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[The current perspective is: Zhu Gaojie’s identity as a commoner]
[Time: February of the 21st year of Yongle. 】
Zhu Di, who had a calm face at first, suddenly hardened his eyes.
Wait, is something not quite right?
common people? Zhu Gaojie?
Why is the fourth child a commoner again? Is there any misunderstanding here?
[Above the fields, during the Waking of Insects season, you are holding a hoe, weeding, and cultivating your own one-third of an acre of land. 】
[You want to wipe the fine sweat from your forehead with your calloused hands, but your head is covered with mud and water, but you don't care, but look at your farmland contentedly. Sow seeds today and harvest tomorrow. This is already my tenth year as a farmer. 】
[Ten years ago, you were the high-ranking Prince Qi in the capital. Although you had no pursuits and therefore were not favored by the emperor, you still lived a life of splendor and wealth. 】
[Until the emperor asked you to marry the eldest daughter of the British Duke's family, and the king of Han wanted to get rid of you, everyone stood by and watched. You didn't resist, and you were soon deposed as a commoner by the emperor and moved to Yunnan. 】
[From a high-ranking prince, he suddenly fell to the mortal world and became a commoner at the bottom. I am afraid no one can bear such a huge gap. 】
【But you can. 】
[Your Prince Qi’s house was confiscated, and you have no savings. Even surviving is a problem. Fortunately, your father-in-law subsidized you with some money and purchased more than an acre of paddy field for you, so that you can have enough food and clothing by yourself. 】
[But my old father-in-law, the British father-in-law, did not dare to help you unscrupulously. Because he was involved with you, he was also very marginalized in the court, so he had to be cautious. In addition, your status was too special, so he helped you buy more than an acre. The paddy field has been completely benevolent and righteous. 】
[The English eldest daughter Zhang Yingzhen who married you is also a wife who does not mind her husband's poverty. She marries a chicken, a chicken, a dog, and a dog. She lives a simple and barren life with you, and she has transformed from being a daughter of a tiger to a princess of the country to what she is today. Rural women. Sometimes the food grown in the paddy fields was not enough, so she would always rely on her beautiful embroidery to support her family. 】
[You seem to have really integrated yourself into the life of a farmer. 】
Zhu Di's head was filled with big questions.
Is there something wrong with the way he opens it?
He had imitated Zhu Gaojie's identity as King Qi, and he had also imitated his identity as emperor, but he couldn't believe that this kid actually had the identity of a farmer.
Which timeline is the problem with? !
In this simulation, the emperor did not favor him, the king of Han was hostile to him, and the prince ignored him. Everyone was an enemy!
[In the first two years, your keenness was always able to notice that the Jin Yiwei was always watching you. 】
[Later, everyone seemed to think that you were useless, and even the Jin Yiwei withdrew. Removing the Jinyi Guards means that people in the capital no longer care about your life or death. 】
[You didn’t care and continued to plow the fields until the sun went down, then you returned home dragging your muddy body. 】
[Two huts, a wall built by you brick by stone, and a small courtyard where vegetables are grown and a few chickens and ducks are raised. My wife has already finished cooking dinner and is waiting. 】
[A bowl of porridge and a stack of fried mushrooms. The rice is the rice you grew yourself, and the mushrooms are picked from the mountains yourself. 】
[It’s a bit ridiculous to say that when you first came to Yunnan, you were poisoned and fainted several times because of your lack of understanding of fungi. Fortunately, you were strong enough to carry it through. Until now, you are already a qualified mushroom collector and can accurately distinguish which bacteria are poisonous and which are not. 】
[At the dinner table, there is a family of four. You and your wife have given birth to a boy and a girl. Your sister is named Zhu Damei, and your brother is named Zhu Xiaoer. 】
[This name is very poor, but it fits your identity as a farmer, because your local alias is "Zhu Silang". Although you have a national surname, the locals do not associate you with His Majesty the Emperor. Perhaps it is because your disguise is so good that everyone ignores your existence. 】
Zhu Di rubbed his eyebrows and was speechless.
Reading this passage, it is estimated that Zhu Gaojie has completely let go of himself and forgotten the past and became a farmer.
What he wants to simulate is not the life of a farmer like Nima!
[After dinner, the night is dark. You and your wife are lying on the couch. You made the bed with bricks and mud mixed with mud, and it is covered with a layer of straw mat woven by your wife. It is very stiff, but you are used to it. Close your eyes. About to fall asleep. 】
[The wife suddenly mentioned it: "Father wrote to me, saying that the emperor's health was getting worse and he was discussing the Northern Expedition with his ministers."]
