"Your Highness, the so-called peerless martial arts are just rumors among the people!"
"Real martial arts requires practicing in the three summers of winter and the three volts of summer. Only by practicing persistently every day can you achieve success."
"Your Highness, do you know what entering energy is?" Liu Ji asked tentatively.
"Know!"
"You can only be considered a beginner in martial arts if you can concentrate all your strength in one place, and you can already be called a master in the world." These days, Zhu Biao likes to take his guards to wander around Nanjing City and listen to the people in the market.
Chatting, I am still very clear about these things.
Hearing this, Liu Ji's heart sank again, thinking that it seems that His Highness the Crown Prince has been interested in practicing martial arts for more than a day or two.
This is a bit difficult to handle.
"Then does your Highness know how long it takes for an ordinary person to reach the level of Jinjin?" Liu Ji asked again.
"I don't know about others, but I have asked the guards and military officers around me, and it will take about ten years to be possible," Zhu Biao said.
"That only requires good qualifications!"
"There are many lieutenant generals in our army who have experienced many battles, but the total number of people who can reach the level of third-rate masters is no more than 3,000. It is definitely not an exaggeration to describe them as one out of a thousand."
"Besides, those are all external training methods. Your Highness is a rich man, so how can you practice them? If you use internal training methods, the speed will only be slower."
"In my estimation, if His Highness wants to achieve something, it will take at least ten...twenty years!" Liu Ji said with a determined look on his face.
"Then what are you waiting for? Let's start!" Zhu Biao stood up, eager to try.
Liu Ji: "...!"
Did he mean that?
But Zhu Biao had already spoken, so he had no choice but to teach. If he didn't teach, it would be bad for him if the news reached Zhu Yuanzhang's ears.
"The technique I use to gain strength is the Five Animals Opera. Today I will teach His Highness the Tiger Opera. There are eight moves in total. The veteran will do it first, and Your Highness can follow suit...!"
Liu Ji made movements and couldn't help but smile.
"This Wuqinxi is known as the most difficult method in the martial arts world, so let your highness practice it. It won't be long before he can no longer persevere.
Moreover, Wu Qinxi can also strengthen the body and prolong life, which can be regarded as completing Zhu Yuanzhang's mission.
"It kills two birds with one stone!" Liu Ji had to silently praise his wit.
Another month has passed in the blink of an eye.
After a month of practice, Zhu Biao finally learned all the moves of the Five Animals, including tiger, deer, bear, ape and bird.
Not to mention, practicing it several times every morning and evening is really more effective than running or doing push-ups. He has obviously felt that he has gained some muscles in the past month.
Of course, there is still a long way to go before reaching full strength.
Zhu Biao is not in a hurry about this either.
Because his mission reward seems to be arriving soon.
It is now the fifth month of the seventeenth year of Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty. According to the history in Zhu Biao's memory, Emperor Chongzhen had been hanged in Meishan for two months, but now he is still sitting in Beijing.
Although Li Zicheng conquered Datong, due to Zhu Yuanzhang's series of operations, Li Banghua and Zhou Yuji were still blocked from Xuanfu, and even the shadow of Beiping City had not been touched.
On the other side, after four months of killing, Zhu Yuanzhang had completely sorted out the entire Peiping and even Shuntian Mansion.
Almost everything that needs to be killed has been killed, and all the new troops that need to be organized have been organized and trained.
He decided not to wait anymore, but took the initiative to lead Emperor Chongzhen and 20,000 new troops to support the Xuanfu, preparing to completely solve the hidden danger of Li Zicheng.
To be honest, Emperor Chongzhen was quite excited about this proposal. He had long had the idea of going to the front line to take a look in person, but unfortunately every time he proposed it, he encountered collective opposition from the ministers, and ultimately nothing happened.
But this time it was different, because it was Zhu Yuanzhang who proposed it.
Almost all those who dared to oppose Zhu Yuanzhang were killed in these four months.
"Do you know why I want to take you with me?" When riding out of Peiping City on horseback, Zhu Yuanzhang turned to look at Chongzhen and asked.
Chongzhen shook his head.
"For two reasons!"
Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head and glanced at Beiping City and said with a smile: "First, we have killed a lot of people in the past few months, but there are still some people dormant. We want to give them a chance, someone who seems to be able to seize control of Beiping."
Opportunities, so that they will jump out."
"When all this wave of people are killed, Peiping will be completely stable."
"The emperor is indeed insidious!" Zhu Youjian complained in his heart, but his face showed a learned expression.
This is the way he has figured out how to get along with Zhu Yuanzhang in the past few months. You must not act like an emperor in front of this man, you can only act like a grandson, otherwise he will really beat you.
Emperor Chongzhen did not want to recall much about this experience, and he would shed tears if he recalled it too much.
"Second, military power!"
Zhu Yuanzhang continued: "This time you have crossed over from the civil service group to give you the opportunity to personally contact the military generals. I hope you can seize the opportunity and control the military power."
"If you cannot control the army, the best outcome for you as an emperor is to be ignored. Then after the city is defeated, you will hang yourself from a tree with a crooked neck and die for your country."
"Emperor, you...!" Zhu Youjian hesitated.
The military power had always been in Zhu Yuanzhang's own hands, and now he suddenly wanted to give it to him, which made Emperor Chongzhen feel a little uneasy.
"We are leaving after this battle!"
"Everything here is ultimately up to you!" Zhu Yuanzhang said directly without waiting for Emperor Chongzhen to finish speaking. Zhu Yuanzhang's feelings for the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty were complicated.
In his opinion, this man was not a foolish king, he wanted to govern the country well, and he was diligent enough, but unfortunately he had great ambitions and little talent, and was stubborn and self-willed. The most important thing was that he was deceived and lame by his civil servants.
What Zhu Yuanzhang could do to help him was to leave him a relatively loyal army. As for the outcome of the Ming Dynasty, he still had to work hard on his own.
Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. He has not even made arrangements for his own son and grandson, so how can he care about this descendant who has been passed down for more than ten generations!
After all, this is not his Ming Dynasty.
He is just a passerby who left his footprints here because of a mission.
Emperor Chongzhen looked at Zhu Yuanzhang's back and suddenly felt empty in his heart.
The few months between Zhu Yuanzhang's sudden appearance and now have been the most relaxing period he has lived since he became emperor.
Now he suddenly heard that Zhu Yuanzhang was leaving after this war, and he didn't know whether he should be happy or sad for a moment.
"Emperor, can you please stay for a while longer? In this country of thousands of miles, there are Manchus and Qing Dynasties outside and rogue bandits plundering inside. My abilities are really limited by myself!" Emperor Chongzhen said bitterly as he caught up with Zhu Yuanzhang.
"Hey, this is not something we can decide!"
"Two months, if we don't go back in two months, we will stay here completely!"
"Do you want us to stay here completely?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked with a half-smile.