Daming: My boss Zhu Yuanzhang

After leaving the Qianqing Palace, Li Wei walked towards Wenyuan Pavilion, which has now become a temporary place for his subordinates to handle affairs.

When he arrived at Wenyuan Pavilion, Li Wei handed all the imperial edicts to Wang Ben of the cabinet.

"These are the imperial edicts issued by His Majesty. You should quickly arrange people to go everywhere to announce the edicts." Li Wei said lightly.

"Yes, yes, I'll do it right away!"

Wang Ben tremblingly took the "imperial edict" that he had seen Li Wei's men draft with his own eyes. He knew that this was not the emperor's intention, and he did not dare to say much.

Li Wei nodded with satisfaction, and then asked Lu Tang and others about the court's affairs.

Although he was not interested in government affairs, all the officials in the court would come to him for advice before they had any matters. Except for some stubborn censors who did not take him seriously, no one else dared to ignore his existence.

As the war temporarily subsided, the people in the capital slowly resumed their daily lives. However, some smart people knew that the situation in the capital was still not good, so they took the opportunity to flee with their families. The court certainly would not let them run around, especially Zhu Yuanzhang. In order to make the capital prosper quickly, he forcibly moved a large number of wealthy families to the capital. How could he let these money bags slip away again?

Li Wei asked a few questions casually and did not ask any more questions. As long as these officials in the court did not cause him trouble, he was too lazy to meddle in other people's business.

Of course, those who caused trouble for him did not receive such treatment. People like Zhan Hui, Li Shu and others were convicted as Lan Yu's followers. The imperial edicts he drafted included orders to confiscate their properties and execute them. In addition, people like Li Shanchang and Lu Zhongheng were also convicted in the edict, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not stop them in this matter.

After asking about the affairs of the court and learning that all the ministers were very honest, Li Wei turned around and left Wenyuan Pavilion.

After walking out of Wenyuan Pavilion, he was about to go see Anqing, but suddenly he stopped again, thought for a moment, turned around and walked towards the main hall next to him.

Daben Hall was a school built by Zhu Yuanzhang specifically for the royal descendants, where the princes and grandchildren studied before they reached adulthood and until they were crowned kings and received their fiefdoms.

Zhu Yunwen is still the emperor's grandson and is studying in the Daben Hall. He has to wait until Zhu Yuanzhang officially confers the title of Crown Prince on him before he can move to the Wenhua Hall where Zhu Biao once worked.

As soon as Li Wei entered the main hall, the lecturer who was giving a lesson was startled and immediately stopped his work and stepped forward to salute.

"I've met the prince!"

"Well," Li Wei nodded gently and asked, "Where is Zhu Yunwen?"

"Oh, His Royal Highness Changsun is inside. I will take the prince there." The lecturer replied carefully.

"it is good."

Li Wei agreed and followed him inside.

Zhu Yuanzhang intended to cultivate Zhu Yunwen, and sometimes would give him some memorials to deal with, so a small office was vacated for him in the main hall.

Li Wei followed the lecturer to the door of the house and walked in without waiting for the lecturer to report.

Zhu Yunwen, who was reviewing his lessons, heard the noise, looked up and saw it was him. He was startled and stood up quickly. He saluted somewhat at a loss and said, "Wang...Uncle, why are you here?"

Li Wei glanced at him and unceremoniously stretched out his hand and said, "Give me the booklet your grandfather gave you!"

Zhu Yunwen was stunned, and clenched his hands nervously. After hesitating for a moment, he mustered up the courage to say, "That...that was given to me by the Emperor. I can't give it to you. Please forgive me, uncle!"

Li Wei's face darkened and he shouted, "Stop talking nonsense! Bring it to me!"

Zhu Yunwen was so frightened that he shivered, looked up at Li Wei with a ferocious face, and finally couldn't hold on any longer. He reluctantly took out the booklet full of Li Wei's "evidence" from the drawer.

Li Wei reached out and snatched it, weighing it in his hand. This book of "evidence" that looked like a small dictionary was really heavy!
Then he snorted coldly, without even looking at the aggrieved Zhu Yunwen, turned around and left the main hall.

The lecturer outside the door saw everything but dared not say a word. He just bowed to Zhu Yunwen and hurried away.

Zhu Yunwen, who stayed in the room, had trembling lips and was about to cry. Fortunately, he thought that he was about to become the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty and had to maintain his dignity, so he forced himself to hold back.

But the more he endured it, the more aggrieved he felt; the more he took a step back, the angrier he became. Not long after Li Wei left, he also walked out of the main hall with great anger and quickly walked towards the Qianqing Palace.

"Grandpa Emperor, the evidence you just handed to me was forcibly taken away by Li Wei!" Zhu Yunwen complained to Zhu Yuanzhang with an angry face.

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him and said calmly: "Just take it away, you can't use it anyway."

When he gave the thing to Zhu Yunwen, he didn't expect that he would be able to convict Li Wei based on the evidence recorded therein.

However, Zhu Yunwen still didn't understand his true intention, and continued to say aggrievedly: "But...but that was just what you gave me. He clearly didn't take you seriously by doing this. It's okay for your grandson to suffer a little injustice, but your majesty, Grandpa Emperor, cannot be challenged!"

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed softly and said, "Then what do you say we should do? How about Grandpa Emperor order your Third and Fourth Uncles to not worry about our safety and directly send troops to attack the city and destroy him?"

"This this……"

Zhu Yunwen was stunned when he heard this, and hesitated for a long time without being able to say anything.

