King Luhuang of the Ming Dynasty: My father, Ming Taizu

Chapter 172 Zhu Di, if you want to die, don’t drag me with you.
Zhu Tan met with several people after the ceremony.

He also looked at these members of the Yongle Emperor Entrepreneurship Group with great curiosity.

Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng, and Qiu Fu all look like fierce generals.

He is indeed a person who can later be granted the title of Duke.

All of them are tall and muscular, especially Zhu Neng. In addition to being strong, his face is also very dark.

Zhang Yu appears to be more elegant, giving Zhu Tan a temperament similar to Xu Da.

Compared with Zhang Yu and Zhu Neng, Qiu Fu is relatively mediocre.

But it can be seen that he must be a good charger.

As for Seng Daoyan, Zhu Tan is even more curious about him!

The famous black prime minister in history and the evil monk in troubled times.

When Hongwu was fifteen years old, he met Zhu Di for the first time. He was so bold that he wanted to give Zhu Di a white hat to wear!
At that time, Zhu Biao didn't have any problems, and his position as crown prince was extremely stable.

It is incredible that this monk has such vision and ambition.

After that, even during the crisis, he repeatedly made suggestions for Zhu Di. Several times Zhu Di couldn't hold on anymore, but Seng Daoyan remained the same, always telling Zhu Di that you will definitely have the land all over the world!

Counting now, Seng Daoyan has also stayed with Zhu Di for four years.

He must have completely gained Zhu Di's trust, otherwise he wouldn't be able to appear with the three core generals and Jin Zhong this time.

Zhu Tan has a high status now, so naturally he will not take the initiative to talk to them.

Even though he was very curious about Seng Daoyan, he could only nod his head proudly and prepared to enter the city under the welcome of everyone.

Zhang Yu suddenly couldn't help but asked: "Your Highness, I have the courage to ask you a question!"

Zhu Tan looked at him and said with a smile, "Speak!"

Zhang Yu said curiously: "I will see that your highness's carriage is different from any carriage I have ever seen. It makes a different sound and looks very different. I want to know what are the benefits of making the carriage like this." ?"

Zhu Tan smiled.

If you want to ask this, you are asking what I want to say the most!
Just about to answer.

Suddenly a voice came.

"Tenth brother! Welcome to my brother's domain!"

Zhu Tan was stunned when he heard the words. He looked at where the voice came from and found that it was actually the King of Yan Zhu Di.

He was a little surprised and couldn't help but ask: "Fourth brother, why are you here too?"

Zhu Di said with a smile: "I am the elder brother and you are the younger brother. If you stand at the city gate to greet me for your brother, it is inconsistent with etiquette. I'm afraid my father will be unhappy."

But you are the savior of your father-in-law and the great benefactor of our Prince Yan's Mansion. You and I are even more brothers. With such a friendship, how could it be appropriate for me not to come to pick you up? Let them stand outside while I stay inside the city. This way I can receive you without violating etiquette! hehe! "

As he spoke, Zhu Di walked over quickly and put his arm around Zhu Tan's shoulder, his face full of enthusiasm.

This actually moved Zhu Tan a little.

Zhu Laosi is worthy of being a person who wants to do great things. His ability to win people's hearts is far inferior to that of ordinary people.

"Come on, come on, fourth brother will accompany you to the city. Although Beiping is located in a border fortress and has been subject to wars for many years. It is not as prosperous as your King of Lu, but after all, it has also served as the capital of the Jin Kingdom and the Yuan Dynasty, and it also has its own unique features. You’ll know just by looking at it!”

Zhu Tan didn't leave in a hurry after hearing this.

He smiled and said, "Fourth brother, I have something to say later."

Zhu Di looked at Zhu Tan with curiosity, not knowing what he was going to say.

Zhu Tan smiled and said to Zhang Yu: "This carriage is indeed different from ordinary carriages. It mainly focuses on comfort. You might as well feel it!"

Seeing that the protagonist actually asked His Highness King Yan to wait for him just to answer his own questions, Zhang Yu glanced at Zhu Di timidly.

Zhu Di was also stunned when he heard this, and smiled and said: "It turns out that my subordinates don't understand the rules and want to ask you a question?"

Hearing Zhu Tan talk about the carriage, Zhu Di couldn't help but look at Zhu Tan's carriage curiously.

Then he couldn't help but be stunned.

"Why is the bottom of this carriage so strange? What are those metal objects used for? And the wheels, why are they this color and shape?"

Zhu Tan smiled and said: "Then please invite fourth brother to come up and have a look!"

Zhu Di smiled and followed Zhu Tan and Zhang Yu to get on the carriage.

suddenly.

Monk Daoyan suddenly shouted the Buddha's name and said, "Your Highnesses, I wonder if this poor monk can also get on the carriage and have a look?"

Zhu Di smiled and said, "Master, are you interested too?"

Monk Daoyan clasped his hands together and said, "This carriage is so novel, even a poor monk cannot avoid it."

Zhu Di smiled and said, "Are you afraid that Master's heart is not at peace?"

