Southern Ming, my destiny is too abstract

Chapter 15 Li Dingguo is Cao Cao?

"Does Father wish to move into the Glazed Palace?"

The Sichuan dialect spoken by Emperor Yongli reminded Zhu Cixuan that Litang was in Shu, and he looked at Zhu Youlang unhappily.

It’s good enough that he didn’t get angry and speak Tibetan.

After he recaptured the city of Ava, he asked Deng Kai to move the Ming Dynasty capital into the city.

Several imperial concubines happily settled down in the Glazed Palace.

Emperor Yongli stayed in the Ludao government office with his own thoughts in mind.

However, in reality, apart from Adayun and Mu Tianbo, there were basically no other Ming ministers in Ludao.

In the past few days, Wang Sheng, the deputy governor of the Central Government, brought the civil and military officials and servants of the Ming Dynasty court, wearing Ming armor, and imitated Dong Zhuo's past deeds. They went in and out during the day, pretending that the army of Li Bai and the two kings entered the city with great fanfare and set up camp.

Even strong women were sent out, let alone ministers.

Zhu Youlang saw that his rebellious son had no intention of getting up to greet him, so he found a place to sit down with an embarrassed look on his face.

"All the ministers in the imperial court say that the Crown Prince is both civil and military. This time, he has shown the demeanor of the Second Ancestor in Ava. He is truly the ruler of the Ming Dynasty's revival."

"However, Yang Shengfang and Ren Guoxi said that the Crown Prince's ceding of land and calling himself a son was an insult to the dignity of the Celestial Empire, and they also threatened to severely punish the Crown Prince."

"'The History of the Early Period of the State' states that Taizu heard that Chahan Timur was heading south and sent envoys to establish friendly relations, and for a time he wanted to feign agreement."

"The prince's alliance is similar to the Weishui Alliance of Emperor Taizong of Tang, and he is ready to attack the Turks with a surprise attack."

"My son is a perfect example of the sun and the moon. Why can't I be like Emperor Gaozu of Tang, who conquered the world with his talent and wisdom? This attempt to sow discord between father and son will be severely rebuked by me."

Zhu Cixuan couldn't help but roll his eyes at Emperor Yongli's despicable plot to sow discord.

Extremely rough.

Am I still Li Shimin?
I don't know who heard that regardless of the emperor, the empress dowager, the queen and the prince were to be sent away in order to preserve the imperial lineage, and they cursed me and Mu Tianbo and the others for being without a father or a king.

Because the grandfather of heaven had the destiny of fire and deliberately separated the families of the court ministers, the palace was burned down when he was in Zhucheng.

I don’t know who is cursing me, Yang Guang and Liu Shao, for plotting to murder my own father.

After Chen Ande came back, he was promoted to the Minister of Rites, who was in charge of external affairs. The former Minister of Rites, Ren Guoxi, had been transferred to the Minister of Personnel, who was in charge of personnel affairs.

It is obvious that Ren Guoxi did not want the emperor to interfere in the placement of officials to prevent the tradition of internal strife in the Ming Dynasty from reappearing.

There were a lot of things waiting for Zhu Cixuan to deal with, and he didn't want to argue with Emperor Yongli.

"Father, if you have nothing to do, please go to the harem of the Liuli Palace. The concubines are waiting for you."

"The affairs of the court will be handled by me and the old Duke. Father has been out for over a year, so it's best to heal your foot first."

Zhu Youlang, who was choked, smiled awkwardly and had to speak.

"Prince, you are still young and do not know the turmoil of officialdom. Although I am the Emperor Gaozu of Tang who was the descendant of Emperor Taizong, I have been the emperor for fourteen years. I have some things to tell you, Prince."

Zhu Cixuan casually bowed: "What does your father have to teach you?"

Zhu Youlang glanced at the guards in the hall and gestured to send them away.

Zhu Cixuan became increasingly impatient and waved his hand to clear out the Imperial Guards and Embroidered Uniform Guards from the hall.

Zhu Youlang said in a deep voice after the hall was completely empty.

"Prince, do you remember what Ma Jixiang said before he was beheaded?"

Zhu Cixuan thought about it and didn't take the curses and slanders of the treacherous minister when he was dying too seriously.

Zhu Youlang said anxiously: "The prince once mentioned the Duke of Yue."

"Then do you know how many people have been Duke of Yue and Wen Tie'an in the fourteen years since I ascended the throne as regent?"

