Not long ago, he just sent away his most beloved son Zhu Biao.
Now, looking at the aging face in the mirror, I am thinking about the sentence "The most beautiful thing in the world cannot be retained, and the beautiful face leaves the mirror and the flowers leave the tree."
In the last years of a strong man, a hero grows old.
There is nothing to be done about human affairs.
At this moment, even if he was as determined as Lao Zhu, he could no longer control his emotions and burst into tears.
"Grandpa Huang, why are you crying?"
Zhu Yunxuan was a little panicked. He picked up his feet and stretched out his little hands to wipe the tears from Zhu Yuanzhang's face.
Lao Zhu was originally sitting, but he could barely reach it while standing.
"It's okay, it's okay!" Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "Grandpa Huang was a little emotional when he read your poem."
"These two poems are really well written, are there any more?"
Zhu Yunzhen shook his head: "No more."
"It's not bad to have two sentences!" Zhu Yuanzhang turned to the eunuch waiting next to him and said: "Record the reasons, process, and verses of his poems in detail, and send them to those officials."
"Aren't they scolding them fiercely? Let's see what else they have to say this time? Do they still have the nerve to stop me?"
"Hahaha……"
Lao Zhu's laughter echoed in the study, extremely happy.
Zhu Yunxuan suddenly felt something was wrong, suddenly remembered something, and shouted in a childish voice: "Grandpa Huang, you are lying!"
He came back to his senses. Lao Zhu had said so much just now, with earnest words and agitated emotions, just to trick him into writing two lines of poetry.
Officials who opposed the collection of commercial taxes used this as an excuse to attack Zhu Yunzhen as an ineffective child and what he said was nonsense.
Lao Zhu waited for them to say this, and then asked him to write another poem to refute, so that the opposing officials had nothing to say.
They slapped themselves so hard that they naturally had no shame to oppose the collection of business taxes anymore.
The reputation of Lao Zhu’s family and the insistence on trying to uphold Lao Zhu’s family are all fake.
From beginning to end, it was just a "routine" for him.
Let Feng Dazhuang take a beating just to act more like him.
Maybe Lao Zhu was there to help spread the news he heard from the monk.
Otherwise, with the speed at which Feng Dazhuang spread it quietly in private, the news would not have spread so fast.
Still needs more time to ferment.
He only listened to Lao Zhu's words and didn't realize that this was wrong.
Lao Zhu touched his beard and said with great pride: "Why are you lying? Grandpa Huang is telling the truth. He is just waiting for you to make our Lao Zhu family feel proud."
"You're so old, but you're still lying to a kid. It's really..." Zhu Yunzhen muttered in a low voice.
He had indeed been deceived just now.
It's so hard to deal with smart people.
There are more eyes than hair, and it is impossible to guard against them.
"Okay, don't be angry, Xi'er. Grandpa Huang still has something to tell you." Lao Zhu hugged him.
"What's the matter?" Zhu Yunzhen was still angry.
"Did you recommend an alchemy priest to Lan Yu before?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.
"Yeah!" Zhu Yunxi nodded.
This is asking knowingly.
What he did cannot be hidden from Lao Zhu.
"We just gave Jiang Wei an order to go to Lan Yu's mansion and kill this man."
"Ah!" Zhu Yunzhen blurted out in shock.
It turns out that I just met Jiang Yu and was in a hurry, so he was going to do this?
Zhu Yunxuan asked: "Why do you want to kill him?"
Lao Zhu sneered and said: "This person pretends to be a god and has become an immortal, deceiving and deceiving the ministers. Shouldn't he be killed?"
Zhu Yunxu lowered his head, remained silent for a long time, and said, "Grandpa Huang, do you blame me for doing something wrong?"
He still couldn't figure out what Lao Zhu was thinking. It was so difficult!
After much thought, he decided to speak out.
Lao Zhu intended to attack Lan Yu, but he reminded him that this incident was against Lao Zhu.
"No, you are not wrong."
Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the eunuchs and maids waiting next to him and said, "Everyone, please retreat."
Zhu Yunzhen became even more nervous.
Lao Zhu asked the people around him to step back, which meant that what he was going to say next was very important.
