In the early morning of the third day, the brothers huddled together in a cage to keep warm and entered the city of Peiping with frost on their foreheads. When Xia Xun heard the guards reveal their identities to the city guards who came forward to check, Xia Xun finally confirmed
He made his own judgment: "They are indeed from Prince Yan's palace! These two noble women must be members of Prince Yan's family. There is no doubt that the beautiful woman is Princess Yan, and the little girl is her sister...
Could it be that she is Xu Guogong’s wife?”
In this case, the identity of the monk in black who is skinny but powerful as a god when angry can be revealed. The only one who can get along so closely with the family members of King Yan is Monk Daoyan. This monk in black is Yao Guangxiao, the Yongle Dynasty.
That prime minister in black!
King Yan Zhu Di was originally the person he decided to seek refuge with, but he never expected that the two of them would now have a relationship in such a wonderful way. Once he knew the identity of the person he offended, Xia Xun no longer worried. As long as
If you reveal your identity as King of Qi, you will definitely be safe in Prince Yan's Mansion. What kind of person King Yan is, how can he turn against Prince of Qi over a trivial matter?
Xia Xun's heart couldn't help but beat fast at the thought of having the opportunity to meet the historical Emperor Yongle.
Xia Xun did not have any prejudice against Emperor Jianwen and Zhu Di, nor did he have any likes or dislikes stemming from the many jokes of later generations. He was a very rational person, and out of professional habits, he understood the information he had and the stories he heard.
After conducting some rational analysis, according to his analysis, he simply did not agree with the theory that Zhu Di had secretly harbored rebellion and conspired to seize the throne.
Regarding Jianwen and King Yan, he did not have any personal feelings for either party, and it was impossible to have any personal feelings. From the perspective of the development of the country and the nation, Zhu Di's talent and strategy were far superior to Jianwen's. From the perspective of personal morality,
, Zhu Di was certainly not a perfect gentleman, and Emperor Jianwen was not a good bird either.
One wants to reduce the vassal status so that the Ming Dynasty will be inherited by him and his direct descendants for generations to come. The other wants to protect himself because he is unwilling to be demoted to a common people and be sent to Hainan Island by his nephew to eat the wind and drink the dew.
, if you, the emperor, are not at ease then, it will be easy for me to "die of a sudden illness". We are all of the same blood as the great ancestors, and you, a useless loser, become the emperor, and I don't have the right to be the emperor just because your father was born earlier than me.
I'm already very unhappy. Why do you still want to seize the property my father gave me?
In terms of "criminal motives", neither of them had any lofty and great reasons. They were both doing it for themselves. Since the reasons cannot be said to be selfless, there is no need to say who is right and who is wrong. Moreover, it is impossible to say who is right and who is wrong, Yan
After the king became emperor, he also made moves to reduce the vassal status, but his reduction of vassal status only weakened the military power of the vassal king, leaving other rights and interests unchanged. The vassal kings were too determined to fight to the death.
However, Emperor Jianwen, who was praised by the civil servants as the most benevolent and filial piety, did not distinguish between the wise and the foolish. He demoted his uncles and his entire family to common people, and sent them to remote places to eat, drink, and cultivate gods. He was sent to Hainan.
The uncle on the island, when his son was born, his wife had no milk, and he couldn't even afford a wet nurse. He couldn't get milk even if he wanted to, so he had to take his clothes to the shepherd in exchange for some goat milk to feed his son. There was another uncle who was forced
The whole family had to set fire to commit suicide. If he had only seized military power, this uncle would never have been so extreme. What Zhu Yunwen did was really unreasonable.
Speaking of rebellion, some novels and commentaries of later generations described Zhu Di as having secret ambitions and had long been rebellious. However, judging from Zhu Di's series of reactions later, Xia Xun did not believe this statement at all. When Zhu Yunwen said to the emperor's uncles,
What did King Yan Zhu Di do when he started this attack? He sent all his sons to the capital as hostages to show his loyalty. If these sons hadn't been fooled by Zhu Yunwen, in order to cover up his plan to attack King Yan
The purpose of the attack was to take the initiative to put it back, and there was no possibility of coming back. If King Yan had been determined to rebel, he would never have made such a move.
Look at how hastily he was when he raised the army. Zhu Yunwen replaced all the garrison and garrison guards in Peiping one by one. King Yan's three bodyguards were also transferred away. With such a desperate plan, King Yan still did not resist.
, the only means he took to protect himself was to pretend to be crazy, hoping that his nephew would let him go. In this case, Zhu Yunwen still ordered the arrest. Zhu Di relied on a commander who turned against the enemy to inform him, and he was quick to act wisely.
Two generals who led an army to besiege the palace deceived him into entering the palace and detained him. Then they summoned eight hundred of their own soldiers to rebel.
