Chapter 3: Shen Guogong’s Thoughts
This is no ordinary day, but a spring festival.
This was also the first grand sacrifice after the completion of the city of Beijing. Zhu Xiongying came forward to offer sacrifices to Sheji and pray for a good harvest. Then the day of spring plowing begins, which is also the day when the Beijing Ministry of Rites operates for the first time.
This also means that the city of Beijing has truly become the capital of the Ming Dynasty. Rather than a construction site.
On such an important day, all the civil and military officials in Beijing must come forward.
Which naturally includes He Xi.
He Mansion is very close to the palace, almost a neighbor. He Xi took only a few steps from He Mansion to the palace. After all, He Xi built the city of Beijing, so the location of He's mansion was naturally very good. It is only across the river from the palace. This river is naturally the river from which the city of Beijing draws water, and it is also a scenic river in the city. It flows into the city of Beijing from the northeast and into the Imperial Palace. There is a small lake to the north of the Imperial Palace, which can be regarded as imitating the arrangement of Nanjing's Houhu behind the Imperial Palace. Then the river left the palace and merged into the canal from the south of the city.
This He Mansion is on the west bank of the river, and living water is introduced into the mansion. Among all the mansions in Beijing, He Mansion can be ranked among the top ten.
As for the Beijing Palace, He Xi did not make any innovations. Apart from the extensive use of reinforced concrete, he did nothing else. It is almost identical to the Forbidden City in Beijing in later generations. The reason for this is because the Forbidden City in Beijing is a replica of the Forbidden City in Nanjing.
It is not that the Forbidden City in Beijing today is the same as the Forbidden City in Beijing in later generations, but that the Forbidden City in Beijing today is almost the same as the Forbidden City in Nanjing.
He Xi was resting in the duty room outside Fengtian Gate.
After a moment, someone came in.
He Xi naturally knows who it is?
There will be no one else but the Commander-in-Chief of the Rear Army, Shen Guogong Deng Zhen.
Because, in Beijing, the only person who can be equal to He Xi is Deng Zhen. It can even be said that Deng Zhen is now He Xi's deputy.
Of course. Zhu Xiongying is not among them. Now Zhu Xiongying is preparing for the ceremony, so naturally he will not appear here.
He Xi said: "My lord, you are here."
Deng Zhen said: "Master He, how could I not come for such a matter? In fact, I also want to talk to Master He during this period."
He Xi smiled and said, "What are you talking about?"
Deng Zhen said: "Sir, don't you know what I want to talk about?"
He Xi said: "Since everyone knows, what else is there to talk about?"
Deng Zhen sighed and said, "I don't understand. Why did your Majesty do this? The situation in Beijing is extremely dangerous. Mr. He, don't you have any ideas?"
If we say that at the beginning, faced with Zhu Yuanzhang's arrangements, many people still thought that the admonishment of chaos in the world was alarmist. After all, who is Zhu Yuanzhang? Over the years, we have been through ups and downs. It can be said that Zhu Yuanzhang is vicious, and it can be said that Zhu Yuanzhang is tough. But it cannot be said that Zhu Yuanzhang is a fool.
Such a simple thing, something that obviously plunged the world into turmoil. How could Zhu Yuanzhang do it?
But after a few years, things are different.
In the past two years, Zhu Yuanzhang's health deteriorated rapidly. The body is getting worse and worse. Several times, Doctor Dai stayed in the palace for the whole night and rescued her for more than ten days in a row. Several times, Nanjing was even ready to mourn.
In this way, everyone saw the danger of Zhu Yuanzhang's arrangement.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not confirm who his grandson was? The two grandsons were placed in the northern and southern capitals respectively, with their respective supporters. If Zhu Yuanzhang were alive, an edict would determine who would be his successor. But once Zhu Yuanzhang is gone.
That is the situation of great chaos in the world.
In this situation, many people don’t know what to do.
In the past two years, Tang He and Mu Ying passed away one after another. Among these two people, Tang He did not leave any words before his death. After all, Tang He was the most seriously ill. When he died, he had been unable to speak for several months.
It was impossible to leave any words behind.
Before Mu Ying died, her only last words were that she hoped Zhu Yuanzhang would appoint the heir apparent as soon as possible.
Anyone can do it, but we can no longer maintain this situation of two dragons dividing the world.
