Huang Zicheng followed the chamberlain to the east corner gate behind the Huagai Palace, which was a long and narrow gatehouse, and there was no one before or after them except them. At this time, Zhu Yunwen faded away from gentleness and kindness, and there was something indescribable in his young face, which made him confused and hesitant.

He asked Huang Zicheng first: "The so-called 'its etiquette is not bad, it is the Four Kingdoms', the monarch's demeanor and conduct are not wrong, can he get the support of the Quartet and govern the country well?"

Huang Zicheng felt that when Taisun asked this question, he did not ask him for an answer, but he had his own doubts in his heart, and even had many hardships, and he might need to be a listener to solve his doubts.

He waited quietly, but Taisun's face was red and white, and his mouth opened and closed several times, but he still couldn't speak.

Unexpectedly, Huang Zicheng had already figured out what was going on in his grandson's mind, and when he saw his unspeakable appearance, he said: "Your Highness is worried, don't be the vassal king?"

Zhu Yunwen's eyes couldn't help but light up, and said, "This is exactly what I am worried about, why does Mr. teach me?"

The vassal kings are all descendants, with noble status, and each has a heavy army, and what they do is so lawless.

He thought about this question for a long time, and he also asked the imperial grandfather tentatively, because the emperor was his only reliance, and all his experience in politics was not learned from the subordinates of the East Palace, and these people told him the truth of being a king, but they could not give him guidance.

At that time, the emperor had just promulgated the "Records of Rebel Ministers", and killed a group of heroes and generals who were attached to the rebel Hu Weiyong and Lan Yu cases, and a total of 15,000 people were killed in the case.

"The trouble of the thorny cane," Zhu Yunwen couldn't help but ask at that time, "It's a problem, but there's another problem, the Northland—"

Zhu Yunwen said that the northern land refers to the king of Jin, the king of Yan, and the king of Ning who resisted the front line of the Northern Yuan army, but the emperor thought that Aisun was talking about the Mongols, so he waved his hand: "I entrust the affairs of the imperial captives to the kings, so that the dust of the border will not move, and you will be at peace." ”

Zhu Yunwen took a deep breath and looked directly at his beloved imperial grandfather: "If you are not appeased, the kings will be royal;

The kings can defend against border troubles, but who will defend against the kings' rebellion? The emperor has killed so many meritorious heroes, and there are not many generals left, once the kings become chaotic, who can accept the order in danger?

The emperor's face froze visibly. He was silent for a long time, and then asked, "What do you mean?"

"With virtue and etiquette," Zhu Yunwen said the words that he had hidden in his heart for a long time: "If this doesn't work, cut its fiefdom, if it doesn't work, it will be abolished as a concubine, if it can't, you can only, you can only lead the troops...... Defeated!"

His last sentence was vague, and he couldn't stop looking at the emperor's grandfather's face, but he couldn't see anything, and his heart was even more bottomless, I don't know if the emperor's grandfather, who has always loved him, will be furious.

However, the emperor did not scold him, he looked at himself with an inexplicable gaze, which made Zhu Yunwen dazed and at a loss, and gradually lowered his head. Because he lowered his head, he did not have a flash of disappointment when he saw the emperor. So in the midst of tormented waiting, he finally heard the emperor's voice: "Yes, it's not easy!"

Zhu Yunwen was overjoyed for a moment, and the imperial grandfather agreed with his words, and thought that his method was the most useful, because "there is no easy way to do this", and there is no better way than his method.

He always remembered this sentence, so in the years to come, he used this method to drastically cut the feudal domain - he thought that this was also what the imperial grandfather allowed him to do, although the "feudal domain" was the proud work of the imperial grandfather, and the "feudal king on behalf of the meritorious hero" to resist the captivity was also the proud work of the imperial grandfather.

It wasn't until the fire burned everything that he suddenly understood the true meaning of the emperor's grandfather's words.

