Wandering the Heavens

"I have a feeling that voices about King Xiang ascending the throne will appear again in the near future!" Yu Xian said shockingly.

Yu Qian didn't know why Yu Xian said such sensational words, but Yu Xian was sure that Zhu Jianji would not live long, and he wanted to save him. As a result, this unfortunate child was highly expected by his father, and when he was only five or six years old, he was blocked in the house by a group of old men to study. Anything he said would be redundant and might even be suspected.

"Lord Xuanwu, the rumors back then have been dealt with, and talking about them now is nothing more than idle gossip. Besides, given King Xiang's seniority, it is impossible for him to inherit the throne. Why do we have to reopen the investigation?" Yu Qian was first frightened by Yu Xian and then realized that this matter was a bit absurd.

"Whether Prince Xiang can inherit the throne is not important. What is important is what some people can get from it?" Yu Xian suggested.

"Do you still need to investigate?" Yu Qian asked.

"We still need to investigate!" Yu Xian nodded.

"Then I'll try my best to check it out." Yu Qian agreed.

"You must be careful and keep an eye on things secretly. Don't let others know, otherwise your life will be in danger." Yu Xian warned.

"You know those people are cruel, but you still let me do it!" Yu Qian was a little dissatisfied.

"No way, you have to learn to adapt."

Yu Xian is acting like a rogue. Do you still want to be a powerful official if you follow the rules? You are dreaming!

In the next few days, Yu Xian looked at the progress of various tasks in the past few years at the Five Military Commandery. The General Military Affairs Office was operating well. Especially the subordinate Military and Constitutional Office, which made the nobles and the hereditary military officers of the local guards very angry. The behaviors of eating empty salaries, treating soldiers as domestic slaves and occupying military land were first cleared up in the two capitals and several important towns on the border, and now they have begun to spread to other local guards.

The first term of the Military Academy has ended, and the second term is being convened. The military officers who are about to return to command the army and the military supervisors who are about to take office get along well with each other. I hope they can continue to cooperate like this after they return.

The Five Military Commandery wanted Zhu Qiyu and his military officers to present swords at the graduation ceremony, but Zhu Qiyu refused...

I gave you a chance but it's useless! This is for your Zhu family to train troops, but you don't even show up. If Zhu Qiyu doesn't come, then Zhu Jianji can come, right? The answer is still no!

In the end, Yu Xian could only ask several contemporary dukes who had been suppressed to the point of becoming mascots to bestow the sword.

After arranging everything, Yu Xian took Zhu Jianshen quietly out of the Earl's Mansion and came to Yujiazhuang outside the city to officially start to discipline this naughty child. Zhu Jianshen began a period of hardship. After getting up in the morning and eating breakfast, he began to learn some martial arts to strengthen his body, then began to study literature, learn arithmetic and natural sciences in the afternoon, and take a medicinal bath before going to bed at night.

As for the previous promise of seeing their mother once every two weeks, now both of them are in Nangong accompanying Zhu Qizhen, so they can no longer go to see her.

Watching this naughty kid getting stronger day by day, Yu Xian couldn't help but sigh how good it is to be rich!

It seems that none of the children in the Zhu family are stupid. Zhu Jianshen's learning progress makes Yu Xian feel inferior. He finishes one year's learning content in just half a year, and this is something Yu Xian deliberately controls.

Yu Xian could only add other homework and take out the world map in advance.

If I remember correctly, the next year, which was the fourth year of Jingtai, the Ottoman Turks captured Constantinople, and many Christians left this thousand-year-old city with many documents and crafts and went to cities such as Rome on the Mediterranean coast.

They are about to have a Renaissance, so we can't fall behind. As for the opportunity to practice, Yu Xian remembered that there would be a diplomatic incident next year. He had instructed the General Military Affairs Office to start collecting route and weather information. The ten warships at Longjiang Shipyard had been completed, and the artillery forged in Beizhili had been secretly transported to Nanjing through the canal for loading. How did that sentence go?

The era has arrived when a warship carrying a few cannons can conquer a country!

While Yu Xian was taking care of the baby, the world was turning upside down in Mongolia. In the winter of the 14th year of Zhengtong, Yesen lost many soldiers and generals outside Beijing and was bombarded by artillery and fled back to the grassland. Seeing Yesen's failure, Khan Toghtobuha hurriedly took the opportunity to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, which made Yesen extremely dissatisfied with Toghtobuha's weakness.

But in the Ming Dynasty, Toghtobukha's surrender letter was suppressed by Yu Xian at the behest of Yu Qian. The Ming Dynasty's rulers and ministers had no idea that Mongolia intended to surrender and negotiate peace, which meant that the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia had always been at war. Therefore, it was natural for Yu Xian to lead his troops to the grassland for revenge the following year. The Ming Dynasty officials were speechless in the face of such a reason. They were beaten to their doorsteps, and they didn't even dare to ask for revenge. Are they still men?

These extremely vulgar words deepened everyone's contempt for Duke Xuanwu.

However, this time the revenge of the Ming army was a disaster for Toghtobukha. No one in the Ming Dynasty would pay attention to him even if he went up to him and licked his boots. This made some nobles who were originally dissatisfied with Toghtobukha turn to Yesen, which further intensified the conflict between the Tatars and the Oirat.

Yu Xian's conquest soon drove some of the lower-class herdsmen to the foot of the Great Wall. According to the previous idea, Yu Qian chose suitable places along the Great Wall to establish trading markets. Corresponding settlements were built around the markets, and the herdsmen involved in the trade were required to send at least one child to the school run by the Ming Dynasty.

In the spring, they were allowed to find pastures to graze, but before the snow came, they had to return to the towns built around the market to settle down. During this period, their children were held hostage by the Ming.

After Yu Xian had plowed the Wuliangha inhumanely, Zhu Di ordered the remaining people to move inland. Now, more than 30 years have passed, and the new people who have grown up can only farm and not herd sheep. Only the Tatar and Oirat Mongols are left, and now they have been beaten and pulled by Yu Xian and have lost some of their strength, and their strength is much weaker than before.

It's no wonder they were nervous. The markets and settlements along the Great Wall seemed friendly to herders, but they were noble Mongolian nobles, not herders! They lived in warm tents and didn't need houses made of mud and sand. Without tents, would they still be Mongolians?

And those herdsmen who were driven to settle at the foot of the Great Wall were their slaves or followers. All their followers and slaves were poached, but they still acted as Mao’s nobles!

Under such circumstances, the Mongolian nobles realized that they had to end the current division as soon as possible in order to deal with the encroachment of the Ming Dynasty. For this reason, a bloody melee began between Toghtobuha and Yesen.

Faced with being beaten bloody by their masters, the slaves began to flee on a large scale. They heard that the market at the foot of the Great Wall took in herdsmen, where they had houses to live in during the winter, books for their children to read, and they could exchange their cattle and sheep for reasonably priced salt, spices, iron pots, etc.

Yu Qian was in a good mood these days, looking at the memorials from herdsmen who had surrendered with more than 300,000 people. Moreover, with their propaganda and the assistance of Mongolian nobles, the number was still growing.

The angry words he said to Yu Xian in Yujiazhuang that year were actually beginning to come true step by step. He never expected that the forces that were built under the guise of taking in soldiers' orphans had infiltrated every corner of the Ming Dynasty. It was because of the efforts of these children that this plan was implemented so smoothly.