A knife in love

Chapter 3084

When Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor in the past, he was worried that his generals would follow the precedent of Zhao Yuyin and Chen Qiao's mutiny and seize the Zhu family's world, so he tried every means to kill all the heroes and veterans.The founding heroes of the Ming Dynasty were all outstanding, among the generals, Xu Da and Chang Yuchun made the most contributions.Among the civil servants, Li Shanchang was the head.Chang Yuchun died of a sudden illness during the Northern Expedition. Naturally, he would not threaten the Zhu family. Xu Da became a thorn in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, a thorn in his flesh, and he wanted to get rid of it quickly.There is a story circulating that Zhu Yuanzhang once invited Xu Da to the palace to drink and have fun. Xu Da did not dare to disobey his orders, so he entered the palace to drink with Zhu Yuanzhang, and got drunk unconsciously.Zhu Yuanzhang ordered people to help Xu Da to rest on his bed. Xu Da was shocked when he woke up, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, repeatedly calling it a death crime.Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy to see Xu Da being so loyal, and he didn't embarrass him that day.Later, Xu Da suffered from gangrene and avoided eating meat such as goose, but Zhu Yuanzhang sent someone to send a steamed goose, and ordered the envoy to see Xu Da eat the steamed goose with his own eyes.Xu Da naturally knew the emperor's intentions, so he ate up the steamed goose in front of the envoy, and died violently at home that night.

As for Liu Ji's death, it was a strange injustice through the ages.Although Zhu Yuanzhang established Li Shanchang as the first civil servant in the founding of the country, all the civil servants and generals under him knew that Liu Ji and Liu Bowen were the ones who gave advice and advice. They admired Liu Ji very much and regarded him as a great sage like Zhuge Liang.Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely afraid of Liu Ji, for fear that he would gather civil servants and military generals to rebel, so after the founding of the country, he kept Liu Bowen in the capital, but did not appoint him as a real post.Liu Ji was good at using intrigues and tricks, and was proficient in tricks. Naturally, he knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was jealous of him, so he was cautious every day, and his worries were accumulated in his chest.After the death of Xu Da and Liu Ji, the two major civil and military heroes, Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of the rebellion case of the general Lan Yu and killed all the generals.Later, when the case of Hu Weiyong was discovered, Zhu Yuanzhang took the opportunity to implicate him and beheaded several surviving veterans one after another.Zhu Yuanzhang thought that from then on, he would be able to live forever, but he didn't know that Zhu Di, the king of Yan, had long wanted to seize the throne.As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang died, Zhu Di immediately raised his troops to rebel.What Zhu Yuanzhang left to Emperor Jianwen was only thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, but he did not leave civil servants and generals who could guard the mountains and rivers. This made Emperor Jianwen use unscrupulous generals, and finally ended up dying by self-immolation.

Both Shang Heyang and Qin Tieyi followed Zhu Di to rebel and knew many court secrets.It's just that these things involve the succession of the throne, once leaked out, there will be a catastrophe of ransacking the family and exterminating the family.So Shang Heyang, Qin Tieyi and others kept these things in their hearts, even their parents and wives didn't know.Although Shang Heyang mentioned Emperor Jianwen, he didn't say anything about the reason for the Battle of Jingnan, because he was worried that Qin Tieyi, Nie Qingyun and others had other plans, and if they reported their words to the court, they would definitely cause disaster.

Shang Heyang thought for a moment, called Zhuang Yi and Lu Guantao to the front, and said: "We are short of manpower at the moment, please go to Guangxi as soon as possible, and ask Yuan Shiqi and Master Yuan to bring people to Yashan to meet up."

Nie Qingyun disapproved in his heart, cupped his hands and said: "Master Shang, since Monk Zhengyi doesn't know martial arts, a few of us are enough to take him down, so why call Yuan Shiqi and his group to Yashan?"

