Zhu Yuanzhang can see my dreams

Chapter 348 Chapter 348 What is uncle-nephew control group?
Wang Buli glanced at Zhu Di and thought that this boy was still very shallow at the moment.

He subconsciously looks to his father for everything.

It is enough to see that Zhu Yuanzhang's strict fatherly education has penetrated into their bones, so it is extremely normal for these princes to want to escape from Zhu Yuanzhang.

"When the Hongwu Emperor appointed his eldest brother's son Zhu Yunwen as the crown prince instead of appointing him as the heir, the Prince of Yan was obviously very disappointed."

Zhu Di became a little depressed again. Although he had thought about it, he felt that it was not realistic at all.

It's just that I just saw the praises of him in the history books, and I felt a little inflated for a moment.

But it's not twenty years later.

Perhaps when his eldest brother, second brother and third brother died one after another, Zhu Di had strong thoughts.

"In the first few months of his reign, Emperor Jianwen began to consider how to strengthen his own power while weakening the power of the feudal kingdoms, and took drastic actions against smaller and weaker princes on charges of crimes that were real or not.

Zhu Yunwen and his trusted ministers Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng and others discussed in secret how to reduce the power of the princes.

Qi Tai suggested that they should capture the king first, so they should kill the King of Yan first. However, Emperor Jianwen was a little worried. He also wanted to depose the King of Yan, but he was afraid that the King of Yan was good at using troops, and the northern soldiers were very brave. What should he do?

Qi Tai said to tell Emperor Jianwen that there are strong enemies spying on the northern border. In the name of border defense, we will send troops to guard Kaiping and transfer all the guards of the Prince of Yan to the outside of the Great Wall. By cutting off his wings, we can slowly defeat him. "

"Oh." Wang Buli snorted and laughed: "My fellow villager Qi Tai is an expert. At least he can stand firm on the righteousness. The King of Yan must listen to him."

Zhu Di also understood why he only had 800 men available.

"Who would have thought that after the new emperor ascended the throne, he would start with his uncle!" Zhu Di said angrily:
"In this situation, I am far away in Peking and I don't know what the new emperor thinks. Can I not obey his orders?"

Zhu Yuanzhang also understood why he asked Qi Tai to assist in governing the country. This guy did have some awareness, but he did not use it in national affairs as he had imagined.

"Qi Taidu persuaded Emperor Jianwen, but was strongly opposed by Huang Zicheng, who believed that the kings of Zhou, Qi, Xiang, Dai, and Min had committed many illegal acts during the reign of the previous emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, and therefore they should be punished.

Therefore, Emperor Jianwen decided to first depose the kings of Zhou, Qi, Xiang, Dai, and Min. If he wanted to punish the kings now, he should start with King Yan's younger brother, King Zhou Zhu Su. Destroying Zhou would mean cutting off Yan's limbs.

Emperor Jianwen then ordered Li Jinglong to lead his troops to raid and capture the King of Zhou. Soon after, someone reported them for treason, so the King of Zhou and the King of Min were deposed as commoners, the King of Dai was imprisoned in Datong, and the King of Qi was imprisoned in the capital.

Prince of Hunan Zhu Bo was accused of conspiracy, counterfeiting banknotes, and murder. Emperor Jianwen issued an edict to severely reprimand Zhu Bo and order him to come to the capital for questioning.

After discussion, the court ministers decided to send troops to hide weapons in carts filled with wood and disguise them as a merchant caravan. After arriving in Jingzhou, the soldiers who were preparing to arrest Zhu Bo unexpectedly surrounded Zhu Bo's mansion.

Zhu Bo was shocked and angry when he heard the news, and he sighed to the sky:

"Alas! I have seen that many ministers in previous dynasties who were imprisoned during a tyrannical dynasty often committed suicide.

As the son of Taizu, when my father passed away, I could neither visit him during his illness nor attend his funeral. I feel deeply regretful and sad. What fun is there in living in this world?

Will I be humiliated by slaves again today?

How can I survive like this!"

