After deducing from the war games, Zhu Yunwen handed over the matter of making the sand table and deduction to Qi Tai, Xu Huizu and Chang Sheng assisted, trying to deduce several northern expeditions of the Ming Dynasty, and then deduce the current situation in northern Xinjiang. In addition, he also has strict requirements for his four martial arts companions, and must be very proficient in drawing homework, learn deduction methods, and study the use of cavalry, infantry and musketeers. Everything is being handled in an orderly manner.

Zhu Yuanzhang has been in poor health since Zhu Biao passed away, and recently the four kings have become vassals, this sixty-six-year-old man can't help but feel a little sad, and his health is getting worse and worse, Zhu Yunwen will accompany him in the Qianqing Palace day and night, and he will not return to his own dormitory in the palace at night. took care of Zhu Yuanzhang's body during the day, accompanied Zhu Yuanzhang to the court, and accompanied Zhu Yuanzhang to deal with the twists and turns, and it has been 3 months since he was canonized as the emperor's grandson, and he has slowly started to deal with the twists and turns.

Zhu Yunwen still insists on meditating now, but it was changed to night, and after Zhu Yuanzhang fell asleep, Zhu Shoudao in the dream and Zhu Yunwen in reality slowly merged into one person, which is the result of frequent meditation. So when it comes to dealing with the chapter, it becomes more and more convenient, and sometimes it will be rejected by Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang is also very patient to tell him why he wants to deal with it like this, and Zhu Yunwen is also very serious about learning. Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but be secretly surprised, he had the impression that this grandson was more benevolent, filial and loyal than the former prince, but now this grandson has slowly learned to be flexible and accept reality, and he is not stupid in reading dead books, which makes him very pleased.

After getting in close contact with Zhu Yuanzhang and understanding his ideas of governing the country, Zhu Yunwen slowly understood Zhu Yuanzhang's distress and predicament, although he did not agree with many of his practices, but he had to say that there was no good way.

First of all, among the founding emperors of the past dynasties, Zhu Yuanzhang was the lowest, so a lot of rumors and rumors will naturally spread inadvertently, what "the little monk of Huangjue Temple", "born to eat", "mud legs can also be an emperor" and the like, Zhu Yunwen feels that everyone will be angry, let alone the emperor, but the emperor's way of getting angry is more terrible.

Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang's early experience made him hate corrupt officials very much, and he also had a bad impression of scholars, he hoped that the officials' fortunes could only reach the level of a rich man in the countryside, which was far from the expectations of most people, and he had a kind of idea of hoping that officials would serve the people, and this kind of thinking that was too advanced was destined to hit a wall. So he almost never met a few good officials in his life, so he killed officials, he was not soft at all, and he did not respect officials. This is actually one of the reasons why they kill heroes, who often hold heavy power, so they harm the people even more. For example, he whipped Zhu Liangzu to death, because he killed a good official Daotong, but other heroes felt that he was making a big fuss, and this feeling of no one agreeing was easy to make people crazy, so he should be the loneliest person in the emperor's group.

In the end, the inferiority of the family background made him a vassal king, and he was all over the country, which not only caused a large increase in state expenditure, but also caused the decentralization of administrative power, but at that time, he had no other choice, he could not strike at the heroes on the one hand, and let them guard the key points on the one hand, and to fight the heroes must reuse his son, and the attack on the heroes is easy to expand, because they are all in a small circle in Huaixi, and they are all villagers in each other's townships, and they are not good enough to be close to each other and so on. In the end, it is possible that he did not realize the cruelty of imperial power, and thought that there was no risk in handing over power to his sons, or he thought that no one understood his simple ideas, and his sons should understand him, but this backfired, and his sons completely became a standard vassal king, and he gave them a perfect family background, which cannot but be said to be a kind of sadness.