Wen Anzhi, also known as Tie'an, was the last prime minister of the Ming Dynasty. He was Zhu Cixuan's former Prince Taibao, and concurrently the Minister of Personnel and War, and the Governor-General of the Military Affairs of Sichuan and Lakes.

He was stationed in eastern Sichuan and contacted the Thirteen Families of Kuidong on behalf of the deceased commander of the Loyal Camp, Du Yinxi.

There has been news.

Last year, in order to support the relocation of the Yunnan provincial government to Sichuan and Hubei, Wen Anzhi contacted the Thirteen Families to recapture Chongqing and disperse the main force of the Qing invaders. However, he was defeated by the rebellion of the Two Tans. When he heard that the emperor had abandoned the country, he died of depression.

There are so many things going on right now that there is no time to posthumously confer a posthumous title on him.

Zhu Cixuan's joy at having Ava City and hoping to use Hongsawadi as the foundation for a counterattack suddenly disappeared.

In the homeland of the Ming Dynasty, who knows how many loyal and patriotic people fell down in anger on the road to the restoration of the Han Dynasty.

Two years later, Li Dingguo and Zheng Yanping, who were in their prime, would die in a foreign land.

Always stay with me.

Always stay with me.

"Father, what do you want to say?"

Zhu Youlang bit his lip and said, "Since the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Duke of Yue has always been a minority. Although there are many loyal people in Lingnan, most of the people in the court are Ma Shiying, Ding Kuichu and other people who abuse their power."

"At that time, I was only a young man, deceived by powerful officials and trapped by local vassal states."

"Ministers from all provinces and territories have their own selfish motives and want to hold the emperor hostage to their own dignity."

"He Tengjiao of Huguang, who used his military vassalage to maintain his position, led to the death of Emperor Longwu at the hands of the Eastern Tartars. Li Chengdong, who rebelled in eastern Guangdong, fought for power with the Guangxi vassal state, leading to the Chu-Wu factional strife."

"During the Hongguang and Longwu periods, with Prince Lu as regent, and the Jiashen Rebellion, sixteen years have passed since then. Military officials from all sides have looked down upon our Zhu Ming imperial family, and have considered themselves to be the ones who supported us by receiving promotions and honors."

"It is your father, the Emperor, who is incompetent and has led the world to this state. Isn't it just what the Emperor Lie said, that it is all the fault of the ministers."

Three thousand years is too far away, thirty years is too close.

China has a history of two thousand years since the Qin Dynasty. The history books are very detailed and there are too many historical lessons.

Chongzhen died for his country, and the Eastern Tartars moved south. Stories from the Southern Song and Eastern Jin dynasties are recorded in the book.

After the Qing army entered the pass, all the southern provinces thought that it was nothing more than the shame of Jingkang, the fall of the north, the division of the river and the revival of the southern capital, and the restoration of the old days of Taizu.

That is, the Southern Capital sank, Fujian and Jiangxi provinces fell, and eastern Guangdong and western Guangxi were lost.

Officials and gentry from all over the country realized that this was not the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, but the end of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Although there are always people who fight for power and profit and harm the country.

However, people like He Tengjiao, who had his own army and was self-reliant, and Qu Shisi, who wanted him to die for the country, also excluded dissidents and fought for power in their own factions.

Why!

They are all juren and jinshi who are well-read in poetry and literature.

Everyone thinks that he is Yue Fei or Yu Qian, and others who are not in line with him are Qin Hui or Wan Qi Xie.

Zhu Cixuan sighed: "Father, who are you talking about?"

Zhu Youlang, who finally opened his heart to his rebellious son, said solemnly:
"Although you may be somewhat rebellious, you are still my son, the crown prince who holds the promise of reviving the Ming Dynasty. I am not afraid to tell you this."

"Mu Tianbo said that the two kings, Jin Gong and Jin Gong, who were going to wipe out the remaining troops of Hongsha Kingdom, will arrive the day after tomorrow."

Zhu Cixuan nodded slightly. Wang Qilong had already reported with a small group of cavalry.

In addition, there was He Jiuyi's troops who returned from Nanning, Guangxi Province to defend the king.

"I heard from Ren Guoxi that you, Crown Prince, once said that Li Dingguo and Zheng Yanping are the Han Shizhong and Yue Wumu of this dynasty."

"Zheng Yanping is close to the Tang clan. Emperor Longwu and the Little Tang Prince favor his family and have always been estranged from my Gui clan."

