Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

【Hu Weiyong's behavior was naturally unbearable to many people.

A respected person like Xu Da bluntly told his elder brother that Hu Weiyong was not worthy of the position of prime minister.

A fearless person like the censor Han Yike ran to Zhu with a memorial in his arms to file a complaint.

A righteous scholar like Wu Bozong insisted on sending Zhu a private message despite being repeatedly framed by Hu Weiyong, saying that this guy would rebel sooner or later.

However, Zhu was a bit blind to these opinions. For example, he neither agreed nor opposed Xu Da's blunt words, and just laughed.

Censor Han Yike was thrown into prison for this matter, but Zhu was pulled out before he could even sit there.

Wu Bozong was an exception. Not only did he not blame him, but he returned to the capital to serve.

In fact, Zhu was not stupid, of course. After all, the position of the emperor was naturally extremely sensitive to power.

When reading history, the teacher once left a comment in the blank space of the book, saying that since ancient times, no one has been better at military than Li Shimin, and the next one is Zhu Yuanzhang.

But Wen Mang said that since ancient times, no emperor has been as strong in control as Zhu Yuanzhang.

It is generally believed that Hu Weiyong's tyranny during this period was Zhu Yuanzhang's deliberate indulgence.

As an emperor who fought out of the chaos at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and came from the bottom of society, Zhu Yuanzhang may be the emperor with the strongest sense of crisis in history, who believes in striking first and getting stronger, and must root out the grass. From his life experience, it can be seen that during his tenure as emperor, Zhu Yuanzhang has been trying to seek the "eternal law" that does not exist at all.

Similarly, he, whose power was threatened by the power of the prime minister, was also looking for an opportunity, or a method, to root out the grass.

As for the prime minister's party-building and monopolization of power, from the historical books, the method adopted by Emperor Wu of Han was punishment.

Emperor Wu of Han reigned for 54 years, and 13 prime ministers were appointed. Among them, 7 were dismissed and stripped of their titles, 5 died and their families were exterminated, and 1 was entrusted with the care of the orphan.

The method adopted by Emperor Guangwu of Han was to empty the position of prime minister. He chose to reuse the Shangshutai to empty the position of prime minister, but over time, although the Shangshushi did not have the title of prime minister, he was actually the prime minister.

From Zhu Yuanzhang's perspective, both methods were only temporary solutions. Instead of making so much trouble, why not just let the emperor serve as prime minister? If you want to break away from the ancient system, you naturally need an opportunity, but fortunately, this opportunity will come soon.

For Hu Weiyong, while enjoying the sweetness of power, he also needs to find ways to defend these powers.

If you want to make the power of the prime minister as stable as Mount Tai, it is not enough to conquer Zhu Yuanzhang's stomach. He also needs to insure his life.

From the historical records, since Wang Guangyang was kicked out of the Secretariat in the sixth year of Hongwu, Hu Weiyong began to make every effort to curry favor with the founding nobles. In addition to letting his niece marry Li Shanchang's nephew to further arrange the relationship with his teacher, he also took a fancy to other founding nobles, and the one he liked the most was the general Xu Da.

Unfortunately, he took a fancy to Xu Da, but Xu Da looked down on him. In this case, he could only settle for the second best. In addition to the six dukes, there are 28 marquises. Pick one from them.

As mentioned before, the average quality of the nobles in the early Ming Dynasty can be seen from the fact that the iron list was followed to restrict the nobles two years after the iron certificate was issued. In this case, Hu Weiyong, who had treasures in his left hand and beauties in his right hand, naturally had no resistance. Soon Fei Zhong and Lu Zhongheng surrounded Hu Weiyong.

Thus, under the leadership of the executive vice emperor Hu Weiyong, a brand new network of interests was woven, but little did he know that Zhu had been waiting for a long time with the butcher knife in his hand.

It is not difficult to guess what Hu Weiyong meant by winning over the nobles. It is better to say that he was attracted to the nobles' red book and iron certificate. After all, this thing is the real resurrection coin. Even if we really committed a crime, we can just blame it on the nobles, and the nobles can blame it on the iron certificate. You can't deny your own red book, Zhu Yuanzhang?

This idea seems a bit naive now. After all, we have known a very simple truth since childhood:

The final right of interpretation belongs to the organizer. 】

Zhu Biao could hear that according to Guangmu's statement, people in later generations knew that the matter of Hu Weiyong was a deliberate plan set up by his father in order to abolish the position of prime minister.

But for those of them who were at the beginning of the 14th year of Hongwu... Zhu Biao looked around and easily saw the same idea in his brothers' eyes, but this idea was somewhat disrespectful and a bit difficult to really speak out.

But even so, Zhu Biao, like his other brothers, looked at the emperor with a new perspective:

Dad is so sinister... deliberate... has been planning for a long time... ah, ah, ah, ah, he is so strategic!

However, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was being watched, was unaware of it for the time being.

He knew about the comments about him after his death, but it was the first time he was compared with the ancient sage emperor.

So after carefully identifying the comments about himself from the annotations beside the book, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but sigh in his heart like Li Wenzhong before:

It would be great if Lingbei could win.

In this way, he might really be able to be compared with Emperor Taizong of Tang in the use of the army and be the first emperor.

If Lingbei wins, the remnant Yuan will be wiped out in one battle, and the warriors will not freeze to death in Mobei in vain. If the good horses are not damaged, the military strength of the Ming Dynasty may be able to sort out the affairs of Korea and Japan again, and perhaps there will be no need for future generations to worry about it. Perhaps the Ming Dynasty can continue for hundreds of years, or perhaps...

A pair of hands returned to his temples and rubbed them slowly twice. The palms were a little rough, but they could always calm him down quickly.

"Baba is actually asking for eternal life in everything? How hard it is! Why do you have to do this?"

There was undisguised tenderness in Empress Ma's voice, and this kind of unpretentious concern was also what he had always enjoyed. Well, it would be better if he didn't call her that...

His thoughts drifted a little far away, and Zhu Yuanzhang pulled them back a little, and then whispered:

"Take the best, get the middle, take the middle, get the bottom. If the Ming Dynasty wants to restore the glory of China for a thousand years, it should take the law of the world."

The queen persuaded him with the words in the light curtain, and he also responded in the same way, with a bit of unwillingness to admit defeat.

But being said by the future generations, he was actually a little confused in his heart. He said he wanted the law of the world, but now it was refuted by the younger generation in such a scattered batch. It seems that the "Record of Ancestors" only wanted to take the law of the world, but got a hundred years of prosperity.

Or maybe he didn't want to think about these anymore, Zhu Yuanzhang started a new topic:

"But what this young man said is right. Han Yike has never cherished his life, which is a blessing for the Ming Dynasty."

Empress Ma just smiled and didn't comment too much.

Last year, when Hu Weiyong was punished, the whole court was trembling with fear. Han Yike wrote a letter to the emperor, saying that the law was not humane and that he refused to accept it, which slapped the emperor in the face. However, Han Yike was soon pardoned by the emperor. Although Han Yike resigned and returned home, everyone in the court knew that since he was in the emperor's heart, it was only a matter of time before he was reinstated. Now it seems that the light curtain has made Han Yike even more busy.

After saying something salty and bland, Zhu Yuanzhang turned around and found that his sons were looking at him with strange eyes.

"Why are you looking at me like this?"

He didn't dare to say disrespectful words, but fortunately Zhu Di said quickly:

"My son and my brothers all admire Dad's ambition to seek eternal law! Dad has worked hard for the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Yuanzhang stroked his chin and smiled very reservedly when he heard the words, and then looked at the fourth son a little more.