Chapter 421

Zhu Yijun once told Zhu Yiliu that there was really no need to be overly guarded against the radicals, because the radicals would eventually destroy themselves, especially the extremely pure radicals.

Tan Lun must have been mad to publicly clamor for the killing of Tuman Tian Kehan in the Wenhua Hall, or even in the Jingtang; if this led to an unprecedented unity among the Northern Hu and interrupted the Ming's progress in recovering the Ordos Loop, causing more sacrifices on the path of expansion, then Tan Lun and the other radicals would be sinners.

Tan Lun still did it; he still wanted to recover the Ordos Loop. This feeling of slicing the sausage bit by bit made Tan Lun impatient and extremely stifled. If the Ming could not recover the Ordos Loop without strengthening its military, and still could not recover it after strengthening its military, wouldn't the Ming have strengthened its military in vain? As Minister of War, Tan Lun wanted to kill Tuman Tian Kehan.

In the process of being radical, radicals indeed easily destroy themselves; Zhu Yijun preferred to call it martyrdom.

For the sake of the Great Dao in their hearts, they are willing to sacrifice everything they have.

Even if your bodies and names perish, the rivers will flow on forever, never ceasing.

Of course, when the conservative Wang Chonggu brought out the "Buddha-Head Joy" method, he persuaded the radicals.

The radicals indeed wanted to recover the Ordos Loop, but they wanted long-term stability even more. Once the Ordos Loop was taken back, it had to be held. This soft-nail method of reducing the population was so effective that even the radicals felt this "extinction scheme" seemed more terrifying than directly killing Tuman Tian Kehan.

Zhu Yijun told Zhu Yiliu that the radicals were never the most dangerous; the danger all came from the neutralists, who appeared neutral but were merely hedging their bets.

Tuman Tian Kehan agreed to worship Buddha and became a believer just because of the 5,000 taels of Buddha-worship money every year; the Huanyi Prince's Mansion also needed to survive. When His Majesty was willing to pay, Batu was willing to do a little something in exchange for silver. Tuman Tian Kehan had left the grasslands, and everything on the grasslands had nothing to do with him anymore.

"Your Majesty, what I want to say is that from now on, from Kaiping Guard to Liaodong, it is all Your Majesty's territory. From now on, the Northern Hu are no longer Northern Hu, but Your Majesty's border subjects. The border subjects suffer; I respectfully request Your Majesty to treat your subjects kindly." As Tuman Tian Kehan left the Wenhua Hall, he made one last plea for those grassland people; this was the last thing he could do for the grasslands.

Tuman Tian Kehan left; his plea was his final ripple.

Zhu Yijun looked at a report in his hand from the Night Scouts of the Duntai Far Marquis. They had counted the population of Tuman Tian Kehan's five ten-thousand-household camps and three major battalions. The total population controlled by Tuman Tian Kehan reached 800,000. This was a massive force. Under this extremely detailed intelligence, the Viceroy of Xuan-Da, Wu Baipeng, could organize these eight places into households and registers; this was the first step toward establishing actual commanderies and counties.

The Ming had extremely sufficient experience with actual commanderies and counties. From the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Wanli era, the Ming had been doing these things. There was no essential difference between Tuman Tian Kehan and the Tusi of the Southwest.

The suzerain Great Tian Kehan of the Northern Hu still maintained a certain degree of ruling power on the grasslands. The organizational structure was relatively complete. Outside the Great Tian Kehan, there was the Jinong (Vice Tian Kehan), and below the Tian Kehan and Jinong were the five major ministers who discussed politics. The five ten-thousand-household camps had to go to the Dragon Court camp every year to discuss matters, and the ten-thousand-household leaders were directly appointed by the suzerain Great Tian Kehan.

The founding Emperor of the Ming Dynasty destroyed the Great Yuan court. The name of the Yuan Dynasty was "Great Yuan." After Emperor Shun of Yuan fled to Yuan Shangdu (Yingchang), the Great Yuan was declared officially destroyed. Emperor Shun of Yuan died in Yuan Shangdu, and Emperor Zhao of Yuan fled to Helin (now under the Khangai Mountains in Outer Mongolia), merging Inner and Outer Mongolia and establishing the Northern Yuan court. Emperor Zhao of Yuan was a very capable person who fought back and forth with Zhu Yuanzhang, forming a stalemate.

