Li Er of the Tang Dynasty: Ancestor Xie is here!

Chapter 162 Lao Zhu’s version of “A Person’s Experience”

Of course there are many big things, and each one of them affects Lao Zhu's blood pressure.

Li Qing weighed it for a moment and decided to talk in order.

"Xiao Biao, is your wife about to give birth?" Li Qing looked at Zhu Biao.

Zhu Biao's heart skipped a beat. It was bad. Could something happen to my wife?
  He said worriedly: "My uncle is really a man of genius, and my nephew's wife is indeed about to give birth."

"In the seventh year of Hongwu, that is, on October [-]th of this year, Crown Princess Chang gave birth to the emperor's eldest grandson, named Zhu Xiongying."

As soon as Li Qing finished speaking, Lao Zhu and Zhu Biao were delighted.

"What do we mean? It's indeed the eldest grandson!" Lao Zhu said proudly, "Our daughter-in-law is doing a great job!"

At this time, Lao Zhu had not arranged the genealogy, so there was no rule of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Therefore, the most special one among Zhu Xiongying's grandsons also showed Lao Zhu's preference for this eldest grandson.

Ignoring the delighted two people, Li Qing continued: "In the ninth year of Hongwu, the empty seal case broke out, implicating thousands of officials. Chong Bage was so angry that he ordered the chief seal official to be executed, and his deputy was sent to the army with a hundred sticks."

The so-called "blank seal" means to stamp the document in advance and then fill in the specific content when needed. There is also controversy over the time, with some saying that it was the eighth year of Hongwu, the ninth year of Hongwu, or the fifteenth year of Hongwu. However, Volume [-] of "History of the Ming Dynasty" "The Biography of Zheng Shili with a Microbiography of Fang" records that "Fang Zheng was demoted to Qin for complaining about the case. In the [-]th year of Hongwu's reign, Yang Yicheng was "arrested to the capital and died." "So the statement about Hongwu's fifteen years is very doubtful.

"Kill! Kill well!" Lao Zhu said through gritted teeth: "During the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, bureaucrats used this to commit fraud. The use of empty seals undoubtedly opened the door to corruption!"

Dare to commit corruption? Watch as I send the inspection school (the predecessor of Jinyiwei) to send you to heaven one by one!
  Although Zhu Biao on the side did not speak, looking at his eyes, he seemed to think that what Lao Zhu said was correct.

Li Qing continued: "In the tenth year of Hongwu, the concubine Lu gave birth to a son, named Zhu Yunwen."

This one is more heavyweight.

"Wow, wow!" Lao Zhu sighed with emotion, looked up at Zhu Biao, and suddenly asked suspiciously: "Mr. Lu? Why don't we remember that there is a person named Lu in your harem? When did you secretly accept her?" "

"That should be accepted by the future. Dad, don't you intend to let the daughter of Lu Ben's family enter the East Palace?" Zhu Biao replied with a smile.

Only then did Lao Zhu remember it. He laughed and said nothing.

"On November [-], the eleventh year of Hongwu, Crown Princess Chang gave birth to a second son, named Zhu Yunxi." When Li Qing said this, he looked at Zhu Biao with some pity.

Zhu Biao's heart skipped a beat, bad, bad... what kind of look is that?
  Lao Zhu didn't pay attention and was still cheering.

Applause? You won't be able to scream right away.

"Eleven days later, Crown Princess Chang left the infant Zhu Yunxi and passed away. She was only twenty-four years old..."

*Grief value from Zhu Biao +10000
  After hearing these words, Zhu Biao's legs softened and he sat down on the ground with a plop.

Lao Zhu's smile also froze on his face. Crown Princess Chang was not just his daughter-in-law, but also the daughter of his deceased brother Chang Yuchun. Before the old brother passed away, he made a wish that his daughter would not be wronged. What was the result?
  "Amei, amei..." Zhu Biao's eyes were dull and he murmured the nickname for Chang.

There is no time to mourn for the Chang family. What is about to arrive on the battlefield is——

Li Qing continued: "Only four years after the death of Princess Jingyi, that is, on the first day of May in the fifteenth year of Hongwu, Zhu Xiongying, the eldest grandson of the emperor, died of illness at the age of eight. He was posthumously named King Yu. Said Huai."

*Grief value from Zhu Biao +5000
  *Grief value from Zhu Yuanzhang +10000
  "Our daughter-in-law, our eldest grandson!" Lao Zhu wailed. Fortunately, Li Qing was prepared and was not frightened.

"Perhaps it was because the eldest grandson died young. Three months later, on Bingxu in August of the [-]th year of Hongwu..." Li Qing couldn't bear to continue talking, but for the sake of Lao Zhu, he gritted his teeth and continued: "The queen died of illness. She died at the age of fifty-one, and she was given the posthumous title of Empress Xiaoci. The emperor mourned and refused to be crowned queen."

