"The minister suggested, first cut the kings of Zhou, Xiang and other kings, and then cut the king of Yan when the vassals were all cut!"

Huang Zicheng said this for his own reasons.

He believed that the king of Zhou was the younger brother of the king of Yan, and once the king of Yan raised an army, the king of Zhou would rebel.

And the rest of the vassal kings, although not as related to the king of Yan as the king of Zhou, but the cutting of the feudal domain is a threat to their root, once the Yan domain raises troops, it may lead to a chain reaction, so cutting the kings first is equivalent to cutting off the wings of the king of Yan.

And King Yan is afraid of the name of the righteousness of the court, and he will not dare to raise troops, and when the vassals are cut down, even if King Yan wants to rebel, at this time, the court will be overwhelmed by millions of troops, and he will be alone and lacking skills.

But Yan Ji immediately objected.

He believes that King Yan is powerful, and it is the henchmen of the imperial court, if he cuts other kings first, then King Yan must be on guard, so he will undoubtedly give him time to prepare. It is necessary to take down the king of Yan first with lightning speed, so that the kings and dragons have no leader, so that they can successfully cut the domain.

His confidants and important ministers had different opinions, and the young Zhu Yunwen was a little undecided.

So he asked the other ministers for their opinions.

Fang Xiaoru chose Huang Zicheng.

Everyone's eyes looked at the last Wu Bozong.

Wu Bozong glanced at Yan Ji, and a smile tugged at the corner of his mouth.

"The minister thinks that the kings should be cut first, and then the Yan Domain."

Three to one, Zhu Yunwen had an idea.

Abolish the kings first, and then cut the king of Yan.

Then the matter of cutting the feudal domain has been discussed, and Emperor Jianwen will order the ministers to return.

At this time, Fang Xiaoru seemed to remember something again, and he proposed to move the capital.

Fang Xiaoru is upright and has a strong interest in tradition. He admired the ancient system very much, hoped to restore the ancient official position, and even said in person that he hoped to restore the well field system.

The restoration of the capital of Chang'an has a great attraction to him, and this is based on evidence, Taizong and Xingzong, don't they both want to move the capital?

However, as soon as he put forward this proposal, he was immediately obstructed by Yan Ji, and several other ministers also expressed their opposition one after another.

Without him, the nine strongest of the vassal kings are all in the borderlands.

Now that you have moved the capital, won't you run away to the other party's lair by yourself?

Therefore, it was decided to still take Nanjing as the capital, and then move the capital after the end of the feudal reduction.

However, Zhu Yunwen still named Xi'an as Xijing, standing side by side with Nanjing Yingtian, Beijing Kaifeng, and Zhongdu Fengyang.

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In March of the first year of Jianwen, the cutting of the feudal domain officially began.

Zhu Yunwen synthesized the opinions of the cabinet ministers and first chose a persimmon that was neither soft nor hard.

He sent Qi Tai north to take over the military power in Shanxi.

The new King of Jin does not have the prestige and means of the old King of Jin, he can't control the more than 100,000 troops in Shanxi, at this time his military power has gradually begun to fall, and only the Taiyuan Sanwei subordinate to the King of Jin can be mobilized.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Qi Tai arrived in Shanxi, and he was appointed by Zhu Yunwen as the commander of the Shanxi Capital Division and the Shanxi Xingdu Division.

And Zhu Yunwen, after learning that Qi Tai had taken control of the power of Shanxi, immediately showed a hideous face.

In May of the first year of Jianwen, Qi Tai arrived in Taiyuan, mobilized his Taiyuan garrison troops that had obeyed his orders with lightning speed, broke through the palace and captured the king of Jin before the three guards could react, and at the same time immediately sent troops to surround the three guards of the king of Jin and seize their command.

Since the son of Jin himself had no bad deeds, Zhu Yunwen counted his father's evil deeds and announced them to the world.

King Zhu Li of Jin is brutal, second only to King Qin, and he is naturally looking for a lot of black material.

So Emperor Jianwen immediately ordered to abolish the king of Jin as a concubine and confined him in Fengyang.

Poor King Jin was fine in the original history, but because of his father's early death, he became the best bully among the King of Sai, and was used by Zhu Yunwen to sacrifice the flag.

The deposition of the king of Jin opened the prelude to the reduction of the feudal domain by Jianwen.

The second person to suffer was the king of Zhou.

King Zhou, in fact, is the king of Xian.

He is studious and can write words, and has written 100 chapters of "Yuan Gong Ci"; He once went to the people and understood the suffering of the people, so he used the power of his vassal king to organize doctors and painters to compile "Baosheng Yulu" and "Pocket Prescription"; He also set aside an area in the palace for planting and researching plants that can save the famine, comparable to Li Shizhen.

But Jianwen doesn't care about this, he only knows that King Zhou is the brother of King Yan, and he is close to each other, once King Yan raises troops, King Zhou will also cause trouble.

So Zhu Youjiao, the second son of Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, reported to the court that his father was plotting against him, recruited soldiers privately, and often said some rebellious things in the room.

The day after Zhu Youjiao's recital was issued, Li Jinglong led his army to raid Kaifeng and arrested the old doctor who was repairing the book to Jingshi.

Zhu Yunwen was not polite at all, abolished his uncle as a concubine, and relegated him to the border of Yunnan.

The kings seemed to have rebelled in a pile, and at the same time that the king of Zhou was deposed, someone accused Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang, of forging treasure money and plotting to rebel, and Zhu Yunwen sent someone to arrest him again.

The king of Hunan was unyielding, and the horse died in the flames, and there was no child in the country.

For a time, the kings of the world were all cold.

In May and January, three kings were cut in a row.

Yan Ji persuaded Zhu Yunwen that he could slow down a little, but Fang Xiaoru and Huang Zicheng thought that they should fight quickly, and if it dragged on for a long time, they would inevitably give the vassal kings time to prepare, that is, to take advantage of their failure to react, and immediately take down all the vassal kings who threatened the imperial power.

And Zhu Yunwen also relieved himself after sending someone to find out the movements in Beiping and learning that King Yan did not act abnormally.

He felt that King Yan was stabilized by himself.

So not only did he not stop cutting the feudal domain, but he also intensified it and continued to vigorously cut the feudal domain.

And Zhu Di also took advantage of this opportunity to quietly accumulate his strength.

He saw that the kings' dissatisfaction with Zhu Yunwen had become more and more prosperous. Originally, he was not the canonized imperial grandson, and now he waved a butcher's knife at his uncles.

Dissatisfaction is growing.

It was also at this time that Zhu Yuanzhang's death day arrived.

But Jianwen has just started to kill, not to mention Zhu Di, even the other vassal kings don't dare to go! I'm afraid that there will be no return. So they complained one by one, some sent a few concubines to go, and some simply didn't even send a son to learn from Zhu Di.

So Fang Xiaoru took the opportunity to play and impeach the vassal kings for being unfilial, which gave Zhu Yunwen the truth.

In June, the king of Qi was deposed and sent to Liaodong to garrison the border.

This is not wronged, King Qi can be called the most brutal one below King Qin and King Jin.

But in the eyes of many clans, it is the death of a rabbit and a fox.

The eyes of all the feudal clans were focused on King Yan.

However, what everyone didn't expect was that it was not King Yan who was the first to raise troops.

It's the acting king.

(End of chapter)