After Emperor Zhao of Yuan died, the grasslands were completely leaderless. In the 21st year of Hongwu, Lan Yu completely destroyed the Northern Yuan court at Buyur Lake, striking down the imperial title of the Northern Yuan court. Since then, the Northern Yuan court was destroyed, no longer calling itself an empire, only calling itself the Great Tian Kehan, becoming the Northern Yuan Khanate.

From the Great Yuan court to the Northern Yuan court, and from the Northern Yuan court to the Northern Yuan Khanate, was the process of the Yuan Dynasty's Mandate of Heaven being lost, and also the process of the Ming Dynasty completely replacing the Yuan Dynasty as the legitimate successor.

In the third year of Jingtai, the Oirat leader Esen killed the suzerain Great Tian Kehan Tode-Buka. The Northern Yuan Khanate was briefly destroyed, changing from a Khanate to the descendants of Yuan. Later, under the southern and northern expeditions of the "Little Prince," the descendants of Yuan re-established the Northern Yuan Khanate.

Today, Tuman Tian Kehan entered the capital to pay tribute, and the Northern Yuan Khanate was officially declared destroyed, becoming one of the vassal prince's mansions established by the Ming: the Huanyi Prince's Mansion.

The reason Tuman Tian Kehan made this choice was that he knew his sons were not very promising, even worse than him. Once he died, his son Buyan would only be able to use the Great Yuan Imperial Seal, the Golden Saber, and the golden bloodline to make a fuss. By then, even the ten-thousand-household leaders would not be willing to go to the main camp to discuss matters, so it was better to be liberated sooner.

"So the fact that the grasslands believe in Buddhism is not Altan Tian Kehan himself inviting a wolf into the house?" Zhu Yijun looked at the report in his hand, frowning as he asked Wan Shihe. There were actually 180 Buddhist temples on the grasslands of 800,000 people, and more than 30,000 monks. Out of 800,000, 30,000 became monks; what a terrifying proportion this was.

In the past, the Southern Liang, known as the "Human Buddhist Kingdom," only had 480 temples in the misty rain of the south, while Tuman Tian Kehan alone had 180 temples.

"Actually, as early as the time of Emperor Shun of Yuan, the Mi Sect was already prevalent." Wan Shihe did not elaborate on the absurdity of Emperor Shun of Yuan. Even though the grasslands always said that the temple name of Emperor Shun of Yuan should be Emperor Hui of Yuan, after Emperor Shun of Yuan died, Zhu Yuanzhang specially bestowed upon him the title of "Emperor Shun," and later everyone called him Emperor Shun of Yuan.

Wan Shihe was a traditional scholar-official; there were some things that were truly difficult for him to speak of.

Emperor Shun of Yuan was lazy from the beginning. While being very slothful, he particularly favored the Xuanzheng Yuan Commissioner Hama. And this Hama recommended the Mi Sect to Emperor Shun of Yuan. Emperor Shun of Yuan was overjoyed because the Mi Sect practiced the "Great Joy Double Cultivation Method."

Hama and his brother-in-law Tulu Temur, Balang (the Emperor's younger brother), and others used Goryeo concubines as their eyes and ears, specifically spying on the wives of noble families or good women among the people, bringing them into the palace for Emperor Shun to enjoy while practicing "Great Joy."

The monarch and his subjects indulged in lewdness, and monks came and went in the forbidden palace without any prohibition. Their ugly sounds and filthy deeds were known outside, and even the people in the marketplace hated to hear of them.

