The palace in early summer was hidden among the green trees, and the cicadas had already started to whistle early. Several small eunuchs were rushing to climb the tree to stick to the precocious cicada. A middle-aged eunuch urged under the tree: "Let it stop talking, don't quarrel with His Royal Highness."

When Zhu Zhi entered the East Palace, he felt a strange atmosphere. The eunuchs and palace maids rushed to each other, and everyone looked worried. When they approached the prince's bedroom, some officials from the East Palace were kneeling in the yard. Poor these people, they have served the prince since the early years of Hongwu, and they all thought that one day the prince would come to the court, and these old ministers from Long could become successful. Unfortunately, after years of service, they seemed to have no reward.

Zhu Zhi couldn't think about it carefully and hurriedly pushed the door open and saw a few prince's concubines kneeling outside and a few brothers kneeling outside. Most of them were underage and still living in the palace. Zhu Zhi saw others kneeling outside, and it was difficult for him to go in, so he stayed outside. Only one eunuch went in to report.

After staying for a while, a familiar voice sounded outside: "Brother, your fourth brother is here."

Before he finished speaking, Zhu Di had already rushed into the house. Seeing the darkness of people, Zhu Di quickly knelt down, his nose twitched twice, wiped his eyes, and started to cry. Zhu Di's voice was already loud, and this cry was sincere. People around him were infected, and many others cried.

At this time, the eunuch just came out to pass an imperial edict: "The emperor ordered the Liao King Zhu Zhi to enter the house, and no one else was allowed to make noise, and the prince needed to rest." Everyone knows that Zhu Zhi had a good relationship with the prince, and there was nothing else to say.

Zhu Zhi stood up and entered the inner room. He saw the emperor's elder Zhu Yuanzhang sitting in front of the bed, looking at the bed anxiously. The crown princess Lu stood beside the emperor, and occasionally wiped the tears in his eyes with a handkerchief. Zhu Yunwen and his younger brothers knelt under the bed, crying to tears.

As soon as Zhu Zhi came in, he immediately fell to the ground. He had to show some acting skills, but he had only prepared for it. He wiped some chili on his hand and wiped his eyes. Unexpectedly, the spicy feeling of pepper was soaked in his eyes. Zhu Zhi cursed the chef in his heart, and tears burst out in his eyes, and then said softly: "Brother, brother, brother is here, what's wrong with you."

Zhu Yuanzhang was crying like this, and he burst into tears. The ignorant little princes below also started crying, and the whole inner room was also crying.

At this time, Zhu Biao on the bed moved, as if he wanted to say something. Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly leaned over and put his ear to Zhu Biao's mouth. With Zhu Biao's whisper, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded from time to time to bear what he should do. Maybe this was the last words of the prince to the emperor. Zhu Zhi pricked up his ears and wanted to eavesdrop, but there were crying around him, and the prince could not hear a word.

After the prince finished speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang recruited a eunuch and asked the prince to help him up. The prince finally sat up halfway. Zhu Zhi saw the prince, and saw that his face was pale and his breath was weak, and he had already reached the end of his life. He shivered and touched Zhu Yunwen's head, who was kneeling beside the bed, with a fatherly feeling in his eyes that was beyond words: "Son, my father is leaving, I must serve the emperor's grandfather well..." Yunwen hurriedly kowtowed like pounding garlic.

Zhu Biao finally finished this passage and was already out of breath. His godless eyes suddenly turned around and stared at Zhu Zhi tightly. Zhu Zhi looked at Zhu Biao's eyes with tears and immediately understood what he meant. This was to let him remember the matter of entrusting his orphans at the end of his life. When a person was about to die, let him feel at ease. Zhu Zhi nodded slightly. But he thought to himself that fortunately he already understood the "real" intention of the prince. This prince's acting skills were really good. If Yang Rong had not analyzed it for him, now in that sincere eye, he would not even have the heart to be buried alive. Damn, the ancients were too cunning.

Seeing himself nodding, Zhu Biao seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, his eyes gradually dimmed, and he fell on the bed with great attachment. He was still holding his son, but he refused to let go.

Everyone suddenly realized this fact, slowly left the room and knelt outside together. Zhu Zhi cried and looked at Zhu Di next to him. He kept wiping his eyes with his hands, and shed tears as soon as he wiped his eyes. It turned out that he was wiping tear gas on his hands, just like him.

At this time, the entire palace was in a state of wail. Princess Lu fainted at that time, and Zhu Yuanzhang also held his grandson Zhu Yunwen and burst into tears.

In fact, Zhu Zhi sometimes quite understood the emperor, who lost his mother in a young age, lost his wife in a middle age, and lost his son in an old age. He occupied all the three most painful things in his life. Moreover, the deaths of Empress Ma and Zhu Biao had the biggest blow to him. As we all know, Empress Ma was the only person around Zhu Yuanzhang who could persuade him. The deaths of the two of them made him feel particularly lonely, and this loneliness also increased his distrust of the officials and generals below. One year after the death of the prince, he attacked Lan Yu and involved more than 10,000 people. This was definitely directly related to the death of the prince. Lan Yu had a good relationship with the prince. If the prince did not die, Zhu Yuanzhang might not touch him. When he felt that his grandson had no power to restrain these arrogant generals, he could not think of any way except to kill people.

This is the sorrow of the centralized rulers in ancient China. They used power to deprive others of their lives to prove their correctness, and used a butcher knife to make the world surround their will. The ultimate power of power is ultimately a backlash on themselves, and perhaps this is the cause of the Jingnan Dynasty. After all, Zhu Yuanzhang's approach disappointed the hearts of his officials, and the people's support had already determined the tragedy of failure by using one country to control one corner.

