Jingnan Strategy

Chapter 609: The Underworld: Your Great Mongolia is Dead

"Buzzing..."

Ten years passed in a flash, and with the appearance of brilliant light, many emperors were once again led to the island.

"It's been a long time since we last met..."

"Don't waste time, get started!"

As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang and his three companions landed, they saw Li Shimin, Liu Bang and others rushing up in a hurry.

After the last war game simulation, Li Shimin went back and gave Li Chun and others an additional training, thinking that they would never be alone again.

Compared with Li Shimin, Liu Bang brought Liu Xiu, Liu Che, Liu Yu and others to make a summary.

They all agreed that the Zhu family was just taking shortcuts, otherwise they would never have been able to beat them. If they had just reacted earlier, there would have been no way they would have lost.

Thinking of this, both Li Shimin and Liu Bang rushed forward.

"Okay, then I declare..."

Old Zhu was proudly preparing to start the second war game, but suddenly there was a shock in the air.

All the emperors looked up and saw that the Ming Dynasty in the sky had begun to expand again, from the original 7,000 miles to 8,400 miles.

"No, again?!"

At this moment, all the emperors except the four members of the Zhu family were astonished, and a ray of brilliant light descended from the sky.

Zhu Zhanhe appeared in front of everyone. Zhu Gaoxu glanced at him and asked, "Zhanhe, you have lived for a long time?"

"Ok?"

The confusion in Zhu Zhanhe's eyes gradually disappeared. He looked to be about forty years old. Compared with Zhu Gaoxu, who was in his thirties, he seemed like an elder. This was very inconsistent with their relationship.

“Dad…Dad?!”

After realizing it, Zhu Zhanhe rubbed his eyes in disbelief. The next second, he smiled bitterly and held his forehead with his hand, saying, "Impossible. I must have thought too much."

"You're overthinking it. Come over here and give me a hand. Tell me about the situation in Daming!"

Zhu Gaoxu shouted in a low voice, and Zhu Zhanhe then perked up. He looked around and found that his grandfather looked very similar to Zhu Yuanzhang, whose portrait was in the Xiaoling Mausoleum in Nanjing.

"Dad...Grandpa...Great Grandfather?"

Zhu Zhanhe's eyes widened, and Zhu Gaoxu had to put down the sand table weighing more than 600 kilograms and unfold it directly.

After unfolding, a sand table of 15 feet long and wide appeared in front of everyone. Unlike the familiar terrain last time, this time the terrain was an archipelago on the sea. Each island was about the size of a fist, and next to it were warships and fleets as thick as thumbs.

The emperors wanted to take a closer look, but before they could, Zhu Di spoke first: "Zhanhe, this is the Emperor Island of the underworld. Here are the emperors of all dynasties. You talk about the Ming Dynasty first. I will tell you the rest later."

"Uh...okay!"

After hearing Zhu Di's familiar self-introduction, Zhu Zhanhe finally believed what he saw.

"Humph, Emperor Ming, how is my Great Mongolia?"

Temujin interrupted, and Zhu Zhanhe glanced sideways: "Great Mongolia? Mongolia was destroyed a long time ago."

"What did you say?!" Temujin was a little bit unbelievable. Even though he had known that the Ming Dynasty with its high technology would gradually expand, he did not expect it to be so fast.

"Yes, I destroyed both the Kipchak and Timur, as well as a bunch of small Mongolian kingdoms."

At this point, Zhu Zhanhe smiled and bowed to Zhu Gaoxu, saying:
"Father, I followed what you wrote in your book and destroyed these two khanates, but there was an episode in the middle. Indusdan rebelled, and I annexed Shuonapur and established the Shannan Sansi."

"What do you want that place for?"

Zhu Gaoxu frowned. Although Swampura occupied one-third of the Ganges Plain and the land was very fertile, it was surrounded by tens of millions of Hindustan people.

Once this place becomes rich, a large number of illegal immigrants will inevitably flock in. Once it becomes poor, the imperial court will be unable to make ends meet.