The prince was forced into this situation before he rebelled, leaving him with no soldiers. In the end, he took the risk of riding alone to meet King Ning and seize the military power. This was another lucky ending that could not be predicted in advance. If King Ning had been wary,
, even tied him up and gave him to the emperor, he would have been finished long ago
Not to mention the importance of the prince's power in the early Ming Dynasty, it depends on how many troops Prince Ning mobilized to rebel against the Zhengde Emperor.
A waste whose military power has been severely weakened can recruit so many people. Zhu Di, who has led the border army for more than ten years, is a talented and strategist, and has the resourceful Yao Guangxiao as his adviser. How can he get into this situation despite his long-standing intention to rebel?
Xia Xun is a policeman. He will not listen to partial beliefs or be emotional. What he needs is evidence. If there is no evidence, he will analyze and reason based on the facts. He will understand the problem with an impartial and realistic attitude.
In his view, perhaps the vassal king was an unstable factor in the empire, but at least before Jianwen cut the vassalage, no prince had ever thought of rebelling. Zhu Di tried every means, even pretending to be crazy, but the knife was still on the
On his neck, he had to fight back.
Look at the black monk in front of him. The records about him in some books are amazing. Zhu Yuanzhang chose monks to serve as monks for the princes. Yao Guangxiao fell in love with King Yan at a glance and walked up to him and told him that he would give him a white hat.
The hat, "King" and "White", is the word "Emperor". Zhu Di was overjoyed when he heard this, and the two rebels hit it off immediately, and from then on they began to plot a rebellion. This is pure nonsense.
Not to mention that Prince Zhu Biao was alive at that time, Zhu Di could rebel against his nephew, but he would never be able to rebel against his kind and prestigious eldest brother. In addition, his other two brothers were also alive at that time. Even if Prince Zhu Biao died,
The throne would not be his in any case. If Yao Guangxiao had really been able to predict things like a god and calculated accurately that all those people would not live long, there would be no need for the rebellion to be so embarrassing more than ten years later. If it weren't for Zhu Yunwen himself
If Zhu Di makes consecutive moves, it is impossible for him to succeed.
Furthermore, the records in those books were so detailed, including time, place, characters, expressions, movements, psychology, and dialogues, that it could be made into a movie. How did he know this? Did Zhu Di tell him or Yao Guangxiao?
After he proclaimed himself emperor, Zhu Di always insisted that he was trying to suppress peace and was forced to raise troops to clear the emperor's side. This was a secret that only the two of them could know and they would never reveal it. So how did others know? It was obviously nonsense.
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Even when Zhu Di went to the imperial court to see Zhu Yuanzhang, he saw Zhu Yunwen, who had been established as the emperor's grandson, and spoke disrespectfully to him. Some people interpreted it as a sign of antagonism, but Xia Xun thought it was just the opposite.
Look at what the most incompetent conspirator and the stupidest rebel, His Highness Prince Ning of the Zhengde Dynasty, did. Before his rebellion, he deliberately bought the Zhengde Emperor and all the officials in the court, and behaved so respectfully that I just heard about him.
Many people didn't believe it when they wanted to rebel.
Let me ask you, if Zhu Di, who is much smarter and more powerful than him, had planned a rebellion long ago and was preparing to seize his nephew's throne, would he still be unable to calm down and say unkind words in front of Zhu Yunwen? Is he fully prepared? He simply
Not afraid of Zhu Yunwen's army? He was afraid that Zhu Yunwen didn't know that he was going to rebel? Then why did he pretend to be crazy and be so embarrassed later?
Xia Xun has studied criminal psychology. He believes that Zhu Di vented his dissatisfaction in such an angry tone because he was dissatisfied with his father for passing the throne to Zhu Yunwen but had no intention of turning back. This is similar to what happened at Lin Yang's pawnshop.
Shopkeeper Lin Beixia couldn't help but sarcastic when she saw him. It was actually the same mentality. If he really had an agenda, he wouldn't be like this.
Think again about Zhu Yunwen who forced one emperor's uncle's family to death and exiled four emperor's uncle's family. These five emperor's uncles obeyed his orders, but he had no mercy at all. However, King Yan rebelled, and his filial piety came and his family affection sprouted.
With tears in his eyes, he took the general's hand and said earnestly: "Don't hurt my uncle!" Where is this damn liar?
What he did was just to shake Zhu Di's determination to rebel, and told Zhu Laosi: "Put down the sword, don't resist, I don't want to kill you at all." At the same time, he was comforting the other princes: "Don't rebel with him.
You see, I don’t even have murderous intentions towards him, so why would I regard you as a thorn in my side?”
In fact, there are no eyesights on the battlefield. Zhu Di escaped from death many times by his own efforts and by his soldiers. General Zhang Yu died in battle just to save him. His second son Zhu Gaoxu
It was because of the bloody battles and saving his father several times that Zhu Di was moved and came up with the idea of naming his second son as his successor after the rebellion was successful.
