Daming Greedy Wolf Star

Chapter 375
Zhu Zhanhe suddenly laughed, making Zhu Sanfeng puzzled.

They agreed to ask questions, but halfway through the question, Zhu Zhanhe started laughing.

Have you figured it out, or have you gone crazy?
"Well said!" Zhu Zhanhe patted Zhu Sanfeng on the shoulder very hard and left happily.

Zhu Sanfeng was left alone on the huge city wall, messy in the wind.

Returning to the Junbao Palace, Zhu Zhanhe's previous confusion was swept away, replaced by clarity.

He found that he was over the top.

From the moment he stood up in the seventh year of Yongle, from the moment he left Beijing behind everyone's back, even from the moment he was born, in fact, his ending was already doomed.

Of course, the destined ending is not the ending in the broad sense, but a partial ending.

Killing foreign enemies, getting rid of profiteers and corrupt officials, coupled with the massacre of the city by the Japanese and the arson of Dai Viet, Zhu Zhanhe's reputation is destined to be in ruins.

And he had been thinking about leaving some room, but he didn't know that his room had been destroyed long ago.

Regardless of whether corrupt scholars will be in power in the future or Gongyang will rule the world in the future, Zhu Zhanhe is destined to leave a reputation for bloodthirsty in the history books.

The outcome was already determined anyway, so why was he still hesitating?

Therefore, after figuring it out, he immediately asked Zhu Ling to bring someone over.

Zhu Gaosui.

That's right, it was Zhu Gaosui, the former King of Zhao in the Ming Dynasty and Zhu Zhanhe's third uncle.

In fact, Zhu Gaosui has been in Junbao for a long time. He came with Zheng He.

Second sister Shi originally wanted to have a relationship with Zhu Zhanhe, but her unsatisfactory brother went to Australia where Zhu Gaosui was exiled and picked him up.

In this era, there is no such thing as one person doing things and one person taking responsibility, especially in front of a person of Zhu Zhanhe's stature.

Zhu Gaosui's crime was treason, and Shi Jisun took Zhu Gaosui away. Regardless of the facts, he was already guilty of the same crime.

Zhu Gaosui did not die because he belonged to the Zhu family, but not the Shi family.

Therefore, after Second Sister Shi returned to Jiugang Xuanwei Division, she immediately sent people to the Bo Ni Kingdom to capture her younger brother. Zhu Gaosui was also captured with him.

But Sister Shi was in trouble when it came to how to deal with Zhu Gaosui and Shi Jisun.

Looking at the increasingly busy Malacca Strait, Second Sister Shi has gradually understood the importance of this place, and also knows that Zhu Zhanhe will replace her sooner or later.

Such an important place is not managed by an outsider, but also by a family that has moved to Xuanweisi in Old Port for a long time and can be regarded as an indigenous family.

It has to be said that Second Sister Shi is still very smart. She knows that Zhu Zhanhe will most likely take this opportunity to remove the Shi family, or even make the Shi family disappear, so she chooses to take a roundabout way.

She couldn't send Zhu Gaosui to Xiangzhou Prefecture, because Zhu Zhanqi didn't have such great rights, and he couldn't be sent to Shuntian. In that case, it would be official business, but she would still be avoiding Zhu Zhanhe.

Therefore, she sent someone to take Zhu Gaosui into custody, followed the supply fleet to the Suez area, and handed him over to Mu Sheng, who then sent someone to follow Zheng He's fleet to deliver him to Junbao.

As for the fact that Second Sister Shi didn’t come...

It is also very simple. Originally, she, as the propaganda envoy, could not leave the Old Port Xuanwei Department casually. Now that such a big change has happened, it is even more impossible for her to leave.

Of course, this is just a superficial excuse. In fact, it is Sister Shi buying time for herself.

She needed to get Zhu Zhanhe to pardon her within this time. If she couldn't do it, then she would have to pack her things and run away.

It was not difficult to guess what Second Sister Shi was thinking, but Zhu Zhanhe didn't pay too much attention to it, because except for his third uncle Zhu Gaosui, the Shi family was nothing to him.

For Zhu Zhanhe, the most important thing is his third uncle.

"Third uncle, have you thought about your ending?"

Zhu Zhanhe asked calmly as he watched Zhu Ling and Zhu Ping bring his third uncle in.

"I've thought about it a long time ago." Zhu Gaosui had a sarcastic smile on his face.

"But, so what if you think about it?"

"Now that you've thought about it, it's time to get on your way."

……

Zhu Zhanhe's understatement made the atmosphere fall into dead silence.

Except for Zhu Zhanhe, neither Zhu Gaosui nor Zhu Ling and Zhu Ping reacted.

In fact, people will subconsciously speculate. Just like today, Zhu Zhanhe asked someone to bring his third uncle here. Everyone knew that they had to decide how to deal with Zhu Gaosui, and everyone was also speculating on what Zhu Zhanhe would do. Dealing with Zhu Gaosui.

But no one, including Zhu Gaosui himself, expected that his nephew would say these words.

On the road, if you still go to the Exiled Land, then there is no need to meet in person, unless it is just for humiliation.

However, Zhu Zhanhe did not humiliate him, but went straight to the point.

Obviously, he really wanted to send him on his way.

