In the Yan army's big tent, the atmosphere at this time was extremely solemn. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info After watching the things floating in the sky, Zhu Di, who came back to his senses, called all his cronies and generals into his big tent again.

But even though they had all come, they were just standing dry, and no one spoke. What else can they say? Even if they don't believe that it is a god or a spell, it doesn't mean that the soldiers below won't believe it or half-believe it. It's just going to die on the battlefield.

If they don't fight, they stick to the camp, they don't have much food, and when the food runs out, they will eventually die. So they are already ten deaths, but they die early and die late.

Unless, "Your Highness, now that we're cornered, let's surrender." After Tan Yuan stood for a long time, seeing that everyone didn't speak, he came out and said. He Tan Yuan still has parents, wife, and children, and he was able to hold on when he had a way to live before, but now he has no way to live and is unwilling to persevere. Always seek a way for your children to live.

Zhu Di glanced at him and didn't speak, and the other generals didn't speak. It's just that Dao Yan said: "Tan Yuan, what do you mean by this!" You can't turn your back on Your Highness! ”

Since Tan Yuan had already spoken his words, he let it go. He said: "Master Daoyan, why did I turn my back on Your Highness!" Can't you see what the situation is now? ”

"Even if there is a chance of breaking through, I won't say such a thing, but where is the possibility for us now?"

"To the north is the army commanded by the King of Liao, to the west is the army of the Duke of Wei, and to the south is the army commanded by His Majesty himself, the Marquis of Huining and the Duke of Liang, where is it possible?"

"I'm also looking for a way to live for my brothers."

Dao Yan was about to speak, when one of Zhu Di's guards came in and said, "Your Highness, the imperial court has sent someone to persuade you to surrender." ”

Zhu Di stopped Dao Yan and Tan Yuan's words and said, "Let's listen to the conditions of the imperial court first." Let the lobbyists of the court come in. ”

Zhu Gaoxu walked to the gate of the Yan army camp, waited for a while and was allowed to come in, and then walked to the door of the big tent and waited for Zhu Di's guards to open the curtain for him and walked in.

As soon as he walked in, he heard countless surprised voices, and everyone, including Zhu Di, was surprised that it was Zhu Gaoxu who came as a lobbyist.

Zhu Gaoxu ignored these surprised voices, knelt down to Zhu Di and said, "My son has seen my father. ”

Zhu Di snorted coldly: "You don't have to say such things, you are the king of Gaoyang County in the imperial court, not my son!" ”

Zhu Gaoxu said: "No matter what, my father is my father. ”

Zhu Di snorted coldly again: "You get up and talk about the conditions that Yun Xi has opened." ”

Zhu Gaoxu stood up, cleared his throat and said: "Father, all the generals of the Yan King Sanwei, although rebellion is an unforgivable crime, Your Majesty is compassionate and does not want to add to the loss of many living beings. Therefore the king was sent to persuade him to surrender. ”

After the high-profile words were finished, Zhu Gaoxu began to get to the point: "All military generals, as long as they are willing to surrender and do not slaughter the people and court soldiers, will be pardoned for capital crimes; Ordinary soldiers and general flags and small flags without grade are not asked. ”

"Father," Zhu Gaochu raised his head and looked at Zhu Di: "Your Majesty said that if your father is willing to surrender at this time, then you can not regard your father as a thief, everything is coerced by someone." Although it is impossible for his father to be the king of Yan, His Majesty can allow his father to live in the capital without house arrest. ”

As soon as Zhu Gaoxu's words came out, everyone was surprised. The previous conditions, including the announcement that Zhu Di was coerced into rebellion, were relatively normal, but it was too surprising that he was allowed to live in Beijing and not be under house arrest.

Everyone looked at Zhu Gaoxu with suspicion. Zhu Gaoxu himself calmly accepted the scrutiny of various eyes, and just said to Zhu Di: "There are also eldest brothers and third brothers who also stay in Beijing to live, but they are not allowed to go out of the city for no reason. ”

Since Yun Xi did not intend to characterize Zhu Di as a thief, he could not deal with them too harshly; And Yun Xi felt that the capital was his lair, so that he wouldn't even be able to keep an eye on Zhu Di's family.

Zhu Di glanced at the expressions of the people standing below, stared at Zhu Gaoxu for a while, and said a little tiredly: "Gaoxu and Master Daoyan stay, and everyone else goes down." Then he saw that there was no reaction from everyone, and raised his voice and said, "Stand down!" ”

The crowd couldn't but retreat.

