Chapter 5: Cutting the Iron Curtain
"Rebellion?"
Zhu Gaoxu's eyes swirled in circles.
Rao was so cunning that he didn't figure out what was going on for a while.
He dragged his subordinates over, his face turned hideous, and he asked viciously:
"What the hell is going on? Make it clear to the king! As he spoke, the knife had been pressed against his neck.
The soldier was about to be frightened, and immediately stumbled and told him the news that Zhu Zhanji's troops in the north of Zhili, including the Son of Heaven's pro-army and the elite three elite battalions of the elite, a total of 200,000 troops, were slaughtered to Le'an Prefecture in Shandong.
The reason is that the King of Han sent someone to secretly communicate with Chen Guogong, and his intention to rebel was exposed.
After listening to Zhu Gaoxu, he only felt that the world was spinning for a while.
This is a great crime of treason! As an old man who came from that time with Zhu Di, of course he knew how difficult it was to deal with a court in its heyday.
At that time, he commanded more than 100,000 troops in Beizhi, and the eight kings jointly raised things, all of which wasted a lot of effort and were under huge pressure. If it weren't for the fact that Feng Sheng and Fu Youde of the Southern Army had no fighting spirit, and Li Jinglong was obviously not Zhu Di's opponent, it would be impossible for them to win more with less again and again until they came to the Beijing Division.
What now? I only have three guards and a few thousand people, and Le'an is such a small city, against Zhu Zhanji's 200,000 people, it is equivalent to fighting the big boss just out of the novice village......
It's just ten deaths!
As for why he "rebelled" inexplicably, with his cleverness, he naturally figured out the reason in a moment.
Zhu Gaoxu could only grit his teeth and say:
"Big nephew, you are so ruthless!"
Now that I've been cornered, even if I don't want to go back, I can only do it!
In October of the first year of Xuande, Zhu Gaoxu officially raised troops in Le'an Prefecture, controlled the whole city, and put officials under house arrest.
Rumors, just like that, turned into reality.
……
Since there has been a rebellion, why don't you just make a fuss with him?
Zhu Gaochu originally had such an idea, but after looking at the map, in an instant, Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, became Zhu Gaoxu, a salted fish.
Beat? So what's the fight?
Relying on his thousands of guards, go to Qingzhou, where the city is high and deep, or Jinan?
Don't make a fuss, there are more defenders in both places than your own.
So, after the army set off from Beizhili and marched to the outside of Le'an City for half a month, Zhu Gaoxu's rebel army, without the slightest movement, watched the counterinsurgency army of the imperial court come to the city, and a group of black oppressors surrounded the city.
There is no need to even divide the main attack direction and the secondary attack direction, just such a small city, the Ming army can attack from all sides, and the number of siegers on each side is several times that of Zhu Gaoxu's men.
He sighed helplessly, this is still a fart!
Thousands to 200,000, Sun Wu reincarnated, I don't know if I can have a chance of winning, anyway, he can't.
Zhu Gaoxu ordered to prepare for surrender and said his final goodbyes to his relatives.
After all, most of the crimes of rebellion will not survive.
However, there are also those who don't know the current affairs, such as his subordinate Wang Bin told him that since he had already raised troops, he would rather die in battle than surrender.
I'll you!
It's not buddy, you're my subordinate, don't you know if I want to rebel or not?
So he pretended to be persuaded and returned to his headquarters.
Then he opened the side door and slipped out of the city.
"The ministers are guilty of ten thousand deaths, but Your Majesty lives!"
Labor and management are here, you can watch and do it.
The ridiculous Zhu Gaochu rebellion ended here, from the time Zhu Zhanji's army came to the city of Le'an, to Zhu Gaoxu's surrender, and the rebellion was put down, only two days.
And Zhu Zhanji also showed magnanimity that surprised everyone.
He actually pardoned Zhu Gaoxu's crimes!
After sending a little imperial historian named Yu Qian to scold Zhu Gaoxu, he let go of this Han prince.
