Chapter 28: Father's Tenderness
[After that, the emperor ordered that all government affairs of Shuntianfu should be asked to you for instructions. This means that your rights and status have been greatly improved, and you have truly become a vassal king of the "first rank of the Son of Heaven", only one level shorter than the emperor. If the crown prince does not supervise the country, his actual power is not as great as yours. γ
Zhu Di's dragon face was slightly moved, among the three sons, his favorite was the third king Zhao.
Not only because the third child looks like the late Queen Xu, but also because the third child is smart and wise, knows what to do, what to do, and how to please his father.
Because, the dragon grace that Zhu Di gave to King Zhao was no less than that of the prince and the king of Han.
It's just that with the deduction of time, the third child also began to be restless.
[Because the sky is high and the emperor is far away, coupled with the emperor's consistent favor and connivance. Gradually, you can't hold it back, and you often do nonsense, making the city stormy. γ
[In the seventh year of Yongle, the emperor was furious after learning that you were often lawless, killed your palace chief, stripped you of the prince's crown clothes, and prepared to punish him severely. γ
[At this time, the crown prince Zhu Gaochi stood up to intercede for you, and the emperor bypassed you. γ
[In the nineteenth year of Yongle, the emperor moved the capital to Shuntianfu, which is not a good thing for you, because your power has been reduced because of this. γ
Zhu Di's face froze, at this time, there were only three years left before his death.
In the simulation of the prince's identity as an emperor, it is not explained what happened to Zhu Gaosui later.
In the simulation of the identity of the emperor of the Han Dynasty, Zhu Gaoxian had a miserable ending and was imprisoned to death by his second brother.
Zhu Di now wants to see if King Zhao can die well.
[In the twenty-first year of Yongle, the emperor was seriously ill and rarely went to the court to govern, and the king of Han had already been sent to the fiefdom. Seeing that the power of the court is gradually gathering in the hands of the crown prince, you are unwilling and begin to become ready to move. γ
Zhu Di chuckled in his heart.
Damn, the third child is going to make trouble.
[The eunuchs around the emperor, such as Huang Yan and others, have always been anti-prince, at first they were the emperor's pawns to suppress the prince, and later became the tool of the Han king to attack the prince, now the emperor is seriously ill, the Han king was driven away from the capital, Huang Yan, this group of eunuchs for the future survival, secretly took refuge in you. γ
[In order for you to replace Zhu Gaochi and earn the merit of support, Huang Yan's group of eunuchs first slandered in front of the emperor, and then spread rumors in the palace, saying that the emperor intends to replace the crown prince. γ
[All this is to prepare for the usurpation of power. γ
[When the time comes, the two forces under your command, one is the palace official represented by Huang Yan, and the other is the royal palace cronies represented by the guard officer Meng Xian, and finally conspired together. γ
[You decided to buy off the service staff around the emperor, take advantage of the emperor's serious illness to poison the medicine, and when the emperor is poisoned, send troops to rob the weapons and treasure seals of the inner government, and then divide the troops to arrest the ministers of the five provinces and six departments; Forge the edict and hand it over to the adopted son of the eunuch Yang Qing in the palace to keep it, and when the time comes, he will receive this edict from the inner palace with the imperial treasure, abolish the crown prince Zhu Gaochi, and set you up as the Ming Emperor. γ
[For this reason, because you also colluded with Wang Zhucheng, an official of the Qin Heavenly Prison, and let him deceive the world after the matter was completed, so that this conspiracy could not be disobeyed by heaven. γ
Zhu Di took a deep breath, and almost couldn't help but blurt out a sentence of "is it drafted?"
The third child is not a good thing either!
This guy actually wants to kill his father and rebel!
Unfilial son!
It's all a rebel!
As for whether the third child will succeed in his rebellion, Zhu Di scoffed.
Still too young.
