"This ......"

In the Wuying Palace, Zhu Yunwen's eyes were on the map outside the gate, and now the target was the vassal king in the north, but in the face of this matter, everyone was a little undecided.

Even Qi Tai, who advocated cutting the Yan Domain in history, was a little hesitant at the moment, because the current Yan Domain was no longer only Zhu Di, and he had to take into account the King of Bohai in Jilin.

Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu, there are 35,000 guards alone, which is already a large force.

Moreover, Zhu Di has a prestige in Beiping, Liaodong and other Sandu Divisions, and there are many old departments, and he himself is currently controlling more than 200,000 soldiers and horses in Sandu Division.

"You can first take back the military power of the Sandu Division, and then transfer the old military attache with the King of Yan, and transfer the King of Yan and the King of Bohai back to the fiefdom respectively, so that the military power of the Sandu Division such as Beiping and Liaodong can be recovered."

Qi Tai opened his mouth to suggest, but Zhu Yunwen frowned slightly when he heard this: "How long will it take to do this?" ”

"The long is a year, and the short is half a year." Qi Taizuo replied, but Huang Zicheng suddenly spoke: "Why don't you strip King Yan of his military power while starting to cut the guilty clan?" ”

"No!" Qi Tai said in a loud voice: "If you cut other vassal kings first, it will inevitably arouse the vigilance of King Yan, and you must cut King Yan first!" ”

"King Yan has no fault, if he takes the lead in cutting King Yan, it will be unreasonable, and the court will lose its righteousness!" Huang Zicheng and Qi Tai argued.

His words made Qi Tai speechless, after all, among the sons of Hongwu, Zhu Di, Zhu Quan, Zhu Chun, Zhu Zhen and others can be said to be virtuous representatives.

If you really want to learn from the famous cutting domain, there are more options.

Not to mention the brutal Qin King Zhu Fan and the Jin King Zhu Li, who was captured by Che Split, the other vassal kings are also not clean.

Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, shot to death the captain of the honor guard division of the palace, and Zhu Yu, the king of Qi, killed the captain of thousands of households and the whole family, killing a total of 482 people.

Zhu Tan, the king of Lu, killed the commander of Huai'an, and Zhu Gui, the king of Lu, privately executed and killed the horse who did not hand over the horse.

There are also Zhu Ao, the king of Su, who hammered and beat the three guards and privately accepted the Hami into the horse, and Zhu Rong, the king of Min, who was good at collecting the seals of the divisions and killing the people.

Among Zhu Yuanzhang's twenty-six sons, there are five who have violated the "Da Ming Law" and are famous, and are still alive, so it is completely possible to start from these five people, so as to occupy the righteousness.

Qi Tai doesn't believe in this kind of thing, after all, they are the imperial court, and they themselves represent righteousness.

It's just that in the face of Huang Zicheng's words, he didn't know how to convince the other party for a while.

After a while, he slowly spoke: "Attacking the weak feudal clan first will inevitably lose its confidence, making some feudal kings think that the imperial court is bullying the weak and afraid of the hard." ”

"Therefore, you can't attack the weak clan first!" Huang Zicheng actually agreed with Qi Tai's words, but then his words made Qi Tai's blood pressure soar.

"Your Majesty, you should cut King Zhou first!" Huang Zicheng made a mockery of Zhu Yunwen, and at the same time explained: "The king of Zhou has a precedent of violating the law, and the court has a great righteousness as a name for cutting the domain, and the king of Zhou is also the first person to transfer the resident guards back to the fiefdom after learning of the collapse of the Daxing Emperor, which is enough to prove that he has ill intentions." ”

"In addition, King Zhou and King Yan are brothers of the same mother, if they attack King Yan first, then King Yan will rebel, and King Zhou will respond in Kaifeng, and the court will face a three-way attack."

