Zhu Di thought for a moment and suddenly figured out something.
Whether it was for the Crown Prince Zhu Gaojie or the Hengjing Emperor Zhu Gaojie, from the beginning to the end, Shen Qingyu was just a double-edged sword that could be discarded at any time.
Shen Qingyu has served Emperor Hengjing conscientiously for fifty years. It is not easy for him to be over seventy years old and still thinking about usurping the throne.
But we can also think about it from another angle: Emperor Hengjing spent fifty years of whoring with Shen Qingyu in vain.
In the past fifty years, Emperor Hengjing used Shen Qingyu to do countless dirty things and scandals, and even used Shen Qingyu to conquer a huge territory. He also used Shen Qingyu to conquer several Western expeditions, including the Holy Roman Empire and France. Beaten down.
It took Shen Qingyu fifty years to finally get to the moment when Emperor Hengjing was about to die in his later years. But what he was waiting for was not the yellow robe, but hundreds of swordsmen and axemen who were ambushing the Qianqing Palace, and finally chopped Shen Qingyu into pieces. A puddle of meat.
However, Emperor Hengjing did not treat Shen Qingyu badly. He gave Shen Qingyu the dukedom of the country, with all the glory and wealth, but in the end, Shen Qingyu was greedy and killed herself.
A double-edged sword can hurt others and yourself, but for people like Emperor Hengjing, it is an invincible sharp blade.
He can crush Shen Qingyu to death at any time.
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Shen Qingyu sat alone in front of the eucalyptus table. The night was thick and there was a dead darkness. Only a green lamp on the eucalyptus lit up the dim light.
Under the dim candlelight, you can see a letter with still wet ink.
This is a letter written by Shen Qingyu to King Gu. In the letter, he clearly informed King Gu that the imperial court was going to attack Changsha, and that Jin Yiwei would attack it from the inside.
But he was very smart. He only wrote in the letter that the imperial court was going to take action against Changsha, without marking the specific content, in case King Gu turned the letter over to the imperial court after his rebellion, and the imperial court traced his case based on the contents of the letter.
Despite this, as long as the King of Gu is a little wary, Zhu Gaojie's plan can be killed in the womb, and Zhang Muzhi and others will be buried in Changsha.
When Zhang Mu dies, His Highness will realize that the most reliable candidate for Jin Yiwei at the moment is still Shen Qingyu.
How can the interests of the imperial court compare with his own interests?
It is true that Zhang Muzhi is his good friend, but if this friend becomes a roadblock for him, he will betray him without hesitation.
However, Shen Qingyu hesitated for a long time and chose to crumple the letter into a ball, light it on a candle, and let it burn to ashes.
He gave up betraying Zhang Muzhi not because his conscience felt that he would be too owed to His Highness by doing so, nor because he did not want to leave Zhang Muzhi as his good friend.
Shen Qingyu was just afraid that even if he did it perfectly, His Highness would find out about him.
He did not notice that in the darkness, there was a shadow blending into the night, and a pair of pure black eyes behind him, silently watching his every move.
It wasn't until Shen Qingyu burned the letter that the shadow left without leaving a trace.
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A Qi went to an attic in the East Palace and said to the prince who was across the window: "As you expected, Shen Qingyu did have a different intention, but in the end he chose to give up, probably because he was afraid that you would find out about him. ."
Zhu Gaojie in the back room was leaning against the window, using scissors to repair the branches and leaves of potted green plants, and chuckled: "He is a smart man."
A Qi hesitated for a moment and said: "This man is too deep in the city and is a hidden danger. There is no way to guard against thieves for a thousand days. I can keep an eye on him once, but I can't keep an eye on him all the time, just in case he gets up again next time."
What should I do if I don't care? Why don't you just let me kill him, it will save you a lot of trouble..."
"It's easy to kill people, but what happens after you kill them?"
Zhu Gaojie said leisurely, "Killing is the most despicable and useless method. Killing will only be used to solve problems when it is absolutely necessary."
A Qi was speechless, thinking that anyone was qualified to say this, but you, Zhu Gaojie, was not qualified.
Haven't you killed enough people yet? When you left Liaodong in the east, you killed a bloody storm in Nuergandusi. You built a capital temple to shock the Northeast with your reputation for killing. You attacked North Korea and the capital of North Korea became a dead city.
In the Japanese country, tens of thousands of Japanese troops were completely wiped out, and no one from the shogunate and the royal family survived; when they attacked the southwest, more than 100,000 Japanese troops were surrounded and annihilated without leaving any survivors!
You have killed hundreds of thousands of people, and now you are telling me: killing is the most useless method.
Are you polite?
Zhu Gaojie didn't seem to be aware of it and continued to talk to himself: "A mediocre ruler chooses ministers, a good ruler uses ministers. A mediocre monarch chooses wise ministers and wise ministers, but a monarch with good plans and a mind of mountains and rivers will use different ministers."
