Chapter 117

"Gate-Calling Son of Heaven?! The strongest guide in history?!"

Zhu Yuanzhang almost couldn't catch his breath.

The emperor being captured was already embarrassing enough, yet he was held hostage by the enemy to call his own city gates. If this isn't a guide, what is?

This is even more humiliating than Emperor Huizong and Qinzong of Song being captured; at least the two emperors didn't help the Jin people fight the Song Dynasty!

"Bastard! Bastard!!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, drew the sword from his waist, and cut off a corner of the table in front of him.

"I, Zhu Yuanzhang, how could I have such a disgraceful descendant who forgets his origins, helping the enemy call the gate after being captured?"

"Why didn't he hit his head against the city wall and die? What's the use of keeping him?!"

"Trash! Coward! He should be cut into a thousand pieces!!"

Zhu Di's face was also livid, his fists clenched tightly.

The emperor being captured was already a supreme shame, and "calling the gate"—this simply threw the face of the Great Ming imperial family and his own face to the heavens and myriad worlds, letting everyone trample on it!

This infamy of "Gate-Calling Son of Heaven" would accompany the Great Ming until its destruction.

"Reverse War God... guide... international student..."

Liu Bang marveled, "The netizens of this generation know how to give nicknames; one is more poisonous than the other, one is more apt than the other."

"This Zhu Qizhen can also be considered 'famous in history,' although it is infamy."

Li Shimin supported his forehead with his hand, unable to bear looking: "The monarch being captured is already unbearable."

"Leading the enemy and calling his own national gate... this... this can no longer be described as dim-witted, it is... lacking in intelligence and devoid of shame. This 'Gate-Calling Son of Heaven' will be a laughingstock for ten thousand generations."

Wei Zheng scolded: "Shameless! When a ruler is captured, he should think of dying for the country to preserve his integrity!"

"How can he be afraid of death and act as a tiger's accomplice? This Zhu Qizhen, what face does he have to stand between heaven and earth, what face does he have to see the ancestors of the Zhu Ming Dynasty?!"

Cheng Yaojin was stunned: "My goodness, after being caught, he still guides the enemy? Calling his own gate? This damn thing... I don't even know what to say. To be an emperor to this extent, he's not even as good as a dog!"

Cao Cao was also shocked: "There is such a... bizarre monarch? Not dying for the country after being captured is already a coward. Helping the enemy attack himself is a traitor to the country."

"These three words 'guide' are so precise and so sharp! If this person were under my command, he would have been beheaded long ago!"

Guo Jia also marveled: "This 'study abroad' experience is truly unique in ancient and modern times, but the tuition was paid too heavily."

"The lives of 200,000 soldiers and the blood and tears of countless commoners, just to supply him alone to 'study' in the grassland, is truly a strange tale through the ages."

Liu Bei was trembling with rage: "With such a monarch, what qualifications are there to rule over ten thousand people? What qualifications to sit high in the temple?"

"At the time of capture, he should have ended his own life to avoid humiliation! He actually... Gate-Calling Son of Heaven? Bah! Such behavior is worse than a pig or dog!"

Zhuge Liang shook his head repeatedly: "The ruler is without virtue or conduct to this extent; even with Yu Qian trying to turn the tide, it is difficult to support this collapsing building."

"This name 'guide' will surely stink for ten thousand years, just like his name 'War God'."

【Two: The "Trilogy" of the Dim-witted Emperor

1. First step: Tumubao Incident (the entire army annihilated)

Operation: Listening to the eunuch Wang Zhen's nonsense, he led 200,000 elites on an imperial expedition.

The march route was treated as child's play by Wang Zhen (detouring to show off his success), and finally, they were surrounded at Tumubao by the Oirat.

The 200,000-strong army was annihilated, the group of meritorious officials and generals was wiped out, and he himself was captured on the spot.

Netizen joke: "Micro-manipulation Master." Treating war as tourism and the army as an honor guard.】

On the celestial screen, the young and vigorous Zhu Qizhen, under the instigation of the eunuch Wang Zhen, insisted on an imperial expedition despite the opposition of the ministers.

The army set out, mighty and grand, but the march route was changed at will by Wang Zhen, just to show off in his hometown.

