Hearing this, Lao Zhu couldn't help but fall into silence.
Empress Ma persuaded her while the iron was hot: "Your Majesty, please don't forget that the things he did are extremely secretive, and only a few people know about them. In the eyes of the world, he is still the man who has made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty. Originally, he was the one who made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty. The emperor only made him a count based on his merits, which is already a harsh treatment in the eyes of the world. If we do it again now, it will be a heavy blow to the emperor's prestige."
Lao Zhu felt his teeth itch with hatred, but he had to admit that what the queen said made sense. His meritorious service was enough to make him a count, and the world would complain about him. If he was attacked, Lao Zhu estimated that his prestige would be cut in half.
But Lao Zhu wanted to let it go, but he was unwilling to do so. After taking a deep breath, Lao Zhu seemed to have thought of something heavy enough to make him feel heavy, and said with a solemn expression: "If it's just because of these, I won't be able to let it go. But Han Du..."
"What nonsense is this bastard talking about?"
Empress Ma just wanted Han Du to stand in front of her so that she could slap her mouth twice to relieve her anger. Why does this insignificant person dare to say anything in front of the emperor?
Lao Zhu shook his head, "He didn't say anything. I don't know if he didn't know or didn't dare to say it. I noticed it from what he said."
Although the emperor's words were light, an extremely solemn atmosphere was suppressed like a mountain. Even someone like Queen Ma, who is used to seeing strong winds and waves, couldn't help but be careful and asked in a pensive voice: "What did the Emperor notice?"
Lao Zhu was silent for a while, and did not answer Queen Ma directly. Instead, he asked, "Sister, do you know why I had to force him to calculate the national fortune in the first place?"
Queen Ma was stunned when she heard this. The emperor was indeed a bit eager when he asked him to calculate the fate of the country, but Queen Ma thought that was the emperor's original intention. Now it seems that there may be a hidden meaning in it?
"Why?"
Lao Zhu had a cold look in his eyes and said in a deep voice: "That's because I heard at that time that someone had approved the national destiny for the pseudo-Yuan Emperor."
Queen Ma's eyes widened when she heard this. She really didn't know about this. Someone actually approved the national destiny of the former Yuan Dynasty?
"What was the result of that criticism?"
"Haha..." Lao Zhu chuckled, his face quickly turned cold, and he said in a deep voice, "There will be no national destiny for a hundred years..."
Empress Ma immediately calculated in her mind that from the time Kublai Khan named the country Yuan to the Ming Dynasty's Northern Expedition to expel the Yuan Dynasty and capture Dadu, there were only ninety-eight years.
"Is this really less than a hundred years old?" Queen Ma exclaimed.
Only then did she understand why the emperor was so eager to calculate the fate of the country. If there was such a precedent, then the emperor's behavior would be understandable. Because this criticism is so accurate that no one can disrespect it. Especially the emperor, who worked hard to establish the Ming Dynasty, how could he not want to know how long the Ming Dynasty's national destiny will last?
Although Empress Ma didn't know where the emperor knew this criticism, she could imagine how the emperor would feel when he knew this.
"But didn't Han Du say that the predictions about the national destiny are all fake? Is it possible that this is so accurate?" Queen Ma asked doubtfully.
Lao Zhu snorted coldly, "There are only two possibilities, either someone is playing tricks, or there is an artificial push..." When he said the last sentence, Lao Zhu's expression became very scary, and even Queen Ma had never seen such a terrifying emperor.
"This, this is impossible?" Queen Ma felt cold all over, and she could clearly feel goosebumps all over her body. With trembling lips, he said in disbelief: "That's Yuan Ting. Who has such great power to overthrow it? This is impossible!!!"
If there is such a power, then it was able to destroy Yuan Ting more than ten years ago, then will it destroy Ming Dynasty in the future? What's even more paradoxical is that Emperor Yuan once asked someone to approve the fortune, and got the approval of "There will be no national destiny for a hundred years"; now the Ming Dynasty also has the signature of "There will be no national destiny for three hundred years", this...
Although Empress Ma knows that there is no sustainable country in the world, and although the fortune of the country in the three hundred years of the Ming Dynasty is much better than that of the pre-Yuan Dynasty, even if the Ming Dynasty perishes in three hundred years, it will still be nothing in the history books. Waiting for a long-lasting dynasty, but this does not mean that Queen Ma can accept someone attacking the Ming Dynasty in the future.
If it was a normal intermittent life and death, if it was a defeat at the hands of her own unworthy descendants, Queen Ma would not say anything. However, it is absolutely not allowed to cause the destruction of Ming Dynasty because of someone's evil hands.
It's one thing to be intermittently alive and well, but it's another thing to have someone do something evil.
"Is it impossible? We thought it was impossible at first, but after listening to Han Du's words, the more we think about it, the more we think it is possible." Lao Zhu said in a faint tone, looked at Queen Ma and asked: "Sister, we all He is someone who has experienced the troubled times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. If you think about it carefully, was the pseudo-Yuan Dynasty at that time really such that the people were in dire straits?"
Queen Ma's tone was stagnant, not knowing how to answer this question. From her own understanding, the life of the Han people at that time was indeed quite miserable, but due to her wealthy family background, she really didn't know very well what life at the bottom was like.
Lao Zhu did not expect Queen Ma to answer, and continued to talk to himself: "Well, even if the people were really in dire straits at that time. Then since the uprising of various rebel armies, everyone's life has become much better? Girls always You don’t think that this recurrence will be so big in such a short time, right? We remember very clearly that at that time, we led the rebel army in all directions, and even if we captured a small county town, we would get rich captures. Gold, silver, and copper coins, Food, cloth, and all kinds of supplies are all available.”
"Do you think, with so much supplies, the people will really be in dire straits? Unless the county official is crazy, otherwise such a thing will not happen. Even if one county official is crazy, the entire pseudo-Yuan court cannot be Are you crazy?"
Queen Ma listened silently, speechless.
Lao Zhu seemed to be brought back to the days of fighting in all directions by his own words. He looked relaxed and said: "Speaking of it, we really feel that those days were easier and faster than now. Gold, silver, jewels, food and cloth can be obtained casually. When you come to a city, you have everything, unlike now when the imperial court has been in deficit for years and lives are extremely difficult."
At this point, Lao Zhu suddenly paused. There were two gleams of light in his eyes, and he suddenly stood up and paced back and forth in the room.
Queen Ma didn't know what the emperor had in mind, but it seemed that the matter was not trivial, so even though she was confused, she did not disturb the emperor.
