The current Fengning King Zhao Chuanyou is the only son of Fengning King Yizhong and the grandson of the first generation king Yigui. In theory, he is the cousin of the current Emperor Jingwu who has not yet emerged from the fifth server.
Emperor Taizu of this dynasty was not only capable of fighting, but also capable of giving birth. Twelve of the eighteen adult princes led troops to fight, helping me in conquests here and there.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he went through the Huaibei Expedition, attacked Liaodong, captured Shuhan, and captured Guanzhong. Princes were present in all military campaigns. This situation gradually decreased until the death of Taizu. In the end, only King Jin, King Zun, King Su and King Yong still held the title of Jiedushi.
Unfortunately, Grandfather Taizu had a strong body, and as the founding king of the country, he lived to his eightieth birthday without any suspense. What's even more amazing is that he went through hundreds of battles but was never injured once, and he died without any illness in his sleep.
Li Dan couldn't help but compare him with Emperor Zhu in his previous life, and found that the main reason was that Taizu was born in a powerful place, his family had land and caravans, and his ancestors had been officials, so he suffered less and had enough food. My health is better, and because my family has a fleet going to Southeast Asia, my horizons are also broadened.
This is why this dynasty is more tolerant and more open-minded than the Ming Dynasty. It has never killed heroes and scribes on a large scale, or restricted the development of industry and commerce.
Of course, this is also due to the fact that emperors of all dynasties insisted that they were descendants of the Zhao and Song dynasties and worked hard to inherit their culture and style.
However, the eighty-year-old Taizu has a serious problem like Lao Zhu. He has been in power for too long! When he was seventy-two years old, he passed the throne to the prince in order to inherit the clan.
In the fourth year of Yongnian, Emperor Chengzong died of heart disease. Taizu supported the emperor's grandson to ascend the throne for Yanzong. Unexpectedly, only one year after Yanzong inherited the throne, he encountered a heavy rain on his way back from the hunting ground. In panic, Yanzong was hit by a frightened horse and died.
Because Prince Yanzong was still young, Taizu had to return to the throne. Three years later, the new king ascended the throne and was named Longzhi. It took another half a year for Taizu to pass away.
In this way, the extremely long-lived founder of the country personally supported three generations of emperors before his death, which made Li Dan gasp in surprise.
What follows is a story that Li Dan has heard adults often tell since he was a child. Emperor Longzhi ascended the throne at a young age and was influenced by minister Song Duan and others. As he grew older, he became more and more inclined to centralization and civil rule.
He ordered to stop the conquest of the Tatars and the Iron Khanate in the Western Regions, hoping to rest in peace with the people. However, on the other hand, he imitated the practice of releasing military power over a glass of wine and emptied the Five Army Governor's Office. Command the troops.
After taking back military power, the confident Emperor Longzhi not only expanded the power of civil servants and implemented the cabinet responsibility system, but also began to implement the path of combining the government and military systems with the military system.
He reduced the size of the garrison and limited it to suppressing civil unrest and assisting in public security, and used the battalion as the main force for internal and external combat. This alleviated the situation in Taizu's era where the troops only recognized generals, but it led to dissatisfaction between the upper echelons of the army and the martial arts officers towards the emperor and civilian officials.
What followed was the thrilling campaign to cut down the vassal vassal. When Emperor Longzhi discovered that a large number of royal families would increase the financial burden on the country, he reduced the strength of the kings with the help of Song Duan.
At this time, he was not as reckless as Emperor Jianwen of Zhu Ming. Instead, he first sent troops to the cities where the kings were, and then told them that the world was peaceful and that I had sent troops to take charge of your safety. Then the prince promised to retain 320 guards. The county king retained two hundred guards, and all others were abolished.
Seeing that there was no movement and few people crying, Longji took the next step.
The wealth of the world should be owned by the people and should not be concentrated in one family. Therefore, our family is comfortable enough and does not need so many expenses.
