Unknowingly, at the beginning of winter, because Zhu Gaochi was critically ill, Xu Hao had to go to the palace every day, the concubines were crying and crying, and the queen was quite calm.

The old lady lived well in the countryside, and did not want to return to Beijing, nor did she allow the whole family to come, saying that she wanted to live a quiet and quiet year.

The whole family had a headache for this, Xu Qingtang and his wife complained that their son was ignorant, and Xu Hao simply didn't even return home and hid in Xiaojia Village.

On the state affairs, recently all the officers and soldiers of the northern Xinghe Guarding Qianhu Institute 1,000 people resisted to the death for seven days, and insisted until the multi-way reinforcements arrived, so that the Mongolian army in Arutai had to withdraw, and the historical Xinghe County was attacked and fell into the Tatar sphere of influence, and now this remote county town in Hebei is still a strong fortress of the Ming Dynasty.

Historically, because of this incident, Zhu Di personally recruited 340,000 donkeys, more than 177,500 cars, and more than 235,000 coachmen, carrying a total of 370,000 stone of grain to go out with the army.

At that time, the generals asked for pursuit, and Zhu Di ordered to postpone the pursuit, feeling that Xinghe County was not easy to defend, and moved the remaining population to Xuanfu, which is now Xuanhua County, Hebei.

Zhu Di deeply felt the threat of Duoyan Sanwei, and held a military parade in Guyuan, Hebei Province in May, telling the soldiers: "The soldiers are like water, the water flows smoothly because of the land, the soldiers are in the posture because of the enemy, the water is impermanent, the soldiers are impermanent, and those who can win due to the changes of the enemy will also gain power." ”

In order to boost morale, Zhu Di composed a song for the soldiers to sing. In July, the division went to the Shahuyuan and captured Arutai's subordinates, thus learning that Arutai had lost his horse and abandoned his armor and fled north from the Kuoluan Sea.

Zhu Di was worried about repeating the mistake of Qiu Fu's deep submerge, and ordered the pursuit to be stopped. On the way back to the division, Zhu Di thought that the Wuliang Habu was the wing of Arutai, so he chose to send 20,000 foot cavalry to attack the Wuliang Habu.

Shi to the Qu Split River (now a tributary of the upper reaches of the Hong'er River in Inner Mongolia). Uliang Habe learned that the Ming army was coming. Flee westward. Zhu Di commanded the army to encircle and annihilate and defeated the Wuliang Habu. At the beginning of September, he returned to Beijing.

Although Xu Hao and Zhu Gaochi did not have the strategy and courage of the Yongle Emperor, neither of them lacked caution and patience

In dealing with the Mongols, Xu Hao never had the ambition of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and historical experience told him that he had destroyed the Xiongnu and the Turks. After destroying the Turks, Xianbei, Liaojin, Mongolia, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there is only one solution, and while actively defending, actively researching and developing new weapons, maintaining the combat effectiveness of the army, solving the increasingly corrupt officialdom, and at the same time connecting the world to enhance comprehensive national strength, I dare not say that we will definitely win the victory, but this is the only solution.

Before the initial industrialization. It is impossible to completely solve the nomadic people around him, at least Xu Hao thinks that he will not succeed in his lifetime, and it will take time to develop, especially from the feudal era to modern times. As for what will happen to future generations, it is not a question for him to worry about.

Zhu Gaochi's critical illness inevitably made Xu Hao feel unhappy, and he was once a son of heaven and a courtier. He is ready to retreat from the rapids completely, otherwise it is likely to be for the sake of the nation and the country. For the great cause, the whole family accompanied him to be a martyr.

Xu Hao never thought of himself as a great man, so he didn't have the consciousness of being a great man at all, everything that should have been done has been done, and it is time to go into hiding.

In Europe, due to the Battle of Agincourt, the glamorous Henry V of England forced Charles VI of France to sign the Treaty of Troyes, which stipulated that Henry V had the right to inherit the French throne and marry a French princess after the death of Charles VI.

But Henry V, who showed his wisdom and domineering as a hero, and was hailed by the English as a generation of heroes, died of typhoid fever or dysentery in a battle at the height of his power and territory, and soon after the death of King Charles VI of France.

Charles VI planned to appoint his daughter Princess Maria as his heir before his death, and most of the French princes and lords also signed the credentials, but now with the defeat of France, the prestige of the royal family has plummeted, and there is not much binding force, and the battle for the Austrian royal guard broke out immediately.

On the British side, Henry V's one-year-old son became King Henry VI, regent by his uncle, the Duke of Bedford, and crowned at the Saint-Denis church in Paris. At the same time, Charles, the crown prince who fled to Bourge, also announced his succession to the throne and proclaimed himself Charles VII. At one time, three French kingdoms were born.

And this Charles VII is the king who saved the fire of France's national hero, Joan of Arc, who was burned to death. This twenty-year-old man, who was widely accused of being cowardly, careless, and thoughtless, unworthy of the title of king, was born at the wrong time and without great talent.

But Charles VII's greatest strength was his ability to seize an opportunity, and he also possessed the thick and ruthless unrighteousness of a politician, who won the final victory for France, won the Hundred Years' War, and laid the foundation for the strength of France, although he was criticized by generations of posterity.

