Zhu Yuanzhang in the cellar

Chapter 98: Depose Zhu Yunwen and enthrone Zhu Di!

Even if the Industrial Revolution was completed, we still couldn't escape the historical fate?
Zhu Yuanzhang narrowed his eyes.

This sentence was a big blow to him.

As an emperor, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, how could he not want his Ming Dynasty to last forever?
The ultimate goal of the emperors from the time of Qin Shi Huang until today is to continue to uphold the principle of uninterrupted rule for all generations.

So Zhu Yunfeng’s words were actually very attractive to him.

If he couldn't conduct the experiment in his own Ming Dynasty, he would try it in the Yongle Dynasty.

Anyway, he already knows what parallel worlds are, and they won't affect each other.

of course.

Zhu Yuanzhang actually understood that maintaining long-term peace and stability was extremely difficult.

Even if they can make the country strong when they are alive, it is not impossible that the country will collapse in the future after their death.

And they won't live to that time, so no one knows what the outcome will be.

Looking at the long history, there are many dynasties that died in two generations or did not survive for more than a hundred years. A unified empire with a history of two or three hundred years is considered a long-lived dynasty.

However, it would be nice to be able to finish what I can do while I am alive, and leave the rest to my descendants and Zhu Yunfeng’s descendants.

Thinking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that there was a way out. Perhaps he could allow Zhu Yunfeng to make his political achievements during the Yongle Dynasty.

If it is effective, it might not be a bad thing to move it to the Hongwu Dynasty.

Just as he was about to continue asking, the voice of middle-aged Zhu Di suddenly came from outside: "Father."

"We'll talk about it later."

Zhu Yuanzhang then winked at Zhu Yunfeng and the others.

The middle-aged Zhu Di obviously didn't know that he and his father were connected in heart. His father was playing tricks on him. He came in happily, knelt on one knee and said, "Father, I have already restrained the soldiers in the city, and summoned all the civil and military officials in the city to wait outside the Qianqing Palace."

"Ah."

Zhu Yuanzhang found two blank official documents on the desk, picked up a pen and ink, wrote two edicts, and then handed them to Zhu Yunfeng, put his hands behind his back and said, "Follow me out."

"Yes."

The elder Zhu Di followed behind Zhu Yuanzhang and looked the younger Zhu Di up and down for a while, his eyes full of confusion.

This boy looks a bit like me, except that he is a lot fatter than when I was younger.

Little Zhu Di had a strange expression on his face. He looked at his middle-aged self with a very strange expression and asked, "Why are you looking at me?"

"nothing."

Da Zhu Di asked tentatively: "Who are you?"

"I am Zhu Di."

Little Zhu Di replied.

"Are you Zhu Di?"

Zhu Di was stunned for a moment, then he reacted and opened his eyes wide: "Then what am I?"

"You don't know, your mother was pregnant with twins, but one of them died. It was you. You are your brother."

Little Zhu Di answered seriously.

"It's me who died. I'm my brother?"

Zhu Di's mind was confused and a dazed expression appeared on his face.

"What nonsense are you talking about."

Zhu Yuanzhang turned around and couldn't help laughing and scolding: "Are you deceiving yourself?"

Little Zhu Di laughed innocently.

The confused expression on Zhu Di's face became even more intense.

"I am Zhu Di at the age of 20. Do you understand now?"

Little Zhu Di said: "After my father died, he became a god and went upstream along the long river of time and brought me out from the 13th year of Hongwu."

"Are you me in the 13th year of Hongwu?"

Zhu Di had no doubt that Zhu Yuanzhang had become a god. After all, he was resurrected from the dead and still looked so much younger.

As for finding someone to impersonate, that is even more impossible.

The domineering aura, momentum and temperament of a king are not something that ordinary people can fake.

Zhu Di was very surprised to see himself in front of him. He opened his eyes wide and looked up and down with curiosity on his face, but then he muttered: "Was I so fat back then?"

No wonder he had such doubts.

In the past six months, little Zhu Di has been eating well and sleeping well at Zhu Yunfeng's house. He has delicious food and meat every day, drinks fat house happy water, plays computer games, and watches short videos. He lives a happy life.

Eight months have passed since November last year, and I have gained nearly 3 kilograms, which means I gain about 4- kilograms per month on average.