After everyone retreated, Zhu Di said to Zhu Gaoxu: "Did Yunxi tell you these conditions, or did you come up with them yourself?" Don't lie, I can see if you're lying. ”

Zhu Gaoxu said calmly: "My son didn't lie, these conditions are what the imperial brother said." ”

Zhu Di said: "I understand. Also, Yun Xi promised you something, for example, he promised you the position of King Yan, so you worked so hard for the court. ”

Zhu Gaoxu did not speak. Zhu Di didn't continue to ask, and then said: "You are also my son, and after inheriting the throne of King Yan, you can be regarded as inheriting my position, and I am not too much of a failure." ”

"After a while, I will follow you to the camp to meet Yun Xi and ask for surrender! But for now, you go down first. ”

Zhu Gaoxu was excited for a while. Although Zhu Di seemed to have surrendered and had no way out, he was still very excited when he heard Zhu Di's words of agreeing to surrender, which meant that his position as King Yan had finally arrived.

Zhu Gaoxu couldn't wait to pull Zhu Di to the camp to ask for surrender, but now he could only bow and retreat.

Waiting for Zhu Gaoxu to retreat, Zhu Di said to Daoyan: "Master ,......"

Dao Yan interrupted Zhu Di's words and said, "Your Highness doesn't have to say anything, the poor monks understand." The poor monk is the most suitable person to coerce His Highness to rebel, and besides, this rebellion of His Highness is indeed because the poor monk is secretly making trouble, and it is not considered to have wronged the poor monk. ”

Zhu Di saw that he understood what he meant, and said, "Then master, that's it." ”

After a pause, Zhu Di said to Dao Yan again: "Master, why did you have to let Gu rebel in the first place? At that time, Lone said, after being forced to rebel like this, no matter whether you win or lose, you will not end well, why do you still do this? Zhu Di has always been incomprehensible to this question, so he asks it now.

Dao Yan muttered to himself in a very low voice: "Sure enough, it was against the sky to change my life, originally I was the king of Yan should have the appearance of the son of heaven, but I still can't beat the person who changed my life against the sky." ”

Then he smiled and said, "If Your Highness wants to know, wait until Your Highness will go underground and ask the poor monk after a hundred years." As soon as he finished speaking, he fell to the ground as if he could not support his body.

Zhu Di was shocked and walked over to help Dao Yan. Zhu Di thought that Dao Yan couldn't withstand such a blow and couldn't stand steadily, but after probing his breath, he found that he had died of anger.

In the early afternoon, Yun Xi met Zhu Di, who came to surrender, in his big tent.

Since Zhu Di has surrendered, he will not pretend to be an uncle in order to show any 'backbone' and 'aesthetic value', and immediately kneel down after seeing Yun Xi and claim that he deserves death.

And Yun Xi was quite angry at Zhu Di's rebellion out of a variety of considerations, but he didn't say too much to Zhu Di, and just accused him of rebellion with righteous words.

Then Yun Xi gave an order, ordering Xu Huizu to lead the troops, and at the same time take Zhu Di to recruit Beiping City.

On the seventh day of November, Yunxi learned that Zhu Gaochi, who had stayed in Beiping City, surrendered on the fifth day of November, and the rebellion in Hebei ended.

On the same day, Yunxi also got the news that the rebels in Jinan City had civil strife after seeing Lu Yuan who was captured alive and hearing that Qingzhou and other places had been lost.

So far, although there are still some prefectures and counties in the area of Dongchang Province occupied by the remnants of the rebels, the main forces of the rebels have all been surrendered or destroyed, and all the famous rebel generals have been killed or captured, and the rest have become rogues, so there is no need to worry. It can be said that this rebellion has been put down.

After the rebellion is put down, it is natural to deal with the relevant follow-up matters. The most important of these is not the disposition of the rebels, nor the reward for meritorious deeds, but a thorough characterization of the rebellion.

Shandong's rebellion, after the interrogation of the captured military generals of the former Qi King Sanwei, got a real answer. Yun Xi felt that this true answer could be announced, so he used it as a reason to announce it to the public and record it in the history books.

But Xie Cheng's reason for rebellion, Yun Xi couldn't cry or laugh after learning the true reason. In the end, even if this reason is announced, it may not make everyone believe it, so the reason why Yun Xi ordered it to be announced to the public is: Xie Cheng was also an accomplice of Zhu Rong, the king of Qi, and he was afraid that the imperial court would punish him after the rebellion in the Qi Palace, so he followed the rebellion.

