First Prince of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 677 Seduction
Listening to Duan Qiangna's defense, Zhu Biao didn't show any expression on his face. The death of the Ming envoy was indeed the hand of King Liang, but it didn't mean that the Duan family was innocent.

There is absolutely no problem in escorting a few envoys out of the country safely. It can only be said that they still don't want Da Ming to intervene, but they don't have the guts to refuse. It would be best to just sit and watch Liang Wang's black hand.

"Okay, since that's the case, I'll answer your request. You can write back immediately and let your younger brother Duan Bao raise his troops. The Palace will also issue an edict ordering the Great General Zheng Xi to send his troops south. It can be calmed down, and I will not hesitate to reward you when the time comes."

You must know that the Duan family still has some strength now. Although Duan has made great contributions to the benevolence of women, it is not without merit. Many native clans in Dali regrouped under Duan's command.

In addition, King Liang killed Duan Gong with poison, which is not decent, and it is not enough to convince people. If everyone is only playing this kind of trick, why bother raising soldiers and horses, and they should devote themselves to cultivating assassins and killers.

After Duan Gong's death, King Liang wanted to eradicate the grass and roots, regain his power, and launch seven offensives, but he was defeated by the Duan family. If it was before, the local families in Dali would be afraid of the Yuan Court behind King Liang, but not now, a hundred years Even if the thousand-year-old family exerted their strength, King Liang could not get any benefits.

Finally, under the mediation of Yang Sheng, the governor of Heqing, the troops were stopped and peace was made. Liang Wang wrote a letter stating that Duan Bao was the Zuo Cheng of Yunnan. The two sides took the Jinji Temple on the Erhe River as the boundary.

If the Duan family is open and willing to cooperate internally and externally, Yunnan can indeed be easily pacified, but in this way, Yunnan will only be in a state of confinement. Guizhou is already difficult to control. Adding Yunnan, I am afraid that if Ming's momentum weakens, they will Change the flag and stand on your own.

In history, after the Ming Dynasty solved the Queen of Liang, the Duan family was escorted to the capital. The two sons of the Duan family, one was named Guiren by the old Zhu and the other was named Guiyi, and they were sent to Yongchangwei and Yanmen respectively to serve as governors of the Ming Dynasty. Shoujiang went, and then let the Mu family live in Yunnan...

Duan Qiangna begged with a beautiful frown: "Your Highness, my Duan family is only relying on natural dangers to defend myself, so it is really difficult to send troops to help, and it is not because I have no intention of serving..."

Zhu Biao couldn't help snorting and said, "Then what's the use of your Duan family and my Daming?"

"Your Highness, my Duan family was originally a family of the prefect of Wuwei County in the Han Dynasty. The first ancestor Duan Yuzhen once served as the prefect of the Western Han Dynasty. Although the Duan family established itself as a country in the past, it is still of Han blood. Waiting for the barbarians is different."

"If we can get the help of the host country and restore the country, my Duan family in Dali will be loyal to the Ming royal family forever, pay tribute every year and come to the court every year, and the princes and sons of all dynasties will go to the capital to bathe and educate. This is sincerity!"

Seeing that Zhu Biao didn't respond, Duan Qiangna continued to persuade: "In the remote place of Dali, there are many barbarians and few Han people, and they are uneducable. Why do you need this place when the Liaoyuan is vast and the people are rich? In the past, Song Taizu rowed the Dadu River with a jade axe. Boundary, to say otherwise is not my own.”

Zhao Kuangyin did say this. Wang Quanbin, a general under his command, pacified Houshu. He wanted to go all out and take advantage of the victory to destroy Dali. He presented a map of Dali to ask Zhao Kuangyin for instructions. As a result, he used a jade ax to draw the Dadu River, saying that this is not my own. This is the allusion of the Song Dynasty wielding a jade axe.

From the standpoint of Zhao Kuangyin, in fact, his decision was not wrong. If it was Zhu Biao, he would definitely make this choice. Dali at that time was not considered a small country. It can be said that it was a powerful country that dominated the southwest region. Yunnan, southwestern Guizhou, southwestern Sichuan, and parts of Myanmar, Laos, and northern Vietnam.

According to the national power of the Song Dynasty, there is no possibility of a war. The continuous investment of troops in the future will only drag down the newly established regime. What's more, there are Northern Han and Khitan in the north at that time. Without the conditions of Yanyun Sixteen States, Once the Khitan iron cavalry marches south, while the Song Dynasty's army is still in the southwestern border, it will be the end of iron death.

