Chapter 88 King Yan and the Prince
When He Xi heard what King Yan said, he was suddenly confused?
What did He Xi promise?
He didn't agree to anything, but when he got to King Yan, it turned out that as long as King Yan took care of Nanjing, he would definitely do it here.
Please, many real problems cannot be solved by He Xi subjectively.
It's not that King Yan doesn't know, it's just that what he wants to do at this moment is to force a date. King Yan actually knew that it was not too difficult to get Zhu Yuanzhang's promise to Nanjing. But Zhu Yuanzhang's orders must be carried out by someone.
Who is doing this? No need to say it.
Of course it is He Xi.
So He Xi's promise is particularly important.
What did He Xi want to say? He was interrupted by King Yan and said: "Brother He, the well-being of my descendants in the future depends on you as my uncle. Do you have to help me with this matter?"
He Xi sighed, he understood King Yan's intention, but He Xi treated King Yan differently than he did others. After all, this is King Yan and Emperor Yongle. The longer He Xi stays in the Ming Dynasty, the more things have changed, and He Xi cannot clearly see the future.
However, this is not important.
The important thing is that for some people, even if the situation changes, it can't change his brilliance?
Is King Yan such a person?
Zhu Yuanzhang can't eat his own children, so he can only have no idea of killing King Yan. As a general among the royal family, he will definitely have his own position in the future. Even if he is not the emperor, he will still be very important.
He Xi didn't want to offend King Yan. King Yan had already mentioned this, but He Xi could only say: "I can only say try your best. What you want ranks second after the Beijing City project. As long as the Beijing City project is not delayed, other things will take priority." Provided to you, but this requires His Majesty’s order.”
King Yan said: "Don't worry, leave this matter to me."
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King Yan acted vigorously and resolutely.
I got He Xi's promise here, so I rode south the next day and arrived in Nanjing non-stop, covering more than 150 miles every day. The guards who followed King Yan were very tired. Only King Yan himself was still in high spirits and showed no signs of fatigue.
This may be a quality that people who have achieved great things have had since ancient times.
With extraordinary energy, it is difficult for ordinary people to get up early in the morning, but even without supervision, they can complete a workload that is almost masochistic to ordinary people. This is the case for Zhu Yuanzhang, and the same is true for Zhu Di.
When King Yan returned to Beijing, there was naturally a grand welcome ceremony.
When King Yan returned to Beijing, after bathing and changing clothes, Zhu Yuanzhang summoned King Yan.
Zhu Yuanzhang asked King Yan in detail about the details of his campaign. After hearing this, he felt a little sighing.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang had not led troops for many years, no one dared to ignore Zhu Yuanzhang's ability to lead troops in war. Under Zhu Yuanzhang's inquiry, many details of King Yan's line appeared in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes in detail.
Zhu Yuanzhang saw that King Yan had very complicated thoughts.
Since Zhu Yuanzhang started his army, his relatives have withered away, but even so, Zhu Yuanzhang still uses his relatives very seriously. The kings of Nanchang, Zhu Wenzheng and Li Wenzhong, are both generals that Zhu Yuanzhang values. Although these two are capable, if they are not Zhu Yuanzhang's relatives, It is also difficult to have the position at that time.
Zhu Yuanzhang should have been happy that another talented general appeared among his sons and clan generals.
But when I think of Jingnan, I think of the prince. Zhu Yuanzhang could only sigh when he thought of the Zhu family, which had been internally divided and was bound to be internally divided. A sentence came to mind, "A real man will inevitably have an unkind wife and an unworthy son." He did have a virtuous wife, but this son was a little different from him.
In this way, how to place King Yan was a difficult problem in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart.
Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang would not kill him. The previous King Yan was not as capable as the Yongle Emperor in history. But now it seems to Zhu Yuanzhang that King Yan already has 70% of his historical abilities, which seems good. But Zhu Yuanzhang never looked down upon the methods of the historical King Yan.
Unable to deal with the problem of alienation among the Jiangnan gentry, they actually wanted to move the capital. This was an escape from the problem, which opened up the problem of the separation of the political center and the economic center of the Ming Dynasty, and had far-reaching consequences. It's not that Zhu Yuanzhang was opposed to moving the capital. After all, Zhu Yuanzhang also felt that Nanjing was not very good. But moving the capital is never a simple matter of moving the capital. You have to wipe your butt clean when you move the capital.
