Xiangyang Imperial City, Chengyun Hall.
When King Xiang Zhu Yiming and King Chu Zhu Huakui arrived outside the main hall together, they saw Zhu Youjian wearing a neat arrow suit, surrounded by several civil and military ministers, and came out to greet him in person.
Chu King Zhu Huakui had never met Zhu Youjian, but on the way to Xiangyang, he had heard Zhu Yiming talk about Zhu Youjian's appearance and figure. Now when I see the real person, I immediately know that this is the Ming Dynasty's current Long Live Lord.
When you see the Long Live Lord, of course you have to pay homage, not prostrate, but bow. The old prince always invites people to pay homage to him, but he doesn’t pay much homage to others, so he had to think carefully about how to perform this great ceremony of bowing and bowing. Before he could think about it, Zhu Youjian had already laughed and said: "Grandpa, there is no need for such a big gift...they are all family members! Come on, come on in."
Hearing what Zhu Youjian said, Chu King Zhu Huakui felt very unhappy, so he stopped bowing. He wanted to go up and bow his hands in a swagger, but he didn't expect Zhu Youjian to say again: "King Chu, you are not my great-uncle." , you have to salute!”
When Chu King Zhu Huakui heard this, he felt a sense of ominousness in his heart. He is indeed not Zhu Youjian's great-uncle, he is Zhu Youjian's great-uncle, and he is of the same generation as Emperor Mu Miao Longqing Zhu Zaijing.
My great-uncle and grandpa no longer bowed, but my great-uncle and grandpa still want to bow down? This is not a good sign.
"Old minister Zhu Huakui, King of Chu, respectfully greets you..." Chu King Zhu Huakui bowed respectfully, and then stood in front of Zhu Youjian and Xiang Wang Zhu Yiming with his hands down.
Zhu Yiming didn't know what happened, and his expression was a little embarrassed, "Long live Lord, what are you..."
Zhu Youjian said with a cold face: "Grandpa, do you think this King Chu looks like our grandfather?"
What happened? Zhu Yiming was confused before he could react.
But Chu King Zhu Huakui's mind went blank with a bang.
Because what Zhu Youjian said was not said casually, but was well-founded!
The blood lineage of Chu King Zhu Huakui is very suspicious!
His father, King Zhu Ying of Chu Gong, came to the throne at the age of ten and reigned for 20 years. Until his death, he did not leave any sons and a half daughters. After his death, the palace maid Hu gave birth to a pair of twins, who were said to be posthumous sons, namely the current Chu King Zhu Huakui and his brother Zhu Huabi.
Before the death of King Zhu Ying of Chu, it was rumored throughout the Chu vassal that he was impotent and could not give birth to offspring. Therefore, the birth of Zhu Huakui and Zhu Huabi filled the Chu family with suspicion. When the candidate for the throne was determined, Wang Ruoquan, the guest of honor in the palace, reported that Brother Zhu Huakui was not the son of Prince Gong!
However, the court at that time did not pay attention to these rumors and secret reports, and still allowed Zhu Huakui to seize the title. However, in February of the 31st year of Wanli, Lieutenant Zhu Huabao of Fuguo, a clan member of the Chu Mansion, united 29 people from the same clan and sent a petition, calling Zhu Huakui a false king. The son of Princess Gong's brother Wang Ruyan's concubine Yu Jinmei, and the son of Huabi Naifei's clan Wang Ruqi's family Wang Yu, both were born a few months ago and then adopted in the Prince of Chu's Mansion!
This advertisement immediately caused a huge stir and led to a widely implicated "Fake King of Chu Case"!
Although this major case was under the full campaign of Zhu Huakui and the cover of Emperor Wanli, it finally ended in Zhu Huakui's victory.
But the people of the Chu family were not fools either - King Chu Gong lived to be thirty years old before he passed away. He had at least ten years to save seeds, but he had nothing to produce! During this period, so many women in King Chu's harem were not pregnant with children. As a result, everyone died, and two posthumous children emerged... Can this be true?
Zhu Yiming also remembered this matter, "Long live Lord, this matter has been finalized during the Wanli period..."
"Grandpa!" Zhu Youjian said with a stern face, "It can't be true, and it can't be true!" He turned his head again and glared at Zhu Huakui, "Huakui, do you know why I delayed the late emperor's wet nurse, Hakka?" ? Do you also know why Wei Zhongxian, the rival of the Hakka family, died? It was because the Hakka family adopted two pregnant women in the palace and I saw them with my own eyes... This is an unforgivable sin!"
