King Luhuang of the Ming Dynasty: My father, Ming Taizu

Zhu Di gnashed his teeth and said quietly: "For the sake of the Ming Dynasty, how could I care about my face!"

While talking.

While holding the telescope tightly.

Toghon Temur also became angry when he heard this.

You don't care about your face for the Ming Dynasty, but I will care about it for the Mongols?

Who still has any shame these days?
As he thought about it, he looked unhappy and held the telescope in his hand.

"King Guiyi, let go!"

"My hand is feeling uncomfortable and it suddenly won't obey me! I can't let go!"

talking.

Toghon Temur could not help but say, "Your Highness Prince of Yan, you have a telescope hanging on your waist, how can you still want mine? This is a gift from Your Highness Prince of Lu, how can you go back just like that?"

Zhu Di gnashed his teeth and said, "I have two eyes, so of course I need two telescopes! Wouldn't one of them make me a one-eyed dragon?"

Toghon Temur insisted, "I am willing to be the one-eyed dragon, give this to me!"

"No! If I give it to you, won't I become a one-eyed dragon?"

"Can't you ask His Royal Highness Prince Lu for another one?"

"This telescope is meant for me! Why don't you go ask King Lu for another one!"

Zhu Tan:.
What is this called?
Pooh!
No shame!
Zhu Di said angrily: "Prince Guiyi! This telescope is mainly used for warfare. You have the intention to take it. Do you have a rebellious heart and want to fight?"

Toghon Temur shook his head and said, "I have many sheep and horses at home! This thing can see far away, it is perfect for finding sheep and horses! How can Your Highness the Prince of Yan defame someone's innocence!"

Zhu Di snorted angrily, "Prince Guiyi is such a sharp talker! You shouldn't be the Khan. You should come to my Ming Dynasty to take the imperial examination instead of talking nonsense with those scholars!"

For a while.

The subordinates on both sides of the stalemate felt awkward.

But these two idiots still feel quite honored.

Neither of them gave in and the argument became heated.

Seeing this, Zhu Tan felt helpless.

He couldn't help but sigh and said, "Fourth brother, if you really want it, then take it! Your Highness Prince Guiyi, give it to my fourth brother. I promise to give you a better one!"

Upon hearing this, Toghon Temur immediately loosened his hand, and Zhu Di staggered backward.

Toghon Temur looked at Zhu Tan and asked, "Are you serious?"

Zhu Tan smiled and said, "Don't you know my reputation?"

Togu Si Timur nodded.

I didn’t know that before.

After what happened these few days, I know!
He even knew that Zhu Tan was not only powerful and capable, but also one of the most powerful people in the Ming Dynasty.

Even though the Prince of Yan in front of him is Zhu Tan's biological brother, he is still not comparable to Zhu Tan in terms of power.

The Prince Regent, the name sounds a bit confusing.

He is both a regent and a prince, what does that mean?
But Toghon Temur understood it clearly with a little understanding!

This status is equivalent to the prime minister during the Yuan Dynasty!

How much power does the prime minister have?
For a considerable period of time in the history of the Yuan Dynasty, the prime minister could compete with the emperor.

Even many emperors, when they first sat on the throne, had less power than the prime minister!

For example, his own Emperor Shun of Yuan Dynasty, Toghon Temur.

When he was sent to a small island in Goryeo and brought back to the Yuan Dynasty to be the emperor.

Everything is subject to the control of Yan Temur.

after that.

After Yan Temur's death, his new successor, Prime Minister Bayan, was still able to firmly suppress Emperor Shun of Yuan.

After designing to depose Boyan, the new Prime Minister Tuotuo also held great power in the Yuan Dynasty!
Even though Emperor Shun of Yuan Dynasty was dissatisfied with Tuotuo later, it took him a lot of trouble to finally depose Tuotuo.

This is the Prime Minister!
Zhu Tan, as a prince, held all the power as prime minister.

It can only be said that his power was even greater than those prime ministers in history such as Bayan and Tuotuo.

After all, his status is more noble.

Therefore, in Toghon Temur's view, Zhu Tan's words were actually no different from Zhu Yuanzhang's promise.

Anyway, these are promises made by the most powerful people in the Ming Dynasty!

And the other side.

When Zhu Di heard this, he became even more anxious!

Okay, okay, I'm trying my best to help you, and you're trying your best to tear you down, right?
The capital and twelve provinces of the Ming Dynasty are all carried on my shoulders, and yet you are trying hard to trip me up from behind!
Giving him a pair of spectacles is already too much, and you want to give him something better, what?

Do you want him to come with a large army of telescopes and attack my Peking City in the future?

However, Zhu Di had no way of saying this to Zhu Tan.

The lesser of two evils.

