my days with tyrants

Chapter 312 The end of an era
"Did Daddy make a rule that girls can't succeed to the throne?"

The little princess asked her brother.

"No, but the throne has been inherited by men since ancient times."

said her brother.

Then Liao Wang still looked at Yang Feng.

Yang Feng sat there with an innocent face, looking at the brothers and sisters, still holding the wine glasses, as if the matter had nothing to do with him, but it had nothing to do with him, he really had no interest in the throne of the old Zhu family .Of course, the little princess's desire to become an empress cannot be said to have nothing to do with him. After all, she has such an idea, and it is entirely under the long-term bewitchment of him and Sister Liu...

But mainly Sister Liu.

The most he can do is introduce the queens of various countries.

Sister Liu is the culprit.

"It's been since ancient times, and now it's the Ming Dynasty, and the rules of the Ming Dynasty are the rules. In the past, the Han and Tang Dynasties were governed, but the rules could not govern the Ming Dynasty.

We Daming must have our own rules.

The Ming Dynasty was ruled by father, and only the rules established by father are the ancestral system, but according to father's rules, there is no girl who cannot succeed to the throne. Yunxi is the emperor, and the throne can only be his blood. If he does not have it, choose another Tie.

If you have it, you have his blood.

The imperial daughter is also his blood, so the imperial daughter is naturally qualified to succeed to the throne. "

said the little princess.

"Bullshit!"

said her brother dissatisfied.

This is completely sophistry, his father did not set the rule that only boys can succeed, but the problem is that this does not need to be a separate rule, this is regarded as a matter of course, since ancient times, how can girls succeed?Even Wu Zetian, she is not a girl succeeding to the throne, she is the queen as the emperor, and her heir is still her son, she did not let Princess Taiping succeed to the throne!
It doesn't need to be put on paper, it needs no more explanation than the sun rises and sets.

"Why is it just nonsense, just because boys have been the successors since ancient times? As I said, it has been the rule of other dynasties since ancient times. I am very clear that only the plan made by my father is the rule, and my father did not make a rule that girls cannot succeed. , so the rule of Ming Dynasty is that girls can succeed to the throne. I know that men are superior to women, but this is a folk rule, and there is no law of Ming Dynasty that men are superior to women. What's more, there are many women who will be the lord of a country in later generations, why can't I Ming, what I want is one, as long as Yunxi has children, the throne can only belong to his children."

said the little princess.

From the reality of the situation, the Queen is indeed the best choice...

Especially a baby as queen.

The result of this must be that the Queen Mother is in charge, that is, the Queen is in charge, but the Queen is a small family, and she is not keen on power.

The point is that even if you are keen, you don't have that strength.

That's why the little princess has the final say. After all, she has the final say in the capital city, and the queen herself is also controversial, so the capital city controlled by the princess is the protective cover for their mother and daughter. Being abolished, the little princess is now Huo Guang, and she can do whatever she wants.

This is a good thing.

This also means that Yang Feng can do whatever he wants.

Moreover, he could continue to play the role of non-interference in Ming Dynasty's internal affairs.

All he had to do was interfere with the princess.

In terms of benefits, it can be said to be the most perfect choice.

After all, no matter what happens in the future, at least in the nearly 20 years she grew up, he basically has the final say in this country,
The only problem is...

"Don't look at me, I can swear to God, I definitely didn't teach it, but I also have to explain that as long as she wants to do this, then I will definitely support it. Others can object, reason, and persuade her to change her mind, but you can't use it. Force, anyone who tries to use force to solve it, don't blame me for getting mad. In fact, I don't think you need to worry about it. You are going to go out anyway. If this is the case, will the emperor's male or female influence you? It doesn't have any influence, even if it is the empress, you are still the king of Liao, the Nanyang Jinglue, and her uncle."

Yang Feng said.

"Ambassador, don't forget, our covenant still has the power of supervision by the vassal king."

King Liao said.

"This power is matched with strength. With your current strength, are you qualified to supervise the emperor?"

Yang Feng said with a smile.

The king of Liao was speechless.

"But what will happen a hundred years from now when the empress succeeds to the throne?"

He then said angrily.

"A hundred years from now, let's talk about a hundred years from now. At worst, the surname of the child will still be Zhu. If you are still unwilling, then let her daughter not be surnamed Zhu in the future, but if she marries the clan, the child she will give birth to will still be the Zhu family, and she will still be eligible to inherit. Throne."

said the little princess.

King Liao immediately shut up.

