"The most important thing for you now is to ascend the throne as soon as possible!"

It is not surprising who said this sentence, but it was the current Ming Emperor Gao Chi who was the first to say it, and suddenly there was an indescribable weirdness!

Zhu Gaoxu also dreamed that Gao Chi sat here and thought for a while, and the first sentence he said was like this.

He looked at Gao Chi carefully with a strange gaze. In just a few moments, he understood that the eldest brother must ask for something!

No wonder Gao Chi behaved relatively calmly after the palace was breached, it was because he still had an unfinished but hopeful thing in his heart; Gao Chi wanted to do his best to finish this.

Therefore, Gao Chi's expression was very pale, but his eyes were very forbearing; All kinds of emotions that were about to get out of control, he temporarily controlled them. The one who does it must be the kind of thing that is difficult to let go.

Gao Chi continued: "The second brother started his army from Yunnan and was able to enter Beijing very quickly, just because he defeated the main force of the official army several times, and then drove straight in; Didn't conquer the cities one by one! Half of the world, the second brother has not yet won. Only when you ascend the throne as soon as possible and become the emperor can you justifiably order all places, let the officials from all over the Ming Dynasty submit to them, and avoid chaos. ”

He paused, and finally showed an extremely painful look on his calm face, "At this time, let me help you ascend the throne, the fastest way!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu's sun-tanned face had completely calmed down, "What does the eldest brother want?" ”

Gao Chi gasped, his face flushed a little: "My father is not harmful, the second brother should believe it; This matter cannot be blamed on me. ”

Zhu Gaoxu frowned and thought for a while. At the beginning of Hengzhou City, Qi Tai (Mr. Li) said that Zhu Gaoxu wanted to be the emperor, and there must be two legal principles in the general righteousness: one is that the throne of the first emperor is legitimate, and the other is that Gao Chi's throne is illegal, and he has a great sin as the eldest son.

Zhu Gaoxu deeply agreed with this remark.

Thinking of this, Zhu Gaoxu said coldly: "I believe in the eldest brother? The year before last, I returned to Beijing from Annan and was tricked into the palace. How can I trust you? ”

A trace of despair flashed on the incandescent white fat face, and then suddenly turned red, and the person also stood up, pointed at Zhu Gaoxu and said angrily: "I am your eldest brother, when you poisoned me back then, where am I sorry for you!" ”

This is the performance of an emperor who is about to die, not the calmness that he pretended to be before!

Zhu Gaochu is also a fire in his heart, but because his current situation is very good, he is calmer than Gao Chi, Zhu Gaochu is still sitting on the chair, looking up and saying: "If I really want to poison you, can you still plot to kill the emperor and attempt to trap me?" At that time, I didn't give you the poison of Jun Ying Grass, how could our three brothers leave Beijing? Later, it wasn't for you to detoxify! ”

Gao Chi was furious, and suddenly overturned the table in front of him, and the inkstone, pen holder and other objects on it fell to the ground with a clatter. He roared: "I plotted to kill the emperor? What credentials do you have? ”

Zhu Gaoxu was still sitting on the chair and said coldly: "Do you need a certificate?" ”

At this moment, the voice of Chen Dazhui outside the imperial gate said: "Lord Wang......"

Zhu Gaoxu turned his head and said, "It's going to be fine, don't worry about it!" ”

"You...... Cold-blooded and merciless livestock! Gao Chi pounced on Zhu Gaoxu. Zhu Gaoxu stood up, reached out and grabbed Gao Chi's wrist, stepped forward with his left foot, and spread his leg to stabilize the lower plate. Rao is Gao Chi's body was very heavy, and he was still immediately stabilized by Zhu Gaoxu, who had great strength, and he tilted his body and couldn't move there.

Zhu Gaoxu pushed forward! Gao Chi took two steps back, and staggered back to the chair he had just sat on; Gao Chi wanted to stand up, but one of Zhu Gaoxu's palms was on his shoulder like a 10,000-pound scale, and he couldn't stand up.

"Let me go!" Gao Chi struggled to push his body up, trying to stand up again.

After Zhu Gaoxu was scolded, he didn't scold back, but sneered: "How did I disobey the emperor, cause trouble in the palace, and then flee in a hurry?" Yang Rong, the eldest brother's Donggong official, wrote an interesting article, did you think about credentials at that time? ”

Gao Chi trembled with anger, but he tossed for a while, and seemed to be weak, so he sat there panting violently. He looked out of breath, as if he was about to die of some emergency!

"How can a person like you who is sure to repay you be my own brother!" Gao Chi gritted his teeth and said, "I didn't want to hurt you at that time, wasn't it all for that dragon chair?!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu said: "The eldest brother is right. I'm doing the same thing as you do! If the eldest brother is not a person who has lost his conscience, can I sit on the throne safely? ”

"You ......" Gao Chi wanted to speak, but immediately took a big breath.

The two of them were frozen for a while, Gao Chi had no strength, and felt his body slump limply on the chair. Zhu Gaoxu also let go of him and sat down opposite him again. However, the table between the two of them fell to the ground, and the brick floor was in shambles.

