Spoiler History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 762 Calling Brothers
"Too much haste?"

Zhu Yuanzhang sneered, and then threw a memorial over:
"Not only will we abolish their household, we will also hold those incompetent people accountable for their dereliction of duty!"

"We don't care about the comments of future generations about our leniency or brutality. We just want those who have neglected their duties to be held accountable!"

Zhu Biao took the memorial curiously and saw Dai Sigong's name at the top of the page.

He is now very familiar with this imperial physician. Since the light curtain ended in mid-November, this imperial physician has been working almost day and night to verify the medical knowledge obtained from the light curtain.

Then he treated his mother and him one by one, examined General Xu Da physically, and checked his father's physical condition.

All these were handled by this imperial physician alone, which was not easy. In front of him was the memorial written by this imperial physician. Zhu Biao recalled that this imperial physician had never called on his colleagues for help before, and he already had some guesses in his mind.

I opened the memorial...as expected.

Dai Sigong directly confessed his guilt at the beginning of the memorial, saying that the memorial was suspected of attacking his colleagues and he was willing to take the blame.

Then the imperial physician began to point out the various shortcomings of imperial physicians, and even bluntly said:

"The doctor of Hongwu was the best in ancient and modern times. He was a royal doctor passed down from the Hu Yuan family. The only prescription he learned from the medical books was a warming and nourishing prescription. When he saw the princes and nobles in the palace suffering from hundreds of diseases, he would treat them with this prescription. He would also laugh and say to himself that the magic of this prescription was that it was flawless. This prescription has been in use for a hundred years, and the more expensive the doctor, the more mediocre he became."

Zhu Biao felt that the fact that there were mediocre doctors among the imperial physicians who were complacent about calling themselves so was mostly an excuse made by Imperial Physician Dai, but it was probably true that most of the imperial physicians were mediocre doctors.

After all, even someone like him who doesn't know much about medicine knows that no matter what the disease is, it cannot be separated from conditioning prescriptions. So when something happens, it is natural to use clever words to embellish it and prescribe a tonic prescription, which is not wrong.

But in this case, whether the person being treated can get better may depend on fate.

After sorting out the logic in his mind, Zhu Biao suddenly understood his father's current anger:

"The disaster that later generations recorded about my mother was a man-made disaster caused by a mediocre doctor?!"

"What else? Your mother has been with us in battles across the country, braving the arrows and stones, and has endured countless hardships for twenty years, but she is still healthy!"

The Emperor of Ming Dynasty recounted the past events, and then shook his hand fiercely:

"After a few years of good life, we are suddenly struck by misfortune? I don't believe such a coincidence can happen!"

Zhu Biao, who was also filled with anger, calmed down a bit after hearing this. He knew his father's character very well. When his father said this, he had made up his mind that even his mother could not be pulled back. Even if those quack doctors knelt down in front of his father and begged for mercy in tears, it was too late.

Since the matter was already settled, Zhu Biao put it aside for the time being and asked another question:

"Daddy wants to change the Penghu Inspection Office to the Ryukyu Inspection Office..."

Speaking of this, the anger on Zhu Yuanzhang's face was immediately suppressed, and he turned back and sat back on the chair in the study and asked:
"Biao'er, do you think that the Ryukyu Inspection Office really wants to invade and seize the Ryukyu Kingdom?"

Zhu Biao also smiled and shook his head:
"Since I have watched the scene with you, I know what you are thinking."

"Dad must be after Yizhou Island. After all, our Great Ming has been plagued by many maritime threats over the past hundred years. There are Japanese pirates in the present and Portuguese pirates in the future. These two threats are in the south and north, and Yizhou Island is located in the middle. It is a place that the naval commander must take."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, stood up again and walked to a screen next to the study, touching the pattern on the screen with great emotion:

"This is only one of the reasons. Only by managing Xiaoliuqiu can we help Daliuqiu."

This screen was newly made, and painted on it were silhouettes of the Ming Dynasty and Korea, with no written signs or images of mountains or lakes. Therefore, no one cared about it even if it was placed here, and they just thought it was a strange screen contributed by the local government.

Touching a string of imperceptible islands in the eastern ocean of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head:
"If the sea is the border of a country, then the importance of Ryukyu to the Ming Dynasty is no different from that of Peking. It is the key point of the Ming Dynasty's sea border."

"Only when we are at the crossroads can we be at peace!" Zhu Yuanzhang then slid his finger gently downwards, passing Qiongzhou and continuing southwest, and finally tapped on a narrow sea passage:
"Only by guarding the frontier can we avoid worries!"

Zhu Biao pondered for a moment and whispered:
"Dad, the ancients said, 'We are born in adversity and die in comfort...'"

Before he could finish his words, Zhu Biao felt a blow on his head, the sound was extremely crisp.

When I looked up, I saw my father's angry back.

As father and son, Zhu Biao naturally knew why, because his father had a lot of disagreements with Mencius's words that the people are more important than the monarch, which made him basically dislike other Mencius classics.

But now it seems that after hearing what happened in later generations, my father's attitude seems to have softened a bit.

Just as he said just now, in the past he would probably be sent to copy the ancestral teachings several times, but now he was just given a slap on the head.

After laughing, Zhu Biao caught up and started talking about other things:
"Father, I went to visit my uncle a few days ago. He drank a little too much during the meal and seemed a little depressed."

Zhu Yuanzhang was somewhat gloomy when he said this:
"Your uncle Xu Da was most concerned about destroying the Yuan Dynasty, but in the end... our two brothers were both miserable people. How unfair is that?"

When Chang Yuchun was alive, he wanted to destroy the Yuan Dynasty and take credit for his achievements, but he died young.

Xu Da followed his brothers' wishes and wanted to destroy Yuan Dynasty to honor his brothers' heroic spirits, but he died of a back carbuncle.

Zhu Yuanzhang suppressed his grief for his brother and shook his head:

"Don't worry about this. Dad will comfort you."

Zhu Biao nodded and talked about the next thing:

"I heard that the Grand Censor wanted to see Qian's imperial certificate of immunity from death."

The emperor of Ming Dynasty did not care about this:
"Don't mention the benefactor, we are all very curious... But this voucher has many legends in later generations, so should we look for the crime of Qian..."

"Dad!" Zhu Biao hurriedly stopped him, and in his heart he was worried about Qian:

"This is just a topic of conversation and is not worth mentioning. People in later generations also said that the talent of the Qian family lies in the great talent they produce. If Daddy handles things improperly and causes the Qian family to suffer, I'm afraid..."

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed and nodded:

"Biao'er's concerns are reasonable, but Daddy is also very curious about the iron certificate."

"Since we can't tell the whole story, then we can invite Qian to a banquet before the Lantern Festival and borrow his certificate to have a look. That shouldn't be a problem."

Zhu Biao finally felt relieved, nodded, and kept the matter in mind, and said one last interesting thing:
"Dad, where do you think my cousin is right now?"

Seeing the wonderful expression on Zhu Biao's face, Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly had a bad idea. He then thought of Bao'er's bold behavior and that he had become more concerned about maritime affairs after watching the situation behind the scenes with Japan. He also thought of the fact that Japan had sent envoys again because of the New Year...

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and made a guess:

"Honglu Temple?"

Zhu Biao nodded:
"My cousin Qiao used a false name to go and befriend the Japanese."

(End of this chapter)