Zhu Quan knew that Zhu Yuanzhang, the Hongwu Emperor, had already moved the capital to Beiping and firmly controlled the northern provinces. After moving the capital, in order to prevent the southern invasion of the barbarian tribes outside the Saiwai, he mobilized two or three hundred thousand soldiers and horses loyal to the imperial court to garrison the key passes near Beiping. Only honestly stationed in Daning, swallowing his life.

Seeing that Zhu Quan was silent, Jing Kun sighed and said with a smile: "It's a pity that even if a wise and resourceful person in the court can think of such a plan, His Majesty the current emperor will never use it, but because of this, he has to plan slowly, and seeing the emperor's ruthless method of cutting two kings in a row within a few months, he is eager to uproot all the vassal kings, how can he have such patience?" Speaking of this, after hanging the bait, he slowly fell into the water, changed the topic and asked: "I wonder what the famous Fang Xiaoru did after the new emperor succeeded to the throne?" ”

"It is said that this Lord Fang, who is a waiter of the Hanlin Academy, has one mind to implement the "Jingtian system" in my Ming Dynasty and rebuild the shore of the land, which is not the peace of the world in the king's land. Zhu Quan didn't know much about the "Jingtian system", and after recalling the news from Yingtian, he said with a puzzled look on his face. ”“

Jing Kun couldn't help but sneer when he heard this: "The Jingtian system is prevalent in the Western Zhou Dynasty, if the Ming Dynasty still has any Jingtian system after a thousand years, it is undoubtedly a river backwards, and a fool is dreaming." When he turned his head, he saw Zhu Quan's puzzled face, so he immediately said: "The well field system is to divide the cultivated land into a large square field, surrounded by a meridian boundary, and there is a ditch in the middle. The well is divided into nine square fields, and the surrounding eight plots of land are cultivated by eight households, which is called private land, and the middle one is a public field, which is cultivated by eight households, and the harvest is owned by the nobles of the feudal district. The Jingtian system is at odds with the national policy of encouraging land reclamation adopted by His Majesty Hongwu, the former emperor. It seems that this well-known Master Fang is only a first-class corrupt Confucian, so there is nothing to worry about. ”

Hearing the teacher's words, Zhu Quan couldn't help but recall the method adopted by Zhu Yuanzhang in the past that the imperial court provided cattle seeds, the fields were owned by the cultivators, and taxes were exempted for three years. The method used by Zhu Yuanzhang was to use the strategy of privatization of fields and tax exemption to encourage the people to actively reclaim wasteland to solve the problem of feeding the growing population. The former is the royal paradise in idealism, and the latter is pragmatism that induces the people to reclaim the land with their own interests. He couldn't help but shake his head and smile when he wanted to distinguish it: "It seems that this Lord Fang is engaged in a mansion in the air." ”

Jing Kun suddenly sighed slightly and then said in a deep voice: "The most different thing between Emperor Hongwu and those wise lords in history who are looking for what kind of culture and martial arts is the word "pragmatic". This is evident from the fact that there is no need for fame. "Said this in his mouth, and said in his heart: Ying Guogong, Song Guogong, Dingyuan Marquis and other founding heroes are because Emperor Hongwu is afraid that he will threaten the imperial power in the future and ruthlessly kill him, Emperor Jianwen cut the feudal domain with his hands, and imposed a crime to cut off the vassal king, although the means are naïve, but in terms of the hereditary replacement system of the lords of the Ming Dynasty, these princes, within two generations of meritorious heroes, will inevitably derive a huge privileged class, and the removal of so many noble relatives of other days is a blessing or a curse for tens of millions of grassroots Li people, which can only be left to future generations to see the benevolent, The wise man has seen his wisdom.

In the winter of November, Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunwen issued a decree, and Zhang Yu, the left and right attendants of the Ministry of Labor, Xie Gui was the political envoy of Beiping, and Zhang Xin commanded the envoy in Beiping. Another secret decree was issued, ordering the three of them to secretly investigate the lawlessness of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, in Beiping. A few days later, a decree was issued to give the world a halving of the land rent for next year, and the army and prisoners were released to return to the village.

In December, Siam and Champa sent envoys to the court to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty.

In the first spring of the first year of Jianwen, Zhu Yunwen was worshiped by the envoys in the Fengtian Temple, and he was not happy. Gengchen, the great worship of heaven and earth in the southern suburbs, repaired the "Taizu Record".

In February, the posthumous emperor was called Emperor Xiaokang, the temple name was Xingzong, and the Empress Xiaokang was called Chang's family. The mother concubine Lu is called the queen mother, and the concubine Ma is the queen. Canonized his younger brother Zhu Yunxi as King Wu, Zhu Yunxi as King Heng, and Zhu Yunxi as King Xu. The emperor's eldest son, Wen Kui, was appointed as the crown prince. Edict to the world, raise the legacy. Give the people high-aged rice and meat silk, widows, lonely and sick officials for shepherding. Heavy agriculture, building schools, inspecting officials, reviving the poor in disasters, filial piety, tyrannical bones, and renting barren land.

