"It's Juntian again! He shouldn't have been given that power in the first place! ”

At the end of October, in the Wuying Hall in the capital, when Zhu Yunwen saw the Bohai intelligence sent by Liu Wu and the others, he slapped Song Shu on the table angrily.

In the hall, in addition to him, there are two people, Huang Zicheng and Li Quan.

"Your Majesty, don't be angry, the King of Bohai is just giving some small favors to the people, how can it be compared to the great favor of the imperial court?"

Huang Zicheng said eloquently: "Besides, the King of Bohai has paid such a high salary to his soldiers, and he uses grain and cultivated land to buy people's hearts, how much grain does Your Majesty think is needed?" ”

Without waiting for Zhu Yunwen to speak, Huang Zicheng continued: "I'm afraid it's a lot." ”

"Therefore, if Your Majesty wants to dismantle the King of Bohai, you only need to start with money and food."

"What does Mr. mean......" Zhu Yunwen said slowly: "Cut Bohai money and grain?" ”

"It's nothing!" Huang Zicheng was even more ruthless than Zhu Yunwen thought, and he also expounded his thoughts:

"If Bohai treats the people like this, their money and food will not be abundant."

"In addition, the land of Bohai has a long winter, and every year it takes the imperial court to arrive a batch of grain and grass before May to survive, so once the imperial court stops allocating grain and grass, I am afraid that more than 100,000 monarchs in Bohai can only endure hunger, how can they have the strength to oppose the imperial court?"

"The minister thinks that at the moment, he only needs to take Liu Wu and his soldiers as the internal response, and then wait for the spring of next year, when the soldiers and horses can be sent to enter Jilin City in the name of escorting grain and grass, and then raid the Bohai Palace!"

"At that time, there will be no food in the Bohai Sea, even if the King of Bohai has a rebellion, it will be difficult to resist......"

Huang Zicheng's sworn appearance made Zhu Yunwen interested, but he still knew very well that cutting the feudal domain must be dealt with in combination with military affairs, and the two were not proficient in military affairs, so he looked at Li Quan on the side: "Go and summon Cao Guogong and Mr. Qi." ”

"Yes......" Li Quan responded, and then sent someone to summon Li Jinglong and Qi Tai to come.

About two quarters of an hour passed, and Li Jinglong and Qi Tai, who were on duty in the Wulou and Wenhua Palace, appeared in the Wuying Palace.

I don't know if it was because of the forcible cutting of Zhou Fan as a concubine, Li Jinglong was a little thinner than two months ago.

In front of the two, Zhu Yunwen relayed Huang Zicheng's words just now to Li Jinglong and Qi Tai, wanting to know their opinions.

When he learned that Zhu Yunwen was going to cut Zhu Gaoxu, Li Jinglong was against it in his heart, so he said: "Your Majesty, the King of Bohai is outside the Guan, and he has a close relationship with the imperial court, and he has repeatedly made military exploits. ”

"If you want to cut the Bohai Sea, I'm afraid it will chill the border soldiers......"

This was the first time Li Jinglong had participated in the topic of cutting the domain, but his attitude made Zhu Yunwen not so happy.

"If it is cold, can Cao Guogong be sure that the future King of Bohai will not raise an army and cause the lives of Liaodong to be ruined?"

"Even if it can be guaranteed that the King of Bohai will not, can Cao Guogong be sure that the descendants of the King of Bohai will not?"

"It's the same thing about cutting the domain!"

Huang Zicheng opened his mouth and persuaded Li Jinglong: "For the meritorious king, the imperial court naturally has another set of methods. ”

"There are many palaces in Beijing, for example, the Zhou Palace, which can be cleaned up and repaired, and a plaque can be replaced for the king of Bohai County to live in."

"Of course, his age is rich, so he naturally needs to reduce it as appropriate, but presumably King Bohai can also understand the hardships of the imperial court."

After all, he is a Confucian student, and Huang Zicheng still has two brushes for his kung fu.

Li Jinglong naturally knew how to refute him, but when he caught a glimpse of Zhu Yunwen's expression, he couldn't resist the idea of refutation.

Seeing that Li Jinglong didn't speak, Qi Tai also stood up, but he didn't speak for Zhu Gaoxu, but explained his own opinion.

