Throughout the spring of the second year of Longwu, Zhu Shuren was worried about his wife and children, and his attention to state affairs was relaxed.

Fortunately, there are not many major things that need him to make decisions in person in the year of recuperation, and when the spring and summer farming is busy, everything is as stable as possible, but it is also a scene of vertical governance.

With Zhu Shuren's son who was passed away, his wife took him to the Chunhe Palace, and officially named Zhu Ciyu, the time was already the end of May of this year.

He was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief, and after three or four months of worrying about running, the pace of life slowed down.

As for the daughter who sent the phone bill, of course the wife will not bring it into the palace, and there is no legal reason to bring it into the palace, so she will still stay in the princess's mansion.

Fortunately, Zhu Shuren originally had a daughter, who was four and a half years old, and the Zhu family did not lack experience in bringing daughters. Let Dong Bai, who is already twenty-two years old, continue to work hard, help the second daughter, and work hard.

As the princess entered the palace to take the baby, there was no hostess in the house, and the atmosphere of Zhu Shuren and several concubines getting along became more and more relaxed.

The thing that originally needed to be cautious and cautious in counting the days has also become a matter of pleasure, and the excitement is exhausted, and it is free to be retracted, who is too lazy to count the days of the bird.

In addition, because Zhu Yuchan used a lot of tonic medicine this time, she got a dragon and phoenix fetus.

Nineteen-year-old girl, although in ancient times, although her body had grown, but according to the medical standards of later generations, it was still too stressful to give birth to two at once.

In addition, it also relied on lateral resection to ensure smooth delivery, and in ancient times, there was a lack of efficient mucosal hemostasis in vivo, and there was still a lot of blood loss. After seeing it, the imperial doctor felt that the princess would have to recuperate for at least more than a year-

After all, even according to modern medicine, after the lateral incision, it is necessary to raise the husband and wife for at least half a year, and the medical conditions in ancient times were worse, so it was natural to take a longer time to be insured.

Zhu Shuren is a prince, and his wife will not live with him for more than a year, and even if they are together again in the future, it may take a considerable amount of time to conceive again, and the production will have to wait for another year.

So if you count on Zhu Yuchan, if Zhu Shuren wants to get the next child, it will be at least three years later. At that time, Zhu Shuren will be almost thirty years old, and there is no guarantee that he will be able to have one.

And his current son is legally passed out, and he himself is still without a queen, everything in his Ewang Mansion, and even the original family business of the Shen family, also needs someone to inherit it.

Considering that Zhu Shuren's current power is tilted towards the government and the opposition, and the forces that need him to stabilize are extremely huge, his father-in-law, the emperor, also had to make some overtures.

Zhu Changshu summoned his son-in-law to the palace several times in early June to give family banquets, during which he mentioned: If he wants to accept one or even several concubines from the palace of the king of E, he can also be gracious, and he can consider slowly arranging it within this year.

The previous few beautiful concubines were not qualified to be promoted to the level of side concubines, after all, their backgrounds were too humble, especially except for Dong Xiaowan, the other three were all redeemed by the Qing people. If you want to be a side concubine, you have to be a scholar from a serious background.

And there is only one premise for all this, and that is to ensure that the child in Chunhe Palace is always healthy. If Zhu Ciyu showed signs of recurring illness in the process of preparing for Concubine Zhu, everything would have to be suspended first.

Of course, Zhu Shuren knew the importance clearly, so he agreed to all the requests of his father, and Weng and his son-in-law reached a tacit understanding.

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However, Zhu Shuren was thinking too much after all, he was still planning, how to find the side concubine logically, and some sudden internal contradictions interrupted his plan.

And the cause of the incident is still caused by his son who was passed away and stayed in the Spring and Palace.

As mentioned earlier, Zhu Ciyu stayed in Chunhe Palace in June of the second year of Longwu. Since the transfer of the palace does not need to be announced to the world like the previous succession procedures, this is purely a palace internal affair.

Therefore, the ministers of the foreign dynasty did not know about this matter for the first time, and the foreign clans and other relatives and nobles could not know it immediately.

Zhu Changshu arranged it like this, obviously he also had the intention of boiling frogs in warm water, and wanted to gradually and quietly test and create more established facts, and when everything was slowly cooked and cooked into rice, it would be too late for outsiders to resist.

Under such a low-key act, this matter was concealed for more than a month, and it was gradually leaked to the foreign court and known to the dignitaries in Nanjing.

