Chapter 268: The Cold in the Heights
Seeing Zhu Yunwen questioning his policy of dividing the feudal king in person, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but be angry in his heart, and when he was about to have a seizure, he saw the two stubborn colors in his grandson's eyes, and vaguely seemed to his father in the past, his heart couldn't help but soften, and asked lightly: "If it is your intention, what should I do?" ”
Zhu Yunwen saw that his grandfather's face was calm, and his heart was slightly settled, and he said in a deep voice: "The grandson should obey him with virtue and restrain him with courtesy."
"If they are obsessed and refuse to change, what decision should you make?" Zhu Yuanzhang heard his grandson's weak words of "obeying him with virtue and restraining him with courtesy", he was dissatisfied in his heart, and asked in a deep voice. The two illnesses in the past few months have made him deeply aware of aging and a little inadequate. He who is in charge of the Ming Dynasty cannot be a person who only knows what to do, but should be an emperor who is decisive in killing. Today, since his grandson speaks of the sons of those who are in various places, he must give a clear answer.
Zhu Yunwen was getting older, and his fear of his grandfather was not as good as when he was a child, and after hearing this, he was silent for a moment, and finally gritted his teeth and clenched his fists and said in a deep voice: "If the uncles don't listen to the teachings, then the grandson can only mobilize soldiers and horses to meet with his swords." ”
Zhu Yuanzhang heard that his grandson's words were quite categorical, so he finally put his mind at ease and reached out and patted him on the shoulder. ”“
Winter is going to spring, and in May, the weather is getting hotter. The palace maids and eunuchs in the dormitory were trembling in their hearts, and they felt like walking on thin ice. It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of Hongwu, was sick in bed recently, and he was furious when something went wrong, but fortunately, Zhu Yunwen, the emperor's grandson, worked tirelessly every day and waited on the side of his grandfather's sickbed.
Zhu Yunwen, whose eyes were slightly red, sat on the side of the sickbed and recited the song in a low voice, waiting for his grandfather, who was sick and bedridden, to make a decision. Since Zhu Yuanzhang was seriously ill recently, many folds were handed over to him for decision, but the things said in these two folds today were too important, so he did not dare to decide easily, so he came to his grandfather to ask for instructions.
After listening to the order to send the military department to the Western Regions Sali Wuer (now the Qaidam Basin of Xinjiang), the military department member Chen Cheng and Xining Hou Song Sheng jointly played, saying that all the tribes in the Western Regions were willing to submit to the Ming Dynasty, and asked the edict to enshrine the leaders of those several tribes as commanders, and set up three guards, including Jian'an Dingwei, Qu Xianwei, and Aduanwei, and stationed heavy troops to defend the border fortress. Zhu Yuanzhang coughed lightly a few times, and after a little groaning, he said slowly: "Chen Cheng, what Song Sheng played is as it is, and he also ordered the military department to go to Xining Hou, if the big and small tribes in the border area dare to invade the frontier and kill my Ming people, allow them to make a decision on the spot, mobilize the subordinate military horses, and exterminate them, and then play it afterwards." ”
Zhu Yunwen hurriedly walked to the table when he heard this, and under the service of Xue Jing, the head of the imperial study, he gave instructions on the fold, and then read out the fold of the difficult to decide a murder case presented by the servant of the Criminal Department, and couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart, thinking that with the fierceness of his grandfather's punishment in the past, this prisoner was afraid that he would have no physiology.
Unexpectedly, after Zhu Yuanzhang heard about this rather bizarre and tortuous case, he did not make a decision as he did in the past, but turned his head to look at his grandson and asked softly: "In your opinion, how should this prisoner be disposed of." ”
Zhu Yunwen heard that his grandfather did not say anything about sentencing the prisoner to beheading, his heart moved slightly, and he said softly: "In the eyes of his grandson, although the crime of murder in this prisoner is extremely heinous, the person who was killed is a rich family in the countryside, and he usually has a lot of encroachment on other people's fields. It is excusable for the murderer to sue for murder without a door, and it is appropriate to sentence him to 3,000 li of exile. ”
Zhu Yuanzhang was silent for a moment when he heard this, and then said slowly: "I will give instructions in your opinion." Speaking of this, the old man's face suddenly showed two points of anger, and he said in a deep voice: "Encroaching on other people's fields, there is no way to sue? During the incident, the officials of the Imperial Historical Observatory investigated the local county order, and if they accepted bribes and bent the law for bribes, they were punished with capital punishment. ”
Zhu Yunwen saw that his grandfather was coughing violently, and his complexion was very bad, so he hurriedly asked the palace maid to summon the imperial doctor outside the palace.
