Daming: I am the most powerful emperor grandson, please abdicate the throne

Chapter 471 Beat the drum and complain
  Fujian businessmen, led by Pu Yuhua, like the Jiangnan businessmen, are going to Beijing to file a petition against the emperor.

The White Lotus Sect has paved the way for the merchants.

As long as they beat the Dengwen drum in response to the Tianwu Gate, they believed that Zhu Xuan had absolutely no chance of turning around this time.

They did not expect Zhu Yuanzhang to kill Zhu Xuan, and Lao Zhu would definitely not kill his grandson, but as long as Zhu Xuan was no longer favored, they would have a chance to kill him.

When they heard that Fujian merchants were coming, those Jiangnan merchants looked south at the same time.

Pu Yuhua and the others faced the wind and snow and walked from south to north for who knows how long before they arrived here. Their departure time was much earlier than the merchants in Jiangnan.

"Brother Pu!"

Zhang Fuchu knew the other party.

After all, Pu Yuhua had also cooperated with Zhang Fuchu at sea when they went out for smuggling together.

Pu Yuhua smiled and said, "Brother Zhang arrived so early?"

"Brother Pu is so far away in Fujian and came earlier. Are you confident about this time?"

"We must be confident that we can get back everything we have lost."

"That's right!"

Zhang Fuchu nodded affirmatively.

Although they can't do anything to Lao Zhu and avenge their ancestors, it is not a problem at all to disgust Lao Zhu and take advantage of Lao Zhu's most doted grandson.

"Let's go!"

Pu Yuhua added: "As soon as tomorrow, we can beat the drum at the Meridian Gate."

Jiangnan businessmen saw that Fujian businessmen were also coming, and they were full of hope and expectation for this petition.

Immediately speed up and rush to the capital.

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Zhu Xuan didn't know that a crisis had already come to him.

After walking with Xu Miaojin for a long time, he went back to the palace, talked to Grandpa Huang about the past wars, and finally went back to the small courtyard to rest.

The next morning.

Before Zhu Xuan woke up, he suddenly heard a huge drum sound coming from outside.

dong dong dong...

The sound of the drums was deafening and terrifying.

There seems to be no such drum in the palace, and no one usually beats such a drum during holidays. What happened?

Zhu Xuan finished dressing immediately and just walked out of the small courtyard when he saw Zhu Yuanzhang coming out with a gloomy face.

"My dear grandson, can you hear it? What kind of drum sound is this?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

Zhu Xuan shook his head slightly.

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "It's normal if you can't hear it. No one has played the drum at Meridian Gate for more than ten years."

The drum at the Meridian Gate.

Dengwengu!
  Zhu Xuan immediately thought of this and said in surprise: "Someone is suing?"

"That's right!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly: "We set up this drum back then to give people in the world who had grievances but could not redress their grievances a chance to complain to the emperor. It has not been sounded for more than ten years... Jiang Yu, immediately send someone to protect the emperor." For those who want to file a petition, Yun Qi tells me to give the oral instructions to the Third Division, and they all come to the Meridian Gate and wait for us. My dear, let’s go and see who files the petition."

Generally, those who can come to Yingtian and beat this drum are basically local people who have been wronged.

Things are going to be serious.

Especially today, the second day of the new year.

On what was supposed to be a festive day, someone came to complain and ruined the celebration. Not to mention that there were injustices in the Ming Dynasty. This was the most intolerable thing for Lao Zhu.

It would be impossible for the people to beat this drum unless they were desperate.

Zhu Yuanzhang worked hard to suppress his anger. More than ten years ago, he was already thinking about how to kill someone.

The grandfather and grandson soon arrived at the Meridian Gate.

The Jin Yiwei had already surrounded this place, and officials from the Third Division had also gone to notify them. They should be on their way, but the rest period would not come soon.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang was startled when he saw the drummer.    They are not one person, but a group of people.

He was not a farmer as he had imagined, but a businessman with a big belly, extremely well-maintained, and a rich face.

Those who came to beat drums and complain about the imperial edict were all businessmen.

"His Majesty is here!"

Yunqi shouted just right.

"Greetings to Your Majesty, long live long live long live."

All the businessmen knelt down and kowtowed.

No matter how reluctant Zhang Fuchu and Pu Yuhua were, they had to kneel down to salute and continue to mix among the merchants.

"Get up!"

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced over and asked calmly: "What grievances do you have?"

In his impression, the people were lucky that those businessmen did not collude with government officials and businessmen and did not bully the people.

Such a large group of businessmen still have grievances to complain about?

Very strange.

Zhu Xuan also felt strange and looked at them curiously.

"Your Majesty, the common people are merchants from the south of the Yangtze River."

A Jiangnan businessman representative named Xue Zongguang first said: "The person the common people want to sue has a very special body and is very tall. The common people are afraid that if he tells it, it will anger His Majesty."

Zhu Yuanzhang narrowed his eyes. Could it be that there is some kind of super corrupt person on the side of the Zhejiang Chief Secretary?

Is it the Chief Secretary, or some wealthy family, colluding with the Chief Secretary, officials and businessmen?

Various thoughts emerged in Zhu Yuanzhang's mind, and he said: "Just say it directly. Even if what you say is wrong, I won't be angry, let alone blame you."

"Go back to Your Majesty."

At this time, Zheng Long, the representative of the Fujian businessmen, said loudly: "Zheng Long, the poor Fujian businessman, the person he wants to sue is Zhu Yunxuan, the grandson of the Fifth Emperor of the Ming Dynasty."

"Sue me?"

Zhu Xuan opened his mouth after listening to their words.

He could quickly think that it was the disputes arising from overseas trade that made them think of filing a lawsuit, right?
  It was a Jiangnan businessman who came to complain with the Fujian businessmen.

They made an agreement and didn't want to let Zhu Xuan go.

Zhu Yuanzhang also thought of this at this moment.

He came to file a lawsuit regarding overseas trade, and when he heard that the defendant was still Zhu Xuan, he was immediately laughed out of anger.

He said he couldn't be angry, so he just didn't get angry and asked calmly: "What do you want to sue our dear grandson?"

Those businessmen are really not good people.

At least Lao Zhu felt that they didn't have many good people, and even his own good grandson would dare to sue.

After listening to Zhu Yuanzhang's words, those businessmen seemed to be really not angry and gradually became bolder.

Emperor Zhu gave them the opportunity to complain.

"The grassroots want to sue the fifth emperor's grandson, compete with the people for profits, suppress the grassroots and other merchant ships that go to sea for trade, and use the status of the emperor's grandson to control maritime interests, making it impossible for us to go to sea for business."

"The common people want to tell His Highness the Fifth Emperor to encourage commerce instead of production."

"Your Highness, the Fifth Emperor's grandson, makes weapons privately and has thoughts of rebellion."

"His Royal Highness the Fifth Emperor Sun encouraged commerce and neglected production, which destroyed the stability of the Ming Dynasty. He also gave our land of the Ming Dynasty to people from overseas, destroying the territorial integrity of our Ming Dynasty."

"When foreigners come to the Ming Dynasty, the first people to visit are the five emperors' grandsons, and the first to pay tribute are the five emperors' grandsons, instead of coming to Yingtian to see His Majesty. This is an act of transgression."

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Seeing that Lao Zhu was still easy to talk to, those businessmen couldn't hold back and threw out various accusations one after another.

No matter what, Zhu Xuan has to be dealt with.

Zhu Yuanzhang's face darkened after hearing this.

Their merchants were telling Zhu Xuan that he only focused on business and not production. It seemed that those coastal merchants would do anything to save their own interests.

(End of this chapter)