Any piece of torture in the prison can kill people.

For Jin Yiwei, the biggest difficulty is not to kill a person, but how to make him worse than dead.

Yang Dan's body was already weak, and he tried more than a dozen torture tools in the edict prison, and he even screamed, and his voice was still very explosive.

"Say, I say...... Give me a good ......."

Finally, Yang Dan relented.

He only wants to die now, even if he goes to the underworld and goes to the eighteenth layer of hell, the torture he will receive is nothing more than that, right?

Zhu Qizhen abandoned everyone again, then sat opposite Yang Dan, and said calmly: "I have asked, Jinyiwei has a medicine that can ensure that you will not die in a short time, but it will make your intestines rotten, and after three days, you will spit out your internal organs from your mouth." ”

Yang Dan smiled bitterly: "Your Majesty, there is no need to say these words anymore, I will recruit, I will recruit them all, can you give me a good time?" ”

Zhu Qizhen nodded slowly and said, "Tell me everything you know, I promise you, and I'll send you on the road after speaking!" ”

"Okay, I say!"

Yang Dan gasped for breath, then closed his eyes, as if recalling those dusty pasts.

"These things have to start with Emperor Renzong......"

Zhu Qizhen was even more puzzled, why did he get involved with my grandfather again?

Emperor Renzong was fat and weak, and he had been in charge of the government for a long time, so he was even more overwhelmed, and he only served as an emperor for eight months......

"The emperor should not be careful, Emperor Renzong's death is not a conspiracy, he is just in too poor health."

Yang Dan saw the surprise on Zhu Qizhen's face, and said: "If you want to say that it doesn't matter at all, it's actually not right, the night before Emperor Renzong died, Li Shimian entered the palace to discuss the move south, and the two chatted unhappily, and they had a big quarrel. ”

"Moving south?"

"That's right, it's moving south!"

After Yang Dan said a few words, he was about to stop and take a breath, and then continued: "The process of Emperor Taizong moving the capital to Beijing was full of resistance, and it took more than ten years before and after, and finally relied on a strong hand to forcibly move the capital. ”

"Emperor Taizong moved the capital to guard the country for the Son of Heaven, where is the resistance?"

"Of course, it is an official of the Manchu Dynasty, please think about it carefully, who is my Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty?"

"Huaixi."

"Exactly, at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there were already many parties in the imperial court, the two largest of which were the Zhejiang faction headed by Liu Bowen and Song Lian, as well as the Huaixi faction headed by Li Shanchang and Hu Weiyong......

Zhu Qizhen only knew that Hu Weiyong poisoned Liu Bowen and Zhu Yuanzhang personally killed Hu Weiyong, but he didn't know that these things were intricate and full of all kinds of open and secret battles.

It's just that Yang Dan said these old things, what is it for?

“…… In the Jianwen Dynasty, Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng, Fang Xiaoru and others vigorously promoted the new policy, just like the emperor's new policy, but their new policy was to form a party for personal gain, and the emperor's new policy was to eliminate party disputes, and even to completely eliminate the privileges of scholars, which was also the reason why the ministers decided to launch a coup d'état. ”

"Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng, Fang Xiaoru are actually from the Zhejiang faction, when the Zhejiang faction suffered a blow, it hibernated, taking advantage of the change of power, when they finally wanted to show their talents, but they encountered a martyrdom, this is fate, there is a certain number in the dark......"

Hearing him babbling endlessly, Zhu Qizhen couldn't help it and asked, "What do you want to say?" ”

Yang Dan shook his head slowly and said, "Since the minister wants to explain it to him, he will explain the ins and outs of the matter once and for all." ”

Immediately afterwards, he took a few more breaths, and then said: "The emperor thinks about the several important ministers promoted by Emperor Taizong after he succeeded to the throne, his father Yang Rong is from Fujian, Yang Pu is from Hubei, Yang Shiqi, Xie Jin, and Xia Yuanji are all from Jiangxi, among these people, has there ever been a Zhejiang?" ”

"Although the Zhejiang faction was suppressed again, however, the party struggle in the court will never stop, and after my father and others were reused, they immediately wooed or squeezed out the courtiers, and quickly formed a new party, let's call it the Sanyang faction, and the main sphere of influence is Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Huguang."

"Speaking of which, the emperor should have understood that these people are the biggest obstacle to the northward migration, because their family property, connections, business, and sphere of influence are all in the south, who wants to go to the north?"

Zhu Qizhen frowned and asked, "Even if they move to the north, they are still important ministers of the court, not only can they keep the property in the south, but they can also open up a new sphere of influence in the north, why don't they want to?" ”

"Your Majesty, you are wrong again...... Ahem! ”

Yang Dan smiled and shook his head, but it touched the wound and couldn't help coughing twice.