In this case, it is obvious that his descendants have the best chance. The current one is the empress, and it is inappropriate for the empress to give birth to a boy even if the surname is Zhu. At least such a child is definitely not suitable to inherit the throne according to the current folk thinking.But if it is a girl, she can marry the clan, such as his descendants, then the child born in this way belongs to the Zhu family, and is also eligible to succeed to the throne.

It is equivalent to using this girl as a transition, after all, she is Zhu Yunxi's only child.

It's not an exaggeration for her to succeed.

But her son cannot succeed to the throne, but her daughter, the child born after marrying into the clan, will succeed to the throne.

This child belongs to the Zhu family.

In the end, it was still the Zhu family.

After all, if she recognizes the paternal line now, of course this girl cannot marry the Zhu family when she grows up, but her daughter can!
"Then it's settled?"

Yang Feng looked at King Liao.

"It doesn't matter what we say, we have to agree to it from other kings, not to mention that when the queen succeeds, Zhu Yunqi will not sit idly by in the south."

King Liao said.

"Let's talk it out!
As for Zhu Yunqi, what qualifications does he have as a traitor? "

Yang Feng said frankly.

"Then make this public tomorrow?"

said the little princess.

"Don't worry, finish your father's funeral first, and make it public after the funeral is over. You don't need to show up for the empress to raise the baby. The funeral will be presided over by King Yan. He is Zongzheng and the longest one. After the funeral, the princess will be announced. The imperial daughter succeeds to the throne as the empress, and then the empress will bury her father, who dares to object to the two of us coming to persuade us again."

Yang Feng said.

Of course, the method of persuasion is not necessarily the same.

Anyway, no matter who it is, they can only reason with the little princess, but there is no reason to talk about this matter. Regardless of what happened since ancient times, Da Ming has to follow Da Ming's rules, and Da Ming's rules are set by Lao Zhu, but he It is indeed not written that only boys can inherit the throne.Therefore, according to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, even girls are fine. If there is no inaccuracy in writing, it is fine. As for Confucianism, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty has long said that Confucianism is only a theory, not a principle of governing the country, so it cannot be used. To serve as the basis for succession to the throne...

In the final analysis, this is really unreasonable. It is determined by strength. If strength is enough, sister Mei Niang will be the emperor, and the ministers can only persuade her to enter.

Now it is obvious that the little princess is the strongest.

Not to mention the military households in the capital, even the other armies have basically surrendered now.

The local officials have also turned their backs, only Zhu Yunqi is left in Guangdong and Annan, and although Zhu Di is not weak, he is in the capital, so he has no right to object.

In this way, the fact that the queen had given birth to a daughter was suppressed for the time being. The palace only said that the queen was not allowed to see anyone after she gave birth, and then she lay down to clean the palace, and Zhang Ying was watching there. As for the queen mother, she was still locked up at this time and chanted , both of her sons were placed under house arrest in the palace, and Zhu Di took over his father's funeral with full authority as Zongzheng, and Lao Zhu's funeral was next.Zhu Di even sent a private message to Zhu Yunqi, asking him to return to the capital to attend the funeral, and promised that he would not kill him. At most, he will be imprisoned in Fengyang in the future, but Zhu Yunqi simply refused. He will definitely not kill him before the funeral of his grandfather, and wait for the funeral to be completed. , isn't it a glass of poisoned wine?

He is not that stupid!
During this period of time, he had won the allegiance of Wang Bi, who confidently stated that he had hundreds of thousands of troops. Although it was not realistic to escort Jian Guo to Beijing, it was enough to cut off Lingnan and occupy it.

In this case, he believed it.

Xiaoling.

Enjoy the palace.

Ambassador Yang kowtowed.

It is said that Lao Zhu is dead, and finally he can enjoy the gift of five prostrations and three prostrations.

Ambassador Yang has a special status. After all, he is the only envoy of allies of the Ming Dynasty who have equal relations with each other. The others are all vassal tribute envoys. He enjoys the treatment of a vassal king. Because he represents a country of the same level, he worships alone. .After honestly carrying out the ceremony, he quietly exited, and then still stood alone in his place, looking at the huge mausoleum in front of him, and on the hillside below Xiaoling Mausoleum, there are a bunch of newly built tombs, these are Lan Yu and others , guarding Xiaoling like a bodyguard.

No matter what mood they felt in the end, they pulled the trigger on their own heads, and now they have been here to guard Lao Zhu for generations.

As for the woman buried with her...

Of course this is gone.

But this was not done by the little princess. When Zhu Yunxi was alive, he had decreed to abolish the sacrificial burial system.