Moreover, the local climate was not suitable for the Ming army to stay there for a long time, so in his book, the whole of India was set up to receive the Ming Dynasty’s low-end industries and serve as a granary.

"I am helpless. If Shannan is not established, these guys in India will not remember the fight."

Zhu Zhanhe was very helpless. He did not want to set up the Shannan Three Offices, but if he did not, the Indian market would be unstable.

"Forget it. You have also made contributions to the development. I won't talk about you anymore. Let me tell you about the current situation first."

"and many more!"

Zhu Gaoxu wanted to introduce the situation here to Haodaer, but he saw Temujin breathing heavily and said: "My great Mongolia... is really gone?"

"Well, that's all. Who are you?" Zhu Zhanhe responded casually, which deeply hurt Temujin's heart.

His Great Mongol Empire was divided into fiefdoms, but in the end, not even one lasted for three hundred years.

The most important thing is that his Great Mongolia became the territory of the Ming Dynasty...what a shame!
"This is Temujin, don't worry about him."

As Zhu Gaoxu explained, Zhu Zhanhe suddenly realized, "So it was Genghis Khan. When I destroyed the Qipchaq Khanate, I also seized some of the things you gave to Jochi and his son. But I felt they were of little value, so I put them in the treasury."

"you……"

"Haha, luckily my Huns are still here!"

Temujin was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood, but Maodun laughed heartily.

He was defeated by Temujin in the last war game, which made him feel very upset, so he vowed to avenge himself this time.

As a result, I had already tasted a lot of delicious melons before the meal even started, and I felt very happy.

"Hungary? Huns"

Zhu Zhanhe looked at Maodun and said, "Are you Touman or Maodun? It doesn't matter. Hungary is not necessarily your Xiongnu. Besides, they are also my vassal state."

"You..." Maodun was so angry that he tried to roll up his sleeves, but when he saw Zhu Gaoxu standing on a sand table next to him, he gave up the idea.

"It's a pity that Xiang Yu is not here, otherwise it would definitely be very interesting."

Liu Bang touched his chin and suddenly missed Xiang Yu a little.

It's a pity that Xiang Yu didn't want to stay in the underworld and deliberately reincarnated. Otherwise, he would be able to see who is more powerful, Xiang Yu or Zhu Gaoxu.
"Taizu, please stop talking and don't attract fire."

Liu Xiu was ashamed and didn't know what to say about Liu Bang's knight-errant style.

"Alright, alright, let's all stop talking. The most important thing today is the war game. Nothing else matters."

"That's right!"

Temujin and Maodun wanted to say something else, but Li Shimin, who was only thinking about avenging his humiliation, interrupted them directly, and Zhao Kuangyin next to him also joined in.

"Tell me the rules!"

Zhu Gaoxu leaned on the tea tray and said, "I have made a booklet of the rules for this time, please take a look."

As Zhu Gaoxu spoke, Zhu Di took out hundreds of booklets.

Seeing this, everyone's eyes widened: "How can we play with so many rules?"

"You need to understand the future technological products. If I don't write a booklet, how long will it take me to explain it all?"

Zhu Gaoxu spoke with confidence, and everyone felt aggrieved when they heard his words. After all, they really didn't know what battleships and aircraft carriers were.

Although we have a model now, who can use it to infer its combat methods?

"Grandpa, what's going on?"

Zhu Zhanhe looked at Zhu Di, and Zhu Di also explained to him with great interest.

After the explanation, Zhu Di then asked, "How is Yue'er?"

"When I left, Yue'er was already in poor health, but I abdicated and became the emperor when he was sixty years old."

"When I died, he was only 75 years old. He should have no problem living to 80."

As Zhu Zhanhe said this, Zhu Di subconsciously looked at Zhu Gaoxu.

"What do you think of me?"

Feeling Zhu Di's gaze, Zhu Gaoxu asked Zhu Di in return, but Zhu Di sighed and shook his head: "We all died at the age of 70, 80 or 90, why did you die at the age of 60?"

When Zhu Di said this, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Gaoxu looked at Zhu Yunwen respectively.

"Hmm?" Zhu Yunwen touched his chin, looked around, and pretended to be busy.

