Daming: From the end of Hongwu

Chapter 285 283 - Hongwu 33 Years
The first day of Hongwu's 33rd year.

Early in the morning, Zhen Wu brought the whole family's juniors to pay New Year's greetings to Zhang Yuqing. Zhang Yuqing smiled and sent red envelopes to everyone, and Zhen Wu shamelessly accepted them, which made Zhang Yuqing's smile even brighter.

Next, it is time for the third generation to pay New Year greetings to the second generation.

It's just that the third generation of the Zhen family has only one little one.

Zhen Wu embraced his sons one by one, and the third child and Shi Nuan naturally didn't say much, and put the lucky money they had prepared long ago into the small bag that Zhu Yuying had sewn for his son. Xiao Qi and the other two were also smiling, and one of them prepared a little golden rabbit for the little nephew.

March is in the zodiac of the rabbit, this little golden rabbit was specially found by Xiao Liu and his wife, and their names were engraved on the rabbit.

Xiao Liu shook the little rabbit in front of the bewildered San Yue, and said with a wide smile, "Little nephew, look after it, this is for you from my aunt. When you grow up, you should know how to treat your aunt well and give it to you when you earn money." Aunt Hua."

After finishing speaking, she and Xiaoqi put the little rabbits into March's little bag.

Zhen Wu grinned, put his son's small bag directly into his arms, shook his son, and said with a smile: "Son, you are still young, you can't handle this money, so dad will hold it for you first."

Little Sanyue didn't know anything at the moment, she was still dancing happily with her little hands outstretched.

Xiaoliu and Xiaoqi quit, empathizing with their little nephew, Zhu Yuying smiled and nodded at the side and said: "You two are stupid, you always take your brother's teasing, that's all, let's play Well, it's time for us and your third brother to go out."

Xiao Liu stuck out his tongue at Zhen Wu and said, "Boring."

Seeing this, Xiaoqi sticks out her tongue imitatively: "Boring."

Zhen Wu let out a hey, and the two ran away in a hurry.

At this time, Zhu Yuying went outside to feel the temperature with her hand, and asked Zhen Wu with some doubts: "Do you think we are still carrying our son to the palace? Today I saw that the temperature has cooled again, don't freeze him."

Zhen Wu said unhappily: "Father and mother have been thinking about their grandson for a long time, if you don't take him away, believe it or not, they will let us come back and hug him again."

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuying sighed helplessly.

Zhen Wu couldn't help saying: "Okay, take care of it, it's okay, don't always be like a sweetheart, for fear of getting a little wind."

When Zhu Yuying heard this, she almost exploded, and looked at Zhen Wu with unfriendly eyes: "Why is our son not a sweetheart?"

"Okay, okay, sweetheart."

Zhen Wu was too lazy to argue with Zhu Yuying, and put his son into Zhu Yuying's arms: "You hold him, and wrap him up again, I'll go see if Ma Ren has prepared the carriage."

After finishing speaking, Zhen Wu greeted the third child and said, "Third child, let's go together."

The third child responded, and the two brothers walked outside while talking.

……

After the carriage was packed, Zhen Wu took Zhu Yuying and his son, got into the carriage and headed towards the palace. After arriving at the palace, Zhen Wu and Zhu Yuying went directly to see Zhu Di and Xu Miaoyun.

Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Gaoxu's two families, and Zhu Gaosui are all here at the moment.

Zhu Di hugged his grandson for a while, and when his interest subsided, he threw the child to Xu Miaoyun. Xu Miaoyun held him in his arms and watched Little Sanyue lively and giggling with his little hands outstretched. He really liked it.

When Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Hu heard what was going on in March, they all came over to tease her happily, but in this way, Zhu Zhanji, who was ignored, burst into tears.

Xu Miaoyun immediately cursed bitterly, "I didn't expect this brat to be domineering, even wanting to be jealous of my younger brother."

But she just said that.