It was not just the people in the marketplace who were disgusted. At that time, Emperor Zhao of Yuan, who was still the Crown Prince, had also submitted memorials many times, asking Emperor Shun of Yuan to stop those absurd things. The "Ten Yina," "Great Joy," "Golden Sutras," "Sixteen Swallow Heavenly Demon Dances," and so on were truly too absurd. The Son of Heaven was looked up to by millions, and the world took him as a model to follow, but Emperor Shun of Yuan turned a deaf ear. Emperor Shun of Yuan's Empress, Empress Qi, tried to persuade him, but was also angrily rebuked by Emperor Shun of Yuan.

Whether the emperor is absurd or not actually doesn't matter. If he can govern the country well, it is understandable for him to enjoy himself. But Emperor Shun of Yuan, under the precarious situation of the country, was still so licentious that even the Crown Prince couldn't bear to look at it. It was truly inexcusable.

Therefore, the Yuan Dynasty was destroyed.

Wan Shihe glanced at Zhang Juzheng and continued: "Actually, now the Northern Hu don't value this suzerain Great Tian Kehan, the co-lord of the grasslands, very much, because the various tribes of Outer Khalkha have effectively broken away from the control of the Northern Yuan Khanate. The Oirat of the West is the most dangerous enemy of the Northern Yuan Khanate. The grassland people are now more keen on going to Lhasa to worship the Great Lama in order to obtain a Tian Kehan title."

"Altan Tian Kehan introducing Lamaism into the grasslands was certainly for the sake of ruling, but it was also a necessity."

Wan Shihe was extremely sensitive to the changes in the "rites and laws" of the grasslands. The belief in Eternal Heaven on the grasslands was gradually becoming weak, while Lamaism already had a wide range of believers. This change prompted Altan Tian Kehan to welcome Buddha.

The popularity of the Mi Sect on the grasslands cannot be blamed entirely on Altan Tian Kehan inviting a wolf into the house; this was a long and gradual process.

Wang Chonggu briefly reported on the spring wool matters of San Niangzi. When Tuman Tian Kehan entered the capital to pay tribute, San Niangzi was also in the capital. She returned part of the Emperor's debt and redeemed part of the shipping certificates.

The Ming's work of "Royal Transformation" on Tuman Tian Kehan's five ten-thousand-household camps and three major battalions officially began.

On the fourth day of the third month of the ninth year of Wanli, on the streets of the capital, there was a fine drizzle. Spring rain is always a bit dense, nourishing all things on earth. Spring rain is more like fog, shrouding the streets and alleys. The capital was hazy. The grass had just poked out of the ground, revealing new buds. Looking from afar, the color of the grass was faintly connected into a patch; looking closely, the tender buds were sparse and scattered.

The most beautiful scenery of the year is probably the spring rain, with willows swaying and misty rain.

Zhu Yijun liked the spring rain very much because with a few spring rains, the Ming farmers could water their fields a few less times. The wheat would sprout and grow in the soil; that was the livelihood of the Ming people, and also their hope. Whenever there was spring rain, Zhu Yijun's mood would become very good.

"Your Majesty, the Imperial Uncle is outside the hall requesting an audience." Feng Bao said with a beaming smile.

Zhu Zaiyu, the Dean of the Royal Academy of Sciences, arrived at the Imperial Study of the Tonghe Palace when the spring rain was sprinkling over the capital. The Tonghe Palace, where the Ming Emperor lived daily, was adjacent to the Royal Academy of Sciences. More precisely, it was a door-to-door relationship. It only took Zhu Zaiyu half a quarter of an hour to reach the Imperial Study.

"Hurry and invite him in." Zhu Yijun stood by the window with his hands behind his back, watching the rain. Hearing that the Imperial Uncle requested an audience, he said immediately.

Every time Zhu Zaiyu came, he would bring some surprises to Zhu Yijun. Although Zhu Zaiyu always spoke unpleasantly, Zhu Zaiyu had always done things very beautifully.

"Your subject pays respects to Your Majesty. May Your Majesty live ten thousand years in golden peace." Zhu Zaiyu bowed and performed the rites.