"Who is this?"

Zhu Zhanhe saw Zhu Yunwen and asked subconsciously.

"Oh, this is your uncle."

As Zhu Di spoke, Zhu Zhanhe immediately responded: "Establish a commoner?"

"You kid should respect your elders!" Zhu Yunwen immediately got angry.

"Excuse me, junior." Zhu Zhanhe bowed nonchalantly.

At this time, Li Shimin and others had also read the rules roughly.

However, just in case, they watched it several times to avoid being tricked by Zhu Yuanzhang and his gang.

As time passed, Zhu Zhanhe also learned about the things in this world from the explanations of Zhu Di and others.

"By the way, when did your mother die?"

Zhu Gaoxu asked about his own Yan'er, and Zhu Zhanhe responded: "Mom died at the age of eighty-seven, so she lived twenty-two years longer than you, Dad."

"I didn't ask you that." Zhu Gaoxu's face darkened. How could he know that he only lived to be in his sixties? Although he had a premonition that he would not live long if he did this, he did feel very uncomfortable during the period before his death.

"Alright, Emperor Ming, we figured it out!"

As Li Shimin spoke first, he stood up like a top student.

The others haven't figured out the rules yet, so they can only speed up.

"Okay! Let's start now!"

Zhu Yuanzhang spoke with a smile, and then Zhu Di took out a bamboo tube full of bamboo sticks.

"Let's draw lots first and see where we get drawn."

"No, you get to draw first this time!"

Before Zhu Di could finish his words, Li Shimin interrupted him, causing his smile to freeze.

Faced with Zhu Di's embarrassed look, Zhu Yuanzhang could only glare at him, then stepped forward and drew the lot with gritted teeth.

Their position is not very good? Not at the corners of the sandbox, but close to the middle.

Then, Li Shimin, Liu Bang and others drew lots one after another, and their positions were basically on the edge.

"I declare..."

After the drawing of lots, Zhu Di looked at Old Zhu, swallowed his saliva and said, "The second war game simulation of Emperor Island has officially begun."

"Referee, Zhu Yunwen, Hu Hai, Liu Ying, Ogedei, Jie Li..." When Zhu Di finished reading, everyone found a seat and sat down, waiting for the referee to arrive before reciting tactical arrangements and the referee conducted a war game simulation.

As expected, at the beginning of the first round, Tuoba Tao, Cao Cao, Sun Jian and Li Yuanhao, who were surrounding the Zhu family, launched a siege on the Zhu family.

For a time, the Zhu family's defense line was in danger, and the rest of Liu Bang, Li Shimin, Zhao Kuangyin and others were also targeted, but they faced few opponents, only two or three double-teams.

Faced with the siege, Zhu Yuanzhang still stayed behind by himself, while Zhu Di and Zhu Gaoxu attacked.

Zhu Zhanhe's level was not as high as the other three, so he could only watch.

After the first round, Li Shimin, Liu Bang and others at least annexed one force by taking and defending. The Zhu family failed to annex a single force except for annexing a few destroyers.

After the second round began, the Zhu family concentrated their forces to destroy Sun Jian, and then began to attack Li Yuanhao.

As a result, Sun Jian was destroyed, and Maodun, who was behind Sun Jian's island, began to join the siege.

The Zhu family played one against four from the first game to the third game.

In comparison, Li Shimin and Liu Bang had already annexed three islands, while Zhu Gaoxu and his men only had two.

Obviously, in the last war game simulation, the Zhu family attracted too much hatred, which led to the siege this time.

Seeing that the situation was gradually moving in the direction of Li Shimin and Liu Bang, Zhu could only glare at Zhu Di and ask, "Who allowed you to parade around in the streets?"

"I didn't expect them to be so united..." Zhu Di was embarrassed.

Having said that, Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to do so, as annexing one island would mean adding two opponents.

In the fourth round, after finally annexing two islands, they had to face the siege of eight forces.

When the fifth round began, Li Shimin already owned six islands and six fleets, and Liu Bang had taken nine islands and nine fleets.