"Although the king of Bohai County has meritorious service to the court, he did violate the laws of the court, such as meeting the Jurchens of the Six Cities in private, and opening the mutual market without authorization, and exchanging iron and grain with the Jurchens, both of which are capital crimes."

"Reading his merits and exploiting his guards is already an extrajudicial favor, as long as he obeys Wang Hua, the court can still retain his title and salary, and let him live in the capital."

The matter of Zhu Gaoxu's opening of the mutual market in the Bohai Sea and meeting the Jurchens of the Six Cities had spread as early as the Hongwu period, and some people impeached him at that time, but Zhu Yuanzhang dismissed the dismissal, and also said that the outside of the customs was different from the inside of the customs, and he should act according to the laws of the Bohai Sea.

Now that Qi Tai is talking about this again, he obviously wants to tell Li Jinglong that now the world has changed, Hongwu has passed, and now it is Jianwen.

Li Jinglong heard the meaning of his words, so he did not continue to argue, and Huang Zicheng also said to Zhu Yunwen when he saw this:

"Your Majesty, the minister thought that after the winter, the edict ordered Wu Gao and Liu Zhen to lead the Liaodong soldiers and horses to guard 30,000 guards, and after the beginning of spring, they should enter Jilin under the pretext of transporting grain, and invite the king of Bohai County to go south to the capital."

"Just follow the gentleman's words." may have seen the military attachés' contempt for him from Li Jinglong, but this time Zhu Yunwen did not make any excuses, and responded directly.

Such a move made Li Jinglong sigh in his heart, and Zhu Yunwen continued: "There are still seven months before the beginning of spring in the Bohai Sea, in these seven months, will the imperial court just wait to cut the Bohai Sea and rest at other times?" ”

"Naturally, it won't be ......" Huang Zicheng continued to speak: "Cutting the Bohai Sea is nothing more than cutting off the arms of the Yan Domain, and in the arms of the Yan Domain, the King of Qi who fought with the King of Yan is too close to the canal, once the King of Yan moves, the King of Qi can quickly take down the water sub-warehouses of Dezhou, Linqing, Dongchang and other water stations. ”

"Therefore, if you want to start the Yan Domain, you must first start the Qi Domain."

"Taking advantage of the opportunity of the heavy snow in winter to close the mountains and isolate the inside and outside of the pass, the imperial court should start to cut the Qi domain before April, and at the same time, the minister watched the music of Qi Shangshu, so the minister thought that if he wanted to avoid the escape of King Yan, he should attack the Dai domain, so that the guard Fang Zhao could rest assured that he could be stationed in Huailai."

As soon as Huang Zicheng spoke, the two vassal kings were in trouble.

The acting king and the king of Qi have become stumbling blocks on the road for the imperial court to deal with the king of Yan, and these two people have been charged with a lot of crimes, and they are also famous for cutting the domain.

"The King of Qi has a military strategy, and he has prepared borders with the King of Yan several times, and the King of Dai is a brother with the King of Shu and the King of Valley, if they are cut down, will it cause turmoil?"

After cleaning up his mood, Zhu Yunwen began to worry about his reputation and the consequences of cutting the two of them.

It's just that for his words, Huang Zicheng said unhurriedly: "Seeing that the Zhou clan was cut, the feudal clans didn't dare to ask the court for three months, how could they dare to make trouble?" ”

"Besides, these two kings had a lot of lawlessness when Emperor Gao was alive, Your Majesty stood above the righteousness, how could he not cut the domain?"

Huang Zicheng said this, and Zhu Yunwen also bowed his head in approval, but Qi Tai and Li Jinglong frowned.

Qi Tai thought that Huang Zicheng was too anxious to cut the domain, and Li Jinglong felt that Zhu Yuanzhang had only collapsed for less than half a year and cut the three kings of the domain in one go, which was a bit excessive.

He naturally knew that many of Zhu Yuanzhang's many sons were very disagreeable, but he also had to talk about methods and steps.

Throughout the ages, there has never been such an urgent situation.

Qi Tai and Li Jinglong stopped speaking, and Zhu Yunwen saw this and instructed Huang Zicheng to deal with the matter of Qi and Dai Erfan.

After a short time, the three of them withdrew from the Wuying Palace.

