With 600,000 against 100,000, Li Jinglong suffered another crushing defeat.

This time, he could find no excuse!

Therefore, the ministers in the court, including the three fools of Jianwen, all submitted a memorial hoping that he could be sentenced to death.

Unfortunately, Zhu Yunwen was probably too brainwashed by Confucianism, so much so that even in this situation, he was still unwilling to execute Li Jinglong.

Of course, this could also be because, for Zhu Yunwen, there were no more capable generals in the court.

Regardless of the quality of Li Jinglong's products, he had no choice but to use them despite the difficulties!

What a tough stance!

"If Yunwen had even a bit of a pig's brain, he would have realized after these two battles that sending Li Jinglong was worse than sending a pig to command the army!"

Old Zhu couldn't help but curse out loud.

This is incredibly disgraceful on the heavens! Whether it's Zhu Yunwen or Li Jinglong, they're disgracing the Ming Dynasty!

An emperor brainwashed into a pedantic scholar, and a general as incompetent as a pig.

He now finds Zhu Di more and more pleasing to the eye.

Fourth brother, you really did a great job!

We realized it a long time ago: out of all our sons, you are the most like us and the one who has made us proud!

"Biao'er, can't you learn from Lao Si?"

Look at the fourth son!

Although the assessment on the sky didn't go into much detail about Zhu Gaochi's abilities, judging from his record of holding off an army of 500,000 with tens of thousands of defenders, he must not be too bad!

The fourth son is so promising, what's wrong with your son?

"Father, Yunwen is not the legitimate son."

Zhu Biao, who had been hit on the head, looked aggrieved. He had never intentionally groomed Zhu Yunwen.

Who would have thought that you, Father, wouldn't understand the principle of establishing the legitimate heir over the illegitimate one!

"Stubborn to talk back!"

"You're still arguing with us!"

"How could we not know? But who else could it be besides Yunwen? Yunwen? That kid is even more timid and introverted. We didn't even know how long we were going to live back then, so of course we had to choose someone who seemed easy to train!"

Old Zhu certainly had his own reasons.

He didn't know exactly when Zhu Biao had the accident, but as an elderly man who had to bury his son, he naturally didn't know how much time he had left.

If he had to choose between Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Yunwen, he would naturally prefer the obedient Zhu Yunwen!

Isn't this just human nature?

We can't let him choose Zhu Yunwen, who stutters every time we meet and calls him grandpa!

Zhu Biao stopped defending himself.

That is indeed the case.

If he were in Lao Zhu's position, he would make the same choice.

Unfortunately, no one expected that Zhu Yunwen's actions would be even worse than those of a complete fool!

Qi Tai, one of the three fools of Jianwen, repeatedly petitioned Zhu Yunwen to execute Li Jinglong.

Unfortunately, Zhu Yunwen refused repeatedly.

Even when Zhu Di led his army straight to Yingtian, he once again entrusted Li Jinglong with an important task, sending him and the Minister of War to the Yan army camp to negotiate peace!

After a series of defeats, Zhu Yunwen declared that he was willing to rule alongside Zhu Di across the Yangtze River if Zhu Di withdrew his troops.

Divide the country along the river and govern accordingly!

Enraged, Old Zhu kicked the eunuch beside him over.

Divide the country along the river and govern accordingly!

Did Zhu Yunwen even know the meaning behind those four words?

After Zhu Yuanzhang unified the south, he went through tremendous effort to successfully launch a northern expedition and bring the entire north under the Ming Dynasty.

If Zhu Di agreed to Zhu Yunwen's words, it would be tantamount to re-dividing away the endless lands of the north!

Even if the object of his division was Zhu Di, it was still unforgivable!

Once divided, it can no longer be considered a unified whole!

Then everything that Lao Zhu did would lose most of its meaning!

Although the Ming Dynasty has not yet perished, it will likely become a laughing stock in history books!

"Fourth brother, you didn't agree, did you?"

Old Zhu looked suspiciously at Zhu Di, who was trembling not far away.

Zhu Di shook his head, completely bewildered.

He knows nothing!

These things haven't happened yet!

"Father, am I that kind of person? If I want the world, I will definitely conquer it myself. What is Zhu Yunwen? Does he even deserve to rule across the river with me?"

"Does he think he's Emperor Gaozu of Han or Xiang Yu, the Hegemon-King of Chu?"

"Don't worry, Father. The Ming Dynasty has always been a unified dynasty. Whether it was in my hands or in that brat Zhu Yunwen's hands, it has never been divided!"

During the Yongle era, Zhu Di seemed to sense the anger in the old Zhu's tone and quickly replied.

Zhu Yunwen did indeed bring it up.

But he never considered agreeing.

At most, he just wanted to annoy Zhu Yunwen by demanding that Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng, and others "purge the court of corrupt officials."

Zhu Di had a clear understanding: from the moment he raised his army to quell the rebellion, only one of him and Zhu Yunwen could survive!

After Zhu Di rejected Zhu Yunwen's proposal to divide the country along the Yangtze River, Zhu Yunwen knew that he was in grave danger.

Five hundred thousand versus tens of thousands, six hundred thousand versus one hundred thousand.

Even with such a numerical advantage, they couldn't win; let alone now that the Yan army is at the city gates, with almost no difference in troop strength between the two sides.

Perhaps given time, Zhu Yunwen could still recruit a large number of soldiers by virtue of righteousness.

This may also be the reason why he hoped to divide the country along the Yangtze River.

But clearly, Zhu Di wouldn't give him that chance.

When Zhu Di led the Yan army straight to Yingtian Prefecture, the Ming Dynasty's war god Li Jinglong decisively opened the gates and surrendered.

Old Zhu: “…”

Although most people had already accepted Li Jinglong's incompetence, they were still speechless when they saw the end.

Despite suffering repeated defeats, Zhu Yunwen did not punish you, but instead continued to entrust you with important responsibilities.

And what did you do? You just opened the city gates and surrendered!

"Regardless of Zhu Yunwen's abilities, he was at least good to Li Jinglong. If it were me, I would have executed him after he fled back from the first battle."

Liu Bang's face was full of disdain.

Although his bottom line is quite flexible.

But it's definitely not that flexible.

The kindness shown to us is something we should repay even with our lives.

Zhu Yunwen trusted you repeatedly, and hundreds of thousands of troops were handed over to you.

As a result, when the enemy was at the gates of the city, you turned around and betrayed Zhu Yunwen?

And they sold it all so thoroughly!

With Li Jinglong surrendering the city, the imperial court had no chance of resistance.

Upon learning that the Yan army had poured into the capital through Jin Chuan Gate, Zhu Yunwen knew that his cause was doomed.

After dismissing the officials in the court, he locked himself in his room.

Some officials speculated that Emperor Taizu had left him a secret passage to escape the capital in case of an emergency, which is why he was not in a hurry to flee.

Some speculate that Zhu Yunwen wanted to live and die with the Ming Dynasty.

After all, once you escape the capital, it won't be so easy to come back.

At the same time, the words on the sky slowly transformed into images.

Upon seeing this, Zhu Di's expression changed.

Why doesn't the image change earlier or later, but only now?

The immortal isn't really going to expose his secrets, is he?

do not!

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