The prince's annual salary of five thousand taels is enough. Unless there is no latter, the number of wives and concubines is not allowed to exceed five. Children born outside wives and concubines are treated as illegitimate according to the law. Without special purpose, they do not enjoy the right to inherit inheritance and receive titles, and they are not allowed to accept shadow titles.
The remaining sons of those who have succeeded to the title of nobility will be downgraded, which means that for the son who fails to take the title of king, you can ask the emperor to grant him a title, but it can only be a duke and not a king.
In the same way, the son of a duke can only be a general, the son of a general can only be a lieutenant, and the son of a lieutenant... is a commoner.
Therefore, there is another one: those without nobility can wear yellow belts, and their status is the same as that of scholars.
You see, he is not a commoner, but a higher-ranking scholar. He can meet an official without bowing, but he is not allowed to participate in the imperial examination in the capital! You are a son of the royal family
Brother, don't compete with ordinary nobles for the limited number of Jinshi places.
There was a smart emperor, but a descendant of the royal family like Zhao Jingzi lived an awkward and frustrated life.
From then on, the salary of the county prince was also reduced to 3,500 taels, which was similar to that of a middle-class family, with four wives and concubines allowed.
Oh, by the way, there is also an additional point here. All royal guards are under the management of the Ministry of War (later transferred to the Fifth Army Governor's Office during the Xuanzong period) and the Yiwei Department. This way, it is impossible for the princes to use the raising of soldiers as an argument.
Longzhi's thinking mode is: Since there are not so many wives and concubines in the family, naturally the Wangzhuang does not need to be too large! Thinking of this, the emperor was very happy and ordered:
Starting from the first month of the next year, our Zhao family will lead by example and first come to the stall to enter the acres!
The so-called Ding refers to an adult man. The prince's territory is limited to 5,000 acres, the king's territory is 4,300 acres, and the county's territory is 3,500 acres. On this basis, for every Ding who reaches adulthood, two hundred acres of Dingkou land will be granted to his name.
In this way, if an adult Dingkou is granted a title, he will receive the title according to the title, and add the Dingkou field in his name. The only one without a title is Dingkou field.
This restricted the annexation of land by Wangzhuang to a certain extent, and also indirectly forced the princes to focus on profitable trade, mining and other industries.
These are all fine, and nothing has happened to the relatives. After all, the world belongs to the Zhao family, so can they still turn their elbows outward? What's more, the country had not been established for a long time at that time, and the vassals had not yet become too big, so Emperor Longzhi's reforms had been quite smooth and successful up to this point.
In the ninth year of Longzhi's reign, the King of Jin was accused of secretly refining the drug and testing the drug on folk women. As a result, the people of Jinyang City surrounded the Yamen and demanded an explanation.
The emperor sent the Minister of Punishment from Jinling (the capital was Jinling at that time) to Jinyang to investigate, but he was unexpectedly surrounded by angry people at the city gate.
That night, the King of Jin dispatched 5,000 troops to surround Jinyang as the military envoy to the three towns of Datong, Taiyuan and Yulin, saying that the county magistrate was rebelling and wanted to enter the city to quell the rebellion.
But he didn't expect the imperial envoy to arrive in Jinyang so quickly, and after some negotiations he had to retreat.
This incident gave Longzhi a very advantageous excuse, and soon a censor impeached the King of Jin for treason and lawlessness. The King of Jin did not want to face Tiqi who came to arrest him and bring him to the capital for interrogation. He committed suicide by taking poison when they entered the palace gate.
Emperor Longzhi was very angry and ordered that he be deposed as a king and buried with only general rites. The Jin vassal was deposed and the prince was demoted to general and sent to Yulin, Guangxi to serve.
Originally, this matter was the fault of King Jin. If no one has anything to say until now, it is a pity that Emperor Longzhi was too happy!
King Jin is the second son of Taizu and the founding veteran of Emperor Longzhi's grandfather. He has high prestige in the army and among his brothers, nephews and nephews. Longji thought he could conquer everyone by attacking him, but he was wrong.
