Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 1344 Impulse Punishment

After hearing the news revealed by Zhu Gang, Zhu Di did not dare to delay any longer, nor did he dare to play the trick of self-torture. He quickly followed his two brothers to meet the sixth brother.

"Sixth brother, I'm here to surrender." Zhu Di accompanied Xiaoxin and came in front of Zhu Zhen.

"Fourth brother..." Zhu Zhen held his shoulders, looking him up and down with red eyes, "How much suffering have you endured? How thin have you become?"

"Ah, it was really painful. I ate horse meat every day for more than a month. Sometimes I didn't have time to light a fire, so I had to eat it raw." Zhu Di quickly said, "But I asked for it. It's not worth feeling sorry for. It's you who got scolded by the emperor and had to come to Mobei to find me. I'm such a jerk."

Seeing that Zhu Di was safe and sound, Zhu Zhen finally let go of his worries and said with a gloomy face, "Just know it yourself."

Then he ordered in a deep voice: "Tie him up first!"

The two guards stepped forward and whispered to the fourth master: "Your Majesty, I am sorry."

Zhu Di obediently put his hands behind his back and let them tie him up.

"Tell me, how can you be so absurd?" Zhu Zhen scolded mercilessly: "You have no regard for military discipline, disobey military orders, disregard the overall situation, and act on your own!"

He pointed at Zhu Di angrily and said, "Do you know how much trouble your reckless behavior has brought to the army? Originally, after the victory at Buir Lake, the army could have returned victoriously, but in the end, they had to wait for you in Hailar for half a month!"

"Why are you waiting for us? Can't you just go back?" Zhu Di muttered softly.

"Kneel down!" Zhu Zhen was so angry that he slammed the table when he saw that his attitude was not correct.

Zhu Di quickly knelt down obediently and dared not say anything more.

"Why do you think they dare not go back? It's all because of you, Your Highness Prince of Yan!" Zhu Zhen became more and more angry as he spoke: "Even if Lan Yu had the courage, he wouldn't dare to abandon you, Your Highness Prince of Yan, and return to the court!"

"Then, are they still waiting in Bui'er Lake?" Zhu Di asked in a low voice.

"I have asked them to return home." Zhu Zhen said coldly, "I told them that it was my negligence that caused such a big mess. It has nothing to do with them. I will bear all the responsibility. Only then did they dare to return home."

"It was originally a grand event for the country, a great victory not seen in a hundred years, but you made such a fuss that everyone from Fu Youde to Lan Yu wrote to apologize for their crimes, and no one dared to boast of their achievements." Zhu Zhen sighed, "When the emperor found out, he was furious and wanted to peel off your skin! He issued six imperial edicts in a row, ordering me to quickly bring you back and send you to the capital. He wanted to deal with you personally!"

"Oh..." Zhu Di responded dejectedly, but he was not surprised. He had long guessed that he would return to Beijing in a prison car.

This time he really dared to offend the world and violated military discipline and national laws. My father regarded military discipline as more important than anything else, so how could he let him off?

"How does your Majesty plan to deal with me?" Zhu Di asked tentatively.

"I was just going to let you know." Then Zhu Zhen slammed the table and said, "Come here, drag the Prince of Yan away and give him eighty strokes of the cane!"

"Yes!" The guards responded in a deep voice and pushed Zhu Di out of the tent.

Outside the tent, generals including Ping An and Zhang Yu were also brought in. They saw Zhu Di being tied up and pushed out, and tied to a torture bench.

The two burly guards took off their shirts and raised their military sticks.

"Wait! We want to see the Sixth Prince!" Zhang Yu and others shouted hurriedly, "We have something to say!" "Bring them in." Zhu Zhen said in the central military tent.

As soon as Zhang Yu and his companions entered the tent, they knelt down and kowtowed, begging Zhu Zhen to spare Zhu Di's life:
"Your Highness, His Royal Highness the Prince of Yan did make a serious mistake, but considering that he captured Emperor Yuan alive and seized the Imperial Seal, which is a great achievement, please forgive him this time!"

"Yes, Your Highness. It's all our fault for not stopping the Prince of Yan. If Your Highness wants to fight, then fight us!"

"Let's put things one by one. Your faults will be investigated later. Now I will punish the mastermind first!" Zhu Zhen said coldly, "You are all senior officers and are familiar with military law and discipline. How could you not know the principle of 'disobeying orders, no reward even if you have made contributions'? It is true that the Prince of Yan has made great contributions, but he disobeyed orders first and then violated discipline, and the nature of his actions is so bad. If you also use this method of atonement for merit, who will take military discipline seriously from now on?!"

He added in a more serious tone: "Without the military discipline that enforces orders, will we still be the invincible army that wins every battle?"

"..." After Zhu Zhen said this, what else could Zhang Yu and others say? They could only beg and plead to let them take the punishment in place of the prince.

"No." Zhu Zhen shook his head decisively and said, "The eighty-year caning of Prince Yan is an imperial decree. How can you replace it?!"

As he said this, he threw the burning sign and said, "Execute!"

Outside the central army tent, muffled banging sounds were heard. Zhang Yu and others burst into tears and wanted to rush out to rescue the emperor, but were held down by Zhu Zhen's guards.

"A bunch of idiots!" King Jin scolded in a low voice: "Is the Sixth Brother closer to the Fourth Brother, or are you closer to the Fourth Brother? If I can plead for him, do I need you?!"

After saying this, he looked at a few people meaningfully, and Zhang Yu and others stopped struggling.

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It was just when the troops were withdrawing to the camp, and all the soldiers saw the scene of Prince Yan being tortured.

Except for the Yanshan Left Guard and the Liaoyang Guard, the officers and soldiers felt quite relieved when they saw this.

In order to meet Zhu Di, they traveled two thousand miles day and night, all the way north to Langjuxu Mountain, crossing the desert, sleeping in the open air. One can imagine how resentful they were towards Zhu Di.

So if Zhu Zhen didn't punish Lao Si in public, the morale and discipline of this army would really collapse...

After eighty beatings with the military stick, the guards carried the unconscious Prince of Yan, whose skin was torn and flesh was bleeding, around the camp and paraded him around the crowd before sending him back to the central military tent.

Prince of Zhou, Zhu Su, had been waiting there for a long time. He quickly had Prince of Yan carried into the inner room to treat his wounds.

Zhu Zhen's three brothers stood by the bed, watching the fourth brother's buttocks, which were completely devoid of healthy flesh. Zhu Zhen complained to the sixth brother distressedly, "You really want to be beaten?"

"We are all warriors who have been dealing with swords and guns for half our lives. How can we fool anyone if we don't really fight?" Zhu Gang said in a deep voice: "You have seen the resentment of the guys towards the fourth brother. If the soldiers find out that the sixth brother is fooling them, wouldn't it be like adding fuel to the fire?"

"Well, you can't beat him to death." Zhu Chong still couldn't accept it.

"I didn't beat him to death." The fifth brother used scissors to trim the broken skin and flesh on the fourth brother's buttocks, and said leisurely: "It's a hard beating, but it's all flesh wounds, no bones were broken."

"Of course, we are professionals." Zhu Gang said with a chuckle, "I saw that the two people who carried out the execution were from the Jinyiwei, so I knew it would be like this."

"Alas." Zhu Zhen, who had been looking serious, heaved a sigh of relief when he heard that his fifth brother had no broken bones. "It's hard to be a bad guy."

(End of this chapter)