In the same month, Zhu Yunwen continued to implement the new policy, and at the same time stipulated that if the whole family lived in Xingzhou, Yingzhou, and Kaiping to serve as a soldier, one person in the household should be put into the household.

In all the guards of the country, all those who have only sons serve as soldiers are released to the people.

After the implementation of this policy, coupled with the previous merger of states, counties, and health centers, the number of health centers in the country dropped sharply from 329 internal and external guards and 65 guards to 294 internal and external guards, 47 guards and 47 guards, and more than 100,000 guards were disbanded as people.

Speaking of real power, the position of civil officials is only mentioned to the extent of equality with military attachés, but since most of the civil officials are real power, in terms of power distribution, civilian officials have essentially overwhelmed the military generals, and the new policy seems to be balanced, but in fact it is a break of the balance.

In the same year, Zhu Yunwen once again exempted the world's arrears of taxes and arrears, and ordered the local government to take care of the old, weak, sick, disabled, widows, and lonely people, pay attention to agriculture and mulberry, build schools, and once again exempt and exempt the extremely heavy land taxes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Because most of the taxes in the Ming Dynasty were thirty taxes and one, and only Jiangsu and Zhejiang were twenty taxes and one tax, Zhu Yunwen reduced the taxes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang to twenty-five taxes and one.

When the time entered the first year of Jianwen, Zhu Yunwen posthumously called his father Emperor Xiaokang, and the temple name was Xingzong.

On the sixth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Yunwen honored his mother-in-law Chang as Empress Xiaokang, his biological mother Lu as the empress dowager, and his concubine Ma as the queen.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Yunwen again named his younger brother Zhu Yunxi as the king of Wu, Zhu Yunxi as the king of Heng, Zhu Yunxi as the king of Xu, and the emperor's eldest son Zhu Wenkui as the crown prince.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Yuxin, the head of the household department, went up again and asked Zhu Yunwen to stop the reduction of local officials.

Yu Xin believes that there are more than 1,400 counties in the Ming Dynasty, and the officials in each county have been calculated extremely accurately by Zhu Yuanzhang, which is just enough to manage, and too few officials will rely more on the local gentry, which will cause the hidden worry of local gate valve separation, so he believes that the policy of reducing officials is not suitable for implementation, but Zhu Yunwen has shelved it.

At the beginning of February, Zhu Yunwen further commuted his sentence and asked the judicial department to cut off the "Da Ming Law" and not allow it to be severe and severe.

In addition, the draconian "Great Edict" was quietly abolished.

It was just a cold winter, and many national policies during the Zhu Yuanzhang period were overthrown and rebuilt, and the entire Ming Dynasty fell into a strange calm.

In mid-February, after Zhu Yunwen confirmed that the feudal lords had no courage to rebel, he further reduced the feudal domains, and ordered the kings to no longer control the civil and military officials, and the civil and military officials were no longer allowed to submit to the vassal king.

After this was implemented, the superiors of the royal officials became the royal court from vassal kings, and in order to show their loyalty, many royal officials began to privately expose the faults of their royal highnesses.

At the end of February, the governor of the palace impeached the king for being cruel and unkind, using his fists and feet against the people, and wantonly beating the officials of the palace.

Hearing the news, Zhu Yunwen summoned the ministers to discuss in the Wuying Palace, but this time Li Jinglong was missing, obviously Li Jinglong's speech last time made him feel uncomfortable.

"Shi Wangmu, the acting head of the palace, I think you have already seen it, I don't know what you think?"

Zhu Yunwen asked knowingly, and the ministers of the six ministries also knew what the emperor meant, and Tyrant Zhao first stood up and said: "The vassal king is guilty of the same crime as the common people, and the minister asks His Majesty to punish the acting king." ”

"Ministers seconded the ......"

Storm Zhao stood up and took the lead in expressing his position, and the other six Shangshu, except for Yu Xin, also expressed their agreement.

Seeing this, Zhu Yunwen looked at Huang Zicheng, and when he saw Huang Zicheng slowly bowing his head, he said: "In this case, pass on my will, and order the acting king Zhu Gui to be abolished as a concubine and moved to Shu, so that Zhu Chun, the king of Shu, will be strictly guarded." ”

"......" Hearing Zhu Yunwen's words, many officials who had echoed it a second ago looked up in disbelief and looked at their colleagues on the left and right.