Now the biggest problem is Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Yunwen is too young to win the approval of the courtiers at all. The courtiers did not so much choose Zhu Yunwen as they rejected King Yan. Zhu Yuanzhang knew these problems, but he had no ability to change them, because if he wantonly killed his ministers for the sake of establishing the Yan King, it would only become a joke. Zhu Yuanzhang is also very worried about his body, as a sixty-six-year-old man, he can feel his energy slowly declining all the time.

That night, Zhu Yuanzhang leaned on the dragon couch and was telling Zhu Yunwen about some problems encountered in the recital: "Yunwen, you have to remember that the officials who write the recital are extremely smart, and you must be good at finding problems from the recital, which requires a certain amount of vision and judgment, but more importantly, you must understand the actual situation." Since I ascended the throne, I have only inspected Bianliang in the first year of Hongwu, and I have never been out of the capital since then. As an emperor, it is very dangerous to leave Jingshi, when Emperor Guangwu of Han left Jingshi, but in just 2 months, the troops in Gyeonggi have signs of mutiny. But if you don't leave the Jingshi, then it will be difficult to understand the world, not understand the agriculture, do not understand the geography, do not understand the military, it will be difficult to be a Ming Jun, and there will be a disaster of national destruction and family mourning at every turn, so you have to go out of the palace after a while, go out of the Jingshi to take a look, of course, not too far. And as a king, you must be cautious and cautious, authority cannot be easily delegated, power is easy to grant but difficult to receive, remember to remember. ”

Zhu Yunwen nodded yes and said: "What Grandpa Huang said is that Grandpa Yunwen knows, after a while, Grandpa Huang's health will be better, Yunwen plans to form my escort army, and plans to train my martial arts companions, I think they are all very good." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Zhu Yunwen and said: "Yes, if you need anything, you can ask me for help, but as the emperor's grandson, don't invest too much energy in the military, and you must be familiar with the government as soon as possible, the emperor's grandfather is old." ”

While talking, Changfu came in from outside and bowed down: "Back to the emperor and His Royal Highness, the Jinyi guard commanded Jiang Zhen to ask to see him outside the palace?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang paused for a moment and asked, "What time is it now?" How could Jiang Zheng ask to see him at this time? ”

Changfu replied: "It's almost time now. ”

"Let him come in quickly, in addition, we must take care of all the eunuchs and palace maids tonight, and they are not allowed to leave their posts without permission, and the news that Jiang Zhen wants to see is strictly sealed."

Changfu answered and went to arrange.

After a while, Jiang Zhen hurriedly walked in, knelt down and kowtowed: "See the emperor, His Royal Highness the imperial grandson, there will be something to tell you at the end." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Jiang Xuan, who was kneeling on the ground, and didn't let him get up, and asked, "It's so late, you came to report, is there anything wrong?" ”

Jiang Zhen raised his head and said, "Your Majesty, the Duke of Liangguo Lanyu wants to rebel." ”

What the?

In an instant, the temperature of the Qianqing Palace seemed to drop by a few degrees, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but shudder, and glanced at Zhu Yunwen, now the royal family in Beijing is only sixty-six-year-old Zhu Yuanzhang and eighteen-year-old Zhu Yunwen, the old and the young, it is the weakest time, Lan Yu really picked a good time.

"Jiang Xuan, what did you find?"

"The minister's discoveries have been written into chapters, and I invite the emperor and His Royal Highness to review them."

Zhu Yuanzhang took the piece from Jiang Zheng's hand and glanced at it: "Jiang Xuan, please briefly describe your discovery." ”

"Okay, back to the emperor, since the last time the emperor asked Jinyiwei to monitor Liang Guogong, the last general has arranged manpower and discovered the following phenomenon."

