It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Xiongzhi had already been here, and happened to hear most of the conversation between Tian Zhiwei and Zhu Youjian.
Originally Li Xiongzhi was going to come directly, but Zhu Yuanzhang stopped Li Xiongzhi.
Because he also wanted to hear what Daming was like in Zhu Youjian's mouth.
Zhu Yuanzhang was also extremely curious about what the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty could say.
By chance, Tian Zhiwei asked Zhu Youjian if he had any capable ministers or talented people in his day.
Zhu Yuanzhang also wanted to know this question.
He left a lot of talents in the Ming Dynasty outside to assist Zhu Di. Even if Zhu Di failed, he would still assist the next emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
According to this principle, the courtiers Zhu Youjian mentioned should know it themselves.
So Zhu Yuanzhang's plan was to hide in the dark and listen to what Zhu Youjian said first.
Regardless of whether Zhu Youjian is a lunatic or not, at least he can't show up so soon.
What if he shows up and Zhu Youjian restrains his words and deeds.
In other words, what if I can't hold back and let Zhu Youjian continue talking.
If you want to hear Zhu Youjian's words, the best way is not to show up first, and just wait quietly for Zhu Youjian to say.
I originally wanted to hear a few familiar names, so that Zhu Yuanzhang would feel more comfortable.
Even if the Ming Dynasty was really destroyed, the people he left behind still stood on the side of the Ming Dynasty and did not abandon the Ming Dynasty.
He has left so many people behind, and even such a Ming Dynasty can be destroyed.
That can only be said to be the bad luck of the Ming Dynasty, and this is how it should be.
But if you can't hear a familiar name, you can basically be sure that Zhu Youjian is a madman talking nonsense.
I don’t know what the reason was for fabricating the news about the demise of the Ming Dynasty.
For such a lunatic, Zhu Yuanzhang was really interested in hearing Zhu Youjian's story.
He really wanted to hear from Zhu Youjian's mouth how the Ming Dynasty was overthrown and what kind of people overthrew it.
This thing is just like listening to a story.
Zhu Yuanzhang really wanted to hear from other people's mouths what the final outcome of the Ming Dynasty court he built would be.
But I didn't expect that Zhu Youjian would say something so outrageous.
What is it that a 9900-year-old man appeared in the Ming Dynasty, and he was a eunuch?
How can this be.
Even if you are making up a lie, you should at least make it up decently.
It's okay to say that a 9900-year-old man appeared in the Ming Dynasty, but that person's identity was at least a vassal king with a heavy army.
No matter how bad it is, even if he is not the prince of the old Zhu family, he must be a powerful minister of the Ming Dynasty.
He is neither a relative of the emperor nor a minister of the court, so what the hell are you doing to create a eunuch?
Zhu Yuanzhang was very puzzled and confused.
He never thought that the 9900-year-old Zhu Youjian mentioned was actually an eunuch.
You know, Zhu Yuanzhang has always looked down on eunuchs.
Not to mention he looked down upon him, Zhu Yuanzhang never looked at the eunuch seriously.
Who is that eunuch?
That is a disabled person, that is the most despicable person.
A person who doesn't even want anything from a man, isn't this despicable?
In short, in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, eunuchs were inferior to others.
Now Zhu Youjian said that a eunuch stole important power in the Ming Dynasty and was also called nine thousand nine hundred years old. This is not nonsense.
When he founded the country, he established the ancestral precepts.
Internal ministers are not allowed to interfere in politics, especially eunuchs.
For this reason, he specially ordered someone to make a stone tablet and erect it in the palace, so that everyone could see it and follow this ancestral precept.
Although Zhu Yuanzhang had not read any books, he was also a beggar.
But after he became the emperor, he still studied very hard.
He is also interested in history.
As the saying goes, use history as a guide to understand the ups and downs, and use history to judge people's gains and losses.
We can learn a lot from history and understand a lot of truths.
In history, too many dynasties lost their kingdom in the end because of eunuchs' manipulation of power.
Qin Shihuang was such a powerful figure, the first emperor in history to unify the Central Plains.
The country that was conquered through hard work died in the second generation because the descendants listened to the slander and trusted the eunuchs.
Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, was evaluated as a famous emperor through the ages. The Tang Dynasty after him was still troubled by the dictatorship of eunuchs.
Even at the end of the Tang Dynasty, eunuchs had even shaken the foundation of the Tang Dynasty.
The list goes on and on.
There are so many lessons in history that show that eunuchs are not a good thing.
