A few days ago, Zhu Gaoxu was in the imperial gate, and after lunch today, he went to the East Warm Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace.

Entering the East Warm Pavilion, you have to pass through a famous inclined corridor.

It is located in the Qianqing Gate, which has belonged to the harem living area of the Great Tomorrow, and the civil and military personnel of the ordinary outer court are absolutely not allowed to enter; Anyone who has been to the sloping corridor must have been a close minister of the Son of Heaven in an important position, and such a person can not only meet the emperor, but also talk to the emperor in such informal occasions. Therefore, when the literati talk about the inclined corridor in front of their friends, it has its own halo.

Zhu Gaoxu also knew that the inclined corridor was very famous, but when he walked here, what he saw was just an ordinary corridor. Just like when he went to visit Leifeng Pagoda in his later life, he really saw it and felt that it was not enough.

The palace has been under construction for decades, and the reddish-brown wood on the ramped corridor is a bit old, and the masonry on the ground has been polished into an arc. Fortunately, the building materials are very good and very clean.

The ground is not stained, giving a good impression of neatness; The surrounding wooden pillars have obviously been carefully wiped every day, and at this time they are faintly shiny in the sun, and the texture is excellent.

Zhu Gaoxu walked into the Dongnuan Pavilion, and a large number of eunuchs and palace maids around him stopped. Only the eunuch Hou Xian and a few others entered. They walked through a partition door, and a large chair, a royal case, and several sets of bookshelves and other furniture appeared in front of them on the north side.

Before Zhu Gaoxu, four emperors of the Ming Dynasty had sat in that chair. Zhu Gaoxu walked to the chair and did not sit down, his eyes looked at a map behind him.

Hou Xian quietly observed Zhu Gaoxu, stepped forward and bowed and said, "Emperor, the slaves and maids are negligent, or the slaves and maids take this picture and change it to a good-looking screen?" ”

Zhu Gaoxu shook his head and said, "I don't like this map, but let it hang here first." I'll draw another 'map of the world' and tell the officials who are good at it to perfect it and hang it here." ”

"The slave obeys." Hou Xian paused and said, "Now this picture is painted by Guo Zi." During the reign of the first emperor, he wanted to move the capital to Beiping, and the drawings for the construction of the imperial palace were also from the hands of Guo Zi. ”

Zhu Gaoxu listened and looked at it for a while, and said honestly: "The pen work is good. ”

He then paced to the shelves, flipping through the books and files that lay on them.

At this moment, Zhu Gaoxu found Emperor Taizu's handwriting here! His movements immediately sped up a lot, and he looked at the things written by Taizu, most of them were about how to govern the Mongolian region and how to lay out the defense of the north, including the minister's chapter and the imperial approval written by Taizu himself.

There is not only the national defense concept of Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, but also the national policy plan of Emperor Taizong.

Something is probably placed here by high blazing. Zhu Gaoxu heard that Gao Chi was always "crazy and crazy to repair cars" in the later period of his reign, and he was a failed emperor; But Gao Chi is obviously not a fool and has ideas about national politics.

Zhu Gaoxu is like a treasure! Although he has some ideas, the grand national policy of a dynasty is best to have continuity; Understanding the strategies of previous emperors will be beneficial to future governance.

"These things must be kept alive! I'm going to see it at any time. Zhu Gaoxu turned his head and said.

Hou Xian bowed and said, "Yes, Emperor." ”

At this time, someone entered the Dongnuan Pavilion again, and two eunuchs holding a stack of stacked chapters, as well as Cao Fu with Xue Yan's secret scroll, also walked in. They bowed to Zhu Gaoxu, and then stacked their things on the imperial table.

Zhu Gaoxu looked around in the Dongnuan Pavilion, and finally sat down on the chair where the four Ming emperors had sit, and now he is the fifth.

He also wants to repair cars like big brother, but thinking about it, life is still important, so let's wait for the black hand that is hidden deeply!

Zhu Gaoxu sat on the chair, facing a large number of pieces and files, he looked thoughtful, and did not touch the things on the imperial case.

After being silent for a long time, Zhu Gaoxu finally raised his head and said in a crisp tone: "Order, call Ru and Zhang Sheng to meet you." Then he sent an order to Hou Hai to arrange manpower, and gave an order to the Huguang Han Palace, ordering Gao Xianning to arrive in Beijing by horse for 800 miles. The secretary of the Ministry of Ministers was reappointed as the secretary of the Criminal Department. passed on the decree Ru, and appointed Zhang Sheng as the commander of Jinyiwei and Du Erlang as the envoy of Beizhen; Chen Da Hammer is the commander of the left guard of Yulin, and Wang Yu Zhong chair Lefu Ridge! /p>

The eunuch Hou Xian had a look of surprise on his face, probably because Zhu Gaoxu was too casual to do such a big thing; However, Zhu Gaoxu himself often fights wars, and the decision is not so much involved, just do what he says!

Hou Xian bowed down and said cautiously: "Emperor, it is impossible for the slave maid to appoint Shangshu and the commander of the guards and pro-army commanders. It must be written by the emperor himself, or the official of the Hanlin Academy must write the holy decree with the seal. ”

"Pen and ink waiting." Zhu Gaoxu said.

Zhu Gaoxu wrote the holy decree, and Hou Xian retired. Zhu Gaoxu continued to ponder Xue Yan's secret scroll while waiting for the person he wanted to meet.

In the case of the death of the first emperor, Xue Yan could not continue to investigate, he had to vacate the position of Dali Siqing to Zhu Gaoxu's cronies; However, from Dali Siqing to the Criminal Department Shangshu, he was promoted, and the six Shangshu were extremely powerful and had more things to do.

