"What else can happen between the emperor and the vassal king? Naturally, it's to cut off the vassals!"
Fang Yunfei said with a relaxed expression.
Cut off the vassals?
Hearing these two words, everyone's expression changed drastically.
Especially Zhu Xi, Zhu Xi, and Zhu Xi, their expressions were even more complicated.
Like Zhu Di, they were all vassal kings personally conferred by Emperor Hongwu.
He held a large army in his hand and treated all officials with courtesy.
In the Great Ming Dynasty, it could be said to be an existence that was second only to one person and above tens of thousands of people.
Other than the Emperor, Empress, and Crown Prince, they were the most powerful in the entire Great Ming!
He had originally thought that his title as a prince could be passed down with the country and passed on to his descendants.
He didn't expect Zhu Xiongying to cut off his vassal state.
Wasn't this smashing the rice bowls of his brothers?
All of a sudden, Qin Wang, Jin Wang, and Zhou Wang looked at Zhu Di with a sense of common hatred.
Zhu Biao was also numb when he heard that he would cut his vassal!
Putting aside the fact that 'enfeoffment of pro-vassals and protection of the Ming Dynasty' was a national policy set by his father.
Since ancient times, no vassal king was willing to be cut off. In history, every time a vassal was cut, it would cause a rebellion among the kings, intensifying the confrontation between the imperial court and the local government.
If you won, you would be the brilliant Emperor Jing of the Great Han Dynasty. If you lost, you would be a puppet emperor that was casually abolished.
Every emperor was extremely cautious when facing a local vassal king.
He would not easily make a move.
Moreover, your uncles each hold a large number of troops and are brave and good at fighting.
But you actually want to cut off their vassals?
Xiong Ying, ah, Xiong Ying!
Who gave you the courage?
"Fang brat, before Emperor Jianwen cut off the vassal, did the various uncles and kings do anything evil?”
Compared to the others, Zhu Yuanzhang was very calm. He asked Emperor Jianwen about his motive for cutting off the vassal state.
The youngest son and eldest grandson were the lifeblood of the old master!
As the eldest grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, he had watched Zhu Xiongying grow up and knew him well!
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't believe that Zhu Xiongying, this honest child, would cut off his vassal state without any resistance from his uncles.
Our eldest grandson is not that person!
There must be some misunderstanding here!
"Jianwen Emperor had only ascended the throne for less than a month, and he had already begun to cut down his vassals.”
"Even if his uncles want to have any ideas, they don't have the time to act!”
Fang Yunfei thought about the historical record of Zhu Yunwen's fall and answered in detail.
"Bastard! It's all your fault!"
When he heard that Emperor Jianwen was about to cut off his vassal state, Zhu Yuanzhang glared at Zhu Biao again. He felt that Zhu Biao did not educate his eldest grandson well and let Zhu Xiongying go down the evil path.
" Defend all the vassals and guard the various countries; protect the court and block out foreign races " was the national policy of the Ming Dynasty that Emperor Hongwu had personally appointed!
It not only solved the employment problem of his other sons, but also protected the country of Ming Dynasty. It was Zhu Yuanzhang's proud work.
He didn't expect that this national policy would be destroyed by Zhu Xiongying.
Did Zhu Biao, as a father, know how to educate his son?
Don't tell me you're asking Old Zhu to personally teach Xiong Ying!
He originally thought that all of this was caused by Fourth Brother, but from the looks of it, he only had half of it.
The boss also had to take the other half!
This boss was the same as Fourth Brother. Neither of them was good.
They didn't even know how to educate their own children!
"May I ask if Emperor Jianwen's method of cutting down the vassals was too violent?”
Zhu Biao also noticed his father's gaze and asked while wiping his sweat.
It was wrong to cut off a vassal for no reason.
If Xiong Ying's method of cutting off the vassals was a little more violent, Zhu Biao wouldn't know how to defend his son.
"It's not just too violent. That was quite violent! It's simply brutal!"
