The opening inventory of the top ten young emperors

[After Liu Jin was executed by lingchi, Zhengde calmed down the anger of the ministers and took power into his own hands. He finally got what he wanted and became an emperor who could do whatever he wanted.]
[However, as shown by a viewer's ID after the last video was played, this Emperor Zhengde was a serious patient of Chuunibyou. ]

[Last time we briefly talked about the absurd behavior of Emperor Zhengde. Now let us take a closer look at each of his actions.]
【First is the great victory in Yingzhou. 】

[In the 12th year of the Zhengde reign, a Mongolian prince invaded the border. When Emperor Zhengde heard about this, he was so angry that he immediately decided to lead the army in person.]
【Since the Battle of Tumu, the ministers in the court have been extremely sensitive to the term "leading the army in person" and of course they tried their best to obstruct it.】
[But who is Zhengde? He is the number one man in the Ming Dynasty. How could he listen to the ministers and immediately confer the title of the Great General of the Nation on himself, and even give himself a name called Zhu Shou, and then lead the troops to the battle.]

Named Zhu Shou, he proclaimed himself the Great General of the Nation, and led his troops to war?
The ministers present were all so frightened that they broke out in cold sweats. Some of them felt weak at the knees and wanted to die immediately. But then they thought, the twelfth year of Zhengde was seven years later, and he would not die now. So they could only straighten their knees and stand up again.

Zhu Houzhao, on the other hand, showed great interest when he heard this: "Zhu Shou? The Great General Guarding the Nation? This is a good name."
Then he said to the eunuchs around him: "Remember, from now on when I go out, I will be Zhu Shou, General Zhu, do you understand?"

"Well, we understand." The eunuchs beside said with a smile.
"However, I am already a general guarding the country, how can I not have a general's mansion?" Zhu Houzhao touched his chin and said with a smile, "It seems that I have to find a way to build one."

When you want to play, go to the Leopard House; when you want to be a general, go to the General's Mansion. Wouldn't that be great?
Li Dongyang, who was standing by, saw Zhu Shou looking eager to try, and his heart choked. He suddenly thought that if there really was a flying iron bird or a running train to attract the emperor's attention, it might not be a bad thing.

[It would have been fine if he had just led the troops to the battle, but General Zhu Shou actually won the battle and even killed the Mongolian soldiers himself, truly demonstrating the might of the Ming cavalry.]
【Moreover, after this battle, Mongolia did not dare to invade the border for decades, and the Ming Dynasty recovered the Hetao area, which was the famous Yingzhou victory.】
[After the victory in Yingzhou, the people in the Hetao region lived and worked in peace and contentment. This was a victory worthy of praise in the entire Ming Dynasty.]

[However, there are different opinions. According to the "Records of Emperor Wuzong", the two armies of 100,000 fought for a whole day, and the Mongolian army lost 16 people, and the Ming army lost 52 people. This means that this war was a joke.]
[However, the up master thinks that is not entirely true. Regardless of who wrote "The Records of Emperor Wuzong" and what the purpose was, let's just look at the results. ]

[If it is really as ridiculous as the book says, how could the Hetao region have been peaceful for decades? Obviously, this is illogical.]
[Then let's think about it the other way around. If Zhu Houzhao, who was obstructed by the ministers in every possible way, had won, wouldn't the ministers' advice have become a joke? ]

[So for an emperor with such military talent, who would benefit more by making this battle a joke? ]
[Yeah, just a reminder to everyone. This can be compared to the burning of books and burying of scholars by the First Emperor that we mentioned earlier.]

Qin Shi Huang: "Burning books and burying scholars? Did I do that?"
At this time, in the main hall of Xianyang Palace, two prisoners with heavy shackles were kneeling in the middle. They were Zhao Gao and Li Si.

Next to Qin Shi Huang, there were two little boys standing quietly.
One of them was tall and graceful, and he was Prince Fusu. The other one was slightly fat, a little shorter than Fusu, and he was another son of the First Emperor, Hu Hai.

