Upon hearing the news of Zhu Zhanhe's death, Emperor Yongle's hair turned half white overnight.
The grandson who looked most like him died at the prime of life at the age of fourteen, before he even had the chance to marry and have children.
The one who suffered more than Emperor Yongle was the King of Han.
Emperor Yongle sent people to Qingzhou to capture him and bring him back to the capital. He had a strong army in Qingzhou. According to his previous temper, he would not surrender. He would most likely
Give it a try.
But upon hearing the tragic news of the death of his beloved eldest son, the King of Han collapsed, ordered his men to lay down their weapons and surrender.
Now the King of Han is imprisoned in Xihua Gate. He is completely desperate and only hopes to die quickly to end the pain of indirectly killing his own son.
When a wall falls, everyone pushes it; when a drum is broken, everyone beats it.
The King of Han was imprisoned, and all his past deeds were listed and exposed.
For example, the King of Han slandered and defamed the Crown Prince, fabricated reports against the Crown Prince out of thin air, and colluded with Ji Gang to frame the officials of the Eastern Palace, which almost led to the annihilation of all the officials of the Eastern Palace.
Some of them, after becoming fiefs, "privately manufactured weapons, secretly harbored rebellious ideas, and raised assassins", etc., waiting for an opportunity to rebel.
Various memorials, evidence, etc. were sent to Emperor Yongle. Reporting on the Crown Prince and slandering officials in the Eastern Palace were all approved and even condoned by the Prince of Han. He was not surprised at all.
However, Emperor Yongle did not expect that the King of Han would privately manufacture weapons and raise assassins. It was this action of the King of Han that led to Zhu Zhanhe's death.
Emperor Yongle was overwhelmed with grief. He threw all the testimony and evidence at the King of Han and started whipping him.
The King of Han knelt on the ground, motionless, allowing Emperor Yongle to whip him, seemingly feeling no pain.
Beat me! I deserve all this. The King of Han, who had lost his eldest son, was like a walking corpse, facing his father's whip.
Does it hurt? My heart hurts even more.
The blood and flesh of the King of Han were flying everywhere. The eunuch Zheng He was afraid of killing someone. The Yongle Emperor lost his grandson and son one after another, which made him even more distressed. He secretly invited the prince to Xihua Gate.
When the prince saw the King of Han who was beaten into a bloody mess, he immediately limped over, knelt down and hugged the King of Han, blocking the whip for his brother.
The prince was fat, like a mountain of flesh. The King of Han was not knocked unconscious by his father, but was suffocated by his eldest brother. The brotherhood was simply suffocating.
The prince came over to plead for mercy, and the furious Emperor Yongle finally stopped and threw away the blood-soaked whip.
The King of Han fell to the ground and lost consciousness, not only because he was knocked unconscious but also because he was hugged by the prince. Eunuch Zheng He called the imperial physician who had been waiting outside to come in and treat the King of Han.
As he watched his second son, covered in blood, being carried away, Emperor Yongle's anger disappeared; instead, sadness swept over him and swallowed him.
The Zhu family is the only royal family with grassroots origins in thousands of years. Zhu Yuanzhang's father was a tenant farmer who worked the land for the landlord. His mother Chen's father was a soldier in the Song Dynasty. After the Song Dynasty was destroyed, he was unwilling to surrender to the Yuan Dynasty. He gave up his military career and became a Taoist priest to support his family. He was also a proletarian. Therefore, the royal family of the Ming Dynasty was the most down-to-earth, and their origin could be said to be of a good family.
Throughout the dynasties, the game of power was actually a game for the nobles or the property owners. There were cases where the emperor killed his own son, and even the queen killed her son. However, the blood ethics in the bones of the Zhu family had not been worn away by the imperial power. In the past, the King of Qin was full of evil, but Emperor Gaozu Zhu Yuanzhang did not kill him. Now that Emperor Yongle has lost his second grandson, he will not kill his second son.
The second son was beaten half to death. Emperor Yongle did not really want to beat his son to death, but wanted to atone for the sin of killing his grandson in order to atone for his second son.
Every blow of the whip that hit the Prince of Han pierced the heart of Emperor Yongle.
This second son who was born on New Year's Eve! I will never forget his birthday. A child sent from heaven, a child that Miaoyi and I brought so much joy to... How did he become like this
The Crown Prince is his nephew. How could he collude with Ji Gang to kill his eldest nephew!
Harming others will eventually harm yourself, and he killed his own son.
No matter how sad Emperor Yongle was, he would not kill his own son. He was a father after all. No matter how disappointed or afraid of his son the father of the Zhu family was, he would not kill his son, so Emperor Yongle chose to punish his son with flogging.
The grandson's death cannot be in vain.
