Zhu Yunzhen in the previous life had read "The Prince".
It's just that too much time has passed and the memory has gradually become blurred.
However, he remembered one thing clearly.
In The Theory of Princes, it is particularly emphasized that a monarch must be cruel, have his own majesty, and be feared by his subjects in order to establish effective rule.
Once the subjects lose respect for the monarch, the monarch loses the basis for his rule.
Zhu Yunzhen returned home by carriage.
As soon as he entered, a servant came to report that Duke Liang Lan Yu had been waiting in the mansion for a long time.
"Meet the Fourth Emperor's grandson."
In a pavilion in the mansion, he met Lan Yu.
Compared with Zuo Ao before, Lan Yu's attitude towards him has indeed changed and she is much more respectful.
Zhu Yunzhen didn't give him a good look, he had a sullen face and said nothing.
Lan Yu's expression also changed slightly.
With his status in the court, no one has ever dared to be so rude to him.
Both the kings and ministers were polite to him.
When Zhu Biao was alive, everyone respected him very much.
Although Zhu Yunzhen had given him guidance before, he couldn't be so arrogant, right?
No matter what, he is the uncle of the other party. Are the basic etiquette of respecting elders gone?
This made Lan Yu's face a little uneasy, but she managed not to have an attack.
"You all should retreat." Lan Yu ordered the palace maids and eunuchs waiting around.
The maids and eunuchs bowed and wanted to stay.
"Wait a minute!" Zhu Yunzhen shouted.
"Everything should be said to others. Uncle and grandpa, we act openly, so why should we avoid talking to others."
Lan Yu was stunned. Seeing that there was something profound in Zhu Yunzhen's eyes, she nodded and said, "That's fine!"
After thinking for a while, he decided to directly explain his intention.
"Your Majesty asked Jiang Yu to come to my house today and kill the Taoist priest who helped me make elixirs."
"Your Majesty, what do you mean by this?"
He didn't understand that if according to Zhu Yunzhen's previous analysis, Zhu Yuanzhang should be happy to see him refining elixirs, why did he send someone to kill the Taoist priest?
Zhu Yunzhen raised his head and looked at him. He did not answer his question, but asked: "Are you going to decline the guests and practice alchemy behind closed doors, or are you inviting friends to join you?"
Lan Yu was stunned for a moment, and then said after a long while: "Over the years, I have become accustomed to drinking and eating meat with everyone. When I am refining alchemy, I will naturally have friends over."
"Everyone eats, drinks and chats together, watches the Taoist master make elixirs and shares health tips."
"I can't stand it if I'm forced to refine elixirs behind closed doors. Isn't that the same as going to jail?"
Zhu Yunzhen said "Oh", turned around and left without saying anything.
No medicine can cure the disease, but no medicine can cure the disease.
Lan Yu himself wanted to die, but there was nothing he could do.
"you……"
Lan Yu's anger rose little by little.
Ever since Zhu Yunzhen met him, he has been putting on airs. What kind of attitude is this!
In the past, Lan Yu would have left in a hurry.
But this time was different from the past, he suppressed his temper.
"I really don't know anything about the Bu family."
When Lan Yu saw that Zhu Yunxuan didn't want to talk about the elder's affairs, she felt that he was a little scrupulous and didn't want to talk about His Majesty's attitude, so she didn't bother him. Instead, she talked about the Bu family's affairs.
"The expenses in the government are very large. I did ask the Bu family to help me with business, but it was all legal business."
"I didn't know that the Bu family was going behind my back and using my name to run rampant outside, preying on the common people and oppressing good people."
Zhu Yunxuan stopped and did not look back. He replied in a childish voice: "Since my uncle doesn't know, there is no need to ask."
"Grandpa Huang has handed over this case to me for trial. I will not wrongly accuse a good person."
"I know." Lan Yu nodded and said: "The Fourth Emperor's grandson hates evil and will definitely enforce the law impartially, but..."
He hesitated for a while, and finally made up his mind and said: "Although the Bu family has done a lot of evil things, except for bumping into His Highness, the rest are not big things."
"I would like to ask the four emperors and grandsons to show their noble hands and let them go for my...not...for the sake of your third brother Yunxi."
"Hold them high and put them down gently. Convict them of a misdemeanor and let them go."
"After all, everyone knows that they are my helpers and my people. If I don't protect them, how can others dare to follow me in the future if they are punished with a serious crime?"
Zhu Yunxuan turned around little by little, looked back at Lan Yu seriously, and asked, "Do you have many people of your own?"
"There are some!" Lan Yu said: "We who lead troops in war must have a group of our own people to control the army."
"I have adopted hundreds of adopted sons and many other people. They all work for me and are my people."
"Bu Sibei from the Bu family is also my adopted son. I know that he and his son bumped into you before."
"But as long as you let them go, I can beat them both to death with my family's skills after we come out."
"I'm not trying to help them get away with it, I just want to save face."
"Even if my uncle accepts you as a favor for this matter, my uncle will bear it in mind."
"You think if anything happens, let your third brother Yunxi tell me. As long as I can do it, I will do it."
Lan Yu rarely asks for help.
He has always been arrogant and unwilling to be condescending to anyone.
Let alone bowing to a seven-year-old child.
One story today was that Lao Zhu sent people to beat the Taoist priest to death, which made him panic.
The second case of the Bu family always hung high in his mind.
These days, his adopted sons have blown a lot of wind in his ears.
It's not that he has deep feelings for the Bu family and his son, but if the Bu family and his son are convicted and ransacked like this, then his Lan Yu's face will be ruined.
Beating a dog depends on the owner!
He had not found a chance to intercede before, but since he was here today, he had to talk about it.
Zhu Yunxuan looked at Lan Yu, his childish, clear and bright eyes filled with strangeness and indifference.
Lan Yu was a little confused and couldn't understand what he meant.
He is obviously a little baby, but sometimes he looks calmer than an adult.
If it weren't for his occasional jumping around, crying and naughty behavior, coupled with his small stature and immature face, people would probably forget that he was a child.
Zhu Yunzhen stretched out his hand, looked at Lan Yu's head, weighed his feet, and made a height gesture in the distance.
This move made Lan Yu even more confused, leaving Monk Zhang Er scratching his head.
From the moment they started talking to the present, they have not sat down and have been standing.
Zhu Yunxuan raised his face, while Lan Yu lowered her head.
Zhu Yunxuan turned his head and said to an eunuch not far away: "Come here and pick me up."
The surrounding palace maids and eunuchs all looked confused, and so did the eunuch.
But he did not dare to disobey His Highness the Emperor's Majesty's orders.
He walked forward and picked up Zhu Yunzhen.
"Hold him higher and hold him in front of him." Zhu Yunxu pointed at Lan Yu and said.
The eunuch walked forward until he came to Lan Yu.
At this time, Zhu Yunzhen was picked up high, and his head was higher than Lan Yu.
Lan Yu didn't know why.
What kind of drama is he singing?
Just as he was about to ask, Zhu Yunxu stretched out his fat little hand, breathed a sigh of relief, then raised his little arm high and jerked forward.
"Snapped!"
An extremely loud slap hit Lan Yu hard on the face.
