On March 8, the eleventh year of Tianwu, a grand prisoner offering ceremony was held outside Chengtian Gate, Nanjing.

According to the past rules, whenever a major war occurs, the army will win and return to triumph, and will offer prisoners of war to the emperor at the Meridian Gate, saying that it is a prisoner of war.

Because the Meridian Gate is the main gate of the Forbidden City and is within the imperial city, the people cannot observe it, Zhu Cilang changed the ceremony of offering prisoners to Chengtian Gate, the main gate of the imperial city, showing the celebration with the people.

On this day, there were thousands of people in Nanjing City, and the people helped the elderly and the young to Chengtian Gate to watch the ceremony.

Zhu Cilang wore a crown on his head and a crimson gauze robe. He brought the nobles and civil and military officials in the capital to the Chengtian Gate Tower.

Beside him, Prince Zhu Hebi was also wearing a crown of heaven and a crimson gauze robe, and two slightly older princes were also following him.

To educate the prince, you must start from childhood. Zhu Cilang wants the children to broaden their horizons and know that the enemy of the Ming Dynasty lives on the other end of the world, so as to avoid being arrogant and not being enterprising.

The Inner Envoy set up an imperial seat on the Chengtian Gate Tower. Zhu Cixuan did not sit, but looked at the Wumen Square downstairs.

This scene was like the prisoner offering ceremony in the ninth year of Chongzhen. In the square in front of the city tower, a large number of imperial guards and Jinyiwei stood neatly and orderly with guns, and the square was solemn and dignified.

However, the prisoners of Gao Yingxiang and the Eight Banners of the Tartar Qing Dynasty were the prisoners of Gao Yingxiang and the Tartar Qing Dynasty, but now they have become a group of Spanish nobles.

Back then, Emperor Chongzhen brought the prince to watch the ceremony together. Zhu Cilang was about the age of the current crown prince Zhu Hebi, and now he has just experienced a generation.

Zhu Cixuan pointed to the neatly tied Spanish nobles under the city who were tied and kneeled, and asked the prince beside him: "Do you know who they are?"

Prince Zhu Hebi nodded and said, "The emperor knows that it is Spanish. In the past, our Ming Dynasty called them Folang Jiren."

Zhu Cixuan asked again: "Do you know where Spain is?"

Zhu Hebi replied: "Report to my father, Spain is located in the Iberian Peninsula in the south corner of Europe, bordering Portugal and France, facing the Mediterranean Sea in the east and the Atlantic Ocean to the west."

Zhu Ciyang smiled with relief and asked again: "Can you be willing to destroy the country for me in the future and to eliminate the descendants of me?"

Without waiting for Zhu Hebi to answer, the second prince Zhu Heji stood up and clasped his fists and said, "Father, the emperor is willing to go!"

Then, he looked at the prince seriously and said, "The prince's brother is the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty. He should be in charge of China and assist his father in maintaining the country. My son is willing to fight on behalf of his father and the emperor and eliminate all the ugly people!"

"Who said that the prince should keep an eye on the house?"

Zhu Hebi retorted: "My father is in his prime. Even if he has been fifty years, he is still stronger. Although he is not talented, he still has the dream of pioneering. I hope to travel to the north of the Black Sea for my father, drink the Rhine River, and sweep away the European countries!"

"Okay OK!"

Zhu Cixuan touched their heads with one hand and said, "From tomorrow, you two will go to the martial arts lecture hall to train. There will be opportunities to go to the battlefield in the future."

"Yes! Father!" the two responded.

As the saying goes, "Brothers who fight tigers, fathers and sons who fight to fight." Zhu Cilang has always dreamed of one day so that the next generation can be like himself, after being tempered by the army, and not being the founding king in a peaceful and prosperous era.

Until now, he could only realize Zhu Yuanzhang's good intentions back then. After becoming the emperor and having an heir, he tried every means to protect his future generations.

"The prisoner offering begins!"

"Dong!Dong!Dong...Dong!"

With the shouts of officials from the Ministry of Rites, the ceremony of offering prisoners officially began. Suddenly, drums and music were made, salutes and cannons roared, and the officials stood in celebrating the victory.

Officials from the Ministry of Rites continued to shout: "The eunuch in charge of the seal of Xuansi, and the imperial envoy of the ocean is in charge of Wu Zhong, to meet with the prisoners!"

Wu Zhong, wearing a python robe and jade belt, came with great enthusiasm. Judging from the momentum of walking, he didn't look like a eunuch at all.

