Spoiler History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 781: The first to get the moon is near the water and the tower.

For the housekeeper of the Zhao Song Dynasty, looking back over the past hundred years, there were countless people who rebelled against their superiors and countless people who started rebellions.

Therefore, after founding the Song Dynasty, instead of focusing on military affairs, he and Zhao Pu reviewed the past and finally decided on a method of combining civil and military affairs.

According to the later saying that the change of dynasties is the continuation of the past and the opening of the future, the Ming Dynasty should have seen Zhao Kuangyin use the method of combining civil and military power to quell the chaos and restore the unity. Why was he so unrestrained towards the nobles? Where did he inherit the past?
Or was it because the Song Dynasty failed to restore its unity that Emperor Hongwu did not think that the Song system was a "successful experience"?
Thinking of this, Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help but sigh:
How could he have predicted the candlelight and the axe sound?
With well-trained soldiers, sufficient food supplies, abundant wealth and many generals, he ended up becoming known as the God of Chariots of Gaoliang River. Could anyone have predicted this?
Yongxi's Northern Expedition was a battle that he wanted to control from a distance of thousands of miles away, but he did not give up power. Ultimately, the general was unable to control his generals and suffered a great defeat. This was a way of defeat that he could not understand no matter how hard he tried.

Thinking of this, Emperor Zhao Song couldn't help but pat his brother on the shoulder:

"People in later times joked that the Ming Dynasty fell because of Emperor Hongwu, but maybe it was you who actually fell because of you."

Of course, this was mostly a joke, but even though Zhao Guangyi rubbed sparks on his smooth head, he still couldn't figure out the cause and effect relationship.

Zhao Kuangyin shook his head and sighed in his heart. He knew very well that it was difficult to stop the gossips in troubled times. Future generations who read history would inevitably include him among those who caused chaos, just like when he talked about the affairs of the Song Dynasty before, future generations would call him "bullying orphans and widows."

However, the Song Dynasty learned from the Tang Dynasty. Emperor Taizong of Tang also experienced the Xuanwu Gate Incident, but it did not diminish his achievements in civil and military affairs.

I thought I could unify the country as I had agreed with Zhao Pu, and make my achievements more than the criticisms, but I ended up meeting such a brother...

Zhao Kuangyin shook his head in his heart and made up his mind: In the next year he will do as the imperial physician said, abstain from food and drink and focus on nourishing his mind and body. Now that he has inherited the throne, he must turn things around!
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In the Huagai Palace, Zhu Yuanzhang listened to the stories told by later generations, and he was equally impressed:

"Looking back at the past dynasties, how many people were as tolerant of old friends as we are?"

"Iron certificate, farmland, servants, food and salary, which one do we lack?"

"How can you, who have no worries about food and clothing, snatch a bite of food from the common people?"

Li Shanchang naturally did not dare to answer this, and as the younger generations counted the privileges of the nobles one by one, Zhu Yuanzhang's anger was rising almost visibly.

Zhu Biao could understand some of his father's anger.

After all, the father who issued the iron certificate in the third year of Hongwu could be said to be in high spirits, while the father who issued the iron list in the fifth year of Hongwu was already quite disappointed.

Zhu Biao even heard from his mother that on the night before the iron order was issued, his father spent the entire night in the East Pavilion reviewing memorials, and the lights in the pavilion were not turned off until dawn.

From this point of view, what later generations said was indeed correct. My father really had high expectations for his old friends who helped him pacify the world, and he wanted to share wealth and honor with them for generations.

However, even though he could understand it, Zhu Biao was still a little hesitant to persuade her. Fortunately, he would not be needed to comfort her next time.

In fact, what Guangmu said at this time was familiar to almost everyone in Huagai Palace. That was why some unclear words in his speech were particularly eye-catching.

For example, every dynasty has its own blood-sucking worms, such as the saying "We haven't even waited for the princes to make any move".

These words almost instantly made Zhu Chong and Zhu Gang's faces turn pale. After all, among all the kings of the Ming Dynasty, they were the only two who had officially established their fiefdoms.

Besides, family members know their own affairs. Zhu Chong knew that his large-scale construction in Xi'an had caused complaints from local officials and people, and even caused his father to write to him to scold him. However, considering that the Xi'an Palace was about to be completed and his elder brother helped him, he did not take these things to heart. Zhu Gang was even more lenient with the chef because he was scolded by his father for whipping him, but he also took his anger out on other servants because of this, which his father did not know yet...

Zhu Biao also subconsciously glanced at his second and third brothers. After all, he had helped his two younger brothers when they had angered their father before. So it seemed that his consideration for the brothers was wrong?

However, this matter only stayed in Zhu Biao's mind for a moment, because he knew that his father now probably had no time to care about his second and third brothers.

"It turns out that something ridiculous has happened in our family! You have a son who behaves like a beast!"

As expected, Emperor Ming had no time to pay attention to the two frightened kings. Instead, he gritted his teeth and thought that his previous guess was correct.

He couldn't understand the jokes of later generations, but after all, they were all Chinese characters, and he could easily understand their meaning after hearing them spoken by others.

The so-called exertion of power is very clear. It is to shake the rule of the Ming Dynasty by causing rebellion like the nobles. As for how the vassal kings can shake it...

Tomorrow the emperor looked around, his eyes swept over the faces of his sons, and finally gave a faint order:

"Now that we have reached the time of the Light Curtain, there is no need to rush to leave the capital. It is better to cultivate virtue in the capital and learn the etiquette of future generations to cultivate yourself."

This time, Queen Ma remained silent and did not say anything to stop him.

Zhu Biao also guessed it. Now that the matter of Hu Weiyong has just come to an end, if his father's guess is true, he will probably not give up until it is thoroughly investigated.

But... Zhu Biao also sighed in his heart, why is the Ming Dynasty so troubled?

[Since Zhu Yuanzhang treated the group of meritorious officials with unlimited favor in the early Ming Dynasty, it was natural that the group of nobles in the early Ming Dynasty inevitably had distinct regional attributes, which was later commonly known as the Huaixi Party.

This is the same principle as in the Eastern Han Dynasty when 19 out of the 28 generals in Yuntai were in Nanyang and Yingchuan. To be a minister following the dragon, one must be close to the water to get the moon first.

It is not difficult to find out from the iron certificate that Zhu Yuanzhang’s understanding of politics when the Ming Dynasty was founded was extremely simple, that is, since he had conquered the world with his brothers, he would rule the world with his brothers.

As for people other than brothers...don't call me that, we're really not familiar with each other.

During the Hongwu period, there was an assistant professor at the Imperial College named Bei Qiong. He entered the government in the second year of Hongwu and retired in the eleventh year, just before the Hu Weiyong case, so he can definitely be regarded as an eyewitness to the political ecology in the early years of Hongwu.

In the work, this Imperial College scholar recorded quite straightforwardly the appearance of the central government in the early Ming Dynasty as he saw it - "most of the people on horseback wear short clothes from Chu, and half of the people in the city wear high buns from Huai River."

In the early Ming Dynasty, the capital was located in Yingtian Prefecture. From a geographical point of view, it undoubtedly belonged to eastern Zhejiang, but most of the people who could tie high buns in the city were from Huai.

According to the geographical division method of the early Ming Dynasty, Eastern Zhejiang and Huaixi were not even adjacent to each other - there was Western Zhejiang in between.

Therefore, whether intentionally or unintentionally, Zhu Yuanzhang's sharing of the big pot with his old brothers in the third year of Hongwu actually opened the first stage of the Ming Dynasty's party struggle:

That is, the nobles of Huaixi versus the literati of eastern Zhejiang. 】

(End of this chapter)