LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 66
【In July of the 31st year of Hongwu, less than two months after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, Zhu Yunwen showed his fangs to his uncles】
【Zhu Yunwen selected Zhu Yuanzhang's fifth son as his first target.】
【Zhu Ji was the king of Zhou and his fiefdom was in Luoyang. At that time, Zhu Youhuang, the second son of the king of Zhou, falsely accused the king of rebellion in order to seize the king of Zhou's inheritance.】
【Zhu Yunwen immediately sent Cao Guogong Li Jinglong northward in the name of preparing for the border. He happened to pass by Kaifeng on the way. Zhou Wang Zhu was unprepared and went out of the city to greet him, but was directly arrested by Li Jinglong.】
【Later, Li Jinglong escorted King Zhou's family back to Nanjing. After trial, King Zhou was demoted to a commoner and exiled to Menghua, Yunnan, where he left to fend for himself.】
【After King Zhou was deposed, the world was shocked】
【King Zhou Zhu was not only the direct son of Emperor Taizu and Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, but also the highest-ranking vassal king besides Zhu Di. Unexpectedly, he was deposed and relegated by Zhu Yunwen so easily.】
【Menghua, Yunnan is a marginal area and is extremely remote. King Zhou was exiled there. For a vassal king who had previously been well-dressed and well-fed, it was simply more uncomfortable than killing him.】
【But all this is just the beginning】
【In April of the first year of Jianwen, Zhu Yun"103" raised the butcher knife again and issued a decree to abolish the three vassal kings. The three vassal kings of Qi, Xiang, and Dai were deprived of their thrones, demoted to common people, and imprisoned in Yingtian.】
【Among them, King Zhu Bai of Hunan was the twelfth son of Zhu Yuanzhang. He had little ambition, was intelligent and studious, and was both civil and military. He guarded Huguang and once commanded an army to suppress the rebellion of the local chieftains.】
【At that time, some people said that Zhu Bai was the replica of Zhu Di. Except that he did not have Zhu Di's military power, Zhu Bai's ability may not be weaker than Zhu Di's.】
【Zhu Yunwen's attack on Zhu Bai was a preview of Zhu Di's plan to cut down the feudal vassal.】
【But no one expected that Zhu Bai did not calmly accept his fate like the previous vassals.】
【As the King of Xiang, Zhu Bai had his fiefdom in Jingzhou, held the three guards of the King of Hunan, and was quite prestigious in Huguang. If he raised his arms, the Ming Dynasty might start to be turbulent in Huguang.】
【In order to prevent Zhu Bai from being killed, Zhu Yunwen ordered Li Jinglong to lead his army into Jingzhou secretly, waiting for an opportunity to control Zhu Bai.】
【Li Jinglong lived up to his expectations and led his elite officers and soldiers, disguised as businessmen, and crossed the river in white clothes. Zhu Bai was surrounded by Li Jinglong in the Palace of Prince Xiang without any precautions.】
【After removing the military power of King Xiang, Li Jinglong planned to take down Zhu Bai directly. The reason was that Zhu Bai secretly printed fake treasure banknotes, which was an unforgivable crime.】
【Zhu Bai was furious. He had always been thrifty, how could he do such a thing?】
【However, after seeing Zhu Yunwen's action of cutting down the feudal lordship, Zhu Bai had already seen clearly what Zhu Yunwen was thinking.】
【Zhu Bai did not respond to Li Jinglong, but went crazy, drove Li Jinglong out of the Xiang Palace, and then set himself on fire】
【Before he died, Zhu Bai roared angrily: I am a blood descendant of Taizu and Emperor Gao, and I would rather die than be humiliated as a slave!】
【When Zhu Yunwen learned that Zhu Bai actually dared to set himself on fire, he was extremely angry, and immediately gave Zhu Bai an evil posthumous title,"Rough".】
【Brutal: Not regretting past mistakes is called brutal; not willing to accept the past is said to be brutal; knowing one's mistakes and not correcting them is said to be brutal】
【When the news of King Zhu Bai's self-immolation and death spread throughout the world, the whole country was in an uproar. No one expected that Zhu Yunwen would actually force his own uncle to death.】
【Zhu Di was extremely sad after hearing the news. Although Zhu Bai and Zhu Di were not brothers, they had a close relationship.】
【Since childhood, Zhu Bai often followed Zhu Di and played around, but he didn't expect that in a blink of an eye, heaven and earth would be separated forever.】
【It was precisely because of Zhu Bai's death that Zhu Di saw Zhu Yunwen's true face and completely gave up on taking chances.】
【Zhu Yunwen's efforts to reduce vassal status did not stop with the death of King Xiang. Two months later, Zhu Yunwen reduced King Min Zhu's status to a commoner and moved to Zhangzhou.】
【Seeing that it was so easy to cut down the vassal, Zhu Yunwen finally had the courage to face Zhu Di directly. This time, Zhu Yunwen decided not to be secretive and attack Zhu Di directly. As long as Zhu Di is captured, no vassal king in the world will have anything to fear. 】
Ming dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who had been extremely angry at Zhu Di for revolting, now seemed a little confused.
Isn't this Zhu Yunwen his pure and kind-hearted great-grandson? Why did he suddenly become so cruel after becoming emperor?
