Chapter 89: A Famous General Who Knows Current Affairs
After the Qi family left Yunxi, how Qi Yu was excited, how Yu Minyue was happy and worried, and how Qi Jingzong was confused will not be detailed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Yunxi returned to the Wenhua Hall for lunch and continued his daily activities.
In the blink of an eye, December is almost gone, and the gentlemen who teach the various classes of the martial arts hall, except for the classes taught by the generals, the gentlemen of the other courses have handed in the 'lesson plans' or 'teaching plans', and Yun Xi has also divided the class time evenly except for the classes of the outer domain, martial arts, and archery and horse classes, and because everyone doesn't care about the foreign domain classes, Yun Xi can only arrange less for the time being.
In the blink of an eye, the last day of December has passed, and then, do you think it's the New Year? Haha no, the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu is a leap year, so there is a leap month, and this year's leap month happens to be December, so the next day is still the first day of December.
On the second and third watches of the twelfth month, a light horse galloped into the city from outside the city, and then rushed into the palace. After Li Jinzhong, the eunuch beside Zhu Yuanzhang, learned what news was sent, he didn't dare to delay and hurriedly woke up Zhu Yuanzhang. Lao Zhu got up, asked Su Huaien to wipe his face with a handkerchief, and asked, "What happened?" ”
Li Jinzhong handed over the report and said, "Your Majesty, the report is from Anqing, and the Liangguo Gong is here." ”
Lao Zhu was taken aback, and hurriedly opened the report handed over by Li Jinzhong, and looked at the light of the candle that Su Huaien brought over.
It turned out that after Lan Yusheng captured Yuelu Timur in November, he was kidnapped and sent to the capital, because Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Lan Yu to return to Beijing, so Lan Yu escorted Yuelu Timur to the capital by the way.
On the evening of November 30, when the boat sailed to Anqing, Lan Yu got off the boat to drink, and when she came out of the restaurant, it was late, and Lan Yu didn't want anyone to help her, so she stumbled towards the boat and accidentally fell to the ground.
Unexpectedly, there was a wooden pole on the ground that someone had discarded here, and the end facing the sky was still very slender, and it pierced into Lan Yu's lungs. The entourage was very panicked when he saw the bloodstains, and immediately took Lan Yu to find Lang Zhong nearby, but the five organs were broken and could not be cured at all, and Lan Yu died after writing a suicide note in one breath.
Zhu Yuanzhang was suspicious after reading the report: This is too coincidental, if he fell into the water from the boat, he was actually pierced into the lungs by a wooden pole and died, which is really strange.
However, Lan Yu's death at this time really solved a big problem for Zhu Yuanzhang. Lan Yu has made several northern expeditions, and his prestige is very high, although he is a member of the Chang family, he can't rest assured; Getting rid of him but worrying about Yun Xi's doubts, Lao Zhu was really difficult to decide, and he was thinking about whether to use the assassination method he had never used before to get rid of Lan Yu.
Now that Lan Yu himself is dead, it saves a lot of trouble. Lao Zhu thought: I still have to send Jinyiwei to investigate the cause of Lan Yu's death, but even if the investigation finds out that Lan Yu's death has no inside information, it can't be made public.
Li Jinzhong looked at Lao Zhu's face and softened, and said: "The things that the messenger passed back are also the testament of the Duke of Liang Guo and the suicide note to the family, Your Majesty is ......."
Lao Zhu said: "Take it to me and see it." Li Jinzhong handed the fold and the suicide note to Lao Zhu.
Lao Zhu first opened the testament and looked at it, there was nothing important, he roughly explained the matter of Yuelu Timur, and asked Zhu Yuanzhang not to let his son directly inherit the title of Duke of Guo.
Lao Zhu knew that even if he didn't let Lan Yu's eldest son Lan Zhen inherit the title of Duke of Guo, he would do that when Yun Xi ascended the throne; But it's good to let Yoon-hee be gracious when the time comes.
