The atmosphere in the Yan army's tent was extremely solemn at this time. After watching the things floating in the sky, Zhu Di, who came back to his senses, called all his trusted generals into his tent.
But even though they have all come over, they are just standing there with no one talking. What else can they say? Even if they themselves don't believe that it is gods or magic, it does not mean that the soldiers below will not believe it or
Half convinced and half doubtful, when the imperial army comes to the battlefield like this, how can they fight? They are just going to die on the battlefield.
If they don't fight and stick to the camp, they won't have much food. When the food is exhausted, they will eventually die. So they are already in a situation of no life, but they will die early and die later.
Unless, "Your Highness, we are desperate now, so let's surrender." After Tan Yuan stood for a long time, seeing that no one was talking, he bravely came out and said. He Tan Yuan also has parents, wife, and children, and he was still there before.
When there was a way to survive, I could persist, but now that there is absolutely no chance of survival, I am unwilling to persist. I must always find a way to survive for my children.
Zhu Di glanced at him and said nothing, and neither did the other generals. Only Dao Yan said: "Tan Yuan, what do you mean by this! You must betray His Highness!"
Now that Tan Yuan had spoken out his words, he let go. He said, "Master Dao Yan, why did I betray His Highness! Can't you see what the situation is now?"
"Even if there is a possibility of breaking out, I will not say such a thing, but where is the possibility for us now?"
"To the north is the army commanded by the King of Liao, to the west is the army commanded by the Duke of Wei, and to the south is the army commanded by His Majesty himself. How can it be possible for the army commanded by the Marquis of Hui Ning and the Duke of Liang to the south?"
"I am also asking for a way out for all my brothers."
Dao Yan was about to speak, when one of Zhu Di's guards came in and said, "Your Highness, the imperial court has sent someone to persuade you to surrender."
Zhu Di stopped Dao Yan and Tan Yuan from talking and said, "Let's hear the court's conditions first. Let the court's lobbyists come in."
Zhu Gaoxu walked to the door of the Yanjun camp, waited for a while and was allowed to come in. Then he walked to the door of the tent and waited for Zhu Di's guards to lift the curtain for him and then walked in.
As soon as he walked in, he heard countless surprised voices. Everyone, including Zhu Di, was surprised that it was Zhu Gaoxu who came to be the lobbyist.
Zhu Gaoxu ignored these surprised voices, knelt down and said to Zhu Di: "My son has met his father."
Zhu Di snorted coldly: "You don't have to say such things, you are the prince of Gaoyang County of the imperial court, not my son!"
Zhu Gaoxu said: "No matter what, my father is my father."
Zhu Di snorted again: "Get up and tell me the conditions for Yunxi's offer."
Zhu Gaoxu stood up, cleared his throat and said: "Father, all the generals of the three guards of King Yan, although rebellion is an unforgivable crime, your Majesty is compassionate and does not want to add to the loss of so many lives. Therefore, I sent this king to persuade you to surrender.
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After finishing his high-profile words, Zhu Gaoxu began to talk about the topic: "All generals who are willing to surrender and have not massacred people or soldiers of the imperial court will be pardoned from the death penalty; ordinary soldiers and general flags and small flags without rank will not be asked.
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"Father," Zhu Gaoxu raised his head and looked at Zhu Di: "Your Majesty said that if the father is willing to surrender at this time, then he does not need to regard the father as a rebel. Everything is being held hostage. Although the father cannot be the king of Yan,
Yes, but Your Majesty can allow my father to live in the capital without being placed under house arrest."
When Zhu Gaoxu said this, everyone was surprised. The previous conditions, including the public announcement that Zhu Di was being coerced into rebelling, were quite normal, but it was too surprising that he was allowed to live in Beijing without being placed under house arrest.
Everyone looked at Zhu Gaoxu with suspicion. Zhu Gaoxu himself calmly accepted the scrutiny of all kinds of eyes, and just said to Zhu Di: "There is also the eldest brother, and the third brother also lives in Beijing, but he cannot leave the city without any reason."
Since Yunxi didn't intend to label Zhu Di as a rebel, he couldn't deal with them too harshly; and Yunxi felt that the capital was his home base after all, so he wouldn't be able to keep an eye on Zhu Di and his family.
Zhu Di glanced around at the expressions of the people standing below, stared at Zhu Gaoxu for a while, and said a little tiredly: "Gao Xu and Master Dao Yan stay, everyone else will go down." Then he saw that no one responded,
He raised his voice and said, "Everyone, stand down!"
Everyone had no choice but to retreat.
