Before he knew it, it was early in the winter. Because Zhu Gaochi was critically ill, Xu Hao had to go to the palace every day. The concubines cried and the queen was quite calm. Perhaps because of the cancellation of the burial of his life, there was no sorrow in the Hongwu year, and it seemed that the disaster was coming.

The old lady lived in the countryside, but she didn't want to go back to Beijing, and she didn't allow her whole family to come. She said she wanted to have a quiet and quiet New Year.

The whole family had a headache about this. Xu Qingtang and his wife complained that their son was ignorant, and Xu Hao simply refused to go back to his family and hid in Xiaojia Village.

As for state affairs, recently, 1,000 officers and soldiers of the Xinghe Guard Thousand Houses in the North resisted the death toll for seven days and insisted on multiple reinforcements coming, forcing the Mongolian army in Alutai to withdraw. The Xinghe County in history was attacked and fell into the sphere of influence. Now this remote county in Hebei is still a solid fortress of the Ming Dynasty.

In history, Zhu Di once again personally fought for the war, calling 340,000 donkeys, more than 177,500 cars, and more than 235,000 coachmen, carrying a total of 370,000 stones of grain to go out with the army. Alutai was so scared that he ran away from Xinghe County and avoided fighting.

At that time, the generals requested the pursuit, but Zhu Di ordered a temporary suspension of the pursuit. He felt that Xinghe County was not easy to defend, so he moved the remaining population to Xuanfu, which is now Xuanhua County, Hebei.

Zhu Di deeply felt the threat from Duoyan Sanwei, and held a military parade in Guyuan, Hebei in May, telling the generals: "The army moves as water, the water flows along the way according to the land, the army moves according to the enemy, the water moves unchangedly, and the army moves without constant momentum. Those who can win due to the changes in the enemy will gain power."

In order to boost morale, Zhu Di wrote a song of Pinglu, which allowed the soldiers to sing. In July, the army arrived at Shahuyuan and captured Alutai's subordinates, so he learned that Alutai threw away his horse and abandoned his armor and fled north from Kuoluanhai.

Zhu Di was worried about repeating the mistake of Qiu Fu's deep invasion and ordered the pursuit to stop. On the way back, Zhu Di believed that the Urianha tribe was the wing of Arutai, so he selected 20,000 infantry and cavalry to advance together in five directions to attack the Urianha tribe.

The army arrived at Qulier River (now the tributary of the upper reaches of the Honger River in Inner Mongolia). The Urianha tribe learned that the Ming army was coming to attack and fled west in a hurry. Zhu Di commanded the army to attack and encircle and annihilate, and defeated the Urianha tribe. In early September, he returned to Beijing.

Although Xu Hao and Zhu Gaochi do not have the strategy and courage of Emperor Yongle, they are both cautious and patient. With muskets and cannons and a series of innovations, the three guards of Duoyan have long been no longer in the climate, and Alutai cannot shake the border.

When dealing with the Mongols, Xu Hao did not have the ambition of Emperor Wu of Han from the beginning to the end. Historical experience told him that he destroyed the Huns and the Turks, the Xianbei, Liao and Jin, Mongolia, and the Qing dynasties, there was only one solution. While actively defending, he actively researched and developed new weapons, maintained the combat effectiveness of the army, solved the increasingly corrupt officialdom, and connected the world to enhance the comprehensive national strength. I dare not say that he would definitely win, but this is the only solution.

Before initially realizing industrialization, it was impossible to completely solve the nomadic peoples around him. At least Xu Hao believed that he would not succeed in his lifetime and would take time to develop, especially from the feudal era to modern times. As for what will happen to future generations, it is not a problem he should worry about.

Zhu Gaochi's critical illness inevitably made Xu Hao feel distracted. He was ready to retreat completely, otherwise he might have been for the nation, the country, and the great cause, and his whole family accompanied him as a martyr.

Xu Hao never thought he was a great man, so he did not have the awareness of being a great man at all. He had done everything he should do, and it was time to retire.

In Europe, due to the Battle of Agincourt, the glorious British Henry V of France forced Charles VI of France to sign the Troyes Peace Treaty, which was almost destroyed. The peace treaty stipulated that Henry V had the right to inherit the French throne and marry the French princess after Charles VI's death.

However, this Henry V, who showed his wisdom and domineering as a hero of a generation and was praised by the British as a British ruler, died of typhoid fever or dysentery in a battle when his power and territory reached its peak. Soon, King Charles VI of the Dharma also died.

During his lifetime, Charles VI planned to make his daughter Princess Maria his heir. Most of the French princes and lords also signed the letters of the country. Now, with France's defeat, the royal family's prestige plummeted and there was no binding force. The battle for Austrian king guards broke out immediately.

In the UK, Henry V's son, who was only one-year-old, became King Henry VI. He was regent with his uncle Duke Bedford, and was coroned at the Church of St. Denis in Paris. At the same time, Prince Charles, who fled to Bourge, also announced his succession to the throne and claimed to be Charles VII. At one time, three French kingdoms were born.

And this Charles VII was the king who was burned to death by looking to turn the tide and saving France's national hero Joan of Arc. This 20-year-old young man who was criticized and recognized as a timid, casual and frivolous man who was not worthy of the title of the king. He was born at the wrong time and had no talent and strategy.

