Daming, originally wanted to destroy it, but the system came

Chapter 392: Fighting?

In the city of Dali Prefecture, in the palace of the Prince of Dian.

Zhu Chu was sitting in the palace, with important subordinates under his command on the left and right below.

Originally, Zhu Chu only had military generals under his command. Officials like Li Shuran and Yan Shitai were actually in the name of the imperial court and were not his ministers.

Just kidding, he is not the emperor yet.

But it's different now. Qian Gui and Gu Wen, who were the first to take the lead, are sitting under the right hand. The two of them shoulder the heavy responsibility of being Zhu's subordinate ministers.

Originally, the left hand was respected, and since the Song Dynasty, most people promoted civility and suppressed military power, using civilian officials to suppress military generals.

Including the court, the civil servant group is on the left, and the general group is on the right.

However, Qian Gui and Gu Wen knew that they had not made any achievements yet, while Zhu Ming's generals had made great achievements, so they voluntarily gave up their positions.

So Mu Chun was the leader on the left, followed by generals such as Wang Fu, Qu Neng, Zhao Kuo, Peng Yue, Niu Sheng, Mu Sheng, and Cen Hua.

The queue positions in the court should not only be ranked according to titles and official positions, but also seniority. If teachers and students are officials in the same court, how should they stand?

These are all sorted by the subordinates themselves in a tacit understanding.

It was Zhu Zhen who asked them to stay and sit behind him.

But if the middle position is taken as the leader, it can be seen as the two partial concubines Mu Qiu and Tang Xin guarding the main concubine Xu Miaojin.

And this is only Zhu Zhen's palace. If it is placed in the court, it will only be more troublesome.

Mu Qiu was the first to enter and naturally sat first, followed by Xu Miaojin and finally Tang Xin.

"Everyone loves you."

Anyway, it's very complicated here.

Moreover, the seating order of the three women is also particular.

Needless to say, Wang Fu's position in Zhu Chu's heart can't be shaken. He once gave Zhu Chu shit and urine, who can compare?

As soon as Zhu Ming opened his mouth and said "I love you all," everyone was startled, and the three women behind him also coughed.

Cen Hua glanced at Zhu Xi with her beautiful eyes and praised in her heart. His Highness was indeed wise and powerful and had no prejudice against her status as a Zhuang and her daughter's status.

Behind Zhu Chu, there were three other girls, Mu Qiu, Xu Miaojin and Tang Xin.

You are not the emperor yet.

Zhao Kuo followed Zhu Zhen earlier than Peng Yue and Niu Sheng. In addition, during the previous discussion of merit and rewards, he was also promoted to the commander of the capital. Although he was not named, he was qualified to rank before Peng Yue and Peng Yue.

As for Mu Sheng, although this boy was born in the Xiping Marquis Mansion, he is now just a commander after all, so he sits at the end, just in front of Cen Hua.

Zhu Yuanzhang was also a wise man when he was young. Although he was not handsome, his appearance was so extraordinary that he was so astonished that Guo Ying's father immediately bowed his head and worshiped him. He also gave away his daughter-in-law, Concubine Guo Ning, and two more The generals and even the entire family financed it.

"Cough cough cough."

cough cough cough.

Although Cen Hua was a woman, she was not underestimated by Zhu Chu. Instead, she was allowed to participate as a military commander.

Your Highness, you really don’t go behind our backs anymore, and you really don’t treat us as outsiders.

But Mu Chun is now the Marquis of Xiping, with the title of Marquis, and was sent by the imperial court to guard Yunnan. He has taken over the important responsibilities of Mu Ying's title and position. He must sit at the top of the list. Even if he wants to give in, Wang Fu will not overstep.

Although Qu Neng came later, he was the commander-in-chief of Yunnan Province after all, so he was ranked third.

Let me state in advance that Zhu Chu is not a shoehorned face, nor is his face full of pockmarks.

