Li Er of the Tang Dynasty: Ancestor Xie is here!

Chapter 172 Zhu Di: Brother, I just dreamed that you died
  In the fifteenth year of Yongle, Yingtian Mansion in Nanjing.

In the Palace of Qianqing, Zhu Di sat high on the dragon chair, looking down at the kneeling Valley King Zhu Su below.

Zhu Su knelt down reluctantly and looked at Zhu Di with an unruly expression.

"Tell me, why do you want to rebel?" Zhu Di's tone was cold.

Zhu Su smiled wildly: "Fourth brother, when I welcomed you into Jinchuan Gate, I didn't expect you to end up like this... It's useless to say more. You are just making excuses to kill me. , why bother talking nonsense?”

"I asked you why you rebelled!" Zhu Di slapped the armrest of the chair angrily, "Even if I wronged you, will your half-brother, the King of Shu, wrongly accuse you?"

"Do you think I will believe it?" Zhu Su smiled disdainfully: "You also know that the King of Shu and I are brothers from the same mother, so how could he report me to you?"

Zhu Di did not speak, but threw down two secret notes.

The first letter was from Changsha Shilu Tinggang, saying that he had committed numerous crimes in the fiefdom by "seizing people's land, invading public taxes, and killing innocent people."

Zhu Su casually threw the secret note aside and complained that he had done such a thing before.

As long as he doesn't admit it, then he doesn't. Even if Zhu Di disposes of him, there will still be people who will vindicate him in the end.

As soon as Zhu Su picked up the second letter, she broke into a cold sweat.

It belongs to his biological brother Zhu Chun, King of Shu.

Zhu Suqiang calmly read through it, which contained information about how he plundered people's wealth in the fiefdom, recruited soldiers and horses, established high-ranking officials, built warships and crossbows, and practiced the bravery of naval troops. And he once sent a secret envoy to contact Shu King Zhu Chun to plot a rebellion. The secret report also came with a personal letter from that year.

At the end of the secret memorial, Zhu Chun actually went all out in his praise, and the words were extremely disgusting. He was nothing more than praising his fourth brother for his divine, cultural, and martial arts, punching the two Han Dynasties and stepping on the prosperous Tang Dynasty. As for whether Zhu Di believed it or not, I don’t know. Anyway, Zhu Chun believed it.

"Have you finished reading?" Zhu Di's voice sounded again.

Zhu Su was covered in cold sweat and lay on the ground, daring not to move.

"Do you think the King of Shu is a fool? How dare you falsely call his son Zhu Yuesui, King of Chongning, Zhu Yunzhen?" Zhu Di slowly walked down from the dragon chair and kicked Zhu Su on the shoulder: "Or do you think I’m blind and can’t even remember what Zhu Yunwen looks like?”

"This emperor, fourth brother can do it, but I can't do it?" Zhu Su suddenly raised his head and looked at Zhu Di.

"Who do you think you are! Are you worthy of being compared with me?" Zhu Di kicked me again: "Take a look in the mirror and see if you can compare with a piece of sesame cake?"

Zhu Su was also very stubborn and said nothing, allowing Zhu Di to kick him.

Zhu Di kicked his feet twice and suddenly felt that it was not interesting, so he waved his hand and said: "Drag him down... It is decreed that the king of the valley, Zhu Su, and his two sons should be deposed as common people!"

After Zhu Su was dragged down, Zhu Di let out a long sigh, walked back to the dragon chair, sat on it and tapped his temples, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a while, he tapped his hand gently on the table and murmured to himself.

"Jianwen Jun, Jianwen Jun, Zhu Yunwen..."

"Zhu Yunxi..." He looked up at the ceiling and suddenly mentioned his eldest brother Zhu Biao's third son, who is now imprisoned in Losli... Zhu Yunxi of Fengyang High Wall.

Speaking of Zhu Yunxi, he was quite unlucky.

What I have to admit is that Zhu Yunwen was actually quite good to him. Perhaps it was because this boy was really no threat to him, so as soon as he came to the throne, he was named King of Wu and his fiefdom was in Hangzhou.

As we all know, in the Tang Dynasty, the most distinguished king's title was King Qin, because that was what Li Shimin once used; and in the Ming Dynasty, the most noble title was King Wu, which was used by Zhu Yuanzhang before he ascended the throne.

We don’t know the specific reasons, but what is certain is that Zhu Yunwen’s other two half-brothers, Zhu Yunxuan and Zhu Yunxi, were not awarded the title of King of Wu.

Before Zhu Yunxi, there was also a king of Wu for a short time, and that was Zhu Yuan, the youngest son of Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma. However, within a few years of the seal, Zhu Yuanzhang changed the seal of Zhu Ji to Kaifeng.

After Zhu Di's arrest was successful, Zhu Yunwen disappeared, leaving only Zhu Yunxi and his two younger brothers captured by Zhu Laosi.