After the imperial doctor and palace maid left after a long period of work, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Yunwen with an anxious face, waved him to sit down on the bed, and asked softly: "Are you strange why I didn't let the murderer die today?" Seeing that his grandson bowed slightly, he sighed lightly and said: "I used it harshly in the past because we set the world at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, and many people survived in troubled times, even if they have not killed people with their own hands, and have seen too many things that careless about human life in troubled times. As the ruler of the Guardianship, you do not have to imitate me. However, once it is verified, the corrupt officials will not be treated leniently, and they will be killed if they come to him. Thinking in his heart that Zhu Yunwen grew up in the deep palace after all, he didn't know how much power the county and the prefect held in the court, and these seemingly inconspicuous local officials in the imperial court, he reached out and grabbed Zhu Yunwen's arm, and said earnestly: "There is an old saying that if the people have no way to complain, and there is a grievance, then they will be resentful. Having said this, I thought back to my heart that I was governing the country with heavy rules, killing too much, and choosing the son of the heir to the throne, but my grandchildren were not ruthless, and I couldn't help but smile bitterly in my heart.
In the middle of the night half a month later, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had been in a coma for a long time, suddenly woke up, only to feel that his mind was clear, and he knew that the limit was not far away, and said to the eunuch who was waiting in the palace: "Call Zhu Yunwen here and pass on my edict." ”
When the young eunuch heard the word "edict", he was so shocked that he stumbled outside.
There was a dead silence in the dormitory, and Zhu Yuanzhang's heart was also full of loneliness, at this moment, he recalled many times in his mind, the ragged young man named Zhu Chongba was full of grief, and buried his parents and brothers with a roll of tattered straw mats. The monk who became a monk wandered all over the world, and saw countless human tragedies of starvation and cannibalism. The young general who defected to Guo Zixing's army, fought bloodily side by side with Xu Da and Tang He, vowed to exterminate the tyrant and expel the Tartars, and specially changed his name to Zhu Yuanzhang for this purpose. Thinking back to the joy of the surging Chen Youliang military ships and the deafening sound of cannons on Poyang Lake, recalling those who had wronged him, although there was no trace of regret in his heart, a feeling of loneliness that was unbearable and cold welled up in his heart, and he smiled bitterly in his heart: I think I have been all over the world in my life, and I don't know how many heroes I have defeated, and I am only clear that even if I am the king of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, I am just a piece of chess in the hands of God, and today I, Zhu Yuanzhang, this chess piece, will also be taken away by God.
In the room on the side of the dormitory, the exhausted Zhu Yunwen got up, stumbled to the bed, and fell to the ground. Since His Majesty the Hongwu Emperor was critically ill and fell into a coma, the six Shangshu, the squire and others were all waiting outside the palace, and after being summoned by the eunuchs, they all lost their usual calmness, and hurriedly entered the palace and knelt on the ground.
"I have been in the Mandate of Heaven for 30 years, and I have been anxious and diligent, and I have been diligent every day to benefit the people. Nai is from a humble beginning, without the knowledge of the ancients, good and evil, not far away. Now we have the natural principle of all things, and there is a sense of ridicule and sorrow. The emperor's grandson Yunwen is filial piety, the world is in the heart, and it is appropriate to ascend to the throne. Internal and external civil and military ministers work together to assist the government to reassure our people. Funeral rituals, no gold and jade. The mountains and rivers of Xiaoling are not changed because of this. The subjects of the world, crying for three days, are all relieved, and there is no harm in marrying. The kings are in the kingdom, and they do not go to the capital. Those who are not in the order will be pushed to do so. The waiter of the Ministry of Rites listened to Zhu Yuanzhang's dictation while writing like this on Huang Aya.
A group of scholars, the squire heard that in the last two sentences of His Majesty's edict of His Majesty the Emperor, "The kings are in the country, and they do not go to the capital." Those who are not in the order will be pushed to do so. Two sentences, the heart invariably relieved, kowtowed.
Zhu Yuanzhang only felt that his eyes were gradually dim, and the crying voice of his grandson Zhu Yunwen in his ears gradually became low, and he thought of a woman in his heart, a woman who had been with him since Haozhou, but had passed away for many years. Thinking that he was about to accompany the only queen, the loneliness in his heart was swept away, and he smiled and died.
Ming Taizu, a few days after the death of Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of Hongwu, his grandson Zhu Yunwen obeyed his grandfather's edict, that is, the emperor's throne. Amnesty the world, with next year as the first year of Jianwen. On that day, Emperor Gao was buried in Xiaoling. The edict was mourned for three years.
