In the meeting hall of Jianzhong Mansion, a group of Northern Expeditionary Army generals were sitting neatly, listening to Zhu Gaojie's speech. The content of the meeting was:
Zhu Gaojie, as the highest military commander of the Ming Dynasty in the Northeast, made a statement at this meeting "On the Mighty Ming Army and the Foreign Races Are Gouba Idiots." A group of senior Ming generals seconded the opinion and agreed with King Qi's opinion.
The Ming army's great victory in the Northeast is now over, but the construction after the war is another problem. However, after Zhu Gaojiu overthrew the Jurchens in Jianzhou, the system he established can already prove that this system will be widely used in the future expansion of the Ming Dynasty. Assimilation is always higher than killing. Wherever Zhu Gaojiu went, there were no aliens. Became Han Chinese.
At the end of the meeting, Zhu Gaojie clasped his hands and said slowly: "I want to build a cemetery for the martyrs of the Ming Dynasty in Jianzhou, and bury the bodies of all the Ming army soldiers who died in the Northeast. The names of the people on the roster are engraved on the merit monument.”
The generals looked at each other, and finally it was Zhang Fu, his father-in-law, who said, "I second my proposal."
No one objects. King Qi's right to speak in the Northeast is absolute. His dominance in Jianzhou Province is no different from that of the founding emperor.
He conquered the territory, and the army and local officials all came from Prince Qi's Mansion. Even His Majesty the Emperor, who was far away in Jinling City, tacitly allowed Prince Qi's Mansion to cultivate power in the Northeast. Who dares to oppose him?
Not to mention building a martyrs' cemetery, even if Zhu Gaojie wanted to build a Jianzhou Palace, no one would dare to say "no", as long as he didn't wear a dragon robe and rebelled.
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The location of the Martyrs Cemetery was decided on the outskirts of Jianzhou Prefecture. The Ming army sacrificed nearly 3,000 people in Jianzhou, and the bodies of nearly 2,000 people could be found. The casualties have been reduced to the limit, just in the last battle. In the "Battle of Beiguan", nearly 20,000 female warriors were beheaded and captured. The reason for such a low casualty rate was not only the superb command of Zhu Gaojie, who defeated the Jurchens one by one and reduced the damage, but also a large part of the reason was that the Ming army was elite enough.
However, these two thousand martyrs could not be buried in one wave. After all, Zhu Gaojie was talking about "luxury burial". They could not just throw them into a pit and bury them in coffins.
The carpenter's hammer-wielding arm was useless and he couldn't dig out two thousand coffins in a short time, so they had to be buried in batches. The first batch included 300 people.
The lead-colored sky was gloomy, and a thin white mist enveloped the sky above the cemetery. Rows of cedars were swaying their needles in the breeze, but the trees were tenacious and hazy with bitterness.
Cold snowflakes were flying, and the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army were arrayed in order. They saw the three hundred coffins that were about to be buried in front of them. Not long ago, the buddies lying in these coffins were sleeping on the same big bunk with them and eating the same food. Rice cooked in one pot, drink water from the same river.
Zhu Gaojie was wearing armor and stood at the front of the queue, with his back straight and waving to Chi Rong not far away.
Chirong understood and ordered people to move down the carts of boxes. When the boxes were opened, there were folded flags one after another.
On the red background with white borders, the sun on the left and the moon on the right, the word "明" is written, which is the military flag of the Northern Expeditionary Army.
There are three hundred such military flags!
Zhu Gaojie took a military flag and unfolded it, covering it on the coffin board of a martyr's coffin. He saluted in a loud voice: "Xu Shao, have a good journey!"
Xu Shao was the Ming Army sergeant lying in the coffin. An ordinary sergeant, just an ordinary sergeant, but he was sent off by the prince.
Immediately afterwards, Zhu Gaojie took another military flag and laid it on the next coffin: "Secretary Zhang, have a good journey!"
"Li Erga, have a good trip!"
"Wang Xiangyang, have a good trip!"
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In the midst of the heavy snow, Zhu Gaojie laid military flags on each martyr's coffin in front of the entire army and sent them off one by one.
