Chapter 11 Duke Shen’s Determination
Of course, Lan Yu has to pay a price for doing this.
The price is Lan Yu's dependent children.
After all, Zhu Yunwen is not as good as Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang was ruthless against Lan Yu, but now Zhu Yunwen just wants to win over Lan Yu and clear political obstacles, and does not necessarily want to kill the Lan family's household register.
But with what Lan Yu did today, it would be difficult for the Lan family to survive.
In an instant, Zhu Yunwen also wanted to understand Lan Yu's intention, and his color suddenly changed. He had just received the news that Zhu Yuanzhang died, and it only happened in the past three or five days. Zhu Yunwen is already making a lot of preparations. Now that Lan Yu's words have spread, it is either shit or shit.
Zhu Yunwen said sternly: "Stop his mouth."
Someone immediately went up and hit Lan Yu's mouth with a scabbard, knocking out all the teeth in Lan Yu's mouth. He even pulled out a dagger and slapped it into Lan Yu's mouth several times. Lan Yu opened her mouth and could only squirt. Blood made a whining sound, and no one could hear clearly what he was saying.
But Zhu Yunwen was still angry and made a gesture to a guard beside him.
He originally wanted to punish Lan Yuming in a canonical manner.
At this moment he changed his mind. Let Lan Yu die silently. Otherwise, Lan Yu would have done something wrong during the execution. It doesn't look good.
In this way, a generation of princes died quietly in prison.
Even so, Zhu Yunwen was still angry. After returning, he ordered all Lan Yu's children to be executed. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.
After Zhu Yunwen regained his composure, he said to Ding Xian: "The news will not be blocked for long. Let Shen Guogong take action quickly."
Ding Xian said: "I have already given the order. If the time is correct, Duke Shen will take action within a day or two."
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Ding Xian's estimated time was a little wrong.
That is, Shen Guogong Deng Zhen is still hesitating.
To put it bluntly, Deng Zhen actually really wanted to be like Xu Da and Feng Sheng, sitting on the sidelines. If nothing else works, just like Li Jinglong, he will pretend to be deaf and dumb. However, the old man of the Deng family is no longer here. And has been dead for many years.
Deng Zhen's current status was even brought about by the death of his brother-in-law, King Qin.
By chance, he had the opportunity to sit in Beijing and take control of the military power in the north.
It is a bit too much to say that morality is not worthy of it. However, Deng Zhen's strength is somewhat inconsistent with his status. In other words, once there are changes in the top management, Deng Zhen's current position is likely to be taken.
If he had never tasted the delicious taste of power, Deng Zhen might not be able to sit on the bench. After all, the Deng family was also the official family of the country, regardless of hereditary inheritance, and had always been with the Ming Dynasty. What's wrong with a wealthy and idle man who makes his own decisions in peace and quiet?
It's just that in the few years that Deng Town has been in Beijing, the Deng family's property has jumped from hundreds of thousands to one million taels to more than ten million taels. The Deng family has cut a piece of the dividends created by Beijing and used it as the capital of Beijing. benefits in exchange for many other benefits.
It can be said that the trend of decline of the Deng family after Deng Yu's death was reversed at this time.
Now the Deng family even has the posture of being the head of the noble family in the North.
The reason for this is that although there are many powerful nobles in the north, their foundation is still in Nanjing, in the capital, and in the court. Very few people focus on running a place. Now, there are only the Lu family in Nanyang and the Mu family in Yunnan.
Lu Zhongheng didn’t want to go back to the Central Plains. Before Mu Ying died, she also made arrangements for the Mu family. Nothing else. Just plow deeply in Yunnan and never return to the center. This may be because Mu Ying saw that the world would be unstable in the future and wanted to preserve the blood of the Mu family.
Mu Ying was an absolutely important minister to the Ming Dynasty and was absolutely loyal to the Zhu family. Even Mu Ying could be considered a member of the royal family, except that her surname was not Zhu. If Mu Ying were allowed to die for the Ming Dynasty, or for Zhu Yuanzhang, or even the prince and grandson, she would die. Mu Ying had nothing to say.
But the Mu family must be exhausted in the Zhu family's infighting, so that there will be no blood descendants left. But it was not what Mu Ying wanted to see.
When Deng Zhen saw such a precedent, he felt something in his heart.
An idea. That is to let the Deng family take root in Beijing. So as to avoid the fierce competition in Nanjing. Leave one-third of an acre of land for the Deng family. Of course, Deng Zhen also understood that the military power in Beijing would not be exclusively enjoyed by the Deng family.
