"Rebuking me? Why did the Ming Emperor rebuke me?" Zhu Fangyuan asked in confusion. He had not done anything else recently except worrying about domestic reforms. How could he be reprimanded by the Ming Emperor? Because of the request of two groups of nobles in the country? Just kidding.
, how could the Emperor of Ming Dynasty be persuaded by people from the two groups?
Just as he was thinking about it, he heard the eunuch say again: "Your Highness, the waiter did not hear the Ming envoy say the content of the Ming Emperor's imperial edict. Your Highness, the Ming envoy should have arrived at the palace now. Please ask His Highness to return to the palace."
"I will go back now." Zhu Fangyuan promised, and stood up to leave Zhu's mansion. No matter why the Ming envoy came, there was no way to avoid it and not accept the order. He stood up and walked a few steps, turned around and faced the envoy again.
Zhu, who followed him, said: "You don't have to go for the time being. Return to the palace one step slower than father."
"Yes, father." Zhu agreed quickly. Zhu Fangyuan nodded, gave a few instructions to him and Zhu, and left the palace of Lord Rang Ning with the waiter.
He quickly returned to the palace and met the Ming Dynasty envoy who came to deliver the message. Zhu Fangyuan was surprised when he saw this person, and then he stepped forward and said with a smile: "It turns out to be the envoy Chen Yuan. I didn't expect that it was more than two months between the two of us.
Let’s meet again.”
"The King of Korea listens to the decree." But this time Chen Cheng said with a cold face and no intention of greeting him.
Seeing Chen Cheng's expression, Zhu Fangyuan finally felt that things were different this time. Although Chen Cheng had only been to North Korea two or three times in the past, he knew Chen Cheng's style of behavior very well. Chen Cheng had always adhered to the principle of "leaving a front line when doing things so that we can meet each other in the future."
, except for the time when Boyi Manchu was sent as an envoy and said, "Don't say you didn't predict what you said." His attitude when talking to the king of Fan Kingdom was always very kind; but this time he spoke to him so rudely, "Don't I
What big mistake did I make that was discovered by the Ming Emperor? But how could I have done anything wrong that the Ming Emperor should go to war against? Could it be that...'
Just as Zhu Fangyuan was thinking about it, Chen Cheng had already begun to read out the imperial edict. "The Emperor of Heaven has issued an edict that Zhu Fangyuan, the king of North Korea, pretended that his crown prince Zhu was seriously ill and asked me to make his third prince Zhu the crown prince instead. But in fact, his crown prince was seriously ill.
He deceived the Ming Dynasty, used insidious means to forge the prince's serious illness, and deceived me... In order to set an example, he deposed Zhu Bangyuan as the crown prince and restored Zhu as the crown prince. He ordered the king of North Korea, Zhu Bangyuan, to abdicate and let Zhu inherit the throne of North Korea.
This." After reading out, Chen Cheng folded the imperial edict, handed it to Zhu Fangyuan, and said: "Your Highness, please accept the edict."
When he heard the sentence "Abolish the throne of Zhu Fangyuan," Zhu Fangyuan was already thinking about his family; when he heard the sentence "Order Zhu Fangyuan, the king of Korea, to abdicate," Zhu Fangyuan's mind suddenly buzzed, and he was completely
No sounds from the outside world can be heard.
'The Emperor of Ming Dynasty actually knew that I was deceiving him. How did he know that I was deceiving him? Who revealed this to him? He actually wanted to abolish me and Zhu and make Zhu the king of Korea? How could this work? I
How can you give up the throne? The emperor of Ming Dynasty...'
"Your Highness, take the order. Your Highness, take the order. Your Highness, take the order." Chen Cheng said three times in a row, "Your Highness, take the order." But Zhu Fangyuan still knelt on the ground as if he couldn't hear anything, his eyes blank.
Chen Cheng was immediately frightened and said to the servants on the side: "Please call the doctor quickly! Your Highness is suffering from hysteria!"
"Call the doctor quickly!" A eunuch shouted loudly. They were also shocked by the content of the imperial decree just now, and they also knelt on the ground in a daze. They came to their senses only after hearing Chen Cheng's words and started giving orders loudly.
