Chapter 7 Section 7 Zhu Di’s method of building connections

This year, Zhu Di was forty years old, which was the peak time of a man's life.The combination of brain power and experience is just right, waiting for some big event to vent the power stored in the body.King Yan and the little emperor are completely opposite in temperament.Zhu Di is tall and burly, and he speaks in a high-pitched and loud voice, speaking quickly and resolutely.Say the last three sentences, just hit a haha, often swear or tell a joke, which makes people feel even more airless. He pays great attention to safeguarding the interests of his subordinates or friends.The military pay level of Yan Bing is the highest in the empire.When his subordinates ask him for something, no matter how big or small the matter is, as long as it doesn't violate the principle, he will happily handle it.For those who want to be promoted, he actively helps to find a way; for those who cannot be repaid with official positions, he rewards them generously with property.Compassionate people is well-known.

King Yan likes private visits in microservices.Once, a servant of a small tax office forced to "borrow" mutton from a peddler in the market, but the peddler refused, and the clerk beat the peddler until his head was covered in blood.It happened that King Yan passed by in Weifu. Seeing this situation, he became angry for a while and chopped off the servant with a sword.Usually, when meeting beggars on the road, King Yan must stop and ask the people around him to drop some money.Another time, King Yan met a father and daughter who had fled from Shandong. The father was sick on the side of the road and had no money to see a doctor, while the daughter was crying.King Yan's eye circles were red at that time, and he immediately ordered the father and daughter to be sent to the palace, ordered the imperial doctor of the palace to treat them personally, and later sent the father and daughter back to Shandong.

In Beiping Mansion, there are many anecdotes about King Yan's hatred of evil, eliminating harm for the people, cherishing the old and pity the poor, and they are widely circulated.King Yan won the hearts of the people in his own territory.Most of the local officials and generals who had stayed in Beiping were taken under the wing of King Yan. Therefore, in the early morning of the fifth day of July in the first year of Jianwen (1399 AD), when Zhu Di led his 800 soldiers to fight against Emperor Jianwen, he was full of confidence.On the surface, the situation at that moment was indeed critical and thrilling.The strength of the two sides is very different.The fortresses around Beiping have been guarded by cronies appointed by the imperial court, and the total number of troops is more than 100,000.And what Zhu Di can control is only the 800 soldiers in the mansion.However, Zhu Di didn't see it that way.Among the more than 100,000 people, his real enemies are only a few people sent by Emperor Jianwen.As long as the few cronies of Emperor Jianwen are removed, he believes that his old subordinates will gather under his command.

Human feelings are greater than laws, this is an eternal truth.The personal connections he has built up over the years are much more powerful than a paper edict from the imperial court.Sure enough, after he used tricks to get rid of several ministers sent by Emperor Jianwen, his old ministries quickly turned against each other, and the court officials in Beiping City surrendered one after another.