Ji Gang is no longer the brainless vase with fair skin, beautiful face and long legs. In the past, when he wanted to kill someone, the only simple and crude ideas in his mind were assassination and stabbing.
Now Niu Hulu Ji Gang knows how to use his brain and tricks to kill people. It is best not to dirty his hands, not to drain the pond to catch fish, but to take the path of sustainable development and revenge.
After all, the death list in the basement of his house is very long. If he gets his hands dirty and something happens to him, who will send the rest of the people to hell
Don't let any one go.
If Xie Jin was so easy to deal with, Ji Gang would have killed him long ago. After all, Ji Gang used his intelligence and wisdom to kill Li Jinglong and Hu Guan, who were not easy to chew.
Xie Jin did not engage in corruption or bribery, nor did he form cliques for personal gain. He kept himself clean and seemed like a seamless egg, making it difficult for Ji Gang to find any evidence against him.
A gifted young man who achieved success at an early age, Xie Jin was the top scorer in the imperial examination in Jiangxi, an important place for imperial examinations. Before compiling the "Yongle Encyclopedia", he also compiled the "History of Yuan Dynasty" and "Records of Taizu", supplemented the "Book of Song", and edited the "Book of Rites". What's more perverted is that when Empress Renxiao wrote "Nei Xun" to summarize the norms for women, she also asked Xie Jin to compile the "Biographies of Women from Ancient and Modern Times", a classic reading for women. Even the empress admired Xie Jin very much.
In addition to calligraphy, Xie Jin was also an expert in poetry and calligraphy. His poetry collections were bestsellers in all major bookstores.
Therefore, unlike Fang Xiaoru, who was an empty talker and harmed the country during the reign of Emperor Jianwen, Xie Jin was a man of great talent who could both take the imperial examinations and work hard. Therefore, Xie Jin sat firmly on the position of the first secretary of the Cabinet Secretariat of Emperor Yongle, and no one could shake him.
The cabinet at that time did not have much power, and its main function was to be the emperor's assistant, holding the second rank. However, as the emperor's close ministers, they even took turns to stand guard in the Wenyuan Pavilion in the palace at night, ready to get up at any time for Emperor Yongle to handle official business. Who would dare to underestimate them
Ji Gang couldn't chew this copper pea and it would even break his teeth.
what to do
Ji Gang thought hard, and suddenly an idea came to his mind: I got it!
Xie Jin's performance in the position of Grand Secretary of the Cabinet was impeccable, but Xie Jin also had another identity: Academician of the Right Spring Office of the Eastern Palace's Chancellery, that is, the prince's teacher.
As we all know, Emperor Yongle was never satisfied with Crown Prince Zhu Gaochi and favored Prince of Han Zhu Gaoxu.
When Emperor Yongle ascended the throne, he immediately named his wife empress, but delayed appointing a crown prince for two years because the crown prince was fat and in poor health. Prince of Han Zhu Gaoxu was a great contributor to the Jingnan Campaign and was supported by the soldiers, who wanted to make him the crown prince.
Emperor Yongle was undecided. Xie Jin, the chief confidential secretary of the cabinet secretariat of Emperor Yongle, expressed his opinion at the critical moment: "It has always been the case that the crown prince is benevolent and filial, and the whole world is loyal to him. If we abandon him and make him the successor, disputes will surely arise. Once a precedent is set, I am afraid there will be no peace. The events of previous dynasties can serve as a lesson for us."
As an expert in history, Xie Jin used history as a mirror and knew that anyone who deposed the eldest son and enthroned the youngest son had a bad ending. Moreover, Zhu Gaochi was the eldest son, kind, filial and honest, with no faults in his character. He stayed in Beiping for two years and sought medical treatment for Empress Renxiao.
Emperor Yongle sighed, "The eldest prince is not in good health."
Xie Jin only said three words: "Good saintly grandson."