They can still understand that the king of Zhou was deposed, after all, Zhu Hu, the king of Zhou, left the fiefdom in private during the Hongwu period, and also met Feng Sheng in private, and the relationship with the emperor was not good during the Hongwu period, and it was normal to be deposed, but the acting king Zhu Gui only beat the civilians, and did not kill anyone, so he had to be deposed.

At this moment, many people regretted standing up and agreeing, but Zhu Yunwen felt that it was not enough, and took out another copy of the recital that had just arrived.

"Someone in Jingzhou impeached the King of Xiang for forging treasure money for pleasure, what do you think?"

He glanced at the ministers, but their faces were stunned.

The king of Xiang was not the kind of person who had ever sinned against the king of Zhou and the acting king, and since he became a vassal at the age of fourteen, he took care of the people internally and quelled the rebellion externally.

The three rebellions of Guzhou Barbarian were all led by him and Chu King Zhu Zhen to pacify, and the Wukai Barbarian Rebellion was also pacified by him.

The rebellion of the Mongol Yuan army surrendered by Huguang Changde was also because of Zhu Bai's courage and courage and proper command, and finally defeated the enemy soldiers and finally won a complete victory.

Even the first emperor repeatedly praised Zhu Bai, and then simply summoned him to the capital to offer condolences, and now suddenly someone said that Zhu Bai forged treasure money.

Not to mention whether this crime can be confirmed, just talking about such a thing, it will not let the ministers talk about it, after all, this is the emperor's family matter.

"The king of Xiang has merit, he should first thoroughly investigate this matter, and then discuss the crime......"

Even the previous indignant Tyrant Zhao behaved cautiously when facing this topic, which shows that Zhu Bai is indeed the representative of the virtuous king.

"The minister thinks it's ......" After Storm Zhao finished speaking, Huang Zicheng took the initiative to stand up and said: "The minister thinks that the forgery of the treasure money by the King of Xiang needs to be thoroughly investigated, but in order to be vigilant, he should still send troops to guard the imperial history." ”

"Send troops? Cannot! As soon as Yu Xin heard Huang Zicheng's words, he immediately retorted: "Since it is an investigation, it is enough to send an inspector of the imperial history, why send troops?" ”

"Huguang territory is uneasy, what's the problem with sending troops to protect the imperial history?" Huang Zicheng responded indifferently, and at the same time spoke: "Besides, the King of Xiang has more than 12,000 guards in his hands, so in case the King of Xiang moves, it is natural to send some soldiers." ”

"If he is really guilty, the king of Xiang will naturally follow the imperial history to Beijing to explain, but if he sends troops, how do the vassals view the imperial court?"

Yu Xin is still arguing with reason, but Zhu Yunwen no longer cares about this old minister, and he affirms Huang Zicheng's suggestion: "Since this is the case, send Yushi and select three thousand guards to escort him to Jingzhou." ”

Zhu Yunwen expressed his position, and he was more straightforward than Huang Zicheng.

Huang Zicheng only said that he would send troops, but he didn't say the number, but Zhu Yunwen opened his mouth with 3,000 soldiers and horses.

This posture is not like going to investigate the case, but more like going to arrest.

"In addition, Qingzhou officials impeached King Qi for attempting rebellion, Lanzhou officials impeached King Su for privately collecting Hami horses and hammering guards, and Yunnan officials impeached King Min for accepting Zhusi Yinxin and killing officials, what do you think?"

Zhu Yunwen did not wait for the ministers to react, and once again raised the question of the King of Qi, the King of Su, and the King of Min.

At this time, the ministers all understood that the emperor wanted someone to stand up and take the blame, and his own duke selflessly disposed of his uncle.

If this thing is done, the person who stands up will naturally have merit.

Perhaps the King of Qi had a problem with the King of Su and the King of Min, so this time many ministers were in favor of calling them back to the capital for interrogation.

Seeing the ministers like this, Zhu Yunwen also bowed his head and said, "Just do what you say." ”

In a few words, in less than a year after Zhu Yuanzhang's collapse, Zhu Yunwen once again raised the big knife to cut the domain, but this time he did not cut only one, but cut five in one go, one more than in history.