"Prince Jin, Li Dingguo."

"Li Dingguo."

Zhu Youlang hesitated for a few moments and said cruelly.

"Prince, be careful he is Cao Cao."

"Prince Gongchang Bai Wenxuan can be used as a check to prevent the Jin vassal state from becoming the sole dominant power. It would be best if Li Dingguo were to lead troops outside the court, away from the court."

Zhu Youlang sighed as he spoke: "The thing I regret most this year is that I did not reuse Ma Bao and Bai Wenxuan and confer them the titles of Prince of a Counties or Princes."

As soon as the Ming Dynasty court became stable, the tradition of internal strife began.

Zhu Cixuan was stunned by the words of Emperor Yongli.

You are worthy of being the great-great-grandson of Jiajing and the grandson of Wanli.

He was incompetent and abandoned his country, and even when his country and the world were destroyed, he still remembered to teach his son the art of checks and balances.

Zhu Youlang continued, "Li Dingguo is the adopted son of the traitor Zhang Xianzhong. In the past, I used him to drive out Sun Kewang."

"When the traitor Sun Kewang defected to the Qing, he expelled Sun's former army. He also dismissed Bai Wenxuan and other Qin vassal generals. He even imprisoned the King of Shu, Liu Wenxiu, in Kunming. He died in depression, crying out before his death, 'Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao, you have invited wolves into the tiger'."

"You said I wouldn't go to Sichuan and Lake, and wouldn't defend western Yunnan."

"How could you have known that if we went to eastern Sichuan and lost Yunnan Province, the Thirteen Clans of Kuidong would kidnap you and me and make us the Emperor Xian of Han."

"They are the former generals of Li Ni who forced Emperor Lie to death. That Hao Yaoqi served under the command of He Tengjiao, the Governor of Huguang. He even robbed and tortured the emperor. You almost became a refugee like your elder and younger brothers."

"You said I betrayed Li Dingguo's generals in western Yunnan and fled south to Hongsha. How could you have known that this was a plan jointly agreed upon by Ma Jixiang and Li Dingguo's military advisor Jin Weixin?"

"Li Dingguo was afraid to go to Sichuan and Lake because there were many meritorious officials there. He was worried that the Thirteen Families, unlike him, would not obey his control."

After hearing this, Zhu Cixuan lay back on the chair.

This is because the Dashi Army and the Dashun Army have different origins.

Li Dingguo held absolute power in Yunnan Province, just like Sun Guozhu in Guizhou Province.

Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu's former generals Bai Wenxuan and others, together with Yuan Zongde and Hao Yaoqi, may be able to make Li Dingguo the leader of Sun.

"Father, you mentioned Cao Cao as Emperor Xian of Han, but you didn't know that many heroes fought for supremacy in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. Without Cao Cao, how many people would have claimed the title of emperor or king?"

"At that time, the Gui clan had not yet inherited the throne, and the likes of the Jingjiang Prince and the Little Tang Prince were countless."

"Father, why don't you be like Emperor Xian of Han, be obedient, and let Cao Cao pacify the world, at least so that the people will suffer less."

Now it was Zhu Youlang's turn to be dumbfounded. He never expected his rebellious son to be so crazy.

He did not want to hold the imperial power, but wanted to delegate it to "Cao Cao".

Or did they believe that Li Dingguo was Yue Wumu? He would not seize the throne as Sun Ni did.

Zhu Cixuan sat up and had Emperor Yongli sent back to his bedroom in the rear.

Zhu Youlang was about to go out in a daze.

Zhu Cixuan just spoke loudly.

"Father spoke of Emperor Taizong of Tang, but how could I have heard that he was afraid of Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao?"

"Li Jing led the army and sent generals. He was better than Han Baiwei and Huo, and far better than Dong Cao. Wasn't he also loyal and obedient under Emperor Taizong of Tang?"

"If it were during the reigns of Emperor Gaozu, Emperor Xiaowu, and Emperor Guangwu of Han, wouldn't Dong Zhuo have been a loyal and righteous man of the Han Dynasty, and wouldn't Cao Cao have been the General who Conquers the West!"

Then Emperor Yongli came to his senses and walked away.

Zhu Cixuan called the eunuch Li Chonggui, who held the imperial seal, and asked, "Does the Prince of Jin have a daughter?"

Father-in-law is also a father.

(End of this chapter)