Emperor Yongle fell down on the dragon chair. After a while, the crown prince was supported by two eunuchs and said, "The imperial physician said that my second brother was seriously injured, but he is in a strong body and his life is not in danger for now."
Emperor Yongle knew what was going on. His whip looked terrible, one whip after another, and the whip had double shadows in the air. The King of Han had no intact skin, but he actually left some room for maneuver. He did not kill his son, and did not whip him more than a hundred times. Emperor Yongle had been a soldier for half his life. If he really wanted to kill his son, ten whips would be enough.
Emperor Yongle was exhausted both physically and mentally. In addition to whipping his grandson to avenge his grandson, he also had to give an explanation to his eldest son. After all, the King of Han's goal was to kill the Crown Prince, and Zhu Zhanji was the eldest son's son.
Emperor Yongle said: "Pass on my decree, demote Zhu Gaochi to a commoner, strip him of his title, and imprison his entire family in Fengyang. They are not allowed to leave without my order."
The prince knelt down and pleaded for the King of Han, asking for his title to be preserved.
Does the prince hate the King of Han
hatred.
Over the years, the prince has been driven into depression by his younger brother.
Zhu Zhanji is the eldest son. He has given too much to the East Palace in the past 16 years. If it weren't for this good son, the crown prince would have been deposed long ago. Now that his younger brother wants to kill his most proud son, how can the crown prince not be angry? Not hate
However, as a blood brother, the crown prince would never sit idly by and watch his younger brother, the King of Han, who has no competitiveness for the throne, take advantage of his misfortune.
By the time of the crown prince, the Zhu family had already been in the third royal generation. Unlike Emperor Yongle, who had experienced the turbulent founding era, they were true royal aristocrats who had been born into a life of luxury and had received an orthodox royal education. They were no longer down-to-earth and were no different from the royal families of previous dynasties.
They are more concerned about weighing the pros and cons and finding a balance in the middle.
Especially the core of the royal family during the Yongle Dynasty, all the princes and princesses were born to Empress Renxiao.
As a responsible older brother who will inherit the family business in the future, he should take the initiative to assume joint responsibility for his younger brother's crimes.
If the crown prince sits by and watches the King of Han be deposed and his entire family imprisoned, it will disappoint all his brothers and sisters, and even the Ming royal family.
What's the point of abolishing the title of King Han? King Han has completely lost the emperor's favor, and Ji Gang and other King Han's followers have also been eliminated. A toothless tiger is like a cat, and can no longer affect the status of the Eastern Palace.
At this time, coming forward to intercede for the King of Han is a great opportunity to gain the trust of the emperor, the respect of the ministers and the people, and establish a reputation for benevolence.
Therefore, whether out of interests or blood ties, the prince must do his best to plead for the King of Han.
The prince's act of kneeling down to beg for mercy did not show cowardice, but rather benevolence and righteousness, which was in line with the mainstream moral concepts of the time.
The first time the prince pleaded for his brother, Emperor Yongle did not agree and was determined to depose the King of Han.
Having been with his father for many years, the prince knew his father's imperial mentality too well:
He knew that Emperor Yongle would not agree - at least not at the first time, because if he agreed, it would appear that the emperor was too easily swayed, and people would think that he was biased towards his son, beating him up and letting him go after he committed such a crime.
A tall building is built from the ground. Only after the first time will there be a second and third time.
The co-starring prince ignored Emperor Yongle's refusal and began his impromptu performance.
He knelt in the Fengxian Temple and begged his ancestors to forgive the crimes of the King of Han (actually, he announced the crimes of the King of Han in front of his ancestors).
Emperor Yongle refused again and still wanted to depose the King of Han.
The third time, the King of Han knelt before the tablet of his mother, Empress Renxiao.
Empress Renxiao was the white moonlight in Emperor Yongle's heart.
She is like quantum mechanics in later science fiction novels or movies and TV shows. Whenever the author or screenwriter gets stuck and doesn't know how to justify themselves, they use quantum mechanics to solve the problem.
The prince was a fat man with a leg disease. His fragile knees had to bear a weight of 300 kilograms. Every moment he kneeled was like torture.
There is no other way except to endure. In the royal family, everyone is a dedicated and experienced actor with superb acting skills.
When he knelt until he fainted, even the prince was not sure whether he was acting or really pleading for his brother.
The last thing the prince saw before he lost consciousness was the portrait of Queen Inhyo.
Queen Inhyo has always supported her eldest son.
The prince thought to himself, Mother, when we are reunited in the afterlife, I will have the face to see you.
The prince fell ill, and the imperial physician diagnosed a problem with his knee. The prince already had type 2 diabetes, lesions in both feet, and problems with his joints. The imperial physicians warned the prince that if he kneeled again, he might have to start with knee amputation.
