On the second day of September, when he went to court, Zhu Yuanzhang was discussing with his ministers how to appease the people in the area who surrendered and rebelled and then were defeated. All the leaders of the rebellion must be killed, but the people cannot all be killed.
Whoever you kill will pay taxes to support the officials.
Then suddenly I received an urgent memorial. It turned out that Li Chenggui deposed the throne of the King of Goryeo and established himself as king. He was afraid that the people (nobles) in the country would not accept it, so he asked Lao Zhu to be crowned king.
After reading the memorial, Lao Zhu circulated it to the ministers, and then said: "Li Chenggui deposed the King of Goryeo who took advantage of our great power and established himself as king. How do you think we should deal with it?"
The story of Goryeo is like this. In the 20th year of Hongwu (1387 AD), Lan Yu and others sent troops to the Northeast, Naha surrendered, and the Northeast was pacified. The King of Goryeo knew about it and proposed that the border between Goryeo and Goryeo should be bounded by the Liaohe River.
Let Ming Dynasty give Liaodong Bai to them. How can Lao Zhu be the one who would give up his territory? Of course not.
The King of Goryeo appointed Li Chenggui as a general, commanding 40,000 troops, and sent troops to attack Liaodong in the 21st year of Hongwu. Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Lan Yu, who had just defeated the Northern Yuan Dynasty at Yuerhai, to command 200,000 troops to Liaodong to fight. The two sides faced off for a period of time.
Afterwards, Li Chenggui thought about it and finally made up his mind, killed the deputy general, led his troops back to the capital of Goryeo to imprison the King of Goryeo, and surrendered in the name of the king. The war in the Northeast was over. After four years of observing the reactions of all parties, now it is finally
He is officially about to usurp the throne.
Li Shilu, the Minister of Dali Temple, said: "Although the King of Goryeo offended our Ming Dynasty, he was still the lord of Goryeo. Goryeo did not surrender to our Ming Dynasty at that time, so his crime should be forgiven. As a minister, Li Chenggui committed the following crimes, which is really blameless."
Forgive me, but I should refute his petition and send out a large army to suppress him."
Zhu Yuanzhang's face turned dark immediately. He had already said that the King of Goryeo had committed a crime against me, and he thought that his meaning had been expressed very clearly. Those who can become high officials are smart people who can understand their own intentions. Unexpectedly, he let
The elm-headed Li Shilu spoke first. Before he could understand his intention, he felt as if he had swallowed a fly. He even suggested sending a large army to conquer. Do you know how much food is consumed when the army moves?
Come out!
As you can see, this is a situation of not being able to understand the leader's intentions. If Lao Zhu didn't need a few people who dare to speak out to show that he is tolerant, otherwise Li Shilu would probably go to Changping to dig sand. No matter what you look at
Men and women, when looking for a partner, you must avoid people with low emotional intelligence like this!
Before Lao Zhu's face turned dark, Ren Hengtai, the Minister of Etiquette who was very observant of his words, hurriedly came to the rescue. He said: "Although Li Chenggui has offended his king, he should be convicted, but the circumstances are excusable; it was his king who offended
I, the Ming Dynasty, are ahead of me. Cheng Gui's move is to sacrifice the small righteousness for the great righteousness. I, the Ming Dynasty, should forgive him, allow him to be king, and give him the name of the country."
What Ren Hengtai meant was that it was certainly wrong for Li Chenggui to overthrow his king, but his action was based on the fact that the King of Goryeo offended our Ming Dynasty first, so his actions were loyal to our Ming Dynasty, and he made small mistakes to achieve great justice, so it was right
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Lao Zhu's expression returned to normal immediately, so all the ministers in the hall immediately responded to Ren Hengtai's suggestion, saying various words such as "Sir Ren is right!", "Sir Ren is really a clever plan", "Sir Ren's suggestion is wonderful" and so on.
Words were interspersed among them, emerging one after another. Li Shilu's expression changed, he was very embarrassed, stood blankly for a moment, and then retreated.
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't like Li Chenggui's self-proclaimed king. Li Chenggui could be regarded as usurping the throne, and he definitely didn't like such a thing; but he would not send troops to "recover justice" for the last king of Goryeo, so he could only admit it.
Already.
Zhan, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, coughed slightly, and everyone quickly came to their senses, looked at their noses and noses again, and stood up with their noses and hearts in mind. Lao Zhu said: "Then, according to the words of the Minister of Rites, let him take the throne. He also asked for the name of the country.
, dear friends, do you have any good suggestions?"
This kind of question is usually answered by a great scholar. Liu Sanwu stood up and said: "The land of Goryeo was known as the Three Koreas in ancient times. It is better to give it the name of Korea." Lao Zhu thought it was acceptable, but not very good.
Bao Xun said: "The Kingdom of Goryeo was previously the Kingdom of Silla, and the Kingdom of Silla was a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty. It would be better to rename it Silla." Lao Zhu wanted a creative name, but he had not yet spoken.
Lu Chen also said: "The ancestor of the Korean people is Qi Zi, a descendant of King Shang. Qi Zi has a brother from the same clan who was the monarch of the Song Kingdom in the Zhou Dynasty, so we can give him the name of the Song Kingdom."
Then other people came up with various names based on different reasons. Zhu Yuanzhang was not satisfied, and this matter made him very irritable. He was not even in the mood to continue the discussion on how to appease the rebels, so he waved his hand and announced.
towards.
It's okay to go to court, but the problem still needs to be solved, and the name needs to be thought of. Since he is not satisfied with the name that the ministers think of, Lao Zhu has to think of it himself. But Lao Zhu himself thought for a long time and didn't have a good idea, so he put it to himself in the afternoon.
