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tomorrow.

Yongle period.

In the side hall of the imperial palace, the atmosphere was extremely heavy. Zhu Di sat upright on a chair with a complicated expression as he looked at his three sons and one grandson in front of him.

Zhu Gaochi, who had always been by Zhu Di's side, was now kneeling on the ground with sweat dripping down his fat face.

Ever since the Xuanwu Gate Incident led by Li Shimin, Zhu Di has been in a bad mood.

When the video of "Candle Shadow and Axe Sound" was played on the sky screen, Zhu Di's emotions finally got out of control, causing him and later Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Gaosui and Zhu Zhanji to kneel on the ground.

Zhu Gaochi knew why Zhu Di was in a bad mood. He was simply afraid that they would kill each other and cause another tragedy of Zhu family members killing Zhu family members.

But this was not something he could decide. He also wanted to be friendly and respectful to his brothers, but the second and third brothers were pressing him step by step, so he had to fight.

If we trace the root of the problem, we still have to blame Zhu Di. Who made him say "The prince is ill, you should encourage him" when he was in Fengtian Jingnan?

Zhu Di seemed to know that he was in the wrong, and his eyes were full of guilt and self-blame when he looked at them.

After hesitating for a long time, he said, "My generation has finished the work. You must stop making trouble and stop making trouble. Everything is fine."

"OK?"

"Just think of it as Dad begging you."

"In the future, history books will say that I, Zhu Di, am a bad person, but my descendants... my descendants are all good people."

At this point, Zhu Di's voice already had a hint of tears.

The four people kneeling on the ground looked at each other, all in silence.

When Zhu Di saw this, his heart ached even more.

"Big brother, when I led the second and third brothers to conquer the world, you stayed at the rear and relieved your father of all worries. I remember your kindness. I scold you because I want you to be better than me."

"When your mother gave birth to you, your father was still fighting a bloody battle with the enemy. He didn't know if he could survive. Later, when he found out that he had a son, he happily drank a gourd of wine. My son, your father knows that you have suffered the most and that you have been wronged. I know all of this. It's my fault."

"But there are no parents who are not right in the world. Stop arguing with Dad, okay?"

Zhu Gaochi was already crying loudly at this time, but he remained silent, and his crying only became louder and louder.

Zhu Di sighed helplessly, looked at Zhu Gaoxu, stroked Zhu Gaochi's face with his hand, his eyes full of heartache: "Second brother, you have been with your father through life and death since you were a child. When you were still young, your father took you to the battlefield to kill the enemy. Your father remembers every scar on your body."

"Every time you get hurt, the pain is on your body, but it hurts in your heart. I don't have the ability to get hurt for you, so I can only promote every doctor who treats you, for fear that they won't treat you well."

"Dad knows that I owe you too much. Even my life... was snatched back from the King of Hell by you. But our Zhu family can no longer... can no longer kill each other. We can't let future generations laugh at us, and we can't become their laughing stock. Do you understand?"

As he spoke, Zhu Di rested his forehead against Zhu Gaoxu's, choking with sobs.

Zhu Gaoxu clenched his fists, his eyes red, and kowtowed three times in a row, "bang bang bang", leaving cracks on the floor.

"And third brother, you are not as capable as your two brothers, but you are very careful. Every time we go out to fight, you patrol outside for the whole night. Dad understands, Dad understands everything."

"But Dad can't say it out loud. If the emperor's son doesn't suffer, who will fight for our Zhu family?"

Zhu Di patted Zhu Gaosui's cheek with his shaking hands: "Help your elder brother well in the future and stop making trouble, okay?"

"I know...I know, Dad."

Zhu Gaosui kowtowed deeply and was reluctant to stand up.

Zhu Di finally looked at Zhu Zhanji and said, "Boy, you look like me in every way. If your last name wasn't Zhu, I would have strangled you to death today. It just so happens that you are here today. You two swear to me that you will never stain your hands with the blood of your fellow brothers in the future."

Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Gaoxu, Zhu Gaosui and Zhu Zhanji were all shocked when they heard this.

Seeing Zhu Di's serious expression, they knew that if they didn't follow the old man's wishes today, he would definitely not let it go.

Zhu Di took out a dagger and cut a knife on his palm. Then he placed his hand between the four people and said to them word by word: "Gods and ghosts of heaven and earth, if my descendants kill the descendants of Zhu family, God will make them die young and not have a good end!"

"Say!"

The other four followed suit, folding their hands on Zhu Di's, and swore in unison: "Gods and ghosts of heaven and earth, if I kill the descendants of the Zhu family, I will die young and not have a good end!"

The blood from the five people's palms first scattered everywhere, then finally gathered into a line and dripped onto the ground.

At this moment, they seemed to hear the echo of history, reverberating for a long time in this quiet side hall.

……

[In 1004 AD, the Liao Kingdom launched a massive attack on the Northern Song Dynasty. The Song army defeated the Liao army, and Song Zhenzong negotiated peace and formed an alliance with the Liao Kingdom, which was known in history as the "Chanyuan Alliance". From then on, the Song Dynasty began to pay annual tribute to the Liao Kingdom. ]

——"Signing an alliance after winning the war is unheard of."

——"How could an emperor like Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty have the nerve to go to Mount Tai to offer sacrifices to the gods?"

——"In fact, this alliance was not that humiliating. There was no cession of territory. It was just 300,000 taels of silver per year. In addition, a border market was opened with the Liao Kingdom. From an economic perspective, the Song Dynasty actually made a huge profit."

——"Indeed, this treaty depends on how you look at it. After signing this treaty, there was basically no war with the Liao Kingdom. The Song Dynasty almost gained a hundred years of peace. From the perspective of the people, this is a good thing."

——"Isn't it humiliating? At that time, the Khitan came from afar, the military rations were gone, and the general was dead. Dasong could have eaten up the Liao army and taken back the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. In that case, perhaps the entire history of China would have been rewritten. But what was the result? Peace talks?"

——"From the perspective of the time, it was indeed a good thing, but in the long run, the integrity was lost, the military gradually relaxed, and the idea of ​​living in a corner dominated the mainstream, which laid the groundwork for the humiliation that followed."

[In 1038 AD, Li Yuanhao proclaimed himself emperor and established Western Xia. ]

——“I recommend Jimei to watch “Youngsters of the Great Song Dynasty”.”

——"I've seen it, and Li Yuanhao in it is so powerful that it's terrifying.

[In 1044 AD, the Northern Song Dynasty was repeatedly defeated in the war with the Western Xia Dynasty and finally negotiated peace, which is known in history as the "Qingli Peace Agreement."]

[In 1069 AD, Wang Anshi launched the Reform Movement, which was another large-scale social reform movement after Shang Yang's Reform Movement, but it ended in failure.]

——"Wang Anshi's original intention was good, but unfortunately he underestimated the evil of human nature."

——"The reform system lacks consideration and the execution lacks supervision, but no matter what, Lao Wang is a capable person who cares about the country and the people."

——"The Song Dynasty had many mediocre rulers and could hardly prosper."

——"The failure of Wang Anshi's reform had little to do with Song Shenzong. Generally speaking, Song Shenzong was a very good partner. The main reason was that Wang Anshi himself was too idealistic."

——"Just to ask a question off topic, is it true that Lao Wang is smelly and doesn't like to take a bath?"

——"It's true. Historical records show that he was very sloppy, but it's hard to say whether his political enemies or later generations wrote that deliberately to discredit him."