Xia Xun didn't stay in King Lu's mansion for a long time, King Lu was actually very polite to him, most of the vassal kings in the early Ming Dynasty were very arrogant, even if you have great power in the court, you can't change the difference between the reality of the monarch and the minister, he doesn't need to flatter you anything, but King Lu is not such a prince.
The king of Lu was only fourteen years old, and had just inherited the throne and was given a guard by the emperor's decree.
The previous King Lu was also good, smart and elegant, polite, and never disturbed the locality.
However, the previous King Lu preferred ethereal things such as the Immortal Dao more than the King of Qi, and he had always wanted to become an immortal and gain the Dao, so he invited some alchemists to practice the Dan, take the Dan, and meditate and practice Qi in the mansion all day long, but he just turned nineteen years old and let the pill be poisoned to death.
Fortunately, he already had a concubine and a side concubine at that time, and the concubine was not out at that time, but the side concubine gave birth to a son for him, and it was not yet a full moon at that time, and this child is now the king of Xiaolu.
At the beginning of this year, King Xiao Lu had just received the golden seal of Emperor Yongle and inherited the throne of King Lu.
The little prince was instructed by his mother, he didn't dare to drink, he could only replace the wine with tea, so he found the ministers of the Lu Wangfu to be a companion, Xia Xun raised his eyes and looked at it, he didn't know any of them, how could this wine be drunk happily But the ministers of the Lu Wangfu had already come, and he couldn't leave immediately, so he had to sit patiently with the surname, grind for more than an hour, and see that the time was almost there, and then he got up to thank him and say goodbye.
King Lu stayed again and again, and then got up to see off the guests in person, and when he got up, King Xiao Lu also secretly breathed a sigh of relief, for Xia Xun, this kind of hospitality is a torment, and it is not for him.
King Lu sent it to the second gate, Xia Xun bowed down to thank him, and asked King Lu to stay, after all, the monarch and the minister are different, and the king of Lu will send it forward, then Xia Xun will be considered an arrogance, once he is found out by the imperial envoy, he will be impeached.
King Lu stopped, especially the lack of etiquette, the prince in front of him is a hot celebrity in front of the emperor, he is the emperor's nephew, he is the emperor's brother-in-law, when it comes to personal friendship, it is the elder of the family, so he sent Xu Yida, the right thousand households of the palace guard, to escort Xia Xun back to the post house.
This Xu Yida Xu Qianhu is in his early thirties, born tall and mighty, and after waiting for Xia Xun to get on the horse, this right Qianhu also saddled and got on the horse, leading more than 100 guards to escort Xia Xun back to the post house.
Xu Yida rode his horse close to Xia Xun and said earnestly: "Grandpa Guo, I haven't seen you for many years, Grandpa Guo is as heroic as ever." ” "Oh" Xia Xun glanced at him, and said strangely: "Have you ever met the general and me?"
Xu Yida hurriedly replied politely: "When the emperor was still in the Beiping Hidden Mansion, the last general was a guard of the Yan Palace, and at that time he had a few encounters with the Duke of Guo, and since then, the last general has often heard the name of the Duke of the Kingdom and various deeds.
Hehe, the nobles of the country forget a lot, I don't think they remember the last general, but the appearance of the national prince, the last general has always remembered it. ” Xia Xun suddenly realized when he heard this, maybe this Xu Yida was a gate soldier of Yanwang's Mansion at the beginning, and he came out and went in by himself, and he did have a few encounters with him.
Others don't know about saving King Yan, but the people in King Yan's Mansion know it, and it's not surprising that he can remember his appearance.
However, the emperor's personal guards in the past have now become the protectors of the Yanwang Mansion, and it seems that the emperor is also wary of the kings.
Xia Xun secretly pondered, did not speak, that Xu Yida had a heart, saw Xia Xun smiled and was silent, and hurriedly found the topic: "The last general heard that the first line of Texas is gathering elite divisions, ready to wait for the prince of the country to perform martial arts, as far as the last general knows, foreign envoys came to my Ming Dynasty, and the imperial court made a big move for this, and the military practice is unprecedented, and now showing off military power like this, there must be a battle to fight" Xia Xun glanced at him with a smile and asked, "So what?"