In fact, Zhu Zhanji was still in Yunnan at that time, and Emperor Yongle did not know how good his eldest grandson was. Moreover, Zhu Zhanji was only five years old at that time, so how good could a child be
In fact, the phrase "good holy grandson" is not referring to Zhu Zhanji. Its deeper meaning is that Emperor, you are still so young and in your prime, and you can still live a long time. What does it matter whether the prince is in good health
When you are old, the grandchildren of the Eastern Palace will have grown up. Since there is a successor, the health of the prince will not be the key factor.
To explain it more bluntly, when a person becomes an emperor, the Eastern Palace, as the crown prince, is the son of the emperor and a potential threat and rival to the emperor's power. A too powerful Eastern Palace is not a good thing for the emperor.
It was the same idea as when Emperor Gaozu decided, after the death of Crown Prince Yiwen Zhu Biao, to choose the weak Crown Prince as the Crown Prince rather than the powerful sons of vassal princes, even at the cost of slaughtering almost all the wealthy families in the capital.
The Eastern Palace must first be obedient and controlled by the emperor.
The head follows the butt. In the past, Emperor Yongle did not understand the thinking of his biological father, Emperor Gaozu. He thought that since he was the eldest and had outstanding political and military talents, why didn't he make him the crown prince instead of a grandson who was still wet behind the ears
Now that Emperor Yongle was emperor, he gradually understood Emperor Gaozu's thoughts.
Dad, I misunderstood you.
I would make the same choice as you.
Xie Jin was a great historian, and he could probably guess the true thoughts of Emperor Yongle. Although the phrase "good holy grandson" seemed ordinary, it was the main reason why Emperor Yongle decided to make the fat white man Zhu Gaochi the crown prince.
In this way, after Zhu Gaochi entered the Eastern Palace, Emperor Yongle appointed Xie Jin as a scholar of the Right Spring Office of the Eastern Palace Zhanshi Mansion to educate the crown prince. Xie Jin was tacitly regarded as a key member of the Eastern Palace.
The crown prince certainly liked Xie Jin. Similarly, Han Wang Zhu Gaoxu also regarded Xie Jin as the culprit for his loss of the crown prince position. However, Xie Jin was a favorite of Emperor Yongle and a confidential secretary, so he did not dare to say anything to Xie Jin.
My opponent's opponent is my friend.
Ji Gang used female official Jiang Quan and the clan office to force the son-in-law Hu Guan to hang himself.
Taking advantage of Empress Renxiao's critical illness and Emperor Yongle's hatred, Duke Cao Li Jinglong was starved to death.
Next, Ji Gang decided to use the conflict between Prince of Han Zhu Gaoxu and the Eastern Palace to deal with Xie Jin.
Simply perfect.
Ji Gang felt that it was time to talk to the King of Han about life and ideals.
Han Palace.
According to the rules, the crown prince has been decided and the adult princes have already gone to their fiefdoms. When Emperor Yongle was young, he moved to Beiping with his family at the age of 20. Now Prince of Han Zhu Gaoxu is 27 years old and has not yet been enfeoffed. His family still lives in the capital.
After Zhu Gaochi was named crown prince in the second year of the Yongle reign, many ministers, including Xie Jin, wrote to the Yongle Emperor, asking the Prince of Han and the Prince of Zhao to leave the capital and become fiefs. At that time, the Yongle Emperor said that the empress was in poor health and wanted to keep her two sons by her side to fulfill their filial duties, so the matter of becoming fiefs was shelved.
Now that Empress Renxiao has passed away, the so-called reason of filial piety is no longer valid. At the Empress's funeral, Prince Han cried as deeply and affectionately as his elder brother, the Crown Prince, because without the Empress, he would have to go to his fiefdom, and thus gave up the idea of becoming the crown prince.
Sure enough, after Empress Renxiao passed away, all the ministers, especially the civil officials, wrote to Emperor Yongle, asking the King of Han and the King of Zhao to move to their fiefdoms.
Prince of Han Zhu Gaoxu experienced the pain of losing his mother and was forced to become a fiefdom. He was very sad and depressed. All his aspirations to fight for power were in vain. He sighed in the palace.