As mentioned before, there are four kings who retain the title of Jiedushi. This time Longzhi's eyes are on King Su, who is the weakest in strength and influence.
King Su is the fourth son of Taizu and is responsible for Ningxia Town, Guyuan Town and Gansu Town. In terms of military strength, these three towns are the least among the nine sides, and their training and weapons and equipment are naturally relatively poor.
Three months after the fall of the Jin king, a rebellion broke out in Qinghai and the Qiang army invaded Xining. After the war ended and the rebel ministries retreated, Longzhi dismissed several ministers from the west on the grounds of poor response, and conveniently dismissed the Jiedushi envoy.
King Su wrote a letter stating that abolishing the Jiedushi envoy was detrimental to the overall command of the western region. Emperor Longzhi reprimanded him and gave him a big label of "ulterior motives."
King Su was an upright person. In anger, he left a suicide note "Death to Remonstrate", and then committed suicide with a waist knife.
This incident shocked the world, but Longzhi did not show any remorse or guilt. Instead, he was buried with the prince's rites on the grounds of fear of crime and suicide. On the grounds that Prince Su's eldest son had passed away, his grandson was granted the title of Duke and moved to Banan.
King Su's fate angered King Yong and aroused his deep fear. King Yong was the fifth son of Taizu, and he was separated from his brother King Su by six sisters, a difference of fourteen years.
It can be said that King Su was like a father and a brother to him. King Su's tragic death made King Yong grieve endlessly. At the same time, he began to feel deeply disgusted with the young emperor's actions.
King Zun was the third son and second son of Emperor Taizu, and the half-brother of Emperor Yongnian. He controlled the towns of Xuan and Ji. The second generation of King Zun Zhao Xili who was in power at that time (
King Zunmu) was actually the eldest son of Emperor Chengzong and the uncle of Longzhi.
At that time, King Zun had just been granted the title and died of cold during a military trip before the palace was built. He had already lost three sons in infancy and had no heirs when he died. It was logical that the vassal should be eliminated. Taizu was deeply saddened by this.
Emperor Chengzong and Prince Zun had always been on good terms, and out of filial piety, he adopted his second son to his younger brother to inherit his bloodline. Therefore, the second generation of King Zun is the younger brother of Zong Zong and the uncle of Emperor Longzhi by blood.
Every time he went to Hajj, the emperor respectfully went to Chengtian Gate to greet him in person, but he did not dare to go too far with this old uncle.
King Zun also reciprocated the favor and always showed his support for his nephew. He even publicly stated that he had written a letter to beg for help. It is very likely that he would side with the emperor.
Therefore, the only remaining "fruit" among the four kings is King Yong. When he saw that the emperor's spearhead was aimed at him, he immediately became alert and worried.
Yongcheng is the fiefdom of King Yong, but the Liao Town he controls is the largest and most powerful among the nine borders, including the Liaoxi Corridor outside Shanhaiguan, Liaodong and the Liaonan Peninsula, a total of 27 guards and 18 In Qianhusuo, there are two hundred thousand troops with battalions and combat troops.
Therefore, King Yong's fiefdom is in Huaishang, but his responsibilities are in Liaodong. Facing such an uncle-level veteran Long Zhi also had a headache. He sent an imperial envoy to Liaodong to inspect and reward the army. He semi-privately advised King Yong to hand over military power and return to his fiefdom to live a stable life.
At first, King Yong was still concerned about this kind of lobbyist, but after the King Su incident, he felt that the young emperor was serious, so he began to pretend to be ill, whining that he could not survive, and then started to work hard in Shenyang. Let's go to Jinzhou.
In the spring of the tenth year of Longzhi, King Rui of Guangxi (the fifteenth son of Taizu was granted the title of King Rui, and was granted the title of Nanning, which refers to the third generation of King Rui) was accused of learning witchcraft at home. Longzhi ordered him to be imprisoned without trial. In addition to the feudal vassal, it was handed over to the clan to be under the control of the people's government.
