Father can be an enemy to the country

At midnight, the lights of Qianqing Palace were still on.

Zhu Yuanzhang was still writing something at his desk, but he was obviously restless and glanced at the door from time to time.

Until heavy footsteps sounded, and the prince walked in with red eyes.

"Have you finished sending off to Lao Qi?" Zhu Yuanzhang put down his pen and asked in a hissing voice.

"Yes." The prince nodded.

"What was his reaction?" Zhu Yuanzhang hesitated and asked.

"I was shocked, scared, and wanted to beg my son to spare his life." The prince whispered: "In the end, there was no hope, and he wanted to see his father again..."

"..." Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned again when he heard this, and finally shook his head and said, "No."

"..." The prince wants to say that you haven't seen Lao Qi once since he was escorted to Beijing. But seeing the tears in his father's eyes, he still endured it and nodded no longer to persuade.

"You must hide it from Da's family. Your mother can also hide it for a while. At least wait until she is well before telling her." Zhu Yuanzhang whispered again:

"We originally planned to write a self-indictment to reflect on our failure to educate our children, but then your mother will know, so we should take it slow."

"The eight, ten, and seven have committed crimes one after another. It's really unfortunate for the family." Zhu Yuanzhang still couldn't help but shed tears. "Even we can't bear it, let alone a mother like her. Oh, how can we talk to her like this?"

"Father, please don't blame yourself..." The prince said with red eyes, "This is all the result of the unfilial piety of the son and minister who insists on executing the seventh child!"

"You don't need to take the blame on yourself," Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand, looked at the haggard prince and said, "We know you don't want your father to bear the bad reputation of killing his son. But you are wrong. This responsibility must be Let's carry it. Don't worry, you are not as fragile as you think."

As he spoke, he sighed sadly and said, "Actually, what worries us more than executing the seventh child is why none of our sons have been wrongly accused after a thorough investigation."

"The vassal king is the son of the emperor. If they hadn't gone too far, how could the local officials and people risk their lives to sue them?" The prince sighed softly: "So by the time we know about it, the matter has often reached the point of anger and resentment. The point.”

"What about the ones you said you didn't check? Are they the same as the three of them?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked in a dull voice.

"Definitely not." The prince said hurriedly: "The third and fourth children have always been measured. The fifth child is devoted to medicine and has never returned to the fief for a day, let alone the sixth child."

"What about the second child?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked quietly.

"You're the second child." The prince said bravely: "Although it was a lot of nonsense at the beginning, hasn't it changed? It should have been changed."

"If you change your shit, a dog can't change his eating shit." Zhu Yuanzhang spat and said bitterly: "I'd better ask Lao Liu to check his brothers again!"

"No, no, absolutely not!" Upon hearing this, the prince jumped to his feet and said, "Will this cost Lao Liu's life?"

Seeing how fierce the prince's reaction was, Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to give up and said: "Yes, we must leave some dignity for the princes. You can not investigate them for now, but you must sound the alarm for them!"

As he spoke, he picked up the thick stack of manuscript paper on the table, handed it to the prince and said, "We compiled this for the descendants of the old Zhu family. If you see that there is nothing wrong with it, just print it out and send it to your brothers."

The prince took it with both hands and saw the five characters "Imperial Records and Fei Lu" written on the front page.

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"Imperial Records?" Zhu Zhen opened the secret box that had been urgently sent from 800 miles away from the capital. He thought it was some secret decree from the emperor, but he didn't expect it to be a book, and it was a masterpiece handwritten by Boss Zhu.

He opened the "Imperial Records" which still smelled of ink, and saw that Boss Zhu wrote in the preface:

‘I look at the number of people in the ancient lands, the number of them should be tens of thousands… However, the sons of those who were entrusted with titles were unbridled and incompetent, killing the country and recording it in the annals of history. How many good people could there be? ’

‘Now that my sons are within the nine states of the country, I wish that my family and state will be conquered, my country will be consolidated, and my descendants will live up to the destiny of heaven. How could Qi, Tan, and Lu dare to do such wrong things? These sons have all died and the country has been wiped out. No filial piety has been shown to me, so that in my old age, the emperor is terrified at night and day. ’

‘… Today, in Qi, Tan and Lu, all the soldiers and civilians who have been entrusted by the generals have been humiliated. How can they not be punished by God? Can you guys not be alert? Go to this book and read it day and night, correct it if you find it wrong, and encourage it if you don't find it. Return to God's will as soon as possible, and the common people will be spared. Please respect me. ’

After the preface, there are cases of evil deeds by vassal kings in the past dynasties compiled by Boss Zhu himself.

Among them, 12 people committed suicide for rebellion; 16 people were executed for rebellion; 2 people were executed for authoritarianism and chaos in government; one person died for conspiracy and demotion; one person died for murder and ghost; nine people were deposed as common people and exterminated the original territory; Twelve people were demoted and their lands were demoted; thirteen people were convicted of crimes and restored to the country...a total of sixty-six people.

He also described the crimes of these sixty-six people in detail, which shocked the dragon sons and grandsons and let them know that even if they are princes, they are not incapable of being punished.

But what is even more shocking is that in the following article "This Dynasty", Boss Zhu actually wrote down all the bad deeds of his children and grandchildren...

Not only the three people he mentioned in the preface, but also the deposed King Jingjiang before, and even the King of Qin and King Jin were not spared, and all the scandalous things they did when they first became vassals were recorded for them. .

"What an "Imperial Record"!" Eleven and Twelve were all frightened into a cold sweat after reading it.

"Look at what Father means, if we do bad things in the future, we will be remembered here and passed down to our descendants." Old Eleven shook his head and sighed. For a scholar like him, such humiliation is simply worse than killing him. Uncomfortable.

Zhu Zhen had actually known the name of this book for a long time. He had not dared to act recklessly for many years, largely because he was afraid that it would be recorded in this book and be infamy for thousands of years.

But I have to admit, this book is useless. Because in another time and space, King Qi, King Lu and King Tan, who were severely warned by Boss Zhu, did not change their ways because of this book, but continued to go their own way and eventually perished...

Among them, King Lu died two years later due to excessive use of elixirs. Zhu Yuanzhang was so absurd that he gave him the posthumous title Huang, and was known as King Lu Huang in history.

King Tan committed suicide in fear of crime the following year. After his death, he had no children and the country was wiped out.

The King of Qi was deposed twice. Finally, he and his three sons were secretly executed by his fourth brother on suspicion of treason.

Of course, their fates have changed due to their own reasons. The lives of Lao Ba Lao Shi should have been saved, but they will have to stay in the high walls of Zhongdu for the rest of their lives.

As for Lao Qi, although the results of his treatment have been kept secret until now, because of this, Zhu Zhen estimated that he was probably in danger. Because whenever he wanted to save his life, the eldest brother would write a letter to explain to himself.

Zhu Zhen has only one word to comment on this - Damn!