I'm really not doing business

Chapter 609 This time the patient is the Ming Emperor
The main interest of the Ming Dynasty in Japan is silver, and the means to ensure the inflow of silver include: treasure notes, sale of military equipment, and profits brought by commodity advantages. These three are the most important means for the Ming Dynasty to plunder silver from Japan.

There is a debate in the Ming Dynasty court that needs to be verified on Japan, that is, the debate about more currency and more goods.

Baochao is more currency, which greatly alleviated the money shortage in Japan, making the commodity exchange in Japan more frequent. However, due to the low productivity and population of Japan, it naturally became a commodity to exchange for more currency. In the past, one tael of silver was a currency worth one tael of silver, but now only seven coins of silver can be exchanged for a currency worth one tael of silver, and the currency has become sufficient;
The merchant ships from Ming Dynasty to Japan carried a large amount of goods, which filled the shortage of goods in Japan. As a result, Japan's economy was improving rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At this point, we can draw a conclusion, that is, money and goods have never been completely opposite. These two propositions are not incompatible, but a contradictory unity. There is both opposition and mutual complementation, a unity of yin and yang.

Since the theory of contradiction came into being, its content has been verified time and again for its universality.

The most crucial point about the theory of contradiction is that it never provides an ideal country like the world of great harmony. All schools of thought and factions will construct an ideal country, just like the other side in religion. The theory of contradiction will not deceive scholars or supporters, and will not tell learners that there is some kind of fascinating other side in this world. It is a methodology that tells you how to understand the world.

The world always operates according to the principle of opposition and unity of the theory of contradiction. This is also the most domineering aspect of the theory of contradiction, its inclusiveness that embraces all rivers.

The enemy of the theory of contradiction is the extreme opposing views, the extreme opposition of either black or white.

So, what was the price of Japan's prosperity? The population of 9 million people was reduced to 8 million due to war, plague, and trade; more people were displaced and had to sell their land, children, and themselves in exchange for insignificant labor remuneration; more women could only engage in prostitution to fill their stomachs.

Japan is becoming visibly deformed.

Xu Wei glanced out the window. Spring in Nagasaki would arrive earlier due to the influence of ocean currents. There was no fog today and visibility was extremely high. The blue sky and the sea were connected into one and could not be distinguished from each other. The sea and the sky were connected, and seagulls were flying over the pier and landing on the mast to comb their feathers. It was quiet and peaceful.

Xu Wei said with emotion: "According to the contradiction theory, now that Japan has developed to this state, there should be a court that is above all classes in Japan to mediate various contradictions, so that the various classes in Japan will not destroy themselves under fierce contradictions and conflicts. Oda Nobunaga's Azuchi shogunate should perform this duty."

"But unfortunately, he couldn't do it. It wasn't because the existence of the Nagasaki Governor's Office was a thorn in Nobunaga Oda's side, but because Nobunaga Oda couldn't eliminate the local separatist clans, such as Mori Terumoto."

The Mori family controlled the largest silver mine in Japan, Iwami Silver Mine. After the Ming Dynasty's soot blowing method and the Western amalgam method were introduced to Japan, the silver production of Iwami Silver Mine increased year by year. The sufficient silver production gave the Mori family more war resources, which was also the fundamental reason why Mori Terumoto was able to fight again and again despite repeated defeats.

Oda Nobunaga was unable to destroy Mori Terumoto, and he would not be able to do so even if he was given another ten or twenty years.

Oda Nobunaga was a rare talent in Japan in hundreds of years, but he was unable to eliminate the local separatist regimes and achieve great unification. It would be impossible to establish an imperial court that was above all classes, and conflicts could not be resolved. The poor and laboring people would be trapped in the purgatory of exploitation forever.

This is determined by production relations, not because of a vicious curse of hatred.

The greatest consensus formed in the Central Plains during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period before the Qin Dynasty was great unification, that is, to eliminate separatist forces and build a court that was above all classes. Because the Northern Song Dynasty failed to recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, it could only claim to be the legitimate dynasty together with the Liao Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty.