When a young sergeant heard the name Zhu Gaojie called out, the corners of his eyes were slightly moist, because the man King Qi sent away was his brother.
"Don't cry, it's cold and your tears will freeze!" said the general on the side with red eyes.
The man King Qi sent away was the sergeant's brother and the general's biological son.
"It's such an honor to have Prince Qi personally see him off. Why are you crying, little brat?" the general said while wiping his tears.
Seeing this scene, Zhu Yong took another look at the monument of martyrs' meritorious service inscribed by Zhu Gaojie himself. More than 3,000 names were shining brightly on it, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
After today, no one but King Qi will be able to control the 30,000 elite imperial troops who came to the northeast to fight with King Qi.
King Qi's prestige in the army can no longer be described as skyrocketing. He is everyone's belief!
King Qi finally understood how to win people's hearts!
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Yongle thirteenth year, March.
The imperial court officially announced that the Nuer Gandu Division would be abolished and replaced by the Jianzhou Province. It would be established as the Jianzhou Province system based on the template set by King Qi. This was equivalent to recognizing the legality of the Third Division, the Naturalization Envoy Division, the Chinese Academy of Literature, etc. on the table. sex.
This official announcement is very important to Jianzhou Province, to be precise, to Prince Qi's Mansion.
Because the system of Jianzhou Province was completely built by Zhu Gaojie, and it was entirely his voice. If Zhu Di wants to pick the fruit, he can change the soup without changing the medicine, and change all the officials in the Jianzhou system, so that Zhu Gaojie loses his dominance in Jianzhou Province.
However, Zhu Di did not and acquiesced in Jianzhou Province becoming King Qi's back garden.
Zhu Gaojie was a little surprised by this. At first, he thought that Zhu Di would more or less divide the power in Jianzhou Province and prevent Prince Qi's Palace from becoming too powerful. Unexpectedly, the old man directly gave all of Jianzhou Province to Prince Qi's Palace.
This is also because Zhu Gaojie didn't understand the situation in Jinling City. He only heard that the prince was imprisoned, but he was in Jianzhou and didn't know much about the matter in detail. He thought it was the old man's daily convulsions and never thought about Zhu Di. The move is to establish a crown prince.
How can the prince not have his own team?
On March 22, the Northern Expeditionary Army returned to Beijing.
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Summer is gone and cold is coming, winter is passing and spring is coming.
Zhu Di, the leader of the Ming Dynasty, was lying on a wicker chair by the Xuanwu Lake, closing his eyes and enjoying the farewell of late spring. This was the last spring breeze before the coming of the hot summer.
His Majesty the Emperor's workload has been significantly lighter recently. As soon as he heard that Prince Qi was going to return to Beijing, Prince Qi's party members worked hard on the government affairs. This also allowed Zhu Di to come to Xuanwu Lake for a walk when he was free. , savor the thought-provoking tranquility.
"Tang Cheng, I heard that King Qi can return to Beijing today?" Zhu Di asked in a neutral tone.
Tang Cheng bowed his head and said: "Back to Lord Long Live, if there is nothing unexpected, it should be this afternoon."
"Afternoon, it's a good afternoon."
Zhu Di sat up and said slowly: "King Qi did a good job in Jianzhou this time. He is worthy of being my Qilin son. He has been loved by me since he was a child."
Tang Cheng was already cursing his mother in his heart.
You have been your favorite since he was a child. The former King Qi was scolded by you in the imperial study room. He was called a "traitor", a "beast", a "smelly Qiu Ba", there are so many levels of swear words, I wish I could give them to him. King Qi spanked his butt into eight pieces. Have you forgotten all these things now?
Hey, you old man is really forgetful.
"Which gate did King Qi enter the city from?" Zhu Di suddenly asked.
Hearing this, Tang Cheng guessed what His Majesty the Emperor was going to do: "Your Majesty, this is against etiquette."
"Etiquette?" Zhu Di chuckled, "Who set the etiquette? During the Yongle Dynasty, everything I did and said was etiquette!"
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(End of chapter)