[You said calmly: "The old man is the emperor immediately. He should know that he is going to die, but he doesn't want to die on the bed. He wants to go to the north again before he dies, but it will be a pity."]
[After that, you and her made a tacit agreement not to talk about it anymore and fell asleep hugging each other. 】
[The next day, you went out again with a hoe to manage your one-third acre of land, while your wife taught your children to read, weave, and cook at home...]
【day to day. 】
Zhu Di held his forehead, and he finally saw that Zhu Gaojie in this timeline was already half-impaired.
Completely hopeless.
An unprecedented hero was raised as a farmer by the emperor in that timeline.
What did he think?
Zhu Di was full of doubts about Zhu Di in another timeline.
[Yongle twenty-two years, early June. 】
[The emperor's personal expedition has come to an end. The leader of the Tatar tribe, Arutai, led his army to invade Datong and Kaiping in Ming Shanxi. The emperor mobilized troops from the five capital divisions of Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, and Liaodong to stand by in Beijing and Xuanfu. But Arutai did not dare to confront the Ming army head-on, and had already fled. Even though the emperor led the entire army in rapid pursuit, and chased them all the way to the Tarannamur River. After searching for a radius of 300 miles, Arutai was still not found. 】
[As if the gains were very little, there was not much food and grass left, so the imperial court had no choice but to retreat. 】
[None of this seems to have anything to do with you. 】
[However, today, you have rarely broken your nine-to-five farmer life. 】
[You threw the hoe in the corner, took off the patched cloth, and put on a new one that your wife knitted stitch by stitch. After washing your face, you sat in front of the hut and waited. Waiting so peacefully. 】
[During the period, your virtuous wife cooked a pot of cheap tea for you. This tea was picked by you on the mountain, dried and dried in the sun. It tastes bitter, but you feel it is quite delicious when you drink it. 】
[The sun sets in the west. If it were this time normally, you would have been carrying a hoe in your field and walking home humming a tune. 】
[Today, you will stand in front of the door and wait patiently. 】
Zhu Di was speechless. Just wait for the hammer, even if you wait for a hundred years.
A prince who was deposed as a commoner and a farmer through and through.
It is really sad to live in this world with three meals a day of whole grains.
And Daming, who led him to live such a life, is even more sad.
Zhu Di not only felt sorry for Zhu Gaojie, but also pitied Daming.
They abandoned their emperor, the one who could lead them to the top.
[Before the sun completely sets, the last tail of the sunset rainbow shines on the dirt road in front of you, and you can vaguely see the dust and smoke billowing. 】
[The sound of horse hooves rings in your ears, and thousands of troops and horses appear in front of you. They rush towards you, dust and mist fill the air. The leader is Mu Sheng, Duke of Guizhou. 】
[Finally, thousands of troops and horses stopped outside the two thatched huts. Mu Sheng knelt down on one knee and said loudly: "I, the Duke of Guizhou, Mu Sheng, lead the Yunnan army and see His Highness King Qi!"]
[It’s not over yet, you are still waiting. 】
[For a long time, there was dust and smoke flying on the other side, and someone came with the troops. He turned over and dismounted: "I, the British Duke Zhang Fu, is leading the southwest army. Please see His Highness King Qi!"]
