Ming Dynasty: pacifying the rebellion and defending the border, dominating the world

Chapter 4 The Heritage of Prince Su's Mansion
The Shaanxi Xingdusi had twelve guards under its jurisdiction and hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

There are also 200,000 Tian Ce troops and 100,000 Cang Yun troops that came with Zhu Jinzhen’s novice gift pack, totaling a million troops.

In addition to the importance of the three borders of Shaanxi, even if the emperor wanted to take action against Zhu Jinzhen, he would have to think twice.

Not to mention, Zhu Jinzhen is also known as the youngest land sword immortal in the world.

With the astonishing record of one man with a sword repelling the combined forces of three land immortals, Zhu Houzhao would not dare to act rashly unless he could win over more than four land immortals.

Upon hearing this, Li Cheng'en, the Grand Commander of the Heavenly Strategy, nodded in agreement. "Your Highness is right. In this generation of the Ming Dynasty, the Emperor no longer possesses the power that Taizu and Taizong, or even the Renzong and Xuanzong, commanded by a single word. The current situation is chaotic, the court unstable, and the current Emperor is a wise and virtuous ruler. No matter how wary he is, he won't rush to deal with us. Otherwise, if the Liao and the Mongols join forces again, who will resist?"

The current emperor Zhu Houzhao is definitely not an idiot like the Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen. Otherwise, he would not have been able to balance the Hulong Villa, the East Factory and the civil service group so easily without bringing disaster upon himself when various departments in the court were fighting against each other and various forces were hindering him.

It is impossible for him not to know that once he touches Prince Su's Mansion, it would be like cutting off his own arms.

By then, without the deterrence and obstruction of the Prince Su's Mansion, the Mongols and Liao countries will inevitably make a comeback.

By then, the Ming Dynasty will be in real danger.

The key is……

Zhu Houzhao was also afraid. If a land immortal led hundreds of thousands of the Ming Dynasty's strongest border troops to launch another Jingnan Rebellion, wouldn't he be nailed to the pillar of shame like Jianwen?

Upon hearing this, the important military and political officials from the three departments of Shaanxi in the hall nodded repeatedly.

Although the entire Ming Dynasty knew that their prince had his own troops in Shaanxi and was definitely capable of rebelling, so what?

His prince is a world-renowned land-based swordsman. His strength is so great that he even surpasses Zhang Zhenren, who has not been seen for a hundred years on Wudang Mountain, and the sword demon Dugu Qiubai, who was feared by the world a hundred years ago, and the sword god Xie Xiaofeng.

The Twelve Guards of Shaanxi are not there to sit around and do nothing.

After years of day and night training, every soldier has the powerful combat capability of being able to defeat ten or even a hundred of their opponents.

There is also the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry, which ranks first in cavalry combat, followed by the two elite aces, the Tiance Army and the Cangyun Xuanjia.

There are countless experts in the army.

If the emperor wants to take action against Shaanxi and Prince Su's Mansion, he really has to consider whether he has the strength to do so.

Moreover, if it were not for their prince, when Mongolia and Liao jointly invaded the border a few years ago, the Ming Dynasty would have lost most of its land, and the people along the entire border would probably have been in dire straits.

How could there be such a prosperous scene as today?
"I am overthinking it."

Shen Bing came back to his senses in a trance, bowed and laughed, yes, the ones who should be worried should not be them, but the emperor of the current dynasty. The stability of the three borders of Shaanxi was won by their prince fighting on the battlefield.

Times have changed. Since Zhu Jinzhen inherited the throne, the whole of Shaanxi has been changing with each passing day. Various talents have emerged continuously, and the military combat capability has been increasing day by day.

It should be noted that when Emperor Taizong was campaigning to quell the rebellion, he only had Yao Guangxiao, a land immortal, one or two great masters of astronomy, and the support of the Prince of Yan's fiefdom. Yet, he had the capital to conquer the world and sit firmly on the throne.

But their prince is the uncrowned king of the three borders of Shaanxi.

As far as the outside world knows, Zhu Jinzhen himself is equivalent to three land immortals.

