Chapter 13: Hunting and Riding the Long Wind Up
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Zhu Gaochu remembered that at that time, Jian Yi and Yang Shiqi were released after doing a self-examination, and the officials were reinstated, and Yang Shiqi took the blame for the slowness of driving on himself, so that Zhu Gaochi successfully passed the test in this matter. Yang Pu, Huang Huai and others were imprisoned for ten years, and they were not released until Zhu Gaochi became the emperor, and they seemed to have realized something.
But he never refused to admit that he was inferior to Zhu Gaochi, thinking of the soft tendons that Zhu Zhanji gave him after he was surrendered, Zhu Gaochu said angrily: "That dead fat man is a fake way to win people's hearts, your father and son are like this, on the surface benevolent and righteous, and the conspiracy methods behind the scenes are no less than people, if you fight with real knives and guns on the battlefield, your father and son, together are not my opponents." โ
It is precisely because of Zhu Gaochi's benevolence, righteousness and generosity that more and more officials in the DPRK and China are willing to work for him and help him achieve the dignity of the Ninth Five-Year Plan safe and sound: Xie Jin froze to death in the ice and snow for him, his home was raided, and his wife and clan were exiled to Liaodong; Geng Tong, the right man of Dali Temple, spoke for him and was tragically killed; Yang Pu, Huang Huai and others were imprisoned for ten years for protecting him; Even Emperor Yongle's confidant, Hu Tong, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites who was ordered to investigate the prince's virtues, also secretly played Zhu Di with "Seven Things of the Crown Prince's Sincerity, Respect, and Filial Piety", which made Zhu Gaochi's situation turn from danger to safety.
But in Zhu Gaoxu's eyes, he felt that this was just Zhu Gaochi's means to restrain people's hearts.
Zhu Zhanji saw that he was obsessed, and showed a sarcastic look, "When my father was worried about the work of the emperor, my good uncle, what are you doing?" At the time of Jingjing, Emperor Jianwen used a discord to write a letter to his father who was sticking to Beiping City, using the position of King Yan as a bait to persuade him to secretly cross Chencang. After you learned about this, you immediately fell into the trap and told the emperor's grandfather that your father and the emperor secretly communicated with the imperial court, and they must be opposed. My father didn't even open the letter, and immediately sent someone to report to the emperor's grandfather in the starry night, and let the emperor's grandfather deal with the letter, and he didn't have any grievances against you afterwards. โ
"Fourteen years of Yongle. You took advantage of the emperor's grandfather's visit to Beijing to inspect the construction of the new capital, privately recruited 3,000 troops in Nanjing, selected your own escort team, and even privately used the emperor's public opinion utensils to practice water warfare, and indulged the escorts to loot in the capital in an attempt to plot a rebellion. The imperial grandfather was furious about this, took away your clothes and crown in front of you, locked you in Xihuamen, and prepared to be abolished. At this time, it was the father who stood up again, begged the emperor grandfather to keep your princely status to see the after-effects, and personally wrote to you, persuading you to restrain yourself from the precipice and be good. But what did you repay your father? โ
"Even after your father ascended the throne and your defeat was decided, he sent your son Zhu Zhanqi and his henchmen to Beijing to wait for an opportunity to cause chaos. When his father found out, not only did he not blame him, but increased his fortune, rewarded him with tens of thousands of treasures, and named Zhu Zhantan as the son, and the rest of the sons were all county kings. When I ascend the throne, it is also to give you and the three emperor uncles a good treatment, add money, reward gold and silver, and give beauties, such a way of repaying grievances with virtue can be said to be unprecedented. But you don't know what to do, you have repeatedly made trouble, and you have wanted the lives of my father and son several times, not to mention, after pretending to surrender, you can't do anything to me, so you will attack my harem, murder the queen, and poison the prince. Uncle Huang, my father and son repay you with virtue, will you repay us like this? โ
"My father has been the crown prince for 20 years, and in the face of the suspicion of the emperor and your plots, every day is like walking on thin ice, and he is faced with life and death decisions at any time. However, after all, he survived and successfully sat on the dragon chair. What is the basis for this? Of course, it is not only the protection of the officials and subordinates of the East Palace, nor is it just the protection of the officials of the DPRK and China after judging the situation, he actually relies on himself, it is his wisdom, and he is a far-sighted person who really has the style of a king. โ
Although he is not good at leading troops to fight, he has the policy of attacking cities and plundering land, building a country and a state, and it is because of this that he can taoguang and cultivate obscurity, first show people to be weak, and then defeat the strong with the weak to the end. Uncle Huang, if it were you, would you be able to do better than your father? I'm afraid that Uncle Huang, you will never understand that what you lost was not the title of the eldest son, but your own poor ability, because you were only blindly vicious and obedient, but you did not have the mind to look at the world. โ
Zhu Gaochu really didn't understand, he just regretted that he was not ruthless enough, and he didn't buy the joints to execute those subordinates of the East Palace who were locked up in the edict, so that they were later used by Zhu Gaochi; angry that the dead are not dedicated enough; His own people are not faithful; regrets that he doesn't have a good son like Zhu Zhanji, who has won the emperor's heart...... Listening to Zhu Zhanji's number of his own failures, he roared: "Becoming a king or losing a coward, don't say it, it's because I'm not as patient as your father and son, and I'm worse off in chess, this is the day to kill me, it's not that you are really better than me." โ
After listening to Zhu Gaoxu's words, Zhu Zhanji knew that this imperial uncle would never understand that what he lost to his father was benevolence, people's hearts, and patterns.