[Your young son is hiding behind the door, looking around curiously. They have never seen such a big scene in their lives, and they are a little curious about where their father is. 】
[You slowly stood up and bowed to Zhang Fu. 】
[Over the years, you have been writing letters to your father-in-law through your wife. 】
[The British government is implicated by you, and the relationship with the court is not harmonious. The prince favored civil servants and had no favorable impression of the British government, and the King of Han and the British government had a hostile relationship. 】
[No matter who of these two takes the throne, the British government will not have a comfortable life. 】
[Despite this, the British government never thought of rebellion. 】
[But you have been disappointed with this empire. 】
[In the ten years of your life as a farmer, your ambition has not been lost in this rice field. On the contrary, you have lived in seclusion for ten years, just waiting for an opportunity, which is today. 】
[It took you ten years to convince Zhang Fu, and you followed Zhang Fu's line and built a bridge with the Duke of Guizhou. 】
[You don’t have the aura of king and domineering that can make the other party admire you by just relying on letters. You simply wrote down your understanding of the art of war in the letter. 】
[Like talking to a pen pal, Zhang Fu almost laughed out loud when he received your first letter. He thought you were suffering from hysteria just because of the huge gap, so he didn't take it to heart. 】
[However, as one letter after another was sent, Zhang Fu's mentality also changed. He carefully read every letter you sent, and finally realized a problem: King Qi... No, farmer Zhu Gaojie , planning a rebellion! 】
[A farmer actually wants to usurp the country! 】
[Zhang Fu’s first reaction was: Report this idiot quickly, don’t implicate me. 】
[However, after he carefully read the letter sent by the farmer, he came up with a ridiculous idea: The strategy compiled by King Qi in the letter seemed to be really feasible. 】
[In your letter, you wrote down every detail in the letter, from where to attack first when raising troops, how to fight to form a base, to sending troops north to seize the opportunity and quickly develop forces... 】
[In the process of communicating through letters for several years, Zhang Fu has both admired and feared you. 】
[As a military general, he admires your miraculous skills in using troops. Also based on the principle of a military commander, he should be loyal to the emperor and report your disobedience. 】
[However, after you finished talking about how to conquer the world, you suddenly changed the topic in the letter you sent to Zhang Fu: How to deal with Annan. 】
[This passage touched Zhang Fu's heart. As the general who once conquered Annan, Annan brought him the title of Duke and the highest glory, but now he is unwilling to mention Southwest again. 】
[Because the court's treatment of Annan chilled him so much. 】
[After the imperial court captured Annan, it did not form a good governance in Annan. After a series of policies were decentralized, the acclimatization had side effects. The already rebellious Jiaozhi people regarded the imperial court as a scourge and were thinking about it all the time. about rebellion. 】
[In response to the resistance of Jiaozhi survivors, the imperial court continued to send troops to suppress it. Although Emperor Yongle had great military capabilities to continuously suppress the rebellion, this was not a long-term thing. According to Zhang Fu's speculation, Annan will probably be out of the control of the imperial court in less than twenty years. 】
[For Zhang Fu, Annan is his biological son. Seeing his biological son being expelled by the imperial court, he was extremely unwilling. 】
[But in the letter, King Qi stated that if he were to govern the country, he would definitely govern Annan well and build this place into the granary of the Ming Dynasty. And this resonated with Zhang Fu. 】
Zhu Di couldn't say anything for a while. After a long time, he said quietly: "Joshua, this kid is holding back something big. Even after he was deposed as a commoner, he refused to be honest. Instead, he started thinking about rebellion."
For some reason, he almost laughed.
How stupid would the emperor of another timeline be to let Zhu Gaojie become a farmer?
Um……
Damn it, why am I still scolding myself?
However, he was still a little curious about how Zhu Gaojie persuaded Zhang Fu and Mu Sheng to rebel with him in this timeline.
For these two people, they have no reason to follow Zhu Gaojie in rebellion.
Zhang Fu and Mu Sheng are both outstanding men. One of their fathers is the King of Hejian and the other is the King of Qianning. What is more embarrassing is that due to some reasons, they were unable to inherit the title of Duke. But they relied on their outstanding military exploits to win the title of Duke for themselves.
The Duke was already the pinnacle of nobility with a foreign surname in the Ming Dynasty.
People with different surnames are not allowed to be crowned kings. This is an old rule that has been handed down since the Western Han Dynasty. When a prince is married to his uncle, a duke is the title second only to a prince. What's more, a hereditary and irreplaceable duke is the most valuable person besides the vassal king. title.
Even if they follow Zhu Gaojie and conquer the world, they will be no different from now. Even if they add such a layer of dragon-following skills, they will not be able to be crowned kings. If he really becomes the king, that would be the most terrifying thing.
——When the birds are gone, the good bow is hidden, and the master is surpassed by his great achievements, death is not far away.
In this case, why should they take huge risks and follow Zhu Gaojie to rebel?
Whether the rebellion succeeds or not, it will bring disadvantages rather than advantages to them.
If it succeeds, not only will there be no benefit, but there will also be the risk that the master's cunning rabbit will die and his lackeys will be cooked.
If it fails, the title that has been earned through hard work for most of his life, the iron rice bowl left for his children and grandchildren will be gone, and the whole family will die.
Even a fool knows how to choose, so why would such extremely smart people as Zhang Fu and Mu Sheng embark on such a foolish path?
Zhu Di didn't understand. He became interested and wanted to find out how the "farmer" rebelled.
(End of chapter)