Emperor Yongle learned about the prince's illness from the imperial physician. The prince's sincerity in pleading was enough to "touch" Emperor Yongle, and even more so the royal family and ministers, who all praised the prince for his kindness.
Empress Renxiao could indeed cure all diseases. For the sake of the Empress's face, Emperor Yongle spared Prince of Han, reduced the number of guards in the prince's palace, and changed the fiefdom from Qingzhou to Le'an Prefecture in Shandong.
The issue of the King of Han was resolved through the Prince's political show of pleading.
However, Ji Gang, who was in cahoots with the King of Han, would not escape punishment so easily.
Those who died in Jinyiwei prison in recent years, whether they deserved it or were wrongly punished, were all blamed on the commander Ji Gang. Especially the death of Xie Jin, the most talented scholar in Ming Dynasty and the president of Yongle Encyclopedia, was frozen to death in the snow.
The court officials impeached Ji Gang for falsely conveying the imperial edict, which led to Xie Jin's tragic death. Ji Gang had been blown away by the cannon fired by the prince of Han, and the remaining bones had been burned, leaving only a jar of ashes. However, Ji Gang had committed many evil deeds, and if his bones were not crushed and scattered, how could the public anger be appeased
In addition to demanding that Ji Gang's bones be crushed to ashes, the ministers also demanded that Ji Gang's followers be dealt with. Among them, the court lady Hu Shanwei was included in the list of Ji Gang's followers and was impeached.
As a court lady, Hu Shanwei actually lived in her own mansion. Every day when she went in and out of the palace, no matter the weather, she was strictly escorted by the Jinyiwei sent by Ji Gang. Ji Gang even personally escorted Hu Shanwei several times.
Some officials were so angry that they stopped Hu Shanggong's carriage on the way and accused her of "not observing the virtues of a woman" and "not following the palace rules". They asked her to live in the palace and stop parading around the city. These officials who spoke out for justice were arrested by Ji Gang and imprisoned. Ji Gang fabricated charges against them, causing their families to be destroyed and they dared not speak out from then on.
Now that Ji Gang's conspiracy has been made known to the world, all his followers have lost their jobs or been sent to jail. How can Hu Shanwei be the only one to escape unscathed
Old rumors began to spread again inside and outside the palace, saying that Hu Shanwei and Ji Gang had an affair, saying that the two had been having an affair for a long time and that Hu's house was their love nest.
The officials who had accused her in the past jumped out again and added insult to injury, submitting a memorial to impeach Hu Shanwei. They even compared her to Lu Lingxuan, a court lady in the Northern Qi Dynasty, who colluded with powerful officials, controlled the palace, misled the king, and brought disaster to the country and the people.
In this way, Hu Shanwei became a disaster.
Soon, memorials impeaching Hu Shanwei piled up on the imperial desk. In addition, some ladies with imperial titles wrote to Concubine Zhang, also requesting that Hu Shanwei be expelled from the palace.
Neither Emperor Yongle nor Concubine Zhang responded to this.
Everyone became more and more angry, thinking that the king and the imperial concubine who was in charge of the harem had indeed been deceived by the evil woman Hu Shanwei. If their attempt failed the first time, they would write a letter again, demanding that Hu Shanwei be brought down before they would give up.
Imperial study.
Emperor Yongle handed Hu Shanwei an old book and said, "This is from the secret room in the basement of Ji Gang's house. Inside is the tablet and portrait of the previous Jinyiwei Mao Xiang."
Hu Shanwei opened it and saw that it was a directory with yellowed pages and a little damp, which showed that it was quite old. Inside, there were names of people circled in red ink.
They were all officials, royal aristocrats, etc. who impeached Mao Xiang back then. Former Duke of Cao Li Jinglong, former son-in-law Hu Guan, and Grand Secretary Xie Jin were among them.
Hu Shanwei flipped through the pages one by one. She was familiar with the government and found that the names on the list had one thing in common: they were all dead.
When Hu Shanwei turned to the last page, he saw the last line of words, "The Imperial Family of Zhu Ming".
This is the only line of words that has not been circled in red ink.
Before, Hu Shanwei didn’t understand why Ji Gang wanted to conspire with the King of Han to rebel and kill the Crown Prince. Now that she saw the evidence, she suddenly understood: Ji Gang wanted to avenge Mao Xiang.
Hu Shanwei's hands were shaking, and the light book in her hands seemed to weigh a thousand pounds. She used all her strength to close the account book.
Hu Shanwei untied the jade token from his waist, took off the black hat from his head, and placed it on the account book, saying, "Although I did not participate in the rebellion, I have been friends with Ji Gang for many years and have frequent contacts, but I never noticed anything unusual about him. As a court lady, I have failed to supervise him. I now resign from my position as Shang Gong and wait for the Palace Administration Department to convict and sentence me."
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The night the comet came
Interstellar
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