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68: Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked: Qin and Han! It was Lao Jiu who ordered his death?
【In the second year of Hongwu's reign in the Ming Dynasty, you were born in the Yingtian Palace. You were the ninth prince of Hongwu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang! It's a pity that your mother came from a humble background and was just a palace maid, so you have been more sensible and tolerant than other princes since you were a child. 】
Familiar opening method, but it made Zhu Yuanzhang feel a little uncomfortable!
A kid of four or five years old is just old enough to remember things, but the young Lao Jiu showed a forbearance that was not befitting his age!
In fact, to put it bluntly, I feel that my mother was born inferior to the mothers of other princes, so I have low self-esteem!
【In the seventh year of Hongwu, an accident caused your eyes to be blinded by fire and smoke. Your father and several brothers felt very sorry for your experience, and they usually cared more about you. However, you are glad that you are blind, and you don't even want everyone to focus on you! 】
Zhu Yuanzhang never expected that Lao Jiu would have such thoughts in his heart after becoming blind!
This father, coupled with the love that the eldest brother Zhu Biao and his brothers had for Lao Jiu, was actually disliked by him!
Where does this make sense?
【Just when everyone thought that you would be blind for life, in the 13th year of Hongwu, when you were twelve years old, your eye disease miraculously healed itself!】
【When you found out that your eyesight was restored, you suppressed the joy and shock in your heart and still pretended to be blind in front of everyone! Because you will be able to become a vassal in two or three years. You just want to transfer the vassal to the fief in a safe and sound manner. You don’t want to cause trouble at this juncture!】
【At your request, your father agreed to place your fiefdom next to the Xi'an Mansion of Qin King Zhu Ping, and gave the Hanzhong Mansion to you, which can be regarded as allowing you two brothers to take care of each other.】
【Because he failed to rescue you from the fire in time, Qin King Zhu Ping has always felt guilty for you. When he heard that you were going to be sealed in Hanzhong Mansion, he promised his father that"May 43" would take good care of you! Only then did your father allow you to set off to join Hanzhong Mansion when you were fifteen years old!】
【When you were fifteen, you got married. But the first Princess of Han was frail and sick, and died of illness the second year after she married into Hanzhong Mansion. She was unable to leave you a son and a half!】
【You laughed when you heard that the ministers in the court were busy marrying off their daughters during this period. You know they are all afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang will choose a concubine for you again, and then their daughter may have to marry a blind vassal king! But you don't care about this, and you even wrote a letter to your father that you are not going to marry again!】
【During these years in Hanzhong, you began to work hard to manage the fiefdom and slowly accumulated your own strength. On the surface, you claim that you have more troops than more troops, but in fact you are short of money and cannot afford to support too many troops. But even so, you are still working hard!】
【Since the number of the army is small, then you have to spend 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-carrying rate of the more than 10,000 soldiers of the Hanzhong Army as high as 50%! The remaining fifty percent is at least half armor! 】
Zhu Yuanzhang’s eyes were full of shock!
Before Lao Jiu passed away, his eyes had indeed recovered!
But he chose to continue pretending to be blind!
But at the same time, Zhu Yuanzhang also discovered that Lao Jiu, because of his background, felt that he was not as advantaged as the other brothers, so he hid and disguised himself in this way. He secretly accumulated strength, which was more like a way of self-preservation. At least in the early stages, he didn't see any signs that Lao Jiu wanted to rebel from the details!
Such a discovery made Zhu Yuanzhang feel mixed emotions again.
Just because his mother's background is not as good as that of his other brothers, is it too much to push yourself into this situation? This sense of crisis is too much, right?
Is it necessary?
Is it worth it?
Perhaps Lao Jiu himself knows this answer!
【But after all, you are still a prince, and it is impossible for your father to really watch you remain a bachelor for the rest of your life! In the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu's reign, his father finally selected Zhou Shuyi, the daughter of Zhou Cheng, the Minister of Household Affairs, as the Princess of Han, and married her to Hanzhong Mansion! You just have to accept it!】
【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 any concubines!】
【In the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu's reign, the eldest brother Zhu Biao, the prince, fell ill after returning from an inspection tour of Shaanxi and eventually passed away. But what you didn't expect was that your father actually appointed Zhu Yunwen as the grandson of the emperor. At this time, you realized that the world of the Ming Dynasty was likely to change!】
【Because you have seen the ambitions of several brothers since you were a child, and 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 greater sense of crisis, so you begin to focus on increasing your military strength in the next few years!】
【In the thirty-first year of Hongwu, when your father passed away, you had 30,000 elite soldiers and horses, but more than 10,000 of them needed to be stationed at Tianshui Pass to resist the Oara people who might invade at any time!】
【After Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen succeeded to the throne, he began to reduce the vassal status. Even your twelfth brother burned himself to death because of this. Many brother vassal kings were imprisoned by the 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 Wen did not immediately take precautions against you. Coupled with your prestige among the people in the northwest area, you suddenly became the best among the vassal kings. The most comfortable one!】
【When you heard that your fourth brother, Zhu Di, had raised troops in Peiping and was fighting for peace in the name of Qingjun, you knew your opportunity had come!】
【But at this time, the Wala army took advantage of the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty to invade south. You have to spend most of your energy on driving out and defeating the Walas first!】
【When you finally took your hand and marched south to Yingtian Mansion with 20,000 troops, you learned that Li Jinglong had already opened the city gate and asked Zhu Di to capture Yingtian Mansion quickly! You never expected that Zhu Di would seal the victory so easily! But you were unwilling to give in, so you began to fight against the Yan army under the pretext of killing the rebels!】
【With only 20,000 soldiers and horses, you fought back and forth with Zhu Di in six years. However, due to Geng Qing's defeat, almost half of the elite Hanzhong Army was lost, and you finally had to retreat. Hami area in the Western Region! 】
Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang has roughly understood the development process and psychological history of the reason why Zhu Yue, the ninth old man, rebelled.
