Chapter 210 Power Dyeing Cylinder

The New Year of Hongwu 27th year was a bit embarrassing. People had less money in their pockets and less rice in their homes. The reason was that war. Although the war did not start, they dispatched troops and generals, stored money and grain, and the dynasty's money and grain flowed to the army. Naturally, the people had to tighten their belts.

However, the people of the Ming Dynasty were still quite happy to tighten their belts. At least the rich people had a smell of wine and meat, and the phenomenon of frozen bones on the road was not too serious in the early Ming Dynasty. Even the Emperor of Ming Dynasty also shrank and supported the front line. What else were they not satisfied with? It is said that the royal grandson of the Eastern Palace also lived a frugal life, with only three dishes and one soup for each meal. If there is good, the lower part will be effective. With the example of the emperor and grandchildren, a trend of thrift in the Ming Dynasty was set off in the Ming Dynasty. Regardless of whether this trend was sincere or not, it was true that civil and military officials from all over the country, both big and small, dared not waste their extravagance, for fear that they would reveal their heads and be impeached by the censors. Especially when the Feng Fu case was gradually over, if something happened at this time, it would be too unworthy.

The same is true for Ye Tianming's family. Since Zhu Yunwen called on all officials to "share with the people", the living conditions of Ye Tianming's family immediately fell from two or three steps. Ye Tianming dared not be on par with Zhu Yunwen. He reduced one dish for each meal to make two dishes and one soup. His wife, children, mother and servants were the same. There was only one meat dish in the two dishes. It started in early November last year and lasted for two months. However, these days are the New Year, and the conditions have been slightly relaxed. The Spring Festival has changed to four dishes and one soup every day. Except for the New Year, Lantern Festival, Zhongyuan, and Mid-Autumn Festival, the rest are no exception.

Today is the second day of the Lunar New Year, which is a rare day for the Ming officials to rest. They are busy all year round, and they can only take a few days off during the Chinese New Year. Generally, officials have to rest until the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. However, as two ministers, Ye Tianming had to rest until today and he would start court tomorrow.

However, in the past two days, he was in a bad mood. Someone in the palace had already revealed news to him that his son-in-law Li Weizheng was renamed the commander of Sichuan by the emperor and also the Marquis of Dingliao, but he refused to return the order. He used the excuse of suppressing the civil strife in North Korea and refused to enter the capital, which made the emperor vomit blood. This made Ye Tianming feel extremely upset. He was not stupid. He vaguely guessed that Li Weizheng was afraid of being implicated by the Feng Fu case, but Li Weizheng didn't think about it for himself. He refused to return the order. How could he become an official in the capital? This would affect his career. Maybe the emperor thought he was his inner support and slaughtered himself.

Ye Tianming sat in the study and was about to write a letter to the emperor to express his loyalty to the emperor to show that his loyalty had nothing to do with Li Weizheng. He even planned to officially announce his breakup with Li Weizheng in the book. This was also what the King of Yan advised him. He had been thinking about it for a long time. Now the incident of Li Weizheng's disrespect for the order made him finally make him determined.

Ye Tianming was not satisfied with the beginning of writing a few, so he pinched them all into a ball and threw them aside. How can the emperor start so that he can feel his fear and fear?

At this time, a burst of rapid footsteps came from outside the door, and his butler was reporting urgently: "Master, the East Palace is here!"

The Eastern Palace is Zhu Yunwen, which is a habitual name for the imperial grandson by the court officials. This title gradually continued to the people. Later, no matter the pawns and vendors, almost the entire capital city called the imperial grandson Zhu Yunwen the Eastern Palace.

When Ye Tianming heard that Zhu Yunwen was coming, he stood up in shock, and was both excited and grateful. He knew that yesterday was the day for the Zhu family to worship their ancestors. Zhu Yunwen had been busy all day, but now it was early in the morning. In other words, Zhu Yunwen was the first to visit him, which made him feel extremely honored.

