Chapter 294: Emperor Hengjing: Great luck and prosperity, my way is not alone!

The things of the world, the consideration is detailed, the power of action, the plan lies in the public, and the judgment lies in the independence.

["The snow presses the bamboo branches low, although they are not low enough to touch the mud. The red sunrise of the Ming Dynasty is still with the clouds." 】

[You whispered: "The first emperor left an edict before his death, the respect of our dynasty, beyond the ancient times, its control of the north and the south of the island, the Western Ocean, the courtesy, the Han family, the Tang alliance, the Song Dynasty, the year's coins, and the brother of the enemy. I and Yongle Huiyao inherited the throne, and now it has been forty years, I know that the end is approaching, the way of heaven has changed my life, after my death, you do not have to grieve, do not have to remember, I hope that you will inherit my will, so that I will be evergreen!" 】

[Hearing this, the prince, Yu Qian, and Zhang Muzhi all looked moved, and said in a mournful voice: "Your Majesty!" 】

[You waved your hand and said, "No need to say it again, Yu Qian, take a pen and paper, I say, you write." 】

[Helpless, Yu Qian could only follow the holy order, take the holy decree and pen and ink, and prepare to write the edict. 】

[You thought for a moment, and said slowly: "I am a Feide, inheriting the great cause of my ancestors, and I have been in the world for 40 years. Now that the sickness is dying, the common sense of life and death, although the wisdom cannot be disobeyed, and the succession to win the people, what is the regret." 】

[You glanced at the two countries, and said with relief: "The eldest son, the crown prince, Zhan Yan, is smart and dreamy, and is naturally natural, and is suitable for the throne of the emperor. 】

[The two countries are the heirs you have cultivated for more than 40 years, Yongle Dynasty was named the emperor's grandson, Hengjing was named the crown prince in the first year, the talent is unheard of, not only can govern the country, but also can command ten thousand armies, Wen Cheng Wu, entrust the empire to him, you can sleep in peace. 】

[Finally, you said leisurely: "I have taken the spirit of the emperor from the heavens, and I have descended to see the view, and I have completed my aspirations. The funeral is still systematic, with the day changing the month, the 27th is released, the mother forbids folk music to marry, the clan and the prince of the county are re-sent, and they cannot leave the closed city, and the governor of the town guards the capital cloth according to the local relationship of the three officials, and they are not allowed to leave their duties without permission, and on the day of the funeral, they will stop crying in this place for three days, and the officials will be sent to the incense on their behalf, and the local officials of the prefecture and county of the guard will be exempted from entering the incense, and the edict will be known to the Chinese and foreign envoys." 】

"Chin." 】

[You looked at Yu Qian: "Yu Qian, are you done?" 】

[After Yu Qian finished writing the holy decree, he had already burst into tears, he wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes with his sleeve, and presented the holy decree: "Please review it for Your Majesty." 】

[You received the decree and wrote it in ink and pen throughout, straight from right to left, without missing a word. 】

[You raised your hand, and the two countries understood their father's intentions, and respectfully presented the jade seal on the dragon eucalyptus. 】

[You took the jade seal, but you felt a little struggling, your arm couldn't help shaking, and you couldn't help but laugh bitterly. 】

[When you were young, you could hold a ten-stone bow with these arms, and you could race against the flying general Li Guang, and your arms could walk a horse, but now you feel a little out of strength even when you lift the jade seal. 】

[Fortunately, in the end, you still put the seal of the jade seal firmly in the middle of the holy decree and the seam of the paper, looking at the eight seal characters on it, "Ordered by the sky, both longevity and eternal prosperity", you breathed a sigh of relief. 】

[On the holy decree in front of you, it seems that the long river of time flows, and the picture of the marquee flashes like a mirror, from you being named King Qi, to being named the crown prince later, and then to inheriting the throne, again and again, pro-conquest, expanding territory, governing the country and the people, there are countless people around you to follow, and countless people have left, only you have come to the end of this road......]

[You can't help but whisper: "The son of heaven, inherit the way of heaven, and govern all directions."] 】

["Great luck and prosperity, my way is not alone!" 】

[After that, you closed your eyes, and your arms hung down slightly, but they were always on top of the jade seal. 】

["Your Majesty!" 】

[Everyone knelt on the ground and wept bitterly, they knew that this generation of emperors who had no ancestors before and no one after them would never open their eyes again, and the Ming Dynasty would forever lose their most respected and noble Emperor Hengjing. 】

[Emperor Hengjing, the dragon returns to the sky! ] 】

[On the twenty-fourth day of June in the 40th year of Hengjing, the emperor collapsed in the Qianqing Palace, and there were two in his seventies. Twenty-nine, the burial of the mausoleum, said Emperor Wu. 】

[However, on the temple number, the ministers had a disagreement with the new emperor. 】

[The new emperor thinks, the first emperor

Emperor Hengjing should use "Shizu", and the ministers felt that they should use "Holy Ancestor". 】

[The founding emperor is the ancestor, and the successor monarch has the ability to govern the country. However, there is another situation, which can be named "ancestor" - with the creation of dynastic history. 】