The reason is of course that they are his wives. Even if the marriage has not been completed yet, who in the world doesn't know that His Majesty wants to betroth them to him.

But at this time, when Zhu Chu returned to his house, he had naturally changed into the bright yellow dragon-patterned python robe.

The three women originally wanted to avoid suspicion, or simply go down and sit in the general's seat.

There are actually a lot of things to pay attention to when looking at seniority rankings among soldiers.

Ordinary python robes are naturally called python pattern, but their color is the same as that of the crown prince. In addition, the official uniforms of the Ming Dynasty were distinguished by color, so they are called dragon pattern python robes.

It means that the color is already the same as that of the emperor, but the clothes are not dragon robes, but python robe patterns.

"Just kidding, let's lighten the mood," Zhu Zhen laughed sarcastically himself, then looked at Cen Hua and said, "Cen Hua."

At this time, Zhu Zhen was sitting there, which made people hallucinate and mistakenly thought he was seeing Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang.

Speaking of which, if you don't notice that the python robe on Zhu Xi's body has four claws instead of five, he really looks a bit like an emperor.

Of course, no matter how similar he is, he can't just blurt out "I" or "Love you", it's a bit too much.

Of course Zhu Chu himself didn't care about this, and he was most tired of these annoying etiquette.

Then Cen Hua glanced at Wang Fu and curled her lips, looking a little unhappy.

The main reason is that Zhu Yu is so similar to Zhu Yuanzhang when he was young, and he was even recognized by Zhu Yuanzhang's senior officials.

"Ok?"

It stands to reason that Wang Fu is Zhu Zhen's most trusted confidant.

Just think about it this way, if Zhu Yuanzhang was so ugly, how could he have been trusted by Guo Zixing in the first place? The ancients valued appearance very much. Pang Tong was so talented and came from a prominent family, so it was not because of his ugly appearance that he could not be reused.

But when Zhu Yuanzhang was working as a cook under Guo Zixing, he won the favor of Queen Ma. Even Tang He, who was already the head of hundreds of households at that time, looked up to him.

"The general is here," Cen Hua stood up, clasping her hands into fists, waiting for Zhu Chu's instructions.

Cen Hua is very formal and dare not be rude.

After all, as a daughter, although she inherited her father's position, she did not want to bring shame to her father. She secretly swore in her heart that she must clear her father's name and let the world see the ability of our Zhuang son.

"I asked you to recruit Zhuang wolf soldiers before. How many did you collect in the end?" Zhu Zhen asked.

"Your Highness, in addition to the 100,000 Zhuang wolf soldiers brought by the general from Guangxi, there are another 100,000 wolf soldiers in Guangnan Mansion," Cen Hua said with a surprise.

As a result, Cen Hua alone had a total of 200,000 Zhuang troops under his command.

But Zhu Ming frowned and asked again: "You didn't use force, right?"

Cen Hua shook her head and quickly explained: "Nowadays, everyone knows the name of the King of Dian. As soon as they heard that the King of Dian was going to recruit troops, the people enthusiastically joined the army one after another, just to repay your kindness. This is what the final general has gone through. Screening, the result of screening out only one person in the family, and many young or infirm people. And no more conscription after the number reaches one hundred thousand. Otherwise, I am afraid that more than 150,000 people will have to be recruited."

Zhu Ming then said with satisfaction: "That's very good. Don't worry, I won't treat my Zhuang brothers badly."

Cen Hua agreed and sat back.

"Hou Dagou," Zhu Zhen shouted again.

Hou Dagou quickly stood up, clasped his hands like Cen Hua, and said, "The general will be here."

(As an aside, I almost forgot about Hou Dagou. Fortunately, there was a "wait" behind Cen Hua, so I didn't go to the front to change it.)

"Have the Yao brothers settled down?" Zhu Zhen asked with concern.

Hou Dagou was moved and said: "It's settled."

Zhu Chu did not just regard the Yao and Zhuang militiamen as expendable weapons or props, but he cared about each of them very much.