He looked at Zhu Gaoxu, his eyes showed a touch of coldness, "You are not only inferior to your father, but also not as good as the third emperor's uncle, although his ability is slightly inferior to you, he is also as delusional as you, and repeatedly conspired with you to frame his father, but after all, he was moved by his father's benevolence and righteousness, and he was convinced, and he was willing to drive him, after the death of the emperor's grandfather, before his father officially ascended the throne and became the emperor, you resisted stubbornly, trying to compete with each other, and joined forces with you to fight against the three emperor uncles who framed his father, but after arriving in Beijing, he was the first to ask his father to be enthroned as emperor. Even later, when the queen mother was canonized as the queen and I was the crown prince, he was the first to propose. It is precisely because the Three Emperors' Uncle judged the situation that he is still a prince with high clothes and fine food, but you have become a prisoner. โ
When Zhu Gaoxu heard Zhu Zhanji say that Zhu Gaosui, the king of Zhao, was stronger than him, he was so angry that he was about to vomit blood, and he shouted, "Zhu Gaosui, who has no guts, can only make a living, but he doesn't know how to do big things, he is not informal, and a person like him who is moved by a little favor is destined to be a courtier and suffer some food...... You actually compare him to me, and you're angry with me......" The long-suppressed evil anger suddenly churned in his chest, and without thinking about it, he stretched out his leg to make an old stumbling block for Zhu Zhanji.
Zhu Zhanji started practicing piles at the age of four, and his horse steps were extremely steady, how could he stumble? But seeing him stretch his legs, Zhu Zhanji fell down, fell on his stomach, and was disgraced, so he was not embarrassed.
When he saw Zhu Zhanji getting up from the ground in embarrassment, Zhu Gaoxu smiled, smiled brightly and happily, and his laughter echoed in the garden for a long time, which made the civil and military officials, palace people, and guards who followed him shocked, and their colors changed.
The emperor was quite tolerant of Zhu Gaoxu, a Hanshu person, not to mention, after the death of Emperor Hongxi, the emperor rushed from Nanjing to Beijing on the way to the throne, the Hanshu people tried to ambush, and the emperor did not care; Later, Zhu Gaoxu instigated the kings to rebel and raised troops in Le'an, but the emperor still did not kill him, but only drove the royal army to persuade him to surrender under the city; Even after the house arrest of the Han people, the emperor still often came to visit, and today he said to the courtiers, thinking about the flesh and blood affection, thinking that after three years, the emperor's uncle may have repentance, and have the heart to exonerate him and restore his position as the king of Han, but he repaid virtue with resentment, and stumbled on the emperor's legs, making him ugly in public.
Ninety-five, how can you be humiliated like this? This is simply sweeping the face of the Ming Dynasty, which is unbearable!
This time, even some courtiers who are biased towards Zhu Gaochu and have always felt that they are not courteous to the doctor, and the Han Shu people should not be punished for their crimes feel that they can't say it, and when the kind Emperor Xuande was "angry", no one admonished, after all, this time Zhu Gaochu hurt the dignity of an emperor, and when he was still a prisoner today, he dared to make a trip to the emperor in public.
Although Zhu Zhanji was angry, he still only ordered someone to bring a 300-pound copper jar to cover Zhu Gaoxu, so that he would not be bad again.
He knew that his imperial uncle was brave and unscrupulous, short-tempered, and fierce, how could he endure such humiliation?
Sure enough, Zhu Gaoxu was furious, screaming in the cylinder, and lifted the copper cylinder to smash Zhu Zhanji.
Is this still worth it? At this time, the Han Shu people even intended to murder the emperor, and some people in the courtiers persuaded the emperor to kill Zhu Gaoxu to set an example.
Zhu Zhanji let out a long sigh, he asked someone to bring charcoal, piled it up around the copper jar, and after lighting it, burned Zhu Gaoxu alive to relieve the hatred in his heart.
Of the people present, although some people showed unbearable expressions, none of them pleaded for Zhu Gaoxu.
Not long after, except for Zhu Zhanyu, who faked his death in his early years and hid outside, Zhu Gaoxu's other nine sons were all executed by Zhu Lian, and no one in the court had any objections to this.
After solving the internal worries, the palace temporarily restored a peaceful situation, and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhu Zhanji began to prepare to lead the army to the north to patrol Kaiping to ward off external troubles.
Although after several northern expeditions of the Yongle Emperor before, the Wuliang Ha Sanwei of the Tile Thorn has completely surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and several Mongolian warriors not only served in the guards of the capital, but even many generals became martial arts lecturers, and the Mongolian Arutai Taishi finally saw the general trend clearly, fell to the Ming Dynasty, and moved all the people under his command to the interior, leaving only the strong cavalry distributed in Xinghe and Kaiping......
However, there were still some Tatar cavalry, together with the elite of Wuliangha in Daning Huizhou, as well as the newly joined Jurchens and Warats, who went north along the Great Wall to the Ming Dynasty to plunder every time they took advantage of the high horse fat in autumn. Therefore, Zhu Zhanji planned to take advantage of the opportunity of Tian Hunt to personally inspect the various passes and take a look at the garrison situation at the border.
On the one hand, he implemented many policies of the Ming Dynasty through Wenzhi, implemented a trade quota per year, and exchanged the most lacking luxury goods from the Central Plains for horses, cattle and sheep on the grassland, making it the most important trade for the princes and nobles of the grassland, and also making the tribes where they belong to dismantle each other, stumbling each other, and dragging each other back, giving the Ming Dynasty a chance to recuperate.
On the other hand, he also wanted to establish his position by winning one or two battles after ascending the throne, so that those Mengyuan tribes who coveted the Ming Dynasty were terrified.