After laughing enough, Han Du came back to his senses and found that Lao Zhu was looking straight at him. He quickly explained: "I have lost my temper. Please forgive me, Your Majesty."
With anger on his face, Lao Zhu asked in a deep voice: "You laugh quite happily, what's the matter? The Ming Dynasty did not have three hundred years of national destiny, so it is so funny?"
Well?
Seeing Lao Zhu's unkind expression, Han Du suddenly closed his mouth, and the smile on his face quickly faded, becoming in sync with Lao Zhu in just a few seconds.
The two of them kept a straight face at each other, and the situation was very awkward for a time.
After tensing up for a while, Han Du pretended to be worried about the fate of the Ming Dynasty and explained: "The emperor has misunderstood. I naturally hope that the Ming Dynasty will last forever. The reason why I laugh is because this man is playing tricks on me."
"Oh? Why is he being so mysterious?" Lao Zhu looked at Han Du, still not looking good. Obviously, what Han Du said just now seems to Lao Zhu to be Han Du's quibble. If Han Du can't explain clearly, let's see how to deal with him.
Seeing the cold light shining on Lao Zhu's exposed teeth, Han Du couldn't help but feel nervous and said quickly: "Your Majesty, his words seem to be talking about the fate of the Ming Dynasty, but in fact it is nonsense."
nonsense?
After hearing this, Lao Zhu's face became a little more gloomy, and he looked directly at Han Du with unclear meaning. You must know that as the founding emperor, Lao Zhu naturally attached great importance to the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty. He has only encountered two matters related to the national destiny in his life. Once was this signature, and the other time was when Han Du said that the treasure banknotes carried the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty.
The fate of the country is related to the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty, so Lao Zhu naturally does not dare to be careless. When he first received this signature, he felt mixed emotions. The worry is that the Ming Dynasty did not have a national destiny for three hundred years, which means that the dynasty he worked hard to build throughout his life will eventually die one day. Fortunately, Lao Zhu himself knew that there was no dynasty that would last forever in this world, and he had a clear understanding of this, but he was not dissatisfied with it. In other words, if the Ming Dynasty can really survive for three hundred years, Lao Zhu will be quite satisfied.
But now Han Du actually said that the signature was nonsense, which made Lao Zhu dissatisfied. The things that I have always cherished so much are worthless in Han Du's eyes?
If there is no explanation for this, I can't help you. Lao Zhu looked at Han Du with a cold look.
Han Du didn't notice the change in Lao Zhu's eyes, and now all his attention was focused on the signature in his hand. After reading the signature several times, Han Du explained: "According to this signature, the national destiny of the Ming Dynasty can be 100 years, 200 years, or 299 years. What kind of prediction or foretelling is this? It’s just like randomly guessing a number, what’s the difference?”
After hearing Han Du's words, Lao Zhu was stunned. He had never thought about it from this perspective. When he saw the signature, he subconsciously thought that if the Ming Dynasty did not have three hundred years of national destiny, it should be more than two hundred years. But now after Han Du explained it, he discovered that there are too many explanations for this signature. It can be interpreted as more than two hundred years, it can be interpreted as more than a hundred years, or it can even be interpreted as several decades.
Han Du waved the signature a few times, curled his lips and said contemptuously: "What kind of speculation on the fate of the country is this? If this is also speculation on the fate of the country, then I can do it, and I can also say that the Ming Dynasty did not have a thousand-year national destiny." Anyway. The Zhou Dynasty only had a history of eight hundred years, and there has never been a dynasty that lasted for a thousand years since ancient times.
After Han Du made such a joke, the gloom on Lao Zhu's face faded away. Although he still had a straight face, he obviously no longer had any hostility towards Han Du.
Seeing Han Du's careless look, Lao Zhu couldn't help but cursed, "What nonsense are you talking about? Why don't you say 10,000 years for a thousand years?"
Han Du didn't take Lao Zhu's teaching seriously, pointed to the signature and asked: "Then what's the difference between what he said and what I said? Are they talking nonsense? If the country is destroyed, the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty will be destroyed. Even the Tang Dynasty did not have a national destiny of three hundred years. Since the Han Dynasty, only the Song Dynasty had a national destiny that barely exceeded three hundred years. At first glance, his words seem to have a mysterious flavor in them, but if you think about it carefully, you can understand , He is just making guesses like ordinary people, but he is smarter than ordinary people and is stuck at the three hundred year mark."
Lao Zhu listened silently.
This is like a layer of window paper. Until it is pierced, no matter how much you think about it, you will be shocked by the prediction of the national destiny. But once exposed, no matter who sees it, they will know that this prediction is a joke.
The autograph is a joke, so Lao Zhu, who has always regarded the autograph as a treasure, is naturally not much better.
Lao Zhu looked angrily at Han Du who was pretending to be a monster, and angrily grabbed the signature from Han Du's hand. He glanced at it and cursed angrily: "I trust him so much, but I didn't expect that he would dare to treat me like this. Isn't he afraid that his lies will be exposed one day?"
When Han Du heard this, he almost laughed out loud. Seeing Lao Zhu's unkind expression, he quickly tried to control his emotions. He smiled and said: "What is he afraid of? Even if the Ming Dynasty lasts for more than three hundred years in the future, who can still settle accounts with him? In three hundred years, let alone him, even if his descendants can still exist, It’s all an unknown number. Even if this signature can be preserved for three hundred years, it’s still unknown.”
Time can erase everything. Even if people find out three hundred years later that what he told is a lie, then who can come to him three hundred years ago to settle the score?
Lao Zhu's mentality collapsed when he heard Han Du's words tearing apart the signature that held an important weight in his heart. "He is also a figure who has left his name in history. If he does such a thing, isn't he afraid that future generations will scold him?"
When Han Du heard this, he couldn't help laughing. He shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, not everyone cares about their reputation after death. Some people think that when they are alive, this world is the world. After they die, they will not care about the floods. ? Besides, even if someone discovers that he is talking nonsense in the future, his reputation will not necessarily be stinky, and maybe it will become even better."
Seeing Lao Zhu's expression of how could this be possible, Han Du continued to explain: "Everything in this world is fake, only interests are real. As long as there is a reason, let alone saying a few nice words for him, it will be considered There will be many people who want to praise his bad feet. What is nonsense? As long as the profit is enough, someone will dare to fabricate a great and honorable story based on his nonsense and praise him as a god. Altar, does the emperor believe it or not?"
