An emperor with great talent and great strategy - I personally think "Zhu Di" is one of them.
That is, Ming Chengzu. After he ascended the throne, he took the title of Yongle and was known as Emperor Yongle (reigned from 1402 to 1424). Famous military strategist and politician. The fourth son of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang.
On April 17, the 20th year of Yuan Zhizheng (May 2, 1360), Zhu Di was born in Yingtian (now Nanjing). He practiced military training since he was a child, and gradually became familiar with the history and art of war. In the third year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1370), he was granted the title of King of Yan and became a vassal in the thirteenth year. He had a large number of troops and guarded Beiping (today's Beijing). In March of the 23rd year, the governor led Fu Youde, Duke of Ying, and others out of Gubeikou (today's northeast of Miyun). They traveled day and night in the heavy snow to Yidu Mountain, and went straight to the Beiyuan camp. They were caught by the prime minister and Taiwei Nai'er without waiting. return. After that, he led the generals on many expeditions and was ordered to control the troops and horses along the border.
In the thirty-first year, Zhu Yuanzhang died of illness. The emperor's grandson Zhu Yunwen succeeded to the throne and cut off the vassal vassal, endangering King Yan. In July of the first year of Jianwen (1399), in order to seize the throne, Zhu Di quoted "Ancestor Instructions" and raised troops to rebel in the name of "Qing Jun Side", known as the "Jing Nan" division. In the Battle of Jingnan, he took the initiative to attack with Peiping as his base, and won the battle at Zhending (now Zhengding, Hebei Province); he attacked Daning (today's west of Zhanning City in Inner Mongolia), in order to kidnap King Zhu Quan of Ning into Peiping, and 3 of his subordinates Tens of thousands of troops were initially established, including the central, left, right, front and rear armies. They then fought at Zhengcunba (in the eastern suburbs of today's Beijing), Baigouhe (in the territory of today's Xiong County, Hebei Province), and Lingbi (in today's Anhui Province). ) and other places, commanded more than a hundred battles, large and small, and successively defeated the three chief generals of the Northern Expedition sent by Emperor Jianwen, Geng Bingwen, Li Jinglong, and Sheng Yong. With the strategy of criticizing the high and suppressing the weak, in June of the fourth year of Jianwen (1402), he crossed the Yangtze River south and captured the capital (now Nanjing). Emperor Jianwen did not know where he ended up. Zhu Di ascended the throne. He killed Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng, Fang Xiaoru and other Jianwen court officials, and implicated relatives and friends, which was known as the "Renwu Disaster" in history. At the same time, the vassals were reduced and centralization of power strengthened. He was a hero in the two great feudal campaigns.
In the first year of Yongle (1403), Peiping was renamed Beijing. At the beginning, the eunuchs were given the power to go out of the town and supervise the troops in the capital, and they were placed above the generals. In the third year, the Nuer Ganwei (the lower reaches of Heilongjiang in present-day Russia) was established, and the leaders of Haixi, Jianzhou, and the Barbarian Jurchens were recruited to surrender, thus completing the Ming Dynasty's unification of the Northeast.
Since this year, the eunuch Zheng He and his fleet have been dispatched six times to the Western countries to find Emperor Jianwen. Friendly exchanges between countries and regions; at the same time, it expands the South China Sea Islands, names and exercises jurisdiction.
In the fourth year, Zhu Neng, the general who conquered the Yi, and his deputy generals Mu Sheng and Zhang Fu led their troops to attack Annan (now northern Vietnam). In the following year, Annan was renamed Jiaozhi and the Chief Secretary was established. In the sixth year, Liu Sheng, the Marquis of Anyuan, Li Bin, the Marquis of Fengcheng, and Chen Xuan, the Bo of Pingjiang, were ordered to lead their boat divisions along the coast to hunt Japanese pirates. They also recruited islanders and fishermen as soldiers to strengthen the coastal defense. In order to meet the needs of the anti-Japanese war, the Fujian Dusi and Jiang, Zhejiang and other prefectural guards were ordered to build warships for cruising on the sea. At that time, Jiaozhi was reversed. In the seventh year, the British Duke Zhang Fu and others were ordered to conquer Jiaozhi again. They learned how to use firearms and practiced them at the Shenji Camp in the back. At the same time, the Nuergandu Commandery Department was established in the northeast, which governed Heilongjiang, Jingqili River (today's Zeya River in Russia), Ussuri River, Songhua River Basin, and Sakhalin Island (today's Sakhalin Island in Russia). The eunuch Yi Shiha (Jurchen) was sent to inspect the area 10 times, and a guard station was set up to strengthen the management of the area. He also provided support and support to the Mongol-occupied tribes, and made the three leaders of Wala kings. The Tatar tribe harassed the border and killed the Ming envoys, and sent Qiu Fu, the Duke of Qi, to lead an army of 100,000 to attack. Because he underestimated the enemy and advanced rashly, the entire army was wiped out. Zhu Di blamed himself for not knowing what others were doing.
In eight years, he personally led an army of 500,000 people to conquer Mobei and defeated the Tatar leader Benya Shili, and also defeated his grand master Arutai. During the campaign, the army was divided into the central army, the left and right tucks, and the left and right sentries, which were called the five military camps; together with the three thousand battalions composed of cavalry and the Shenji battalion composed of firearms soldiers, they were collectively called the three major battalions. Customized. In the twelfth year, he led another 500,000 troops to conquer Mobei and defeated Mahamu, the leader of the Oara tribe. Pay attention to raising military horses. Gradually improve the military system. Military merit is rewarded, and military merit is divided into three categories: extraordinary merit, first merit, and secondary merit. He is also rewarded for meritorious deeds, and is determined to be "powerful, brave, strong and resolute. A hero who overcomes victory and is extremely agile, who performs extraordinary feats and advances sharply. He is resourceful and clever, and strong and loyal."
"Be bold and stable, and become famous and show great merit" ("History of the Ming Dynasty, Military Chronicle IV") as the standard, strictly assess military merit. In the 13th year, generals from all over the country were ordered to lead the main force of their troops to Beijing to be reviewed, and the Beijing drill system was implemented to promote army training. and combat effectiveness. Every time he went on a personal expedition, he reviewed the troops to boost morale. In the 14th year, he appointed Cai Fu as the commander-in-chief and led 10,000 troops to catch Japanese pirates on the coast of Shandong. Liu Jiang, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, annihilated more than a thousand Japanese pirates in the Battle of Wanghaiwo, so that the Japanese did not dare to commit crimes for more than ten years. In the 18th year, he sent troops to suppress the Tang Saier uprising in Shandong. In the 19th year, the capital was moved from Nanjing to Beijing. A large number of troops were used for construction and transportation, and the 48 guards in the capital camp were expanded to 72 guards, which strengthened the defense force of the capital. In the past 20 years, the third expedition to Mobei was carried out. Because the Tatar tribe Alutai avoided the war, they turned to attack Wuliang. The Ha tribe returned victorious. In the 21st and 22nd years, they made two more expeditions to Mobei, but because Alutai was far away, they withdrew their troops on July 18th (August 12, 1424). He died of illness in Yumuchuan (today's northwest of Duolun, Inner Mongolia) at the age of 65. Insufficient, he commanded a series of large-scale mobile operations and long-distance raids, defeated Emperor Jianwen in the Three Prefectures, and later reformed the military system of the Ming Dynasty, which had a great influence on later generations. /p>