Chapter 669: Shameful life

At that time, some people secretly ridiculed him, saying that Jingqing "disregarded words and deeds, greedy for life and afraid of death", but Jingqing didn't care about other people's discussions, and still appeared in "disguise", and he was really waiting for an opportunity to assassinate Ming Chengzu and avenge the shame of the old master.

This day did not wait too long, this day in the morning, according to the convention, Jing Qing wanted to report to the emperor the government affairs in recent days, so early this morning, he was ready to follow the example of Jing Ke, the strong man who assassinated Qin in the past, and hid the dagger in his arms, so that when he reported to the government, he assassinated Zhu Di in one fell swoop.

It's just that Ming Chengzu has long been on guard. After the end of the court, Jing Qing rushed forward, about to commit a crime, Ming Chengzu ordered to take down the left and right to search his body, and sure enough, he found that Jing Qing was wearing court clothes outside, scarlet clothes inside, and a short sword was hidden at his waist. Ming Chengzu asked him what he was going to do. Jing Qing saw that the assassination was unsuccessful, and he angrily scolded: "I avenged the old master, but unfortunately it can't be done!" and scolded: "Uncle snatches the nephew's position, like a father adultering his son and wife." If you betray the will of your ancestors, you are really a traitor and a thief, and everyone will be punished!"

Ming Chengzu was furious when he heard this, and ordered Jing Qing's teeth to be knocked out left and right, and Jing Qing's tongue was cut off. Jing Qing sprayed dragon face, dragon case, and dragon robe with blood. Chengzu ordered Jing Qing to be executed by "stinging", split Jing Qing's limbs, and skinned Jing Qing, put thatch in his abdomen, and hung it at Chang'an Gate for public display. Then he carried out the inhumane "melon vine copying", and ordered to "exterminate the nine clans", but "turned to climb and dye", the clansmen surnamed Jing were almost killed, and Jingqing's teachers, relatives, friends, and students were killed, and the corpses were all over the field, and the blood flowed like a river. Jingqing's nephews Liu Gu and Liu Guo were in Beijing with their uncle, and when they heard that their uncle was killed, they knew that they were in a catastrophe, so they were extremely sad and angry, and killed themselves. His father was a distant relative of Jingqing, and he was also arrested and beheaded, just because the county magistrate couldn't bear to see her die like this as a child, so he secretly called her to a servant in the house, implying that the servant, incognito, fled in exile and ran for his life. After being reminded by the county official, the servant changed his name and took refuge in the Suzhou area, until the situation in Zhu Di's court stabilized, Zhu Di was busy moving the capital, compiling the "Yongle Canon", going to the West, sending troops to Mongolia, and sending troops to Annan, and she and her own young lady also grew up day by day, so she was relieved.

The servant didn't want to tell Miss Sù about his life experience, but seeing that he was going to die, if he didn't tell Miss Sù the truth, he was afraid that he would be sorry for the dead master, so before he died, he told Liu Xiaolian about the tragedy of that year. Although the servant told her not to take revenge before she died, she still thought about revenge after the servant's death.

It's just that Zhu Di is the current emperor, she is a common person, and it is undoubtedly a fool's dream to want revenge, but I don't know if it was her revenge that moved the heavens, and in the year she learned that her parents died tragically, a major event happened in the palace.

To say that this major event still has some origins, first of all, Zhu Di's most trusted and favorite queen Xu died of illness in the fifth year of Yongle. After the death of the Xu family, Zhu Di has not been a queen, and the palace saw that the emperor was lonely, so he began to look for concubines for the emperor.

Many ministers set their sights on Goryeo, a neighbor of the Ming Dynasty, and from the Yuan Dynasty onwards, Goryeo was forced to offer beautiful women to the Chinese court, and this was still the case in the early Ming Dynasty. When the Ming Dynasty was founded, there were many Goryeo concubines in the harem of Zhu Yuanzhang, and Zhu Di, the ancestor of Chengzu, was born to the Korean concubine Shuo. Maybe it's because he has half Korean blood, maybe he hopes to find the shadow of his mother who died when he was young from the body of a Korean beauty, in short, after Chengzu ascended the throne, he constantly sent people to North Korea to draft girls into the palace.

