On the tenth day of the fifth lunar month in the fifth year of Chongzhen reign in the Ming Dynasty, a group, no, three groups of neatly dressed people had gathered outside Juiyang Gate and near Juishui River. Why were there three groups? Because two of them looked like

The enemies responded with angry expressions and almost rushed forward to fight. The group in the middle were peacemakers who separated the two groups so that they would not get off the stage if they started fighting.

Bi Ziyan, who had just been transferred from the governor of Shaanxi to the governor of Henan, was the one standing in the middle. He was surrounded by a group of begging county magistrates and begging magistrates from Shaanxi, as well as a group of chief envoys and envoys from Henan Province.

The chief soldier, the deputy chief soldier, and oh, there was also Chen Zhenhao, the sighing prefect of Nanyang.

There are many reasons why the Nanyang magistrate sighed. Last year's drought in Nanyang Prefecture was one, and this year's more than 300,000 Shaanxi begging soldiers who came from Shangluo Road were one. However, these were not the biggest headaches for Chen Zhenhao. What gave him the biggest headache.

It's the Prince of Tang's Mansion in Nanyang City who has been having internal strife every now and then!

That's right, it was the internal strife in the palace of the Ming Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty! It was the internal strife among a group of descendants of Tang Ding Wang Zhu Huang, the 23rd son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, internal strife between the sons of dragons and their grandsons is not uncommon. There are numerous examples in all dynasties. Even in the history of the Ming Dynasty, there was a major internal strife that changed the direction of history - the Battle of Jingnan.

However, the internal strife that occurred in Nanyang Fucheng among the descendants of Tang Ding Wang Zhu Kuang was not a big battle like the Battle of Jingnan, but a petty fight. It was so small that he couldn't even shine a knife.

They just beat each other in the city with sticks and bricks.

This is difficult for Chen Zhenhao, the prefect of Nanyang. He is a first- and fourth-grade prefect, and his official position is not small, but he really cannot control a group of county kings, generals who govern the country, generals who support the country, generals who serve the country, and various lieutenants.

What a fight!

He couldn't send troops to the streets to kill these descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang, and all the reports he gave to the court about the intraclan fighting in Nanyang City fell into disgrace.

Because he was cornered by a fight between a group of eldest sons, Chen Zhenhao also inquired through his connections. He also learned that the cabinet had its first internal strife over the succession of the Tang vassal as early as the second year of Chongzhen, when the old Tang king Zhu Shuohe passed away.

After that, a suggestion was made - to appoint Zhu Yujian, the grandson of the old Tang Dynasty King Zhu Shuoji (the prince's younger heir) as the Tang Crown Prince, and to thoroughly investigate the cause of death of the previous Tang Crown Prince Zhu Qiqi!

However, after the cabinet's suggestions were sent to the emperor Zhu Youjian, they were like nothing more.

A few months before the death of King Zhu Shuoji of the Old Tang Dynasty, the King of Old Tang requested that the prince of Fushan, King Zhu Qizhuang, be crowned the prince because of his sudden death. The memorial also fell into disgrace - it was neither rejected nor approved.

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In other words, after the death of Zhu Shuoji, there was a "big vacancy" in the Tang palace. There was neither the Tang king nor the Tang crown prince.

As a result, the two forces in the Tang palace were one - the Fushan King Zhu Qishuan, who was favored by the old Tang King Zhu Shuoji, and his half-brother Anyang King Zhu Qiquan, and the Tang Crown Prince Zhu Qiqi's eldest son Zhu Yujian and his

Several younger brothers started a "fierce" fight for another group.

Both parties wanted to seize the throne of the Tang Dynasty, and also wanted to seize the wealth in the Tang Dynasty palace. So they both went to the court to claim the throne and accused their opponents of being "unfilial" or "murdering the prince."

While submitting the letter, both factions gathered a group of close eldest sons, armed with sticks and stones, to "seize control" of Nanyang Imperial City by force - the imperial city's treasury could store a large amount of silver!

People from both groups felt that whoever got this money could use it to carry out activities in Beijing, clear the way, and obtain the throne of Tang Dynasty King!

However, the two sides fought several games in a row, and it was difficult to determine the winner - Fushan King Zhu Qishun and his half-brother Anyang King Zhu Qicun were both county kings themselves, and they were favored by the old Tang King.

With a lot of savings, of course I can buy more Zongzi-level thugs.

As for Zhu Yujian and several of his brothers, because their father had been trapped in a trap by their grandfather for a long time, they had never lived a pampered princely life since they were young, and they even had a bit of bitterness and hatred!

