The first month of the twenty-seventh year of Hongwu.

Several civil officials sent by the imperial court to Beiping.

They were about to go to the Lingbei Metropolitan Protectorate, where they were tasked with indoctrining the Mongol tribes.

They were to stay in Beiping for half a month, and after preparing books and supplies, they would go north to Helin.

He was accompanied by an official from the Ministry of Household Affairs who was responsible for collecting statistics on herdsmen's records.

and the supervision of the imperial history of the area.

Yang Shiqi is one of them.

Yanwang Mansion, hall.

Zhu Di looked at Yang Shiqi and said with a smile: "Lingbei is not as good as Jiangnan, there may be wars every year, the imperial court will transfer you to Lingbei, and Yang Yushi will suffer." ”

Beiping Province supervises the imperial history and must report the situation to the imperial court on time.

There is no shortage of missions to spy on the vassal kings.

As a vassal king, I am afraid that this group of superintendents will speak ill of the imperial history.

Yang Shiqi has been the supervisor of Beiping Province for more than half a year, and every time he reports to the imperial court on the affairs of Beiping, he says that King Yan is very good under his rule.

This made Zhu Di have a good impression of this young speaker and wanted to develop it.

Speaking of suffering, Yang Shiqi said loudly: "The imperial grandson can't listen to my advice, so he carefully punished me to Beiping, and this time I was transferred to Lingbei, I have long been used to it!" ”

He stood there, looking like a minister.

Zhu Di glanced at Yang Shiqi seriously and said in a low voice: "You can't say that!" ”

"What are you afraid of! Big deal to lose your head! ”

Yang Shiqi held his head high and looked heroic.

In Zhu Di's eyes, it was a broken jar.

This kind of person is undoubtedly a good thing to be the superintendent of the imperial history in Beiping!

Seeing that King Yan had drunk the people who served tea beside him.

Yang Shiqi no longer had false greetings, and said bluntly: "The minister is about to go north to Helin, and this will be a few months or a year, and the minister has a word to say to His Royal Highness King Yan." ”

Looking at his solemn face, Zhu Di nodded slowly: "Say it." ”

Yang Shiqi said slowly: "Qin Shi Huang Fen VI Yu Lie, Zhen Chang Zhi and Yu Yu, swallowed two weeks and died the princes, performed the supreme and controlled Liuhe, the Great Qin was unified, but in the end it was calculated by a eunuch and died in Great Qin. ”

Zhu Di listened quietly.

He knew that the average literati quoted scriptures to explain what they were trying to express.

Yang Shiqi continued: "The immoral and incompetent Hu Hai has usurped the position of Fusu, and the coveting of the throne has finally come true!" ”

His eyes became sharper and sharper: "No matter how powerful Emperor Hongwu is, he can't compare to the unified Qin Shi Huang, right?" ”

Feeling that there was something in the words, Zhu Di frowned slightly: "What do you want to say?" ”

Yang Shiqi smiled, he came this time, the farewell was fake, and the thing was true.

Today he is going to do a big thing: persuade King Yan to rebel!

"Shuchen said something rebellious, if Emperor Hongwu was in the prime of life, he would not dare to rebel."

Zhu Di took the case: "You have already rebelled!" ”

"Then please forgive the minister for continuing to rebel!"

Yang Shiqi was not frightened, but took a step forward.

"Now that His Majesty the Emperor is setting in the West Mountain, the Ming Dynasty will be handed over to the imperial grandson, are you really willing, King Yan?"

Seeing that King Yan stood up and was looking for a sword everywhere, Yang Shiqi said quickly: "Even if you are willing, will the other vassal kings be willing?" Whether they are ready to move or not, you know better than anyone else! ”

Zhu Di stopped moving, stared at Yang Shiqi sharply, and said slowly: "You thief, you are so bold!" ”

Yang Shiqi laughed loudly: "The world says that King Yan has thousands of troops and horses, and he is the prince of the dynasty who is decisive in killing, and the heart of the emperor is at the beginning of the day!" According to Yichen, this is indeed the case. ”

Looking at the crazy imperial history, Zhu Di seemed to see the scene of meeting Yao Guangxiao more than ten years ago.

At that time, the monk Daoyan was also so bold and reckless, persuading himself to rebel.

Since the pacification of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, the king of Yan became famous after the return of the king, resounding throughout the nine sides.

Zhu Di, who was originally disheartened after being suppressed by Zhu Yunxi, rekindled a raging fire in his heart.

The second brother, King Qin, was grounded in the palace.

The third brother Jin Wang has a bad reputation.

