Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

As the saying goes, a man relies on his clothes and his horse relies on his saddle. The short stature of Mrs. Zhou, dressed in a queen's attire, made up for her lack of height, and made Mrs. Zhou look dignified and graceful.

Zhu Youjian frowned slightly, with a bit of displeasure in his tone:

"It's been such a long time, why is the Queen still wearing these?"

Queen Zhou bowed slightly and made a Wanfu gift, then said:

"I have been serving His Majesty for 18 years. Over the years, I have repeatedly warned Your Majesty to make use of gentlemen and stay away from villains. But Your Majesty did not listen, and that's why we are here today!"

Queen Zhou was extremely sad: "How dare you throw away the clothes and clothes of your ancestors? The sage said: A gentleman will wear his clothes after death. Although I am a woman, I dare not or forget it."

After saying this, he hugged the crown prince Zhu Cixiang and the second emperor's son Zhu Cijiong and cried bitterly.

Zhu Youjian frowned: "Who told you that the situation was over?"

Queen Zhou might have thought that she was about to surrender, and by mentioning the matter of wearing clothes, she was implying that she was going to die to prove her ambition!

Zhu Youjian ate a soft knife for no reason. He was not annoyed and explained a little:

"The Queen has misunderstood. Anyone in this world can surrender, but I, the Zhu family, cannot."

Zhu Youjian said the same rhetoric again, and Mr. Zhou suddenly made a big fuss.

She lowered her head, her mouth wet and speechless.

She was dressed gracefully and luxuriously, but this action made her even more shy.

This dignified and beautiful young woman's style was so cute that it almost shocked Zhu Youjian's jaw.

I am Nima!

No wonder Cao Cao has been dead for 2000 years, but Cao Cao’s spirit lives on forever.

Young women are the king!

If not, why did Zhu Shengren’s daughter-in-law become a monk...

Zhu Youjian touched his chin. The queen was beautiful, but her political vision was too poor!

Zhu Youjian turned his head and stopped looking at Queen Zhou.

After waving his hand for Zhou to take the concubines and supervise the palace maids and eunuchs, he turned to Queen Zhang and said:

"Sister-in-law of the Emperor, I feel ashamed to have brought the Ming Dynasty to its current situation due to your brother's instructions. I am really ashamed."

Empress Zhang was dressed in gray coarse linen clothes, but it could not cover her beautiful face in the slightest.

Zhang Yan is "featured and plump, with a face like Guanyin, eyes like autumn waves, a mouth like a cherry blossom, a nose like hanging gallbladder, and white teeth." She is one of the five great queens in ancient China.

This strange woman, known as one of the five queens in history, had a serious face at this time:

"The emperor must not say that. No one wants to see the current scene."

She comforted Zhu Youjian and continued:

"When I came here just now, the boy Cijiong was with me, so I asked him to change into the clothes of a peasant boy."

Zhu Youjian was in awe, Zhang Yan was giving the third prince Zhu Cijiong a chance to live!

He sincerely paid homage to Queen Zhang again: "Thank you, Sister-in-law, for taking the trouble."

As a master of history with a preference for Ming history, Zhu Youjian knew the ending of the woman in front of him in history.

Official history says she committed suicide.

However, according to folklore, after the Qing Dynasty entered the Pass, this man took Zhu Cijiong with him, incited Li Zicheng's general Mao to protect them, and fled all the way to Henan, intending to use the Baishui Zhang family, a large branch of his family, to revive the Zhu family. .

Baishui Zhang family is a 2000 family.

Baishui is a major branch of the Zhang surname. It exclusively occupies the three prefectures of Xiangyang, Nanyang, and Dengzhou as its commandery. Because the tribe is so powerful, it does not use the city as its name like other surnames, but the largest tributary of the Han River at that time. ——Baishui (river) is the hall name.

The Baishui Zhang family rose to prominence from the Western Han Dynasty until the middle and late Qing Dynasty. However, they were suppressed and declined by the Qing government because they funded the Bailian Uprising.

Everyone knows that Zhang Heng, Zhang Zhongjing, etc. are members of the Zhang clan in Baishui.

Even the font on everyone’s favorite small coin comes from the tombstones of the Zhang clan in Baishui (the tombstones of Zhang Xuan and Zhang Hei Nu).

In the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the Zhang family's last glory was as a branch of Dengzhou, becoming the guerrilla commander of Yunyang in the Republic of China. At its peak, it commanded tens of thousands of troops and controlled more than a dozen counties.

but don't want to...

Empress Zhang accidentally fell from her horse in the Queen's hometown of Nanzhao in Nanyang, fell on a stone and broke her head and died. General Mao saw that he had lost his contact person and left the third prince to escape alone. Zhu Cijiong lost his support and lived among the people, moving around many places and becoming an octogenarian. He was punished by the Qing Dynasty in [-]...

