First Prince of Ming Dynasty

  Chapter 688 Trends

  It goes without saying that Zhu Biao cannot understand Zhu Di. It is not easy to seek to conquer the world.

If Zhu Yunwen really escaped from the palace, it is not absolutely hopeless to wait for a suitable time to raise his arms and rise to the throne. Zhu Di's background is too weak, especially in civil servants. After all, he was born as King Sai, and there are too many officials in various states None of the townspeople are under his sect.

  Zhu Yunwen is indeed an idiot in some respects, but being able to be considered by Lao Zhu to inherit the Sheji Ancestral Temple means that he is not a useless person, and his political measures are dedicated to benevolent governance and transforming the people.

Revise strict regulations, rectify unjust and wrong cases during the Hongwu period, exempt local tax arrears, relieve disasters and help the people, order the government to redeem the lives of people who sold their sons into slavery, and order monks and Taoists to own no more than five acres of tax-free land. distributed to the people who needed the land.

These measures are very unfriendly to Wu Xun and the monks. This is why the more Zhu Di fights, the more powerful he will be. Lord, it's a pity that they are not good at military affairs after all, and they can't turn the tide when the collapsed building is about to collapse.

  Zhu Yunwen is still too young and too politically inclined. As a monarch, what can he do if his **** is too crooked.

   You need to know what kind of character Zhu Yuanzhang is. Although he killed Lan Yu and other arrogant soldiers who were difficult for his grandson to surrender, how could he really not leave any good generals to his successors.

Xu Yungong, Qu Neng, Ping'an, Sheng Yong, Bu Wan, Zhuang De, Tie Xuan, Li Jian, Mei Yin, Wu Gao, He Fu, Zhou Xing, Liu Zhen, etc. are all the group of generals who protect the heir apparent through actual combat. It can be said that famous generals gathered and stars have repeatedly pushed Zhu Di into desperation.

But these people have not been reused by Zhu Yunwen. After he ascended the throne, this brat believed that governing the world depends on the gentry and lords after all. Authority can only be corrected by removing the semi-autonomous vassals.

  This is the beginning of the founding of the country. Although the founder of the country, Wu Xun, was killed by Lao Zhu, it is still a long time before the decline of Wu and the prosperity of Wen...

  Zhu Biao knew this very well. Although he promoted and appointed many civil servants, and expressed his importance to civil servants and Confucian scholars many times, he continued to be kind to military commanders and nobles.

   Civil servants are like the Yangtze River, and military generals are like the Yellow River. The Yangtze River is clear and the Yellow River is turbid, but they will both irrigate the fields on both sides of the bank, moisten the rivers and mountains, and protect the people.

  The same is true for Zhu Di. One is that his father, the emperor, cares about his blood, and Zhu Biao can't bear to lose his son in his prime, even if this son has never been very pleasing.

  The two are that Zhu Di is really useful, and Zhu Biao is also confident that he can make good use of him, not to mention that they are all sent to Korea now, and it will only go further in the future.

  Thirdly, it is the relationship between brothers these years. If there are no first two, this is nothing, just a younger brother. There are more than ten in this palace, so what is there to cherish?

  But with the first two, this one has some weight. After all, people are more ruthless than grass and trees. If it is necessary to be cruel, then forget it. If it is not necessary, then it is fine.

  A king cannot tolerate others, and a king cannot be indecisive, but the most important thing for a king is to be able to sit firmly in his position, and to be resourceful enough to control the palace, court, army, locality, and vassal state.

  There are so many smart people in the world, and the imperial court is the place where the smartest people in the world gather. The emperor can be bad but not stupid.

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   "This is a secret note from Jiang... to you. The last general has never disclosed it without authorization. There may be insider information."

  Jiang Yu was dismissed from his post and exiled to Fengyang on the face of it, and he has no official position. He doesn't know how to address him at this moment. It would be ungrateful to call him by his first and last name. After all, Jiang Yu also took care of him a lot when he was in office.

   Besides, the crown prince didn't hate Jiang Yu at all. The affairs of the Beijing camp were done decently, and there will be a time to revive him in the future, but it would be too flattering to call him an adult.

  The title of adult, before the Spring and Autumn Period, the adult refers to a person with a large body, such as the Shanhaijing Fangfeng clan. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the adult is no longer simply divided into size, but a person with high morality, the official of Zhanmeng.

