In the fourteenth year of the Zhengtong reign, the Tumu Crisis erupted, wiping out the Ming Dynasty's elite forces!
The Ming's God of War, Zhu Qizhen, was captured by the Oirat and ordered the gates opened to seize the passes. The entire court wailed and called for a move south. The Ming Dynasty was about to suffer another Jingkang Humiliation!
At that very moment, Zhu Qiyuan, his sickly younger brother whom imperial physicians had declared would not live past twenty, was wheeled into court wearing a white fox-fur cloak, coughing blood.
He had the [Peerless Poisonous Strategist] template from the start!
The officials wanted to flee? Coughing blood as he spoke, Zhu Qiyuan ordered, "Execute the fleeing officials' entire clans! Send word to the Oirat: the Ming emperor is dead. We will not accept ransom demands!"
The entire court was aghast: The emperor was still alive in the Oirat camp!
With the Oirat at the city gates, he sat calmly atop the tower, brewing wine and playing the zither. Using his own elder brother as bait, he laid a peerless death trap and burned thirty thousand enemy troops and the parasites in court to ashes!
Years later.
The Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu trembled. "Brother, I'm just a puppet. The empire actually belongs to Younger Brother Yuan!"
The illustrious ministers Yu Qian and the others looked at the man who seemed as if a gust of wind could topple him, sweating coldly. "Your Highness, why does the Ming territory keep expanding the more blood you cough up?!"
Zhu Qiyuan wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. "The imperial physician says I haven't long to live, so I have no choice but to make sure every enemy in the world dies first."
I don't know where this novel was copied from.
Where did it come from?! It turns out to be a thief, but the context of Chapter 4 doesn't even fit.