"Ridiculous!" Listening to Huang Zicheng's words that he didn't know how to fight, Qi Tai vetoed:

"Although the guards of the King of Zhou are ten thousand people, the King of Zhou himself is not strong, and the people that the court should be wary of should be the vassal kings such as Yan, Qi, Xiang, Dai, Min, Su, Chu and Bohai."

Qi Tai knew very well who among Zhu Yuanzhang's sons was good at marching and fighting, so he said who could raise troops with escorts and pose a threat to the imperial court.

"The king of Xiang and the king of Chu are sitting in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and once they have objections, they will be able to reach Nanjing in just a few days."

"The King of Qi is close to the canal, if he plots to seize the water warehouse along the Jiangbei Canal, then it will be difficult for the imperial court to deal with the northern vassals."

Qi Tai said very clearly, but although he was pragmatic, he was not good at debating, so after hearing his suggestion, Huang Zicheng used his words to say:

"According to this, then it is even more important to cut the four feudatories of Zhou, Qi, Xiang, Chu and other feudatories that can threaten the capital."

"King Yan is meritorious and virtuous, and now he is the chief of the vassals, if he rebels, then he instigates the vassals, causing all the vassals to rebel, wouldn't he want to make the world chaotic?"

"Therefore, the minister thought that he should start to cut down the Central Plains and Huguang Domains first, so as to ensure that King Yan was isolated."

"Your Majesty, no!" Qi Tai spoke loudly.

In the face of the words of the two, Zhu Yunwen felt that it made sense, because of Zhu Gaoxu, he originally wanted to cut the Yan Fan first and solve Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu together.

But now from Huang Zicheng's words, it is true that if Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu are turned against each other, it is likely to lead to the rebellion of all the vassals in the world.

At that time, I'm afraid I'm going to be busy.

Thinking about everything clearly, Zhu Yunwen also had to let go of his personal emotions and said to the three of them: "What the two gentlemen said is reasonable, but I have made up my mind, start with Zhou Fan first, clean up the Central Plains and Huguang area, and then start to Yan Fan." ”

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid that this will alarm the vigilance of Qin, Jin, Yan, Ning, Chu and other clans!"

Qi Tai said worriedly, but Zhu Yunwen said indifferently: "It's just right to test their attitude through Zhou Fan." ”

Zhu Yunwen didn't take the feudal lords seriously, after all, even if the nineteen feudal kings who had already settled in the feudal domain were all counted together, the number of soldiers and horses was only more than 200,000, not to mention that they were scattered all over the place.

Therefore, what he is really worried about is the Yan Domain, who has mastered the soldiers and horses of the Sandu Division, so testing the mind of his good fourth uncle is a step he must take.

"Zhou Fan's affairs will be handed over to Mr. Huang, okay, you all step down!"

Zhu Yunwen returned to his position and sat down, seeing him like this, Qi Tai could only sigh in return and turn to leave, but Huang Zicheng and Tyrant Zhao left the place with their eyebrows on their heads.

Soon, the action against Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, began to be plotted.

At the same time, the Tang cavalry, who delivered the news, also collapsed the first emperor, succeeded the new monarch, and the matter of Jianyuan and Jianwen began to spread to the three divisions of the provinces.

In this process, Zhu Yunwen established the Baoju Law, which made the southern officials, who occupied more than seventy percent of the civil official seats, overjoyed and recommended talented people in the south.

As soon as Zhu Yunwen took the throne, many things began to change, and all this was not known to the army outside the Guan.

"Wow!!"

"Don't move, good horse, let me love you!"

In the city of Wuliang Ha, Zhu Di was taming a wild horse that Zhu Neng and Zhang Yu brought back from the north.

Not only him, but also people such as Ping'an, Liu Zhen, Bu Wan and others also showed their skills one by one to tame other wild horses.

For so long, the army has not been on patrol, and the generals did not suspect anything, because the Tangqi who went north have not found any trace of the Wuliangha tribes.

