Zhu Di did not dare to say that he was a saint and had nothing wrong with him.
But he knows how to hide himself and what he should do.
Among the vassal kings in the early Ming Dynasty, King Zhu Feng of Qin, King Zhu Fan of Jin, and King Zhu Di of Yan were the strongest, and all three of them were good at fighting and were extremely brave.
King Zhu Chong of Qin was cruel, fond of killing, misbehaving and rebellious, so he was often reprimanded by Zhu Yuanzhang.
The King of Jin, Zhu Fan, was no exception, but he was slightly better than the King of Qin. He probably laughed at a hundred steps at fifty steps.
If both of them were not protected by Crown Prince Zhu Biao, they might both be deprived of their thrones by Zhu Yuanzhang.
Compared with the King of Qin and King Jin who quickly deteriorated after becoming the king, the performance of King Yan Zhu Di was even more eye-catching.
At least, the bad reputation of this brutal killing did not fall on Zhu Di.
Zhu Di once heard that the third brother was severely reprimanded by his father for whipping the cook.
In itself, as a vassal king, whipping a lowly cook was not a big deal.
But Zhu Yuanzhang started from a young age, and naturally knew that as a small person, his inner tolerance is really not big.
If he holds a grudge because of this incident, it is not impossible that he will have some strange condiments in his diet in the future.
Zhu Fan was reprimanded by his father, and he took it seriously, thinking that his father was right.
From then on, the cooks were no longer whipped, but cracked with chariots instead, which solved the root cause of the cook's grudge-holding problem.
Zhu Di knew very well that if the blood of the third brother was not the blood of the old Zhu family, and his crimes were placed on another noble person, he would have been beheaded in public.
Zhu Di believes that this second level of speculation should be related to him.
Now that he is the prince, he is already the king in terms of status!
Other vassal kings, even his brothers, even uncles, are all ministers!
The distinction between emperor and minister means that Zhu Di can use all the power he wants to mobilize to serve the investigation.
Anyone who dares to stop him, or violates his authority, is deceiving the emperor and ignores his superiors. He can be directly punished and executed.
Just making a decision is always related to many factors.
Zhu Di is not a roundworm in Zhu Yuanzhang's belly. He can only rely on past experience and existing wisdom to make judgments about his father's actions.
Whether it's accurate or not depends on how well he knows his father.
However, the Zhu Yuanzhang now is no longer the Zhu Yuanzhang of before, so his judgment often shows huge deviations.
This time Zhu Yuanzhang sent him to investigate the matter, and he did not care about the style of the King of Jin at all, nor did he care about the distinction between monarch and minister.
It's purely because Zhu Di is close now and can go directly after giving the order.
Unlike Jin King Zhu Fan, who is still in his fiefdom in Taiyuan, the imperial edict still needs to be conveyed to Taiyuan, Shanxi Province before Zhu Fan can set off.
This will inevitably waste a lot of time. How can Zhu Di be arranged on the spot so quickly?
The reason for this is that even if Zhu Di thinks about it, he won't understand it.
In fact, the brain circuits of the two are completely different from each other, so how can they have common ideas?
After Zhu Di accepted the order, he was about to leave. Zhu Yuanzhang stopped him and said: "There is a list of those who will be buried behind this. Let's refute it. Please tell them not to be buried first."
"yes."
Zhu Di was a little surprised. This burial was something that his father had personally planned. Could it be that he had to make changes now?
The system of burials has been around for a long time. According to Mozi: "The emperor killed hundreds of people and dozens of widows; generals and officials killed dozens and widows several dozen."
This means that during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, from the emperor to the scholar-bureaucrats, as long as they were members of the aristocratic class, once they died, they would be buried with a large number of slaves.
There are also records about burials in "Miscellaneous Notes of Xijing". During the Western Han Dynasty, a tomb robber went to rob the tomb of King You of Zhou Dynasty. In his tomb, he found the corpses of more than a hundred victims, criss-crossed with each other, and looked like they were dead. Extremely miserable.
