The practice of recognizing relatives by shedding blood was founded during the Three Kingdoms period and has always been regarded as a standard. No one doubts it.

In the Ming Dynasty, this is the most convincing paternity test.

Especially for people like Zhu Yuanzhang, who came from the poor at the bottom to the present, it goes without saying.

It's not that Zhu Yuanzhang has never thought about confessing his relatives with blood, but before that, between him and his eldest grandson, the eldest grandson's resistance was always the main one, from a love point of view.

For Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Ying, the matter of recognizing their relatives was completely Zhu Yuanzhang's wishful thinking.

At that time, Zhu Ying was interested in Annan, and all his men had been sent there. The situation was also very good, and he did not come to the capital just to find relatives.

It was half-coerced by Zhu Di, and then because Zhu Gaochi talked about firearms, which aroused Zhu Ying's interest, he chose to stay in the capital for a while.

Recently, the relationship between Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Ying became clear, and the discovery time was less than half a month, so the matter was delayed like this.

Some people may think that it can actually be verified from records such as birthmarks on Zhu Ying's body.

In fact, in the royal family, if there is no particularly obvious birthmark, it will not be recorded, especially in the early days of the Ming Dynasty, when Zhu Xiongying was born, it was only the seventh year of the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

Due to external and internal troubles, the entire Ming Dynasty was in chaos, and some of the detailed layout of the palace was not so particular.

The key is that the royal succession of the Ming Empire mainly came from the Han system of the Tang and Song Dynasties, not the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties.

The Meng Yuan Dynasty ruled for ninety-eight years, and all the aristocratic families were basically slaughtered. During this period, it was considered an era, and no one would tell Zhu Yuanzhang how to be the emperor...

The restoration of the Han people's etiquette system was mostly based on Confucian culture, and then was re-formulated with Zhu Yuanzhang's own research and consideration.

In just twenty-five years, it is said that it is actually impossible to completely revive the culture of the entire Ming and Han people. Most of the elderly, including those currently in their forties and fifties.

In fact, I still grew up under the influence of Mongolian and Yuan culture.

At the beginning of the chaos at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, neither Zhu Yuanzhang, nor Chen Youliang, Zhang Shicheng and others had any intention of reviving Han culture.

Even now, Zhu Yuanzhang admits that Meng Yuan is orthodox.

This extremely official recognition has actually caused dissatisfaction among many Han people. In the eyes of most Han people, the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty is an outsider and a barbarian. It has not even had a century-old national destiny, so how can it be orthodox.

Many people even privately discussed that Zhu Yuanzhang acted like this because he was influenced by Mongolian and Yuan culture.

However, was Zhu Yuanzhang really influenced by Mongolian and Yuan culture?

After careful inquiry, there is no culture to speak of about the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty. Apart from the invasion and the powerful cavalry team of the nomadic people, has the culture of the Han people been invaded?

What's more, with the dominance of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, many cultures from other regions joined in. After the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty ruled the land of China, it was assimilated by the Han culture.

Apart from anything else, at least the etiquette of the Mongolian and Yuan royal families was basically based on the Song Dynasty. It seemed a bit unworthy of a large tent like that to be placed in a city in the land of China.

The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang recognized the Mongolian and Yuan orthodoxy was actually after a long period of careful consideration rather than a rash decision.

The first and most intuitive benefit is that it allows Zhu Yuanzhang to get rid of the influence of the Han and Song Dynasties. Zhu Yuanzhang once served as the King of Wu in the Song Dynasty.

The Han and Song dynasties denied the orthodox status of the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties.

After that, the Mongol Yuan orthodoxy was recognized, which was more conducive to accepting the Mongol Yuan legacy, and even the entire Mongol Yuan Empire, including the other four khanates.

You must know that Zhu Yuanzhang's announcement reached as far as Chagatai in the Western Regions, but that area never belonged to the Tang and Song Dynasties.

On a deeper level, the Ming Dynasty's recognition of the Mongol and Yuan orthodoxy could also strengthen the legitimacy of regional rule.

This established a legal basis for taking over the territories and people that belonged to the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties but had not belonged to the Song Dynasty.

