Rebirth of Zhu Di's son

Chapter 41
Zhu Gaoxu said modestly: "Uncle Shen Wang is overrated. When I have nothing to do, my nephew likes to read the imperial newspapers issued by the imperial court, so he knows a little bit about it, but he cannot be said to be erudite."

King Han felt that it was necessary to make some supplements to prevent King Shen from talking nonsense, so he continued to say a few words.

"Fu Rang is the third son of the Duke of Ying. He is not qualified to inherit the title. He has not been exiled. This is an act of mercy from His Majesty the Father. How can he dare to have any wrongdoing?"

Seeing that King Shen was silent, Zhu Gaoxu wanted to hit him, so he deliberately asked Kang Ping: "Has the imperial court issued any new reports recently?"

"Reporting to Your Highness, I just received the latest issue of the Di Di newspaper yesterday. I haven't had time to report this before. Please punish me." Kang Ping knelt down and apologized quickly.

Zhu Gaoxu pretended to be angry and said: "Where is the residence report?"

"Please wait a moment, Your Highness, I will go get it right now."

After Kang Ping said this, he quickly stood up, walked down from the spectator seats, and walked quickly around to the backstage.

He found his luggage from the shelf, opened it quickly, quickly took out two thick newspapers, and then quickly returned to the spectator seat.

Not long after, everyone saw Kang Ping bowing over, holding the newspaper in both hands, and presented it to Zhu Gaoxu.

"His Royal Highness, please take a look."

Zhu Gaoxu reached out to take it, skipping over King Han next to him, handed one of the Di newspapers to King Shen, and then started to read with his head down.

The contents of the two Di newspapers are the same, and one is a copy copied by Kang Ping according to the rules after receiving the Di newspapers.

This issue of Di Bao looks a little thick, but in fact it only records two major events. One is that King Qi was deposed, and the other is that Zhu Yuanzhang made some additions and revisions to "Huang Ming Ancestors".

After a while, King Shen read the newspaper carefully, and his face became a little ugly.

When King Han saw this, he became confused and asked Zhu Gaoxu, "Dare I ask the prince, what happened in the court?"

Zhu Gaoxu did not answer, but handed the Di newspaper in his hand to King Han.

After reading the newspaper, King Han respectfully laid it flat on the table and said solemnly: "Two years ago, the second King of Qin was demoted to a commoner because of his violation of law and discipline. His Majesty the Father ordered his younger brother to inherit the throne. This is My father’s punishment for other vassal kings.”

"Now the King of Qi is running rampant and killing the people. The sky is angry and the people are resentful. He has expelled the country and demoted him to the rank of common people. His wife and son were exiled to cover up the same crime. This is because His Majesty the Father acted in accordance with the rules. Xiao Wang thinks His Majesty the Emperor revised the "Ancestor Instructions of the Emperor Ming Dynasty" and revised the system of title succession for the emperor's relatives, which will be a great achievement for a long time to come."

King Han was already used to this.

Since he came to the feudal plain in the 27th year of Hongwu, the imperial court has dealt with relatives and ministers who violated the ban many times.

As a result, the imperial court gradually formed a fine-tuned system of title awards and inheritance for relatives of the emperor and heroes with different surnames.

Now, Zhu Yuanzhang has written the fine-tuned system into the ancestral precepts and designated it as the ancestral system. This is to express his attitude to all the emperor's relatives and ministers.

Next to him, King Shen had a dark face and remained silent.

The year before last, he was riding a horse in Shenyang City. When the horse was frightened, several people were injured and an elderly man died.

After Zhu Yuanzhang learned the reason for this incident, he thought that he did not intend to kill anyone, so he did not deprive him of his title and sentence him to death in accordance with the ancestral precept that "princes who commit crimes are as guilty as the common people".

However, he severely reprimanded King Shen, ordered him to compensate the casualties tenfold, and fined him three years' salary. He also used this incident to warn other vassal kings not to disturb the people, otherwise they would be dealt with severely.

"Grandpa Shengming."

Zhu Gaoxu cupped his fists and saluted Nan far away.

In the 26th year of Hongwu, Mu Ying and Zhu Fan passed away successively, which was a great blow to the old and frail Zhu Yuanzhang.

The so-called grief-stricken lung, Zhu Yuanzhang suffered from a chronic cough at night since then. In just six months, his head turned completely white, and his whole body became older day by day.

If Zhu Yuanzhang had not had the obsession to update the system and cultivate successors, he might have been unable to hold on and passed away at that time.

