Father can be an enemy to the country

The wind was so noisy that the flags of the Tamra General Administration Office rustled.

Zhu Zhen's questions made Lee Seong-gye's mouth dry. He really wanted to nod and say "yes, yes", but that would be too ugly.

So he decided to refuse first and waved his hand hurriedly, saying, "I dare not, I am satisfied with what I have today. Dad should choose another virtuous person. As long as Dad decides on the candidate, I will definitely assist him with all my strength!"

"What are you afraid of?" Zhu Zhen asked.

"To reply, Dad, the Wang family of Goryeo has been passed down for 32 generations, and the power of the domestic aristocratic families is even more deeply rooted. I am just an outsider and can't control the situation at all!" Lee Seong-gye explained.

Zhu Zhen stared at him for a long time before asking, "Is this what you really think?"

"Absolutely true!" Lee Seong-gye nodded heavily.

"Will you regret it in the future?" Zhu Zhen asked again.

"No." Lee Seong-gye said in a deep voice.

Zhu Zhen put down his teacup, touched the short beard that began to grow on the grassland, and evaluated the truth of what Li Chenggui said.

After thinking about it, he felt that this should be true. People's appetites grow little by little. At this time, Li Chenggui was still far from being able to usurp the throne. Being the most powerful minister and warlord in Goryeo should be his highest ideal.

When his ideal is realized, he will look at the mountain and think that he is not a bad person.

Now he feels that it is unrealistic for him to become the king directly... Unfortunately, there will be no such shop after this village, but he heard Zhu Zhen said in a deep voice: "Okay, then let my 20th brother Han Wangsong come."

"Ah?" Li Chenggui was stunned. He thought Zhu Zhen would choose someone from the Goryeo royal family to succeed him. But Zhu Zhen didn't understand the situation of the Goryeo royal family, so the final candidate had to be decided by him.

He had planned it all out. If he chose a little kid who was easy to control, it would be another ten years of good days. Give him another ten years, and the Li family's position in Goryeo will be completely unshakable. When his adoptive father asks him whether he wants to change the dynasty, he may give another answer.

But he didn't expect that the sixth son would not play by the rules and send a prince to be a vassal! Isn't this a life-threatening move? His biggest backer is the Ming Dynasty, and he can't compete with the princes of the Ming Dynasty at all!

"Why, do you have any opinions?" Zhu Zhen asked calmly: "If you have any questions, you can ask them. Don't hold them in your heart and ruin the relationship between us father and son."

These words were like a heavy hammer, and he suddenly realized that this was the real reason why Zhu Zhen dealt with Wang Yu and Zheng Mengzhou, not to vent his anger for his cheap son...

In fact, he knew what kind of person Zhu Zhen was, how could he really treat him as his son? It's just that before Zhu Zhen showed his true colors, he really couldn't guess what the most outstanding prince of the Ming Dynasty wanted to do.

It was inevitable to have extravagant hopes that Zhu Zhen might not take Goryeo, a small border country separated by mountains and seas, seriously, and just play around with it when he was in the mood, and help his cheap son...

In the end, it was pure wishful thinking.

~~

"My son, are you talking?" Zhu Zhen looked at his eldest son with a smile.

"Dad, Goryeo is a poor place with nothing, and it's really not worthy of my 20th uncle." Li Chenggui gritted his teeth and wanted to see if he could get back on track.

"Alas, my son, you are wrong. It is true that we princes have noble status, but after we grow up, we have to be enfeoffed in the border areas, either in the bitter cold of the far north or in the smoky and miasmatic southwest. No one can enjoy a peaceful life in the interior." Zhu Zhen smiled bitterly and said, "For example, your father, my fiefdom is in Yunnan, and the conditions there are incomparable to Goryeo. For example, your fifteenth uncle was enfeoffed in Liaodong, your seventeenth uncle was enfeoffed in Daning, and your twenty-first uncle was enfeoffed in Tieling... Compared with these places, isn't Goryeo like heaven?"

"Ah this..." Lee Seong-gye's family has been officials in the northeast for generations, and it is really impossible to pretend to be a foreign guest. He had no choice but to nod and say, "Father is right."

"Besides, your twenty-uncle is only seven years old. He can only be enfeoffed in ten years. Goryeo will have to rely on you to support it in the coming years." Zhu Zhen comforted him again, saying, "Besides, even if he is enfeoffed, he is unfamiliar with the place and will have to rely on you, his old nephew?"

"Alas..." When Lee Seong-gye heard that the King of Han was only seven years old, he immediately felt that it was not so difficult to accept.

Besides, would he dare not agree?

Nahachu was gone, and the Ming Dynasty had no constraints in the Northeast. Moreover, he returned the Shuangcheng General Administration to the Ming Dynasty, and now it was the Tieling Guard stationed by the Liaodong Dusi. In addition, the Goryeo Dusi army under Feng Cheng could cooperate with each other at any time to wipe out his pot and bowl.

He just laughed at Wang Yu for being a fish on the chopping board, but now he realized that he was the same.

~~

After recognizing the reality, Lee Seong-gye, a cunning old man, immediately adjusted his mood and patted his chest to assure: "Don't worry, Dad, I will definitely build a palace for my 20th uncle, take good care of the kingdom, and give him a warm home when he arrives in the kingdom."

"Hahaha," Zhu Zhen patted Lee Seong-gye's back with satisfaction and laughed: "You are really a good son of your father."

Then he gave him a few sweet dates and said: "Don't worry, your father will not treat you unfairly. When you go back, I will ask the emperor to promote you to the title of Hancheng Hou, and all my grandchildren will be made earls, to ensure that your Lee family will be prosperous and wealthy for generations!"

"Thank you, Dad!" Lee Seong-gye was grateful. But he was secretly worried. So many of his sons were made earls, and it would be a problem to divide the family property in the future.

"In addition, Fangyuan has been with your father for so many years, and I am reluctant to let him go back. Let him continue to follow your father. His achievements in the future will not be lower than yours." Zhu Zhen laughed again.

"It's great to let Fangyuan fulfill his filial duty for my child!" Li Chenggui naturally agreed and said, "Let him serve my father for the rest of his life!"

~~

When Li Chenggui left, Zhu Zhen asked Shen Liuniang, who was sitting beside him, "Has your father talked to you?"

"Yes." Shen Liuniang nodded. "He said he wanted me to go back and be the head of the family."

"Did you agree?" Zhu Zhen asked with a smile, "I'm quite worried."

"Am I stupid?" Shen Liuniang chuckled, "It's not like I'm going to inherit the family business, I'm just going to be a general manager. It's no different from what I'm doing now, so why don't I stay in Jeonra Island? At least it's much more comfortable here."

"That's for sure." Zhu Zhen smiled and said, "Those things in the mansion are so troublesome."

After a pause, he whispered, "I'm just worried that you will be lonely, sister."

"Don't worry, my lord. I'm not the kind of person who is sad about the passing of time. I'm busy every day and I don't know how happy I am." Shen Liuniang smiled brightly.

"Really?" Zhu Zhen asked.

"How could it be false?" Shen Liuniang said with certainty.

"Well, if you change your mind in the future, tell me at any time." Zhu Zhen nodded and said, "Yunnan also welcomes you."

"Yes." Shen Liuniang stood up and bowed to Zhu Zhen, saying sincerely, "The greatest luck in my life is to meet the prince."