Considering that it takes time for news to be transmitted, even if it is a vassal king from other places or a powerful minister in a local area, even if he pays attention to the situation in the capital and often inquires, it takes a month to spread information to the provinces.

Therefore, it was not until the beginning of August that there were only a few remaining vassal kings nearby, especially those on the border of Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Nanzhili, who knew about Zhu Ciyu's entry into the Chunhe Palace.

As the king of the Ming Dynasty, especially those who are younger and younger than Zhu Changshu, although he knows that he has a high probability of no drama in his life, until this incident, there are more or less illusions in his heart.

What if something happens to His Majesty's daughter and son-in-law? Or can't give birth? Or was she born and died, and the princess was difficult and injured?

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That is the inheritance of the throne, and it is an opportunity for the vassal king to enter the succession, so tempting is in front, even if the hope is slim, there will be people who will succeed one after another, and they can't help but be obscene.

But now, it is confirmed that Zhu Ciyu is staying in Chunhe Palace, and these remaining vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty have almost fallen into despair.

It's a pity that they don't have military power in their hands, and it is impossible to directly rebel against the Qing monarch. So the only chance they have is to choose between two hands:

Or, find a way to win over the local governors, promise to be rich and noble, and hope that a provincial civil official or general army will support them and prevent the "traitorous Prime Minister Zhu Shuren from stealing the country".

In this process, the banner of opposing Zhu Changshu is absolutely not daring, because Zhu Changshu's bloodline is far closer and more expensive than all other living vassal kings surnamed Zhu. The other vassal kings were at least divided before Chenghua.

Therefore, at most, he can only beat the side of the Qing monarch, that is, it is propaganda that Zhu Changshu was coerced and deceived by his son-in-law, and he was a traitor who coerced the Son of Heaven to order the superintendent, and he had clothes and clothes to beg the thief.

If it is not possible to directly win over the governor, then the second way is to secretly contact each other among the vassal kings to form an alliance, and then instigate a leading bird with a way to let that person take the risk of winning over the governor.

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As mentioned earlier, when the Ming Dynasty was established in the Nanming regime, there were only twenty or thirty vassal kings left, and later in the process of mobilizing foreign vassals to the periphery of Nanzhili and accepting control, a few were folded, and the King of Jingjiang rebelled.

Since then, all the princes of the Ming Dynasty have only just twenty left.

Later, Jiangbei was captured by Duoduo and the nine princes who were relocated to Yangzhou, as in the original history, were captured by Lian Guoduan and taken prisoner by the Qing army along with the Fuwang regime, and there was no threat and legal system at all.

And they were killed and arrested together with the descendants of the clan, and it is impossible to find a second son or something to attack the prince, all of this is the design of Zhu Shuren, how can these waste princes be born more and waste social resources.

So when it was time to change the Yuan in the first year of Longwu, there were only eleven vassal kings with the bloodline of Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants in the whole world, and they were already very far away.

In addition to Zhu Changshu himself, there is only the seventh generation of Yiwang Zhu Ciqi left. Originally, there should have been a line of King Rong at this time in history, but now because of the butterfly effect, King Rong was killed by Zhang Xianzhong in Changsha four years ago.

And this Yiwang Zhu Ciqi's lineage is also a legend, but his life is too hard and too capable to be born, and he can't be destroyed. He is from Zhu Youji's younger brother Zhu Youbin, and he is the most capable vassal king.

Originally, Zhu Ciqi fled south to Guangdong after Nanjing was broken, and continued to be supported by other governors, and after his death, his son was also pulled by Zheng Chenggong to the big member as a signboard, and his grandson Zhu Yihao lived until Shi Lang attacked the island and Zheng Kexuan surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.

Chenghua is the one who is Tumubao, there are many sons of Baozong, there are nine, but in addition to Chenghua Emperor Zhu Jianshen, there are four who died early and have no children, and one lacks virtue and removes the country.

The remaining three kings, the Zhongde royal line and the Chongwang line, were captured by the Qing army with King Fu, and the Ji royal line was also wiped out by Zhang Xianzhong in Changde four years ago.

Therefore, none of the other descendants of the Bao Sect are left.

Further up to Baozong's father, Zhu Zhanji, only has two sons of Baozong Daizong, if Daizong didn't have only one son who died early, he would not have been recaptured by Baozong.

Therefore, after removing Zhu Ciqi, all the other ten surviving vassal kings have recently been other descendants of Zhu Gaochi of Mingrenzong. Legitimacy is too thin and too thin.

The more than 200 princes and descendants left by Zhu Yuanzhang were originally less than 150 in the early years of Chongzhen, and after 20 years of bloodbathing, only these 11 families were left.

