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Extra Chapter 4: Zhu Yuanzhang Lets Himself Go [Please Subscribe, Please Subscribe In Full]
In the thirteenth year of Shengping (1402), early March.
Yan Changqing and Zhou Wang Zhu Ru, who had just returned from traveling around the world with Zhu Yuanzhang, were lying on the rocking chairs in the office of the dean of Wanmin Medical College like two useless people.
"Finally came back alive."
"I almost thought I was really going to confess to being outside."
Zhou Wang Zhu Ju took a sip of sugar water and calmed down his shock. Thinking of his experience at sea in the past five years, he still looked frightened and said.
To put it bluntly, the experience of going to sea in the past five years was more exciting than the three to forty years of his life in the first half of his life combined.
Yan Changqing on the side heard this and said with a serious look:
"If His Majesty Emperor Taishang wants to go to sea again in the future, please don't take me with you again."
"I am already fifty this year and know my destiny. I am ready to wait for death."
"My old arms and legs don't want to move at all if it's not necessary."
You must know that in this life, he was born in 1352, the 12th year of Zhizheng in the Yuan Dynasty, and he is exactly fifty years old this year in the 13th year of Shengping in the Ming Dynasty (1402).
At such an age, even in Yan Changqing's previous life, he was not considered a young man.
Of course, if you are only fifty years old, this is not a big problem.
For example, in Yan Changqing's previous life, let alone go abroad and travel around the world at the age of fifty, he can continue to travel abroad and travel around the world even when he is sixty or seventy years old.
But the problem is, other people's traveling abroad and traveling around the world's continents is tourism, but Zhu Yuanzhang's traveling around the world's continents is not called tourism, it is called extreme special forces-style death-defying!
I don’t know if it’s because Empress Ma passed away and no one can restrain Zhu Yuanzhang anymore.
On this trip abroad to travel around the world, Zhu Yuanzhang can be said to have let himself go!
In North and South America, he led a group of Indians who surrendered to King Zhu Fan of Jin and King Zhu Zhen of Chu to hunt wild beasts such as American bison, American moose, and American grizzly bears, so forget it.
After all, with all kinds of muskets, artillery, bows and arrows, fishing nets, and manpower and equipment, even if the most ferocious beast encounters Zhu Yuanzhang and his group, there is only one word of death.
But after arriving in Australia, Oceania, I learned that the local native animal--kangaroos are very ferocious and can fight.
Zhu Yuanzhang was still unconvinced and wanted to put on armor and have a fist-to-flesh boxing with those kangaroos. This was a bit outrageous for his mother-in-law.
17 You must know that an adult kangaroo can be up to 2 meters tall, weigh more than 200 kilograms, can jump up to 13 meters, and the power of a volley kick can reach more than 300 kilograms. Even a punch with only the forelimbs is about 90 kilograms. of strength.
If it were an unrestricted fight with bare hands, even Tyson, the boxing champion in Yan Changqing's previous life, would not be able to withstand a crazed adult kangaroo.
Not to mention Zhu Yuanzhang, who was already in his sixties and approaching seventy at that time.
To put it bluntly, at this age, Zhu Yuanzhang can still walk normally after wearing armor, which can be said to be old and strong.
If he really wanted to put on armor and fight an adult kangaroo, it is estimated that as long as the kangaroo punches, Zhu Yuanzhang will fall to the ground on the spot and go to see Queen Ma neatly.
It’s hard to say whether others are afraid of this result, but King Zhu Su of Qi is really afraid!
If Zhu Yuanzhang really died, he died under his rule, and he died in such an outrageous way.
Then King Zhu Su of Qi felt that after the other brothers knew about this, even if they were separated from him by a distant continent and ocean, the other brothers might have to jointly send troops to beat him up!
Therefore, Qi King Zhu Zhu, King Zhou Zhu, and several other third-generation grandsons and princesses of the old Zhu family, who really could not afford the consequences of Zhu Yuanzhang's accident, knelt down, hugged Zhu Yuanzhang's thighs, and kept crying. .
In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang reluctantly gave up the idea of having a boxing match with the kangaroo.
If this is nothing, then after arriving in Europe, Zhu Yuanzhang personally led a group of Ming navy soldiers who went to sea with him to conquer France.
It really scared everyone silly.
At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhou Wang Zhu Ju, Yan Changqing and others arrived in Europe in the eleventh year of Shengping (1400).
After five years of reform and development, King Zhu Di of Qin has basically completely annexed and transformed the original three British islands, namely the kingdoms on the island of England, Scotland, and Northern Ireland, as well as other surrounding small kingdoms on affiliated islands. the place of his foundation.
The next step is to march to the European continent.
Originally, King Zhu Fang of Qin and the civil and military officials under his command planned to slowly annex the Kingdom of France in three to five years.