In the sixth year of Yongle, Zhu Di sent Huang Yan and others to envoy to North Korea, rewarding the king of Korea with 10,000 taels of silver, 50 pieces of silk, 50 horses of silk and 100 pieces of cooked silk, as a reward for the king of Korea to offer horses to the court of the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, North Korea was asked to select beauties and present them to Beijing to fill the harem. So the king of Joseon decreed that marriage was forbidden and that beautiful women should be selected in preparation for the offering. At that time, no one in the Korean country, from the princes and ministers to the common people of Li, was willing to send their daughters to a foreign country thousands of miles away from home to be palace maids, so the people who were selected were ordinary women who were not beautiful. Huang Yan was very dissatisfied with it, so he ordered the Joseon royal court to re-select. The Joseon royal court only sent the provincial inspection departments to increase the selection efforts, and at the same time notified the local governments that all the large and small order-keepers, character officials, village officials, daily guards and two classes, township schools, students, and daughters of ordinary people and households, if they have any appearance, will be selected and sent. If they hide or use acupuncture, hair cutting, medicine and other methods to avoid selection, they will be dealt with by national law. Through this coercive method, a group of beautiful and beautiful women were finally selected, and after Huang Yan and others personally looked at them, they selected five of them, the first of which was Concubine Quan.

This concubine is the daughter of Goryeo national worker Cao Dianshu Kwon Yongjun. The lady of a famous family, the daughter of a scholarly family, is naturally Lan Xinhui and knowledgeable. Coupled with her beautiful appearance and graceful demeanor, she is a famous beauty in her girlhood.

After Concubine Quan entered the palace, she was canonized as a virtuous concubine, and the five sisters who came with her, Ren was Concubine Shun, Li was Zhaoyi, Lu was Jieyu, and Cui was a beauty. Their fathers and brothers were also granted official positions in the Ming Dynasty, such as the father of Concubine Quan was awarded the title of Guanglu Temple, but Yulu was allocated by the Joseon royal court. Also canonized at the same time were the Han concubines Zhang and Wang.

Among the five Korean concubines in the Ming Palace, Concubine Quan was the most favored by Zhu Di. When Zhu Di saw her for the first time, he was attracted by her surprisingly beautiful and elegant. Zhu Di asked her what she was good at, and Concubine Quan took out the jade flute she carried with her and played it, the sound of the flute was melodious and misty, and Zhu Di was fascinated by it, so she selected Concubine Quan above the concubines. Because Concubine Xu, who was in charge of the harem at that time, had died, Zhu Di asked Concubine Quan to take over the affairs of the harem.

Concubine Quan is intelligent, beautiful, elegant and charming. Whenever Zhu Di finished his busy court affairs, dragged his tired body into the palace of Concubine Quan, the beautiful sound of Concubine Quan's flute was like a warm spring breeze that blew Zhu Di's fatigue without a trace. Since Concubine Quan entered the palace of the Ming Dynasty, the resolute, resolute and masculine Zhu Di has always loved this soft, gentle, and wonderful Goryeo woman, and has been extremely fond of her.

And Concubine Quan, as Zhu Di's favorite concubine, rarely leaves Zhu Di's side.

