Zhu Yunwen closed his eyes and meditated peacefully. Who is stirring up the storm? Who is so careless about life and death?
Where are the ancient and modern chess players hiding in the dark? Where are they hidden? Zhu Yunwen does not doubt people's ambitions and desires.
Why did Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang go on a killing spree to clean up the generals? It’s to pave the way for yourself! In the final analysis, it is because Lao Zhu knows that there are people who covet the throne and threaten the royal family.
Historically, why Zhu Yunwen reduced the vassal status was because he was worried that the throne would be unstable and his uncle would rebel. To sum up, the throne is the supreme pinnacle, and some people want to stand at the pinnacle.
However, with the establishment and continuation of the imperial examination, culture, education, and etiquette systems, the Zhu dynasty became more stable, and scholars and common people began to recognize the Zhu dynasty, and the scholar-bureaucrats were willing to stay below the peak.
This also means that no matter how the chess player operates, he is unlikely to choose a person named Zhao or Li as his replacement. If he wants to control the situation and stabilize the people of the world, the only person who can succeed him is the royal family. People within the clan.
Zhu Yunwen opened his eyes slightly and listened to the rolling thunder between heaven and earth. Among the people in the royal family, the most threatening person is the fourth uncle Zhu Di, but he is in Peiping at this time and is out of reach. He is unable to control the situation and cannot influence Jinling.
What's more, more than ten years have passed, and the Security Bureau has not let up its gaze on Zhu Di for more than ten years. His every move, whether in the capital or in other places, is watched by people from the Security Bureau and the Second Security Bureau, and even under the supervision of Princess Yan. There are people from the Second Security Bureau around me.
Zhu Di has no ambitions. What he longs for is the battlefield. What he longs for is the glory and light brought by the battlefield itself. He has long lost the thought of rebellion.
Zhu Yunwen was assured of Zhu Di, and even more assured of the Beijing army. Who else besides Zhu Di? Zhu Yunwen was thinking about each of the emperor's uncles. There were few threatening figures and few capable figures. Another Ning Wang Zhu Quan, who was extremely combat-effective and resourceful, should be in contact with black people at this time. As for the method of contact, It is hard to say whether it is Chinese civilization or Western civilization.
Zhu Quan is further away, and it takes a year or two to get news back and forth. He is even less likely to be an ancient and modern chess player, and it is impossible to be the person who caused the turmoil in Jinling.
King Zhu Zhi of Liao? Min Wang Zhu Xun? These two people were the first vassal kings to engage in business, and they were also the first vassal kings to establish a business. Their families had some wealth, but Zhu Zhi and Zhu Chu were generally quite honest. For a year, Zhu Yunwen didn't believe it if these two people could fight each other.
However, the acting king Zhu Gui is worthy of note. Zhu Gui purchased batch after batch of slaves from other mines. These things were reported to the Security Bureau and the mine. However, the number reported by the mine was different from the number reported by the Security Bureau, which meant that there were a batch of slaves. It was moved out and hidden in the dark.
Why would a feudal king leave slaves behind? This is alarming. In addition, Zhu Gui wants to control coal resources, which is a dangerous signal for Zhu Yunwen.
Nowadays, the development of steam engines is in full swing. The initial factory construction has been completed. The number of steam engines assembled per day has increased from the initial 20 to 300. This production capacity is still increasing.
The key energy source of steam engines is coal. Whoever controls coal is equivalent to holding the throat of the first industrial revolution!
Excessive desire for control, huge ambition, disappeared slaves, arrogant remarks, a large number of
"Son" is disturbing. It's just that the acting king Zhu Gui is impulsive, irritable, and a person with little brains who wants to do big things. This kind of person is a threat, but he is not a good master, right?
Who would follow a person with no future and little brains, risking his own head and that of his whole family to rebel?
Lao Zhu thought about it for a long time when he rebelled. He couldn't sleep for several nights, so this group of people would not look back?
Even if they rebel, are brainwashed, and hate the power, they still have to choose someone who can help them take revenge.
Zhu Gui seems not qualified enough. Besides, Zhu Gui is the thirteenth uncle, and there are a few people ahead of him.
Well, not much... Lao Zhu's son died a lot. Zhu Gui ranked thirteenth, but in front of him were only the fourth oldest Zhu Di, the sixth oldest Zhu Zhen, the eleventh oldest Shu King Zhu Chun, and the twelfth oldest Xiang King Zhu Bai.
If we rearrange the order, Zhu Gui is still fifth among the vassal kings. If we take into account that Zhu Zhen went to Jiangxi to tour the mountains and rivers, Zhu Chun was immersed in writing books at home, and Zhu Bai went to the Taoist temple to ask questions, Zhu Gui was the most outstanding among the capital.
"Uncle Thirteen, please don't make it difficult for me." Zhu Yunwen sighed, closed his eyes, and fell asleep slowly.
Lightning crackled and rain poured down. A stone rolled down from the mountain. The rain washed away the remaining branches, stones, and leaves. The water level of the river beside the mountain road rose rapidly.
The war horses neighed. The commander of the Chu Xiong Guard ordered Cheng Mao to pull out his whip and whip the horse under him hard, but the horse refused to move forward and turned its head whiningly.
