Chapter 204: Master Tianci Talks About Old Things
After Chengzu's army invaded the capital, in order to cover the whereabouts of Emperor Jianwen, the queen gave up her life, and the eunuchs in the palace told Chengzu that it was the body of Emperor Jianwen. At first, Chengzu also believed it, but after examining the corpse, he found that it was a woman's bones, and he knew that he had been fooled.
But he can't tell the world that Emperor Jianwen is still alive, so I don't know how many people under the banner of Emperor Jianwen will rebel. Just like when all the princes opposed Qin, they all waved the banner of Gongzi Fusu, and Fusu was of course too far behind the appeal of Emperor Jianwen.
What Zhu Di is most afraid of is that Emperor Jianwen shows his true body in a certain place, and he exhales with his arms, which is definitely the response of the world's clouds, and it may not be impossible to recapture the Jiangshan Sheji.
This incident became Zhu Di's lifelong nightmare.
"Your Majesty's life and death don't know, at least not in Longxing Temple. However, when His Majesty ran away from the dust, the first stop was to the temple, and the abbot at that time read the edict of Taizu, and then, His Majesty Jianwen burned the edict, which is exactly what Taizu told on the edict. ”
"Okay, tell me what the edict of Taizu said, if it is reasonable, I will believe it."
Qiao Yu is not so sure now, if Taizu really has an edict, everything needs to be reconsidered, and even whether this ancestor protector sect needs to exist is a question.
Taizu's edict was burned? How is this possible, could it be that Emperor Jianwen is crazy!
The decrees of the kings of all ages must be preserved and even enshrined, and no one dares to destroy them, let alone put them on fire. Even if he killed Qiao Yu, he wouldn't believe it.
Qiao Yu thought again, if there was really such an edict, why didn't the Qinwang faction take it out? There may be many reasons for this, and it is a well-known thing that Emperor Taizu does not play cards according to common sense.
These things were full of suspicions at the time, and after Zhu Di entered Nanjing, he learned that Taizu had left an elite division for Emperor Jianwen, stationed near the Beijing Division, commanded by the concubine Mei Shao, specifically to defend the Beijing Division. However, until he entered Nanjing, this horse master did not send a single soldier or an arrow, and watched him take the capital lightly.
Could it be that Mei Fuma saw that the general trend had gone, and decided to change the court and take refuge in Zhu Di?
If you change to ordinary people, you may think like this, Zhu Di will not, he knows the character of this brother-in-law best, and he is absolutely loyal to Taizu, since he is arranged to lead an elite division as the umbrella of Emperor Jianwen, Mei Yuma will definitely do his best, and would rather be smeared with liver and brain.
Zhu Di thought of the most terrifying possibility at that time, his father had a new arrangement before his death.
After Zhu Di sat on the dragon chair, he immediately ordered Mei Shao to go to Beijing to meet him, trying to figure out the mystery. Mei Shao didn't pay attention to it at all, and waited for a long time before entering Nanjing alone, and after seeing him, he just called him King Yan, and sneered: "His Royal Highness King Yan turned out to be hard. Then he said nothing.
Zhu Di was enthusiastic about him in every way, and wanted to ask about the inside story, but Mei Shao was stunned and pretended to be deaf and stupid, and did not answer the question. Zhu Di felt that he was a hot face and a cold ass, which was very boring, but it was not good to punish him for this.
Although Zhu Di felt embarrassed, he could only think like this: Mei Shao was Taizu's son-in-law and his brother-in-law after all, and he did not prevent him from entering Nanjing, and killed him for no reason.
One of Zhu Di's generals was very indignant when he saw Mei Shao treating his lord like this, and at the same time guessed that the lord was directly attacked because of his bad family relationship, so he had the intention of flattering his master, and when Mei Shao retreated from the court, he squeezed him into the ditch outside the palace and drowned.
This time it pierced the sky. The princess learned the news of her husband's sudden death, and immediately entered the palace, Zhu Di didn't have time to open his mouth to comfort, but his sister grabbed the dragon robe, scolded and beaten, made Zhu Di so shameless, and he knew that he was at a loss, so he had to let his sister scold and get angry.
Seeing this situation, the guards and close ministers on the side also avoided it, and those who couldn't avoid it had to pretend not to see it, the gods were fighting, how could mortals dare to step forward and fight? That's not looking for death and not picking a place.
The princess asked to punish the culprit, and Zhu Di had already thought of it, arresting the general who killed the horse, and then skinning Ling Chi in the most cruel way. The princess's anger subsided a little, but she still firmly believed that this person did it at the behest of Zhu Di, otherwise a mere general would dare to kill the noble concubine, especially this concubine is still favored by Emperor Taizu. Doesn't killing him mean changing the sky?
Zhu Di was scolded by his sister for many days, and it was useless to explain everything, in fact, he also hated the general who was stupider than a pig in his heart, and if he killed the horse, he would never be able to find out what decision his father made before his death, and what was the purpose of such an arrangement.
Since he had the evidence of Jianwen's departure and encountered Mei Shao's incident, Zhu Di fell into a nightmarish fear, he always felt that he had fallen into a pre-dug pit, and this pit was still done by Emperor Taizu himself.