After saying this, Zhu Bo burst into tears. After drinking farewell with his family, Zhu Bo set fire to the palace and concubines with his own hands. He put on the clothes of a prince, rode a white horse with a bow and arrow in his hand, and jumped into the fire to commit suicide. All the palace died with Zhu Bo.

After Emperor Jianwen's death, his fiefdom was revoked and he was given the evil posthumous title of "Li".

After Zhu Di became emperor, he felt pity for Zhu Bo's innocent death, restored Zhu Bo's reputation, changed his posthumous title to Xian, and appointed officials to guard his mausoleum.

Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang stood up.

He really didn't expect that his grandson would force his son to death.

And he was given a bad posthumous title.

Zhu Yuanzhang considered himself a person who cared deeply about family affection.

Looking at this situation now, I feel mixed emotions.

The fire in the giant screen seemed to be burning him.

The struggle for imperial power did not happen in his generation, but it happened in the next generation, and it was so explosive.

The King of Xiang died.

How should people in the world view Emperor Zhu Yunwen?

He even forced his own uncle to death!
Zhu Di's eyes widened even more, as he had originally thought that his brother's final fate would be to become a commoner.

I never thought I would die!

Such an outcome made the remaining princes even more dissatisfied. Would they be the next to be doomed?

Therefore, it was very normal for them to just stand by and watch when Zhu Di started his rebellion.

"Huang Zicheng and others advised the emperor not to be too "sad" because the Prince of Xiang was dead and he needed to step up efforts to reduce the power of the Prince of Yan and not let his efforts go to waste.

Zhang Bing, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of Works, was transferred to be the left governor of Beiping, and Xie Gui was appointed as the commander-in-chief to monitor Zhu Di's movements in Beiping.

Emperor Jianwen also ordered the governor Song Zhong to lead 30,000 troops and the elite guards of the Prince of Yan to station in Kaiping (now Tangshan, Hebei), and summoned Guan Tong, the commander of the Hu cavalry guards, and others to enter the capital in order to weaken the Prince of Yan.

Emperor Jianwen redeployed the official troops of Yongqing Zuowei and Yongqing Youwei in Beiping to be stationed in Zhangde (now Anyang, Henan) and Shunde (now Xingtai, Hebei), and ordered Governor Geng Li to train troops in Shanhaiguan and Xu Kai to train troops in Linqing in order to control Beiping.

The five kings were deposed in just ten months. The demotion was so swift and in such a short time that it aroused the vigilance of the King of Yan.

But at this time, the King of Yan was worried and afraid. His three sons were all hostages in the capital, so he pretended to be sick and asked his three sons to return to China.

Qi Tai wanted to detain him, but was rejected by Huang Zicheng. He decided to send him back to reduce the King of Yan's suspicion so that they could capture him in a surprise attack.

In order to prevent any unexpected events, Zhu Di secretly made a lot of military preparations.

The imperial court wanted to buy time, and Zhu Di also wanted to buy time.

In order to paralyze the court, he began to pretend to be sick and crazy.

The dignified King of Yan ran to the downtown area, shouting and yelling, snatching people's food and wine, sleeping anywhere, and often sleeping in the pigsty.

In order to make it look realistic, they wore cotton jackets and sat by the stove in the hottest weather, pretending to be shivering with cold, and even used crutches to move around in the palace. Finally, after several months, Emperor Jianwen allowed the three sons of Prince of Yan to return.

Zhu Di was stunned. He never expected that he would be forced to this point.

According to Emperor Jianwen, only if he died would the new emperor feel at ease.

Wang Buli was quite impressed by Zhu Di's performance. How could an ordinary person be so cruel as to pollute himself?

The key point is that after Zhu Di ascended the throne, he did not hide this "black spot" of his.

"My son is quite courageous. He knows that a real man can bend and stretch."

Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect that Zhu Di, at his age, would be so shameless as to do such a thing.

I have to say that a mother's love for her child is profound.

Although Zhu Di was also responsible for the delay, he also took great pains to use this excuse to get his sons to come back.