But Charles VII's greatest advantage is that he is good at seizing all opportunities, and has the ruthlessness of a politician. He won the final victory for France, won the Hundred Years' War, and laid the foundation for France's strong strength, although he has been criticized by future generations for generations.

It was such a young man who was looked down upon, from a deposed crown prince to a king, from a wrecked dog to a starting point from scratch, from division to unification, and one by one that promoted France's future strength.

Because Xu Hao knew the background of Joan of Arc's story very well, he did not dare to underestimate the prince Zhu Zhanji, who was similar to Charles VII's age. There is no doubt that Zhu Zhanji was no less than Charles VII, and his luck and strategy were much better than Charles VII. Of course, in the end, Zhu Zhanji was not lucky. He died after only ten years of Emperor Taiping, which directly caused a series of battles for the throne such as the emperor's young age and Wang Zhen's rise.

In history, it is said that in the coming decade, the political clarity was clear, the people lived and worked in peace, and the economy had unprecedented development. The prosperous situation was the rule of Wen and Jing, the rule of Zhenguan, and the famous "Region of Ren and Xuan" after the prosperity of Kaiyuan.

Zhu Zhanji's personality has both Zhu Di and Zhu Gaochi's side. Xu Hao knew that he was a good emperor and had conservative ideas, such as not being able to stand the wind and moon on the Qinhuai River and launching a vigorous campaign to crack down on pornography; Zhu Gaochi's idealism, treats literati very well and loves art. As long as he does not want to control the government, it is unlikely that Zhu Zhanji will completely ban new things such as new academic newspapers.

In fact, the world left to Zhu Zhanji is not so beautiful. What is imminent is that the Censorate has become a trend, and Liu Guan, the envoy of the Dui Zhen, is a big borer.

The same is true for the army. After all, Xu Hao did not make drastic radical reforms in the army, and there are still various unreasonable phenomena in the large number of military camps and hereditary military systems. In history, Zhu Zhanji was polite to his soldiers. He always believed that officers lacked education, so he could not use normal standards to demand them and did not have great efforts to reform, which caused the army's incompetence to become increasingly serious.

Now it has changed. Xu Hao believes that even if Zhu Zhanji does nothing, the army will never be defeated by the Mongols in ten years.

Snow fell from the sky one after another, and a thin layer of snow was covered with snow on the ground. Xu Hao slowly walked out of the Forbidden City.

The Ming Empire looked down on all nations. Some ministers were already discussing in advance that they would bid farewell to the old and welcome the new one on the first year of the new emperor's ascension, and that kings and envoys from all over Asia, Arabia, Africa and the Indian Ocean gathered in the magnificent city of Jinling to swear allegiance to the Emperor Ming, allowing them to witness the majestic and magical Forbidden City that spent huge amounts of money to renovate, and it would be best to rush on the day when Zhu Zhanji ascended the throne.

At that time, the leaders of more than thirty countries would be present. In addition to the traditional vassal states, they would probably also include the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire, the emperors of Byzantine, the governor of Venice, the King of England, the King of France, the King of Spain and the King of Portugal, as well as the indigenous chiefs from Yonglezhou and Hanwangzhou.

Xu Hao looked back at the Forbidden City under the snowflakes, thinking that he might be able to do it. Even if the Ming Dynasty did not control himself, it was well deserved to be the world's number one. In history, for various reasons, ministers prioritized those traditional vassal states, and probably did not bother to invite barbarian countries that dared to claim to be emperors.

Of course, the location is in Peiping. Now the Beiping City, which is completely imitated and magnificent than the Jinling Palace, is gone. He often asks himself, is it right or wrong to do this? Only history can give the answer.

Xu Hao was in a good mood and did not feel lost in losing power, because he had no power at all, but just ubiquitous influence.

In the future, he will be as low-key as ever. Zhu Zhanji is not a person who does not care about kindness, and the court is not always fighting for power to the death. There are more examples of the ruler and his subjects starting and ending well.

Of course, Xu Hao will not be so naive. In the future, he will still have to make arrangements as usual. Living carefully is a headache to think about it. It is really hard to step into this vortex. It is really difficult to get out of it even if you step into this vortex.

When they returned to Xiaojia Village, Xu Hao found Wang Siliu in the field. The two of them squatted on the ridge of the field and smoked while talking.

Since buying the big bull, Wang Siliu has been guarding it all day long as he serves his mother.

Seeing the cow chewing so vigorously with his head down and eating grass, he was happier than eating delicious food and spicy food. Every day, Wang Siliu proudly led the big bull to drink water by the pond. The cow drank soundly, as if he heard the most wonderful music.

Harvesting crops saves half of the effort compared to previous years, of course, it is thanks to the big bull. These days, people and cows are inseparable during the day, and they also have to get up once or twice at night, adding a little night grass.

The fuss made Mrs. Wang joke, "I see you can move the bed into the cowshed, don't forget to bring a quilt."

But this sentence really reminded Wang Siliu that he really built a straw shed beside the cowshed, and sometimes he spent the night there. It was cold, so he really covered a quilt on the cow's back.

The big bull seems to be very human. He likes to lick Wang Siliu's hands with his tongue, gently wipe him with his horns, and acts coquettishly and affectionately. When he works in the field, the big bull also strives to move forward bravely, without whipping or shouting, and people can't keep up.
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