Grandpa Huang's sentence "It's not easy" means - don't change the situation. That was the best situation that the imperial grandfather had prepared for him and laid out in advance.

Don't be clever and change things you don't even know!

It's just that by that time, it was already too late.

Zhu Yunwen felt that the emperor's grandfather had already seen the hidden dangers of the vassal king, but he couldn't give himself more advice, because for the emperor, these self-respecting vassal kings were cultivated by him. That's why Zhu Yunwen wanted to ask Huang Zicheng, a think tank, he always has the most methods, and he knows his doubts very well, and he will definitely give more practical solutions.

"The kings only have guards, they can only defend themselves, because of the war, they have to control the palace guards," Huang Zicheng said eloquently: "The army of the imperial court is not the army of the vassal king's family, and the dogs and teeth are wrong, and they are scattered all over the world. This is the principle of defeating the small with the big and defeating the weak with the strong, and I go along with the other, the righteousness of the world is on you, who dares to act arbitrarily?"

Huang Zicheng looked confident, so Zhu Yunwen couldn't help nodding, he was very pleased, he had high hopes for this Confucian who had won the first place in the examination, he felt that Huang Zicheng said this analysis to his heart - this is his prediction of the general trend of the world, the kings are against or not, now there is no sign at all, he only knows that if there is really a rebellious vassal king, he will also be as Huang Zicheng said, like Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty to pacify the rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, sweeping the vassals.

"Sir's words solve my doubts. Zhu Yunwen said earnestly: "May Mr. not forget today's words." ”

"His Royal Highness will not give up," Huang Zicheng took the world as his responsibility: "The minister only dies to repay!"

At this time, there was a sudden sound of tuk tuk footsteps in the secluded corner gate, and it was the waiter who was waiting beside Zhu Yunwen who ran over quickly: "Your Highness, the emperor is calling!"

"Do you know what's going on?" Zhu Yunwen motioned for Huang Zicheng to retreat first.

"Say yes," the chamberlain said, "King Jin is gone!"

When Zhu Yunwen hurried to the Fengtian Temple, he was told that the emperor had just gone to the Taimiao, and he also hurried over, thinking as he walked, how could the King of Jin pass away?

Wait, his pace suddenly slowed down, the King of Jin was killed, and the King of Qin was also killed two years ago, and among the feudal kings who controlled the nine sides, there was one less powerful and difficult to control, and the King of Jin was still the chief of the kings in the actual sense!

He couldn't suppress the joy in his heart, but it didn't take long for this feeling to make him feel guilty and embarrassed - it was his uncle who died, it was the son of the emperor's grandfather, how could he have such thoughts, even if he had been disrespectful to himself, even if he had called himself "eldest grandson" on the note, but, but he was still his own relative, and he didn't know how sad the emperor's grandfather was after hearing the news!

He hurried to the Taimiao, and saw an old man kneeling on the ground from a distance, and when he looked closer, he couldn't help but say, "Doctor Dai, why are you here?"

After speaking, he suddenly remembered that when the king of Jin was sick a few years ago, the doctors of the palace were helpless, and the emperor's grandfather sent Dai Sigong to Taiyuan to see a doctor for the king of Jin. Dai Sigong's medical skills are indeed unparalleled national hands, he not only for the emperor's grandfather to diagnose and treat, the treatment is all effective, but also was sent to Beiping, to the then suffering from the "fistache" of the Yan King treatment, after hearing that the Yan King likes to eat raw celery, immediately prescribed a dose of medicine, that night the Yan King relieved the "fine locust", the next day the disease was cured.

