"As for the academy monopolizing the officialdom..." Han Du said with a strange expression: "The academy belongs to the emperor, so isn't it bad to monopolize the officialdom?"
Lao Zhu stared at Han Du for a moment, and suddenly wanted to laugh, but before he could laugh a few times, he coughed violently. His body is too weak now, and he is simply not allowed to do things with such violent mood swings.
Han Du quickly stepped forward and patted Lao Zhu's chest a few times to relax him.
After Lao Zhu regained his breath, he looked at Han Du and sighed: "I have one last question."
"Excuse me, Your Majesty." Han Du's expression did not change at all.
Lao Zhu grabbed Han Du's hand with all his strength. This sudden move made Han Du stunned. Then he didn't resist at all and was still held by Lao Zhu.
"Who are you exactly?"
Han Du was even more stunned, then shook his head slightly and asked: "Why does the emperor ask like this?"
"You don't need to know why I'm asking you, you just need to tell me who you are!" Lao Zhu stared at Han Du's eyes, not letting go of any change in his expression.
Han Du fell silent immediately. After a moment, he moved his lips and said, "Does the Emperor want to hear the truth or a lie?"
Lao Zhu looked at Han Du for a while, then suddenly let go of his hand, withdrew his gaze and said, "Let's listen to the lies first."
Han Du couldn't help but glance at Lao Zhu and thought to himself, he is indeed different. An ordinary person would be impatient to hear the truth at this time, but Lao Zhu just did the opposite.
"Okay, the lie is that I, Han Du, was born two years before the founding of the Ming Dynasty. The son of Han De, he has been known as a child prodigy since he was a child, and he was a scholar at the age of fourteen. As for what happened next, the emperor knows better than I do. There’s no need to say anything, sir?”
Han Du said with a sigh.
After hearing this, Lao Zhu remained motionless, and his expression did not even change at all. After pausing for a few breaths, he continued to ask: "What about the truth?"
"What's the truth?" After Lao Zhu finished speaking, Han Du spoke immediately.
But Lao Zhu waited for a long time, but did not wait for Han Du's next words, until he turned his head and looked at Han Du.
Han Ducai smiled bitterly and said, "I don't even know who I am!"
Lao Zhu's eyes suddenly condensed, and his gaze towards Han Du gradually became cold.
Han Du noticed that the chill around his body was getting worse, so he lowered his head and explained: "I will tell the emperor a story~"
"Say!" Lao Zhu's face was as cold as ice.
"I seem to have had a dream~" Han Du raised his head, looked into the void with unfocused eyes, and murmured to himself.
"Dream? What dream?" Lao Zhu's heart suddenly tightened, as if he realized that Han Du's dream was unusual.
Han Du continued, "I dreamed that I seemed to be living in an extremely distant future."
"You can actually see the future generations?" Lao Zhu stared at Han Du in disbelief with his eyes wide open, but when he saw that Han Du didn't lie, he suddenly came back to his senses and asked: "Da Ming, Daming How's it going? In the future generations you see, is there still a Ming Dynasty?"
"This dream is extremely clear, as if Chen Zhen has lived for decades in later generations." Han Du continued, and then turned around as if he heard Lao Zhu's words.
Looking at Lao Zhu, he shook his head and said: "The Ming Dynasty... I do know about the Ming Dynasty in later generations, but that is in the history books."
When he heard Han Du say that he knew about Ming Dynasty, Lao Zhu felt happy for a while. But when Han Du said he knew it from history, Lao Zhu's face suddenly darkened.
After a few breaths, Lao Zhu sighed slightly and said: "As far as you know, how long has the Ming Dynasty been spread?"
"Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty by the emperor, there have been a total of sixteen emperors, which lasted for 276 years."
"276 years?" Lao Zhu was stunned when he heard this, and after a long time he let out a long sigh, "A little less..."
The bitterness on Han Du's face became even stronger, and he said, "Your Majesty, this is just a dream of mine."
Lao Zhu looked very disappointed. He felt that it was impossible for his Ming Dynasty to be passed down only 276 years ago. Even if it takes three hundred years, he will feel much better. If he could go one step further and exceed 320 years, he would be able to smile happily.
As a result, it happened to be 276 years that made Lao Zhu extremely uncomfortable.
As for Han Du, he said it was just a dream, but Lao Zhu didn't think so. He believed that this was a warning from God, which was only conveyed through Han Du.
"How...how did the Ming Dynasty die?" In the end, Lao Zhu still couldn't suppress his curiosity and asked the most critical question.
"Because of famine." Han Du said truthfully. On the surface, the Ming Dynasty was caused by corrupt officials and the Qing Dynasty's entry into the country. In fact, the most fundamental reason is famine. It was famine that led to the rise of refugees. Under the chaos of refugees, the Ming Dynasty quickly collapsed. If there had been no famine and the people would not have had enough to eat, Emperor Chongzhen could still have stabilized the overall situation of the world. As long as the world is stable, the Qing Dynasty will be nothing more than a scabies disease, and the Qing Dynasty will not be able to enter the country for a hundred years!
"Hunger...famine?" Lao Zhudu's eyes widened in complete disbelief.
