Zhu Di felt guilty because he couldn't make Zhu Gaoxu the prince of the broken promise, and he didn't know how to place this son who had made great achievements in the Battle of Jingjing. It stands to reason that after the crown prince is established, the rest of the princes will be crowned princes and go to various places to become vassals, and Zhu Di at that time knew that he would weaken and restrict the vassal kings in various places more than his nephew Jianwen. At that time, the so-called vassal king was nothing more than the noblest prisoner in the world. Although Zhu Di can be ruthless to his brothers and nephews, the emperor really can't bear to settle the second son who has been promised as an heir to the army several times.

After some deep thought, Zhu Di made the decision to seal Zhu Gaochi in Yunnan, which was actually a kind of compensation. Because although Yunnan is a province of the Ming Dynasty, in fact, the mountains and rivers are far away, and the imperial court whip is beyond the reach, so it can only send cronies and generals to guard it with full authority to subdue those unruly ethnic minorities. So in fact, leaving the town of Yunnan is to seal the territory and establish its own country within a country.

In the Hongwu Dynasty, this errand belonged to Zhu Yuanzhang's righteous son Mu Ying, although Mu Ying was filial piety, but after all, he was not surnamed Zhu, Zhu Yuanzhang still did not worry about handing over Yunnan to him and his descendants, and Mu Ying went out of Yunnan for ten years, and the title was just a marquis, and he was posthumously awarded the title of prince until he died of illness.

In the Yongle Dynasty, Mu Ying had been dead for many years, and Zhu Di wanted to give Yunnan to Zhu Gaoxu, in fact, he gave this land south of Caiyun to the King of Han and his descendants forever, which was clearly a vassal king rather than a vassal king! Of course, with the second son of the brave and unparalleled out of Yunnan, the imperial court no longer has to worry about the unquiet borders, which is the best of both worlds in the emperor's eyes.

However, Zhu Gaoxu refused to go to Yunnan, because he only had the throne in his eyes, and any other way out was a failure. And Yunnan is indeed a barbarian land in the eyes of the people of the Celestial Empire, and in Zhu Gaoxu's opinion, letting himself go there is simply a distribution. So he kept complaining to his father, saying that he had made any mistakes. Why should he be assigned to Yunnan? In short, Zhu Di originally liked this son more, and he always felt guilty about Zhu Gaoxu, so he couldn't be entangled by him, so he had to take back his life and let him live in the capital first.

As a result, this stay is ten years......

In the eyes of ordinary ministers, the emperor allowed the King of Han to live in the capital permanently, but an old fox like Hu Guang vaguely remembered that it seemed that this was not the case. In order to verify his memory, he took advantage of his position to look through the emperor's living notes, and sure enough, he found that the emperor only allowed the king of Han to live in the capital temporarily, and then asked people to check the edicts of the king of Han over the years, and there was no clear decree that the king of Han could not settle for the vassal and live in the capital forever.

Now Hu Guangke found the seven inches of the King of Han, and immediately asked his protégé to play to the emperor and said, the vassal king has lived in the capital for a long time is not the blessing of Sheji, since the king of Han was unwilling to go to the domain because Yunnan was too remote, he might as well ask the emperor to change a fief that is not remote to him, so that the king of Han can be satisfied, and no more people will say that he is stranded in the capital and peeps at the artifact, so that the father and son, the monarch and the minister can have a good ending. At the end of the chapter, it is also mentioned that Qingzhou is one of the ancient Kyushu, with fertile land, dense population, and located in Shandong Province, which is definitely not remote, and just serves as the fief of His Royal Highness the King of Han. If His Royal Highness the King of Han still shirks it, the emperor will have to consider his intentions......

Jiang is still old and spicy, and the piece concocted by Hu Guang behind the scenes is hitting the seven inches of His Royal Highness the King of Han, which also makes Zhu Di have to think about it seriously. Because although he didn't say it explicitly, Zhu Di has been low-key weakening the power of the vassal king, which is an indisputable fact in the government and the opposition.

Before Yongle, the vassal kings ruled the people and divided the tin soil of the feudal domains. The envoys of the feudal fiefdoms, the commanders and their subordinates must go to the palace on the fifteenth day of each month, and the prince can summon them at any time. In addition to the long history and the commander of the town guard, the commander of the guard, the rest are appointed by the vassal king, and the officials of the royal palace can also serve as provincial officials and commanders, and the vassal king has the power to kill them, and in the feudal country, the vassal king has absolute military power.

On the side of the imperial court, the prince can send an envoy directly to the front of the emperor, and those who dare to block it will be punished as a traitor. If the magistrate is guilty of the prince's minor mistake or the prince's negligence, he will be beheaded for the crime of dissociating the relationship between relatives. Even if the vassal king is really guilty, he cannot increase the punishment, but can only summon the capital division, and the emperor will send him down, and at worst he will be demoted to a concubine, or he will be punished in person, or he will send an official to give him a blessing and misfortune to promote reform.

In this way, the transcendent status of the vassal king was ensured, so that the vassal king had a strong enough power to threaten the imperial power, and in the late Hongwu period, Zhu Yuanzhang had realized this problem, worried that his grandson's throne was threatened, and made many restrictions on the prince. But the palms and backs of his hands are full of meat, and he can't be ruthless to his son, so the effect is not great, and the result is still a big tail, so that Zhu Di has the strength to launch a battle for the throne.