After everyone retreated, Zhu Di said to Zhu Gaoxu: "Did Yunxi tell you these conditions, or did you come up with them yourself? Don't lie, I can tell if you are lying."
Zhu Gaoxu said calmly: "My son did not lie. These conditions are what the emperor said."
Zhu Di said: "I understand. Also, Yunxi must have promised you something. For example, he promised you the position of King Yan, so you are working so hard for the court."
Zhu Gaoxu did not speak. Zhu Di did not continue to ask, and continued: "You are also my son after all. After inheriting the position of King Yan, you have inherited my position. I am not too much of a failure."
"After a while, I will follow you to the camp to meet Yunxi and ask for his surrender! But for now, you go down first."
Zhu Gaoxu was excited for a while. Although Zhu Di seemed to have no other way out than surrender, he was still very excited when he actually heard Zhu Di agree to surrender. This meant that he had finally obtained the position of King of Yan.
Zhu Gaoxu could not wait to take Zhu Di to the camp to ask for surrender, but now he could only bow and retreat.
After Zhu Gaoxu retreated, Zhu Di said to Dao Yan: "Master,..."
Dao Yan interrupted Zhu Di and said: "Your Highness, there is no need to say anything, the poor monk understands it. The poor monk is the most suitable person to coerce His Highness to rebel. Moreover, His Highness's rebellion this time is indeed due to the poor monk secretly causing trouble.
This is a poor monk who has been wronged."
Seeing that he understood what he meant, Zhu Di said, "Master, that's it."
After a pause, Zhu Di said to Dao Yan again: "Master, why did you have to let Gu rebel in the first place? Gu said at that time that after being forced to rebel by you, no matter you win or lose, you will not end well. Why?
Do you still want to do this?" Zhu Di has never understood this question, so he asked it now.
Dao Yanji murmured to himself in a low voice: "As expected, he changed his destiny against the will of heaven. Originally, I thought that King Yan should have the status of an emperor, but he is still no match for the man who changed his destiny against the will of heaven."
Then he said with a smile: "If Your Highness wants to know, wait until a hundred years from now Your Highness will go underground and ask a poor monk." As soon as he finished speaking, he fell to the ground as if he couldn't support himself.
Zhu Di was shocked and walked over to help Dao Yan. Zhu Di originally thought that Dao Yan could not stand such a blow and became unstable, but after checking his breath, he found that he had died.
At the end of the afternoon, Yunxi met Zhu Di who came to surrender in his tent.
Since Zhu Di had surrendered, he would not pretend to be a master just to show his "integrity" or "aesthetic value". After seeing Yunxi, he immediately knelt down and claimed that he deserved death.
Due to various considerations, Yunxi was very angry about Zhu Di's rebellion, but he did not say too much to Zhu Di. He justly criticized him for his rebellious behavior.
Then Yunhe issued an order, ordering Xu Huizu to lead the troops, and at the same time he also took Zhu Di to surrender the city of Beiping.
On the seventh day of November, Yunxi learned the news that Zhu Gaochi, who was staying in Beiping City, surrendered on the fifth day of November, ending the rebellion in Hebei.
On the same day, Yunxi also received news that civil strife broke out among the rebels in Jinan City after seeing Lu Yuan being captured alive and hearing that Qingzhou and other places had been lost. Xie Cheng could not control the situation and committed suicide by taking poison. Someone opened the city to welcome the king's division. city.
So far, although there are still some prefectures and counties in the Dongchang Prefecture area that are still occupied by the remnants of the rebels, the main force of the rebels has either surrendered or been destroyed, and all the named rebel civil servants and generals have been killed or captured. The remaining They have become rogues and there is no need to worry. It can be said that this rebellion has been put down.
After the rebellion is put down, it is natural to deal with related follow-up matters. The most important thing among them is not to deal with the rebels, nor to reward them based on their merits, but to thoroughly characterize the rebellion.
The true answer to the Shandong rebellion was obtained through the interrogation of the captured generals of the three guards of the former King of Qi. Yunxi felt that the true answer could be announced, so he used this as a reason to announce it to the outside world and record it in history books.
However, Yunxi was quite dumbfounded after learning the true reason for Xie Cheng's rebellion. In the end, even if this reason was announced, it might not be believed by everyone, so the reason why Yunxi ordered it to be announced was: Xie Cheng also once acted for The accomplices of King Zhu Su of Qi were afraid that the court would punish him after the rebellion in Prince Qi's Mansion was put down, so he followed the rebellion.
As for the Yan army, Yunxi thought carefully and decided not to characterize the matter as a rebellion. Instead, Zhu Di went south without the permission of the court in order to prevent the rebellion in Shandong from getting too large. As for the several encounters, they were all misunderstandings. .
