When the thank you note finally reached Jiang Mian, his first feeling was: Your Highness's handwriting is good.
The thank you note is quite long.
Because it is not as obscure as ordinary thank-you notes and memorials, it even has good sentences.
【My nephew Houcong, in March of the 16th year of Zhengde's reign, in Jiaxu, he was ordered by the Queen Mother to seize her love and release her, and he was granted the title of king. Now that I have received divine grace, I am ashamed and dare not resign. When Wuyin followed the imperial edict, he was overwhelmed with sadness. He was sad that he could not fulfill his full filial piety to his father, and he was also sad that his majesty died at a young age. The Empress Dowager was so sad about the change that the phoenix's body was broken, and the late lord expressed his displeasure and entrusted her to the ancestral temple again. In order to repay the Holy Grace, my nephew spoke from the bottom of his heart and begged the Queen Mother to listen. 】
Then, the words became much more straightforward:
[Ever since I was sensible, my nephew often listened to the late king's talk about the benevolence of the emperor's uncle and the intelligence of the emperor's brother. Living in the countryside, I have always heard courtiers criticizing the emperor's brother for building a leopard house, being good at fighting, training regiments and camps, and stationed in the Xuan Mansion. My nephew was just a vassal prince in the past and should not discuss the government affairs arbitrarily. But now that my nephew has received the imperial edict, when he is thinking about the future, he actually thinks that his brother is the monarch with the broadest vision and the highest ambition since Emperor Taizong.
My nephew usually only likes to read books to kill time. As the stories become more and more complex, Shi Haigou Shen discovered some things worth pondering.
"Bamboo Book" records that during the reign of King Xiao of Zhou, the Dajiang and Han Rivers froze. Before that, the Dog Rong invaded from the east, and King Zhou Yi was forced to move the capital.
"Spring and Autumn" has been recorded many times that there is no ice in the first month of spring in the state of Lu. Both "Xunzi·Fu Guo Pian" and "Mencius·Gaozi 1" both record that the land of Qilu has two crops a year. At this time, the nomadic ethnic groups in the northern grasslands were weaker than those in the Central Plains.
"Zizhi Tongjian" records that in the early years of Emperor Cheng of the Jin Dynasty, the Bohai Sea froze for three consecutive years from Changli to Gaizhouwei, and carriages and horses, as well as thousands of soldiers and equipment, could travel on the ice. At that time, Wuhu was in chaos in China, and the Northern and Southern Dynasties were in conflict.
During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, lychees were produced in Xuzhou Prefecture, and Du Fu's poem said, "The green ones are heavy to pick spring wine, and the red lychees are light"; "Youyang Zazu" records that in the tenth year of Tianbao, the orange trees in the Chang'an Palace bore more than a hundred orange trees. In the first month of the first year of Yongtai, there was a foot of snow in Chang'an. In the first month of the second year of Yongtai, there was heavy snow on the ground. In November of the following year, Chang'an City was filled with fog and snow, and the grass and trees were icy. In another two years, it will be a hot and cold June in Chang'an City.
In the winter of this year, Du Fu lived in Changsha. At first, he thought, "There is no snow in Hunan in winter, so I will be sick and stay in the water." In winter, it is said that "the new wind blows through the Guishui River, and there is a heavy snowfall at night." At the time of Bai Juyi, he wrote, "It snowed heavily in the winter of the tenth year of Jiujiang, and the rivers were filled with ice and the branches were broken." In the Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi's poem "Red Plum" said: "The flowers only bloom in the middle of spring, and they can't stand the cold. People in the north didn't know them at first, and they looked at them like apricot blossoms." At that time, northerners did not even recognize plum blossoms.
From the prosperous Tang Dynasty to the weak Song Dynasty. Then the Khitans, Jurchens, and Mongols frequently went south to bury Song and Jianyuan. In the second year of Tianli, Taihu Lake froze several feet thick and all the oranges froze to death.
Emperor Taizu regained China, and it has been nearly two hundred years since the Ming Dynasty. What is the climate like? In the winter of the fourth to fifth years of Jingtai, there were more than 40 miles of sea ice in Huaidong, and it rained and snowed continuously in March of Fengyang Bawei. In the sixth year of Hongzhi's reign, heavy snow raged in the Huaihe River area from September to February of the following year. Eight hundred miles of Dongting became an ice continent, making it impossible for carriages and horses to pass through. In the first year of Zhengde, it snowed heavily in Wanzhou, Qiongzhou Prefecture.
My nephew lists all these things, not to be alarmist, but to say a simple truth: the nomadic tribes north of the Great Wall also want to survive.
The way of heaven is changing, sometimes it is warm and sometimes it is cold. When it is warm, vegetation flourishes, and people, horses, cattle and sheep thrive. When it's extremely cold, the grass and trees all wither and the other people cannot survive, so they will definitely try to go south to survive.
I heard that the emperor's brother was very talented and fluent in many languages. He even learned the French language last year. The words and deeds of the emperor's brother may seem deviant to some, but in the eyes of his nephew, he actually has a global view and a broad mind.