Looking at him lying on the ground trembling, Zhu Zhanji knew that his uncle finally chose to give in the face of life and death. He was not trembling because of Yu Yushi's scolding, he was afraid of his imminent death, he was afraid of the imperial power that could easily put him to death.
Zhu Zhanji smiled with satisfaction, he knew that his uncle had broken his courage, and he would never be able to make waves again.
So he spared his life.
You can also spread the reputation of generosity, so why not?
However, the eloquence of this imperial history is also very good.
Zhu Zhanji thought so.
Perhaps it can be entrusted with a heavy responsibility.
However, the most important thing now is to take advantage of the aftermath of the rebellion of the Han King to quickly start cutting the feudal domain.
King Zhao received a letter from Emperor Xuande himself.
There are many impeachment chapters of the imperial history attached to it, and there is even "evidence of collusion between the king of Zhao and the king of Han", and Chen Shan, the secretary of the household department, even suggested that the emperor go to Zhangde (Zhao Wang Fengguo) to take the king of Zhao with him when he returned to the army.
Zhu Gaosui trembled like chaff in his mansion.
Fortunately, there are also words like "the nephew's heart, but there is no suspicion of both, and the wealth will be shared forever, unless there is him", which gave Zhu Gaosui hope.
He was a wise man who knew what he meant by this nephew.
In the first month of the second year of Xuande, King Zhao wrote and said:
"Thank Your Majesty for your magnanimity, forgive the sin of your minister's death, and recreate this grace."
"Your Majesty can tolerate the crimes of the minister, but the minister still retains a heavy army, and the minister is really afraid that people will not say anything."
"I would like to return the guards and herdsmen in the mountains to the imperial court, as well as the official schools of the honor guards, to thank Your Majesty for the virtue of preservation!"
Zhu Zhanji smiled with satisfaction, he finally achieved his goal, and the thousands of guards of King Zhao were all cut.
The next one is Zhu Jixi, the king of Jin.
For the same reason, colluding with King Han to rebel, the difference is that he is not Zhu Zhanji's third uncle.
In April of the second year of Xuande, the Jin clan was deposed again only 20 years after the reinstatement, Fengyang was placed under house arrest, and the three guards of Taiyuan returned to the court.
Then there is Zhu Zhiqi, the king of Qin, because Xi'an was set up as Xijing, so his fief was changed to Hanzhong Mansion, and he was also accused of participating in the rebellion of Zhu Shangwei, the king of Qin Mansion in the eighteenth year of Yongle, and there were more people around him who participated in the events of that year.
It's a bit nonsense, because it was already the fourth year of Xuande at that time, and it had been ten years since King Anding rebelled, but there was really one of King Qin's guards named Zhang Song who immediately reported that King Qin wanted to rebel.
The prince of the Ming Dynasty has no fools.
King Jin is still in Fengyang.
King Qin, who had a strong desire to survive, immediately wrote a letter, asking him to cut the three guards in Hanzhong, Xuande was polite, accepted the two guards, and symbolically left him a guard of less than a thousand people.
Then Chen Yi, the son of Pingjiang Bo Chen Xuan, wrote a book, saying that the Chu Wangfu was rich, the soldiers were strong and the horses were strong, and he was afraid of having different intentions.
The king of Chu immediately wrote to the two guards of Wuchang.
In six years, the king of Shu asked to cut the two guards in Chengdu.
And the kings who followed Zhu Di to raise troops back then were also inexplicably anti-minded and were impeached by the imperial historians.
They are all smart people, they know the trend of the times, and until now, except for King Jin, the rest of the people who are more conscious have all been heavily rewarded by the imperial court, and there is no shortage of wealth and nobility, and the heart of resistance is also light.
They also went to the book and resigned from their guards.
Until that day comes.
"King Su asks for the resignation of the two guards, leaving only one guard to listen!"
Xuande, who was sitting on the dragon chair, showed a comfortable smile.
Since then, starting from Emperor Jianwen, the first emperor committed suicide and several kings were placed under house arrest, and the curtain finally came down on the decades-long reduction of the feudal domain.
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