In different positions.”
A Qi said: "Don't you feel embarrassed that you are so boastful?"
Zhu Gaojie touched his chin and said, "Come here and let me slap you twice."
"Thank you for the invitation, farewell!"
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Zhu Gaojie smiled and turned around to see Zhang Yingzhen combing her long black hair with a wooden comb in front of a bronze mirror. The beauty in the mirror had eyes as cold as the silver moon, lips as red as cherries, and a pretty face that could be broken by frost.
It makes people want to take a bite.
He stepped forward, took hold of the white and tender catkins of the Crown Princess, took the comb, and combed his wife's long hair.
Zhang Yingzhen looked at the young man and the beauty in the bronze mirror, a match made in heaven, and couldn't help but smile. There was only strong love in her and his eyes.
I thought it was just a political marriage, but I never expected that both of them would meet the person of their lives.
"When I was a child, I used to sit on the roof of Prince Yan's Mansion and look out at Shuntian Mansion in winter. Snowflakes like broken rice paper were falling. In an instant, all I could see was that the sky and the earth were white, and the palace walls were red. The falling snow made no sound.
The lead has been washed away, as if a drunken immortal crushed the white clouds into pieces."
Zhu Gaojie lowered his head and put it against his wife's cheek. He could smell the orchid-like body fragrance and said softly, "This kind of falling snow always reminds people of the excitement of children having snowball fights, and the leisurely time of three or two friends making tea and drinking wine.
It’s not bleak, it just gives people warmth and hope.”
If you are alone, boil a pot of wine and have a drink; if you are a family, cook a pot of mutton. Look out the window lazily, people are slow, time is passing slowly, and thousands of thoughts are slowly condensed in
Snowflakes slowly fall down, and then are slowly picked up by the wind."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! How many vicissitudes of time have passed, how much wind and snow there are in the world, looking at the snowflakes falling in the distance, dreaming back to ancient China. A sudden snow makes this city and you and me grow old.
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Zhang Yingzhen said softly: "The past has been buried deep in the fireworks, but you are always here."
Suddenly, Zhu Gaojie bent down and hugged his wife, saying: "It's quiet at night, shouldn't we make some noise?"
Zhang Yingzhen exclaimed and said shyly: "Stop making trouble, the child is still asleep."
"Wouldn't it be better to sleep?"
The night was dark, and there was a hint of crimson in the window. I don't know if it was the blush on the beauty's cheeks, or the man's high-spirited enthusiasm.
Outside the window, A Qi leaned against the wall and heard the movement in the room. Under the cold mask, a flush covered his snow-white neck.
A Qi muttered in his heart: "Shameless, bah!"
"After two or three hours of fussing, isn't it just a shiver in the end!"
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"Nephew, come and try on this piece of clothing."
At the palace in Changsha, King Gu walked up to King Chongyang with a box in his hand and said with a smile.
The young King Chongyang was a little curious: "Uncle King Gu, what kind of clothes are they?"
"You can tell the best clothes just by looking at them."
"Yeah……"
King Chongyang took the box and opened it. It was okay not to look at it, but when he saw it, he was so frightened that he almost lost his mind. The wooden box in his hand fell to the ground, and the clothes inside came out.
This is a black crown gown, with eight chapters of sun, moon, dragon, stars, mountains, fire, Chinese insects, and Zongyi. The sun pattern is on the left, the moon pattern is on the right, and the dragon is on both arms, both of which are rising dragons.
The stars are on the back, and the mountains are under the stars. They are five peaks in parallel. Just looking at it makes you feel dignified and majestic, because this is the emperor's crown robe, also called Xuanyi.
Mianfu is the most solemn piece of clothing in the dragon robe. The main body is black. The emperor will only wear the mianfu when he brings civil and military officials and royal family members to worship heaven and earth.
King Chongyang said tremblingly: "Uncle, where did you get this crown robe? Hiding the emperor's crown robe privately is going to kill the nine tribes!"
"Kill the Nine Tribes? Whose Nine Tribes are to be punished? You and I are all the Zhu family. If we are to kill the Nine Tribes, wouldn't it mean that the emperor and the prince must also be included in it?"
King Gu said calmly, "Don't drop the dragon robe to the ground. Pick it up."
King Chongyang waved his hand quickly: "I don't dare to touch this thing, uncle, please spare me."
"I asked you to pick it up!"
King Gu suddenly shouted loudly, which startled King Chongyang.
He sneered and said: "My dear nephew, you have been eating, drinking and having fun in my palace these days. My uncle has not treated you badly, right? I told you before that if uncle and I need your help one day, you immediately agreed. What a coincidence.
, now uncle, I need your help."
King Chongyang had an ominous premonition: "Uncle, what do you want me to do for you?"
King Gu grinned and said: "It's very simple, I want you to pretend to be a person."
"Who are you pretending to be?"
"Emperor Jianwen, Zhu Yunwen."