"Do you know how much a house in Beijing costs today? How much is a house of the same size in the same area of Nanjing? ”

Zhu Qizhen thought about it and said truthfully: "I don't know. ”

"You are the son of heaven, I don't know that these things are reasonable, let's talk about it, the same location, the same size of the house, the price difference between Beijing City and Nanjing City is at least double!"

"So what?"

"How? Haha......"

Yang Dan laughed again and said, "Before moving the capital, what was the price of a house in Nanjing City, and what was the price of Beiping City?" Once the capital is moved, how many people's property is directly cut in half? ”

Zhu Qizhen thought about it carefully, what Yang Dan said was not unreasonable, moving the capital was too serious for the private property of court officials, as the saying goes, taking people's money is like killing parents, if it weren't for Emperor Taizong's ruthless methods, I am afraid that the officials of the Manchu Dynasty would directly rebel.

"You mean, these people have been planning to move south?"

Yang Dan nodded and said: "Emperor Taizong died, Emperor Renzong succeeded to the throne, to be honest, Emperor Renzong was relatively weak, not as decisive as Emperor Taizong, so the ministers began to exert frequent pressure to move south. ”

"Why didn't the move to the south succeed?"

"This is about to mention Emperor Taizong's wrist again, his old man is afraid that future generations will move south, so he directly buried himself in Tianshou Mountain in Changping. If he moved south, this place would probably fall into the hands of the Mongols, and Emperor Renzong had just succeeded to the throne, would he dare to throw the remains of the first emperor and run back to Nanjing by himself? ”

Zhu Qizhen thought about it seriously, and then said, "You continue!" ”

"Where's that...... Oh yes, move south! ”

Yang Dan tried to recall, and said: "The night before Emperor Renzong's death, he did quarrel with Li Shimian, and this matter was not publicized, so that after Emperor Xuanzong succeeded to the throne, he accidentally learned that since then, Emperor Xuanzong has made up his mind to change Nanjing to Xing, which means that he will never move south. ”

Zhu Qizhen only knew that Emperor Renzong had the idea of moving the capital, and when he came to his father, he broke off this idea again, but he didn't expect that there were a lot of things here.

Even Zhu Zhanji's move to the south was murdered, which is very sensational.

"Just because the first emperor opposed the southward move, he was murdered by you?"

"The emperor has said that when the first emperor died, the minister was still trying to get into the Jinshi, and these things were dictated by the first father."

Zhu Qizhen nodded and said, "You will tell the story of the murder of the first emperor in detail, and I promise to give you a good time, and I will never break my word!" ”

Yang Dan sighed slowly, and then said: "The first emperor was killed, and moving the capital was just an introduction, and the contradiction really broke out because the first emperor was ready to restart the Western Ocean!" ”

"During the Hongwu period, the sea was banned, and the folk pieces were not allowed to go into the water, and the Jiangnan Shi clan made profits by smuggling, until today, the emperor had vigorously cracked down on smuggling before opening a new policy, and it should be no stranger to this."

"In the Yongle period, Emperor Taizong did even more, not only continued the sea ban, but also monopolized the maritime trade, porcelain is the official kiln, silk is the official manufacturing bureau in Jiangnan, tea has also become a monopoly of the imperial court, what Zheng He did was to transport these goods to overseas sales, and make huge profits."

"Zheng He's sixth trip to the West to return to the dynasty was the 20th year of Yongle, and in the 22nd year of Yongle, before the death of Emperor Taizong, Zheng He was already preparing to go to the West for the seventh time, but when he met the emperor's big trip, he canceled the trip."

"Emperor Renzong reigned for only ten months, most of the time was to discuss the matter of moving south, to the first emperor to succeed to the throne, then restart the West, although the main intention at that time was to declare the surrounding small countries, I Ming new emperor succession, but, this is also a bad start."

Zhu Qizhen asked: "Are you worried that the first emperor will follow Emperor Taizong's example and go to the West again, cutting off your financial route again?" ”

"The main reason for revisiting the West is that at that time, although the first emperor looked wise and martial, he was also constrained everywhere, and what he wanted to do had to be agreed by the important ministers above the court, for example, when the first emperor learned that Emperor Renzong had quarreled with Li Shimian on the eve of his death, he was furious and ordered to cut Li Shimian, and he had already tied people to the West City, and when he was about to be executed, he was still stopped."

"Who has the ability to snatch people from the hands of the first emperor?"

"Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty pays attention to etiquette, Li Shimian only needs to insist, entering the palace that night is to persuade Emperor Renzong to stay away from women and maintain his body, and his father intercedes for him, what can the first emperor do?"