Although he had a large frame and a stocky build, he was not particularly fat.

However, Zhu Di used to have six abdominal muscles, was strong and powerful, and his face was not that round.

His face is now a little rounder and his belly is more prominent, which naturally makes the middle-aged Zhu Di feel confused and puzzled.

"You don't know how good it is to live up there. Every day, you can use a magic mirror to see the situation in various worlds. You can see the Qin Dynasty, the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty, and everything. The food is also very rich, with dragon liver and phoenix marrow in every meal. The drinks are also good, you can drink anything. There are also magic weapons that can travel thousands of miles a day, which can fly in the sky, and there are also magic weapons on the ground. The place where we live is on the top of the mountain, and there is fog everywhere. It is a real fairyland, but there is no cold at all, because we can use the magic weapons to drive away the cold."

Young Zhu Di's description was exaggerated, which frightened older Zhu Di, because his description was so vivid and colorful, without any pause, and it didn't sound like a lie at all.

Isn't that true?
Shangfeng Mountain is at a high altitude, and it is shrouded in fog in winter, with temperatures often below minus ten degrees Celsius, but we have a heating table and air conditioning at home.

There are also high-speed trains and airplanes for travel. As for airplanes alone, the flight speed can reach 700-800 kilometers per hour, which means you can travel thousands of miles a day. You can even fly tens of thousands of miles a day.

You can also watch other dynasties on your computer or TV. Not to mention the Qin, Han, Tang and Song dynasties, even the future Ming Dynasty can be shown to you.

So young Zhu Di did not lie at all. After all, he knew himself well and he could not hide his lies. Only the truth could deceive himself.

'It's easy to deceive yourself.'

Little Zhu Di thought proudly in his heart.

As they were talking, everyone had already left the study and the west warm room and arrived at the main hall of the Qianqing Palace.

In the hall, many eunuchs and palace maids surrounded a mother and son. They were Zhu Yunwen and Lu. Lu was holding a ten-year-old child in her hand.

There was also a boy in his twenties and a boy of seventeen or eighteen standing behind the three of them.

These were naturally Zhu Biao's sons, eleven-year-old Zhu Yunxi, twenty-four-year-old Zhu Yunhuan, and seventeen-year-old Zhu Yunhuan.

Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang, everyone was stunned. Zhu Yunhuan burst into tears and cried, "Grandpa Emperor."

In the 13th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yunhuan was only two years old. Zhu Yuanzhang had held him in his arms before. He had no aversion to this child born to Chang, so he nodded and said, "Yes."

"father."

Lu quickly pulled Zhu Yunxi to kneel down.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at her coldly and said, "You still have the nerve to call me dad? Look at your son's uncles who abuse him, my son!"

"That was all instigated by those civil officials. Yunwen has always been filial."

Lu instinctively wanted to shirk responsibility.

"It's all done, no need to say more."

But Zhu Yuanzhang was too lazy to look at her and said, "It is a great mercy to spare your life. Go to Fengyang and reflect on your mistakes!"

After saying that, he turned away.

Seeing this, Lu did not dare to stop him.

She brought her sons here naturally hoping that Zhu Yuanzhang would spare them for their sake.

In his later years, Zhu Yuanzhang was still very kind to his descendants.

But it was obvious that Zhu Yunwen's treatment of his uncles had hurt Zhu Yuanzhang's heart.

Therefore, she could only do this and dared not to ask for too much.

After all, she knew Zhu Yuanzhang's character very well. If she angered him, the lives of mother and child might be in danger.

Zhu Yuanzhang walked out of the palace.

The ministers outside looked as pale as death.

The resurrection of Emperor Taizu is indeed unimaginable.

But the facts are before their eyes, and they cannot tolerate disbelief.

The most important thing is the attitude of Grandpa Taizu.

It was obvious that Emperor Taizu was very dissatisfied with the fact that Your Majesty killed his uncles.

This is fratricide, and it is a nephew killing his uncle, which is naturally unacceptable to heaven.

Therefore, many ministers who encouraged Zhu Yunwen to reduce the power of the vassal states all looked unhappy. Compared with many senior officials before, many other middle and lower-level officials also came over.

