Why didn't the emperor's grandfather Yingming I see this? These are all lessons that are clearly recorded in the history books. It seems that his preference for his sons overshadowed his wisdom and led him to make the wrong decision to establish a vassal king, yes, yes, it must be so.

I am going to get rid of this malpractice. Zhu Yunwen slowly stood up from his seat, put his hands behind his back, tilted his head, and looked at the sky outside the room with extremely deep and expectant eyes, his face full of pride and ambition.

The next day, Qi Tai, who had not slept well all night yesterday, came to the Forbidden City Hall of the Ming Dynasty where Zhu Yunwen was located with apprehension.

After arriving, I found that he was the last to arrive, and Fang Xiaoru and Huang Zicheng were already dressed and discussing problems with Zhu Yunwen. When the three of them saw Qi Tai coming, they immediately stopped talking and looked at him in unison, their eyes full of expectation, as if they had acquiesced in the success of his errand yesterday.

Seeing this scene, Qi Tai's old face blushed, and he immediately took two quick steps to the center of the Jinshen Palace, bowed to Zhu Yunwen, and said, "Weichen see the emperor." ”

Zhu Yunwen was still in a good mood when he saw this henchman of his, sat up straighter from the throne, stretched out his hand to help him, and said with a gentle smile: "Qi Aiqing, hurry up, what does Changxinghou say?" ”

Qi Tai didn't stand up, knelt up straight, arched his hand to Zhu Yunwen, and said very ashamedly: "The minister is incompetent, and he has a negative grace." Please ask the emperor to condemn the crime. ”

Zhu Yunwen was stunned for a moment, and his mind was stunned all of a sudden, what does it mean to have a negative grace? Could it be that Geng Bingwen still wanted to resist the decree, his eyes widened, he looked straight at Qi Tai, and said with a puzzled expression: "What does Qi Aiqing mean by this?" Could it be that Changxinghou is unwilling to go? ”

Qi Tai shook his head slightly, a wry smile appeared on his face, and said, "That's not the case, Changxinghou is sick, I'm afraid I won't be able to go." ”

"Sick?" Fang Xiaoru and Huang Zicheng said in surprise at the same time, and then glanced at each other again, both with expressions of disbelief, not sick in the morning, not sick in the evening, why are you sick at this time?

Zhu Yunwen also sighed, sat on the throne expressionlessly, couldn't tell whether he believed it or not, and said: "The Marquis of Changxing is old, and I don't plan to trouble him anymore. Since he's sick, let's go somebody else. ”

Now it was Qi Tai's turn to make a difficulty, because he saw Fang Xiaoru and Huang Zicheng both looking at him in the back of his eyes, and the meaning in his eyes was clear: Brother, take care of you.

Qi Tai subconsciously looked up at Zhu Yunwen, and found that the young emperor who had just ascended the throne was also looking at him intently, his eyes were full of expectations, knowing that he couldn't avoid this level, so he bowed his hand to Zhu Yunwen and said: "Your Majesty, this method was thought up by Weichen, since there is no suitable candidate now, it is better to let Weichen go." ”

Seeing that Qi Tai was so brave in doing things and worrying about the country, Zhu Yunwen was very happy, and his standard amiable smile appeared on his face, and said: "Qi Aiqing is really a person who is loyal to the monarch and a patriot, and the imperial grandfather has not mistaken the wrong person, so please bother Qi Aiqing to go to the country, the conditions we negotiated before have not changed." ”

The matter has come to this, it is irreparable, stretching out the head is a knife, shrinking the head is also a knife, Qi Tai simply let go of his mood, is it a blessing or a curse, it is a disaster that can't be avoided, what do you want to do so much? In addition, he was still very happy in his heart, and immediately knelt up straight, and said impassionedly: "Thank you for the emperor's praise." The minister received the grace of two generations of the Son of Heaven, thinking day and night about how to repay, and now with this opportunity, the minister will definitely do his best to do the emperor's errand well, even if it is a liver and brain, he will not give up. ”

"Good, good, good. Qi Aiqing, please hurry up, you can be so loyal, I am very relieved. Zhu Yunwen leaned forward very happily, stretched out his hand to help Qi Tai, and said with a smile.

"Lord Qi is really loyal and courageous, and it is the blessing of the community" "Yes, yes." He is a role model for us. Huang Zicheng and Fang Xiaoru also kept praising on the side.