"Quick! Quick! Quick! Who is receiving His Highness at the door?"

"Report to the master, it's the eldest son, he happened to come and met the Eastern Palace Highness at the door."

"You ask your wife to clean up the living room, no, forget it, just clean up my study!" Ye Tianming put on his coat, put on his hat and hurriedly ran to greet the crown prince.

Zhu Yunwen was looking at a towering tree in the front yard of Ye Mansion with his hands behind his back, nodding from time to time and laughing: "Yes, this old jujube tree has been around for at least three hundred years!"

"Your Highness is right. The person who sold the house at that time said that this jujube tree had been for 290 years and bought it for ten years, but it was not exactly three hundred years?" Ye Rutang gave a thumbs up in admiration, and praised sincerely: "Many people come to guess the age of this jujube tree. Some say two hundred years, some say four hundred years, and some say three hundred years, but I guess that this is not bad for a year, and only your highness has been alone for ten years. Your Highness is indeed not an ordinary person!"

Ye Rutang's flattery was so scared that he was naked, but Zhu Yunwen was quite helpful to him.

At this time, Ye Tianming rushed over, he lifted up his robe and knelt down and said, "My minister Ye Tianming meets His Highness the Crown Prince."

Zhu Yunwen was startled. He turned around and quickly helped Ye Tianming up, blaming him and said, "I'm here to greet you today. How can you kneel down? Don't kill me?"

"The rituals of the king and the ministers cannot be abolished, no matter when or where."

Zhu Yunwen smiled helplessly, "Okay! Shangshu Ye, I have some things to talk to you today. I wonder if you have time?"

"Your Highness! Please go to my study to discuss in detail."

Ye Tianming invited Zhu Yunwen to the study room and sat down. Dozens of personal guards guarded the front, back and left and right of the study room, with great precautions.

A maid came in and served the tea and then stepped down. Zhu Yunwen picked up the tea bowl. He thought about it and said straight to the point: "First of all, my family told you that I don't believe that Li Wei is the second Lan Yu. I have a different view of this from the emperor."

Ye Tianming immediately understood that Zhu Yunwen came for the matter of Li Weizheng. He also realized that this incident had an impact on him, or from another perspective, this incident had already affected him, otherwise he would not have made a special trip to the door. Ye Tianming was shocked and scared for a moment.

Sure enough, Zhu Yunwen sighed and said, "My fourth uncle told me yesterday that Li Wei is in charge of heavy troops in Liaodong, and you are a powerful minister in the court. This is a taboo for the king. The emperor has taken this matter very seriously. Uncle Fourth advised me to choose one of them, either to protect Li Weizheng or you. If both are protected, according to the emperor's temper, it is very likely that both are bad. In fact, I know that he is right."

Ye Tianming's heart was thrilled. He finally understood the real purpose of Zhu Yunwen. He immediately asked in a deep voice: "What your highness means is to protect me and abandon Li Weizheng?"

Zhu Yunwen nodded silently, "Actually, I also know the real reason why Li Weizheng dared not enter Beijing. He will die when he enters Beijing. I know, probably he smelled it, so he found various reasons not to enter Beijing. But no matter what, he had already resisted the order and violated the emperor's bottom line. To be honest, I regret it now. I shouldn't have sent him to Liaodong, let alone let him take charge of the army, otherwise the emperor would not have suspected him. When I am in charge in the future, I will use him well."

Speaking of this, Zhu Yunwen sighed again. He really didn't want to care about Li Weizheng's affairs, which was equivalent to officially giving up on him. From then on, Li Weizheng had nothing to do with him. He wanted to spend all his energy on protecting Ye Tianming. He had discussed this with several masters. Everyone agreed that Zhu Yunwen did not have enough experience in governing, and he needed important officials like Ye Tianming to take charge of the overall situation. Li Weizheng was just a martial artist. More importantly, the emperor had given Zhu Yunwen the power to appoint commander and commander commander. In other words, he already had enough troops in his hands, and Li Weizheng became a useless rib and now he became a fishbone. It would be wise to throw it away earlier.