Jin Zhong hummed in a low voice: "Maybe this monk wants to change his master and join His Highness King Lu just after entering His Highness King Lu's carriage!"

Monk Daoyan's face darkened.

He gritted his teeth and hummed softly: "Amitabha, this poor monk really wants to drive his carriage over the golden donor!"

The sound was so small that it was almost undetectable.

But Jin Zhong could hear it clearly.

He couldn't help but said angrily: "Monk, you still want to kill people."

Monk Daoyan ignored Jin Zhong.

Then he followed the two highnesses and Zhang Yu into the carriage with a smile on his face.

Four people entered Zhu Tan's carriage, which was still very spacious.

Zhu Di looked inside the carriage and felt nothing.

After all, he was also a vassal king, and the carriage he made was equally gorgeously decorated, even bigger and better than Zhu Tan's.

But after Zhu Tan ordered the coachman to drive, the carriage gave everyone a completely different feeling!

As the carriage started slowly, they immediately felt something different!

Although the post road outside Beiping City is spacious and flat, it is compared to other dirt roads in the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, there are still many potholes and pebbles.

Normally, when a carriage drives by, it will always be bumpy.

But the car in front of me is very stable!

For Zhu Di and others who are accustomed to bumpy rides, the comfort of this carriage is simply too high.

Initially, Zhu Di thought that the carriage in front of him was not much different from the carriage he used.

But as soon as I got on it, I realized that my carriage, let alone Zhu Tan's carriage, was driving on such a shabby road. Even if it was driving on the stone road of my own palace, it would never be so comfortable and smooth!
Monk Daoyan's reaction was more direct. He closed his eyes and felt it for a while, then suddenly opened his eyes and said in surprise: "Amitabha, this car is like the void of the Dharma Realm. Sitting in it, I feel peaceful both physically and mentally. Your Highness, what exactly is this?" What kind of means can create such a magical thing?"

Zhang Yu also looked curious, but after thinking for a long time, he didn't know what to say.

Finally, he sighed and said, "The enjoyment enjoyed by rich people is indeed extraordinary!"

The carriage drove for a little longer, and what shocked a few people even more was how quiet the carriage was!
Normally, the carriage is always accompanied by the squeaking of the axle and the tapping of the horse's hooves, but Zhu Tan's carriage seems to be traveling in the clouds, with almost no noise.

Zhu Tan said with a smile: "This car doesn't look cheap, but it's actually even more expensive to build!

Just to build this carriage, I invested no less than 100,000 yuan! "

hiss--!
Three people heard this number.

It was all a shock!
Monk Daoyan shook his head.

His Royal Highness King Lu
What a luxury!
Not Mingzhu!

His Highness King Yan is better. In the future, the white hat will still have to be given to His Highness King Yan!

Zhang Yu thought for a while.

He is now a fourth-grade Yanshan Zuo Guard commander.

The annual salary is 140 shi plus 300 guanbao notes.

According to today's price, it is about 150 taels.

What is the concept of 10 taels?
If you don’t eat or drink, you will have to earn 666 years?
It took Zhang Yu a long time to come up with this terrible number!

"This carriage can buy my life!"

Zhu Di smiled.

"With my salary, it will take me ten years without food or water to afford it! As for you, forget it! Ten of them are not enough for you!" Zhang Yu smiled bitterly.

"Your Highness is right!"

Zhu Di looked at Zhu Tan and suddenly said: "Tenth brother, although I don't have much contact with you on weekdays, I still want to advise you to keep a low profile!
You have done a good job in Shandong, and everyone in the world sees it. The profits from the Changlu Saltworks are even more envied by many people!

Your father has repeatedly asked you for money. Brother Wei is suspicious. He may be worried that your show will be destroyed by the wind, so he is protecting you!

In the future, if someone really dares to attack you and the court accepts your money, it will be natural for my father to speak out for you!

But if you are always so high-profile and spend so much money just to build a carriage, it will be difficult for your father and brothers to speak for you in the future! "

Zhu Tan felt very warm in her heart when she listened to Zhu Di's heartfelt words.

In the future, Emperor Yongle, who was cruel and murderous, raised his brothers like pigs, and killed many of his brothers, was once a good brother who sincerely cared about his brothers.
All I can say is that politics and power are really scary.

How good a person is, but he will eventually be alienated into a cold-blooded and ruthless political animal.

However, Zhu Tan did not intend to listen to Zhu Di.

Just kidding, haven't you been doing unconventional and shocking things since you time traveled to now? What are you hiding?
What's more, if you want to hide it, how can you possibly hide it?

Zhu Tan can protect his own magic weapon, one is his identity as the vassal king.

In short, as Lao Zhu's biological son, his status is extremely valuable. As long as he does not rebel and cause chaos, Lao Zhu will definitely not deal with him.

Second, it is your ability to continuously create wealth!

Whether it is refining salt or making soap, making mirrors, and the steel industry that will shine in the future, as well as improving gunpowder, making new muskets, and even artillery!

The so-called enriching the country and strengthening the military means that one is to continuously realize the growth of national wealth at the wealth level, in other words, it is to greatly develop productivity.

