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

Chapter 194 Taizu came in person to clean up the Hongzhi court!

Whether Zhu Houzhao has a good relationship with Queen Mother Zhang is two different things from whether he will be angry because Queen Mother Zhang is treated coldly.

Thinking about it from another perspective, although you and your mother have a very tense relationship, after your death, your cousin not only took possession of your family property, but was also very disrespectful to your mother. No one else would be able to bear it.

No matter how bad the relationship is, she is still a mother!

This is what Zhu Houzhao thinks. I can talk loudly to my mother, but what kind of bastard are you, Zhu Houzhao?

"Going to the Jiajing Dynasty? Of course you can, but first we have to talk about the problems between you two." Li Qing shook his head and sighed: "First of all, your father, Zhu Youtang, is just a fool..."

"Guess what, Master Xian, I think so too!" Zhu Houzhao immediately agreed.

"Perhaps he was fooled by the literati. In short, during the Hongzhi period, power was gradually transferred to the literati."

Li Qing was halfway interrupted when Zhu Houzhao couldn't wait to interrupt.

"Ah, yes, yes! Immortal Master, you are so right! You don't know that since I came to the throne, my mother has also learned bad things from my father, and she has always known to join forces with those civil servants to restrict me... …”

Zhu Houzhao began to pour out his bitterness, not noticing that his father's face was getting darker and darker.

"I actually have a strong opinion against my mother. How can a mother join forces with outsiders to deal with her own son?"

"They are also worried that you are a believer like your great-grandfather." Li Qing said with a smile.

Who knew that Zhu Houzhao would quit as soon as these words came out.

"My great-grandfather? You said that Zhu Qizhen is like a dog...even inferior to sesame cakes? Is he worthy of being my great-great-grandfather? Oh my god!" Zhu Houzhao was furious: "If I were to be in his situation, I would not dare to do it first. Are you being presumptuous in front of me?!"

Halfway through, I finally suppressed the phrase "something like a dog". Come to think of it, Zhu Qizhen is a dog, so what has become of him?

"It's true that you are more than a little bit better than your great-grandfather in the military." Li Qing nodded to express his approval of Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao suddenly became alert: "Master Immortal, since you can go to Hongzhi Dynasty and me, can you go to Tianshun Dynasty?"

"What's wrong?" Li Qing asked with concern.

"What else?!" Zhu Houzhao gritted his teeth and said, "I'm going to catch Zhu Qizhen's thing that's worse than sesame cakes and beat him up!"

As soon as these words came out, Lao Zhu didn't want to care about him anyway, after all, Zhu Qizhen was too inhumane; Zhu Xiang's lips suddenly opened. In his opinion, this little grandson was too bad-tempered.

Zhu Youtang didn't think so. He was a person who was influenced by his father, his father and his son. How could he tolerate his son doing such a rebellious thing?

"Zhu Houzhao! You bastard!"

"Hey, little Tangzi, you can't say that." Zhu Fang immediately held down Zhu Youtang who wanted to go up to release his father's love, and said sincerely: "Today, from the perspective of an elder, I will teach you some life lessons. experience……"

"Don't say anything wrong with Zhu Houzhao. However, your grandfather is indeed not a human being... Xiao Zhao, if you want to do something, come with me, ancestor." Zhu Xi walked over and put his arm around Zhu Houzhao's shoulders: "Zhu Qizhen is here It’s locked up in the Hongwu Dynasty, and you can go and make up for your great-grandfather’s missing childhood at any time..."

Zhu Houzhao's eyes became brighter and brighter.

"Okay, okay, let's talk about the fight against Zhu Qizhen first." Li Qing coughed twice and said to Zhu Houzhao: "That imperial physician of yours is called Liu Wentai, and he will handle it as necessary. I think your father was him back then. If nothing else happens, you will also be put to death by him..."

"You can't blame the imperial doctor too harshly, right?" Zhu Youtang sighed: "As the saying goes, medicine can't cure diseases, and Buddha can save those who are destined..."

"Dad, do you still believe in Buddhism?" Zhu Houzhao said with a look of dissatisfaction and dissatisfaction: "Look at the use of your belief in that Buddha? Didn't you collapse halfway?"

"I'll kill you!" Zhu Youtang flew up and kicked him empty.

Zhu Houzhao made a face and hid behind Zhu Xiang.

"Grandpa, support me!"

"Okay." Zhu Fang also disliked Zhu Youtang. Sometimes it's not a good thing for people to be too nice. It's easy to become a bad person.