"Can our Nagasaki Governor's Office become this force? Replace the shogunate and become the de facto court of Japan?" Luo Yinghe asked curiously. He wanted to know whether Xu Wei had any ideas about establishing a country overseas.

The great pirate during the Jiajing period, Prince Hui Wang Zhi, was actually very similar to the current Nagasaki Governor's Office. Wang Zhi's lair was on Hirado Island outside Nagasaki. Wang Zhi controlled part of the territory of Kyushu Island and the Thirty-Six Overseas Islands, usurped the country's name as Song, proclaimed himself Prince Hui, and deployed officials.

"It depends on your Majesty's will." Xu Wei answered the question very cleverly.

In order to gain recognition from the Ming Dynasty, Wang Zhi was so willing to be summoned and dismissed at will, just like a gentleman offering everything to an oriental courtesan. He gave everything, including his life, just to gain recognition from the court. It was not because Wang Zhi was so loyal to the Ming Dynasty, the court, or the emperor, but because his Song Kingdom could only rely on the Ming Dynasty to survive.

Japan has ferocious natives, and the Japanese pirates have been notorious pirates on the sea since the end of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Oda Nobunaga didn't even need to unite the four daimyos. He could just lead his people to attack and destroy the Nagasaki Governor-General's Office. But to do so, he would have to deal with the thundering wrath of the Ming Dynasty.

Is that the Nagasaki Governor's Office? That's the face of the Ming Emperor!
Li Yashi has lived in Ming Dynasty for twelve years. He knows Ming Dynasty so well that he can't even speak Latin fluently. Learning a foreign language is mainly about the environment. Without the language environment, the mother tongue will degenerate. This is the case when Li Yashi has been engaged in translating Western documents for a long time. Li Yashi has summarized the two biggest shortcomings of Ming Dynasty in opening up the sea, that is, in the process of globalization.

One is the high moral disadvantage. When seizing colonies, the high moral disadvantage will make the pace of expansion extremely slow. The fact that the local indigenous people of Manila can occupy 10% of the industry really makes Legazpi unable to understand. Is this overseas colonization or aid construction?

The second is face. The Ming Dynasty was too face-conscious. As long as face was given, they would even abandon some of the substance. This was really ridiculous.

Obviously, Oda Nobunaga was well aware of the Ming Dynasty's concern for face, so Nobunaga's main strategy towards the Ming Dynasty was to resolutely not slap the Ming Emperor in the face and not surprise friendly countries. As long as enough face was given, the Ming Dynasty would not easily show its fangs.

The current Emperor of the Ming Dynasty is a very violent person, which may be related to his childhood experiences.

"Your Majesty is more inclined to destroy the Japanese rather than rule here." Luo Yinghe spread his hands. His Majesty did not care about the life or death of the Japanese. Even the monkeys in Luzon could get His Majesty's mercy. For example, there was a gold digger named Old Harry in Luzon. His Majesty sympathized with Old Harry's experience and instructed Old Harry not to help his son-in-law, because any help would become hatred.

But the Ming Emperor's attitude towards the Japanese was always indifferent.

The meeting at the Governor's Office ended quickly, and Sun Hongming, the old steward and chief treasurer of the Sun family, began to actively prepare for the Japanese Trade Fair. This annual trade fair can determine the business for the year and is as important as sowing in spring.

This time, the Sun family brought a magical product, the grinding stone.

There are three types of molar stones. One is natural molar stone, which is a volcanic stone that is mined directly near a dead volcano and processed into the required shape. This type of molar stone is medium priced. The disadvantage is that it will produce a strange smell of volcanic ash when grinding teeth.

The second type of molar stone is made by crushing volcanic rock, adding white clay, alkaline noodles and other substances, rinsing it, and then burning it. This type of molar stone is more than twice as expensive as natural molar stones, one piece costs one or two taels of silver, and can be used for one year. This type of molar stone is whiter than natural molar stones and has no strange smell.

