Daming: Pretending to be a blind prince, was exposed by Sister Zhou’s live broadcast

Chapter 0068 Zhu Yuanzhang Shocked: Qin Han! It was actually Lao Jiu who ordered death?!!

[In the second year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, you were born in the palace of Yingtianfu, and you were the ninth prince of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of Hongwu! ] It’s a pity that my mother came from a humble background and was just a palace maid, so that you have been more sensible than other princes since you were a child, and you know more about the familiar opening method, but it is not a taste to see Zhu Yuanzhang’s heart! The four- or five-year-old little fart is just at the age of understanding and remembering, but the young Lao Jiu shows a forbearance that does not match his age! 】

In fact, it is difficult to say, that is, I feel that my mother was born inferior to the mother of other princes, so I feel inferior!

[In the seventh year of Hongwu, an accident blinded your eyes in the smoke of the fire, and my father and several brothers were very distressed about your experience, and they usually cared more about you. ] And yet you’re rejoicing, glad you’re blind, and don’t even want everyone to look at you! 】

Zhu Yuanzhang never expected that Lao Jiu after being blind actually had such an idea in his heart!

This father, coupled with the love of the eldest Zhu Biao and their brothers for Lao Jiu, was actually disliked by him!

Where does this make sense?

[Just when everyone thought that your eyes were going blind for the rest of your life, Hong Samurai three years, when you turned twelve, your eye disease miraculously healed itself! ] 】

[When you find that your eyesight has recovered, you suppress the joy and shock in your heart, and still pretend to be blind in front of everyone! ] Because in two or three years you can become a domain, and I only hope to go to the fiefdom safely and securely, and I don’t want to make a difference at this juncture! 】

[At your request, my father agreed to put your fief next to the Xi’an Mansion of King Zhu of Qin, and gave you the Hanzhong Mansion, which can be regarded as letting you two brothers take care of each other. 】

[Because he failed to save you from the fire in time, King Zhu Chun of Qin has always felt guilty about you, and when he heard that you were going to be sealed to Hanzhong Mansion, he promised his father that he would take good care of you! ] Father allowed you to leave for the Hanzhong Mansion at the age of fifteen! 】

“When you were fifteen, you got married. But the first princess of Han died of illness in the second year of marrying into Hanzhong Mansion because of her frailty and illness, and she failed to leave you a son and a half daughter! 】

[I heard that the ministers of the DPRK and China began to be busy marrying their daughters during this time, and you laughed. You know that they are all afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang will choose a concubine for you again, and then their daughter may have to marry a blind lord! But you don’t care about this at all, and even wrote to your father, not ready to marry again! 】

[In these years in Hanzhong, you began to work hard to govern the fiefdom and slowly accumulate your own strength. On the surface, you claim that there are not many soldiers but are fine, but in fact, you are shy in your pockets and cannot afford to raise too many troops. But even so, you’re still trying! 】

[Since the number of troops is small, then you have spent all your thoughts on how to arm this army to the teeth so that they can exert stronger combat effectiveness! ] After five years of operation, you have made the armor rate of more than 10,000 soldiers of the Hanzhong Army as high as 50%! The remaining fifty percent is also at least half armor! 】

Zhu Yuanzhang’s eyes were full of shock!

Before Lao Jiu took over, his eyes really recovered! But he chose to continue to pretend to be blind!

But at the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang also found that because of his origin, Lao Jiu felt that he was not as advantageous as several other brothers, so he would hide and disguise himself so much, he secretly accumulated strength, more like a kind of self-preservation, at least in the early stage, he did not see from the details that Lao Jiu had any signs of wanting to rebel! Such a discovery made Zhu Yuanzhang’s heart feel mixed again.

Just because his mother is not as good as other brothers, he forced himself into this, this sense of crisis, is it too much?

Is it necessary? Is it worth it?

Perhaps this answer is only clear to Lao Jiu himself!