But the Ming Dynasty was not the Song Dynasty after all. In the few years since the founding of the country, the iron cavalry swept everywhere, and the four seas were quiet and the enemy was rustling. It didn't take too many troops to swallow Yunnan, and the Mongolian forces in the northern border were not enough to break through the defense line.

Duan Qiangna's posture is very low, and her buttocks are also quite high, but these are not enough to affect Zhu Biao's thoughts. Since he intends to win Nanyang, the Dali Duan family and even those indigenous families must be cleaned up.

The reason why they haven’t made any big moves yet is that the only problem is the lack of people in the Ming Dynasty, and the need for a large number of young and strong people to relocate and expand the territory. This is the simplest thing at any stage of the dynasty. The problem has always been that there are too many people less land.

But just in this period of troubled times, although the imperial court has tried its best to encourage marriage and childbirth, it will take time to achieve results. We can't drive children who can't walk to Yunnan, Guizhou and other places. If it is a later generation, it will naturally be a good place , but now...

With the expansion of the territory of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Biao really wished that the common people would have two children a year, give birth to him for more than ten years, and a family should have more than a dozen children, which would be enough to fill the country, otherwise what's the use of just occupying the land?

If you just send troops to garrison, and there are no Han people in the area to open up wasteland and cultivate supplies, you don't need foreign enemies, and their military supplies alone are enough to drag down Ming's finances.

Zhu Biao rubbed his eyes with some annoyance, but Duan Qiangna wanted to sit in the crown prince's arms and brag to him, but the people around would definitely not allow her, a daughter of a small barbarian country, to approach her.

Since her father's death, the main line of the Duan Clan has only been their siblings. Originally, the emissary who came on this trip should have picked an uncle from a side line, but she invited her to stay by the side of the Crown Prince of Ming Dynasty to serve her. No matter how high the status is, at least one must be able to talk.

Only in this way can they protect the honor and dignity of the Duan family for hundreds of years when the Ming Dynasty invaded Yunnan. The Ming Dynasty is not comparable to the Song Dynasty, and they know it all too well.

"Your Highness may not know that before the foreign envoy set off, the King of Liang, in order to appease my Duan family, issued an edict in the name of Emperor Shun called Zhongqinmao, father and son were loyal, and conquered Kejie. At this time, it is not the first distant dynasty and also to suppress chaos, it is advisable to show the best number, in order to show the strength of Kuangji, hereby promoted to Wu Dinggong, still in charge of the military and civilian government of Dali. Chicheng is infinity"

"The King of Liang wanted to win over the Duan family to fight against Ming Dynasty with the title of Lord Wu Ding. My younger brother wrote a poem saying that the flames of the beacon did not match the letter, and Lishan's performance was just a falsification. Pingzhang was in vain. Qishan has auspicious signs, and Linyou suburbs have no auspicious light. Since the boundary gap, success or failure, happiness and sorrow do not belong to me."

What Duan Qiangna wanted to express was nothing more than their incompatible attitude with the King of Liang, but Zhu Biao knew better that if he sent troops to Yunnan without an agreement, Duan Bao would definitely not care about killing his father. relation.

Duan Qiangna is also very anxious now, after saying so much, the Crown Prince of Ming Dynasty still does not change his face, obviously these are not enough to shake his mind, is it possible that the sky will kill my Duan family?
Duan Qiangna felt the soreness in her heart, two lines of tears flowed down, and said in a sobbing voice: "When I was leaving, I also wrote a poem to my younger brother saying that the coral hook came out of the deep boudoir, and my eyes were full of wet clothes. I grew up in front of the Bingjian Silver Terrace, with golden branches and jade leaves. Go down to Fangfei. Birds fly to and fro frequently, Guixiu Meixiang does not move temporarily. My compatriots in melancholy did not bear to say goodbye, you should know that the focus of hatred is low."

After one more prostration, she got up slowly, pulled the slender clothes with plain hands, there was no firmness in the eyebrows and eyes, only tenderness and sadness remained, the white and delicate collarbone and the deep ditch gradually appeared...

The eunuchs waiting on the side hurriedly lowered their heads, and so did Liu Jin, but their eyes were still fixed on Duan Qiangna's shadow. If there was any movement, they would immediately take it down. Nothing was as important as His Highness's safety.

The palace maids stared at the so-called Princess Dali with contempt. As expected, she was born in a small barbarian country. Even I, a good girl from an ordinary family in Ming Dynasty, can't compare with me, so I seduced His Highness the Crown Prince in such a despicable way!

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(End of this chapter)