But if the Deng family takes root in Beijing, it will definitely have certain priority. Moreover, Beijing is a companion capital and a capital city after all, and there should also be some noble families sitting in charge.
Without desire, one is strong. When Deng Zhen asked for something, he naturally took action.
However, Deng Zhen was not Zhu Yunwen's loyal minister, he was only seeking the best interests. No matter who takes the throne, it doesn't matter to him, but he must be on the side of the winner. So Deng Zhen wanted to win over He Xi. If Deng Zhen and He Xi are together, in Deng Zhen's view, no matter who comes to power, their interests cannot be ignored.
This is also the reason why he doesn't have much faith in Zhu Xiongying's rise to power.
After all, there is no way to send the successor outside the capital.
But even so, Deng Zhen still hesitated. Waiting for news from Nanjing.
He will only add the icing on the cake, not help when the time is right. He must be sure of the situation before he dares to place a bet. No matter how good Zhu Yunwen's situation was, Deng Zhen only agreed verbally and did not dare to take action. The reason is simple, he is worried about Zhu Yuanzhang. .z.
A person like Zhu Yuanzhang can reverse the situation as long as he has a breath.
Don't look at Zhu Yunwen's great chance of winning. As long as Zhu Yuanzhang changes his mind, anything can happen.
Now, Deng Zhen finally made up his mind.
For nothing else. It's the death of Sapphire.
The role of blue jade in Nanjing is that although Zhu Yuanzhang can change his mind, with blue jade, as long as Zhu Yuanzhang changes his mind and Zhu Xiongying returns to Nanjing, he can immediately reverse the situation. But now blue jade has been taken.
There are two possibilities.
First, Zhu Yuanzhang had lost control of Nanjing.
In other words, the core of power in Nanjing has been in the hands of Zhu Yunwen.
Second, Zhu Yuanzhang acquiesced to Zhu Yunwen doing this, which also shows that Zhu Yuanzhang has made up his mind.
Regardless of that, it shows that the overall situation has been decided.
Deng Zhen can place bets.
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Quite a few of the Beijing camps are stationed in the capital. There are many military camps and schools in Beijing.
The reason why. It was when the city of Beijing was first built, and there were a lot of open spaces inside, so it might as well be used as a military camp. In the original design, there were a large number of military camps in Beijing, not only in Beijing but also in Nanjing.
After all, if you don't do this, there will be police in the capital. Where are the troops stationed?
This is the second one.
The reason why Lan Yu is stationed at Dasheng Pass is because there are many camps in Nanjing, with the scale usually exceeding 200,000. But Beijing Jingying is different. The main forces of the North are on the border defense line. In terms of pure military strength, the North's troops are not necessarily less than those of the South. However, southern troops are concentrated in only a few places, the southwest region, Guangxi, Yunnan-Guizhou, and Sichuan. The place where these chieftains rebelled repeatedly. And there is Nanjing.
There are not too many coastal defense lines.
Nanjing's capital camp was more effective in suppressing the world. The Beijing Camp is nothing more than the general reserve force of the northern frontier army. The functions of the two are different, and the quantity is even more different. Therefore, most of the Beijing camps are stationed directly in Beijing, and only a few are outside Beijing.
After all, many times the city is much more convenient than outside the city.
This is the third one.
After Deng Zhen made up his mind, he personally sat in the capital camp and headed straight to the palace with a group of his cronies.
However, the Beijing Imperial Palace is a palace after all. There are also guards. Although it is not as heavily guarded as the Nanjing Imperial Palace, it is not unguarded. However, Deng Zhen didn't take it to heart. Deng Zhen had been preparing for this day for a long time.
To be precise, Deng Zhen has several plans in his hands. It's just that this plan was finally used.
So, the army in Deng Town walked along the long street to the north gate of the palace, which is the Shenwu Gate.
This is about the layout of Beijing city.
The overall layout of Beijing city is no different from the layout of Beijing city in history. It’s not that He Xi didn’t
idea. However, in the Ming Dynasty, there was such a thing as etiquette. The front hall and the back bed, the left side of the society and the right side of the ancestors. Sit north and face south. These rules have already begun in the Yin and Shang Dynasties. It was passed down to the Ming and Qing Dynasties with almost no changes. This has also resulted in the layout of Beijing city being fixed.
The front palace and the back bedroom were used as the emperor's office area. Instead, sit north and face south, so that the front hall is in the south. For the convenience of office work, various government offices must be arranged south of the palace. After all, we can't let hundreds of officials go around the imperial city to come to court, right?