Of course, they didn't know that Zhu Neng, Qiu Fu and others, who were in charge of the Tang cavalry, did not go north to reach Wuliang Hashan, and they let the Yanfu cavalry go out of the city every few days and go north with a cart of grain.

However, this army only traveled dozens of miles north, then turned east and delivered the grain to the Bohai Boat Division on the Nuwen River.

At this moment, the two thousand Yanfu cavalry walked out of the camp outside the city again, and standing on an arrow tower in Wuliang Ha Bald City, Zhu Gaoxu also watched them leave, and asked at the same time: "How much grain has arrived?" ”

"Sixty-four thousand stones, many people in the army are already beginning to doubt."

Standing behind Zhu Gaoxu, Qiu Fu of Yan Mansion responded solemnly, and Wang Yi next to him also spoke: "The granary in Zhaozhou is also full. ”

"In that case, let's stop for now."

Zhu Gaoxu spoke slowly, and at the same time walked towards the city.

Qiu Fu and Wang Yi looked at each other, their faces relieved.

Qiu Fu was worried that Zhu Gaoxu would continue to hold Zhu Di hostage, but Wang Yi felt that he could finally unload the burden.

"Wow!!"

The wild wild horse threw Zhu Di around, but he had a lot of fun, stubbornly sitting on the back of a horse without a saddle, vowing to conquer the brown wild horse.

"His Highness Bohai!"

Zhu Gaoxu got off the horse, and Liu Zhen, who had a good impression of him in the army, greeted him, but Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng of Yanfu looked embarrassed.

Liu Zhen and the others were able to enter and leave Wuliang Ha Bald City freely, so they naturally wouldn't notice that Zhu Di, who was free in the city, had never actually left the city.

However, as Zhu Di's subordinates, Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng knew that their second highness had held their Royal Highness hostage, so they were naturally embarrassed.

"Second child, this horse is really difficult to tame!"

I don't know if Zhu Di pretended not to care, or really didn't care, in short, in the face of the current situation, he could still greet Zhu Gaoxu happily.

"This city is so small that it can't be tamed, so why don't you ride it out of the city?"

Zhu Gaoxu smiled and slowly spoke.

As soon as he said this, Zhu Di was stunned for a moment, so he was almost thrown off the horse by the wild horse.

Zhu Gaoxu was quick-eyed, grabbed the reins with one hand, and forcibly dragged the wild horse that jumped up with its front hooves back to the ground, and then released the reins and let Zhu Di continue to tame it.

This scene made Liu Zhen and the others stunned, but before they could react, the wild horse actually wanted to crash into Zhu Gaoxu.

"Phew!!"

Zhu Di was frightened into a cold sweat, and his movements were not slow, and he wanted to restrain the wild horse, but it was too late.

In the face of the six or seven hundred catties of wild horses, Zhu Gaoxu turned slightly sideways, and directly grabbed its neck, its body sank down, and it rushed forward a few steps before it could no longer rush.

"Good strength!"

Guo Ying, who came from afar, saw this scene and immediately praised it.

After Zhu Di reacted, he also turned over from the horse and dismounted, wiping the cold sweat that did not exist on his forehead: "Good boy, you have more strength." ”

"Wow!!"

Feeling Zhu Di drop his back, the wild horse began to feel that he could compete with Zhu Gaoxu again, even if he had to break free of his two hands that were like iron tongs.

It's just that before it could react, Zhu Gaoxu exerted his strength and threw it to the ground with all his might, and the dust was flying.

Zhu Gaoxu pressed it with one leg, and when it struggled with no strength, he let go of his leg and pulled it up by pulling the reins of the horse.

The six or seven hundred pounds of wild horses were like a slightly larger earth dog in front of him, and they couldn't set off any wind and waves at all.

That strength made many soldiers and generals present admire, and Zhu Di personally touched Zhu Gaoxu's arms.

"Your arms are not too big, how can you have so much strength."