The reason why the three of them were crowned kings was because their brothers ascended the throne and their father was posthumously crowned Emperor Xiaokang. Zhu Di was even better. The first thing he did after coming to power was to abolish the reign title of Jianwen and return it to the [-]th year of Hongwu. At the same time, he also abolished the "Emperor Xiaokang" of his good brother and demoted it to Yi again. Prince Wen.

As we all know, only the emperor's son or brother can be a prince; and the prince's son can only be a county prince.

So after Zhu Di thought about Zhu Yunwen's filial deeds towards his brothers, he was deeply moved and wrote with a stroke of his pen——

Well, you, Zhu Yunxi, can't help your brother well, so that he is so rebellious... Well, you can stop being the prince and become a commoner.

I have to say that the fourth child still has some humanity in him. At least it is difficult for most people to treat it calmly after pretending to be crazy and eating shit.

But now because of Zhu Su's nonsense, Zhu Di began to become suspicious.

Will Zhu Yunxi... be used by people with ulterior motives to rebel?
  The more he thought about it, the more he felt that not only was it possible, but it was also a big possibility, until he finally made up his mind after completing the logic in his mind.

"Sehazi?"

Following Zhu Di's call, Sai Hazhi, who had been waiting below for a long time, immediately stepped forward.

As the commander of Jinyi's personal army, he naturally had to stand by the emperor's side on such occasions when he was dealing with the rebellious prince.

"Go to Fengyang, Wu common people..."

Zhu Di seemed to have made up his mind for a long time. He drew a circle in the air with his finger. After a while, he made up his mind and said: "Let's deal with it."

"Yes!"

Saihazhi got the order and left.

Zhu Di sighed dejectedly, sat on the dragon chair and began to close his eyes and meditate.

At first, when I thought of my eldest brother Zhu Biao and my sister-in-law Chang, it was a bit difficult to start with Zhu Yunxi. But when he thought of Zhu Yunwen, this bastard, forcing him to eat shit, Zhu Di's anger suddenly came out.

"Brother...don't blame me..."

Zhu Di murmured.

Just like that, sleepiness suddenly came over me.

He yawned and huddled on the dragon chair to take a nap.

In a daze, he suddenly seemed to hear someone calling him, and the voice was very familiar.

"Fourth, fourth?"

It's been a long time since anyone called me that... Zhu Di thought to himself and slowly opened his eyes.

Then he saw the face that he thought about day and night.

"Brother?" Zhu Di rubbed his eyes in disbelief, and suddenly felt his legs were a little weak. The eldest brother in front of him was as young as ever, reminding him of the time when he was still a young boy.

How wonderful those days were, before the third brother and the third brother turned against each other, and the brothers were running around in the palace all day long, especially the second brother who was so indebted that he had to kick every raccoon cat he encountered.

He clearly remembered that his second brother kicked a tabby cat so painfully that the cat slapped him backhand, scratching his neck with two scars. The second brother cried and went to complain to his mother. She laughed and baked big cakes to coax him to eat.

"Is this a dream?"

Zhu Di stretched out his hand and gave himself a mouthful, which was surprisingly loud.

Hey, it’s really not a dream.

Could it be that everything I experienced before was just a dream?

"Brother, let me tell you, I just had a dream..." Zhu Di grabbed the eldest brother's arm and said to him with burning eyes: "I dreamed that my sister-in-law died, Xiongying died, and my mother died too. You're gone too, and finally it's the second brother, the third brother, and dad... Dad passed the throne to Yun Wen, and when this kid came to power, he started to attack us uncles..."

"Lao Twelve, Lao Twelve was forced to death by him..."

At this point, Zhu Di burst into tears.

"Fourth, why are you crying?"

Lao Zhu's voice sounded from behind Zhu Biao.

The suppression from the blood made Zhu Di tremble. He stood up and knelt on the ground without hesitation: "Dad?"

The first time he saw his father, he was sure that this was not a dream, and that what he had experienced before should be a dream.

Frankly speaking, he does not want to be the emperor. If Zhu Yunwen hadn't pushed too hard after coming to power, he would still be facing off against the Beiyuan Tatars in Peiping.

Since that dream was so real, he didn't even hesitate and chose to tell the truth to his father and elder brother.

"Dad, the dream I just had was too real. Don't you..."

At this point, he realized something was wrong.

Why is my voice still so old? Isn't this dream enough to wake up from?

"Fourth, you are not dreaming." Lao Zhu rarely smiled at his son who looked older than himself: "Your eldest brother and I came from Hongwu seven years ago thanks to the blessing of the immortal."

"Immortal?" Zhu Di became numb immediately.

"This is you, please call me uncle." Lao Zhu pointed at Li Qing and introduced.

