Ming Dynasty, Hongwu eighth year, August 18th.
Ying Tianfu.
A ray of rising sun pierced through the heavy dark clouds, peeking at this new empire that was in ruins and waiting to be revitalized.
Forbidden City, inside the imperial study.
Ignoring the pile of memorials beside him, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor, frowned and stared at the joint memorial on the table.
He wanted to tear it up, but knew it would be useless.
These guys who accept death will definitely continue to write, and they can even find a few more people who are not afraid of death from the nooks and crannies and add their names.
This memorial was written by Song Lian, the Crown Prince and Tutor.
There are nearly ten thousand words in a eloquent way, and the general idea is to advise the emperor not to enfeoff the kings. The dangers of enfeoffment are one, two, three, four, five...
Song Lian is an old scholar, stubborn and can only write this kind of excerpts.
As a result, even Liu Bowen led the civil servants to follow suit, including many important officials who founded the country.
This is a naked group bullying to bully our old Zhu who is an honest person!
Zhu Yuanzhang felt the fire rising in his heart.
Now that the world has been settled, except for the northern grasslands, the shores of the land are not the royal land.
In the past, it didn't matter whether it was a ruined temple, a dirt field or a wilderness in the woods, as long as I fell down, I would fall asleep.
Now he was so worried that he kept his eyes open every night until dawn.
Because he asks himself every night: Is the world peaceful? Is my empire stable?
No!
Peace belongs to others. As long as he sits on the throne that everyone misses, he will never have peace!
The "real dragon emperor comes to the world" is a story made up by the people below to deceive the ignorant people and win over people's hearts.
"A white rainbow penetrates the sun, and the mountains and rivers change color" is just a slogan made by Liu Bowen to inspire the soldiers of the Northern Expedition.
In fact, he, Zhu Yuanzhang, was just an ordinary person who had to eat, let go of cattle, and become a monk in order to fill his stomach. He was forced to rebel, but he was lucky enough to fight all the way to the end.
He can do it, and so can others.
Those old guys who followed him to conquer the world understand this very well.
These old guys are all good at fighting and have heavy troops.
Now that there are no enemies, they are the biggest enemies of the imperial power.
Just a few months ago, Liao Yongzhong, the Marquis of Deqing, was found to be hiding a dragon robe at home.
Those were brothers who had been together through life and death!
But I still can’t believe it!
He immediately scolded the other party severely, and then executed Liao Yongzhong in tears, regardless of the pleas of Xu Da and others.
The minister conspired to rebel and wanted to barbarize the nine tribes according to the law.
He considered the feelings of his brothers and spared more than a hundred lives of the Liao family, but only deprived him of the inheritance of the title.
Just like that, some idiots called him cold-blooded.
Lan Yu even got drunk and publicly said in front of many Huaixi nobles that Liao Yongzhong was a loyal person who had been framed.
Zhongliang? !
He is Zhongliang, so who am I, Lao Zhu?
Is it a foolish king? !
As expected, none of these people are good people who repay their kindness! !
From this incident, Zhu Yuanzhang understood one thing: father and son go into battle and fight against tigers as brothers.
After working so hard to build the country, he had to let his sons guard him in the end so that he could sleep peacefully.
To put it bluntly, even if the vassal princes rebelled and seized the throne in the future, wouldn't they still be members of his Lao Zhu family?
Although these founding figures were brothers to him on the surface, they were still people with different surnames that he could not trust.
This matter of the title of king and vassal is settled by him, Lao Zhu! !
"Your Majesty, have you forgotten the Eight Kings Rebellion in the Han Dynasty? In the future, if the vassal kings are unable to lose their power, they will inevitably rebel, so think twice!"
Outside the imperial study, the ministers cried and howled one after another.
"Your Majesty, I sincerely request your Majesty to take back the decree to enfeoff the kings."
"The danger of national subjugation is laid here, and the emperor's years of hard work on the war will be in vain."
"..."
Zhu Yuanzhang closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
Damn it, these rotten civil servants are really abominable.
They made trouble when Hongwu was crowned king in the third year, and even threatened themselves with collective resignation.
At that time, he felt that the court was still unstable and needed the work of these ministers, so he had no choice but to take a step back and said that the feudal land would not be divided for the time being, and then he let this group of civil servants stop.
A few days ago, he sealed a few more newborn sons and finished what he had not finished last time.
The civil servants started making noises in court, making the court as lively as a market.
The imperial censor Chen Ning shouted in court: "To govern a country, we must strengthen the branches and strengthen the branches. Dividing the world into dozens of kingdoms is the same as subjugating the country!"
Then, he hit his head on a pillar of the hall.
Immediately afterwards, objections to the enfeoffment immediately piled up on the imperial court like snowflakes.
Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang ignored him, they blocked him in the imperial study room.
By this time, these ministers had been kneeling outside for two days and two nights.
Zhu Yuanzhang was very aware of the virtues of this group of literati, and few of them dared to really seek death except for making trouble.
Therefore, he told them early in the morning not to worry about them, and he would only carry them out when they couldn't bear it any longer and fainted.
It doesn't matter if you have to seek death, it's better to die.
"If the emperor does not take back his decree, let me resign and return to my hometown."
I don't know which minister shouted again in a hoarse voice.
The same thing happens again, the same thing happens again.
After all, this title of king is his family matter.
It's hateful enough for these sour scholars to point fingers at him, but they dare to threaten him! !
What a deception! !
Now that the imperial decrees are mature and running well, any minister who is missing can be replaced, so why does he need to be so angry? !
The leaders kneeling outside the door were all the teachers he assigned to the prince. As a result, they spent all day trying to sow discord between the father, son and brothers of the Zhu family.
Now Biao'er is obeying their advice. After he dies, won't these old guys have their tails floating in the sky and control the government?
In this case, let's just take advantage of this time to clean up these old guys and clear the way for the Ming Dynasty!
Bring out the ancestral craftsmanship of making boards, and be sure to kill a few blind bitches, so that everyone in the world knows who has the final say! !
Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang gritted his teeth and said to Erhu, the closest attendant beside him: "Give me the order. Those who kneel outside the door and won't leave will be given twenty pieces of board for each person. Beat them to death as hard as I can, and be sure to tell them to remember. Who dares? Go secretly and tell the queen, and you will be guilty of the same crime as the people outside the door!"
When Erhu heard this, he did not go out immediately. Instead, he stood there and hesitated to speak.
Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly turned cold: "What? Are you even going to resist the decree?"
Erhu's round purple face turned pale with fright, and he knelt down in a hurry: "Erhu doesn't dare, there is really something that needs to be understood by the Emperor."
"Put it out quickly!!"
Erhu stammered: "Prince Xiang is also outside the door. If these twenty boards go down, Erhu is worried that the young prince will not be able to bear it..."
The muscles on Zhu Yuanzhang's face twitched, he squinted his eyes, and the cold light gathered slightly: "Are you talking about the twelfth Zhu Bai?!"
Erhu lowered his head: "Erhu dare not deceive the emperor. Prince Xiang is indeed outside at the moment."
Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and murmured: "Why is this kid joining in the fun? Shouldn't he be studying in the main hall right now?"
As if in response to his doubts, Zhu Bai's childish cry was heard outside: "Oppose enfeoffment! Abolish feudal autocracy! Give me my freedom! Please take back your decree!"