Emperor Jianwen forced Zhu's son to death, and Zhu Di tried every means to help his son escape from the "tiger's mouth".

In Zhu Yuanzhang's view, the uncle-nephew control group was completely different.

Wang Buli took a sip of Bingkuoluo. It turned out that only by comparing people with each other can one change others' views more directly.

Zhu Di never expected that even though he was pretending to be crazy and stupid, his father would still praise him so much.

I didn't know what to say for a while.

In short, today's incident had a huge impact on him.

"Zhu Yunwen believes that the deployment is appropriate and the advantage lies with me.

In June of the first year of Jianwen, he secretly ordered Zhang Bing and Xie Gui to take action.

At the same time, he secretly ordered Zhang Xin, the commander of Beiping, who was originally trusted by Zhu Di, to arrest Zhu Di, but Zhang Xin told Zhu Di all the plans for Zhu Yun's tomb.

Zhu Di ordered his trusted guard commanders Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng to recruit 800 brave warriors to guard the palace.

In July, Zhu Yunfeng issued another order to arrest officials of the royal palace. Xie Gui and others led the seven guards in Beiping and more than 40,000 soldiers from the garrison to station in various important places in Beiping. They surrounded the royal city and cut off the passage, demanding the arrested officials. Song Zhong and Ma Xuan each led their troops to rush towards Beiping.

At that time, the whole city of Beiping was filled with troops led by Xie Gui, and the elite soldiers guarding Zhu Di's palace were all transferred to Kaiping. The situation was very unfavorable to Zhu Di.

Zhu Di discussed with Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng and decided to capture and kill Zhang Bing and Xie Gui first. After getting rid of the generals, the other soldiers would be easy to deal with.

Zhu Di said: "We should plan to capture them. Now the treacherous ministers have sent envoys to arrest the officials and arrest them according to their crimes.

Immediately send an envoy to summon Bing and hand over the arrested persons.

Zhang Bing and Xie Gui will surely come, and if they do, we will capture them. It is only the strength of one strong man."

Xie Gui and Zhang Bing were captured and killed during a banquet under the pretext that Zhu Di had come to the palace to check the list of arrested officials. When the soldiers besieging the palace heard that Zhang Bing and Xie Gui had been arrested, they all fled.

Zhu Di immediately ordered Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng and others to lead troops to attack the Nine Gates at night and conquer them at dawn.

The commander-in-chief Ma Xuan was defeated in the street fighting and fled to Jizhou.

Song Zhong, who was ordered to attack Yan from his base, retreated to Huailai after hearing about the great changes at Juyongguan.

The Yan army took control of the city of Beiping. Zhu Di rebelled and appointed his own generals.

He followed the ancestral teachings to punish the rebels, clear the court of the emperor's entourage, and declared peace. He also wrote to Emperor Jianwen, accusing the court of appointing treacherous officials and depriving the five kings of their power, and declared that he would raise an army to punish the treacherous officials and rebels.

There was a cry of killing coming from the screen, and Zhu Yuanzhang had to admit that the 800 soldiers around Zhu Di were still extremely brave.

Those troops who were dispatched to besiege, whether they were generals or ordinary soldiers, all fled in disarray, without any intention of resisting.

Zhu Di looked at his middle-aged self. He no longer acted crazy or stupid. Instead, he was full of ambition to fight to the end and there was no turning back. For a moment, he was also infected by this emotion.

Wang Buli had to admit that men are sometimes attracted to war. Even though he didn't fight with real swords and guns, he always felt a sense of heroism rising from his heart.

"After Zhu Di occupied Beiping, he ordered his son Zhu Gaochi to stay in Beiping while he led his troops to attack Tongzhou.

Tongzhou is 40 miles away from Peking. It is the eastern gate of Peking and has always been a battleground for military strategists. When the Yan army arrived in Tongzhou, Tongzhou Guard Commander Fang Sheng and others led the troops to surrender. The Yan army won without a fight and took control of the eastern gate.

