high official

Chapter 174
Youdao is the world of those who win the hearts of the people?In fact, these words are the words of scholars, not enough for training.If you don’t believe me, count the last 2000 years to see how many empires won the world without the popular support... Qiang Qin, Northern Wei, Northern Qi, Liao and Jin, Mongolian Yuan, Manchu and Qing Dynasties... almost half of the dynasties were not popular with the world, so Confucian scholars You can't listen to what you say, or you will have to die, such as Huang Zicheng to Jianwen Jun.

In just a few years of Emperor Jianwen's reign, he abolished the cruel punishments imposed by Taizu, greatly reduced the rent of the world's land, and also disarmed the army and reduced expenditures to reduce the burden on the people.One of the most famous items is the land tax of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.The heavy taxes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have always been several times that of the world. Emperor Jianwen thought it was unfair, so he reduced or exempted them.Such an emperor will naturally be sincerely supported and loved by his subjects, especially after the severe punishments imposed by the Taizu Dynasty, both civil officials and common people called him a rare benevolent monarch, and even compared him with Song Renzong...

But some families were happy and some were sad, but he offended the nobles and the vassals, and these two controlled the military power of the Ming Dynasty...

The honorable military generals hated him for blindly favoring civil officials, listening to the suggestions of Confucian scholars, desperately improving the status of the civil official group, but disarming and suppressing the warriors, which caused the status of the founding honorable descendants to plummet.This is mainly brought about by Fang Xiaoru's restructuring of the imperial court.First of all, he raised the six ministers from the second rank to the first rank, and added a position of servant between the minister and the minister, which greatly improved the status of the six ministers.Then, the establishment and status of Guozijian, Imperial Academy and Zhanshifu were greatly improved.The purpose of doing this is to strengthen Confucian education for reserve officials, improve the status of Hanlin scholars...that is, themselves, in the decision-making of the court, and strengthen the education and training of the heirs of the empire, so that future emperors will be more obedient to the words of civil officials .

There are also various reforms to the imperial court. To put it bluntly, in one sentence, the rule of civil servants is strengthened to weaken the power of generals and vassal kings.This caused the generals to complain, and it laid a serious hidden danger for the imperial army not to work hard in the future confrontation with King Yan.

Of course, it’s okay to offend the generals alone. After all, all the rebellious and powerful generals in the Ming Dynasty were killed by Zhu Yuanzhang. The emperor's anti.

But at the same time, the young emperor and his nerdy masters offended the prince again...

Emperor Taizu is a hero, but he is also a father. His sons have fleshy palms and backs. Naturally, he wants each son to live well. He sealed nine princes at the border and ordered them to train troops to prepare for the frontier. His son was sealed all over the country, and he said to Yun Wen during his lifetime: "I entrust the responsibility of resisting foreign aggression to the kings, and I will let you be the emperor of Taiping."

But Yun Wen felt something different in his heart, and he continued: "The enemy invades, and the kings will deal with it; if the kings have different ideas, who will deal with it?"

Taizu was silent for a long time before asking: "What do you think?"

"Win his heart with virtue, and restrict his actions with etiquette. If it doesn't work, cut off his territory; if it doesn't work, change it to another place. If you don't know how to repent, you have to raise your troops to attack." Yun Wen's answer is obviously early. I just thought about it, and what's more obvious is that when he was the crown prince, he was already full of wariness against those powerful uncles, and had long-term plans.

It's a pity that the words are clear and sound, but they are reckless when they are put into practice, and the mistakes are added to the mistakes, and the great rivers and mountains are handed over to others...

Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng are first-class loyal ministers, but they lack strategy and have no strategy. They are simply unable to take on the important task of cutting down the vassals, especially Huang Zicheng, who is definitely Zhu Di's No. 31 hero in Tianzi. Zhu Di's undercover gold medal... In the [-]st year of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu passed away. Qi and Huang drafted a will to order the kings not to go to the capital for funerals.

Fortunately, the first part of the order said that the kings are rebellious, and they are all elders, who refuse to obey the young master. It is very dangerous if someone covets the big position and seeks rebellion.But if you want to control the officials of the kingdom, you are obviously guarding against the kings. Of course, it will cause great resentment and vigilance, and tell them that I am going to deal with you!Before he started, he made complaints, and Jianwen made a foolish move as soon as he came up...

Now that the intention to deal with the kings was clear, Emperor Jianwen took the throne firmly, and ordered Qitai Huang Zicheng to discuss the steps to cut down the vassals.At that time, among the nine kings who held military power in the town, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, was majestic in appearance, wise, brave and general. In the cruel battle with Mongolia, he grew into the strongest military general in Ming Dynasty. Unfathomable ambition, no different from Emperor Taizu!Most of the fear in the young emperor's heart came from this person.

Qi Tai believed that if King Yan was removed, the dragons would have no leader, so there was nothing to be afraid of. He advocated taking King Yan first, but Huang Zicheng disagreed.However, the kings of Zhou, Qi, Xiang, Dai, and Min had illegal behaviors in the time of Taizu, and they were famous for cutting them down.Now it is time to question King Yan's mother and compatriot, King Zhou, and cut off King Yan's siblings...

As soon as the opinions of the two were put forward, it can be seen that Qi Tai is still better than Huang Zicheng, at least he still knows 'to shoot a man first shoot a horse, to capture a thief first to capture the king'.At that time, Emperor Jianwen was the heir established by Emperor Taizu. He lived in the great treasure and was the orthodox of the country.If King Yan had been given Thunderbolt tactics as soon as he came up, Zhu Di would have no power to fight back. On the contrary, it would be a great opportunity for the new king to establish his prestige.

