Daming Super Dimension Company, President Zhu Yuanzhang!

Chapter 70 Princess Changle comes to visit!
After shouting, he seemed to have lost all strength and huddled in the sofa.

Just when he was about to sleep like this, the jade he placed on the table suddenly flickered.

Xiao Ran picked it up and saw that it was Zhu Yuanzhang's visit application.

The reason for the application is also very simple: 'We have a list here, please take a look. '

Xiao Ran was helpless, God knows, he just came back!
However, he thought about it and agreed to Zhu Yuanzhang's application.

As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang came over, he saw Xiao Ran lying half dead on the sofa.

"What's wrong with you?" Zhu Yuanzhang was very confused.

Xiao Ran said feebly: "Uncle, you don't know, this time, we are going to turn the tide on this order. Anxi veteran has been holding on for forty years! Still without the support of the court."

"When we passed by, there were only about a hundred veterans left, all with white hair. They were still holding on and going into battle to kill the enemy!"

Zhu Yuanzhang was a little surprised, and then sighed: "I didn't expect there to be such a loyal person!"

After finishing speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Xiao Ran again and said, "Why, are you going to the battlefield too? Are you so tired?"

Xiao Ran said: "I didn't go to the battlefield. If I went to the battlefield, I'm afraid you wouldn't be able to see me now. You could only see a pile of minced meat. I was tired from riding horses the past few days."

"Hahaha! It seems that you are not very good at this!" Zhu Yuanzhang winked at Xiao Ran and said.

Xiao Ran rolled his eyes at him, "A man can't say no! And he can't be told no! I haven't ridden before."

Zhu Yuanzhang touched his chin and said, "How about we find you a riding and archery master?"

Xiao Ran doesn't think so! He is crazy and suffers every day, which is not necessary for him.

"Don't, I don't have this hobby." After saying that, Xiao Ran completely lay down on the sofa, "My biggest hobby is to eat and wait to die."

Zhu Yuanzhang was helpless. Looking at Xiao Ran who looked like he was about to sleep, he could only say helplessly: "In this case, you should rest first."

After saying that, Zhu Yuanzhang was about to leave, but when he turned around, he saw a little girl suddenly appearing behind him.

"This is..." Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Li Lizhi, a little surprised.

Li Lizhi also didn't expect that she wanted to come over to see Xiao Ran on a whim, but found that there was another person here.

As soon as Xiao Ran opened his eyes, he saw Li Lizhi. He was a little surprised, "Princess? Why are you here?"

Li Lizhi was a little unhappy when she heard this. She came to Xiao Ran to play, but when he asked, it seemed as if he didn't want her to come.

But because Zhu Yuanzhang was still there, Li Lizhi just said: "It's nothing, I'll go back first."

After saying that, he was about to leave. Xiao Ran quickly stopped him and said, "Don't leave in a hurry yet. Come here. This is my uncle and the great emperor of the Ming Dynasty."

Li Lizhi bowed to Zhu Yuanzhang Yingying and said, "I have met Ming Taizu."

Zhu Yuanzhang made a gesture of helping him up from the distance and said, "You don't have to be so polite. You can just call us uncle."

Li Lizhi was a little surprised and glanced at Xiao Ran. Seeing that Xiao Ran had no reaction, she said with a smile: "Uncle."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, and then said: "Okay, you two chat first, let's go back to accompany our sister first."

After saying that, without giving Xiao Ran a chance to stay, Zhu Yuanzhang turned and left. He couldn't wait to share with Queen Ma that the princess of the Tang Dynasty came to Xiao Ran.

As soon as Zhu Yuanzhang left, Li Lizhi relaxed a lot. She looked left and right, very curious about this room.

Xiao Ran pointed to the sofa and said, "Princess, please sit down first. Do you want something to drink?"

Li Lizhi said with a novel look on her face: "Anything is fine, this place is really different from the palace."

Xiao Ran casually took a bottle of Coke, unscrewed the cap and handed it to Li Lizhi. Only then did Li Lizhi's eyes move from the house to the Coke.

She looked at the Coke again and again, and said with some doubt: "This is dark, can I drink it?"

Xiao Ran picked up another bottle of Coke, took a sip, and said, "Don't worry, it tastes good."

Li Lizhi took a small sip of it doubtfully, then her eyes widened immediately, she covered her mouth with a handkerchief, and exclaimed: "Ah! What is this? Why is it so weird?"

Xiao Ran smiled and said, "That's what carbonated drinks are like."

