Daming: I am the Crown Prince

Chapter 3 Who taught you?

Zhu Yunhuan received a beating, but his buttocks did not bruise.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Yunhuan and said, "Carry him in."

Zhu Yunhuan climbed up and said, "Grandfather, I can walk."

Zhu Yuanzhang ignored Zhu Yunhuan and continued, "Call the imperial physician to give medicine to the emperor's grandson."

There was already quite a commotion at the entrance of Wuying Hall, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not intend to continue talking at the entrance. He turned around and walked into the hall, while Zhu Yunhuan had no room to object and was supported by the eunuchs.

I didn't think it was a big deal, but my butt did hurt when I walked.

Old Zhu, who was sitting on the dragon chair, saw Zhu Yunhuan enduring the pain and ordered, "Lie down."

Immediately, a eunuch brought a brocade cushion, and Zhu Yunhuan had no choice but to lie on it.

The painting style is strange. The founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty is sitting on the dragon throne, with a pile of memorials on the imperial desk. Old Zhu doesn't care about Zhu Yunhuan, he is concentrating on reviewing the memorials.

Zhu Yunhuan had his pants stripped off by the eunuchs, and a goateed imperial physician carefully smeared some medicine on him. He wanted to crawl into the cracks in the ground, because he couldn't put on his pants after the medicine was applied, and had to continue lying in the middle of the hall.

After a long time, Lao Zhu suddenly said, "Your father doesn't like you, right?"

Zhu Yunxun, who was about to doze off, came back to his senses and said in a muffled voice, "I don't like it very much, but I won't punish you either."

Old Zhu asked again, "You have been known for being useless for many years. Are you really a playboy or is someone trying to tarnish your reputation?"

Zhu Yunhuan thought about it for a while and said, "It's half and half. I don't like studying. Many people know this, and the teachers in the main hall know it very well. I can't study as well as Yunwen, and I also know this."

"That's true. Yunwen is very good at reading." Old Zhu looked at Zhu Yunhuan and said, "If you really wanted this position, why didn't you make progress earlier?"

Zhu Yunhuan said in a depressed tone, "Motivated? When my elder brother was around, who could compete with him? After my brother passed away, I didn't remember much. If I wanted to eat or drink, Lu would send it to me. If I liked cats and dogs, she would ask people to look for me everywhere. In a short while, everyone in the capital knew that I was obsessed with toys."

Old Zhu looked at Zhu Yunhuan with a grim look in his eyes, "That's your mother!"

"My mother's tablet is in the Fengxian Hall." Zhu Yunhuan refused to give in and said, "Although everyone in the capital knows that Lu is virtuous, she is not my mother."

Old Zhu stared at Zhu Yunhuan, and Zhu Yunhuan also looked back at Old Zhu without avoiding his gaze.

After a while, Lao Zhu smiled and said, "He really is the eldest brother's son!"

When Zhu Yuanzhang's favorite concubine, Concubine Sun, died, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the crown prince to wear a mourning stick for a period of time, but the crown prince refused to do so because it was against etiquette. As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he drew his sword, and Zhu Biao ran away.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang won the case, and Zhu Biao had to mourn in the end. The result of this dispute was that some of Zhu Yuanzhang's concubines, who could be regarded as half-mothers of the princes, could enter the ancestral temple. If they did not have their own biological sons, they would choose to let other princes mourn.

Putting down the pen in his hand, Old Zhu stood up and said, "You said that if Yunwen became the emperor, you would have no chance to survive. If you were to become the emperor, would he have a chance to survive?"

Zhu Yunhuan said confidently, "I am the legitimate son, and he is the illegitimate son. Why would he be dissatisfied?"

Old Zhu was furious and said immediately, "His mother is the Crown Princess, so he is now considered the legitimate son!"

"He is also considered a legitimate son?" Zhu Yunhuan immediately took advantage of the situation and said, "You also said that he is only considered a legitimate son now. When I was born, I was a legitimate son, and he was just a bastard's son. I have never heard of a bastard's son suddenly becoming a legitimate son. It's not like my father has no legitimate son!"

Old Zhu's blood pressure was about to rise. This was really a confusing account. "Your mother died early, you can't let your father be like me, right? Your royal grandmother was 51 when she died, and I was almost 60 at that time, so it was reasonable not to have another queen. Your father was only in his early twenties at that time, you can't let the harem be without a master, right?"

"That's true. Go ask Yunwen now, does he dare not recognize my mother as his legal mother?" Zhu Yunxun said more reasonably, "Even if his mother becomes the Crown Princess, Yunwen's legal mother is still my mother!"

Zhu had no way to refute this, because according to etiquette, Zhu Yunwen's mother could only be Chang, who had passed away. Even if Zhu Yunwen became emperor in the future, he would have to honor his biological father and mother with the title of empress.

