew made the "Xuande barbecue" with three major characteristics during the Xuande period.
"Straight mother thief ......" Thinking of his fate, Zhu Gaoxu scolded non-stop.
He looked up at Zhu Yunwen, the "duty man" with thick eyebrows and big eyes on the high platform, and couldn't wait to tell Zhu Yuanzhang what Zhu Yunwen would do later.
However, judging from the memories left by his previous body, if he dared to slander the imperial grandson like this, it is estimated that being imprisoned in Fengyang High Wall would be his end.
Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu took a few deep breaths, and recalled what he had done in the past three months.
He first noisily moved out of the place where the kings studied, and then pestered his uncle Xu Huizu into the military camp with a dead face, and practiced his skills hard for three months.
To this day, as the son of a vassal king, he mingles with a group of military attachés, and there is only one thing he has to do.
He wants to show his grandfather that he has changed his face and wants to defend the country, so that he can put himself back in the north in advance.
Zhu Gaoxu recalled the life of his predecessor in history, except for Qiu Fu, a veteran of Jingnan, and a naturalized Tatar official from Northern Mongolia, it seems that few literati chose to support him, so that it was impossible for his father to choose himself.
If he lived in Nanjing as in history, then he could only participate in the Jingjing martyrdom single-handedly five years later, even if he performed as well as his predecessors in history, he would only be a pioneer officer.
But if he can get the opportunity to get out of the town, then he can be martyred with his father as a primitive unit.
There seems to be no difference between the two, but the difference is the difference between Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, and Li Shimin, the king of Qin.
Without his own team, the ending left for himself is to become the three major characteristics of the Xuande period.
has his own team, even if he can't sit on that chair in the end, he can retreat to a place and save his life.
The idea in his mind was put into practice, Zhu Gaoxu clenched the Zhangsan spear in his hand, and while making up his mind, he also set his eyes on the scattered open space......