The third type is gypsum, which is not made from burned volcanic rocks but from crushed ordinary stones. This type is the cheapest, but it is not very effective and is difficult to use, as it will grind the oral cavity.

The reason why the Sun family developed this strange product was because Sun Kehong, who was in charge of the pleasure boat business, needed to have the women serving on the boat grind their teeth. The reason for grinding their teeth was that they were afraid of scratching the guests' vital parts when serving them.

The second type of product is orthodontic braces, which are made of steel.

If the teeth are not straight, grinding the teeth will rub the oral cavity, which will make people feel extremely painful. Orthodontic braces are also a product spawned by the business on the painting boat. They are divided into different models according to different heights for strong correction.

Since the Sun family first developed the painted boat track, it has always maintained its monopoly position and naturally has its own unique skills.

Teeth stones and braces were mainly supplied to Huimin Pharmacy, which was affiliated with Jieku Hospital and Imperial Medical Bureau.

The Chief Medical Officer has a dental department, and knocking out wisdom teeth is the exclusive skill of Huimin Pharmacy.

I heard that the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was communicating with the chief medical officer Chen Shigong to knock out the newly grown wisdom teeth.

There was a promising scholar-official named Fan Yingqi in the Ming Dynasty. He started taking opium because of toothache and eventually locked himself up in a prison.

Wisdom teeth were called "Li Shi Chi" in the Ming Dynasty, which means that wisdom teeth will grow after growing up to the age of 20. Unfortunately, the wisdom teeth of the Ming Emperor grew crooked. If they were not knocked out, in a few years they would become serious enough to cause difficulty in opening the mouth.

This matter has already reached the Nagasaki Governor's Office.

Teeth grinding stones and braces are relatively scarce and expensive commodities, but Sun Hongming brought 30,000 sets of them, not a single cheap lime tooth grinding stone or natural tooth grinding stone, all of them were the most expensive calcined tooth grinding stones. The reason why he brought so many was because he could really sell them.

In Nagasaki, the seat of the Nagasaki Governor-General's Office, there is a world-famous oiran house. This house is jokingly called the Flower City. It is a well-deserved den of money, with more than 100,000 practitioners but only 30,000 sets of houses.

This is also the biggest feature of Japanese goods, which has nothing to do with the poor and laboring people.

In fact, Japan was in great need of ironware and even more so of farm tools due to the lack of coal and iron mountains, but the Ming Dynasty only sold weapons for war, not farm tools. Japan's lack of farm tools made its agricultural output far lower than that of the Ming Dynasty, which specialized in fine craftsmanship. Because there were more mountains, the land output was even more scarce. If the Ming Dynasty was willing to sell concentrated fertilizer and grain seeds, it would benefit the civilians of Japan.

This was caused by an invisible hand. Since there was no profit, the main customers of the Ming Dynasty's maritime merchants were the daimyo of various states and the court officials who did not engage in production.

If the Nagasaki Governor-General's Office was willing to preside over the policies that the Ming Dynasty was exploring, such as land surveying and land equalization, then Japan would definitely become a dazzling pearl in the Pacific Ocean. After all, the ocean currents bring abundant rainfall, but the Nagasaki Governor-General's Office had no intention of doing so.

The Luzon Governor-General's Office, under the leadership of Koxinga Masamune, was in the process of land title confirmation, and even the local indigenous people were included in the sequence of land title confirmation, but the Nagasaki Governor-General's Office did not have this plan.

"We still underestimate the sales volume of iron pots." Sun Hongming responded to the Japanese merchants who came to inquire, and took advantage of a busy break to speak sincerely to the guys beside him.

The iron pot was an unexpectedly best-selling product. Even though the Ming Dynasty repeatedly increased its production of iron pots, it still could not meet the huge overseas demand. Iron pots became the Ming Dynasty's largest commodity in terms of profit and scale, second only to silk and cotton.