He killed Lan Yu in order to get rid of the arrogant and powerful generals who had dissident intentions, so that King Zhu Di of Yan could control the military power.

He named Zhu Gaochi the Prince of Gaoyang County on the grounds that he was born with foot problems, and ordered him to join the vassal vassal. This was to allow Zhu Gaochi to securely assume his status as the heir apparent of Prince Yan.

He "changed the King of Qin", "rebuked King Shen", and "deposed the King of Qi", which actually provided ideas and legal basis for Zhu Di to reduce the vassal status after he succeeded to the throne.He deposed the honorable ministers who had committed serious crimes as common people but did not kill them. This set a precedent for future generations of emperors to gently clean up the honorable ministers after they succeeded to the throne.

As for the fine-tuning of the title reward and inheritance system specifically for the clan and ministers, the establishment of a title inheritance assessment system was a decision made by Zhu Yuanzhang after repeatedly weighing the pros and cons with reference to Zhu Gaoxu's proposal.

He hoped to create an excellent system for managing clan ministers for future generations, so as to prevent clan ministers from becoming a huge burden on the court's finances many years later.

For Zhu Yuanzhang, updating the system was to ensure long-term peace and stability for the Ming Dynasty for generations to come.

As for the successors he trained, it was not only Zhu Di, but also Zhu Gaoxu, who was favored by heaven.

As Zhu Yuanzhang came into contact with Zhu Gaoxu more and more, his understanding of Zhu Gaoxu's thoughts gradually deepened.

After many trials and experiences with Zhu Gaoxu, he found that Zhu Gaoxu indeed had a farsightedness that was different from ordinary people. He had a deeper understanding of the rise and fall of past dynasties than his peers, and he was able to see through the loopholes in various systems of the dynasty.

Moreover, when Zhu Gaoxu served as the captain of the Zhili School, he showed strong skills in controlling people and political ability. When he controlled the border troops, he also demonstrated his military talent in uniting the army.

All these made Zhu Yuanzhang more and more certain that Zhu Gaoxu should be the chosen son favored by heaven.

Because of this, in the past five years, Zhu Yuanzhang made some fine-tuning of individual systems of the imperial court, and the updates of these systems have a deep relationship with Zhu Gaoxu.

In the past five years, Zhu Gaoxu's experience has been so rich that it seems that he has gone through Zhu Di's experience in the past ten years. The experience of leading the border army has made him more calm and dignified.

All this was due to Zhu Yuanzhang's strong support.

Any officials who disobey or even rebel against Zhu Gaoxu will be dealt with strictly by the court.

Coupled with the fact that Jinyiwei spies acted as Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes and ears, the communication between the grandfather and grandson was extremely efficient.

Since arriving in Peiping in the 27th year of Hongwu's reign, Zhu Gaoxu has returned to the Imperial City of Jinling two to three times every year.

The first time was in May, when he was ordered by Zhu Yuanzhang to return to Beijing to report on his work.

The second time was in September, as required, he returned to Beijing to celebrate Zhu Yuanzhang's birthday.

If there were no important matters at the frontier at the end of that year, he would be ordered by Zhu Yuanzhang to return to Beijing to attend the royal New Year celebrations.

Every time he returned to Beijing, Zhu Gaoxu would be forced by Zhu Yuanzhang to stay in the East Nuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace for three days. The purpose was to make it easier for him to talk more with Zhu Gaoxu and exchange general strategies for governing the country.

If nothing unexpected happens, Zhu Gaoxu will receive an order this month asking him to return to Beijing to report on his duties next month.

However, at this moment, a personal guard hurriedly came to the spectator stand, knelt down on one knee, and respectfully made a report to Zhu Gaoxu.

"His Royal Highness, a messenger from the imperial court has arrived. Manager Ma has identified the envoy. Since he requires that the secret message must be delivered to His Highness in person and others must avoid it, Manager Ma has asked the messenger to wait at the Chinese army's tent."

"Two uncles, my nephew has a messenger to see, so he can't accompany him."

Zhu Gaoxu stood up and cupped his hands towards King Han and Shen.

King Han and Shen had just heard what their guards said, so how could they stop him? Of course they got up to see them off.

"Is there something big happening in the court?"

After Zhu Gaoxu left, King Shen asked in a low voice.

King Han frowned and whispered: "The messenger has to deliver the secret message to the Crown Prince in person and prohibits others from being present. Obviously the content of the secret message is too confidential."

"As a prince, don't we have the right to know?" King Shen questioned.

King Han said: "I should let you and I know. The prince will definitely say, don't think about it now, just watch the competition on the school field with peace of mind."

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