The eunuchs around him all cast envious eyes. Since the eunuch's power was almost taken over by the emperor, the eunuchs in the palace could no longer stand up and were always walking on thin ice.

Under the city tower, an eunuch from the Imperial Horse Prison quietly said to the people around him: "The chief manager really gives us eunuchs a face!"

Another eunuch said: "That's right? I heard that Your Majesty is planning to be appointed as the chief executive!"

"Shh! You dare to gossip. Don't hold me if you want to die!"

The talkative eunuch immediately became scared and sweated in cold sweat after reacting, and glanced at the surroundings in panic.

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Wu Zhong, on behalf of the Ocean Fleet, took a few steps forward and shouted to Zhu Cilang on Chengtian Gate: "My minister Wu Zhong, please come to your Majesty, your Majesty, your Majesty will be safe!"

As he said that, he bowed four times.

Zhu Cilang raised his hand to him from afar and signaled the ceremony to continue.

Then, Wu Zhong began to read Lu Bu in his hand. (The silk flags made from all directions are equivalent to good news)

"I have been sent to the West since the ninth year of Tianwu. It took two years to go. My cloud sails are high and my stars are flying day and night, and I have been experiencing the tides. The countries I have lived in, from Champa, Siam, Luzon, Java, and directly across South India and Ceylon. They arrived at the Safi Dynasty of the Western Regions (Central Asia). The Arab tribes have entered the Atlantic since they were young. They have been around forty countries of all sizes and over 100,000 miles from Cangming!"

"When you come to the foreign countries, those who are disrespectful will be captured alive; those who are barbarians will be attacked by plunder! Therefore, the sea route is clear and those who are relied on by foreigners are all due to the power and blessings of the court!"

"I led the ocean-going fleet to Europa, and passed through the Portuguese Kingdom. Philip IV, the Lord of Spain, was irrespectful and tried to destroy our ocean-going fleet. I then formed an alliance with Portugal, defeated the Invincible Fleet with a joint fleet, captured dozens of nobles, and returned to the tenth year, seeking grace to return to our country!"

At this time, Spanish prisoners, whose bodies were raised high on large wooden racks, were taken to the prisoner's throne, waiting for the order to deal with them, but were killed and kept in prison for labor reform.

Zhu Cixuan said: "Pick the two oldest ones out, and parade the rest for seven days and send them to Xingguo Mining Area!"

He looked at the prince and the second prince beside him and said, "When I was eight years old, I personally shot and killed Zhu Chunchen, Duke Cheng who fled fear of the enemy. You are all nine years old this year and are clamoring to learn from me to fight and kill the enemy. Now your chance is here."

The two princes were stunned on the spot, and no one expected that their father would come like this.

Seeing the two children's faces pale, Xu Sheng, who followed him, advised: "Your Majesty, the two high men are still young. Why not wait for them to grow a few more years and start with hunting wild animals..."

It is a bit too harsh to practice with living people when you are less than ten years old.

You should know that even adult men will leave psychological shadows when they join the army for the first time, and they will slowly smooth out after experiencing too much.

Zhu Cixuan interrupted him: "Xu Sheng, if you can't go with them, you don't have to force me."

After saying that, he walked down from Chengtian Gate and returned to Fengtian Hall by the imperial carriage.

In the afternoon of the same day, Zhu Cilang held a reward ceremony for the officers and soldiers of the ocean fleet, and named Wu Zhong as Marquis of Jinghai, Zhu Chenggong as Marquis of Yanping, and Shi Lang as Bo Haicheng...

There are only two titles in Chinese history. The first is Wu Zhen, a navy general during the Hongwu Dynasty, and the second is Shi Lang, who was granted the title after surrendering to the Qing Dynasty.

The two brothers Wu Zhen and Wu Liang were both heroes who followed Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the world in the early days. After the founding of the Ming Dynasty, they were both granted marquises. After their death, they were posthumously dukes and buried in the shade of Zhongshan, Nanjing.

Zhu Yuanzhang once commented: "Wu Liang, Wu is now coming from Wu!"

According to blood relationship, Wu Zhong was a descendant of Wu Liang's younger brother Wu Zhen. He was forced to become an eunuch because of his family's decline. (Wu Liang was the father-in-law of the King of Qi. After Zhu Di's Jingshou defeated the vassal kings, demoted the King of Qi to a commoner, and put the King of Qi under house arrest in Nanjing until his death. The Wu family was implicated and suffered.)
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