When the thank you note finally reached Jiang Mian, his first feeling was: Your Highness’ handwriting is good.
The thank you note is quite long.
Because it is not as obscure as ordinary thank-you notes and memorials, and it even has complete sentences.
[My nephew Houcong, in March of the 16th year of Zhengde, in Jiaxu, he obeyed the Queen Mother Yi's decree to win over the love and surrender, and he was granted the title of king. Since he had received the holy grace, he was ashamed and dared not resign. Wuyin received the imperial edict, and he was so sad that he could not overcome it. He was so sad that he couldn't help it.
I have fulfilled my full filial piety for my father, and I am also sad that your Majesty passed away at a young age. The Queen Mother is so sad that her body is about to die, and the late prince expressed no hope and entrusted it to the ancestral temple. In order to repay the Holy Grace, my nephew spoke from the bottom of his heart and begged the Queen Mother to listen.】
Then, the words became much more straightforward:
[Ever since I was sensible, my nephew often listened to the late king talking about the benevolence of the emperor and the intelligence of the emperor. Living in the countryside, he has always heard the court officials saying that the emperor built a leopard house, was good at fighting, practiced regiments and camps, and stationed in Xuan Mansion.
There are criticisms. In the past, my nephew was just the prince of a vassal prince, and he should not make unreasonable comments on the government. But now that he has been ordered to do so, and when he is thinking about the future, he actually thinks that his brother is the monarch with the broadest vision and the highest ambition since Emperor Taizong.
My nephew usually only likes to read books to kill time. As the stories become more and more complex, Shi Haigou finds some things worth pondering.
"The Bamboo Book" records that during the reign of King Xiao of Zhou, the Great River and the Han River froze. Before that, the Dog Rong invaded the east, and King Zhou Yi was forced to move the capital.
"Spring and Autumn" has been recorded many times that there is no ice in the first month of spring in the state of Lu. "Xunzi·Fu Guo Chapter" and "Mencius·Gaozi 1" both record that the Qilu land has two crops a year. At this time, the nomadic ethnic groups in the northern grasslands were weak.
In the Central Plains.
"Zizhi Tongjian" records that in the early years of Emperor Cheng of the Jin Dynasty, the Bohai Sea froze for three consecutive years from Changli to Gaizhouwei. On the ice, carriages and horses, as well as thousands of soldiers and heavy equipment could be passed. At that time, the Wuhu chaos in China,
Confrontation between Northern and Southern Dynasties.
During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, lychees were produced in Xuzhou Prefecture, and Du Fu's poem said, "The green ones are heavy and spring wine is picked, and the red lychees are light"; "Youyang Zazu" records that in the tenth year of Tianbao, the orange trees in the Chang'an Palace bore more than a hundred oranges. By the Yongtai Yuan Dynasty,
In the first month of that year, there was a foot of snow in Chang'an. In the first month of the second year of Yongtai, there was a heavy snowfall of two feet on the ground. In November of the following year, the city of Chang'an was covered with fog like snow, and the grass and trees were icy. In the next two years, the city of Chang'an was full of sun and cold in June.
In the winter of this year, Du Fu lived in Changsha. At first he thought, "There is no snow in Hunan in winter, and I will be sick because of my illness." When winter came, he also said, "The new wind blew through the Guishui River, and there were heavy snowfalls at night." By the time of Bai Juyi, he wrote "It snowed heavily in the winter of the tenth year of Jiujiang."
"The branches of the river are broken by the ice on the river." In the Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi's poem "Red Plum" said: "The flowers only bloom in the middle of spring, and they can't bear the cold. The northerners didn't know them at first, and they just looked at them as apricot blossoms." At that time, the north
People actually don’t even recognize plum blossoms.
From the prosperous Tang Dynasty to the weak Song Dynasty, the Khitans, Jurchens, and Mongols frequently went south to bury the Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty. In the second year of Tianli, Taihu Lake froze several feet thick, and all the oranges froze to death.
Emperor Taizu restored China, and it has been nearly 200 years since the Ming Dynasty. What is the climate like? In the winter of the fourth to fifth years of Jingtai, there were more than forty miles of sea ice in Huaidong, and it rained and snowed continuously in March of Fengyang. In the sixth year of Hongzhi
In that year, heavy snow raged in the Huaihe River area from September to February of the following year. Eight hundred miles of Dongting became an ice continent, and carriages and horses could pass through it. In the first year of Zhengde, heavy snow also fell in Wanzhou, Qiongzhou Prefecture.
My nephew listed all these things, not to be alarmist, but to say a simple truth: the nomadic tribes north of the Great Wall also want to survive.
The way of heaven flows, sometimes it is warm and sometimes it is cold. When it is warm, vegetation flourishes, and people, horses, cattle and sheep thrive. When it is extremely cold, vegetation dries up and other people cannot survive, so they will definitely try to go south to seek survival.
I heard that the emperor's brother was very talented, fluent in many languages, and even learned the Franji language last year. Some people thought that the emperor's words and deeds were deviant, but in the eyes of his nephew, he actually looked at the world and had a broad mind.