"Imperial Uncle, please rise quickly. I heard that for the 'Roaming Dragon,' the Imperial Uncle has made great contributions. If it weren't for the Imperial Uncle, I don't know how many years it would take to build such a sealing boat. Sit, sit, sit down and talk. Feng, prepare good tea, and bring the newly arrived Longjing." Zhu Yijun's way of treating guests depended on who they were. When Tuman Tian Kehan entered the capital to pay tribute, he could only kneel and speak. When Zhu Zaiyu came to the Imperial Study, he was greeted with a smiling face.

One cannot blame Zhu Yijun for this attitude; it was the Ming's fast sailing ship. Part of the technical support came from the Royal Academy of Sciences, and it played a crucial role.

Zhu Zaiyu shook his head and said: "It is just imitating nature."

The Royal Academy of Sciences provided a lot of technical support for the Ming shipbuilding industry. The tung oil sealing and ginger preservation methods were old news. In recent years, there had been successive new technical supports.

The steam drying method, the traditional sun-drying method, took a long time, and the wood was prone to deformation, cracking, mildew, corrosion, and was affected by the weather, all of which caused waste of raw materials. Steam drying greatly shortened the time for drying wood and allowed the humidity of the wood to be controlled.

The hollow galvanized steel pipe manufacturing method, smelting, rolling, hot welding, surface galvanizing, and other technical improvements were all carried out under the auspices of the Royal Academy of Sciences. This was to allow steam to reach the cylinder from the boiler more smoothly, to prevent rust by galvanizing, and to perform sealing rolling and hot welding for airtightness. This technique was also used in the manufacture of Ming muskets, greatly increasing the production capacity of Ming muskets.

The riveting method, riveting was for better fixation. Zhu Zaiyu invented rivets, used for connecting workpieces in various scenarios. Compared with the traditional mortise and tenon method, the applicability of riveting was wider. For example, the connection of steel inside and wood outside the "Roaming Dragon," the traditional mortise and tenon was too difficult to process, but the riveting method made processing much simpler.

Zhu Zaiyu was obsessed with steam turbines. Although the steam turbine had not been built, many technologies for this major project had been applied. Steam drying, hollow galvanized steel pipes, riveting, etc., were all created to allow the steam turbine to rotate more stably.

And what Zhu Zaiyu called "imitating nature" was that the Royal Academy of Sciences manufactured a new ship bow by imitating creatures like dolphins and swordfish. The upper jaw of the swordfish is sharp and long, like a sharp sword, extending straight forward, which is more convenient for the swordfish to fall back into the water after jumping out of the water. Moreover, the long jaw of the swordfish is more conducive to the fish's underwater activities.

The swordfish, also known as the sailfish, is a type of fish that swims extremely fast in the sea. Their long jaws are responsible for cutting through the water flow. Based on the observation of swordfish, the design of the Ming fast sailing ship appeared with a "heavy head and light feet," a hollow ship bow, and the lines of the ship's body turning from a big belly to sharp, all because of this observation.

"Your Majesty, I came here this time to report something." Zhu Zaiyu said with a difficult expression.

"Are you out of money?" Zhu Yijun asked with a frown: "Imperial Uncle, don't be troubled. Feng, have Cui Min bring 100,000 taels of silver notes."

Zhu Zaiyu was a person who was indifferent to fame and wealth, and his life was also very simple. Every time he came to the Imperial Study of the Tonghe Palace, the most frequent thing he did was to ask for money, and every time he asked for money, he just reached out his hand: "I, the Ming Imperial Uncle, pay up."

Sometimes he didn't even know what he was researching. This was not strange. Human cognition forms a cognitive barrier, and Zhu Zaiyu and the Academy of Sciences he led were constantly breaking the barrier and exploring the unknown. It was normal not to know what was being researched.

Zhu Yijun was very generous every time. The Academy of Sciences didn't spend much silver a year. The most expensive year was only 500,000 silver. With the continuous implementation of land measurement and maritime trade, the imperial court had money, and Zhu Yijun also had money to let Zhu Zaiyu waste. Whether it was useful or not, let's get it done first.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, there is still plenty of money. The Royal Academy of Sciences is not short of money." Zhu Zaiyu waved his hands repeatedly: "I am not here to ask for money this time."