Or he is so sensitive that he doesn't want a third person to hear it.
"Many people outside say privately that we don't cherish our past grievances and kill heroes indiscriminately. Do you know why we want to kill them?"
"Grandpa Huang, I don't know."
Zhu Yunxuan originally wanted to say that those people had violated the laws of the Ming Dynasty and brought about their own destruction. Grandpa Huang was forced to have no choice.
But when the words came to his lips, he swallowed them back.
Since Lao Zhu even shouted down the people around him, he just wanted to say something heartfelt.
At this time, if you try to make excuses with him and make superficial remarks, it will really hurt his heart.
But don’t overdo it.
"Zhen'er is too young to understand," he said.
"No, you understand!" Lao Zhu looked at him and said: "Although you are young, you are a big kid. You are like a mirror in your heart and you understand everything."
You are really overrated.
Zhu Yunzhen really didn't want such an evaluation.
Especially in Lao Zhu's heart.
"The people who started the riot with us are all our good brothers. It is a life-changing friendship."
Zhu Yuanzhang's tone was leisurely, and his expression was full of memories.
He seemed to be explaining to Zhu Yunzhen, but also seemed to be talking to himself.
"We fought against Bao Yuan together, worked hard on the battlefield together, and conquered the Ming Dynasty together."
"But in this world, why is it our old Zhu family who is here to sit down?"
"In their eyes, the country of Ming Dynasty belongs not only to Lao Zhu's family, but also to them."
"The concept of king, king, minister, father, father and son cannot be established overnight."
"That's why Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, acquiesced in Empress Lu's killing of heroes."
"Taizong of the Tang Dynasty did not kill the heroes, but Taizu of the Song Dynasty released his military power over a glass of wine. That is because he was the leader before they started the uprising. It was a favor given to them to lead those ministers to conquer the world."
"The ministers will not feel that the country has their own share. Therefore, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty can treat the meritorious ministers kindly."
"But our family is different. Our family comes from a mud-legged background. Before the uprising, our status was even lower than theirs."
"Once you have this kind of mentality, you can't change it."
"Those officials who came from the imperial examination will remember that it is the emperor's favor that they can pass the examination, and they will not have the idea that Jiangshan himself has a share."
"But the person who started the incident with us always thought that he was a partner."
"We can't change their innermost thoughts, so we can only get rid of them."
"If not, this will always be a hidden danger for Ming Dynasty."
"The war in the late Yuan Dynasty has been going on for many years."
"The people of the world cannot afford another war."
"Now, most of the people who followed us in the uprising have gone."
"Only this blue jade..."
"Although he was not the first person to follow us, he always believed that he had a share in the success of our old Zhu family."
Lao Zhu sighed softly: "You think he is just afraid of overshadowing his master and tarnishing his reputation, but what he has in mind is probably much more than that."
"He has so many adopted sons, why doesn't he care about us?"
"After all, I still feel that the country was conquered by everyone together, and he also had a share..."
Zhu Yunzhen lowered his head and said nothing, knowing that what Lao Zhu said was absolutely correct.
Lao Zhu continued: "If you don't want to kill him, but still want to use him, that's not impossible."
"But it's not enough to just do him some small favors."
"Even if he respects you on the surface, deep down he still feels that you have to rely on him, so he can only be befriended by kindness."
Zhu Yunzhen trembled all over.
He didn't think about it.
The purpose of reminding Lan Yu at that time was to prevent Lao Zhu from making Zhu Yunwen the emperor's grandson.
"If you want to conquer him, you must establish your authority and make him respect you, fear you, be afraid of you, and be afraid of you."
Lao Zhu's voice was very calm, but in Zhu Yunzhen's ears, there was a lingering sound that echoed endlessly.
"If Grandpa Huang guessed correctly, Lan Yu should be heading to your house soon."
"You go back."
"Grandpa Huang wants to see how you plan to establish your authority."
"Yes!" Zhu Yunzhen responded and prepared to retreat.
Behind him, Lao Zhu's voice sounded again: "Remember, Lan Yu's decision to kill or not depends on your thoughts. If you can really conquer him, we will keep him alive. If not, we can only give up!"
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