Ji Gang took advantage of the situation and visited the King of Han, saying, "The Queen Renxiao has passed away, and the Crown Prince is in poor health. Your Highness the King of Han must take care of your health and share the worries of the Emperor."
Ji Gang was the confidant of Emperor Yongle. When the King of Han heard that "the Crown Prince is not in good health" and "relieve the emperor's worries", he immediately became alert, "Brother Crown Prince is sick again recently? I have to go to the palace to see him and persuade him to take care of his health. We are all very sad about the death of our mother. If I see you sick in the afterlife, I will not be at peace."
No matter how they compete secretly, they must maintain the brotherhood and respect for each other in public.
Of course, the main point is to see how sick the eldest brother is.
Ji Gang praised, "The Prince of Han is truly filial. The Crown Prince lost his appetite after Empress Renxiao passed away, and often went to Rouyi Hall to pay respects. The Crown Prince suffers from polydipsia, and cannot eat too much, nor can he go hungry. That day, he may have knelt in Rouyi Hall for too long, and his feet suddenly went weak, and he fainted. The five eunuchs around him were unable to help him up, but the Crown Princess had experience, and immediately took out some snowflake candy from her purse, melted it in warm water, and fed it to the Crown Prince, who then woke up."
In fact, the prince’s illness is a typical type 2 diabetes in modern medicine. There is a problem with endocrine insulin, and blood sugar fluctuates like a roller coaster.
What diabetics fear most is not high blood sugar, but sudden hypoglycemia. Normal people can survive without a meal, but if diabetics skip a meal, their blood sugar will drop to a dangerous level, their heart will race, their stomach will feel like it's being scratched by a hundred claws, their feet will feel like they're stepping on cotton, and they will faint from hypoglycemia. Sugar must be replenished in time.
The prince was copying Buddhist scriptures in Rouyi Hall that day to pray for his mother. In order to catch up with the progress, he only ate two bites of food at noon and continued to copy the scriptures. As a result, he fainted due to hypoglycemia. The almost 300-pound fat man was like a mountain falling down on his head. Even the five eunuchs could not hold him up. He fell to the ground with a bang, and the dust was raised like an earthquake. The scene was quite spectacular.
Fainting from hypoglycemia may seem scary, but a bowl of sugar water will wake you up, and no medicine is needed - but it sounds a bit embarrassing and beneath the dignity of the crown prince, so Hu Shanwei issued a gag order not to spread the matter, and the King of Han did not know about it.
After hearing this, the King of Han felt complicated, "The Crown Princess is really virtuous, and is a good wife to my brother."
The Crown Princess was born in a humble family and had no political resources to help the Crown Prince - in this respect, the Crown Princess was far inferior to Guo Liangdi. However, when the Crown Princess was young, she was a "snake-beating girl" and was famous for her courage and quick reaction. She saved the Crown Prince with a bowl of sugar water.
Ji Gang said, "Mrs. Hu has forbidden this matter to be spread outside. I think brothers should not be so secretive, so I decided to tell you. Go to the palace when you have time to persuade the prince. Although you are sad, you must take care of yourself."
The King of Han said hurriedly, "I understand. Lord Ji has good intentions. I will never let it slip. I am just visiting you to say hello to you, brother."
Having said that, the King of Han still felt a little uncomfortable, thinking that Concubine Hu was my neighbor and the two families had a harmonious relationship. Whenever my son Zhu Zhanhe got something good, he would give a share to the Hu family. Concubine Hu usually treated Zhu Zhanhe as her own nephew, and they talked and laughed together.
I thought Concubine Hu had the Han Palace in her heart, but she kept such an important event as the Crown Prince's sudden fainting a secret and didn't even give me a hint.
Alas, human hearts are hard to predict. Hu Shanggong must think that the Prince of Han’s Mansion will be relocated to a fiefdom, so there is no need to put any effort here.
Ji Gang saw that the Prince of Han was disheartened and knew what was on his mind. He said, "Today, Xie Jin from the cabinet mentioned the matter of the Prince of Han's enfeoffment to the emperor again."
Xie Jin actually did not do so.
