Father can be an enemy to the country

Concubine Guo Ning made Zhu Yuanzhang restrained. When Queen Ma came after hearing the news, he was completely unable to let go of the whip.

When Empress Ma saw the miserable state of Lao Shi being beaten, she felt very distressed. She refused to allow Zhu Yuanzhang to beat him any more and had people carry him down for treatment.

"There's no need to go to such trouble, he's already going to die anyway!" But unlike the usual practice of Boss Zhu giving in when Empress Ma spoke, today Zhu Yuanzhang was determined to execute the old couple.

"You are not allowed to stop us today, otherwise you will be the emperor." Zhu Yuanzhang blew his beard and glared at Queen Ma.

"Who cares?!" Of course Queen Ma was not used to his faults, so she waved her hand and said, "Carry him down."

"Let's see who dares?!" Zhu Yuanzhang turned his head and glared fiercely at the palace man who was about to step forward.

"What a disobedience!" Queen Ma saw that the palace servants had been ordered to move, so she stepped forward and took action herself, and she and Concubine Guo Ning went to help the old man up.

Seeing Empress Ma struggling to hold on, Zhu Yuanzhang said helplessly: "What are you doing standing there in a daze? Quickly replace the empress. Don't you know she has a bad waist?"

"Yes." The palace people hurried forward, picked up King Lu with all their hands and feet, and carried him down.

"My concubine and sister Guo thank the emperor for his great kindness." Empress Ma rubbed her arms and wished Zhu Yuanzhang a long blessing.

"No." Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand, turned away from Queen Ma and said, "We didn't say we wanted to spare him, but even if we healed his injury, we still have to kill him!"

"Your Majesty, what crime did Lao Ten commit that made you insist on taking his life?" Empress Ma said helplessly: "Last time you sent Lao Liu to Shandong. When we asked him what he was doing, he just said he was taking his life. I took my brother and nephew to visit relatives, but it turned out that I didn’t tell the truth.”

"I can't blame Lao Liu for this at all. He didn't want to go at all. We forced him to go." Zhu Yuanzhang said, and asked the prince to tell his mother and Concubine Guo Ning about Lao Shi's crimes.

He had kept the matter of sending an imperial envoy to bring the old couple back to the capital hidden from the harem, otherwise it would have been half a month early and the old ladies would have been so annoying every day like now.

The prince sighed and briefly told what happened: "The matter has to start with the previous imperial examination fraud case. At that time, it was discovered that Lao Qi was a conspirator with a group of criminals and helped them coerce Lao Ba to act as a protective umbrella. After the incident, Lao Ba and Concubine Ding were deposed, and the father was worried that calling Lao Qi back to the capital would cause an overreaction on his part, so he asked his sixth brother to go to Shandong. "

"Again, I can't blame Lao Liu for this, we forced him to do it." Zhu Yuanzhang emphasized again, which showed how unreasonably he handled this matter, and he felt embarrassed for Lao Liu.

"In addition, the officials and people of Panyan Prefecture took control of the capital one after another, accusing Lao Shi of misbehaving after he became a vassal, building large-scale construction projects in the fiefdom, plundering and plundering, and arresting boys into the palace. My father had already sent eunuchs to reprimand Lao Shi, and ordered He immediately released all the children...the queen mother and concubines all knew about it." The prince continued:

"Lao Liu happened to be passing by Yanzhou, so my father asked him to stop by to see if Lao Ten had reformed his past."

In fact, what he said was to cover up for Lao Liu. After all, targeting Lao Qi specifically and grabbing Lao Qi and Lao Twelve were completely different in nature.

"It turned out that before he arrived in Yanzhou, he met the eunuch who arrested the children..." The prince concealed the section where the grandson was almost captured and castrated, and said: "It was only after interrogation that I learned that Lao Shi had no regrets. As soon as the imperial envoys left, they arrested the boys again and pressed them even more urgently. They even sent eunuchs to the villages to collude with local ruffians and harass the people severely. "

"With such a huge battle, how many children did Old Ten capture?" Queen Ma asked in surprise.

"More than two thousand..." The prince sighed.

"What? More than two thousand?!" Queen Ma was stunned. Even Concubine Guo Ning, who had been kneeling and crying, was stunned and forgot to cry for a moment.

"What is he doing with so many children?" Concubine Guo Ning asked anxiously.

"He was bewitched by demons and obsessed with alchemy. It is said that he wants to refine an elixir. The main elixir requires the strength of 3,600 boys and men to refine it." The prince blushed when he said this.

"Ah..." Concubine Guo Ning turned pale when she heard this: "He castrated more than 2,000 children?"

"That's not true. Fortunately, the sixth child was rescued in time, so it didn't cause a catastrophe." The prince sighed again: "It's not right to say that, because during the imprisonment of more than two thousand children, a full 108 People died of fright, disease and beatings, and dozens of children had been castrated before. Not to mention that in the past few months, the people of Yanzhou had hidden children in cellars and sent them to other places to find those that were missing. I don’t know how long it will take for those who don’t come back.”

"The entire Yanzhou and even Shandong are already boiling with public dissatisfaction! Lao Liu tried his best to put out the fire, but it still triggered a civil uprising across the province! Half of the government offices in Shandong were captured by the common people!" Zhu Yuanzhang added with a dark face.

"Ah? Is it so serious?" Concubine Guo Ning almost fainted after hearing this.

"Of course there is Lao Qi who is causing trouble here, but the fundamental reason is that he was exploited because of his crazy behavior, which aroused the anger of the people!" Zhu Yuanzhang snorted: "And he also fostered evil spirits in his house. Cultists in an attempt to assassinate Lao Liu and Xiong Ying and his party. Although Lao Liu spoke for him and said that he was not aware of the actions of those cultists, he still has to bear the main responsibility because he raised them in the palace! "

"Also, before he took the vassal, we repeatedly reminded him that your palace has been built. When you go to the fiefdom, don't build any more construction projects, which will waste people and money. But he promised well, but as soon as he arrived in Yanzhou, he demolished Beicheng. We are planning to build a palace outside the royal city, so we can have fun with the princess at any time!”

"Speaking of this princess, we are even more angry! Why do you think Tang He gave birth to such a daughter? Not only did she not advise Lao Shi, but she also acted recklessly with him. She has been in charge of arresting the child! We must take care of it! She was executed in a hurry!" Zhu Yuanzhang became more and more angry as he spoke, and could hardly stop the car.

Queen Ma and Concubine Guo Ning were stunned when they heard this. Neither of them could imagine that Lao Shi had only been in power for just over a year, and how could he do so many crazy things?

"Now you know why we must kill him, right?" After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, he waved his hand suddenly and said: "Not killing him is not enough for the people to be angry, do you understand?!"

"I understand." Queen Ma nodded and said, "Old Ten is really guilty and must be severely punished. I completely agree with this."

"The emperor can depose him, imprison him, punish him as a soldier, or punish him corporally." She sighed and said, "But after all, he is the prince of the Ming Dynasty and our child, so we still have to ask the emperor to at least Spare his life."

After saying that, Empress Ma lifted her robe, knelt in front of Zhu Yuanzhang, leaned over and said solemnly: "I know that I cannot treat everyone equally, and I am not worthy of being this queen, so I will exchange my position as queen for Lao Shi and his life. "