During the Warring States period, it refers to those who have noble blood and noble conduct. In the Han Dynasty, it mostly refers to the parents and elders. In the Tang Dynasty, it was only used to call the parents. In some cases, it can be used to call the elders of the direct blood relatives. Words referring to the eyes from the side, rather than calling each other when meeting each other, and calling adults when meeting each other, began in the Song and Yuan Dynasties and flooded the ears of the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

  Liu Jin took the secret letter and presented it, Zhu Biao glanced at the sealing wax, then picked up the fire white jade dragon hook handle book knife and cut it open, took out the letter and quickly read it.

  Jiang Yu took more than a hundred of the most outstanding youths from Quanxu and brought them to Korea. The Jinyiwei that Zhu Biao spent so much resources to cultivate would be overqualified if they were only used to monitor domestic civil and military affairs.

  Here is a general description of their group's movements in the past few months. After successfully reuniting with Jiang Side, everything went smoothly. Whether there is any conflict of interest between the two of them, it is natural that they both want to form a good relationship.

  At present, Naha is fighting with all his strength, and he has also coerced many Jurchen tribes. Even if Li Chenggui commanded properly, when the defense line was defeated, many cavalry rushed into the hinterland of Goryeo to plunder and massacre.

This is not a big deal, the dispatch of local garrisons is the encirclement and suppression. The most important problem is that the supply of food and grass is not enough. Due to the corruption of the Goryeo Dynasty, the food and grass that was originally planned to last for more than half a year has been lost in just two or three days. The month is in a hurry.

  Li Renren ordered the forced requisition of the grain that the people depended on for their livelihood, causing frequent rebellions, but the grain and grass that were finally transported to the front line were only a mere hundred thousand shi...

   Zhu Biao couldn't help but shook his head when he saw this. The front is tight, and the rear is tight. How can the country not be chaotic?

Li Renren, a high-ranking pillar minister, may see it clearly, but the clansmen below him and officials from other noble families in Goryeo will not miss such a good opportunity. Everyone thinks that the imperial court expropriates so much, and I take a little. ?

   You take a little, he takes a little, and I take a little, and there is only a little left in the end. There is no need to laugh at Goryeo. This kind of situation will happen to any country, and human nature is like this.

The last is the news about Zhu Di. It turned out that Zhu Di had been prepared for a long time. The arrow only scratched his left arm. Although the arrow was poisonous, the wound was neither deep nor strong. In addition, the imperial doctor took care of it very quickly, and it did not affect his actions at all. .

  The news that Zhu Di was severely injured and bedridden was released by himself. It seems that he wanted to see who the people behind the scenes were. Zhu Biao felt that anyone was possible from the outside, let alone Zhu Di who was in the game.

   In the end, Zhu Di’s identity is different. The person who did the black hands didn’t even dare to use too strong poison, for fear that he would be killed by accident, and then he would not be able to eat it and walk around.

  They can't afford the death of a prince. At that time, there will be no need for any evidence. All suspects will be buried with him, and the emperor's angry floating corpse will be proved.

  Zhu Biao casually threw the letter on the desk, and Liu Jin stepped forward to carefully put it away. Such a confidential letter had to be brought back to the Wenhua Palace for storage, and it would be stored for at least three or four years before being burned.

  Nahachu is indeed launching a fierce offensive in accordance with the agreement, regardless of the cost. The troops under his command are rapidly depleting. According to the secret report sent by Liaodong a few days ago, all the Jurchen ministries have already expressed their dissatisfaction.

  During the period when Nahachu ruled Liaodong, the extremely oppressive policies of the Yuan Dynasty were still used against the Jurchen ministries.

  Now that Nahachu’s strength has been greatly reduced, all the Jurchen ministries have seen the opportunity and are actively communicating with Korea and Daming.

After all, the Jurchen was the nation that established the Jin Dynasty. Although it has been enslaved by the Mongols for more than a hundred years, it still has the ambition of revival. It is exactly the same as the conditions proposed by the Ming Dynasty and Goryeo, that is, willing to bow their heads and pay tribute, but only Daming and Goryeo Part of Liaodong was planned to be autonomous to him.

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  (end of this chapter)