Ruan An guessed correctly, Zhu Yunwen would definitely not slow down the pace of cutting the domain, even if it was not instigated by that group of ministers, he would eventually embark on such a path, because when he was the emperor's grandson, he already felt the threat brought by his uncles.

After the last year of Hongwu and the first year of Jianwen, Zhu Yunwen moved the army more frequently, and the blood change of commanders in various places was basically completed.

On the first day of the fourth month of the first year of Jianwen, Zhu Yunwen promulgated a holy decree, saying that the king of Qi was proud of his merits and committed many misdeeds, which was actually a tumor in Qi, so he sent an army to arrest the king of Qi and return to Beijing and imprisoned him in the Zongren Mansion.

Perhaps because of the experience of King Zhou, when King Qi was arrested, not only did his family not object, but the people of the fiefdom did not take any action. King Qi didn't refute anything, and directly pleaded guilty.

So the king of Qi was stripped of his title and demoted to a concubine.

On April 15, Zhu Yunwen issued another decree to reprimand the acting king for doing nothing in the fiefdom and doing many unrighteous acts.

Then he sent an army to arrest the acting king and return to Beijing, cut off the title of vassal king, and imprisoned him with the king of Qi.

However, this is not over, on April 25, Zhu Yunwen issued another edict saying that the king of Hunan had privately printed treasure money, so he sent an army to arrest him. However, when the king of Xiang heard the news, he just shouted, "I am the son of the former emperor, how can I be humiliated by the prison officials for my life?" ”

So the king of Xiang did not open the palace of Xiang, but gathered all his wives and children, and in the midst of a cry, a fire turned the palace of the king of Hunan into ashes.

Perhaps the death of King Xiang was too heroic. Let Zhu Yunwen once again put the pace of cutting the domain.

Within a month, however, three feudal lords were cut in a row. Let the hearts of the rest of the vassal kings just let go of it again. For a time, everyone in the whole country was in danger, for fear that Zhu Yunwen's claws would reach out to them, so they were even more arrogant and lustful, and only hoped that Zhu Yunwen would let them go for the sake of their unintentional imperial power, they just wanted to be their vassal kings in peace.

Not only are the vassal kings everywhere worried, but the city of Nanjing is also rumored. Because those magnates in Nanjing knew that since Zhu Yunwen ordered the reduction of the feudal domain, it showed that he was determined to strengthen the centralization of power.

And in addition to the vassal kings in various places, their rights have the greatest impact on the emperor, once Zhu Yunwen cuts off all the vassal kings, the devil's claws will reach out to them, and then it will be their end.

So now they are all very restrained, and they want Zhu Yunwei to forget about their savings, they are just ordinary people.

It's different from the wind outside. Qingtian Academy is peaceful, it is already in its third year, and the team of the academy has also grown, and the third session has made an exception to recruit sixty people. As a result, after three sessions, the student team of the college has reached more than 150 people.

And people such as Wang Lin, Liu Guan, Zhu Ying and others are already old fritters.

However, with the exception of the uneven age of the first class, the second and third classes of the college were all students between the ages of ten and fifteen. If the collection is small, the academy will become a nanny. When it is older, it is not easy to be changed by the division of the academy.

So those little dolls in the first session became a scenery in the academy, and everyone in the second and third classes wanted to call them senior brothers. Especially Liu Guan and Zhao Kuo, although their communication skills have been greatly improved after two years of tempering, they were suddenly nervous and speechless when they saw people who were several years older than them calling them senior brothers.

Especially Liu Guan, who had just started to speak, and as soon as he saw these junior disciples of his, he immediately became unable to speak again, and could only pull the corners of his clothes vigorously.

But none of his juniors and disciples dared to underestimate Liu Guan, because whether it was in the Gewu class or the architecture class, Liu Guan was a well-deserved brother, although he was not very good at expression, but what was written on the blackboard, except for Hu Ye and Ruan An, few people could understand it.

And the speed at which he accepts new knowledge is even faster than Ruan An, and the Arabic numerals handed over to him by Hu Ye have already mastered it in his hands, and he even figured out the Sudoku game himself, and he pit the rest of the students enough, even Ruan An is ashamed of himself.

To say that the only tense atmosphere in the academy is the three princes of Zhu Ying, Zhu Song and Zhu Mo, although they did not go to the domain, but in fact they still have fiefs, so to be precise, they are also vassal kings, according to Zhu Yunwen's meaning, they are also going to be cut off, but they are in Nanjing, so they are exempted from the procedure of arresting them.

I don't know if Zhu Yunwen gave face to the academy, and he didn't cut off the titles of the three of them, they are still the princes.

"Dean, do you think the emperor will attack us?"

Although he is several years older than Hu Ye, Zhu Mo still likes to listen to Hu Ye's opinion, because Hu Ye can't be judged by age for him at all.

"I said you don't study hard, why do you care about these things every day?"