The first time Lao Jiu had the idea of rebellion was when he made Zhu Yunwen the emperor's grandson after Zhu Biao's death!
At this time, Lao Jiu felt a sense of crisis!
And facts have proven that his sense of crisis is really right!
Such a result made Zhu Yuanzhang feel very unhappy!
Can he really blame Lao Jiu for this? Because my nephew wants to punish uncles like them, the feudal lord, to death!
But so far, everything that happened before Lao Jiu retreated to the Western Regions was within Zhu Yuanzhang's expectation, because he had already seen a lot of details in other deduction plots before, and now more details are added!
【In the Western Regions, you set out from Tianshui with the remaining 10,000 troops. It took you half a year to pacify the Hexi Corridor and control Ningxia. Then it took another year to control Hami!】
【You are Zhu Yue, the King of Han who was expelled to the Western Regions during the Han-Yan War. But now, you are King Yong. With only more than 10,000 Han troops left, King Yong controls the Western Regions by conquering the north and south. In the Western Regions, Your legend is everywhere!】
【During your reign, you recruited soldiers and horses, organized 30,000 Western Cavalry for the Western Expedition, destroyed the Timur 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, and Arabs. They fled to Tehran and Damascus on camels!】
【Jerusalem formed a coalition and came to negotiate, and finally divided the Caspian Trench area and the Kazakh area under the direct jurisdiction of King Yong, and your condition is that you pay a fixed annual tribute of gold and silver! 】
coming!
It turns out that Lao Jiu never stopped during this time in the Western Region!
Although he had seen some scenes of Lao Jiu's expansion and conquest in the Western Region in previous deductions, there were very few details, and it was not as shocking as what he saw this time!
With the remaining 10,000 Han Chinese troops in his hands, Lao Jiu actually managed to unify almost the entire Western Region in just a few years, and expanded his troops to 30,000... 50,000... or even more!
【Here, you began to stock up on war armor and war horses. During this period, Zhu Di went on many expeditions to the north, and you sent Geng Qing, the Pingmo general, to conquer Oara many times, with great success! But in the eighteenth year of Yongle, Geng Qing died of an arrow wound on his way back!】
【You are gradually getting older. In the 19th year of Yongle, you met a person who looked exactly like you. You ordered the secret execution of this person and announced that your eldest son, Zhu Xiaqiu, would succeed him! 】
really!
Is this God helping Lao Jiu?
He actually met someone who looked almost exactly like him!
This is an incredible thing in Zhu Yuanzhang's opinion!
It turns out that Lao Jiu relied on this person who looked very similar to himself to cheat his death, and even deceived the fourth lao Zhu Di! (To read exciting novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)
【In the 20th year of Yongle, your body was sent to Yingtian, which did not arouse Zhu Di's suspicion. Zhu Di even held a state funeral for you, and your posthumous title was Xiangwu and you were buried in Dingjun Mountain!】
【Only three people knew about your fake death, the eldest son Zhu Xiaqiu, Wang Wu, and the steward of Prince Yong's Mansion. Finally, the fourth person Qin Han knew about it!】
【You know, there are three people that the court is afraid of now, one is you, and the other two are Geng Qing and Qin Han. Geng Qing passed away in the 18th year of Yongle, so in the second month after you faked his death, he was also given Qin and Han are dead! 】
Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked again!
Qin and Han!
It was actually Lao Jiu who ordered his death!
Cruel!
Lao Jiu is not only cruel to himself!
Be more ruthless to your subordinates!
What made him even more unexpected was that Qin Han was actually willing to die, saying that it was his last time to help King Yong achieve his great cause!
One more thing...Wang Wu!
It turns out that Wang Wu knew from the beginning that Lao Jiu was cheating his death!
In other words, since he was captured in the Battle of Puyang, Wang Wu had already had the idea of going deep into the enemy camp, but in fact, he was in Cao's camp and his heart was with Han!
Another ruthless person!
【From then on, of the three generals of King Yong, only Liu Shan remained. You know, Liu Shan must be alive because he is guarding Hami. As long as he is here, Zhu Di will not dare to conquer the west easily! 】
Zhu Yuanzhang saw that although Lao Jiu had controlled most of the Western Region, he could mobilize less than 50,000 troops, and among these 50,000, there were still 20,000 Hami garrison who could not move at all. No way!
