The ministers beat Li Jinglong violently, and the anger subsided slightly, and Fang Xiaoru came up with an idea and said: "There are still 200,000 strong soldiers in the city, the city is high and the pool is deep, and the food is sufficient. All the residents outside the city should be driven into the city, and all the timber outside the city should be rushed into the city, so that the Yan soldiers will have no siege equipment and will evacuate on their own after a long time. ”

Emperor Jianwen obeyed, and in this way, in the middle of the summer season, the common people carried huge trees under the poisonous sun, hungry, thirsty, and labored, and suffered countless deaths and injuries. In order to avoid the drudgery of demolishing their houses and transporting them into the city, many people set fire to their houses, and the fires continued for days.

The roof leak happened to rain overnight, and the boat leak was hit by the head wind. The good Jinling City, the northeast and southwest corners collapsed for no reason, and the imperial court hurriedly sent soldiers and people to repair it, complaining about the heavens and the earth, and the officials and people could not rest day and night.

In a panic, Emperor Jianwen sent Li Jinglong and the princes out of the city one after another, begging Zhu Di, the king of Yan, to withdraw his troops and promise to divide the land and divide the world. Of course, Zhu Di would not retreat, and he insisted on arresting the traitorous ministers, and the kings all touched the soft nails and returned.

Emperor Jianwen met with the ministers, wept in public, some persuaded Emperor Jianwen to flee to Shu, some persuaded to flee to Zhejiang, some persuaded to flee to Huxiang, there were many opinions, I don't know what to do, Qi Qin and Huang Zicheng, who were the first to propose to cut the domain, went out to recruit troops earlier. At this point, Emperor Jianwen was at a loss, sighed every day, and said hatefully: "Everything happened because of you, and now you all abandon me." ”

Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was afraid that the army of King Qin of the Quartet would come, so he sent the generals of the army to study the strategy of attacking the city day and night, wanting to end the battle as soon as possible. The sentinel detective knew that the Jinchuan Gate was guarded by Li Jinglong, and Zhu Di took the lead in sending troops to attack, and as soon as the Yan army arrived, Li Jinglong and Zhu Hui, the king of the valley, immediately opened the city gate and surrendered. Dozens of Emperor Jianwen's courtiers led by Ru Yu, the secretary of the Ministry of War, also surrendered one after another and asked Zhu Di to be the emperor.

Li Jinglong is the son of Zhu Yuanzhang's important minister Li Wenzhong, Li Wenzhong is Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew, and even Li Jinglong's name was given by Zhu Yuanzhang. This person is dignified, with sparse eyebrows, Gu Pan Weiran, but he is actually a beautiful man with embroidered pillows. He lost his armor and lost 800,000 troops before, and Emperor Jianwen did not kill him, at the moment of crisis, he not only did not repay him with death, but first opened the city gate to surrender to Zhu Di, and this person's character is really bad to decline.

After Zhu Di ascended the throne, Li Jinglong was awarded Fengtian Fuyun to promote the sincerity of Xuanli Wuchen, and increase the age of Lu Qianshi. Whenever a major event occurs in the imperial court, he also stands at the head of the class to preside over political discussions, for which all the heroes are unhappy. In the second year of Yongle, Zhu Di's brother King Zhou accused Li Jinglong of forcibly asking for bribes from him during the Jianwen Dynasty. After all, he was his cousin, and Zhu Di couldn't bear to add to the crime, so he just stripped him of his title and returned home as a duke and was suspended.

Some time later, some ministers impeached Li Jinglong for being reprimanded by the cabinet at home, as if he were a monarch and a minister, and he was a great rebel; Li Jinglong's son, Li Zengzhi, set up many farms and cultivated thousands of children and servants, with ill intentions. Only then did Zhu Di order that Li Jinglong's father and son, along with their families, be placed under house arrest and all their family property confiscated. The old buddies played Lai Pi and went on a hunger strike, and they didn't die for more than ten days, so they continued to survive and gasp, and they didn't die of illness until the end of Yongle under loneliness and desolation.

Emperor Jianwen was in a hurry and left the country. Emperor Jianwen is a major mystery in Chinese history, the palace caught fire, and Emperor Jianwen did not know what to do. But Zhu Di found the body of the emperor and queen in the fire, and it took more than eight days to bury them, and he unilaterally announced that Emperor Jianwen had been burned to death. But after he became emperor, he still didn't worry about Emperor Jianwen, afraid that the corpse was someone else, for fear that this nephew would make a comeback in the future if he was still alive, and sent people to look for him.

Zheng He went to the West several times since the third year of Yongle, ostensibly to declare the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, squandering countless gold and silver along the way, but in fact, the most important purpose was only one, that is, to visit the whereabouts of Emperor Jianwen. Of course, the seven voyages to the Western Ocean are the feat of China's conquest of the sea, and it is said that the Americas were first discovered by Zheng He, earlier than Columbus. It is estimated that neither Zhu Di nor Zheng He expected that the feat of searching for the whereabouts of a little emperor would bring about so many big movements in the future.

