A ray of rising sun pierced through the heavy dark clouds, peering into this new empire that was in ruins and waiting to be revitalized.
Forbidden City, inside the imperial study.
Putting aside the pile of memorials next to him and ignoring them, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor, was frowning and staring at the joint memorial on the table.
He wanted to tear it up, but knew it would be useless.
These guys who accept death will definitely continue to write, and they can even find a few more people who are not afraid of death from the nooks and crannies and add their names.
This memorial was written by Song Lian, the Crown Prince and Tutor.
There are nearly ten thousand words in a eloquent way, and the general idea is to advise the emperor not to enfeoff the kings. The dangers of enfeoffment are one, two, three, four, five...
Song Lian is an old scholar, stubborn and can only write this kind of excerpts.
As a result, even Liu Bowen led the civil servants to follow suit, including many of the founding officials.
This is a naked group bullying to bully our old Zhu who is an honest person!
Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang felt a fire rising in his heart.
Now that the world has been settled, apart from the northern grasslands, the shores of the land are not royal lands.
In the past, it didn't matter whether it was a muddy temple or a wilderness in the woods. As long as I fell down, I would fall asleep.
Nowadays, he is so worried that he keeps his eyes open every night until dawn.
Because he asks himself every night: Is the world at peace? Is my country stable?
No!
Taiping belongs to others. As long as he sits on the throne that everyone cares about, he will never have peace!
The "real dragon emperor comes to the world" is a story made up by the people below to deceive the ignorant people and win over people's hearts.
"A white rainbow penetrates the sun, and the mountains and rivers change color" is just a nonsense slogan made by Liu Bowen to inspire the soldiers of the Northern Expedition.
In fact, he, Zhu Yuanzhang, was just an ordinary person who had to eat, let go of cattle, and become a monk in order to fill his stomach. He was forced to rebel, but he was lucky enough to fight all the way to the end.
He can do it, and so can others.
Those old guys who followed him to conquer the world understand this very well.
These old guys are all good at fighting and have heavy troops.
Now that there are no enemies, they are the biggest enemies of the imperial power.
Just a few months ago, Liao Yongzhong, the Marquis of Deqing, was found to be hiding a dragon robe in his home.
Those were brothers who had been together through life and death!
But I still can’t believe it!
He immediately scolded the other party severely, and then executed Liao Yongzhong in tears, regardless of the pleas of Xu Da and others.
The minister conspired to rebel and wanted to barbarize the nine tribes in accordance with the law.
He considered the feelings of his brothers and spared the lives of more than a hundred members of the Liao family, but only deprived him of the inheritance of the title.
Just like that, some idiots called him cold-blooded.
Lan Yu even got drunk and publicly said in front of many Huaixi nobles that Liao Yongzhong was a loyal person who had been framed.
Zhongliang?!
He is Zhongliang, so who am I, Lao Zhu?
Is he a fool?!
As expected, none of these people are good at repaying their kindness!!
From this incident, Zhu Yuanzhang understood one thing: father and son go into battle and fight against tigers as brothers.
After working hard to build a country, in the end, one has to let one's sons guard it in order to sleep peacefully.
To put it bluntly, even if the vassal princes rebelled and seized the throne in the future, wouldn't they still be members of the old Zhu family?
Although these founding figures were brothers to him on the surface, they were still people with different surnames that he could not trust.
This matter of the title of king and vassal was settled by him, Lao Zhu!
"Your Majesty, have you forgotten the Eight Kings Rebellion of the Han Dynasty? In the future, if the vassal kings cannot lose their power, they will inevitably rebel, so think twice!"
Outside the imperial study, the ministers cried and howled one after another.
"Your Majesty, I sincerely request your Majesty to take back the decree to enfeoff the kings."
"The danger of national subjugation is laid here, and the emperor's years of hard work on the war will be in vain."
"..."
Zhu Yuanzhang closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
Damn it, these rotten civil servants are really abominable.
They made trouble when Hongwu was crowned king in the third year, and even threatened themselves with collective resignation.
At that time, he felt that the court was still unstable and needed the work of these ministers, so he had no choice but to take a step back and said that the feudal lands would not be divided for the time being, so that these ministers could stop.
A few days ago, he sealed a few more newborn sons and finished what he had not finished last time.
The civil servants started making noises in court, making the court as lively as a market.
The imperial censor Chen Ning shouted in court: "To govern a country, we must strengthen the branches and strengthen the branches. Dividing the world into dozens of kingdoms is the same as subjugating the country!"
Then, he hit his head on a pillar of the hall and died.
Immediately afterwards, objections to the enfeoffment immediately piled up on the imperial court like snowflakes.
Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang ignored him, they blocked him in the imperial study room.
By this time, these ministers had been kneeling outside for two days and two nights.
Zhu Yuanzhang was very aware of the virtues of this group of literati, and few of them dared to truly seek death except for making trouble.
Therefore, he told them early in the morning not to worry about them, and he would only carry them out when they couldn't bear it any longer and fainted.
It doesn't matter if you have to seek death, it's better to die.
"If the emperor does not take back his decree, then let the humble minister resign and return to his hometown."
I don't know which minister shouted again in a hoarse voice.
The same thing happens again, the same thing happens again.
After all, the title of king is his family matter.
It's abominable enough for these sour scholars to point fingers at him, but they dare to threaten him!!
It’s so deceiving!!
Now that the imperial decrees are mature and running well, any missing minister can be replaced, so why does he need to be so angry?!
The leaders kneeling outside the door were all the teachers he assigned to the prince. As a result, they spent all day driving a wedge between the father, son and brothers of the Zhu family.
Now Biao'er is obeying their advice. After he dies, won't these old guys have their tails floating in the sky and control the government?
In this case, let's just take advantage of this time to clean up these old guys and clear the way for the Ming Dynasty!
Bring out the ancestral craftsmanship of making boards and kill a few blind bitches to let everyone in the world know who has the final say!!
Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang gritted his teeth and said to Erhu, the attendant at his side: "Give me the order. Those who kneel outside the door and won't leave will be given twenty pieces of board each. I'll beat them to death as hard as I can and make sure they remember. Who dares?"
Go secretly and tell the queen, and you will be guilty of the same crime as the people outside the door!"
When the two tigers heard this, they did not go out immediately. Instead, they stood there and stopped talking.
Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly turned cold: "What? Even you want to resist the decree?"
Erhu's round purple face turned pale with fright, and he knelt down in a hurry: "Erhu doesn't dare, there is really something that needs to be understood by the Emperor."
“If you fart, hurry up!!”
Erhu stammered: "Prince Xiang is also outside the door. If these twenty boards go down, Erhu is worried that the young prince will not be able to bear it..."
The muscles on Zhu Yuanzhang's face twitched, he squinted his eyes, and the cold light gathered slightly: "Are you talking about the twelfth Zhu Bai?!"
Erhu lowered his head: "Erhu didn't dare to deceive the emperor. Prince Xiang is indeed outside at the moment."
Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and murmured: "Why is this kid joining in the fun? Shouldn't he be studying in the main hall right now?"
As if to respond to his doubts, Zhu Bai's childish cry was heard from outside: "Oppose enfeoffment! Abolish feudal autocracy! Give me my freedom! Please take back your decree!"