This is also Zhu Xi’s personality charm.

Even if you are pretending, others are not willing to pretend.

Even after pretending for so long, and on the premise that the so-called 'true face' has never been revealed, who can say that this is not true?

Zhu Ming likes to win over people's hearts because he knows that what the people want is the general trend.

But it doesn't mean that he will turn around and give up after winning people's hearts. Even if he can't cover everything (this is limited by the author's lack of IQ), at least he did it.

As long as you do what you can, you will have a clear conscience.

Zhu Ming asked around again and was concerned about the situation of his subordinates over the past year.

Especially Qu Neng.

"Then Annan Kingdom is a bit shameless," Zhu Zhen looked at Qu Neng and asked, "You have been there, what do you think of their abilities?"

"It's just a bunch of rabble," Qu Neng said with some disdain.

Annan Kingdom was the Vietnam of later generations. It should be noted that it was Burma of later generations that once caused a lot of trouble to the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Moreover, when the war between the Ming Dynasty and Burma broke out, it was already in the late Ming Dynasty. Everyone knows about the situation at the end of the Ming Dynasty. Not only was the Ming army's combat power low, but also the impact of the Little Ice Age, there were nine years of drought and nine years of waterlogging. Years of natural disasters, coupled with man-made disasters caused by the Donglin Party, as well as internal and external difficulties.

In this regard, Ming Dynasty did not lose too miserably.

As for Annan Kingdom.

The historical Ming Dynasty's Annan War took place in the fifth year of Yongle, and in just one year, the Annan Kingdom perished.

Zhu Di even established Annan Kingdom as the Chief Envoy of Jiaozhi, which was the Jisi system, which almost belonged to the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, Annan used to be called Jiaozhi. It has been a territory of China since the Han and Tang Dynasties. It became an independent country after the Five Dynasties. During the war years at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Annan took the opportunity to withdraw from China's territory.

Zhu Zhen narrowed his eyes slightly and asked Qu Neng: "Then why didn't you take the opportunity to kill them?"

Qu Neng was stunned and suddenly broke into a cold sweat.

At that time, he only killed Dao Bailan who rebelled and defected to Annan. He had no idea of ​​His Highness's ambition.

What's more, Annan Kingdom is now considered to be in a semi-independent state. It is not something that a mere commander of his would dare to decide at will to easily start a war with a country.

Your Highness, isn't this making things difficult for others?

Zhu Zhen also seemed to be aware of Qu Neng's difficulties, so he changed his words: "If I send you to attack Annan in the future, how many soldiers and horses will you need? And how many people will you need to conquer it?"

"Only thirty thousand," Qu Neng raised his head and said loudly. He didn't even need fifty thousand, only thirty thousand was enough.

"The Annan people are thin and weak, far inferior to our Ming Dynasty's elite soldiers. Thirty thousand people can be equivalent to one hundred thousand. Given time, the generals will surely sweep Annan away," Qu Neng even issued a military order.

Zhu Ming then said with satisfaction: "But don't be careless. Don't worry, sooner or later, I will send you to sweep Annan, but for now, we still have to focus on the west."

After saying that, Zhu Chu turned to look at Mu Qiu and asked, "Is Mr. Shen Rong back?"

"Your Highness, civilian Shen Rong wants to see you," just at this moment, a shout came from outside the door.

Zhu Zhen said quickly: "Please come in quickly."

Outside the door, Shen Rong stepped in. When he saw Zhu Chu, he knelt down with excitement and said, "Common citizen Shen Rong, please see your highness."

"Mr. Shen, please get up quickly," Zhu Zhen stood up and helped Shen Rong up personally.

Seeing Shen Rong in front of him who looked a little dusty due to the wind and sun and having been away from home for many years, Zhu Chu was also very moved.

It was Shen Rong who inquired about the news about the grassland outside the pass years ago, and only then did Zhu Chen know about the chaos in the grassland, and he entered the grassland in one fell swoop, and then successfully captured all the Tatar grassland tribes.