The prince, who suffered greatly and had deep hatred, was of course fierce when fighting. He dared to fight, charge and kill. So although they had a small number of people, they never lost when they faced opponents several times their size. And they often did so.

He beat his opponent until his hands and feet were broken, and even almost killed him!

Because of this matter, the King of Fushan Zhu Qishuan and the King of Anyang Zhu Qiqun also complained to the imperial court... but Zhu Youjian still ignored it.

Without him as the emperor to make the final decision, no one would be able to control the internal strife among the clansmen in Nanyang City!

Chen Zhenhao, the prefect of Nanyang, is in trouble. In the city he governs, there are a group of untouchable men fighting all day long, inevitably injuring passers-by and destroying shops... The gentry businessmen in Nanyang City

Of course, we have to find Chen Zhenhao, the prefect, to come forward.

But what can Chen Zhenhao do? He can lead people to persuade the two groups to make peace, and he can forcefully separate the two groups, but he can't arrest people and kill people, let alone solve the internal strife in Nanyang City... There are ways to solve the problem.

Only the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.

But the emperor just doesn’t care!

But this time the emperor has come to Nanyang, so he can't just ignore things anymore, right?

Chen Zhenhao looked to his left and right, and saw that both groups of disciples were in a defensive posture.

A large group of people came out from Fushan Wang Zhu Qishuan and Anyang Wang Zhu Qichun, and there were many wounded people with broken arms and legs. Some were on crutches, and some were sitting on stretchers. They looked pitiful...

There were much fewer people on Zhu Yujian's side, and there were no wounded, but Zhu Yujian and several of his brothers were all wearing sackcloth and mourning. Among them, Zhu Yujian himself was holding the memorial tablet of his late son, Zhu Shuoyu.

It's really strange that Tang Fan took over like this. Who knows that the Ming Emperor, who was both dim and wise, and often went out of his way to do things, would do this?

The rapid and dense sound of horse hoofbeats came from far and near again, and in the blink of an eye, a large group of red knights appeared in the sight of the people waiting outside the Chuiyang Gate of Nanyang City.

Also appearing at the same time were twelve dragon flags symbolizing the emperor!

Zhu Youjian came, not with the mighty emperor's chariot, but with more than a thousand cavalry, galloping over, and everyone was carrying carbines, the tips of the spears shone coldly in the sun, jumping up and down. And

These more than a thousand cavalrymen were very neatly organized and galloped along the official road along the edge of the Feishui River in four columns without any disarray.

In the blink of an eye, this astonishing cavalry had arrived at Tuoyang Gate and formed a horizontal formation. The knights all took off their carbines and assumed a posture of charging into the formation at any time.

Zhu Youjian, surrounded by dozens of cavalry, jumped out of the crowd and arrived in front of the three large groups of people outside the Tuoyang Gate.

"I sincerely wish you holy peace, long live, long live, long live..."

When the three large groups of people saw Zhu Youjian, who was wearing a dragon-patterned hood outside his plate armor, Bi Ziyan and others, who recognized Zhu Youjian, took the lead and bowed in obeisance.

"Ping Shen!" Zhu Youjian smiled as he watched everyone straighten up. Without waiting for Zhu Yujian, who was holding the spirit tablet, to speak, he asked, "How come someone is holding the spirit tablet? Did the Nanyang clan finally kill someone in a group fight?"

What does it mean to finally kill someone?

You, a long-lived man, are looking forward to killing people in the Nanyang clan?

"Long live the Lord," while everyone was in a daze, Zhu Yujian, who was holding the spiritual tablet, said loudly, "This is the spiritual throne of Chen's father, the son of Tang Fan... Chen's father is the traitor Zhu Qi.

"Shuang, Zhu Qiqi was harmed. I, Zhu Yujian, ask Long Live Lord to uphold justice!"

As he spoke, Zhu Yujian knelt down to Zhu Youjian.

Zhu Qishun on the other side immediately started to protest loudly after hearing this.

"Long live my lord, my brother died of a long illness!"

"Long live my Lord, Zhu Yujian is the late king's rebellious grandson. Before the late king passed away, he had already reported to the court that he wanted to deprive his eldest son of his position as the legitimate eldest son. However, this son was unruly and cruel, refused to obey the late king's discipline, and even angered the late king to death. Later, he even violated the regulations.

According to the late king’s last wish, it is really treasonous to rob the palace!”

Zhu Youjian waved his hand and said: "Don't tell me these useless things... I just want to ask, have you been fighting internally for several years, have you lost any lives?"
Chapter completed!