On the streets of Beijing, there was a post horse riding rampantly, with a flag on its back, galloping like a gust of wind, shouting: "Six hundred miles, hurry up, anyone who stands in my way will die!"
But I saw that the post rider had a gold plate with gold characters, just like the ancient feather notices. It was a wooden plate with red lacquer and gold characters. It was dazzling and passed by like flying lightning. There were eight gold characters on this gold medal, "Impressive characters are not allowed to enter the shop."
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Seeing this gold medal, all those looking for it will avoid it.
In the past, Qin Hui and Song Gaozong conspired to issue twelve gold medals in one day to recall Yue Fei from the front line. They used this delivery method and voucher.
Seeing this certificate, the officials passing by the post station must cheer up. This means that the message sent by the post rider is extremely urgent and they must not be allowed to stay at the post station. It is of great importance.
The horseman kept on riding, and broke into the imperial city from Jiumen in Beijing, and then to the Wenhua Palace, and finally stopped in front of the palace. The horseman turned over and dismounted, but he was so tired that his body was limp, and his legs were as if they were mud.
The messenger knelt down,
Despite this, Yiqi still took out the letter, raised it above his head, dragged his body with both hands desperately to climb up the steps, and shouted: "Six hundred miles urgent, there is a letter from the Prince of Shu, please be sure to read it personally."
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However, the steps were too high and he still failed to reach the palace gate.
After exhausting his last strength, Yiqi fainted on the spot. He came from Chengdu, stayed up and went from one station to another without rest, eating or drinking, just to deliver the letter to Beijing in the shortest possible time.
Zhu Gaojie walked out of the front door, walked up the steps to Yi Qi, and first pulled out the letter from Yi Qi's hand, which he held tightly even if he fainted.
On the cover of the letter, with black ink on a red background, it read, "Zhu Chun, King of Shu, submits to Wenhua Palace, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince personally opens it." After confirming that the paint on it was intact, he opened the letter just now, took out the letter inside and read it.
After reading, Zhu Gaojie bent down and tried the breathing of the fainting Yiqi. Well, he was still alive, but his breath was a little weak.
He raised his hand and said to the eunuch behind him: "Carry this post to the imperial hospital for diagnosis and treatment by the imperial doctor."
Lu Chaoyang, the tax superintendent of the Governor's Tax Academy, Yang Rong, the bachelor of the cabinet, Xia Yuanji, the secretary of the household department, Su Wu, the censor of the Zuodu, and Shen Qingyu, the commander of the Jinyiwei, will accompany me to the Palace of Qianqing to meet the saint."
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The top officials of the empire gathered in the Qianqing Palace.
Zhu Gaojie presented the letter sent by the King of Shu and said to Zhu Di: "Dad, this is a letter from the King of Shu. King Gu of Changsha planned a rebellion because the third son of the King of Shu, King Chongyang, is very similar to Emperor Jianwen.
King Gu then lured King Chongyang to the palace of King Gu, intending to disguise King Chongyang as Emperor Jianwen and raise an army to cause rebellion in the name of restoring Jianwen!"
Zhu Di was furious: "How dare he!"
The emperor had three heart problems, one of which was the death of Queen Xu.
Second, he was afraid of being blamed by his great ancestor after his death.
Third, the whereabouts of Emperor Jianwen.
On June 13, the fourth year of Jianwen, Cao Guogong and King Gu opened the Jinchuan Gate of Nanjing and welcomed the Yan army into the city. However, after Zhu Di led his army to invade Nanjing, he was not in a hurry to attack the imperial city immediately. He was waiting for Jianwen to commit suicide or
Surrender, in his eyes, Emperor Jianwen had no other choice but these two.
However, Emperor Jianwen didn't want Zhu Di to have his way, so he set fire to the Qianqing Palace. This was something Zhu Di couldn't do, so he quickly ordered Yan Division to attack the palace and look for traces of Emperor Jianwen. He wanted to see the person alive and the corpse even if he died!
He must find Emperor Jianwen, even if he kills Emperor Jianwen with his own hands, he must get rid of this trouble. If Jianwen is killed, the most he will bear is the infamy of being a regicide, so what, he has already been charged with enough crimes anyway, mosquitoes Don't be afraid of biting if there are too many.
But Emperor Jianwen disappeared, which made the fun even greater. Although Emperor Jianwen was not popular with everyone, he was still the legitimate emperor who succeeded to the throne, and Zhu Di was just an emperor who rebelled and usurped the throne.
Once Emperor Jianwen escapes, he can pick up a banner and start a rebellion anywhere, which will cause an uproar in an instant, making Zhu Di uneasy even if he takes the throne. Even if Emperor Jianwen is really dead, as long as there are no people looking for him There will also be some people who are interested in causing chaos in the name of corpses.
However, Zhu Di failed to find Emperor Jianwen in the end. He only found a few charred corpses in the ashes of the Qianqing Palace after the burning, which were beyond recognition.