The busy trade fair lasted for nearly ten days. The merchants from the Ming Dynasty returned home with full loads, with their ships loaded with Japanese women, Japanese slaves, silver and sulfur. The Japanese merchants also returned home with full loads, with all kinds of goods from the Ming Dynasty, satisfying the Japanese daimyo's pursuit of a better life.

Just like the Ming Emperor did not care about the lives of Japanese civilians, the Japanese daimyos did not care either.

After repeated considerations, Oda Nobunaga decided to let Kanda Shinichi leave the court and stay at home. At the request of the Nagasaki Governor-General's Office, Oda Nobunaga had to consider the will of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yijun was extremely surprised when he received the memorial from Nagasaki. What surprised him was Oda Nobunaga's attitude.

"This Nobunaga is protecting Kanda Shinichi. Kanda Shinichi is preventing the circulation of banknotes in Japan. If he succeeds, the credit will go to Nobunaga, but if he fails, the blame will be on Kanda Shinichi. Nobunaga could have used Kanda Shinichi as a chess piece to play chess with the Ming Dynasty, but he didn't. He chose to let Kanda Shinichi step down and take the blame himself." Zhu Yijun looked at the memorial with a frown.

"Send a letter to the Ministry of Rites to inform the Nagasaki Governor's Office to allow Kanda Shinichi to come to the Ming Dynasty as Oda's messenger." Zhu Yijun discovered that Kanda Shinichi had some abilities, and since he had these abilities, he could not let him stay in Japan any longer.

"I obey your command." Feng Bao bowed his head and accepted the order, and asked the eunuch to draft the imperial edict. After the emperor had read it, he sealed it.

Oda Nobunaga had recently experienced four assassination attempts. In the most serious one, gunpowder exploded under his carriage, which almost caused Oda Nobunaga to ascend to heaven on the spot. However, Oda Nobunaga still survived the frequent assassinations tenaciously, and implemented his policies bit by bit, stubbornly making Japan a better place.

"Is the great medical officer Chen Shigong still making a fuss about retiring?" Zhu Yijun felt helpless about this Qisheng Grand Secretary. Chen Shigong, as the best surgeon in the Ming Dynasty, didn't even dare to perform a wisdom tooth surgery!
Although he himself had performed wisdom tooth extraction surgeries more than 700 times, Chen Shigong was still afraid, mainly because the patient was a little special.

This time the patient was the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Wisdom teeth can cause occlusal disorders. Zhu Yijun has already started biting his cheeks and cannot eat properly. If the condition continues to develop, he will really have speech disorders. By then, he won't be able to speak clearly, so how can he hold court meetings and grand court meetings normally?

Zhu Yijun had four wisdom teeth, and only one of them grew crooked, which made him a little anxious.

"Yes, the chief physician prescribed a prescription for conservative treatment using opium," Feng Bao said in a low voice.

Zhu Yijun was so angry that he laughed. He shook his head and said, "If he really dares to prescribe this prescription, I dare not use it. If the master knows, I am afraid he will even think of killing Chen Shigong! Isn't Fan Yingqi's lesson enough?"

"Hasn't Chen Shigong performed this operation many times? He is only 30 years old. Could it be that he can't hold the scalpel steadily?" "That depends on the person. When he does it for others, his hands are naturally steady. But he is afraid to do it for Your Majesty." Feng Bao said helplessly. Pulling teeth out of the tiger's mouth describes the danger of doing things. Empress Dowager Chen said that Your Majesty is a real dragon. Pulling teeth out of the mouth of a real dragon, how can ordinary people do that?

Now the situation was at a stalemate. The emperor wanted to extract his wisdom teeth, but Chen Shigong refused to do it. He even threw a tantrum and threatened to retire if the emperor asked him to extract his teeth.

"Where is the female judge Wu Lian?" Zhu Yijun frowned and said, "Let Wu Lian do it. Wu Lian dares to perform surgery on the queen. She is very brave."

Feng Bao said helplessly: "Your Majesty, Wu Lian is a gynecologist."