The Joseon palace was not big, and the inner hospital was near the palace. The doctors rushed over immediately and ordered the eunuchs to carry the king to the pedestal and send him to a nearby palace for treatment. The eunuchs also followed behind.
"Zhu Fangyuan has been carried away, but what about the imperial edict?" Chen Cheng stood there at a loss. After the imperial edict was read out, the person who was supposed to receive the edict fell down. What should he do next?
He was at a loss when he suddenly caught a glimpse of Zhu who walked in from the palace gate. Zhu seemed to have no idea what had just happened. He looked at the frightened eunuchs and guards in the palace and was asking in a low voice. Seeing this, Chen Cheng quickly
Walking to Zhu's side, he said to him: "Your Highness, your Highness suddenly fainted and fell to the ground after the official read out the imperial edict. He was unable to receive the edict. Since the Crown Prince is the crown prince of North Korea, please accept the edict on your behalf."
Zhu still didn't know what happened just now. In response to Chen Cheng's words, he took the imperial edict and said, "Father passed out on the ground? Why is this? What happened just now?"
"Please ask the prince to ask others what happened. Your Majesty has already read out the imperial edict. Please send your Majesty to the post house." Chen Cheng said.
"Hurry up and take the angel to the post house to rest." Zhu ordered, and Chen Cheng saluted him, and then followed Zhu's instructions to leave the palace and go to the post house.
Zhu hurriedly came to the palace where Zhu Fangyuan was, and saw that the doctor was treating his father. He did not dare to act rashly, and stood aside waiting for the doctor to cure his father. Only then did he open the imperial edict for the first time and take a look at the decree that caused his father to coma.
What exactly was written?
It didn't matter when he saw it, his face suddenly turned pale. He was about to faint and almost staggered, but in the end he managed to hold on. At this time, he only heard the sound of "ah", and when he turned his head, he saw that Zhu Fangyuan had returned.
After coming to his senses, he rushed to Zhu Fangyuan's side and shouted: "Father!"
"What's wrong with me?" Zhu Fangyuan said blankly, suddenly remembering what happened just now, his face instantly turned livid, and he looked down at Zhu. The look on Zhu's face was very frightened, and he said: "Father,
How could the Ming Emperor know that his eldest brother was lying to him because he was sick?"
"This must be," Zhu Fangyuan said here, suddenly remembered something, and said to everyone in the room: "Get out!" Everyone left quickly. After everyone left, Zhu Fangyuan continued: "Someone must have secretly reported this matter.
I told the Jin Yiwei of the Ming Dynasty. My father had always known that the Ming Dynasty sent the Jin Yiwei to North Korea, but as North Korea was a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, my father could not do anything but arrange for people to monitor them. Someone must have learned the truth of the matter.
, secretly told Jin Yiwei."
"This person's status cannot be lowered. Jin Yiwei is under strict supervision. If there is no powerful person, he must not pass this matter to Jin Yiwei. He must be a member of the second class, and he is dissatisfied with the recent reforms of his father.
."
"Which company could it be?" Zhu asked. Zhu Fangyuan's recent reforms have offended many people, and many people are suspicious.
"We can only investigate slowly. It may not be the behavior of a certain family. Maybe someone in the family who was affected by my father's recent reforms accidentally learned of this matter, did this without telling the family, and secretly told Jin Yiwei.
Yuan Zheng, don't worry, once you find this man, your father will definitely not be able to spare him!" Zhu Fangyuan said through gritted teeth.
But his face immediately turned sad again. "But the important thing now is not to find out who this person is, but how to deal with the Ming Emperor's will."
"Father, maybe the Emperor of Ming Dynasty does not have conclusive evidence." Zhu also said with a sense of luck: "The so-called independent evidence cannot be established. There is only one person's testimony. How can it be proved that he did such a thing? You should ask for it.
Your Majesty withdraws his decree."
"You must not think like this." Zhu Fangyuan broke his son's fantasy. "How could the Ming Emperor believe this just because of one person's testimony? And make such a decree? There must be evidence from the investigation."
"Then, how to deal with it?" Zhu was completely panicked now.
"First of all, of course, we must submit a memorial to ask His Majesty to withdraw the imperial edict. If His Majesty refuses to withdraw the imperial edict and provides evidence, then we have no choice but," Zhu Fangyuan closed his eyes and said: "The only option is to abolish your position as Crown Prince and re-establish it."