Old Zhu paced back and forth angrily, and suddenly asked, "Do you think so little of your second brother?"

"Since you are not going to make him the crown prince now, just keep an eye on him." Zhu Yunhuan said, "You will definitely be able to tell what kind of person he is after a while."

Old Zhu sighed and said, "I am almost seventy years old. How long can I hold on? If you really expect me to die, you brothers will fight each other, and then your uncles will also fight! Don't you care about our country?"

Zhu Yunhuan asked, "Grandfather, why don't you ask Yunwen how he would deal with his uncles if he became emperor?" Old Zhu suddenly realized, "Are you afraid that he can't control your uncles?"

Zhu Yunhuan continued, "If he is the grandson of the emperor, Grandfather will definitely kill Lan Yu first. The daughter of Fu Youde, the Duke of Ying, is the wife of the Crown Prince of Jin, so Grandfather will definitely kill Fu Youde. Then he will kill Feng Sheng, the Duke of Song. One of his daughters is my eldest aunt, and the other is my fifth aunt. What's more, Lan Yu's daughter is the Princess of Shu."

Old Zhu stared at Zhu Yunxun and asked word by word, "How do you know this?"

Of course I know what happened in history!

Zhu Yunhuan continued, "After the Hu Weiyong case, a group of Huaixi nobles were killed. When Yunwen was made the crown prince, all the military nobles who were married to the kings were killed. He couldn't control the military nobles, so the emperor's grandfather must kill a group of meritorious officials to stabilize his position."

Old Zhu suddenly slapped Zhu Yunxun on the buttocks, "You, you are hiding your incompetence?"

Zhu Yunhuan did not hide his incompetence. He suddenly came to this world a month ago and slowly figured out his situation. The reason why he rushed out of the East Palace with the sword was because Zhu Yunhuan knew that it would be too late if he delayed any longer.

Historically, the crown prince was buried in August and Zhu Yunwen was named the crown prince in September.

Once this happened, it would be irreversible. Even if Zhu Yunhuan went to curry favor with Prince of Yan Zhu Di, it would not change the fate that he would inevitably be imprisoned in Fengyang.

Because as long as Zhu Di seized the throne, he would definitely not allow his elder brother Zhu Biao's descendants to live well. As long as these nephews were alive, he would not sleep well, and would worry that some ministers wanted to support him.

To usurp the throne is neither right nor justifiable!

Seeing that Zhu Yunhuan did not answer, Old Zhu asked, "What does your father usually say to you?"

"What can I say?" Zhu Yunxun said unhappily, "He just wants me to be more sensible and motivated, and to learn from Yunwen."

Old Zhu gritted his teeth and slapped Zhu Yunhuan on the butt again, "He didn't say anything else?"

"He said I was a playboy, that I loved to play, that I had no moral integrity, and that I was losing my ambition because of playing with things." Zhu Yunhuan glanced at Old Zhu and said, "I didn't read many of the books he gave me, and I couldn't get into them."

Zhu Yunhuan didn't want to be tested on his knowledge, otherwise he would definitely show his weakness.

Lao Zhu continued to ask, "Did he say that about you in front of others, or at other times?"

Zhu Yunxun immediately asked, "Don't you know about the Eastern Palace?"

Old Zhu was instantly angry, "Your father is very capable. If he doesn't want us to know about the affairs of the Eastern Palace, there is not much we can know."

"Sometimes I say it in front of everyone, and sometimes I say it in private." Zhu Yunhuan replied, "Everyone in the East Palace knows that I will be scolded if I am called to the study."

Old Zhu nodded, "How can you go back after you broke into the palace today?"

Zhu Yunhuan immediately said, "The palace is so big, just find a place for me to rest. Then bring my two sisters out, they can take care of me."

Old Zhu's eyes immediately changed, "Only your sister can take care of you?"

Zhu Yunhuan didn't say anything, so Old Zhu laughed, "Well, you still underestimated our daughter-in-law! No wonder you wanted to break into the palace with a sword! Okay, let's find a place for you. Don't you want any of the people around you?"

Zhu Yunhuan looked at Old Zhu and said with a smile, "I have a tough life. My mother died when I was born. Who in the palace dares to get close to me except my two sisters?"

Old Zhu looked down at Zhu Yunhuan and did not speak for a long time.

Suddenly, a eunuch came running over and said, "Your Majesty, the Imperial Grandson wishes to see you."

Old Zhu suddenly raised his head and looked at the young eunuch kneeling on the ground, "Grandson? I have so many grandsons, which one are you talking about?"

The young eunuch suddenly became nervous and said quickly, "Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the Second Grandson requests an audience!"

Old Zhu looked at Zhu Yunhuan, then stared at the kneeling eunuch, "Great! My grandson, my good grandson!"

"Announce!" Old Zhu swung his sleeves and said in a cold voice, "Drag this useless slave out and beat him to death!"

(End of this chapter)