Although this reason cannot be concealed, in the last two days when the Yan army was besieged, as long as a general with more than a hundred households knew the truth, Yunxi announced it and ordered it to be included in his "Records" and Various official history books compiled by the imperial court.
As for the suspicion of the literati, it is not important. The two important parties, Yunxi and Zhu Di, insisted that the literati could do nothing. At most, they could just write it down in their diaries. Yunxi didn't care, he just wanted to A past that can be explained and a reason that does not affect the unity of the royal family will be enough.
Of course, Zhu Di still needs to be punished. Zhu Di himself wrote a letter in person to resign from the throne of King Yan on the grounds that he was old and sick. Zhu Gaochi resigned from the throne of Prince Yan on the grounds that he was in poor health and was unable to take on the important responsibilities. Zhu Gaoxu then first He was named the Crown Prince of Yan, and then the King of Yan, and got what he dreamed of.
As for whether this reason can fool people who don't know the truth, Yunxi thinks it can. Zhu Biao Hongwu passed away in the twenty-fifth year (1392 AD), Zhu Feng Hongwu passed away in the twenty-eighth year (1395 AD), and Zhu Fan Hongwu died three years ago. He passed away in the eleventh year (1398). This year is the first year of Jianye (1399). According to the practice of his three brothers, he will die in two years. Is it strange that he is in poor health now? Although Zhu Di has another history Lived for more than twenty years.
As for Zhu Gaochi, who is famous for his poor health, he can be fooled even more.
However, some people still had different opinions on letting Zhu Gaoxu inherit the throne. Xu Huizu went to Yunxi and said: "Your Majesty, although the prince of Gaoyang County is brave and resourceful and good at leading troops in war, he is a bit cruel and rebellious at heart.
Your Majesty, you should think twice about calling him the King of Yan!"
Of course Yunxi knew what Zhu Gaoxu was like based on his performance in history, but he had no choice. The reasons announced to the outside world were just to fool people, and everyone knew the truth. And Zhu Gaoxu made a lot of contributions in suppressing the rebellion, and
He is the only one of Zhu Di's three sons who is on the side of the court. If he is not the king of Yan, who should be the king of Yan? And since Yunxi did not declare Zhu Di's rebellion, he must appoint a king of Yan. So it can only be Zhu Gaoxu.
But Yunxi said: "Xu Aiqing, I know this."
After deciding on the characterization of the rebellion, the next logical step would be to reward the rebels based on their merits or deal with them, but Yunxi did something that puzzled many people.
Yunxi ordered: Find a father and son among the three guards of King Yan. The father is about thirty to forty years old, and the son is sixteen years old or older. Both father and son are in the three guards of King Yan at this time. The father is probably from a hundred households.
He has an official position, and his son is an ordinary soldier. In addition, both father and son have the surname Sun. "We must find him, no matter whether he is dead or alive," Yunxi said.
Moreover, Yunxi was very nervous when he issued this order, and his facial expression completely revealed his nervousness. Even Wang Xizai, who had been following Yunxi, only saw this expression of Yunxi for the third time. The first time
The first time was when he learned that Concubine Lu wanted to kill him, and the second time was when Zhu Yuanzhang was urgently notified to return from Sizhou's ancestral mausoleum before Zhu Yuanzhang died. Even this time when he suppressed the rebellion, he learned that Zhu Di might rebel.
This has never happened before.
After Yunxi gave the order, the three guards of King Yan naturally began to wonder who met Yunxi's conditions. Then a father and son were revealed.
"What? Your Majesty wants to see me and my son? How is that possible!" Sun Shao, who was queuing up to eat with his son Sun Rui under the supervision of the Yulin Guards, even dropped the rice bowl in his hands to the ground, but he didn't notice it at all.
Jue: "How could your Majesty find us two!" He really couldn't believe it.
In fact, not only did he dare not, but even Zhang Yu, who came to send him a message, couldn't believe it at first. Zhang Yu was because his eldest son Zhang Fu was on Yunxi's side. Although Zhu Di still trusted him on the surface, there were important things.
He was not allowed to do it, so he never had the chance to show his face before.
However, Zhang Yu heard Yunxi give the order with his own ears. At that time, Yunxi called all the people from the three guards of Yanwang and above to give the order.
Zhang Yu said: "Yes, His Majesty is talking about you and his son. Stop queuing up for food here and follow me to see Your Majesty."
Then Zhang Yu took Sun Shao, who was a little confused and stared, and Sun Rui and his son went to Yunxi's tent.