In the drizzle at the beginning of summer, a teenager about ten years old jumped up and down behind his father, who was wearing a square scarf and a long robe, and walked into Yingtian City. Although the home of his father and son is not far from the city, every time he walks into this prosperous place in Beijing, the young man still seems extremely excited.
When I stepped into the Yingtian City, I saw that the shops on both sides of the street facing the Hongwu Gate of the Forbidden City were all closed, and there was no longer the bustling crowd on weekdays.
"Dare to ask the official brother, why is this?" The green-shirted scribe, who was about forty years old, did not hear the official's shouting clearly, so he immediately stepped forward and asked.
Seeing that this person dressed as a scribe seemed to have a meritorious reputation, the official did not dare to make too much of a mistake in his heart, and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty the Emperor has a great trip, today is the day of the funeral. The notice outside the city gate is clearly written, don't you see it? ”
The scribe was stunned when he heard this.
Hearing the sound of ritual music in the distance behind him, he turned around and saw a white figure in the distance of the long street coming towards this side, and the official stopped in a hurry and knelt to one side.
The young man didn't know what the word "Daxing" meant by the official messenger, and he was taking out the hot steamed buns that he had just bought on the side of the road outside the city, and when he bit it hard, he felt that it was full of sweetness, and when he was about to chew it, he gave his father a hand to hit the steamed bun on the ground, turned his head and saw his father pick up his long shirt, and solemnly knelt down on the side of the street. A pair of big eyes looked at the steamed bun that had just bitten into himself rolling a few steps on the bluestone-paved street, stained with muddy water, the young man's heart was full of unwillingness and regret, and when he was about to speak, he saw that the official who was quite energetic, and his father all knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and he didn't dare to speak out in fear.
After waiting for the long procession to get farther and farther away, the young man's knees hurt unbearably, so he stood up and turned his head to ask his father in a low voice: "Dad, is it the emperor who just came out of the funeral?" He had also seen his neighbors mourn in the countryside, but there was no such big pomp, so he was curious to ask. Seeing the tears on his father's face, he couldn't help but wonder: "Dad, why are you crying?" Didn't I hear that the emperor killed many people? ”
Hearing this, the green-shirted scribe couldn't help but scold: "Hugh is talking nonsense. When he turned his head, he saw his son staring at the mud-stained steamed bun on the ground not far away, his big eyes were full of regret, and his mind suddenly recalled those nightmarish childhood in the troubled times. It must be known that if His Majesty the Emperor drove away the tartars, the Han people in the whole world would still be the fourth class like donkeys and horses, where would there be steamed buns to eat. Speaking of this, I recalled in my mind the days when I was as old as my son, and I was despised and starved, and I couldn't help but feel sad, picked up the still filthy steamed bun, took a bite, and secretly thought in my heart: Such a filthy steamed bun, in the troubled times decades ago, but I don't know how many people have left the sage and sage principles of the Four Books and Five Classics behind, and gave away their lives like beasts.
When the young man saw his father crying and eating, his heart was full of puzzlement, but he didn't dare to ask again, and secretly thought to himself: Dad said this, couldn't it be that decades ago, these countless Han people couldn't be people and couldn't eat steamed buns?
On the Fengtian Palace, although the civil and military officials were sad in their hearts, they invariably felt a sense of relief in their hearts. Since Emperor Taizu single-handedly concocted the blue jade case, the founding ministers from the Song Dynasty Duke Feng Sheng, Ying Duke Fu Youde, Dingyuan Marquis Wang Bi all died unjustly, civil and military officials are involved in countless people, His Majesty Emperor Jianwen is hindered by his grandfather, unable to correct the unjust case, but when the new emperor ascended the throne, the amnesty of the world is undoubtedly like a spring breeze and rain dew, completely swept away the bloody rain of the blue jade case, which made everyone endanger themselves, and pressed everyone to walk on thin ice. The Son of Heaven's pro-army Jinyi Wei was personally removed by Emperor Taizu, and no one will mention the Lanyu case again. In addition to shouting long live, the civil and military officials are grateful.
The young Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen, wearing a five-clawed golden dragon yellow robe, sat on the throne of his former grandfather, and when he accepted the worship of hundreds of civil and military officials, all kinds of emotions came to his heart, which was indescribable. I was excited to see those civil and military officials prostrate in front of him with gratitude on their faces. What is afraid is that the grandfather who used to shield himself from the wind and rain is still far away after all, and in these thousands of miles, tens of millions of subjects will have to decide the blessings and misfortunes by themselves.
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