"Fourth uncle! Regarding the transfer of the feudal vassal, other uncles want to ask me where they will be placed. But to you, I want to ask you, where do you want to go?"
The palace was silent, as if only the emperor's voice echoed.
Zhu Di slowly raised his head, met Zhu Yunxi's eyes, and said with a wry smile, "The war in the north is about to start, and the remnants of the Meng Yuan Dynasty are already red-eyed. As long as you give me some more time, when the time is up, I will march north with my troops."
.It is impossible to eliminate barbarians forever, but at least it can guarantee the peace of my Ming Dynasty in the North for thirty years."
As he said that, he lowered his head and said, "At this time, the emperor wants to move the feudal vassal, and I... feel unwilling to do so!"
"I will give you time to raise troops and go north, and I will also give you that right!"
Zhu Yunxi's words made Zhu Di raise his head sharply.
At the same time, it also made the civil servants who were standing silently frowning in an instant.
No one expected that the emperor actually said such a sentence.
"Among the princes, Fourth Uncle, you are the most like the old man." Zhu Yunxi said, smiling slightly, "I'm talking about leading troops to fight!"
Zhu Di also smiled silently and nodded slightly.
"Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Supreme Emperor has launched a total of thirteen Northern Expeditions during his thirty-year reign. The purpose is to drive the enemy farther and farther away from the country and ensure the safety of our Ming Dynasty mountains and rivers!" Zhu Yunxi
He continued, "In the past thirty years, no matter how many ministers warned me, no matter how difficult the country was, the Northern Expedition was the top priority! Grandpa Huang once said, if you take one step back from the enemy, the enemy will advance a thousand steps. It is easy to retreat.
, if you think about moving forward, you will have to sacrifice more lives. The best defense is not to build a city or to cultivate fields, but... to attack! Strike first to gain strength, and strike later to suffer disaster!"
"I deeply believe this, so I will never release Nanshan soldiers into the warehouse just because of the temporary peace!"
With that said, Zhu Yunxi stood up, walked slowly to Zhu Di, looked into his eyes, and said, "I'm not afraid to tell you the truth. After killing the nine-border vassal kings, I will rectify the military affairs, with Liaodong, Goryeo, and Daning as the frontline."
On the flanks, take Shanxi Dongsheng Guard as the bridgehead. It starts from the Yalu River in the east and connects with Helan Mountain in the west. Eliminate the young and old in the guard and only keep the best, and gradually advance year after year with soldiers who have fought hundreds of battles!"
In the palace, the civil servants didn't think this was a big deal. Even those who were slightly familiar with military affairs just thought that this was probably a small-scale adjustment made by the emperor to the Ming Dynasty's border troops after he abolished the border guards.
But the eyes of the generals were brightened.
Especially Zhu Di, he raised his head sharply again.
"It's only today that I can clearly see his true purpose of reducing the vassal state. It's not that he really can't tolerate the vassal kings in his heart. The endless rhetoric of the so-called dragon sons and grandsons is just one of the reasons for reducing the vassal state. His real intention
, for war!”
It is precisely because of this that he had to intervene in the succession of the king of the Qin and Jin vassals a long time ago, despite the consequences of being hostile and ostracized by all the vassals.
It was precisely because of this that he wanted to get rid of the Chu vassal and the Qi vassal. Without the Chu vassal and the Shu vassal, the imperial court would have a large financial source. Without the Qi vassal, the land in Hebei could guarantee the military supplies and population needed by the northern army.
Because of this, he secretly pushed Dai Wang Gu Wang into the pit regardless of Concubine Guo Hui's love for him.
Everything is to integrate the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty!
In an instant, Zhu Di's mind turned over and over again, and countless thoughts came to him one after another.
As Zhu Yunxi said just now, Dongshengwei is the bridgehead.
This Dongsheng Guard has always been in the hands of the Jin Dynasty. It is the bridgehead connecting the guards in Shanxi and Ningxia. Moreover, it has another feature that cannot be replaced by other guards.
That is, he controls the Hetao, the entire Hetao, and the Hetao area where horses are raised!
Four years ago in Hongwu, Tamerlane, the Privy Councilor of the Yuan Dynasty, led his soldiers and people to surrender and set up the Dongsheng Guard.
