Jingming

Chapter 18 The Heir's Attitude
When the Xie Jian finally passed to Jiang Mian, his first feeling was: Your Highness's handwriting is good.

The letter of thanks is quite long.

Because it is not as obscure as ordinary thank-you forms and memorials, and even a sentence is broken.

[The minister and nephew Hou Cong, in March of the 16th year of Zhengde, Jiaxu received the order of the Queen Mother to win the love and release the clothes, and was granted the title of king.Since I have received the grace of God, I am ashamed to say goodbye.Wuyin obeyed the edict, and was overwhelmed with grief, not only for not being able to be filial to his father, but also for His Majesty's death at a young age.The empress dowager even mourned the phoenix's body and was about to change. The first noble entrusted the ancestral temple again, out of hope.For Chen's answer to Shengen, my minister and nephew have heartfelt words, begging the Queen Mother to listen. 】

Then, the words became more straightforward:

【Since my nephew is sensible, I have often listened to the late king telling about the benevolence of the emperor's uncle and the intelligence of the emperor's brother.Living in the countryside, I have always heard that the courtiers complained about the emperor's brother building a leopard house, being good at fighting, practicing regiment camps, and stationed in the Xuanfu.The minister and nephew used to be just the son of a vassal prince, so he should not talk about the government indiscriminately.But now that the minister and nephew have received the edict, when thinking about the future, they really think that the emperor brother is the monarch with the broadest vision and the highest ambition since Emperor Taizong.

The ministers and nephews usually only like to read books to pass the time.Gradually more and more complicated, Shi Haigoushen found some things worth pondering.

According to the "Bamboo Book", the river and the Han River froze during the time of King Xiao of Zhou.

"Spring and Autumn" has been recorded many times, and Lu Guochun has no ice in the first month. Both "Xunzi·Fuguo Pian" and "Mencius·Gaozi [-]" contain two crops a year in the land of Qilu.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 Jin Dynasty, the Bohai Sea was frozen for three consecutive years from Changli to Gaizhouwei, and there were vehicles and horses and thousands of soldiers and luggage on the ice.At that time, the Five Husbands were chaotic in China, and the Northern and Southern Dynasties confronted each other.

During the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, lychees were produced in Xuzhou Prefecture, and Du Fu's poem said, "Great green and spring wine, light red and broken lychees"; "Youyang Zazu" records that in the tenth year of Tianbao, more than a hundred orange trees in the Chang'an Palace bore fruit.By the first month of the first year of Yongtai, Chang'an was full of snow.In the first month of the second year of Yongtai, there was heavy snow on the ground two feet.In November of the following year, the fog in Chang'an City was like snow, and the vegetation was frozen.In another two years, the city of Chang'an will be hot and cold in June.

In the winter of this year, Du Fu was living in Changsha. At first, he thought that "Hunan does not snow in winter, and I will be drowned due to illness".When it comes to winter, it is said that "the wind blows the osmanthus water, and there are many snowy nights".By the time of Bai Juyi, he wrote "Jiujiang has experienced heavy snowfall in the past ten years, and the river's water has become iced and branches broken".Then in the Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi's "Red Plum" poem said: "Flowers only bloom in spring, and many should not be cold. Northerners didn't know it at first, and they looked like apricot blossoms."At that time, northerners didn't even know plum blossoms.

From the prosperous Tang Dynasty to the weak Song Dynasty.Then Khitan, Jurchen, and Mongolia frequently went south to bury Song Jianyuan.In the second year of the Tianli calendar, the Taihu Lake was frozen several feet thick, and all the oranges froze to death.

Emperor Taizu regained China. It has been nearly 200 years since my Ming Dynasty. How is the climate?In the winter of the fourth to fifth year of Jingtai, the sea ice in Huaidong was more than [-] miles away, and Fengyang Bawei [-] continued to rain and snow in March.In the sixth year of Hongzhi, the Huai River area was snowed heavily from September to February of the following year. Dongting was covered with ice for [-] miles, and horses and horses passed by.In the first year of Zhengde, it snowed heavily in Wanzhou, the capital of Qiongzhou.

The ministers and nephews listed all these, not trying to alarmist, but just want to say a simple truth: the nomadic tribes north of the Great Wall also want to live.

The way of heaven circulates, sometimes warm and sometimes cold.When it is warm, the vegetation is in full bloom, and people, horses, cattle and sheep are easy to breed.When it is extremely cold, the grass and trees are all withered, and the other generation cannot live, so they must try to go south to survive.

I heard that the emperor's brother is talented and intelligent, proficient in multi-ethnic languages, and even learned Frangian last year.Brother Huang's words and deeds may seem deviant to some, but in the eyes of his ministers and nephews, he actually looks at the world and has a broad mind.