As for what Huang Zicheng said, it sounded good, but in fact, he wanted to pick up soft persimmons first, to test Yan Wang's reaction.If King Yan was a weak person, he would naturally be so frightened that he would submit obediently, but everyone knew that Zhu Di was a peerless strong man who emerged from the vast desert and the sea of ​​corpses and blood. Would this kind of person be frightened?Only two hundred and five like Huang Zicheng would believe...

It's a pity that when Qitai and Huang Zicheng disagreed, Emperor Jianwen would listen to the latter. It is estimated that the IQ is closer to the consensus and the stronger the resonance.

So Emperor Jianwen had not been on the throne for less than a month, so he sent people to arrest the five emperors to the capital, but he didn't see the kindness he treated his subjects at all.But those trumped-up charges were not enough to convict the vassals. Emperor Jianwen wanted to release his five uncles, but after Qi and Huang fought hard, they finally convicted the five kings.At this time, a tragedy happened. King Zhu Bo of Hunan had nothing to say during the interrogation, but he was burned to death in his palace under anxiety and anger, and the whole world was shaken!It also made Zhu Di completely determined to rebel in advance!
The reason why it is said to be ahead of schedule is because Zhu Di, instigated by the monk and military adviser Dao Yan, had long wanted to rebel.He recruited talents and talents, forged weapons secretly, and trained soldiers secretly, but Zhu Di hadn't made up his mind before.One is that as a prince, he is already under one person and above ten thousand people. If the rebellion fails, he will only die.After witnessing the fate of his brothers, this one became not a problem, because he knew very well that he would be the next one to be unlucky.

Another worry is that his three sons are still stranded in Beijing. Once he rebels, the three sons will be punished.For this reason, he wrote a letter claiming to be sick and requesting the return of his third son.At this time, Qi and Huang clashed again. Qi Tai advocated taking the third son as a hostage, while Huang Zicheng thought it was better to release him to dispel King Yan's doubts. After the court made proper arrangements, he sent troops to raid and capture him in one fell swoop!
I can't find a more suitable word to describe Brother Huang than 'idiot'.At that time, his elder brother had already changed all the Beiping chief envoys and capital commanders where King Yan's fiefdom was located.On the grounds of sending troops to Shanhaiguan, half of King Yan's elite soldiers were transferred away, and his military power was taken over in a disguised form.Against the background of the five brothers being killed one after another, with these imminent arrangements, King Yan could figure out the intention of the court even with his toes?And Huang Zicheng actually thought that if he released the son of King Yan, he could hide the truth from King Yan.You have already killed all his brothers and put him under residential surveillance, so you still expect to paralyze him? !If he wasn't bought by Zhu Di, he would be an idiot.And history has proved that Huang Zicheng is a loyal minister, so he is a pure idiot!
As mentioned earlier, when Qi and Huang disagreed, Emperor Jianwen always listened to the latter, so he let his cousin go.But this kind of opinion can also be followed. I have to say that there is a common language between idiots and idiots.

When the three princes returned to Peiping, King Yan was overjoyed and even shouted, "God help me!" 'Since then, I have no more scruples, and I have started an intensive rebellion!

At this time, the disparity in the strength of the two sides is as great as that of ants and elephants.On Jianwen's side, there are millions of troops from the imperial court and the human and financial resources of the provinces across the country. When Zhu Di raised his army, he had only [-] guards from his direct line and occupied only one city in Beiping. Food, grass, weapons, and finances were all supported by this isolated city.In this case, Jianwen can lose the country, and the Emperor Taizu will really be so angry that he will climb out of Xiaoling.

It is no exaggeration to say that Zhu Di was able to take over the world with one city, not because of his own strength, but because his opponents are too stupid!
For example, before Zhu Di was about to rebel, a minister from Beiping reported to the court, so Jianwen decided to take action against his uncle. At that time, Peiping had a heavy army from the court, and the generals were loyal. Zhu Di only had [-] guards in the palace.Unexpectedly, overnight, Beiping was captured by Zhu Di... The reason turned out to be that in Jianwen's secret decree, Zhu Di was not mentioned, only his subordinates were arrested, which made the generals who besieged the palace at a loss, sacrificed in vain, and the entire army Surrendered Zhu Di...

For another example, Geng Bingwen, who suppressed the rebellion at the beginning, was mature and prudent, saw through Zhu Di's weakness, and prepared to kill him, but Huang Zicheng thought that he was not good at fighting, and that he was old and useless, so he asked Jianwen to replace him with Li Jinglong, who was young and vigorous, and he was well-versed in the art of war... Emperor Jianwen was so knowledgeable, so he must know the allusions of talking about soldiers on paper. Geng Bingwen was Lianpo who was left to him by Emperor Taizu to guard the country, and Li Jinglong was the second ancestor Zhao Kuo. The result was the same as in the Battle of Changping. Wan Yanjun was defeated.

　I didn't want to go back to this period of history, but someone said that I washed Jianwen's ground... and said that I should not read it.Khan, what I described earlier was loyalty, and what I praised were those courtiers who never gave up.I have to briefly review this period of history. In fact, it is more difficult to write than the plot of a novel, because it needs to be highly refined and clearly stated. Okay, let’s enter the plot.

　　
　
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