The fact is that there have been too many memorials recently calling for the King of Han and the King of Zhao to become vassals. As the secretariat of Emperor Yongle, the cabinet's job is to classify the memorials, go through them first, extract the key points and mark them out, and put forward preliminary handling opinions for Emperor Yongle's reference, so as to save time for the emperor and work quickly.
Today, Xie Jin just routinely sorted out all the memorials calling on the princes to go to the vassal state and submitted them to Emperor Yongle... He did not make any "dirty remarks".
Ji Gang hinted wildly that Xie Jin had advised the emperor to become a vassal, and Xie Jin was a scholar of the Right Spring Office of the Eastern Palace. To the King of Han, it seemed that Xie Jin was standing on the side of the Crown Prince, madly trampling on the King of Han's Palace, and trying to drive him out of the capital.
The King of Han gnashed his teeth and wished he could tear Xie Jin into pieces, but he said, "It is the rule of the Ming Dynasty's ancestral teachings that an adult prince should be enfeoffed. I have nothing to say, but my mother just passed away, and I am concerned about my father's health, so I want to spend more time with him."
It's impossible to become a vassal. I will never do that in my lifetime!
Now, in the eyes of the King of Han, Xie Jin is a mad dog raised by the Eastern Palace, who only bites him.
"Actually..." Ji Gang observed the King of Han's expression, "Your Highness does not need to worry about the matter of becoming a vassal, at least not in the next few years."
"Are you serious?" The King of Han's eyes lit up and he said, "Please enlighten me, Lord Ji!"
Ji Gang is my father's confidant and specializes in intelligence work. He must know something!
Ji Gang pretended to be embarrassed. "It is a secret, so I cannot reveal too much today. I just cannot bear to see His Royal Highness the Prince of Han worried, so I want to reassure His Royal Highness and tell him not to worry about the storm outside and the slanders of some people. Your Highness should stay at home to mourn, pray for Empress Renxiao, be filial to the Emperor, be friendly to your brothers and sisters, be a good son, a good second brother, and a good younger brother, and leave the rest to the Emperor. Your Highness, I can only say this much."
The King of Han was deeply touched. "Since ancient times, people who add icing on the cake are always eager to do it, but few people are willing to help in times of need. I will keep in mind the advice given by Lord Ji. I know the difficulties Lord Ji is in, so I will not ask you about it, nor will I reveal a single word. Lord Ji, rest assured, I will stop talking to you and keep it absolutely confidential."
Ji Gang looked full of emotion. "During the four-year Jingnan Campaign, His Highness the Prince of Han and I worked together, one in the dark and one in the light. His Highness shed blood on the battlefield countless times, and only then can we live a peaceful life today. I can't bear to see some people crossing the river and rubbing their hands. They enjoy your efforts but want to drive your family out of the capital. This is unfair. Your Highness just lost his mother, and those people can't wait to take action. I am very ashamed of their words and deeds."
After Ji Gang's heartfelt words, his status in the King of Han's heart soared like a rocket. Although they appeared to be indifferent to each other, they gradually became close in private.
The Crown Prince of the Eastern Palace fainted due to hypoglycemia and was woken up by the Crown Princess with a bowl of sugar water. The Crown Princess did not dare to ask the Crown Prince to walk back to the Eastern Palace, so she took a carriage home.
This was not the first time that the prince had this condition. After the diagnosis, the imperial doctors advised the prince to eat small meals frequently, not to eat too much or too little, and to exercise moderately but not excessively.
Emperor Yongle came to the East Palace to see the prince, and was relieved to see that he was fine.
However, after the prince fainted, he had problems with his left foot. At first, he felt some pain in his left foot and thought it was because of the fall that day. Later, the skin on the sole of his foot turned purple. When the foot-washing maid was trimming the prince's toenails, she found that the big toe was gray and became more fragile than before. When she massaged the sole of his foot, the arch of his foot became squeezed and deformed.
