Ming Dynasty: Evolution from snake to national guardian beast

Chapter 112 Zhu Di raises his troops

Just when Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Di began to plot against each other, a memorial was suddenly rushed from 800 miles away from Yunnan to Yingtian.

This memorial was handwritten by Mu Sheng, Hou of Xiping, and had only one purpose, which was to impeach King Min.

Xiping Hou Mu Sheng is Mu Ying's second son. As the local emperor of Yunnan, Xiping Hou Mu Sheng naturally doesn't like having a vassal king dictating here.

Zhu Yunwen happened to be planning to cut down the vassal vassal, but Mu Sheng, the Hou of Xiping, simply refused to do anything and kept trying to take advantage of this opportunity to kill someone with a borrowed knife. Mu Sheng, the Hou of Xiping, clearly pointed out in his memorial that Min King Zhu Chu had evil intentions in Kunming, Yunnan, where he was building soldiers and horses, training soldiers, and reclaiming military fields.

Zhu Yunwen is the most unsightly kind of vassal king. He doesn't stay in his fiefdom and insists on doing things, trying to stir up some big things.

Immediately, while Zhu Yunwen was dealing with Zhu Di, he took the time to let Li Longji lead his troops to Yunnan.

He directly issued an order to demote Min King Zhu Zhen to a commoner and arrest him under house arrest in Tianfu. He was not allowed to leave the city without an order.

In this way, Zhu Yunwen had successfully defeated five vassal kings in less than ten years. Although Zhu Yuanzhang only had twenty-six sons, only eighteen were crowned kings, and many of his sons had died, leaving only some younger grandsons to inherit.

Therefore, Zhu Yunwen felt that if things went well, he would be able to completely level all the vassal kings next year and completely eradicate this serious problem.

Zhu Yunwen finally realized the beauty of power. His uncles who used to be arrogant and domineering in front of him are now as honest as local dogs and do not dare to resist at all.

Now, Zhu Yunwen wanted to see Zhu Di groveling like a dog in front of him more and more.

According to Song Zhong's report, their group has now successfully moved into Beiping Mansion, and all the guards of King Yan in Beiping have been transferred away.

If nothing else happens, you should be able to hear good news in two days.

Before Song Zhong left, Zhu Yunwen specifically told Song Zhong not to harm Zhu Di's life.

Because Zhu Yunwen didn't want to be accused of killing his uncle anymore, and he was looking forward to the scene of Zhu Di kneeling in front of him.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is already the end of the year, and the heavy snow over Yingtian City has arrived as promised.

The goose-feather heavy snow, in just a moment, put Ying Tiancheng in a white velvet coat, wrapped in silver, extremely pure.

It has been nearly a year since Zhu Yuanzhang's death, and the people have gradually become accustomed to the days without Zhu Yuanzhang.

In fact, for now, Zhu Yunwen is doing a good job. At least for the people, life now is no different from when Zhu Yuanzhang was around.

Even the people in the south live a happier life than when Zhu Yuanzhang was alive.

Because they paid much less autumn grain tax this year than in previous years, they were able to buy two more cotton-padded clothes for their wives and children in winter.

Another new year is coming, and the people of Yingtian City are buying things for the New Year on the streets just like last year.

However, on this joyful day, a fast horse, covered in wind and snow, rushed quickly towards the palace.

This sentry horse seemed to have an urgent matter. Even in the streets of Yingtian City, it did not slow down at all. Instead, it went faster and did not dare to waste a moment.

Not long after, the sentry rider flew to the gate of the palace, panting and asking to see the emperor.

At this time, Zhu Yunwen was entertaining several of his important ministers in the palace.

This year is Zhu Yunwen's first year in power. Although he became emperor for the first time, Zhu Yunwen thinks that he has done a good job and has achieved remarkable results. At least he defeated five vassals in just one year.

King, I am very happy to congratulate you.

Just yesterday, Zhu Yunwen received news from Li Jinglong that King Min had arrived at the court and was preparing to escort him to heaven. The only person in front of him now is King Yan Zhu Di. Although Zhu Yunwen has not yet received the news that King Yan has been arrested, in his opinion, this will happen sooner or later.

Tomorrow is the New Year, and the era name will be completely changed to Jianwen. Zhu Yunwen has finally entered his own era.

Today I have a break from court, so I happen to have lunch with Fang Xiaoru, Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai and several other ministers to connect with each other.

But just when a few people were exchanging glasses and complimenting each other, a shocking news completely broke the atmosphere of celebration among them.

1 In the thirty-first year of Hongwu, it was the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month.

This day is the last day of the 31st year of Hongwu. Everyone is celebrating the New Year happily. No one would have thought that someone would rebel on this day.

And Zhu Di chose this day precisely to hold high the banner of Fengtian Jingnan, raised troops in Peiping with 800 warriors, and officially fired the first shot of the Jingnan Campaign.

Just a few days ago, Beiping's chief envoy Zhang Bing, commander-in-chief Xie Gui, and commander-in-chief Zhang Xin came to Beiping City with Zhu Yunzhen's imperial edict in hand.

I thought Zhu Di would go out of the city to greet him, but who knew that Zhu Di suddenly contracted a cold and fell ill in bed, unable to leave the city.

Helpless, the two had no choice but to go to the government office by themselves and start the handover of work.

Zhang and Xie naturally knew that all the people in the government office were Zhu Di's confidants, and thought that they would need to go through a lot of quarrels before they could successfully take over the city of Beiping.

But what shocked the two of them was that they had just entered the government office. After explaining their intention, their colleagues in the government office enthusiastically handed over the work to them.

Subsequently, Zhang and Xie successfully took over Beiping City.

Among them, Xie Gui and Zhang Xin, as the military commanders of Beiping City, successfully controlled the 30,000 defenders of Beiping City and took over the nine gates of Beiping City.

Everything fell into place and it was effortless.

I thought it was a conspiracy, but after waiting for two days, nothing happened, and Zhu Di's condition seemed to be getting worse.

This allowed Zhang and Xie 10 to see an opportunity. They immediately contacted Song Zhong in Kaiping and asked Song Zhong to lead his army to Peiping immediately. The two planned to directly control the Yan Palace and complete the task.

The task assigned by Zhu Yunwen.

Song Zhong finally arrived at Beiping Mansion on the night of the 29th of the twelfth lunar month, waiting to enter the city tomorrow to capture King Yan Zhu Di.

However, what the three of them did not expect was that Zhang Xin, as the commander of Peking City who was personally appointed by Zhu Yunwen, would betray the emperor and choose to join Zhu Di.

Zhu Di even pretended to be ill and launched a decisive attack in the early morning of the 30th, annihilating the 30,000 elite soldiers Song Zhong brought from the capital camp.

Song Zhong, the former governor appointed by Zhu Yunwen, met his end like this.

Zhang Bing and Xie Gui were even captured alive by Zhu Di, and were eventually used as sacrificial flags to show Zhu Di's determination to start an uprising.

After Zhang Xie and Zhang Xie were killed, Zhu Di ordered Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng to attack Jiumen.

Although Zhang and Xie controlled the Nine Sects, many of these tribesmen turned out to be Zhu Di's subordinates, and they also admired Zhu Di's prestige extremely.

(End of this chapter)