Chapter 55: A Very Different Choice

After the video was shared, the emperors returned to their places.

When Zhao Ji woke up, the little eunuch beside him reported to him about the situation outside, and at the same time, the protective cover outside Zhao Ji's bedroom also disappeared.

"Official!!"

"Official! Seeing that you are safe and sound, the ministers are relieved! ”

Zhao Ji's gaze roamed back and forth between the two groups of people who were a little tense, and in the end, he still stopped his gaze on Seed Master Dao and Li Gang.

"Chongqing, Li Qing!"

When Seed Master Dao and Li Gang were named by Zhao Ji, the bodies of the two of them shook slightly, and they hurriedly saluted: "The minister is here!" ”

"Chongqing, you command all the soldiers and horses in the current division of the Beijing Division, and Li Qing, you command all the armies of the foreign Qinwang, and you must block the attack of the Jurchens for me!"

Zhao Ji was rare for a while, and he didn't know if he was educated by Zhao Kuangyin, and suddenly opened his mind.

"The Ministers !! Orders"

After Zhao Ji finished arranging, Cai Jing cautiously asked, "Butler, what should I do with the stone monument outside that pretends to be a ghost and confuses the public?" ”

Cai Jing was named a traitor in the video, and he was very worried at the moment.

However, he still believes that the butler is still the butler, as long as he praises him and says something nice, he can still make him happy.

Who knows, this will Cai Jing miscalculated.

"That's not something to pretend to be a god or a fool. Do you know who I saw during my coma? Zhao Ji asked with a smile.

"Who?" Cai Jing and the others were confused, and they all said that you were unconscious, who else could you see??? Could it be someone you dream of?

A rare masculine and resolute expression appeared on Zhao Ji's face, and he said, "I have met Emperor Taizu!" ”

"Emperor Taizu?"

“???”

"Are you kidding? You can't help but go to the Netherworld."

Cai Jing and the others almost burst out laughing in their hearts, and even Li Gang and Seed Master Dao looked at each other, feeling that Zhao Ji's words were simply incredible.

"Humph! It's a pity that I didn't get the rune stone that the ancestors descended from, otherwise I should have summoned the ancestors to come out at this time and rectify this decaying Great Song Dynasty! ”

Although Zhao Ji's voice is still insufficient, with his identity as an emperor, it still sounds like a momentum.

"The Ancestors have descended?"

"Your Majesty. Have you really woken up? ”

“.”

Zhao Ji had already learned from the video and Zhao Gou about the tragic fate of himself and the Northern Song Dynasty in the future, and in order not to let himself end up as tragic as in history, he decided to leave Jingshi first, leaving Seed Master Dao and Li Gang to fight against the Jurchens.

I just don't know if Zhao Kuangyin will be angry when he knows Zhao Ji's current plans, he will travel through time and space angrily and beat him again.

On the other side, Zhu Youzhen, who returned to his own time and space, summoned Zhu Di as soon as he landed.

Why Zhu Di and not Zhu Yuanzhang?

Because Zhu Youzhen believes that Zhu Di is stronger than Zhu Yuanzhang in terms of knowing and employing people, which can be seen from Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di's choice of successors for themselves, as well as the assistants designated for the successors.

Zhu Yuanzhang's chosen heir at the beginning was the crown prince Zhu Biao, in fact, this choice was more correct.

Zhu Biao is benevolent, although his military and strategy are not as good as Zhu Di, but in peacetime, he should be a commendable benevolent monarch.

He can make up for Zhu Yuanzhang's excessive murderous characteristics, so that the court and the country can recuperate and recover.

This is also the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang chose Zhu Biao or even Zhu Yunwen instead of Zhu Di.

Unfortunately, however, the crown prince Zhu Biao died before Zhu Yuanzhang.

In desperation, Zhu Yuanzhang chose the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunwen as his heir, although Zhu Yunwen is also a benevolent and righteous person, but he is a junior after all, and it is difficult to suppress those emperors and uncles who hold military power on his own.

Therefore, the first thing Zhu Yunwen did after taking the throne was to cut the domain.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang specially selected the "sonorous trio" for Zhu Yunwen, although they all have certain specialties and advantages, but they are too detached from reality and even too idealistic.

