Bright Spring

Zhu Gaoxu also knew that the inclined corridor was very famous, but when he came here, what he saw was just an ordinary corridor.It's like when he visited Leifeng Pagoda in later life, he really saw it, but felt nothing.

This imperial palace has been built for decades, the reddish-brown wood on the inclined corridor is a bit old, and the bricks and stones on the ground also have traces of grinding into arcs.Fortunately, the building materials are very good, and it is also very clean.

The ground layer is unstained, which gives people a good impression of cleanliness; the surrounding wooden pillars have obviously been carefully wiped every day, and at this time there is a faint luster in the sun, and the texture is excellent.

Zhu Gaoxu walked into the Dongnuan Pavilion, and a large number of eunuchs and court ladies around him stopped.Only the eunuch Hou Xian and a few others entered.They walked through a partition door, and a large chair, a royal case, and several sets of bookshelves and other furniture appeared in front of them in the north.

Before Zhu Gaoxu, four emperors of the Ming Dynasty sat on that chair.Zhu Gaoxu walked to the chair, but did not sit down. He looked at a map behind him.

Hou Xian observed Zhu Gaoxu quietly, stepped forward and bowed and said, "My lord, the servants are negligent, why don't the servants take this picture and replace it with a beautiful screen?"

Zhu Gaoxu shook his head and said: "I don't like this map (seeing that it only has the topography of the south bank of the Yangtze River, I know it's the map used by Gao Chi for 'counter-insurgency'), but let it hang here first. I will draw another map later. A 'world map', called officials who are proficient in this way, perfect it, and then hang it here."

"Your servant obeys." Hou Xian paused and said again, "This drawing is now drawn by Guo Zi. When the first emperor was in power, he wanted to move the capital to Beiping, and the blueprint for building the palace was also drawn by Guo Zi."

Zhu Gaoxu looked at it for a while after listening, and said honestly: "The brushwork is good."

He then walked over to the bookshelves, flipping through the books and files on them.

At this moment, since Zhu Gaoxu discovered Emperor Taizu's handwriting here!His movements immediately sped up a lot. Looking at the things written by Taizu, most of them were about how to govern the Mongolian region and how to arrange the defense in the north. There were memorials from ministers and imperial criticisms written by Taizu himself.

Not only the national defense concept of Ming Taizu, but also the national policy planning of Emperor Taizong.

Things are estimated to be placed here by Gao Chi.Zhu Gaoxu heard that Gao Chi was always "crazy | repairing cars madly" in the later period of his administration, and he was even a failed emperor; but Gao Chi is obviously not a fool, and he also has ideas about the country's affairs.

Zhu Gaoxu is like a treasure!Although he has some ideas of his own, it is best for a dynasty's grand national policy to have continuity; understanding the strategies of previous emperors is of great benefit to future governance.

"These things must be kept well! I want to see them at any time." Zhu Gaoxu turned his head and said.

Hou Xian bowed and said, "Yes, my lord."

At this time, someone entered Dongnuan Pavilion again, two eunuchs holding stacks of memorials, and Cao Fu also came in holding Xue Yan's secret volume.They bowed to Zhu Gaoxu, and then piled everything on the imperial case.

Zhu Gaoxu looked around in Dongnuan Pavilion, and finally sat down on the chair where the four Ming emperors sat, and now he is the fifth.

He also wants to repair cars like his big brother, but after thinking about it, his life is the most important thing, and he will wait until he finds out the black hand who hides deeply!

Zhu Gaoxu sat on a chair, facing a large pile of memorials and files, he looked thoughtful, and did not touch the things on the imperial case.

After being silent for a long time, Zhu Gaoxu finally raised his head, and said in a crisp tone: "Decree, call Ru Yu and Zhang Sheng to meet. Then send an order to Hou Hai to arrange manpower, and order Gao Xianning to come to Beijing in eight hundred miles. Jian Yi, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, was transferred to Xue Yan as Minister of the Ministry of Punishment. The decree was appointed to Ru Yu, Zhang Sheng was appointed as the commander of Jinyiwei, Du Erlang as the governor of Beizhen; Chen Dachui was the commander of Yulin Zuowei, and Wang Yu was appointed as Yulin Right Guard Commander."

The eunuch Hou Xian was surprised, probably because Zhu Gaoxu was too casual in doing such a big thing; but Zhu Gaoxu himself often fought wars, so there was not so much involvement in making decisions, he just did what he said!

Hou Xian bowed and said cautiously: "My lord, it is impossible for slaves to pass on the decree orally for the appointment of ministers, guards and military commanders. You must have the imperial decree written by the emperor himself, or the imperial decree written by officials of the Imperial Academy to use the seal." .”

"Waiting for you with pen and ink." Zhu Gaoxu said.

After Zhu Gaoxu finished writing the imperial decree, Hou Xian resigned.Zhu Gaoxu continued to ponder Xue Yan's secret volume while waiting for the person he wanted to meet.

In the case of the late emperor's death, Xue Yan couldn't continue to investigate. He had to vacate the position of Dali Siqing for Zhu Gaoxu's cronies; Also more.

What Xue Yan has verified so far, the fact that the first emperor was poisoned and died in the East Palace, has no effect on the legitimacy of Zhu Gaoxu's throne.However, Zhu Gaoxu intuitively felt that the real culprit who plotted to assassinate the late emperor should have nothing to do with the crown prince or the officials of the East Palace, so the truth cannot be revealed casually.

After waiting for a long time, Ru Yu, who was on the thousand-step corridor, arrived at the inclined corridor of Qianqing Palace first.Zhu Gaoxu asked him to come in and talk.

Ru Xun is a literati, but she is very burly, with a big face and thick pores. She is probably in her fifties.When Ru Xun approached to salute, she seemed very nervous.