Otherwise, China will miss its opportunity.

Now that Zhu Chu returned to Yunnan, his purpose was to advance westward, and it was Shen Rong who sent back the news.

Shen Rong has become Zhu Chu's spy, using his identity as a businessman to travel around the world to find out information about various places.

"Mr. Shen, please take a seat," Zhu Ming led Shen Rong to where Gu Wen and Qian Gui were serving, and asked him to sit among the advisers.

Because Shen Rong didn't know the identities of Qian Gui and Gu Wen, he didn't refuse. He just thought that they were all guests of Zhu Chu.

But that's also true.

"Mr. Shen, are you coming back from the west?" Zhu Zhen asked impatiently without going back to his place.

"Yes," Shen Rong stood up immediately and said with excitement on his face: "Your Highness, the fight has started, it has completely started."

"Oh?" Zhu Min's eyes lit up and he asked, "Tell me the specific situation."

Others also looked at Shen Rong.

Shen Rong hurriedly said: "In the year before BC, that is, the 24th year of Hongwu, the Eastern Chagatai Khanate was succeeded by the black Erhuo."

At that time, Zhu Chu had just arrived in Yunnan.

"This black Erhuo Zhehan is an out-and-out Tianfang Cultist."

In fact, it is the Islamic religion, because Arabia was called Tianfang in the Ming Dynasty, the place in Arabian Nights, and the Islamic religion was thought to have come from there, so it was also called the Tianfang religion in the Ming Dynasty.

"Originally, the Western Chagatai Khanate split off to the west of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate. Now it was replaced by Timur, the original Western Chagatai Mongolian nobleman, and established the Timur Empire."

"Because Timur's empire was so powerful, Black Erhuo chose to marry his daughter to Timur Khan to form a marriage alliance."

"And this Timur Khan is actually a member of the Tianfang Sect."

"Because they were united by marriage, they no longer worried about opposing each other. Instead, they hit it off and planned to conquer the east."

This is different from the Crusades, because to the east of the Chagatai Khanate and today's Timur Empire was the Ming Dynasty.

However, Shen Rong changed his voice and said: "But they also know how powerful our Ming Dynasty is, so they dare not send troops to our Ming Dynasty. So the black Erhuo Zhe Khan led hundreds of thousands of troops of the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and chose to march to the southeast , to launch a holy war to invade Tibet, that is, the Usi Tibetan tribes. And Timur Khan also sent hundreds of thousands of troops, preparing to march to the northeast. He wanted to use the road from Turpan to enter the Mobei grassland and invade the Tatars and Oara."

Everyone was deeply shocked when they heard the news.

Could it be that the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and the Timurid Empire had millions of soldiers?

"It's called hundreds of thousands, right? Three hundred thousand can also be called hundreds of thousands," Zhu Zhen sneered. In ancient times, he liked to play this kind of word game. He often called himself an army of hundreds of thousands, but in fact it didn't even include logistics troops and even grain transporters. Military household registration and military service are all included.

But Zhu Chu was convinced that the army he had prepared was a regular army. Even the 300,000 militiamen from the Yao and Zhuang people he had recruited had considerable combat power.

It goes without saying that the Zhuang people are known as wolf soldiers. It is said that the Zhuang people are good at practicing a martial art called Zhuang Fist and have advocated force since childhood.

The Yao people's military strength is not bad either. Hou Dagou was not from a well-known family, but he was able to lead 100,000 Yao people militiamen to fight all the way from Guangxi to the hinterland of Guangdong.

Therefore, Zhu Min was not worried at all. Instead, he was very excited. This was a big war, and he could even decide the outcome in one fell swoop and completely regain Tibet and Xinjiang.

But now there is a question before us, that is, the Timurid Empire actually plans to invade Tatar and Oara?

