In the Qianqing Palace, Zhu Di lay lazily on a wicker chair in the corridor and dozed off in the sun.
Suddenly, the old man shuddered and woke up from his sleep.
Zhu Di touched the tip of his nose, and the clothes on his back were soaked with cold sweat: "Mom, why do I dream about my father again? This dream is so bizarre. Why does my father always scare me in my dreams?"
He fell into deep thought, "If my father knew that I had rebelled against that little bastard Jianwen, he probably wouldn't be murderous. After all, I am his biological son..."
"Why do I want to do such nonsense? My father has been dead for many years."
"sleep."
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"Beast! Fourth son, you are such a bastard, we have to skin you and drag you away!"
Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, "How dare this bastard? Less than a year after our death, he has already rebelled boldly and eagerly. This bastard is a bastard and a traitor!"
The personalities on the side were watching the show, and Boss Cao said with emotion: "This newcomer has a bit of a bad temper, hahaha."
"I'm a little curious about how Emperor Zhu would feel if he knew that his father had become his son."
"Is this Zhu Yuanzhang? The founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty who started with a bowl?"
Ying Zheng praised unabashedly: "I heard Xiao Zhu say something about his grandfather Zhu Yuanzhang. He was indeed a fierce man. He was a beggar monk. He recruited troops and fought in troubled times. He fought from south to north, expelled foreign races and established China. Even I didn’t expect there to be such a fierce person.”
Zhu Gaojie was trying his best to clear his father's name: "Grandpa, in fact, my father really didn't want to rebel. He just wanted to protect himself."
Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he laughed back: "What kind of damn thing is this beast called Lao Si to protect himself as an emperor? We let him sit in Peiping and lead the army. We asked him to garrison at the border. Put the army in the hands of the Zhu family and serve the Ming Dynasty." He is guarding the border and defending the enemy outside the country, why would he ever think of letting him rebel!"
Zhu Gaojie said earnestly: "Grandpa, I understand what you mean. Take back the military power of the generals with foreign surnames and hand them over to the vassal king. Let the vassal king form a defense line north of Nanjing, so that the military power will always be controlled by our Zhu family... "
Zhu Yuanzhang's expression softened slightly: "You are a good boy. You know that we have good intentions and bring blessings to future generations. When we canonized the princes as vassal kings, many ministers opposed us, and some bastards even took advantage of the Western Jin Dynasty. The Rebellion of the Eight Kings is here to warn us, but have we ever thought that we established the prince as the vassal king not to let the Zhu family enjoy the glory and wealth, but to make the Ming Dynasty's border defenses impregnable and keep the capital safe for a long time."
The best military strategist in the Ming Dynasty was not Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Lan Yu and others, but Zhu Yuanzhang.
Even Zhu Di, who had been in power for a lifetime, was slightly inferior to Zhu Yuanzhang's long-term military vision.
Ordinary generals fight to solve current problems.
Zhu Di's war was to solve problems fifty or one hundred years from now.
Zhu Yuanzhang's war was to solve problems that would happen two hundred or three hundred years later.
Before the Ming Dynasty, there was no shortage of national policies in history to enfeoff kings. The most famous one was the parallelism of prefectures and states in the early Han Dynasty, which eventually led to the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms. The second was the enfeoffment of the Western Jin Dynasty, which eventually led to the Rebellion of the Eight Kings, and then the kings of the Yuan Dynasty came out of control. There were also some discordant voices, such as King Ananda of Anxi, and King Aluhui Tiemu of Yangdi. Son.
All the feudal kings in the past dynasties had a bad end. However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not forget about food but not fighting. With his excellent military vision and profound political means, he made changes in the policy of feudal kings in the past dynasties.
In the Yuan Dynasty's "zong king leaving town" system, Zhu Yuanzhang relied on his experienced experience to bring about sublimation, especially in the north.
Among Zhu Yuanzhang's twenty-six sons, except for the prince who was in Beijing, King Zhao and prince Zhu Nan died in infancy. The remaining twenty-three sons were divided into eighteen vassal kings outside the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty. They were scattered along the nine sides of the Great Wall. There are nine kings of Han, Liao, Shen, Yan, Gu, Dai, An, Qing and Su. King Ning is even sealed outside the wall. If you add the King of Qin in Shaanxi and the King of Jin in Shanxi, there are twelve, that is, It is said that Jiubianxian alone accounts for half of Zhu Yuanzhang's sons.
In addition, in the 24th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang granted King Han to Kaiyuan and King Shen to Shenyang, but they did not grant vassal status because they were young. If these two are added, twelve of the nineteen kings would be granted the title of vassal. border.
In terms of the national policy of enfeoffing kings in the past dynasties, and based on the template of the Yuan Dynasty's "simplistic version of Zong Wang Chu Town", Zhu Yuanzhang took the essence and discarded the dross, and developed: "Zong Wang Chu Chu Town 2.0 Ming Dynasty's top understanding version"
No matter how you evaluate it, this is Zhu Yuanzhang's most proud masterpiece, and it is also an outstanding policy throughout ancient and modern history. It enabled the Ming Empire to advance, attack, retreat, and defend, making it invincible in terms of national defense. No matter how chaotic the Ming Dynasty is, as long as this national policy remains, the steel defense lines established by the kings can stop all foreigners who invade the Han people.
"You may not believe it, but I still have to say it."
Zhu Gaojie hesitated for a moment and said, "Grandpa, I am not quibbling on behalf of my father. This is a fact. Before my father rebelled, your most proud masterpiece, the national policy of the king's coming out of town, had already fallen apart. ”
Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that his beard stood up: "Nonsense! This child Yunwen is obedient. We have told him not to attack his uncles and to maintain friendly relations with the kings. No matter how bad the relationship between the Zhu family is, Damn, we must always put the overall situation first, the safety of the Ming Dynasty first, with him as the emperor escorting the national policy of the royal family, who can destroy the national defense system we have left behind!"