Cleaning up border towns, reinforcing troops, stationing in Xuan Mansion, and proclaiming himself a state. Isn't it like the emperor Taizong and Emperor Xuanzong guarding the country? In order to keep the Ming Dynasty as stable as Mount Tai, all the officials had many objections to the emperor's brother, which was reasonable. Because there was a change in the earthen fortress in front of us, and the emperor's brother Yuji was defeated at Yutailing behind, I, the Ming Dynasty, no longer dared to fight easily. The emperor's brother's ambition frightened all the officials and worried the queen mother.
However, the tribes in the north will sooner or later have to go south to plunder and even try to serve the purpose of the previous dynasty in order to gain the Ming Dynasty. It seems that the emperor's brother also plans for the future for his descendants, so he is unswervingly determined and often talks about military affairs.
It has been nearly two hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and every year feels colder. A brief review of the reports from various places is clear evidence.
Brother Huang knows that the winter of Ming Dynasty has arrived. If you don't move like a mountain, you will eventually be covered by the heavy snow; if you work hard and don't care about yourself, you can protect your foundation and last forever.
The Queen Mother, I suddenly know that the Holy Will wants to treat my nephew as the son of Xiaomiao and the emperor's brother, but I really can't do it.
If a minister's nephew is in a high position and is not filial to his biological parents before him, how can he be filial to the Queen Mother after him?
My nephew is not an ignorant young son. He is a close relative of flesh and blood and has been raised for fifteen years. How can I abandon him?
If a minister's nephew becomes his heir and controls the world, how can this unfilial king make the people of the world return to their hearts?
Now that the imperial edict has been revealed, none of the ministers came to Anlu to talk about the matter of the successor. The ministers and nephews are stupid, and they will understand the Empress Dowager's intentions only if they see the etiquette.
However, when they arrived at the outskirts of Beijing, the situation was in a dilemma and disputes arose. The nephew was frightened and thought over and over again, so he begged the Queen Mother to allow the nephew to see her briefly:
The Empress Dowager and her nephew succeeded the Emperor's brother's son with a son, and the Queen Mother and the Emperor's sister-in-law raised him personally, so that not only would he be filial to the temple, but the Emperor's brother would also be worshiped with blood and food by his descendants.
If it is true what Mao Cheng said, the nephew of the minister will be the son of Xiaomiao, and the descendants of Xiaomiao will be endless, but who will be the heir of the emperor's brother? The cabinet ministers were entrusted by the emperor's brother to take care of their affairs, but the emperor's brother had no heirs. How could they be loyal?
If the Queen Mother does not agree to the request of the ministers and nephews, please take the imperial edict.
If the Queen Mother fears that her nephew will cause trouble in the future, he will be killed at the neck without any complaints.
The emperor's brother's ambition was not fulfilled, but unexpectedly, he was ordered not to protect his blood after his death.
The weather changes, external troubles never cease, and internal worries arise again.
The Ming Dynasty is old. No matter who succeeds the rule, if the monarchs and ministers continue to stick to the old ways, they may show their old age. This is the time when the country will survive and it is necessary to reform the evils and make a new one.
These are words from the bottom of my heart, and I ask the Queen Mother to think carefully about them.
The ancestors and clans are on top, but the unworthy descendants are thick and weeping.]
After Jiang Mian finished reading, he realized that his mouth had been open involuntarily for a long time.
After shuddering, Jiang Mian handed the Xie Jian to Mao Ji, who was looking forward to it, with mixed emotions, and then fell into rapid thinking.
He first wondered: After praising Emperor Zhengde so well-founded, did many of Emperor Zhengde's actions really have such far-reaching considerations?
Then thinking about what it means for Sijun to agree with Emperor Zhengde so much, isn't Sijun worried that the ministers will be worried and dissatisfied with him?
It is impossible for the successor to know what happened during the Zhengde dynasty.
Now there is a saying that Emperor Zhengde "has unfulfilled ambitions". What is he going to do?
Tossing around like Emperor Zhengde?
Originally, Yang Tinghe might have thought that Sijun had been deceived and instigated by villains. But now that the Xie Jian came, the situation has become clear: Who dares to persuade Sijun to write these things to the Queen Mother and the cabinet in such a desperate way? This thank you note must have come from him.
This heir is really desperate. He accuses his cabinet ministers of being disloyal to Emperor Zhengde and makes Emperor Zhengde extinct. Who can wear this hat?
Such a tough and clear attitude means that it is almost impossible for him to listen to advice on the issue of succession.
Not only that, it also brings up a more difficult problem to face, that is, his future policy strategy: it is very likely to be militaristic!
There are many things worth pondering about Xie Jian. Jiang Mian hurriedly thought of the most important thing: such an heir who cannot be persuaded, such an heir who may be more troublesome than Emperor Zhengde, what are Yang Tinghe and the Queen Mother? manner?
Continue to welcome him to the throne, or depose him?
