Zhu Yunwen shook his head and said:

"Of course not. The reason I didn't let Fu Youde lead the troops there directly is because Prince Yan, Zhu Di, has a way to solve this problem."

As mentioned before, he was the one who started this whole thing, with the aim of gaining military power.

But now the plan has failed, and the troops from Goryeo are preparing to attack, which is not a good thing for Prince Yan, Zhu Di.

He couldn't possibly do something that would result in losing both his wife and his army, so he would definitely try to find a way to resolve the matter himself.

Since he had a way to make Goryeo dare to oppose the Ming Dynasty, he naturally had a way to make Goryeo put away its arrogance.

Therefore, as I just said, there are people who are more anxious than we are, and there are people who can solve this problem, so there is no need to send troops over.”

Feng Sheng suddenly realized what was going on, and only then did he understand everything.

At the same time, he realized that his mind was not on the same level as Zhu Yunwen's.

At first, he had only one question: how could Goryeo dare to invade the border of the Ming Dynasty?

Only after talking to them did I realize how many problems there were.

At the same time, they realized just how terrifying Zhu Yunwen was.

With such a cunning and ruthless prince who could manipulate everyone at will, Feng Sheng knew that the civil and military officials in the court would be powerless to cause any trouble in his hands.

However, he couldn't help but ask one last question to Zhu Yunwen:

“But Your Highness, Zhu Di has no troops under his command. Can he really solve this problem? It’s easy to start a problem, but it’s not so easy to resolve it.”

Zhu Yunwen waved his hand and said:

“You underestimate Zhu Di, the Prince of Yan. He is brave and resourceful, and capable of great things. Since he was able to provoke this matter, he must have the means to resolve it. By underestimating him, you are putting yourself in danger.”

Feng Sheng nodded unconsciously, and he had to admit that Prince Yan, Zhu Di, was indeed shrewd.

However, it was clearly not enough to compete with an opponent like Zhu Yunwen.

Thinking of this, Feng Sheng immediately showered him with compliments:

"Fortunately, we have His Highness the Crown Prince, who can see through everything; otherwise, many things might have been successfully plotted by those with ulterior motives."

Zhu Yunwen smiled and said to Feng Sheng:

"Therefore, do not send troops to the north for the time being, and do not give any orders to Fu Youde. Just watch how Zhu Di performs."

Feng Sheng nodded hastily: "Your subject understands."

After saying goodbye and leaving, Feng Sheng was still sweating a little. He was still a little shaken by today's conversation, mainly because he hadn't expected these intelligent people to be so quick-witted.

Zhu Di was able to pull off a series of conspiracies and tricks in order to gain military power, while Zhu Yunwen was able to counter them and manipulate Zhu Di's schemes at will.

This left Feng Sheng speechless, and he also realized a problem: no matter how good these military generals were at leading troops into battle, their minds weren't that sharp, and they were ultimately being led by the nose.

Some things, some routines, are simply incomprehensible.

In the end, all I could do was sigh softly:

"Those in power are, after all, those in power; they are not like ordinary people."

He shook his head as he spoke, then turned and left.

Just as Zhu Yunwen had predicted, once Zhu Di returned to Beijing, he immediately began to try every means to contact the King of Goryeo.

The goal was naturally to force Goryeo to withdraw its troops. If Goryeo had truly conquered Zhu Di's northern territory, then Zhu Di, as a vassal king, would have had no land of his own.

Having lost both military power and territory, Zhu Di must be devastated.

Even if Goryeo could not cause much damage to the north, once a war broke out, Zhu Di would still have to be responsible for the military expenses of the Ming soldiers.

In fact, Zhu Di would have to bear all the losses.

He didn't want to cause any losses for no reason, so Zhu Di could only try to contact Goryeo and persuade it to withdraw its troops.

However, after receiving the news, the new king of Goryeo, Yi Seong-gye, replied to Zhu Di that he was unwilling to withdraw his troops. He was now in a situation where he had no choice but to act, and he asked Zhu Di to cooperate with him to take over the north in one fell swoop.

Inside Beijing, Zhu Di, his face grim, looked at the letter in his hand and addressed Yao Guangxiao and Zhu Gaochi, the heir apparent to the Prince of Yan, below him:

"My original plan was simply to secretly tell Yi Seong-gye of Goryeo that I had 200,000 troops at my disposal, and together with his 100,000 troops, we would launch a joint attack on the Ming Dynasty. Then the world would be divided in two, and we would rule together."

This was merely a ploy to lure Yi Seong-gye into sending troops north, so I could gain soldiers and then renege on my promise to suppress him. But unexpectedly, Yi Seong-gye is now determined to send troops. What should I do?

Prince Yan's heir, Zhu Gaochi, and the black-robed monk, Yao Guangxiao, both remained silent for a moment. In fact, their previous plan was very simple.

It was Prince Yan, Zhu Di, who took the initiative to contact the Kingdom of Goryeo. Prince Yan deliberately said that he was dissatisfied with Zhu Yuanzhang and wanted to rebel.

If Yi Seong-gye were willing to send troops to help him, he could then take half of the kingdom, a temptation that was very appealing to him.

Goryeo had always coveted the north, and its double-dealing had made the Ming Dynasty dissatisfied with Goryeo, causing Yi Seong-gye some concern. So he made up his mind to cooperate with Zhu Di in a rebellion.

Of course, he didn't know that this was also Zhu Di's conspiracy; Zhu Di wouldn't dare to actually rebel with Yi Seong-gye.

Besides, he didn't actually have any military power. He just wanted to trick Yi Seong-gye into sending troops and create chaos in the north in order to gain military power.

Now that he had no military power, Zhu Di wanted Yi Seong-gye to withdraw his troops, but Yi Seong-gye was unwilling. Helpless, Zhu Di could only tell the truth and wrote a letter to Yi Seong-gye, telling him that he had no military power.

A day later, King Yi Seong-gye of Goryeo, who was stationed in Heukseong, changed his expression drastically after receiving the letter.

He immediately said:

"Zhu Di had no soldiers? He lied to me..."

The ministers below were also extremely flustered, because Zhu Di had previously told them that he had an army of about 200,000 men.

Only then did Yi Seong-gye dare to send out 100,000 troops. With a total army of 300,000, he finally felt confident that he might succeed.

But now Zhu Di tells him that Zhu Di has no soldiers at all, so how could Yi Seong-gye's 100,000-strong army dare to oppose the Ming Dynasty?

At that moment, Yi Seong-gye panicked and hurriedly asked his ministers what to do.

A minister stepped forward:

“We have been deceived by Prince Yan, Zhu Di. He said he would cooperate with us to rebel against the Ming Dynasty, but he has no troops at his disposal. Now he has put us in a dilemma. We should hold him accountable.”

Yi Seong-gye was furious: "What we should be thinking about now is how we should position ourselves? We've stationed our troops outside the Ming border. If the Ming sends a large army over, won't we be finished?"