The words show that Taizu wantonly killed meritorious officials, and Hu Weiyong's case lasted for ten years, and although Yang Jing was "dead", he could not escape the so-called scrutiny. Due to Zhu Di's covert protection, he ordered his subordinates to destroy all the real files of Yang Jing's life experience, and made a new fake file, bleached Yang Jing's life experience, and reported it to Ming Taizu.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was far away in Nanjing, loved his fourth son Zhu Di the most, and believed in Zhu Di's words, so after killing Yang Tong, the Marquis of Yingyang, he no longer pursued Yang Jing's crimes, and finally the matter was settled.

In the fifteenth year of Hongwu (1382), Zhu Yuanzhang selected senior monks across the country to recite scriptures and recommend blessings for the late Queen Ma, and also selected auxiliary talents for the kings with the same surname. The accidental appearance of a person changed the historical trend of the Ming Dynasty, and he was the Daoyan monk.

Daoyan was recommended by people to become an important advisor of Yan Wang Zhu Di, and followed Yan Wang Zhu Di to Beiping (now Beijing) Abbot Daqingshou Temple. Since then, he has often been in and out of the Yanwang Mansion, participated in the conspiracy to seize the throne, and became an important adviser to Zhu Di.

Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was not the biological son of Zhu Yuanzhang's Empress Ma, he was born in Yingtianfu in 1360, and only at the age of seven did he have his own name like his other brothers.

Zhu Di has been raised by Queen Ma since the death of his biological mother, and he has no worries about food and clothing in his childhood, and he is still relatively happy. When he was 20 years old, he was sealed in Beiping and guarded the border passes.

Since then, Zhu Di has been ordered to participate in the military activities of the north to fight against the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty, showing extraordinary military talent and extraordinary courage. Zhu Di led his division to the north twice, recruited the Mongol Naier Buhua, and captured the Northern Yuan general Solin Timur, with outstanding achievements and great influence in the northern army. As a result, he became more and more ambitious, unscrupulous, and unruly.

After Yang Jing's family was rescued by Zhu Di, he felt too aggrieved, and always wanted to find an opportunity to go back to Suzhou to see his parents-in-law, and go back to Chengbu Village to see his father Yang Guqing (Yang Zheng). King Yan knew that Yang Jing was a loyal, brave and filial man, but the old emperor was not dead, so he could not venture back to Jiangnan.

In 1392, the crown prince Zhu Biao died of illness, Zhu Biao did not endure the hardships of Rong Ma and life, and was pampered, and Zhu Di looked down on this brother. Subsequently, Zhu Zhang, the king of Qin, and Zhu Feng, the king of Jin, died successively, so Zhu Di became the head of the kings in terms of military strength and family order.

Zhu Yuanzhang felt that Zhu Di's son was very much like himself, and he revealed information many times, planning to pass on the throne to Zhu Di, which made Zhu Di excited.

Zhu Di said to Yang Jing very optimistically: "Rui Guogong, if you bear with it, the sky will soon dawn." ”

Yang Jing said gloomily: "Now that the Holy Lord is very healthy, and there is no official canonization, His Highness still has to prepare for the worst." ”

Zhu Di is still full of confidence; "Don't be afraid, if my father doesn't make this king the crown prince, I will have hundreds of thousands of soldiers, just find an excuse to kill into Ying Tianfu."

Yang Jing said: "The division is unknown, and it is not okay to rush to send troops." ”

Zhu Di said: "What's the matter?" ”

Yang Jing said: "Your Highness's best way at present is to stay in the dark and wait for the emperor's news." ”

Zhu Di said: "I've been waiting for more than 30 years, I'm afraid that I will walk before my father." ”

Yang Jing said: "Your Highness is kind-hearted, don't worry. If you have a good attitude, you can live a long life. ”

Zhu Di Dao; "If my father lived to be 80 years old like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, I wouldn't have to wait until my hair was gray."

Yao Guangxiao, who was silent on the side, pinched his fingers and laughed; "Your Highness, the emperor has six or seven years left at most."

