From the very beginning, Deng Ming never wanted to pretend to be a clan, it was not his fault that others had such a misunderstanding, as long as it was corrected. This is not the first time Deng Ming wants to correct this mistake, but he was worried that it would bring him a lot of trouble, so he has not made a clear statement on this issue, and has always neither admitted nor denied it. But today, Deng Ming thinks that he has contributed a lot, and everyone is in a good mood, and at this time, he frankly admits that other people will not be particularly angry, and it is a big deal to apologize sincerely. Although the timing seems good at the moment, Deng Ming also made a lot of determination to find out about this matter.

Sure enough, as Deng Ming expected, as soon as he said this, all the faces changed suddenly, and the room waited silently for Deng Ming's next words.

"Well, that's it." Deng Ming waited in the room for a long time, and finally spit out such a sentence again, now everyone feels very bad about him, even if someone stands up and angrily accuses him of bullying the public, now this silence is unbearable.

But what everyone is waiting for is obviously not this, Deng Ming's words are shocking, but even if someone wants to jump up and accuse him of deceiving the Ming army, then you have to understand how he deceived first. Just now, all the officers in the room were waiting for Deng Ming to continue, listening to what he was going to call himself.

"That's it?" Zhou Kaihuang asked softly in disbelief.

"Yes, my surname is Deng, I really am not a clan, you still call me Mr. Deng," Deng Ming hurriedly emphasized again: "It's okay to call me Deng Ming." ”

There was another embarrassing silence, and everyone stared at Deng Ming, but no one spoke for a long time, and after a long time, one person couldn't help but ask, "Then who is Mr. Deng?" ”

"It's not anyone, Deng Ming is my real name."

There was a buzzing sound in the room, and some people began to talk in whispers, but the people who were talking secretly were all very jǐngti, talking one by one close to the ears of others, and looking at Deng Ming with their eyes to see if his attention was on him, and whether the guessed words could be heard by Deng Ming.

"Where is Mr. Deng from, and what is the name of the ancestors?" Zhao Tianba began to ask, he is probably the one who knows the most etiquette, judging from the words, he still has great respect for Deng Ming: "Dare to ask Ling Zun's name?" He once lived in the imperial court. ”

"I am a person from Beizhili......" Deng Ming, the name of his father and grandfather, said casually, as for the official position, it must not be, they are not even from the Ming Dynasty: "My grandfather and father are ordinary people." ”

"Farming?" Zhou Kaihuang screamed, his face full of eccentricity.

"No, it's a small person in the city." Deng Ming knew that the other party would never believe that he was the son of a peasant family, although he was indeed not a clan, but how to explain his origin was a headache for Deng Ming, saying that he was from hundreds of years later? This estimate is even more unbelievable than saying that he is a farmer's child.

Deng ...... How did Mr. Deng come to Sichuan from Beizhili? Another asked.

Deng Ming secretly complained in his heart, he didn't know how he got from Hebei to Sichuan.

Seeing Deng Ming's distracted appearance, the empathetic Zhao Tianba asked a question to solve the siege: "Mr. Deng has something unspeakable?" ”

"Yes," Deng Ming said gratefully, "It's really hard to put into words." ”

"You can talk slowly." The person who asked the question just now still refuses to give up.

"Mr. Deng said it all, he doesn't want to say it!" Li Xinghan turned his head and scolded the man: "Didn't you hear? ”

"In short, I really don't belong to the clan, and I was forced to speak out in the past, so I was very reluctant to go." Deng Ming apologized to everyone.

"I don't dare to do that." Everyone in the house hurriedly got up and saluted.

"Eat, eat, I'm really hungry." Zhou Kaihuang's expression had returned to normal, and he beckoned the guards to hurry up and start the meal, and then came to invite Deng Ming to take a seat: "Mr. Deng, please." ”

After inviting Deng Ming to sit down in the middle, the other officers also took their seats, although the atmosphere was still a little strange, and they were still secretly exchanging heads, but it seemed that everyone accepted Deng Ming's statement, and Li Xinghan also asked: "Does Mr. Deng want to inform the whole army of this matter?" ”

"yes—ah." Deng Ming just made up his mind not to hide it anymore, since he had sued these people, of course he couldn't deceive the other soldiers, but why did Li Xinghan's tone of questioning make him feel so weird?