Finally, at Tumubao, the Ming army was exhausted, their water source was cut off, and they were easily divided and surrounded by Oirat cavalry. In a massacre, the 200,000-strong army was wiped out, the meritorious officials and ministers accompanying the army were killed or wounded, and Zhu Qizhen himself became a prisoner.

"Listening to the eunuch... treating the march as child's play... 200,000 elites annihilated... meritorious officials and generals wiped out..."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the tragic scene on the celestial screen, feeling as if his heart were being cut by a knife, and his vision went black.

200,000 elites! That was the hard work of him and the soldiers of the Great Ming through the generations.

And the descendants of the founding and Jingnan meritorious officials, the pillars of the Great Ming's military power, were just buried at Tumubao like child's play by a eunuch and a dim-witted emperor.

"Wang Zhen! Eunuch dog! Should be killed! Should be cut into a thousand pieces!!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, but he hated Zhu Qizhen even more,

"And this stupid emperor, favoring eunuchs, interfering in military affairs, treating the country's heavy weapons as child's play!"

"200,000 lives, the pillars of how many families in my Great Ming, just gone, gone!"

He wept, heartbroken for the soldiers, and even more heartbroken for this hard-won country being trampled on like this.

Zhu Di was also bloodshot, as if he saw the Jingnan elites under his command back then, and the hundred-battle-hardened army that later conquered the north five times, being so easily buried by later generations! That pain went deep into the bone marrow.

"Micro-manipulation Master? Treating the army as an honor guard?"

Liu Bang couldn't laugh this time, just shook his head,

"This metaphor... is truly vivid and sad. 200,000 troops, just gone like this. How big a crime is this? This Zhu Qizhen deserves to die a hundred times!"

Ying Zheng's eyes were filled with murderous intent: "Eunuchs interfering in politics, the ruler failing to observe, losing the army and humiliating the country—a crime that cannot be forgiven."

"This Wang Zhen should be torn apart by chariots, and this Zhu Qizhen should be demoted to a commoner and imprisoned for eternity!"

Liu Che said angrily: "Eunuchs are also worthy of discussing military affairs? The emperor actually listened? Absurd! Stupid!"

"200,000 elites, if used well, would be enough to expand the territory, yet they were buried like this. This Zhu Qizhen is truly a sinner of the Great Ming, a sinner of Huaxia."

Li Shimin looked heartbroken: "Tang Xuanzong using Yang Guozhong, and later Ming Yingzong using Wang Zhen—how similar."

"Eunuchs and relatives are all disasters to the country. If the ruler does not observe, the country will surely be in danger!"

"This defeat at Tumubao was not a natural disaster, but a human disaster, a human tragedy caused by the joint efforts of a dim-witted emperor and a treacherous eunuch."

Wei Zheng said sternly: "Your Majesty! My Great Tang should take this as a warning and never allow eunuchs to have even the slightest opportunity to interfere in politics."

Zhu Yuanzhang roared at Zhu Biao and Zhu Di: "See that? Eunuchs! Eunuchs! I have said long ago that eunuchs must not interfere in politics, not even a word."

"This Zhu Qizhen is good; he let eunuchs play with the army. And you, in the future, whoever dares to use eunuchs to interfere in government and military affairs, I will lift the coffin lid and beat him to death."

Zhu Biao and Zhu Di solemnly promised: "Your sons will never forget!"

Cao Cao sneered: "Favoring villains and distancing oneself from virtuous ministers is the eternal law of a country's destruction."

"This Wang Zhen is the Ten Attendants of the Great Ming. This Zhu Qizhen is even worse than Emperor Ling of Han; at least Emperor Ling didn't hand over the army to Zhang Rang to fight."

Guo Jia said: "Handing over such heavy weapons of the country to the hands of eunuchs—the dim-wittedness of this ruler is beyond reason. This 'Micro-manipulation Master' is truly the vanguard of national destruction."

【2. Second step: Gate-Calling Son of Heaven (supreme shame)

Operation: After being captured, the Oirat leader Yesen held him hostage to the gates of Xuanfu and Datong, asking him to call the defending generals to open the gates and surrender.

Although the defending generals didn't open them, this operation directly caused the Great Ming Emperor's dignity to be swept away.

Netizen joke: "Human Battering Ram." Physical attacks didn't work, so he switched to psychological attacks.】