Dao Yan saw Zhu Di's sad face, and thought that what he said was a desperate and risky fight was a rebellion, but he couldn't think of it......

Lord, do you want to be a real dragon or a real pig!

Dao Yan's feelings for Zhu Di are very complicated, such as a son like a nephew, a teacher and a friend, and there is also a kind of touching that a scholar dies for a confidant.

In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, Ma Niangniang died of illness, and the kings went to Beijing to mourn, and the grief-stricken Hongwu Emperor assigned a monk to each of his sons to return to the land of the domain with them, so that they could serve the kings and pray for Queen Ma. There were more than 20 vassal kings, each with a monk by his side. Now, sixteen years later, can one of those monks become the abbot of a large monastery? Can there be one who is respected by the prince as a guest, like a teacher and a friend?

Zhu Di has never regarded Dao Yan as an ordinary monk, just throw it in any corner, let him fend for himself, he has always been respectful to Dao Yan, and after more than ten years of getting along, the two are also teachers and friends, and the relationship is very deep. In addition to personal friendship, Dao Yan also sincerely admires Zhu Di's talent and bravery.

After Jianwen ascended the throne, he was very close to the kings, especially King Yan, and became a thorn in his side.

Since then, Fang Xiaoru has become the first think tank of Emperor Jianwen. Fang Xiaoru's attitude towards Buddhism was completely different from that of his teacher Song Lian, who had a tolerant attitude towards the doctrines of the hundred schools of thought, and he himself was the first great Confucian in the early Ming Dynasty, and also had many Buddhist friends, while Fang Xiaoru hated Buddhism deeply, believing that Buddhism did not distinguish between kings and ministers, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives, and that there was no father, no king, no relatives and no friends, and that it was a heresy of cults. Some of the principles in the Buddhist scriptures that persuade people to be good, he also believes that Confucianism has been all included, so it is not as good as Confucianism, and it is enough to rule the country and level the world at home, and respect Confucianism alone.

Under the influence of Fang Xiaoru, Zhu Yunwen summoned to suppress the Buddha field and restrict the Buddha's property, and the control of Buddhism was more severe than that of Zhu Yuanzhang's time. In fact, respecting the Buddha and destroying the Buddha have been repeated in history, and with the attitude of the rulers rising and falling, this is not the first time. Whether this policy is correct or wrong for the country and the people is not true here, but there is one thing that cannot be questioned: it has pushed Buddhist disciples against the imperial court.

Although Buddhist disciples will not openly oppose the ruler because of this, if someone provokes this banner of hostility against the imperial court, it is necessary to question who they favor and whose side they stand on. Therefore, when Zhu Di raised troops to "Jing Difficult", the Shaolin Temple of Songshan in Henan Province resolutely stood on the side of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and sent 800 monks and soldiers to assist the king of Yan.

Zhu Yunwen suppressed Buddhism, and Dao Yan, as a Buddhist disciple, could he have any good impression of Zhu Yunwen. Private friendship and justice, no matter which side he counts, he will only tie himself and King Yan tightly together, share weal and woe with King Yan, and never leave the weal and woe. The imperial court has been making frequent moves recently, and Dao Yan has watched coldly, and has already concluded that if King Yan does not rebel, there will be no way to live at all.

He also knows that if King Yan rebels, judging from his current strength, it is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, but if he doesn't rebel, he will die, and if he doesn't rebel, there is still a glimmer of life, so why not rebel? Throughout the ages, at the beginning of how many emperors raised their armies, compared with the current dynasty, the difference in strength was a world of difference, and it may not be that there was no chance of success.

What's more, Dao Yan has carefully calculated that King Yan has been leading troops to fight at the border pass for a long time, and now although many of the senior generals in Beiping have been removed by the imperial court, most of the middle and low-level officers and generals are still the subordinates under the command of King Yan, and they respect King Yan's bravery in sweeping Mobei. If King Yan ascends to the top and shouts, some of them will surely respond.

What's even better is that after Zhu Yunwen became the emperor, the first thing was to pull the status of civil officials to an unprecedented height in this dynasty, and there is a great reproduction of the posture of Wen Lingwu in the Song Dynasty, and now the court has begun to be called "Xiucai Imperial Court" by the people. In this case, if King Yan raised an army, how many of the generals would be willing to die fighting for the imperial court? How many people will prevaricate? And how many people will turn against the water?

After Zhu Yunwen became the emperor, the second thing was to cut the domain. The king of Qi and the king of Dai have the crime of xiǎo, and now they have become prisoners, one is sitting in a well and watching the sky in the high wall of Fengyang, and the other is under the fence of Bashu. Even the well-known King of Zhou was also reduced to a commoner, thrown into the 100,000 mountains of Yunnan to be with the apes, and the rest of the kings were all in danger, and they were not idiots, although they did not have the courage to resist the imperial court, but once the King of Yan raised an army, how many of them were willing to wholeheartedly help the nephew who would sooner or later cut the feudal domain to their heads?

With all these considerations, Dao Yan felt that if King Yan wanted to escape death, he might not have a chance to rebel, but he didn't expect that King Yan was still stubborn, and he pretended to be sick in the palace for half a month, and his head was suffocated, so he came up with such a so-called clever plan to "send sheep into the tiger's mouth", Dao Yan was really anxious.