Seeing that Li Lizhi seemed to want to ask what carbonic acid was, Xiao Ran quickly interrupted: "I bought you some things a few days ago, wait for me to bring them to you."

Li Lizhi didn't expect that Xiao Ran would buy something for herself, and she was a little happy.

Xiao Ran went back to his room, took out a makeup gift box, put it on the table, opened it, and said, "The girls here all like these things, and I don't know what kind you like, so I picked a good one."

Li Lizhi looked at these bottles and jars and asked with confusion: "What are these?"

Xiao Ran took out the lipstick inside and said, "This is similar to the lipstick you have over there, but it is easier to use than lipstick."

Li Lizhi was immediately interested. What little girl doesn't love beauty?

"Quick, give me a try."

Xiao Ran unscrewed the lipstick and handed it to Li Lizhi. Li Lizhi felt a little numb, "Here, how do I do this?"

"Come, princess, let me help you." Xiao Ran said, getting closer to Li Lizhi, looking at Li Lizhi's lips very seriously, and applied the lipstick bit by bit.

Seeing that some areas were not evenly applied, I followed the example of beauty bloggers and gently blended it twice with my fingers.

After applying it, Xiao Ran put away the lipstick.

But Li Lizhi pursed her lips uncomfortably, stood up suddenly, and said, "I'm leaving now. See you another day."

Before Xiao Ran could react, he saw Li Lizhi leaving directly.

Looking at the gift box on the table, Xiao Ran extended his hand.

No, you didn’t take anything!
After the conversation with Zhu Yuanzhang and the arrival of Li Lizhi, Xiao Ran was no longer sleepy at all. He simply stood up and went to find Zhu Yuanzhang.

Hongwu Dynasty

royal palace.

As soon as Xiao Ran arrived at Zhu Yuanzhang's side, he saw Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma looking at him with relief. "Um, what are you doing?" Xiao Ran looked at Queen Ma and then at Zhu Yuanzhang.

Queen Ma stretched out her hand and pulled Xiao Ran to sit next to her, and asked, "How are you and the little princess doing?"

"Ah?" Xiao Ran didn't react, "What happened?"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Xiao Ran and asked, "When do you plan to get married?"

Xiao Ran! He suddenly stood up and said, "What kind of marriage? What kind of marriage?!"

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, "Don't you want to marry that little girl? But it seems to me that you are interested in marrying a concubine?"

Xiao Ran quickly waved his hand and said, "Li Lizhi is only thirteen now. I'm not that beastly. Let's talk about it later."

Zhu Yuanzhang had an expression on his face that said, "I've seen through you." "Oh, I see, it's just that I'm not old enough."

Xiao Ran was really afraid of Zhu Yuanzhang's teasing, and quickly interrupted: "What about that, uncle, didn't you say you have some list?"

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, took out his jade, and said: "This is the list. It belongs to Zhu Yunwen. The boy is a filial man, so seeing his list, we want to see him next."

Xiao Ran understood, "Zhu Yunwen, then just accept it, why do you still come to ask me?"

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "If I don't ask you, we won't feel at ease! We still know a little less."

Xiao Ran took the jade and looked at the order:
[Customer: Zhu Yunwen]

[Time: 1402, the fourth year of Jianwen]

[Customer demand: As long as I can stop King Yan, I am willing to pay any price! 】

[Remuneration: one hundred taels of gold]

【Orders! 】

Xiao Ran said: "Hey, it turns out this is the time!"

Zhu Yuanzhang had been looking at who was placing the order before, and didn't pay attention to the content. Now when he heard Xiao Ran say this, he took a closer look and saw that it was King Yan?
"Is this King Yan Zhu Di?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked uncertainly.

Xiao Ran nodded, "Of course it's Zhu Di, otherwise who else could it be?"

Zhu Yuanzhang pointed to the jade and said, "He said he wanted to stop King Yan. What's going on?"

Xiao Ran said: "Didn't I say this before? At that time, I said that the wasteland that opened up the territory and abolished the sea ban was the King of Yan Zhu Di!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes widened, "How dare he do this! Yunwen is his nephew, and he actually rebelled?! We didn't know that he actually had such wolfish ambitions!"

Xiao Ran said: "It's not entirely Zhu Di's fault, it's also Zhu Yunzhen's fault."

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't want to believe that his son would kill his blood relatives for the throne, so he was silent for a while and said: "What is going on? We remember that Yun Wen is smart, studious, and very filial. What misunderstanding?"