It can be said that Muying's death. Half of it was the misty land of Yunnan that destroyed Mu Ying's body. Half of it was that Mu Ying was sad because of the death of the prince, and also worried about the strange situation after the death of the prince.
As time went by, Zhu Yuanzhang fell ill again and again.
People all over the world are becoming more and more worried about the current situation.
People on the outside are worried that the world will be in chaos in the future, and people on the inside are worried about their own future.
And Deng Zhen is a person in the game. Because Deng Zhen nominally controlled the military power in Beijing, but in fact, Deng Zhen also controlled a considerable number of troops in Beijing. However, in order to avoid being in a place of suspicion in the future, we dare not fully control Beijing's military power.
In this situation, Deng Zhen was very embarrassed.
On the Nanjing side, Zhu Yunwen has been wooing Deng Zhen, hoping to make Deng Zhen fall over to them. It seemed that only Deng Zhen turned to them. If Zhu Xiongying is captured, peace will be restored in the world. There is no crisis anymore.
And Zhu Xiongying is also wooing Deng Zhen, and now he is asking for Deng Zhen's daughter to be his concubine.
Want to pull Deng Zhen onto his ship.
It's just that no one on either side of Deng Zhen wants to take sides, because Deng Zhen is self-aware. The Deng family is now hereditary and indifferent. Even if we support the emperor's grandson to ascend the throne, what will happen? Can he still be granted the title of county king? At most, the king will be the king after his death. Once it fails, the Duke of his family will be gone. The wealth and honor of generations are gone.
Deng Zhen wanted to leave Beijing countless times and work elsewhere, or simply resign and go home to recuperate. .
But the problem is, no matter how many times it fails.
The more he resigned and showed his unwillingness to wade into troubled waters, the more both parties wanted to keep Deng Zhen in the game. Without him, no one would be sure to place their own people in this position. Since you can't settle your own people, it would be best to use a neutral person.
And the person who has sufficient status and wants to remain neutral, who is it but Deng Zhen?
This became Deng Zhen's dilemma.
Deng Zhen has no choice now and wants to have a good talk with He Xi.
And He Xi had nothing to talk about. It was very simple. He Xi had been tied to Zhu Xiongying for a long time. It was impossible for him to change his choice. The conversation was nothing more than persuading Zhu Xiongying's ship in Deng Town, and this was not the first time he had said this.
Besides, it's of no use.
Naturally, I didn’t want to talk about it.
He Xi said: "The imperial court has always been a whirlpool. When are we not in danger? It's not just now."
Yes, the field of power has always been dangerous, with the old and the new changing all the time. Maybe ordinary people don't feel it, but the people in the power field are actually changing all the time. In the old days, it was normal for the king to fly into the homes of ordinary people.
And more often than not, people who fall from heights rarely die completely.
For people like them, the difference between failure in the political struggle and failure in the military struggle is not big. It is just the difference between being killed or dying.
Deng Zhen was speechless for a moment.
There was only deathly silence in the room.
He Xi had a premonition that the cooperation between him and Deng Zhen for several years was coming to an end, and they might have to meet each other in war in the future.
That’s not to say that Deng Zhen didn’t support Zhu Xiongying and Zhu Yunwen. I like Zhu Yunwen but not Zhu Xiongying, but Deng Zhen has feelings for Da Mingxia. Now the situation is very clear. Zhu Yunwen is in Nanjing. If Zhu Yunwen wins, he only needs to get rid of Zhu Xiongying. But if Zhu Xiongying wanted to win, he would probably have to go to the capital.
The difficulty of the two is different.
The former was accomplished by Deng Zhen. As for the latter, even if the success brought great harm to Ming.
This is what Deng Zhen doesn't want to see.
When Deng Zhen came to talk to He Xi this time, he probably wanted to talk about dragging He Xi over. In this way, he had absolute confidence in dealing with Zhu Xiongying in Beijing. But he didn't know that the core of Zhu Xiongying's side was not Zhu Xiongying, but He Xi.
In Deng Zhen's opinion, Zhu Xiongying was going against the trend of the times, while He Xi looked at
Later, Deng Town also hindered the development of productive forces and hindered the tide of history. ,
From each other's perspective, both are correct.
Just to see who is more correct, it can only be proven by actions. The winner is the correct one.
"The time is up------" A little eunuch outside broke the peace in the rest room.