Zhu Qizhen was silent for a long time and said, "What did Li Shimian and Emperor Renzong say when they quarreled?" ”

At this time, Yang Dan didn't want to hide it anymore, so he said truthfully: "Naturally, it is still a matter of moving south, but Emperor Renzong did not agree, Li Shimian was in a hurry, and said evil words, making Emperor Renzong half angry, and at the same time realizing the seriousness of the matter, he urgently called the prince back to Beijing the next day, but he still didn't get through, and took a step first." ”

"The temperament of the first emperor is very similar to that of Emperor Taizong, and after succeeding to the throne, he not only dispelled the intention of moving south, but also set up a celebrant supervisor, which is equivalent to putting a shackle on the cabinet, and since then, the conflict between the emperor and the ministers has further deepened."

"In June of the ninth year of Xuande, the first emperor issued an edict and ordered the eunuch Wang Jinghong to reorganize the Western fleet and prepare to go to the Western Ocean again, this decision is equivalent to completely cutting off the financial route of the Jiangnan Shi clan, therefore, in October of the ninth year of Xuande, the first emperor was still leading troops to patrol the border, and two months later he suddenly fell seriously ill and died."

"After the emperor succeeded to the throne, Yang Shiqi immediately stopped the Songjiang Shipyard, and dismissed all the relevant personnel who had participated in the Western Ocean, abolished the sailors in Dinghai, Shenjiamen and other places, and abandoned the Old Port Propaganda Division.

"The Old Port Propaganda Division?"

Zhu Qizhen suddenly asked, "Didn't the first emperor give up?" ”

Yang Dan smiled and said: "Yang Shiqi wants the old port to get out of the control of the Ming Dynasty, naturally there is a way to do it, even if the first emperor doesn't want to give up, what can he do?" ”

"Why do you do that?"

"The old port is an important transit point overseas, and the only way to go to sea for smuggling, if it is in the hands of the imperial court, how can everyone smuggle?"

Zhu Qizhen asked again: "Is this also the reason why the first emperor gave up Jiaozhi?" ”

"The emperor is right again, Jiaozhi has repeatedly made trouble, and someone is secretly making trouble, otherwise, what kind of storm can Li and his son be able to set off?"

"No...... right"

Zhu Qizhen waved his hand and said: "After the Jiaozhi Rebellion, the first emperor sent a large army to fight, and Yang Shiqi and others can even control these generals in their hands? ”

Yang Dan showed a playful smile on his face and said: "The commander-in-chief of the Eastern Route Army, Marquis Liusheng of Anyuan, the hero of the Northern Expedition, made great achievements, and died in an ambush just after leaving the town of Nanguan!" ”

"Baoding Bo Liangming did not participate in the battle that day and died violently in the barracks; Li Qing, the counselor of military affairs and the secretary of the military department, died violently in the barracks the next day. ”

"The three commanders of the Eastern Route Army were all killed within two days. Mu Sheng, the Duke of Qianguo of the Western Route Army, went out of Yunnan, and no matter where he went, he was ambushed all the time, and was finally beaten back to Yunnan alive. The Marquis of Chengshan guarded the city and did not dare to fight, how do you think this battle should be fought, Your Majesty? ”

Zhu Qizhen's face became worse and worse, and he held back the anger in his heart, and said: "The means are so vicious to deal with your own people!" ”

"Your Majesty, you are wrong again, these generals are all northerners, and they can't be counted as their own people!"

Zhu Qizhen was silent, Yang Dan had already explained the ins and outs of everything very clearly, his father was killed, mainly because of three points, one was to decide to set up the capital of Beijing and not move south, the second was to set up a celebrant supervisor, putting a shackle on the heads of the cabinet and civil officials, and the third was to restart the Western Ocean and cut off the financial route of the Jiangnan Shi clan.

These things are similar to what he is doing now, and he almost suffered a coup d'état, if it were not for the sudden rebellion of the Tatars, I guess history would have repeated itself.

Game of Thrones is so cruel that even if you, a time-traveler, have wisdom far beyond this era, the critical moment still doesn't play any role.

Thankfully, today's situation is fundamentally different from before, especially the rise of the Academy of Sciences, which always gives people some unexpected surprises.

Yang Dan sighed: "The predecessors of the ministers have done so many things and worked hard to protect the interests of the Jiangnan Shi clan, but it's a pity...... Hehe, the emperor's wisdom is far beyond the imagination of the ministers, and the ministers are convinced! ”

Zhu Qizhen slowly stood up and said expressionlessly: "You can go on the road!" ”

(End of chapter)