The first thing he started when he ascended the throne was to burn his father's blood-stained war report.
"My father has shed enough blood to dye three Yellow Rivers red," Zhu Gaochi, Emperor Renzong of the Ming Dynasty, stroked the cold seal of the truce, "It's time to stop."
In the first year of Hongxi, the dragon throne was not stable. This new emperor, who was weighed down by his obesity and illness, burst out with astonishing courage: he stopped sailing to the Western Ocean, the treasure ship was sealed, and the jade gui in Zheng He's hand crashed to the ground! At the end of the Northern Expedition, the nobles at the border gates knelt down and filled the palace gates. The Marquis of Jing'an, Li Yong, angrily ordered to follow him personally! Suppressing eunuchs and promoting civil servants, the four imperial edicts are like knives, slashing towards the empire!
Civil servants praised him for his sage, and the common people were grateful for his benevolent government. Suddenly, the war broke out on the border and the undercurrent in the court surged. The fallen nobles, the sinister eunuchs, and the eyeing King of Han all formed a huge web of backlash.
"I would rather lose the army than the common people!" The emperor who coughed up blood burned his life among the piles of memorials, just for the pure land of benevolent government in his heart. The wise empress Zhang's heart was as sharp as a knife, and the prince Zhu Zhanji witnessed his ideals being shattered in front of the iron wall of reality.
In just ten months, the idealistic emperor made a tragic breakthrough.
On his deathbed, he heard his chosen heir whisper to his ministers: "What my father cut off... I will take it back with my own hands..."
The fire of ideals burns out in ten days. Before the embers have cooled, the great ship of the empire has already sailed towards the unknown waves between benevolence and martial arts, destruction and establishment.
Is this a doomed defeat? Or a desperate burning that illuminates history?