Oara can be left alone, but now Tatar is the territory of Zhu Chu's people, so naturally it cannot be left alone.

And from the direction of leaving the Ming Dynasty, the first thing you encounter is the Tatar grassland forces. Tatar is equivalent to today's Inner Mongolia.

But if you go from the Eastern Chagatai Khanate and Turpan, you will enter the Mongolian region of later generations, which is now the territory of the Oara and Ulyanha tribes.

It would be nice if Timur could beat Wala and Ulyanha to a bloody head, but I'm afraid they would involve the Tatars.

It should be noted that in the process of annihilating Ghost Lichi, Zhu Chu also caused a lot of casualties to various Tatar tribes, especially the Alutai tribe, Qiqige tribe, Yahada tribe and Dandol tribe, which suffered the greatest losses. Except for Yahada tribe, Almost all the strong men died.

Zhu Chu didn't want anything to happen to the territory he finally conquered.

So after thinking again and again, Zhu Zhen turned to look at Muchun and ordered: "Mu Chun listen to the order."

"I'm here," Mu Chun said honestly. Since His Highness wants to play the role of emperor, he will cooperate.

Zhu Ming coughed dryly and waved his hand: "Don't make trouble."

Muchun had no choice but to change his words: "The official is here."

In fact, Muchun did not want to inherit the Marquisship, but preferred to follow Zhu Chun in the southern and northern wars.

If he had been by Zhu Chu's side when they were in the grassland, Niu Sheng would have nothing to do with him.

Perhaps Zhao Kuo also had the courage to fight without fear of death, and was fearless in death.

Zhu Chun ordered to Muchun: "I want to carefully select a post rider, speed up the horse at a speed of eight hundred miles, and deliver the message to the Tatar tribe on the grassland as a warning. I will change horses but not people throughout the process to prevent accidents. Something went wrong.”

"Yes," Muchun immediately went out to prepare.

Although it was just a small matter, as long as it was arranged by Zhu Zhen, he would never dare to neglect it.

What's more, Muchun also knew that this was no small matter. Once the Tatar tribes were suddenly invaded without any preparation, there would probably be countless casualties, and many tribes would be massacred.

"Wait a minute," suddenly Zhu Zhen called to Muchun and said, "Find two post riders."

Others are a little strange, because as long as the letter is sent to the Tatar tribe, the Tatar tribes can contact each other confidently, and even spontaneously gather together for confrontation.

Why do we need two stagecoaches?

I heard Zhu Ming say: "It's time to let the veteran generals in the court move around."

Xu Miaojin's heart moved, and she looked at Zhu Ming in shock, having already guessed something.

Zhu Miao glanced at Xu Miaojin subconsciously and couldn't help but said: "Sister, do you know what I think?"

Xu Miaojin swallowed his saliva and said: "You plan to ask the court to prepare troops and food in advance. After defeating the Wusizang tribes and the Eastern Chagatai Khanate here, you will directly move to the grassland battlefield to wipe out the Timur Empire's troops in one fell swoop. , or even start another grassland war to sweep across Oara and Uliangha?"

As expected of Xu Miaojin, she was the one who followed Zhu Zhen on the grassland to fight in the north and south, and she also knew that Zhu Zhen was not willing to retreat at that time.

But due to weather conditions, he had to retreat.

Now that he has such a good opportunity, how can he let it go?

Timur, Timur, I'm afraid you haven't heard of the story about the mantis stalking the cicada and the oriole behind it, right?

It’s just that we have to attack Tibet, Xinjiang, and Mongolia.

This battlefield is also huge, almost equal to the current territory of the Ming Dynasty.

If Zhu Zhen could really succeed in one fell swoop, it would be enough to more than double the size of the Ming Dynasty.

After this battle, it is conceivable that Zhu Zhen will become famous all over the world.

By that time, Zhu Chu could walk away sideways just because of his impressive military exploits.

Who in the world dares to disobey?

(Point taken.)

(End of this chapter)