[But you are also a prince in the end, and my father can’t really watch you fight for a lifetime! ] In the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, his father finally chose Zhou Shuyi, the daughter of Hubu attendant Zhou Cheng, as the princess of Han, and married far away to Hanzhong Mansion! You can only accept this! 】

[In the next seven years, Zhou Shuyi gave birth to three sons and two daughters for you, which made your father very satisfied, so he followed your wishes and no longer gave you concubines! ] 】

[In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, Zhu Biao, the eldest brother of the prince, fell ill after returning from a tour of Shaanxi, and finally passed away. But what you didn’t expect was that your father actually appointed Zhu Yunjiang as the imperial grandson, and at this time you realized that the sky of the Ming Dynasty was likely to change! 】

[Because you have seen the ambition of several older brothers since you were a child, only the eldest brother Zhu Biao can suppress them! ] Especially the fourth brother Zhu Di is absolutely unwilling to succumb to his nephew! 】

[From this moment on, you have a more sense of crisis, so you began to value increasing your military strength in the next few years! ] 】

[Hongwu thirty-one years, when your father died, the elite soldiers and horses in your hands could reach 30,000, but more than 10,000 of them needed to garrison Tianshui Pass to defend against the Vara people who could invade at any time! ] 】

[After Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunjiang succeeded to the throne, he began to cut the domain, and even your twelfth brother died by self-immolation, and many brothers and clan kings were imprisoned by this new emperor. At this moment you are sure that everything you do is worth it! 】

[Fortunately, because you have been pretending to be blind to the outside world, your nephew Yun Jiao did not take precautions against you at the first time, plus your popular prestige in the northwest, for a while, you were actually the most comfortable one among the lords of the clans! ] 】

[When you heard that the fourth brother Zhu Di raised troops in Beiping and fought in the name of the Qing monarch’s side, you knew that your opportunity had come! ] 】

[But at this time, the Vara army took advantage of the internal strife in Daming to invade south. You’ll have to spend most of your energy on expelling and defeating the Vara first! 】

[When you finally pulled out your hand and went south to Yingtianfu with an army of 20,000, you learned that Li Jinglong had opened the city gate and let Zhu Di capture Yingtianfu one step faster! ] You didn’t calculate that Zhu Di would lock in the victory so easily! But you were unwilling, so you began to fight with the Yan army under the banner of killing the anti-thieves! 】

[You only relied on 20,000 soldiers and horses, and fought back and forth with the fourth Zhu Di in six years, but because of Geng Qing’s defeat, you almost lost half of the elite of the Hanzhong army, and it also caused you to finally have to retreat to the Hami area of the Western Regions! ] 】

Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang had roughly understood the development process and psychological process of Lao Jiu Zhu Li’s rebellion.

The first time Lao Jiu had the idea of rebelling was when he established Zhu Yunjiang as the crown prince after Zhu Biao’s death!

At this time, Lao Jiu had a sense of crisis!

And it turns out that his sense of crisis is really right! Such a result made Zhu Yuanzhang’s heart very unpleasant!

Can he really blame Lao Jiu for this? Because the nephew wants to kill these uncles of the clan king!

But up to this point, all the things that happened before Lao Jiu retreated to the Western Regions were expected by Zhu Yuanzhang, because he had seen a lot of details in other deduction plots before, and now it is more of a supplement to the details!

[Western Regions, you set out from Tianshui with the remaining 10,000 soldiers and horses, and it took half a year to level the Hexi Corridor and control Ningxia, and then it took another year to control Hami! ] 】

[You are Zhu Li, the King of Han who was expelled to the Western Regions in the Battle of Han Yan, but now, you are the King of Yong, relying on the remaining more than 10,000 Han troops, the Yong King who controlled the Western Regions in the Southern and Northern Wars, in the Western Regions, there are legends of you everywhere! ] 】

[During your reign, you recruited soldiers and horses, rectified the 30,000 Western Regions Iron Horse Crusade to the West, overthrew the Timurid Empire, and then successively expanded your territory from Uzbekistan to the Caspian Trench in Ashgabat! ] 】

[In this barren land, your enemies are all Persians, Macedonians, Turks, Arabs, who fled to Tehran and Damascus on camels! 】

[Jerusalem formed a coalition army, came to negotiate, and finally divided the entire area from the Caspian Trench and the Kazakh area to the direct jurisdiction of the Yongwang, and your condition is that you pay a fixed tribute of gold and silver every year! ] 】

Here it comes!

