Chapter 196: The Emperor is ill
The copper door of Zhuqi opened rumblingly. Zhu Yunwen walked into the harem surrounded by two teams of guards. He walked quickly, lowered his head, and looked worried. In fact, he was very worried. A few days ago, news came from the inner palace that the emperor's grandfather fell ill and was very ill. He had been in a coma for a whole day and night, and the imperial doctor was helpless and could only pray that God would bless the emperor to recover soon.
Zhu Yunwen also knew the reason for the fall of the emperor's grandfather. After suddenly learning that Lan Yu had refused to return, the emperor's grandfather fainted and fell to the ground in shock and anger. So, the rumors that the emperor wanted to clean up the army were true, otherwise he would not have been so angry. In the past few days, a rumor circulated in the capital, saying that the emperor was preparing to hold a military exercise in Fengyang to perform the kings in Fengyang was just an excuse. The real intention was to sweep away the veterans in the army. Although this news was absurd, one thing was true, that is, a large number of Jinyiwei had rushed to Fengyang. So far, there was no news from Fengyang. It is said that the military exercise needed to blockade, but Zhu Yunwen still vaguely realized that Feng Sheng and others who arrived in Fengyang in advance were most likely to have been controlled.
It was just a year before he entered the Eastern Palace, and a political storm was about to rise quietly in the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yunwen was very worried and anxious. He came to Zhu Yuanzhang's bedroom and waited patiently. A eunuch had already come to report.
Zhu Yuanzhang's bedroom was filled with pungent smell of medicine. More than a dozen imperial doctors sat in the side hall, searching for medical books with a frown. Didn't they know where Zhu Yuanzhang was sick? But who dared to say that he would not work hard on state affairs again? Isn't this equivalent to persuading the emperor to abdicate? Although it was simple, his head could not be saved.
Zhu Yuanzhang had woken up, and a concubine was sitting by the bed feeding him medicine. This serious illness almost destroyed Zhu Yuanzhang's body. He was as thin as a hair and his hair was completely gray. In fact, this disease was just a fuse, which broke out the chronic diseases he had accumulated over decades. He lay on the bed for five days, and the imperial doctor had killed five or six, but the condition was still heavy and there was no sign of recovery.
Zhu Yuanzhang fainted after receiving the news that Lan Yu had refused to return the order. In his opinion, Lan Yu's resistance to the order was no different from rebellion. The key is that Lan Yu was in Guizhou, where there were 300,000 troops, most of whom were his old subordinates. Zhu Yuanzhang realized that he had made a decision-making mistake. He never expected that Lan Yu would guess his intention and would have the courage to resist his imperial edict. He did not expect that he had paid a heavy price now and he let the tiger go back to the mountain.
Zhu Yuanzhang lay weakly on the head of the bed, listening to Jiang Yan's report calmly. After he fell ill, almost all the memorials were criticized by the crown prince Zhu Yunwen. Unless there were some major events, they would come to report to him. However, Zhu Yuanzhang still asked about the matter of the Jinyiwei and did not hand them over to Zhu Yunwen.
Jiang Yan knelt down and bowed respectfully, saying respectfully: "Report to Your Majesty, Feng Sheng, Fu Youde, Chang Sheng, Wang Bi, and Chen Yuan, Puding Hou, Cao Zhen, Jingchuan Hou, Zhu Shou, Zhu Shou, Dongguan Bo He Rong, Wuding Hou Guo Ying, Jingning Hou Ye Sheng, Dongchuan Hou Hu Hai, Huining Hou Zhang Wen, etc., all have been controlled by the Jinyiwei. Thirty-five of the forty-three people on Your Majesty's list have been detained in Fengyang."
"Where are Tang Shengzong and Zhang Long? Are they here?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked with difficulty.
Jiang Yan hesitated and said, "Yan'an Marquis Tang Shengzong and Fengxiang Marquis Zhang Long supervised the military farm in Guizhou. I heard that they were going to come to watch the kings perform soldiers under the orders, but they were stopped by Lan Yu."