Lao Zhu took Lan Yu's letter and looked at it, but if he told his wife and son, Lao Zhu immediately handed these back to Li Jinzhong, and said: "When the day dawns, send the letter to the Liangguo Mansion, and send it to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies to circulate it to discuss the disposition of Yuelu Timur; The Ministry of Rites, such as the story of King Kaiping's mourning, I want to mourn for the Duke of Liangguo, let them all be ready, and prepare a nickname. ”
Not to mention what happened after Lao Zhu, a few hours before Lao Zhu knew about Lan Yu's death, Chang Mu and Chang Sen of the Founding Mansion already knew that Lan Yu was going to die.
At that time, the founding mansion of the capital.
Chang's mother was crying bitterly in her bedroom. Chang Sen persuaded while shedding tears on the side: "Mother, the festival mourning is changing!" Besides, my uncle should not have died at this time. ”
Chang's mother cried: "Even if you are not dead at this time, so what! He has already developed the will to live and die, how much difference can there be between crying early and crying late! ”
"There are six or seven brothers and sisters in my family, but only my sister and brother have survived the Huanghuai flood, and they have been dependent on each other for so many years, and now my only relative has passed away, how can I not be sad!"
cried for a while, and scolded Zhu Yuanzhang again: "Damn Zhu Yuanzhang, how much credit my brother has made for Daming over the years, you can't tolerate him, why didn't you die early!" ”
Chang Sen hurriedly said: "Mother be careful! Although this is at home, and the next person has all been sent out, be careful! ”
Chang's mother also knew that she was speechless, and she no longer spoke, but just cried bitterly.
It turned out that Lan Yu had sent a letter to Chang Fu a few days ago, in which he said that Zhu Yuanzhang would not allow himself to live until Yun Xi succeeded to the throne, and he had decided to die in the next few days to prevent his wife from being affected. Because the messenger knew that his letter was very important, he was careful all the way, and only arrived at Changfu today.
The messenger also carried with him a letter to his wife that did not involve his determination to die.
After crying for a while, Chang's mother couldn't cry anymore, and pointed to the letter to Lan Yu's wife and said: "When the news of my brother's death comes in a few days, you bring the letter and give it to my brother and daughter-in-law, just say that it is Lan Yu's suicide note before his death, because he doesn't want to be seen by His Majesty, so he asked his cronies to send it to Chang's mansion." Chang Sen promised.
Chang Sen said: "Mother, it's so late now, you better sleep for a while." ”
Chang's mother said, "I can sleep there now!" Go down, and I'll be alone for a while; Let the servants fetch hot water. ”
Although Chang Sen was worried about his mother, he also knew that there was no doubt about persuasion, and his mother had also experienced strong winds and waves, so he would not be crushed, so he walked out of the door, ordered Baoqin to get hot water and went in, and went back to his house.
Early the next morning, not long after Yun Xi got up, he learned about Lan Yu's death from the excerpt sent by the little eunuch, because the first excerpt sent was Lan Yu's posthumous fold.
Yun Xi was very surprised. Because in history, in the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu in the second year, Lan Yu and his old subordinates, as well as those generals who had nothing to do with him, but were also more capable of fighting, were counted as Lan Yu's rebellious comrades and executed. Yun Xi had been speculating about what Lao Zhu would do with Lan Yu and his generals, but he didn't expect Lan Yu to die like this.
Because of the original history, Yun Xi was also very confused about Lan Yu's death. But these are not important, the important thing is whether Lao Zhu will find another way to get rid of those quasi-first-class or second-rate generals.
In the original history, Lan Yu was used as this reason, but even if there was no Lan Yu, Feng Sheng and Fu Youde could do the same, but Lan Yu was arrogant, so he was chosen by Lao Zhu to be the reason for this. Now that Lan Yu is dead, will Lao Zhu find someone else to be the reason for this?