Fang Yunfei sighed and pointed at the innocent Zhu Rong and said,"For example, Prince Zhou! A month after Emperor Jianwen ascended the throne, he sent an army to capture his fifth uncle and demoted his entire family to civilians and exiled them to Yunnan.”
"After Zhou Wang's family ate mushrooms in Yunnan for four years, Emperor Jianwen thought of this uncle. In order to prevent the Prince of Zhou from expanding his influence, they were recalled to the capital and re-detained.”
"It wasn't until the King of Yan conquered Jinling that Zhou Wang was released by his fourth brother.”
"When we came out, Zhou Wang's entire family was as thin as a stick, like a starved corpse.”
"It's simply too tragic to watch!"
When he heard that he would be the first one to suffer after Jianwen ascended the throne, his expression changed drastically!
Yunnan had been sparsely populated since ancient times and was densely covered with poisonous miasma. It was the place where the imperial court of each dynasty exiled serious criminals.
Besides, Yunnan in the 15th year of Hongwu was still in the hands of the Northern Yuan Liang King and the local chieftain.
Even if the imperial court conquered Yunnan in the future, it would probably be a desolate place.
Zhu Xiongying, this nephew of his, had actually banished his entire family to that godforsaken place.
Wasn't this forcing them to die?
Besides, it's one thing for you to exile our entire family to Yunnan to eat mushrooms, but you're also recalling our entire family back to the capital?
You don't know that Yunnan and Jinling are far away from each other, and transportation is inconvenient.
A round trip could take half a person's life.
Aren't you deliberately asking me to die?
I, Zhu Xi, am your uncle, but you starved my entire family to death.
Zhu Xiongying, aren't you a little too vicious?
Why didn't I see it earlier?
When they heard that their fifth brother had such a tragic end, the king of Qin and the king of Jin, Zhu He, also had expressions of grief.
Only Crown Prince Zhu Biao looked embarrassed.
Xiong Ying's actions were too unfair!
As the eldest brother, he didn't know how to comfort his unlucky brother.
Ignoring the princes who had different thoughts, Fang Yunfei continued to tell them about Jianwen's fall of the vassal state,
" In December of the same year, Emperor Jianwen sent his thirteenth uncle, Zhu Gui, to Sichuan for strict supervision on the grounds of 'greed, cruelty, and brutality'.”
" In May of the second year, Emperor Jianwen used 'illegal activities' as an excuse to strip his 18th uncle, King Min Zhu, of his title and throw him into prison.”
" Not long after, Emperor Jianwen demoted his seventh uncle, King of Qi Zhu, to a commoner on the charge of 'lawlessness', and imprisoned him in the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum along with the exiled Dai Wang Zhu Gui.”
"Jianwen Jun Yue, Jianwen Emperor…"
Emperor Hong Wu's face darkened with every word he said, and the other vassal kings became angrier.
When Fang Yunfei said that Zhu Yunwen had successively demoted several of his uncles to civilians on the charge of "illegal activities", the irascible Qin King Zhu Wei finally couldn't hold it in anymore!
"'Lawless'? What was 'wrongdoing'? What was the difference between this and the " unwarranted " that killed Yue Wumu? Didn't Emperor Jianwen care about blood and kinship at all?”
"That's right! Wouldn't that mean that if Emperor Jianwen said that we were guilty, we would be guilty? They were all Imperial Father's descendants, so why were they in a hurry to kill each other?”
"That's right! If you want to add a crime, why worry about not having a reason? If that's the case, then we brothers might as well follow Imperial Father and Big Brother on our way. At least we can suffer less humiliation!"
Prince Jin and Prince Zhou also shouted indignantly.
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was standing at the side, also snorted coldly and stared at Crown Prince Zhu Biao with an unfriendly expression.
Crown Prince Zhu Biao didn't expect his eldest son to be so cruel and cold-blooded.
His face turned pale and he was sweating profusely.
He secretly prayed that Zhu Xiongying would be gentler and not kill anyone!
Otherwise, he really didn't know what to do.
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