Dao Yan hurriedly said: "I can't help it! I can't help it, Your Royal Highness, the emperor sharpens his knife Huo Huo, the killing intent has appeared, the king of Zhou, the king of Qi, and the acting king have now been arrested one after another, and the emperor is most afraid of you, Your Royal Highness, how can the emperor stop because you went to the court? Your Royal Highness is here, I am afraid that not only will you not be able to persuade the emperor to change his mind, but he will also throw himself into the net! ”

Zhu Di didn't know that this was more than auspicious, but after thinking about it for a long time, he only had this one way to work, so that the emperor would not understand that he had no objection, the emperor's knife would still fall sooner or later. If you want to talk about danger, what is the difference between Peking or Nanjing?

As for the rebellion, he also thought about it occasionally, but as soon as this thought came to mind, he was immediately thrown away. There is no possibility of success, during the Han Dynasty, the seven kings of the Qing monarch side, the soldiers and horses of the seven countries, and the court was only half a year old. It's just a joke, if he can succeed in this way, it will be unreasonable. Instead of tearing the flag and rebelling and being accused of rebellion and then being killed, it is better to impress the emperor with sincerity and family affection, or you can find a glimmer of life.

So Zhu Di said to Dao Yan: "The master has thought about it too much, Zhu Di has already thought about it carefully. I am the elder of the clan, among the emperor's uncles, now I am the largest, the emperor has always been benevolent and filial, although he is afraid that the kings have the military power, but now I have jiāo military power, if it were not for the instigation of the xiǎo people, the emperor would not have advanced step by step; Moreover, I have guarded the borders of the land and the army, and I have repeatedly made military exploits, and there is no merit and hard work, there is no sin in this time, how can the emperor take me down? The imperial court, you always have to talk about decency, right?

Also, I Zhu Di and Emperor Xiaokang (the former crown prince Zhu Biao) have always been close, my princess and the imperial sister-in-law Lu Shi (Zhu Yunwen's biological mother, now respected as the queen mother) used to move very closely, the imperial sister-in-law is now the queen mother, I think she will not sit back and watch my uncle and her three nephews suffer wronged, the emperor is benevolent and filial, if the queen mother says a word......"

Before Zhu Di finished speaking, Dao Yan unceremoniously interrupted his words and shouted: "Your Highness is wrong, very wrong!" If the emperor was willing to stop, he would have stopped a long time ago. He wants to cut the feudal domain, and now that the kings have military power, why does he still want to provoke and condemn the kings, why does he have to cut the lord and go to prison? His Royal Highness thinks that by bringing his son to Beijing and showing sincerity and loyalty to the emperor, will he be able to make the emperor change his mind?

Even if the emperor is young, he feels that His Royal Highness is sincere, and he has the heart to let His Highness go under impulse. But Your Highness, don't forget, who are the people around the emperor now? Huang Zicheng, Fang Xiaoru, Qi Tai and others, flattered the emperor by cutting the domain, and took the cutting of the domain as the rank of promotion, are they willing to give up halfway? Even if the emperor changes his mind, they don't worry about your uncle and nephew being reconciled, but they are not human inside?

The poor monks can imagine that when His Royal Highness enters Beijing, they will inevitably slander the emperor and bewitch the emperor to eradicate His Royal Highness on the spot. is the so-called accumulation of ruined bones, all mouths of gold, Your Highness, rambling that the emperor has the intention to deal with you, even if the emperor has no intention, they are said by their group day and night, and keep saying bad things about His Highness, the emperor is going to kill His Highness, not to mention that the emperor is already obedient to them, how can you be so confused! ”

"Fang Xiaoru, Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai! This group of people who are separated from the royal family has repeatedly provoked, and I can't wait to eat their ròu and sleep their skins, so as to eliminate the hatred in my heart! ”

As soon as he heard Dao Yan mention these people, Zhu Di's heart rose with anger, his eyes showed a dignified murderous aura, and he cursed fiercely, then turned to Dao Yan and said with a positive face: "Zhu Di has not thought about the truth of what the master said, but entering Beijing to face the saint and clarify his mind is the only way Zhu Di can go." Although the emperor favored them, the court and the central government did not allow them to cover the sky with their hands, and justice was at ease in the hearts of the people, and other civil and military ministers would not allow them to act so perversely. ”

Dao Yan hurriedly said: "Your Highness! ”

Zhu Di said categorically: "Zhu Di has made up his mind, and the master doesn't need to say it." ”

Dao Yan immediately shut up, he and Zhu Di have known each other for more than ten years, he has known that Zhu Di is a person, Zhu Di likes to listen to both, every time there is a major decision, he likes to listen to opinions and opinions from all sides, but his ears are definitely not soft, this person is stoic and resolute, once he decides something, it is Jiuniu will not return, the purpose of his listening is just to understand the problems he did not consider, try to improve his ideas, and will not change his opinion.

In Zhu Di's heart, there is obviously no intention of rebellion, if he does not rebel, then entering Beijing Mingzhi is indeed the only feasible way at the moment, which is better than continuing to guard the Yanwang Mansion, waiting for the emperor to arrange it properly, and take people in his hands. If you really want to rebel, its danger is no worse than going to Beijing Mingzhi, right?

Thinking of this, Dao Yan said calmly: "Okay, since Your Highness has made up your mind, the poor monk won't talk much." The poor monk now has only one request, and His Highness must agree. The poor monk still has a question, and His Royal Highness Shangwang will solve his doubts! ”