The territory under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty not only included the homeland of the two Song Dynasties, but if it directly succeeded the Song Dynasty instead of the Yuan Dynasty, it would weaken the legitimacy of the Ming Dynasty in ruling Liaoning, Gansu, Yunnan and Guizhou and other places.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was in his prime, had great ambitions. He wanted to take over not only his hometown in the Northern Song Dynasty, but also his hometown in the Han and Tang Dynasties. He wanted to take over the entire Mongol Empire.

Moreover, the problem of Huhua in the Central Plains can also be solved very well. You must know that the division between the Han people in the south and the Han people in the north was already very serious at that time.

That is no longer an issue of conflict between the North and the South, but many people believe that the Han people in the North and the South already belong to two ethnic groups.

In particular, the imperial court with a "southern" background like Zhu Yuanzhang had a huge identity crisis with the rule of the northern Han areas.

It is generally believed in later generations that the Mongols conquered the Han people and established the Mongolian and Yuan dynasties.

But it was generally believed at the time that it was the Mongols who brought the northern Han people and conquered the southern Han people.

Especially in the past, the confrontation between the north and the south between the Liao Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty and the establishment of the Three Kingdoms Tripod between the Jin Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty and the Xixia Dynasty caused a rupture in the historical memory of the unification of the Chinese ethnic group.

The Chinese ethnic groups who once lived under different regimes each have their own different historical memories.

This has the most deep-rooted influence on the unification of culture, and Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to eliminate this influence from a deep level.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang directly denied the Liao and Jin orthodoxy and established the dynasty genealogy of the Han, Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties, allowing all people of Chinese descent to trace their own historical orthodoxy more clearly.

Zhu Yuanzhang's operation not only affected the time, but also had a profound impact on later generations. Even in the minds of people like Zhu Ying who have traveled through time, the Han, Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties are already lingering memories.

Many people will subconsciously ignore that the influence exerted by the Liao, Jin, and Xixia countries gave people the feeling of a remote and small country, and no one would think that they were orthodox.

From this point of view, Zhu Yuanzhang recognized the concept of Mongol and Yuan orthodoxy. Although it has been criticized by some, its deep-seated significance is extremely huge, especially for the rule of the Ming Dynasty. It has a long-term significance.

The biggest advantage is that it means that the Ming Dynasty has legal reasons to take back all the areas that were once ruled by the Mongol Empire. This is called: learning comes from fame.

How big was the Mongol Empire?

Just talking about its stable period, its territory exceeded 35 million square kilometers, stretching from the Korean Peninsula in the east, to Poland and Hungary in the west, to the Russian principalities in Siberia in the north, and to Java and the Indochina Peninsula in the south.

At its maximum, the territory even exceeded 45 million square kilometers, which was more than four times the current territory of later generations, and accounted for more than four-fifths of the entire human world at that time.

You must know that the entire land area of ​​Asia, including all islands, is only 44 million square kilometers.

This also means that after Zhu Yuanzhang recognized the orthodoxy of the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, the Ming Dynasty, as the subsequent dynasty, had legal reasons to rule all the territories that the Mongolian and Yuan Empire conquered.

When troops are sent out, it is not called invasion, it is called regaining territory, and it is very conducive to ruling other ethnic minorities.

Today, under the rule of Zhu Yuanzhang, what is being promoted is the great unity of the ethnic groups. All ethnic groups, regardless of high or low, belong to the Ming Dynasty. All countries that paid tribute to the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty must also pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

For example, if Zhu Yuanzhang went to attack Annan, he would tell the soldiers that Annan belongs to our Ming Dynasty territory, and we are going to conquer Annan and rescue the people there.

For Chinese culture, it is very necessary for such teachers to be famous. Random invasion will only be denied by its own Han culture, and will be labeled as a tyrant, and will be opposed in many aspects.

It is precisely because of Zhu Yuanzhang that in the original history, even the later Manchu and Qing emperors, Shunzhi and Kangxi, regarded Zhu Yuanzhang as their idol.

Especially Kangxi, who was already a little fan of Zhu Yuanzhang. Not only did he go south six times to pay homage to Zhu Yuanzhang in Xiaoling Tomb in Nanjing, but he also erected a monument for him saying "Government of the Tang and Song Dynasties!"