What Xue Yan has verified so far, and the fact that the first emperor was poisoned and died in the East Palace, has no impact on the legitimacy of Zhu Gaoxu's throne. But Zhu Gaoxu intuitively felt that the real culprit of the assassination of the first emperor should have nothing to do with the crown prince and the officials of the East Palace, and the truth could not be revealed casually.

After waiting for a long time, Ru Xian, who was on the thousand-step corridor, arrived at the inclined corridor of the Qianqing Palace. Zhu Gaoxu called him in to talk.

Ru was a man of letters, but he was very burly, with a large face and thick pores, and he was probably in his fifties. Ru looked nervous when he approached the bow.

Only then did Zhu Gaoxu remember that more than one person had impeached him in the past two days: in the 'Battle of Crime', Ru often gave advice to the puppet emperor, and he was a confidant. Zhu Gaoxu didn't read the specific content carefully, anyway, he knew that Ru was very hard working in the Hongxi puppet dynasty.

"Flat, give a seat." Zhu Gaoxu said indifferently.

Ru hurriedly said: "Thank you for the grace of the saint." ”

Zhu Gaoxu said: "Ru Butang is standing like this, I have to raise my head when I speak, and my neck is tired and panicked. ”

Ru: "......"

Zhu Gaoxu waited for him to sit down on a stool, he didn't have much nonsense, and said directly: "I didn't look at the impeachment of Ru Butang, I didn't think much of it, it has been thrown in the palace as waste paper, you don't care about those things." ”

Ru's face suddenly turned a little red.

Zhu Gaoxu continued: "I remember that when I was the king of the vassal and had not yet gone to Yunnan to become a vassal lord, I went to the Rubu Tang Mansion and had a conversation, and you should remember that incident. I feel that Ru Butang's vision is very broad, and you have quite insight into Timur's exposition of the power that has gradually penetrated into the Western Regions at that time. ”

Ru clenched his fists and said: "The saint praises, but the minister does not dare to take it." ”

Zhu Gaoxu asked: "I came to talk to you today, I want to ask, is Ru Butang familiar with the affairs of the dynasty and the Xian Kingdom?" ”

Ru said modestly: "The minister has dabbled slightly. ”

After hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu asked again: "What's the matter with Lord Huai'an?" ”

Ru pondered for a while, and suddenly said: "The founding monarch of the Li clan of the Xian Kingdom is Li Chenggui; Lord Huai'an is the fourth son of Li Chenggui named Li Fanggan. ”

Zhu Gaoxu is curious about what the purpose of Park's politics is; At the same time, I also wanted to know about the situation in the Xian Kingdom at this time, so I thought of asking Ru.

Ru Dao: "Li Fanggan's original title was Duke Huai'an. In the thirty-third year of Hongwu, the fifth son of Li Fangyuan and Li Chenggui, the kings of the Xian State of the current Dynasty, launched the second coup d'état of the Xian State of the Dynasty, and became the king of the Xian Kingdom; He also stripped Li Fanggan of his title, changed his title to the Monarch of Huai'an, and exiled Li Fanggan to raise horses on Jeju Island. ”

When Zhu Gaoxu heard this, he suddenly roughly guessed Park's political intentions.

The Park family is in the same vein as Li Fanggan, and it should be a political alliance and belong to the losing side in the power struggle. The women of the Park family came to the Ming Dynasty because they wanted to seek foreign aid when their political group was defeated, had no chance of turning over, and could be uprooted at any time!

Even Emperor Taizong of the Ming Dynasty did these routines. Aren't the two recent Uliangha tribes who have comically pretended to be Tatars the foreign aid of the Yanwang Mansion during the "Battle of Jingjing"?

Zhu Gaoxu opened his mouth and said: "Li Fangyuan has launched two coups? What a capable man. ”

Ru nodded and said, "What the Holy Lord said is extremely true. In fact, when the Lee family staged a coup d'état for the first time and replaced the former Goryeo king's clan, Li Fangyuan's credit was also the greatest; So far, he has planned three successful coups, and his methods can be described as sophisticated. ”

Zhu Gaoxu asked, "What is Li Fangyuan's attitude towards my Ming Dynasty?" Ru Butang has any opinion, but it doesn't hurt to say it. ”

Ru Dao: "The minister thinks that the place that Goguryeo, Goryeo, and Chaoxian dynasties want the most is the Liaodong region; Before the Goryeo kings lost their thrones, they were still deploying troops to occupy the territory of Liaodong.

After the Li family took power, in order to consolidate the royal power, the Li family sent an envoy to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute, and the courtesy was very respectful. It's not that Li doesn't want to Liaodong, but he can't; The Li clan was more sensible than the previous generation of the Wang clan, they realized that the Ming Dynasty was powerful, and now they had no chance to seize Liaodong, and they had already adjusted the national policy of showing goodwill to the Ming Dynasty.

At the beginning of Yongle, after Emperor Taizong succeeded to the throne, the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the monarchs and ministers of the dynasty was better; It is because when Li Fangyuan accompanied the envoy to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty, he had privately met Emperor Taizong in the palace of King Yan in Beiping. Now the monarchs and ministers of the two countries treat each other and are being repaired in an all-round way. ”

Zhu Gaoxu glanced at Ru with admiration, nodded and said, "I roughly understand." ”

…… After Ru retired, the new commander of the Jinyi Guard, Zhang Sheng, met with him. Zhu Gaoxu handed over all Xue Yan's secret scrolls to Zhang Sheng and told him to keep them confidential; and ordered Zhang Sheng to read the secret scroll carefully, and when Gao Xianning entered Beijing to become the secretary of Dali Temple, he handed over the secret scroll to Gao Xianning to assist Gao Xianning in secretly investigating the death of the first emperor.