Qi Tai is quite bitter in his heart, you two really don't have a backache when you stand and talk, what kind of place is Suguo, it is the Longtan Tiger's Den, although he is ready to sacrifice for the imperial court, but he doesn't want to die in vain, at least he has to do a career before he dies, this kind of life is vigorous.

Although he finally died for Zhu Yunwen's martyrdom, but that was not his original intention, he wanted to cut the feudal domain successfully, become a great hero of the new dynasty, and then enjoy the glory and wealth, and his name will go down in history after his death, who knows that he met a pig teammate, so that Zhu Di hit the capital and turned the tables, and he and Huang Zicheng are the number one traitors in Zhu Di's mouth, it can be said that Zhu Di's excuse for raising troops is to kill the two of them, and he will definitely not surrender, and he will die if he doesn't die at this time.

Qi Tai could only put a smile on his face in the face of the praise of the three of them, and he was very uncomfortable and embarrassed to deal with it.

At this time, Zhu Yunwen took out an edict from the table, handed it to the eunuch next to him, asked him to hand it to Qi Tai, and said: "This is an edict that I ordered Mr. Fang to just draw up last night, you take it with you, go to Su Kingdom, and talk to King Su together." ”

After receiving the edict handed over by Zhu Yunwen, the eunuch immediately turned to the bottom of the steps, held it in both hands, and handed it to Qi Tai. Qi Tai also knelt on the ground, respectfully opened his hands and took the edict and read it, almost scared to pee, a row of cold sweat flowed straight down his forehead, and suddenly raised his eyes to look at Zhu Yunwen, his eyes were full of horror, and he said with an incredible face: "Change the title of King Su to King Wu?" Your Majesty, whose idea was this? Will this work? ”

"It was the old man's idea." I saw Fang Xiaoru standing on the main hall with a proud face and saying this, one hand behind him, the other hand constantly brushing his beard, the expression on his face was very proud, obviously he felt that he had a clever plan.

This is the strategy of Mr. Fang Xiaoru, whom Emperor Jianwen relied on, and he self-righteously believed that he could overcome a strong enemy with this naïve method of deceiving a three-year-old child, and it was not the first time or the last time to achieve his goal.

When Jianwen was in the third year, the Yan army attacked the famous mansion of Handan, Zhu Di heard that Zhu Yunwen had deposed Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng, so he pretended to write to ask the court to stop military operations, at this time Fang Xiaoru gave Zhu Yunwen two strategies, the first was to pretend to promise him, and pardon his crimes, let him immediately withdraw the army back to Beiping, and when he returned to the army, take the opportunity to attack him.

The second is to write a few secret edicts to the envoys of the Yan army, and ask him to secretly distribute them among the Yan army, so as to disturb the military spirit of the Yan army.

Of course, Zhu Di didn't listen to the orders of the imperial court in the end, after the envoy arrived at the Yan army camp, he hid the edict and didn't dare to distribute it, he is not a fool, just with your two words, those who rebelled with Zhu Di pinned their heads to their belts will believe it? Will I fight against Zhu Di with you?

People have brains, you say that you are not to blame for the past, what should you do when we surrender and settle the score? What's more, when Jianwen was three years old, the imperial court did not have an absolute advantage over King Yan, they could eat and drink spicy food with King Yan, and if they surrendered to the court, they were inferior thieves, and they could only survive. When people make choices, interests are the first element, if they give up following the glory and wealth of King Yan to surrender to the court to be a lingering thief, then there is only one possibility, that is, the court has formed an overwhelming advantage over King Yan, they will die if they obey, if the court does not have the strength to force them to no way out, they will not take this road.

Another time was also in the third year of Jianwen, when the Yan soldiers attacked Pei County and burned the grain ships, and the imperial court was at a disadvantage. At this time, Fang Xiaoru suggested to Zhu Yunwen that he would take advantage of the contradiction between Zhu Gaochi and his younger brother to plot against Zhu Gaochi and promise to be crowned king.

Fang Xiaoru can come up with this method to defend against the enemy, but he really doesn't know what he has in his head? Let's not say that Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Gaochi are just cousins, in terms of blood relationship, how can it compare to the father-son relationship between him and Zhu Di? Take the situation at that time, it was obvious that the imperial court had lost the battle and was at a disadvantage, Zhu Gaochi was the prince, even if Zhu Di had conquered the country, even if Zhu Di didn't like him, even if Zhu Di liked Zhu Gaochu very much, then Zhu Di had to make Zhu Gaochi the prince.