Among these eleven families, one was divided into Chenghua, four were separated by Zhu Gaochi, one was separated by Zhu Di (the descendant of Zhu Gaosui, King of Zhao), and five were left by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Now, in these last eleven families, there are still people trying to connect them.

For example, Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, who lived in Huzhou Prefecture on the border between Nanzhili and Zhejiang, secretly wrote a secret letter to Yiwang Zhu Ciqi in August, expressing his concerns.

Some other miscellaneous vassal kings also complained in private, a little small.

This Lu King Zhu Yihai, who is familiar with the history of the late Ming Dynasty, should not be unfamiliar.

Because in the original history, after the fall of Zhu Changshu, the king of Lu, in Hangzhou, it was the turn of Zhu Yihai, the king of Lu, to continue to resist in eastern Zhejiang and fled to the Zhoushan Islands.

It can be seen that this King Lu still has a certain desire for power, otherwise he would not have insisted on erecting the flag in that big situation, and the less timid would have surrendered at that time.

Originally, Zhu Yihai had been living in Hangzhou after fleeing, and the year before last, Zhu Shuren suggested that he monitor the feudal domains before moving to Huzhou, so that it was closer to Suzhou, the old nest of Zhu Shuren, and it was more convenient to monitor, and it was not counted as entering Nanzhili.

This time, Zhu Yihai did not directly take action in person, but wooed Zhu Ciqi to arch the fire, also because his own strength was really poor, and his bloodline was far away - the Lu Wang family was separated from Zhu Yuanzhang's generation, and they were not Zhu Biao or Zhu Di's descendants, and they were really the only ones with the farthest bloodline among the remaining princes, and only Tang Wang was as far away as him.

Zhu Ciqi is the only descendant of Emperor Chenghua, and Zhu Yihai can only join forces when he judges the situation.

Not long after Zhu Yihai's secret letter was sent, Zhu Ciqi didn't dare to reply, but he didn't receive it. Zhu Yihai was worried that the night would be long and dreamy, so he thought about contacting Zhang Guowei, the governor of Zhejiang, and Jiang Ruolai, the general soldier of Zhejiang, to test the other party's attitude.

However, this is undoubtedly a stupid move - originally in history, Zhang Guowei was really the number one civil official who supported the Lu royal line, but it was established when the Nanjing regime was over, and he, as the leader of Zhejiang, of course wanted to set up a local vassal king. Zhang Guowei provoked King Lu because he really had no negative relationship with King Lu.

But in this life, Zhang Guowei has been friends with the Shen family for a long time, when he was an official in Susong, he had a good relationship with Shen Tingyang, and later joined forces with Zhu Shuren to promote the reform of the gold.

How could Zhang Guowei be tempted by Zhu Yihai? So even if it was just a matter of "Your Majesty has moved the palace to the step-grandson Chunhe Palace", Zhang Guowei immediately became vigilant.

The fate that led to Zhang Guowei's vigilance was naturally very miserable. Zhang Guowei immediately asked Jiang Ruolai, a confidant general, to secretly lead troops to blockade and conduct a thorough investigation, and it didn't take long to discover the evidence of "the kings colluding and discussing the palace".

This kind of major event, of course, the news will be reported to Nanjing urgently by Pegasus and sent to the emperor, and Zhu Shuren will also know it as soon as possible.

For this King Lu, Zhu Shuren still admires him in terms of character, but there is no other day, since it involves a power struggle, some things cannot be soft-hearted.

After getting the news, of course, he immediately ordered Zhang Guowei to take down all the relevant people and escort them to Beijing. If there is armed resistance, let Jiang Ruolai, the chief soldier of Zhejiang, directly seek peace.

Although King Lu did not have military power, he knew that he would definitely die after the incident, and he would definitely jump off the wall in a hurry, so he relied on the guards of his family, and a small number of grassroots officers of the old Ming army in Zhejiang who were bewitched by him and were not sober-minded.

In addition, some local gentry in Hangzhou and Huzhou who are dissatisfied with Zhang Guowei's governance, in short, the total number of people who can be wooed is only a few thousand, and most of them are rabble.

What kind of can these rabble do? After a short and rapid bloody storm, in just half a month, Zhejiang's troubles were calmed down.

Jiang Ruolai also relied on the counterinsurgency to get a count that could not be hereditary, and the credit was really easy to pick up.

After this incident, it mainly proves that in the southern provinces, not many people really care whether the future emperor's bloodline is from the paternal line of Zhu Yuanzhang's descendants.

