The system of protecting the vassal kings of Ming Dynasty was a national policy that he had personally set.
Enfeoffing the vassal king to the border and giving him great military power could protect the Ming Dynasty!
Even if the vassal king rebelled in the future, the country would still be in the hands of his Zhu family.
Zhu Yunwen, this idiot, was really brainwashed by the Confucians. He actually agreed with such a method of cutting the vassal!
"I'm so angry!"
The more Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it, the angrier he became.
The surrounding maids and eunuchs were at a loss and were terrified. They all knelt on the ground and shouted,"Your Majesty, please calm down!"
Zhu Yuanzhang sighed in disappointment and waved his hand to dismiss everyone. He calmed down a little and continued to read.
In the 30th year of Hongwu, Minister of War Qi Tai suggested to Zhu Yunwen that they should first remove the most powerful of the kings, King of Yan Zhu Di!
Hanlin scholar Huang Zicheng believed that the kings of Zhou, Qi, Xiang, Dai, and Min had already committed illegal acts during the Hongwu period, so they were famous for being cut off.
He should first cut off the King of Zhou, Zhu Xi. Moreover, the King of Zhou, Zhu Xi, and the King of Yan, Zhu Di, had the same mother. Cutting off the King of Zhou was equivalent to cutting off the hands and feet of the King of Yan. It was killing two birds with one stone. Zhu Yunwen adopted his suggestion.
In the thirty-first year of Hongwu, the King of Zhou, Zhu Xi, was accused of treason and deposed as a commoner. His entire family was exiled to Yunnan!
In the first year of Jianwen, in order to guard against Zhu Di, King of Yan, who was sealed in Peiping, and weaken his troops, Zhu Yunwen ordered Commander-in-Chief Song Zhong, Xu Kai and Geng to lead troops to Kaiping, Linqing and Shanhaiguan around Peiping, and transferred the troops of Peiping and Yongqing to Zhangde and Shunde.
This encirclement was like the Great Ming army surrounding the capital of the Yuan Dynasty!
Zhu Yunwen was completely treating his uncle as an enemy. Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that his entire body trembled!
"What a scumbag. He doesn't trust his own family and instead listens to those lackeys!”
Zhu Yuanzhang could not help but curse.
The simulation in the Book of Deduction continued…
In April of the same year, Xiang King Zhu Bai was convicted of treason. This groundless crime naturally made him unable to prove himself!
A scene appeared on the Book of Deduction.
When the army surrounded Zhu Bai's residence, Zhu Bai was both shocked and angry. As the son of Taizu, when his father was seriously ill, he could neither visit him nor attend the funeral.
As a prince, he was now humiliated at the hands of some servants. He felt extremely humiliated and furious.
Soon after, Zhu Bai, the king of Xiang, personally set fire to his own palace and concubines. He then put on the crown of a prince and jumped into the fire on his white horse with a bow and arrow in his hand. His entire family followed Zhu Bai to his death.
Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang's pupils suddenly constricted and he could not help but clench his fists.
This Zhu Yunwen's action of cutting the vassal state had directly forced his uncle to death!
Zhu Yuanzhang was extremely sorrowful, but he could only endure the pain and continue reading.
Later, the king of Qi Zhu Wei and the king of Dai Zhu Gui were also convicted and demoted to civilians, and their families were killed and injured.
In June, King Min Zhu was found guilty and was directly deposed as a commoner and exiled to Zhangzhou.
Zhu Yunwen had directly killed a prince and abolished four princes. The bloody and cruel process was rare in history!
He was not weakening the power of his uncles at all and letting them become princes who could enjoy their lives. Instead, he was really forcing them onto the road to death!
Zhu Yuanzhang's heart was bleeding. These were his sons!
He was furious and had made up his mind not to let Zhu Yunwen, this fool who listened to the slanderous words of the sycophants, succeed the throne!
In July of the same year, the King of Yan was accused of treason. Zhu Yunwen sent people to arrest the King of Yan!
However, Zhu Di did not surrender. Instead, he killed Zhang Wei and Xie Gui, who were sent by Zhu Yunwen to Beiping to capture him, and occupied Beiping Prefecture.
From then on, Zhu Di officially rebelled. He quoted the Imperial Ancestral Instruction and claimed to purge the side of the monarch. He accused Qi Tai and Huang Zicheng, who were beside the monarch, of murdering the royal family and needed to be eradicated!
He had launched the Jingnan of Fengtian to quell the chaos, quell the war, and eliminate the treacherous officials!
The Ming Dynasty was in chaos. Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the Book of Deduction helplessly. After all, they were his flesh and blood. He was very sad that they were killing each other.
It had only been a short while since the founding of the country, and such a huge mess had already occurred!
The old saying was indeed true. It was easy to conquer the country, but it was difficult to defend it!
However, Zhu Di seemed to have long been prepared to rebel. This child was quite bold.
However, in Zhu Yuanzhang's opinion, Zhu Di's rebellion did not seem to be wrong. If Zhu Yunwen was allowed to do that, the Zhu family's bloodline would be almost completely cut off!
Zhu Yuanzhang continued reading.
Zhu Di's rebellion went smoothly at the beginning, but it seemed that there were insufficient troops later on, and the two sides fell into a stalemate.
In the third year of Jianwen, Zhu Yunwen was originally prepared to send Xu Huizu as the general of the southern army to the north, but he listened to calumny halfway and changed Li Jinglong.
Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang had a strange expression.
He had seen Li Jinglong before. He was Li Wenzhong's son.
However, this person seemed to be an idiot. He was actually used by Zhu Yunwen as the commander of the three armies to lead the troops. How could he do this?
Zhu Yuanzhang continued reading.
As expected, the southern army led by Li Jinglong suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of Baigou River, losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Li Jinglong and the rest led the remnants of the army to flee to Dezhou.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the soldiers in the picture, their blood spilling on the battlefield and their corpses strewn all over the ground. His heart ached. After all, these were the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty!
However, looking at the high-spirited Zhu Di in the book, Zhu Yuanzhang could not help but sigh,"This fourth brother's strength is not bad.”
At first, with just the capital of Yan Di and the 800 soldiers in his hands, he was able to defeat the hundreds of thousands of troops in Zhu Yunwen's hands. This was not something that ordinary people could do!
Right now, the reason why this Fourth Brother didn't show his true colors was because Zhu Biao and Zhu Heng's radiance was too dazzling and dazzling, covering him up.
Zhu Yuanzhang continued reading.
The southern army was defeated, and Zhu Yunwen remembered Xu Huizu in panic. He wanted to send him as the main general to go out again, but at that time, the national treasury was empty and there was not enough military expenditure.
At the same time, Hanlin scholar Huang Zicheng said,"
"Princess Bao Qing's wealth is enough to support the military expenses of the Northern Expedition.”
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