It turned out that during this time in the Western Regions, Lao Jiu had never stopped!

Although he had also seen some scenes of Lao Jiu’s expansion and conquest in the Western Regions in the previous deduction, there were very few details, and it was not as shocking as what he saw this time!

Relying on the remaining 10,000-odd Han Chinese army in his hands, Lao Jiu actually unified the entire Western Regions in just a few years, and expanded the number of soldiers and horses to 35,000. And even more!

[Here, you began to hoard battle armor and war horses, during this period, Zhu Di has repeatedly marched north, and you have sent the Pingmo general Geng Qing to also fight Walai many times, which is quite successful! ] But in the eighteenth year of Yongle, Geng Qing died of an arrow wound on the way home! 】

[You are also getting older, in the nineteenth year of Yongle, you met a person who looked exactly like you, and you ordered that this person be secretly executed, and announced that the eldest son Zhu Xianqiu would succeed to the throne! ] 】

Really!

Is this God helping Lao Jiu?

It actually allowed him to meet someone who looked almost exactly like himself

This is an incredible thing in Zhu Yuanzhang’s opinion!

It turned out that Lao Jiu relied on this person who looked very similar to himself to be able to cheat to death, and even deceived Old Fourth Zhu Di!

[In the twenty years of Yongle, your body was sent to Yingtian, which did not arouse Zhu Di’s suspicion, and Zhu Di even held a state funeral for you, and the name Xiangwu was buried in Dingjun Mountain! ] 】

[Only three people know about your fraudulent death, the eldest son Zhu Xianqiu, Wang Wu, and the housekeeper of the Yongwang Mansion, and finally the fourth person Qin Han learned! ] 】

[You know, there are three people that the imperial court is afraid of now, one is you, and the other two are Geng Qing and Qin Han, Geng Qing passed away in the eighteenth year of Yongle, so in the second month of your fraudulent death, Qin Han was also given death! ] 】

Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked again! Qin Han!

It was actually Lao Jiu who ordered death! Ruthless!

Lao Jiu is not only cruel to himself! Be even more ruthless to your subordinates!

What he didn’t expect was that this Qin Han was actually willing to die, saying that he was the last time he helped the Yongwang achieve great deeds!

One more point… Wang Wu!

It turned out that Wang Wu knew from the beginning that Lao Jiu was fraudulently killed!

That is to say, since he was captured in the Battle of Puyang, Wang Wu has already held the idea of going deep into the enemy camp, but he is actually in Cao Ying and his heart is in Han!

What a ruthless person again!

[Since then, the three generals of the Yongwang, only Liu Shan remains, you know, Liu Shan must live, because he is guarding Hami, only he is there, Zhu Di does not dare to easily march west! ] 】

Zhu Yuanzhang could see that although Lao Jiu had already controlled most of the Western Regions, there were less than 50,000 soldiers and horses under his command who could be mobilized, and of these 50,000 people, 20,000 were Hami’s garrisons who could not be moved at all!

Moreover, the Western Regions are too barren, if he fights with Zhu Di again, the logistics and food will not be enough to supply for three months, that is, he has not yet wrestled with the fourth Zhu Di at this time

Wrist capital! I’m so poor that I can’t afford to fight!

At this time, Lao Jiu is poor, and it is so poor that it is difficult to raise even 50,000 people, because these 50,000 soldiers and horses are not ordinary soldiers and horses, they are all cavalry, well-equipped, and the rate of wearing armor is high, at least they are all wearing half armor, and they are really elite divisions!

But it’s okay for these steel elites to go and fight the Persians and Macedonians and Arabs!

Who is Zhu Di? He is not an Arab, he is really hard steel with Zhu Di, once the war reaches a stalemate, it can drag down the logistics of the entire Western Regions in minutes!