"Your Highness," Dai Sigong said, "Lao Chen was ordered to visit King Jin's illness before, and he said to King Jin at that time: 'It can be cured, but the poison has invaded the anointed land, and if it attacks again, there is no cure. Today, the old disease attacked, and the minister was powerless to return to heaven, so he only begged the emperor not to add to the crime of other doctors, which was the sinful of the minister. ”

Zhu Yunwen comforted him a few words, and then entered the temple. He walked all the way in, and did not see the emperor until the front hall, and when he reached the middle hall, he saw the emperor standing in the empty hall, facing the god of Empress Xiaoci, I don't know how long he had been standing, and he didn't seem to hear his footsteps. The emperor's originally straight back that he saw in his eyes had been clumped, and after he called softly, the emperor turned his head, and his eyes were cloudy and directionless on his face, which was covered with markings.

Zhu Yunwen couldn't help but mourn in his heart, he knelt on the ground and hugged the emperor's leg: "Grandpa Huang, Uncle Jin Wang, this is also a helpless thing, you must take care of your body, don't be too sad!"

"Hmm, hmm-" The emperor vaguely didn't know what to answer, and finally pulled him up: "I'm not sad, I'm also about to meet their people!"

The seventy-one-year-old Emperor Hongwu dreamed last night that his wife, the Empress Xiaoci Gao, Ma, who had been dead for many years. The dream was chaotic, in the dark, he lay on Ma's back, Ma carried him on his back, he was just about to sigh, but suddenly fell to the ground, Ma threw him on the ground, turned his head and slammed him: "Duh! where is my son?"

He thought of Zhu Biao and Zhu Zhang, who had passed away, and his face was suddenly full of shame and speechless.

"Biao'er is gone, I have set up a grandson Yunwen," the emperor suddenly cheered up: "You know, this child is benevolent and filial by nature, like his father, he will definitely be able to inherit the unification and inherit the emperor's business." ”

"Yun Wei is weak," Ma said: "Good is bullying." ”

"Who dares to deceive him!" said the emperor, "I have already removed all evil for him, and he will surely be a peaceful son in the future." ”

Ma Shi stood up at him and said, "Where is my fourth son? Why don't you stand it?"

The emperor frowned, "Li'er is still here, how can my brother be ahead of my brother?" He looked at Ma Shi and said, "I know that you love the fourth child the most, and I love him too, but he, he is not the heir, he is not the heir!"

He and Ma's biological children, only Biao'er and Ning An, the other children were all raised by Ma's, in Ma's eyes, and his son-in-law is no different, and he usually acquiesces to these children calling themselves grandchildren, just like King Jin on the note, claiming to be the eldest son, and he did not add guilt. It's just that when it comes to storage and lineage, they are the last children.

"Self-creation of the world," the emperor explained to Ma over and over again: "With the inheritance of the world, there will be a matter of taking the heirs after ten thousand generations, how can the concubines be distinguished? He will blame me for punishing each other every day, I started this chaos, I will pass it on first, and the transmission of eternity will be chaotic, then you and I will be under the nine springs, how can you be at peace?"

Ma just shook his head and looked at him with compassion, and the emperor reached out to pull her, "Yun Wei is the eldest of the concubines, you and my own grandson, and his status is precious—"

He grabbed the air, and when he looked up, he saw that Ma had turned into a cloud of smoke, and he quickly woke up from his dream.

When he woke up, he knew that his time was really running out, and he no longer closed his eyes in the middle of the night, and the next day his mind did not belong to the earth, but the next dynasty heard an urgent report from Taiyuan, Shanxi, and the king of Jin was killed.

Sure enough, after death, the soul has a soul!

He can see the dead Ma, Biao'er, Zhang'er and Li'er, he can see his father and mother, he has enjoyed a lot in the temple over the years, goodbye is not the appearance of starvation! He can see two brothers, his two brothers are very fierce, this has also passed on to their sons, although he abolished two nephews, but it is deserved--and he also raised his two nieces, married, and gave the title of princess, which is worthy of them!

He can also meet Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Deng Yu, Tang He, Mu Ying, Hu Dahai, Zhao Desheng, Hua Gao, Yu Tonghai, these people are old guys who fight the world together, they can also chase Hu Lu together, eliminate riots, and clear the universe, these people have always been with him, and their children and grandchildren will also rest with the country.

