A century-old family that runs through the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 125: Cutting Down the Iron Curtain
"rebellion?"

Zhu Gaoxu's eyes turned in circles.

Despite his cunningness, he didn't understand what was going on for a while.

He grabbed his men, his face became ferocious, and he asked viciously:
"What's going on? Tell me clearly!" As he spoke, the sword was pressed against his neck.

The soldier was so frightened that he almost pissed himself. He immediately stuttered and led Zhu Zhanji to mobilize all the troops from the North Zhili, including the emperor's own army and the three elite battalions of the elite, a total of 20 troops, and marched towards Shandong Le. The news of Anzhou's killing was told to him.

The reason was that the King of Han sent people to secretly communicate with Chen Guogong, and his intention to rebel was exposed.

After Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he felt like the world was spinning.

This is a serious crime of rebellion!As an old man who came from that time with Zhu Di, he certainly knew how difficult it was to face a court in its heyday.

At that time, he commanded an army of more than [-] people from Beizhi, and the eight kings jointly launched a campaign, but they all wasted a lot of effort and endured huge pressure.If the Southern Army's Feng Sheng and Fu Youde had no fighting spirit, and Li Jinglong was obviously no match for Zhu Di, they would never have been able to defeat the greater number with less until they came to the capital.

What now?He only has three guards and a few thousand people. For a small city like Le'an to fight against Zhu Zhanji's 20 people, it's like fighting a big BOSS just after leaving Novice Village...

It's a dead end!

As for why he "rebelled" inexplicably, with his intelligence, he naturally figured out the reason in a moment.

Zhu Gaoxu could only grit his teeth and say:
"Nephew, you are so cruel!"

Now that we have been pushed into a corner, even if we don’t want to rebel, we have no choice but to rebel!
In October of the first year of Xuande, Zhu Gaoxu formally raised troops in Le'an Prefecture, took control of the entire city, and placed officials under house arrest.

The rumor just turned into reality.

……

Since he has already rebelled, why not just make trouble with him?
Zhu Gaoxu originally had such an idea, but after looking at the map, in an instant, Zhu Gaoxu, the King of Han, turned into Zhu Gaoxu, the salted fish.

beat?Then what to fight?

Relying on his own thousands of guards, go to Qingzhou, where the city is high and the pond is deep, or Jinan?
Stop making trouble, there are more defenders in these two places than there are ourselves.

Therefore, for half a month after the army marched from Beizhili to the outside of Le'an City, Zhu Gaoxu's rebel army did not make any movement. They watched helplessly as the imperial court's counter-rebellion army arrived at the city. A dark group surrounded them. Lived in the city.

There is no need to separate the main attack direction and the secondary attack direction. For such a small city, the Ming army can attack from all four sides, and the number of people attacking the city on each side is several times that of Zhu Gaoxu's men.

He sighed helplessly, what a joke!
Thousands versus 20, even if Sun Wu is reincarnated, I don't know if he has any chance of winning, but he can't do it anyway.

Zhu Gaoxu ordered to prepare for surrender and said his final farewell to his relatives.

After all, for the heinous crime of rebellion, one would probably not be able to survive.

However, there are also those who are ignorant of current affairs. For example, his subordinate Wang Bin told him that since he had raised troops, he would rather die in battle than surrender.

I can go to yours!

No, brother, you are my subordinate, don’t you know whether I want to rebel or not?

So he pretended to be persuaded and returned to his headquarters.

Then he opened the side door and slipped out of the city.

"I will die for all my sins, as your Majesty orders!"

The lives of labor and capital are at stake here, it's up to you.

The ridiculous Zhu Gaoxu rebellion ended here. It only took two days from the time Zhu Zhanji's army arrived at Le'an City to Zhu Gaoxu's surrender and the rebellion was put down.

And Zhu Zhanji also showed a magnanimity beyond everyone's expectation.

He actually pardoned Zhu Gaoxu's crimes!

After sending a young censor named Yu Qian to scold Zhu Gaoxu, he let the Han prince go.