Once a eunuch is given the opportunity to get close to the center of power, it will definitely be a disaster.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang made his attitude very clear from the beginning, which was to completely eliminate the possibility of eunuchs interfering in politics.
Not only was his own Hongwu dynasty like this, but he also had to incorporate it into the ancestral precepts so that the ancestors would abide by it for generations to come.
This was even an iron rule in Zhu Yuanzhang's era, and no one was allowed to violate it.
Zhu Yuanzhang also believed that no one would violate it.
He did not believe that the descendants of his Zhu family would be so rebellious and disregard the ancestral precepts he had compiled.
But the fact is that, except for Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di, the other emperors of the Ming Dynasty no longer paid attention to this ancestral precept.
Even the daring eunuch Wang Zhen dug away the stone tablet erected by Zhu Yuanzhang, which stated that eunuchs were not allowed to participate in politics.
If Zhu Yuanzhang knew this, he would probably be shocked.
In addition to Wang Zhen, a Dongchang was created later, which dominated the Ming Dynasty until the fall of the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty lasted for nearly three hundred years, and almost all of them had eunuchs.
The Ming Dynasty produced the most powerful eunuchs in history.
By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the emperor Zhu Youjian was no longer able to protect himself.
If it weren't for the support of civil servant groups like the Donglin Party, he might not even be able to bring down Wei Zhongxian.
But Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know all this.
In Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, his Ming Dynasty could die, but it would never die in the hands of eunuchs.
But the eunuchs can be said to have played an indispensable role in the demise of the Ming Dynasty.
"Absolutely impossible!"
"How could we have such arrogant eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty, and they are still nine thousand nine hundred years old."
"How can this be."
"Could it be that all the emperors of the Ming Dynasty ignored Gu Zuxun?"
"The ancestral precepts make it very clear that eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in politics. As long as the emperor of the Ming Dynasty strictly abides by the ancestral precepts, there will never be such an arrogant eunuch."
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Youjian and refuted.
"Is it possible that all the princes and grandsons of the Ming Dynasty have ignored Gu Zuxun? Are they so treasonous?"
"Or should I say that the subsequent emperors of the Ming Dynasty were all drunkards, and even these eunuchs couldn't control them."
"Let them hold great power?"
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Youjian and said coldly.
What he meant was clear.
Either the subsequent emperors of the Ming Dynasty were no longer filial, and they all ignored Gu Zuzun's instructions and began to let eunuchs interfere in politics.
That's why the 9900-year-old eunuch appeared, seriously threatening the imperial power.
Either that or the emperors behind the Ming Dynasty are all useless, and all of them are stupid kings.
Even a few eunuchs couldn't control it. Instead, they allowed these eunuchs to evade the emperor and take control of power.
Zhu Yuanzhang did not believe that the emperors behind his old Zhu family would be such trash.
Think of him like Zhu Yuanzhang.
From a beggar to a man of the world.
How could a man with such means and abilities have such useless offspring.
impossible!
Absolutely impossible!
After speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang looked a little unkind.
In his opinion, Zhu Youjian was fabricating random rumors just to discredit Daming, and the rumors he fabricated were quite low-level.
There is simply no common sense at all.
I don’t know what kind of stimulation this kind of people received in Ming Dynasty, and they had to fabricate such low-level rumors to discredit Ming Dynasty.
Hearing Zhu Yuanzhang's words, Zhu Youjian looked back blankly.
Zhu Yuanzhang is right.
Theoretically, it was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to have a great eunuch like Wei Zhongxian, who was said to be nine thousand nine hundred years old.
But the fact is, he did appear.
Moreover, he also controlled the affairs of the Ming Dynasty for more than ten years.
If his eldest brother, the carpenter emperor, had not died early, Wei Zhongxian would have continued to dominate the Ming Dynasty.
It is even possible to usurp power and seize the throne.
"well"
Zhu Youjian sighed: "Senior, you don't know something."
Immediately, Zhu Youjian continued to tell the story and told what Wei Zhongxian, the eunuch, had done.
But when he saw Zhu Yuanzhang's face, Zhu Youjian was stunned.
The mouth that was about to speak was also closed, and half of the words that were said in the mouth were suppressed.
"you you."
Zhu Youjian looked at Zhu Yuanzhang's face and was so surprised that he couldn't speak.
Because Zhu Youjian felt that Zhu Yuanzhang's face was exactly the same as the portrait of Taizu he saw in the Ancestral Temple.
Zhu Youjian is very familiar with the portrait of Taizu in the Ancestral Temple.
When the Ming Dynasty was on the verge of collapse in the late Ming Dynasty, he often went to the Ancestral Temple to beg for the blessings of his ancestors.