After Zhu Di seized the throne of his nephew, he naturally wanted to prevent some vassal kings from following his example, and he also came out like this, because he attached great importance to the accusation of the vassal kings, and first stripped them of their titles, subordinate officials, and guards on various charges such as rebellion, and abolished their power to command the garrison, and abolished the rule that the clan could be officials, and ordered civil and military officials to only have official titles and not ministers for princes. It is stipulated that when the prince reaches a certain age after sealing the country, he must go out to the country, and he will not be allowed to enter Beijing unless he is edicted in the future, etc.!

The rest of the regulations are put aside first, just "after the prince reaches a certain age after sealing the country, he must go out to the country, and he is not allowed to enter Beijing unless he is edicted", it is enough to eat the king of Han to death, and no one mentioned it before, and now someone has said that Zhu Di can't slap himself in the face, and he must give an explanation......

Although the chapter was left in the middle and not issued, the emperor did not punish the officials who wrote for this, which made Hu Guang encouraged, and more than ten officials wrote these days to meet the requirements, urging the emperor to express his position!

Wang Xian naturally considered this, although he didn't believe that King Han would leave the capital because of this, but he also had to admit that this situation was very difficult to solve, because no matter what, King Han had been closed for ten years, and if he still wanted to stay in the capital, he couldn't make sense of this truth. And this problem Zhu Di must always solve, or the descendants of the future will follow this precedent, which will completely ruin his efforts to weaken the vassal king.

However, this matter must not be mixed with the prince, otherwise it will backfire, but it will help the King of Han, so Wang Xian is also in the mood to watch the show and watch the progress of this matter coldly. It is said that although the emperor did not summon the king of Han to mention the matter, he had already discussed it with Yao Shaoshi, the British prince Zhang Fu and other confidants......

The two talked for a while, and when the carriage arrived in front of the yamen of the military headquarters, the diesel cart got off.

"My lord, where are we going?" After Chai Langzhong entered the yamen, Zhou Yong asked softly.

Wang Xian thought that he hadn't been home for a few days, and he couldn't help but feel guilty, so he said, "Go home." ”

The carriage drove in the direction of the East Palace, who knew that as soon as he saw the door of the house, he heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves from far and near, Wang Xian was depressed...... Eighty percent of the knights on this horse are coming towards themselves, because in this imperial city, those who dare to gallop on horseback are the people around them, except for a few imperial grandsons and messengers who are sent by the emperor......

"Your Excellency!" Sure enough, a low call completely extinguished Wang Xian's luck, and after a while, Zhou Yong knocked on the car window and reported to Wang Xianyu in a low voice: "My lord, King Han has been assassinated!" ”

"What?" Wang Xian was shocked and said, "Where is it?" ”

"It was said that there was a secret letter from the filial piety tomb yesterday, saying that the ginkgo tree in front of the filial piety hall was all dead overnight, and the emperor was very angry when he heard it, and ordered His Royal Highness the Han King to go to the filial piety tomb to ask Taizu for guilt, and investigate the situation on the ground. His Royal Highness the King of Han set off this morning, but he encountered an ambush on the way, and his injuries were severe and unconscious! The officer of the Fifth Division who reported the news hurriedly said: "At this time, His Royal Highness the King of Han has almost been sent back to the capital, and the emperor ordered him to be sent directly to Beiyuan, and he should be summoned to see him immediately." ”

Wang Xian nodded, and was digesting this astonishing news, when he heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves, followed by a slightly shrill voice: "In front, is Wang Zhenfu of the Beizhen Fusi Division?" ”

"It's my lord." I heard Zhou Yong ask in a deep voice, "Who is my father-in-law?" ”

"Our family has been ordered by the emperor to pass on an oracle to Wang Zhenfu!" The eunuch grabbed the reins of the horse and said in a deep voice: "The emperor ordered Wang Zhenfu to enter the palace quickly, there must be no mistake!" ”

Wang Xian also hurriedly got down from the carriage, and when he saw that it was indeed a great eunuch named Li Zhong beside the emperor, he hurriedly knelt on the ground and said: "The minister obeys the holy decree!" ”

"Let's talk about the specific situation on the road, my lord will meet me first." Li Zhong nodded at Wang Xian, Wang Xian didn't talk nonsense, took the reins from his subordinates, turned over and got on the horse, and followed Li Zhong to Beiyuan galloping.

Li Zhong showed a gold medal, and walked unhindered along the way, and the two did not dismount until outside the Beiyuan Gate, and on the way to the Yitian Palace, Li Zhong briefly introduced to Wang Xian what happened, which was not far from what he knew. The only new news is that important figures such as the crown prince and the British prince have also been summoned to Beiyuan by the emperor.

After waiting outside the Yitian Hall for a while, Wang Xian saw the British Duke Zhang Fu hurrying over, the first soldier of the Ming Dynasty, who was not confused, was born thin, handsome and elegant, with three long beards on his chest, and a pair of Danfeng under his eyebrows, he looked like a scribe more than a military minister, but Wang Xian never dared to underestimate this grandfather, and hurriedly gave a deep salute.

Zhang Fu and Wang Xian also met each other, but they never spoke, nodded at this moment, and said softly: "Lord Wang is here early." ”

"Xiaguan has just arrived." Wang Xian said busily.

"The emperor ordered me to see the driver directly, and I lost my company first." Zhang Fuke politely greeted Wang Xian, and after speaking, he went straight to the Yitian Palace.

"Grandpa Guo, please." Wang Xian bowed slightly, and watched Zhang Fu enter the hall.