"Commander Cheng, the horses are not leaving!" Huang Ting from Qianhu came to report. Cheng Hao raised his head and looked at the night. The heavy rain hit his face, dense and powerful: "Du Si has an order to rush to Ejia before sunset tomorrow! How far is it from Ejia now?" Huang Ting looked around, There are mountains all around, and the mountain roads are not wide. There is no reference to distinguish the distance, so I can only say: "It's not clear yet, but based on the time, it is at least 120 miles away from Ejia."
"One hundred and twenty miles of mountain road, we can't go through it without horses, urge the horses forward, and send sergeants to see if there is any danger ahead." Cheng Hao turned over and dismounted, pulling the reins.
The war horse was finally pulled, but the progress was very slow. Huang Ting sent someone to check, and later found Cheng Mao and reported: "There is no risk on the mountain road ahead. Although there is a little rockfall, the rocks are very small and do not block the road. However, the water level is growing. We must seize the time to get over. Once the water level reaches We can't march on mountain roads. Especially the accompanying firearms and gunpowder cannot be soaked in water." Cheng Hao nodded heavily and looked at Ye Yu with a serious look on his face: "Let the sergeant speed up and get past here as soon as possible! I always feel a little uneasy, as if something big has happened." Huang Ting also felt this way: "Is it possible that the attack has already been launched in the car and we are too slow?" Cheng Hao couldn't figure it out and shook his head: "No matter what That's it. Mu Houye gave the order, and Yunnan Dusi also gave the death order. We must arrive at Ejia on time and prepare the garrison. Forward!" More than two thousand sergeants walked along the mountain road and stepped on it when Cheng Mao stepped on it. When looking at the splashing water, his face was a little gloomy: "The water level is coming up, speed up!" the voice spread.
Suddenly a bolt of lightning split, and Cheng Hao and Huang Ting saw a horrifying scene. A huge rock seemed to have been chipped away by something and slid towards the mountain road.
"Run away quickly" Cheng Mao shouted, his eyes red. boom! The mountain road trembled, accompanied by streaks of lightning. Cheng Hao saw that the mountain road was completely cut off, saw one end of a huge stone smashed into the river, causing a huge splash, and also saw the horses and soldiers who were crushed to death!
The team was cut in half. Cheng Hao rushed over, but Huang Ting pulled him violently, causing a mountain to slide down again.
It was blocked by rocks and Cheng Hao couldn't see the scene. But the tragic and desperate voice made Cheng Mao extremely painful.
Huang Ting looked at this scene, looked down at the water that was up to his ankles, and shouted: "Let them retreat immediately, back to Chuxiong!" Cheng Mao knew that in such heavy rainy days, rockslides and water levels rose, and he was intercepted. The sergeant at the back could not come, so he had to order the sergeant to pass the order: "The rear team returns to Chuxiong." Qianhu Sun Ning, who was in the rear team, received Cheng Hao's order and was delivering the order to retreat when he suddenly felt something hit his foot. Severe pain, and then looking at the light of lightning, I saw that the river was no longer the clear river water in the past, but turbid, mixed with stones, wood, and fallen leaves, and it was starting to go downstream crazily, and then As the water levels rise, these crazies are trying to flood the mountain passes.
"Don't retreat, drop all the baggage, take out the hook, and climb the mountain!" Sun Ning shouted sharply, pulling several sergeants to pass the order together.
The sergeants also saw the mudslide begin to surge, and knew the danger of this thing. If it ran downstream, it would probably be swept away before it reached a safe place.
The only solution for now is to climb mountains and go to higher places! But the mountain is unstable and who knows if there will be another landslide.
But at this time, I couldn't care about these things. I lost the tiger crouching cannon, the gunpowder bombs, the food, and the war horses. I picked up the hook rope and threw it, hung it on the trees and rocks on the mountain, and started climbing one by one.
The war horse whined and was dragged into the mudslide. It screamed twice and lost its head. The baggage also began to be swept away.
The sergeant who was too late to climb the mountain was washed away, and the sergeant who fell from the mountain was also washed away. The huge mudslide is like the power of heaven, and people seem very small at this moment.
Cheng Mao and Huang Ting led the people upstream. The land upstream was high and the threat of mudslides was limited. When they reached a relatively safe place, Cheng Mao and others looked at the mountain road in the distance.
There was lightning and thunder, and under the heavy rain, the army could not be seen. Cheng Hao didn't know how many of those people had withdrawn and how many could survive. He arranged for a clear count of the people and found that there were only about 400 people around him.
Huang Ting was in agony: "Commander Cheng, what should we do? Should we find a way to return to Chu Xiongwei first, or continue to go to Ejia?" Cheng Mao clenched his fists, his eyes bloodshot: "Go to Ejia!"
"But we don't have the tiger crouching cannon or the gunpowder bombs. We only have this few people..." Huang Ting was uneasy. Cheng Hao grabbed Huang Ting and shouted loudly: "Without the Tiger Crouching Cannon and without the gunpowder bombs, you can't fight? We still have knives and swords. Even if these are gone, we still have stones. There are fists and teeth! The task assigned to us by Dusi is the task assigned to us by the emperor. If we cannot complete the garrison in Ejia, once the people in the car attack us, we will be the sinners of the Ming Dynasty!" Huang Ting shook his head. Fist, turned around and roared at the sergeant: "What are you looking at? Get ready to move forward. Go to Ejia. The safety of Chuxiong Mansion depends on us! Move forward!"