He had seen Zhu Yuanzhang's portrait countless times, and he had already firmly memorized the appearance of Zhu Yuanzhang's portrait.
Now that I saw Zhu Yuanzhang himself, I naturally recognized him at a glance.
But Zhu Youjian still wasn't sure.
Because a portrait is always a portrait, and a real person is a real person, there will always be some discrepancies.
At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang was a little angry, or a little angry, because he heard Zhu Youjian's words.
Because Zhu Yuanzhang felt that Zhu Youjian was not only making rumors about the Ming Dynasty, but also making such low-level rumors, which made him quite unhappy.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang's face was livid at this moment and he looked quite unkind.
But it was such a face full of evil that coincided with the portrait.
The livid Zhu Yuanzhang's face became, the more similar he looked to the portrait in Zhu Youjian's opinion.
Seeing Zhu Youjian looking at him blankly, Zhu Yuanzhang was also stunned.
Then, he shouted: "What's wrong?"
"You don't dare to speak when you see us?"
"Didn't you just say that the Ming Dynasty died?"
"Didn't you also say that the Ming Dynasty had a 9900-year-old eunuch?"
"Why are not you talking."
"We are in front of you now, so you should tell us what happened next in Ming Dynasty."
"We would like to hear how miserable our Daming is in your mouth."
After saying that, Zhu Yuanzhang, with a livid face, sat in front of Zhu Youjian and looked at Zhu Youjian coldly.
It was like watching a prisoner, waiting for Zhu Youjian to give his confession.
As Zhu Yuanzhang grew old, the atmosphere suddenly became serious.
Because the things Zhu Youjian said were all related to the Ming Dynasty court.
And Zhu Yuanzhang was the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, so he must have been extremely concerned.
Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to be really angry, Tian Zhiwei quickly stepped forward and said, "Brother, let's eat first."
"Zhu Youjian is here anyway, so you can ask anytime."
"If you don't eat anymore, the food will be cold."
Li Xiongzhi also echoed: "Brother, Lao Tian is right, let's eat first."
"The food doesn't taste good when it's cold."
Facing the two people's consolation, Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head slightly: "Okay, there is no need to say more about these two worthy brothers."
"You can eat this meal anytime."
"But this is what Zhu Youjian said, we want to know now."
"We are really curious about what kind of lies Zhu Youjian will make up."
After saying that, Zhu Yuanzhang turned to look at Zhu Youjian: "Your name is Zhu Youjian?"
"If you are really a member of the Zhu family's royal family, then we can't figure out why you would say bad things about our Ming Dynasty court."
"And you tell such a clumsy lie to slander our Ming Dynasty."
"If you are not from the Zhu family royal family, then we can't understand why you are so hostile to our Ming Dynasty."
"What does our Ming Dynasty have to do with you, an outsider?"
"If I remember correctly, ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty are quite satisfied with the imperial court."
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Youjian and said calmly.
He's right.
The people of the Ming Dynasty under his rule were quite satisfied with the Ming Dynasty.
Because the people have a stable life and have enough to eat.
In Zhu Yuanzhang's dynasty, it was only the court officials who suffered.
Zhu Youjian listened to Zhu Yuanzhang's words, and the uncertainty in his eyes gradually dissipated.
It is already obvious that Zhu Yuanzhang is like us in every mouthful, and Ming Dynasty is like us in every mouthful.
This is enough to prove that the black-faced man in front of him is Taizu.
Zhu Youjian rubbed his eyes, trying to see more clearly.
In his opinion, it was not unusual for him to see Emperor Taizu now that he was in the underworld.
It's just that he is the king of a subjugated country, and he really has no face to meet Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Empire.
But what we face is always what we have to face.
Anyway, we have reached the underworld now, and there is no worse outcome.
Since we failed to preserve the foundation of Ming Dynasty, we should admit our mistake.
Immediately, Zhu Youjian looked up at Zhu Yuanzhang and knelt down suddenly.
"Zhu You, the unworthy descendant, has met the great ancestor."
"Zhu Youjian failed to safeguard the Ming Dynasty's foundation, please punish him."
After saying that, Zhu Youjian knelt and came towards Zhu Yuanzhang.
Seeing Zhu Youjian coming on his knees and listening to Zhu Youjian's words, Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned.
Not only Zhu Yuanzhang, but also Li Xiongzhi, Tian Zhiwei and others were confused.
Great Grandfather?
Isn’t this the temple name of Taizu? Isn’t this the temple name of the deceased founding emperor?
I'm not dead yet!
(End of chapter)