"Huh..." Zhu Gaosui breathed a long sigh of relief, and his whole body calmed down.

It seems that this result did not surprise him.

"It's rare that you finally break through yourself. But for now, it's a good way to eliminate difficulties, but in the long run, you're jumping over the wall in a hurry."

"You should know that even a person like your grandpa would hide here and there after the Jingnan incident, for fear that his reputation would be stained again."

"Because he knows that if he does a good job and creates an unprecedented prosperous era, people will not criticize him, at least they will not criticize him alone."

"It's just like what he said: Even if my descendants are not ashamed of me, they still have to respect me."

"But what about you?"

Having said this, Zhu Gaosui had a sarcastic smile on his face.

"Yes! Your military exploits, Zhu Zhanhe, have never been seen before in history. In terms of expansion of territory alone, the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty are not as good as you."

"But if you kill me today and sit on the throne the next day, there will be an indelible stain on the history books."

"Are you prepared to be criticized by future generations?"

"So what?" Faced with his third uncle's ridicule, which might have been a provocation, Zhu Zhanhe acted quite calmly.

"My nephew's reputation was already in disarray when he built the Jingguan on the grassland, burned down the Dai Viet Kingdom, and massacred the Japanese country."

"Although I promoted Gongyang Learning to become the official school of the Ming Dynasty and made the ideas of great unification and great revenge widely accepted by people, it will still not change the fact that the things I did will be recorded in history books."

"No matter how much I ask people to polish it, the result will not change."

"It's like my father told my grandfather back then that even if he compiled the Yongle Dadian into the most amazing book in ancient and modern times, no one would say that he would inherit it."

"me too……"

"Even if I conquer all the land in the world, no one will say that our lineage as King of Wu is the successor, and no one will say that I have not massacred prisoners or even civilians."

“If you can’t change it, then why do it in vain?”

"What's more, at least no one dared to gossip about me before I died. After I died, I couldn't hear what they said. Even if I was reincarnated, I would have no memory of this life."

"Why bother?"

……

Zhu Gaosui stood there, staring at his good nephew in a daze, unable to say a word for a moment.

He knew that the thing he had always relied on was gone...

The reason why Zhu Gaosui dared to follow Shi Jisun out of Australia, a place of exile, was because of his status as a royal member of the Zhu family, and because he was Zhu Gaoxu's biological brother and Zhu Zhanhe's biological uncle.

Blood relations, no matter what height you have reached, in the culture inherited from the Central Plains, this is something that cannot be touched.

But unexpectedly, Zhu Zhanhe figured it out...

As a person who was dancing on the tip of the knife, he finally lost his footing, and with this mistake, the tip of the knife cut not the soles of his feet, but his throat.

"pretty good……"

After a long silence, Zhu Gaosui spoke slowly, his voice a little hoarse.

"Actually, I know that in our Yanwang lineage, at least until now, no one is better than you."

"It's just that everyone knows that you can't be the emperor, so Zhanji and I are unscrupulous and have no worries, because everyone knows that you will not kill you."

"it's good now……"

Sighing lightly, Zhu Gaosui turned around, his figure was a bit hunched over his age.

It wasn't the years that made him bend, but his confidence and support were taken away by Zhu Zhanhe.

"It's a good thing to have figured it out..."

"At the very least, nothing will be able to stop you in the future..."

"It is not your end to surpass your grandfather, nor is it to surpass Taizu Emperor Gao..."

"From now on, no one can set an end point for your future, even if it is only speculative..."

Seeing Zhu Gaosui walking out of the door, Zhu Ling hesitated, as if he wanted to say something, but finally gave up and followed Zhu Gaosui's pace.

He was just a guard. Even if he felt that Zhu Zhanhe's behavior of killing relatives by blood was inappropriate, he still couldn't say anything.

He is not qualified for that.

……

three days later.

Outside the castle, on the cliff by the sea, a tomb stands alone.

Zhu Zhanhe stood in front of the tombstone with his head lowered.

In the end, Zhu Zhanhe still gave his third uncle dignity, just as the historical Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu said.

The people of the Zhu family are still bloody.

Zhu Gaosui spent the last three days in battle, and the final outcome was that he died in battle. It was because he took the lead and rushed to the front.

Perhaps, it cannot be said that he died in battle, but that he wanted to die.

After all, for Zhu Zhanhe, killing his third uncle was an indelible stain, and for Zhu Gaosui, being killed by his nephew was also a shame.

He took the wine jar from Zhu Ling on the side, opened the mud seal, and turned the wine jar over.

The wine flowed to the ground and soaked the hem of Zhu Zhanhe's clothes and shoes, but he didn't seem to notice it.

When the last drop of wine fell to the ground, Zhu Zhanhe raised his head and sighed deeply.

With the sound of the wine jar breaking, Zhu Zhanhe turned and left.

The strong wind on the strait made his clothes rustle and made Zhu Zhanhe a little confused.

On the strait, there is a lonely grave mound, which can be regarded as a decent stone tablet, standing quietly in the wind.

In the future, with Zhu Zhanhe's northern expedition, no one may care about this place, and no one will come to worship. Only the name on the stone tablet tells who the owner of this lonely tomb is.

(End of this chapter)