The composition of the army in the Ming period was mainly divided into four classes…

[Militia: Temporarily organized and conscripted troops! ] 】

[Weisho soldier: conscript, mainly responsible for production! ] 】

[Regular army: professional soldiers, with a combat merit system! ] 】

[Elite soldiers: all armor! ] 】

The Shenji Battalion and the 3,000 Battalion under Zhu Di are regular troops! And under Zhu Li, they all take the elite soldier route!

In order to reassure Zhu Di, Lao Jiu did not hesitate to cheat to death, and even gave death to his henchman Qin Han, what courageous this was!

[After you died, Princess Zhou of Han washed her face with tears, and in less than half a year, she also died of illness in the Yongwang Mansion of the Thousand Western Regions! ] 】

[And you, although you are deceived, your training volume has not stopped, you still maintain the state of your prime, and you have never relaxed for a moment! ] 】

[In the twenty-second year of Yongle, Zhu Di died, Zhu Gaojie ascended the throne, and the year name was changed to Hongxi, at this time, you already have 60,000 troops! ] 】

[In the first year of Hongxi, Zhu Gaoji died of illness, Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne, and the year name was changed to Xuande! ] 】

[Ten years after Xuande, Zhu Zhan’s genetic disease died, the eldest son Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, and the year name was changed to orthodoxy, at this time, you already have 150,000 troops! ] 】

[Zhu Qizhen went to the north to march, with the support of Wang Wu, when Zhu Qizhen really went to the northern expedition, Wang Wu had already communicated to the Western Regions, and it was time for you to appear, transferring back 100,000 troops from the Caspian trench area! ] This is a tiger and wolf division composed of a taxi rate of about 40 years old! 】

[Your return, the great chaos in the Western Regions, no one expected that once that Yong King returned, and the morale of the army was unprecedentedly high! ] 】

[You are old, you are already in your twilight years, there is not much time left for you, you thought that a tough battle was about to be fought next, because the three generals under your command Qin Han, Liu Shan, and Geng Qing were no longer there, and only you were left, but the matter was unexpected to you, Wang Wu sent news that Zhu Qizhen was captured not long after he went out to fight…”

Zhu Yuanzhang was speechless when he saw this!

Indeed, Zhu Qizhen was captured, which may not even be thought of by Lao Jiu himself, who would have thought that the descendants of the Yongle Emperor would be captured by the Vara people?

Originally, Lao Jiu thought that he was about to start a king showdown, but as a result, Zhu Qizhen buried most of the elite of Beiping City, and the king bureau directly changed into a bronze game in seconds, and the 150,000 Western Regions army could push Biping with their eyes closed!

[When you took advantage of the 90,000 Vara people to go south and come under the gate of the country, you also led a 150,000-strong army to the east and approached Beiping City! ] 】

[You yourself went with 100,000 people to face the Walla people, and crushed the Vara army of 90,000 with the power of destroying the Walla, and everywhere you went, you were crushed with one blow! ] 】

[When you returned to Jingshi with your head hanging from your waist, the gate of Beiping was slowly opened, and the eldest son Zhu Xianqiu had already led people to attack Beiping in advance, and your appearance frightened the imperial court and the courtiers! ] 】

[Yu Qian led people to resist, you wanted to kill him, but you were left by Wang Wu’s intercession and imprisoned, in fact, you also saw Yu Qian’s talent! ] 】

[Attacking Beiping, you quickly controlled all the royal family members of Zhu Di’s lineage, and Zhu Qizhen was deposed by you as a commoner, expelled from Beiping, and exiled to Nanmo! ] 】

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this, he didn’t know why, and he was inexplicably comfortable! Compared with Lao Jiu, none of the other emperors in the line of Lao Fourth can fight!

It is estimated that the fourth can still wrestle with the old nine!

But if it is in the case of equal strength, can Old Fourth really be Lao Jiu’s opponent?

In the battle of Han Yan, Lao Jiu only had 30,000 people, and he could still froze the battle situation for so long!

Zhu Yuanzhang had a feeling that if it was a fair fight, the probability of Lao Jiu winning was probably a little greater!

All their brothers, including his Zhu Yuanzhang, the father, underestimated this old Jiu from beginning to end!