Zhu Di, who was close to a head shorter than Zhu Gaoxu, sighed, and at the same time, Guo Ying also walked over and sighed: "Even the king of Kaiping back then has never seen such bravery. ”

"You kid, now you can make a few catties of long soldiers, a few catties of strong bows, and a few catties of practice stones?"

Guo Ying's inquiry, Zhu Gaoxu naturally wanted to answer, he explained truthfully: "Make twenty-four catties of long soldiers, open two hundred catties of strong bows, and lift four hundred catties of practice stones." ”

"Really?" Guo Ying opened his mouth in surprise, although he knew that Zhu Gaoxu was a fierce general, he had never seen a strongman who could shoot a bow for 200 catties.

Even if it is Chang Yuchun and others, it is only one hundred and fifty catties of bows, and as for the practice stone used to practice strength, it is only about three hundred catties, and the use of long soldiers is at most seventeen or eighteen catties.

Zhu Gaoxu's records, if Guo Ying were to believe them alone, they could be combined together, and Guo Ying would be a little disbelieving.

Even if it is Qu Neng, the first fierce general of the Ming Dynasty at the moment, it is nothing more than that, is it possible that Zhu Gaoxu can still compare with Qu Neng?

"Hehe, sort of......"

In the face of Guo Ying's questioning, Zhu Gaoxu did not explain anything, because he knew that he would have the opportunity to show it in the future.

He turned his head to look at Zhu Di next to him, but saw that Zhu Di was comforting the wild horse that he had just knocked down.

After his own lesson, the wild horse was already very obedient, and Zhu Di picked up a bargain.

"Second brother, I'll go out of the city for a walk."

Feeling the gaze, Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu looked at each other, and at the same time thought of Zhu Gaoxu's words just now, and spoke tentatively.

Seeing Zhu Gaoxu nodding, Zhu Di felt uneasy in his heart.

He remembered that the second child said that when he was let out, it was likely to be when his father collapsed and his eldest nephew ascended the throne.

Now that he is letting himself out, does he represent his father......

Zhu Di's mood suddenly became worse, he turned over the wild horse, and he could gallop away without a saddle.

Seeing him gallop out of the city, Wang Yi, who had already confessed at the city gate, withdrew with Gan Yue and the others.

At this moment, Zhu Di rushed out of Wuliangha Bald City as he wished, but his mood was terrible.

He wanted to know the situation in the south, so shortly after leaving the city, he rode back on his horse, and when he came to Zhu Gaoxu, he turned over and dismounted.

"On this trip, I haven't found the main force of Uliangha, and it will cost food and grass to continue to stay, so it's better to withdraw the army and go on a northern tour next year?"

Although Zhu Di was talking to Guo Ying and others, his eyes were on Zhu Gaoxu from time to time.

Such a conspicuous move, in the eyes of Guo Ying and others, is just Zhu Di's love for Zhu Gaoxu.

"Indeed, the army has been out of the fortress for more than a month, and now it has not found anything, so it is reasonable to withdraw the army and return to the division early to reserve grain and grass for the next year's patrol."

Guo Ying opened his mouth to agree, but Zhu Gaoxu did not interrupt.

At this moment, Zhu Gaoxu behaved very calmly, as if all foreign affairs had nothing to do with him.

The calmer he was, the more scared Zhu Di became.

"Summons the generals!"

Zhu Di instructed Zhang Yu, Qiu Fu, and Zhu Neng, who came up on the side, and the three of them also subconsciously glanced at Zhu Gaoxu when they heard the words.

Such a move finally made Guo Ying sense that something was wrong, but he didn't think much about it.

"Marquis Wuding, let's go, let's discuss things with me."

Zhu Di's words interrupted Guo Ying's thoughts, and he turned around and followed Zhu Di away, but he glanced back at Zhu Gaoxu in the middle.

However, to his surprise, Zhu Di did not urge Zhu Gaoxu, and Zhu Gaochu had no intention of following.

"What are these father and son selling......