Of course, there are many people, his eyes are crossed by a pair of unwilling, melancholy, and resentful eyes, those are Lan Yu, Fu Youde, Feng Sheng, Zhu Liangzu, Liao Yongzhong's eyes, these people died in his hands, became ghosts, and in that life they came to collect debts - he was not afraid!

The emperor pointed to the void, "Think for yourself, I have treated you well, given high-ranking officials generous gifts, given a lot of land, and climbed relatives with you, your sons have all married princesses, and their daughters have become princesses, and I have also awarded you Danshu iron coupons." How did you repay me, relying on iron coupons, quickly corrupting and degenerating, killing and injuring others, bullying the weak, occupying land, ** women, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, embezzling and accepting bribes, and even making knives and guns and wearing dragon robes. You are no longer the pillar of the country, but moths, and sooner or later you will gnaw the vast country into a hollow sieve!"

There were many figures in front of them, and the faces of these people were far and near, and they shouted to the emperor one after another, and asked him gloomily: "Your emperor, where is your thorn staff?"

This pierced the emperor's heart, when Prince Yiwen was still alive, the emperor just hated these arrogant heroes, did not know how to converge, and failed his heart, and when the prince died in the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, the emperor was afraid that these people who could be used for themselves could not be used by Yunwen, afraid that they would rebel and the country would not be protected, and future generations would be prisoners of others.

So even though these men had not broken the law, they still got wine and were given death for no reason.

The emperor's eyes were flat, and these ghosts did not dare to come closer, and the noise dispersed, he looked at the gods and gods of the twenty-one meritorious heroes in the east and west matching halls in the Taimiao in front of him, and said in his heart: "I have left one hundred and eight people in the meritorious temple, and now there are only twenty-one left!"

He picked up Yun Wei, who was kneeling on the ground and whimpering, and said: "I am the right cloth of Huai, because of the chaos in the world, I led the people to cross the river and protect the people, and it has been forty years." The Lotus Heaven is all settled, laying the foundation of Fangxia, and restoring the old frontier of China. ”

Zhu Yunwen's tears had not yet been wiped away, but he hurriedly said: "The emperor's grandfather, Chen Youliang, the king of the Han Dynasty in Xiping, Zhang Shicheng, the king of Wu in the east, Fujian and Guangdong in the south, Dingba and Shu in the north, Dingyou and Yan in the north, and the Quartet are determined, so that the people are in the fields, and the world is Yanran, this sincerity has never been done for thousands of years——"

"However, I have three hatreds," said the emperor, "do you know?"

Seeing Yun Wei shaking his head, the emperor said: "I hate the capital of Jinling." ”

Nanjing was too far southeast, and the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty were still looking at the Central Plains and waiting for an opportunity to move southward. The emperor himself said: "I have created a new country, built a state and set up the capital in Jiangzuo, but it is quite far away to the Central Plains, and it is difficult to control." Second, if you trace back the dynasty in Nanjing: the Eastern Wu Dynasty from Sun Quan to Sun Hao was 58 years, the Eastern Jin Dynasty from Sima Rui to Liu Yu was 103 years, and the life span of the Song, Qi, Liang and Chen dynasties was shorter than the other, with an average of about 50 years. Therefore, the folk say that Nanjing is not suitable for the capital, and the dynasty that sets the capital Nanjing will have a short life. Although there is an element of superstition in this view, the basis for supporting this view is the existence of facts, including the later Southern Tang Dynasty, which was also very short-lived. "The number of years in the six dynasties is not long" wrapped around the emperor like a spell, making him unable to settle down.

The third is to fill in the Yanque Lake, the terrain is sinking, and it has been accumulating water in recent years, and the emperor believes that this destroys the feng shui and is not good for future generations. Although Jinling Tiger is in the dragon pan, it is indeed the best place, but there is no danger to defend around, there is no military pass, and those mountains and mountains in the north can not be compared, except for the Yangtze River, Nanjing basically has no reliable military pass.