Zhu Di's mood immediately rose: "Master, are you accurate?" ”

Yao Guangxiao said: "If the emperor can survive for seven years, it will not be too late for His Highness to cut down the old man again." ”

Yang Jing said: "When did the master fool Your Highness?" ”

Zhu Di was like a treasure: "Good! Let's celebrate. ”

Zhu Di nai clapped his hands three times: "Serve the wine-"

After a while, the guards served good wine and food, and the three of them discussed how to seize the throne.

As Yang Jing expected, Ming Taizu finally couldn't get around the legal procedures and traditional concepts, coupled with the strong opposition of many ministers, so he gave up the idea of abolishing the elder and the young. Zhu Yuanzhang canonized Zhu Yunwen as the emperor's grandson, instead of appointing Zhu Di as the emperor's heir, this time Zhu Yuanzhang's move completely angered Zhu Di.

When the news reached Beiping, King Yan was extremely disappointed: "Father, you treat me so unfairly, don't care if I'm not welcome!" He immediately summoned Yang Jing and Yao Guangxiao to discuss countermeasures overnight, and prepared to directly send troops to force the palace.

Yao Guangxiao said: "Your Highness, can't you sit still?" ”

Zhu Di pounded the table, gritted his teeth and said: "In the past, the virtuous monarchs Xia Yu, Shang Tang, and Song Taizu implemented the clan inheritance system of brother to brother, why is the father so brainless, and the son is not established, and a doll is appointed as the heir to the throne." Are all the princes dead? Where is the king's old face? ”

Yang Jing said: "Your Highness, don't be in a hurry. Waiting is an opportunity, and patience is victory. ”

Yao Guangxiao sat there, closed his eyes and said unhurriedly: "Your Highness, the old minister still said the same thing, the old emperor's order will not be long, not long." ”

Zhu Di squinted his eyes and said, "When is it, I am still looking forward to the death of my father." If he doesn't die, I'll pinch him to death! ”

Yang Jing said: "Low-key, low-key. If this is conveyed to the emperor, we will all die. ”

Yao Guangxiao said: "Saiong is not blessed if he loses his horse. As long as the emperor falls, Zhu Yunwen, who has not dried up, will pull him down even if he sits on the dragon chair. ”

Zhu Di calmed down a little: "It's still the master who can hold on." Rui Guogong, you will quickly step up your training in Yingxi, so as not to arouse the suspicion of Jinyiwei. ”

Yang Jing said: "The minister has an order-" ......

In the thirty-first year of Hongwu (1398), Ming Taizu died, and all you were not allowed to enter Beijing to mourn. His grandson, Zhu Yunwen, ascended the throne as Emperor Hui of the Ming Dynasty, and he felt that his uncles had too much power and were a serious threat to the central power. So Zhu Yunwen and Gu Ming's ministers Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng secretly discussed cutting the domain.

Zhu Yunwen knew that Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was in great difficulty, so he started with Zhu Di's half-brother King Zhou. The kings of Zhou, Dai, Min, Hunan and Qi were successively cut and seized, and the king of Xiang **, and the rest of the people were deposed as ordinary people, forcing Zhu Di, the king of Yan who was sitting in Beiping, to sit still.

On the eve of the army in June of the first year of Jianwen (1399), Zhu Di designed to capture Zhu Yunwen's eyeliner political envoy Zhang Yu and Du Commander Xie Gui in Bei'an. After clearing the potential danger, Zhu Di, who has been carefully preparing for nearly 20 years, is about to do it.

Zhu Di played the banner of "Qingjun side, Yasukuni is difficult", and challenged Zhu Yunwen, he wanted to regain the emperor's throne that originally belonged to him from his nephew, Zhu Di has always thought so after the death of his eldest brother. As a result, a civil war for the throne - the Battle of Jingyan broke out in July, Yang Jing returned to Beiping from Yingxi, and in order to confuse Zhu Yunwen, Zhu Di gave Yang Jing a hundred households (Northern Army Hundred Households Order), which was indeed the vanguard commander at that time.

