Chapter 6: The Son of Heaven guards the gate of the country
Yao Guang Xiaoxing entered the palace.
He was both a confidant of Emperor Yongle and a monk. His dual identity made it easier for him to enter and leave the palace than ordinary ministers.
Emperor Yongle was sitting in the Wenlou today and had just finished the sutra banquet.
Obviously, Zhu Di was very dissatisfied with the Jingyan. He looked displeased. After hearing that Yao Guangxiao had come to see him and announced that he had entered the literary building, he snorted: "The ministers must say that they will teach with their own bodies and show the people what they can do."
Follow; use Tao as the basis for governance and reduce the people's indiscretion...such nonsense..."
Yao Guangxiao interrupted Zhu Di rashly and said: "Your Majesty, this poor monk just came back from Hu Yan's house."
Zhu Di said: "How?"
"The poor monk is trying his best."
"Um?"
After that, Yao Guangxiao told what happened in the school, and then the eunuch who followed him came in with a stack of memorials.
Zhu Di forced a smile: "It's just a matter of cleaning up a few things, why bother with so much trouble."
Yao Guangxiao smiled and said nothing.
Zhu Di said: "Okay, let's see together how knowledgeable these scholars are."
Neither Zhu Di nor Yao Guangxiao had high expectations for this. What insights could a group of teenagers write?
As they thought, most of these memorials were of the same taste and did not interest Zhu Di and Yao Guangxiao at all.
Therefore, the monarch and his ministers picked up the memorials and read them, while chatting: "Has the decree to warn the prince been sent out?"
"It should be sent out."
Zhu Di raised his head and glanced at Yao Guangxiao with deep meaning.
The word "should" is very mysterious.
The implication is... Yao Guangxiao was not involved in this matter, and he did not have any involvement in it.
Zhu Di withdrew his gaze, nodded his head, but at the next moment, he suddenly cursed: "It's full of nonsense, what's in this kid's head? Straw?"
Yao Guangxiao glanced at it, but it was Zhu Yong's memorial.
Zhu Di's face turned livid, but he still held it back. Then he opened the next memorial. When he looked at it again, his eyes widened and his beard began to tremble.
Yao Guangxiao: "..."
This memorial is even more amazing, it is completely blank.
There are only two words...Zhang Fu!
Zhu Di broke his guard.
His face was slightly red, his chest was heaving, and he couldn't say a word.
Yao Guangxiao was speechless at this time.
But after a while, Zhu Di's eyes were covered with a layer of fog, and finally...a drop of liquid came out of his eyes.
Zhu Di sniffed. This man who had been killed in the rebellion and had shed a lot of blood and never changed his color was actually crying all the time.
Zhu Di covered his face with his long sleeves and choked with sobs: "Shimei (Zhang Yuzi) was such a good man back then, how could he give birth to such a piece of shit? If he had a spirit in heaven and knew that his heir was in this bad state, he would definitely blame him.
I didn't take good care of the Zhang family...the tiger father and the dog son, the tiger father and the dog son!"
Yao Guang said filially: "Your Majesty, I express my condolences. After all, I am still a child."
"You're like this at a young age. How can you deal with it when you grow up?" Zhu Di gritted his teeth, wiped his tears, and said angrily: "His father broke into the enemy's formation to save me and died fighting with all his strength. I can't.
I'm sorry for him, Zhang Fu lacks discipline, so I will discipline him myself."
Then he pointed at the memorials scattered on the imperial case and couldn't help but curse: "Look at these people... can any of them be promising? Their father and brother, which one is not the best among men, can be seen that the discipline of them is neglected.
To what an extent!"
As he said that, he picked up one of the memorials, opened it, and said viciously: "Look, look at what is written... The emperor guards the gate of the country, and the foolish minister thought... The key to the Ming Dynasty was to move the capital..."
After reading this...
All of a sudden, Zhu Di suddenly felt that something was wrong.
This memorial was picked up casually, but the five words at the beginning, "The Emperor Guards the Nation," hit the depths of Zhu Di and Yao Guangxiao's hearts.
The monarch and his ministers couldn't help but look at each other, dumbfounded for a moment.
Especially Yao Guangxiao, whose expression was extremely solemn. He pondered for a moment and then said: "Your Majesty, how does this son... know about this?"
Zhu Di had also shed his tears. Yao Guangxiao's words were very famous.
What is meant by the emperor guarding the country is moving the capital to Peking.
Why was the capital moved to Peiping? In history, some people said that because Zhu Di was once named King of Yan and was based in Peiping, he had feelings for Peiping.
Of course, this is never the real reason.
The fundamental reason is that a man as talented and strategic as Zhu Di certainly knows what is the biggest shortcoming in the world today.
Although the Ming Dynasty ruled the world, its innermost worries were always in the north. Although the nomads in the north suffered heavy losses, their strength should not be underestimated.
So at this time, the entire Ming Dynasty fell into a terrible situation. To defend the north, it was necessary to gather elite troops.
The line from Nanjing to Liaodong and Yanyun is thousands of miles long, and the emperor has no control over the army. Now these border troops can be controlled, but given time, it is difficult to guarantee that there will not be a situation where there will be many vassal towns in the late Tang Dynasty.