Without waiting for the news to spread, Geng Cheng, the imperial historian of the Imperial Procuratorate, led 3,000 soldiers to Jingzhou by boat, and the rest of Lanzhou, Yunnan, Qingzhou, and Datong each had officials with a small number of soldiers.

In mid-to-late March, when the mist of the Yangtze River filled Jingzhou City, Geng Cheng surrounded the Xiangwang Mansion with 3,000 soldiers.

Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang who was in the palace, heard the sound of armor, and he was practicing martial arts, he turned over and got off a white horse, handed the bow and arrow in his hand to the eunuch next to him, wiped his sweat and asked several hundred household officials beside him: "Why are there so many armor sounds?" It's not time for a shift change yet, is it? ”

Zhu Bai is handsome, his demeanor is very chic, and he likes white horses and white clothes, and he looks a little ethereal.

Seeing him ask, several officials of hundreds of households looked at each other, and for some reason, they could only send someone to inquire about the news.

It's just that before they could send someone to leave, they saw the Qianhu officials on duty in the palace hurrying over.

"Your Highness! Patrol Yu Shi Gengcheng led the troops to surround the palace! ”

The officials of the thousand households half-knelt, Zhu Bai's face was surprised when he heard this, and then he was angry: "A patrol imperial history dares to surround my royal city!" ”

After that, he took the left and right to the top of the royal city, and found the patrol Yu Shi Gengcheng outside the Chongli Gate.

Zhu Bai didn't know him, and he was not at fault, so he asked Geng Cheng: "Who sent you to my Xiangcheng, aren't you afraid of asking questions?" ”

Geng Cheng had the emperor's support, and even when he saw Zhu Bai with a heavy army, he was not timid, but sneered and scolded: "Guilty minister Zhu Bai!" You killed the people in Jingzhou without permission, and privately forged treasure money, if the soldiers have arrived today, you will not be arrested! ”

"your mother's fart!!" Hearing that Zhu Bai was scolded, the officers and soldiers of the three guards of King Xiang scolded loudly.

Geng Cheng was scolded again, and he was so angry that he pointed at Zhu Bai at the head of the city with a horsewhip: "You disloyal and unfilial rebel, you dare to lead your troops to defend yourself to resist the imperial court." ”

Zhu Bai was inexplicably said by Geng Cheng, he was obviously staying in the city, how could he become a person who resisted the imperial court.

"You want to harm orphans, you don't have to commit any trumped-up charges!"

"Unnecessary? You dare to slander Your Majesty! ”

Although Zhu Bai likes to talk about scriptures, he neglects to debate, and he clenches his fists in anger when he sees Geng Cheng slandering himself.

"Your Highness, it seems that this court is going to cut the domain, you must not go to the capital with this dog man, on the other hand!"

"That's right! It's the other way around! ”

Zhu Bai won the hearts of the people among the three guards, so when he learned that the emperor was going to attack Zhu Bai, and the emperor cut down the Zhou domain last year and abolished him as a concubine, the generals advised Zhu Bai one after another.

Geng Cheng, who was outside the city, saw that the generals at the head of the city advised Zhu Bai, and his heart was weak.

Zhu Bai's three guards are outside Jingzhou City, and if Zhu Bai really rebels, he will be able to reach the capital in less than seven days.

Thinking of this, Geng Cheng was a little scared, and hurriedly changed his tone, and advised Zhu Bai: "King Xiang, as a son of man, do you want to raise an army to rebel and disgrace Emperor Gao?" ”

"As the commander of the three armies, do you want to lead the three armies to raise troops and cause the generals of the three armies to be ruined?"

"As a human minister, do you want to rebel and be called disloyal, unfilial and unjust?"

"You ......"

Geng Cheng scolded as he spoke, as if he wanted to ruin Zhu Bai's reputation.

The generals persuaded him to raise troops in Zhu Bai's ear, but Geng Cheng outside the city shouted in unison with thousands of soldiers that he was disloyal, unrighteous and unfilial.

Listening to these noises, Zhu Bai only felt a splitting headache.

He didn't like to fight for power and profit, so he cultivated in Jingzhou in his spare time, and marched to fight outside to suppress rebellions.