Zhu Xi has always believed in staying away from such good people. If a thunderstorm comes from the sky one day, it will not be fun if it affects him again.

"That Liu Wentai, he executed you and Zhu Houzhao one after another, and nothing happened." Li Qing spread his hands to express his helplessness: "There was also an imperial physician named Xu Shen, who cured Zhu Houzhao after the Renyin Palace Incident, and he died within a month. It's dead, you taste it, you taste it carefully..."

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but take a deep breath.

Li Qing did have some intentional guidance, but everyone here is either an emperor or a prince, and they couldn't be more sensitive to this kind of thing.

"Is it possible that this Liu Wentai..." Lao Zhu thought of a possibility that he didn't want to think about.

"Yes, otherwise Jiajing changed the imperial hospital completely after he came to the throne." Li Qing spread his hands and said with a smile: "And you, Zhu Houzhao, don't laugh at your father, you are better than your father It’s not that strong!”

"What's wrong with me?" Zhu Houzhao was a little dissatisfied. If he was not as strong as his father, then he would definitely be dissatisfied.

In his eyes, Zhu Youtang made concessions to civil servants without any bottom line or principle, which led to various constraints during his administration.

"You really have a weak mind. When it comes to dealing with civil servants, look at your cousin Zhu Houcong. Although he is not very good at it, his level is still first-rate." Li Qing glanced at Zhu Youtang and said, "Look at you again. After your father passed away, you pushed all the civil servants to the opposite side based on your personal likes and dislikes. Are you stupid? Why don't you divide one group, win over another group, and suppress another group? "

"Brother Xian is right, this is what you need to do to deal with the ministers who have formed a group and want to fight against the imperial power." Even Li Shimin expressed his support for the first time.

Being an enlightened monarch does not mean that he can tolerate his ministers grouping together to resist the imperial power. Li Shimin is enlightened, but he is not a fool.

As the saying goes, water flows downwards, and people's hearts always want to be high when they are high. You ministers dare to unite against me today. I don’t even dare to think about what you can do tomorrow.

"But the court should be harmonious, and the emperor should respect his courtiers..."

Before Zhu Youtang finished speaking, he heard Lao Zhu yelling.

"We'll beat you to death, you idiot!"

As soon as they heard Lao Zhu's order, the Zhu Tong brothers followed him and started punching Zhu Youtang.

Zhu Youtang stretched out his arms and cried out in pain: "Ah, stop fighting, it's an insult to gentleness, it's an insult to gentleness!"

"What a good fight! What a wonderful fight! What a great fight!" Zhu Houzhao was cheering from the side, obviously just watching the fun and not taking it too seriously.

He has deep opinions about his father. Ever since he came to the throne, a group of courtiers have been holding him back in whatever he wants to do. If one person stands alone, nothing can be accomplished. Especially his mother, who felt as if he was not her biological son, and even united with those foreign ministers to deal with her.

In fact, he originally had a strong opinion against his mother, but after hearing that Zhu Houcong treated her like that, he felt a little relieved.

There was even a hint of joy - Hey, why didn't your trusted civil servants protect you at that time? Is it a son or a civil servant?

If he could go to Jiajing for twenty years, he would definitely ask his mother this.

As for his uncles...sometimes he wants to chop them into pieces.

Frankly speaking, with the same surname as Zhang, Zhu Houzhao's mother is far worse than Zhu Zhanji's mother.

Lao Zhu fought for a long time to calm down. If the emperor was said to be lazy, he would be forgiven for it, but Zhu Youtang was obviously a bastard and Tian didn't feel sorry for him.

I tried every possible means to firmly hold the power in my hands. For this reason, I gave it to the prime minister Hu Weiyong to chop it up. What the hell are you doing? You just gave away the power that I had grasped with just a touch of lip service?

Let's fuck your mother!

"We finally understand why the emperors after you don't have a good reputation, and even try every means to fight with the courtiers. It turns out that the root cause is here!" Lao Zhu angrily cursed: "You... Is your mother's brain underdeveloped, or is her cerebellum completely underdeveloped? How loyal do you think those courtiers are to you? Even if you change the emperor and you die, they will still serve as officials in the court - even if The Ming Dynasty has died, and the new imperial court needs them to serve as officials! So they have nothing to fear! Why can't you understand the problem that we have seen from the beginning? "

"Taizu... Grandpa Taizu is too cruel, I am determined not to learn from him..." Zhu Youtang's words made Lao Zhu red and warm again.

Now Li Shimin couldn't stand it anymore. He secretly complained to Li Qing: "If I have such a bad descendant, I might as well kill Suanqiu as soon as possible."