Emperor Jianwen's grandson inherited orthodoxy and held the position of Zhengshuo, but he was defeated at the hands of the rebellious vassal king, which was really a very unexpected ending in Chinese history.

Emperor Jianwen Rouren, the Yan soldiers are all brave and brave, Emperor Jianwen actually issued an edict before the war not to hurt my uncle, it is not clear, causing Zhu Di to survive many times, if the Ming army can capture the thief on the battlefield and kill the king first, the Yan army would have been defeated long ago.

Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai, and Fang Xiaoru were all scholars, and they rushed to implement the plan of cutting the feudal domain, but they did not know the war, and they did not have any great strategic vision, so that they mistakenly misunderstood the country, and finally caused the tragedy of extermination.

Geng Bingwen commanded 300,000 troops alone; Li Jinglong was defeated twice, commanding 500,000 troops in World War I and 300,000 troops in World War I; Sheng Yong commanded 200,000 troops alone, and the Ming army joined forces with the world's troops and held the hand of one person. On the other hand, Zhu Di is a lonely city, which is conducive to war and defense, and is conducive to cooperation and division. If the generals of Shandong and Hebei had been ordered to support tens of thousands of people, hold on to the city, and for a long time, Zhu Di, who raised troops with traitors and thieves, would win one battle and lose two battles, and had been patrolling the narrow areas of Hebei and Shanxi, and could not survive two battles for a while, and the hearts of the army would eventually collapse.

Emperor Jianwen hesitated and always made fatal mistakes at critical moments. If the imperial court did not recruit Xu Huizu back to Jinling, but let him stay where he was and fight the Yan army with Xu Fu, it was likely to turn the entire battlefield situation and deal a fatal final blow to the Yan army, which was already at the end of the crossbow.

Throughout the entire process of the dragon and tiger fight, Emperor Jianwen's side seems to have no particularly outstanding master talents except for Sheng Yong and Ping'an. This is also due to Zhu Yuanzhang, because all the wise, brave and powerful famous generals have already been exterminated, and all the generals left behind are third- and fourth-rate generals, naturally not the opponent of Zhu Di, the king of Yan.

After Zhu Di entered Beijing, he immediately unveiled a reward for the arrest of dozens of Jianwen Emperor's courtiers such as Huang Zicheng, Qi Qin, Fang Xiaoru, and Tie Xuan, and cleared the palace for three days, killing countless palace people, female officials and internal officials, leaving only a group of eunuchs who had reported to him through the wind.

He also moved Emperor Jianwen's mother to Yiwenling and imprisoned him, killing Emperor Jianwen's three brothers, and Emperor Jianwen's seven-year-old prince Zhu Wenkui died in the chaos, and must have been killed by Zhu Di. The other youngest son Zhu Wengui was only two years old at the time, still in his arms, Zhu Di first put the child in the Guang'an Palace, until the Ming Yingzong was released, he was fifty-seven years old, he could not distinguish between horses and cows, and was completely imprisoned into a dementia.

After Zhu Di sent someone to extinguish the fire in the palace, the first thing he did was to summon Fang Xiaoru, a doctor of literature, to draft his own edict of succession.

Fang Xiaoru was a loyal minister of Emperor Jianwen, wearing a decrepit white robe and crying under His Majesty. Zhu Di summoned him into the hall, but Fang Xiaoru did not give a salute, still crying.

Zhu Di persuaded Fang Xiaoru: "I am following the example of Duke Zhou to assist the king." ”

Fang Xiaoru stopped crying and asked sharply: "Where is King Cheng?"

"He set himself on fire and died!" replied Zhu Di.

Fang Xiaoru asked again: "Why don't you become the son of the king?"

Zhu Di replied: "The country depends on Changjun." ”

Fang Xiaoru was aggressive, "Why don't you become the king's brother?" means that Emperor Jianwen's younger brothers are already adults.

Zhu Di had no choice but to go down to the palace in person and walked in front of Fang Xiaoru, and said with a wry smile: "These are my family affairs, sir, don't bother about these things." ”

Handing over the pen and paper left and right, Zhu Di said: "The edict to the world must be Mr. ”

Fang Xiaoru snatched the edict paper, randomly graded the numbers on it, threw the pen on the ground, and scolded while crying: "Death is death, the edict cannot be grassed!"

Zhu Di was angry and shouted: "How can I let you die happily, even if you want to die, aren't you afraid that I will punish your nine clans?"

Fang Xiaoru shouted: "How about the Ten Clans!"

At this time, Zhu Di was already on the throne, and he suddenly showed his brutal nature. He ordered the guards to cut Fang Xiaoru's lips with a big knife, until it reached his ear, and then ordered people to arrest his relatives and students of the nine clans, making up ten clans, a total of eight hundred and seventy-three people, and slashing and killing Fang Xiaoru in turn. Fang Xiaoru held back his tears, and was finally executed by Ling Chi outside the Jubao Gate at the age of forty-six.

Fang Xiaoru made a desperate poem before his execution: "The chaos from the sky knows what is especially important, and the traitorous ministers have to plan for the country." The loyal ministers exchanged blood and tears with anger, so what could they ask for to be martyred. Woohoo, woe, I'm not especial!"