"Yes." Quite a few officers responded at the same time.

Deng Ming was speechless for a long time, he felt that his confession didn't seem to be very successful, but when it came to this, what else could he say?

Most of the people were talking to Deng Ming in the house, and a few ran out to convey the order before the food was delivered, and soon Deng Ming's order spread throughout the army layer by layer.

"His Royal Highness has an order, and he is not allowed to be called His Royal Highness in the future, and he must still be called Mr. Deng."

"Why did Your Highness give such an order?" Many soldiers were very puzzled by this order, not only the Ming army received the order, but also the surrender army of Wanxian County also received the same notice, and many people were also curious, but they did not dare to question it blatantly.

"If you can figure it out, aren't you also Your Highness?" The soldiers of the Ming army who asked such questions were sent back angrily by their leader, and when they asked the messenger of the order just now, they were ridiculed in exactly the same way, and now they passed it to their men as they were, along with the order.

Now the people who are eating with Deng Ming, they don't say it but believe that Deng Ming is telling the truth, and it's not the first time that Deng Ming has appeared in the face of the clan, every time Deng Ming plays this role, he seems calm and calm when he calls him "Your Highness" to everyone - in Deng Ming's opinion, this is normal, acting has to be like it, and as a former modern person, he doesn't think it's okay to be called His Highness a few times.

However, this kind of behavior will leave a completely different impression in the eyes of others, and it is not without a nickname, but the marquis certainly does not dare to call himself a prince, and people who do not have a title also feel that they dare not let the people around him call him the marquis. Deng Ming's calm acceptance because he didn't know the severity was justified in the eyes of these people.

and the courage to give orders is also one of the reasons why others are convinced that he is extraordinary, Deng Ming watched a lot of TV and movies in his previous life, and quickly adapted to the respect of the people around him and was able to give orders, and other ordinary people who had no identity and no official position that these officers had seen would be so nervous that they couldn't speak at all in this kind of scene, and their knees had already weakened when they saw the official.

For example, Zhou Kaihuang, if someone calls him His Royal Highness, then he will definitely sit on pins and needles, and he must die to resign, even if he has to play the situation, he will not be able to be calm, let alone hesitate whether to confess when he perceives that others have similar misunderstandings, but will immediately confess. Of course, Zhou Kaihuang will not mess up the dignity and inferiority, and when he transgresses, he will not be able to be as frank as Deng Ming without a single star and a little bit of weakness, so even if he is a fake clan, he will be discovered immediately, let alone be misidentified.

"Maybe it's because you're still in danger? Or is it something else? Zhou Kaihuang turned his mind in his heart, and he was very puzzled by Deng Ming's order, but since Deng Ming's attitude was so resolute, he must have some last resort: "Anyway, it will be Fengjie soon, and His Royal Highness will definitely explain it in detail to Inspector Wen at that time, and then wait for Inspector Wen to announce it." ”

There are many other people who have similar views to Zhou Kaihuang, Li Xinghan feels that if someone is misunderstood like this, he will definitely grab the ground with his head and prove his innocence in everything, what kind of person dares to accept the treatment of the clan with peace of mind? It's either a crazy liar or a real clan, but Deng Ming doesn't look like the former. However, this turmoil made Li Xinghan think differently, he had never believed that Deng Ming was the third prince of Zhu before, and when Zhou Kaihuang first poked out the news, Deng Ming's cousin also deepened Li Xinghan's suspicion - but it was just a suspicion, if it was a normal person who was not a liar in this era heard that he was detained in the name of Emperor Lie, his cousin would definitely be much more fierce than Deng Ming. The question of "how did Mr. Deng come to Sichuan" just now made Li Xinghan's heart move, Deng Ming must be in the clan, there is no problem, so it is easy to understand that the reaction after being said to be Emperor Lie is not too big: I was mistaken for a cousin, although there was a misunderstanding, it was not a world of difference.

