Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 1350: Still Hit...

"Yes..." Zhu Yuanzhang said in Fengyang dialect, feeling relieved, and his nose felt sore. He quickly turned his head away, took two deep breaths, and then he held back from crying like the prince.

"Father, my brothers have won. The Northern Yuan Emperor has been captured, and the Imperial Seal has been taken!" The Crown Prince came forward with the victory report, still with tears in his eyes, and said, "The most important thing is that they are all fine!"

"What's so exciting about this?" Zhu Yuanzhang said in a muffled voice, "My sons all went out together, and they couldn't deal with a small Wala?"

"This..." The prince was choked by his father's calmness. "Shouldn't I be excited?"

"I can only say that I can finally sleep peacefully." Zhu Yuanzhang said calmly: "Put this paper on the table, and you can go back and catch up on your sleep."

"Well, OK." The prince had no choice but to nod, put down the victory report, and left. Seeing the blazing red sun rising outside, he couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "How can I sleep?"

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In the Wuying Hall, Zhu Yuanzhang picked up the victory report, read it carefully twice, then put it aside and began to review memorials.

Unfortunately, he couldn't calm down, so he put it down after reading only two copies. He stood up and ordered, "Go to Kunning Palace."

As he spoke, he walked towards the palace gate, but turned back halfway, put the report into his sleeve, then went outside the palace, got on the carriage, and went to Kunning Palace.

After entering the Kunning Palace, Zhu Yuanzhang went straight to the Buddhist temple in the backyard.

"Your Majesty." The palace servants outside the Buddhist temple hurriedly knelt down.

"You guys retreat first." Zhu Yuanzhang said, and then he pushed open the door of the Buddhist hall in a hurry, and shouted loudly: "Old woman, don't worry, our sons have won the battle!"

"Keep your voice down, don't disturb the Bodhisattva." Queen Ma was frightened by him, scolded him, and then quickly thanked the Bodhisattva.

Zhu Yuanzhang also lit a stick of incense and bowed three times to Guanyin. After offering the incense, he couldn't wait to show off: "Do you know that they captured the Northern Yuan emperor and seized the imperial seal of the Yuan Dynasty! Hahaha, beautiful, beautiful, well done!"

In front of Queen Ma, he stopped pretending and jumped for joy, as happy as a 180-pound child. "Hahaha, who dares to say that I don't know how to teach my son?!"

Empress Ma looked at the dancing emperor lovingly, and waited until he had vented his excitement before asking, "Are the children all right?"

"It's okay. We've already said we won a great victory. What could possibly happen?" Zhu Yuanzhang took out the report and handed it to Empress Ma, saying, "The only one who got into trouble was the fourth son. He was beaten with eighty military sticks by the sixth son, but he totally deserved it!"

"No matter how tough the fourth brother is, he won't be able to withstand eighty blows." Empress Ma took the report with distress and read it. "It must be your order, right?"

"Haha, yes." Zhu Yuanzhang knew that he could not hide it from Empress Ma, so he snorted and said, "Eighty military sticks are just appetizers. There will be a main course waiting for him when he returns to Beijing."

"What? Are you going to dismember the fourth and fifth sons?" Queen Ma rolled her eyes at him.

Zhu Yuanzhang was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth. It is true that no one knows a husband better than his wife. She guessed it right away.

"What? Are you really planning to take the fourth prince's life?" Queen Ma suddenly raised her voice upon seeing this.

"Ah, I did say something similar..." Zhu Yuanzhang said awkwardly. "No." Empress Ma said decisively: "Kill me first."

"Look, here we go again." Zhu Yuanzhang scratched his head helplessly, then said with a gloomy face: "The fourth brother's crime this time is too serious. There has never been a general in the Ming Dynasty who disobeyed orders. If we don't punish him severely, we will not be able to explain ourselves."

"Then why did you send people to rescue him? Just let him die in Mobei!" Queen Ma said angrily.

"That's our son, how can we just ignore him?" Zhu Yuanzhang blurted out, and then he sighed and said, "Well, to be honest, of course we don't want him to die, but there is no reason not to kill him, understand?"

"Why don't you have a reason?" Empress Ma pointed at Jie and reported, "Sixth Prince said that it was Fourth Prince who captured the Northern Yuan Emperor and seized the imperial seal. With such a great contribution, why can't he be spared?"

"Alas, you have been in the army for a long time, how could you not know the principle of 'disobeying orders, no reward even if it is meritorious'?" Zhu Yuanzhang sighed again and said: "Tell me, which is more important, the military law and discipline we have established in the past 30 years, or the fourth brother?"

"They are all important." Empress Ma answered without hesitation: "No matter what you say, the fourth son's situation is different from the seventh son's. If you sacrifice your relatives for the sake of justice again this time, I will go with the fourth son."

"You said it as if I wanted to kill him." Zhu Yuanzhang said aggrievedly: "Although I wanted to tear him into pieces at that time, now if I beat him up again, I will completely calm down. But I can't find a reason to pardon him, understand?"

"Yes." Empress Ma was not the kind of woman who didn't understand things. She certainly knew her husband's difficulties. "Think of another way. We can't be without the fourth child anymore."

"We know, we know, let us think about it." Zhu Yuanzhang rubbed his temple with a sad face, all his excitement gone.

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The emperor and empress didn't expect that this huge problem would be solved in three days...

At noon that day, Boss Zhu was reviewing memorials while worrying, when he saw the Crown Prince rushing in, shouting, "Father, the latest memorial has arrived!"

"Oh." Zhu Yuanzhang responded. After knowing the ending, he lost interest in following the story.

"The Sixth Brother and the others have decided to seal the Wolf's Lair and abdicate to Guyan!" But the prince's words made Zhu Yuanzhang uneasy again.

"What?!" Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes widened. He snatched the report from the prince's hand and read it carefully. "This old man always comes up with new tricks for us!"

Although he knew that his father would definitely not care, the prince still wanted to explain it in case someone used the "fengshan" matter to attack the sixth brother.

"In fact, I have known about this for a long time. Lao Liu said in a letter before that it would be a pity if we didn't declare sovereignty like Huo Qubing when we were already at Langjuxu Mountain. So he asked me if we could also 'confer the Langjuxu, abdicate at Guyan, and drink from the vast sea'."

The prince patched it up and said, "Anyway, their achievements are enough. I certainly won't object to such a grand feat."

"You knew it a long time ago, why didn't you tell us earlier?" Zhu Yuanzhang glared at him in dissatisfaction.

"Father was angry at the time, and I was afraid that if I told him, it would make him angry." The prince smiled and said, "I thought that the Marquis of Guanjun did not ask Emperor Wu of Han for permission in advance. Father's temperament is far greater than that of Emperor Wu of Han. How could he not agree to such a good thing that would bring glory to the Ming Dynasty?"

"Of course I won't object." Zhu Yuanzhang said leisurely and fascinatedly: "You don't know, when Tiande and Boren went north to fight, I made an agreement with them that if they could capture Emperor Shun of Yuan Dynasty, they would be allowed to conquer the Wolf's Lair. I hope that our general can achieve the same achievements as Huo Qubing..."

(End of this chapter)