Chapter 692 The History of the Ming Dynasty
Chen Xi heard that the official envoy of the Dayan tribe who went to the capital this time was not the national teacher Yi Simayin. Without this think tank, and his new defeat before the New Year, his envoy seemed very respectful to the Ming court, so there was no need for the court to let Chen Xi fight another tame battle against the Tartars. However, from all aspects of the news, the envoy of the Dayan tribe who proposed that the Ming Dynasty was Chen Xi.
The Ming court did not recognize Chen Xi's brilliant achievements in this war against the Tatars. However, the defeated Tatars learned through spies that they did not lose to the Ming army, but to the Folang machine cannon and the "indian envoy" Chen Xi who was bravely commanded on the battlefield.
With the defeat of the Tatars, the Dayan tribe, which had basically unified Mongolia in the south of the desert, rebelled in a rebellion. The internal part of it split into several forces and attacked each other. The Dayan tribe attacked the deceased, and the war resurrected the grassland.
When the Ming Dynasty saw that the opportunity to establish the Ming Dynasty as the superior country was coming. Regardless of the previous conflicts, he actually accepted the request of the Dayan tribe, accepted the Dayan tribe again and provided some support for the Dayan tribe to unify the Mongolian tribes.
After Chen Xi learned the news, he was thinking in his mind, who wrote so many scattered plans on his desk. This person did not write anywhere else, but wanted to write on his desk. Do you want to organize these unformed plans and put them into practice.
Chen Xi thought to himself: "I don't even know who you are, and I will help you do such a thankless thing."
Xie Qian and others blocked Chen Xi, but Emperor Hongzhi did not directly issue an order to entrust Chen Xi to the grassland, but did not designate others, so the matter was dragged down.
On the 19th day of the first lunar month, it was the day when Chen Xi taught Prince Zhu Houzhao.
The class was held on the back of Wenhua Hall that day. I haven't seen each other for a few months. The young prince Zhu Houzhao has grown up a little more. During the Spring Festival, he has been staying with his father and mother, having a happy New Year, and never returned to Xiefang Hall to live.
As soon as Chen Xi came, Zhu Houzhao was very happy when she saw it, and stood up and greeted: "Mr. Chen, is it you who teaches the 21st history again?" It was like an old friend who hadn't seen him for a long time, and he was very kind after seeing him.
"I have seen Your Highness the Crown Prince." Chen Xi bowed.
"No need to be polite. I told my mother a few years ago that I must find you back as a teacher. Hey, you don't know how good I am playing Cuju now. I competed with those little eunuchs before, and they couldn't beat me. I scored several goals."
What a naughty kid. No matter how many goals you score, will it be useful for you to govern the country in the future besides making yourself appear more playful in the eyes of others, and there is no benefit.
"Mr. Chen, have you heard me speak and I know that you are very good at playing Cuju and want to compete with you." Zhu Houzhao said with interest.
At this time, those Zhongyun officials who were responsible for recording were more embarrassed.
The prince wanted to play Cuju with his husband, and said he wanted to compete. Although it seemed that the prince had certain ambitions, how to record such a thing in the booklet
Chen Xi was quite helpless. It turned out that the prince remembered him and was not thinking about letting him teach. To put it bluntly, he would still play.
"Crown Prince, today I will talk about the history of the Song Dynasty." Chen Xi said in a plain tone.
"What is the history of the Song Dynasty? Haven't I said it several times before? I can recite it now." Zhu Houzhao said disdainfully.
"The prince will listen to it." Chen Xi closed the case and said bluntly.
"If you really want me to recite, listen, wait for the history of the Song Dynasty to record the history of the dynasty that jumped into the sea with the little emperor on his back," Zhu Houzhao asked with a blink of an eye.
Chen Xi thought to himself, this is what you call memorizing the Song Dynasty and lingering. Which dynasty is not remembered clearly in the Song Dynasty. This is a naughty child who is already ten years old. In less than five years, your father will die and you will become the emperor. Do you know?
But no matter what, Zhu Houzhao at least knew, so Chen Xi nodded in praise.
"That's it. Isn't the Song Shi Shi just the little emperor following Lu Xiufu? It's this name. He jumped into the sea and died. The battle between Song and Meng was ahead, and Yue Fei was fighting against the Jin Dynasty."
He was memorizing it, but he used the Song Dynasty chronological events written for him that Chen Xi had written for him to fool people. Chen Xi said: "The prince learned this to be like this because he wanted to be a prince in the future and he would not even have the ability to govern the country."