"Is it the King of Shu?" Li Xinghan suddenly had such a thought in his heart, the old King of Shu was slaughtered by Zhang Xianzhong, and the palace was also ransacked, I heard that there was a young son who was not martyred but lost his trace, there was such a speculation before, but now the more Li Xinghan thinks about it, the more reasonable it is: "This western thief has always been next to His Royal Highness, if His Royal Highness is the King of Shu, it will definitely not be easy to say it clearly, and is it strange for His Highness to use it in Sichuan?" ”

As for the defect that detrimental to Li Xinghan's conjecture was not heard from Deng Ming's mouth, he quickly found an explanation: "Of course, the palace is different from us, the emperor has been běijīng before, what's so strange about learning a little Beizhili dialect in the palace?" If it's exactly the same as ordinary people, is it still called a palace? Anyway, it's going to be Fengjie soon, and when I see His Royal Highness the Inspector Wen, I can naturally say it all...... Oh, the King of Shu is still here, this is really a great joy. ”

On occasions like rì, Zhou Kaihuang and Li Xinghan talked the most, and today the two of them have their own agendas, so they seem to be much more low-key than before, but Zhao Tianba, who has always spoken little, seemed quite excited today, and after drinking two glasses of wine, he congratulated Deng Mingdao: "Then Tan Yi is also a fool like Li Jinglong, Mr. Deng used a little trick to kill him without leaving a piece of armor." ”

Li Jinglong was robbed of the title by Chengzu, and in the three hundred years of public opinion in the Ming Dynasty, he has always been an incompetent and cowardly despicable villain. Since there is no title of the imperial court, and it is so unpopular, everyone laughs at it unscrupulously. Zhao Tianba's words caused a chorus of approval, and other officers also laughed and said that Tan Hong might not be as good as Li Jinglong, a fool.

"Tan Yi should be inferior to Li Jinglong," in the book that Deng Ming has read, Li Jinglong is also evaluated as the first incompetent person in Jingnan, his modern image has not changed much from the Ming Dynasty, but Deng Ming has seen the process of Jingjing after he has changed his impression of this person, and the young man can't hide his words in his heart, since this issue is discussed, Deng Ming can't help but talk about his own opinions: "Minister Fang Xiaoru and Huang Zicheng were martyred for the Son of Jianwen, although they recommended Li Jinglong, but everyone thinks they are loyal ministers, Let's not say that there is anything wrong with them, the fault is all attributed to Li Jinglong......"

As Deng Ming said, Fang Zhenru and Huang Zicheng were martyred for Emperor Jianwen, so the treatment they received must be different from the clown Li Jinglong, Deng Ming called him by his name and didn't feel anything, but in the eyes of the officers who were already convinced that he was a heavenly family, this was naturally the condescending attitude of the king to evaluate his courtiers.

"I'm talking about these palace secrets again, and I also say that I am not the third prince." Zhou Kai slandered, as far as he thought, these things that Deng Ming knew would never be something that ordinary courtiers would have the opportunity to see.

"Li Jinglong is a native of Jiangnan, he was only in his early twenties when he led the army, and he had never been to the area of Beizhili, although he claimed to have 600,000 soldiers and horses, but the generals of the army came from Tiannan and Haibei, and he had never known Li Jinglong before. Not to mention such a hairy boy, even Taizu's veteran Geng Bingwen may not be able to convince everyone...... "Deng Ming feels that commanding an army of 600,000 will never be an easy task, especially commanding such a large army to take an offensive, if there is no talent, the huge pressure on grain, grass, roads, reconnaissance and other work is enough to make such a large army chaotic without a fight." Compared with Li Jinglong, Geng Bingwen has the reputation of being good at guarding, and he is still a veteran who follows Zhu Yuanzhang, but Deng Ming did not see Geng Bingwen show any outstanding defensive ability in the Battle of Jingnan, and even his prestige in the army is very questionable.