*Grief value from Zhu Biao +10000
  *Grief value from Zhu Yuanzhang +50000
  *Grief value from Zhu Yuanzhang +50000
  Lao Zhu's eyes widened, as if he couldn't believe that his sister had left him so early. Zhu Biao was also shocked and stayed in place without saying a word.

Li Shimin really couldn't bear it. Having experienced his beloved woman leaving early, he really felt the same for Lao Zhu. He stepped forward and put his hand on Lao Zhu's back to comfort him.

This can be regarded as the empathy of the former widower towards the future widower.

"Sister! Sister! Our sister!" Lao Zhu hugged Li Shimin and cried.

Lao Li sighed and comforted Lao Zhu.

This was the only time Zhu Biao saw Lao Zhu shed tears.

"Mother..." Zhu Biao seemed to have had his backbone ripped out of his body, and became a soft pile leaning against the legs of the chair.

Li Qing sighed and continued without stopping: "In the eighteenth year of Hongwu, Guo Huan, the Minister of Household Affairs, and others colluded with officials in various provinces to cheat and steal official grain. After the incident was exposed, the huge amount of money involved in the case had a huge impact. It was far-reaching and attracted the attention of the world. In response to this, the emperor ordered that everyone from the six ministers to the ministers be executed, and tens of thousands of people were implicated in the execution."

Li Shimin couldn't help but be in awe. It's still you, Lao Zhu, who is ruthless...

If only I were half as ruthless as you, Lao Zhu... Oh, I'm pretty ruthless too. At least he couldn't shoot the arrow I shot at my eldest brother, Lao Zhu.

"Guo Huan, right?" Lao Zhu gritted his teeth and sucked blood, his eyes filled with vicious resentment.

It seems that he has transferred the negative emotions of his grandson and wife to Guo Huan.

I hope Guo Huan’s nine tribes are fine...

Li Qing didn't say much, and received another critical blow.

"On April [-], the [-]th year of Hongwu, Prince Zhu Biao died of cold. In August, his nephew was buried on the east side of Xiaoling. His posthumous title was "Prince Yiwen"."

After hearing this, Lao Zhu couldn't bear the blow anymore and fainted with a hiccup.

"Dad!" Zhu Biao was not in the mood to mourn his death. He crawled to Lao Zhu's side, for fear that his father would not be able to withstand the blow and something would happen.

Li Shimin shook Lao Zhu twice, and Lao Zhu finally woke up. Seeing the concerned Zhu Biao in front of him, he couldn't help but cry out sadly: "Biao'er!"

"You're crying, don't you still have a good brother?" Li Shimin immediately reminded Lao Zhu: "He can bring your parents back, but he still has to save your children, grandchildren and mother-in-law?"

"Yes, yes, yes!" Lao Zhu stood up immediately, "We are all so anxious. Immortal Master, please save our family..." After saying this, Lao Zhu was about to kneel down, Li Qing Immediately interfere with him: "Don't worry, isn't this just a revelation? Since I told you, it means there is help, so don't worry."

"Thank you, brother, thank you, brother. I kowtow to you, brother..." Lao Zhu chuckled, smiling like Li Yunlong.

Li Qingqing could tell that Lao Zhu had a donkey face, and he changed his face very quickly. One second it was still life and death, and the next second the rain had stopped and the sky was clear.

"What a fool." Li Shimin curled his lips and said, "My virtuous brother saved my Guanyin maidservant. To thank him, I married my sister to him..."

"Your sister?" Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Li Qing and then at Li Shimin: "As for your sisters, their children are older than your good brothers. Why do you want an old cow to eat young grass?"

Finally, he suddenly said: "Is it your eldest sister who disappeared when she was sixteen? That's not a loss, it's not a loss..."

"But there's nothing we can do to repay my dear brother." Lao Zhu felt a little melancholy again.

"Hey, we are all buddies, what can we say to outsiders?" Li Qing said with a smile: "Brothers, don't worry too much about this... shall we continue?"

"Yes, yes, go on." After thinking that Li Qing was an immortal, Lao Zhu was no longer so sad. He wiped his tears and said to Li Qing: "After Biao'er dies...after that, which grandson should we appoint as the crown prince, Yunxi or Yunwen?"

"After Princess Jingyi passed away, the boss helped the Lu family to be straightened up, and Zhu Yunwen became the eldest grandson." Li Qing spread his hands: "In September of the [-]th year of Hongwu, Zhu Yunwen was established as the grandson of the emperor. "

"In the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, in order to pave the way for Zhu Yunzhen, you used Lan Yu's rebellion as an excuse to kill the Lan family, implicating Fu Youde, Feng Sheng, Wang Bi and other princes, because Lan Yu was implicated. More than [-] people.”

"Later generations will refer to the Hu Weiyong case, the Kongyin case, the Guo Huan case and the Lan Yu case as the four major Hongwu cases."

"Kill Lan Yu? Why should we kill Lan Xiaoer...oh." Lao Zhu subconsciously asked, and halfway through he understood why he wanted to kill Lan Yu.