"Grandpa Taizu! My father just wants to leave a good name in the history books!" Zhu Houzhao shouted while stretching his neck.

Lao Zhu's beard and hair were all spread out, and he was holding the belt and whipping him even more happily.

"We're going to kill you, you bastard who is just trying to gain fame!" Lao Zhu scolded fiercely: "Now we know that there are bastards like you in the world! Stop being an emperor and go to your Hongzhi Dynasty now. , let me clean up the court for you, so that Hou Zhao doesn’t have to face that kind of miserable situation after he takes the throne!"

After Lao Zhu scolded him, he said to Zhu Houzhao: "You wait here first, and we will send Lan Yu over to protect you first. Are five thousand people enough?"

"That's enough! Grandpa Taizu! That's enough!" Zhu Houzhao happily kowtowed, "You are truly my ancestor!"

"Silly boy!" Zhu Yuanzhang patted his head happily: "You are not stupid, but your father is a fool."

……

After returning to the Hongwu Dynasty, Lao Zhu immediately ordered five thousand troops and horses, handed them to Lan Yu, and asked him to go to the Zhengde Dynasty to protect Zhu Houzhao.

Li Shimin also couldn't stand it and assigned several cooks to Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao was so happy that he kept saying that Grandpa Taizu did not recognize him in vain. In addition, he had a small request - that is, if his father could be beaten carefully.

After hearing this, Zhu Youtang couldn't hold back and rushed up and kicked him.

Zhu Houzhao jumped and ran away, making faces as he ran.

Later, Lao Zhu counted the troops again and ordered Xu Da to command 15,000 people and go with him to Hongzhi Dynasty.

It won't work without someone. Lao Zhu can't trust those courtiers. Ever since he heard about Liu Wentai, Lao Zhu had developed countless suspicions and began to suspect that the imperial doctor and the court officials were conspiring to poison the emperor.

In the eighteenth year of Hongzhi, Fengtian Palace.

Today's court meeting was different from the past. The courtiers found that the person sitting at the top was no longer the good-natured Zhu Youtang, but a middle-aged man with the word "kill" written on his face.

The surroundings were also filled with burly soldiers wearing heavy armor. The armor was something they had never seen before - it seemed to be made of a whole piece of fine steel, and it was still reflecting light. It was so cold that it was scary.

The original emperor, Zhu Youtang, stood aside with a bruised nose and face, looking as if he had been beaten.

On the other side, the prince Zhu Houzhao, whose face was full of happiness, looked at the ministers below with his arms crossed and his brows raised.

Who on earth dares to beat someone on a pilgrimage? The ministers couldn't help but murmur to themselves.

There are those who shrink back and dare not speak, and naturally there are those who dare to speak out. When even a loyal minister stood up and accused him sternly: "Who are you! How dare you sit on the throne!"

"You do have some loyal ministers." Old Zhupi tilted his head and glanced at Zhu Youtang with a smile.

"Liu Daxia! Don't be rude! This is Emperor Gao, the great ancestor of the Ming Dynasty!" Zhu Youtang sighed and scolded.

Although he does not agree with Lao Zhu's approach, he is also quite pedantic. But asking him to deny his ancestors like Jianwen, he couldn't do it.

This is also some of the advantages of pedantry...

Li Qing couldn't help but glance at Liu Daxia meaningfully, oh, so it's you...

Seeing the look in Li Qing's eyes, Lao Zhu also had a second thought.

Maybe this Liu Daxia... doesn't seem so simple.

When the officials heard this, they couldn't help but burst into an uproar.

What's going on today? Who took the wrong medicine? emperor?

Taizu has been dead for a hundred years, why did someone suddenly come out and claim to be Taizu? Why don't you say you are the fourth ancestor of farmers?

But the tin cans standing around made the courtiers dare not speak out if they had any opinions.

There are some people who are not afraid of death, that is Liu Daxia.

"Absurd! Emperor Taizu Gao has been dead for a hundred years! This man falsely claimed that he was Emperor Taizu Gao, so your majesty believed it?" Liu Daxia flicked his robe sleeves: "Is it possible that your majesty also wants to learn old things in Chinese and not ask about the common people or ghosts and gods? Huh?"

Zhu Youtang's face looked a little embarrassed, and he immediately said: "I was seriously ill the day before yesterday. If Emperor Taizu Gao had not given me the elixir, I would have already died. How could I discuss matters with the ministers in Fengtian Palace?"