In March, Zhu Yunwen personally led hundreds of civil and military officials to release the foundation of Confucius. Decree issued to the Ming army governor Song Zhong, Xu Kai, Bingtun Kaiping, Linqing, Shanhaiguan. In addition, the two guards of Beiping and Yongqing were transferred to Zhangde and Shunde. Twenty-four people, including Shilang Tyrant Zhao and Xia Yuanji, served as envoys and patrolled the world.

From April to early June, Zhu Rong, the king of Qi, Zhu Gui, the acting king, and Zhu Rong, the king of Min, were convicted one after another, and Zhu Yunwen, the emperor of Jianwen, was deposed as a concubine.

On the street outside the Yanwang Mansion in Beiping, the civilians under the official gong and the road were evacuated, and a team of officials holding honor guards walked on the Qingshi Street, which was the political envoy Zhang Yu and Xie Gui, who held the power of a province and could be described as the feudal officials, came to the Yanwang Mansion.

When the official sedan chair was only a few zhang away from the Yanwang Mansion, about forty years old, there was a faint noise in the ears of the black veil, only to feel that the sedan chair slowly stopped, and the sedan chair fell off the strange heart, and there was a burst of exclamation in the ears, so he immediately ordered a group of officials to dodge away, and Xie Gui and the two slowly stepped forward to check.

I saw a man dressed in a fancy costume rushing to a street side that was overturned to the ground, in front of the hawker stall selling steamed buns, he couldn't wait to grab a muddy bun and put it in his mouth and chew it, and he was so happy that he lay down on the ground, laughing in his mouth, and a python robe on his body was even more filthy while rolling.

Several palace guards hurriedly pushed away the crowd of onlookers, forcibly helped the crazy man up, and walked into the palace.

Zhang Yu, Xie Gui saw that this person in a python robe was clearly Zhu Di, the king of Yan, and couldn't help but be stunned.

A man in his forties, dressed in a red military attache costume, turned over and dismounted and saw such a bizarre scene in front of the palace, he couldn't help frowning and muttering. This person is Zhang Xin, the commander of the military power of the five cities in Beiping.

After the three important officials who held the military and political power in Beiping entered the Yan Palace, Zhang Yu said in a deep voice to Princess Yan, who was dressed in gorgeous clothes and had a beautiful appearance: "Your Majesty has a personal will here, so please ask Your Highness to accept the order." ”

Princess Yan wiped her tears with the silk scarf in her hand, and said compassionately: "Lord Wang, since the first emperor returned to heaven after the funeral, he didn't think about tea and dinner every day, sat restlessly, and occasionally contracted a minor illness half a month ago. Dare to ask the three adults, can the mourning family take the order on their behalf? ”

Zhang Yu and Xie Gui couldn't help but shake their heads and sigh slightly, just the two of them witnessed Zhu Di's madness, and they were clearly delirious.

A group of officials and people from the palace waited for Zhang Yu and Princess Yan to come out of the court, knelt down in front of the incense table that had already been set up, and listened to the eunuchs who came from the decree of the heavens to read the holy decree.

It turned out that this holy decree written by His Majesty Emperor Jianwen was an edict ordering 18,000 people from the three guards who originally belonged to the guard of King Yan to be transferred to Beiping to command Zhang Xin to obey the order.

After Princess Yan kowtowed to receive the order, she asked Zhang Yu to write the military order on her behalf, and ordered someone to take the tiger talisman from the palace to transfer troops to the king's seal, and handed over the tiger talisman to Zhang Xin for safekeeping after using the seal on the document.

Zhang Xin saw Zhang Yu and Xie Gui looking relieved, and sighed secretly in his heart, as a commander, he had also experienced battles in the past, and it was really difficult to believe in his heart that this Yan King, who had been through the battlefield and was accustomed to thousands of troops and horses, would suddenly go crazy. A few months after coming to Beiping to take office, Zhang Xin knew that most of the lieutenant generals and soldiers of the Beiping Army had followed Zhu Di in the past. Although there were many doubts in his heart, he was silent. It turned out that although he was a high-ranking officer in the army, he was extremely filial to his mother since he was a child, and he went to the temple to burn incense and was willing to meet a Taoist monk, and he got to explain the scriptures, and after solving his doubts, he always told in front of himself that King Yan guarded Beiping, and surrendered to the Northern Yuan Dynasty and the Tatar prime minister bite, and Pingzhang Nell did not spend the past, when he first came to Beiping, he was loyal to His Majesty Emperor Jianwen, and the position of cutting off King Yan was already shaky unconsciously.

