Chapter 18: The Attitude of the Heir

When Xie Mian finally reached Jiang Mian's hands, his first feeling was: His Highness's handwriting is good.

Xie Jian is quite long.

Because it is not written in obscurity like ordinary thanks, and even broken sentences.

[Nephew Houxi, in March of the sixteenth year of Zhengde, Jiaxu was released by the Empress Dowager's decree and was awarded the title of king. I am ashamed to be ashamed of the grace of God. Wu Yin was edicted, and he was overwhelmed with grief, not only sad that he could not fulfill his filial piety for his father, but also sad that His Majesty died young. The queen mother so much that the painful phoenix body festival was about to change, and the first lord was hopeful and entrusted to the temple. For Chen's answer, the nephew has heartfelt words, and the queen mother listens. 】

Then, the words became a lot more straightforward:

[Since the ministers and nephews were sensible, they often listened to the first king talk about the benevolence of the emperor and the wisdom of the emperor's brother. Living in the countryside, I have always heard that the courtiers have a lot of complaints about the emperor's brother repairing the leopard room, being a good soldier, training the regimental camp, and being stationed in the Xuanfu. The nephew was only a prince of a vassal before, and he should not discuss the government in vain. But now that the ministers and nephews have been edicted, when they are thinking about the future, they really think that the imperial brother is the monarch with the broadest vision and the highest ambition since Emperor Taizong.

The nephew usually only likes to read books to kill time. As it grew, Shi Haigou Shen found some things worth pondering.

"Bamboo Book" contains, when King Xiao of Zhou was frozen, the river and the Han River froze, and before that, the dog Rong invaded the east, and King Yi of Zhou was forced to move the capital.

"Spring and Autumn" has been loaded many times, and there is no ice in the first month of Lu Guochun. "Xunzi Fuguo Chapter" and "Mencius Gaozi I" are both contained, and the land of Qilu grows twice a year. At this time, the nomadic tribes of the northern steppes were weaker than those of the Central Plains.

According to the records of Zizhi Tongjian, in the early years of Emperor Jin Cheng, the Bohai Sea froze for three consecutive years from Changli to Gaizhouwei, and the ice could be used to travel with chariots and horses and as many as thousands of soldiers. At that time, there was chaos in China, and the north and the south faced each other.

In the Tang Dynasty, Xuzhou produced lychees, and Du Fu Shiyun "heavy blue spring wine, light red lychee"; "Youyang Miscellaneous" records that in the tenth year of Tianbao, more than 100 orange trees in the Chang'an Palace bore fruit. In the first month of the first year of Yongtai, Chang'an is full of snow. In the first month of the second year of Yongtai, the snow was two feet flat. In November of the following year, Chang'an City was foggy like snow, grass and ice. For another two years, Chang'an City was cold in June.

In the winter of this year, Du Fu was in Changsha, and at first thought that "there is no snow in Hunan in winter, and I am so sick that I will be drowned". In winter, the clouds "blow the Guishui, and the snow is heavy at night". When Bai Juyi was in time, he wrote "Jiujiang has been snowing heavily in winter for ten years, and the branches of the river are broken with ice". Then in the Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi's poem "Red Plum": "Half a flower only occurs in spring, and it should be cold." The northerners didn't know each other at first, and they made apricot blossoms to see." At that time, the northerners didn't even know plum blossoms.

From the prosperous Tang Dynasty to the weak Song Dynasty. Later, the Khitan, Jurchen, and Mongolia frequently went south and buried Song Jianyuan. In the second year of the Tianli calendar, Taihu Lake froze several feet thick, and the oranges froze to death.

Emperor Taizu recovered Shenzhou, it has been nearly 200 years since I became a Ming Dynasty, what is the climate? In the winter of Jingtai from four to five years, the sea ice of Huaidong is more than 40 miles, and the rain and snow in Fengyang Bawei do not stop in February and March. In the sixth year of Hongzhi, the heavy snow in the Huaishui area raged from September to February of the following year, and the 800-mile Dongting became an ice land, and the carriages and horses passed. In the first year of Zhengde, it snowed heavily in Wanzhou, the capital of Qiongzhou.

The ministers and nephews listed all this, not to be alarmist, but to say a simple truth: the nomadic tribes north of the Great Wall also want to live.

The way of heaven flows, sometimes warm and sometimes cold. When it is warm, the grass and trees are in full bloom, and the people, horses, cattle and sheep are easy to raise. When it is cold, the grass and trees are withered, and they cannot live, they will try to go south to survive.

I heard that the royal brother is gifted and intelligent, proficient in multi-ethnic languages, and even learned the Francophone language last year. The words and deeds of the royal brother seem to be deviant to some people, but in the eyes of the nephews, they are really open-minded and broad-minded.