As for the Yan army, Yun Xi thought about it and decided not to characterize the matter as a rebellion, but Zhu Di went south without the permission of the imperial court in order to prevent the rebellion in Shandong. As for the few encounters, it was all a misunderstanding.

Although this reason must not be hidden, when the Yan army was besieged in the last two days, as long as it was a military general with more than 100 households, he knew the truth of the matter, but Yun Xi announced it like this, and ordered it to be written into his "Actual Record" and various official history books of the imperial court.

As for the skepticism of the literati, it does not matter. The two important parties, Yun Xi and Zhu Di, are all determined in this way, what else can the literati do? At most, I wrote it down in my diary. Yun Xi didn't care, he just had a reason to explain the past and not affect the unity of the royal family.

Of course, the punishment of Zhu Di is still necessary. Zhu Di himself wrote to resign from the position of King Yan on the grounds that he was old and sick, and Zhu Gaochi resigned as the son of King Yan on the grounds that he was not in good health and could not take on the responsibility. Zhu Gaoxu was first named the prince of King Yan, and then he was crowned King Yan, and got what he dreamed of.

As for whether this reason can fool people who don't know the truth, Yun Xi thinks it's still okay. Zhu Biao Hongwu passed away in the twenty-fifth year (1392), Zhu Fan passed away in the twenty-eighth year of Hongwu (1395), Zhu Li Hongwu passed away in the thirty-first year (1398), this year is the first year of Jianye (1399), according to the practice of his three elder brothers, he should die in two more years, what is strange about his poor health now! Although in history, Zhu Di lived for more than 20 years.

As for Zhu Gaochi's poor health, he is famous, and he can fool the past.

However, there are still people who have different opinions on letting Zhu Gaoxu inherit the throne. Xu Huizu found Yun Xi and said: "Your Majesty, although the King of Gaoyang County is brave and resourceful, and is good at leading troops to fight, he is a bit tyrannical, and he is also an unruly figure in his bones. ”

Yun Xi certainly knew what kind of person Zhu Gaoxu was based on his performance in history, but he had no choice. The reasons announced to the public are nothing more than fools, and everyone knows the truth. And Zhu Gaoxu has made a lot of contributions in the counterinsurgency, and he is the only one of Zhu Di's three sons on the side of the court. And since Yun Xi did not declare Zhu Di's rebellion, he had to appoint a Yan king. So it can only be Zhu Gaoxu.

However, Yun Xi said: "Xu Aiqing, I know this. ”

After deciding on the characterization of the rebellion, it stands to reason that the next step should be to reward the rebels for meritorious deeds or dispose of the rebels, but Yunxi did something that made many people wonder.

Yun Xi ordered: Find a father and son in the three guards of Yanwang, the father's age is about thirty to forty years old, the son's age is sixteen years old, the father and son are both in Yanwang Sanwei at this time, the father is about a hundred households in the official position, and the son is an ordinary soldier. In addition, both father and son have the surname Sun. "You must find it, live or die." Yun Xi said.

And Yun Hee was very nervous when he gave this order, and his facial expression completely revealed his nervousness. Even Wang Xizai, who has been following Yun Xi, is only seeing Yun Xi's expression for the third time. The first time was when he learned that Concubine Lu was going to kill him, and the second time was when Zhu Yuanzhang was urgently notified to return from the ancestral tomb in Sizhou before he died. Even this counterinsurgency, he did not do this when he learned that Zhu Di might rebel.

After Yun Xi gave the order, the people of Yan Wang Sanwei naturally began to figure out who met Yun Xi's conditions. Then a father and son were revealed.

"What? Your Majesty wants to see me and my son? How can it be! Sun Shao, who was queuing up to eat under the supervision of Yulinwei's soldiers, fell to the ground with his son Sun Rui, but he didn't realize it: "How can Your Majesty find the two of us!" He couldn't believe it.

In fact, not only did he not dare, but even Zhang Yu, who came to deliver a message to him, couldn't believe it at first. Zhang Yu because his eldest son Zhang Fu was on Yunxi's side, although Zhu Di trusted him on the surface, he didn't let him do important things, so he never had the opportunity to show his face before.

However, Zhang Yu heard Yun Xi's order with his own ears, and at that time, Yun Xi called all the people above the command of the three guards of Yan Wang to give an order.

Zhang Yu said: "That's right, Your Majesty is talking about your father and son. Don't wait in line here for dinner, come with me to see Your Majesty. ”

Then Zhang Yu took Sun Shao, Sun Rui, and his son, who were a little confused, to Yunxi's big tent.