Secondly, the continuous application of new technologies has made the Ming army stronger and stronger.

No matter what you have, Lao Zhu can be regarded as having a real gold medal to avoid death.

As long as he is not plotting rebellion or endangering the Ming Dynasty, Lao Zhu will never touch him.

As for talking about extravagance and waste, being high-profile, and being unconventional.
Of course he has to maintain these Zhu Tan characters!

Zhu Tan is confident, and Lao Zhu will not deal with him because of such trivial matters!

Zhu Di couldn't help but shook his head when he saw that Zhu Tan was smiling but had no intention of listening.

That's it.

My younger brother has great magical powers, what should I teach him?
This morning, my father scolded the second brother in the palace, saying that he was not even as good as the tenth brother.

I don’t know what my father is talking about about my tenth brother.
soon.

Everyone got off the carriage and walked towards the city gate talking and laughing.

Zhu Tan suggested that he would like to stand on the top of the city wall of Peiping and overlook the whole city.

Zhu Di naturally would not refuse.

Several people were walking.

suddenly.

Zhu Di was stunned.

Yup!

My father is still in Peiping!
What are you doing here!
You should take your tenth brother to see your father!
Think of this.

Zhu Di hurriedly said to Zhu Tan: "Tenth brother, you go with me first!"

Zhu Tan asked curiously: "Where to go?"

Zhu Di said: "Meet Father!"

"what?"

Zhu Tan's face was full of surprise!

"Father is in Peiping?"

Zhu Di nodded and said: "My father never leaves Beijing easily, but this time, he said that this Northern Expedition is no small matter. He came to Peking first to see how the soldiers are doing, and he wants to be there in person to boost the morale of the soldiers!

Secondly, he also wanted to see what Youzhou, which had been lost for more than four hundred years, was like! "

Zhu Tan just felt baffled.

The ancestral precepts of Emperor Ming clearly stated that the emperor could not leave Beijing easily.

Moreover, in the original history, Lao Zhu never left Yingtian!
Why is the old man so quiet and restless now that he came to Peiping?

Zhu Di pulled Zhu Tan and said with a smile: "Let's go quickly! The second brother, the third brother, the fifth brother, and the seventh brother have all met my father! Since you have entered the city, my father's royal guards must know about it. If you go It’s too late, be careful of Father asking for gifts!”

Zhu Tan sighed.

"Father's royal guards are so pervasive, so annoying. Doesn't he know how to guard against people's mouths better than guarding against rivers?"

Zhu Di sighed.

"Tenth brother, can you please stop saying these treasonous words in front of me? You are not afraid of father's punishment, but fourth brother is!"

Zhu Tan smiled.

It can be seen that Zhu Laosi is indeed afraid of Zhu Yuanzhang.

soon.

Zhu Tan and Zhu Di entered the city.

When he was about to board the carriage, Zhu Tan shouted to the sergeants, traders and footmen at the city gate: "Hey! Which of you is a Jinyi guard? My fourth brother said that there is a Jinyi guard among you."

next second.

Zhu Tan's mouth was covered by Zhu Di.

Zhu Di pulled him into the carriage with a dark face.

"You bastard! I want to kill your fourth brother!"

Zhu Di said angrily.

Zhu Tan laughed dryly.

"I'm just curious"

"Go back to your own domain and be curious!"

No matter how good Zhu Di's impression of Zhu Tan was, he couldn't hold it anymore.

If Lao Shi is seeking death, can you please not take me with you!
The old Yuanting Palace.

Unlike other vassal kings who built huge palaces everywhere, King Zhu Di of Yan was considered the most extravagant and frugal one.

He is said to be extravagant because the palace he lives in was once the palace of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty.

He is said to be frugal because he is the only vassal prince who did not spend money to build a palace.

Zhu Di was also very confused about Lao Zhu's arrangement.

As a vassal king, even if he lives in the palace of the former dynasty, is that considered transgression, right?
Not only did the brothers and civil servants look unhappy, but I also lived in trepidation!

But he didn't dare not listen to Lao Zhu's will.

In desperation, Zhu Di had to carefully move into the original Longfu Palace of the Prince's Palace.

But after all, Yuanting Palace has been abandoned for more than ten years.

Zhu Di became a vassal in the thirteenth year of Hongwu and only repaired his palace.

He doesn't have the money to repair the entire Yuanting Palace, let alone dare to repair it.

Therefore, Zhu Di simply abandoned the rest of the Yuanting Palace except Longfu Palace.

This time, after receiving Zhu Yuanzhang's order that his father was coming, Zhu Di hurriedly asked for repairs.

Fortunately, the imperial court allocated 10 taels of silver to renovate Zhu Yuanzhang's residence and use it as Lao Zhu's palace.

But other places are still deserted.

soon.

Zhu Tan, led by Zhu Di, entered Zhu Yuanzhang's palace.

Zhu Yuanzhang's scolding could be heard from afar.

"Second brother, no wonder you gave us some rejuvenation wine! You really didn't perform well last night! Can't you do it in such a short time? Mother Bite asked us how we knew! We have a royal guard!"

(End of this chapter)