Zhu Di's sword-like gaze swept over both sides of the separation, and Zhu Quan, who had a faint unbearable look on his face, and the generals in the army, said coldly word by word: "I tell you, if you lose, if you wait, you will still be full of corpses and rivers of blood if you are transposed today." ”

Zhu Quan heard Zhu Di's transpositional words, and the faces of his wife Xu Ying, Feng Xuan and a pair of children suddenly flashed in his mind, and cold sweat unconsciously poured down from his forehead. Seeing Huang Zicheng, Fang Xiaoru, Qi Tai and others sweeping the chilling infinite hatred in their eyes from time to time, their minds were blank, and they involuntarily knelt on the ground, and said in a trembling voice: "Brother Chen, please punish your majesty for adultery and never suffer in the future." When the words "never suffer in the future" came out, I felt that the voice echoing in my ears was so distant and unfamiliar, as if it came from my own mouth.

Zhu Di immediately issued a decree: Taichangqing Huang Zicheng, the former military department Shangshu Qi Tai, the household servant Zhuo Jing, and the Shandong political envoy Tie Xuan, beheaded the public and exterminated the three clans. Fang Xiaoru abandoned the city outside the Jingshi Jubao Gate and exterminated the nine clans. In addition, Huang Zicheng's sister, the wife of Tiexian, sent to the Teaching Division. (This is controversial, and one theory is that being a prostitute is an official prostitute.) Another theory is that in ancient times, the Jiaofang Department was not a brothel, but an official institution for the management of musicians, and "prostitutes" were different from "tricks". The "History of the Ming Dynasty" compiled by the servants and literati under the Manchu Tartars had many slanders against the Ming Dynasty emperors, and the matter of Fang Xiaoru being punished by the Ten Clans was not recorded in the official history, including the "History of the Ming Dynasty" revised by the Qing Dynasty, and some well-researched private histories. Lian Zining, Mao Tai, Guo Ren, Lu Zhi, Dai Deyi, Wang Jingzhi, Wang Shuying, Xie Sheng, Ding Zhifang, Gan Lin, Dong Yong, Chen Jizhi, Han Yong, Ye Fu, Liu Duan, Hou Tai, Mao Dafang, Chen Di, and other former ministers of Jianwen who refused to surrender were not spared. ”“

Zhu Quan looked at the backs of Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai, Fang Xiaoru, Zhuo Jing, Tie Xuan and others calmly gone, but what he recalled in his mind was the battle of Jingyan for several years, the two sides used more than one million troops in Zhending, Beiping, Baigouhe, Jinan, Lingbi, Puzikou several battles, killing mountains of corpses and blood, and countless casualties, only felt that his chest was like a big stone filled with breathlessness, and lamented: This cadre Wenchen has been deeply said by Mencius since he was a child: the mighty and unyielding subtle, and the integrity of seeing death as home is certainly respectable. However, how many military and civilian families were destroyed in this war that lasted for several years? Zhu Laosi handed over the military power in the past, and I only wanted to guard the border passes. If Zhu Yun adopts Zhuo Jing's plan, uses the strategy of relocating the land, and uses a slightly soft means to cut down the feudal domain, will this war that will cause the lives of the people of the Ming Dynasty to be ruined? In the same room, there are no heroes. Zhu Laosi and I are of course guilty of great sins, but this admonition is a powerful slash and a civil servant who regards death as if he were at home, and for those tens of millions of Ming people who died inexplicably, they may not be completely innocent.

Zhu Di looked at the backs of the crowd who were escorted out of the hall by the pro-army in front of the palace, and suddenly sighed lightly: "It is useless to be a scholar, my father has been a scholar for 30 years, and there is only one outstanding respect." He knew very well in his heart that if Zhu Yun had adopted Zhuo Jing's strategy in the past and weakened himself and other vassal kings in disguise by moving the land, he would have no excuse to raise troops and make it difficult.

After the spicy hand executed the relict of Jianwen who swore to die, Zhu Di immediately passed down a decree to restore the titles of Zhou Wang Zhu, Qi Wang Zhu, acting Wang Zhu Gui, and Min Wang Zhu who were stripped by Zhu Yun. A cadre of heroes from the dragon who fought on the battlefield, recounted their merits and rewarded them, and each gave them crowns and uniforms.

Two people were sealed, and two people were posthumously sealed. Zhu Neng: Cheng Guogong, hereditary; Qiu Fu: Qi Guogong, hereditary; Zhang Yu: Posthumously crowned Rong Guogong, Zhen Zhongxian; Chen Heng: Chasing the Duke of Jingguo, Xiang Min. Zhu Di remembered that his teacher Daoyan had already resigned as an official in the court several times on the grounds of his status as a monk, and had no choice but to be awarded the title of prince and young teacher, as the monk Lu Si Zuo Shanshi.