What Zhu Yuanzhang looked down upon even more was the historical achievements of King Yan, which was to sweep the north five times. In Zhu Yuanzhang's view, this is not what the emperor should do, but what should be done in the future. What? You said, there are no suitable generals below? How can there be no generals in the world? It's just that you, the emperor, haven't found them. This is a big problem.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang was a little hesitant at this moment.
King Yan is not good at all, but a little good. If you have an emperor's heart and entrust the Ming Dynasty to the hands of King Yan, don't worry, the country will be unstable. But the prince is different.
While the prince was kind-hearted and soft-hearted, he was also overly cautious and scolded for perfection.
If the storm in the future is unexpected, the prince has no choice but to find a way to compromise. But what will happen to King Yan? He will flip the table, and you can choose for yourself. Should you kill the ten clans or the nine clans? This is a self-selected package. If they don’t want to choose, King Yan will let them choose. It won't end until everyone is killed and their heads are rolling.
But this is not what Zhu Yuanzhang wants.
The prince compromised, and the reform path He Xi wanted was impossible to continue. Even if the prince doesn't compromise, he may not be able to go on. Zhu Yuanzhang understood very well what the nobles were thinking? In fact, the nobles seem to be strong, but in fact they are extremely weak. Because the nobles have no ideas of their own at all, they follow the crowd. Even, without waiting until the future, many noble families are now very concerned about their own education.
This intention is right. After all, China has been very concerned about the education of its children since ancient times. It's just that what they hired to teach their children was not martial arts but the Four Books and Five Classics, among which Li Wenzhong was the most important. Li Jinglong was not good at fighting, but his reputation in the literary world was not small.
Li Wenzhong is not a special case.
In other words, the merger of nobles and scholar-bureaucrats was faster than Zhu Yuanzhang expected. The honorable nobles are now on He Xi's side, which is actually not reliable.
After all, many things about He Xi also harmed Xungui's interests.
But King Yan lacked the ability to govern a large country like cooking small dishes. If nothing else, you can tell it by watching him kill Fang Xiaoru. Yao Guangxiao gave many orders to kill anyone but not Fang Xiaoru, the seed of scholars in the world. As a result, Fang Xiaoru died.
The death of Fang Xiaoru caused a deep thorn in the side between the scholar-bureaucrats and the Ming Dynasty royal family. This thorn made the later emperor of the Ming Dynasty prefer to use eunuchs rather than scholar-bureaucrats. The scholar-bureaucrats were proud to oppose the Ming royal family.
Many problems of the Ming Dynasty can actually be summarized in the Yongle era.
Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang also knew that Zhu Di could not be blamed for many things, and he, Zhu Yuanzhang, also left many problems. However, the reform matter is a very complicated matter, and Zhu Di may not have the ability to handle such a matter.
Zhu Yuanzhang still wanted to test Zhu Di to see how much progress he had made and whether he could be entrusted with a big responsibility.
Zhu Yuanzhang said: "How did you meet before you came?"
King Yan said: "I have met He Xi."
Zhu Yuanzhang said: "What did you say?"
King Yan told Zhu Yuanzhang everything he had said to He Xi. Zhu Yuanzhang was silent for a while and said: "If you are ready to become a vassal, tell me your plan."
King Yan said: "Yes. I have been in Changchun for a long time, and I know that it is very valuable to support the Changchun capital with the human and material resources of Liaodong. As for the Nen River Basin farther away, it is simply impossible. I think that the Nen River Basin is , just in line with the Ming Dynasty vassal king's criteria for becoming a vassal. Now there are hundreds of thousands of Mongolian people, and the sons and ministers are willing to join the vassal, lead the people, open up wasteland along the Nen River, and graze cattle, so that within three years, the people can live and work in peace and contentment. To guard the border for the Ming Dynasty, When Wa Ci advances eastward, the Yan State will be the first to bear the brunt, and his troops must not go south to Monan and Changchun."
Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Speaking of Wasi, Wasi's envoy has passed, Hetao has entered Shanxi, and will arrive in Nanjing in about a month. What do you think of Wasi?"