Several of his sons were called to think about it together. The sons also put forward different suggestions, but Lao Zhu was still not satisfied. Lao Zhu was thinking about it while criticizing the memorial. As a result, he couldn't come up with the name and the memorial was also slow to approve.
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In the evening, Lao Zhu had dinner and put the matter aside for the time being. Thinking that he hadn't seen Yunwen and Yunxi for a few days, someone called them over to see how they were doing.
Yun Wen and Yun He arrived soon after, saluted to Lao Zhu one after another, and found a place to sit down. Lao Zhu first chatted about household matters, and then asked them: "What have you been doing in the ministry these days?"
Do you think there’s anything bad about it?”
Yun Wen answered honestly, what he had done, nothing bad, everyone was kind, etc.
When Yun Wen answered, Yun He cursed: "Old Zhu, there's no way you don't know what we did. Is it interesting to ask again?"
Lao Zhu did know what they had done, even clearer than their own memories, but why didn't he talk about it first when they met? Moreover, he also compared their narratives with the information he obtained to see if there was any embellishment.
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Therefore, Lao Zhu was not satisfied with Yunwen's answer, because there were misleading words in this passage. Of course, the misleading words are not wrong, but they can easily lead people to think elsewhere.
Of course, Yunwen's misleading words were taught by Huang Zicheng. The original purpose was not to deal with Lao Zhu, but to teach him how to see the problems in other people's policies. As a result, Yunwen subconsciously used them against Lao Zhu.
Zhu here.
Lao Zhu didn't mean to blame Yun Wen. He just thought that this must have been taught by Huang Zicheng. He had a great influence on Yun Wen. If Yun Wen was his grandson, Huang Zicheng must be eliminated!
After Yunwen finished speaking, it was time for Yunxi. At first, Yunxi said what he had done, and then finally he said: "Grandpa Huang, my grandson thinks there is a problem."
Lao Zhu said: "Oh, what's the problem?"
"The officials in the Ministry of War have all been in the Ministry of War for a long time and are skilled in their work, but because they cannot be promoted, they are tired and shirk their work. Sunzi uses the Ministry of War to recommend the other five departments, which should be roughly the same. If one is selected every year who has the best job
For officials, promoting them to officials and giving them the same Jinshi background or Imperial College education is likely to stimulate them to work hard and increase the speed of operation of various departments of the country."
In fact, in the Ming Dynasty, there was a system for officials to be promoted to officials, but they were all ninth-grade or eighth-grade officials, and it was basically impossible to be promoted again. In terms of benefits, it was not as good as being an official, so the stimulating effect was not great. Yunxi's suggestion is:
Not only being promoted, but also being born, means that they may become mid-level officials above the seventh rank, which is likely to greatly stimulate them.
Lao Zhu thought the suggestion was good. Just one person every year would not affect anything. He looked at Yunxi again and heard that Yunxi often studied until midnight recently. It seemed that Yunxi was quite smart. He just didn't study seriously before, but now he works hard.
, looks a little stronger than Yunwen.
Lao Zhu agreed to the suggestion on the spot and went to work immediately. He called Xiao Yongdao, a Hanlin scholar who stayed behind in the palace, to come over and draft an edict. Xiao Yongdao thought it was Yun Wen's suggestion at first, but was very surprised when he found out that it was Yun He's suggestion.
I feel like it’s completely inconsistent with Yunxi’s initial settings! Who changed the settings?
After drafting the edict, Lao Zhu remembered that most of the Hanlin Academy was full of learned people, and asked casually: "Xiao Xueshi, do you have a good name to give Li Chenggui as the name of the country?" Xiao Yongdao thought for a moment and replied: "I agree.
Senior Liu, I think South Korea is good."
Yunxi asked: "Who is given a good name?" Xiao Yongdao took a look and said that the only person present who knew about this matter could explain it to me. It was impossible for Zhu Yuanzhang to explain it. He just talked about what happened when he went to court in the morning.
This unexpected incident.
Yunxi thought to himself, shouldn't he be named North Korea in the end? Why hasn't anyone suggested it yet? That would be an advantage for me. He said, "How about naming it North Korea?"
"North Korea? What do you mean?" Lao Zhu asked.
Before Yunxi could answer, Xiao Yongdao praised: "Your Highness, this is a wonderful name! Ruchen guessed it right, it should mean 'the sun is bright'. North Korea lives in the east of the Ming Dynasty, and welcomes the sunrise first, which is exactly what it means."
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Yunxi didn't know how to get the word "North Korea". Fortunately, Xiao Yongdao explained it, otherwise he would have been left in limbo. It seems that in the future, he will not only know what it is, but also know why it is so before he can say it. Yunxi
He concluded.
Listening to Xiao Yongdao's explanation, Lao Zhu also thought it was very good, and it was his grandson who suggested it. There was nothing else. Let Xiao Yongdao draft an imperial edict. It solved a big problem that had been bothering him all day.
, Lao Zhu was in a good mood and praised Yunxi a few words. Then seeing that it was getting late, he asked the two of them to go back.
Yun Wen Wu was the most tragic person tonight. First, he described the work situation and Lao Zhu felt bad (although he didn't know it), and then asked Yun Wen to put forward two good suggestions in front of him.
He was defeated. If he were a modern person, he would probably say, "Baby is feeling bitter."
Of course, Lao Zhu saw Yun Wen's lonely expression. But how could he persuade him? This was during the time when he was competing for the throne, and any persuasion would be useless. 'We must decide who will be the crown prince as soon as possible, and we can't delay it any longer.'