Helpless, Zhu Di could only officially announce that these burnt corpses were Emperor Jianwen, Jianwen's queen, and Jianwen's eldest son Zhu Wenkui. Even Zhu Di did not believe these words, let alone anyone else.
So far, Zhu Di is still trying his best to search for traces of Jianwen, but he has never found any clues. This has become a growing pain in his heart, with a dull pain that often wakes him up in his sleep, thinking that Emperor Jianwen is bringing Grandpa Taizu. Set it up with him.
Fortunately, before Emperor Jianwen was found, someone was already planning to use Jianwen's name to plot rebellion. This was undoubtedly the most heartbreaking thing for Zhu Di.
"Kill him! Kill him!"
Regardless of the majesty of the emperor, Zhu Di shouted angrily, "I will cut the body of the King of Grain into pieces, smash his bones and scatter his ashes. He will die without a burial place and will never be reincarnated!"
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"He's anxious, he's anxious!"
"No, no, no, is this urgent?"
In the world in his mind, Zhu Yuanzhang raised the corners of his mouth and said, "Why wasn't he afraid when he was seeking power and usurping the throne in the past? Now he is afraid? It's too late!"
An uncle usurps his nephew's throne, and a minister seizes the monarch's power. Such rebellious and unethical behavior will become a shadow that he cannot get rid of, making him live the rest of his life in exhaustion."
Zhu Gaojie said helplessly: "My father still has a bit of conscience, so he feels guilty. If he is really a ruthless and self-interested person, then he will not feel any guilt at all."
"Is he feeling guilty?"
Lao Zhu retorted, "He is obviously afraid! What if Emperor Jianwen pops up one day, real or fake? As long as it is in the name of Jianwen, whether it is appeal or influence, it will be extremely difficult. . Even if one 'Jianwen' is pacified today, there may be a second one and a third one tomorrow, and so on, endlessly, causing trouble for him for the rest of his life. Even if he dies, this matter will not happen. Until now, can he sleep well?"
Zhu Gaojie thought about it and realized that this was really the case.
After Li Zicheng invaded Beijing, rumors spread that Emperor Chongzhen was still alive. It wasn't until Emperor Chongzhen's body was found in Meishan that Li Zicheng ordered people to display the bodies of Chongzhen and his wife outside Donghua Gate, forcing everyone to watch.
Let the rumors stop.
But even so, after the last separatist regime in the Southern Ming Dynasty collapsed twenty years later, and the Qing Dynasty entered the Kangxi era, the rumors still existed. People continued to use the name of the Third Prince Zhu to win people's hearts and want to rebel against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. In order to put down the rebellion, the Qing Dynasty
Despite all the efforts, it still couldn't be eradicated and my scalp became numb.
This "Third Prince Zhu" refers to the Crown Prince, King Ding, and King Yong. No one knows whether these three people are still alive. Anyway, during the Kangxi period alone, there were ten large-scale rebellions recorded in history in the name of the Third Prince Zhu.
Yuqi.
A man who didn't know the so-called Third Prince Zhu tortured the Qing Dynasty for more than a hundred years, let alone Emperor Jianwen, who was very likely to survive?
Emperor Jianwen was much younger than Zhu Di. Perhaps Zhu Di had been dead for twenty or thirty years, but Emperor Jianwen was still alive. How could Zhu Di be able to sleep?
Zhu Gaojie asked: "Grandpa, isn't this Ming Dynasty also your Ming Dynasty? Some people rebelled in the name of Jianwen. Why are you happy?"
Zhu Yuanzhang was embarrassed, yes, why are we happy?
After all, the descendants have been making trouble for a long time, but in the end it was our Ming Dynasty that was troubled?
Unfilial descendants are hateful!
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Zhu Di took a deep breath and suppressed his anger.
He knows that anger is of no use to him. To deal with things, he must maintain the most rational state.
He asked: "Prince, how do you think this matter should be handled?"
The old man has inadvertently developed the habit of asking Zhu Gaojiao for his opinion before doing something. If his own ideas conflict with Zhu Gaojiao's ideas, he will give priority to the other person's ideas.
Zhu Gaojie pondered for a moment and said: "Do you still need to think about it? Just fuck him and it's over!"
Zhu Di was a little dizzy: "Are you kidding, are you so casual?"
Zhu Gaojie shrugged his shoulders and said: "Of course, he is just a Valley King, not a great general. The rebellion of the King of Han can cause trouble all over the city of Shandong. As a result, I led half the province's army to suppress the rebellion, and the King of Han stopped eating within two days.
As for the King of Valley, he is not as good as the King of Han. What else do you need to think about to deal with such a fool?"
Zhu Di said solemnly: "You may not know much about Gu Wang. Gu Wang is not good at attacking but good at defending. He is especially talented in building city defenses. Changsha he is guarding is not that easy to capture."
During the Hongwu Dynasty, he guarded Xuanfu Town and expanded Xuanhua City into a strange city wall 24 miles around. There was a pass with seven gates along the city, a moon city and an urn city inside the pass, and a suspension bridge and an imperial moat outside the city.