Knowing his father Mo Ruozi, Zhu Di naturally knew that in the minds of his father, in addition to the prince who died early, only the imperial grandson was the most important, and the princes together were not as good as Jianwen, perhaps because of this, after Emperor Jianwen ascended the throne, he dared to vigorously correct some of Zhu Yuanzhang's brutal policies.
Zhu Di is different, after he won the throne, the first thing he did was to completely restore the Taizu rules and regulations that were corrected by Emperor Jianwen, the so-called rate by the old chapter, to show that he is the legitimate heir of Emperor Taizu, these are just superficial articles, whitewash the fact that he rebelled and seized power.
It was normal for Zhu Di to feel frightened, if Taizu had made arrangements in advance, it would definitely be against him. He didn't dare to imagine that his father would give up Jianwen for him, but it was chosen by Taizu himself, and the person who was designated to inherit the great treasure in his testament was designated.
It can be said that Zhu Di has lived in this nightmare all his life and has never woken up, he is always afraid that Emperor Jianwen will set up a banner somewhere, gather the old department, and overthrow him, which is not impossible. On the contrary, as long as Emperor Jianwen really did this, the possibility of restoration is very high.
But why didn't Jianwen do it?
What kind of trap did Taizu set for him?
Zhu Di didn't know, the more he didn't know, the more panicked he became, he bled the capital, killed people like demons, and later even the executioner he chose couldn't bear it, turning the rich and prosperous capital into an extremely terrifying bloody hell, which was the evil result of this fear. Despair out of fear, killing spree out of despair, irrational and brutal like the devil.
Later, due to the imperial court's continuous use of troops in Annam and the Mongolian desert, the treasury was empty. Despite this situation, Zhu Di still forced the opposition of his ministers and decided to move the capital to Beijing.
Moving the capital, with one mouth, only two words, in fact, it is not a simple matter, but to rebuild a capital, the amount of national money required is astronomical.
After that, Zhu Di lived most of the time in Beijing, which had not yet been built, and Nanjing was handed over to the crown prince to supervise the country, assisted by the prince's young master Daoyan.
The reason why Zhu Di stayed in Beijing for a long time was to guard against the Mongolian cavalry outside the fortress, but in essence, he probably couldn't sleep peacefully under the tomb of Emperor Taizu, and staying in Nanjing made him feel like he was thorned in the back.
Until his death, Zhu Di still couldn't figure out what kind of mystery was hidden in it, so he left an edict to kill Emperor Jianwen and his followers, regardless of the age.
Qiao Yu knew some of these things from the records of his ancestors, so he believed in the existence of Taizu's edict a little, and he was even more curious about the contents.
Qiao Yu's questioning is not unreasonable, Taizu's edict was burned, of course, it is not a trivial matter, and the reason must be explained in order to be convincing.
Master Tianci, the abbot of Longxing Temple, said flatly: "This matter is only known to the abbot at that time, he had an explanation before his death, in order to protect His Majesty Emperor Jianwen and his ministers, Longxing Temple will not hesitate to pay a generation, and the temple will not hesitate to destroy people." ”
"Okay, you can show me the oracle left by the abbot." Qiao Yu retreated.
"The edict was not written on paper, but was left in the heart, passed down orally by generations of abbots." Master Tianci's words are profound.
Qiao Yu really couldn't listen to it anymore, this was obviously entertaining him. Taizu's edict was burned, and the edict was only passed down orally, and in the final analysis, there was no evidence. There must be some ulterior secrets in this, and there must be intrigues and tricks against their ancestor protectors.
"Master Tianci, I have always respected you, even if we are now opposed to each other, I still have the same original intention. I have to say that you'd better not take your word for it, though. Qiao Yu's voice was full of anger and warning.
Murong Yanran also said angrily: "Qiao Yu, you are just a turtle in an urn now, what qualifications do you have to point fingers, ask for something here, put away your prestige." If you win, you can do whatever you want in the future, if you lose, you don't have to toss in the future. ”
Qiao Yu sneered: "If the matter can be decided by you and me, then it will be easy to do." Although it has been a hundred years, it is still entangled in grievances, which shows that things are not so simple. In a word, take out the edict of Taizu or the edict of the sage abbot master, and the matter will end today, otherwise everything will be as usual. ”
Murong Yanran sneered: "Who is afraid that you won't succeed?" To be honest, I don't want to lose your opponents, otherwise where would I find so many practitioners? I'm just pitiful that there are some other loyal ministers in the Guo family, the ancestors are loyal to the court and loyal to the country, why did they end up in the world? And you have to flee from generation to generation, all thanks to you unreasonable bastards. ”
"It should be us who are loyal to the court and the country! We have the edict of Yongle Ye. Unless you can come up with the edict of Hong Wuye, don't try to escape the charge of rebellious ministers and thieves, and the thieves don't want to have a peaceful birthday. ”
Moreover, he was completely confused at this time, and now he was like being locked in an iron house, only hearing the sounds outside, but not seeing anyone, as if listening to ghosts arguing about right and wrong for a hundred years, this scene was too weird.