Xiao Ran said: "Zhu Yunwen is indeed smart and studious, and after he ascended the throne, he also made some political achievements, such as implementing the New Deal, lenient sentences and prison sentences, reducing taxes, and cutting redundant officials and personnel."

"But let's talk about his administration first. Zhu Yunwen had just ascended the throne at this time. It can be said that before his position was secure, he began to want reforms. He was a little too impatient, which caused some loyal ministers to be very dissatisfied with him. Moreover, his new policy, The main point is to reduce taxes and abolish those harsh laws and make them more lenient, which is an advantage."

"The disadvantage is that he frequently changed official names, palace names, palace names, etc. in imitation of Zhou rituals, which only added to the confusion."

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned, "If we change the criminal law, we can still say that he is kind. What's the use of changing the names of these palaces!"

Xiao Ran said: "It's just useless, and Zhu Yunwen also made a decision at that time, which was to emphasize civil servants and suppress military officers. He elevated the status of civilian officials and weakened the status of military generals. How could those military generals be willing to do this?"

"These generals all fought together to conquer the world. Now that the new emperor comes to power, he wants to kill the donkey. Can they not be angry? So when Zhu Di finally attacked the capital, those who opened the door for Zhu Di were among those who were surrendered. A qualified general."

Zhu Yuanzhang asked: "What happened to Zhu Di? These things should have nothing to do with him, right?"

Xiao Ran said: "Of course these have nothing to do with Zhu Di, but again, Zhu Yunwen was too impatient. He was anxious to cut down the vassal, which forced Zhu Di to rebel."

Intellectually speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang did not think there was anything wrong with reducing the vassal state. After all, if he wanted to consolidate power, he must reduce the vassal state.

But from an emotional point of view, his grandson wanted to beat his son, which made him feel comfortable.

So Zhu Yuanzhang sighed and said: "They have no intention of turning back, why must they be killed?!"

Xiao Ran said: "Isn't it said that others are not allowed to sleep on the side of the bed? At that time, the nine great fortress kings all had their own armies. Zhu Yunwen was afraid that they would rebel one day, so he decided to strike first. In fact, there is no problem with his decision to reduce the vassal state, but there is a problem with his method!"

"At that time, the three most trusted ministers of Zhu Yunwen were Qi Tai, Huang Zicheng, and Fang Xiaoru. There is nothing to say about these three people in terms of their character or knowledge. However, one disadvantage of them is that they are a bit nerdy and too arrogant. Rigidity and the pursuit of fame can be said to be common problems among some Confucian scholars."

"When Zhu Yunwen wanted to cut down the vassal, he asked them what they thought. Among them, Qi Tai was better. He thought Zhu Di, the king of Yan at that time, was the most powerful. He proposed to kill Zhu Di first, the most difficult one, and then the rest. Is it much simpler?”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said, "This makes some sense."

Xiao Ran glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang strangely and said, "Are you not angry anymore?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was dissatisfied, "When did we get angry? Which of your eyes saw us getting angry?"

Xiao Ran said: "When I just said that Zhu Yunwen cut off the vassal, weren't you angry? You saw it with both eyes."

As he said that, Xiao Ran put his head in front of Zhu Yuanzhang's face.

Zhu Yuanzhang raised his hand to strike, but Queen Ma on the side quickly stopped him.

"Chongba! Xiaoran is still young!"

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted, "Young? Not young anymore, he's already old enough to get married and have children!"

Seeing that the topic was about to return to the previous matter, Xiao Ran quickly said: "Let's continue talking about Zhu Yunwen's attempt to cut down the feudal clan."

Before Zhu Yuanzhang could speak, Xiao Ran continued: "Qi Tai's idea is actually not wrong, but Huang Zicheng feels that although Zhu Di is the strongest, he has not made any mistakes! We should start with the guilty vassal kings. .”

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't hold back and laughed sarcastically, "You are about to attack your own uncle, and you still want to take advantage of it? Show that you are the righteous party? Ridiculous!"

Xiao Ran also said: "Indeed, the reduction of vassalage is originally a political struggle between the central and local governments, and even fratricide. This kind of thing, either don't do it, or do it if you want to do it! We are already about to reduce vassalage, and we still want to do it immediately It’s impossible to build a memorial arch!”

"But Zhu Yunwen supported Huang Zicheng's strategy of starting with other vassal kings first. This naturally made Zhu Di wary and had the slightest idea of ​​rebellion."

"After all, Zhu Di is also of royal blood. If he rebels, it is considered a family matter."

(End of this chapter)