In the closed palace, Zhu Yuanzhang scolded Zhu Chu for his faults and slapped him with the sole of his shoe.
Zhu Yu didn't dare to resist or dodge. It didn't hurt anyway, so he lay on the ground with his butt sticking out and let Zhu Yuanzhang vent his anger.
At this time, outside the palace, Xu Da suddenly hurriedly approached.
"See Wei Guogong," the eunuchs quickly saluted.
Xu Da nodded and said, "Is Your Majesty in there?"
"I'm here, but Duke Wei, please wait a moment. His Royal Highness the King of Dian has just arrived in the capital from Yunnan and is being lectured inside. Listen," the eunuch said, as if listening attentively.
Xu Da followed suit and leaned against the palace door, listening to what was going on inside.
As a result, I heard the sound of "snap" and the sound of the soles of my shoes slapping my buttocks.
Xu Da was stunned and asked in confusion: "Is this a slap in the face?"
"No, no," the eunuch pursed his lips and said with a suppressed smile: "Your Majesty was angry that His Highness the King of Dian did not return to the capital in order to put down the rebellion, so he had someone prepare a pair of shoe soles early, intending to teach His Highness a lesson."
Xu Da suddenly shook his head in confusion, stepped forward, pushed open the palace door, and shouted inside: "Your Majesty, Xu Da wants to see you."
Looking inside again, Zhu Yuanzhang was old after all, and he got tired after pumping for a while. As a result, he didn't even think about how heavy he was, so he just sat on Zhu Yu's body and pumped.
Looking at the father and son, the emperor no longer looked like an emperor, and the vassal king no longer dared to be arrogant. Xu Da said helplessly: "Your Majesty, what are you doing?"
Zhu Yuanzhang said angrily: "See you? Didn't you see this? Come in."
As he said that, he was not satisfied, so he slapped Zhu Chu again, and then slowly stood up.
Seeing that he was indeed old and frail, Zhu Chu couldn't help but get up and give him a hand.
Zhu Yuanzhang squinted at Zhu Zhen, thinking that he had some popular feelings.
Then with the support of Zhu Ming, Zhu Yuanzhang walked to the side and sat down, and then greeted Xu Da: "You come and sit too."
Zhu Yuanzhang did not need to explain, Zhu Zhen had already spontaneously moved a chair to Xu Da.
Xu Da had been sizing up Zhu Chu silently, especially after seeing him get up. The 1.8 meter tall man was so spectacular. Xu Da couldn't help but exclaimed: "Your Majesty, is this really His Highness Zhu Chu, the King of Dian?"
He also specially emphasized Zhu Ming's name.
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said: "I know what you are wondering. This boy is only fourteen years old, and he is so tall and tall. He is indeed different from ordinary people. But after all, he is our son, the emperor's son, and he should be You have to be extraordinarily brave. Besides, Xu Daqian, look at this brat, does he look like me when we were young?"
Zhu Chu curled his lips at the side.
Unexpectedly, Xu Da actually nodded and said, "It's exactly the same as when you were young."
Hey, Lao Xu, your ability to flatter and flatter is quite good. I didn’t expect you to be such a kind Lao Xu. No wonder you died well.
Zhu Zhen secretly cursed at the side.
It's not that Zhu Ming is bragging, he is really handsome. Not only does he have a strong figure, but his facial features also have that resolute masculinity.
But Zhu Yuanzhang? Why should he compare with himself?
"What bad things are you thinking about there?" Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly turned around and glared at Zhu Zhen, always feeling that he was thinking of something very rude.
Xu Da suddenly laughed: "Your Majesty, even your temper is exactly the same as yours back then."
"We are not such a bastard," Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly blew his beard and glared.
Xu Da said, "You killed the rich man's cow. Have you forgotten?"
Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly became angry, why did he mention these things at this time.
In order to change the subject, Zhu Yuanzhang asked: "It's this time now. Are you coming to the palace suddenly to get some food? I'll let someone cook a goose. How many drinks can we have?"
Zhu Ming on the side was shocked and looked at Zhu Yuanzhang in disbelief. Are you so blatantly planning to kill Xu Da?
Unexpectedly, Xu Da sighed: "It's a pity that Tang He and Chang Yuchun are no longer here, and I can't taste your craftsmanship."
Xu Da seemed to be talking about something sad, and he couldn't help but burst into tears.
Zhu Yuanzhang also sighed, full of regret.
Zhu Ming looked on in confusion, because his historical score was so poor, but in fact he only vaguely knew about the roast goose. He seemed to have said that Xu Da had some kind of disease and that eating roast goose would kill him.
What's going on?
