Traveled through Daming, but was punished by the old Zhu Shizu

No one could figure out what the Sacred Heart meant, and Lao Zhu didn't say whether to use the farming method, but instead asked all the officials to retreat at the critical moment.

For a moment, only Zhu Yuanzhang and the princes were left in the Hall of Supreme Harmony in Nuo Da.

Old Zhu sat back on the dragon chair, waved his hands and said, "You can do whatever you want, Boss, you can walk with us."

The second child, the third child, the fourth child, and the fifth child understand that this is something that only the emperor can listen to when Lao Zhu wants to talk to Xiao Zhu, but the brothers don’t feel that there is anything wrong, after all, they have known the position of the emperor since birth It was reserved for Zhu Biao alone.

All the brothers said in unison, "My son, leave." Then they withdrew.

After the prince Zhu Biao saw his brothers off, Zhu Yuanzhang waved to Zhu Biao, and Zhu Biao went up the steps to a position that no one else dared to imagine.

Beside the dragon chair.

But looking at the expressions of Lao Zhu and Xiao Zhu, I am afraid that they have long been accustomed to this matter.

Old Zhu took Zhu Biao's hand, put it on the armrest of the dragon chair, and asked, "What is this?"

The icy temperature of the dragon chair spread along Zhu Biao's palm. Zhu Biao thought for a moment and said, "This is Daming."

Old Zhu was taken aback for a moment, obviously he didn't expect Zhu Biao to answer like that, then he shook his head and laughed dumbly, "This is Daming the fart, this is a broken chair! It's so cold! I don't know what the craftsman who made this thing thought Yes, sooner or later we will have hemorrhoids!"

Zhu Biao was slightly taken aback, he realized that he would never be as free and easy as Lao Zhu, but this scene reminded him of a few years ago...

After the Hu Weiyong case, blood flowed all over the place and heads were rolling. Zhu Biao blamed Lao Zhu for being too murderous and hurt the peace of heaven, so he repeatedly advised Lao Zhu to kill less people.

Without saying a word, Lao Zhu called his servants to find a thorny stick full of wooden thorns, and asked Zhu Biao to pick it up. Zhu Biao was hesitating, but Lao Zhu picked up the thorny stick and removed all the thorns with his bare hands.

Seeing that old Zhu's hands were covered with blood, Zhu Biao was completely dumbfounded, and then old Zhu said something that Xiao Zhu has remembered until now,

"You can't hold this stick of thorns. If we pull out all the thorns, you can hold it."

Afterwards, Zhu Biao thought for a long time. If Lao Zhu was the first emperor, he would no longer be able to be Fusu.

Old Zhu looked at Xiao Zhu's thoughtful expression, and continued, "We ask this to tell you that Daming is not a chair, nor is it this palace, but us! We are here, and Daming is here. Decades later, Let's raise our braids, Daming is you! Can you bear it?"

Zhu Biao was dumb, with a gloomy expression.

Old Zhu sighed, "You child is good at everything, you have courage, integrity, benevolence, but his mother thinks too much. When you are an emperor, you have to think too much, but you think too much about anything, and instead look forward and backward, yes bad thing."

"Come on, give us a hand, my buttocks are numb."

Zhu Biao hurriedly caught Lao Zhu's outstretched hand, and helped Lao Zhu up from the dragon chair. After a long time, Lao Zhu slowly walked down the steps, and the old and the young strolled freely in the Daming Palace.

Little Zhu had a lot to say, but he didn't know how to say it. Old Zhu saw it, so he opened his mouth and said,

"What do you think about Takumi?"

Xiao Zhu thought for a while and said: "Very good, it is a good thing for all the feudal lords and the court."

"At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bangxing, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, enfeoffed counties and counties in parallel, enfeoffing kings with the same surname as Liu's. All princes and kings could levy taxes and lead troops in the princes' countries, which was no different from independent countries, which eventually caused the chaos of the Seven Kingdoms."

"Father the emperor enfeoffs the vassal kings, and the vassal kings also have great power in the fiefdom. It's okay to say that they are all brothers now. If decades pass, the problems of the vassal kingdoms will definitely not go away."

"Originally, I still had the idea of ​​cutting the vassal. Liu Xiu's strategy directly solved the hidden dangers of the vassal kingdoms. Even if the vassal states fight abroad, our central government can also benefit. In the end, we will also learn from the Yuan Dynasty and come to the Four Great Khans." country."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Biao with a smile that was not a smile, but Zhu Biao immediately stopped talking and said shyly, "Father, I don't know much, so don't laugh at me."