In May, King Jing of Hunan (the eleventh son of Taizu, the former Bojun Jiedu envoy, and the fiefdom of Jingzhou, here refers to the third generation of King Jing) passed away, and the prince requested to inherit the title.
Unexpectedly, Longzhi rejected him on the grounds of disrespect for the emperor due to typos in the above form. Instead, he and his two younger brothers were granted the title of county princes on the grounds of favor.
In June, Emperor Chengzong's second son, King Zhao Yixiang of Xiang, took the lead in shouting the slogan "Qing Jun's side, protecting the emperor's line", and detained a large number of officials in Xiangyang. With the help of Ma Qing, the commander of the capital, he mobilized 10,000 troops to occupy the entire Xiangyang Prefecture. .
King Zhou of Kaifeng, King Luo and King Biyang of Luoyang, and King Pingyang of Shanxi announced their response. This was the beginning of the Jingnan War and the "Five Kings Uprising".
However, among the five kings, except for King Xiang and King Biyang, who controlled part of the army and territory, the others only gave verbal support.
Fortunately, King Zhou sent some funds, but King Luo was blocked in the palace by his minister and couldn't get out.
King Pingyang was stubborn and brought his own guards into the mountains to deal with the officers and soldiers. The dignified Chitose became the guerrilla captain and could not exert much influence on the entire battle situation.
While Emperor Longzhi ordered all the officers and soldiers to press forward step by step, he sneered in the Jinling Palace, laughing at these princes who all overestimated their capabilities and wanted to overthrow the enemy.
Just as the officers and soldiers from all walks of life were reporting victories, Song Duan suddenly discovered a problem: there had been no news from the prince in the north for a long time!
Longzhi was so excited that he hurriedly sent someone to check and found that there had been no reports since the old man arrived in Jinzhou more than ten days ago.
All the ministers panicked and looked for traces of King Yong everywhere. When they finally found him again, they had already arrived at Hejian Mansion, and behind him were eight thousand cavalrymen from Liaodong and Youyan!
The first battle was in Yuncheng. Ren Chengwei, the commander of the city guard, went to the battle and had a meal with King Yong, and then ordered the troops to retreat.
Then King Yong crossed the river at Chenqiao and entered Kaifeng to release King Zhou. With the support of one hundred thousand taels of silver from King Zhou, the morale of King Yong's troops was greatly boosted. They turned south and entered Guide and Bozhou, and finally returned to Yongcheng, their fiefdom.
After the flag of the Qing Dynasty was officially raised in Bozhou, Suiyang Guard, Xuanwu Guard, Yongping Guard, and Yingchuan Guard all expressed their submission, and the troops originally transferred to suppress King Biyang also turned around and returned to Xinyang.
The most exciting thing is that after the Tang Dynasty king reached an agreement with the county garrison chief, he brought his own guards to Biyang and watched outside the city.
The covetous troops said that our brothers, nephews, and others were having trouble with each other and had nothing to do with others.
As a result, he easily gained the recognition of the leading senior generals and Biyang rescued the siege.
Unlike the Jingnan of the old Zhu family, there was almost no battle before crossing the river. Not many people died in this Jingnan. King Yong had already gained control of most of the Central Plains. Emperor Longzhi felt betrayed by senior military generals and nobles.
The two battles were fought in Anlu and Huangzhou in Hubei respectively. The troops loyal to Emperor Longzhi fought against the coalition forces of the three kings of King Yong, King Xiang and King Biyang in Hubei.
After three months of repeated back and forth, the army was defeated. Finally, the entire army was blocked in Hukou and had to surrender. The entire Jiangbei area fell into the hands of King Yong.
Originally, the gentry class in the south looked down upon the Northern Army, thinking that they were barbaric and poor.
However, after the Battle of Hukou, they immediately turned around and began to promote the bravery and good intentions of the Northern Army. Many southern ministers were worried about the military disaster in their hometown, so they began to persuade Emperor Longzhi to negotiate peace with King Yong.