Cleaning up the border towns, raising troops and horses, stationing in the Xuanfu, and proclaiming a township, is it not like the Emperor Taizong and Emperor Xuanzong guarding the gate of the country?In order to keep the Daming Society as stable as Mount Tai, all the officials had a lot of dissuasion against the emperor's brother, which is reasonable.Because of the change of the civil fortress before, and the defeat of Yutailing, the emperor's brother Yuji, I dare not fight lightly anymore.

However, the tribes in the north will have to go south to plunder sooner or later, and even imitate the previous court's move to map our great Ming Dynasty.I want to come to think that the emperor's brother is also planning for the eternity of his descendants, so he is determined, and he often talks about military affairs.

It has been nearly 200 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and every year seems to be cold like a year.A little review of the reports from various places is the proof.

Brother Huang knows that the winter of Ming Dynasty is coming.If you don't move like a mountain, you will eventually be covered by heavy snow; if you work hard, you can keep your foundation alive.

The Empress Dowager is above, and now I suddenly know that the Holy Spirit intends to regard my nephew as the son of the filial temple and the brother of the emperor, but the nephew really cannot do it.

If ministers and nephews are in high positions, how can they be filial to the empress dowager if they are not filial to their parents first?

How can my nephew and nephew be ignorant of the youngest son, a close relative of flesh and blood, and the kindness of nurturing him for fifteen years?
If ministers and nephews are heirs to rule the world, how can this unfilial king make the subjects of the world return to him?
Today's imperial edict is clear, but none of the ministers spoke to Anlu about the matter of succession; the ministers and nephews were dull, so they had to see the instrument to express the Queen Mother Fangming's heart.

However, it has reached the outskirts of Beijing, the situation is in a dilemma, and disputes have arisen.The ministers and nephews were panicked and thought over and over again, Fu begged the Empress Dowager to allow the ministers and nephews to see:

Empress Yuji, the courtiers and nephews took one son as the son of the emperor's brother, and the empress dowager and the emperor's sister-in-law raised him.

As Mao Cheng said, the ministers and nephews are the sons of Xiaomiao, and the descendants of Xiaomiao are endless, but who is the heir of the emperor's brother?All the cabinet ministers, entrusted by the emperor's brother for the funeral, made the emperor's heir extinct. How can you be loyal?
If the queen mother does not agree to the request of the minister and nephew, please seize the imperial edict.

If the Empress Dowager fears that her nephews will make trouble in the future, and her nephews will be slaughtered by the neck, there will be no complaints.

The emperor's ambition was not rewarded, but he did not expect to lose his blood and food after his death because of the will.

The weather has changed, external troubles continue, and internal troubles have arisen again.

The Ming Dynasty is old, no matter who succeeds the great rule, if the monarchs and ministers continue to stick to the old ways, fear of old age will appear, this is the time for the survival of the society and the reform of the evils and the new.

But this heartfelt words, I ask the Queen Mother to think carefully.

The ancestors and the ancestors are above, and the unworthy descendants thickly cry the book]

After Jiang Mian finished reading, he realized that his mouth had been involuntarily opened for a long time.

After shivering, Jiang Mian handed the Xie Note to Mao Ji who was looking forward to it with complicated emotions, and then fell into rapid thinking.

He was puzzled at first: Did Emperor Zhengde really have such far-reaching considerations in his many actions when he praised Emperor Zhengde so well?
Then I thought about what it means for Sijun to agree with Emperor Zhengde so much. Isn't Sijun worried that the cabinet 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 sentence that Emperor Zhengde "has not paid for his ambition", what is he going to do?
Toss like Emperor Zhengde?
Originally, Yang Tinghe might have thought that Sijun was deceived and instigated by villains, but now that Xie Jian came, the situation became clear: who would dare to persuade Sijun to write these things to the Queen Mother and the cabinet?This letter of thanks must come from him himself.

This heir has really cut himself off, saying that the cabinet ministers were disloyal to Emperor Zhengde and made Emperor Zhengde extinct. Who can wear this hat?
Such a strong and clear attitude means that it is almost impossible for him to listen to persuasion on the issue of succession.

Not only that, but it also brought up a more difficult problem to face, that is, his future policy strategy: it is very likely to use military force!

Xie Jian still has a lot to think about, and Jiang Mian hastily thought of the most important thing: such a heir who cannot be persuaded, who may be more difficult than Emperor Zhengde, what is Yang Tinghe and the Queen Mother? manner?

Continue to welcome him to the throne, or abolish him?

(End of this chapter)