Chapter 32 The world is shocked
"Tang Shengzong deserves to die." In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Yunwen said angrily: "Didn't you say that Tang Shengzong was difficult to defeat? How could it be like this? I collapsed in the first battle, abandoned the ground in mourning, and fought like this in the first battle. How do the people in the world think of me? "
Duke Li Qi of South Korea immediately said: "Your Majesty, I am bound by the kindness of my subordinates and my superiors."
Zhu Yunwen took a few deep breaths, tried hard to suppress his anger, and said, "Speak."
Li Qi immediately told them all the details of the war that Tang Shengzong told them, such as the power of firearms and so on. But overall it's a bit unclear.
First of all, although Tang Shengzong felt this change, the two sides fought too little, making it difficult for Tang Shengzong to understand the changes in the Northern Army, so that he did not know what the core of the new firearms tactics was and how to use it. Of course, Tang Shengzong was A veteran and a famous general, but not capable of getting pregnant at a glance.
Furthermore, Li Qi is a civil servant, he is not Li Shanchang. Although Li Shanchang was a civil servant, he fought with Zhu Yuanzhang. It is false to say that Li Shanchang did not understand military affairs at all. But Li Qi took the civil service route.
He doesn't know much about military matters. But he was Tang Shengzong's backstage and had to speak for Tang Shengzong. What Tang Shengzong said himself was incomplete and was paraphrased by Li Qi. How many things can be retained?
Finally, does Zhu Yunwen understand military affairs?
Zhu Yunwen's previous teachers were all Confucian scholars. In order to fear that Zhu Yunwen would go astray, Fang Xiaoru was very strict with Zhu Yunwen's studies and did not let him come into contact with heresies. It is false to say that Zhu Yunwen has no feeling for the military at all. But Zhu Yunwen's feeling about military affairs is probably that of Sun Tzu's Art of War.
There is no doubt that Sun Tzu's Art of War is a holy book for military strategists, but most people who use Sun Tzu's Art of War to fight are defeated. Because of the principled issues discussed by Sun Tzu in the art of war, Sun Tzu's Art of War is useful both in ancient times and in modern times. But how to use it depends on the technology and tactics at that time.
Most people who think they can win every battle simply by reading Sun Tzu's Art of War are fools.
Therefore, let He Xi explain the new tactics to Zhu Yunwen, from cold weapons to hot weapons, from physical strength and numbers first to firepower first. etc. Zhu Yunwen probably didn't understand either.
After all, Zhu Yunwen missed too many classes on this.
I don’t even understand some of the mathematical principles of firearm use, let alone anything else.
So, when Li Qi told Zhu Yunwen these things, what was Zhu Yunwen's reaction? Two words: "quibble."
Zhu Yunwen wished that someone would pull Li Qi down and kill him, but he couldn't. The Korean lineage was very important to him.
Zhu Yunwen said: "Although there are reasons for everything, it is still a defeat. I feel that General Tang is not enough to entrust the important task of the north. What do you think?"
Zhu Yunwen has already said this, what else can he say?
Korean Duke Li Qi secretly sighed in his heart: "Uncle Tang, it's not that I won't help you, it's just that this battle was too ugly."
Zhu Yunwen looked at Fu Youde and said, "My lord, please go on my behalf."
Fu Youde said: "Your Majesty has an order, I dare not disobey it."
Zhu Yunwen looked at Ding Xian, who nodded and immediately began to arrange his troops.
In more than a month, Zhu Yunwen completed the initial clean-up and rectification of the imperial court. Many people had new arrangements, such as Zhang Du, the Minister of Punishment, Huang Zicheng, the Shaofu Ling, and Su Boheng, the Hanlin scholar.
Zhang Du committed suicide at home.
As a result, Zhu Yunwen's reputation will not be good if word spreads.
In fact, Zhu Yunwen didn't care about the life and death of these people, and Fang Xiaoru didn't care about them either.
The reason why Zhu Yunwen didn't care about their life and death was because of what Zhu Yuanzhang said before he died. Zhu Yunwen didn't have much prejudice against the reform and He Xi's new learning, but the same Zhu Yunwen didn't have much interest in implementing the new law. It doesn't matter whether these people are killed or not. At least there is no need to kill him. .
Fang Xiaoru himself is relatively upright.
Fang Xiaoru opposed He Xi, opposed Zhu Xiongying's ascension to the throne, and opposed all of this. As far as Fang Xiaoru himself was concerned, he felt that he had no selfishness at all.
