General Constitution of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 110

"This battle won Daming Neng Taiping for 50 years."

"What about 50 years from now?"

"..."

Zhu Zaiyu sat paralyzed on the ground at the mouth of the mountain for a long time, the scenes he had seen since he left the palace kept appearing in his mind, and finally the only thing that stopped in Zhu Zaiyu's mind was Chen Hu's question.

Zhu Xizhong walked slowly in front of Zhu Zaishun.

"Your Highness, Ke Zhong, the wounded soldiers and captives have all been sent to the capital. It shouldn't be a big problem for the military doctor to accompany them."

After Zhu Xizhong said this, Zhu Zaiyu gradually came back to his senses, and said hoarsely, "Go to Baiyangkou."

"Ah? Master Zhou said that the battle is over, you'd better go back to Beijing quickly."

Zhu Zaiyu stood up with difficulty, and walked towards the horse in the distance.

"Gu said, go to Baiyangkou."

Seeing that Zhu Zaiyu insisted on going to Baiyangkou, Zhu Xizhong didn't hesitate any longer, so he had to take Zhu Zaiyu to Baiyangkou.

Spring returned to the earth, the ice and snow melted, and the corpses that were originally covered by ice and snow gradually began to rot.

The remaining task of the Ming army is to clean up the battlefield.

Looking at the corpses beside the official road, Zhu Zaiyu hesitated for a moment, and then said: "Take all the corpses of these Tartars and send them to Baiyangkou together."

"Here."

Less than an hour later, Zhu Zaiyan saw the majestic Baiyangkou Great Wall in front of him. At this time, Qi and Tan had not yet gone north. The Great Wall was still made of local loess and bluestone, although it was not as majestic as the Great Wall of later generations. But it has added a bit of vicissitudes to this pass.

Zhou Shangwen, Xu Yande and others bowed down and saluted one after another.

Zhu Zaiyu looked at the crowd in front of him, but he only had one sentence.

"Zhou Taibao, can we choose a team of scouts to go out?"

Zhou Shangwen looked at Zhu Zaishun suspiciously.

"What does Your Highness mean?"

"Gu wants to meet me outside Baiyang's mouth to answer, and ask for Gu, how dare I answer?"

Zhang Rong looked at Zhu Zaiyu in panic.

"Your Highness, the steppe is beyond the door, and the son of a daughter does not sit in the hall, not to mention guards of honor and armor..."

"I don't wear anything, I don't wear any armor, I just wear ordinary clothes, if you are worried, let General Ma accompany Gu."

Zhou Shangwen's generals saw that Zhu Zaishun's intentions were gone, so they kept silent.

A scout team of 20 people left the Great Wall at Baiyangkou until they caught up with Alda who was heading to Ulanqab.

Inside the yurt, Alda, who was beaten by Zhou Shangwen, was cutting mutton with a dagger on the table.

The fine wine in front of him has lost any taste at this moment.

Since the last years of Zhengde, the grassland seems to have lost the blessing of the gods, and snowstorms, droughts, and epidemics have continued one after another.

The grasslands can no longer support so many people. I need Daming’s food, salt, cloth, cotton wool, and ironware. In short, I need to pay tribute to Daming, not just a tribute, but a real horse market. .

Let the cattle and sheep in the grassland be exchanged for the grain and salt in the Central Plains unimpeded.

And this battle, I don't take much advantage of it. This winter will be another sad winter for the herdsmen on the grassland.

While I was meditating, Tabu Nang trotted all the way into the yurt.

"Chechen Khan, the envoy is here."

The dagger in An Da's hand fell down until it was inserted into the table.

"What did you say?"

Tabu Nang also looked at me with some excitement and answered.

"Prince of the Ming Dynasty, ask Chechen Khan to meet him at Baiyangkou."

Somehow, I answered with an intuition in my heart that the day that his father and brother had been looking forward to for decades should be coming.

He got up, but didn't even care about putting on his shoes, and ran out of the yurt directly.

"Where is the envoy?"

"Khan, boots!"

I put on my boots and listened to Zhou Shangwen's scouts speaking Zhu Zaixun's oral instructions.