Unfortunately, both old men were sentimental, so no one explained to him the reason.
After crying for a while, Xu Dacai wiped away his tears and said what he meant: "Actually, your Majesty, I don't dare to hide it. My daughter went out privately a few days ago and just came back today. So I hurriedly came to tell you."
Xu Da knew that his daughter Xu Miaojin's escape from marriage could not be concealed, and there was no need to conceal it.
Xu Da is not only cautious, but also very upright and loyal. He does whatever he wants and never hides anything.
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, of course he knew, and even knew many things that even Xu Da didn't know.
But before Zhu Yuanzhang could speak, Zhu Ming on the side couldn't help it anymore and said with an unhappy face: "Uncle Xu, I have met Xu Meizi and returned to Yingtian with her. I also know that she ran away to escape from the marriage. Yes. I'm not saying, you are an emperor and a prince, why do you have to have trouble with a little girl? If she doesn't want to marry, just don't force her."
Uncle Xu? Sister Xu?
Xu Da stood on the spot with his mouth open.
Zhu Yuanzhang scolded in a funny way: "Shut up, you bastard, do you know who your sister Xu is going to marry?"
"You can't marry anyone," Zhu Mingke said without fear of Lao Zhu, "As long as my sister doesn't agree, no one can force her."
Zhu Yuanzhang had already turned around to find the soles of his shoes.
"In the worst case, if you slap me again, what if you slap me all night? I have the final say on Sister Xu," Zhu Ming said, relying on Zhu Yuanzhang not to kill him, or maybe it was the shoe sole just now that made him Full of courage, he dared to confront Zhu Yuanzhang.
Xu Da was dumbfounded. Based on his relationship with Zhu Yuanzhang, he had seen almost all of Zhu Yuanzhang's children.
What's more, Zhu Yuanzhang's three sons are all his sons-in-law, let alone others, even King Zhu Di of Yan, or even the former prince Zhu Biao, who doesn't tremble when seeing Zhu Yuanzhang, like a mouse seeing a cat, with origins from Due to instinctive fear.
Lao Zhu's family has the traditional gene that sons are afraid of their fathers.
But why did such a thing come out?
and.
Xu Da smiled bitterly and said: "Your Highness, the old minister is not dead yet. What's more, even if the old minister is dead, the eldest brother is the father, and the old minister's son Huizu is here. Why is it not your turn to make the decision for Miaojin? What's more, His Majesty is originally I'm looking for my old minister to promise my daughter to you."
"Ah?" Zhu Zhen was stunned, asking, "Is the Xu family girl his fiancée?" So it turned out that I was the one she was escaping from?
"No, then why is she running away? Isn't this king worthy of her? This Xu sister is also true. I am on the border of Yunnan and Yunnan. It is an invincible battle in the north and south. I and Brother Mu Ying Leading an army of 100,000 people, he killed Sirenfa's army of hundreds of thousands and was completely defeated. There were 200,000 troops who surrendered alone. There are also those war elephant troops that are not to be feared at all. I still," Zhu Chu began to brag.
"Yes, yes, you should do whatever you want," Zhu Yuanzhang immediately interrupted impatiently.
In fact, those reports of Zhu Chu's success are still left somewhere in the hall. Zhu Yuanzhang did not say it, but those almost impossible feats also brought glory to his face.
So he had long been tired of hearing it, and now he said, "Are you not opposed to your sister Xu getting married now?"
Zhu Yuanzhang was still a little funny and wanted to see what Zhu Chu would answer.
Zhu Ming frowned and said, "Father, Uncle Xu, please allow me to refuse."
What?
Xu Da was unhappy: "My daughter is not worthy of you, right?"
Zhu Ming shook his head and said: "I have met Xu Meizi. She is very beautiful. She is worthy of anyone in the world, but almost no one is worthy of her. But I already have a wife. In fact, this time I came to Beijing, I was originally I plan to ask my father for permission to get married."
"It's Mu Qiu, right?" Zhu Yuanzhang said Mu Qiu's name: "The daughter of the chieftain of the Mu family."
"Yes," Zhu Xi nodded without denying it.
"It's impossible," Zhu Yuanzhang said: "You can like anyone, but not everyone can be a princess. If your princess is a Tujia woman, half of your son will be of Tujia blood. Within three generations, Should the descendants of my old Zhu family be the king of Dian? Or should the children of the Mu family be the king of Dian? What's more, once Mu Qiu becomes the princess of Dian, the status of the Mu family will also rise. By then, the Mu family will become the king of Dian in Yunnan. One family."
