I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 485 Coloring Map
"I have prepared the banquet. Let me welcome Brother Xinliang today," said Yu Chengxun with a smile.

"Then let me pay for it, brother!" Fei Xinliang said with a smile.

The group came to a restaurant nearby and sat down. While Yu Chengxun was using the toilet, Fei Xinliang couldn't wait to spread the colored paper he had just received on the table and read it.
He was attracted by the paper after just one glance, but his friend was right beside him, so he couldn't leave him to look at the paper.
Written at the top of the paper were: Congratulations to His Majesty the Emperor Zhengde for becoming the Khan of All Nations in the World.

Fei Xinliang's eyes swept across the words and stopped at the set of pictures below, which was what attracted him the most.

The first picture was a map, and the map was not very big. The reason why Fei Xinliang was so interested in it was that he could tell at a glance that this small map was the territory map of the Ming Dynasty.

The territory of the Ming Dynasty on the map was painted light red as a whole, with the locations of Beijing and Nanjing, as well as the surrounding countries, marked on it. This was why he judged that this was a map of the Ming Dynasty's territory. There were also two winding blue lines on the map, which he speculated should be the Yellow River and the Yangtze River.

The reason why he was so surprised was that it was the first time he saw the map of the Ming Dynasty's territory. Only people of higher ranks in the Ming Dynasty could see this kind of map. As a juren, he was not qualified. He did not expect to see the map of the Ming Dynasty's territory on this piece of ordinary paper, and such paper was distributed everywhere, which shocked him very much.

He did not doubt that the map was fake because he saw the Royal Group's logo on it. This paper must have been printed by the Royal Group. Only the Royal Group had the ability to obtain the appearance of the Ming Dynasty's territory and print it out to distribute everywhere.

He continued to look at the map and found a symbol of crossed swords on it, with a place name written next to it - Yingzhou.

He immediately understood that this should refer to the Battle of Yingzhou, and the symbol of crossed swords should refer to the battle that took place.
Sure enough, he saw a passage of text next to this picture: In the autumn of the eleventh year of Zhengde, Dayan Khan led 100,000 northern barbarians to the south to plunder Datong. The emperor led an army of 70,000 to attack them. The two armies fought a decisive battle in Yingzhou. The emperor defeated the northern barbarians, killed more than 10,000 people, captured 20,000 people, obtained 140,000 war horses, and countless weapons and armor, and killed Dayan Khan in the battle.

He couldn't wait to move his gaze to the second map in the set. The style of the second map was the same. He quickly found the symbol of crossed swords. The symbol was above the Chinese character "几" (Ji) of the Yellow River, with the words "Hetao" (Hetao) written on it.

The entire Hetao area was painted light green, which was very conspicuous compared to the Ming Dynasty's map painted light red.

There is also a text next to the second map: "In the spring of the 13th year of Zhengde, the emperor led an army of 50,000 to raid the Hetao area, and defeated the Ordos and Tumed tribes of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, killing countless people and capturing more than 50,000 of their people." Fei Xinliang was excited, and he continued to look at the third map. There were three crossed swords on this map, and three arrows pointed to these three signs. Around these three signs were marked Duoyan Guard, Taining Guard and Fuyu Guard, and the areas around these three signs were also painted light green. This is a vast area, and this area can be connected to the Hetao area.
It was at this time that Fei Xinliang discovered that the Hetao region, which was painted light green in the previous map, had been painted light red in the third map, the same as the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
He immediately understood what this meant. It meant that the Hetao region had been incorporated into the territory of the Ming Dynasty at this point in time, which ignited a greater sense of anticipation in his heart.

There is also a paragraph of text next to the third picture: In the spring of the 14th year of Zhengde, the emperor led an army of 30,000 to raid the three guards of Duoyan, and defeated them, capturing more than 100,000 of their followers.
Fei Xinliang's anticipation grew stronger and stronger. He looked at the fourth map. On this map, the large area of ​​Doyan Sanwei also turned light red and was connected to the Hetao area. This suddenly increased the northern territory of the Ming Dynasty by a large amount.

Fei Xinliang's eyes wandered over the enlarged area for a long time, and he felt a slight sense of pride in his heart, then he looked for the symbol of crossed swords.

There is no area marked in light green on the fourth map. The crossed swords symbol is in the upper left corner of the Hetao area, with a place name on it - Yinshan.

The text next to the fourth picture is: Sayin Alaq Khan hid in the Yin Mountains and sent soldiers to massacre the naturalized Mongolians. The emperor was furious when he heard about it, and personally led an army of 30,000 to defeat them, captured Sayin Alaq Khan, and captured all of his followers.

Fei Xinliang's eyes swept across the fourth picture without any reluctance and fell on the fifth picture. Then he was attracted by the fifth picture, because there was a large area on the fifth picture that was painted light green. In this light green area, there were many crossed swords and knives, but no specific place names were marked.

He looked at the text next to the map: In the 15th year of Zhengde, the emperor led 80,000 cavalrymen to attack the Northern Yuan Dynasty. After many fierce battles, he killed and captured countless people and pushed the Northern Yuan Dynasty back more than 700 miles, forcing the Northern Yuan Dynasty to not dare to go south to graze their horses. He captured more than 500,000 Northern Yuan people.
The anticipation in his heart burned even more fiercely. Although he already knew Zhu Houzhao's achievements in the past few years, those achievements were obtained through text, which was far less intuitive than these maps.
His eyes fell on the sixth map, and then he became excited. He saw that a large area on the map was painted light green, and a large area of ​​the light red northern territory of the Ming Dynasty had been added.

In the light green area, there are three crossed swords symbols with only one place name on them - Mobei!
He could not wait to look at the words next to it: In the spring of the 16th year of Zhengde, the emperor led an army of 45,000 people on an expedition to the northern desert, defeated the remnants of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, captured their Khan, and obtained more than 400,000 of their followers. He engraved the stone at Yanran, had his horses drink water from the vast sea, and sealed the Wolf's Lair before returning.

Fei Xinliang felt the blood rushing to his head, and his whole body began to tremble with excitement. Although it was just six simple pictures, he could see clearly the course and results of Zhu Houzhao's six-year war against Mongolia.
He took two breaths, then looked at the last picture. There was no crossed swords or light green area in the last picture. The vast areas of Hetao, Duoyan Sanwei, and Mo Nan and Mo Bei were all painted in a darker red, which was different from the light red of the Ming Dynasty map, and the outline was used to make this area stand out.
Fei Xinliang knew that this large area was the area conquered by Zhu Houzhao in the sixth year.
He could not wait to look at the text next to it: His Majesty the Emperor Zhengde personally led the army and fought six battles against the Northern Yuan Dynasty in six years. He won all six battles, killed and captured countless people, captured the Yuan chiefs three times, brought in all the people of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and expanded the territory by three thousand miles!

(End of this chapter)