In addition, there are the troops and horses from the three borders of Shaanxi, including the powerful armies such as Tian Ce and Cang Yun.

Before Zhu Houzhao cleaned up the court, he would never dare to even think of touching Zhu Jinzhen.

Otherwise, if something unexpected happened, the Ming Dynasty would change its leader in an instant. Let's not talk about Shen Bing's psychological activities.

After Zhu Jinzhen finished listening to the others' reports and made their decisions, he calmly looked at Li Chengen, who was sitting at the head of his staff, and asked as usual about the Tian Ce Army's development over the past year: "Chengen, how is the training of the new Tian Ce Army going? How many Vajra soldiers are there? How many Zhixuan soldiers are there?"

In the battle a few years ago, many people from Tiance Mansion were killed.

In recent years, with the approval of Zhu Jinzhen, Tiance and Cangyun have been trying their best to add fresh blood.

In addition, after Zhu Jinzhen obtained the golden finger of the sign-in system, he signed in for three years and obtained many elixirs, magic weapons and magical props that could enhance his strength, which were often given to him.

Therefore, the strength of the Tiance Army and the Cangyun Army has only become stronger than it was a few years ago.

Not to mention the distant past, a few years ago, when Li Chengen and the entire Tian Ce Mansion were summoned by Zhu Jinzhen from the novice gift pack, the overall strength of the 100,000 Tian Ce troops was generally only at the lower three levels of the nine ranks of warriors.

Li Chengen, the commander-in-chief of Tiance Mansion, is only at the level of Xuanzong master.

The rest, whether it is Tianqiang Yang Ning, Deputy Commander Qin Yiyan, Xuanwei General Cao Xueyang, etc., are almost all in the Vajra Realm, and the number of people in the Profound Realm is less than one palm.

It is different from the Tiance Army which has expanded to 200,000 after several years of development. Almost all the commanders and generals have started from the Xuan realm, and there are many celestial phenomena. The commander-in-chief Li Chengen is even at the Great Celestial Realm, which is incomparable to the immortals on land.

If he were on the battlefield, with the eight hundred Wuwei Battalion and in conjunction with the Tiance battle formation, he could even fight against the immortals on land.

Hearing Zhu Jinzhen's question, all the Shaanxi officials in the hall pricked up their ears.

Although they served under Zhu Jinzhen, their understanding of the strength of the three elite ace soldiers under their prince Zhu Jinzhen still remained at a few years ago.

Because Tiance, Cangyun and Daxue Dragon Cavalry are all directly under Zhu Jinzhen, they have no right to interfere.

"Go back to your lord."

Li Chengen gathered his thoughts and replied, "After more than two years of training, the 100,000 new Tiance troops still have more than 56,000 ordinary soldiers of the lower third rank, more than 20,000 soldiers of the middle third rank, and the remaining 10,000 or so are elite soldiers of the upper third rank. Among them, there are about 6,000 soldiers who have entered the Vajra Realm, more than 1,000 who have entered the Zhixuan Realm, and 30 who have entered the Tianxiang Realm."

This is the new army of Tian Ce, that is, the strength of the new soldiers recruited by Tian Ce after the war with Mongolia and Liao.

As for the former officers and soldiers of Tiance Mansion, their strength was even more terrifying.

"Hi~!"

"Thirty celestial phenomena, more than a thousand finger mysteries, and thousands of Vajra realms?"

"Even if the prince wiped out all the martial arts families, sects, and gangs in Mobei, they wouldn't be able to gather so many masters, right?"

"The new Tiance army is already so powerful, so won't the soldiers added by Cangyun be even stronger?"

"Don't forget, we still have the Great Snow Dragon Cavalry."

All the military and political ministers in the hall were shocked.

People in the Ming Dynasty and even in the whole world were not clear about the rank and importance of the troops in Shaanxi, but as important military and political officials in Lanzhou and Shaanxi, how could they not know?

Although the Tian Ce Army intimidated the border, its reputation spread far and wide.

But in fact, they are the aces of the second and even third sequence.

(End of this chapter)