Zhu Houzhao was stunned for a moment and asked in confusion: "Even if I become the emperor, there will naturally be a minister who will govern the country for me. Why do I have to come to my mother and tell me that it is my responsibility to manage the ministers well and let the ministers do their best."
He is such a "good mother" who can teach his son. No matter how he looks, it seems that Empress Zhang is too doting on her son and instilling some wrong ideas, which leads to Zhu Houzhao, who is young, thinking about trouble others to help him, but never thought that the world is his own world.
Unfortunately, it was because you were ignorant of your ability that you acted arbitrarily. The throne was finally passed to your cousin Zhu Hougui, and your father's ambition was cut off from you.
Chenxi Road: "The reason why water can carry boats and can also overturn boats, the prince has heard of it"
"I'm going, I've heard a lot of these things. You'll say something fresher. Why don't you tell me about the fun things in the 21st history? Even if there aren't any fun, I want to hear those who ride horses and fight." Zhu Houzhao felt that Chen Xi was not as interesting as she thought, so she sat back on the chair.
Chen Xidao: "Okay, today I will talk about how Taizu arched and defeated the world by arching horses."
"Um"
Zhu Houzhao glared at the sound of her eyes and asked, "What Taizu, Tang Taizu Song Taizu"
Chen Xi said angrily: "I, Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty."
"This is good, this is good, tell me quickly."
Zhu Houzhao was so happy that what he wanted to know most on weekdays was the history of the Ming Dynasty, but no one ever told him because he felt that he was young and had not yet to know the history of the Ming Dynasty. Especially he didn't want Zhu Houzhao to know that there were so many intrigues in the Ming Dynasty, and there would be such dirty tricks of uncles and nephews fighting each other for the throne, and there would be such a war that was terrible for the Tumu Fort.
Chen Xi was about to start speaking, but Liu Jin was clever and reminded: "Mr. Shen, you can't talk about some things randomly."
Chen Xidao: "It is my responsibility to tell the 21st history for the prince. As for what I want to say outside of history, I will weigh it myself."
Liu Jin didn't dare to say anything anymore. He was just a eunuch and had no right to give advice to the lecturers of the Eastern Palace. He quickly turned to the officials who were attending the lecturers next to him.
But from the beginning, Chen Xi was alone in telling the Twenty-One History. In this room, there were Chen Xi’s officials. Even if someone thought that what Chen Xi said was not in accordance with the rules, they could not stop them. They could only record it and hand it over to Shangguan or the emperor for judgment.
"I want to listen, say it quickly. Even if you don't say it well, I will tell my father to forgive you for your sins."
Chen Xidao: "Okay, today I will talk about the history of Taizu's establishment of Ming Dynasty and destroying Yuan Dynasty"
Chen Xi put down the case and began to tell the story in a beautiful way.
Chen Xi started with the peasant war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. The cause of the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty was due to internal political chaos, frequent changes in the throne, and intensified competition for imperial power, which gradually fell behind the court's power, forming the cause of the war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. Then Han Shantong, Liu Futong, Zhang Shicheng, Xu Shouhui and others made a comeback. The Red Turban Army Uprising was in great shape. Although most of these uprisings ended in failure, what followed was military separatism in the Jiangnan region.
After listening for a while, Zhu Houzhao became a little impatient and frowned and asked, "You tell the story of Taizu, but where is Taizu?"
Liu Jin quickly said, "Your Highness, you can't say that, you should call your grandfather by seniority."
"You care what the palace calls me? Do you mention that Taizu doesn't call Taizu, but also calls her son and grandson?"
As soon as these words were said, everyone around them looked like earth. Only the prince dared to say this. If others criticized Zhu Yuanzhang so much, it would be not far from being dismantled.
Chen Xidao: "Prince, let's talk about it after listening."
Zhu Houzhao glared at Liu Jin angrily, sent him to stand beside him, and continued to listen to Chen Xi's story.
Soon, Chen Xi's story tells the story of Zhu Yuanzhang standing out among the Red Turban Army and gradually growing from an unknown junior to a general who can stand alone.
This is like an inspirational story of fighting monsters and upgrading, full of passion. Zhu Houzhao was very excited to listen to it. This is my ancestor. Even if others look down on him, he can become a great figure that everyone admires, and can also create a prosperous Ming Dynasty and leave a great country to me.
"Speak quickly."
After hearing this, Zhu Houzhao had been urging Chen Xi to speed up the story.
Chen Xi continued to tell his story, but the following content was not something Zhu Houzhao liked to listen to, because Chen Youliang, Fang Guozhen, Chen Youding and others who opposed Zhu Yuanzhang in Jiangnan appeared. These people caused great trouble for Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Yuanzhang was even defeated for a while.