There was a loud bang in King Chongyang's head, and everything went blank. He was frightened.
He never thought that King Gu could actually say such rebellious words.
"Uncle Gu Wang, my nephew has to say goodbye first!"
King Chongyang couldn't care about anything else and just wanted to escape. "My nephew has been entertained by his uncle in Changsha these days. He has been taught a lot. He has thought about his mistakes. Now he wants to go back to Chengdu to admit his mistakes to my father. My nephew is very worried."
I miss the Prince of Shu’s Mansion in Chengdu, so I won’t stay any longer, so I say goodbye!”
He ran to the door, but then retreated into the house.
However, they saw a sword-wielding general coming up from behind the door, none other than Zhang Cheng, the commander of the Huguang Dusi. Behind Zhang Cheng, there were countless armored dead soldiers, blocking King Chongyang's path.
"Nephew, don't leave in a hurry."
King Gu said gloomily, "You come to see me in Changsha, Uncle Gu Wang, and I will treat you with delicious food and drink without saying a word. Now your Uncle Gu Wang asks you to do a small favor, and you are here reluctantly."
, you say, is this reasonable?"
Now I leave it here, if you wear the imperial robe of Emperor Jianwen, everyone will be happy. If you don’t wear it, you will suffer the same consequences!"
When King Chongyang heard this, his heart felt cold.
He was filled with regret now, and he hated himself for not listening to his father's words and staying at the Prince of Shu's Mansion in Chengdu.
No matter if he stays behind closed doors all day long, his father is doing it for his own good after all.
However, as a young and ignorant person, he always felt that his father was persecuting him, and he tried desperately to escape from the Shu Palace. He thought he had escaped from the prison, but little did he know that the cage of the Shu Palace was the safest fortress. From the Shu Palace
After he came out, the outside world was so dangerous that any wave could drown him.
Now that he stepped into Prince Gu's Mansion, he thought he would be greeted by a sea of flowers in full bloom. However, under the sea of flowers, there were chains stained with blood hidden, and it was a darker purgatory.
Although King Chongyang did not know what King Gu's purpose was, he knew that this was a darkest road, and that the dark end point was an even darker death.
People, what they are protected by, they are restricted by. What can keep you from the sun is also protecting you from the wind and rain.
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After King Chongyang was forced to wear the imperial robe, King Gu was fascinated.
It's so similar, almost exactly the same.
If he hadn't known the truth of the matter, he might have really thought that the person standing in front of him was Emperor Jianwen.
King Gu said to Zhang Cheng, the commander of the Huguang capital on the side: "Did you see it? This is Emperor Jianwen!"
Back then, I deliberately opened the Jinchuan Gate to let Emperor Jianwen go and let him hide in my house. Now I will explain this clearly so that I can lead you to seek wealth together."
Zhang Cheng lowered his head and said, "Yes, what the prince said is the truth."
Of course he knew that Emperor Jianwen was fake.
Flowers are not flowers, mist is not mist, virtual and real, whether Emperor Jianwen is true or false, does it matter?
What is really important is to let others believe that this is Emperor Jianwen!
Whatever is good for them is true, and whatever is bad for them is all false!
King Gu said: "Go and prepare. Over the years, we have recruited troops, appointed commanders, built warships and crossbows, and trained sailors to be brave, just to pursue a great cause. Now everything is ready, and great things can be expected."
In the name of Emperor Jianwen, the official announcement is that within the four seas, in the name of supporting the country and upholding justice, we must attack Zhu Di and help the country!"
"yes!"
Zhang Cheng nodded, but suddenly regretted it in his heart.
He helped the King of Gu conspire to rebel, and wanted to be the hero of the dragon, and be crowned king and prime minister. But if he failed, what awaited him would undoubtedly be the butcher's knife of Caishikou.
However, the matter has come to this point, and there is no way back, we can only go to the dark side.
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Zhang Cheng left the palace through the back door and followed the path to Dusi Yamen.
He has walked this alley countless times, but few people know about it. This is because his identity is too sensitive. He is the commander-in-chief of the imperial court in Huguang. If he has an ambiguous relationship with Prince Gu's palace on the surface, it will easily arouse the vigilance of the imperial court.
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Suddenly, a figure vaguely appeared in the darkness, following Zhang Cheng's footsteps and walking forward quickly.
Zhang Cheng suddenly turned around, but his vision went dark. He was about to shout, but felt a sharp pain in his head, and then he felt the world spinning and he fell into a drowsy state.
He was covered in a sack and struck with a stick. Zhang Cheng fell unconscious on the spot.
After the person fainted, the sack was opened.
Several unknown people stood around watching and talking in low voices: "Is it him?"
"It's him. It's unmistakable. The commander of Huguang City is Zhang Cheng. Our Huguang Guards have been keeping an eye on him for two years. During this period, he made hundreds of trips to Prince Gu's Mansion. There must be something fishy with Prince Gu."