Chapter 31 The big star falls in the south
As soon as Xu Da's expedition form was sent, Zhu Yunwen immediately approved it.
Immediately, the Nanjing capital camp began to mobilize in an orderly manner and followed Xu Da in the northern expedition. Their morale is high, after all, who is Xu Da. They all grew up listening to the legend of Xu Da.
I feel like I am part of the legend of the future Duke of Wei.
But they didn't know that when Xu Daqiang showed up in front of others while leaving Beijing, it was his last public appearance.
Cross the Yangtze River. The army settled in Yangzhou City.
After staying in Yangzhou City for several days, many people thought that they were preparing logistics, but in fact Xu Da was already on his deathbed.
In the middle of the night, Xu Da suddenly woke up. He asked his left and right, "What time is it?"
Xu Huizu said with tears: "It's time."
Xu Da said: "Help me go out and take a look."
Then Xu Huizu and Xu Zengshou helped Xu Da out of the room.
When Xu Da raised his head, he saw stars all over the sky like snow, seemingly within the palm of his hand. He seemed to have gone back to the time when he followed Zhu Yuanzhang and more than 20 people left Haozhou City and stayed in the wilderness overnight. Most of the people back then were gone, and Zhu Chongba was not as hateful as he was later.
Xu Da smiled slightly and said: "In my life, I have to meet the Lord of the Ming Dynasty. From a simple commoner to the leader of the world's soldiers, I will defeat every attack and surrender. I have only three regrets. First, Wang Baobao is not in my way. Kill, old grudges are hard to resolve. Secondly, I feel sorry for your mother, and thirdly, I died twenty years prematurely, making it difficult to see the new look of the art of war. Other than that, I have no regrets."
Xu Da said that he was invincible, but in fact, he had always been worried about the Battle of Mobei.
The most difficult thing for gamblers to accept is that they stop gambling after their opponent wins. The most difficult thing for gamblers to accept is that their opponent quits the game after winning. It can be seen that Xu Da felt uncomfortable in his heart. He originally had a record of victory, but ended up with a tie at the hands of Wang Baobao.
For Xu Da, this was a huge defeat.
Wang Baobao actually died and could not be found again. Xu Da looks calm and calm on the outside, but he is very worried on the inside.
As for Xu Da’s wife, I mentioned the Xie family when talking about the Spear Army. In order to win over the Spear Army, Xu Da married the daughter of the Xie family. Later, the Xie family rebelled. What happened to Xu Da’s wife in the end. There is controversy among historians as to who the mother of at least several sons of the Xu family is.
It can be seen that there are some things that Xu Da cannot control independently.
Xu Da could foresee that the next few decades would definitely be a time of great military development. Because He Xi has ignited the technology tree, the manufacturing of steam engines actually represents the progress of mechanical processing capabilities, and also represents the possibility of many new firearms.
However, technology is developing abnormally nowadays. The places where He Xi pays attention to develop quickly, and the places where He Xi pays no attention to develop slowly.
And He Xi didn't understand many details of weapon processing. He only knew what kind of weapon he wanted, but he didn't quite understand how to process it. And today's firearms are sufficient.
The people below also lack the ideas to process new weapons.
This has restricted the development of firearms, and some restrictions on the development of firearms have also restricted the construction of new tactical ideas and new strategic directions.
New tactics and ideas in the future will be based on new weapons.
Xu Da may understand these theories, or he may not, but he knows that today's firearms tactics are definitely not complete, and there is still a lot of room for development in the future, but he can't see it.
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"What?" Zhu Yunwen was shocked and said, "The Duke of Wei passed away in Yangzhou. How is that possible?"
Ding Xian said: "The Duke of Wei's government has repeatedly reported that Duke Wei is in poor health?"
Zhu Yunwen said: "In so many years, in which year did Wei Guogong not report it?"
After Zhu Yunwen said these words. Then he said harshly: "Xuda, Xu Da------"
Some exaggerated words were swirling around Zhu Yunwen's lips, but he just couldn't say them out.
Death is a big deal, especially for people like Wei Guogong Xu Da. Zhu Yunwen said inappropriate words at this time, which was simply unpopular. No, Xu Da died of illness.
He was greatly disappointed.
After all, Xu Da declined the position of general many times, and many people knew it.
It's just that Xu Da's illness is also true.
Xu Da's illness has been going up and down ever since he had the surgery that year. He was reported to have emergency reports several times every year, but in the end nothing happened. As time went by, no one took him seriously.
