My father Zhu Gaoxu

Chapter 987 Zhu Qizhen is dead

The train was roaring, and Zhu Zhanhe sat in front of the window, carefully reading the letter written by Zhu Qikai to him.

In the letter, Zhu Qikai introduced in detail the battle between him and the European coalition forces, as well as the current situation in Europe. After this battle, the main opposition forces in Europe have been eliminated. The next step is to continuously annex European lands until he controls the entire Europe.

"Grandpa Emperor, my third uncle said in the letter that he wants to establish a country in Europe. Do you think this is feasible?"

At this moment, Zhu Jianhong, who was sitting opposite Zhu Zhanhe, suddenly asked.

"Is this something you want to ask, or is your father wanting to ask this?"

Zhu Zhanhe glanced at Zhu Jianhong and asked with a half-smile.

Zhu Qikai conquered Europe and wanted to establish an independent country. He would definitely want to become emperor in the future. As the emperor of the Han Dynasty, Zhu Qikai had always supported Zhu Qikai in attacking Europe. Naturally, he also wanted to annex Europe. However, if Zhu Qikai established an independent country, then his plan would be in vain. .

"Hehe, it's the same. My dad was too embarrassed to ask, so he asked me to ask for him."

Zhu Jianhong was very honest and told the truth directly.

Therefore, in the end, the war to annex Africa ended with the Han people wasting money and people without achieving corresponding results. During this period, Zhu Zhanhe did not intervene because he knew that his son must suffer a loss so that he could learn a lesson in the future.

Zhu Jianhong immediately agreed.

"I believe what you say, Grandpa Huang. My father does have a big appetite. He wanted to swallow the whole of Africa in one gulp before, but he ended up in disgrace. Now he is steadily eating away at Africa bit by bit. He doesn't dare to act as recklessly as before. ”

Zhu Zhanhe knew his sons better than anyone else. Among them, Zhu Qiming, although very outstanding, was only slightly better than the average person. He had no problem defending the Han dynasty, but he did not have the ability to expand outward.

Zhu Zhanhe picked up the tea on the table, took a sip and then said helplessly.

But Zhu Jianhong still felt that it was too slow. As the saying goes, the first thing a new official should do when he takes office was Africa. He sent troops and started war, preparing to swallow up all of Africa in one fell swoop.

A few years ago, when Zhu Qiming took over the throne of the Han Dynasty, he immediately wanted to express himself. At that time, Africa had been the target of the Han Dynasty's encroachment, and most of the coastal areas had fallen under the rule of the Han Dynasty.

"Your father is obviously a conservative king, but he has the ambition to be a pioneer. If we really want to give Europe to him, can he accept it?"

However, although Africa is backward, those tribes will still resist when faced with life and death. In addition, Africa is a vast land with rich resources and a large population. No matter how powerful the Han Dynasty is, they cannot put all their troops in Africa.

Eventually, Zhu Qiming finally faced up to reality, stopped large-scale military deployments in Africa, resumed his previous policy of slowly encroaching on Africa, and instigated infighting among African tribes so that the Han Dynasty could reap the benefits.

"If you can understand this, you are better than your father. The world is too big, and the current communication and transportation methods are too backward. It cannot meet our needs to build a global empire. Otherwise, I would have merged the Ming Dynasty and the Han Dynasty. ”

Zhu Zhanhe sighed at the end. Over the years, he has been supervising the development of electricity. He even built a generator and the imperial city of Beijing was electrified. However, the research on telegraph, telephone, and even radio was still not going well. Although there were some breakthroughs, It can even be tried on a small scale, but it is still one step away from real practicality.

In addition, even if communication methods are solved, there are still big problems in transportation. Even if steam engines are now very mature, the speed of trains and steamships still cannot meet the requirements for global domination. Therefore, regional domination is the most reasonable method. .

One day later, Zhu Zhanhe's special train arrived in Beijing. He was old, and even if he took the train, his body would feel like his bones were falling apart. Therefore, this was also his last trip, and he would probably have to stay in Beijing in the future.

As for the government affairs of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhanhe had already arranged for Zhu Jianhong to take over little by little. After Zhu Jianhong turned fifteen, he followed Zhu Zhanhe to learn how to handle government affairs. Now most of the government affairs in the DPRK are taken over by him, with only a few He would only ask Zhu Zhanhe for advice on extremely important government affairs.

But on the third day after Zhu Zhanhe returned to Beijing, Zhu Jianhong suddenly came to see him again and told him the news that Zhu Qizhen had passed away.

"How did he die?"

Zhu Zhanhe also frowned when he heard the news.

When Zhu Qizhen was kidnapped on the grassland and died first, he fell into the hands of Ashe Zhiyuan, but Ashe Zhiyuan did not send him back to the Ming Dynasty, but continued to hold him in his hands.

But later, Ashe Zhiyuan also died, and Zhu Qizhen was handled several times by the forces on the grassland. Finally, a tribal leader sent him back in order to please the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Zhanhe did not harsh Zhu Qizhen, but sent him to live in the Han Dynasty, living with Empress Dowager Hu, Zhu Jianshen and others. If Zhu Jianhong hadn't mentioned Zhu Qizhen, he would have almost forgotten this person.

"After my cousin went to Han Dynasty, he has been indulged in sensuality. He has given birth to more than a dozen children. He is drunk every day. He torments himself like this. Even his iron body cannot bear it. So he had been sick for the past two years, until two months ago, his condition suddenly worsened, and then he died. "

When Zhu Jianhong mentioned Zhu Qizhen, he couldn't help but sigh.

When Zhu Qizhen came back from the grassland, Zhu Jianhong personally welcomed him into the capital. The two got along pretty well, so he also felt a little sad about Zhu Qizhen's death.

"It is his own fault that he will not survive, but it is better if he dies. After all, living like him is not much better than being dead!"

Zhu Zhanhe said very coldly that he had no sympathy for Zhu Qizhen. If he had not allowed Wang Zhen to command blindly, how could he have led to the fiasco of Tumu Fort? It took several people just to clean up the corpse afterwards. Yue, these people all died because of Zhu Qizhen.

"Grandpa Huang, calm down and don't get so angry over such a trivial matter!"

Seeing that Zhu Zhanhe was angry, Zhu Jianhong hurriedly spoke to persuade him, then hesitated and said again.

"In addition, King Yan wrote a letter requesting that his father's body be sent back to the Ming Dynasty for burial. Grandpa Huang, how do you think we should respond to this matter?"

The King of Yan is Zhu Jianshen. Zhu Zhanhe personally appointed him to inherit the throne of King Yan. Even when Zhu Qizhen came back later, Zhu Zhanhe did not give him any title, which was considered a punishment to Zhu Qizhen.

Hearing that Zhu Jianshen wanted to send Zhu Qizhen's body back to Ming Dynasty for burial, Zhu Zhanhe also looked thoughtful, as if he was considering whether to agree to Zhu Jianshen's request?
(End of this chapter)