I am the king of the dead

Chapter 739 Two Fables, The Sheep and the Shepherd

"Even if Daming opened the Zhennan Pass, nine out of ten of you people who couldn't reach Zhennan Pass, were killed by our Daming army? Didn't my Daming army discipline go away?" Zhu Qiyu sneered and asked a question One sentence.

Li Sicheng's face became painful, and he didn't answer.

"Your Majesty, I have one last concern. Why does Your Majesty treat the people of Annan so cruelly?" This is what Li Sicheng couldn't understand.

For the people of the Ryukyu Islands, although His Majesty is not considered kind, he is definitely not harsh. He treats them the same as Daming, but when he comes to Annan, he is so cruel.

His Majesty the Emperor, clearly wants Annan, the prefecture, to include Annan in the four directions of Ming Dynasty. Why is he so cruel to see Annan's life in ruins?

Li Sicheng's question is actually asking why His Majesty is cruel on the outside and cruel on the inside.

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Nicolaoz is a Roman envoy, and he recently translated a book called Aesop's Fables."

"It is said that a herdsman was herding sheep. When he returned home, he found that some goats were mixed with the flock. The herdsman was overjoyed."

"In order to keep these goats, the herdsman gave these goats more fodder, but the original goats could barely starve to death."

"The next day, when the herdsmen found out that the goats had run away, they were very angry. They accused the goats of being ungrateful for refusing to stay after receiving special care."

"The wild goat said: That's why we have to be more careful. Because you take special care of us who just arrived yesterday, and you are too indifferent to the ones you have been raising before."

"Obviously, if there are other wild goats coming in the future, you will definitely neglect us in favor of them."

"Do you understand?"

Li Sicheng thought about this story seriously, and couldn't help but admire His Majesty's extensive knowledge.

Zhu Qiyu continued: "If you just want to keep the wild goats, it's fine if you don't feed the goats. After all, you didn't starve to death."

"But if you open a hole in this sheep pen, let the wolf eat the lamb, not only don't repair the fence, but shout that it's the wolf's fault, and the wolf is the culprit!"

"Do you think you can fool those sheep by doing this?"

Li Sicheng shook his head again and said, "The sheep has already run away."

After Li Sicheng savored these words seriously, he finally realized that the emperor was scolding him in a roundabout way!

Li Chao just opened a hole in the fence, let the wolf of Da Ming eat Li Chao's mutton, and at the same time shouted at the people, it was all Da Ming's fault!

You can be fooled for a while, but you can't be fooled all the time.

Sheep will run clean.

In this debate, Emperor Ming won the victory.

The situation in An Nanguo was entirely due to the rivalry between the two brothers Li Yimin and Li Sicheng, which led to the complete intensification of the already sharp conflicts, and finally led to today's situation.

If Daming didn't overcharge his [-]% of the grain, the [-]% of the grain would not reach the hungry people.

There is no difference whether Daming goes there or not, now or in the future, Annan will create thousands of hungry people.

Zhu Qiyu said with great earnestness and earnestness: "You have turned housework into a national affair, that is, there is no distinction between public and private, and public morals are at fault. No matter how good private morals are, they are useless to the country."

"I ask you, can Li Yimin be king?"

Li Sicheng said sincerely: "You cannot be king."

Li Yimin is a murderer. This is Liu Pu's evaluation of Li Yimin. It is too polite to describe him only as tyrannical.

Zhu Qiyu pondered for a while and said: "I'm going to send troops in July, starting in November in Annan County, if you feel that you are destined to return, go back to the court and prepare now, enter Shenglong City with a knife, kill Li Yimin, and send If Annan stabilizes, I will really make you the king of Annan, and you will return to the court if you stop your troops."

"I am the Son of Heaven, and I promise what I say."

"I can give you whatever armament you need."

Although Zhu Qiyu has no virtue, his reputation is recognized by the wealthy fleeing abroad.

Li Sicheng bowed three times and kowtowed five times again, and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty is virtuous, Haiyu Xianning, holy respect and blessings! Your Majesty, thank you for your grace."

Zhu Qiyu said quite seriously: "I want Annan in the prefecture and county. On the one hand, it is the late emperor's will. I dare not forget it."

"The second is the 500 people in your mouth. You two brothers fought back and forth. So many people are hungry, flooded the Zhennan Pass, and they all crossed mountains and ridges to enter Daming, so what about Daming? "

"I gave you a chance, you take advantage of it."

Li Sicheng kowtowed again and said, "Your Majesty is merciful!"

Li Sicheng had no doubt that Emperor Ming was lying, and Zhu Qiyu was also sincere.

If the fourth child can really succeed in Jingtai's ninth year in November, in just ten months, with the Qinghua forces living in a corner, he will enter Shenglong City with a knife and wipe out Li Yimin and his gang , and bring order out of chaos, and clear the world.

With such a ruthless person in Annan, even if Da Ming was able to take down Annan, it would still be turbulent. The price of fighting a law and order war is extremely high, and Da Ming cannot afford it.

Zhu Qiyu really knows how to call gold and withdraw troops, so it's time to practice.