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said, "This is a gratifying smile. You said it very well. It will be better if you have more confidence in the future."

After being encouraged by Lao Zhu, Xiao Zhu nodded heavily, his face flushed, "Got it, Dad."

Old Zhu asked again, "What do you think of Liu Xiu's farming method?"

Zhu Biao took a deep breath, and said in admiration, "A powerful and unconstrained style is a work of genius. If it is carried out thoroughly, Ming's grain production and tax revenue can be increased by at least [-]%!"

Old Zhu looked at Zhu Biao with deep eyes, and said with a smile, "You really like that kid!"

Zhu Biao saw that Lao Zhu finally got straight to the point, so he stopped talking, stood still, saluted respectfully and said firmly, "Father! Whatever you say, keep Liu Xiu in the capital!"

Lao Zhu also stood still, with complicated eyes and said, "Then how to deal with the Liu family, how to deal with the empty seal case?"

Zhu Biao's heart was hardened, and he thought to himself, fortunately, he said everything!

"Father! I think the empty seal case can be big or small. It's better to hand it over to the three divisions for a joint trial, and keep the Liu family in the capital temporarily. In the end, it's a small matter and it's over."

Lao Zhu sighed, "Do you think that we Daxing Kongyin case is to deal with the Liu family? Actually, it is to kill a group of corrupt officials! Now the government is full of moths, how bad is the finance of the household department? Come on?! Let’s just say that Guo Heng, the little servant, has been greedy for more than ten million taels of silver!”

"How do you ask us to stop this empty seal case? We can let the Liu family go, but the problem is that the Liu family has been completely tied to the empty seal case, and we can't get it out!"

Xiao Zhu's eyes widened. Old Zhu had never said these words to him before. Only now did he understand the deep meaning of Lao Zhu's question that night. It turned out that the real purpose of the empty seal case was to kill corrupt officials!

but…

Xiao Zhu frowned slightly and said, "But this Liu family was pushed out by the Ministry of Household Affairs! Liu Meng is not greedy, nor is the Liu family. If the empty seal case continues, the real corrupt officials will not be killed."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the lake outside the long pavilion, and murmured, "I can't bear to let the child be tied to the wolf."

Now Xiao Zhu understands everything, Lao Zhu is determined to handle the empty seal case!

So what is Liu Xiu's hard work? !Wouldn't the lives of hundreds of members of the Liu family die in vain? !

Old Zhu's figure suddenly became extremely thin, and he said in an old voice, "Liu Xiu will be your best courtier in the future. We can't use him anymore, let us be the bad guys."

Zhu Biao felt cold all over, and a surge of anger surged in his heart, but he couldn't get angry when he looked at Lao Zhu, leaving only desolation and helplessness in his heart.

Lao Zhu did everything for Daming and himself.

Otherwise, who would want to kill evil with all their hands?

What does Old Zhu want to do? Little Zhu has already figured it out.

The Kongyin case was followed, but Liu Xiu was left behind, Lao Zhu was a bad guy, and he was a good guy. If you keep singing this double reed, no matter how clever Liu Xiu is, he can't jump out of Wuzhishan.

Chapter 57

Zhu Biao had no way to vent his anger, so he could only vent it on the corrupt officials, cursing angrily, "Since they dare to be greedy, just investigate them directly! Do you need to go around such a big circle?!"

Lao Zhu sighed, and said, "Son, do you think you can control everything in the world when you become the emperor? It's pure nonsense! Let's say that these officials are respectful on the surface, but in fact they have all kinds of tricks. Let's issue an order and wait for it to be implemented. At the grassroots level, it’s completely out of shape.”

"We are checking and balancing them, and they are also checking and balancing us. How can we do it in the open? If we don't put on the cover of empty seals, this group of corrupt officials will definitely retaliate. Even if they dare not oppose us, after we die, Then I'll take care of you!"

Xiao Zhu opened his mouth and couldn't say a word. He couldn't think of those bureaucrats who respected him in front of him, but they were so bold behind their backs.

Old Zhu continued, "We raised our troops from Huaixi, and the court is full of nobles from Huaixi, such as Hu Weiyong, Li Shanchang, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, Lan Yu, any random name will be shaken out. "

"They follow us to fight the world, and when they conquer the world, they naturally want to receive rewards, but they are not greedy enough. The whole world is occupied by Huaixi people, just like this pond. Is there a way for other fish to survive?"

