For the wealthy families in the north and many officials in the capital, their lives have been quite difficult recently.
The main reason is that the very powerful Prince, after first destroying the Tatars and then the Oara, finally swept and conquered the entire Mobei grassland and was ready to return to the imperial court.
And this news spread throughout the Northland in the past few days, reaching the boundary of the capital, and it was like a huge stone that suppressed the mountains, directly suppressing all the undercurrents...
The situation, which was almost a good situation, suddenly became very unclear.
It also made some people in the capital become extremely panicked.
After all, the inside story of the death of the old Emperor Zhu Di was quite inappropriate and must not be verified. Otherwise, with the decisive character of the Crown Prince, all of them would be executed and all nine clans would be implicated!
Moreover, Zhu Gaojie's consistently strong style and his unfriendly attitude towards wealthy families also made many officials very dissatisfied.
Especially after the Confucian scholars' attack on the Academy of Literature, Zhu Gaojie's heavy responsibility for the Confucian scholars, which was almost completely humiliating, and his ruthless treatment of the military generals, also made many people see clearly the attitude of His Royal Highness towards Confucianism. I felt very uneasy.
Among them, the Northern Sect of the Confucian family, known as the head of Confucianism and the heirloom of saints, was the most active and dissatisfied.
Although the Kong family experienced war, it was divided into two sects, one in the north and one in the south. Each occupied and controlled the world's knowledge and scholars, and firmly controlled the right to speak among the scholars of the Ming Dynasty.
But they are also out-and-out big landowners. They have countless fields in their mansions, and they do everything from lending and doing business. They have countless tenants all over the Ming Dynasty. They are truly invisible big landowners and rich people. Even the local The government, even in the war years, was polite to the Kong family.
With Zhu Gaojie's previous attitude, coupled with his series of actions in the southern part of the Ming Dynasty, all the aristocratic families could see clearly that His Highness the Crown Prince's attitude towards them, or rather the big landowners and big families, was very unfriendly!
You could even call it quite nasty!
This makes them feel very unhappy.
how? When your grandfather rebelled against the Yuan Dynasty, he had to rely on us for funding and help. Otherwise, how could he have driven away the Mongols so easily, seized this rich world, and ruled the Central Plains?
As it turns out, it has only been a few decades since you came to this place. You have not even ascended the throne, and you are already thinking about ruthlessly attacking us?
Is this a big deal?
In particular, Zhu Gaojie founded a liberal arts academy and made it a point to teach and support those students from poor families who had no foundation and open up career paths for them. This approach deeply offended many Ming officials.
Although the Ming Dynasty had scientific examinations to obtain scholars, it still relied more on family relationships and interest backgrounds. In this aspect, the aristocratic families had innate advantages. Even though Zhu Yuanzhang claimed to have started with a broken bowl, he established such a great empire. , we can still only hold our noses and appoint these officials with backgrounds.
Even the founding fathers themselves came from big families. Even though they experienced many attacks from Zhu Yuanzhang and vigorously supported the imperial examination, they did not have a very good curbing effect. On the contrary, in Zhu Di's generation, due to the Jingnan crisis, These aristocratic families took the opportunity to gain more power and status in the court.
As for the Ming Dynasty, "the imperial power did not go to the countryside" is a vivid portrayal...
If it weren't for Zhu Gaojie's high prestige in the army and his own strength, and Zhu Di's support for him because of the simulator, his East Palace would have been in trouble for a long time!
It is precisely because of this that the aristocratic families are very dissatisfied with Zhu Gaojie, who founded the Literary Academy and suppressed them. After experiencing the incidents in the south where Confucian scholars made trouble and were suppressed, this dissatisfaction and anger have become more intense.
At this critical juncture, the old emperor was seriously ill, and the Tatars and Oaras took the opportunity to collude with them to invade. Instead of staying in the capital to stabilize the situation, Zhu Gaojiu frivolously ran out to personally lead an expedition to Mobei.
This almost made the wealthy family and many officials laugh out loud behind their backs.
In their opinion, with the strong troops and horses of the Tatars and Oaras, Zhu Gaojie would definitely be gone this time, and it might be difficult to even leave his body intact.
Under this situation, they started to secretly do something secretly, trying to do something in the capital first.
However, as news of victory continued to come from the front, even the entire country of Tatar was almost wiped out by Zhu Gaojie. This suddenly made many people panic and feel extremely uneasy.
If Zhu Gaojie really swept across the entire grassland and returned to the court, would they still have a way to survive in the future?
Therefore, under the secret leadership of the Northern Sect of the Kong family, many aristocratic families and court officials secretly worked hard to bribe and coerce some imperial doctors, and directly tried to kill the old emperor who was already seriously ill and in a coma!
Then they took the opportunity to launch an attack. Yang Rong, the chief minister of the cabinet who stayed in the capital, and Xia Lao Shangshu of the Ministry of Revenue, who firmly supported Zhu Gaojie, were so troubled that they had no time to take care of them. They prepared to cut off Zhu Gaojie's logistics and food, leaving him with all the three major battalions. Died on the grassland beyond the Great Wall.
As for who will be the Ming Emperor?
Isn’t that simple? Your old Zhu family doesn’t only have this option. The other princes or other clans also have the option!
But just after these people started their conspiracy, they were shocked to receive the news that after destroying the Tatars, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Ming Dynasty captured the entire territory of Oara and almost completely conquered the entire Mobei grassland!
Right now, we are preparing to return to the court and return in triumph!
This breaking news, which can be called a shocking victory, immediately shocked all those sneaky and conspiratorial guys!
And after they finally reacted, Zhu Gaojie encountered a wave of extremely ferocious assassinations on his way back to the army!
"oh?"
"They are all dead soldiers, and no one was caught alive?"
Zhu Gaojie was sitting in the tent, expressionlessly listening to the reports from his subordinates.
"In other words, these bastards are pretending to be grateful, beating gongs and drums, killing cattle and sheep, just to sneak into the army, create chaos, and then kill me, the Ming Dynasty Prince, with one knife?"
Shen Qingyu, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, who came specially to greet Zhu Gaojie, but ended up encountering such a mess. After hearing Zhu Gaojie's words, his whole body was about to go numb.
The assassin made such a big noise and almost actually injured His Highness, but in the end, he couldn't catch anyone alive...
Shen Qingyu felt very helpless about this. These assassins had really tricked her! (End of chapter)