Those few rebels who used the name of pedantic to resist commercial taxes and resist the inspection of hidden households will only make it more convenient for Zhu Shuren to solve the problem and make social reform more thorough and smoother.

Jiangxi, like Zhejiang, also made a little trouble, but it was soon leveled, and all the dead were only a few thousand, many of them were still opportunists, and they just cleared a large number of ownerless fields.

After the military counterinsurgency is over, the next step is the political trial.

This work began at the beginning of September and lasted for a month, and it was finally approved that King Lu and other four princes were the initiators and implementers of this series and fan supervision, so there was nothing to say, and the whole family was directly executed.

The remaining Zhu Ciqi and other three kings only received the letter and did not dare to reply, or they replied to the letter and refused but did not report and expose it, and they really couldn't catch the evidence of substantive participation.

Originally, there were a few people who wanted to get promoted to the top by currying favor with Zhu Shuren, and they also killed Zhu Ciqi and others.

But after repeated verification, Zhu Shuren still decided to abolish the three kings as concubines, seize the title and remove the country, those who did not reply to Zhu Yihai still need to be banned, and those who refused to reply to the letter were exempted from the ban, but the country was still removed, and the charges were "not reporting the knowledge and not revitalizing".

Knowing that others are plotting against you, even if you refuse, as long as you don't denounce it, you are just as guilty, and the most extrajudicial mercy is just not death.

Some staff members also felt that Zhu Shuren was soft-hearted, thinking that it was the result of Shi Kefa's persuasion and obstruction.

But Zhu Shuren was upright and upright, so that his subordinates could not be impatient: "The Shi Ge Department did say that the rewards and punishments should be clear, and the main offender and accomplice should be distinguished, so the punishment must be severe.

But this king also supports the Shi Pavilion Department, if they are all killed, it will not seem that the imperial court is taking the opportunity to expand the attack. The rest of them are harmless. ”

The truth of Zhu Shuren's words, the staff quickly understood: the excuse for those people to conspire was Qingjun's side.

If the emperor completely kills all the princes who are even a little implicated, it will be too ugly, and it may lead everyone to speculate that the reason they said about the "Qingjun side" is true, and the emperor is really a puppet of Zhu Shuren.

Now, the emperor has shown that he treats different episodes differently, and he did not kill them all, which shows that he still has real power and is also a saint, and he can refute the opinions that are most beneficial to Zhu Shuren, and he still makes decisions and governs from the perspective that is most beneficial to the country.

Then who else can say that the emperor is a deceived puppet?

As for the two or three guys who have been deposed and expelled from the country, there is no threat to keep their lives, and they have lost their legal system.

After this purge, the four kings were destroyed, the three kings were removed, and the eleven princes were further removed seven, leaving only the last four, which was really miserable.

Among these four people, there is one left from Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Di, and two from Zhu Yuanzhang. All others are either dead or excluded.

Those who dare to point fingers at the "new palace mover" are the end!

The prince who has survived until now is basically cowardly enough that he can't be cowardly anymore, he can't beat a fart with a few sticks, and there is no threat at all.

By thoroughly purging the kings and cutting off the henchmen who were dissatisfied with the current situation, Zhu Shuren also invisibly solved the problem of redundant personnel and redundant officials and redundant kings in the Ming Dynasty, and greatly reduced the expenditure on financial meals.

Originally, an important reason why a dynasty had to be forcibly restarted in the later period was that more and more people were lying on the finances to suck blood, and no matter how they reformed and abolished institutions, more and more institutions were cut.

Even if some people are killed, they still have relatives and friends who can climb back by nepotism and continue to eat financial meals.

Only a military bloodbath, a physical annihilation, and a familial annihilation can cure this problem.

After several years of contraction, Nanming has invisibly solved this problem very well.

After all, when Chongzhen died, the entire set of burdens of the central court in Beijing was thrown out, and tens of thousands of former financial supporters became "rebels", who could push their families out of the circle of welfare.

Although Nanjing wants to re-establish the imperial court, it can be promoted from the redundant officials in the south, and once the vacant positions are redundant, they can no longer be established.

Now many internal kings have been implicated, and they have resisted the inspection of the hidden households before, and the associated gentry families are hundreds.

When the tax was collected in the autumn of the second year of Longwu, Zhu Shuren himself was surprised to find that this year's financial expenditures of civil officials and civil servants had been reduced by one or two percent, and the expenses of the clan were directly cut in and in half.

If you say it's cut to the knee, it's all light, to be exact, it should be cut directly to the ankle.