In the middle of summer, the city of Nanjing is extremely hot, and for some people, it is indeed cold. Since King Zhou was demoted to a commoner and sent to Yunnan, Zhu Yunwen has not stopped his steps. He is still implementing his plan, and Zhu Yunwen is eager to get out of all his external troubles so that he can feel at ease.

At this time, the houses in the palace are hot and restless, and it is difficult to rest. Zhu Yunwen only had to take a walk in the garden, and he was glad that the dense shade of the trees could make people cooler. Zhu Yunwen ordered the eunuch to bring a chair and put it in the shade of a tree, and asked the palace maid to prepare some melons and fruits.

Zhu Yunwen sat in the shade of this tree, enjoying all this at the same time, he was also very emotional, since he ascended the throne, it has been half a year, I didn't expect that I had to deal with my uncles all day long, which made Zhu Yunwen extremely ashamed.

Zhu Yunwen picked up a grape, and did not immediately eat it in his mouth, but held it in his hand for a long time, he was thinking about whether everything he did was right, for the sake of his throne to open his uncles, how could he bear it. Power is poison and will kill many people, Zhu Yunwen deprives others of their rights in order to be able to make his throne feel at ease, which actually reflects the temptation of imperial power to everyone.

"Your Majesty, Jinyi Wei Liu Shangyun asks to see" A eunuch who was waiting outside walked in and reported to Zhu Yunwen. Zhu Yunwen put the grape in his hand into his mouth and "called him in"

"Minister Liu Shangyun sees the emperor"

"Get Up"

Zhu Yunwen instructed the eunuch to come over in that chair and let Liu Shangyun sit beside him.

"Is there any new information?"

"Your Majesty, not yet"

"Did you specifically come to me for a chat? It's good that I've been feeling more and more lonely lately."

Zhu Yunwen looked at the lotus flowers in the pond with a gloomy expression.

"Is there anything that the minister can do to solve the emperor's problems?"

"Shang Yun, isn't it a big mistake for me to cut the domain?"

"Everything the emperor did was right, and the ministers would support it"

Hahahaha, Zhu Yunwen laughed.

"You are really still the same as other ministers, they are all the same and will flatter me, that's why I'm getting more and more lonely" Zhu Yunwen seemed to be tired from doing in the chair, so he stood up and stretched, and walked to the pond to enjoy the scenery in the lake.

Liu Shangyun also stood up immediately, and stood behind Zhu Yunwen for a long time before saying, "Your Majesty, the minister has something to say to the emperor."

"Let's talk" Zhu Yunwen was not surprised, he knew very well that Liu Shangyun had an expression of something to do since he first came, Zhu Yunwen didn't ask him, just waited for him to say it himself.

"It's about King Zhou"

"Do you want to intercede for him?"

"I just think that the emperor's punishment of King Zhou is too harsh, a few days ago you asked me to send two people from Jinyi to monitor him, and they told me that King Zhou had a very hard time in Yunnan, not to mention that King Zhou is old, and it is a bit too cruel to let him live in that kind of place."

Zhu Yunwen fell into deep thought, yes, why would he be so cruel and drive an old man of half a hundred to live in a barren place like Yunnan. Zhu Yunwen gradually felt that he was blinded by this right, which made him even more terrifying.

"In the past, when I was still the crown prince, I always wanted to be a benevolent emperor, and I began to learn the Confucian way continuously, and I was very disgusted with those who would do anything for the sake of power, but when I became an emperor, I was naïve. Behind the power is sin, there is no truly merciful emperor, if there is only atonement for his sins, from that dream, I began to understand this truth, so I want to use all means to cut the domain, I am afraid that if I am more merciful, in the future you will only see my head cut off by the rebels. ”

Zhu Yunwen said what was in his heart to Liu Shangyun, he felt that he was no longer the naïve prince he used to be, he was now an emperor, and it was time to implement some means for himself.

"You go down, I will consider the matter of King Zhou" Zhu Yunwen asked Liu Shangyun to leave, at this moment Zhu Yunwen didn't want to see anyone, just wanted to be alone and quiet, thinking and thinking.

King Zhou was still recalled by Zhu Yunwen and let him live in the capital, but this did not mean that Zhu Yunwen had compromised with the cutting of the domain.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way" A group of officers and soldiers walked through the crowded streets, and their goal was Zhu Gui, the acting king.

In this era, the palace was in chaos, and even some of the maids ran away secretly, and Zhu Gui spread out on the chair and waited for his fate helplessly.

"Acting King Zhu Gui listens to the order" The officers and soldiers rushed into the palace of the acting king, holding a holy decree for the sake of the people, and this holy decree was like a sharp knife stabbing at Zhu Gui.

"Acting King Zhu Gui is greedy and cruel to the people, although he is the emperor's uncle, his crime must be the same as the common people, I decided to take him to Shu and take care of it" The person who held the holy decree read the holy decree again, and then handed it over to Zhu Gui's hands.

Zhu Yunwen specially instructed Zhu Gui to be fully prepared to prepare for the departure, so these officers and soldiers did not do it immediately.

Zhu Gui said goodbye to his wife and children with a holy decree, and told them not to worry about him, let them live well here, and the next person took the packed luggage, Zhu Gui took the luggage and looked at his wife and children a few times, then turned around and walked towards the officers and soldiers.

The acting king is the second vassal king to be demoted since the king of Zhou, and unlike the king of Zhou, the acting king has to be guarded after being demoted to Shu, which shows that Zhu Yunwen did not intend to be soft-hearted.

At this time, Beiping did not become peaceful, and the Mongols in the north were always reluctant to this former territory and began to harass them constantly. Zhu Di, who was in charge of border stability, couldn't sit still, and personally led his troops out of the customs to meet the battle, and the enemy he fought fled in the desert. It is precisely because of Zhu Di's god of soldiers that he was able to repel those nomadic peoples again and again, blocking them outside Beiping, so that they could not invade the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

After returning to Beiping, I heard about the demotion of the acting king, but because he had just finished the war, he didn't care. At this time, Zhu Yunwen's holy decree also came to Zhu Di's hands, it turned out that Zhu Yunwen heard that Zhu Di had won the battle at the border, and immediately gave Zhu Di a holy decree to praise Zhu Di, in fact, Zhu Yunwen's real intention was to paralyze Zhu Di, so that he would not be suspicious because of the acting king.

Facts have proved that Zhu Yunwen's method has worked, and Zhu Di is really very happy, and he doesn't care about the demotion of the king at all. (To be continued.) )8