In the eighth year of Yongle, Concubine Quan accompanied Zhu Di to the north to conquer Mongolia. Since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the northern part of the Ming Dynasty has been harassed by the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty. Since the late Hongwu period, the Mongol tribes fought with each other and split into three major tribes: Warat, Tatar and Uliangha. After Zhu Di ascended the throne, he continued to implement the strategy of dividing and attacking and paying equal attention to tribute and envy, and the border troubles were alleviated for a time. In the fifth year of Yongle, the Yuan descendant Benyasuri's power rose to power, and together with the Tatar Taishi Arutai, he plotted to unify the Mongol tribes. In February of the seventh year of Yongle, Chengzu sent an envoy to Tatar to ask for reconciliation with him, and did not want the envoy to be killed, Chengzu was furious, so he sent Qiu Fu, the prince of Qi, to lead an army of 100,000 to conquer Tatar in July of that year. Due to the underestimation of the Tatar forces and the miscommand of the army, 100,000 horses were completely annihilated at the Yuqu River, that is, the Krulun River. In order to preserve the dignity of the Ming Emperor, Chengzu had to recruit in person. Chengzu led an army of 500,000 deep into Mobei, and broke Benya's army on the banks of the Onen River, and finally Benya's army fled west with only seven horses.

After the Ming army won the first victory, the beautiful sound of the concubine spread all over the grassland for a while, which made Zhu Di, who was dusty, relaxed and happy, and his spirit doubled, and then he issued an order to pursue while he was victorious. The northern expedition ended in a complete victory for the Ming army, and Zhu Di led the army to return to the dynasty. Concubine Quan followed Zhu Di back to the capital Beijing, who knew that when the army went to Lincheng, Shandong, she suddenly fell seriously ill and finally died.

A few words of explanation: When I wrote here, good people and book friends said that I was here to black Zhu Di. This is really not me hacking him, there are many records of emperors in previous dynasties killing meritorious heroes, not to mention that in the era at that time, Zhu Dijing was difficult to seize the throne of his nephew, which can be regarded as an improper way, and there are inevitably people who oppose it. Of course, I'm not here to discuss this issue, what I want to explain today is that what I said above is really not my deliberate black Zhu Di.

Regarding the courtiers when Zhu Di killed Emperor Jianwen, Xiaojing obtained it from consulting information, and I will tell you about them one by one here.

Zhu Zhishan's "Wild Records" recorded: Since Emperor Wen ascended the throne, he asked Guangxiao who could draft an edict? Guangxiao was right, so he summoned him. After several round-trips, Fang couldn't do it, but he forcibly entered, and Fang Pi cut down the decline and cried. At the same time, the order saw the grass, the tuba, did not obey, forced the pipe, threw away, the language was strong, and said: "But the ears of my nine clans!" Shang Nuyun: "I Yi Ru ten clans." He asked, "Friends are also from the clan." So he did his best to search the world and kill those who were friends of Fang. “

After Jing Qing surrendered, he plotted to assassinate him, but he was defeated, and was killed on August 12, exterminating the nine tribes.

In addition, many former ministers of Jianwen such as Zhuo Jing, Bang Zhao, Lian Zining, Mao Tai, Guo Ren, Lu Zhi, Dai Deyi, Wang Gen, Wang Shuying, Xie Sheng, Ding Zhifang, Gan Lin, Dong Yong, Chen Jizhi, Han Yong, Ye Fu, Liu Duan, Huang Guan, Hou Tai, Mao Dafang, Chen Di, Tie Xuan, etc. were also tortured to death or committed suicide. "Their families and loved ones have also been implicated, and many have died. There were also many people who were exiled, forced to be women, and punished in other ways. After the accession of Akihito, most of them were pardoned, but the descendants of the remaining people were pardoned as late as the time of Myojinzong. Jianwen abdicated the throne, and there were many people in the government and the opposition who were loyal to the festival, and they were not ready to carry it.

In addition to the wanton killing, in the same month, Ming Chengzu sent Xu Huizu, the Duke of Wei, who was loyal to Emperor Hui, to prison, but because his father was Xu Da, he still released him and only cut his title. After the death of Huizu, his son was the Duke of Wei. Huang Guan was hated by Ming Chengzu, and his identity as the champion was removed, so the Ming Dynasty maintained only one Shang Yuan and the first record. Geng Bingwen, Sheng Yong, Ping'an (surrendered in the battle of Lingbi), He Fu, Mei Yin and other generals were persecuted and committed suicide after surrendering.

It can be seen that there are still a lot of killings, but I didn't make it up on purpose, so don't shout!