The two children were staring at the scroll without blinking, while Zhao Gao and Li Si, who were kneeling beside them, looked ashen. The heavy shackles made it impossible for them to raise their heads, and they could only listen to the scroll quietly.

[Don’t forget, Zhengde had made the civil officials suffer a great loss before, and now he has made them lose face again. Of course, the more this battle is made to sound like a joke, the better. This is in line with the “personality” that later generations of literati have set for Zhengde. ]

"Personality?" Zhengde frowned, "What do you mean?"
He was very smart and understood the hidden meaning in the heavenly scroll at once, but what did this "personality" mean?
He had a vague feeling that what Tianjuan said was probably a metaphor that future generations didn't want him to have a bad reputation. His descendants didn't want him to have a bad reputation? Did he do something that made his descendants dislike him?
Humph, these unworthy descendants. No matter how unreliable I am, I am still your grandfather. How dare you slander your grandfather? Then your grandfather will spend all the silver in the Ming Dynasty treasury and let you live in poverty.

Zhengde gritted his teeth as he listened, and had already begun to secretly plan how to teach those unfilial descendants a lesson.

[Of course, these are all assumptions, we need to speak with facts. Again, if the victory in Yingzhou this time was so trifling, then why did Mongolia not dare to defend the border for decades? ]
【Facts speak louder than words. It was precisely because the battle of Zhengde frightened the Mongols and crushed their arrogance that they became afraid and stayed in their own territory and dared not come out.】

[In the face of absolute strength, any language is pale. ]
【From this, it can be inferred that Zhengde must have fought brilliantly in this battle. However, due to the reasons I mentioned earlier, no literati was willing to record it as a reference for future emperors to lead the army in person.】

Zhu Yuanzhang listened and praised: "That's right. If they hadn't been hurt, why would they curl up on the grassland and not come out? This kid is worthy of the word 'martial'."
This time when the Heavenly Scroll appeared, the second and third sons happened to have returned. He simply gathered all five sons together, and even called up the two eldest grandsons and Queen Ma.

He felt that even if the Heavenly Scroll revealed some bad or even wrong content, such as the so-called "burning of the Celebration Building", it would not cause much error to the entire course of history.
No matter what the past was like, knowing how the future will develop will always allow us to predict and solve some things in advance.

Moreover, the last time he saw the message, he was also very interested in the so-called flying iron bird and running train.
If there really is such a thing in the future as Tianjuan said, wouldn't he be able to patrol all parts of the country every day, specifically catching corrupt officials and criminals?
In that case, wouldn't his Ming Dynasty be even more prosperous and peaceful than the Tang Dynasty at that time?

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang had another reason that he could not say out loud, which was that he also discovered that the authority of the "Wei User" was extraordinary. Unfortunately, after watching the Heavenly Scroll for so long, he did not even get a "Wei User".
Therefore, he also decided that no matter what else, he must grab the chance to speak at the last minute and win the "Wei User" qualification. Even if it's not him, it would be his children or grandchildren.

[However, Emperor Zhengde didn’t care what the writers wrote about him. He only cared whether he could have a good time.]
[So, after the victory in Yingzhou, Zhu Houzhao became addicted to role-playing and actually built a Zhenguo Mansion for himself on the border.]

A real mansion for the Duke of Zhenguo was built!
Zhu Houzhao was very happy.

[It means that he, the great general who defended the country, was rewarded for his military merits and became the Duke of Zhenguo. The Duke of Zhenguo's mansion is located at the border, which is full of the lofty ambitions of "the emperor guards the country's gate and the king dies for the country." ]
[You should know that Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing in order to realize this sentence. ]

[However, this time Zhu Houzhao was even more straightforward and simply went to the border to build a palace. He was truly a rare emperor after Emperor Yongle. ]

"The emperor guards the country's gates, and the king dies for the country?"
Zhu Yuanzhang muttered these words, glanced at the fourth brother who looked thinner than last time, and sighed softly.

(End of this chapter)