"Didn't you kid always remind us to pay attention to the hidden dangers of the chieftain system and to completely abolish the chieftain family? Don't you know the stakes in this?"
How could Zhu Chu not know, how could he not have thought of it.
Even Wang Fu reminded him several times.
"But so what?" Zhu Ming said with a serious face: "I like her, it has nothing to do with who she is, and it has nothing to do with her origin. Could it be that the child she gives birth to in the future is not my child? Not your grandson ?”
Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he laughed: "Don't be so arrogant, I didn't say that, but there is only one prince, and it must not be her child. You can make your child rich and powerful, but he cannot be the prince. This is the truth for you You should understand. That’s why Xu Miaojin is the Princess of Dian. Okay, get out, or do you really want to continue looking for sex? "
Zhu Ming wanted to say something else.
But the eunuchs outside the palace came in, and several of them pulled Zhu Ming, persuading him in a noisy manner, and took him away.
Zhu Ming lowered his head and looked, "Hey guys, my feet are off the ground. I can't walk anymore."
Is this the emperor's means and ability? If you want to get yourself into the palace, let the Jin Yiwei carry a sedan to get you there; if you want to get out of the palace, let others carry you out.
What have you become?
In fact, with Zhu Chu's abilities, there was nothing anyone could do to him.
But no matter how stupid Zhu Chu was, he would never be stupid at this time, not to mention that he was neither stupid nor stupid in the first place.
So Zhu Ming could only be 'sent' out.
Outside the palace, Zhu Ming patted the dust on his body with his hand, glanced at the guards in front of the palace, snorted, flicked his sleeves and robe and turned around to leave.
But after walking for a while, Zhu Chu was a little dumbfounded. Where is this?
It turns out that before joining the feudal dynasty, Zhu Zhen had always lived in the palace.
After all, he was only in his teens at the time.
But after becoming a vassal, he could no longer live in the palace when he returned to Beijing to report on his duties.
Originally, he and Wang Fu agreed to meet at the inn.
But although Zhu Zhen was born in Yingtian, he almost never left the palace to visit Yingtian City. He suddenly got lost in the middle of the road and was at a loss.
The passers-by and people around secretly looked at the prince wearing a red python robe, and no one dared to approach.
"Your Highness," at this moment, a guard came over and said, "Master Wang is worried that you don't know the way to the inn, so he asked us to wait for you outside the palace gate."
"As expected of Wang Fu," Zhu Zhen finally breathed a sigh of relief and came to his guard. He opened his arms and put his arms around the guard's shoulders without any pretense of a prince. He said as he walked: "Let's go, let's go, I'm hungry." I don’t know what to eat for dinner.”
The guard had long been accustomed to His Highness's approachable temperament. While carefully supporting Zhu Zhen, he said, "Your Majesty, the commander must have made people ready."
In fact, with the status of Prince Zhu Chu, he didn't have to be so shabby after entering Beijing. It was said to be a post station, but it was actually a place used to receive some low-level officials from other places.
For example, some officials below the fifth rank and above the fifth rank do not live here.
Especially some frontier officials with titles, some even have mansions in the capital. Although they don't live there on weekdays, they are also the place to stay after returning to the capital.
At the worst, you can live somewhere else, or even ask the clan to find a place.
It's just that this is Zhu's first time back to Beijing to report on his work. He didn't own any real estate before, and he didn't know many rules. Anyway, he didn't care about these, so he asked the post station to arrange a large yard and find a place to put the horses. Get up and take care of Haosheng.
When Zhu Chu found the place where Wang Fu was, it was time to eat and drink, and then it was time to have a good rest.
After all, I have been traveling for the past month and I am really tired.
But Zhu Chu couldn't hear what was going on outside the window, but legends about him began to spread outside.
Don't forget that when Zhu Chu entered the city, there were countless people inside and outside the city gate.
What's more, Zhu Chu had a conflict with Li Jinglong's group at that time, and he restrained Li Jinglong with a strong attitude.
You know, Li Jinglong is considered the number one dandy in the entire Yingtian City. He does things unscrupulously even the princes of Zhu Yuanzhang's family dare not do.
The reason is very simple. Li Jinglong's father Li Wenzhong was not only Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew, but also a founding hero and made great contributions.
He assumed the title of duke at a young age and became the most popular person in the country.
But just like this, Li Jinglong was restrained by the Dian King Zhu Zhen who had just returned to Beijing today. I heard that he was pulled off his horse.
At that time, Li Jinglong even knelt in front of Zhu Chu.
As soon as the news spread, the whole city was in an uproar.
In this afternoon alone, countless versions have been circulated, covering everything.