Make your eldest brother the crown prince. If the Ming Dynasty is still dissatisfied, then my father will also abdicate and your eldest brother will succeed you."
When he said this, Zhu Fangyuan felt a sense of resentment in his heart, but also a sense of sadness. He had heard about the Mongolian Yuan abolition of the king of the Goryeo Dynasty. At that time, he also laughed at the king of the Goryeo Dynasty.
He was greedy for life and afraid of death. Even if it was not advisable to send troops to fight against Meng Yuan, he should still ensure the monarch's final dignity and commit suicide. But when he faced a situation similar to those of the deposed Goryeo monarchs, he suddenly understood
them.
He couldn't commit suicide. As the saying goes, thunder and rain are all the kindness of the king. If he committed suicide, wouldn't it mean that he was dissatisfied with the imperial edict of the Ming Emperor? The Ming Emperor would hate North Korea even more, and might issue other edicts against North Korea, making the North Korean royal family even more embarrassed. Moreover,
Zhu is only 21 years old now, and he is still very immature in governing the country. Without his assistance, it may be difficult to govern North Korea well; the various reforms he is implementing may also be abandoned halfway. For the sake of the entire family, he can only survive.
,cannot die.
Of course Zhu didn't know what his father was thinking. He couldn't help crying when he heard his father's words. No one wants to have more power and a higher status? Especially since he has been the heir apparent for two months and knows how to be the heir apparent.
The benefits. But now you tell him that he can no longer be the heir apparent. How can he not be sad?
"Don't worry, your eldest brother won't do anything to you. If you hadn't been cooperating with your eldest brother when he pretended to be sick, how could he have deceived others so easily? Since he agreed to give up his position as Crown Prince, it won't be difficult for you to regain his position in the future.
." Zhu Fangyuan advised.
Zhu cried for a while, slowly stopped his tears, and said to Zhu Fangyuan: "Father, my son understands this truth. Father, there is no need to comfort him anymore."
"As long as you understand." Zhu Fangyuan glanced at his son with loving eyes, said a few words to him, asked him to return to his palace, and asked his servants to come in and serve him.
His personal eunuch hurriedly walked in, and the leader asked softly: "Your Highness, do you want the servants and others to carry His Highness back to the palace? The Queen also learned about His Highness's fainting just now, and was very anxious and wanted to visit His Highness."
"Don't be busy now. Go out and tell the guards to let Lord Ning enter the palace. I have something to say to him," Zhu Fangyuan said.
"Your Highness, you are so tired now. How can you be tired again? Even if something happens, I'd better talk to Lord Ning tomorrow." The eunuch said cautiously.
"What do you know! Go and tell Lord Ning to enter the palace!" Zhu Fangyuan shouted.
"Yes, Your Highness, I know this." He agreed and ran out to deliver the order.
"You, you go to the study, will..." Zhu Fangyuan propped up his body and wanted to give instructions to another eunuch. But before he could finish his sentence, he suddenly felt a sweetness in his throat and spit out a mouthful of blood.
"Your Highness!" The eunuchs in the room suddenly panicked and shouted: "Go to the doctor quickly! Go to the doctor quickly!"
"No one is allowed to call the doctor over, otherwise he will be executed!" Zhu Fangyuan shouted loudly.
"But, Your Highness, your body..." "It's nothing! Go to the study quickly and get the black leather notebook that I put in the drawer, and the others will clean up the room." Zhu Fangyuan said to them sharply again.
: "No one is allowed to tell anyone else about the incident where I just vomited blood!"
"Yes, Your Highness." The eunuchs did not dare to disobey his order and could only agree. One of them hurried to the study to find a black book, while the others cleaned the room.
Zhu Fangyuan leaned on the bed, looked at the eunuchs in front of her, and thought to herself: 'Since the Emperor of Ming Dynasty has issued an imperial edict, he will never take it back, so Shang Zhezi's request to retract the edict is just to delay time. In order to prevent the Emperor of Ming Dynasty from getting tired of North Korea,
If necessary, make preparations. After he approves the memorial, he will re-establish Hou Bo as his heir apparent and prepare to give up the throne.'