And the emperor never thought that the Yangtze River was a natural danger, he crossed the river back then, it was not much difficult, if it changed, the Yangtze River was not a moat at all, and Jinling was in danger.

Therefore, he has always wanted to move the capital. In his mind, he thought that Chang'an was better, so in the 24th year of Hongwu, he sent the crown prince to Sanqin to inspect it. It's just that time has passed, the national pattern has long been not in the Han and Tang dynasties, Chang'an is too westward, far from wealth, and it is difficult to move the capital to Chang'an. From the capture of Jiqing to the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor had stayed in Jinling for twelve years. This place is the central base and base camp of his fight against the world, and at the same time, this hot land has also witnessed his hardships and great achievements along the way. If you give up this to build the capital of the country, the Ming Dynasty has just opened the country, and a hundred wastes are waiting to be lifted, which will undoubtedly consume a lot of material and financial resources, which is a heavy burden for the newly established Ming Empire.

The emperor finally had to sigh that "the rise and fall of the number of existents, but to listen to the sky", dispelled the intention of moving the capital, which was his great hatred, did not choose the most suitable capital for the Ming Dynasty.

"Second hatred," the emperor looked at the statue of the hero, and said: "The heroes who fought the chaos and destruction with me can share the hardships with me, but they can't share wealth and prosperity, and they can't always be!"

Thinking back then, he rose to cloth, took advantage of the time, and became an emperor in fifteen years, and was able to take advantage of the autumn of chasing deer, because of the heroic and virtuous. Where the two Huai, two Zhejiang, Jiangdong, Jiangxi, Hu, Hunan, Han, Chu, Fujian, Guangzhou, Shandong and southwest counties barbarians, everywhere, all rely on the general and the generals to fight the might, at that time the group of sages, talents, and now the cocoon is alone, the shadow is unique, can not help but sigh: "In the past, the willows were planted, and the Hannan was relied upon." Look at the shaking and falling today, sad Jiangtan. If the tree is like this, how can a person be worthy?"

Isn't he, a willow planter, going to cut down the willow trees he planted alive, but in the emperor's opinion, these heroes have posed a serious threat to the long-term peace and stability of the dynasty, so they must be ruthlessly cleansed. In particular, those who pose a threat to their children and grandchildren must be eliminated as soon as possible. Only by killing can we ensure peace in the world.

"Three hatreds," the emperor lovingly looked at the thinly dressed grandson in front of him: "I don't have much time, I can't watch you grow up." ”

The emperor touched the head of his beloved grandson, his grandson was born with a flat head, quite eye-catching, the emperor also jokingly called it "half of the moon", this child who grew up watching from a young age, kind-hearted, he has gathered people's hearts for him in recent years, and specially let him speak when he sentenced the sentence, and commuted the sentence to many cases that should have been strained. When he becomes the Son of Heaven, he will definitely win the hearts of the people.

For the government to be fierce, then to be lenient, he is politically strict, it is necessary for the next generation of emperors to be lenient, Taisun benevolence, it is the blessing of the next generation of people, but also the blessing of the next generation of bureaucrats, the emperor even thought, in the hands of these scholars who wield swords and pens, maybe a hundred years later, Taisun's reputation is better than his own.

When leaving the temple, the emperor went to the jade chariot, and suddenly ordered to come down, walked to the temple gate, saw the tall cypress tree, the new leaves rustling, and couldn't help but say: "In the past, I didn't seem to see this tree, and now I don't feel that it has become a forest!"

As he spoke, he thought of Zhongdu again, and was full of emotion for a while: "Fengyang Mausoleum, trees should be like this, right?