After controlling Tongzhou, Zhu Di decided to order Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng to lead the army to attack Jizhou in the east.

Jizhou is located to the east of Tongzhou and connected to Daning (now Ningcheng, Inner Mongolia) to the north. It serves as a barrier to the east of Peking.

The Yan army led by Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng suddenly arrived at the city of Jizhou. The commander-in-chief Ma Xuan was caught off guard and hurried out of the city to fight. He was defeated and killed. The commander Mao Sui surrendered the city to Yan.

After Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng appeased the enemy a little, they led the Yan army to attack Zunhua at night.

Zunhua is located in the northeast of Jizhou. From its northeast, you can reach Daning by passing through Xifengkou. The commander of Zunhua Guard, Jiang Yu, led his troops to surrender.

After the victory on the eastern front, Zhu Di gathered his generals to plan an attack on Juyong and Huailai in the north.

The road at Juyongguan is narrow and dangerous, and it is the throat of Peking. If a hundred men guard it, ten thousand men cannot spy on it. Thus, there is no need to worry about the north.

Now that Yu Qi has it, he is determined to take it. It is like the back door of a family, how can he allow others to occupy it?

Zhu Di ordered Xu An, Zhong Xiang and others to lead the attack on Juyong Pass.

Yu Qi fought and defended at the same time, but due to lack of reinforcements, he abandoned the pass and retreated to Huailai, where he attached himself to Song Zhong.

After the Yan army occupied the pass, Zhu Di decided to take advantage of the victory to capture Huailai.

Zhu Di analyzed the enemy's situation and believed that this battle "should be won by wisdom, not by force. If we talk about force, we are not enough, but if we talk about wisdom, we are more than enough.

They are newly assembled and their minds are not united. Song Zhong is frivolous, impatient, unstrategic, cruel and self-willed. If we take advantage of their uncertainty and attack them, they will surely be defeated.

After the agreement was reached, Zhu Di led 8,000 elite cavalry and infantry and headed straight for Huailai.

The Yan army was approaching the city, and Song Zhong led his troops to hastily form a battle line to fight.

Zhu Di took advantage of the fact that the Song army was not yet in a stable formation and launched an attack.

The Song army was demoralized, many of them mutinied, and retreated into the city. The Yan army took advantage of the situation, followed them into the city, captured Song Zhong and Yu Qi, and captured more than a hundred officers and soldiers of the Song army.

After Huailai was conquered, Kaiping, Longmen, Yongping and other places also successively surrendered.

The army started to quell the rebellion on the fifth day of July, and the defenders of Yongping, Zhao Yi and Guo Liang, surrendered the city on the eighteenth day.

The Prince of Yan launched a surprise attack with lightning speed, which lifted the siege of Peking, eliminated the threat from the east, and removed the thorn in the north.

Not only did it disrupt the imperial court's plan to conquer Yan, but it also consolidated Peking and stabilized the situation, laying the foundation for fighting against the imperial court's army heading north."

Zhu Di looked at the electronic map on the screen and then at his own battle process and was shocked.

Is this magic?

The action route and the enemy and our own situation were clear, which was very different from the military knowledge on maps he learned from Xu Da.

Zhu Di felt that this was even more advanced than the sand table battle that Wang Buli mentioned!

Yes, that’s the word advanced.

For a while, Zhu Di did not focus on how powerful he was, but on how to master this map-making method and how to better apply it in the Ming Dynasty's external military operations.

The clarity of this map, and the fact that it is three-dimensional in some places, is absolutely incomparable to any flat map.

Xu Da once taught Zhu Di that not everyone can understand a map.

There are very few people who have the talent of a general. They look at a flat map on paper, but what appears in their minds is a three-dimensional map.

This kind of talent is innate and cannot be learned.

Zhu Di was shocked by the more advanced method of map-making.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang realized from Zhu Di's great victory that Zhu Yunwen felt that he was well prepared and had the advantage, but he was caught off guard all of a sudden.

And Beijing is not close to Nanjing.