His heart is almost full of loyalty, but he feels for Tianri. What he wants is to overthrow the new law, not to kill people.
But the people below are not of such high quality.
These people have been fighting for so many years, and now that they have fallen, are they going to let them go lightly? impossible.
That's why, when Xie Jin saw something was wrong with the limelight, he immediately ran to Beijing. You have to run away. Many times, heretics are more hateful than enemies.
But in any case, Zhang Du is also one of the six ministers, and his punishment cannot be compared to that of a scholar-official. It is also one of the Confucian thoughts. These court officials do not want a minister to die in an unknown manner. They were really prepared to list the evidence and send Zhang Du to death justifiably.
Zhang Du's suicide broke their plan.
In addition, Zhu Yunwen wanted fame, which allowed He Xi's gang members to survive. Just locked in prison.
The imperial court has finished cleaning up, and it is time to deal with the army.
And this time the expedition was the same.
Ding Xian and Zhu Yunwen discussed it. The defeat of Yu County shocked the world, not because of how many people or counties were lost, but because the people of the world saw that it was possible for the rebels to win. Therefore, the court must respond and send troops.
It's just that the cleanup and reorganization of the hundreds of thousands of troops in the Beijing camp is a more difficult matter than the reorganization by civilian officials.
Without him, it would not be a big deal if the court was reorganized and killed too many people. Zhu Yuanzhang had already shown it to Zhu Yunwen. When Zhu Yuanzhang handled the Hu Weiyong case, he almost killed the entire court, but so what?
The court operates normally.
But the Beijing Camp is different. If one of them fails, the Beijing Camp will rush into the Forbidden City. It can kill people.
Be more cautious in this regard.
It can be said that it is almost impossible to completely return the capital to the level of Zhu Yuanzhang's control in a short period of time. But we must send troops immediately. This becomes a paradox.
Fortunately, Ding Xian still has some talent.
Ding Xian's suggestion was to let Fu Youde take Feng Sheng and Xu Da's men to the battlefield.
Those who stayed in the capital were all troops loyal to Zhu Yunwen.
This method applauded Zhu Yunwen's family.
First, this method eliminates hidden dangers in the capital. For Zhu Yunwen, securing the throne is the first priority. Although things in the north are difficult, they can be left alone. However, the capital camp is not stable, but it can happen overnight. The ability to change the color of the world.
Second, it has been more than 20 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, during the period when Zhu Yuanzhang was proclaimed King of Wu, Zhu Yuanzhang had been in power for thirty or forty years. There was one thing he had been doing, and that was to integrate the army.
Don’t you think that Zhu Yuanzhang only started to reorganize the army after the founding of the country?
No, Zhu Yuanzhang left Haozhou with more than 20 people. Within a year, he had more than 10,000 troops from all directions. His own direct descendants are not the majority among these people. Zhu Yuanzhang has been reorganizing the army almost all the time. Various methods were used to form garrison troops, keep elites in the army, treat generals well, push their hearts into their hearts, and go to sleep among the surrendered troops without taking their own soldiers, etc.
Zhu Yuanzhang's reorganization of the army can be said to have continued from birth to death.
And it’s not without results.
That is, although there are many hills in the army, they are just hills. The generals in the army are just the heads of the army, not the princes. The old generals under their command joined the generals to keep warm, and wanted to compete for more interests in the Ming Dynasty. That’s all. But they all recognized and recognized one premise, that is, they were soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, it was naturally okay for Fu Youde to take Feng Sheng and Xu Da's direct lineage to fight.
The so-called direct descendants of Feng Sheng and Xu Da refer to this army, which was founded by Feng Sheng or Xu Da. They have fought with them for a long time, but it does not mean that there are only people from Feng Sheng and Xu Da in this army. They only know that The general does not know the court.
There will also be people from other factions in this army, but it's just a matter of proportion.
Of course, there are some differences between Fu Youde leading his own direct lineage to fight and leading other people's direct lineage to fight. Whether they are used smoothly or not, whether there is a tacit understanding between them, etc., will all affect their performance on the battlefield.
But Zhu Yun
Wen didn't feel this deeply, or in other words, Zhu Yunwen's ignorance of military affairs gave him a sense of self-confidence. This kind of self-confidence was the inertia of the Ming army's thinking during the Hongwu period when the Ming army was invincible in the world. He always felt that he could win when Zhu Yuanzhang was around, and he can win now.
He forgot that Zhu Yuanzhang was no longer here.