Zhu Biao: "Father..."

Old Zhu raised his hand, stopped Zhu Biao, and said to himself, "Have you ever wondered why Huaixi nobles support you so much? You are orthodox, and they support you in order to keep their one-acre three-point land. You have to rely on them, but you can't completely rely on them, it's not good for one family to rule over anything."

"There are not many people who can see this," Zhu Yuanzhang said with a look of reminiscence in his eyes, "Liu Bowen is one of them."

Liu Ji, Liu Bowen.

Zhu Biao unconsciously flashed the figure like a banished fairy.

"Liu Bowen saw that it was not a good thing for Huaixi nobles to occupy the imperial hall, so he fought against Li Shanchang in the imperial hall, one from the East Zhejiang faction and the other from the Huaixi faction, but Liu Bowen couldn't do it alone, and finally he suffocated to death."

Old Zhu sighed, and said, "We regret it. It would be great if we supported Liu Bowen earlier, but even we didn't see through this level at that time."

"We didn't trust Liu Bowen, and Liu Bowen didn't trust us either. In the end, neither of us ended well."

"Why don't we want to be like Qin Xiaogong and Shang Yang, Liu Xuande and Zhuge Liang? It is a pity that there is no chance..."

"Brother, we knew Liu Xiu at the first sight. He is your Mr. Wolong. Then you should trust him more. He is a good boy."

Having said this, Zhu Yuanzhang's voice choked up.

Zhu Biao sighed secretly in his heart, Lao Zhu is also a human being, and if he wanted to kill Liu Xiu's family, he would suffer a lot in his heart.

Zhu Biao: "Father, I still don't think Liu's family should be killed."

Lao Zhu wiped away his tears, and suddenly became a high-ranking king. Lao Zhu allowed himself to be vulnerable, but he never allowed himself to be weak for too long.

The more he gained, the more he lost. From the moment he became the Nine-Five Supreme, he became hard-hearted,

"We originally wanted to keep Liu Xiu in Beijing to hone a little more, but now that we think about it, let him choose who to follow. The second, third, fourth, and fifth are fine."

Zhu Biao became anxious when he heard this, "Father, why is this!"

Old Zhu said: "Liu Xiu has a strong personality. If he stays in the capital now, Liu Bowen will be a lesson for him, and the entire court will be his enemy."

Zhu Biao interjected, puzzled, "I see that today in the imperial court, all the ministries want to win over Liu Xiu, how could they all be his enemies?"

Zhu Yuanzhang sneered, "Although there are many factions in the court, a delicate balance has been reached. Liu Xiu's sudden appearance completely broke this balance."

"The first thing the ministries wanted was to win over Liu Xiu, but no matter which one got Liu Xiu, the overall power structure would be out of balance. So, after they figured it out, all the ministries would come to a common conclusion."

Zhu Biao asked puzzled, "What?"

"Rather than win over, it's better to strangle. Without Liu Xiu, everything will be settled once and for all."

Zhu Biao sucked in a breath of cold air, he had been the prince for more than ten years, he never thought that the court would be so dark.

Old Zhu sighed, "Let him go. Don't use Qianlong. It won't be too late to return to the capital when his wings are fuller."

Zhu Biao's heart was full of gloom, and he gave a sour grace,

Lao Zhu opened his mouth to say something, but was suddenly interrupted by a scream,

"His Majesty!"

I saw the yellow dog running over, panting, "Your Majesty! I finally found you!"

Lao Zhu frowned and reprimanded, "What's the matter?!"

Before the yellow dog could catch his breath, he quickly lay down on the ground, his posture was extremely standard, and begged for mercy, "Your Majesty, forgive me! The little one deserves to die!"

Zhu Biao asked, "What happened?"

Huang Gou'er immediately said, "Yes... yes... the empress is awake!"

"What?!" Old Zhu Hu stared, his heart skipped a few beats, "Quick! Take us there!"

Huang Gou'er responded, and rushed to the harem with Lao Zhu and Xiao Zhu.

Old Zhu and Xiao Zhu ran all the way back to the harem, Huang Gou'er was left far behind, and just before running to Queen Ma's wing, the second brother and several others also arrived.

"Mom! Mom is awake?!"

Zhu Yuanzhang gave the second child a smack on the back of the head, and said angrily, "You fucking keep your voice down!"

The second child covered his head and said aggrievedly, "Your voice is no lower than mine..."

"Heavy eight..."