When Zhu Huakui heard this, he knelt down in front of Zhu Youjian. He was really in tears.
It’s so difficult for him, the King of Chu! He has been tormented by the case of the fake King of Chu from childhood to old age, and now he is about to die. And because of this matter, he has been defeated by a man who has defeated the three vassals of Dai, [520 www.biquge520.xyz] Fu and Qin. The king of Shu took aim at the young emperor who went to Shaanxi.
How ruthless this little emperor is! Is there anything better after being targeted by him?
But it is impossible for Zhu Huakui to admit that he is a Xibei. If he admits, he will still be alive?
"Long live my lord, I am really my grandfather's descendant! It's true, I am really..."
In fact, he doesn't know whether he is true or false? He is old now and has a bad memory. He has long forgotten the situation when he was born.
"But I don't look like it, you are just a fake king!" Zhu Youjian said, and pulled the stunned Zhu Yiming into the hall together.
Two chairs have been placed in the main hall. In one, Zhu Youjian sat on the dragon chair and placed it in the middle. The other one placed next to it is Zhu Yiming's chair... As expected, there is no seat left for Chu King Zhu Huakui. It seems that he is going to be moved!
In addition, there is a group of Jinyiwei wearing Feiyu uniforms and embroidered spring knives on their waists. The leader is a middle-aged man in his forties with a fierce and sinister look on his face. Zhu Yiming has never seen him before, so he must be He came to Xiangyang Prefecture after going south.
"Xu Xianchun!" Zhu Youjian had already opened his mouth to summon the man leading the Jin Yiwei.
Hearing this name, Zhu Yiming sighed in his heart - Xu Xianchun is the commander of the Jinyi Guards! He came to Xiangyang from Beijing. He must have a shocking case to handle!
Zhu Huakui is about to finish!
"I'm here!" Xu Xianchun strode forward and bowed.
Zhu Youjian pointed at Zhu Huakui, who was paralyzed on the ground with fear: "There is a fake King of Chu here who has deceived him for more than fifty years... Fortunately, I saw everything clearly and made him unable to hide!
You quickly arrest him, then send people to Wuchang City to capture Xuanhua King Zhu Huabi... and then arrest all their children and grandchildren! "
"I accept the decree!"
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"Long live Lord, you, you really want to..."
In the Chengyun Hall, Prince Xiang Zhu Yiming was still a little frightened, and his voice was trembling when he spoke.
"Grandpa," Zhu Youjian said with a calm face, "Everyone in the Chu family knows that he is a fake. That is to say, the temple grandpa has a kind heart and will be deceived by this liar. Now I will remove the fake king. As well as the two fake kings of Xuanhua, the whole Chu family will definitely applaud!"
can you?
King Xiang Zhu Yiming is very suspicious!
"Long live Lord, will the Chu vassal be removed? The previous Qin vassal was removed because there were no heirs..."
"I have planned to renew the title of Qin Fan!" Zhu Youjian said, "But the Qin Mansion has been given to the King of Shu, and the renewed King of Qin can only go to Nanjing to sit with King Fu and King Dai. As for the Chu Fan... ...We will wait until I arrive in Wuchang, and I will let King Yong'an take care of the affairs of Chu Mansion first."
What “say it again” means, of course, depends on the performance! If you perform well, your title will be renewed; if you perform poorly, you will be expelled from the country; if you perform extremely poorly, you will be an accomplice of the fake King of Chu, and will be captured and imprisoned in the high walls of Fengyang.
As for how to behave well, there is actually a role model, which is the Liao Prince's Mansion in Jingzhou Mansion. Because Zhu Xian, the seventh generation king of the Liao Dynasty, was punished by the Longqing Emperor Zhu Zaiye (because he liked to practice Taoism), he had someone put up a white flag with the words "Injustice" written on it, and then set it up at the door of his palace as a protest.
As a result, he was tricked by Zhang Juzheng, the enemy of the Liao Palace, and lost his ancestral throne. However, the lineage of the Liao kings is not completely dead yet. There is still a Liao clan leader, which is currently in charge of Zhu Shuyu, the king of Guangshi.
And this Zhu Shuyuan, the king of luster, was a very sensible prince, and he took the initiative to write a memorial to "ask for a child" and "please move to Nanjing". Zhu Youjian was very happy and had publicly stated that he would renew the Liao Kingdom and planned to let him. Zhu Shuyuan, the king of Guangshi, became the king of Liao. And he doesn't plan to let Liao Mansion go to Nanjing - Liao Mansion has long been out of oil and water. Why should a poor king go to Nanjing?
