Ming Dynasty: A hundred-year-old immortal cultivator, Zhu Yuanzhang’s biological father

Chapter 5 Where is our eldest grandson!
"The bottom layer of this world is violence. In the hands of evil people, violence can destroy things, but in the hands of good people, it can maintain things. But there was an Emperor of Dayun who had a hot idea and made a wooden fortress."

"He destroyed all the Wuxun Group in the earthen fort, and the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion has existed in name only. The Ministry of War has taken control of the army, and the emperor has gone from sole control of the highest violent agency to sharing military power with civilian officials."

"From now on, major events in the world will have to be discussed more or less by the civil servant group. The civil servant group still has a community of interests. From Yongle to Chongzhen, among the 164 people with different positions, 50% are in the same place. .”

"It is easy for the emperor to deal with one official, but it is troublesome to deal with the entire civil servant group. You can't dismiss everyone. If you take away one, their people will come up, because the echelon of selecting talents has also been rounded up by them. "

"For example, Jiang Yinglin, who was demoted by Emperor Wanli, has been away from the court for 20 years. There are people in the court speaking for him, hoping that Jiang Yinglin can return to Beijing."

"Emperor Wanli scolded one person and sent him an excerpt. Then he scolded him and sent him away again and gave him another excerpt."

"Civil officials have a community of interests and have no fear at all. No matter what happens to them, someone will take care of it."

"So after this, Emperor Wanli could be said to have not been in court for nearly thirty years."

"Because the imperial power is getting weaker and the civil service group is getting stronger, a strange phenomenon has occurred in Dayun. Tax collection has become less and less, and the country's finances have become increasingly difficult."

"In the middle and late Dayun Dynasty, industry and commerce gradually developed. At this time, the country's focus should shift from collecting agricultural taxes to collecting industrial and commercial taxes. As long as industrial and commercial taxes increase, there will be money to train troops and reform the backward military household system."

"Once the troops are well trained, foreign enemies in the southwest and northeast will not be a problem. When a famine occurs in the country, there will be enough money to provide disaster relief, and Li Zicheng, who was born in a public institution, will not go to rebel."

"Domestic and foreign troubles, everything is a financial problem, everything is because of the inability to collect industrial and commercial taxes, and the reason why this tax cannot be raised is because someone deliberately obstructs it."

"These people who are obstructing are the civil and administrative groups who cry out for ancestral system and the wealth of the people. When capital and civil servant groups are closely connected, it is the time when the finances of the Dayun Dynasty wither, and it is also the time when the world is in chaos and the cards are reshuffled. "

"Dayun Dynasty was unable to change this situation, so in the end, it... was gone."

Zhu Changye said unhurriedly.

After telling the whole story, Zhu Xiongying sighed.

Although he is still young, Zhu Yuanzhang has high hopes for him and has given Zhu Xiongying a lot since he was a child, so Zhu Xiongying can hear the rise and fall of the empire.

Somehow, after hearing this, he couldn't help but feel regretful.

"So, old man, is it the ancestral system that harmed the Dayun Dynasty?"

Zhu Xiongying couldn't help but ask.

Zhu Changye sighed: "No, it's human nature."

"Human nature does not change. Sometimes it is easy to guess and sometimes it is difficult to guess. With human nature, even if the Dayun Dynasty was not destroyed by the ancestors, there would be other ways to destroy it."

"Human beings are very complicated."

"Just like the late Emperor Dayun, he worked hard all his life to lay a solid foundation for Dayun's future, but many of his efforts were just adding wedding clothes to others."

"This is true even if you are as powerful as an emperor, and others cannot avoid it. This is also a common trait in the mortal world. Your efforts in the mortal world may end up being efforts for others."

"The money you earn, maybe others will earn more money because of your behavior."

"But cultivating immortals is different. Every drop of sweat is rewarded. What you get is always your own, as is your strength, and so is your dedication."

"It's not like the mortal world. After hundreds of years, it's just a handful of loess in the end."

Zhu Xiongying's little eyes sparkled, and he seemed to be moved, but he said lonelyly: "But I promised grandpa that I would help him take good care of the Ming Dynasty. I can't break my promise."

Zhu Changye smiled and said: "It's okay, I have a compromise."

"A hundred years in the human world. After a hundred years, you retire and no longer care about mortal affairs. Within a hundred years, I can teach you to cultivate immortality, but you won't be able to use it in the mortal world as a last resort. How about that?"

When Zhu Xiongying heard this, his lonely eyes suddenly brightened: "Old man, this is no problem! I am willing to cultivate as an immortal!"
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The next day.

royal palace.

Wang Jinghong, the eunuch in charge of the inner court, hurried to Kunning Palace. Pale.

"Your Majesty, something big...has happened!"

He was extremely frightened and his voice was much shriller.

Zhu Yuanzhang was absent-minded and said casually: "What's the matter? Tell me."

Now that he has experienced two major events, his grandson died and the queen was in danger. After these two major events, Zhu Yuanzhang did not think that there was anything bigger.

However, there really is.

Wang Jinghong panicked and said sharply: "Your Majesty, in the mourning hall, the body of the emperor's grandson...the emperor's grandson is missing!!"

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly jumped up and widened his eyes: "What!"

He calmed down for a while and took a deep breath: "What happened? Where is our grandson?"

Wang Jinghong trembled and lay on the ground: "Your Majesty, I...I don't know."

"I asked the guards and maids on duty, but no one knew what happened."

"At that time, a palace maid brought food to the guards in the mourning hall, and then saw them all lying on the ground. Only then did they know that something big had happened. However, none of the guards who woke up knew what had happened."

"By the way, there is one! One person said something, but... I don't know whether it is true or not."

Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes widened and he said angrily: "Say!"

"Yes, yes..." Wang Jinghong continued: "After he got up, he kept mumbling that he had met an immortal."

Fairy?

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned.

What an immortal, a bullshit immortal!

If there were immortals in this land, it would not have been ruled by Yuanting for so many years, and the Han people would not be so miserable.

"Let's go and have a look!"

However, although he thought there were no immortals, at least this guard could say something better than those guards who knew nothing, so Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly led people to see him.

And this person, in a sense, is also a very lucky person, so he can block some of Zhu Changye's memory erasure.

soon.

They arrived outside the mourning hall.

at this time.

The crown prince Zhu Biao, the crown prince's concubine Lu and her son Zhu Yunwen all arrived.

Dozens of palace maids and eunuchs, as well as more than a hundred trusted guards, were kneeling in the square outside the mourning hall. Their faces were horrified and even desperate.

Because the body of the emperor's grandson was missing, and based on how much Zhu Yuanzhang valued his grandson, they were afraid that their future result would be beheading.

"Father, you are here."

Zhu Biao and everyone in the East Palace saluted Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang's mind was not here, his eyes were murderous, and he looked around at everyone present: "Tell me, what's going on? Where is our grandson? Who stole him away?"

(End of this chapter)