"Is it that the wealthy households of Xitucheng have run to the Imperial Uncle again to jump around? I issued an imperial decree last time. Do they still dare to knowingly commit an offense? The quota for steam engines is all decided by the Inner Treasury. It's useless for them to find the Imperial Uncle." Zhu Yijun asked suspiciously.

Are the wealthy households of Xitucheng so bold? With an imperial decree, do they still dare to harass?

"It's not that. I want to borrow the Dissection Institute." Zhu Zaiyu explained his purpose, which surprised Zhu Yijun immensely. No wonder he was so hesitant; it turned out he wanted to borrow the Ming's "human hell."

"For what reason?" Zhu Yijun asked a bit strangely.

"I tinkered with a 'fire inch strip,' which was made by mixing sulfur and white phosphorus. This sulfur and white phosphorus have 'yin fire,' and it only needs violent friction to ignite. But I am worried that this thing is poisonous. After all, it is used by the people in their daily lives. Therefore, I borrow the Dissection Institute to verify it." Zhu Zaiyu explained his purpose.

Talking about toxicity without talking about dosage is just a mirage. One fire inch strip might not cause problems, but what about long-term use?

Zhu Zaiyu was still worried about the fire inch strip he invented, so he asked the dissection criminals of the Dissection Institute to use it first. If it was really poisonous, he would improve it carefully.

Zhu Yijun got the fire inch strip, a thin strip of pine wood two inches long, with a layer of sulfur and white phosphorus mixture wrapped around the head. This thing is called a match in later generations, and it is called a "fire inch strip" in the Ming Dynasty.

As early as the Southern Song Dynasty, there were peddlers selling fire inch strips in the streets and alleys of Hangzhou. "Chuogeng Lu" says: "Hangzhou people shave pine wood into small pieces, as thin as paper, coated with sulfur on the top of the wood piece, named 'fire candle,' also called 'cuier.' It is used to start a fire and replace a candle, also called a 'fire inch strip'."

During the Southern Song and Hu Yuan periods, this kind of fire inch strip was poisonous and prone to spontaneous combustion, and it was also quite dangerous. Zhu Zaiyu naturally improved some of the formulas for the ignition medicine, which could be considered stable.

Zhu Zaiyu was worried about toxicity, so he asked to use the Dissection Institute. The dissection criminals in the Dissection Institute were very precious and scarce resources. Most of them could be replaced by monkeys and mice. There is no essential difference between humans, mice, rabbits, and monkeys in dissection.

Zhu Yijun granted Zhu Zaiyu's request.

Zhu Zaiyu and Zhu Yijun chatted for a long time, mainly about the progress of the steam turbine. Unfortunately, there was still not much progress. It could rotate, that is, it could only rotate, but the development of the Ming reciprocating steam engine was in full swing and extremely rapid.

"The seven kiln wells of the Xishan Coal Bureau actually need 68 horses to pump water, and the Xishan Coal Bureau has more than 3,400 pumping horses. This is still in the case where there are not many kiln wells. Therefore, the demand for steam engines is huge. This year, the Second Assistant Wang mainly invested steam engines in the Coal Bureau, not the Weaving Bureau, which can be considered to have let the weavers breathe a sigh of relief." Zhu Zaiyu talked about the main application scenarios of steam engines.

The production capacity of Ming steam engines was extremely limited. The vast majority were used for pumping water in the Coal Bureau, while the number of steam engines in the wool official factory was limited, mainly used for technical verification, not large-scale promotion and practice, and this status quo could not be changed in the short term.

The Ming called steam engines "Iron Horses" because steam engines were graded by horsepower: three-horsepower, five-horsepower. Seven kiln wells and 68 horses, it's not that these 68 horses were on the well at the same time, but they were rotating. And the benefit of the Iron Horse was that it could work day and night without rest, which meant that these seven kiln wells only needed four to five Iron Horses to complete the work of the 68 horses in the past.

Zhu Yijun saw Zhu Zaiyu off. His enthusiasm for the principle of the infinity of all things had not decreased at all after nine years.