As soon as I put on my shoes, I answered and said: "I would like you two to lead the way, so I can go to see Prince Ming."

I didn't make too much preparation, and just got on my horse and followed the scouts until the grassland in front of me turned into a small forest, and then there was the barren hill in Saibei, and the city wall of Baiyangkou was already faintly visible in the distance.

And outside the city wall, Zhu Zaiyi had already changed into a crimson python robe and appeared out of the mouth wearing a winged crown.

Until I Da saw Zhu Zaiyan, I couldn't help being surprised.

"You are the Prince Ming?"

Zhu Zaiyu nodded slightly, and bowed to me while riding on the horse.

My answer is also hastily clasped fists.

"A minister from outside the territory who doesn't know the etiquette of the Celestial Dynasty, I hope His Highness will forgive me."

Zhu Zaiyu looked at me with a slightly complicated expression and asked, "Dare to ask Da Khan, would you like to stop fighting and take off your armor?"

I almost blurted out the answer.

"The central plains of the grassland are called two dynasties, but they are actually two families."

"Tonggong has been robbed repeatedly for no reason, and Xu Gongfang's things should be bundled and the various ministries will never violate the frontier!"

Zhu Zaiyan glanced at Zhu Xizhong who was beside him, and Zhu Xizhong also took out a memorial in his arms, and said in a loud voice: "...the son of heaven will cover all nations on behalf of the heavens, regardless of each other, according to what he can, and learn from me, Li Yuan, benevolence Grace is equal, nothing is left behind.”

Those who are embarrassed, shine in all directions.

Zhu Xizhong's voice echoed on the grassland, whether it was the officers and soldiers of the Ming army behind Zhu Xizhong or the grassland cavalry behind me who could understand Chinese, all of them showed joy.

Peace is in sight.

Zhu Zaiyu handed the draft order to me to answer.

"This is an imperial edict drafted by Gu. After returning to Beijing, Gu will submit this memorial to the cabinet. If it goes well, before this autumn, I will open nine sides and eleven mouths for the horse market, and exchange information."

"I hope that the two families will live forever and never fight!"

Amidst the cheers of the soldiers and civilians on both sides of the Great Wall, Zhu Zaiyu galloped his horse into the customs. Although the voice was not as thick and grand as that of the temple, it sounded far more pleasant than the words "Hai Yu Xian Ning".

I led my troops back to the west, and traveled to the place adjacent to the Yinshan Mountain outside the Datong Great Wall, but what I saw was a grassland without boundaries.

"Tabunang, we're not leaving."

"This place is adjacent to Datong, so it is convenient to pay tribute. Let's build a city here. Let's call it Hohhot first, and ask the court to give it a name after it is completed."

"Yes."

There is only one reason why the Han people are called Han people, that is, since the Han Dynasty, this 2000-year-long national integration has already begun, and only the name Han people can fully distinguish each other.

Since the 30th year of Hongwu Emperor Gaodi Zhu Yuanzhang drew the "Three Northern Mountains and Rivers Shaped Winning Picture Book", the Ming Empire has clarified the strategic policy of using maps to enshrine feudal vassals and never suffering from the north.

That is to say, the Great Seal King guarded the frontier to herd sheep and gnaw at the grasslands, and the rest of the kings were distributed along the Yellow River and the Yangtze River in sequence. Then the thirteen Great Sai Kings, the kings along the Yellow River, and the Yangtze River moved northward to the grasslands, and the west of Liaoxi until the land outside the Great Wall was returned to Wang Hua. .

This is the answer given by the Ming Dynasty after the ancestors of grassland, farming, nomadic, fishing and hunting ethnic groups tried to solve the northern frontier problems since the Five Husbands of China.

Zhu Yuanzhang had an insight into the general trend of history, but the emperors and generals of the Ming Dynasty were not able to implement this plan.

In the end, after the Longqing Peace Conference, Yizhao Lishu from Wanfang in Kyushu came up with a real solution with practical actions.

——Take the west exit.

The camel bells of the Central Plains border residents will resound throughout the Mongolian plateau.