Tie Xuan staged a fake surrender in Jinan, set up a secret mechanism, and almost killed Zhu Di. After Zhu Yunwen heard about it, he was overjoyed at first, and then promoted Tie Xuan to Tie Xuan's official position. Then he faced Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng and others and lamented the fate of Zhu Lao.
Da, is this his "Don't hurt my uncle?" He is stupid and thinks that others are just as stupid as him. What idiot would believe such a childish political show?
So when Xia Xun wanted to find a way out, the first thing he thought of was Zhu Di. Not only because Zhu Yunwen was hypocritical, but also because he was hopelessly stupid. Did Zhu Yuanzhang really not leave him any capable civil servants and generals? Yang Pu,
Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, Xia Yuanji, Jin Youzi, Wang Yan, Xie Jin, Huang Huai, Jian Yi, Xia Yuanji... all of them came to political life in the hands of Zhu Di. Who did Zhu Yunwen trust and promote? How many people did he trust and promote?
A nerd who only knows how to talk, but he doesn't understand people well. Who can blame him?
Speaking of generals, there are always people who say that Zhu Yuanzhang killed all the heroes of the Tiger General, but if those heroes and the powerful group were still there, they would definitely be loyal to Jianwen? This is purely treating history and politics as fairy tales. What Emperor Jianwen did was to cut down the vassal and weaken it.
He became a military general and established a government of scholars.
If those powerful groups of founding heroes exist and there are royal disputes, they will definitely look for opportunities to maximize their own interests. Once this situation occurs, the Ming Empire will follow the footsteps of the two Jin and the Northern and Southern Dynasties! The Ming Empire will become
A short-lived empire. Even if it is not so pessimistic, the Northern Yuan Dynasty has not yet passed Zhu Di's five sweeps of Mobei, and its strength is still there. Emperor Timur in the West is eyeing it. Zhu Yunwen leads a bunch of useless idiots to suppress Wu Yangwen. I'm afraid the Ming Dynasty will also need a second generation.
And it's over.
Although the group of heroes no longer exists, it does not mean that their generals who are good at fighting no longer exist. During the four-year Jingnan War, Zhu Di escaped from death many times. There were many Ming soldiers who defeated him who were good at fighting.
General, who did Zhu Yunwen reuse? His eldest cousin Li Jinglong! The biggest straw bag in the Ming Dynasty. If a pig is allowed to lead a group of ligers, will the ligers still be able to use their abilities?
The most ridiculous thing is that his intention to cut down the vassal has been known to the whole world, but the person he sent to guard Jinling was a vassal king——Gu Wang Zhu Su. He was really stupid in reading the books of sages. I really thought he was
Once the dragon robe is worn, anyone who wants to kill will have to be willing to say "If you want your ministers to die, they have to die." In this case, Zhu Su opened the city gate and let Zhu Di into the city. Is there anything surprising?
In the end, with his orthodox status as emperor, he controlled the world and had millions of soldiers, but he was defeated by Zhu Di, who started his career with only 800 people and only had Peking. What benefit does such a waste have to the country and the people? It is because of this
With these considerations in mind, Xia Xun began to lean toward Zhu Di.
But since he got the identity of Yang Xu, his thoughts began to change. What does it have to do with him if the uncles and nephews of the Zhu family are fighting for the country? Since he has also determined in his heart that the person suitable to rule the country is Zhu Di, and it is precisely Zhu Di in history.
After becoming the emperor, why should he be a cannon fodder with an uncertain future? Just be his rich man and wait for the country to change hands.
But he never expected that when he wanted to see Zhu Di, he went through all kinds of hardships and never made it to Peiping. When he didn't want to see Zhu Di, he struggled desperately and fled all night. In the end... he entered Prince Yan's Mansion...
The car squeaked and drove towards Prince Yan's Mansion. This special prison car attracted the attention of Peking citizens. After asking people from the White Lotus Sect in Peking to help search for two days, Peng Ziqi, who still had no whereabouts of Yang Xu and Yang Xu, was bored in the market.
Wandering around, she suddenly saw a line of carriages and horses passing through the market. She glanced at them casually and walked past without paying attention.
After taking two steps, she suddenly stopped. After thinking for a while, she felt something was wrong. Huo Di turned her head and looked again, her eyes widening in shock. Although she had been locked up in the prison car for two days and was a little depressed, she still looked like Xia Xun.
She recognized him instantly. She never expected that the person she had been searching for so many times would appear in front of her with such an image. Peng Ziqi wanted to scream, but immediately shut her mouth in alarm.
"What trouble did this guy get into again?" As she thought, her feet quietly moved forward along with the line of vehicles.
Prince Yan's Mansion was the imperial palace of the Dayuan Dynasty, and there was still a big gap between it and the later Forbidden City. However, it was already quite large at this time. As soon as they entered the palace, the prison car was escorted away along the side corridor, with high altitudes on both sides.
Wall, only a corner of the gray sky above his head could be seen. Xia Xun suddenly felt like he was in prison...