"Call Chen Shigong, Mr. Qi, and General." Zhu Yijun moved his mouth uncomfortably. People who don't have toothaches might think it's just a toothache, but Zhu Yijun really felt uncomfortable. He had to bite his cheeks three times during a meal, and his cheeks were almost bitten off.

"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you. Long live Your Majesty. Long live Your Majesty." Chen Shigong performed the great salute, while Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang bowed in greeting.

"No need to be so polite, sir. I must pull out this tooth in three days. If something unfortunate happens, Prince Lu will succeed to the throne, Prince De Zhu Zaiyu will be the regent, and you will be in charge of the government." Zhu Yijun took out a long scroll of imperial edict and asked Feng Bao to hand it to Zhang Juzheng.

Of course, surgery involves risks, so Zhu Yijun also prepared a will.

Chen Shigong knelt on the ground and refused to get up. His Majesty's words hit his heart like a sledgehammer. He shook violently. He should have retired at the beginning! The palace is full of ruthless people! His Majesty can be as calm as a rock when facing the assassination of the king, and can sleep soundly when facing the fire burning the palace!

Zhu Yijun explained: "Lu Wang seems absurd, but you have also seen that he has been tossing around with beauties from all over the country, but all his children are born to the princess and concubines. The emperor's uncle does not care about things, and the regent just lets the Institute of Gewu continue to be aloof from the world."

"If I really collapse, I will rely on you and General Qi to maintain the stability of the country."

The reason why the crown prince was not allowed to succeed to the throne was that Zhu Changzhi was too young. Even if Zhang Juzheng didn't want to, he would have no choice but to usurp the throne, so Prince Lu had to ascend the throne.

Zhang Juzheng said solemnly, "Your Majesty, the doctors said that opium can be used to relieve pain."

"Sir, I am the Son of Heaven. I would rather die than become a demon or a monster." Zhu Yijun shook his head and said, "I have witnessed the harm of opium in the Jiekuyuan. Even if I die, I would rather die than become like that."

"How about we wait for three to five years, and then make a decision when the prince is a little older?" Zhang Juzheng adopted the strategy of procrastination.

"My wisdom tooth has grown crooked. It lies on the gums and pushes against my lower teeth as it grows. My teeth are all in pain and my cheeks are all bitten. I can't stop it." Zhu Yijun shook his head and told Zhang Juzheng about his situation again. He said helplessly, "Toothache is not a disease, but it can kill you."

"It's funny to say that. I woke up suddenly from my sleep yesterday. It hurt so much that I wanted to pull out my tooth, but I didn't know which one to pull out because it hurt all the way. If I don't pull out this wisdom tooth, I will have to use opium."

With no other choice but to take opium for pain relief or have his teeth extracted, Zhu Yijun chose to live towards death.

"Your Majesty, I can't do it." Chen Shigong kowtowed again and said loudly.

"I am not afraid of you, the great doctor. What are you afraid of? Even if I die from your treatment, it is just a life for a life. According to class theory, you, the great doctor, are exchanging my life for the life of an emperor. It is not a loss!" Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "Stand up and answer. If you kneel down to talk, I can't hear what you are talking about."

"Your Majesty, I am not afraid of death." Chen Shigong climbed up from the ground, looked at the emperor who had made up his mind, and said with pain on his face: "Your Majesty shoulders the sun and the moon, is the master of the country, and the people of all directions are looking forward to a wise and holy ruler. The new policy depends on your Majesty. If I can't do this well, I will not be a mediocre doctor, but a historical sinner."

The idea of ​​being responsible for history was natural to the people of the Ming Dynasty. Even Chen Shigong could not imagine that he had really killed the leader of the Ming Dynasty. In the future, he would probably stand shoulder to shoulder with Qin Hui, and perhaps even be better than Qin Hui in the list of treacherous ministers.

If the emperor was a tyrant, then executing him would be the best way to rid the people of harm.

"Why don't you just think of me as a tyrant?" Zhu Yijun was so angry that he laughed. His face changed immediately after laughing, and his cheek, which was about to be bitten off, was in excruciating pain.