Guo Ying was puzzled, but Zhu Gaoxu instructed Wang Yi who came from the city gate after watching them go away:

"If nothing happens, tomorrow will be the army back to the division, you personally go to Yang Zhan, Lin Su and the brothers, and ask them to go to my place for a meal at dusk."

"Yes!" Wang Yizuo responded, and then walked back again.

Watching him leave, Zhu Gaoxu also slowly raised his head, looking at the dazzling sunlight, with mixed feelings in his heart.

"It's May 28th, and Grandpa should have been buried......"

"I just don't know if you would regret it if you knew what Zhu Yunwen did."

Zhu Gaoxu muttered in his heart, and after standing for a few minutes, he turned around and walked towards the wooden house where he was resting.

He had no intention of going to the generals' deliberations, because he knew that they had nothing to do with him.

He failed to persuade Zhu Di to raise troops, but he had expected all this, but fortunately, he had obtained more than 60,000 stone of grain from Zhu Di after all.

Counting this batch of grain, even if Yang Bin is unmoved, the grain in his hands will be enough to eat until July of the next year.

Save your rations a little and you shouldn't have a problem until next winter.

As long as he successfully enters Liaodong before the winter, he can survive for another year with the reserve warehouse of the Liaodong Dusi......

When Zhu Gaoxu thought so, a war had just ended in western Yunnan, thousands of miles away.

The sun shines through the heavy dark clouds on the battlefield, and in the rainforest of western Yunnan, a stone village is full of corpses, and the entire stone wall of the stone village is broken by fist-sized stone bullets.

The battlefield was filled with a strong smell of sulfur and blood, and the stone walled city was full of the corpses of Luchuan soldiers wearing copper and iron armor, as well as the Luchuan banner broken on the ground.

Outside the city, tens of thousands of people are dragging corpses and burning them in a concentrated manner.

Walking on the battlefield with blood everywhere, Mu Chun, who was dressed in Ming armor, looked around, his eyes full of vigilance.

Not long after, the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the three tall figures came to Mu Chun in front of him, and Qu Neng, who was the leader, dismounted and scolded viciously: "This group of thieves in the southwest has made us fold more than 2,000 brothers for nothing!" ”

Qu Neng reported his casualties, but Mu Chun rubbed his temples tiredly: "How about being captured?" ”

"At least 16,000 beheadings and more than 70,000 prisoners." Qu Yu opened his mouth to speak, but Qu Tao said viciously: "Xiping Hou, it is better to kill all these 70,000 people, so as to pay tribute to the spirits of the brothers in the sky!" ”

"Don't ......" Mu Chun's voice was small, but his tone was firm.

"Kongtong Village has been breached, plus the Jinghan Village that was previously breached, more than half of the soldiers and horses of Tusi in Daogan Meng and Luchuan have been killed and captured by our army, and now Yun Jiemu is afraid that it will be difficult to even gather 10,000 soldiers and horses."

"So what are you waiting for?" As soon as Qu Neng heard that Sister Yun was empty, he immediately asked for his life: "I am willing to be the vanguard and take Sister Yun Mu for the army!" ”

"Not yet." Mu Chun shook his head: "Our army is deep, the grain and grass are already insufficient, and the reason why I don't kill these 70,000 people captured at the moment is to let them go to Yongchang to transport grain for our army." ”

From Yongchang to Kongtong, although the distance is only more than 400 miles, the mountain road is rugged, and there is only a five-foot road, and the transportation of grain and grass is not easy.

Even if Xu Huizu has already mobilized troops to open up the road, this road cannot be widened overnight.

Taking Kongtong Village can only make the Ming army barely support it for another half a month.

Mu Chun looked at the primeval forest around him, and he was very helpless.

Although there were already various anti-miasma measures written by Zhu Gaoxu, this time the army went deep into Luchuan, and many brothers left because they were not accustomed to the water and soil and contracted the miasma.

Although Mu Chun was not infected with miasma, he was also exhausted at the moment.

"Xiping Hou!!"