After Zhu Di took control of the city of Beiping, Zhu Yunwen did not respond with his trusted aides for such a long time after the news of Song Zhong and others was sent to Nanjing.

The response was so slow.

What the hell is ready!

Do you really think that Zhu Di will surrender once the troops arrive?
He wanted to reduce the power of the feudal lords before he even ascended the throne. He planned for such a long time, but only came up with this method. He didn't even prepare a second plan. What a waste!
Zhu Yuanzhang felt that Zhu Di's willingness to sacrifice his life was somewhat similar to his character in his early years.

Wang Buli looked at the expressions of the father and son and felt that they probably had different ideas.

Based on his understanding of Zhu Yuanzhang, he thought that Emperor Jianwen was too useless in military affairs, while Zhu Di might be obsessed with how awesome he was and how fucking good the 3D map effect was.

"When the news of the failure of the first battle to conquer Yan reached Nanjing, Emperor Jianwen, who thought that conquering Yan would be successful in no time, was stunned. He had been immersed in the joy of successfully conquering the vassal states and had never expected that this would be the result.

Then, Emperor Jianwen, who was suppressing his anger, made the following arrangements based on the suggestions of Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng.

Geng Bingwen, Marquis of Changxing, was appointed as the General of Conquering the Enemy Army, and Li Jian, the son-in-law of the emperor, and Ning Zhong, the governor, were appointed as the left and right deputy generals. They led an army of 300,000 to the north. Wu Jie, Marquis of Anlu, Wu Gao, Marquis of Jiangyin, and the governors and
The commander-in-chief Sheng Yong... Ping An and others followed the expedition, and the editor of the Hanlin Academy Cheng Ji was appointed as the military advisor.

He ordered the three provinces of Shandong, Henan and Shanxi to jointly raise military funds.

According to Emperor Jianwen's plan, he hoped that the army would win the battle, attack Beiping directly, and capture the Prince of Yan and bring him back to the capital."

Now it was Zhu Yuanzhang's turn to be surprised:
"Could it be that my generals all died young, and it is Geng Bingwen's turn to lead the army?"

In his impression, Geng Bingwen has always been used as a defensive general, and he is also very good in this aspect.

The offensive end is usually done by Chang Yuchun, Xu Da and others.

In Zhu Yuanzhang's view, Geng Bingwen's contribution was equal to that of Xu Da.

Wang Buli certainly knew that by the end of the Hongwu period, only two of the many dukes and marquises were alive, one was Geng Bingwen and the other was Guo Ying.

The rest either died of old age or were slaughtered and purged by him!
Zhu Yuanzhang doesn’t know now that the lifespans of many of his generals were forcibly shortened by him.

Having always been in the army, Zhu Di also knew these princes and dukes. He never expected that he would lead his army to fight against the meritorious veteran generals.

"Brother-in-law." Zhu Di couldn't help but ask, "If I practice your Ba Duan Jin health-preserving method every day, can it extend my lifespan?"

"How can I give you a definite answer?"

Wang Buli was unwilling to fall into this trap. It was Zhu Yuanzhang who pretended to be the person in charge, so he suggested this health-preserving method. He just regarded it as a favor.

God knows whether it was effective after Queen Ma practiced it.

Wang Buli counted on his fingers and concluded that Empress Ma would not live for more than two years.

By that time Zhu Yuanzhang would go mad because of this matter, and Zhu Chongba would have been dead, leaving only the Hongwu Emperor, who was extremely cruel and ruthless.

"There is no method in the world to prolong life. It's all a lie."

Zhu Yuanzhang, on the contrary, blurted out that he did not believe in any way to achieve immortality.

He still remembered that Jiajing had practiced Taoism and taken elixirs for so many years, but he had not lived as long as his ancestor!
Cultivation?

What a stupid immortal! I really want to give him a slap in the face.

Although this veteran was the only one left in command, Zhu Di sighed:
"It looks like my future journey to Jingnan will not be smooth sailing!"

(End of this chapter)