"Keystone, are you okay over there in Peiping?"
Zhu Yuanzhang first asked about things in Peiping.
Tie Xuan cupped his hands and said: "Everything is okay. This year, I can only defeat the Tatars thanks to the help of His Royal Highness. The barbarians today do not dare to go south to herd horses. There are many tribes in Tatars, or Tatars." The troops will flee as soon as they see our Ming flag."
"good!"
Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed. He just liked to see that when Ming Dynasty became more and more powerful, he added: "It's all the result of Dingshi. It has nothing to do with our good grandson. There is no need to deliberately mention my good grandson."
Tie Xuan said straightforwardly: "It is His Highness's New Army Army, which brought the latest and most advanced weapons and helped ministers defeat the enemy. This is His Highness's contribution."
He will not take credit, nor will he take credit casually.
If it doesn't belong to you, you won't take it casually.
When Cen Rui saw this, he felt a little envious when he thought of the ride on the northern grassland.
"Cen Rui."
Just when Cen Rui was thinking wildly, he suddenly heard Zhu Yuanzhang calling him.
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty is here."
Cen Rui stepped forward quickly.
But he was excited again. It turned out that His Majesty knew what his name was. It was a good thing to be recognized by His Majesty.
Zhu Yuanzhang said again: "Is this your first time in Beijing?"
Cen Rui bowed and said: "Your Majesty, this is the second time. More than ten years ago, I came to the capital once and met Your Majesty once."
"We are old fools and don't remember."
Zhu Yuanzhang said slowly.
After thinking hard for a while, I really had no impression of Cen Rui.
More than ten years have passed and a lot of things can be forgotten.
Cen Rui didn't think anything was wrong and said respectfully: "Your Majesty governs the world and takes care of the common people. I am just a humble official. It is normal for Your Majesty not to remember me."
Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and said: "The commander-in-chief of Guangxi is not a small official, so you don't have to be so scared. Just like Dingshi, you can do whatever you want."
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Cen Rui also wants to be as relaxed as Tie Xuan.
However, as an official in a remote area, he could not calm down when he suddenly met the king of a country. He added: "I usually think about meeting your majesty when I am in the south, but my imagination is just imagination after all. Today I really saw your majesty. I feel nervous, I’m rude.”
Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang laughed.
Zhu Xuan felt that Cen Rui still knew how to speak, knew what to say to make Grandpa Huang happy, and also knew how to speak skillfully.
"alright."
After Zhu Yuanzhang saw them, he had other ideas, and said: "My dear grandson, take Keystone to the East Palace for a walk. We have something we want to talk to Cen Rui about."
"My grandson takes orders."
Zhu Xuan took Tie Xuan and left the hall.
At this time, only Cen Rui and Zhu Yuanzhang were left in the main hall.
Cen Rui inevitably felt more nervous.
"Cen Rui, you Cen family chieftain has a certain status in Guangxi."
Zhu Yuanzhang said.
Cen Rui was surprised that His Majesty would ask about this matter, and said: "My Cen family is relatively wealthy in Guishun Prefecture, especially my eldest nephew Cen Jing, who followed His Highness to do business overseas. But business matters, and It doesn’t matter, I’m just an official and have nothing to do with business. I separated from my eldest brother many years ago. If my eldest brother hadn’t felt that natives from the south were afraid of being rude in front of His Majesty, I wouldn’t have had to go north to the Holy Land.”
Zhu Yuanzhang knew about the Cen family.
He had checked it over and over again.
He knew that Cen Rui was not lying.
"It's very rare for you to be able to do this." Zhu Yuanzhang said with satisfaction.
"Thank you for your compliments, Your Majesty. This is what I, as a minister, should do."
Cen Rui said solemnly: "I always remember that being an official does not mean you are rich. Once you become an official, you have power and there is no need to have wealth. Therefore, the wealth of my eldest brother's family has nothing to do with me. How my eldest brother does business has nothing to do with me. If you know how to take care of them, you won't give them any privileges, otherwise they are not worthy of being officials of the Ming Dynasty."
His voice when he said this was very hearty.
But what he did was all true.
The results of Jin Yiwei's investigation are still on Zhu Yuanzhang's desk.
In terms of power, the commander-in-chief of the capital was not as powerful as the chief minister of a province, but he was not weak either. If Cen Rui wanted to do something, it would be easy.
Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly realized that he liked Cen Rui a little bit and said, "How about you come to Yingtian and become an official?"
"No!"
Cen Rui was still a man who could handle things clearly and refused: "Now that I am a relative, it is very inappropriate to come to Yingtian. I even want to resign from my post when Hua'er enters the palace."
Zhu Yuanzhang could tell that what he said was not false, and he appreciated it: "Resigning from your position is not necessary. We can allow you to have more contact with your elder brother."
Cen Rui was startled, and soon realized that Zhu Yuanzhang said this not out of sudden thought, but because he had some considerations, and said: "Excuse me, your majesty, why is this?"
Zhu Yuanzhang said: "There are still many chieftains in the south who refuse to be kings. Some bandits hiding in the deep mountains and old forests are still active. You have indeed managed them well, but the mountains are high and the emperor is far away. We hope that these situations can be alleviated. "
The chieftains in the south were only subdued by the Ming Dynasty's force.
They did not sincerely submit to the Ming Dynasty, and occasionally they would cause chaos among the chieftains, or ignore the king's laws and other behaviors.
The south, like the north, cannot lack troops.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to completely solve these hidden dangers and make them become kings forever and obey the Ming Dynasty. He also said: "Can you and your eldest brother use the prestige of your Cen family to help us reorganize the south and rectify all the chieftains?"
The Southern Ming Dynasty only needs one voice.
That is the voice of Lao Zhu's family.
Cen Rui thought about it, then suddenly knelt down and kowtowed: "Your Majesty, the Cen family cannot be used! If I really did it, wouldn't the Cen family be the only voice in the south at that time, which would be bad for the Ming Dynasty and bad for the south."
"Get up!"
Zhu Yuanzhang was even more satisfied with Cen Rui and admired him even more: "We are very happy that you can say this. If all Ming officials are like you, we will be relieved."
Cen Rui did not get up, and continued to kneel, saying: "The Cen family is considered a relative. If there are more ministers to pacify the south, it will easily lead to the Cen family becoming the dominant family. Maybe it is not so good now, but in the future... the Cen family will definitely belong to the south." Disaster."
Zhu Yuanzhang asked: "If we continue to ask you to pacify the south, what can you do?"
Cen Rui finally figured out that he had no choice but to take on this task.
I also understood that Zhu Yuanzhang actually wanted to use the Cen family to pacify the south when he agreed to Cen Hua's entry into the palace, and at least make the chieftains surrender and solve the problem of occasional rebellion by the chieftains.
"I am a minister, and the Cen family is the Cen family."
"If His Majesty wants me to do this, I will never use the Cen family, or even..."
"I will also take action against the Cen family."
"However, I am from the Cen family, and I want to attack the Cen family. This is forgetting my ancestors."
"I have the ability to pacify the chieftain, but the Cen family...please ask Your Majesty to arrange someone else to deal with the Cen family. We cannot let it dominate."
Cen Rui couldn't give any advice.
But if you don’t want the Cen family to be destroyed, you have to do this.
Being a foreign relative is very glamorous on the surface, but secretly, there are still many things that need to be paid attention to, especially in terms of power.
No one knows the virtues of other children of the Cen family better than Cen Rui.