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves and shouts suddenly came from the battlefield, Mu Chun turned his head to look, and soon searched for Gu Cheng's figure on the battlefield.

Gu Cheng also found him, so he rode his horse with a very solemn face.

Looking at his appearance, Mu Chun had a bad premonition in his heart.

"What's wrong?" He was distraught, but still raised a spiritual inquiry.

"There is a change in the capital, Wei Guogong asked us to destroy Kongtong Village, and then withdrew to Jinghan Village, he is already on the way from Yongchang to Jinghan Village."

Gu Cheng didn't know what was going on in the capital, but judging from the 'emperor is not hesitating' mentioned in the "Di Bao" a month ago, I am afraid that this matter is related to the inner court.

"Order the three armies, burn Kongtong Village, and withdraw to Jinghan Village tomorrow!"

After Mu Chun heard that there was a change in the capital, the uneasiness in his heart reached its peak, and he gave orders to Qu Neng's father and son, and at the same time walked to the camp himself.

After all, Qu Neng's father and son have also experienced the four major cases, and they know very well that once there is a change in the capital, their fate will change, so they no longer put forward the words of beheading the prisoners, but led people to burn down Kongtong Village in a short period of time, and at the same time conveyed the military order to withdraw the army tomorrow.

That night, the Ming army was very busy, but even so, the 30,000 Ming army still escorted 70,000 prisoners to Jinghanzhai early the next morning.

For two days in a row, when they returned to Jinghan Village, the dusty Xu Huizu was already waiting for them in Jinghan Village.

The anxious generals walked into the Tusi Mansion in Jinghan Village under the leadership of Mu Chun, and saw Xu Huizu, whose eyes were bloodshot and there were many mud spots on his body.

Seeing everyone, Xu Huizu sighed and said, "Daogan Meng sent an envoy to ask for peace, and I have already agreed." ”

Before everyone sat down, Xu Huizu gave everyone a "surprise", but everyone knew that Xu Huizu could not agree to Dao Ganmeng's request for peace for no reason, so they were all waiting for his next sentence.

Facing everyone's gaze, Xu Huizu glanced at everyone.

Mu Chun, Qu Neng, Qu Yu, Qu Tao, He Fu, Gu Cheng......

Looking at this group of famous generals in the southwest, Xu Huizu held his forehead with his hand and said bitterly: "The first emperor collapsed on the tenth day of the fifth month, and the grandson ascended the throne, and he will change the yuan to Jianwen in the next year......

"What?!" Hearing Xu Huizu's words, Gu Cheng, He Fu, Qu Neng, and his son stood up one after another, like falling into an ice cave.

They could still be surprised, but Mu Chun felt a darkness in front of him after hearing that the son of heaven who loved him had collapsed.

He couldn't stand up, so he fell headlong, but fortunately, Qu Nengshou behind him quickly held him up.

After relieving a few breaths, Mu Chun said painfully: "Are you sure?" ”

Mu Chun asked knowingly, but when he saw Xu Huizu nodding heavily, he still couldn't help but feel uncomfortable.

He couldn't cry, but something seemed to be blocked in his heart, which made him very uncomfortable.

"Your Majesty......"

"Fengtian Jing Difficult to Remember": In the leap month of the thirty-first year, Taizu collapsed, the emperor's grandson ascended the throne, and the kings were in the country, and they did not have to go to Beijing. When the king of the time knew that he had a heavy army with respect, he was lawless. Jianwen Jun Naqitai and Huang Zicheng conspired to cut them down because of the incident. Yan Wang Qiang, not sent, but first abolished Zhou Wanghu, wanting to pull Yan.

"Bohai Chronicle": In the thirty-first leap May, Taizu collapsed, and the emperor's grandson Yunwen was on the throne, and he wanted to cut the domain, but Taizong was strong and had help, and Yunwen was weak and did not send it, so he proposed to abolish the king of Zhou first.

(End of chapter)