Moreover, the Western Region is too barren. If he continues to fight Zhu Di, the logistics and food wages will not be enough to supply him for three months. In other words, he does not have the capital to compete with the fourth brother Zhu Di at this time! Too poor to afford a fight!
At this time, Lao Jiu was so poor that he could hardly support 50,000 soldiers and horses, because these 50,000 soldiers and horses were not ordinary soldiers and horses, they were all cavalry, well-equipped and highly armored, at least half-armored. Yes, they are truly elite teachers!
But it's okay for these steel elites to fight against the Persians, Macedonians and Arabs!
Who is Zhu Di? He is not an Arab. He is as strong as Zhu Di. Once the war reaches a stalemate, the logistics of the entire Western Region can be brought down in minutes!
The composition of the army during the Ming Dynasty was mainly divided into four levels.......
【Militia: A temporarily organized and conscripted force!】
【Guard soldiers: voluntary soldiers, mainly responsible for production!】
【Regular Army: Professional soldiers with a merit system!】
【Elite Soldiers: All members wear armor! 】
The Shenji Battalion and the Three Thousand Battalion under Zhu Di are regular armies!
And Zhu Yue’s men all follow the route of elite soldiers!
In order to reassure Zhu Di, Lao Jiu did not hesitate to fake his death and even killed his confidant general Qin Han. What courage is this!
【After your death, Princess Zhou of the Han Dynasty shed tears. Less than half a year later, she also died of the same illness in Prince Yong's Mansion in the Western Regions!】
【And you, although you cheated to death, your training volume has never stopped, you are still in your prime, and you have never slacked off for a moment!】
【In the 22nd year of Yongle, Zhu Di died, Zhu Gaochi ascended the throne, and the reign name was changed to Hongxi. At this time, you already have 60,000 troops!】
【In the first year of Hongxi, Zhu Gaochi died of illness, Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne, and the reign name was changed to Xuande!】
【In the tenth year of Xuande's reign, Zhu Zhan died of illness. His eldest son, the Young Emperor Zhu Qizhen, ascended the throne, and the reign title was changed to Zhengtong. At this time, you already have 150,000 troops!】
【Zhu Qizhen went to the Northern Expedition with the support of Wang Wu. When Zhu Qizhen actually went to the Northern Expedition, Wang Wu had already communicated with the Western Regions, and you showed up at the right time and transferred 100,000 troops back from the Caspian Trench area! This is a tiger and wolf army composed of soldiers with an average age of about 40!】
【Your return caused chaos in the Western Regions. No one expected that King Yong had returned, and the morale of the army was as high as ever!】
【You are old, already in your twilight years, and there is not much time left for you. You thought that there was going to be a tough battle next, because the three generals under your command, Qin Han, Liu Shan, and Geng Qing, were no longer around, and you were the only one left, but Things are beyond your expectation. Wang Wu sent news that Zhu Qizhen was captured not long after he went on the expedition....】
Zhu Yuanzhang was speechless when he saw this!
Indeed, Zhu Qizhen was captured, which perhaps even Lao Jiu himself did not expect. 3.2 Who would have thought that the descendants of Emperor Yongle would be captured by the Oara people?
Originally, Lao Jiu thought that a king's duel was about to begin, but in the end, Zhu Qizhen destroyed most of the elites in Beiping City. The king's game immediately turned into a bronze game. The 150,000 Western Regions army could push Beiping away with their eyes closed.!
【You take advantage of the 90,000 Wala people to move south and approach the country's gates, and you lead an army of 150,000 people to the east and approach Beiping City!】
【You led 100,000 people to fight against the Wala people, and crushed the 90,000 Wala army with devastating power. Wherever you went, you were defeated with one blow!】
【When you returned to the capital with heads hanging around your waist, the gate of Peking was slowly opened. Your eldest son, Zhu Xiaqiu, had already led his men to break into Peiping in advance. Your appearance scared all the officials in the imperial court out of their wits!】
【Yu Qian led the people to resist, and you wanted to kill him, but Wang Wu begged to stay and was imprisoned. In fact, you also took a fancy to Yu Qian's talents!】
【After conquering Peiping, you quickly took control of all the royal members of Zhu Di's lineage. You deposed Zhu Qizhen as a commoner, expelled him from Peiping, and exiled him to the Southern Desert! 】
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this, he felt inexplicably comfortable for some reason!
Compared with Lao Jiu, none of the other emperors in Lao Si's lineage can fight!
I guess only the fourth child can compete with the ninth child!
But if the strength is equal, can the fourth child really be the opponent of the ninth child?
In the Battle of Han-Yan, Laojiu only had 30,000 men, and he could still maintain the battle at a stalemate for so long!
Zhu Yuanzhang felt that if it was a fair fight, Lao Jiu would have a greater chance of winning!
All their brothers, including him, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was the father, had underestimated this ninth brother from the beginning to the end!
【PS: This simulation is the original history, Zhu Yue’s unsystematic timeline of historical trends! 】.