The disciple left the story of the third prince among the people.

The story of Queen Zhang is widely circulated in Nanyang, and almost all the elderly know this story.

It is a pity that due to the brutal pursuit of the Zhu family by the Manchus and the literary prison that lasted for more than 140 years and lasted for more than 250 years, few words dare not be left in writing and can only be passed down orally.

The common people relied on the story of Emperor Guangwu's empress Yin Lihua to spread the legend about this woman, and some also sung the legend based on the story of Empress Zhang of the Tang Dynasty.

"What did the emperor say? This is a family matter between you and me, as well as my concubine."

Zhang Yan turned sideways to avoid Zhu Youjian's salute. She waved the young eunuchs away and then whispered:

"Your Majesty, when I came here just now, I discussed it with Sister Zhou. If something goes wrong, Your Majesty, please don't forget that we still have a home in the south."

"Nanjing?" Zhu Youjian raised his eyebrows, his eyebrows slightly twisted into knots.

"Have you ever thought, Sister-in-Law, that if you go to Nanzhili, you and I will become nothing more than tools?"

In the late Chongzhen period, the original owner had not thought about moving the capital to Nanjing.

Zhu Youjian sighed:

"I have hinted to loyal ministers more than once and proposed the plan to move the capital in the court..."

"However, at this time, Jiangnan has become the exclusive territory of Donglin, Fushe and other interest parties. They rely on overseas trade and cannot count the money. How can they put a tight curse on themselves."

For Jiangnan literati interest groups - moving the capital - isn't this digging a hole for themselves?

Zhu Youjian smiled bitterly:

"The courtiers know that with my sharp eyesight, once I go to Jiangnan, I will definitely be able to see clearly the essence of the overseas trade that belongs to the imperial court and which the Jiangnan gentry transferred to them after Longqing opened the sea.

Sister-in-law, do you think these interest groups will give up? "

"As a result, those who proposed moving south were either squeezed out or disgraced from their official positions, or even more..."

Zhu Youjian sighed!

Under the obstruction of the Jiangnan literati group, Chongzhen wanted to go south - that was absolutely impossible.

This is why Chongzhen eventually hanged Meishan but did not move the capital to Nanjing.

Zhang Yan's eyes widened: "Is this why the court officials opposed the move south?"

Zhu Youjian nodded: "Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, literati groups and interest groups have been fighting against the imperial power. During the Taizu period, there was the North and South List case..."

This phenomenon existed from the beginning of Taizu to the end of Yongli, and throughout the 300 years of the Ming Dynasty. Even Zhu Yuanzhang, who had ruthless methods, never eliminated this phenomenon.

"Nowadays, disasters are continuing in the north, and the imperial court is constantly transferring the output of the prosperous south to the north to provide relief to the northerners.

The gentry in the south of the Yangtze River all regard the north as a burden, and even wish to divide the territory for self-government!

I am their obstacle! "

Zhang Yan said in disbelief: "Then why do they keep asking the prince to go south and sit in Nanjing?"

Prosecutor Zhu You sighed: "Because I am the common master of the world!

I have been on the throne for 17 years. As long as I am alive, I will naturally have a strong influence. Once I go south, it will most likely be the end of the Jiangnan Literati Group's monopoly on overseas trade.

As for the prince...

The day the prince goes south will be the day I die!

If I die for my country, the prince...hehe..."

Letting the prince go to the south of the Yangtze River is nothing more than holding the emperor hostage to order the princes!

Later in Nanming, there were so many emperors, who took the Zhu family seriously?

It's just a chamber pot - it trembles a bit when you lift it.

When you are done enjoying yourself, throw it away as far as you can.

The original owner, Emperor Chongzhen, saw through this point and disagreed with this plan.

"The prince is young and the gentry is easy to control."

Zhang Yan'e's eyebrows were slightly dark, her bright red cherry mouth was slightly open, and her snow-white teeth were biting on her lower lip.

She pondered for a while, then raised her head suddenly, with a look of disbelief on her face:

"Your Majesty, you mean they want to be Cao Cao?"

"Ha ha!"

Zhu Youjian sneered: "Cao Cao, I will still be a Han official for the rest of my life!"

"The group of people?"

His eyes flashed across Zhang Yan's disbelieving face, and his heavy snoring only made Zhang Yan's heart sink. She felt like she was in a sea of ​​ice, so cold that she couldn't breathe.

"Sister-in-law of the Emperor, don't look at Cao Cao being given the title of Emperor Wu by his son Cao Pi. He has been fighting for his whole life, and the mountains he conquered are all Han flags!

And what about this group of people? "