Qi Tai was a jinshi in the Zhu Yuanzhang period, and Huang Zicheng was originally the champion, but he couldn't answer Zhu Yuanzhang's own date of birth because he was nervous, which led to being demoted to Tanhua.

Both of them were experts in Confucianism, and when it came to theoretical knowledge, it was a set.

And Fang Xiaoru is even more simple, his teacher is the university scholar Song Lian, who is also quite legendary, and was even hidden by Zhu Yuanzhang and reluctant to use it, and deliberately left it to the next emperor as "Zhuge Liang". Of course, Fang Xiaoru is still a lot worse than Zhuge Liang.

These three Confucian scholars were all upright, they were all good people, and their loyalty to Zhu Yunwen and the Ming Dynasty was impeccable.

It's just that they, like Zhu Yunwen, put themselves in the wrong position, since they are important ministers of the court, they shouldn't govern the country with academics all day long, it can only be a stupid thing that nerds can do.

Everyone must know what happened next,

With the assistance of these three "Sleeping Dragon and Phoenix Chicks" and "Tomb Tiger", Zhu Yunwen began a drastic cut.

In the end, Zhu Yunwen cut his throne, and the "sonorous trio" also cut himself.

However, these three people are also tough, and they are not worthy of the integrity of the readers.

After Qi Tai was arrested, he would rather die than give in, Zhu Di ordered him to be executed, his family was exterminated, and the only surviving 6-year-old son was sent to the frontier until the time of Ming Shizong. His daughters were even more pitiful, punished for generations as official prostitutes, and went to the barracks every day for the soldiers to have fun.

Huang Zicheng's fate is similar to Qi Tai's. After the Beijing division was breached, Zhu Di personally interrogated him, Huang Zicheng resisted to death and did not give in, and Zhu Di was angry and ordered him to be dismembered and died. Huang Zicheng's family was wiped out by the Nine Clans, and the surviving female dependents served as official prostitutes for generations.

And Fang Xiaoru is the worst.

Because he refused to surrender, and refused to draft an edict for Zhu Di, he was ashamed to say, "What about my ten clans?" ”

As a result, he was really exterminated by the Ten Clans, and Fang Xiaoru himself was executed by Zhu Di Lingchi.

It can be seen from here that Zhu Yuanzhang's selection of successors and assistants is somewhat inappropriate.

Zhu Yuanzhang's intentions were good, he hoped that the Ming would recuperate under the leadership of a benevolent monarch, but he ignored their defects that were detached from reality and too subjective and idealistic. On paper, this is actually a common problem for most readers.

Looking at Zhu Di's choice of heirs and the heir's assistants, we have to admire Zhu Di's vision.

Among Zhu Di's sons, the most likely to inherit the throne are the eldest son Zhu Gaochi and the second son Zhu Gaochu.

Although the eldest son is not in good health and has grown very fat, he is benevolent and the eldest son, and he is born with the advantage of the heir.

And the second son Zhu Gaochu is a copy of Zhu Di, very heroic, and has many wonderful performances in the Battle of Jingjing, Zhu Di has been wandering among the two, and I don't know which one is better to choose as the successor.

Later, when Zhu Di consulted the great talent Xie Jin's opinion, Xie Jin said a key point - "good saint grandson"!

It means that Zhu Gaochi has a good son Zhu Zhanji, which made Zhu Di make up his mind to make Zhu Gaochi the crown prince.

Facts have proved that Zhu Di's choice is very correct, although Zhu Gaochi and Zhu Zhanji, father and son, have not reigned for a long time, and they have only 11 years together, but they have created one of the prosperous eras in Chinese history, "the rule of Renxuan".

Of course, it would have been more perfect if Zhu Di hadn't said the sentence that made Zhu Gaoxu linger all the time, and even rebelled.

The think tank that Zhu Di equipped for his son and grandson is also three people, but these three people are much stronger than the three of Emperor Jianwen!

They are the famous "Three Yangs" in the history of the Ming Dynasty: Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong and Yang Pu.

The three of them were important cabinet ministers and went through four dynasties.

With their assistance, Zhu Gaochi successfully retained his position as the crown prince and ascended to the throne.

Zhu Zhanji, with the assistance of Sanyang, rectified the rule of officials, developed the economy, and brought the Ming Dynasty onto the road of rapid development.

(End of chapter)