King You of Zhou, who played tricks on the princes by beacon fire, eventually died at the hands of the rebel army, and was only hastily buried after his death.
But even so, King You of Zhou still had so many victims. It is conceivable that other emperors who died of their old age had many victims.
After the death of Qin Shihuang, a large number of concubines were buried. As long as they had no heirs, they all followed the First Emperor into the underground palace.
After the Han Dynasty, the burial system was abolished for a time. It was not until the Jin, Yuan and other nomadic peoples entered the Central Plains that this barbaric system revived.
Zhu Yuanzhang recognized the legal status of the Yuan Dynasty, and naturally inherited this barbaric burial. Even though many ministers wrote to abolish it, Zhu Yuanzhang did not agree from the perspective of rule.
The burial system also existed in the Ming Dynasty for nearly a hundred years, and was later abolished by the emperor Zhu Qizhen, which became a major achievement in his life.
However, the matter of sacrificial burial did not disappear into the dust. More than a hundred years later, when the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, sacrificial burial remained the same. Even if it was later abolished, it still existed among the people.
Now that his father took the initiative to mention this matter, Zhu Di was surprised and agreed.
Speaking of which, his sister-in-law's life was not satisfactory.
The second brother has never liked the concubine Guanyin Nu, so he is often mean in his life.
Now that the second brother is dead, if nothing unexpected happens, Guanyin slave, who is the concubine, will also go with him and be buried in the same cave with him.
Zhu Di sighed slightly in his heart, this marriage grant from a political perspective was going to have a tragic ending.
Now that my father has explicitly ordered to postpone the burial time, this may be a turning point.
Zhu Di once thought about the issue of burial, but at that time he was the king of Yan, so he could only think about it in his head, and there was no condition to abolish it.
Although he has become the prince now, out of consideration for his own status and fear of disobeying Zhu Yuanzhang, he will not mention this matter.
In the original history, after Zhu Di succeeded in the Jing Dynasty, he did not abolish the burial ceremony. The reasons are complicated.
The most important reason is that Zhu Di was in the wrong position and rebelled against him. Therefore, he did not hesitate to copy and inherit all the legal systems formulated by Zhu Yuanzhang to show that he was Zhu Yuanzhang's orthodox successor.
At the moment, Zhu Di had some thoughts, but he quickly suppressed them.
When he walked out of Wuying Hall, he did not set off immediately, but returned to the East Palace first.
Detailed matters such as investigating a case require careful tracing to the source. Zhu Di thought that he was not good at it, so he decided to take Monk Daoyan with him.
With Monk Daoyan by his side, Zhu Di would always feel more at ease. With Monk Daoyan's intelligence, he would surely be given a lot of surprises when the time comes.
Returning to the East Palace, Zhu Di finished explaining the matter to Monk Daoyan and said: "Old monk, you have to work hard this time. You went with me. There are many things in Shaanxi, and I may not be able to take care of them alone."
Zhu Di had previously sent Wei Guogong Xu Huizu to Huizhou, Shaanxi Province to quell the demon rebellion, and at the same time traced the source to find out the truth about the demon rebellion. To this day, there has been no return, which shows that things are not as simple as imagined.
Now the King of Qin, Zhu Xi, died of poisoning, and the cause of death was bizarre. Zhu Dixin said that Shaanxi may have become a chaotic whirlpool, and it may not be that simple to find out the truth from it.
Zhu Di knew this truth very well, so he called the monk Daoyan, so that he could have someone to discuss things with.
Dao Yan understood what Zhu Di meant, nodded, and said: "It seems that we are going to go straight into the tiger's den with His Highness this time."
"Bah, what you say is unlucky for an old monk!"
Monk Daoyan just smiled and said nothing. He was proficient in Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and his knowledge was mixed.
This time he felt that the situation in Shaanxi must not be that simple.
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