high official

Chapter 708

The reason why Zhu Yunwen was able to overtake his uncles and become the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty was all because of his father, Zhu Biao, the first prince of the Ming Dynasty.

In the 15th year from Yuan to Zhengzheng, Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest son Zhu Biao was born among the troops who captured Taiping Mansion.The birth of the eldest son brought great joy to Zhu Yuanzhang who was in the midst of fierce battle.After getting the reward, he excitedly carved a stone on a local mountain and said: "Those who come to this mountain will have no heirs."

Zhu Yuanzhang loved his eldest son very much and had great hopes for him.When he was a little longer, let him worship Song Lian and other famous Confucians as teachers, receive the best education, and prepare for inheriting his career in the future.In the 27th year of Zhengzheng, when Zhu Yuanzhang called Wu Wang, he made him the son of the world.In the first year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor, and Zhu Biao was established as the prince of Ming Dynasty, thus starting his 25-year career as a crown prince.

Although Zhu Biao was born in Anle, he did not have the habit of being a dandy. He is intelligent by nature, honest and honest, he can understand, and he also devotes himself to being taught. He must be called Master to Song Lian and others.When he grew up, he was gentle and refined, benevolent and diligent, quite Confucian style.Zhu Yuanzhang was also very satisfied with this son. In the tenth year of Hongwu, when Zhu Biao was 22 years old, he ordered all future government affairs to be punished by the prince, and then he heard about it.Let him "come to the officials every day, listen to the reasons of the various divisions, and practice state affairs".

In order for Zhu Biao to get better exercise, Zhu Yuanzhang also ordered him to inspect places to observe the customs and the sufferings of the people, so as to prevent him from being deceived by officials in the future. After Beijing, he fell ill and passed away the next year...

Zhu Yuanzhang, who lost his son in old age, was deeply saddened and heartbroken. He buried his beloved son on the east side of his Xiaoling Mausoleum in the manner of the crown prince, so that he could rely on each other for a hundred years and continue the father-son relationship with his beloved son...

Because of love for the house and Wu, after Zhu Biao died, Zhu Yuanzhang did not appoint his other sons as princes, but Zhu Yunwen, the eldest son of Zhu Biao, as the emperor's grandson, who is Emperor Jianwen... After Jianwen ascended to the extreme, he respected his father, Emperor Xiaokang, and the temple name was Xing Zong.Yiwen Prince Mausoleum was also upgraded to Dongling.

After Zhu Di seized the throne, in order to declare his orthodox throne, he erased all traces of the Jianwen Dynasty.Not only the emperor title of Jianwen was abolished, but also the emperor title and temple title of his elder brother Zhu Biao, who had passed away long ago, were also abolished. The bright yellow glazed tiles on the building have also been replaced with green ones...

Now more than ten years have passed, the above ground part of the Mausoleum of Prince Yiwen, located on the east side of Xiaoling Mausoleum, has been demolished to the point where only the mausoleum gate, courtyard wall, hall of enjoyment, and a few isolated buildings remain, and they have obviously been burned. , The degree of shabby and dilapidated forms a sharp contrast with the magnificent Xiaoling Mausoleum on the west side where the emperor Taizu is buried.

There are 20 mausoleum guards in the Daming Imperial Mausoleum. They guard the Emperor Taizu and his imperial concubine who are buried here day and night, and of course Prince Yiwen Zhu Biao.While guarding the rest of the dead, they also shoulder the task of monitoring the living. The second concubine of Prince Yiwen, the Empress Dowager Lu of the Jianwen Dynasty, lived in the Mausoleum of Yiwen.Originally, the Empress Dowager Lu came together, besides her youngest son Zhu Yunxi, there were more than a dozen court ladies and eunuchs.Zhu Di didn't make it too difficult for them, at least the daily food and clothing were provided on time.Moreover, the building of Yiwen Mausoleum is in good condition, and the life of the dozen or so NO.[-] people is still very leisurely...

However, a strange fire in the third year of Yongle almost burned Yiwen Mausoleum to nothingness. Except for the main hall of Xiangdian, which was still largely intact, all other buildings were burned down.What is even more tragic is that Zhu Yunxi and nine eunuchs and court ladies were burned alive in this fire...

After the fire, the youngest son died, and the Empress Dowager Lu lost all hope, lost all interest in life, and completely collapsed.Moreover, she seemed to be completely forgotten, and the imperial court's supply became less and less, and in the end it even reached the point where she could not survive the cold.Those court ladies and eunuchs who served her said in private that the fire was definitely not an accident, but the current emperor sent people to set it on purpose, trying to burn the Queen Mother Lu's mother and son to death.They felt that staying with Empress Dowager Lu would be a dead end, so they stole Empress Dowager Lu's jewelry and fled away one after another. After a few years, there was only a gray-haired old eunuch left beside her. , no one else.

Thanks to the careful care of the old eunuch, the Empress Dowager Lu's body gradually recovered.It's just that the physical illness can be recovered, but the psychological trauma is difficult to heal. She misses her son and grandson day and night, and sheds tears in front of her husband's spirit every day.

At noon that day, the old lady was lying on a broken bed in the Xiangdian covered with spider webs, covered with a broken quilt, coughing non-stop.In September, the weather turned cooler, and at night the autumn wind blew in through the dilapidated Xiangdian, making her shiver from the cold.Empress Dowager Lu was originally weak, but fell ill a few days ago.The old eunuch had no choice but to go up the mountain to collect herbs to treat her illness, and now she was left alone in the empty ruined palace.