Thirteen marquis and one posthumous one. Zhang Wu: Marquis of Chengyang, hereditary; Chen Gui: Marquis of Taining, hereditary; Zheng Heng: Marquis of Wu'an, hereditary; Meng Shan: Marquis of Baoding, hereditary; Huo Zhen: Tong'an Hou, hereditary; Gu Cheng: Marquis of Zhenyuan, hereditary; Wang Zhong: Marquis of Jing'an, hereditary; Wang Cong: Marquis of Wucheng, hereditary; Xu Zhong: Marquis of Yongkang, hereditary; Zhang Xin: Marquis of Longping, hereditary descendants of Longpingbo; Li Yuan: Marquis of Anping, hereditary descendant of Anpingbo; Guo Liang: Cheng Anhou, descendants hereditary Cheng Anbo; Fang Kuan: Sienhou, the hereditary commander of the descendants; Tan Yuan: Posthumously crowned Chong'an Hou, Zhuang Festival. There are also a number of bonus.

On the morning of the second day, Jingqing, the former minister of Jianwen, who pretended to surrender to Shun, was not angry with Zhu Di for killing indiscriminately, and intended to assassinate the new emperor Zhu Di with a dagger.

Zhu Di sent an order to drag Jing Qing to the palace gate to be executed at Ling Chi, and exterminated the nine clans, turned his head to look at the frightened civil and military officials, and secretly thought to himself in his heart: Huangkou Xiaoer is incompetent, but there are many loyal ministers, thinking about this, he immediately said in a deep voice: "I am determined to reset the Jinyi Guard of the Son of Heaven's pro-army, and the pro-army Qianhu Jigang stepped forward to listen to the order. ”

Ji Gang naturally knew the authority held by the Son of Heaven's pro-army Jinyi Guard, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but tremble slightly, suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, and quickly stepped forward and knelt on the ground.

"It is difficult for Ji Gang to follow me from Shandong, he is brave and strategic, has made great contributions repeatedly, and has been specially promoted to the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, and the commander of the Jinyi Guard." Zhu Di said lightly. Although Jing Qing's assassination of Zhu Di was a failure, it made him wary of the court's subordinates who surrendered to him, so he re-established the Jinyi Guard, which had been abolished on the day of his father's death, to deal with those courtiers who might be hiding in the court and had bad intentions towards him like Jing Qing.

When Ji Gang heard that he had ascended to the sky in one step and was canonized as the leader of the Son of Heaven's pro-army by His Majesty the new emperor, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately kowtowed and thanked him.

Zhu Quan looked at Ji Gang not far away, and sighed lightly in his heart: The Jinyi Guard, which was abolished by the Hongwu Emperor Zhu, was resurrected after all by the embers of the Jingyan War.

Jingqing's nephews Liu Gu and Liu Guo were in Beijing with their uncle, and when they heard that their uncle was killed, they knew that they were in a catastrophe, so they were extremely sad and angry, and killed themselves. The clansmen surnamed Fan Jing were almost wiped out by Jinyiwei, and their teachers, relatives, friends, and students implicated hundreds of people.

A few days later, the new emperor Zhu Di changed the Jianwen Yuan, the second, the third, and this year to the thirty-second to thirty-fifth year of Hongwu, and the following year to the first year of Yongle. Cancel Zhu Yun's Mingxing Zongmiao number respected by his father Zhu Biao, rename Prince Yiwen, demote Zhu Yun's three younger brothers from the prince to the county king, and all the officials who were degraded during the Jianwen period will be reinstated, such as Wu Gao, the Marquis of Jiangyin, who was demoted due to discord in the early days of Jingnan, was reinstated to guard Datong; All reforms during the Jianwen period were abolished; The laws and regulations enacted during the Jianwen period were abolished if they were contrary to Taizu. However, some regulations conducive to people's livelihood have also been abolished, such as the second year of Jianwen's order to reduce the extremely heavy land in western Zhejiang during the Hongwu period, which has since become heavier.

Xia Yuanji, the head of the household department, admonished the people of the north after several years of war, and pleaded for tax reduction.

Zhu Di Yunzhi decreed that the household department exempted Beiping Shuntianfu, Baoding Mansion, Zhending Mansion, Hejian Mansion, Jinan Mansion, Shunde Mansion, Dongchang Mansion and other prefectures and counties from paying taxes for three years.

One afternoon more than a month later, a carriage slowly walked on the street of Yingtian and came to the official office of the commander of the Jinyi Guard. Under the lifting of the low-hanging curtain, a young man in a green shirt, about 20 years old, tied with ropes, just got off the car, he was pushed and shoved into the gate by the fierce god and the captain of the brocade guards.

When the young scholar with a tall figure and a heroic spirit slowly walked forward, he saw two columns of embroidered spring knives in front of him, and the brocade guards wearing flying fish official uniforms stood on both sides, and a murderous aura came to his face, and he chuckled in his mouth: "The Son of Heaven is a pro-army brocade guard, it is really majestic." ”

"When death comes, I still don't know the current affairs like this, and the sour Confucianism really doesn't know whether to live or die." On the orders of the commander, he went to Shandong to arrest this person and came to Beijing. At this time, seeing that this guy had entered the edict of the civil and military officials talking about the tiger's changing color, and he was still walking around like this, he finally couldn't bear it, and while shouting and scolding, he stretched out his hand and pushed him forward.