Cleaning up the border towns, building up troops, stationing in Xuan Mansion, and proclaiming the country. Isn't it like the emperor Taizong and Emperor Xuanzong guarding the country? In order to keep the Ming Dynasty as stable as Mount Tai, hundreds of officials have many objections to the emperor's brother. It is reasonable. Because before
With the Tumu Fort changed, and the emperor's brother Yuji defeated at Yutailing, we, the Ming Dynasty, no longer dare to fight easily. The emperor's ambition frightens all the officials and worries the Queen Mother.
However, sooner or later, all the tribes in the north would have to go south to plunder and even imitate the previous dynasty's attempt to conquer the Ming Dynasty. It seems that the emperor's brother also planned for the future for his descendants, so he was unswervingly determined and often talked about military matters.
It has been nearly 200 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and every year is getting colder. A brief review of reports from various places is proof of this.
Brother Huang knows that the winter of the Ming Dynasty has arrived. If you don’t move like a mountain, you will eventually be covered by the heavy snow. Only by working hard and taking care of yourself can you keep your foundation everlasting.
The Queen Mother, I suddenly know that the Holy Will wants to make my nephew the son of the filial piety temple. I am a brother of the emperor, but I really can't do it.
If a minister's nephew is in a high position and is not filial to his biological parents before him, how can he be filial to the Queen Mother after him?
I am a nephew who is not an ignorant young son. He is a close relative of flesh and blood. How can I abandon the kindness of raising him for fifteen years?
If a minister's nephew becomes his heir and controls the world, how can this unfilial king make the people of the world return to their hearts?
Now that the imperial edict is clear, none of the ministers have spoken to Anlu about the matter of the successor. The ministers and nephews are stupid, and only by seeing the ritual notes can they understand the Queen Mother's intentions.
However, as we arrived at the outskirts of the capital, the situation was in a dilemma and disputes arose. My nephew was frightened and thought over and over again, so he begged the Empress Dowager to allow my nephew to see me briefly:
The Empress Dowager and her nephew succeeded the Emperor's brother's son with a son. The Queen Mother and the Emperor's sister-in-law raised him personally, so that not only would he be filial to the temple, but the Emperor's brother would also be offered blood and food by his descendants.
If it is true as Mao Cheng said, the minister's nephew will succeed him as the son of Xiaomiao, and Xiaomiao will have endless heirs, but who will be the heir of the emperor's brother? How can you be loyal to the ministers who are entrusted by the emperor's brother with the funeral affairs but the emperor's brother has no heir?
If the Empress Dowager does not agree to the request of the ministers and nephews, please take the imperial edict.
If the Queen Mother fears that her nephew will cause trouble in the future, he will be killed at the neck without any complaints.
The emperor's brother's ambition was not fulfilled, but unexpectedly, he was ordered not to protect his blood after his death.
The weather changes, external troubles never cease, and internal worries arise again.
The Ming Dynasty is old. No matter who succeeds the rule, if the monarchs and ministers continue to stick to the old ways, they may show their old age. This is the time when the country will survive and it is time to reform the evils and make a new one.
These are words from the bottom of my heart, and I ask the Queen Mother to think carefully about them.
The ancestors and clans are on top, and the unworthy descendants are thick and weeping.]
After Jiang Mian finished reading, he realized that his mouth had been open involuntarily for a long time.
After shuddering, Jiang Mian handed the Xie Jian to Mao Ji, who was looking forward to it with mixed emotions, and then fell into rapid thinking.
He first wondered: After praising Emperor Zhengde so well-founded, did many of Emperor Zhengde's actions really have such far-reaching considerations?
Then thinking about what it means for Sijun to agree with Emperor Zhengde so much, isn't Sijun worried that his cabinet ministers will be worried and dissatisfied with him?
It is impossible for the successor to know what happened during the Zhengde dynasty.
Now there is a saying that Emperor Zhengde "has unfulfilled ambitions". What is he going to do?
Tossing around like Emperor Zhengde?
At first, Yang Tinghe might have thought that Si Jun was deceived and instigated by villains. Now that the thank you note has come, the situation has become clear: Who dares to persuade Si Jun to write these things to the Queen Mother and the cabinet in such a desperate way? This thank you note must be
From himself.
This heir is really desperate. He accuses his cabinet ministers of being disloyal to Emperor Zhengde and makes Emperor Zhengde extinct. Who can wear this hat?
Such a tough and clear attitude means that it is almost impossible for him to listen to advice on the issue of succession.
Not only that, it also brings up a more difficult problem to face, that is, his future policy strategy: it is very likely to be militaristic!
There are many things worth pondering about Xie Jian. Jiang Mian hurriedly thought of the most important thing: such an heir who cannot be persuaded, such an heir who may be more troublesome than Emperor Zhengde, what are Yang Tinghe and the Queen Mother?
manner?
Continue to welcome him to the throne, or depose him?