Zhu Yuanzhang's face turned pale. Tang Shengzong and Zhang Long were both old subordinates of Lan Yu. They both held the power to station troops in Guizhou. Now that the two of them did not come, it means that Lan Yu had completely controlled Guizhou. Zhu Yuanzhang gasped violently for a few times, and suddenly vomited a mouthful of blood.
"Emperor! Emperor!" Jiang Yan and the imperial concubine who was feeding medicine next to him were shocked. Jiang Yan shouted anxiously: "Imperial Doctor, come quickly!"
More than a dozen imperial doctors rushed over, and Zhu Yuanzhang breathed a long sigh, waved his hand and said in a low voice: "You all go down, I have something to say."
More than a dozen imperial physicians looked at each other and had to retreat. Zhu Yuanzhang was so energetic that he said to Jiang Yan: "You must seize the time to collect evidence of their rebellion. If there is insufficient evidence, it is decided that Feng and Fu will rebel, while others will be accomplices. I sent the Zuodu Censor Zhan Hui to Fengyang. You are secretly in this case, and he is clear. You must handle it as soon as possible, do you know?"
"I obey the order!"
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang saw an eunuch who wanted to speak but stopped, so he glanced at him. The eunuch hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Report to Your Majesty, the crown prince is here."
Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Zhu Yunwen had a memorial that could not be decided to ask for instructions, so he nodded and signaled the eunuch to send an order to summon him. He said to Jiang Yan again: "Go!"
"I'm asking for my retreat!" Jiang Yan slowly retreated.
Zhu Yuanzhang took a few more sips of medicine, then waved his hand and ordered the imperial concubine to retreat. He closed his eyes and kept his mind for a while, but he couldn't help thinking about how to deal with Lan Yu. He was also in a dilemma now. Lan Yu just said that the farming was too busy and he had no time to participate in the Fengyang military exercise. He did not really rebel. Maybe he was just waiting and watching. If he was forced to force him, it was very likely that he would really rebel. In fact, what Zhu Yuanzhang was most worried about was that Lan Yu and Mu Chun joined forces, and then the entire southwest of the Ming Dynasty would be over. In this case, he would not let Feng Sheng and other generals wipe out Lan Yu. If they took charge of the troops, maybe Sichuan and Huguang would also rebel. If the kings were asked to suppress him, Zhu Yuanzhang was worried that they were not Lan Yu's opponents. Lan Yu's timing for advance and retreat was extremely exquisite, which shows that he had experts around him to help.
At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he had reached the most dangerous moment of his life, and he was helpless.
Just as he closed his eyes and thought, a slight sound of footsteps approached him and stopped immediately. Zhu Yunwen knelt down, "Sunny son Yunwen meets the emperor's grandfather."
"Get up, grandson!" Zhu Yuanzhang opened his eyes slightly and asked with a gentle smile: "Is there something difficult to decide, are you going to ask me?"
"Yes! My grandson has three difficult things to decide, so I'll ask for instructions."
Zhu Yunwen took several memorials from the plate of the eunuch next to him and reported: "The first thing was that the Minister of Revenue Ye asked the memorials, saying that the old grain in the capital was mostly moldy and rotten, and begged the emperor to approve the release of 40% of the old grain to help the poor in the world at a fair price. Therefore, the memorials involved three million stones of grain, and the grandson did not dare to make the decision, so he came to ask for instructions."
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, "Shangshu Ye is concerned about the poor in the world, and his heart is commendable, but he doesn't need to put three million stones. He can put half of it and the other half as military rations. At the same time, he is exempted from military households' taxes this year. In addition, many people have proposed to relax the ban on alcohol. I also know that it is difficult for the people to make private wine. I can use sweet potatoes to make wine, but rice wine is still banned."
"The grandson understands." Zhu Yunwen took out another memorial and said: "This is a memorial by Fu Youren, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. It says that silver has been widely used among the people. Except for the government, the people almost do not collect the silver bills. The ratio of silver bills set by the government is actually completely unbalanced with the people. The government is still one and one, but the people are actually one and ten, and Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other places are even higher. Fu Youren begs the emperor to abolish the issuance of the treasure bills, but his grandson dares not make decisions."