Zhu Yuanzhang was even more disappointed when he saw this. Although he was once somewhat dissatisfied with Zhu Biao's kindness and weakness, Zhu Biao's wisdom and courage were still very outstanding. But now Zhu Yunwen had none of his father's advantages, but had many shortcomings. Not only was he narrow-minded, he also did not know how to endure humiliation and did not have the courage to fight to the death.

Of course, Zhu Yunwen was still young, and these could be corrected slowly through teaching, but he is too old now and no longer has time to train this grandson.

"Okay, go back." Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and interrupted him softly.

Zhu Yunwen then heaved a sigh of relief and bowed: "Then I will take my leave first."

After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave. Zhu Yuanzhang hesitated for a moment, then stopped him and told him: "When you have time, go and get close to your aunt Anqing. This will be good for your future."

"Yes."

Zhu Yunwen didn't understand what he meant, but still said yes respectfully.

Although he had many shortcomings, he also had one advantage, which was that he was obedient. He would honestly do whatever the emperor ordered him to do, which was why Zhu Yuanzhang liked him.

Seeing that the Emperor had no other instructions, he bowed respectfully and left.

After Li Wei snatched his "evidence" back from Zhu Yunwen, he went to where he lived in Anqing.

Tea and snacks were served, and Li Wei crossed his legs and opened the evidence to look through it:
"On the first day of the tenth month of the Gengzi year of the twelfth year of Hongwu, he broke into the palace without permission."

"Gui Mao, you insulted the Lord and shall be beheaded!"

"Xin Chou, how dare you, a bastard, hide such filth and bring shame upon us. This is outrageous!"

"To deceive the princess is a crime worthy of death!"

"You should be punished for overstepping your authority!"

"How dare you steal our Ruyi..."

Li Wei looked at the pieces of evidence and snorted coldly from time to time, while scenes of past memories flashed through his mind.

To be honest, according to the rules of feudal society, he should have been beheaded eight or ten times for the things he had done in the past. However, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that he was from the future and possessed knowledge and abilities beyond this era. In order to let him do his job well, he tolerated and protected him everywhere.

Although Li Wei himself did not realize it, in the eyes of people of this era, he was indeed deeply blessed by the Holy Spirit.

In this small dictionary-like record of guilt, Zhu Yuanzhang initially recorded his sins very seriously, but later it became complaints. When he completely turned against Zhu Yuanzhang, the record here became Zhu Yuanzhang's angry rebuke.

At the beginning, Li Wei occasionally showed a disdainful expression and sneered, but later on, his face was expressionless, but his heart was extremely heavy.

Was Zhu Yuanzhang good to him?
In his opinion, he was indeed a bad person, always stealing the fruits of his labor, exploiting and oppressing him, a completely black-hearted capitalist. It was not until he married Anqing that the old man became more generous to him with money.

However, at that time, he had changed his opinion of this legendary emperor because of Xu Yao's death.

Although he used to think that Zhu Yuanzhang was a tyrant, he was also a wise ruler. However, Xu Yao's death made him realize that an emperor is an emperor, and there is no distinction between good and bad.

A wise ruler is not necessarily a good person, because they may be cruel and ruthless, and even ruthless towards their relatives. On the contrary, a foolish ruler is not necessarily a bad person, perhaps he just lacks the ability.

In a sense, people like Zhu Yuanzhang are no longer human beings. What drives his actions is not what ordinary people believe to be good and evil, or even personal fame and fortune, but something that ordinary people cannot understand.

Recalling the past, Li Wei couldn't help but wonder what he would do if he were in Zhu Yuanzhang's shoes, or if he really took over Zhu Yuanzhang's position?

Faced with a person from the future who possesses advanced technology, will he let him go?

When faced with his once loyal subordinates committing crimes and harming the people, will he ruthlessly eliminate them?
What's more, will you sacrifice some innocent lives for the sake of your country and society?
After thinking for a moment, he couldn't help but sigh.

It may be true that those who do great things do not care about small details, but he does not want to be such a person. This is probably the biggest difference between him and Zhu Yuanzhang.

"What are you looking at?"

Seeing him sneer and sigh, Anqing asked curiously while pouring tea.

Li Wei came back to his senses, took a cup of tea and drank it while perfunctorily saying, "Nothing."

Seeing that he didn't want to talk, Anqing didn't ask any more questions, but said, "When are we going back to Yangzhou? I'm worried about Keqin and Xin'er."

"Haha, don't worry. I have already issued an order. I will send people to Yangzhou to pick them up in a few days." Li Wei said with a smile.

"You issued the order?"

An Qing's heart was suddenly in suspense when she heard this. She insisted on staying with Li Wei just to stop the fight between him and his father, but Li Wei's tone now was as if he had become the emperor.

"Uh, no, it's Your Majesty." Li Wei reacted and quickly corrected.

However, Anqing did not let his heart rest, but asked worriedly: "Husband, you don't really want to be the emperor, do you?"

"Of course not!" Li Wei flatly denied, "What's so good about being an emperor? I have to get up early and go to bed late every day, and I'm exhausted like a dog. I also have to guard against others taking the throne like a thief. What's the point? I wouldn't even be the emperor if it was given to me for free!"

Anqing looked at him suspiciously, and was slightly relieved when he saw that he looked sincere and didn't seem to be pretending.

But he immediately reacted and said angrily, "Don't talk about Father like that!"

"Good good."

Li Wei agreed, while secretly curling his lips. (End of this chapter)