"I don't want to say anything about my strange power, but I forgive my rudeness." Liu Daxia was determined not to recognize Zhu Yuanzhang, the great ancestor.

If Zhu Yuanzhang really takes control of the court, it will be a catastrophe for them.

The so-called "all the people are upright" in the Hongzhi Dynasty is really... After all, when you take off your underwear, not many of them are clean.

"Zhu Youtang, is this your minister?" Lao Zhu was not angry, but looked at Zhu Youtang with a half-smile.

Zhu Youtang sighed and said: "Grandpa Taizu, please be merciful. Liu Daxia is a capable minister and official, and has made great contributions in river management. In the sixth year of Hongzhi, the Yellow River burst its embankment at the Zhangqiu section, and more than 360 miles of long embankment were built. Floods Naixi..."

"Oh, such a river management." Zhu Yuanzhang chuckled and took the note handed over by Li Qing, "We are not the kind of foolish king who kills without teaching. From the time when we worked in the Red Scarf Army to the thirty-one year of Hongwu, we asked ourselves Every official killed has a valid reason, and I will explain it to you today."

"You said he had merit in controlling the river, but where is the merit? Is it because the Yellow River diverted the Huai River into the sea, making Huaibei's ecology worse?" Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but sneered: "By crossing Seshawan and Zhang Qiuzha to make the canal safe, Xu and Pei were harmed several times. ... This is what you call meritorious service in river control. Three hundred years later, the person who managed the river commented: "Since Liu Daxia built a large embankment for more than 200 miles, forcing the river to flow south, the river has entered the Huaihe River. Going against the flow and harming people's livelihood can be said to be clumsy in planning."?"

"Look, this is the capable minister and official you mentioned. During the reign of Emperor Xianzong Zhu Jianshen, your father Zhu Jianshen wanted to follow the story of Lao Si and return to the West. What was the result? What did Liu Daxia do?"

Hearing Lao Zhu's words, Liu Daxia couldn't help but sneer.

"Going to the Western Ocean is of no benefit to the country. It wastes the people and wastes money. How can we condone such outrageous atrocities? That sea map has been burned by me! In order to stop the foolish king from wasting people and money!"

Liu Daxia's psychological journey is also very simple. Your court talks about great principles one after another, such as Zheng He's voyages to the West and the recovery of Annan. What does that have to do with me? What does it have to do with my Liu family? All the money has been taken away by the imperial court and the royal internal funds. What do we, the "righteous people", eat? What to drink?

"During the Chenghua period, Wang Zhi of Xichang suggested to Ming Xianzong Zhu Jianshen to send troops to recover Annan. It was your "loyal minister" Liu Daxia who told Yu Zijun, the Minister of War at the time, that the troops should not be sent on the grounds that the people would not be able to make a living in the war." Zhu Yuanzhang laughed. Hehehe reached out and patted Zhu Youtang's face: "Then what? Your father asked for documents from Zhang Funan's campaign against Annan, but Liu Daxia hid them and refused to give them to him. You probably don't know what happened next. Annan sent someone to express his gratitude to Liu Daxia , and also gave him a lot of property."

"Oh, and when you wanted to regain the Hetao area, were you also stopped by Liu Daxia?" Old Zhu stared at Liu Daxia with a hawk-like gaze, "You followed these bullshit scholars to criticize your father's political darkness, but do you know , when your Guanglu Temple wants five thousand shi of food but can't turn over, how much is your father's Jingtong warehouse reserve?"

"You don't know, okay, let me tell you. What is the 22nd year of Chenghua? That's the year. Jingtong Ercang's real grain is more than 20,555,500 stones, and the material is 26,000 More than 630 stones, more than 7,825,900 bundles of grass, 819,811 taels of silver in grain and other items, and 2,253,000 odd coins More than four hundred articles."

"You don't know how much food there was in Jingcang last year, right? No, right?" When Lao Zhu said this, his face was full of coldness.

Xiao Zhu Houzhao, who was standing next to him, watched Taizu torture his father with excitement on his face, and his eyes were full of eagerness to try.

How could you not take him with you for such a fun thing?

Zhu Youtang's head was filled with cold sweat. Of course he knew how much food there was in Jingcang! A few years ago, Taicang had no money for disaster relief, so the court officials could only ask themselves to allocate funds from internal funds for emergency response.

People lie, but data doesn't.

If it was in the past, it would be recommended to kowtow to Xiaoling and apologize. But now that Zhu Yuanzhang is back...well, let's consider whether we can survive Lao Zhu's anger.

(There is another chapter today which is also 5000 words long, so I am a bit too busy...)

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