There are not only Han people in the guard station, but also dozens of brave and fighting Hu people from Qianhusuo.
The entire power of the Jin Dynasty completely controls the Datong Guards, Dongsheng City, Sanjiang City, and the sixteen military towns along the Helan Mountain.
"What a trick!" Zhu Di thought to himself, "At first I thought he was interfering in the household affairs of the Qin and Jin vassals, and I thought he was trying to show off his power in the East Palace, but I didn't expect that his vision was so far-term!"
With the Jin vassal in hand, the Xuning vassal, in addition to the king of Datong, the king of Liao, and himself, the king of Yan.
Starting from Dongsheng, it reaches Datong in the east, Xuanfu in the east, Kaiping in the east, Daning in the southeast, Liaodong in the east, and Yalu River in the east...
This line was originally set by the old man. The strategic purpose is that I cannot defeat the enemy, but the enemy cannot harm me.
Now the emperor has eliminated all the vassal kings in this line, and everything in the military, civil, financial, and horse affairs is directly under the central leadership.
Then his strategic intention is not just to be an enemy and not to harm us, but to go north for more than a few thousand miles. Shuofang's iron cavalry is like a swarm of ants, controlling a million long strings and running rampant!
"You can probably guess my good intentions!" Zhu Yunxi looked at Zhu Di, knowing that the other person must be upset at this moment, and continued, "After integrating the border army and eliminating the dross, we will have 400,000 combatable soldiers. It has been Hu Renqiu since ancient times.
When the horses are tall and fat, they come to my Central Plains to clear grass and valleys. From now on, my Ming Dynasty athletes go north to hunt bears!"
Suddenly, Zhu Di felt his throat felt a little dry.
"If you want to lead troops to fight, there will be plenty of opportunities in the future!" Zhu Yunxi smiled and said.
"But you just asked me to move to a feudal vassal...?"
After Zhu Di finished speaking, Zhu Yunxi said again, "There is no conflict between moving the feudal vassal and leading the troops to fight. I want to abolish your Yan vassal, but I also want to use you, fourth uncle!" He looked into Zhu Di's eyes and smiled,
"I know that you are a person who can't bear loneliness. Naturally, you can't return to the capital to be a free house master. And letting you go out to fight those barbarians and cavemen in the southwest is overkill!"
"I'm afraid you mean to let me lead the troops to fight, keep the king's title, but don't give me a fief!" Zhu Di thought to himself.
This is what Zhu Yunxi had in mind. Zhu Di is the flag of the Zhu family in the military. This flag should be kept, and he should be kept as an example so that more children of the Zhu family will be proud to join the military.
Furthermore, if the majestic royal family is not proud of going into battle to kill the enemy, what kind of royal family members are they?
Not giving him a real title, but raising his status. In the army, he can check and balance the border town generals. At the same time, the border town generals and local officials can also check and balance him, the uncle who leads the army. It will not form a single family.
It will not even form a vassal town.
"I know that my fourth uncle is a hero, so I don't want to be burdened by false fame!" Zhu Yunxi said with a smile again.
"Hey!" After hearing this, Zhu Gaochi, who had been bowing his head, sighed in his heart, "It's fucking started again!"
"As a descendant of the Zhu family, the only one who can take advantage of me now is my fourth uncle!" Zhu Yunxi continued, "And you are the eldest among all the uncles. I am cutting down the vassal for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, and I am using you for the sake of the Ming Dynasty! Just now I said it
, sealing you out is overkill. But putting you in the army is the pinnacle of my Ming border!"
"Isn't your greatest wish in this life to end the troubles at the frontier once and for all? In time, there will definitely be a place for you, Fourth Uncle, in the Imperial Ancestral Temple, in the Hall of Heroes, and in Zhaozhao's history books. When future generations mention you, you are no longer just the Ming Dynasty's
He is not the vassal king, but the meritorious king and the military king of the Ming Dynasty. What a great achievement this is!"
Listening to these words, Zhu Di's eyes gradually brightened.
In his life, he had great ambitions when he was young, but in middle age he was worried about gains and losses. But now... the emperor has given him a path, a path that can leave a name in history. Can he follow it?