"1. At the beginning of last month, that is, the day when the imperial grandson explained the war games, Song Guogong, Ying Guogong and Liang Guogong had a secret meeting, and they seemed to be having fun with the singers at that time, but afterwards the three singers were silent, saying that they were infected and died, which cannot but make people suspicious. The final general analyzes what they must have talked about, or at least reached some tacit understanding. ”

"Second, Liang Guogong has always been known for his boldness in the court, he often banquets his subordinates in the palace, and occasionally banquets court officials, and there are many subordinates who take the initiative to visit him, and this period of time is also the same, but after analysis, it is found that after the secret meeting of the three princes, the banquet density is higher, and there are a lot more people invited, and even many low-level officers, such as Li Cheng, a hundred households in the avant-garde of the government army, can not see anything on the surface, because Li Cheng was once a personal soldier of Liang Guogong in his early years, and there is no problem for him to come to visit. But after Li Cheng went back, he cleaned up the hundred households he managed, and he didn't know where the money came from, and gave a lot of rewards and banquets to his subordinates, so we suspect that Liang Guogong wants Li Cheng to do something, and he wants to use the avant-garde of the government army, and this phenomenon is not only Li Cheng alone, there are also many people in the left guard of the government army and the right guard of the government army to visit Liang Guogong, and recently the left guard of the government army and the right guard of the government army have also been purged. ”

When Jiang Zhen said this, Zhu Yuanzhang asked Zhu Yunwen to bring over the recent military department and the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies and check it. It was found that there was no personnel transfer, but there were a few thousands of deaths to fill the vacancy, and this kind of thing was nothing, combined with Jiang Xuan's narration, Zhu Yuanzhang's hand trembled slightly.

Jiang Xuan continued: "Third, the Duke of Liangguo has raised a lot of fake sons and family members, and according to the regulations, they cannot wear armor, because these people are not within the military establishment of the imperial court, but recently Jinyi Wei found that some fake family members began to wear armor training in the mansion, and sometimes the sound of training can be heard on the official road of the Duke of Liangguo. ”

"Fourth, recently, the Lan clan people often go in and out of the Liangguo Mansion, the sons of the Liangguo Gong, Lan Nao'er and Lan Taiping, often go out for a few days and do not return home, after Jinyiwei tracked and found that they ran to Dingyuan's hometown and met a lot of relatives, including Liang Guogong's brother Lan Rong, who was the commander of the right guard of the government army, Lan Rong has been Zhishi, but his son Lantian is in charge of his father, and is currently serving in Jiangbei Yingwuwei. Recently, Dingyuan's relatives have been running to the Liangguo Mansion a lot. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang interrupted: "Then do these relatives have anything left?" ”

"No, most of them went back in one day, and a few stayed for two or three days before they returned."

"Oh, you go on."

"Obey the order, five, Liang Guogong's fake sons have often run outside the city recently, we followed it, and found that they went to the manor of the Liang Guo Gong outside the city, where there are hundreds of war horses, and a lot of weapons, they are neatly dressed and go out to hunt, these people have a clear division of labor, strong martial arts, and are extremely brave."

"Smack", Zhu Yuanzhang slapped his palm on the table: "Hiding so many war horses and weapons is definitely not a one-time achievement, what are you Jinyiwei doing to eat, how did this kind of thing just find out?" ”

Jiang Zhen hurriedly kowtowed, and there was a "bangbang" on the ground: "The emperor atoned for his sins, we were negligent before, but I didn't expect the Liangguo Guild to do this kind of thing." We later secretly went to the manor to inspect it and found that some of the horses were active military horses. ”

"Active military horses?"

"Yes, there are marks of the government army avant-garde, the government army left guard, the government army right guard, etc., except for the brocade guard, almost all the pro-army marks have it."

Zhu Yuanzhang's face turned pale: "It seems that I have killed too few people, embezzlement of military horses, this kind of headless thing has been done, then don't blame me for being polite." ”

"Your Majesty, we also recorded the list of people who went to the Liangguo Mansion, and found that there were two people who were more suspicious, one was Fu Youwen, the head of the household department, and the other was Cao Zhen, the Marquis of Jingchuan."