At any rate, he has been influenced by modern thinking for seven years, and he will not continue this barbaric system, because he has been ridiculed countless times by Yang Feng and Sister Liu for this matter, and shortly after he ascended the throne, he announced the permanent abolition of sacrificial burial.

In fact, he was planning to abolish slavery.

But he was persuaded by Yang Feng, after all, Ambassador Yang has a bunch of servants under his command.

This system should still be maintained.

At most, limit it, you can't use the Daming household as a slave.

And this is not allowed in the first place. Zhu Yuanzhang's system treats good as a slave, which is a felony.

Therefore, the accusations of the kings against Zhu Yunxi also included not burying a woman for Lao Zhu.

But no one cares about that anymore.

"Three emperors and five emperors of morality, fame and fame after Xia, Shang and Zhou, seven heroes and five tyrants fighting in spring and autumn, rise and fall in an instant. A few lines of names in Qingshi, countless barren hills in Beimang, lands of predecessors and descendants, it is said that dragons fight tigers."

Ambassador Yang sighed deeply.

With this funeral, an era has finally come to an end.

Together with his heroes in troubled times, Lao Zhu eventually turned into graves.

"The ambassador is very talented."

Zhang Xianzong said behind him.

"Uh, this was written by a talented scholar of your Ming Dynasty more than 100 years later. It is the one that wrote the song I like to sing, Rolling Yangtze River East Passing Water."

Yang Feng said.

"The ambassador is straightforward."

A person of about the same age beside Zhang Xianzong said.

"Who is this?"

Yang Feng said.

"Your humble scholar Xie Jin from the Hanlin Academy."

said the man.

"Ah, I've heard that a talented person has a big mouth and doesn't know how to restrain himself. In the end, Jin Yiwei buried him in the snow and froze to death."

Yang Feng said.

Xie Jin was silent for a moment.

"If you are a minister, if you are in power with outspokenness and anger, and you are brutally murdered by Jin Yiwei, you will be regarded as a well-deserved death."

After about a minute, he spoke slowly.

"As a human being, the most important thing is to be happy, as long as you like it!"

Yang Feng said.

Xie Jin was silent again.

It was obvious that Yang Feng didn't follow the routine and interrupted his train of thought. In fact, he had passed the Jinshi examination and became a Shujishi more than ten years ago, but he was sent home by Lao Zhu.It is said that Lao Zhu cherished his talent, but felt that his big mouth problem really needed to be corrected, so he went home and changed his painting style first.

After Zhu Yunxi succeeded to the throne, he was immediately recalled to the capital.

Although he is from Jiangxi, he was not involved in the subsequent series of events because he had left the court for many years.

In fact, there are a lot of newcomers in the imperial court.

Yang Feng didn't care about the affairs of the imperial court. There was nothing wrong with the officialdom system of Ming Dynasty. In fact, it was the most advanced system in the world. The emperor and the cabinet bachelors as secretaries formed the center, controlling the six ministries and temples. Arm, holding a rope that is tied to the local officials, and the latter manages various places.This kind of system has not been established so far in the whole world. At most, North Korea is a copycat product, but in fact North Korea is still full of powerful people.

Wa country...

Wa country is still famous!
The king of the Japanese kingdom of the Ming Dynasty still lives in the capital. Lao Zhu gave him a piece of land on a small hill not far from Wutai Mountain, and then Ashikaga Yoshimitsu paid for the construction of a county-level palace there.

It is also a temple.

Because Lao Zhu's job for the king of the Japanese country is to pray for the world by chanting scriptures.

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu managed the Wa country as the Prime Minister of the country.

But everywhere the daimyo decides on their own. At most, they will meet with him every year. The main job is to discuss the share of property that will be tribute to Daming for the next year, and the share of labor that will be sent to Yinshan.The mining of Iwami Yinshan is in charge of the mining supervisor sent by Daming, but the required labor force is borne by the Japanese state in the form of corvee, that is, the famous subjects bring their own dry food in rotation, and go to Iwami Yinshan to open for a few months mine.

exhausted...

It is their honor to die for Daming, and they should be grateful for this opportunity, what more do they need?
Be grateful!
Therefore, in the past two years, the problem of poor people's resistance has become a bit serious in various parts of the country.

But Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and those daimyos also diligently suppressed these troublemakers to ensure that the Ming Emperor's silver mining would not be affected, and their loyalty must be well rewarded, not only rewarded by His Majesty the Emperor from time to time title, and also received rewards from time to time, and then they all lived a life of drunken dreams.

Anyway, with the Ming emperor in charge, they don't need to compete with each other for territory.

All the energy is to serve the Ming emperor and suppress the troublemakers below.

(End of this chapter)