"They deposed five vassal kings in succession and demoted them all to common people. The eldest twelve even burned himself to death because of this. Is this how the vassal was reduced?"
Zhu Yuanzhang began to doubt his own vision. Could it be that when he got old and his mind was unclear, he finally chose such a thing to be the emperor?
"Father, do you still remember what you said to us when you appointed the king to guard the border?"
Zhu Di's face was extremely angry at this moment. He blushed and questioned Zhu Yuanzhang, saying:
"You tell us that we are the bulwark of the imperial court. The purpose of making us vassal kings is not to allow us to enjoy our lives in the local area, but to keep the foreigners out of the pass and not allow them to invade our land and massacre our people again. common people"
"We keep all this in mind. We fight on the battlefield and kill enemies for our country. We have not shamed you."
"But, what mistake did Lao Twelve make? Why was Zhu Yunwen forced to death?"
"Did you let us become vassal kings just to be ruined by Zhu Yunwen? Did he treat us as his uncles?"
"In his mind, we may not be as good as animals, we can be cut at will, we must be on guard at all times, demoted to common people, and imprisoned for life."
Zhu Di kept questioning Zhu Yuanzhang, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not speak. He never thought that the vassal king system he had worked so hard to design would fall apart in just the second generation.
His idea was actually very simple, the vassal king If you replace the generals in charge of military power outside, you don't have to worry about the generals rebelling.
And the vassal kings are all from the Lao Zhu family, so they will not raise troops to cause rebellion.
More importantly, the vassal kings hold military power and can intimidate the ministers in the court. Once a treacherous official disrupts the imperial court, the emperor can summon the vassal king to Beijing to quell the chaos with a decree.
But what he didn't expect was that before the treacherous official appeared, Zhu Yunwen began to cut off his own arms directly, treating the vassal prince who should be the emperor's help as a the enemy
"Cut off the vassal, cut off the vassal..."
Zhu Yuanzhang murmured the word"cut the vassal", and for a moment he didn't know how to answer Zhu Di0.......
Did he really do something wrong by granting the title of king to guard the border?...(To read Baoshuang novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)
Qin Dynasty.
When Ying Zheng saw that there were so many vassal kings in the Ming Dynasty, he couldn't help but frown.
He has obviously abolished the enfeoffment system and chosen a more complete system of counties and counties. Why would anyone in future generations choose the enfeoffment system to govern the world?
Ying Zheng was puzzled, but Li Si came out and said to Ying Zheng:
"Your Majesty, please see, the vassal king is the source of trouble."[]
"Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, divided his disciples into vassal kings. As a result, in his second life, he cut down the vassals and caused turmoil in the world."
"Facts have proved that the county system is a more effective management system than the feudal system."
When Ying Zheng first unified the world, he asked his ministers what kind of system should be used to manage the world.
Many doctors advised Ying Zheng and believed that the enfeoffment system should still be used. After all, the enfeoffment system has been in use since the Zhou Dynasty. It has been more than seven hundred years and has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
However, Li Si was firmly opposed. He felt that the five hundred years of turmoil in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods were caused by the enfeoffment system, so the enfeoffment system could never be used again. He suggested that Yingzheng use counties System.
It can not only greatly strengthen the centralization of power, but also prevent local areas from getting bigger and reappearing the troubled times of feudal feudal rule.
In the end, Ying Zheng agreed to Li Si’s suggestion and implemented the county system throughout the country. Now, judging from the consequences of the enfeoffment of the Ming Dynasty, the county system It is indeed more stable than the feudal system.
Ying Zheng's eyes darkened slightly, but he raised another question,"As a future king, doesn't Zhu Yuanzhang know the shortcomings of the feudal system?"
"Why did he choose to enfeoff the kings even though he knew the possible consequences of the enfeoffment system, thus laying hidden dangers for future generations? Is it because Zhu Yuanzhang is too stupid?"
When this sentence was asked, the whole audience was silent.
Who dares to say that a founder of a country is stupid? Zhu Yuanzhang was able to open up the Ming Dynasty and continue it for hundreds of years, which has already demonstrated Zhu Yuanzhang's ability.
But such an outstanding emperor finally chose to enfeoff. system, the 5.5 enfeoffment of princes shows that the enfeoffment system may not be as bad as everyone thinks
"Perhaps, we in Great Qin can also follow suit."
The Han Dynasty, the Hanwu period
"Divide the world? Has Zhu Yuanzhang lost his mind?"
When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty saw that Zhu Yuanzhang had created so many vassal kings, he couldn't help frowning and asked:
"Isn’t the Ming Dynasty the dynasty behind our Han Dynasty? Hadn't he heard of the Rebellion of the Seven Kings?"
Liu Che couldn't help but feel a little frightened when he thought of the wars in the previous dynasty. Although he had not experienced the Seven Kings Rebellion, listening to his father's narration was moving enough.
If he hadn't stabilized Liang Wang Liu Wu at the beginning, then who would do it now? Becoming an emperor is still uncertain.
Even though the Seven Kings Rebellion has been put down, the princes and kings are still powerful, so Liu Che has to carry out the benevolence order and slowly divide the power of the princes and kings.
But now, as the king of future generations, Zhu Yuanzhang actually Isn't it a recipe for death for newcomers to follow the old path?
"Dongfang Shuo, what do you think Zhu Yuanzhang thinks?"...Dividing line...
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