The Crown Princess did not dare to be careless and immediately summoned the imperial physician to check the prince's feet. The doctors wrapped the left toenail with a dressing to prevent it from getting worse. As for the deformity of the left foot bones, the doctors said they could do nothing to help. Diabetes may not seem to be life-threatening for the time being, but the feet are prone to lesions, leading to lameness, and in severe cases, the gradually rotting feet may have to be cut off and amputated to save his life!
Moreover, the condition of diseased feet is irreversible, it can only become more and more serious and cannot be cured.
Even the normally calm and composed Crown Prince changed his expression. "This... What should I do? You asked me to eat less and more often, walk a hundred steps after meals, walk as much as possible, and ride less often. I have insisted on doing all of this. Now my legs and feet are not convenient and I can't walk well. How can I walk to exercise?"
This requirement is contradictory.
The imperial doctors were speechless, "I am... incompetent. This disease cannot be cured. Please, Prince..."
Overcome the difficulties yourself - it was hard to say this. The prince had a kind personality and never lost his temper. He was always polite to others. The imperial doctors couldn't bear to see the prince's condition deteriorate to this extent.
The prince sat quietly on the chair, looking at his diseased foot for a long time, and said, "You can leave and go get the medicine."
As soon as the imperial doctors left, the prince took off all his masks as if he could not bear the burden. A tear rolled down his chubby face and spread on the python pattern on his purple robe.
The prince choked up and said to the coffin of Empress Renxiao in Rouyi Hall: "Mother, I tried my best, really tried my best to control it, but it still went against my wishes. My son is unable to walk, and he will become a cripple with a disability, be laughed at, or even have his feet chopped off, paralyzed in bed from now on, and become a pile of rotten meat—"
"Your Highness!" The Crown Princess and Di Guo interrupted the Crown Prince in unison.
Crown Princess Zhang held the Crown Prince's hand tightly and said, "It may not come to that. Your Highness, please don't let your imagination run wild. We have even survived the siege of 500,000 troops in Beiping. What else can't we face?"
"Yes, we in the Eastern Palace will never admit defeat." Guo Liangdi half squatted down and gently helped the prince put on thin cloth socks to cover his diseased left foot so that the prince would not feel discouraged.
Guo Liang Di said: "It doesn't matter if I'm lame. The Crown Princess and I will always follow the Crown Prince wherever he goes. If I marry a lame man, the Crown Princess and I will be his two crutches. We will always be by his side and help him support the Eastern Palace."
The author has something to say: This Guo Liangdi is the owner of the traditional Chinese "Epitaph of Guo Xuan" that made all the little angel readers collapse in the previous chapters. She is Guo Xuan's biological sister, Guo.
I guess only a very small number of readers can understand that epitaph. Let me highlight the key point for you. Wuding Hou Guo Ying’s original wife, Ma, was childless, and all his children were born to concubines.
The eldest son Guo Zhen married the Hongwu Emperor's daughter Princess Yongjia, but died early. He and Princess Yongjia had a son, Guo Zhen.
The second son, Guo Ming, was born to the concubine Yan. Neither the mother nor the son was favored. However, Guo Ming married a wife, Xu, who was of a prominent family. Her father was a member of the clan of King Xu Da of Zhongshan. That is, Xu and Empress Xu were cousins. Guo Ming died early, and Xu became a widow at the age of 30, living with a son and a daughter. The son was Guo Xuan, and the daughter was Guo Liangdi, the Eastern Palace in "Hu Shanwei".
The dispute over the title of the Guo family was actually a war between Princess Yongjia of the eldest branch and the widow Xu of the second branch.
Guo Liangdi, as a daughter of a noble family, ended up being a concubine of the Prince of Yan. This was probably the result of Princess Yongjia bullying the second wife, but no one expected that the Prince of Yan would eventually become the crown prince...
Anyway, in the end, Guo Xuan from the second wife, under the manipulation of his sister Guo Liangdi, overwhelmed Guo Zhen, born to Princess Yongjia, and inherited the title of Marquis Wuding. He was unlucky in marriage and married five wives in succession. His last concubine, Mu, was the daughter of Mu Sheng, Duke of Qian, and the niece of his son-in-law Mu Xin.
So, dear readers, do you understand what I am saying
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