Text 58.The Resurgence of the Waves (1)
On the third day of Zhu Di's official departure from Beijing, a piece of music appeared on Zhu Yuanzhang's bookcase.
Seeing this, readers, do you think this routine is very familiar? As you who are familiar with the 24 histories, as you are proficient in the Art of War, the Thirty-six Strategies, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West, the illustrated version of the Golden Bottle Plum, and the Jade Futon, have you already guessed anything?
It is worthy of being loved by everyone, flowers blooming, cars seeing cars, and you are omnipotent, all say that my readers are Yushu Linfeng Sai Pan'an, a pear flower pressed begonia, and the color and art are both brilliant talents, which is really good. Yes, you guessed right, someone did attack Zhu Di.
This letter is to impeach Zhu Di, and the reason for the impeachment is also very sufficient, because Zhu Di had carried out large-scale technical damage to Jinyiwei's yamen, which directly led to Jinyiwei's inability to work normally for a long time, that is to say, Zhu Di not only hindered the law enforcement of relevant departments, but also beat and abused law enforcement personnel, which not only directly caused the paralysis of relevant departments, but also seriously damaged the image of the imperial court.
In short, what Zhu Di did was to flout the laws of the imperial court, which was no different from rebellion, the nature was serious, the impact was bad, and the punishment must be severe. As for how to deal with it, to paraphrase the words of the great leader of later generations: "The first evil must be done, the coercion will never be asked, the coercion will not be guilty, and the counterattack will be meritorious." Anyway, Zhu Di must be severely punished. Severe punishment, first of all, the prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people? That's impossible, if the common people did this, they would have been pulled out to the sky and cut five hundred times again, obviously Zhu Di couldn't be cut off five hundred times. However, although it cannot be as strict as the common people, the author of the chapter also gave quite strict criteria at the end of the chapter: degraded to the common people, exiled to Lingnan, and never recalled.
If Zhu Yuanzhang adopts the advice of this sparse person, Zhu Di will immediately have nothing, and he will end his political career completely. After Zhu Yuanzhang read this recital, his eyebrows furrowed, according to his previous temper, this kind of recital, directly write a word "read" and throw it aside, but this recital is not good, because this person who played is really special, his influence is too great, Zhu Yuanzhang has to take it seriously this time, if it is not handled properly or there are obvious loopholes in the approval, there will really be problems.
The person who wrote the chapter is called Song Shen, he is not very famous, but if you want to mention his grandfather, it is a famous person, and this famous person is called Song Lian.
This Song Lian can be said to be full of poetry and books, and his articles can be said to be the best in the Ming Dynasty, and he can be called the leader of the literary world in the Ming Dynasty. Don't think it's easy to read books, before the Ming Dynasty, books were actually more luxurious than Barberry, cool riding, scolded stones, and hey, and the families who could read books were either official eunuchs or rich people, and ordinary people could never afford to buy books, such as Song Lian, a famous scholar in the early Ming Dynasty, when he was a child, because his family was poor and couldn't afford to buy books, so he could only borrow books from others to read, so the readers at that time were very valuable, and the children of the poor family could become leaders in the literary world, which was a god-like existence.
This Mr. Song has resigned a year ago and went home to retire, but although he is gone, his name is there, and his protégés and former officials are all over the government and the opposition, many Beijing officials and foreign officials are all students of Mr. Song, and Mr. Song's influence is still not to be underestimated, and this Song Shen, although the official position is not high, is only a matter of time, but because he is the eldest son and grandson of Mr. Song, he naturally inherited Mr. Song's connections, so Song Shen has a high prestige in the government and the opposition. In addition, his reasons for impeaching Zhu Di are really irrefutable, and because the Hu Weiyong case was too widely implicated a while ago, Zhu Yuanzhang and even himself have actually aroused the collective disgust of the courtiers, and as soon as this piece is handed over, the courtiers will see how you deal with it in private, treat the minister so strictly, so do you treat your son strictly or leniently?
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang, who watched the recital, immediately realized the seriousness of the problem, the problem in front of him was a little tricky, and once Song Shen's impeachment was really not handled well, it was difficult to guarantee that there would be no collective backlash from the courtiers. In desperation, Zhu Yuanzhang chose to remain silent.
Zhu Yuanzhang's silence, although it did not provoke a large-scale backlash from the courtiers, but then another situation happened that he did not expect, and this situation, with the report of Jinyiwei, quickly reached Zhu Yuanzhang's ears.
This situation is public opinion, within a few days, the streets and alleys of the capital began to spread Zhu Di's case, and the most widely spread is a ballad "Heroes commit crimes, punish the crime severely, the son is at fault, laugh over, the king is the king's family, the prince has no king's law", when the new Jinyi Wei commander Jiang Huan read this ballad to Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, but after the anger, he immediately realized the seriousness of the situation. This is ostensibly satirizing his inconsistent law enforcement standards: the hero is guilty, regardless of whether the evidence is conclusive or not, he will be punished heavily, and his son has not even been punished for his crime. But Zhu Yuanzhang, who knows the hearts of the people in the world, actually read two levels of meaning from the nursery rhyme: the first layer is that the prince is at large without the king's law, and the second layer is that the emperor is holding the public weapon but has selfish intentions, and the law is different, which will inevitably lead to dissatisfaction among the people in the world. The first level of meaning is aimed at Zhu Di, and the second level of goal is directed at himself, but in the final analysis, this nursery rhyme is talking about himself.
Could it be that someone is secretly manipulating public opinion? Zhu Yuanzhang immediately secretly ordered Jiang Huan to secretly investigate, but after several days of investigation, nothing came out, nursery rhymes were still spreading, the people were still whispering, and the streets and alleys were still full of doubts about themselves.
And when Zhu Yuanzhang was still worried about this matter, Song Shen's second letter was handed over, Song Shen's letter was very interesting, he didn't say anything, just recorded the most widely circulated ballad on the street, and the rest didn't have a word, this short dozen words of the music, the strength is comparable to a book of ten thousand words, after Zhu Yuanzhang read it, he was so angry that he almost tore the chapter to pieces, he threw the chapter on the ground fiercely, which was still angry, and stepped on two feet hard, but he was angry, and after being angry, he realized that he had to respond. Not only to the courtiers, but also to the people of the world.
Therefore, after repeated weighing, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered to summon Zhu Di back to Beijing.
When Zhu Di received the holy decree to return to Beijing, it was already five days after breaking up with Yao Guangqi, at this time his vassal team had already left Shandong, entered the jurisdiction of the Beiping commander, and came to his own territory.