After a long time, Gao Chi said: "Second brother, do you think in your heart that the first emperor is really harmful?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu shook his head without hesitation and said, "Eldest brother shouldn't be that kind of person. In my heart, the eldest brother is actually a more benevolent person, at least much better than the third brother's character. ”

The two brothers looked at each other for a while, and Gao Chi let out a long sigh of helplessness.

After another moment, Gao Chi said in an almost pleading tone, "I have a proposal. I issued an edict against myself, saying that the first emperor was the victim of the conspiracy of the former officials of the East Palace and some ministers, and I was deceived; The second brother avenged his father, killed the traitorous ministers, and returned to righteousness. The second brother imprisoned me and your nephews in the central capital, and I will never see anyone again. So how? ”

He paused, and then persuaded weakly: "Our first emperor seized the world on the grounds of 'appeasement', and the people of the world still have a lot of complaints. If the son of the former emperor is suspected of killing his father, what do people in the world think of our family? ”

Zhu Gaochu felt that what the eldest brother said had a certain point, and Zhu Gaochu could use a shameless method: first pretend to agree to the eldest brother, and wait for him to make an edict against himself and advocate his own righteousness, so that he can ascend the throne more smoothly and quickly! Then he imprisoned Gao Chi in isolation, tore up the current promise, and continued to frame the crime of murdering his father!

The idea of deception made Zhu Gaoxu hesitate for a while. He shook his head slightly, and finally spoke: "First, Jianwen's father and son are no longer alive, and Prince Yiwen (Zhu Biao, in the early years of Yongle, Zhu Biao's nickname was changed to "Emperor Xiaokang" to "Prince Yiwen") has long been in decline. The imperial lineage of our Yan King is no longer comparable.

Second, the first emperor (Zhu Di)'s civil and martial arts are justified in the world, and the eldest brother has been determined in the edict of enthronement; I will once again conclude the coffin of the emperor's benevolence and martial arts. The eldest brother's cruelty and rebellion cannot tarnish the name of the emperor! On the contrary, the more illegal and morally corrupt you are, the more legitimate I am! ”

Zhu Gaoxu's calm tone and indifferent words made the fat on Gao Chi's face twitch. Gao Zhi's face was paler than paper, and his eyes were full of dead gray colors.

"Brother, I say this precisely because I respect your character; And because our brothers are fighting, we completely deny you as a person. Zhu Gaoxu said.

Gao Chi sneered.

Zhu Gaoxu said quietly: "If I lie to you to write an edict first, then do the above things." How? ”

Gao Chi was silent. He raised his head and said, "After all, we are brothers, and the second brother will not be so excessive." ”

Zhu Gaoxu stood up and gently patted Gao Chi's shoulder with the palm of his hand, "It's just a matter of becoming a king and defeating a villain." The eldest brother doesn't need to be too obsessed with the name behind him, what the truth is, future generations should be able to understand. What we do in this world is nothing more than for the needs of the present. ”

Zhu Gaoxu stood up after speaking, he took a few steps outside the gate, and then turned around.

But I saw Gao Chi slumped in his chair in despair and helplessness, as if he was dead, motionless, but his sleeves were still trembling...... The body may not be dead, but the heart is dead.

In the empty and messy gate, the light seemed to be gray; A ray of sunlight penetrated into the interior of the Imperial Gate Hall from the top of the heavy eaves, and there was a sense of vicissitudes of life. It seems that the long-lost sunlight has shone into a luxurious hall that has long been deserted, and it is like the underworld has just opened a hole.

And Gao Chi, who was sitting on a chair with his head drooping, was like an emperor who had passed away for a long time.

At this moment, Zhu Gaoxu's spirit was a little trance, and he even felt the heartache of being cruel and devouring himself. It seems that he has returned to the modern era, walking into the ruins of a lost empire, remembering the blood and rain, glory and shame of the past.

He didn't tell his eldest brother, who was desperate in the cold, but he had already made a plan in his heart: find out the truth about the death of the first emperor, and secretly seal it and leave it for future generations to overturn the case! When the successor of the Ming Empire no longer needs to slander the personality of Emperor Hongxi Zhu Gaochi, he can make the throne extremely stable, and let the truth be revealed to the world!

Whether it is Jianwen or Hong Xi, they are not bad people. They only made some efforts to rule this complex and huge country, but in the end they unfortunately failed.

Zhu Gaoxu clenched his fists and bowed to Gao Chi and said, "Big brother, goodbye." ”

However, maybe we won't see each other again in this life, and I don't know if we can still be brothers in the next life.

A failed emperor, that desolate aura is very strong, Zhu Gaoxu walked out of the royal gate with a depressed mood. The sunlight outside had already dispelled the clouds, and the bright sun of early spring shone on his body, and Zhu Gaoxu felt a little better.

There were almost no plants near the gate, but in the corner of the brick floor, the tender green sprouts of the grass were not hoeed in time, and they still stubbornly breathed the fresh air of the revival of all things. Everything is like a reincarnation, and vitality will be rejuvenated in the world.

He let out a long breath of relief, recovering from the despair of failure. Fortunately, it was not his own failure, realizing this, Zhu Gaoxu gradually rejoiced and regained his spirits.