Chen Shigong bowed his head again and said, "Your Majesty, I have been in the capital for 27 years. Before, there were only two or three houses outside the Nine Gates, with only a few hundred households. Now, the houses outside the Nine Gates stretch for miles. The world is too big for me to see, but I can see it in the capital."

"You in the Anatomy Department deal with specimens every day. Isn't there someone who is fearless enough to extract this wisdom tooth for me? It's not a major operation." Zhu Yijun slapped the table. He was not angry, but had a toothache.

Chen Shigong bowed his head again and said, "Your Majesty, the chief physician of the Jiekui Hospital is very courageous, but this is not a question of courage. There is no one in the Jiekui Hospital who has no respect for the emperor or his father."

"You have to do it. Three days later, I will go to the Jiekuiyuan." Zhu Yijun waved his hand impatiently and said, "Go and prepare."

Zhu Yijun originally planned that if he really died at the hands of the chief physician, he would have the chief physician of the Dissection Institute dissect him and make him into a specimen. In this way, the emperor would be no different from an ordinary person, which would provide theoretical support and would also save his grave from being dug up and burned.

"I obey your order." Chen Shigong took the emperor's order with difficulty.

Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang wanted to persuade him again, but everyone knew the emperor's character very well. Once he made a decision, he would never look back.

"Chen Shigong and his team have conducted thousands of experiments on monkeys and have performed at least 8,000 wisdom tooth surgeries. What are you afraid of when you're doing a simple minor operation on me?" Zhu Yijun seemed to be complaining about Chen Shigong's timidity, but in fact he was telling Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang that this was a very mature operation with a success rate of over 98%.

"We obey your order." Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang could only obey your order. The cabinet had to reject the decision made by His Majesty. It was useless even if His Majesty insisted.

Three days later, Zhu Yijun arrived at the Jiekuyuan as scheduled. Qi Jiguang mobilized an infantry battalion from the Beijing camp to surround the Jiekuyuan with three layers inside and three layers outside. The security inside the Jiekuyuan was completely the responsibility of the Ti cavalry, with a guard post every three steps and a sentry every ten steps.

The most important person in the Ming Dynasty, His Majesty, who shoulders the responsibility of supporting the country, is going to undergo surgery in the Jiekui Hospital.

The surgery was originally scheduled to take a day, but as expected, an unexpected event occurred.

Zhu Yijun had originally planned to have his wisdom tooth extracted in the morning, and after that he would just have the chief medical officer accompany him. It was not a major operation, but during the operation, something happened that no one wanted to see. After the tooth was extracted, the emperor developed symptoms of a cold, and began to have a fever and weakness in his limbs.

Everyone inside and outside the Jiekuyuan was in a state of panic, feeling as if the sky was about to fall. His Majesty was really treating his guests like a dragon in the Jiekuyuan, and those bastards deserved it. After all, the Jiekuyuan was established by His Majesty, and you will rise and fall with it.

"Okay, okay, we are still alive, don't cry, don't cry." Zhu Yijun held Wang Yaozhuo's hand, and Wang Yaozhuo was already crying.

"If I am really taken away by God, and Prince Lu is a bastard and wants to deal with my offspring and concubines, you can go to the Queen Mother. Don't look at Prince Lu as absurd, but he is most afraid of mother. Go to mother, mother will make the decision for you. In the future, when Zhier is granted a fiefdom, you can follow him to the prince's mansion."

"Go and call Mr. and Qi Shuai."

Zhu Yijun had a headache and his vision was a little blurry, mainly due to the fever. He didn't know what caused the fever. Even if it was a bacterial infection, it wouldn't have happened so quickly. If the chief medical officer had poisoned him, he would have died long ago.

"Sir." Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng. Between life and death, he still saw the outline of his teacher.