Zhu Di swallowed his saliva and called him uncle honestly.

But he felt extremely awkward - even his eldest grandson Zhu Zhanji looked older than his uncle.

Then he quickly became agitated, remembering the previous order to kill Zhu Yunxi, and the extremely slanderous way he faced his eldest brother in "Fengtian Jingnan Ji"...

When it comes to rebellion, Zhu Di is not guilty - I, Zhu Di, have been forced to eat shit. If I don't rebel, I will be forced to death by that little bastard Jianwen. What crime do I have? But the problem is that he really feels guilty about these two things. Whether it is to consolidate his rule and leave no hidden dangers or not, after all, it is a bit unjustifiable.

"Why, after seeing us, you don't have anything to say?" Lao Zhu walked to the dragon chair and sat down calmly.

"Dad, I miss you so much." Zhu Di's tone was a bit dry, as if he was reading from a stick.

"Do you miss us?" Lao Zhu smiled, "We also went to the first year of Jianwen and know what happened - I'm afraid you have a guilty conscience, huh?"

"I'm not guilty!" Zhu Di saw that since his father already knew, he wouldn't do the show anymore, so he said truthfully: "That little bastard Jianwen has forced me to eat shit, why can't I rebel?"

Lao Zhu and Zhu Biao looked at each other, and in the end it was Lao Zhu who laughed first.

"Hahahaha... you old boy, so you still have such painful feet? When we arrived in Peking, you were eating pig food in the pig pen, but I didn't expect you to eat shit?"

Zhu Di's face immediately turned red, and he revealed that he was short.

"We know you are wronged. We also know what that bastard Zhu Yunzhen did." Lao Zhu groaned and said: "Old Twelve died unjustly. Alas... When we saw your appearance, we felt uncomfortable. Come on, your mother also said at the time, it’s not the fourth child’s fault, it’s all Jianwen’s fault that that bastard went too far.”

After all, he didn't tell anyone about his meeting with Emperor Jianwen, but he didn't recognize him as the emperor's grandfather at all.

"Dad..." Zhu Di howled and looked up: "Where is my mother?"

"There is something wrong with your mother. If you want to see her, just go to Hongwu Palace to see her when you are free." When Lao Zhu said this, he looked at Zhu Di with a tiger face: "What the hell, you kid still wants to stir up trouble. Reverse Tiangang and ask your mother to come see you?"

"Ah no no no, dad, I didn't mean that..." Zhu Di immediately admitted his mistake.

"Don't worry, we will make a decree in a few days to recognize that your accession to the throne of King Yan Zhu Di is legal." Lao Zhu sat on the dragon throne and said casually: "You, the emperor, have done a good job, and we are very satisfied. I’ll fill in the legality part for you.”

"Thank you, dad." Zhu Di said immediately.

"Actually, I'm quite surprised," Li Qing said with a smile, "I thought you would be like that little brat Jianwen and disown your father."

As soon as these words came out, Lao Zhu's face immediately turned as purple as an eggplant.

*Resentment value from Lao Zhu +10000
  "Ah? That little brat Jianwen, how dare you deny my father?" Zhu Di immediately became angry: "Damn it! How could such a thing happen..."

"Fourth!" Zhu Biao's face suddenly darkened: "You want to imitate Taizong of the Tang Dynasty?"

Fortunately, Li Shimin didn't come with him today, otherwise it would have been a lot of fun.

"Be reasonable, Xiao Biao. Brother Li really didn't do anything outrageous to his sister-in-law. If you don't believe me, go back and ask him yourself." Li Qing, based on the principle that he and Li Shimin are good buddies, began to defend him.

Zhu Di didn't notice Li Qing's words, but immediately apologized to his elder brother: "Brother, didn't you just rush here? You also know that Zhu Yunwen's dog who is not as good as sesame cakes is really not a thing."

Thinking of this, he suddenly shouted: "Come here! Come here! Go and chase Sai Hazhi back!"

"Fourth, what's wrong with you?" Zhu Biao asked suspiciously.

Zhu Di opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.

It was Li Qing who was helping Zhu Di to explain to Zhu Biao: "Isn't this the rebellion of the Valley King Zhu Su this year? He took the third son of the Shu King Zhu Chun, the Chongning King Zhu Yuesui, and pointed out that the deer was a horse and Zhu Yunzhen, and wanted to join forces with the Shu King Zhu Chun to rebel. , but was reported by the King of Shu."

"Then the fourth son of your family felt uncomfortable after being demoted to a commoner by Zhu Chun, so he issued an order to let Zhu Yunxi, a commoner of Wu who was imprisoned in Fengyang High Wall, "die of a sudden illness"."

*Rage value from Zhu Biao +20000
  "Fourth brother..." Zhu Biao's eyes suddenly became extremely deep: "You are making a difference..."

(End of this chapter)