It was such a despised young man, who went from a deposed crown prince to a king, from a lost dog to a self-made man, from division to unification, and single-handedly contributed to the future strength of France.

Xu Hao knows a lot about the background of Joan of Arc's story because the game knows a lot, so he doesn't dare to underestimate the crown prince Zhu Zhanji, who is the same age as Charles VII, there is no doubt that Zhu Zhanji is a character who is not worse than Charles VII, and his luck and strategy are much better than Charles VII. Of course, in the end, Zhu Zhanji's luck was not good, and the Taiping Emperor died after only ten years, which directly caused a series of battles for the throne such as the emperor's young age and Wang Zhen's rise.

Historically, history says that in the coming ten years, the government will be clear, the people will live and work in peace and contentment, the economy will be unprecedentedly developed, and there will be a prosperous situation of the rule of Wenjing, the rule of Zhenguan, and the famous "rule of Renxuan" after the prosperity of the Kaiyuan Dynasty.

Zhu Zhanji's character has both Zhu Di's side and Zhu Gaochi's side, Xu Hao knows that he is a good emperor and has conservative ideas, such as not being used to seeing the wind and moon on the Qinhuai River, and launching a vigorous anti-pornography campaign; There is also Zhu Gaochi's idealism, who treats literati very well and loves art, as long as he does not want to control the government and politics, then Zhu Zhanji is unlikely to completely ban new things such as Xinxue newspapers.

In fact, the world left to Zhu Zhanji is not so beautiful, what is imminent is corruption, corruption is rampant in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and Liu Guan, the imperial envoy, is a big moth.

The same is true of the army, after all, Xu Hao did not drastically and completely reform the army, and there are still a large number of military camps and all kinds of irrational phenomena in the hereditary military system. Historically, Zhu Zhanji was sympathetic to the soldiers, and he always believed that the lack of education of officers was due to the inability to use normal standards to demand them, and he did not make great efforts to reform, which caused the incompetence of the army to become more and more severe.

Now that things have changed, Xu Hao believes that even if Zhu Zhanji does nothing, the army will never be defeated by the Mongols ten years later.

Snow fell from the sky one by one, a thin layer of snow was spread on the ground, and Xu Hao slowly walked out of the Forbidden City.

In the first year of the new emperor's accession to the throne, on the day of bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new, the kings and envoys from all over Asia, Arabia, Africa and the Indian Ocean would gather in the magnificent Jinling City to swear allegiance to the great emperor, so that they could witness the majestic and magical Forbidden City, which had been renovated at great expense, preferably in time for the day Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne.

Chiefs from more than thirty countries will be present, presumably including the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, the emperors of Byzantium, the viceroyals of Venice, the kings of England, France, Spain, and Portugal, as well as indigenous chieftains from Yongle and Han.

Xu Hao looked back at the Forbidden City under the flying snowflakes, and said in his heart that maybe he could really do it, even if the Ming Dynasty did not have itself, it was also the world's first. Historically, for various reasons, ministers have given priority to traditional vassal states, and probably did not bother to invite barbarian states who dared to claim to be emperors.

Of course, the location is in Beiping, and now the Beiping City, which is a comprehensive imitation of regulations and is far more magnificent than the Jinling Imperial Palace, is gone, and he often asks himself, is it right or wrong to do this? Only history will tell.

Xu Hao is in a very good mood, and he has no sense of loss of power, because there is no power in the first place, it is nothing more than ubiquitous influence.

In the future, he will continue to be a low-key person, Zhu Zhanji is not a person who does not miss kindness, and not all the power struggles in the court are life-and-death, and there are more examples of monarchs and ministers starting and ending well.

Of course, Xu Hao will not be so naïve, in the future, he still has to lay out as always, live carefully, it is a headache to think about, he really stepped into this whirlpool, and it is too difficult to retreat with his whole body.

Back in Xiaojia Village, Xu Hao found Wang Siliu in the field, and the two squatted on the field to smoke while talking.

Since he bought the big bull, Wang Siliu is like serving an old lady, guarding it all day and night.

Watching the cow bow its head to eat grass and chew so vigorously, more happy than eating and drinking spicy food, every day Wang Siliu proudly led the big bull to drink water by the pond, the cow drank loudly, as if hearing the most beautiful music.

Harvesting the crops took half the effort compared to previous years, thanks of course, to the big bulls. These days, people and cattle are inseparable during the day, and they have to get up once or twice at night to add a little night grass.

The sister-in-law quipped that "I see you have moved the bed into the cowshed, don't forget to bring a quilt." ”

How do you know that this sentence really reminded Wang Siliu that he really built a grass shed by the cowshed, and sometimes spent the night there. It was cold, and he literally put a quilt on the cow's back.

The big bull also seems to be very human, and loves to lick Wang Siliu's hand with his tongue, gently rub him with his horns and squeeze him, and be coquettish and affectionate. Working in the fields, the big bull also worked hard and bravely, without a whip or shouting, and people were almost unable to keep up.

Wang Siliu took pity on the contrary, for fear of exhausting the guy, so he stopped and shouted: "Rest for a while, wait for me to smoke a few puffs of leaf cigarettes." (To be continued......)