Chapter 1422 Zhu Zanyi's will and the edict ten years ago
After a while of silence, a maid came to report: "Your Highness, Your Highness Prince An wants to see you."
"Invite him in!" Zhu Zanyi said immediately. After a while, An Wang Zhu Ying walked in and saw that he was awake. He asked with concern: "How do you feel now?" Default chapter [5]
"Thank you for your concern, uncle. But my illness is just like this and it won't get better." Zhu Zanyi forced a smile.
"You are still so young, why do you only say such depressing words!" Zhu Ying said: "Young people are in good health, which is different from old people. Even if the illness seems serious now, it may not be impossible to recover."
When he was talking, Zhu Zanyi just listened quietly and didn't say much. After he finished speaking, Zhu Zanyi said again: "Uncle, my grandnephew has a favor to ask you."
"You can say whatever you want, as long as I can do it, and don't call me uncle. I'm one year younger than you. It's fine for a child of a few years old to call me uncle. When I hear you call me uncle, I feel like
He looks like an old man." Zhu Ying said immediately.
"I'm going to die in a few days, so I'm going to be wild before I die." Zhu Zanyi smiled and said, "Prince An."
"When I die, please stay in Yue Fan to preside over my funeral, and continue to handle political affairs on my behalf. After my funeral is over, I ask you to help Zuo Jing succeed to the throne."
"Okay, I can agree." These things were not beyond Zhu Ying's ability, and he agreed immediately. However, he was a little confused: "Zanyi, why don't you let your brothers take care of these things? With the court here, they
It’s impossible to take away Zuo Jing’s throne.”
Zhu Ying's words were very straightforward, and Zhu Zanyi did not hide them, and said: "With the imperial court here, they naturally cannot take away Zuo Jing's throne. But there are quite a few brainless people among them, who can succeed without failing."
If I have more things to do, if I let them host the funeral, I might be able to move a lot of money back to my mansion. I don't feel sorry for the money, but I don't want the funeral to be used by them as a means of making money."
"If they are allowed to handle the government affairs, knowing that they cannot handle it for a long time, they will definitely use cronyism and accept bribes to fill up their own warehouses. That's fine. The problem is that they use private individuals to disrupt the government affairs, which in turn affects the people. Now the Annan people are resisting
It still happens from time to time. Being messed with like this by them is to force the Annamites to rebel. This is absolutely not possible! So I can never let them attend to my funeral instead of handling government affairs."
"Okay." Zhu Ying felt that what he said was reasonable, so he agreed.
"Of course I don't just care about my own enjoyment and ignore my brothers. After I die and Zuo Jing succeeds to the throne, King An, you will use the excuse of the new king succeeding to the throne and the whole country to celebrate together, and reward them greatly. But you can't let them
They are involved in funerals and government affairs." Zhu Zanyi said hurriedly because she was afraid that Zhu Ying still felt that she was stingy and didn't even spare a dime to her brothers.
His guess was indeed correct, because after hearing this, Zhu Ying's expression relaxed and he said: "It's up to you. It's also a good thing to reward them in the name of Zuo Jing. Also, don't call the locals
The Annan people, Yunxi had previously issued a decree that no one was allowed to call them Annan people, and they were all called Yue people according to the local area. According to my memory, for the original people of the vassal state, Yunxi only issued this decree, Yunxi
You can still call the locals Jurchens, Xian Yao can still call the locals Malays, only the Yue vassal can't call them Annamites. You can't violate the taboo."
"Of course I won't violate it in public, isn't this in private?" Zhu Zanyi said. The eunuchs and maids present were all brought by him from Guangxi and have nothing to do with the Annan people. Of course he dared to say so.
"Please pay more attention in private." Zhu Ying said without saying much.
They chatted for a few more words, and suddenly Zhu Zanyi started coughing violently. He couldn't stop it no matter how hard he patted his back, and he spit out a mouthful of blood. The eunuch hurried to call the doctor. The doctor rushed over quickly, checked his pulse, and even stopped him.
He coughed, but still looked troubled. He thought carefully before saying: "Your Highness, Your Highness Prince An, there is nothing I can do."
"You..." Zhu Ying was about to say something when Zhu Zanyi said: "That's all, Gu's illness is beyond human power at this time. You can go down."
"Yes, Your Highness." The doctor respectfully agreed as if he was pardoned in a dream, and then withdrew.
Zhu Zanyi coughed violently and vomited out another mouthful of blood. His close eunuch hurriedly took the medicine, but he pushed it away and said with all his strength: "Go and call the princess, Zuo Jing and Qianxue.