"What's the matter with this?" Zhu Yuanzhang said with a gloomy face: "Come here!
Immediately, two guards stepped forward. Zhu Yuanzhang's voice was not loud, but he was absolutely unkind. He ordered coldly: "Fu Youren was arbitrarily discussing the foundation of the country, and he was taken to the outside of the Meridian Gate to kill the rod, and his family was sent to Lingnan to serve as an army."
He immediately ordered: "I will pass on my will again, and the people strictly prohibit the use of silver. Those who violate the order will be executed immediately. Anyone who finds that a county has used more than 100 taels of silver for private use will be the same crime!"
Zhu Yunwen was so scared that he didn't dare to say anything. He secretly regretted it. He had known that he would have rejected Fu Youren's memorial. He also had the idea of ​​reforming Baochao, so he used Fu Youren's memorial to test it, but he didn't expect to push Fu Youren to death. He wanted to plead, but he didn't dare.
Zhu Yuanzhang closed his eyes and rested for a while before asking, "What is the third thing?"
"Reporting to the emperor's grandfather, the third thing is that the Japanese pirates resurrected after the Spring Festival, and their madness was even better than before. Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other places were in a hurry. Last month, the Japanese pirates attacked Leizhou, and a hundred households Li Yu and Tao Ding died in battle. Sea-by-pass grain ships were attacked in Zhejiang, losing twenty grain ships, and the coastal areas suffered heavy losses, but..."
"But what?" Zhu Yuanzhang opened his eyes.
Zhu Yunwen hesitated and said, "But Sun-sen heard that the Japanese pirates also captured Liaodong, but was lured into the enemy by Liaodong General Li Wei. Finally, he wiped out 100 Japanese pirate ships at sea, beheaded a thousand people, and captured more than 300 alive people. He was on the way to escort into Beijing."
"Your news comes from his performance report to you!" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled.
"Yes! The Ministry of War's report has not arrived yet, and my grandson dares not report it formally."
Zhu Yuanzhang pondered for a moment, then said to Zhu Yunwen: "Treating Japanese pirates is a combination of defense and attack. First of all, we must consider defense. We can order Duke Xu Huizu of Wei to Zhejiang to prevent Japanese Japanese, and then order Wu Jie, the Marquis of Anlu, to guard Japanese Japanese in Fujian."
"I remember my grandson." In fact, Zhu Yunwen was concerned about how the emperor arranged Li Weizheng. In his report, Li Wei said that what he and the army lacked the most is practical experience. He hoped that he could convince the emperor to approve the Liaodong Navy to pacify the Japanese. Zhu Yunwen originally wanted to mention this matter, but when Zhu Yuanzhang was downplaying just now, he dared not say more.
Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him, and saw that he wanted to speak but stopped. He knew what he wanted to say, so he asked, "Do you really believe him?"
Zhu Yunwen didn't know why his grandfather asked this question, but he couldn't answer it for a long time, but Zhu Yuanzhang sighed slightly: "I know that Lan Yu is arrogant, arrogant, and unruly, but I never thought that he would really rebel. What I didn't expect happened. I can see from Lan Yu that all these generals led the army had the intention to rebel. They were all thinking that even my cowherd kid, a poor monk, could be the emperor, let alone them, of course they were honest, but once conditions allowed, they would raise an army to rebel, so don't believe Li Weizheng too much. This person is very scheming, so you have to be more careful about him."
Zhu Yunwen suddenly knelt down on the ground and cried in a low voice: "The emperor's uncles all have heavy troops and are peeping at the throne. Once the emperor's grandfather's grandfather has no one to use and no soldiers to use, how should he protect himself?"
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't say anything for a long time. He looked at Zhu Yunwen, suddenly sighed deeply, waved his hand and said, "You go down first! I'll think about this matter again."
Chapter completed!