But can Li Sicheng do it?

Can't do it.

Even if Li Sicheng was an unborn Mingjun, he would not be able to do it. If it were that easy to settle old accounts, Daming would be sailing west by now.

The reason why Zhu Qiyu made such a promise was to prevent Li Sicheng from rebelling against him in the future.

Emperor Ming gave the opportunity, but he himself was useless, so he had no righteousness to plot rebellion.

Li Sicheng knelt on the ground and said in a low voice: "Qinghua has a daughter Ruan family, she is twenty-eight years old, she is in her young age, she admires His Majesty's virtue, and she is willing to enter the palace to serve His Majesty."

gift.

When he came to meet the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, Li Sicheng brought a heavy gift, daughter of the Ruan family.

The Ruan family is deeply rooted and powerful in the Annan Kingdom, and the Annan Ruan family are basically Central Plains people who migrated from Guangzhou, Fujian and other places to Annan in the early Yuan Dynasty.

He wasn't even a barbarian by birth.

Li Bangji was the king of Annan who was killed by Li Yimin, and Li Bangji's mother Ruan Thiying was the queen mother, Ruan Thiying's father Ruan Chi was the Duke of Yuan, and Lord Ruan was the de facto ruler of Guangnan.

Annan has the theory of North Zheng, South Ruan, that Li Yimin sent Zheng's daughter, and Li Sicheng sent Ruan's daughter.

Just as Zhu Di especially liked Gao Liji sent by the Joseon Kingdom, the emperor filled his harem with women from local rich families. Whether the woman was favored or not was not important, but the channel of communication was important.

Undoubtedly, this is conducive to the Ming Dynasty's rule over counties and counties after Annan.

Li Sicheng didn't have Tang Xing as an envoy, so he naturally didn't know the rules of Tai'an Palace in Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Qiyu thought for a while and said: "Then stay in Nanhu Bieyuan with Zheng's daughter."

Zhu Qiyu didn't send Zheng's daughter and Ruan's daughter directly to Prince Xiang's mansion. If the Ming Dynasty's war goes wrong, or there are still rebellions in the counties and counties, these two women will become a bridge to communicate with each other.

"I still have something to offer." Li Sicheng knelt on the ground and shouted loudly again.

Zhu Qiyu nodded and said, "Present."

Holding the plate, Xing'an opened the red silk. Inside was an ordinary sword without a scabbard inlaid with gems, and it was not made of meteorite. It even had some rust, so it was not a precious thing.

"This is the Shun Tian Sword, grandfather Li Li's saber. It has only the blade and no hilt. It is enshrined in the Yushan Temple, and the hilt is with the boss." Li Sicheng replied very respectfully.

Zhu Qiyu was taken aback, when Tang Xing went to Shenglong City, he mentioned this Shuntian Sword in the memorial.

Li Li and Wang Tong made peace in private. After Li Li established the Li Dynasty, he went boating on the green water lake. A golden tortoise appeared and asked Li Li to take back the sword. The lake was called Huanjian Lake, and Liu Pu lived in Huanjian Sword Lake.

"So the allusion of the golden turtle returning the sword is false." Zhu Qiyu looked at the ordinary Shuntian sword and said with emotion.

Sure enough, it is still telling a story, deifying the king, just like various characters born with visions, it is all to increase the legitimacy of the rule.

Zhu Qiyu looked at the sword seriously again, and said with emotion: "Your grandfather, with this ordinary iron sword, forcibly snatched An Nanguo from Daming's hands, why?"

"Your children and grandchildren put Annan in such a situation, it is really disloyal and unfilial."

Li Sicheng's handing over the blade was nothing more than a bet.

If he, Li Sicheng, killed Li Yimin before November, Emperor Ming would return the sword, fulfill his promise, and make him King Annan.

If he failed to do so, it would be equivalent to returning Annan's legal system to Daming.

Here's the bet.

"I... know you are not filial." Li Sicheng trembled a bit, and said helplessly.

He did a good job as Prince Rui, and Li Yimin made a palace change. He, Li Sicheng, wanted to be filial, but Li Yimin wouldn't let him.

"Well, let's go, tell Yu Shaobao what kind of equipment you want." Zhu Qiyu waved his hand to signal Li Sicheng to leave.

"Resignation." Li Sicheng finally got up, left the imperial study in Nanhu Bieyuan, went to look for Yu Qian who was on duty, and bought armaments.

Daming had to pay for Annan's rice, and he, Prince Rui, wanted to buy Daming's armaments, so naturally he also had to pay.

Daming has a lot of eliminated armaments, which can be sold. Of course, firearms, Li Sicheng dare not think, the Ming Dynasty will not sell them either.

The conversation between Zhu Qiyu and Li Sicheng was actually a discussion about some issues in Annan. In the end, Li Dynasty lost his way, and Da Ming saved the people of Li, and Da Ming punished the people, and finally formed a resolution.

This resolution is extremely important and involves the jurisprudence of future rule.

Zhu Qiyu clearly knew what he was doing.

He is destroying the country.

Annan is actually an independent country, a social group with a common language, culture, race, territory, government, history and common cognition, and a country with complete sovereignty.