Lan Yu can be regarded as the team member he left to Zhu Biao. After all, when it comes to kinship, he is the uncle of the Crown Princess. It would be okay if Zhu Yunxi succeeded, but the successor was Zhu Yunwen. In order to dispel Zhu Yunxi's thoughts, Lan Yu must not Remain.

Then Li Qing continued: "In February of the [-]th year of Hongwu, the North-South Ranking Case broke out. Liu Sanwu, a Hanlin scholar, presided over the palace examination. When the rankings were released, fifty-one people were admitted, all of whom were students from the south. This triggered the dissatisfaction of the northern students and jointly submitted a petition. .”

"One thing to say is that due to years of war, the level of students in the north is indeed not as good as that in the south. But even at the beginning of the Hongwu year, nearly one-third of the students from the north were on the list. As a result, now at the end of the Hongwu year, you tell me that not a single student from the north is on the list. Not going?"

"There is a saying that this was a test of Lao Zhu by the Jiangnan Scholar-official Group, because your physical condition was not optimistic at that time. In order to avoid escalation of the situation, Lao Zhu did not involve himself as usual, but made a Will.”

"The general meaning is that we know that your little hands are not very clean, but we don't want to make the matter a big deal. You can find a way to re-enroll some northern candidates and try to give this unseemly matter a decent ending."

"But you Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrats also know that they are just tearing off the left cheek and sticking it on the right cheek - being shameless on one side and shameless on the other. Liu Sanwu and others said that there was no fraud at all, but that they were extremely fair. , Northern students can’t get into the rankings because they are not good enough.”

"Look, right? It makes sense that the fifty-one people on the list are all my students from the south, right? That means you in the north just don't have the hard power, so it's useless to talk about anything else."

"Lao Zhu was shocked. He was shocked by the shamelessness of these Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrats, and said that since I am an old horse who doesn't know the way back, I must eradicate you villains. The examiner Liu Sanwu was sent to the northwest, and the rest were put to death. , some were sent into exile, this is the famous 'North and South List Case'."

"In June, Lao Zhu personally made inquiries and selected Han Kezhong as the number one scholar, Wang Shu as the second pick, and Jiao Sheng as the third overall winner. This is the summer list. Because all the sixty-one people recorded are from the north, they are also called the Beibang list."

When Lao Zhu heard this, veins popped out on his temples.

"Damn! These damn Jiangnan literati! Since the Song Dynasty, the northern Han people have been in a state of division with the south! Hundreds of years, hundreds of years of division, we have tried our best to bridge the relationship between the north and the south, but they can That's good! Try your best to push others away! Isn't it really quick to bully us?"

Li Shimin also frowned. As an emperor, he was also extremely sensitive to this kind of thing. He even felt that Lao Zhu in history did it a little lightly.

If something like this happened to him, he would at least be treated the same as Yang Xuangan and be punished by the Nine Tribes.

This is the behavior of a giant worm that threatens the stability of the rule, and a heavy blow must be taken.

"Biao'er! I have told you a long time ago not to rely too much on those scholars!" Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Biao fiercely: "Did you see that we are not dead yet? We have killed so many people before, it can be said that we are murderous. It’s not an exaggeration! Those Jiangnan scholar-officials dare to test us like this! No wonder the power of the cabinet will gradually expand! Bah!"

After scolding for a while, Lao Zhu suddenly asked: "Brother Xian, how will our grandson Zhu Yunwen behave after he succeeds to the throne?"

"Ah? How is your performance?" Li Qing scratched his head and asked tentatively: "How about we talk about it tomorrow? There is already enough information today, don't we have to digest it?"

"No need!" Lao Zhu waved his hand, "It's okay, dear brother, just say it! We can hold on!"

This is what you said...

Just as he was about to speak, he heard the sound of milk and milk coming from outside.

"Big brother, big brother..."

A cute little boy ran in from outside, followed by a eunuch.

The eunuch stood at the palace gate and did not dare to come in. He only dared to shout from a distance.

"Hey, little ancestor, please slow down..."

"It's Xiao Twelve." Zhu Biao immediately stepped forward, hugged the child, and pinched his face: "Xiao Twelve, if you don't stay in your mother's palace, why did you run out? Huh?"

"I miss my eldest brother, hehe." Xiao Twelve chuckled and looked at his eldest brother with admiration.

"Is this King Zhu Bai of Xiang?" Li Qing looked at the cute child with interest and asked Lao Zhu.

Lao Zhu was also very fond of him. Apart from the five legitimate sons, he liked Lao Twelve the most, a good boy.

"Hey, dear brother, how will the twelve behave after becoming a vassal?" Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Bai and asked cheerfully: "We have liked this kid since he was a child. He seems to be a good king..."

Li Qing looked at Zhu Bai, who was riding on Zhu Biao's shoulders and arrogant, with a hint of pity in his tone subconsciously.

"You mean Zhu Bai? Then... we have to start with Zhu Yunwen."

(End of this chapter)