Zhu Houzhao clenched his fists tightly, wishing he could enter the story and help his ancestors conquer the country.
Chen Xi discovered that in addition to being playful, Zhu Houzhao was also very interested in war. This is also the fundamental reason why he was posthumously named "Emperor Wu" among so many emperors of the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty did not rebellion continue throughout the country until the Zhengde period. Fortunately, these wars did not last for too long, and the harm brought to the Ming Dynasty's rule was not great. Otherwise, the title of "Emperor Compassion" would fall into his hands. No matter how you look at Zhu Houzhao, he was a "tragic emperor" in the history of the Ming Dynasty.
When Chen Xi talked about the Battle of Poyang Lake, Chen Youliang died in battle, Zhu Houzhao became proud again. After all, it was the story of his ancestors, and it was related to personal information. This was much more exciting than listening to those Romances.
In the past, Zhu Houzhao listened to history entirely to "the history of other people's families", but now it is different. He listened to the founding of the Ming Dynasty, which is very exciting.
"Tell me quickly. After Chen Youliang died, what is left is how to destroy the Yuan Dynasty."
Zhu Houzhao has already started to screen the plot himself, which sounds a bit reliable, because Chen Xi also said before that the Yuan Dynasty did not have a great threat to Zhu Yuanzhang's regime at that time. Instead, Chen Youliang was like a thorn in his back and had to be eliminated quickly.
Chen Xidao: "The prince should not be in a hurry to do things, but should take every step forward. Although the final goal is to overthrow the rule of the Yuan Dynasty, he must first consolidate the rear. Otherwise, once the war begins in the front and the rear is unstable, will all his efforts be wasted?"
"oh"
Zhu Houzhao blinked, not understanding it, but he no longer cared very much at this moment, so he continued to urge, "Hurry up, just tell me what's going on later."
"Then we will fight Zhang Shicheng"
Chen Xi began to talk about the series of wars to eliminate Zhang Shicheng, focusing on the Pingjiang Battle. After more than a year, he finally eliminated Zhang Shicheng's power, and then began to destroy Fang Guozhen, unify the south of the Yangtze River and establish the Ming Dynasty, and then issued an edict to the Central Plains.
When Zhu Houzhao heard the call from Chenxi to "expel the barbarians, restore China, establish a guide to Chen Ji, and save the people" from Chenxi, his eyes turned red when he heard it.
Next is the war against the Northern Yuan Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang was determined to command, first send troops to seize Shandong, remove the barriers of the Yuan Dynasty, then advance to Henan, cut off his wings, seize Tongguan, and occupy his threshold.
After that, the Ming Dynasty sent troops westward, Shanxi, northern Shaanxi, Guanzhong and Gansu swept down. Two years later, the Ming army came to Dadu. Emperor Shun of Yuan led the concubines of the three palaces, the crown prince and others to escape from Dadu in a panic and fled to the Mongolian grassland. The rest of the Yuan Dynasty warlords who held heavy troops and bravely fought in civil war all fled when the Ming army attacked. As a result, the 98th year of Mongolia's rule in the Central Plains ended, and the Ming Dynasty obtained the rule of the area within the Great Wall. China returned to the rule of the dynasty established by the Han people. At the same time, the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, which had been lost for four hundred years, were also taken back, and the Ming Dynasty thus established its rule.
After hearing this, Zhu Houzhao breathed a long sigh and sighed: "In the end, I took down the world. I am still worried that something might happen."
Liu Jin covered his mouth and said, "Why should the prince worry? If Taizu had not pacified the world, how could the prosperity and peace come to this day?"
"That's right. Later, the Kaiping and the others chased out of the grassland and killed the Yuan Dynasty without leaving any armor." Zhu Houzhao was still unsatisfied with hearing this and continued to ask about the situation afterwards.
This time Chen Xi shook his head directly: "It is easy to destroy one or two grassland tribes, but the grassland is wide and often uninhabited thousands of miles away. I dare to ask the prince how to completely eliminate it. You must know that wildfires cannot burn them all, and the spring breeze will grow again."
"Isn't it enough to occupy all the places? There are people there, so I will kill them to see if they dare to threaten us," Zhu Houzhao said for granted.
Chenxidao: "If it were so easy, there would be no disaster for the Tatars today. The Tatar Diyi is just the remains of the Mongol Yuan, which can be said to have endless harm."
ps: The first update
The emperor felt that it was not easy to write on Sundays, because my wife was at home and had to chat a few times from time to time. If she ignored her, she would have to cook and send lunch boxes to her children in cram school. You should know that on weekdays, she would give her food to her children from her wife's unit.
Chapter completed!