Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 65 The Stubborn Zhu Youjian
Because tomorrow is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhu Youxiao didn't stay in Xinuange to deal with government affairs anymore. In addition to letting Wang Chengen continue to be on duty in Xinuange, he also gave himself half a day off.

Now, he and Liu Rushi are lying on a warm kang in the east wing of Kunning Palace.

A globe presented by Tang Ruowang was placed in the middle of the kang, and Liu Rushi asked Zhu Youxiao while shaking the globe:
"Your Majesty, do we really live on such a ball?"

"Yes, didn't I take you to the Royal Academy of Sciences to participate in a conference on the latest research progress in astronomy? Xu Shilang also personally performed a proof experiment for you, you forgot."

Zhu Youxiao scratched Liu Rushi Xiaoqiong's nose, Liu Rushi pouted, touched her little head and said:
"But the servant girl still can't figure it out. You said we were on the ball, why didn't we fall off?"

"This is because the earth we live on has universal gravitation. Do you know that? Forget it. You don't understand what I'm telling you now. Let me test some simple geography knowledge I taught you a few days ago."

As Zhu Youxiao spoke, he turned the globe and pointed to a land with boots: "Where is this?"

"Bao Luo Bazhou", Liu Rushi answered without thinking.

"What about here?"

"America".

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Seeing that Liu Rushi was able to remember everything he taught her clearly, Zhu Youxiao handed her a golden key: "It's great, I'll reward you."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Liu Rushi happily took the golden box, and asked again: "Your Majesty, our Daming doesn't seem to be very big. Look, there are so many lands up there, and this side."

"It's okay. After the Ming Dynasty's navy is strong, I will plant my Ming's flag in these places sooner or later. If you are obedient, when you grow up, I will give you a piece of land and let you be the Queen."

Zhu Youxiao was also childlike at this time, and said without thinking.

Liu Rushi asked seriously, "Really?"

Zhu Youxiao nodded.

Then, Liu Ruzhi pointed to the board of Dongying (geographically sensitive words to avoid) and said: "Then I want this place, not far from Daming, so that I can come back to play with Your Majesty even if I become a queen queen."

"Okay, from now on I will make you the empress there!"

Zhu Youxiao said something very generously, but at this time, Wang Chengen walked in: "Your Majesty, Xin Wang's family has arrived, and they are waiting outside the hall now."

"Announce him to come in", Zhu Youxiao got up and sat up straight, and Liu Rushi also got off the kang and stood upright.

Suddenly, Zhu Youjian, who was thin and very lonely, came in, accompanied by Princess Xin Zhou, and both of them saluted Zhu Youxiao.

"Stay flat."

Zhu Youxiao asked Queen Zhang Yan to take Zhou Shi down to rest while he walked up to Zhu Youjian himself.

Looking at the Chongzhen Emperor, who was only 17 years old, but was responsible for the last 17 years of ups and downs of the Ming Dynasty in history, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help asking: "Zhu Youjian, do you know why I let you come to Beijing?"

"Brother Huang just thinks that the younger brother is an eyesore, so if you want to kill it, kill it." Zhu Youjian raised his head in disdain. At this moment, he is more like the character he should have at his age, stubborn and rebellious.

Moreover, before Zhu Youxiao could speak, he scolded Zhu Youxiao in a cold voice: "Foolish Lord!"

Zhu Youxiao couldn't help being taken aback for a moment, and Princess Zhou, who had not gone far with Queen Zhang Yan, turned pale with fright when she heard this, and hurried over to pull Zhu Youjian: "Husband!"

Zhu Youjian ignored Mrs. Zhou, still looking up at the dome at 45 degrees. Now he doesn't have the slightest affection for his imperial brother.

In Zhu Youjian's eyes, the emperor's brother Zhu Youzheng is just like what his husband said, his emperor's brother is not only a stupid king, but also a tyrant, a hypocritical and cunning king.

On the surface, he reprimanded Wei Zhongxian to deceive the people, but secretly resorted to thunderous means to kill the loyal officials of the court, and even confiscated the families of innocent gentry outrageously, causing the people all over the world to boil.

"Brother Huang, my husband has offended you, and I will apologize to you on his behalf!"

Knowing that Zhu Youjian would not admit his mistakes to Zhu Youxiao, Zhou knew that he would first apologize to Zhu Youxiao.

But who knows, at this time, Zhu Youjian slapped Zhou's face with a slap: "Who asked you to accompany this stupid king, I, Zhu Youjian, would rather be the soul of this stupid king than beg for mercy from him! "

"presumptuous!"

Zhu Youxiao saw that Zhu Youjian beat his wife openly in the court, so he also showed the majesty of his elder brother, and after scolding Zhu Youjian, he ordered someone to clasp Zhu Youjian's hands so that he would not come again. Madness.

Zhou covered her face, and Lihua stood up in the rain. Seeing Zhu Youxiao yelling at her husband, she wanted to intercede for her husband, but she didn't know how to do so.

In the end, it was the queen Zhang Yan who pulled Zhou Shi aside, and while wiping Zhou Shi's face reddened by Zhu Youjian with a damp cloth, she persuaded: "Don't worry, younger brothers and sisters, Your Majesty will not do anything to Youjian, after all, you are the one who is the only one who has done it." Brother."

Here, Zhu Youxiao didn't think that the young man in front of him was the original Emperor Chongzhen in history, but just asked kindly: "

"You say that I am a faint king, so let me ask you, where is my faint? Shouldn't I resist if the Donglin Party wants to murder me? Shouldn't I be copying the eight major Jin merchants collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country?"

Zhu Youjian snorted coldly, turned his face away, and calmed down for a while before saying: "They have treated you too much as an emperor, but as an emperor, you should have the legacy of Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, and you can tolerate people who ordinary people can't, and you can't It is a serious crime of punishing people and destroying families casually, for the sake of the stability of Ming Dynasty, you should not set up money gates everywhere, extort money, and compete with the people for profit!"

The so-called use of heavy codes in troubled times, Zhu Youxiao knows what Zhu Youjian, who persuaded himself to be generous, did when he was emperor in history, and there are no fewer ministers and governors who were executed by him than himself.

But at this time, Zhu Youjian didn't know what he was like in history, just like Zhu Youxiao insisted that what he did was right now.

"It's up to you to judge how I should be the emperor. Water can carry a boat or overturn it. The common people will naturally know if I am a fool! And you, Zhu Youjian, as a descendant of the royal family, say that you have a heart for Ming Dynasty, and I will Let me ask you, what happened to the fact that you got [-] mu of fertile land within one month after the feudal lord, forcing the local chief minister to report to me that the king had lost his morals and displaced tens of thousands of people. Who led it every month? With tens of thousands of taels of offerings, the imperial court has no money to help the victims who are starving for food. Who is eating away at Daming and who is saving Daming? Do you want me to tell you!"

When Zhu Youxiao asked such a question, Zhu Youjian was speechless for a long time.

(End of this chapter)