Not to be outdone, Sanyue burst into tears, and several female family members were in a hurry, Zhu Yuying hurriedly hugged her son to coax her, and Zhang also hugged Zhu Zhanji to coax her.

Zhu Di felt noisy and didn't like to stay with women and children, so he called Zhen Wu and the others to go outside.

A few people just came outside.

Yongning and Li Rang also came over at this time, Zhen Wu glanced at Li Rang coldly, and nodded lightly as a greeting, Zhu Di seemed to be unaware that Zhen Wu and Li Rang had developed a suspicion, and treated Zhen Wu as usual And Li Rang, but when they turned their backs to Li Rang, they glared at Zhen Wu, and the intention to make Zhen Wu be more honest was very obvious.

Seeing this, Zhen Wu took the initiative to chat with Yong Ning angrily.

Zhu Gaochi smiled innocently, he scanned Li Rang and Zhen Wu, although he didn't investigate the previous matter in detail, but he was very thoughtful, and he roughly guessed that it was almost inseparable.

In his opinion, Li Rang was a little slippery and scheming, which displeased him, and he never liked people with impure thoughts, so Zhu Gaochi let Li Rang dry without leaving any traces, and avoided Li Rang three or four times. Let the one who took the initiative to talk to him show alienation.

It's just that in this process, whether it was intentional or unintentional, Zhen Wu saw the truth.

On the contrary, Zhu Gaoxu is the most innocent of them. He doesn't know that Zhu Di, Zhen Wu, and Zhu Gaochi are thinking about each other. In his heart, Zhen Wu is his eldest brother-in-law, and Li Rang is his second brother-in-law. Don't care what kind of people they are.

Therefore, only Zhu Gaoxu was the most enthusiastic about Li Rang.

Zhu Di paid attention to everyone's reactions, coughed lightly, interrupted everyone's chat, and said to Li Rang and Yongning: "Okay, you go to see your mother and concubine first, Li asked you to come to the study to talk later. "

After speaking, Zhu Di led Zhen Wu and the others towards the study.

After arriving in the study room, the few people chatted for a while, and they talked about the army. Zhu Di took out a map and spread it on the table for a few people to gather around.

"Zhen Wu, you just came here today. I had a new idea last night. Help me think about it and see if there are any omissions. Let's discuss it again." Zhu Di immediately raised his spirits when he talked about this matter.

"yesterday?"

Zhen Wu was a little startled, yesterday was New Year's Eve, Zhu Di didn't have a good New Year's Eve, what was on his mind.

Zhu Di looked up in confusion and asked, "What's the matter?"

Zhen Wu shook his head again and again: "It's all right."

"Stop talking nonsense, come here and look at the map." Zhu Di reprimanded, then sorted out his thoughts, and said: "After Li Jinglong was defeated in the battle, he is now gathering defeated soldiers in Dezhou and gathering many troops, intending to attack me again this spring. Now, we can't just wait like this, we have to find something for Li Jinglong to do, or else it would be a waste of time for Li Jinglong to accumulate strength, no matter how I think about it, I feel panicked."

Zhen Wu nodded in agreement, and asked, "Does your father have any ideas?"

"Look."

Zhu Di pointed his finger directly at the location of Datong in Shanxi: "I want to mobilize troops as soon as possible to fight Datong. As for whether we can take down Datong, we will discuss it separately, but as long as Li Jinglong is forced to support, our goal will be achieved."

Zhen Wu, Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Gaoxu all looked at the map carefully for a while.

Zhu Gaoxu was the first to twitter and shout: "Datong has no heavy soldiers. I am willing to be the vanguard. Give me [-] soldiers and horses, and I will definitely be able to defeat Datong."

"Let you be the vanguard, how do you plan to fight? Where do you enter the army?" Zhu Di asked.

Zhu Gaoxu pointed to the location of the Xuan Mansion: "Naturally, he came out of Juyongguan Pass and descended from the Xuan Mansion, breaking through the city and breaking through all the way to Datong."