Since then, the people on both sides of the Great Wall have truly turned two families into one family. The Great Wall made of green bricks has since withdrawn from the stage of history, but the Great Wall built by people’s hearts has taken root since then. No matter how red-eyed the general is, the people along the border will no longer agree, so there will be no more wars in the grasslands and the Central Plains.

History is like an examiner who is constantly asking questions. No matter how the times change and the rhetoric changes, the core of the answer given by this land will always be the four words "the world is peaceful".

Just because the people's hearts are like this, the sky is reserved for the people, and whatever the people want, so the sky will obey!
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As I Da withdrew from the Great Wall, all the people in Jingfu breathed a sigh of relief.

Only the group of old foxes in the temple still have red eyes.

Ning Jue, who was lying on the carriage, hadn't recovered from the bloody battlefield.

Until a group of Tiwei in the distance drove towards the convoy back to Beijing.

"This is Jin Yiwei's driving note, I will come to interrogate the key criminal!"

Everyone raised their heads in a daze, and the convoy stopped in place.

Unexpectedly, the rare official in the middle of the convoy stood up and directly scolded Jin Yiwei, who was arraigning the criminal: "I will follow the order of Chief Tu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to arrest the important criminal and return to Beijing. This criminal cannot be handed over to you!" !"

Ning Jue looked up in a daze.

Only then did I realize that the person who co-authored and sent me back to Beijing was a member of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Originally, he scolded Lu Bingyi before, but now Ning Jue couldn't help getting angry when he saw Jin Yiwei's driving post, and it got mixed up with me, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, right? !
Ning Jue opened his mouth, but unexpectedly, before Ning Jue could speak, he heard a shout from Yu Shi, who was escorting the carriage in front.

"Don't stop! Continue to Beijing!"

"presumptuous!"

"A group of eagle dogs! Let me see who dares to obstruct the handling of the case by the Metropolitan Procuratorate!"

The soldiers around immediately raised their weapons.

Ning Jue was completely dumbfounded.

You tmd said my words, what did I say?

Jin Yiwei's authority is greater than its authority.

But the group of people in front of them really risk their lives against Jin Yiwei, they really have nothing to do.

This group of people were all wearing armor, and Jin Yiwei was all dressed in armor. The Xiuchun knife would not necessarily lose blood even if the armor was cut, and it was not in the same heavy class at all.

Ning Jue subconsciously wanted to continue speaking.

But I found that I didn't even know anything.

Until the Jinyiwei team was stopped in place, and the convoy gradually drifted away.

Only then did Ning Jue look at the little old man who was in the same carriage as her and was making medicine.

"Uncle, why is there a pot of boiled medicinal materials? I can't eat these."

Just when Ning Jue wanted to insinuate and ask what was going on.

The old man pouted towards a cart in the distance.

"It's the big man in the carriage. A master has issued a big order, and they are all for the man in the carriage."

Having said that, the old man did not forget to throw a few ginseng whiskers to Ning Jue casually.

"Ning Bingxian, chew these first, and I'll bring this soup in later and make today's plaster for you."

The old man put on his gloves, picked up the casserole, and signaled for the carriage in front to stop so that she could deliver the medicine.

Seeing this scene, the anger in Ning Jue's heart could not be suppressed immediately.

With so many soldiers blowing the wind outside, you still have privileges in this wounded barracks? !
After the first battle, Ning Jue was suffocated when he didn't die.

Just when the carriage was about to start again, Ning Jue shouted loudly.

"Wait a minute!"

Everyone looked sideways, but Ning Jue strode towards the carriage.

"Who's in this car?"

"Ning Kezhong, this is from Zongxian Tu..."

"Even Tu Zongxian himself can't do it! So many sergeants are blowing outside, why should he hide in the car and drink ginseng soup!"

"Open the door, I want to see who is in this car, and I must read a copy of it when I return to court!"

The censor who escorted the car looked at Ning Jue and hesitated for a moment. After all, Ning Jue was also a member of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. The people below didn't know much, so he had to quietly open the car door.

Ning Jue looked into the car, but what he saw was Li Tong lying in the car.

"Ke Zhong, this is President Tu's prisoner. He was injured too badly, so he found a big car."

(End of this chapter)