Looking at the spring rain outside the window, Zhu Yijun picked up a memorial from the Supervisory Officials of the Guangzhou Maritime Trade Office, Wan Wenqing and Wu Weizhong. Wan Wenqing particularly liked to visit brothels, but since the two of them became disciples of Wang Jiaping, they had no chance to visit brothels anymore.

They couldn't visit, but no one could block the enthusiasm of these two guys for brothels. The content of the memorial they submitted was related to brothels.

During this period, Wan Wenqing and Wu Weizhong keenly discovered that many human traffickers and brothels in Guangzhou Prefecture no longer bound their feet. The two were very curious about why this situation appeared, so they visited the human traffickers and brothels and finally discovered that what caused this change was the high heels in the Imperial Manor.

The mouth can lie, but the "bull" cannot.

The brothels that were the first to purchase the "attack speed shoes" from the Imperial Manor gained a larger market, causing major brothels to follow suit. And high heels and foot binding are contradictory, because three-inch bound feet are already difficult to walk, plus high heels, let alone serving people, they couldn't even walk.

This is a culture that Zhu Yijun ignored. In fact, the Ming foot-binding culture was very prevalent, mainly concentrated in the scope of young ladies from wealthy families and prostitutes. Young ladies from wealthy families were to stay behind closed doors, while prostitutes were mainly to satisfy the strange aesthetics of guests.

Ordinary families, where would they have the qualifications to bind their feet? Children in Ming families, regardless of gender, age, or seniority, would work in the fields on their parents' backs when they could drink milk, start picking up ears of grain when they were three or four years old, start herding cattle when they were six, and start working in the fields when they were nine.

The reason Zhu Yijun ignored it was because the Ming Imperial Palace did not bind feet. Since Empress Ma, the "Big-Foot Empress" at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Empresses did not bind their feet. This was the ancestral law, and it was also based on reality. Because falling in front of the emperor is a loss of ceremony, in order to prevent the trouble of stumbling when running in front of the imperial presence, this item was directly excluded during selection.

But the Big-Foot Empress eventually changed her appearance, and there were slowly foot-binding in the palace, called "Palace-Style Foot Bandages," which appeared since Emperor Xiaozong of Ming. This style was still foot-binding, but it did not affect walking.

After Zhu Yijun ascended the throne, he had no pursuit for this and didn't like it. The women in the Ming harem didn't make things difficult for themselves. After Wang Yaozhuo entered the palace, she followed Zhu Yijun, and the emperor didn't like it, so Wang Yaozhuo naturally wouldn't bind them.

So Zhu Yijun ignored this culture, but the Ming people did not ignore it. In "The Oil Seller Occupies the Flower Queen," the wealthy family's son threw away the flower queen's foot-binding cloth and shoes. The flower queen was thrown onto the street and couldn't walk, trapped in place.

The appearance of "attack speed shoes" further hit the foot-binding culture, especially the market of prostitutes was the first to react.

Once, a Grand Secretary proposed to forcibly ban brothels and sweep the prostitution industry into the trash heap. Zhu Yijun did not approve. Many brothel women couldn't live at all after leaving the brothel. "This beauty has bare feet, so she can't move an inch."

Zhu Yijun finished reading the memorial and was silent for a moment before writing: "I know. You two should visit brothels less in the future."

Under the continuous implementation of the new policy, the Ming was undergoing various changes from the inside out, and contradictions were among these changes. In the era of great change, how the imperial court could grasp the direction was the test the era gave Zhu Yijun.

"Your Majesty, the Lady Zhongshun is outside the hall requesting an audience." Feng Bao said with an extremely strange expression. Logically speaking, San Niangzi should have left after finishing the business. Insisting on having an audience was a bit superfluous.

San Niangzi was also very busy.

San Niangzi entered the capital to sell wool. The wool was sold out. Without affecting the lives of the border subjects, San Niangzi returned part of the debt. Zhu Yijun didn't intend to see her anymore because she came and went in a hurry this time. After the spring wool, there was summer wool, and the time was very short. San Niangzi had really tried her best to repay the debt.

"Proclaim."