[For example, after the fall of the Western Han Dynasty, the clan Liu Xiu restored the country and established the Eastern Han Dynasty, so the temple number is Shizu; Or bring the dynasty into a new historical period, that is to say, the dynasty was originally a separatist regime, and there was no great unification, and after the founding emperor, someone unified it, so that the secession regime transitioned into a great unified regime, and it can also be called an ancestor, such as Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty. 】

[And the first emperor, in any case, should be called "ancestor", in this regard, the ministers and the new emperor agreed, and they disputed the word added in front of "ancestor". 】

[Called the good endowment is simply said to be sacred, and the courtesy is said to be sacred. The temple name Holy Ancestor is a very high evaluation, and no emperor has ever been able to add the "Holy Ancestor" temple name in all dynasties. 】

[Tang Shengzu Li Er and Song Shengzu Zhao Xuanlang are mythological figures, not emperors, and the monarchs of the Tang and Song dynasties added gold to their faces and recognize their ancestors. 】

[As for the Prince Jin of Shu Shengzu, Dachang and the National Saint Ancestor Zheng Maihei, Silla Holy Ancestor Jindeman, etc., they are all monarch temple names of secession regimes or vassal countries, and their influence is too small. 】

[Emperor Hengjing, the first emperor, is undoubtedly the only emperor who can add a holy ancestor! ] 】

[But the new emperor felt that the Holy Ancestor was not suitable, because the first emperor said before his death that he didn't like the temple name "Holy Ancestor", if he used the Holy Ancestor, wouldn't it make the first emperor not be at peace under the Nine Springs? 】

Zhu Di was a little puzzled at this time, he was a little puzzled, why didn't Zhu Gaoxian like the temple number of the Holy Ancestor?

He wished that he would hang a temple number of "Holy Ancestor" after death, after all, the gold content of this temple number is too high, and it can be called one of the most prestigious temple names.

It's just that Zhu Di thought about it and gave up the idea of hanging a holy ancestor's temple number for himself, after all, this is too shameless.

If he is the founding emperor, then he is naturally worthy of the temple name of the Holy Ancestor with his merits, but he is not the founding emperor, there is also a Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Yunwen above his head, it is not realistic to add an "ancestor" to himself, if it is a "Holy Ancestor", it will be even more ridiculous.

Zhu Di felt that the temple name of Taizong was quite suitable for him.

If you insist on adding the number of the Holy Ancestor Temple to yourself, it will be a bit ridiculous and generous, and you will be humiliated.

However, Zhu Gaoxian, a cub, is obviously qualified to be a holy ancestor, but he is not uncommon.

Why is that?

[The new emperor thinks that it is best to use the temple name of Shizu, which is used to praise emperors who are not the founding monarchs but have extremely high achievements, such as Shang Shizu Pangeng, Han Shizu Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu, Wei Shizu Wen Emperor Cao Pi, Yuan Shizu Kublai Khan, ......]

[The ministers were speechless after listening to this explanation, and felt that the first emperor had already returned to heaven, and he couldn't care about the affairs of the mortal world, so why bother holding on to it. 】

[In the end, under the insistence of the new emperor and the strong support of Yu Qian, the head of the cabinet, the temple name of the first emperor was set as "Shizu", that is, "Emperor Shizuwu". 】

[Later generations praised and said: Emperor Shizuwu, Gao Xian, the fourth son of Taizong, and the descendant of Empress Renxiao Xu. Less and smarter, able to endure what ordinary people can't bear, gather soldiers in Dacheng, heroic and strategic, ancient and modern. Shizu repeatedly marched westward, opened up 25,000 miles, destroyed more than 10 large countries, hundreds of small countries, and accepted the Western Ocean in China, which is an immortal achievement. The tax system, the official system, and the military system were changed, and then the whole country was united and obeyed the orders of the imperial court. For 5,000 years, only the Qin Emperor can be compared with the ancestors, and the world is big, all of which are Ming land. 】

[End of simulation.] 】

Zhu Di was silent for a long time before he scolded with a smile: "How can the stinky boy be so capable, juxtaposed with you, and compare Lao Tzu to me."

It is true that in the simulation, the brilliance of Emperor Hengjing was too dazzling, so dazzling that the light emitted by other emperors seemed weak.

The temple number of "Shizu" has already overpowered Zhu Di.

The ancestors are meritorious and the ancestors are virtuous, the ancestors are in front of the ancestors, Zhu Di's "Taizong" is certainly an excellent temple name, but compared with the "ancestors", it is still slightly inferior.

Not to mention, if not

It's because he doesn't want to, his temple number can be mentioned again and become a "Holy Ancestor"!

Zhu Di smiled to himself: "What about the ancestor, what about the holy ancestor, isn't it still my Zhu Di's son."

……

"Ahh

Under the high walls of the East Palace, Zhu Gaoxian couldn't help but sneeze several times, he touched his nose, and muttered, "Damn, which king and eight calves are especially nagging for me."

"Who dares to talk about your Highness."

Su Wu said with a smile.

