[After weakening the power of the various vassal kings, Zhu Di decided to go to the West! He also let his trusted eunuch Ma Sanbao lead the fleet to the west. The purpose of the voyage was to promote the prestige of the Ming Dynasty and to monopolize the trade between the Ming Dynasty and the southern countries in the name of the government!]
On his first trip to the West, Ma Sanbao brought back a large number of specialties from the southern countries. All kinds of precious spices were equivalent to more than 20 million taels of silver!!]
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw this scene, he was immediately shocked.
Was going to the West that profitable?
Now, the annual tax of the Ming Dynasty was only about four million taels!
It seemed that Zhu Di was not only good at fighting wars, but also good at making money.
Zhu Yuanzhang admired his fourth son.
[With money in the national treasury, Zhu Di ordered the capital to move to Shuntian while preparing for his second voyage to the West! At the same time, he recruited talented people from all over the world and ordered Prince Zhu Gaochi to preside over the Yongle Grand Ceremony!]
[During this period, Zhu Di also heard from Ma Sanbao that along the way, only King Hai Nan did not receive the fleet that went to the West. This made Zhu Di very angry. He increasingly felt that Zhu Xu was opposing him, so he issued an imperial edict to scold him. However, the messenger who took the imperial edict had just arrived at King Hai Nan's residence when he heard that Zhu Xu had been in seclusion for nearly a year.]
[The messenger felt that he had received the emperor's orders and ignored the dissuasion of the people in King Hai Nan's residence. He forcefully rushed into King Hai Nan's residence, but he and his guards were pecked by the few big roosters raised by King Hai Nan and were covered in bruises!]
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the messenger and his guards who were being pecked by the rooster and were unable to fight back. He was once again shocked.
If he had not seen it with his own eyes, he would never believe that there was a chicken in the world that could tear armor into pieces with just one claw.
The chicken pecked a hole in those steel knives!
If not for the people from the Imperial Residence chasing them away.
The emissary and the few guards who had received the emperor's orders would be pecked to death!
Even if they were not pecked to death, the envoy and his guard would only have half their lives left!
Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly remembered that Zhu Xu seemed to have raised a few chickens in his bedroom.
Could it be that these were the few chickens in King Hai Nan's Mansion?
Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he had to go to Zhu Xu's bedroom in the future to see if he could get a few chickens. He would also raise them. If he could train them in the army on a large scale in the future, they might become a new army with explosive combat strength!
After the envoy returned to Shuntian Prefecture, Zhu Di was furious! Zhu Xu's position as the vassal king was about to be removed on the spot. Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi remonstrated that Zhu Xu was only focused on cultivating the mystic realm and did not care about the secular world. Moreover, he had just restricted the power of the vassal kings. If Zhu Xu was rashly removed, it would make the vassal kings uneasy. He requested Zhu Di to let Zhu Xu off for the time being!]
[Zhu Di's anger is hard to quell, but now that he heard the news of the invasion of the Tartars in the north, he can only temporarily put aside the matter of dealing with Zhu Xu. Zhu Gaochi will take over the government and personally attack the grasslands!]]
[In the second year, Zhu Di defeated the Tartars on the grasslands! Defeat 40,000 enemy troops, Tartar Chanyu led his troops to flee to the north!]
"Good!"
Zhu Yuanzhang secretly cheered. He hated the barbarians of the grasslands the most in his life.
The reason why he changed his name to Zhu Yuanzhang was that he was determined to destroy the Great Yuan Dynasty built by the barbarians!
Zhu Di had defeated the Tartars in the north. It was really in line with his temper!
Zhu Di's performance so far had not disappointed Zhu Yuanzhang.
[Zhu Di won a great victory in the Northern Expedition and his prestige rose to the peak. However, after he returned to the country, he found that most of the people in the court were the followers of the Crown Prince, Zhu Gaochi. Therefore, he once again let his second son, Zhu Gaoxu, lead the Jinyiwei. He wanted to use his hands to suppress Zhu Gaochi's power! And Zhu Gaochi had always backed down!]