Since Zhu Yunwen had made up his mind, he would not change it. After thinking about it, he said to Ye Tianming: "I will go to the palace in the afternoon to persuade the emperor and grandfather to let you go, but you must also make some statements."

"I wonder what your Highness is going to give me a statement?"

"It's very simple!" Zhu Yunwen's tone became calm and indifferent. "You can make a public statement to the people of the world to cut off all relationships with Li Weizheng."

In the imperial palace, Zhu Yuanzhang's New Year is slightly different from previous years. In previous years, he would review memorials in the imperial study every year, regardless of New Year's Eve. Spring is similar every year, and people are different every year. Zhu Yuanzhang this year is different from previous years. He is paralyzed from previous years, and he is in a state of drowsiness most of the day. Therefore, he no longer reviews memorials this year, and he did not have a bright light for the New Year, nor did he share the joy of family with his concubines and children. But when he woke up, he ordered the guards to carry himself to the yard to bask in the sun, and just squinted his eyes in the sun to think about his thoughts.

Of course, there are only two things he has, one is Guizhou and the other is Liaodong. Both things are related to the safety of the country and the perpetration of Zhu Ming. Frankly speaking, both things are equally serious in his heart, because he knows both of them very well. Lan Yu is a veteran who has fought with him for decades and used his troops as a god. He once praised him as my Li Jing without hesitation. From this battle against Chengdu and Chongqing, it can be seen that he tried a small move and beat Geng Bingwen to the point of falling. Once he really raised an army to attack the Central Plains, how many people in the Ming Dynasty were his opponents?

What Zhu Yuanzhang is worried about now is not only that Lan Yu is superb in military talent, but also that he seems to have a very powerful strategist around him. This is what Zhu Yuanzhang fears the most. Lan Yu is a military genius, but a political idiot. Originally, Zhu Yuanzhang had already set up a plan and killed his family to force him to rebel, and then asked Tang, who was in charge of the military farming in Guizhou, to kill him because he was unwilling to rebel. Unexpectedly, his plan was broken and he almost forced him to death. Until later, Lan Yu's chess was like flowing water, and he won sequel to military victory in military affairs and was free from water. Zhu Yuanzhang finally decided to rank the urgency of solving the Guizhou problem ahead of Liaodong. He is most afraid of Lan Yu colluding with the Mu family in Yunnan. If Yunnan and Guizhou are integrated and have a strategic depth, the Lan Yu rebellion will be really big.

Li Weizheng from Liaodong is also very familiar with a young man who is brave, knowledgeable and very strategic. Now it seems that he has planned Liaodong for a long time, and what Zhu Yuanzhang admires is that Li Weizheng's every move is just right. For example, if he wants to summon him to Beijing to kill him, he will create civil strife in North Korea. The implication is to tell himself that he only wants to be the leader of North Korea and has no intention of planning for the Ming Dynasty, but if he really pushes him in a hurry, his ambition is not as simple as North Korea.

Secondly, he did not take his father away, but left his father to himself as a hostage. This was also an extremely smart step. He knew that he did not dare to kill his father and did not dare to provoke a battle on both sides at this time. At the same time, he left his father to himself, which was also a clear statement that he would not take the opportunity to go south, as long as he maintained the status quo, or even recognized him as the lord of North Korea.

Li Wei was just trying to suggest the lord of North Korea, and Zhu Yuanzhang had considered it. He knew that Li Chenggui must have been finished. North Korea was actually controlled by Li Weizheng. The appointment of him as the lord of North Korea was just an admission of the fait accompli, but Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want to be so cheap. How could he be coerced by others? Yes! Now he dared not touch Li Weizheng, nor did he dare to force him, but it did not mean that he would not touch him. Since Li Wei was just trying to maintain the status quo, it was just his intention. He first concentrated his energy and troops to kill Lan Yu, and then turned around to deal with him.
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