"Maybe here, there are not many people who dare to scold me, and there are countless behind my back. The higher I stand, the more people I will offend, and those who want to kill me, those I want to kill, are as many as the sand in Mobei."

Zhu Gaoxian picked up a file from the eucalyptus and threw it to the other party. "You see, not long after Shen Qingyu took office, Jinyiwei went up and down as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, and he captured a group of second-class dealers who bought and sold illicit salt, and he really caught a big melon."

Su Wu took the file and flipped through it, and said with a smile: "This Shen Qingyu is also a talent, it has only been a few months since he took over the Jinyi Guard, and he can already do the same thing, yes, His Highness's eyes on people are still as sharp as ever."

Zhu Gaoxian sneered: "You bastard boy, this technique of changing the topic is becoming more and more proficient, I told you that I caught a big fish, you told me Shen Qingyu?"

Su Wu said innocently, "Maybe it is Shen Qingyu who catches this big fish, and it is to be rewarded."

Zhu Gaoxian said with calm eyes: "I won't talk about Shen Qingyu's own problems first, I'll ask you, there is a black smoke miasma hidden under this private salt, so you have nothing to say?"

Seeing that His Royal Highness was so serious, Su Wu knew that he couldn't get around.

He sighed and said, "In all dynasties and dynasties, this kind of thing is unavoidable, the superiors all turn a blind eye, kill flies and let go of tigers, if they are serious, they will hurt others and themselves."

"Really?"

Zhu Gaoxian opened the file and said all the names on it, "It is indeed a tiger, buying extremely high-quality high-quality salt from the two salt springs of Wuxi County and Pengshui County, and exporting it to Qinchu, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Yunnan and Guizhou. Su Wu, you are the imperial history of Zuodu, and this matter is said to have a relationship between your capital procuratorate and cannot be cleaned, what do you say should be done?"

Su Wu smiled bitterly: "That's still the old rule, let the Tax Inspectorate take over this matter, and levy a black tax on the personnel involved in the tax system according to the tax system, which will be regarded as increasing revenue for the treasury."

"Do you think the money from the black tax is important, or is it the people involved in the black tax that are important to me?"

"Those people matter."

Zhu Gaoxian shook his head.

Su Wu asked tentatively, "It can't be money, right?"

Zhu Gaoxian shook his head again.

Su Wu thought for a moment and sighed, "Those people are still important."

Zhu Gaoxian said in a deep voice: "Without those people, it is very important to me."

Behind this matter, it is not only as simple as a few salt patrols of Zhengqipin, but also involves the inspection department, the metropolitan inspection department, the two Huai, the two Zhejiang, Changlu and other transportation divisions."

This is not over, these are just small fish, just in the list found out by Jinyiwei, there are Gao Zheng, the commander of the guards in Chengdu, Gu Cheng, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, and even the King of Valley, the King of Shu, and even the Gan Wangfu in Jiangxi have colluded!"

Su Wu smiled bitterly and said, "This is also an unavoidable thing, like the King of Gan in Jiangxi, he must not have the heart to mix in the matter of reselling illicit salt, but it is inevitable that some of his subordinates will not be tempted to participate in it, and they can't kill the King of Gan Mansion because of this matter, right?"

"I know my eldest brother better than you, even if you let him die, he is not willing to do these things that violate discipline and endanger the country."

Zhu Gaoxian tapped his fingers on the tabletop, "But do you think I can let go of the people implicated in the Gan Wangfu because he can't do it?"

Su Wu asked, "What is Your Highness going to do?"

Zhu Gaoxian didn't speak, and stretched out a finger.

Su Wu asked tentatively, "Kill a hundred and make an example?

This is indeed a good way, kill one, so that the rest of the people do not dare to make any more moves. After all, there are too many people involved, and there are too many people who can't be killed.

You can't kill the clansmen of the Ming Dynasty because of this matter, right?

Zhu Gaoxian shook his head and said slowly, "Don't leave any of them, get rid of the evil!"

Su Wu was silent for a while and asked, "Your Highness, are you sure?"

The name of the person behind this private salt makes people's scalps tingle just by listening to it.

Even if His Majesty came, he would have to hesitate for a long time to look at these names, let alone leave one behind.

Zhu Gaoxian asked, "Su Wu, how old are you this year?"

Su Wu was stunned for a moment and said, "Twenty."

"Oh, twenty years old, still a very young boy."

Zhu Gaoxian nodded and did not continue to say anything.

This made Su Wu feel a little uncomfortable, he knew that His Highness had something to say, but the other party didn't say it, which made him feel a little unsure, but it was inconvenient to ask.

After a long time, Zhu Gaoxian picked up the teacup and asked vigorously:

"Young man, are you going to stop here?"

"In the twelfth year of Yongle, this is the first time we met, at that time you and your brother were in Nanjing, I don't know where to go tomorrow, but at that time you were full of confidence and high spirits."

"In just three years, you have gone from a beggar to a glamorous and beautiful minister of Beijing, but I can't see the vitality of a young man in you, I only see a self-styled Zuodu Yushi Su Zongxian."

"You don't have the courage to break free from the cage."