San Niangzi performed the rites, exchanged pleasantries with the Emperor, and after briefly chatting about the debt problem, San Niangzi held the teacup, said nothing, didn't say goodbye, and didn't say anything, just stunned there. This appearance clearly meant there was something going on.

"Your Majesty, the Hu King Altan is old." San Niangzi suddenly said: "When he was young, he might have been a majestic eagle, but now his wings are broken and he can no longer soar in the sky, so he resorts to gods and Buddhas, entrusting himself to the theory of reincarnation."

Zhu Yijun nodded and said: "I know he is old."

Zhu Yijun was a young emperor, but he didn't have much youthful spirit. He always felt that it was good that Altan Tian Kehan was old. It was just taking advantage of your old age and illness to ride on your face!

When the Right Wing was at its peak, the Ming swept away everything in the world with violence, which was certainly refreshing. But as an emperor, Zhu Yijun wished that the Right Wing's strength was so weak that it was vulnerable, so that when the Ming Beijing Battalion attacked, there wouldn't be so many people dying in the battle formation.

San Niangzi pondered for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, the Hu King is dying."

Zhu Yijun raised his eyebrows and looked at San Niangzi. With such a clear statement, Zhu Yijun naturally understood the meaning between the lines. If the Ming was ready to use force, it was time to take action. The summer rainy season was coming, and a short window for attack was right in front of him.

"The Ming's conquest does not need the Lady Zhongshun to do anything. The Ming's military appearance shines with heavenly might. Altan Tian Kehan is old now. I am not afraid of him. Even when he was young, I was not afraid of him." Zhu Yijun stated his attitude based on strength.

The Ming's conquest of Baisheng and Guihua did not need San Niangzi to do anything to cooperate from the inside and outside. This would have great benefits for the Ming's "Royal Transformation" of the Northern Hu Right Wing in the future.

If San Niangzi really became a traitor, it would be difficult for the Ming to "Royal Transform" the Northern Hu Right Wing in the future. All the efforts San Niangzi had made for the survival of the grassland people over the years would be destroyed because she was a traitor.

"That's good. Your subject takes her leave." San Niangzi pondered for a while and chose to leave. His Majesty's words were very clear. The Ming had an attack plan, and the Ming's strength was strong, so they didn't need her cooperation. But this audience still made San Niangzi a little disappointed. His Majesty still treated her as a political figure.

San Niangzi actually wanted to say: If the Ming attacks and Altan Tian Kehan dies, she will be a widow + captive.

It is a pity that the Emperor never considered that aspect.

"Strange." Zhu Yijun watched San Niangzi's swaying figure leave and shook his head, saying, this San Niangzi ran into the palace and said this without head or tail. What was the purpose? Spying on military intelligence?

The fact that the Ming was going to continue to use troops against the Northern Hu was already known to the old man under the locust tree at the entrance of the village.

Last year, because Wang Rulong destroyed Kaiping Guard, the Beijing Battalion didn't move. Otherwise, the cavalry battalion would have already drawn its sword last year.

At the end of the third month of this year, Qi Jiguang was appointed as the General Conquering the Hu, Li Rusong as the Assistant Regional Commander Conquering the Hu, and Minister of Personnel Liang Menglong as the Viceroy of Military Affairs. They would set off for Kaiping Guard and Datong Prefecture to prepare for the attack on Altan Tian Kehan. For a war of this scale, the mobilization of grain and grass, the allocation of personnel, military training, and the preparation of military equipment could not be hidden at all.

The reason? Does the Ming's northern expedition need a reason? The reason is that Altan Tian Kehan plundered the capital in the 29th year of Jiajing, and Zhu Yijun wanted to avenge the humiliation suffered by his grandfather. If this reason is not enough, then Altan Tian Kehan and Tuman Tian Kehan attacking Yingchang Prefecture together is enough.

It was not the Ming that tore up the agreement first, but Altan Tian Kehan. From the moment he let two ten-thousand-household camps attack Yingchang, the war between the Ming and the Right Wing had already begun.

Or rather, the war was just paused and never ended.

(End of chapter)