At the beginning of the sixth game, the Zhu family was destroyed by the double-teaming of Li Shimin, Zhao Kuangyin and Liu Bang, which made Zhu so angry that he gritted his teeth.

The second war game ended with the Liu family defeating Li Shimin and Zhao Kuangyin.

As the brilliant light descended, everyone was led back to their own territory.

The five people from the Ming Dynasty also arrived in the Forbidden City, but the scale of the Forbidden City expanded a lot because of Zhu Zhanhe's arrival.

"Have you expanded the Forbidden City since I left?"

As soon as he landed, Zhu Gaoxu looked at the Forbidden City, which had been expanded a lot and had many more carved beams and painted buildings, and asked Zhu Zhanhe about it.

"It was done. After all, more than forty years have passed, and it needs repairs. However, I only used the private treasury and did not use the national treasury."

Zhu Zhanhe was explaining while a group of people were running towards him from a distance.

Guo Yan, Empress Mu, Yu Qian, Guo Yong, Yishiha and others came trotting over here, led by Zhu Biao and others.

"His Majesty!"

Dozens of meritorious officials, military officers, and royal family members who lived from the Hongxi period and died of old age during the Xuande period gathered together and bowed to Zhu Gaoxu and his companions.

"Yun Wen, get down here!"

Zhu Biao had already met Zhu Yunhuan and others, and heard from them about Zhu Zhanhe's achievements, and also heard that Zhu Gaoxu sent them to Yingzhou to establish a vassal state and establish their own country.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Biao's anger, which had finally subsided for decades, immediately rose again.

If Zhu Yunwen hadn't been so reckless, would Zhu Biao's descendants have to suffer such a fate?

"Ah? Are you still coming?"

Zhu Yunwen hadn't been beaten for decades, and his face immediately fell.

Under the gaze of everyone, he was dragged away from the Fengtian Hall in the Forbidden City by Zhu Biao.

Zhu Gaoxu walked down the stairs and met Yishiha, Guo Yan and others.

Without saying much, he nodded and said to the two of them, "We'll talk about it after we get back."

"Yes……"

"Okay, okay, a lot of people came this time. He'er, you've done a great job."

Zhu Yuanzhang could feel the population situation of the Ming Dynasty. After this arrival, the population of the Ming Dynasty suddenly increased to more than 160,000.

Although compared with the territory of more than 8,000 miles, the population of 160,000 is just a drop in the ocean, but this population size has exceeded that of most small countries in this world.

You have to know that the Ming Dynasty at that time had only been passed down for five generations, and Zhu Di also told Zhu Yuanzhang about Zhu Qiyue.

As long as Zhu Qiyue does not encounter any problems, the Ming Dynasty can at least be passed down for another five or six generations.

By that time, the population of the Ming Dynasty in this world will be at least four to five million. Even if the Ming Dynasty perishes, they will still be the dynasty with the largest population in this world.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang stroked his beard happily.

"Uh-huh!"

"I asked you to reduce the power of the vassal states! I asked you to reduce the power of the vassal states!"

"Dad! It's been almost a hundred years!"

"Do I have to choose the time before I can beat you?!"

"Uh-huh!"

After several decades, Zhu Yunwen's screams finally rang out in the Eastern Palace again.

At the same time, Zhu Zhanhe also bowed to Zhu Yuanzhang and said:

"Grandfather, among those who came this time, quite a few were knights of the Imperial Academy. They said they could make steam engines and other products. I think this world needs to change."

"Well, what you said is right. Great grandfather also wants to see a running train and lights that light up at night."

Zhu Yuanzhang was surprised and asked Zhu Gaoxu: "Can this thing appear?"

"Steam engines should work. I have tried it before, but the population is too small, so it is not necessary." Zhu Gaoxu explained:
"But I'm not sure about the lights and generators."

As he said this, Zhu Gaoxu looked at Zhu Zhanhe and the others and said, "Let's give it a try."

"Okay!" Zhu Zhanhe turned around and looked at the people who were being conferred titles at the Imperial College, and said with a hearty smile, "First, let's make a steam car for Grandpa to play with!"