It is equipped with turrets and shops, which have both offensive and defensive functions. It is impregnable. Most of our city defenses in the Ming Dynasty imitated his construction in Xuanhua City."
He also built the Great Wall for hundreds of miles from Changyukou to Dajingmen, and built the passes of Dushikou and Suoyang Pass. The sturdy cavalrymen of Beiyuan saw this and left without looking back. They just took a look at it.
It makes people feel hopeless.”
I really doubt that Prince Gu was a bastard in his last life, and he built his house like a bastard shell."
These vassal kings of the Hongwu Dynasty are indeed all capable. They are rare warriors in any dynasty. It is no wonder that Lao Zhu has great hopes for his sons and entrusts Hongwu with the important task of defending the border. On the vassal king of the dynasty.
It's just that these people in Lao Zhu's family all have a common problem, which is "confidence of self-confidence" and the inability to clearly see their own strength.
Such as Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han Dynasty, Zhu Qizhen, the Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Chenhao, the last king of Ning, Zhu Youjian, the emperor of Chongzhen...
Zhu Gaojie pondered for a moment and asked: "Why do we have to attack by force? Isn't it better to break through from the inside? The strongest fortress often begins with an internal defeat."
Zhu Di asked back: "Is the King of Valley a fool?"
"Is not it?"
Zhu Gaojie said, "As long as a normal person has a little ability to think, King Gu will not be so arrogant that he thinks he can successfully usurp the throne."
Just from the Beijing camp, two to three hundred thousand elite troops can be mobilized at will. On the other hand, the King of Valley can't gather 10,000 people even if he brings the whole family with him.
With such a disparity in military strength, how dare King Gu dare to rebel?
No wonder Zhu Di set this precedent.
Ever since Zhu Di started his career and conquered the world with three thousand troops, he gave other vassal kings a false impression.
——It’s okay for me to go up to you.
But what level of player is Zhu Di, and what level of player is his opponent?
Geng Bingwen, who was good at defense but not good at offense but was forced to attack, Li Jinglong, the "first generation god of war" who was suspected of being the master of Yanwang, and Emperor Jianwen, a "master of micro-management" who played a good game of chess but lost all the games.
The only one who was worthy of great use, Sheng Yong, was defeated by Zhu Di's "Feng Lai".
But what is the configuration of the generals of the Yongle Dynasty now?
Not to mention Zhu Di and Zhu Gaojie, Zhang Fu alone is enough to defeat all the invincible opponents in the world.
Under such circumstances, King Gu still dared to rebel.
If you say that there is nothing wrong with King Gu’s mind, who would believe it?
Zhu Di asked: "So, who will do this?"
Zhu Gaojie looked at Shen Qingyu.
With Shen Qingyu's talents, she is naturally qualified for this position.
Of course, Shen Qingyu noticed His Highness's gaze and was filled with joy. This was a good opportunity to show off his talents. If he could suppress King Gu, not only would his status in His Highness' heart skyrocket, but he would also be able to come into His Majesty's sight. .
However, Zhu Di shook his head.
Shen Qingyu lowered her head as if struck by lightning, with unnoticeable unwillingness and hatred in her eyes.
Zhu Gaojie was puzzled, but he didn't say anything. He said instead: "The Jin Yiwei commanded Zhang Muzhi, so it can be used."
Zhu Di nodded slightly: "Then as you wish, Zhang Muzhi will command the Jin Yiwei and be responsible for sneaking into Changsha City to deal with King Gu."
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Afterwards, all the officials in the Qianqing Palace retreated, leaving only Zhu Di and Zhu Gaojiu, father and son.
Zhu Di said: "Today at noon, you can stay with me for dinner."
Zhu Gaojie, who usually likes to eat and drink in Qianqing Palace, did not agree this time. After a long time, he slowly asked: "Why not let Shen Qingyu deal with King Gu? He should be the most suitable candidate." , with his talents, it is too unfair to serve as a commander and commander. If he has such merit, I can promote him to a higher position, not just as a Jin Yiwei."
Zhu Di shook his head and said: "Shen Qingyu is talented, I understand, but this person has evil intentions and ambitions, do you understand?"
He had already seen Shen Qingyu in the future. In Emperor Hengjing's later years, he had thoughts of rebellion. Fortunately, Emperor Hengjing in his twilight years still maintained his sense and eradicated Shen Qingyu.
However, Zhu Di didn't want to use this person anymore because it was too dangerous.
Zhu Gaojie nodded: "I understand."
"You are still young. If you don't understand, you can learn from me...wait, what did you say?" Zhu Di was stunned.
Zhu Gaojie smiled slightly and said: "I know that Shen Qingyu's ambition is not obvious at the moment. Once he reaches a high position, he will definitely have evil thoughts to backfire."
But it is precisely because of this that I want to use him, and use him responsibly, break his bones and suck out his marrow, squeeze out his last value, and then... bury him."
For me, this is a double-edged sword, but if the double-edged sword can be used well, it may not be a sharp knife."