Even in later generations, that monument still exists.

It was not an ordinary worship. As the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Kangxi himself knelt three times and kowtowed nine times in front of Zhu Yuanzhang's mausoleum.

There must be an element of showmanship in this, but it can also be seen from it that even in the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, Zhu Yuanzhang's status in the hearts of the people was still extremely strong.

Since ancient times, those who killed the loyal ministers of the founding of the country have been extremely infamy. Only Zhu Yuanzhang, whether he is a Han or other ethnic group, maintains extremely high admiration for him who lives on the land of China.

In Zhu Yuanzhang's opinion, Concubine Ning's suggestion of blood recognition was also a good method.

This will help the grandson inherit his throne legitimately.

As for the result of blood recognition, as far as Zhu Yuanzhang is concerned, it is absolutely certain and there is no problem.

There are two ways to recognize relatives by dripping blood. One is called the method of combining blood, which is to drop two drops of blood into a bowl of water. When they blend together, they become relatives.

There is also a method called bone dripping, where blood is dripped on the bones of the ancestors. If it can penetrate into the bones, they are close relatives.

Zhu Biao's body is now being preserved in the Hall of Renzhi. Obviously, dripping blood and bones will not work.

After death, the blood coagulates, and it is obviously impossible to combine the blood. It would be extremely unfilial to remove the flesh and blood to expose the bones.

Maybe Chang's bones would work, but exhuming my late mother's body wouldn't be a good idea either.

Since ancient times, only fathers and sons have shed blood to recognize relatives. There seems to be no precedent for grandfathers and grandchildren. However, fortunately, there are brothers and sisters like Zhu Yunxi and Zhu Mingyue, so there is no one who can verify it.

Late at night, Zhu Di sat in the big tent and discussed with his two generals the policy of wiping out the Japanese pirates.

The traces of Japanese pirates in the Ming Dynasty were mainly along the coast of Shandong, followed by Jiangsu and Zhejiang. At present, the activities of Japanese pirates in the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong are still relatively rare.

The places Zhu Di was responsible for were mainly Shandong, which was the place where the Japanese pirates invaded the most severely. After all, Zhu Di had made great achievements in military achievements, so it was natural for him to be responsible for the Shandong area.

Zhu Di had three major helpers. One of them was the well-known Yao Guangxiao. In fact, as far as the current Ming Dynasty is concerned, Yao Guangxiao is not famous. He only became known to many people after the Jingnan.

Now Zhu Di's real right-hand men are Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng.

Among the generals under King Yan, "Zhang Yu is good at planning, and Zhu Neng is good at fighting."

Li Jinglong was the first contributor to Jingnan, and Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng and Yao Guangxiao were the second contributors.

"Your Highness, the whereabouts of the Japanese pirates along the coast of Shandong have been roughly figured out. Your Highness, please tell us what to do next."

Zhu Neng asked.

Although his surname is Zhu, he is not Zhu Yuanzhang's. However, his father's hometown is Huaiyuan, and he and Zhu Yuanzhang can be regarded as half from his hometown.

Zhu Neng was tall and tall, and his voice was loud when he spoke, but in front of Zhu Di, he deliberately lowered his voice.

Zhu Di heard this and said: "Now I am not the only one to conquer the Japanese pirates. Third brother is also there, and the Zhejiang area that the third brother is responsible for is far easier than Shandong."

"We can't sit back and wait for death. We must take the initiative. Zhang Yu, what do you think?"

Speaking of the latter, Zhu Di asked Zhang Yu, his tone was more casual, and he did not act like a prince.

The two people in front of them are confidants, just like Yao Guangxiao, and even in terms of loyalty, they are much stronger than Yao Guangxiao.

Zhang Yu is already in his fifties this year, and his temples are gray. He is completely different from Zhu Neng, a strong young man who is only twenty-two years old.

After hearing the inquiry, he did not rush to answer. He pondered for a moment and then said: "What His Highness said is absolutely true. King Jin has been holding back his breath since he thought about it and is eager to prove himself."

"If we defeat the Zhejiang Japanese pirates before His Highness does, it will make everyone in the world think that His Highness's military exploits were just luck."
To be continued...