Not to mention that Xu Da also has a history of pretending to be ill. Zhu Yunwen always felt that Xu Da was pretending to be ill.
Many things are preconceived and then difficult to change.
Moreover, Xu Da may not be kind to Zhu Yunwen.
Xu Da even deliberately deepened this misunderstanding. Because Xu Da didn't want to fight the Northern Army from the beginning. On the one hand, Xu Da felt that he might not be able to defeat the Northern Army. Most importantly, his illness was never real. It's too uncomfortable now. His body is seriously affecting his performance. In his current state, saying he is barely surviving is a compliment. In this situation, he would not be willing to give his whole life's wisdom to the younger generation in the north.
On the other hand, Zhu Yunwen used both soft and hard tactics, which really chilled Xu Da.
Logically speaking, Zhu Yunwen and Xu Da should have a very close relationship, but Zhu Yunwen regarded Xu Da as his enemy from the beginning. Xu Da didn't know where Zhu Yunwen came from with this kind of hostility. Xu Da realized that Zhu Yuanzhang might have some arrangements, re-examined Zhu Yunwen's position, and had no intention of bowing to Zhu Yunwen, and the relationship between the two parties fell into a knot.
Xu Da also discovered that if he didn't die, Zhu Yunwen's relationship with the Xu family would not be over, and he would not want to live an peaceful life. It was simply as Zhu Yunwen's wish was fulfilled. Anyway, Xu Da's own body was struggling to maintain itself, so he had a glimmer of hope.
It was indeed too painful, and life was worse than death.
Before death, he will maximize his own death benefits.
No matter what Zhu Yunwen thinks? Did Zhu Yunwen feel that he was plotting against him? Zhu Yunwen had to face the current situation and try his best to minimize the impact of his death.
what to do? Naturally, it was a very sad death.
He left a special message, asking all his sons to observe filial piety for three years. Of course it’s impossible not to do it.
Xu Da estimated that the outcome of this battle would be clear within three years. As long as Xu Huizu is not stupid enough to become a loyal minister to Nanjing, Xu Huizu will know what to choose after three years.
After this incident, Xu Huizu is still loyal to Zhu Yunwen. It’s okay not to have such a son.
Zhu Yunwen naturally didn't know Xu Da's plan.
But Zhu Yunwen also felt deep malice.
In other words, Zhu Yunwen and Xu Da were naturally at odds with each other. It's not that he has any personal grudges with Xu Da. On the contrary, the Xu family has a close relationship with the Zhu family. The root of all this comes from Zhu Yunwen's education.
Zhu Yunwen's orthodox Confucian education combined with the emperor's mind.
Externally, benevolence, justice and morality have always been good. But selfishly, everything is measured by interests. Everything is done to preserve his power.
As for the current power structure of the Ming Dynasty, the greatest threat to the imperial power is the nobles.
In history, when Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne, all the distinguished officials had been killed by Zhu Yuanzhang. The noble military power was also assigned to the vassal king, and the vassal king became the biggest opponent of the imperial power.
But it's different now. Although honorable people are restricted in this way. But compared to most of the vassals abroad, the nobles were the emperor's biggest enemies, and Xu Da was the head of the nobles. Zhu Yunwen instinctively felt threatened. Not to mention, Xu Da represents not only himself, but also Zhu Yuanzhang.
Because before Zhu Yuanzhang's death, in the eyes of outsiders, Xu Da had been in charge of military power for Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yunwen was worried that he would not be able to win over Xu Da.
Xu Da was placed in a hostile position from the beginning.
After that, Xu Da had doubts about the succession to the throne, and naturally he was unwilling to bow to Zhu Yunwen. In this way, the situation on both sides becomes a vicious circle, after going back and forth. It can only go in a worse and worse direction.
Step by step we got to where we are today.
Let Xu Da plot against Zhu Yunwen before he dies.
This was not what Zhu Yunwen could have expected. He was not thinking about it at the moment. He must immediately
That means cleaning up this mess.
Zhu Yunwen immediately ordered a funeral for the Duke of Wei, which greatly increased his reputation. He was buried with him in the Xiaoling Mausoleum, and he was given posthumously to King Zhongwu of Wei, etc. All kinds of super-standard treatment are given to you for free. Even preparing to welcome the spirit in person.
But this is not the most important thing.
The most important thing is how to deal with the situation in the military?
There is no one else but Fu Youde.