The green-shirted scholar walked into the spacious official office, carefully looked at the new flying fish official uniform, a dignified state, and sat on the table two feet away, and now in the Ming Dynasty, as the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, Ji Gang, who commanded the Jinyi Guard, looked down at the black mass on the bluestone floor, which was quite shocking and bloodstained, and turned a deaf ear to the scolding of the hundred households on his side, and actually walked a few steps and sat down on the chair on one side.

Several brocade guards standing in front of the hall have been standing in front of the hall for a long time, and they are accustomed to seeing the high-ranking officials of the court and the central government in the past, and the children of Xun Qi have been beaten to the skin and flesh here, and they are not human, how have they ever seen such a madman who does not kneel or worship? With the intention of currying favor with the commander, the adults changed color one by one, and as soon as they swarmed up, they wanted to give this young man who was tied with ropes a dismount, so as to teach him how powerful Jinyiwei was.

Ji Gang made the ivory in his right hand, representing his identity as the leader of the Son of Heaven's army, slammed it on the table, and shouted in a deep voice: "Stop, let people loosen the ties." ”

Several brocade guards were accustomed to seeing those Wenchen who would rather bend than bend being tortured by the commander to make the adults laugh and groan, and they had already understood Ji Gang's ruthless temperament, and when they heard his order like this, they couldn't help but be stunned. Only a shrewd man saw that this madman seemed to be the old acquaintance of the commander, and pulled out the embroidered spring knife on his waist and cut the rope that tightly bound the young man.

"Serve tea, wait outside the room to wait." Ji Gang looked at this former classmate and ordered in a deep voice.

Although the thousands of households were still confused, they didn't know how the commander could treat this madman so politely, but they had already heard and witnessed this young man's temperament in the brocade guard, but he was the only one in the brocade guard, and immediately retreated far away into the courtyard.

It turned out that this young scholar who was captured by Jinyiwei from Shandong was Ji Gang's classmate and friend when he was a teenager, who had helped Tie Xuan, Sheng Yong fought against Zhu Di in Jinan, and Gao Xianning, who had an army of 200,000 under Zhu Quan. He had faced the rain of locusts and rivers of blood in Jinan, and he had faced the monstrous giant Lang from the city, and knew that Jinyiwei had captured him to Beijing because of Zhu Di's secret order, and he had no intention of surviving this Longtan tiger's den. Since he was ready to die in his heart, why was he afraid of Ji Gang's subordinates with teeth and claws?

Ji Gang put the waist card in his hand into his arms, slowly got up and asked with a smile: "Brother Wen Qing, don't come to harm?" ”

Gao Xianning moved his numb hands, took the hot tea offered by the captain, moistened his throat, which was already thirsty and smoking, and replied lightly: "Treat the guilty prisoner, and death is just on the verge of death." ”

Ji Gang saw that his subordinates had withdrawn and closed the door, and only the two of them were left in the huge hall, so he immediately sighed and walked to Gao Xianning from behind the table, and said in a deep voice: "Brother Wen Qing has always been resourceful, but this time he misunderstood His Majesty's meaning. Speaking of this, while sitting down beside Gao Xianning, he continued: "At the beginning of the new dynasty, Your Majesty is thirsty for talent, recalling the former brother in Jinan City, "Zhou Gongfu Cheng Wang Treatise" is a splendid article, brilliant writing, if the brother can abandon the past prejudices, Your Majesty will inevitably be promoted and reused. My brother's ambition to serve the country is as it deserves, and you and my brother are officials in the same dynasty, isn't it the best of both worlds? ”

Gao Xianning thought that he would die miserably when he entered Beijing this time, but Ji Gang actually said such words, he couldn't help but be quite surprised, and recalled Tie Xuan, who died tragically in the hands of Zhu Di, and slowly shook his head and said: "I used to eat a lot of money in the imperial court, but I really had no shame to be an official in the court, and I only wanted to live in the fields for the rest of my life." ”

Ji Gang naturally knew that the court he was talking about was the court of Zhu Yun in the past, and persuaded him earnestly: "The past is over, don't you hear the words that good birds choose trees to perch, and virtuous ministers choose masters and serve?" ”

"Shi, Cheng villain also. In Gao's view, these words are those scum who are full of poetry and books, but have no integrity. is obviously a surrender on the knee, but if you want to say that good birds choose trees to perch, and virtuous ministers choose the lord to serve, they really want to cover up. When Gao Xianning heard this, he said coldly and angrily.

Ji Gang observed the words and knew that the reason why the other party refused to submit was most likely because His Majesty the Emperor had killed Fang Xiaoru, Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai, Zhuo Jing and other corrupt Confucians who were well-known in the court and the opposition since he ascended the throne. ”

Gao Xianning snorted coldly when he heard this, and said in a deep voice: "Gao is stubborn, and it is really difficult to be an official in the court. I have made up my mind, and it is useless to say more, so send me to the palace. He stood up as he spoke.