Because this is the rule set by Zhu Yuanzhang. And the banner that Zhu Di raised to fight against Jingnan is to restore the ancestral system, and you don't even restore the most important ancestral system about the law of succession to the throne, what else are you talking about? What else are you talking about? Isn't this a slap in the face?

Zhu Gaochi does not sit on the position of the very promising prince, and if he has to bear the charge of betraying his father to make you a vassal king, then his brain will enter water.

What's more, whether it is ancient or modern, it is quite contemptible to betray one's father in exchange for glory and wealth, and what is the point of living in the contempt and spurning of others for the rest of his life, even if he is crowned king?

This is Fang Xiaoru, he thinks that after reading books for a few years, he has copied the so-called tricks and 36 tricks recorded in the history books and used them in inappropriate places.

What he didn't know was that most of the clever wisdom of the ancients, whom he fascinated and admired so much, were made up. If nothing else, let's just say that the trick of pretending to be crazy and pretending to be sick and weak has appeared many times in history? Sun Bin has used it, Liu Xiu has used it, Sima Yi has used it, and many people have used it, but the problem is that the protagonists in these history books can succeed as soon as they use it, and those villains seem to have collective amnesia at this moment, forgetting the previous lessons, their IQs have plummeted, and they obediently fall into the very unclever trap set by the protagonist. Isn't this made up?

Fang Xiaoru has read a lot of books, but he reads them without thinking, he believes whatever the book says, without the slightest doubt, and those who read in this way must be taken into the ditch by those royal literati who compile books, as well as those who write books for ulterior purposes.

Whether it's a history book or a scripture, in the final analysis, it's all told to you by others, and if you haven't seen it with your own eyes, how can you believe it all? Hearing is false, seeing is believing. It is better to believe in the book than to have no book. Why didn't Fang Xiaoru think about what these two sentences meant?

Qi Tai looked at Fang Xiaoru's arrogant and complacent expression, and his heart was itching with hatred, no wonder the first emperor has never reused you, what kind of bad idea are you, King Su finally established the country independently, and the south is the king, laying thousands of miles of vast rivers and mountains, how can he willingly run to Suzhou to be encircled by you?

Before the first emperor died, he had obviously restricted King Su, so that his soldiers and horses could not pass through Lanzhou, which basically eliminated the possibility of him competing for the throne, in this situation, the biggest threat to the court is King Yan, the court does not focus on this direction, but to provoke King Su, isn't that full of food?

"Qi Aiqing, I think Mr. Fang's words are very reasonable, King Wu is the title of the emperor's grandfather during his lifetime, no matter who it is, it is a great honor for anyone, I think King Su will not refuse, and I also ask Qi Aiqing to inform King Su of this matter." Zhu Yunwen saw Qi Tai's shocked face and sweaty expression on his forehead, and said that he might have some scruples, so he immediately comforted him: "Don't worry, you are the minister appointed by me personally, no matter what, no one dares to touch you in this Ming Dynasty." ”

Qi Tai's soul in his heart closed his eyes tightly, knowing that things had reached this point irreparable, if he refused or raised objections, Zhu Yunwen would definitely think that he was greedy for life and afraid of death, and did not dare to share his worries for the court, if this was the case, then his political and governance life would be over, which was more uncomfortable than death for Qi Tai, who had great ambitions, and finally could only arch his hand to Zhu Yunwen expressionlessly, and said stubbornly: "The minister obeys the order, and the minister will do his best to do the emperor's errand well." ”

Seeing that Qi Tai finally agreed, Zhu Yunwen was very happy, and said to the eunuch beside him very generously: "Spread the edict to the imperial dining room, set up a sumptuous banquet, and I want to have a few drinks with the three Aiqing." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." "Thank you, Your Majesty." Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng deeply felt the emperor's grace, and were very moved to salute Zhu Yunwen.

Fang Xiaoru was also very moved by the courtesy of the king, but out of the Confucian style in his bones, he still couldn't help but advise: "Your Majesty, let's just eat a little as we want, and we must not be extravagant and wasteful." ”

Zhu Yunwen smiled slightly and said very politely: "Good, good, good." Just according to Mr.'s words, eat whatever you want, you can't waste it, you can't waste it. ”

Immediately, the three of them had a very harmonious banquet, and they talked about their Confucian ideals very happily, so Zhu Yunwen was very happy, and unconsciously drank a few more glasses of wine, in his opinion, there is nothing more than this in life.