Hu Ye glanced at Zhu Mo with disdain, they can be said to be the best vassal kings to bully, and they don't even have their own guards, since Zhu Yunwen didn't start with them at the beginning, either they will do it at the end, or they won't do it, after all, they didn't make any mistakes in Nanjing, and in the academy, they didn't have the opportunity to make mistakes.

"However, my fifth brother committed suicide in the prison, and the twelfth brother set himself on fire in the fiefdom, and they all died so miserably, I'm so afraid."

Zhu Ying was very worried, there was no blood on his face, in fact, since King Zhou's suicide last year, the three of them have been scared, as for the three of them, because two of their fathers are the promoters of cutting the domain, they were dismissed, only Xu Jingchang is still following them, because Xu Jingchang's father Xu Zengshou mentioned that he should not cut the domain.

"Your fifth brother's death is because he doesn't want to implicate his family, and he doesn't want the people of his fiefdom to be buried with him, he is a good prince. Do you know, the night before he committed suicide, I went to see him in the prison, and he told me that he hoped that his brothers would follow his example and indulge when it was time to indulge, for there was no need for a strong vassal king, only an obedient vassal king. So as long as you are obedient, there is nothing, which is why I don't want you to go to Niutou Mountain, as long as you stay in the academy to study, do you understand? ”

Hu Ye glanced at the three princes, because the three of them were educated by the academy, their brains must be a little better than the rest of the princes, what is lacking now is social experience, if they are put in the fiefdom now, it will definitely bring great changes to the fiefdom.

If you change the period, I'm afraid it will be a great thing, but now is the period of panic among the people who cut the domain, I'm afraid this is a disaster, just as King Zhou said, now the era is peaceful and prosperous, and the emperor doesn't need a capable vassal king.

"Why is Brother Twelve so stupid, he has to set himself on fire, and he also brings his whole family with him, even if he is caught in Nanjing, at most he will have his title stripped of his title, and he will still live well. With our brother here, can we still lack his food and clothing? Zhu Song clenched his fists, obviously feeling unworthy of the death of King Xiang, and lost his life for a trumped-up charge.

"Don't you know what King Xiang said before he died?" I am the son of the first emperor, how can I be humiliated by the prison officials for my life", this is the temperament, the emperor said that he privately printed treasure money, and also said that the evidence is conclusive, in fact, it is just the dark money used by the people to worship their ancestors, that thing is for the dead, but I didn't expect it to be left for myself in the end. ”

Hu Ye sighed, he also felt worthless for the king of Xiang, to say that he was indiscriminate in the issuance of money, he Zhu Yunwen is a big family, the Hongwu Tongbao that has been circulating in the Ming Dynasty for decades has become scrap copper overnight, just because of the implementation of his Jianwen Tongbao, many farmers finally had to jump into the river to commit suicide, because their family out of Hongwu Tongbao, nothing, just because of a word, they became penniless beggars.

This is not the worst, Hu Ye also heard He Bing say that there is a businessman in Hangzhou, because he loves copper coins, he has no silver at home, only mountains of Hongwu Tongbao.

But Zhu Yunwen said a word, and his pile of copper coins became garbage, and in the end, the merchant had to tie bags of Hongwu Tongbao to himself, take a boat to the middle of the West Lake, and then jumped off. There were still people who dived before they fished him up.

These are just a microcosm of the country, and there are many similar incidents happening.

Although this situation will also occur in the past when the emperor is replaced, but the Ming Dynasty's practice of changing the currency in circulation after changing the emperor made Hu Ye very criticized, and if Zhu Di came to power and still engaged in this set, I am afraid that he would complain.

Therefore, Zhu Yunwen used such a charge to arrest the king of Xiang, and the king of Xiang naturally did not obey, and he could not rise up to resist, so he could only self-immolate to express his strong dissatisfaction, so as to swear that he was the son of Zhu Yuanzhang, and he could not be spineless, and would rather die than come to Nanjing to be humiliated by the jailers.

"Dean, when did you say this matter was a head?" Zhu Ying is very helpless, although they are safe now, but this matter is not over, they have never been able to feel at ease, like a sharp sword hanging in the air at any time.

"Yes, our brothers have left us one by one, if we continue like this, I'm afraid the tragedy of the twelfth brother will be staged." Zhu Mo also agreed.

"It's coming, it's coming."

Hu Ye could only comfort them like this, because according to history, the time for Zhu Di's rebellion was approaching, and this was the end of this matter.

A few days after Hu Ye's conversation with the three princes ended, the vassal king was in turmoil again.

On July 15 of the first year of Jianwen, just a year after King Zhou was arrested, King Min was also stripped of the title of vassal king, and this time he was even more ruthless, and directly sent King Min to Zhangzhou.

At this moment, all the vassal kings couldn't sit still, because King Min was a model of arrogance and lust, but they still couldn't escape Zhu Yunwen's grasp, and they didn't know what to do. (To be continued......)