Seeing him trembling on the ground, Zhu Zhanji knew that his uncle finally chose to surrender in the face of life and death.He was not trembling because of Yu Shi's scolding, he was afraid of his impending death. What he was afraid of was the imperial power that could easily kill him.

Zhu Zhanji smiled with satisfaction. He knew that his uncle had lost his courage and that he would never be able to stir up trouble again.So he spared his life.

You can also spread the reputation of generosity, so why not?

However, this censor's eloquence and knowledge are quite good.

Zhu Zhanji thought so.

Perhaps it can be entrusted with important tasks.

However, the most important thing now is to use the aftermath of the Han Dynasty's rebellion to quickly cut down the vassal vassal.

King Zhao received a letter from Emperor Xuande himself.

There are many impeachment memorials from the imperial censor attached to it, and there is even "evidence that King Zhao and the King of Han colluded to rebel." Chen Shan, the Minister of Household Affairs, even suggested that the emperor go to Zhangde (the confederation of King Zhao) to capture King Zhao when he returned to the army. .

Zhu Gaosui was shaking like chaff in his mansion.

Fortunately, there are also words like "My nephew has his true intention, but there is no doubt about his desire to share wealth and wealth forever, and it is not without him." This gives Zhu Gaosui hope.

He is a smart man and knows what his nephew means.

In the first month of the second year of Xuande, King Zhao wrote a letter saying:
"I thank Your Majesty for your magnanimity and pardon me for the sin of death. This kindness will be restored."

"Your Majesty can tolerate my crimes, but I still retain a large number of troops. I am really afraid that people will continue to speak out."

"I would like to return all the guards and herdsmen in Changshan, as well as the official schools of the Yiwei Department to the imperial court, to thank Your Majesty for your preservation!"

Zhu Zhanji smiled with satisfaction. He finally achieved his goal. All thousands of King Zhao's guards were killed.

The next one is Jin Wang Zhu Jiyi.

For the same reason, he colluded with the King of Han to rebel, but the difference was that he was not Zhu Zhanji's third uncle.

In April of the second year of Xuande, the Jin vassal was deposed again only 20 years after its restoration, Fengyang was placed under house arrest, and the three Taiyuan guards returned to the court.

Then came Zhu Zhiwen, King of Qin. Since Xi'an was set up as Xijing, his fiefdom was changed to Hanzhong Prefecture. He was also accused of participating in the rebellion of Zhu Shangqi, the king of Anding in the Qin Prefecture in the 18th year of Yongle. There were people around him who had participated in the events of that year.

It's a bit nonsense, because it was already the fourth year of Xuande, and a full ten years had passed since King Anding rebelled. However, one of the guards of King Qin named Zhang Song immediately reported to King Qin that he wanted to rebel.

There are no fools among the princes of the Ming Dynasty.

King Jin is still in Fengyang.

The King of Qin, who had a strong desire for survival, immediately wrote a letter asking for the removal of three guards in Hanzhong. Xuande was polite and accepted two guards, leaving him with one guard of less than a thousand men symbolically.

Then Chen Yi, the son of Pingjiang Bo Chen Xuan, wrote a letter saying that the King of Chu's palace was rich and his troops and horses were strong, so he might have different intentions.

The King of Chu immediately wrote a letter asking him to cut down the two guards in Wuchang.

In the sixth year, the King of Shu asked Chengdu to kill two guards.

Several kings who followed Zhu Di to raise armies also turned against him for no apparent reason and were impeached by the censors.

They are all smart people and know the general trend. In addition, until now, except for the King of Jin, the rest of the more conscious people have all been heavily rewarded by the court. There is no shortage of wealth and honor, and the desire to resist has faded.

They also wrote a letter and resigned from their guards.

until that day comes.

"King Su, please resign two of his bodyguards, leaving only one bodyguard at your service!"

Xuande, who was sitting on the dragon chair, showed a comfortable smile.

Since then, starting from Emperor Jianwen, one emperor committed suicide and several kings were placed under house arrest. This decades-long process of reducing vassal status finally came to an end.

　Thanks to "reader 1504435735196188672" for the tip, thank you!Adding an update for the boss~ There will be another chapter later.

　　
　
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