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"You, your body can still hold on, why did you call them here?" Zhu Ying slightly said in a panic. It was normal for Zhu Zanyi to call one of the three people alone, but he called all three of them at the same time.
, Zhu Ying immediately realized what he was going to do.
"How many days can my body last? Moreover, today is Yun Zhi's happy day. How can I die today and cause trouble for her? Even though she knows that it has been many days since my death. But just because my body can still hold on, how can I cause trouble to her by dying today?"
I have to explain everything while I am still awake. Otherwise, if I am confused before I die and cannot explain anything clearly, it will not be a good thing for the three of them and for Yue Fan." Zhu Zanyi said.
"Hey!" Zhu Ying just sighed.
After a while, three people, one primary and two young, walked in. When the little girl from the second primary school saw Zhu Zanyi, she immediately jumped over and leaned next to him and said, "Dad, what's wrong with you? You haven't spoken to Qian Xue for three or four days."
Aunt Yuan said you were sick, haven't you recovered yet?"
"Qianxue, my child." Zhu Zanyi said with a smile: "Dad's illness is not cured yet, but in the past few days, I will talk to you when I have time."
"Dad, you'd better take good care of yourself and wait until your illness is completely cured before you talk to your daughter," Qianxue said.
"My good boy." Zhu Zanyi smiled again. He then said to Princess Chen Liping: "When Qianxue gets married in the future, she must have a grand wedding and a dowry of all kinds. In the capital, my uncle allowed me to have a few
My aunt chooses her own consort, and Qianxue will also choose her own consort in the future."
"Yes, yes." Chen Liping agreed and couldn't help but shed tears.
"Mom, why are you crying?" Qian Xue asked in surprise.
"Yes, Liping, why are you crying? Although I am not too old, I have enjoyed all the things I should enjoy in my life, except being surrounded by my children and grandchildren. Of course I have regrets, but I can go there smoothly. You don't have to
Cry." Zhu Zanyi said.
"Husband!" 8 couldn't help but kneel beside the bed and burst into tears. The servants in the house were infected by her and began to cry too. The two-year-old Zuo Jing in her arms also began to cry, although he was not
No one knew why she was crying. Only Qianxue stood there blankly.
It took a while for her to stop crying and sobbing. Zhu Chanyi continued: "When I pass away in a few days, the funeral does not need to be grand. Our vassalage has a weak foundation and cannot withstand the torment. King An, you must not do this either."
It’s too grand. The common people will make the funeral very grand out of face. Our Zhu family is already the most noble family in the world, so there is no need to worry about face.”
"But, but," 8 was about to say something, but Zhu Chanyi said, "But what! It must be according to my wishes. If it is too grand, I won't be able to sleep down there!"
After hearing this, 8 reluctantly agreed; only after hearing her consent, Zhu Ying agreed.
At this time, Zhu Zanyi's spirit became more and more depressed, and it seemed that he would be unable to hold on any longer and fall asleep again, but he still managed to stay awake and said, "Bring Zuo Jing over and show me." The female officer hurriedly walked up to him.
In front of him, he held Zuo Jing and showed him; Zhu Zanyi reached out and touched Zuo Jing's face and whispered: "My child, it's true that you have to bear many things before you are an adult. It really makes you suffer."
"I'll go out first." Zhu Ying couldn't bear to see this scene and hurriedly ran away.
Zhu Zanyi looked at Zuo Jing for a while, ordered the female officer to take him out, and asked the servants to take Qianxue away. She continued to give instructions to 8: "After my death, my uncle will handle the government affairs for a period of time; after that, Zuo Jing will take over."
When he got the throne, he requested an order from his uncle and sent two men, one civil and one military, to assist him. He temporarily used blue batch to deal with the affairs of the court. But the big seal is in your hands. You must stamp it with your seal before the king's order can be effective.
Only a memorial can be issued before the matter can be returned and dealt with." At this time, he started coughing again, and it was still very severe. Even taking medicine did not have much effect, so he finished this sentence intermittently.
"Yes, husband." 8 couldn't help but wanted to cry again, but he still held it back.
"Zuo Jing, stay in Yue Fan and don't send her to the capital; Qianxue also needs to stay in Hanoi. In fact, it will be good for our family to send Qianxue to the capital, but if she goes to the capital, Zuo Jing will be too lonely alone.
No, let her stay in Hanoi." Zhu Chanyi said again. 8 half-knelt on the ground and continued to cry as she agreed.