Another example is the Battle of Zhending, Geng Bingwen gathered 100,000 troops to deploy around the city, and deployed soldiers and horses as barriers in Xiongxian and other places, thinking that he could sit back and relax. Until Zhu Di Poxiong County was approaching Zhending, Geng Bingwen was still convinced that Zhu Di, who had just eliminated the southern army on the periphery, needed to recuperate and would definitely not be able to fight continuously - the commander with the heavy responsibility of the country could be careless to such an extent! As a result, Zhu Di led 20 cavalry to attack Zhending at dusk, rushed into the defenseless camp outside the city and began to set fire, and the 60,000 troops deployed outside the city were in a mess without knowing the enemy's situation. At this time, another 3,000 Yan troops arrived, Geng Bingwen was chased by Zhu Di and ran around Zhending, and finally escaped by night, but the same supervisor Li Jian, the deputy, was captured by Zhu Di, and the 60,000 troops outside the city were captured by the 3,000 Yan army and more than 40,000 prisoners, and the remaining more than 30,000 southern troops in the city were surrounded by one-tenth of the Yan army in the city for half a month and did not dare to go out.

“…… After the defeat of Zhending, Fang Xiaoru and Huang Zicheng recommended Li Jinglong to take office, Li Jinglong rectified Geng Bingwen's defeated army, and attacked Beiping with his newly brought army, there was no mutiny along the way, nor did there ever be a lack of food and grass or the appointment did not arrive, there was no ambush, like Geng Bingwen was attacked by paralysis and carelessness has never happened, and the land of the two provinces was also surrounded by Beiping, and it was judged that Chengzu would take the road of Zhengcunba to save Beiping, but since he met Chengzu, Li Jinglong will be defeated in every battle is also a fact. Deng Ming tapped the table lightly, this is like a young man who has never seen a car and has never driven a car, was driven to drive an overweight truck to climb the mountain road with nine twists and eighteen bends, under normal circumstances, this young man should not even see the mountain and fell into the ditch, but Li Jinglong drove the car up the mountain, and climbed halfway up the mountain, that is, when he saw the peak, he plunged down the valley. But is it the young driver who is stupid, or is the person who gave him this task an even bigger fool? Deng Ming asked the people around him this question: "Li Jinglong was defeated, defeated, and defeated, and the defeat was returned to the court, and Fang Xiaoru and Huang Zicheng, who recommended Li Jinglong, who had never led troops to fight, to Emperor Jianwen strongly advocated killing him, and even scolded him for being a thief who ruined the affairs of the Son of Heaven, but what do you think?" Is it recommended that a person who does not know soldiers will harm the state affairs to the people of the Son of Heaven, or will this person who does not know soldiers spoil the state affairs? ”

When I heard Deng Ming talk about Zhu Di's personal commander and twenty horsemen using the cover of heaven to create chaos and create an opportunity for the 3,000 Yan army to defeat the 100,000 Zhending army, these young officers all danced and shouted with joy, and then they all sighed and hated that they couldn't be there; When Deng Ming said that Li Jinglong could command 600,000 troops to march on enemy territory without leaking, Zhou Kaihuang and Li Xinghan both changed slightly, they knew the trouble of marching these days, and they were often in a hurry when they commanded more than 1,000 soldiers to march alone.

When they heard Deng Ming ask this question, everyone froze, and suddenly Zhao Tianba got up and thanked Deng Ming loudly: "Knowing people and doing their best can make the best use of their talents, so that they can not be defeated in a hundred battles. ”

Deng Ming was just chatting just now, but after hearing Zhao Tianba's words, everyone suddenly realized, it turned out that this was cultivating everyone through stories - this kind of behavior also has the meaning of cultivating henchmen, and everyone also thanked Deng Ming one after another.

Seeing this, Deng Ming blushed a little, but he thought that this was not bad, and telling these illiterate officers the stories of famous generals he knew should help enhance their horizons, and it might also be of some benefit to them in the future.

"These should be military secrets only in the palace, right? When it comes to Emperor Chengzu and Jingnan's old affairs, who can see it outside the palace? Zhao Tianba pondered in his heart, he didn't believe that non-clan members had the opportunity to see this kind of old thing about Jingjing, and furthermore, in addition to the prince, Zhao Tianba felt that the general clan was unlikely to have the opportunity to read these materials detailing the battle for the throne of the Heavenly Family: "But why did the third prince order to hide his identity?" When it's time for Fengjie, I have to report to Inspector Wen. ”

Zhao Tianba, Zhou Kaihuang and Li Xinghan, their eyes spread out after a little contact, and they were full of tacit understanding:

claimed to be not a clan, and claimed that his surname was Deng but not Zhu...... Who will believe it?