In September of the 10th year of Longzhi, the first peace talks broke down. The Northern Army captured Yangzhou and Taizhou. Chang'an Prefecture, Chengdu Prefecture and Chongqing Prefecture successively announced their support for King Yong to supervise the country. On the 12th of the first month of the following year, King Yong officially accepted the position of supervising the country in Yongcheng. .
Emperor Longzhi was very angry after hearing the news, and determined to mobilize troops from all over the country to go north and start a decisive battle with the prison guards in Luzhou.
But three months later, only 20,000 troops were ordered to assemble in Beijing, so Longji had no choice but to agree to resume peace talks.
However, the imperial envoys for the peace talks in early April were still on the way, urgent documents had arrived in Jinling, and the prison troops began to cross the river on a large scale. Songjiang, Suzhou, Changzhou, Chizhou, and Jiujiang were all lost.
In the middle of the month, the West Road Supervisor arrived in Shangrao, and the East Road had entered Lin'an, the eastern capital. Under such a situation, Emperor Longzhi had to fully accept King Yong's "suggestion":
The emperor issued an edict to punish himself, then abdicated to King Yong, abdicated and became a monk.
This result was much better than that of Emperor Jianwen. Li Dan secretly cursed that the Li family even paid a life for refusing to write a crusade, but in the end they only came back in a different archway!
"Hey, it turns out that the initiator of Jingnan was not Emperor Taizong but Prince Xiang?" This Li Dan really didn't expect: "But..., I haven't heard it after talking for a long time. It happened decades ago. These things are very important to me." What impact will it have on whether or not His Highness Prince Fengning is saved today?"
When talking about these royal secrets, Zhao Chongbi didn't want to hear anything behind the wall. The entire convoy stopped on Confucian Road, just around the corner from the inspection branch office, but he would rather talk on the deserted street at night.
This street is the broadest road in the county, two feet wide, and is surrounded by guards and riders on alert.
Zhao Chongbi put a thin silk quilt on his legs, took two more sips of the fragrant tea, put down the tea cup, and then said again:
"When the old King Zun passed away, the holy prince Chunxiao couldn't bear to see Taizu sad, so he adopted the concubine's eldest son in the name of King Zun, and assumed the title of King Zunmu in the name of the fourth prince.
When Emperor Longzhi became a monk, he had a condition, which was to ask Taizong to treat King Zun well and not to embarrass him, and Taizong agreed.
However, King Zun was uneasy and died of fear after only three or four years, leaving only two daughters and no heirs, which led to the abolition of the vassal.
Who would have thought that in the sixteenth year of Yongqing (the reign of Emperor Taizong), when the imperial court had just moved its capital, an old woman came to Guide Mansion and said that she was the maid in the study of King Lao Zun.
Not long after the death of the old prince, she found out that she was pregnant with King Zun, but she did not dare to announce it, so she left the palace in the name of becoming a monk and went to Kun Guan to practice, and got the help of her teacher to give birth to the child. Therefore, King Zunmu did not know that he had a nominal brother before his death.
She provided many examples, several of which proved that she had worked in the palace and had a very close relationship with King Zunxian (the first generation of King Zunxian).
Guide Mansion did not dare to specialize in it, so it handed over secret information to the late emperor. Emperor Taizong sighed and ordered to support his family and find teachers to teach him. In the 18th year of the Yongqing Dynasty, an edict was issued to allow him to return to the clan and be named King Fengning. "
Hearing this, Li Dan blinked and understood why King Fengning lived in Shangrao when he was not relaxing in Fengning. Moreover, the palace was chosen next to the army garrison, and the local officials were so "caring" in building a fortress for him to "protect" it. .
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Because... assuming he is really the son of King Zun, he is actually superior to the Yongwang line in the order of succession! Li Dan felt a chill going up to the back of his head. Did he know a little too much?
"The boss likes to boss everyone around if they are capable, but if you talk too much, you are just digging your own hole and jumping out of it!"