Annan is a country with a population of 500 million, more than 36 million households, 180 prefectures and 2000 counties under the jurisdiction of [-] prefectures, and the population of the Ming Dynasty has been less than [-] million, only less than [-] million household.

Annan's war potential is about one-tenth that of the Ming Dynasty.

To a certain extent, Annan's self-proclaimed third force in the world is not empty talk. At present, the only one who can compete with Annan for the third force is Fatih of the Ottoman Kingdom.

Zhu Qiyu never underestimated Annan, and even went to the Guangzhou mansion to balance the possibility of various forces holding back each other. On this point, even His Royal Highness King Xiang, who most needed the emperor's return to Beijing for relief, did not object.

Just as Zhu Jianji and Zhu Jianshen discussed, there are too many people in the court who are secretly waiting for the time when the emperor of Ming Dynasty will have a bloody encounter in Annan and can no longer say the same.

Is Annan's terrain really easy to fight?

America has something to say.

"Your Majesty, tomorrow is Tianming Festival. This is tomorrow's grand parade, memorial service, ceremonies, banquets and other things. The Nanya Imperial Palace has been in disrepair for a long time, so it is set in Nanhu Bieyuan." Xing'an presented a copy Memorial, this is tomorrow's itinerary.

The Tianming Festival was established at the suggestion of Yu Qian and Hu Wei. The reason for the establishment was that His Majesty did not celebrate the Longevity Festival, but his birthday.

Yu Qian and Hu Min made a compromise, taking the date of the founding of the Ming Dynasty and coincident with the Shangyuan Festival, a total of seven days of holidays were made to celebrate the opening of the Ming Dynasty.

"In addition to offering sacrifices to the Hall of Martyrs here, it is necessary to go on such an important day." Zhu Qiyu added to the itinerary to participate in the sacrifice of the Hall of Martyrs.

Xing'an bowed his head and said: "The minister accepts the order."

"Eh? Sun Quan's cemetery is in front of the gate of Xiaoling, what's the reason?" Zhu Qiyu looked at the itinerary and asked strangely.

Xing'an rolled up his sleeves, took out a heavy memo, flipped through it for a while and said, "When the Xiaoling Mausoleum was being built, the Ministry of Rites asked Emperor Taizu Gao that Sun Quan's tomb is also in Zhongfu Longpan, should we give it to him?" To move the grave? Emperor Taizu Gao said no, just let him guard the gate, and that's settled."

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "So that's the case, Taizu Gao Emperor is also a wonderful person, and it's cheaper for Sun Quan."

Sun Quan definitely took advantage of this matter.

Sun Wu had no descendants to sacrifice for a long time, and he could not eat incense. A share of incense.When repairing Taizu's mausoleum, it is always necessary to repair it for him, the gatekeeper.

Isn't this Sun Quan taking advantage?

As for whether it is reasonable for Wu Taizu Gao Emperor Sun Quan to Ming Taizu Gao Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang to guard the door, anyway, during the Hongwu period, no one dared to object to this matter.

The location of the grand banquet was not set at the Nanjing Imperial Palace of the Ming Dynasty, but at the South Lake Bieyuan. The Nanjing Imperial Palace of the Ming Dynasty was in disrepair for a long time and overgrown with weeds. The last time Zhu Qiyu lived in the Nanjing Imperial Palace, Chen Wanniang was almost regarded as a ghost.

Nanhu Bieyuan covers an area of ​​more than 800 mu, which is about [-]% of the Beijing Imperial Palace, and it is feasible to do anything.

When Gao Jieyu heard that Nanhu Bieyuan had recruited two newcomers, she was quite flustered and went to Ran Siniang to ask how to deal with it.

Ran Siniang said quite calmly: "It's just two palace servants, not concubines, so flustered, what's the proper way?"

Ran Siniang understands His Majesty's lenient temperament.

Let Zheng's daughter and Ruan's daughter stay in Nanhu Bieyuan for a while. It's not because His Majesty wants the two women to be beautiful. Daming's beautiful women are gone, so it's their turn?

7 Chapter Forty

Ran Siniang felt that Gao Jieyu was worrying unnecessarily, but Gao Jieyu was like facing an enemy, chattering endlessly about how to please the emperor.

In Ran Siniang's view, in fact, being yourself can please His Majesty.

Your Majesty is not a difficult person to get along with, at least Ran Siniang thinks so.

At the beginning of Tianming Festival, Zhu Qiyu got up at the fifth watch, and had breakfast. Zhu Qiyu ate a lot of this meal. According to his past experience, if he didn't eat enough from this meal, the next meal would be a big feast in the evening During the banquet.

Amidst the din of gongs and drums, Zhu Qiyu sat on the jade chair and headed for Hongwu Gate, which is the gate that Nanjing Dayue must go through.

Standing on the Wufeng Tower of Hongwumen, Zhu Qiyu always felt a little weird, because the Hongwumen that the common people could see directly was bright and beautiful, but the floor tiles behind Hongwumen were already full of potholes, and the three halls in disrepair were even broken. A beam collapsed.