[Zhu Gaoxu had a grudge against him because he was the scapegoat last time. At first, he was still cautious, but after seeing Zhu Gaochi repeatedly give in, he gradually became arrogant again and acted without consideration! [He also has the intention to covet the position of Crown Prince!]
[Coincidentally, on the occasion of Zhu Di's birthday, all the vassal kings sent congratulatory memorials. Only King Hai Nan did not express anything. Zhu Gaoxu immediately reported this matter to Zhu Di and added fuel to the fire, saying that Zhu Xu was very likely to be a party of the former Crown Prince Zhu Biao, so he did not give Zhu Di face. Zhu Di was instantly furious! Zhu Gaochi once again petitioned for mercy, saying that King Hai Nan was bent on cultivation and begged Zhu Di to let King Hai Nan go again! [But this is exactly what Zhu Gaoxu wants!]
[Zhu Di was already afraid of the Crown Prince's power. The Crown Prince even pleaded for King Hai Nan. This undoubtedly added fuel to the fire. Zhu Gaoxu then instigated Zhu Gaochi to collude with King Hai Nan in secret and had evil intentions. Zhu Di then distanced himself from Zhu Gaochi. In addition, the victory of the Northern Expedition and the great profits from the Western Expedition greatly boosted Zhu Di's confidence. Therefore, without any evidence, Zhu Di issued an edict to remove Zhu Xu's title and let the local officials of Qiongzhou escort Zhu Xu to the capital. He wanted to interrogate Zhu Xu personally in the Imperial Clan Court!]
This is bad!
Zhu Yuanzhang immediately realized that something was wrong.
Of all the things his Fourth Brother could do, he had to provoke Fifteen.
This good situation was probably ruined!
[When the imperial edict was delivered to Qiongzhou, the local officials immediately took action. The yamen of each department mobilized 3,000 soldiers to go to the mansion of King Hai Nan and surround it. The prefect of Qiongzhou will read out the imperial edict in front of the mansion.]
However, just as the imperial edict was read out, a strong wind suddenly blew and directly swept the imperial edict into the residence. A voice came straight from the residence."Tomorrow, I will head to Shuntian to end this karma.”]
The magistrate of Qiongzhou didn't listen to the warning and led 3,000 soldiers to attack the mansion. Then, he rushed into the white fog and couldn't tell the direction anymore.]
Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes widened. In the image, the magistrate led 3,000 soldiers into the white fog and appeared directly in a glass bottle.
The bottle was only the size of a palm, but it was a world of its own.
Meanwhile, the magistrate and the three thousand soldiers had become as small as ants. They were completely unaware of their situation and could only wander around in the fog like headless flies.
Zhu Yuanzhang had never seen such a thing before and was extremely shocked.
A hand suddenly landed on the bottle.
Zhu Xu held a bottle in one hand and a sword in the other. He looked sharply towards the north.
[Zhu Xu crossed the sea overnight and arrived at Shuntian Prefecture on Zhu Di's birthday.]
[On this day, Zhu Xu walked into the Jinyiwei Yamen alone with a sword, killed Zhu Gaoxu, and then brought Zhu Gaoxu's head into the Forbidden City!]
[When Zhu Di received the news, he mobilized the palace guards to surround and kill Zhu Xu. Zhu Xu killed 10,000 guards with his sword and went straight into the Palace of Heavenly Purity. At Zhu Di's birthday banquet, he killed Zhu Gaoxu's wife and children, broke the dragon chair, and dragged the seriously injured Zhu Di to the ancestral hall. Zhu Xu said that his throne was given by Zhu Yuanzhang, but Zhu Di listened to the slander of villains and deposed Zhu Xu's throne. Zhu Xu had no choice but to settle the karma, causing his brothers to kill each other. Zhu Di was forced to repent for three days and write a confession!]]
Then, Zhu Xu will hand over the Qiongzhou Prefecture Magistrate and 3,000 soldiers to Zhu Di and return to Qiongzhou! From then on, Qiongzhou was no longer under the jurisdiction of the government!]
When this news spreads, King Hai Nan's name will shake the world!]
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