It was only then that Zhu Gaoxu remembered that more than one person had impeached him in the past two days: during the 'Battle of Criminology', Ru Yu often advised the false emperor, so he could be regarded as a confidant.Zhu Gaoxu didn't look at the specific content carefully, but he knew that Ru Xun worked very hard in Hongxi's puppet dynasty.

"Be flat, and give me a seat." Zhu Gaoxu said indifferently.

Ru Yu hurriedly said, "I thank you, my sage, for your kindness."

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Ru Butang is standing like this, I still have to raise my head when I speak, my neck is so tired."

Ru Yuan: "..."

When Zhu Gaoxu waited for him to sit down on a stool, he didn't talk too much nonsense, and said directly: "I didn't think much about the memorial to the impeachment of Ru Butang. It has already been thrown into the palace as waste paper. You don't care about those things."

Ruyu's face suddenly turned red.

Zhu Gaoxu continued: "I remember when I was a vassal king and I was a vassal before I went to Yunnan. I went to Rubutang's mansion and talked. You should remember that incident. I think Rubutang's vision is very broad. You are quite knowledgeable about Timur's discussion of Timur, whose power has gradually penetrated|infiltrated into the Western Regions at that time."

Ru Yu clenched her fists and said, "The sage praises me, but I don't dare to accept it."

Zhu Gaoxu asked: "I'm talking to you today, and I want to ask, is Ru Butang familiar with North Korea's affairs?"

Ru Yu said modestly, "I have dabbled a bit."

After Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he asked again: "What's the matter with Maharaja Huai'an?"

Ru Yu pondered for a while, then bowed suddenly and said, "The founding monarch of the Li family of Joseon is Li Chenggui; Lord Huai'an is Li Chenggui's fourth son, and his name is Li Fanggan (the father of the virtuous Lord of the Park family)."

Zhu Gaoxu was just curious about the political|political purpose of the Park family; at the same time, he also wanted to know the situation of North Korea at this time, so he thought of asking Ruyu.

Ru Yu said: "Li Fangqian's original title was the Duke of Huai'an. In the 33rd year of Hongwu (the second year of Jianwen), the fifth son of Li Fangyuan and Li Chenggui, the current king of North Korea, launched the second coup d'état in North Korea. , became the king of North Korea; Li Fangqian's title was cut off, he was renamed Huaian Dajun, and Li Fangqian was exiled to raise horses in Jeju Island."

When Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he suddenly roughly guessed Park's political intentions.

The Park family and Li Fanggan are in the same vein, and should be a political alliance, belonging to the losing party in the power struggle.The women of the Pu family came to the Ming Dynasty as a strategy to seek foreign aid when their political group was completely defeated, had no chance of turning around, and could be uprooted at any time!

Even Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty did these routines.The two Wuliangha tribes who pretended to be Tatars recently were not the foreign aid of the Yan Palace during the "Battle of Jingnan"?

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Li Fangyuan launched two coups? This is really a capable person."

Ru Yu nodded and said: "What the Holy Majesty said is very true. In fact, Li Fangyuan made the greatest contribution when the Li family launched a coup for the first time to replace the former Koryo king's family; so far, he has successfully plotted three times. The coup | d'etat can be described as sophisticated."

Zhu Gaoxu asked: "What's Li Fangyuan's attitude towards my Ming Dynasty? What's Ru Butang's opinion, but it's okay to say."

Ru Yu said: "I believe that the place that Goguryeo, Go|ryo, and Joseon most wanted was the Liaodong region; before the king of Goryeo lost his throne, he was still mobilizing troops to occupy the Liaodong territory.

After the Li family came to power, in order to consolidate the royal power, the Li family sent envoys to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, and the courtesy was very respectful.It's not that the Li family doesn't want Liaodong, it's just that they can't; the Li family is more sensible than the previous Wang family. They realized the strength of the Ming Dynasty, and now they have no chance to seize Liaodong.

At the beginning of Yongle, after Emperor Taizong succeeded to the throne, the relationship between the monarchs and ministers between Ming Dynasty and North Korea became better; it was because Li Fangyuan met Emperor Taizong privately in the Palace of King Yan in Beiping when Li Fangyuan accompanied the envoy to pay tribute to Daming.Now the monarchs and ministers of the two countries treat each other, and they are being repaired in an all-round way. "

Zhu Gaoxu glanced at Ru Zhen with admiring eyes, nodded and said: "I basically understand."

... After Ru Yu resigned, Zhang Sheng, the new commander of Jinyiwei, met with him.Zhu Gaoxu handed all Xue Yan's secret volumes to Zhang Sheng, and told him to keep them secret; and ordered Zhang Sheng to read the secret volumes carefully, and then handed over the secret volumes to Gao Xianning to assist Gao Xianning Closely investigate the death of the late emperor.

Chapter 6 and Four: Worrying about the country and the people

Before Youshi issued the decree, Zhu Gaoxu summoned another person: Hu Wei, Minister of Rites.

Hu Wei entered the audience from the inclined corridor, kowtowed and wished a long life without bounds.While writing, Zhu Gaoxu raised his head and said, "Get up."

After Zhu Gaoxu finished writing the thing in his hand, he took a look at it and thought: This handwriting is really good, I have to boast about it.He quickly put down the brush and handed the wet paper to Cao Fu next to him.

"Hu Shilang, take this imperial decree and go to the Ministry of Rites to find Jian Yi by yourself, and ask him to handle the appointment letter and other procedures for you. From now on, you will be the left minister of the Ministry of Rites and in charge of the Ministry of Rites." Zhu Gaoxu did not forget to remind carefully, "The ink is not dry yet, so don't mess it up."