The old lady's sanity was a little blurry. She saw her husband approaching for a while, then saw the eldest son Yun Wen and the other three sons coming together, and the next moment, she saw the poor grandson who had been imprisoned in Zhongdu since he was two years old. Son Zhu Wengui... Empress Dowager Lu cried for a while and laughed for a while, vaguely calling the names of these relatives.Suddenly I heard a cuckoo crying blood: "Mother!"

The old lady thought it was an illusion at first, and didn't have much reaction, she just murmured: "Yun Wen, you are finally here, take mother away, I want to reunite with your father and your brother, don't leave me alone Mother is left here alone..." As she spoke, she began to cry, "Mother's heart is so bitter..."

Crying and crying, she suddenly felt her hands being held by a pair of warm hands. The old lady murmured: "You are not a ghost, how can a ghost's hands be hot?" She sat up suddenly , Feeling up with those hands, I actually touched the face of a man kneeling in front of the bed.The man was already crying, and he pressed the back of the old lady's chicken claw-like hands with both hands, crying: "Mother, the child is Yunwen, I'm not dead, I'm here to see you!"

"Ah..." Empress Dowager Lu touched his face carefully, with one face momentarily happy and momentarily angry: "It's Yunwen, it's my son... No, you're not, how can there be so many smiles on my Yunwen's face?" wrinkle……"

"My mother, 14 years have passed, my sons and officials are old, and my mother...is also old..." Speaking of this, Emperor Jianwen, dressed in a military jacket and a felt hat and dressed as a guard of the imperial mausoleum, finally couldn't help it. Hugging Empress Dowager Lu's legs and crying loudly.

After Empress Dowager Lu got excited, she gradually calmed down. While touching his face and head repeatedly, she said in a cold tone: "Who the hell are you, and why are you pretending to be my son Yunwen?"

Zhu Yunwen was shocked when he heard the words, and immediately realized that his mother was frightened by Zhu Di, thinking that the emperor was trying to deceive her, and his heart, which was already twisted like a knife, was broken into pieces, and he choked up: "Mother, I am not pretending to be Yes, if you don’t believe me, you can touch it..." He took the Empress Dowager Lu’s hand and guided her to touch her armpits. There was a mole there, only the Empress Dowager Lu knew about it, not even his empress back then of.

"It's really my son..." Empress Dowager Lu touched the mole, and finally convinced herself, she hugged Zhu Yunwen and burst into tears.

The sound of mother and child embracing and crying loudly could be heard clearly outside the hall.Chang Sen, who was also dressed as an imperial mausoleum guard, couldn't help but burst into tears when he saw this scene and heard the heart-piercing cries.However, he was still vigilant, and hurriedly persuaded: "Your Majesty, my mother's condolences, be careful to let the guards of the imperial mausoleum hear."

The guards of the Ming Imperial Mausoleum are divided into two parts. The Imperial Mausoleum Guards are responsible for guarding the periphery, and the Jinyi Guards are responsible for internal monitoring. However, in order to deceive people, they also wear imperial mausoleum guards.

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The mother and son stopped crying under Chang Sen's persuasion, and the Empress Dowager Lu became alert: "My son, why are you here? Could it be that the emperor caught you?"

Knowing that the emperor in his mother's mouth was not himself, but Zhu Di who caused her family to be ruined, Jianwen said with a knife in his heart: "No, the child came here secretly by himself."

"Who was talking just now?" The old lady asked anxiously, already panicked.

"Empress Dowager, my minister Chang Sen." Chang Sen hurriedly stepped forward to pay respects.

"It turned out to be Uncle Guo." Empress Dowager Lu said with tears, "Our family has dragged your family down."

"You don't have to feel guilty about being a minister, but you know how to be loyal and filial." Chang Sen said with tears, "My Chang family has received the emperor's kindness, and I can't repay it.

"The Chang family is really a loyal minister of the emperor Taizu..." The old lady sighed, and suddenly her face changed drastically: "You go, the emperor sent someone to set up a trap, and I will be caught!" She pushed Jianwen vigorously. : "Go, go!"

"Mother, don't drive me away..." Emperor Jianwen cried: "My son lost the land that my grandfather passed on to me, and thousands of ministers died. There is no redemption for a hundred deaths. To meet my mother today is already It’s God’s mercy. Even if I die, I’ll be buried in front of my parents. That’s my dream, and I deserve to die..."

After hearing him talk about his parents, Empress Dowager Lu remembered and dragged him to Prince Yiwen's seat. "Oh, by the way, quickly kowtow to your father..."

...Although she couldn't see it with her eyes, the Empress Dowager Lu knew every brick and tile of the Xiangdian, and she accurately led her son to the altar.

Zhu Yunqi's face was on fire, and he didn't dare to look up at his father's altar.In fact, ever since he was secretly brought to Zijin Mountain, he has been immersed in an indescribable sense of guilt.He was really ashamed to face his grandfather who had high hopes for him, let alone his father.

As an emperor, is there anything more shameless to face his ancestors than to lose his country, causing his mother, stepfather, brothers and children to become prisoners?

Being dragged by the queen mother to the altar, Zhu Yunxuan let out a plop and couldn't get up on his knees...

(End of this chapter)