"Father, it's all your sons and ministers who are incompetent, making you worry!"
After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, Zhu Cixi cried again.
Zhu Yuanzhang gently stroked Zhu Cixiang's left cheek and said with a kind face: "Prince, we told you that the son of the old Zhu family bleeds but does not shed tears."
"We don't blame you for being frightened this time, but you must never do it again in the future!"
When Zhu Cihong heard this, he quickly wiped away his tears and promised, "Father, don't worry. From now on, I will never shed another tear no matter how big things happen to me."
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded with satisfaction, helped him up and said, "Okay, this is the good son of our old Zhu family! We believe you can do it, and you will do it better than your father."
When Zhu Cihong heard Zhu Yuanzhang's words, he couldn't help but stand up straighter, as if he was trying to hold up the world with his body.
At this moment, Empress Zhou's knot in her heart was untied, and she was very happy to see the two of them as a loving father and a filial son.
Then I saw that Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were even more tired, and he said with a distressed look on his face: "Your Majesty, I am short-sighted and misunderstood you. You have suffered during this trip..."
Although Zhu Yuanzhang saw Zhou Hou's expression of concern, thinking about her behavior in the past few days, he knew that she was quite sophisticated.
In order to avoid Zhou Hou still having troubles in his heart and affecting family harmony, Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it and decided to tell the matter.
So he smiled and said: "Although it was a bit hard for us this time, we have temporarily eliminated the threat of Thief Li, and we have captured all the rebels in the capital. It is worth it..."
It turns out that the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang decided to leave the capital last time was not only because of the tense war in Yu County, but also because he wanted to use this to lure out the people behind Gong Dingzi.
Because he couldn't confirm who in Beijing was suspected, he simply didn't even use the Jin Yiwei.
Instead, he waited until Yu County and selected a hundred reliable people from Gong Yonggu's soldiers and asked them to return to Beijing to investigate.
Later, even though the Nanliang incident was very violent and the time agreed with Shen Zhanran came, Zhu Yuanzhang did not return to Beijing.
It's because he feels that the matter is not serious enough and the other party may not take action.
In addition, he had already asked Shi Kefa to attack Shandong, so the Nanliang matter would not affect the overall situation at all, so he would go south to frighten Zuo Liangyu.
After Zhu Yuanzhang conquered Zuo Liangyu, he planned to return to Beijing, but his plan was disrupted by the sudden appearance of Mr. Zou Da and others.
In desperation, he had to let Gong Yonggu step up his attack on Li Zicheng, and at the same time let Li Ruolian have the freedom to pursue Li Zicheng and quietly lead his army back to the capital to prevent things from changing.
Then he went south to Taiyuan to solve the problem of Yuan Zongdi.
Although this matter went unexpectedly smoothly, it took a lot of time to allow Liu Wenbing's army to move north.
Because after Liu Wenbing rushed to Liaodong, Wang Huang, Yu Yin and others under his command suddenly repented and said that the wealthy businessmen in the city were willing to be internal agents and help them open the city gate, so they insisted on attacking Taiyuan.
After Ren Zhihua learned about this, he rushed to persuade him. Unexpectedly, Wang Huang not only disobeyed the order, but also used the incident between Ren Zhihua and Li Yan to accuse Responsible Zhihua of having an affair with the rebels.
At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang was worried that things would change, so he planned to wait for Zhang Dabiao and others to arrive in Taiyuan before rushing back to the capital.
After hearing about this, he felt that something was wrong, so he asked Wu Laoliu to investigate secretly.
Just at this time, Zhang Dabiao sent another message, saying that he had discovered that the 10,000 elites who had disappeared earlier seemed to have secretly headed to Taiyuan. He had led his army back, telling Zhu Yuanzhang to be careful.
Wu Laoliu then came back to report that Wang Huang had been bribed by Fan Beidou and was preparing to take advantage of the siege to kill important figures in the army.
As for Yu Yin, most of his soldiers were from southern Shanxi. They wanted to let their families live a good life after taking Taiyuan.
At this moment, he suddenly heard that he would give up the attack on Taiyuan, which he couldn't accept. Yu Yin was worried that the soldiers would mutiny, so he opposed going north.