Soon after the king of Yan raised his army, he captured Juyongguan, Huailai, and Miyun north of Beiping, and Jizhou, Zunhua, Yongping (now Lulong, Hebei) and other prefectures and counties to the east, sweeping away the periphery of Beiping, eliminating worries, and making it easier to calmly deal with the imperial court's inquiring divisions.

The imperial army of 500,000 was killed (600,000 in the later period), and King Yan was really bold enough to fight with 120,000 elite soldiers. King Yan made good use of stratagems, and the generals of the Yang family led by Yang Jing took the lead, the Yan army fought hard, not afraid of life and death, and the imperial army was defeated and retreated, and Li Jinglong fled all the way.

Angry that Zhu Yunwen removed Li Jinglong's commander-in-chief, replaced Sheng Yong as a general, fought Dongchang, surrounded Zhu Di's forward troops, Yang Jing, Yang Hong father and son fought to the death, and repelled wave after wave of desperate imperial court troops, until Zhu Neng's reinforcements arrived to break through. Zheng He (the eunuch of the Three Treasures) sent someone to send a secret letter to the King of Yan, saying that the capital was empty and that he should lead his troops south as soon as possible.

In April of the fourth year of the war (1402), the Yan army entered Suzhou, and the southern army that followed the attack fought in Qimei Mountain (now Lingbi County, Anhui), known as the Battle of Lingbi in history. Considering that it was not easy to defend by the river, the imperial army He Fu moved to camp and deployed a high base with Ping'an in the deep ditch of Lingbi (Yizuo Lingbi), and adopted a blocking battle to prepare to drag down the Jingnan army.

Suddenly, the scout reported: "The Southern Army Ping'an personally led 60,000 troops to guard the grain and grass." ”

"Good." Zhu Di was ecstatic when he heard this, and adopted unexpected tactics to fight a sneak attack battle, and he wanted to capture this Ming warrior who had made him suffer a lot.

On the twenty-seventh day of April, Zhu Di led an elite 10,000 people to suddenly attack the grain delivery team of the imperial army, breaking the waist of the imperial army. Zhu Di and Yang Jing broke into the enemy formation, shouting and fighting, and the two arrays of arrows exchanged like rain.

The imperial army kept desperately firing arrows at Zhu Di's location, and some of the arrows missed and were stuck on the banner of Zhu Di's team, like the thorns on the hedgehog's body.

Zhu Di and the generals around him were mixed together, the same outfit, and they couldn't tell the difference from a distance, but Ping'an had close contact with Zhu Di several times, and almost killed Zhu Di, these sneak attackers attacked like crazy, and there was nothing else but Zhu Di's pro-army.

Zhu Ping'an shouted: "Brothers, the anti-thief Zhu Di is in the army, and the one who rides the yellow horse is!" Caught the bounty of five thousand taels! ”

So the truncated imperial army quickly surrounded Zhu Di's Yan army, and Zhu Di couldn't help but feel furious. Ming Taizu's adopted son Zhu Ping'an is not an ordinary character, no one among the Yan generals dares to stop him, he is famous, and he has countless achievements, Zhu Di has repeatedly fought with the Southern Army, invincible, and only when he is against Ping'an and Sheng Yong, he will be defeated.

"What should I do? Zhu Gaochi, this kid hasn't appeared yet? Do you want your dad to die here? ”

Seeing that the soldiers around him were either shot and fell, or cut into meat sauce, Zhu Di's mind was blank and nervous.

Although Yang Jing was loyal, he took Yang Hong, Yang Qing and others to use the nirvana of the Yang family's gun, one by one, and stabbed hundreds of people to death, after all, Yang Jing is no longer the Yang Liulang of 20 years ago.

The imperial army still did not retreat, and desperately pressed on the Yan army, the encirclement became smaller and smaller, and Zhu Di could almost see the tip of the nose of Zhu Ping'an, the commander of the other party.