When the emperor boarded the car again, he said to the old eunuch who was kneeling on the ground and was sobbing: "Yunqi, this may be the last time I will see you, and you will do it in the future." ”

On the eighth day of the fifth month of the 31st year of Hongwu, the emperor had completely laid down on the dragon couch and could no longer struggle. Because not long ago, there was a side newspaper that said that the beacon fire in the side was not extinguished, and there were traces of ruts, and the emperor thought that this was "Hulu's deception", and he wanted the Ming Dynasty to send an army, and then ambush the troops to attack.

So even if the emperor was ill, he still immediately issued an edict to lay out the defense matters of this autumn, and the edict ordered that "Kexi Liang summoned the capital to command Zhuang De and Zhang Wenjie, Kaiping summoned Liu Zhen and Song Sheng, and Liaodong summoned Wuding Marquis Guo Ying and other troops to meet the troops, and the king of Liao came out with the capital division and the escort horse army, and the same was true for Beiping and Shanxi...... Yan, Dai, Liao, Ning, and Gu went to live in it, protecting each other, and saving each other, so that Hu Lu did not know the clues......"

The emperor thought that he could wait until the battle with Hulu, but on the day of May 29, the emperor was already half-awake, and the army had not even been assembled. When the emperor was sober, he issued an edict to appoint Yang Wen, the governor of Zuodu, as the chief soldier, and went to Beiping to counsel King Yan, and joined forces to guard the three mansions of Yan, Gu and Ning, and selected and trained elite horse infantry soldiers to Kaiping with King Yan to prepare.

In the edict to Yang Wen, the emperor said: "All orders come from the king, and you will do it, and the officials and soldiers will listen to moderation, and be careful not to be half-hearted and suspicious." ”

In the edict to Guo Ying, the Marquis of Wuding, and the governors Liu Zhen and Song Sheng, it is also explained that all orders in the army are subject to the temperance of King Yan. He left a separate edict for King Yan, of course, he did not hide it from the grandson, but asked the grandson to come and see.

"Yun Wei," the emperor couldn't see the grandson's face clearly, but just grabbed his hand: "Er Cheng Wang, I have chosen the Duke of Zhou for Er, Er Qi is cautious!"

Zhu Yunwen was submissive, and the tears flowed down in the rows, and he couldn't say a word.

On the tenth day of the fifth month of the leap month, it rained plum in Jinling City, the wind chased the rain, the rain chased the wind, the wind and the rain united to chase the dark clouds in the sky, and the whole heaven and earth were in the rain. On the eaves of the Qianqing Palace, rain fell drop by drop, and everyone in the palace knelt on the ground, their heads facing the bed, and the old man on the bed had come to the end of his life.

The grandson was still burning incense and praying, praying for his own life in exchange for the emperor's life, the emperor seemed to smell the fragrance, and his consciousness was suddenly extremely clear at this moment. He also prayed to the Emperor in his heart: "The longevity is long, the country is short and long, and the descendants are virtuous, but Jane is in the emperor's heart, for the welfare of the people." ”

The emperor tilted his head slightly, saw Yun Wei crying at the head of the bed, and thought of Zhu Di who was far away in Beiping, his heart was long and long, which was virtuous and inferior, it didn't matter anymore, he had already established a system in his lifetime, the system of the elders, for the law of eternity, if there was really a matter of flesh and blood, then it would not be able to complain about him......

He once again saw the appearance of hunger and hunger when he was a child, the appearance of shaving his hair and being a monk, the appearance of joining the army and winning the battle, and the appearance of crossing the river and being an emperor -- it is difficult to be an emperor, and it is difficult to be an emperor! In the past 30 years, there has not been a day of peaceful sleep, no day of peace of mind, and once he looks back, his old man is gone, his wife and children are gone, his friends are gone, and there are only monarchs and ministers!

From the ancient Rus!

"The mountain collapsed-" A long dragon-like lightning appeared in the sky, and with a "boom", the heavy rain poured down from the sky as if the sky had collapsed, and the huge cry was deafening.