Cleaning up the border towns, vigorously fighting the troops, stationing in the Xuanfu, and self-proclaimed towns, isn't it like Emperor Taizong and Emperor Xuanzong to guard the country? In order to ensure that the Ming Society is as stable as Mount Tai, hundreds of officials have many admonitions to the imperial brother, which is reasonable. Guy had a change in the civil fort in front of him, and the imperial brother Yuji had the defeat of Yutailing in the back, and my Ming Dynasty did not dare to speak easily about war, and the imperial brother Dazhi frightened the hundred officials and made the queen mother worried.

However, sooner or later, the northern tribes will have to go south to plunder and even vainly follow the previous dynasty's plan for our Ming dynasty. I think that the royal brother is also for the sake of his descendants for eternity, so he is unswerving, and he often talks about military affairs.

Now the Ming Dynasty has been established for nearly 200 years, and a year is as cold as a year. A brief review of the local newspapers is proof of this.

The royal brother knows that my Ming winter has arrived. If it does not move like a mountain, it will eventually be lost by heavy snow; Only by working hard can we ensure the longevity of the foundation.

The queen mother is above, and now she suddenly knows that the saint intends to take the nephew as the son of the filial piety temple and the emperor's brother and brother, and the nephew really can't do it.

If the nephew is a big position, if he is not filial to his parents first, how can he be filial to the queen mother?

How can a nephew or nephew abandon his ignorant young son, his blood relatives, and fifteen years of nurturing grace?

If a nephew is the heir to the world, how can this unfilial prince make the subjects of the world return to their hearts?

Now the edict is clear, and none of the ministers said anything about the heir in An Lu; The nephew was stupid, and he had to see the mind of the Empress Dowager Fang Ming.

However, it has reached the outskirts of Beijing, the situation is in a dilemma, and disputes have arisen. The ministers and nephews were frightened, and they thought about it again and again, and the Empress Dowager Fu begged her nephew to see:

After the royal pole, the nephew succeeded to a son as the son of the emperor's brother, and the queen mother and the emperor's sister-in-law raised him, not only filial piety, but also the emperor's descendants to worship blood food.

As Mao Cheng said, the nephew succeeded him as the son of the filial piety temple, and the heirs of the filial piety temple are endless, but who is the heir of the emperor's brother? The ministers were entrusted by the imperial brother to the future affairs but made the imperial brother no heir, how can they be loyal?

If the queen mother does not allow it, please take the edict.

If the queen mother is afraid that her nephews will make trouble in the future, the nephews will be killed, and there will be no complaints.

The emperor's ambition was not rewarded, but he did not want to protect the blood and food after his death.

The days change, external troubles are endless, and internal worries arise again.

The Ming Dynasty is old, no matter who succeeds to the unification, if the monarch and the minister continue to stick to the old ways, I am afraid that the old state will be revealed, and the survival of this society will be the time of reform and reform.

However, this heartfelt remark asks the Queen Mother to think carefully.

The ancestors and the ancestors are above, and the descendants of the unscrupulous Hou Xi weep books]

After reading it, Jiang Mian realized that his mouth had been involuntarily open for a long time.

After shuddering, Jiang Mian handed Xie Jian to Mao Ji, who was looking forward to it, in a complicated mood, and then fell into extremely fast thinking.

He first wondered: Is it really so far-reaching to praise Emperor Zhengde so reasonably, and many of Emperor Zhengde's behaviors?

Then I thought about what it meant for the heir to agree with Emperor Zhengde so much, wasn't the heir worried that the ministers would be dissatisfied with his worries?

What was the situation in the Zhengde Dynasty, it is impossible for the heir to be unclear.

Now there is a sentence about Emperor Zhengde's "ambition is not rewarded", what is he going to do?

Toss like Emperor Zhengde?

Originally, Yang Tinghe may have thought that Heijun was deceived and instigated by villains, but now that Xie Jian came, the situation has become clear: who dares to persuade Heijun to write these things to the Queen Mother and the cabinet in such a self-defeating way? This letter of thanks must have come from him.

This heir is really a self-defeating man, saying that the cabinet is disloyal to Emperor Zhengde and the heir of Emperor Zhengde, who can afford to wear this hat?

Such a strong and clear attitude meant that it was almost impossible for him to listen to the question of the heir.

Not only that, but it also brings out a more difficult problem to face, that is, his future governance strategy: it is very likely to be reckless!

There are still many things worth pondering in Xie Jian, and Jiang Mian thought of the most important thing in a hurry: such an unpersuadable heir, such an heir who may be able to toss more than Emperor Zhengde, what is the attitude of Yang Tinghe and the Queen Mother?

Continue to welcome him to the throne, or abolish him?