Upon hearing this, Zhu Di waved his hands annoyedly and said, "Go and rest for me, and if you talk nonsense again, you can go and play with Gao Sui."

After speaking, Zhu Di looked at Zhen Wu.

Zhen Wu thought for a while, and finally said affirmatively: "I support my father's opinion. We can indeed fight. After all, if we take the initiative to attack, not only time will benefit us, but also disrupt Li Jinglong's deployment plan. However, the location of our decisive battle with Li Jinglong , absolutely cannot be chosen in Shanxi, so if we want to attack Datong, I think it is better to lure Li Jinglong to support, and focus on his vigor."

Zhu Di nodded and said: "You are right, I think the same way, if Li Jinglong comes to support, then we will retreat again, in your words, the enemy retreats and advances, the enemy is tired and we fight, the enemy advances and we retreat, anyway we It's close to Datong, and the soldiers are also resistant to freezing. It doesn't matter if they run away, but Li Jinglong's southern army came all the way, not to mention how many people died of freezing, half of the army's morale will be consumed first. It's very beneficial."

After listening to the conversation between Zhen Wu and the two of them, Zhu Gaoxu realized later: "In that case, we really can't come down from the Xuan Mansion. The Xuan Mansion is too far away from Li Jinglong, so he definitely won't come to support him."

After finishing speaking, Zhu Gaoxu scratched his head, pouted his neck and bragged: "I actually thought of it before, it's not hard to think of it, is it the boss, don't you think so?!"

Zhu Gaoxu looked at Zhu Gaochi.

Zhu Gaochi responded casually: "Yes, yes, you are right." Then he said to Zhu Di seriously: "Our food and grass are not enough to support us to mobilize the army too early. I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on to the autumn harvest if I mobilize troops."

Zhu Di did not speak.

I was just thinking about whether the gains and losses of mobilizing troops in advance were worth it. In fact, Datong was not of much benefit to them. He wanted to mobilize troops in advance. The biggest purpose was to consume and consume Li Jinglong, but to consume Li Jinglong and spend some military rations, Among them, the gains and losses need to be considered by him.

However, Zhen Wu said at this moment: "I think we don't have to worry about the issue of food and grass. We can confiscate it all the way to Datong. In addition, even if we don't go to Datong, Li Jinglong will send troops to Dezhou. No matter how slow he is, he will send troops to attack Beiping in April. Well, the battle between our two sides is determined not to delay the autumn harvest, and the outcome may be decided within a month, and it is really nothing if we leave too much food."

Zhu Gaochi was right when he thought about it, and then he stopped talking about it.

Afterwards, several people began to discuss in detail. Li Jinglong, who can only be provoked by marching into Shanxi from where, must come to support. The discussion was so intense that they didn't even notice when Li Rang came over.

After Li Rang came over, listening to the discussion among the crowd, he wanted to interrupt several times, but he couldn't get in every time. He watched Zhen Wu discuss with Zhu Di and the others without any sense of unfamiliarity, and even every time Zhen Wu spoke, Zhu Di and the others Several people listened attentively, seeming to take it very seriously, which made Li Rang always feel jealous.

They are also son-in-laws, it seems that he has never gotten along with Zhu Di and others as a family.

How could Zhen Wu do it.

In the midst of Li Rang's jealousy, the discussion between Zhen Wu and others gradually came to an end. After Zhu Di saw that the matter had been roughly discussed and came up with a plan, he rolled up the map and said, "Okay, let's talk about the New Year's Eve today." Come here, wait for Zhang Yu and others to come over and discuss again later, let’s forget about it for now, and I will have New Year’s greetings from Beiping civil and military officials later, as for what you want to do, go and do it, there is no need to stay in the palace, I don't have time to chat with you anymore."

Hey.

In Zhu Di's approach, he really uses people to look forward, not to look back, and he is ashamed to say that today is the New Year's Eve.