Looking at the coup plot carried out by King Zhao, it is still quite tight. From the perspective of the participants, there are close eunuchs around Zhu Di, escort troops, and Qin Tianjian officials in charge of celestial phenomena, and the organization is very tight; Judging from the timing chosen, Zhu Di was already seriously ill at this time and was almost isolated from the outside world, which was an excellent time for a palace coup.
However, if you have an in-depth understanding of the court system of the Ming Dynasty and carefully scrutinize the details of the coup d'Γ©tat, you will find that this coup plot is actually very crude and cannot succeed at all.
First: A key part of this conspiracy is to poison Zhu Di. Daming Palace, the emperor is sick, generally by the imperial doctor in the hospital and the eunuchs who are proficient in medical Taoism are jointly responsible for the treatment, from the treatment plan to the prescription, must be repeatedly considered, strictly controlled, and more importantly, even if the emperor takes the medicine in triplicate, the imperial doctor who prescribes the medicine and the official eunuch who handles it must taste the medicine first, and they drink it without hindrance, and the emperor will take it. If the prescription is wrong, the imperial physician and eunuch will be executed or even exterminated.
One of the masterminds of the coup, the eunuch Huang Yan, although he is Zhu Di's cronies, it is almost impossible for him to control the entire chain of poisoning. In other words, when the entire palace was still in the hands of Zhu Di, it was extremely unlikely that the eunuch wanted to poison him.
Second: The weapons of the Ming Imperial City are stored in the War Bureau, the Ordnance Bureau and other departments, they are all important institutions controlled by the inner government and the imperial court, if you want to receive weapons from them, you must hold the emperor's order, and the military war bureau and other military important places have always been heavily guarded.
In their conspiracy plan, this link was to be robbed by sending troops, but with only the little guard force in the hands of King Zhao, it was tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg.
Thirdly, stealing runes is also an impossible task. The treasure seal of the Ming Emperor is under the joint control of Shang Bao Si, Shang Bao Jian and Si Bao female officials, of which Shang Bao Si is a court institution, responsible for collecting and managing various talismans and stamping the treasure seal; Shang Bao Jian is a supervision bureau of the eunuchs of the inner government, responsible for participating in and supervising the official procedures of Shang Bao Si after verifying the documents, stamping the treasure seal for the edict and keeping the back book for the record; And all the emperor's treasure seals are all stored and kept by the female officials in the palace.
It is very difficult for Huang Yan and his gang to destroy this management system of triple control and snatch the treasure seal from the female official Si Bao.
Fourth: stealing talismans, that is, getting all kinds of passes to enter and exit the palace, is also difficult to achieve. The imperial court is very strict in the management of all kinds of talismans, the imperial court has Shang Bao Division, the inner government has Shang Bao Jian and Yin Shou Supervisor, and the internal and external three institutions jointly control these talismans. Falsification is even more impossible, as all types of talismans have time limits, ranges, and identity restrictions.
King Zhao underestimated Zhu Di too much, and he overestimated himself too much.
Perhaps because the emperor was critically ill at that time, King Zhao was impatient and lost his mind by the throne.
The allure of the throne is something that no one can resist.
[Changshanzhong Guard General Banner Wang Yu is the nephew of Meng Xian, the commander of the Zhao Wangfu Guard, who participated in the conspiracy, after learning of this, Wang Yu's dissuasion was ineffective, and he was afraid of being implicated, so he immediately sued the emperor. Soon, Meng Xian was arrested, got a false edict, ambushed, and Wang Yu was promoted to Liaohaiwei Qianhu. γ
[The conspiracy was revealed, the emperor called you over, and asked with a gloomy face: "Third child, did you do this?" βγ
[You are so frightened that you can't speak, how dare you admit it. γ
[Fortunately, at this time, the prince came forward to defend you: "This is what the subordinate did, and my brother must not know. βγ
[The emperor knew that you did this, but he still chose to believe the prince's words. γ
For if he chooses not to believe, you will die. γ
[This is the last tenderness that a father left to his son before he died. γ