But by chance, Zhu Yuanzhang, who came to Europe to report the funeral of King Zhu Di of Qin, heard it.
Zhu Yuanzhang estimated that there were about 200,000 Ming marines who went to sea with him, and then based on the intelligence about the Kingdom of France that he heard while observing the meeting.
Known including and not limited to:
First, the current so-called Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of England, which was previously annexed by Qin King Zhu Zhen, have been fighting each other for sixty or seventy years.
This war, which lasted for six to seventy years, not only dragged the Kingdom of England into a state of overwork, economic recession, and people's uprising, it also plunged the Kingdom of France into a situation where the people were in dire straits and unable to fight anymore.
Now the Kingdom of France is trying to sign a twenty-year armistice agreement with the original "Kingdom of England" represented by Qin Wang Zhu Di, but it was temporarily shelved by Qin Wang Zhu Di in the name of the original "Kingdom of England".
Second, continental Europe followed a feudal system.
Even the so-called Kingdom of France is composed of as few as a dozen or as many as dozens of so-called vassal states such as the Principality of Brittany, the Principality of Anjou, the County of Perche, and the County of Lamarche.
And these vassal states, large and small, all have their own conflicts to a greater or lesser extent.
In other words, the so-called Kingdom of France is not only not a unified empire, but can only be regarded as an alliance composed of many forces.
Third, even the entire Kingdom of France has a national territory of only 500,000 to 600,000 square kilometers.
In the Ming Dynasty, it was only about the size of a mansion.
Such a garbage kingdom, which covers an area of about the size of a city, actually needs three to five years to slowly develop?!
Zhu Yuanzhang said that he did not understand and was greatly shocked!!!
After all, it only took him thirteen years to overthrow the Yuan Dynasty and unify the world.
So after seeing the strategic plan formulated by Qin King Zhu Di and his civil and military officials to "spend three to five years to slowly annex the Kingdom of France".
Zhu Yuanzhang's brows were furrowed, just like Yan Changqing's expression on the subway old man looking at his mobile phone in his previous life.
Even Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but wonder whether he had given King Zhu Di of Qin too little experience before letting him go to sea to establish a kingdom?!
Or maybe the founding ministers arranged for Qin King Zhu Ping are all useless?!!
That's why Qin King Zhu Di and his civil and military officials formulated such a strategic plan that seemed very ridiculous to him!!!
Because just from the information about the Kingdom of France that he heard when he attended the meeting before, Zhu Yuanzhang was able to draw the following conclusions:
First, the Kingdom of France should really not be able to go to war with the Kingdom of England anymore, otherwise the Kingdom of France would not want to take the initiative to sign a 20-year armistice agreement with the current "Kingdom of England".
In other words, if the current Kingdom of France is invaded again, its resistance is very limited.
It may not even be possible to prepare all the food, equipment and other materials needed by the army.
Second, the people in the Kingdom of France should be very opposed to war now.
After all, the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of England have been fighting for decades, and there has been no complete victory or defeat.
And the people in the Kingdom of France have not gained any additional benefits from this decades-long war.
On the contrary, because of this long war, they have been constantly subject to increased taxes, corvée, and other cruel exploitation.
In other words, the people in the Kingdom of France have lost their hearts!
Third, the Kingdom of France is composed of multiple vassal states, which means that even if you attack the Kingdom of France, you will only have to face the armies of ten or several vassal states in a short period of time.
In other words, at most you will encounter the troops of one or several states.
The total number of troops in this state or several states is only a few thousand, and at most thirty or twenty thousand. Is this a big problem?!!
As long as you conquer the vassal states under the name of the Kingdom of France with thunder and lightning, and then slaughter all the noble lords of each vassal state.
And in the process, restrain your subordinates and soldiers from slaughtering the French people, and even distribute the wealth and benefits of these noble lords to the French people, so as to stabilize the French people's hearts.
Then, except for those French noble lords who escaped by chance, they may want In addition to continuing to resist stubbornly, most of the French people will not want to resist the invading Qin Wang Zhu Chong and others.
After all, it was only the noble lords of the Kingdom of France who died, not the French people.
Those French people, who are the largest in number and live the poorest, will not empathize with the dead French noble lords.
Even if you just say to those French people, once the French noble lords drive away these "invaders" again.
Then the food and wealth that these "invaders" had previously distributed to the French people will be forcibly taken back by the French noble lords.
Then these French people may abandon their French citizenship on the spot and rebel to become loyal "Qin Wang people" [follow Qin Wang Zhu Di and other "invaders" to suppress the original French noble lords!!!
As a true step-by-step from the bottom of society to the top of society Zhu Yuanzhang, who was at the peak of his position, could not have been more clear about the psychology of the lower-class people.