Xu Yida said excitedly: "Grandpa Guo, the last general has a reluctant request, if the prince can take command of the expedition, but don't forget the last general, the last general is a martial artist, and now he is the palace guard, it is idle but idle, but the bones are so idle that the bones hurt, the last general still likes to charge into battle, fight on the battlefield, if the prince is in command, you must give the last general a chance, even if you are a pawn, the last general is also willing." ” Xia Xun said with a smile: "The DPRK has its own powerful generals, and if you really want to fight, you may not be able to get your own duke." ” Xu Yida said happily: "In this way, there is really a battle to be fought haha, it is good to have a battle."
Why should the prince be humble?"
His voice lowered a little, and said: "In the past, if it wasn't for the courage and resourcefulness of the Duke of the Kingdom, the entire Yanwang Mansion would be blown up, how could there be the emperor of the world today, how can there be the emperor of today, you have made outstanding achievements, the most favored by the emperor, the governor of the five provinces in the past, the record of suppressing the Japanese is remarkable, if you really want to go west, maybe this generalissimo is the generalissimo of the country."
Xia Xun smiled dumbly, and said haha: "Impossible, the Texas military parade is not about fighting, don't think about it, even if the Timurid Kingdom really wants to fight, it won't."
"Really hit our Daming border" Before the words were spoken, Xia Xun's voice suddenly stopped.
Xu Yida just talked about the fact that the Yanwang Mansion in Beiping was almost bombed, and then mentioned Timur again, and a strange thought came to his mind irrepressibly: "If it weren't for me, Zhu Di would have been blown up in Beiping as early as possible, and Beiping would never have become Yanjing, and there is no Yongle Emperor in the world, and now it is still Zhu Yunwen who is in charge, so the matter of Timur the Great's eastward expedition and his death from a violent illness halfway is an inevitable or an accident."
Xia Xun didn't remember the exact time of Timur's crusade, he thought that if there was even a slight deviation in history because of his appearance, for example, prompting Timur's crusade to advance the time, would Timur, who should have died of a violent illness in the middle of the road, still die of illness in the middle of the road If Timur's eastern expedition had been a year earlier, then his army would have been able to reach the border of the Ming Dynasty, and there would have been a bloody battle between the two sides, how many soldiers would have died on the battlefield, and how heavy the Ming Empire would have suffered.
If his appearance prompted Timur to postpone the time of the Eastern Crusade, what kind of situation would it be?
Originally, Xia Xun was only worried about his own appearance, changing the time of Timur's crusade, extending from this idea, and suddenly thought of another possibility, another question: "Timur is not a brave and unscrupulous horseman, he gradually annexed the Golden Horde from a weak tribal chieftain, and killed in the east and west, compared to Genghis Khan, who "destroyed the country forty", his record was not inferior, and finally ruled the incomparably vast territory of West Asia, Central Asia, and South Asia, which is a heroic British lord.
In order to go east, he from the early years of Hongwu, he continued to send people to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute, in fact, to spy on the reality, before the eastward expedition, and made very adequate preparations, first built Samarkand, stabilized their rear, and then with 700,000 people, drove millions of cattle and sheep as military food, the mighty east, such a bold and cautious commander, if his body has been sick and weak, he really dared to take this risk with the strength of the country He made such a careful arrangement, it was clear that he regarded Da Ming as his strongest opponent, such a person should understand that it was impossible for him to conquer Da Ming in a very short time, and he should understand that if he, the supreme ruler, had something to do on the way to the east, even if he was seriously ill, it would be enough to cause serious consequences.
If he had been seriously ill before the Crusades, would a high ruler, a brilliant statesman and military strategist, have he stayed in Samarkand to ensure a smooth transition of power and the continuation of his kingdom, or would he have been as the poets of the historians say: what old lion will seek his last glory and insist on the Crusades, even if all his elite are buried in the East, and his life's work will be wasted A trace of shadow quietly crept into Xia Xun's mind: "If Timur hadn't died of a violent illness halfway, then he would definitely have come to the border of the Ming Dynasty."
The Tatars and Warat would not have become Timur's allies, but they would not have come to the aid of the Ming Dynasty, and it is likely that they would also send troops south to get a piece of the pie.
Under the raging lion and tiger, even if Daming can win, what a heavy price he has to pay" Xia Xun's heart pounded: "How did Timur die?"
As a result, Xia Xun suddenly thought of Genghis Khan, who was very similar to Timur, and the cause of Genghis Khan's death also had many mysteries.