It turns out that although Shang Heyang and Yuan Shiqi were officials in the same dynasty, they fought for power and profit and had always been at odds.This time following the emperor's secret decree to pursue and kill Emperor Jianwen, Shang Heyang and Yuan Shiqi had their own ambitions, and they both wanted to catch Emperor Jianwen first, and they achieved this great feat.Nie Qingyun was Shang Heyang's confidant, he was afraid that Yuan Shiqi would come to share his merits, so he spoke out to persuade him, without any respect for Yuan Shiqi, the deputy commander of the imperial guards.

Shang Heyang shook his head after hearing what Nie Qingyun said, and said in a deep voice: "This matter is not simple. Although Monk Chengxin is stupid and stupid, judging from his appearance, he doesn't seem like a person who is talking about it. He broke into the black pine forest Afterwards, a strange thing happened, presumably it was not a ghost, but was teased by a martial arts master. If what he said is true, the white-robed man who teased him is really good at martial arts, and there are few rivals in the world. In the past, Emperor Jianwen escaped from the palace, There must be martial arts experts around to protect us, as evidenced by those bald donkeys in Wuzhen Temple. If we are sloppy, we will deal with Zhengyi indiscriminately. The five of us must suffer a lot."

When Shang Heyang said this, he paused for a while, and then continued: "Besides, the enemy we have to deal with may not only be one person, we must gather all the imperial guards who went south to be sure to defeat the enemy. .”

After Shang Heyang finished speaking, not only Qin Tieyi was at a loss, but his four subordinates were also puzzled by Monk Zhang Er.Seeing the bewildered looks on everyone's faces, Shang Heyang continued, "Do you still remember the group of people who broke into Zhenhai Temple yesterday? Although the boy surnamed Zhao is frivolous and frivolous, he is quite accomplished in Taijiquan, so teach him That person with martial arts must be a top-notch master. If this group of people is related to Monk Zhengyi and intends to be an enemy of us, with only a few of us, the entire army must be wiped out."

Only then did Qin Tieyi understand, knowing that Shang Heyang was extremely afraid of Zhao Wuji and his group, so he thought for a while, and said: "The one surnamed Zhao is just a young man, although he has learned a few martial arts, there are not many people around. What a big deal. Brother Shang is so powerful, why should he be so afraid of this kid?"

Shang Heyang smiled slightly, and said in his mouth: "In the old days, the swallows in front of Wang Xietang flew into the homes of ordinary people. This Mr. Zhao is so stylish, how can he know that he is not the flying swallows in front of Wang Xietang?"

After Shang Heyang and others left, Master Chengxin stood quietly at the gate of the temple for a long time, and then returned to the meditation room, but saw that he was sitting cross-legged on the bed, closing his eyes and resting his mind.Master Chengxin closed the door, walked up to Zhengyi, and said: "Junior brother, that man was quite rude just now, I shouldn't have led him into the temple. Judging by his aggressive appearance, it seems that he has a lot of background. careful."

Zheng Yi smiled slightly, and said: "Thank you, brother, for reminding me. The poor monk is just a monk with no wealth. These people may not be in trouble with the poor monk. Senior brother, don't worry too much."

Master Chengxin shook his head, with a worried expression on his face, and said: "A lot of suspicious people have come to Zhenhai Temple in the past few days. These people clearly have martial arts skills, but they pretend to be pilgrims, and look around furtively. Zhao's son and monk benefactor asked his junior brother by name and surname, but I don't know what his intention is. The old monk heard from the guest monk that there are people watching even outside the temple, and it may be related to the junior brother."

After listening to Master Chengxin finished speaking, he closed his eyes slightly, put his hands together, and said slowly: "Amitabha, the Buddha said that I will not go to hell, who will go to hell? Even if these people really want to harm the poor monk, they are poor The injustice committed by the monk in his previous life is just as the saying goes, there is a cause and an effect, and the poor monk should suffer the retribution, and he has no complaints."

(End of this chapter)