Only himself, the king of Yan, is in the middle of the day, commanding half of the soldiers and horses on the nine sides.

As the saying goes, Zhu Di didn't plan to overshadow his father Zhu Yuanzhang, but he still wanted to fight for the position of prince and prince......

It's just because back then, Zhu Di met a great master named Yuan Hui.

That Yuan Heng has been extremely talented since childhood, eager to learn and poetry, once traveled in Luojia Mountain overseas, met a monk in another ancient cliff, and taught physiognomy.

Yuan Hui was already famous in the Yuan Dynasty, and there were hundreds of scholars and doctors, and the birth, old age, sickness and death of these people, the good fortune and the bad fortune were all calculated very accurately.

It's even surprising that the time can be accurate to a certain day and time.

For example, the Yuan Dynasty's Jiangnan Xingtai Imperial Shi Dafu Puhua Timur, Yuan Heng said that his Yintang was black, and he was afraid of extinction in a hundred days.

As a result, when Puhua Timur was an official in Zhejiang, he was killed by Zhang Shicheng, the leader of the rebel army.

Yuan Heng also showed Cheng Xu, the left deputy capital of Jiangxi, that he would be promoted within a thousand days.

Only a year later, Cheng Xu worshiped the squire of the military department and was the secretary of the military department.

Later, Yao Guangxiao recommended Yuan Heng to Zhu Di, the king of Yan.

Zhu Di didn't believe in evil and wanted to test Yuan Heng's ability, so he selected nine palace guards who looked and were about the same size as himself, dressed the same, and gathered in the wine shop to drink together.

Yuan Heng was ordered to come to the wine shop, glanced at everyone, and immediately placed it at Zhu Di's feet.

The other nine people laughed and said that Yuan Jue worshiped the wrong person, but Yuan Jue said very confidently that he was not mistaken.

Only then did Zhu Di believe that Yuan Heng's physiognomy was awesome, and summoned him to the palace to look at his appearance.

Yuan Heng looked at the captains and soldiers of the Yanwang Mansion and said that they would all be "princes and generals" in the future.

Yuan Heng said to Zhu Di again: "His Royal Highness King Yan walks with dragons and tigers, and the sun is inserted into the sky, which is the face of the emperor, and he can ascend the throne and sit in the palace." ”

Since then, Zhu Di has been very confident and often fantasizes about what he looks like as an emperor.

"Ordered by the sky, both longevity and eternal prosperity."

Yang Shiqi said slowly: "Heaven and earth are yellow, the universe is desolate, just ask this world, who would refuse the eight big characters on the jade seal of the country?" ”

Zhu Di's voice came from behind him: "The jade seal of the country has been lost for hundreds of years. ”

Qin Shi Huang destroyed the six countries to unify the world, called the emperor, and cast a jade seal to pass on the country.

After the Qin Dynasty, the emperors of all dynasties worshipped this seal as a treasure and regarded it as an important weapon of the country.

If you get it, it symbolizes that it is "ordered by the sky", and if you lose it, it shows that its "qi has been exhausted".

The jade seal of the country has become the evidence of the orthodox emperors of China.

The last time the jade seal of the country appeared in the Later Tang Dynasty, the late Tang Dynasty Emperor Li Congkeju and the Empress Dowager Cao set themselves on fire in the Xuanwu Tower in Luoyang, and the jade seal disappeared.

However, as everyone knows, ordinary fires cannot destroy jade, and people firmly believe that the jade seal of the country has not been destroyed.

After the founding of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, began to look for the jade seal of the country.

He was a usurper, and he desperately wanted to pass on the jade seal to prove his legitimacy.

It didn't work.

By the time of Song Zhezong, the seventh emperor of the Song Dynasty, a farmer found the seal of the country while plowing the field and sent it to the imperial court.

According to the records of the previous dynasty, thirteen scholars determined that it was the jade seal of the first emperor.

And many people of insight in the government and the opposition suspect that it is fake.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when Emperor Shun fled north, he took the jade seal with him.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought that the jade seal of the country was in Emperor Yuan Shun, so he sent Xu Da deep into Mobei and chased after the Northern Yuan, but he still didn't find it.

Later, Lan Yu served the Northern Yuan Khan's court in a pot in the fishing sea, captured three thousand princes and nobles, and a large number of various treasures.

But the jade seal of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty has not been found, let alone the jade seal of the country.

Zhu Yuanzhang was very disappointed and listed this as a major regret in his life.

But some time ago, the leader of Warat, Mahamu, suddenly said that the jade seal of the country was in his place!