Genghis Khan, who grew up on horseback since he was a child, would fall off a horse and be injured, okay, even if he fell from a horse and was injured, at most he would bleed too much, otherwise he would be old and break a bone, how could he have a high fever that night In the history of the Ming Dynasty, Fang Xiaoru's master, the great Confucian Song Lian, only used 20 words to explain the cause of the death of a generation of Tianjiao, "In the afternoon of autumn and July, there is no hesitation."
He was ugly, and collapsed in the palace of the old man in Surrey River. said that he was seriously ill and died, and the cause of death was still unclear.
The papal envoy to Mongolia, John Planno Garbini, said in his article that Genghis Khan may have been struck by lightning and died, and it is not known if this statement is more religious.
Marco Polo said that Genghis Khan was killed by the poisoned arrow of the Tangut people, and it stands to reason that Genghis Khan was already in his sixties at that time, and with that status, it was unlikely that he would personally charge into battle, and the range of the arrow was limited, which is debatable.
As for the last statement, it is not recorded in history at all, not in the official history, nor in the wild history, but a word-of-mouth legend among the Mongols, saying that when Genghis Khan conquered Western Xia, he captured the princess of Western Xia, and when he saw that she was young and beautiful, he asked her to serve her, but was killed by this fierce princess.
There are two theories about the means by which the Western Xia princess killed Genghis Khan, one is that she was poisoned, and the other is that she bit off Genghis Khan's reproductive organs when she was in bed.
Even Genghis Khan's own concubines had to be inspected naked when they went to bed, not to mention the captured Tangut princess, it is unlikely that the empty-handed Tangut princess was poisoned, and her most lethal violent means are probably only "biting".
Genghis Khan did have a penchant for dominating the monarch's women every time he conquered it, and was jokingly called the seeding machine by later historians, and it is estimated that 16 million people in the world are currently related to Genghis Khan.
Among the kingdoms conquered by the army of Gengji Khan, the Western Xia Kingdom was indeed the most severely slaughtered, and almost everything in the entire kingdom was destroyed.
And although this incident is not recorded in history, it is widely spread among the Mongols who fear Genghis Khan like a god.
So Xia Xun has always felt that it is very likely that this is the real truth.
It's just that such an unspeakable scandal happened to an emperor, of course, it can be concealed.
The truth of history is always whitewashed beyond recognition for one reason or another.
Now what Xia Xun thinks of is a topic that he can't think about and dare not think about.
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He felt that his thoughts were ridiculous and crazy, but he couldn't help but think: "Timur, will he die like in history, how did he die?"
"I have five mountains in China, and Mount Tai is the first of the five.
Standing on Mount Tai, looking at the sea in the east, the Yellow River in the west, surrounded by Wenshui, looking forward to the holy city of Qufu, back to the spring city of Jinan, standing majestically in the east with the momentum of pulling out the earth to the sky, so it is respected as the first mountain in the world, since ancient times, the emperor, the world of Zen, all to Mount Tai, sacrifice to the sky at the top of the mountain, report the merit of the sky, sacrifice the ground under the mountain, repay the merit of the land, this is the auspicious place of several noble envoys, see how this scenery is" Standing on the top of the mountain, Aldusha looked at the splendid mountains and rivers, and said infinitely intoxicated: "Beautiful, so beautiful, like a fairyland on earth" Xia Xun smiled slightly and said: "Envoys live in the far west, the scenery here, I'm afraid I won't have a chance to see it again, just put down your heart, walk around, and enjoy it, please" Aldusha and the others arched their hands to him, and then scattered, Xia Xun was still standing in front of the Jade Emperor Temple, and whispered to a person dressed as a guard who came closer: "Over there in Texas, it is ready."
"Yes, according to the orders of the Duke of the Kingdom, the elite soldiers from all over the country are dispatched, and every time the Texas military camp is performed, the battle formation is already proficient, and the Duke of Guo is only waiting to go."
"Okay, after leaving Jinan, we'll rush to Texas."
Xia Xun accompanied the people of the Timurid Empire out this time, originally just to make soy sauce, the emperor attached great importance to this powerful country in the West, but he didn't take it to heart, because in his thoughts, it was impossible for Daming and this great empire in the West to have any intersection.
But now he has changed his mind, he wants to show the power of the Ming army, and use a strong psychological deterrent to the "military expedition" of the Timurid Empire, and postpone the time of the Timurid Empire's eastward crusade indefinitely, until Timur dies of illness in Salahan.
If the Cripple Emperor still came east as scheduled, he would like to see: "How did Timur die?"
To be continued: