"Your Highness, we were wrong."
Zhang Yu first lowered his head and admitted his mistake.
The same goes for Zhu Neng and Qiu Fu.
They knew very well that after this incident, everything was lost for Zhu Di, and the emperor's dream could only be a dream. He no longer had the ability to fight Zhu Yunxuan to the end, or even rebel.
Zhu Di was furious in his heart, but seeing them like this, he slowly suppressed his anger and asked: "Lao Qiu, are your legs okay?"
"Thank you for your concern, Your Highness. My legs are fine. It's just that we delayed His Highness' important event. We deserve to be punished by Your Highness."
When Qiu Fu heard that Zhu Di still cared about him, he was so moved that his eyes were red and he wanted to kneel down to apologize.
Zhu Di helped him up and said: "The leg is injured, no need to be polite, the soldiers are gone, and we will develop in the future as long as you can come back. This is because we did not think carefully enough."
He believed that if he hadn't wanted to kill Zhu Xuan and let Zhu Xuan discover their existence, this kind of thing would not have happened.
Everything was careless and failed to be fully considered.
"Lao Zhang, immediately find the best doctor in Peiping and take Lao Qiu back to rest. Let this matter... be forgotten," Zhu Di said again.
This is actually not their fault.
It's because Zhu Xuan is too fierce and his troops are too strong.
"Thank you, Your Highness!"
They said gratefully at the same time, and soon left, taking Qiu Fu back to find the best doctor.
Zhu Di's face darkened again. The result was unexpected and definitely not what he wanted. He could only go back to the secret room to find Yao Guangxiao and tell him the outcome of the whole thing.
Hearing this, Yao Guangxiao was also stunned.
How could this be?
Their plan should go smoothly, and there should be no mistakes. But what is impossible is right in front of them. After this incident, they will completely lose the results of all their previous efforts.
There may also be suspicion.
"Master, what should I do?"
Zhu Di asked weakly.
Yao Guangxiao fell silent and became restless again. He took out his divination tools and calculated for a while.
"Nothing counts."
"It's beyond my surprise that things have developed to this point."
"I really...don't know what to do."
"It failed to live up to His Highness's expectations."
Yao Guangxiao sighed, feeling so at a loss for the first time.
Zhu Di sat down helplessly and asked again: "If someone comes to investigate, how will we respond?"
A large number of firearms in his army were lost, and he often sent memorials back to the Ministry of War to request more firearms and ammunition. The reason was that he often fought with the Tatars and suffered a lot of losses.
But wherever the lost ones go, they will no longer be reported.
As long as the people in the Ministry of War are given some benefits, no one will care about where the lost things have gone. After all, in the eyes of Ming officials, it is normal for there to be losses.
As for the things that are wasted, according to their unspoken rules, they are all greedy.
"Does His Highness have the confidence to forge the roster and hide it from the Ministry of War?"
Yao Guangxiao said in a deep voice: "You can forge the number of firearms and collude with officials from the Ministry of War. As long as you do it cleanly, you can still hide it for a while. As long as Jinyiwei doesn't conduct a comprehensive investigation, there shouldn't be a big problem."
"Forgery?"
Zhu Di hesitated.
Because recently, he had been listening to Yao Guangxiao's opinions, and in the end all his opinions failed, which led to the current ending.
Can you still believe Yao Guangxiao's words now?
Yao Guangxiao could see that Zhu Di had some doubts about himself.
But he didn't say anything. He said everything that should be said. He picked up the rosary beads, slowly circled them with his fingers, and muttered something again.
"I know what to do, thank you Master for the reminder."
In the end, Zhu Di did not say whether to use Yao Guangxiao's idea or not, and said: "But I really lost everything."
Yao Guangxiao said: "What you lose now, your Highness will definitely gain again in the future."
"I hope so!"
Zhu Di left the secret room.
Yao Guangxiao was also helpless. It was completely beyond his expectation that things would develop to this point.
"The little emperor's grandson is really a variable!"
If it weren't for Zhu Xuan, things wouldn't be like this.
But how can Zhu Xuan break this situation?
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The news that Zhu Xuan destroyed Goryeo and captured Li Fangyuan alive has spread back to Yingtian.
Li Fangyuan himself was also sent back to Yingtian as quickly as possible via a navy warship. He was first handed over to the people of the Ministry of Rites to watch. In the court today, Zhu Yuanzhang asked someone to bring Li Fangyuan up for a meeting.
When Li Fangyuan came to the Ming Dynasty for the first time, he was shocked when he saw the grandeur of the Yingtian Palace and the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty. He thought it was not an accident that the Ming Dynasty destroyed Goryeo.
But the Ming Dynasty's national power was really that strong.
At the same time, he was envious and jealous!
Why does the best land and the richest place in the world belong to the Ming Dynasty?
His country of Korea could only get a small area, and it was still barren and miserable. It had nothing to offer and was short of supplies.
When he saw the Ming Emperor, he suddenly trembled.
Zhu Yuanzhang's majesty pressed directly on him.
It was so stressful that I couldn't even breathe.
This is the majesty of the Celestial Kingdom. The emperor of the Celestial Kingdom suppressed him, the monarch of the small country of Goryeo, to the point where he did not even have the courage to raise his head or straighten his back.
"very scary!"
Li Fangyuan was thinking.
Not only was my body trembling, but my heart was trembling as well.
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at him for a while and did not kill him directly. He just put him under house arrest in Yingtian and could never return to Goryeo. He had done the same thing before when he treated many Yuanmeng nobles and royal relatives who surrendered.
Putting people under house arrest is like raising pigs.
In order to show the benevolence and righteousness of the Ming Dynasty and the benevolence of the heavenly kingdom.
Li Fangyuan was quickly taken down again by people from the Ministry of Rites.
"His Majesty."
At this time, Chen Di, the Minister of Rites, stepped forward and said: "Although Goryeo is abominable and has invaded our Liaodong capital, Your Majesty sent Cao Guogong to fight against Goryeo. He only wanted to recover the lost land in Liaodong. He has not thought about destroying Goryeo."
After a pause, he continued: "But His Royal Highness, the little emperor, appeared in Liaodong for no reason and led the Dingliao right guards to destroy Goryeo. I think it is inconsistent with etiquette. Goryeo is still one of the countries that His Majesty decided not to conquer in the early years. Now, Not only did they conquer the country, but they also destroyed the country. What will this make other vassal countries think about our Ming Dynasty?"
Zhu Xuan indeed won the hearts of many civil servants in the court.
Those civil servants were almost conquered.
However, civil servants also have worries. Zhu Xuan now likes military affairs, does not admire literature very much, and pays little attention to civil servants. They are worried that in the future, when Zhu Xuan ascends the throne, he will focus on generals and ignore civil servants.
This is the tragedy of their civil servants!
Their civil servants did not want to see the next emperor being an emperor who only wanted to be militaristic.
One must safeguard and even defend one's own rights and interests.
There are some things that Zhu Xuan cannot let continue to do.
The civil servants believed that it was necessary to correct Zhu Xuan's problem through His Majesty and bring the future emperor of the Ming Dynasty back to the right path.