When Zhu Yuanzhang received these two pieces of news, he knew that his arrival in Taiyuan should have been leaked, and the purpose of the other party's doing these things was to deal with him.
So he simply summoned the generals to identify themselves, exposed Wang Huang's crimes on the spot, and beheaded him.
Afterwards, Zhu Yuanzhang did not mention going north again, but proposed going south to meet Fu Shan, Li Yukui and others, and everyone broke camp and moved forward.
Zhu Yuanzhang was originally worried that they would be ambushed halfway, but he did not expect that he would meet Zhang Dabiao's leading troops after walking for only half a day.
After Zhang Dabiao, Fu Shan and others arrived, he held another meeting and proposed the matter of going north.
Because Fu Shan and Han Lin had high prestige in Shanxi, and the people brought by Zhang Dabiao far exceeded Yu Yin's soldiers.
Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang promised to capture Taiyuan and solve the problems of famine and plague among the people in Shanxi, so the generals reluctantly agreed to go north.
Zhu Yuanzhang saw that the overall situation had been decided at this moment, and then he let go of his heavy heart.
Just when he was thinking about how to sneak back to the capital without being discovered by the 10,000 people, he received news from the Jin Yiwei from Mianchi, saying that the 10,000 people had turned back to Mianchi and attempted to sneak attack blocking Yinxi's army.
However, because his whereabouts were exposed, he was attacked by Shen Yunying's troops. Now he has fled to Jiangxi and other places in a hurry.
After Zhu Yuanzhang got the news, he immediately galloped to the capital.
He was originally worried that it would be too late, but he didn't expect that Gao Qiqian, Li Zushu and others had different ideas, resulting in slow action. He arrived before the opponent attacked the imperial city.
When he learned about the plan of Zhou Hou and others, he also appreciated it very much.
Therefore, while he sent people to lurk in the imperial city to protect the safety of Zhu Cixiang and others, he also went to capture Zhu Guobi and others...
After listening to Zhu Yuanzhang's story, Zhou Hou suppressed the tears in her eyes and looked at him guiltily and affectionately.
Upon seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang was completely relieved after knowing that the dissatisfaction in Zhou Hou's heart had been eliminated.
At this time, Shen Zhanran and Wu Mengming came in to report again, saying that Xu Yunzhen and others did not plead guilty, and many censors and officials came forward to object, believing that Zhu Yuanzhang captured the ministers for no reason and was not the work of a wise king.
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but feel a little angry when he heard that there were still people complaining on behalf of Xu Yunzhen and others.
He sneered, looked at Wu Mengming and said, "Wu Mengming, is your imperial staff just a decoration?"
Wu Mengming was stunned when he heard this, then he knelt down and apologized: "Your Majesty, those who came this time are Wang Zhang, Chen Liangmo and others, and they did not know..."
"You can't fight without knowing?"
Zhu Yuanzhang did not wait for Wu Mengming to finish what he said, and shouted loudly: "Isn't it wrong for a minister not to worry about the king, but only to care about his own reputation..."
Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's angry face, Wu Mengming didn't know how to persuade him, so he looked at Shen Zhanran and asked for help.
Shen Zhanran saw this, and after Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, he bowed and said: "Your Majesty, it is not that Wu Tongzhi is unwilling to enforce the law, but this time in addition to the censor and others, there are many common people."
"These people are obviously being deceived, and there are quite a lot of them. If Your Majesty is too strict, the ministers will worry about being taken advantage of by evil spirits, losing the support of the people, and it will be detrimental to the overall situation. Your Majesty, please think again!"
Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said: "Shen Qing, what you said is wrong. Although it is said that those who win the hearts of the people win the world, but those who win the world also win the hearts of the people."
"It is precisely because the masses are ignorant and easily deceived by others that we cannot agree to their requests."
"You must know that we obey the orders of heaven and rule the world, so we should obey the orders of heaven and educate all people. This is our destiny and it is also your responsibility."
"What's more, now that we have defeated the rebels and are at the peak of our power, it also shows that we are the destiny of destiny, so we must not act against heaven at this time..."
When Shen Zhanran and others heard this, they all looked like they were suddenly enlightened.
At this time, Wu Laoliu walked in again with a worried look on his face.