He immediately handed the telescope to Toghon Temur.

"What do you mean, King Guiyi? Of course you have to take this gift right now. I will give you this telescope right now!"

Toghon Temur shook his head like a rattle.

"Your Highness Prince Yan, you are too polite. Didn't you just say that this telescope is destined to be with you? I also think it is destined to be with you. Why not give this telescope to you as a gift?"

"King Guiyi is too polite, you should take the telescope!

What's the point of giving me a gift later? Wouldn't that make me look disrespectful?"

Toghon Temur almost cursed out loud in his heart.

Don’t you think Daming was rude just now?

Now you're being rude, aren't you just trying to prevent me from getting a better telescope?
This King of Yan is so stingy!

In the blink of an eye, the two enemies who were frantically fighting over the telescope just now began to push the telescope away desperately.

Everyone was stunned.

Qiu Fu wiped the sweat from his forehead and couldn't help asking, "Your Highnesses, are you really not embarrassed?"

Zhang Yu sighed and said, "So you can't be His Highness."

Zhu Neng coughed dryly and said, "When I was a kid, I fought with the neighbor's kids to hold the little girl's hand, but I never fought so hard!"

Zhu Gaoxu laughed when he heard this and said, "Uncle Zhu Neng, you said my father's grabbing the telescope is like you grabbing the little girl's hand. Mmmmm."

Zhu Neng covered Zhu Gaoxu's mouth with his hand.

But it was too late.

at this time.

Zhu Di glared at Zhu Neng with a look in his eyes that almost spit fire.

Zhang Yu couldn't help but twitch his eyelids and said, "Zhu Neng, please apologize to His Highness on the way back. I can see murderous intent in His Highness's eyes! I'm afraid your life is in jeopardy..."

Qiu Fu could not help but persuade him, "Old Zhu, that's enough. Children should be free to speak without restraint! Look at how you covered the child's mouth. His face has turned purple!"

Zhu Neng said with a sad face: "You can't be too reckless!"

Zhu Tan was speechless at the farce before him.

Isn't it just a telescope? Maybe it will be popularized for civilian use in the future. Look how nervous you are!

Daming seems to be relying on telescopes to survive
I really need to take Zhu Laosi to see the world when I have time, otherwise he will think everything is good.

Zhu Tan could not help but say, "Prince Guiyi, please accept it without worry! Whether you want this telescope or not, I will give you a better one next time, so don't worry!"

Hearing this, Toghon Temur snatched the telescope from Zhu Di's hand and held it tightly in his arms. He smiled and said, "Thank you, Your Highness Prince Lu! It is said that Your Highness Prince Lu is magnanimous and generous, which is not comparable to some other princes!"

Zhu Di stood there, fuming with rage.

This Zhu Tan really has no idea of ​​his limits!
I don’t know how powerful this is!

Can something as strategic as a telescope be given away just like that?
on the way back.

Zhu Di could not help but complain, "Old Ten! I know you are rich now and have everything you want, but a telescope is related to the battlefield, how can you just give it away? I tried my best to stop me, but you tried your best to sabotage me!

This time, just send out two!
You know, if this thing is used by the Mongols on the battlefield, it may very well determine the outcome of a war!

If we lose the battle because of this thing, how will you explain it to your father?"

Zhu Tan smiled and said, "Don't worry, Fourth Brother, I only gave him an 8x telescope, but now we are using 16x! I will order Yanzhou to send 100 telescopes to Fourth Brother later!"

Zhu Di immediately said, "200! 100 are not enough to make up for the loss of face that your fourth brother suffered today!"

Zhu Tan smiled and said, "Okay, then 200!"

Zhu Di sighed and said, "But you also promised to give Toghon Temur 16 times the amount. If we really meet on the battlefield, I'm afraid it will still be a little inappropriate. Why are you so generous? I really can't understand it!"

Zhu Tan was stunned when he heard this, and said, "I didn't promise to give him 16 times the amount, how did you hear it was 16 times the amount?"

Zhu Di frowned and said, "Didn't you say you would give him a better one? Isn't this 16x telescope better?"

Zhu Tan shook his head and said, "How can that be possible? The 16x telescope is only used by the Ming army. I promised to give him something better, which is to inlay some gold, silver, gemstones, etc. on the telescope."

When Zhu Di heard this, he was stunned.

"Is this what you call better?"

"Just tell me if it's better, right?"

Zhu Di couldn't help but shake his head.

"You are too sinister! Mongolia is rich in gold, silver, and gemstones! Who needs those things? Toghon Temur would be so angry if he saw the better telescope you gave him!"

Zhu Tan laughed dryly and said, "It's better than Fourth Brother saying that this treasure is destined to be with me!"

Zhu Di blushed and said, "If it weren't for the country, I wouldn't do this!"

