An inventory of the sinners who have subjugated the country in the past dynasties, Lao Zhu’s number

Han Dynasty, the period of Emperor Wu.

Dongfang Shuo heard Liu Che's question. After thinking for a moment, he raised his hands and said:

"Your Majesty, I think that the vassal king that Zhu Yuanzhang entrusted is very different from the princes and kings."

"oh? What's the difference?"

"I wonder if Your Majesty has ever noticed the words"Feng Wang Guards the Border"?"

Dongfang Shuo began to slowly describe his views:

"I believe that Zhu Yuanzhang’s capital is in Yingtian, that is, in the south, but the nomads in the north may go south to invade the Ming border at any time."

"The northern border is uneasy, but Zhu Yuanzhang is in the south, but he is beyond reach"

"Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang divided his princes into important towns on the northern border in order to guard the border for himself."

"In other words, the essence of the existence of these vassal kings is to guard the borders."

"Moreover, the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty only had one city in their fiefdom, unlike our princes and kings, whose fiefdoms covered a vast area."

"The vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty only had an army of 20,000 people, and the vassal kings were not allowed to interfere in local government affairs."

"Zhu Yuanzhang should have understood the shortcomings of enfeoffing the feudal lords, so he imposed many restrictions on the vassal kings in order to eliminate the disadvantages of the enfeoffment system."

"I believe that Zhu Yuanzhang's strategy of ennobling the king to defend the border was relatively successful. After all, the power of the vassal kings in the Ming Dynasty was much smaller than that of our Han Dynasty."

Liu Che heard Dongfang Shuo's analysis, thought carefully for a moment, nodded slowly, and then asked again:

"Since Zhu Yuanzhang was successful in conferring the title of king and guarding the border, why did Zhu Di, as a vassal king, finally sit on the throne? Dongfang

Shuo shook his head helplessly and sighed:

"I'm afraid Zhu Yuanzhang would never have thought that the successor he selected would be so stupid."

"No matter how weak the vassal kings are, they can be dealt with at will by Zhu Yunwen, but deposing four vassal kings in three months is still too eager for quick success."

"If Zhu Yunzhen had the city in his chest and could hold his breath, how could his uncles who were feudal lords be the opponents of the imperial court?"

"Now that we have decided to cut down the vassal, we should proceed step by step, one by one. If we cut down the vassal on such a large scale, wouldn't it be clear that we will force all the vassal kings to rebel?"

"Being smart and self-inflicted, Zhu Yunwen's failure was all caused by himself."

【At the beginning of Zhu Yunwen's accession to the throne, the kings guarding northern Xinjiang each held heavy troops.】

【Ning Wang Zhu Quan had 80,000 armored men and 6,000 leather chariots. He also had 30,000 elite cavalry and three beautiful guards.】

【The King of Yan, Zhu Di, had the full power to control the soldiers and horses along the border. One hundred thousand elite border troops obeyed Zhu Di's orders.】

【Zhu Yunwen was very worried about this. After solving the kings of Qi and Xiang in the Zhou Dynasty, Zhu Yunwen's confidence greatly increased, and he immediately began to conspire with Huang Zicheng to prepare to attack Zhu Di.】

【At that time, King Zhu Di of Yan sent Prince Yan's Palace Chief Shi Gecheng to the court. Zhu Yunwen then asked Ge Chengmi about the affairs of Prince Yan's Palace. Ge Cheng betrayed Zhu Di and truthfully reported the situation in Prince Yan's Palace. Zhu Yunwen sent him back to Prince Yan's Palace as an internal agent.】

【When Ge Cheng returned to Prince Yan's Mansion, Zhu Di saw that he looked strange and became suspicious. Then Zhu Di entered the court in person. Relying on his status as an imperial uncle, he walked straight into the palace via the imperial road without paying homage to the majesty.】

【Zhu Di realized that the court was wary of him. After returning to Prince Yan's palace, he excused himself from illness to see how things would change.】

【In order to guard against Zhu Di's rebellion, in December of the 31st year of Hongwu, the imperial court sent Zhang Bing, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, as the chief envoy to Peiping, and Xie Gui and Zhang Xin, the commander-in-chief of Peking. Later, he ordered the governor Song Zhong to garrison troops in Kaiping and transferred the troops under the jurisdiction of King Yan in the Northern Plains.】

【This is Huang Zicheng's poisonous plan for Zhu Yunzhen, to cut off Zhu Di's wings, transfer Zhu Di's personal guards out of Peiping, and make King Yan alone. At that time, he will be a fish on the knife board, ready to be slaughtered.】

【After Zhu Di realized Zhu Yunzhen's intentions, and many vassal kings were undermined, he understood that he would not be able to escape this disaster if he continued like this.】

【After seeing the fate of many vassal kings, Zhu Di knew that he had only two options to choose from, otherwise he would just surrender and be imprisoned by Zhu Yunwen for the rest of his life.】

【Otherwise, just give it a try and seek justice for yourself and Lao Twelve.】

【There is no doubt that it is not Zhu Di's character to be captured without hesitation and to be slaughtered at the neck. He finally chose the second way and sacrificed his life to gain revenge.】

【At Yao Guangxiao's suggestion, Zhu Di began to pretend to be ill to delay his future rebellion. At the same time, he was secretly actively preparing for war.】

