Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Eighth Year of Hongwu
Lan Yue was shocked in his heart, this matter was extremely confidential, how did he know about it? There was a lot of murder in his heart, his eyes were shining, and he snorted coldly: "You only made up such a boring proverb with just a few black moles, and then insisted that I was the imperial court criminal, who are you? What are your plans? Hurry up and report your name, otherwise, don't blame me for turning my face and being ruthless!"
The old man saw Lan Yue's intention, and he was not afraid, but said indifferently: "Wait, there is no third party present at this time, and it is not too late for you to do it after I finish speaking." ”
"You were born on the first day of the real month of the eighth year of Hongwu, and the eight characters of your birth are the year of Yimao, the month of Wuyin, the day of Jiazi, and the time of Xinchen, that year is the year of the rabbit, so you belong to the rabbit, and you are the rabbit of the Moon Palace, so you are named the month, and the word Yixian is the table. ”
"Father Lan Eighteen and mother Wu are your father's second concubines, who died of blood collapse after giving birth to you. Because of his father's old age, he was raised by his brother and sister-in-law soon after birth, the eldest brother Lan Yu and the sister-in-law Li. Am I wrong?"
It was as if a bolt of lightning struck the blue moon, and he immediately stayed on the spot, how could this be?
The old man continued: "Not long after you were born, the eldest brother Lan Yue secretly invited a friend to come to the mansion to name you and look at your face. After reading the eight characters of your birthday, the man criticized the four characters - acting against the sky, and said that your stepping on the seven stars is the appearance of 'turning things around'. Because you have the order to 'act against the heavens' and 'turn things around' at the same time, you will not be tolerated by the Son of Heaven, so the man told your brother not to divulge this matter, otherwise he will be killed. ”
The old man approached Lan Yue, looked at Lan Yue with eyes that saw through everything but were extremely kind, and said softly, "Yue'er, can't you guess who I am?"
Lan Yue showed a look of disbelief, shook her head and said: "You are Liu •••••• impossible, the eldest brother said that the friend who looked at him died of a violent illness in the same year, but ••••••" But the facts are in front of you, there are only three people who know Lan Yue's fate, Lan Yu, Lan Yue, and the person who named him back then, no matter how absurd it is, Lan Yue has accepted this fact in his heart, this is a dead man, a person who has been dead for eighteen years, and now he is waiting for him to confirm it personally.
Sure enough, the old man smiled: "Yes, the old man is that Liu Ji Liu Bowen." Yue'er, you have to remember that death is just an illusion!"
A voice in his heart said to himself, Liu Bowen in the mouth of the eldest brother knows astronomy and geography, can call the wind and rain, scatter beans into soldiers, know everything, and can do anything, he is also a friend of the eldest brother, and he will definitely be able to rescue the eldest brother. Another voice said, calm down, even if he is Liu Bowen, he is just a prisoner who is difficult to protect at this moment, Lan Yue, grow your brains.
Lan Yue's heart regained her calm, and she was about to step forward and bow down, but she was held up by Liu Ji and said, "Yue'er doesn't have to be formal. Alas, your escape so far shows that the emperor has already attacked your eldest brother Lan Yu. ”
Blue Moon asked tentatively, "Is there a way to save me?"
Liu Bowen shook his head and said, "I can save you out, but I have no power to return to the sky against Lan Yu." Luckily, we still have some time before they get to the island, so let me tell you why, and you'll be able to see the whole thing as it went. ”
"Yue'er, your fate is extraordinary, destined to be a great thing, one day when you encounter a problem that you can't see clearly and can't decide, you should focus on the overall situation and think in the long run. Throughout the thousands of years of history of our Chinese nation, every three to five hundred years there will be a brilliant emperor to end the situation of fragmentation, so that the world is unified, and the four are subdued. It's just that such emperors have a common characteristic, extreme suspicion and crazy pursuit of power, and they will never allow others to peep, even if it is only possible to nip in the bud. This is the case of the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty and the Song Ancestors, and the current emperor is even more so, and even more so. Liu Ji said this, with deep emotion, and at the same time eager to pass on what he had learned all his life to Blue Moon in an instant, when Liu Ji saw Blue Moon for the first time in the eighth year of Hongwu, he felt that he and he had a destined fate of master and apprentice, although it was short and there was no name of master and apprentice. No one knows what price he paid for this, at that time Liu Ji had calculated that his death date was the first month of the eighth year of Hongwu, but for the sake of the fate of master and apprentice, he simply changed his life against the sky, and paid a painful price, two years later, that is, in the tenth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang instructed Prime Minister Hu Weiyong to put Liu Ji's eldest son Liu Lian into the well in order to deter and punish Liu Ji.
"In the first month of the eighth year of Hongwu, shortly after I named you to see the appearance, I occasionally felt slightly ill, Prime Minister Hu Weiyong came to visit at the emperor's behest, and accompanied the imperial doctor to prescribe medicine. I quietly pretended to take it, and after a few days of Yu Ming's condition worsened after taking the medicine himself, but the Holy One remained silent. I feel a chill in my heart, now that the country is decided, the emperor has begun to open the knife to the powerful ministers, although I am low-key, but I am only a sincere uncle, but I have a small reputation among the people, so the first one should die. Of course, there will be those who are prime ministers, such as Hu Weiyong, Li Shanchang and others, because they have taken away the emperor's power. Later facts turned out to be these. ”
"Of course, if I die according to the emperor's plan, my family will be safe and sound. But I have something unfinished, so I can only rely on some means to hide my name. It's a pity that the emperor sent the sword god Bai Qingchen to secretly investigate, and finally found me in Zhongnan Mountain two years later. Because the world thought that I was dead, no longer a threat to the imperial power, and that I was still useful, they imprisoned me here and never saw the light of day to serve me. ”
Later, after the emperor killed Hu Weiyong and Li Shanchang, he simply did not set up the post of prime minister, so that all the rights were concentrated in his own hands. In order to permanently abolish the prime minister, the emperor even issued a strict order: 'When the descendants become emperors in the future, they are not allowed to appoint prime ministers.' If any of the subordinates dare to ask for the establishment, the civil and military ministers will impeach them in time, and the prisoners will be sentenced to death and the whole family will be executed!'"
"After the concentration of power is a security issue, Hongwu 18 years, the first general of the Ming Dynasty Xu Da had a poisonous sore on his back, can not eat steamed goose, but the emperor sent a messenger to send, Xu Da ate it with tears, and soon died of poison. Later, Lan Yu swept away the Northern Yuan forces in the fishing sea, and the Ming Dynasty had no external threat for the time being, so Lan Yu lost its value, and at the same time became a threat, and it was a matter of time before he was killed, and it didn't matter what the crime was, whether he was guilty or not. The next one will be Fu Youde's turn. This is the so-called Imperial Technique!"
Liu Ji's long speech was reasonable, which was deafening, Lan Yue broke out in a cold sweat when she heard it, thinking that she had never looked at the eldest brother's case from a different height, and according to Liu Ji's theory, the death of the eldest brother was only a matter of time.