But since Zhu Di said this, Zhen Wu was also so happy, he sent someone to the back house and asked Zhu Yuying if he wanted to go back with him now, or come to pick her up later.

Zhu Yuying probably felt that it was rare to get close to Xu Miaoyun and others, so she asked Zhen Wu to tell Zhen Wu that she would rest in the palace for a while, and asked Zhen Wu to come pick her up later.

After Zhen Wu got the words, he took a stroll and got into his own carriage to go home.

Pedestrians were constantly on the street all the way, and it was a rare lively scene. Zhen Wu didn't feel cold when he saw the excitement. He squeezed in front of the car with Ma Ren, watching the excitement while driving the horse.

When he got home, he just approached the central hall when he heard that several brothers-in-law had come to the house, and they were all chatting in the living room while waiting for Zhen Wu to come back.

Zhen Wu hurried over.

As soon as they entered, Zhen Wu asked Zhang Wu and the three of them: "Are you almost transferred?"

Zhang Wu shook his head and said: "No, the three of us just ran into each other, thinking that you will not stay in the palace for a long time, so we chatted, waiting for you, and we will pay homage to each other later."

"alright."

Zhen Wu nodded, suddenly thought of something, and told the three of them: "By the way, remember to come here early tomorrow, the old lady has long missed her daughter, and the little nephew, remember to hug me too, tomorrow I will go for a walk around the palace , should be able to escape and come back earlier, and then we will have a good drink."

It is a custom in Beiping that daughters cannot go back to their mother's house on the day of Chinese New Year. Zhen Wu Yibin is nominally a visiting son-in-law, so he is not included in this taboo, and the palace will naturally not entertain sons-in-law like Zhen Wu in the second year of junior high school.

On the contrary, his family wanted to entertain Zhang Wu and his brothers-in-law, the second virtuous, the fourth younger sister, and the fifth younger sister, so he would naturally come back on this day.

Zhang Wu, Tan Zhong, and Wang Tong all nodded.

Speaking of which, Zhang Wu and Tan Zhong both had children, but Wang Tong didn't. He and the third child were a little embarrassed. Although the old man Wuji passed away, everyone didn't say it clearly, but they all planned to have a three-year funeral.

Of course, the mourning period will not be particularly strictly observed, but pregnancy should be avoided.

After they chatted for a while, the third child also came back, and all of them went to Tang's mansion together to pay New Year's greetings to Tang's family, and then they dispersed again to pay their own New Year's greetings.

For those who celebrate the new year, in fact, this is the only thing, New Year greetings, New Year greetings, or New Year greetings.

……

The days that followed were relatively peaceful and leisurely. The second, third, and fourth days of the junior high school passed by day by day, and when the fifteenth day of the new year was over, the year was considered to be over.

No matter whether it is up or down in Beiping City, everyone had a safe and sound New Year.

sixteenth.

Zhu Di couldn't wait any longer, so he hurriedly summoned Zhen Wu, Zhang Yu and others to discuss in the palace for a whole day, and then the army started to operate again, and the military rations, armaments, ordnance and other materials were mobilized first.

Immediately afterwards, a military order calling for the assembly of soldiers was passed on.

In February, to the surprise of everyone in the world, Zhu Di led his troops to the city of Yuzhou in Shanxi. surrender.

In fact, they don't resist such things as surrender.

Because this is not a national war.

In the final analysis, it was the Zhu family who were turning the tables. When they have nothing to do with themselves, they can hang it high.

So they seem to cooperate very much with Zhu Di's reorganization.

Afterwards, after Zhu Di and others rested in Yuzhou, Zhu Di led the army straight to Datong, making no secret of his strategic intentions.

When the news reached the imperial court, the entire imperial court was greatly shocked. Li Jinglong did not dare to remain indifferent to this, and hurriedly dispatched troops to support Datong, trying to rescue Datong.

Daming, who had been quiet for a period of time, rekindled the flames of war.

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(End of this chapter)