In the Yanwang Mansion shrouded in night, there were more than a dozen young generals in armor and aged between twenty and thirty sitting on both sides of the living room, in order of Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng, Qiu Fu, Chen Heng, Guo Liang, Liu Sheng and others. All of them are the henchmen of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, who was promoted from the army and awarded official positions.

Sitting in the center, wearing civilian clothes, Zhu Di's face was cold and solemn, and the stupid appearance of pretending to be stupid during the day had long been gone, his eyes swept over the subordinates, and he said softly: "The traitor is in power, persecuting our first emperor's flesh and blood, how can this king be captured and sit still?" had to fight against the odds. When he is successful, the king will not hesitate to reward him with a title. ”

Zhang Yu and other generals know that they are all the others, when King Meng Yan was promoted and took charge of the guards and horses of Yanshan, they have already laid the mark of the vassal king, if His Royal Highness King Yan suffers an accident, it will be difficult for his family to escape the rebellion and chaos, and the end of the door is full of beheading, when there is no way to retreat, hearing Zhu Di's words, they all stood up, hugged their fists and bowed and shouted: "The last general is willing to be loyal to His Royal Highness." ”

In the imperial study, Zhu Yunwen, who was wearing a dragon robe, swept his eyes over the two letters on the desk, and couldn't help frowning, very embarrassed.

It turned out that one of these two letters was the political envoy Zhang Yu and Xie Gui of Beiping, and the commander Zhang Xin jointly secretly played the delirious madness of Zhu Di, the king of Yanshan, and the three guards and horses of Yanshan had been handed over to the commander Zhang Xin. The other letter was played by Princess Yan on behalf of Zhu Di, imploring His Majesty the Emperor to read that Zhu Di was seriously ill and let the three sons who stayed in Jingshi Ying Tianzong's mansion go home to visit his father, so as to fulfill the way of the son of man.

Since Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne, although he has regarded Zhu Di, Zhu Quan and other uncles who are outside the domain as elbows and armpits, he has not planned to put them all to death as soon as possible. Recalling that the tragedy of Zhu Bai, the king of Hunan who was unwilling to be humiliated and died of his family, has caused a lot of controversy among the civil officials in the court, and recalls the death of his deceased father Zhu Biao in the past. Seeing that Princess Yan folded the words written to fulfill the way of the Son of Man, Zhu Yunwen couldn't help but feel a little compassion in his heart, sighed softly when his heart softened, and turned his head to the eunuch Bai Zheng on the side and whispered: "Let the Zongren Mansion send Zhu Gaochi, his younger brother Zhu Gaochu, and Zhu Gaosui back to Beiping tomorrow." ”

After all, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and Shi Gecheng, the governor of the Yanwang Mansion in February, secretly reported to the political envoy Zhang Yu, saying that Zhu Di mobilized Zhang Yu, the general of Yanshan's guards, and Zhu Neng privately built weapons with the intention of causing chaos. It turned out that the post of the chief of the palace was set up by Zhu Yuanzhang, the former Hongwu Emperor, when his sons became vassals, although they did not have much real power, but they were not appointed and dismissed by the princes themselves, and they had the responsibility of monitoring the vassal kings.

Zhu Yunwen, the Jianwen Emperor who was thousands of miles away, visited Zhang Yu, Xie Gui was shocked after the secret performance, and regretted letting Zhu Di's three sons go, and immediately ordered Zhang Yu, Xie Gui, and Zhang Xin to lead troops to capture Zhu Di and other rebels.

"The faint king does not miss family affection, and mutilates the flesh and blood of the first emperor such as us, and this king raises troops to write a text, and I hope that the master will write for it." Zhu Di looked at Dao Yan, who was sitting on the side, and said in a deep voice. He knew very well that although Zhu Yunwen and Huang Zicheng were mediocre and confused, after all, they had the people of a country, and they only had more than 800 palace guards in their hands at the moment.

Dao Yan shook his head slightly and said: "Your Highness's words are also wrong, the rotten Confucians all over the world pay attention to the death of a monarch, and the minister has to die, so the current emperor must not be criticized in the text." ”

When Zhu Di heard this, he recalled that although Zhu Yunwen was mediocre, it was his father Zhu Yuanzhang who announced the canonization of the world, which can be described as the justifiable Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and he couldn't help but be a little depressed in his heart, and sighed softly.

Dao Yan stretched out his hand and picked up a copy of "Emperor Ming Zuxun" on the desk, and chuckled: "His Majesty the former Emperor Hongwu used to ignore the opposition of the ministers, let His Royal Highness and other vassal kings master the soldiers and horses in various parts of the domain, the external defense of the Tartars, the internal defense of the ministers to empty the imperial power, painstaking and lonely under the inevitable secrets, "Emperor Ming Zu Xun" once said that if there are traitors in the future to control the dynasty, the vassal king can lead his troops into the side of the Qing monarch in Beijing, remove the traitors, and revitalize the dynasty. ”