In the 25th year of Hongwu, on April 18th, the crown prince died in the Eastern Palace. The emperor cried bitterly. The ritual official proposed to mourn and asked for a day to change. When he was about to get rid of the clothes, the emperor could not bear it. The ritual official asked him to release him and then he was released and looked at the court. In August, he was buried in Xiaoling East and was posthumously named Yiwen.

In June, Mu Ying, the king of Yunnan who was close to the royal family, cried very sad when he heard the death of the crown prince. At the beginning, Empress Gao died, Ying cried until he vomited blood. He was sick and died in the town at the age of 48. He was buried in the capital and posthumously named King Qianning, posthumously named Zhaojing, and was granted the title of Emperor Taimiao.

The two heavyweights in the Ming Empire passed away for two months, which shocked the entire court, especially Zhu Di in the court, which added a special flavor to this air. Three days after the prince was buried, the Ministry of Rites submitted a copy to the minister Zhao Duo, asking the emperor to establish a crown prince and the good morning national copy. Zhu Yuanzhang pressed the memorial to stay at the memorial to the Central Committee, which means that he did not agree or object. Two days later, Zhu Di was recruited into the palace and reported for two hours. These two things seemed like a vane, and the court and the country immediately discussed it, and many people speculated whether Zhu Yuanzhang was planning to make Zhu Di the crown prince.

Faced with this information, Zhu Zhi was puzzled and said to Yang Rong: "What does the father mean to do this? The father and the fourth brother had a secret talk, and the information could not be helpful. Mianren, what do you think?"

Yang Rong asked back: "Who does your Highness think Zhao Duo is?"

Zhu Zhi said: "Is it the prince's man?"

Yang Rong said: "Rong was thinking, if I were the King of Yan, how to deploy it would be the most beneficial to me. First of all, I would not raise the matter of establishing the country at this time, because the emperor was in grief at this time, and mentioning this matter would only benefit the emperor's grandson. Then I would push the matter of establishing the country as late as possible. Therefore, this person must not be the King of Yan. Secondly, this person is not the Emperor. If the emperor wants to establish the King of Yan, he can be thunderous and cannot be opposed to everyone's objection and directly move the imperial order. By then, the prince has been established, and the opposition below will be unable to do so. The emperor cannot let someone jump out first and then give a signal of establishing the King of Yan. Isn't this giving the prince's time to deal with it?"

Zhu Zhi said: "So do you think that my father still has any concerns?"

Yang Rong said: "Yes, the emperor wants to put his meaning on the surface, test the ministers' words, and see how many people support the King of Yan. After all, the country still needs to be responsible for those who win the hearts of the people. However, judging from the current situation, the emperor has not made a decision. The information has been made, and a policy on etiquette and law by the emperor's grandson the day before yesterday was praised by the emperor. Therefore, the prince must remain calm and observe the actions of several big bosses in the court carefully. The words and actions of Liu Sanwu, Yang Jing and others are particularly important. The current plan is to respond to changes in the constant changes, please consider it."

Zhu Zhi lowered his head and said nothing. In the conversation with Zhu Yuanzhang in the palace that day, Zhu Yuanzhang obviously looked to the crown prince. Could it be that Zhu Yuanzhang really used his own opinions to make all the people from the Yan King Party jump out? Anyway, the current situation is extremely complicated. Even Yang Rong couldn't analyze the reason.

Things developed very quickly. Three days after Zhu Di was recruited into the palace, Zhang Xu, the head of the Ministry of Justice, asked to establish a crown prince to establish a national foundation, and also said that the King of Yan was wise and wise, and was both benevolent and filial, and was suitable for the crown prince. Zhu Yuanzhang's approach was also to press the memorial and not to issue it. In court politics, the memorial that the emperor stayed at the center of the country largely indicated that the emperor did not object, but the emperor felt that the time had not come, otherwise he would have been beaten back and demoted long ago. From this point of view, the matter seemed to have reached a critical moment.

Zhu Zhi was a little anxious. Has history deviated due to his own entry? The situation in front of him was very wrong. Someone had already jumped out to protect the King of Yan.

Zhu Zhi quickly asked Yang Rong and asked, "Mianren, this time it seems that something is wrong. It seems that the father is going to establish the fourth brother."

Unexpectedly, Yang Rong seemed much more relaxed this time and smiled and said, "The emperor's grandson is worrying."

Zhu Zhi was even more puzzled: "First summon the fourth brother, and then leave the memorial to sponsor him, maybe just waiting for the ministers below to flock to him."

Yang Rong smiled mysteriously and said, "Your Highness, it is precisely because the emperor cannot choose in his heart that he stayed at the end. But what Rong saw, Zhang Xu was not a member of the Yan Party at all. The most likely thing was the prince's plan during his lifetime. He arranged to send a front-line horse to rush out and put the King of Yan on the brazier. It would also lure the Yan Party members in the court to jump out one after another, and then let a group of heavyweight bosses come forward to conquer the universe. This plan can be said to kill two birds with one stone. If you don't believe that Your Highness can ask someone, who is Zhang Xu. Rong dares to make a promise, this person must be a person of *. Even if you make a statement, it will not cause harm to him. Even if you are punished, someone will naturally come out to protect him. Within three days, the foreshadowing of the prince's side will be revealed."
Chapter completed!