"Fu Youwen, Cao Zhen? What's so special about them. Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"They all only went to the Liangguo Mansion once, but Fu Youwen went to the Liangguo Mansion on the third day after his brother Ying Guogong met with Song Guogong and Liangguo Gong. Marquis Jingchuan also went to the Liangguo Mansion after that, but he was an old subordinate of the Liangguo Gong, so we didn't find it strange at first. It's just that after discovering that Liang Guogong's fake son Jia Ding was training outside the city, and then I looked back and found that Jing Chuan Hou often took Jia Ding to practice, he personally led the team, and often stayed outside for three or five days before coming back, and then went out again after a day or two, and after they came back, Jing Chuan Hou would give him a lot of wine and meat. ”

"That's what the last general will find, please ask the emperor and His Royal Highness to find out."

Zhu Yuanzhang stared deeply at Jiang Xuan, then looked at Zhu Yunwen, and then turned his head again: "Jiang Xuan, have you found out how they will rebel?" ”

"This is not true, but judging by their appearance, they should be going to do it soon, so the last general didn't dare to wait, and hurried to report to the emperor."

Zhu Yuanzhang was silent for a while, looked at Yun Wei and said, "Yun Wei, what do you think?" ”

Zhu Yunwen doesn't like Jiang Xuan, to be precise, he doesn't like Jinyiwei, because Jinyiwei is notorious in history, whether it is the previous Zhu Yunwen or that Zhu Shoudao, they are very disgusted with Jinyiwei. But the combination of the two thoughts, the current Zhu Yunwen knows that this is necessary.

"Jiang Xuan, ask you, don't you think that the Liangguo Gong conspiracy is too much of a boil? Shouldn't such a thing as a rebellion be kept very secret? How can so many people be involved? ”

"Your Highness, Liang Guogong has always been arrogant, although he is a victorious general on the battlefield, but when it comes to confidentiality and thoroughness, he can't be compared with our Jinyi Guard."

Zhu Yuanzhang interjected: "Yun Wei, Lan Yu is indeed a little unruly and unruly. ”

Zhu Yunwen said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Your Majesty, if the Duke of Liangguo wants to rebel, he must come to the imperial grandfather, but the imperial grandfather is in the palace, and he has no ability to attack it, otherwise there is no need to go to great lengths." Unless the imperial grandfather leaves Miyagi, and this date is still recent, then ...... It was when the imperial grandfather went out to cultivate the fields. Because Zhu Yunwen has been accompanying Zhu Yuanzhang day and night in the past few days, he is very clear about his itinerary for the next few days, so he quickly guessed it.

"Well, yes, just like I thought, I guess Lan Yu is going to do it that day. I really didn't expect Lan Yu to be so frustrated, I originally planned to see if he was Zhou Yafu, but I didn't expect him to ....."

When Zhu Yuanzhang said this, he waved his hand and said to Jiang Xuan: "You go down, I have worked hard for you this time, and after the matter is over, I will have a heavy reward." ”

Jiang Zhen replied and retired.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Yunwen: "Yunwen, what should we do now?" ”

Zhu Yunwen thought for a while and said: "Tonight, I will order the guards in the palace to strengthen their vigilance to prevent the news from leaking, the blue jade dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, although the palace city is strong, but I am afraid of what happens." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang turned around and called Changfu: "Did you hear the words of the imperial grandson?" Hurry up and make arrangements, let the guards lead the guards to strengthen their vigilance, do not allow any loopholes, and if any of the guards have any trouble, they will be killed immediately. ”

Changfu answered and quickly ran out.

There were only two grandchildren left in the hall, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Yunwen and said, "Yunwen, don't go back tonight, sleep here, and talk to grandpa for a while." ”

This night, Zhu Yunwen slept more soundly, because he knew that Zhu Yuanzhang could handle all this. But what he didn't know was that Zhu Yuanzhang almost stayed awake all night, thinking about how to solve this crisis. Listening to Yun Wei's even breathing, he couldn't help but feel a sense of relief, for the sake of this emperor and grandson, for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, he must fight this battle well.