Zhu Tan said sternly: "Don't worry, Fourth Brother! You and I are the same in protecting the Ming Dynasty!"

talking.

Zhu Tan said to Zhu Di again: "However, maybe we won't fight with the Mongols again in the future!"

Zhu Di frowned and said, "Why? Those guys are as temperamental as tigers and wolves! To put it bluntly, they only remember to eat and not to be beaten! Even though they are honest now, it can even be said that they have been seriously injured!

But in fact, those wolf cubs grow up very fast!
You haven't dealt with them!
These Mongols have been born warriors since childhood!
At the age of three or five, they were trained to ride horses.

When they grow up a little, they will follow the adults to hunt and fight!

At the age of a teenager, he is already a qualified fighter!
Not even a teenager.

Some Mongolian children as young as nine or ten years old can kill our Ming soldiers!

They, the grassland people, have short life spans and often die in battle.

Therefore, they are born quickly and grow even faster!
Even though the Mongols have lost more than 100,000 soldiers, I dare to bet with you.

Within three to five years, a large group of young cavalry will appear on the Mongolian grasslands!

By then, it will still be a major threat to our Ming border defense!"

Zhu Tan listened to Zhu Di's words with a smile on his face.

In fact.

He knows all these things.

but.

Zhu Tan has a mature plan on how to manage the grassland.

It is more sophisticated than that of the Qing Dynasty.

In fact.

The Qing Dynasty's governance of the Mongolian grasslands was extremely cruel.

The Qing Dynasty ostensibly intermarried with Mongolian nobles to form the so-called Manchu-Mongol alliance, thereby consolidating the Mongolian high command.

But secretly, the Qing Dynasty implemented a very dark family planning policy on the Mongolians.

For example, the Qing Dynasty vigorously promoted Buddhism in Mongolia, encouraging Mongolian men to become monks and prohibiting these monks from marrying and having children.

In addition, the Qing Dynasty also implemented the league and banner system in the Mongolian region, dividing the Mongolian tribes into several leagues and banners, restricting their nomadic migration and exchanges, and destroying their economic and social structure.

This way.

Although the Mongols were in a state of peace for a long time, their population decreased instead of increasing.

The population of the mainland during the Qing Dynasty soared from less than 100 million to 400 million by the end of the Qing Dynasty.

The population in the Mongolian region actually dropped from 217 million in the early Qing Dynasty to 172 million in the late Qing Dynasty!
But the Ming Dynasty did not need to go through so much trouble.

First of all.

In terms of military power, the Ming Dynasty completely crushed Mongolia.

If it wasn’t because Zhu Tan wanted to keep something in reserve.

Maxim will be released in a minute!
By then, only the Mongolians who are good at singing and dancing will be left on the grassland.

Economically.

The Ming Dynasty will completely bind the interests of the grassland people.

By then, no matter how many cattle, sheep and horses the grassland people produce, the Ming Dynasty will be able to eat them all!

And all the production in Daming started.

The demands of the grassland people for Ming Dynasty handicraft products will also be met!
By then, it would not matter to the Ming Dynasty about the primary livestock products leaving Mongolia.

But if the Mongols were to leave behind the various products of the Ming Dynasty, even their survival would be a problem!
In this way, the Mongols' hostility towards the Ming Dynasty will naturally gradually decrease.

Another thing is that it is the same as the Qing Dynasty.

Zhu Tan will support the monks from U-Tsang to enter Mongolia!
It would be best to make these monks the supreme beings of the Mongols, even having political decision-making power.

By the time.

The Mongolian nobles became appendages and puppets of the monks.

Monks don't have such big ambitions.

They would never be like the Mongolian nobles today, who day and night think about plundering the Ming Dynasty and restoring the Yuan capital.
Seeing Zhu Tan’s smiling face, Zhu Di could not help but said angrily: “Tenth Master! Did you listen to me?
It is very dangerous for you to do this!"

Zhu Tan smiled and said, "Fourth brother, there won't be any danger!
Since you don't read the official bulletin, let me tell you another piece of news.

Seize this opportunity and manage Beiping well!"

Zhu Di was stunned when he heard this and asked, "Manage Beiping? Why?"

Today's Beijing actually doesn't have a large population.

More of the military.

After several wars, the prosperity of Yuan Dadu is long gone.

not to mention.

Today’s capital is Yingtian, and Peking has no way to develop.

Don't say anything else.

Nowadays, the grain and sea transportation in Ming Dynasty are not very smooth.

If the population of Beiping City increases, it will be impossible to transport food alone!

Zhu Tan smiled and said, "The trade ban between us and the grassland will be lifted!"

Zhu Di was shocked and couldn't help but exclaimed, "What?!" (End of this chapter)