Of course, in the Song Dynasty, in order to prevent the frontier army from getting bigger, they thought of a good way, that is, to strengthen the weak branches, that is, to organize the most elite soldiers and horses in the world into the forbidden army, and station them all in the capital, all under the emperor's control.
Under my nose, there is no problem of arrogant soldiers and powerful generals.
And this kind of disadvantage is also huge. All the best soldiers in the world have gone to the capital to garrison, and the strength of the border towns is definitely insufficient. Therefore, the Liao, Jin and Mongols rose, but the Song Dynasty court had to blindly compromise with them.
, the situation of unification of the world was destroyed.
Zhu Di has been in the border town for a long time, and of course he knows that the Ming Dynasty will definitely encounter this problem in the future, and there is almost no solution to this problem.
Either let the border army grow stronger or give up the Ming Dynasty's border defense. Neither the Tang Dynasty nor the Song Dynasty's military system was acceptable to him.
After the success of Jingnan, Zhu Di and Yao Guangxiao discussed this issue.
Finally, Yao Guangxiao proposed the strategy of moving the capital to Peking.
As long as the capital is moved to Beijing, the world's elite soldiers can be deployed on the front line of Peiping. These soldiers will be under the emperor's nose and will not worry about the situation of feudal towns. At the same time, Peiping is originally a border town. Once there is an invasion from the northern barbarians,
The elite soldiers in this world are not only the imperial army to protect the emperor, but also the border troops stationed at the border. It can be said that they kill two birds with one stone.
In fact, Zhu Di had already made up his mind to move the capital at this time.
only……
Zhu Di held the memorial in his hand, still thinking deeply, because a new problem had arisen.
Moving the capital is of great importance. Once the capital is moved, not only will it cost countless money and food, but more importantly, if the emperor goes to Peiping, all civil and military officials will also move with him.
But these civil and military officials, as well as countless distinguished ministers, have all settled down in Nanjing, not to mention that compared to the prosperous Jinling, Peiping can almost be regarded as a bitter cold place.
At this time, Zhu Di had just ascended the throne, and people were still undecided. If he proposed to move the capital at this time, he would probably cause chaos in the world.
Therefore, the final strategy adopted by Zhu Di and Yao Guangxiao was that this matter cannot be rushed, and the matter must be kept secret, and no news can be leaked. The only people in the world who really have this idea are Zhu Di and Yao Guangxiao, and it must not be spread to the third party.
In the ears of three people.
But now...a young man has actually received such a memorial.
Yao Guangxiao looked at Zhu Di with doubts in his eyes, as if to say, has His Majesty leaked this matter?
Zhu Di also looked at Yao Guangxiao with suspicious eyes.
But in an instant, the two of them dropped their suspicions, because they knew each other, they were both cautious people, and the matter was of great importance, and they would never leak a word.
Zhu Di said: "Did this kid... come up with it on his own?"
Yao Guangxiao asked: "Who is this person?"
Zhu Di lowered his head and looked at the signature, and was stunned again.
He slowly said a name: "Zhang Anshi...Is Zhang Anshi...is that..."
Yao Guangxiao coughed: "Could it be that what your Majesty is talking about is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's brother-in-law..."
Zhu Di lowered his head to read the memorial again. The memorial not only proposed that the emperor should guard the country, but also made the reason for this very clear.
Zhu Di couldn't help but said: "This person's handwriting is like a dog crawling, but his writing is very clear. Such a stupid boy can have such knowledge. Isn't he full of evil?"
When it came to this topic, Yao Guangxiao thought for a while and said: "Your Majesty, seeing is better than hearing a hundred times, and rumors in the market are not trustworthy. But... how should this matter be resolved?"
Yes, it was originally a fishing trip, but in the end I found a big fish.
Zhu Di put his hands behind his back, frowned, and suddenly bared his teeth and sneered: "A boy like this shouldn't have such knowledge. Could he be the prince..."
After Yao Guangxiao heard this, he immediately showed joy: "Then, I, the poor monk, will congratulate Your Majesty."
After Zhu Di heard this, he felt greatly relieved.
He doesn't like the prince. On the one hand, the prince is too fat and not like a king. On the other hand, he thinks that the prince likes to hang out with a group of rotten scholars and is full of benevolence and righteousness. Such a person... can be a scholar, but he will never be a scholar.
A good emperor.
How can an emperor be kind to women?
But if this is really related to the prince's teachings, it will inevitably make people look at him with admiration if the prince actually has such strategic vision.
Zhu Di waved his hand and said: "There is no need to continue to ask about this matter. If you ask about it again, it is inevitable that rumors of moving the capital will spread throughout the world. Now is not the time. I know these things, you know, and the prince knows it tacitly."
"
After saying that, Zhu Di couldn't help but show an angry face and said angrily: "I think the other disciples are all bastards. I'm looking for a few special bastards among them and I'll deal with them severely, especially that Zhang Fu. I won't replace him."
It’s hard to break his legs!”
"Really?"
Zhu Di said with a straight face: "Hit!"
The two of them had decided on their plan, and Yao Guangxiao said coldly: "Have you forgotten that not long ago, your Majesty had a decree to issue an order... His Highness the Crown Prince..."