It is said that Li Jinglong was so frightened that he peed because the Dian King killed people like crazy and almost beheaded Li Jinglong on the spot.
In fact, this is true, but Li Jinglong was not frightened to the point of peeing, but Zhu Xi really wanted to kill him at that time.
So what if your father, Li Wenzhong, is the nephew of my father, Zhu Yuanzhang? I'm not familiar with you.
Some people say that Zhu Chu has three heads and six arms, or that he has a green face and fangs, just like a yaksha.
It turned out that as the news of Zhu Zhen's entry into Beijing spread, many good news about Yunnan were mentioned again.
Thinking about the incredible feats that were impossible to accomplish, it was hard for them to believe that they could be accomplished by human power.
In addition, someone said that Zhu Zhen was only fourteen years old this year, and he was probably only twelve years old when he wiped out Sirenfa's army of hundreds of thousands.
This makes people even more imaginative.
I'm afraid only the power of ghosts and gods can complete it, right?
Soon, Zhu Xi's image was no longer considered a person in the minds of many people.
Even many ministers of the DPRK and the Central Government were discussing matters about Zhu Zhen that night.
In particular, there was a group of people, headed by Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai and Fang Xiaoru.
Among the three of them, Fang Xiaoru, although he did not have a formal official position, still held the position of professor in Hanzhong and gave lectures to students in the Imperial College.
Moreover, Fang Xiaoru once studied under Song Lian, so he was from the same school as Zhu Biao, and he was an absolute supporter of Confucianism.
This made Fang Xiaoru feel that since Zhu Yunwen was already the grandson of the emperor, he could be said to be the foundation of the country. At this time, he couldn't help but sigh: "This King of Dian may be a hidden danger to the country."
Huang Zicheng was the companion of the East Palace and the official of Taichang Temple. When he heard this, he said with a solemn face: "Look at what he did in Yunnan, which of them is what a vassal king should do?" ? Where does this leave His Majesty, the imperial court, and even the grandson? Does he still have a father in his eyes? "
Qi Tai, formerly known as Qi De, passed the provincial examination in the 17th year of Hongwu and became a Jinshi in the 18th year of Hongwu. He has served as the director of the Ministry of Rites and the director of the Ministry of War. Now he has been promoted to the left minister of the Ministry of War.
Because the Jinshen Hall of the three main halls of the palace was unfortunately struck by lightning, Zhu Yuanzhang went to the ancestral temple in the suburbs to worship, and chose an official who had been an official in the court for nine years and had no fault to accompany him to worship. At that time, Qide met these conditions. So he accompanied Zhu Yuanzhang to offer sacrifices. In the process, Zhu Yuanzhang named him Qitai.
As the minister of the Ministry of War, Qi Tai said even more worriedly: "The guard post of the King of Dian is already overstaffed. In addition, Mu Chun, the Marquis of Xiping, once served under him. I am afraid that Mu Chun's troops in Kunming City should also be counted as his subordinates. .”
"In addition, in the past two years, there were 200,000 native soldiers who surrendered. After these years of development, if something goes wrong, I am afraid that the King of Dian can mobilize a million strong soldiers. What should we do?"
The three of them came together, their faces full of sorrow.
In fact, in history, it was these three guys who came together to suggest that Zhu Yunwen cut down the vassal vassal, and that's when the Battle of Jingnan broke out.
The final result was that Zhu Yunwen was ousted by Zhu Di after only four years on the throne.
The main reason was that Zhu Yunwen was too evil-minded and forced those uncles to either be demoted to common people or imprisoned. He even forced Zhu Bai to burn himself to death to prove his innocence.
Zhu Bai is the twelfth son of Zhu Yuanzhang. He once had few ambitions and often focused on assisting the country and helping the world and the people.
Moreover, Zhu Bai was named the King of Xiang, and his fiefdom was in Jingzhou. He also had the heroic spirit of being able to use bows, arrows, and swords freely.
For example, when a rebellion was launched in Changde two years ago, troops flowed to the Hudu River area in Jingzhou. It was Zhu Bo who personally led the expedition.
But for such a vassal king who was good at conquering and doing great things, he was squeezed out and burned to death.
Zhu Yunwen really played a good hand to pieces, because if Zhu Bai really wanted to rebel, he could join forces with Zhu Di from the beginning, so that the Battle of Jingnan would end faster.
What's more, if he had been gentler and boiled a frog in warm water like Zhu Di, the Battle of Jingnan would not have happened.
It can only be said that Zhu Yunwen cannot control it.
And now, these three guys have gotten together again and want to cause trouble?
"If you want to cut down your feudal lordship, you have to cut down your feudal lordship."
(End of chapter)