Zhu Gaojie hit the nail on the head: "It's Jianwen himself. My cousin, Emperor Jianwen of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Yunwen, it was he who single-handedly destroyed all the national policies you left behind!"
Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned: "You are talking nonsense! How could this kid Yunwen disobey our last words!"
Zhu Gaojie said seriously: "This is true. In less than ten months after Emperor Jianwen ascended the throne, he deposed five vassal kings. Your fifth son, King Zhou, is also my fifth uncle. His conduct is refined and studious, and he has no choice but to The articles and poems did not pose any threat to Jianwen, but he still did not escape the disaster. The whole family was taken back to Nanjing, deposed as common people, and exiled to Yunnan. Then they cut Qi, Hunan, and three princes in succession. "
"The King of Qi and the King of Dai are fine, they are just imprisoned as common people. The worst is the Prince of Xiang, alas..."
Zhu Yuanzhang asked in an unimaginable way: "Do you want to listen to what you are saying? Isn't it bad enough that the majestic Ming vassal king was deposed and imprisoned as a commoner? It could be worse? Could it be that Jianwen could force his own uncle to death? ?”
King Zhu Bai of Hunan was the twelfth son of Zhu Yuanzhang. Although he was not the legitimate son of Queen Ma, he was one of Zhu Yuanzhang's most beloved sons.
The King of Xiang had an elegant demeanor and was good at calligraphy, painting and poetry. His calligraphy was powerful. Xie Jin said that "the calligraphy is a profound interpretation of the people of Jin Dynasty, and the precise thinking and movement combine with the rules." Whenever Zhu Yuanzhang wrote a poem, he liked to have Zhu Bai write it. In addition, the King of Xiang He is also proficient in picture calligraphy and can be called a literary figure.
Not only was he outstanding in literary talent, King Xiang was also a talented general of his generation. He had extraordinary arm strength, could use bows, arrows, and swords freely, and had amazing talents in the art of war. He once dispatched troops outside the fortress, personally rode horses to chase the enemy, and killed the enemy's vanguard. To be defeated is to be called a brave man.
When the kings were preparing to take over the vassal state, Lao Zhu gave each prince a jade belt to wear. Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the kings to turn around and let him see the jewelry behind the belt. All the kings turned their backs to the emperor. , only King Xiang turned the belt over to his father for inspection. To this, King Xiang replied: "You cannot carry it on your father's back!"
What father wouldn't like such a versatile child with a gentle personality and a very filial nature?
Zhu Gaojie sighed: "Prince Xiang, my twelfth uncle has been accused of conspiracy, counterfeiting treasures, and murder without authorization. He surrounded the palace of Prince Xiang and prepared to capture Prince Xiang!"
Zhu Yuanzhang exclaimed: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible! With such a gentle and upright character, how could King Xiang rebel? How could he forge treasures? How could he kill people without permission? This is slander!"
Can he still not understand the son he gave birth to?
How could this kid, King Xiang, do these things?
This is naked slander!
What beast dares to slander our son!
Zhu Gaojie sighed: "But this is the truth. Everyone knows it is a slander, but everyone has to pretend to believe it, because everyone knows Emperor Jianwen's determination to reduce the vassal. King Xiang can only bear this crime. But I After your death, these twelve uncles were deeply saddened and had thoughts of abandoning the world. Now that they were slandered, Prince Xiang couldn't bear the humiliation. He set fire to his concubines, dressed in the prince's clothes, and held a bow and arrow. Leap into the fire on your white horse and die calmly!”
"Not only that, after my poor uncle King Xiang died, because he had no surviving heirs, King Xiang's title and title were revoked, and Emperor Jianwen gave him the posthumous title of - Violent!"
"That is to say, after my father ascended the throne, he took pity on Uncle Xiang Wang who died innocently and suffered humiliation, so he issued an order to restore Uncle Xiang Wang's reputation, changed his posthumous name to Xian, and set up ancestral officials to guard the mausoleum for Uncle Xiang Wang."
A posthumous title is a summary of a person's life's merits and demerits. How many literati have struggled all their lives just to be given the posthumous title "Wenzheng". Therefore, there is also a saying that "a scholar should die with the posthumous title Wenzheng." Contrary to a good posthumous title, an evil posthumous title is the most disgusting. That's the way to go. People are already dead, so why bother letting people have no peace after death and let them be reviled by future generations?
Unless the person actually did something bad that was outraged by both humans and gods during his lifetime, and caused all kinds of bad karma, generally he would not be given a bad posthumous title after his death. At most, he would be given a good or not bad posthumous title.
King Xiang defended his dignity with his determination to die, but it failed to impress the cold heart of his nephew, Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunwen.
After receiving the news of King Xiang's death, Emperor Jianwen was furious at first, and then issued an edict to give Zhu Bai the posthumous title "Rou".
Those who do not want to be submissive are called cruelty, which is a completely evil posthumous title.
In Emperor Jianwen's mind, King Xiang should obediently kill him, so how could he commit suicide? This is called "not thinking about accepting it."
What a pity for King Xiang. He had good conduct and outstanding talents. He was clearly one of the most outstanding vassal kings since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. As the son of Taizu, he was so humiliated that he could not live in peace after his death.
Zhu Yuanzhang was as weak as if his backbone had been taken away, and murmured to himself in a daze: "How could this happen? How could this happen? This kid Jianwen is very obedient. How could he disobey our last words and be so cruel and merciless to his uncle? This doesn’t make sense.”
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