For the lower-class people, loyalty to the emperor and patriotism were not as real as the gold, silver and food they received.
If they wanted to be loyal to the emperor and patriotism, the prerequisite was that the king and nobles of the Kingdom of France made sure that the people under their rule were well fed and clothed, and then the French people would talk about loyalty to the king and nobles of the Kingdom of France.
But did the king and nobles of the Kingdom of France do this?!!
No!!!
Even because of the wars, taxes, diseases, famines and other natural and man-made disasters over the years, the French people had long been dissatisfied with the king and nobles of the Kingdom of France. Resentment.
Under such circumstances, it would take three to five years to annex the Kingdom of France, which was ridiculous in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes.
Finally, Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it and felt that he had to help his second son.
Otherwise, if it took five years to annex the British Isles and another three to five years to annex the Kingdom of France, it might not be possible to unify the entire European continent until the day when Qin Wang Zhu He died.
So Zhu Yuanzhang led the 200,000 marines who followed him to sea and headed straight for the Kingdom of France, ready to show his second son how to wipe out the Kingdom of France in three months.
When King Qin Zhu Di received the news that his old man had led an army to go on an expedition, King Qin Zhu Di went crazy.
The strategic plan of "spending three to five years to slowly annex the Kingdom of France" was thrown aside by Qin King Zhu Ping on the spot.
Then he immediately ordered his troops and generals, and personally led the 200,000 Qin King's troops under his command, as well as the 100,000 auxiliary English legions recruited in the British Isles in recent years, and rushed toward the Kingdom of France to kill the doctor.
Because if he arrived any later, Qin King Zhu Chong was worried that he would have to collect the body of his old man.
It’s not that the Kingdom of France is so powerful that even his old man will be captured.
To put it bluntly, there is no living general in the world whose military ability is stronger than that of his old man.
If his old man could be twenty years younger, then he absolutely believed that his old man could defeat the Kingdom of France within three months.
But the problem is that the old man in his family is already seventy-two years old. At this age, he goes to the battlefield, even if he just sits in the center of the big tent to command the armies, and goes to the battlefield in person.
But the bumps during a long, long-distance march were enough to kill his old man.
If his old man is really allowed to go and wipe out the Kingdom of France in three months, he will probably be finished by the time the Kingdom of France is wiped out.
What's even more likely is that the old man's body could no longer hold up before he finished sweeping the Kingdom of France.
You must know that he has just received the news from his old man that his mother has passed away. If his father also dies at this time, and he dies on the way to conquer Europe for him.
Then Qin King Zhu Xi felt that even if he slaughtered all of Europe, it would alleviate the regret in his heart.
In such a panic and worried mood, King Qin Zhu Di killed gods and people in the Kingdom of France.
Five cities were destroyed in three days, and seven cities were conquered in ten days.
In the end, after changing men but not horses, and without stopping day and night, Qin King Zhu Di finally led 10,000 advance troops and caught up with Zhu Yuanzhang.
By this time, Zhu Yuanzhang had already led his army to defeat the three vassal states in the Kingdom of France.
If Qin King Zhu Ping had come later, it is estimated that the fourth vassal state would have been conquered by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Finally, after Qin King Zhu Tong patted his chest and said that he would definitely defeat the Kingdom of France within three months, Zhu Yuanzhang reluctantly agreed to stay in the rear and no longer go to the battlefield.
After that, King Zhu Ping of Qin did manage to wipe out the Kingdom of France within three months.
After all, he himself had 200,000 Qin troops, 100,000 English troops, and 200,000 Ming navy soldiers who Zhu Yuanzhang temporarily gave him command.
This 500,000-strong army is more than enough to overthrow the Kingdom of France within three months.
Even without the 100,000 Ming navy soldiers given by Zhu Yuanzhang, the Qin King Zhu Ping's own military strength alone was actually enough to level the entire French empire.
The reason why they wanted to spend three to five years slowly annexing the Kingdom of France before was just because Qin King Zhu Di and his civil and military officials wanted to minimize losses.
After all, as foreign immigrants, every Chinese citizen and soldier under their rule is very precious.
Rather than suffer losses to the Chinese soldiers who firmly supported them, it would be better to spend three to five years recruiting and training some native English soldiers to fight for them.
However, this time with the help of the temporary 200,000 marines brought by Zhu Yuanzhang, the overall loss caused by King Qin Zhu Chun's bulldozing of the Kingdom of France was not too great.
However, King Zhu Xi of Qin did not dare to let Zhu Yuanzhang stay in Europe any longer, for fear that Zhu Yuanzhang would sneak onto the European battlefield again without paying attention.
Therefore, after Zhu Yuanzhang stayed in Europe for half a year, he was sent back to the Ming Dynasty by King Zhu Di of Qin. .