In addition, there are generals from Zhu Di's faction, as well as many meritorious military generals such as Li Jinglong, Guo Ying, Geng Bingwen, and He Fu.

As Zhu Yuanzhang walked out, everyone below looked up and was stunned.

Before, only many court officials and Zhu Di and others had seen it.

But now everyone can see that all the officials, generals and nobles currently in Nanjing are here.

There were at least a thousand people crowding below, all looking at Zhu Yuanzhang on the steps in surprise.

Zhu Yuanzhang had only been dead for four years, but his appearance had changed in his later years. He became a little more plump, and his beard and hair were gray.

However, his appearance has long been deeply rooted in people's hearts. It's just that Zhu Yuanzhang is now a little thinner than in his later years, and his beard and hair are not as white, but his face is no different.

What’s more important is that Geng Bingwen and Guo Ying, two founding heroes, are here. They have followed Zhu Yuanzhang since he conquered the world. How could they not recognize the emperor?
So when everyone actually saw him in person, they were all dumbfounded.

It turns out that what King Yan said was true.

Taizu really came back to life.

"Greetings to Taizu, long live Taizu!"

When Zhu Di saw that all the civil and military officials in the court were standing there stupidly, he hurriedly walked to the bottom of the stairs, knelt down and shouted.

Now everyone seemed to have just woken up from their dream, and they all knelt down and kowtowed: "Long live the Great Ancestor!"

Ji He cleverly moved a chair out from the Qianqing Palace.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang did not sit down or speak, but slowly walked down the steps and walked into the crowd.

Most of the people in the crowd were unfamiliar faces. After all, twenty-two years had passed from the thirteenth year of Hongwu to the fourth year of Jianwen.

But there are still some familiar people among them.

Zhu Yuanzhang stood in front of Geng Bingwen and slowly squatted down. Geng Bingwen trembled all over and whispered, "Your Majesty!"

But Zhu Yuanzhang just looked at him, shook his head slightly, and went back to Guo Ying.

He was very dissatisfied with these surrendered founding fathers.

I wanted to sentence him to death.

However, after thinking about it, he finally decided to leave it to Zhu Di to deal with.

What he really hated were the ministers who encouraged Zhu Yunwen to reduce the power of the princes.

Those were all his sons, Zhu Yunwen's uncles.

As a result, he was forced to death one by one by these ministers.

Cut off the vassal and cut off the vassal.

Even if we want to reduce the power of the feudal lords, we can do it step by step.

Or, when he dies, the kings can be allowed to come to the capital to pay their respects and then be imprisoned.

Why kill his sons?

A hint of anger flashed in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes.

After walking around for a while, Zhu Yuanzhang returned to the jade steps, sighed, closed his eyes and said, "How could my kingdom be brought to such a state?"

This was the true feeling. Even though he knew the ending before, seeing it with his own eyes was another matter entirely.

Many people below were trembling with fear and anxiety.

Zhu Yuanzhang felt a little tired. He leaned on the railing beside him and said softly, "I have said what I should say. Nephew and uncle should be the closest and most loving people. I let the princes garrison the borders so that they can guard Yunwen's Ming Dynasty. Moreover, the princes only have the power to lead troops in wartime and should not threaten Yunwen's throne. However, you have encouraged the emperor to be suspicious of his relatives and alienate uncle and nephew. Your crime is unforgivable. I am tired, Yunfeng."

"exist."

Zhu Yunfeng made a cameo appearance as a eunuch.

"Proclaim the decree."

"Yes."

Zhu Yunfeng picked up the imperial edict, walked to the front of the stage, and read aloud: "I originally thought that the Crown Prince had the support of the whole nation and should ascend to the throne. However, I just found out that he is mediocre and has no talent. He has harmed his relatives and caused trouble for the country and the people. I will depose him now and confine him to Fengyang, and he can never leave!"

The content of the edict was actually very simple. It only showed Zhu Yuanzhang's disappointment with Zhu Yunwen. First, he hated his stupidity and the way he reduced the power of the princes and treated the princes was extremely stupid.

He finished three packs of cigarettes and still couldn't understand how the hundreds of thousands of elite troops he left behind were defeated.

Second, he hated her for killing his son.