Upon hearing this, several people from the Imperial College looked at each other in bewilderment.

Even if others don’t know, how could they not know?

Steam cars are the favorite of the current Majesty, and he would feel uncomfortable if he didn't drive them for a day.

"According to the decree..."

Although they knew it, no one dared to reveal it and could only agree to it.

Following Zhu Zhanhe's order, dozens of people from the Imperial College began to establish the Imperial College of the Underworld in this world, and began to manufacture steam engines, cars, generators and other products.

As the population and things to do increased, memorials to the emperor appeared again in front of everyone.

However, since the workaholic Zhu was around, Zhu Gaoxu didn't have to worry about anything.

After Guo Yan came down, his life became more comfortable and fulfilling. His daily routine consisted of hunting, boating, outing, or playing the pipa.

Time passed little by little, until one day three years later, the land of Ming Dynasty began to shake again.

"No, you're still coming?!"

All the emperors turned their eyes to the territory of the Ming Dynasty. From Zhu Di to the present, four consecutive generations of emperors have been expanding the territory!

"Brother, my grandson is here, and it looks like he's also expanding his territory!"

Feeling the vibration, Zhu Biao's face changed at the dinner table, and Zhu Yunwen subconsciously ran away.

"Stop right there, you little bastard!"

Zhu Biao skillfully pulled out his leather belt and ran out after Zhu Yunwen.

At the same time, brilliant rays of light appeared everywhere in the Ming Dynasty.

However, due to the short time interval, not too many people descended this time.

"Yue'er, you're coming down!"

Zhu Yuanzhang led everyone to the Fengtian Hall. As soon as he arrived, he saw Zhu Qiyue looking around, touching here and looking there.

Zhu Di happily went to meet him. Zhu Qiyue was as surprised as if he had seen a ghost when he saw Zhu Di: "Grandfather, you are not dead..."

"Everyone is dead, including you. This is the underworld."

Zhu Di grinned, and then explained to Zhu Qiyue: "This is Grandpa Taizu, say hello!"

"Grandpa, I am your grandson's grandson, my name is Zhu Qiyue!"

Zhu Qiyue didn't doubt whether he was dead or not, he just grinned and greeted him.

Zhu Yuanzhang's smile froze when he heard this. He looked at Zhu Di and asked, "Why is this child's name reverting to his ancestral name?"

"I brought it. I think it's very down-to-earth."

Zhu Di was hesitant, and Zhu Yuanzhang was furious:

"Look at you, you've led the child astray!"

"That's right, Yue'er, tell me about your achievements!" Zhu Di hurriedly urged Zhu Qi Yue.

Upon hearing this, Zhu Qiyue straightened his chest and said, "I have destroyed several countries in Xizhou and expanded the territory by thousands of miles!"

Probably to prove for Zhu Qiyue, the territory of the Ming Dynasty also stopped shaking at this time, and a string of numbers appeared in the minds of everyone and all the emperors in this world.

"Nine Thousand Two Hundred Miles"

"Okay, okay, considering your efforts in expanding the territory, I won't bother with your great grandfather."

Zhu Yuanzhang patted Zhu Qiyue happily, then turned to Zhu Gaoxu and said, "Well, Gaoxu, your lineage is not bad."

"Dad, it's my lineage." Zhu Di hurriedly took credit.

"Look at your idiotic appearance. Without Gao Xu, do you still want to be the emperor? Without Gao Xu, can you raise such good offspring?"

"Don't flatter yourself. These achievements also belong to Gao Xu."

After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, Zhu Qiyue suddenly pointed to a place not far away and asked, "Why are there people chasing and beating people?"

"Huh?" Everyone looked and saw that it was Zhu Biao chasing and beating Zhu Yunwen.

"That's your great-great-grandfather and great-grandfather." Zhu Zhanhe's words were a little euphemistic, but Zhu Qiyue immediately said, "It was the one who lost the country. Did my great-grandfather become a commoner?"

"Huh?!" Zhu Biao in the square became even angrier when he heard this.

"Zhu Yunwen, you stinky boy, stop right there!"

"Grandpa, save me!"

(End of this chapter)