The people in the palace held a banquet in the side hall to entertain Zhang Chenggong.
The emperor looked pleasant and talked about the past. From when he was the king of Wu, he was shocked to see the power of the Zhang family.
He also talked about the plague that year. He went up and down Longhu Mountain to fight against the plague and solve his troubles. He also talked about the phrase "destiny will return" back then, which saved Zhu Yuanzhang a lot of publicity efforts and gave him more legitimacy.
Zhang Chenggong said he didn't dare, but he became increasingly happy.
After three rounds of drinking, the guests and hosts were having a great time, and everything seemed to be developing in the direction that Zhang Chenggong expected.
The emperor was slightly drunk and suddenly asked:
"Zhang Aiqing, you have made great contributions to our Ming Dynasty, I will definitely reward you heavily!"
By the way, what title did your ancestor receive in the previous dynasty? "
Hearing this, Zhang Changshang stood up quickly. He considered his words and said:
"Since the thirty-sixth generation of Celestial Masters, we have inherited the title of 'Celestial Master of the Han Dynasty' hereditary!"
The emperor remained calm, but the atmosphere in the side hall was a bit heavier. After a while, he burst into laughter.
"You said those Mongolian barbarians are just uneducated, Zhang Aiqing, let me ask you:
Is there any teacher in heaven? "
The emperor's light words fell on Zhang Changsheng's ears, but they were no less than a thunderbolt.
The normal pupils dilated rapidly and then contracted violently.
He instinctively raised his head and looked at the emperor in shock. The emperor seemed drunk and blurred at this moment. However, at that moment, Zhang Changsheng seemed to see through the emperor's heart.
Zhu Yuanzhang seemed drunk, but there was endless coldness in his eyes.
Zhang Chenggang was sweating profusely and quickly lowered his head to calm down his emotions.
He replied bitterly:
"No!"
"That's right. Confucius, the teacher of all ages, is just a teacher of men. There is no one in the world who is more noble than the Son of Heaven. Among the four extremes, Wuyou is higher than Heaven. Who is the Master of Heaven? He is actually higher than the Supreme Being. Damn it?
Then according to the rules of the previous dynasty, should I call Zhang Aiqing "master" when I see him? "
Hearing the words, Zhang Zhongcheng quickly knelt down and kowtowed three times and nine times towards the emperor.
"Don't dare!"
At this time, he seemed to still be able to remember how Zhu Yuanzhang, who was still the King of Wu, praised the Tianshi Mansion when he met him.
In the article "I heard that the Heavenly Master of the Han Dynasty was a man of morality and knew the help of ghosts and gods. Between a breath and a breath, the way of heaven was Huiming, and the gods of thunder..." Zhang Changsheng was still among the crowd at Longhu Mountain a few days ago. I had recited it to Zhang Yi before, but now when I recalled it again, it became a joke.
How can there be a teacher in heaven? What goes up must come down?
Zhang Changsong recalled Zhang Yi's seemingly childlike words, but he became more and more afraid to think about it.
Now he still has the heart to ask for favors from the emperor. He feels that he is lucky to be able to walk out of the palace alive today!
A king is like a tiger. Only then did Lao Zhang truly understand the profound meaning of this sentence.
The emperor smiled and played with the cup in his hand. Zhang's normal behavior made him very satisfied.
"Zhang Aiqing, what's wrong with you? Get up. I won't do anything to you. It's just a joke!"
Lao Zhu stood up and went over to help Zhang Changchang up.
"Let's do this. I don't want the title of Heavenly Master anymore. Let Zhang Aiqing accept the title!"
Lao Zhang stood up, without even straightening his knees, and knelt down again.
"I will confer upon you the title of Zhengyi Zhenzhen, give you the silver seal, and rank you as the second grade."
"Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, Your Majesty!"
Zhang Chenggong swallowed the bitter pill and was devastated, but he still had to kneel on the ground and thank the Holy Lord for his kindness.
The emperor beat Zhang Chenggong and also awarded him a reward.