【In the first year of Jianwen, news suddenly came out in Peiping that Zhu Di was seriously ill. Zhu Yunwen heard that Zhu Di was crazy, so he naturally didn't believe it and sent his confidants to Peiping to check Zhu Di's condition.】

【When Zhu Yunwen's confidant visited Zhu Di, in the hot summer season, Zhu Di was wearing a quilt and still shouting that it was cold.】

【Even once, Zhu Yunwen's confidants saw Zhu Di sleeping in a dirty pigsty, and he would compete with the pigs for food. His hair was disheveled, and he seemed to be a lunatic.】

【After Zhu Yunwen heard the report, he decided that Zhu Di had gone crazy, and immediately planned to send Zhu Di's three sons back to Peking to visit their own father.】

【After Xu Huizu heard the news, he immediately knelt on the ground, held Zhu Yunwen's sleeves, and dissuaded him:"Zhu Di's three sons are all outstanding people, and they cannot let the tiger go back to the mountain."】

【However, Huang Zicheng strongly urged the three people to be released. The reason was natural benevolence and filial piety. Zhu Di was already seriously ill. If the three people were still detained as hostages, the world would be criticized.】

【As a result, Zhu Gaochi and the others returned to Peiping safe and sound, laying the groundwork for Zhu Yunwen's future fate.】

【Zhu Di was overjoyed when he saw his third son returning. He thought that his trick of pretending to be sick had deceived Zhu Yunwen, so he pretended to be sick even more.】

【But he didn't know that Ge Cheng, the chief minister of his palace, had already rebelled and secretly reported to the court that King Yan was pretending to be ill.】

【Zhu Di pretended to be crazy and was found out by Zhu Yunwen. Zhu Yunwen was furious and immediately issued a secret order, ordering Zhang Bing and Xie Gui to arrest the officials of Prince Yan's palace, and Zhang Xin to arrest Prince Yan himself.】

【Zhang Xin was the commander of the Peking capital at the time. After receiving the order to arrest Zhu Di, he hesitated and immediately discussed it with his mother.】

【Zhang's mother hurriedly stopped Zhang Xin. She told Zhang Xin that she heard that Wang Qi was in Yan. If Zhang Xin arrested Zhu Di, he would be annihilated.】

【Zhang Xin followed his words and went to see Zhu Di, wanting to tell Zhu Di about the matter.】

【At this time, Zhu Di thought that he was not exposed and was pretending to be sick in bed. Zhang Xin asked to see him three times but was not allowed to see him. It was not until he revealed the emperor's secret decree that Zhu Di was so frightened that he collapsed from the bed and stopped making pretense.】

【After learning that he had been exposed, Zhu Di hurriedly asked Yao Guangxiao to plan how to raise his troops, and ordered Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng to bring eight hundred warriors into Prince Yan's palace to lurk, waiting for something to happen.】

【At this time, Zhang Bing and Xie Guifang led their troops to surround Prince Yan's Mansion.】

【Seeing that the enemy army was strong, Zhu Di decided to adopt the strategy of capturing the thieves first and the king. He pretended to tie up all his generals. He also looked like he was at a loss and invited Zhang Bing and Xie Gui into the mansion for inspection.】

【The two of them had a chance to win, and Zhu Di deliberately showed weakness. Without any precautions, the two of them walked into Prince Yan's Mansion.】

【But as soon as the two of them entered the mansion, the door of Prince Yan's mansion was immediately closed. Zhu Di's ambush knife and axemen captured the two on the spot. Together with the traitors in the mansion, Ge Cheng and Lu Zhen, the four of them were chopped into pieces by Zhu Di.】

【Zhang Bing 030. When Xie Gui died, the officers and soldiers outside the government were leaderless. Zhu Di led his fierce generals Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng, as well as eight hundred dead men, like tigers among sheep, and defeated all the officers and soldiers. 】(To read exciting novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

【That night, Zhu Di captured the nine gates of Peiping and took complete control of the city. All 30,000 soldiers in the city surrendered to Zhu Di.】

【On the fifth day of July in the first year of Jianwen, Zhu Di officially raised his troops to rebel. In order to find a suitable reason for his rebellion, Zhu Di and Yao Guangxiao acted in the name of Qingjun.】

【They brought out the ancestral precepts of the Ming Dynasty established by Zhu Yuanzhang. Among them was this sentence, which was established for the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty. If there are no honest ministers in the court and there are traitors in the court, troops must be raised to punish them in order to clear the emperor's side.】

【Zhu Di then launched a rebellion in the name of Fengtian Jingnan, which is known as the Battle of Jingnan in history. 】

Ming dynasty.

The moment he saw Zhu Di rebelling, the unknown anger in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart ignited again.

The gaze was like a sharp sword, piercing Zhu Di's heart, but this time, Zhu Di was not afraid, and looked at Zhu Yuanzhang stubbornly.

"Fourth child, what else do you have to say?"

Zhu Yuanzhang's voice was cold and cold. In the ears of the people around him, it seemed that everyone's blood began to coagulate.

"I just want to ask my father, is it right or wrong for my son to rebel?"

Zhu Di's voice was calm, and he looked at Zhu Yuanzhang steadily and said:

"If the father is in the position of a son and minister, would you, the father, be a rebel or not?".......The dividing line..

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