Perhaps in the early years of Jianwen, Zhu Yuanzhang would not necessarily stand on Zhu Di's side, because he would use his own means to reduce the power of the vassal kings and leave a world without vassal kings for his descendants.

But in the fourth year of Jianwen, he saw two of his sons died, three sons were deposed, and one son was forced to act crazy.

No matter how hard he tried to understand why so many elite troops and a number of capable generals he left behind were defeated by Zhu Di, who started out with only 800 personal guards, he could only secretly curse Zhu Yunwen as a pig-brained man.

But the death and disability of his sons was a sore spot, after all, they were his own sons.

Therefore, in the fourth year of Jianwen, Zhu Yuanzhang would definitely depose Zhu Yunwen.

Zhu Yunwen was brought before Zhu Yuanzhang with a deathly pale face. He slowly knelt down and took the imperial edict with trembling hands.

"Criminal Sun Zunzhao!"

All of Jianwen's old ministers were extremely sad.

After all, they had finally managed to get Taizu to death and trick the new emperor, but Taizu ended up being resurrected, which was really a death sentence for them.

"I just wanted to depose the Crown Prince Yunwen because he was incompetent and immoral."

Zhu Yunfeng then took out the second imperial edict and read: "I have heard that the heaven and earth have a natural way, and the succession of the throne has been determined since ancient times. Among all the sons, Prince Di of Yan has a similar character to me and will surely be able to take care of the people. I have decided to pass the throne to the Prince of Yan. I hope that all the ministers will work together to assist me and support the country!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Zhu Di was ecstatic. He almost climbed up using his hands and feet, then trotted all the way to the steps. He respectfully took the imperial edict from Zhu Yunfeng with both hands, and the joy on his face was beyond words.

You know, his biggest problem is that he has no legitimate reason.

To put it bluntly, it is rebellion.

That is to say, his surname is Zhu, and he is a descendant of the Zhu family.

Otherwise he's a traitor.

And now that Zhu Yuanzhang has been resurrected and personally wrote the edict of succession to him, it is truly legitimate.

"Well, go do your thing."

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand, closed his eyes and said, "I am tired and I have to go back. From now on, you will move to another palace, and the Qianqing Palace will be sealed off. No one is allowed to enter. Maybe I will come to see how you are doing occasionally, and stay in the palace for a few days occasionally."

"Yes."

Zhu Di wanted to jump up with joy, but he still suppressed his joy and turned his head and said, "Taizu is tired and needs to return to heaven. You all kneel down and greet me."

"Farewell, His Majesty!"

All the ministers shouted loudly and reasoned like a tide in the large square outside the Qianqing Palace.

Zhu Di immediately dismissed the people in the Qianqing Palace.

After about ten minutes, only Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yunfeng, little Zhu Di and Ji He were left standing here.

After everyone left, Zhu Yunfeng saw Zhu Yuanzhang still standing by the railing, pressing against it with his eyes closed, looking distressed, so he stepped forward and said, "Grandfather, there's no need to act anymore, everyone's gone."

"Bastard!"

Zhu Yuanzhang almost broke down with just these words. He turned his head and glared at him, saying, "I am really sad. Although I know what happened later, I saw with my own eyes how Yunwen treated his uncle, how his own flesh and blood killed each other, and how his relatives took up arms. Tears welled up in my heart."

As a person who values ​​family ties, Zhu Yuanzhang was indeed angry.

Seeing that his grandson was so heartless, he waved his sleeves in anger and went down to the underground palace and said, "He is really a rotten wood that cannot be carved. If one day your grandson kills your son, let's see if you will be happy or not."

"Are you that angry?"

Zhu Yunfeng scratched his head.

"You think this is a TV show?"

Little Zhu Di said, "For a father, this is what happened later. The son who was still at his knees yesterday was killed by his grandson. How would you feel?"

"Okay, I was wrong."

Zhu Yunfeng muttered.

After all, for modern people, these are already past history, so the feelings they have are not that deep.

But for Zhu Yuanzhang, it was indeed a later experience, the death of his son.

The two are different in terms of experience and feelings.

I can only say that what Mr. Lu Xun said is right, people's sorrows and joys are not the same. I just think they are noisy.

The three little ones followed Zhu Yuanzhang back to the underground palace.

(End of this chapter)