Because since sweet potato, sweet potatoes and red rice were widely planted in the Ming Dynasty, there has been no famine in the Ming Dynasty for several years. Every year, the navy of the Ming Dynasty would catch millions of kilograms of marine fish from the sea, dry them into salted fish and sell them to various parts of the Ming Dynasty. And the people along the coast can only catch more fish than the navy.
Nanyang also transported more than ten million dan of grain and a large amount of sugar to the Ming Dynasty every year. And this is only the case where there is still a lot of land in the Nanyang islands, but because of insufficient manpower, a large amount of it has to be abandoned. If the population of Nanyang increases in the future, the amount of food Nanyang can provide to Ming Dynasty every year will only be greater.
The Ming Dynasty now has so much grain that it is impossible to eat it all. In order to prevent the grain from rotting in vain, Lao Zhu has no choice but to frantically stock up on various vermicelli and also constantly uses grain to make wine. After all, even vermicelli can only be stored for two or three years, while wine can be stored for decades or even hundreds of years without any problem. Anyway, people's demand for alcohol has never decreased in history. Now, if you brew more alcohol and store it, you don't have to worry about the lack of alcohol in the future if food is in short supply.
It is precisely this that makes Lao Zhu feel very incredible. How could the Ming Dynasty die from famine?
"The Ming Dynasty was rich from all over the world, with a continuous supply of food from Nanyang, as well as food such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, and rice. How could the Ming Dynasty be short of food, and how could there be a famine?"
Han Du smiled bitterly when he heard this and sighed: "None of the things the emperor mentioned was found in the Ming Dynasty in my dream."
"None? What do you mean?" Lao Zhu couldn't understand Han Du's words even more.
Han Du had no choice but to explain patiently: "In my dream, there were no sweet potatoes, no potatoes, and no red rice in the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty banned the sea, and people could not go fishing at all. There was no Nanyang in the Ming Dynasty, and there were no overseas governors. government, so the Ming Dynasty did not receive a grain of food supplement from overseas. Therefore, I also think that it is just a dream!"
Lao Zhu frowned and thought hard, "If there were no fishing in the sea, no potatoes, potatoes and rice, no food from Nanyang, and no benefits from the Governor's Mansion...then the people of Ming Dynasty would still be hungry now." , if there is a natural or man-made disaster, it is not impossible to cause famine~"
Seeing that Lao Zhu was still staring at the famine, Han Du had to remind him again: "Your Majesty, that was just a dream of mine. Now that the Ming Dynasty has everything, there will definitely be no more famine."
Lao Zhu was stunned when he heard this, and then suddenly laughed, "Hahaha, that's true. Now that the Ming Dynasty has everything, there is no chance of another major famine. And the Ming Dynasty can last for 276 years without having anything, so Now that we have these, it will definitely last longer.”
"Han Du, do you know what my lifelong wish is?"
Han Du lowered his head and said, "I don't know."
Lao Zhu didn't care and continued: "I look down on the former Song Dynasty the most, but the former Song Dynasty lasted for 320 years. Therefore, my biggest wish in this life is that I hope that the Ming Dynasty can last for more than 320 years. The more the better. However, , As long as I can surpass the previous Song Dynasty, I will be satisfied."
"If you make an oath now so that the Ming Dynasty can last for more than 320 years, I will spare your life!"
Facing Lao Zhu's ultimatum, Han Du slowly shook his head and said: "Your Majesty, I don't know whether the Ming Dynasty can last for 320 years, because I will definitely not survive that time. But I can swear that during my lifetime, I will definitely let you Everything the sun and moon illuminate is the territory of the Ming Dynasty!"
Everything the sun and moon illuminate is the territory of the Ming Dynasty!
Han Du's sonorous and powerful voice echoed in Lao Zhu's ears, making him lose consciousness!
After a long time, looking at Han Du kneeling in front of him seriously, Lao Zhu sighed with emotion and said: "You... still remember the promise you made in front of me?"
"I dare not or forget it!" Han Du suddenly clasped his fists and bowed.
Lao Zhu pondered for a moment, then suddenly he smiled and said, "If you hadn't mentioned it again, I would have forgotten it. I thought you were just talking, but I didn't expect you actually wanted to do it!"
"The Ming Dynasty has the most hard-working people and the wisest king. Except for the Ming Dynasty, the rest of the world are barbarians and uncivilized beasts. What virtues and abilities do they have, so that they can steal the world? This world should belong to the Ming Dynasty!" "
Lao Zhu looked at Han Du, who was full of arrogance and looked around, and couldn't help but sigh: "I don't even have your arrogance~"
Having said that, no matter whether Lao Zhu is jealous and attacks him, or he is magnanimous and lets him go, everything is left to fate!
Lao Zhu stared at Han Du for a long time, and finally said, "But only if you have such arrogance can you be worthy of your ambition to make the Ming Dynasty the territory that the sun and moon shine on!"
"Go out and call them all in!"
Happiness came so quickly that Han Du didn't even react for a moment.
Finally, Lao Zhu said again: "Go and call them all in."
"Yes." Han Du lowered his head and answered, then stood up and turned around to go out.
Watch the Daming Fireworks.