Zhang Changsheng knew that his trip to the capital had become a complete joke.
But that's all, Lao Zhang felt that he was lucky to be able to go back alive. His only thought now was to leave the palace immediately, go find Zhang Yi, and ask, "Is there any teacher in the sky?" Where did he hear it?
However, fate seemed to be playing a trick on him.
The emperor seemed not to let Longhu Mountain go.
After awarding the reward, the emperor said again:
"Longhu Mountain is a land of gods. It is said that the heavenly masters of all ages have great power. My master's ability is naturally not bad, but his descendants are also dragons among men!"
The emperor meant something, but he said it inadvertently:
"For example, the second son of your husband's family, I heard that he predicted the cause and effect of today?"
When Lao Zhang heard this, he was so frightened that he almost scolded the eighteen generations of Zhang Yi's ancestors in his heart, but when he remembered that this was not appropriate, he quickly knelt down.
"Your Majesty, a child with a yellow mouth is talking nonsense, but it cannot be taken seriously!"
Only now did Zhang Changshang realize that the emperor was terrifying. It was rumored that Zhu Yuanzhang had an organization under his command called the Inspection School.
The emperor relied on this institution to supervise the officials and collect intelligence. The inspectors were the emperor's eyes and ears.
But he never imagined that there were people from Zhu Yuanzhang on Longhu Mountain hundreds of miles away, and that a conversation between Zhang Yi and Zhang Changchong's father and son that day could also fall into the emperor's ears.
Zhang Changshang was very scared, more scared than ever.
He remembered what his evil star son said, "What goes up must come down."
But what scared him even more was that it turned out that the emperor's eyes had never left the Zhang family.
Is he beating up the Zhang family, or is he trying to liquidate the Zhang family?
Zhang Changshang was uneasy. He no longer thought about the benefits the emperor would give him, but hoped that he would let him go and let him go.
"Your Majesty, you can't listen to the nonsense of my devil king. You can't take it seriously, you can't take it seriously..."
Zhang Changshang knelt down again, kowtowed and begged for mercy.
But the emperor smiled: "What devil, evil star? I think there is a little god in the Zhang family. Why don't you bring him here today? I want to meet him!"
"If the emperor wants to see the traitorous son of my family, the common people will bring him over immediately!"
Zhang was so frightened that he used the word "caomin". Lao Zhu was very satisfied with Zhang's attitude, but he said something that made him even more uneasy:
"No, I have something I would like to hear what the little god thinks of me. If you bring him here, he will be restrained.
I'll go there with you! "
"If you want to come with me..., God will kill my Zhang family!"
Zhang Changshang remembered Zhang Yi's comments about the emperor, and there was no part of his body that was not in pain. How could Zhang Changshang not know the temperament of his little evil star?
This guy didn't hold back his words. If he really said something he shouldn't have said, he did something he shouldn't have done.
Thousands of people from up and down Longhu Mountain may be killed.
Evil star, this little guy is the evil star of the Zhang family, absolutely right.
Zhang Changsheng still vaguely remembered that Zhang Yi said on the mountain that the emperor was not a good person. Thinking of this,
Lao Zhang rolled his eyes and fainted.
"This Zhang is normal, so careless!"
The emperor quickly asked the eunuch to bring Zhang Changshang a bowl of sugar water to help him breathe slowly.
He turned around and left the side hall, but there was a young man waiting outside.
This man was wearing a Gunlong suit, with a tall and straight figure and a heroic face. His brows and eyes were somewhat similar to Zhu Yuanzhang's.
"Father, do you really want to go with Zhang Changcheng to meet the rebellious son of the Zhang family?"
This young man is none other than the current prince Zhu Biao.
Regarding the son in front of him, Zhu Yuanzhang put down all his guard and showed a fatherly smile:
"Yes, I am very curious. Can a child living in Longhu Mountain really guess my thoughts?"
"He is not an immortal, he must be a strange person. Come and see with me!"