"No one can control what happens after death, including me. If this is my fate, I will keep everything simple after my death. I will bury the documents sealed with resin that I have prepared. Keep everything simple, and the budget should not exceed the 600,000 silver coins given by the late emperor." Zhu Yijun had a fever, but he was not confused. He still remembered that the renovation of the late emperor's mausoleum cost an additional 100,000 silver coins.

Zhu Yijun looked at Qi Jiguang and said, "General Qi, mobilize the Beijing Camp to guard the nine gates. The city gates cannot be opened without an imperial decree."

"I'll leave Guochao in the hands of you, sir."

"Your Majesty, it will be fine, it will be fine." Zhang Juzheng said tremblingly. He never expected that a small wisdom tooth surgery would end up like this.

"Sir, you told me that birth, aging, sickness and death are all part of human nature. Sir, don't be sad. The Ming Dynasty will continue to function as usual without me." Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said, "I am a little tired. Please leave."

When he was alive, he was an emperor, but when he died, he was nothing, just a dead man. Zhu Yijun accepted this fate and would make the same choice if he had the chance again. He would rather take opium for pain relief than die.

Zhang Juzheng went to the cabinet, while Qi Jiguang stayed in front of the emperor's ward to check whether anyone entered or left the ward. His Majesty, the real dragon, was at his weakest right now.

Zhu Yijun was a little tired. He had thought a lot. The last time the Ming Dynasty succeeded the elder brother to the younger brother was in the 13th year of Zhengtong. Later, the coup d'état took place. If Prince Lu really ascended the throne, he would probably make Zhu Yijun's descendants kings and send them to fiefdoms as soon as possible. If he was more ruthless, no one would survive. Emperor Xuanzong cooked the Prince of Han and killed all the members of the family.

The crisis of a young ruler and a country in turmoil is greater than the crisis of brother succeeding brother. Zhu Yijun chose Prince Lu because he did not want to see a young ruler and a country in turmoil.

When he was alive, he worried about the Ming Dynasty. When the end came, he was still thinking about the Ming Dynasty.

"Feng Daban, if I really collapse, what will you do?" Zhu Yijun was lying on the bed, drowsy, but the pain after the tooth extraction kept him awake. He looked at Feng Bao and Zhang Hong and asked about their future plans.

Feng Bao thought for a while and said, "A new emperor appoints new ministers. I will go to Fengyang with Zhang Hong to farm. Zhang Hong cannot compete with me in farming. I also know how to farm and will not starve to death."

Feng Bao originally wanted to say: My Lord, I will definitely follow Your Majesty, but it sounded too fake. Your Majesty likes people to tell the truth, so Feng Bao told the truth.

"Yeah, very good." Zhu Yijun replied weakly.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness Prince Lu is outside for an audience, but General Qi won't let him, so His Royal Highness has been kneeling for a long time, requesting permission to see the emperor." Zhang Hong heard the commotion outside, went out to inquire, and only then did he know what was going on.

"General Qi is also confused. If Prince Lu really ascends the throne, will General Qi have any good consequences?" Zhu Yijun propped himself up and said, "Let Prince Lu govern the country. Why are you here?"

"His Royal Highness Prince Lu refused to serve as regent and came directly from Prince Lu's mansion." Zhang Hong said with his head bowed.

"Let this brat in." Zhu Yijun felt as if all his strength had been drained from him, and said weakly.

"Your Majesty, your humble servant greets you!" Prince Lu kowtowed as soon as he came in, and he seemed to be really a little scared.

Zhu Yijun looked at Qi Jiguang next to him. When Prince Lu came in, Qi Jiguang insisted on following him in because he was afraid that Prince Lu would do something out of line. After all, there was the old incident of "Candlelight and Axe Shadow", so he had to be on guard.

Because of this follow-up behavior, if Prince Lu really ascended the throne, Qi Jiguang would be in great trouble.

"Call me brother." Zhu Yijun said as he looked at Zhu Yiliu leaning on the edge of the bed.

"Your Majesty, I will not be the regent, even if you kill me." Zhu Yiliu refused to be called, refused to get up, and even more refused to be the regent.

(End of this chapter)