Zhu Zhanyi gave many more instructions, and 8 kept agreeing. At the end, Zhu Zhanyi finished explaining what he was going to do. He was about to ask his servants to bring Zuo Jing and Qian Xue in again. After looking at them a few more times, he suddenly thought of something and gave the order.
The man took out a bunch of keys from the drawer, found one of them, and said, "Liping, use this key to open the second to last compartment of my cabinet."
8 wiped his tears, opened the cabinet as instructed, and took out a box.
"Pass the box to me." Zhu Zanyi said hurriedly.
"Prepare another brazier." He added.
"Your Highness, what are you trying to do?" the eunuch asked in confusion.
"Don't ask any more questions!" Zhu Zanyi suddenly said in a strong tone: "Follow my instructions!"
"Yes, Your Highness." The servant was startled and quickly found a brazier.
"You all go out. Liping, you go out too. Don't come in without my instructions." Zhu Zanyi said again.
8 was very confused. She thought that Zhu Zanyi had brought out something very important and wanted to give her last words; but he asked them all to go out. What was in the box?
But no matter how doubtful she was, she didn't dare to violate it. She agreed, turned around and left, and closed the door tightly.
"Ahem!" Zhu Zanyi coughed, while using another key to open the box, and took out a scroll that looked like an imperial edict. The scroll seemed to be old at first glance, and the satin fabric was slightly old, at least seven years old.
Zhu Zanyi opened the scroll, looked at the words on it, and said in the softest voice: "..., the emperor's grandson Yunxi was actually replaced by someone, cruel and vicious, usurping the position of grandson, and I realized it at the end of my life..."
I left this posthumous edict and changed the title of the emperor's grandson Yunwen to the emperor's great-grandson. I ordered the feudal kings to raise troops to Qingjun's side and support Yunwen as the king."
'Zanyi, my great-grandfather is already over seventy years old and his days are numbered. Yunxi is very smart. Although he is not good at dealing with trivial matters, he will definitely become a good emperor in the future. However, he died after your great grandfather (Zhu Biao) passed away.
They are completely different and have changed greatly. Although there are precedents for children and grandchildren whose temperaments have changed drastically after the death of their parents, since such people can have their temperament change drastically due to the death of their parents, they should become very caring for their relatives. Ke Yunxi and Yunwen, Yun
The brotherly love between Ren and others was not as good as before. Later, it slowly became the same as before, as if it was a newly cultivated brotherly relationship. Although he concealed this well, my great-grandfather could also feel it."
"And he has become much smarter than before, his views on things are much more mature, and he understands many principles of governing the country. This should not be understood by a teenager. No one taught him these. If not
Great-grandfather has strictly checked the access control and made sure that he was not tricked, so he will be arrested and tortured."
"He will definitely be able to govern the Ming Dynasty well, but great-grandfather is afraid that he will not be good to the clan! I will give you this legacy. If he harms the clan after he succeeds to the throne, you escape from the capital (Zhu Chanyi lived in the capital at the time), publish this legacy, and call on the vassal
Wang Qing Junzi! He can't cut out all the vassal kings at once, because he must be dissatisfied with the vassal kings who still have their clans destroyed. Qing Junzi will definitely succeed!'
"Zanyi, my great-grandfather has entrusted you with the important task of protecting our Zhu family. If Yunxi is really not good to the clan, you must publish the edict!" Zhu Zanyi recalled ten years ago, in the 30th year of Hongwu, what he had done
Once when he went to visit Zhu Yuanzhang in the palace, Yunxi was not there. Zhu Yuanzhang sent out all his servants with reasons, and suddenly took out this imperial edict to speak to him.
Zhu Zanyi was completely shocked at first. He did not expect that his great-grandfather would secretly suspect Yunxi! At that time, because he was afraid that he would be exposed with the imperial edict, Zhu Yuanzhang did not give him the edict at the time, but only asked him not to tell anyone else about it. The next year,
In the thirty-first year of Hongwu's reign, when Yunxi went to worship his ancestors, he accepted the edict.
In the following years, he was afraid that the edict would be lost or discovered, so he always carried it close to his body and never dared to let others see it. At the same time, he always carried a fire seal with him, and he would burn it immediately if it was exposed. After several years, until he came to
In Hanoi, he relaxed a little and locked the edict tightly in the box, and locked the box tightly in the cabinet. The cabinet was completely integrated with the entire dormitory and could not be moved. In most cases, the key was always carried with him.
"Today, I finally let you see the light of day again." Zhu Zanyi murmured.
(This plot has been foreshadowed before) (To be continued)