He was extremely filial to Zhu Yuanzhang, and he couldn't do anything to make him rebel, besides, the imperial court had millions of soldiers, and he only had 12,000 guards in the headquarters.

Not to mention the million-strong army of the imperial court, it is difficult for him to defeat the 40,000 soldiers and horses of the Huguang Capital Division alone.

"Lone won't go to the capital with you!"

Zhu Bai looked at Geng Cheng, who was approaching step by step outside the city, and said his decision loudly, which made Geng Cheng's face pale and the guards were happy.

However, Zhu Bai's next sentence made Geng Cheng scratch his head: "Lone will not rebel and be the disloyal, unrighteous and unfilial person." ”

"You said that Lone humiliated Emperor Gao? Lone is the twelfth son of Emperor Gao of Taizu, and Lone only makes Emperor Gao proud, and he has not been ashamed. ”

"Shame on you, your majesty, your nephew!"

After Zhu Bai finished speaking, he turned around and went down the city wall, and the generals followed, but Geng Cheng looked confused.

"Shame on the Emperor? How did the emperor disgrace Emperor Gao? ”

He was confused, but Zhu Bai persuaded the generals to defend the city well, explaining that he was going to the Houfu to wear armor and fight side by side with them.

Hearing this, the generals thought that Zhu Bai was going to raise troops to prove it, so they stopped one after another: "Your Highness, we are waiting for you!" ”

"Good!" Looking at the generals, Zhu Bai turned around and walked towards the back house, and met the Wu family, the daughter of the Duke of Haiguo, who had just learned the news.

Wu's youth is ten, eight years younger than Zhu Bai, and he once gave birth to two daughters for Zhu Bai, but they all died tragically.

"How's it going?"

Wu asked worriedly, but Zhu Bai said: "I'm afraid that today, we will be charged with trumped-up crimes like your brother." ”

"How could it be ......" Wu's elder brother Wu Zhong was removed because of Hu Weiyong's case, so she knew very well what happened to her brother.

The thought of such an end made her face look ugly.

"Fortunately, we have no children, so they and my husband and wife will not suffer."

Zhu Bai held her hand, and Wu's face turned pale, and he looked at Zhu Bai and said, "What is Your Highness going to do?" ”

Faced with the question, Zhu Bai was silent for a moment, and then slowly spoke: "I look at the former ministers, who were imprisoned when they encountered a violent dynasty, and often committed suicide. ”

"As the son of Taizu, my father passed away, I can neither visit the illness nor participate in the funeral, I regret and grieve, there is no joy in living in this world."

"Today, that Geng Cheng is just a slave and dares to insult me, if I fall into the capital, I will inevitably be abolished like the fifth brother."

"Rather than being humiliated by slaves after being deposed, I would rather die than steal my life!"

"I'll accompany you ......" Without any other answer, Wu picked up the wine jug from the table of the Eight Immortals and poured a glass of wine for each of them.

"Pity you......" Zhu Bai was ashamed of Wu, but Wu shook his head and didn't say anything.

The husband and wife drank together as if they were newly married, and then Zhu Bai put on armor with the help of the Wu family.

He went to the stable and brought out the white horse he had been riding when he pacified Guzhouman, and Wu also asked people to prepare tung oil to fill the former dormitory.

After a short time, she stood at the palace gate, holding a torch and waiting for Zhu Bai.

Seeing Zhu Bai coming on a white horse, she threw down her torch, and the fire ignited the former dormitory.

Zhu Bai watched the Wu clan walk into the fire, and glanced down at the white horse: "That's it, you should stay in the world, get a good general in the future, and take you to fight in all directions." ”

"Sigh and ......" The white horse seemed to hear the meaning of Zhu Bai's words, but it did not sit on Zhu Bai's horse, but suddenly ran up and rushed towards the former dormitory that was set on fire.

"Your Highness!!"

Seeing the firelight, the three guards of the king of Xiang who rushed to see Zhu Bai riding a white horse and holding a bow and lance.

They tried to stop it, but they didn't have time to stop it, so they could only watch Zhu Bai ride a white horse and jump into the fire......

"Zhu Yunwen, I want to see who made the imperial examination shameful!"

This morning's meeting will be too long, and the second watch is estimated to be late, and it should be updated around twelve o'clock

(End of chapter)