Father can be an enemy to the country

The next morning, Zhu Zhen came to Wuying Palace.

Originally, he and the prince were the only two who could enter the palace without being summoned.

But today, they were stopped at the palace gate.

"What's the situation?" Zhu Zhen asked the eunuch Wu who was guarding the door, "Is it because I don't allow you to see the emperor?"

"No, no, I just want to inform you." Eunuch Wu winked at him and said, "The emperor specifically instructed that it was for you, the prince."

"..." Zhu Zhen pouted and had to pretend to bow and said, "Good morning, eunuch. I want to see my father. Please inform me."

"Okay, your highness, wait a moment." Eunuch Wu went in to report.

"Let him alone first." Zhu Yuanzhang listened and continued to read and reply to the post. After a cup of tea, he stretched and said, "Summon."

"The emperor has ordered to summon the King of Chuhaidian to see the emperor!" Eunuch Wu hurriedly said in a long tone.

Zhu Zhen heard the order and entered the palace. He lifted the hem of his dragon robe, pushed down the golden mountain and overturned the jade pillar, and kowtowed to Boss Zhu: "Your son pays homage to the emperor, may your father be healthy and live forever."

"Humph." Zhu Yuanzhang said unhappily: "You didn't kowtow to me during the New Year, and now you are doing this, what are you doing?"

"No, I realized that I was too unruly before." Zhu Zhen shook his head and said seriously: "So from today on, you should change your past and make your words and deeds conform to the etiquette."

"Fuck you, you are really good at making your father angry..." Seeing his most beloved sixth son playing with alienation, Boss Zhu coughed in anger.

Zhu Zhen quickly stood up and stepped forward to stroke his father's chest and said, "Father was here first."

"I am your father!" Zhu Yuanzhang blew his beard and glared, "And you were here first, didn't you submit a petition to 'beg for my bones'?"

As he said this, he accurately pulled out Zhu Zhen's "Petition to Beg for My Bones" from the piles of petitions piled on the imperial desk, slapped his head, and angrily cursed, "I told you to beg for your bones! I told you to beg for your bones!"

"I was wrong, I was wrong, I know I was wrong!" A good man would not suffer a loss in front of him, and Lao Liu hurriedly hugged his head and begged for mercy.

Boss Zhu finally punched him hard, and his hand was hurt. He said, "Damn it, you have grown wings."

After a pause, he said sadly, "Your father is old, otherwise this punch would have sent you flying three meters away."

"A hero does not talk about his past achievements. You have more than a dozen grandchildren. How can you not be old?" Zhu Zhen smiled and continued to appease Boss Zhu, "But no matter how old you are, you are still my father, not my grandfather."

"Get out of here!" Zhu Yuanzhang cursed and slapped him again.

Eunuch Wu breathed a sigh of relief. They could feel that the arrival of the Sixth Prince finally dispelled the heavy haze over the Wuying Palace.

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"Why, can't you wait to abandon your elderly parents?" Zhu Yuanzhang waved the "Petition for Bones" in front of Lao Liu and said, "Are you here to urge me to approve it and release them?"

"Really not." Zhu Zhen hurriedly shook his head and touched his conscience and said, "Since I submitted the petition, my attachment to my father and mother has become stronger. I wish that my father would keep me for a few more days."

"Oh, is this big mouth filled with honey?" Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him and said, "Tell me, what do you want from me again?"

"Father, didn't we agree that the matter of the fourth brother is over?" Zhu Zhen smiled and asked, "Why did you make trouble again?"

"The situation has changed. Someone wants to use the matter of the fourth brother to force me to let them go." Zhu Yuanzhang sneered, "What do they want?! I, Zhu Yuanzhang, have never been coerced by anyone!"

"That is to say, it's not that father wants to kill the fourth brother?" Zhu Zhen breathed a sigh of relief.

"Isn't that nonsense? Even a tiger won't eat its own cubs..." Zhu Yuanzhang spat, "But if the situation really deteriorates to that point, I will not let them go even if I kill the fourth son!"

"Not that bad." Zhu Zhen waved his hand and said, "With your wisdom and wisdom, how can you let them lead you by the nose? They want to tie you up? Dream on!"

"It seems that you are sure you can handle this mess?" Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the sixth son steadily, unable to hide his joy.

"I am here to give you an idea..." Zhu Zhen said with a smile, "It is agreed that there will be no mission before leaving Beijing."

"But we also agreed that you will take the fourth son with you on the road," Zhu Yuanzhang said, but he was sure of him, "Anyway, he can't be pardoned in this situation, so you just wait."

"Okay, okay, I will take it?" Zhu Zhen just raised his hand and surrendered, "Father, tell me, what effect do you want."

Zhu Yuanzhang looked around, and Eunuch Wu hurriedly led the crowd to retreat silently.

When there were no other people in the hall, Boss Zhu sighed tiredly, "We are in a difficult situation too."

"Tell me, the war has just ended, and we started killing the nobles. What will people think? What does the history book say?" Zhu Yuanzhang said depressedly, "Even if you dare not say it, we know it."

"Why don't I dare to say it? It's like killing the meritorious officials after the rabbit is dead." Zhu Zhen smiled bitterly, "We have offended the scholars, and they will definitely say whatever they want."

"That's true." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled bitterly and said, "We shouldn't have any illusions."

"My son is more worried about the reality." Zhu Zhen said slowly, "One is that it has been seven years since the Hu Weiyong case, and the other is that the nobles did not revolt after all."

"There must be Hu Weiyong's accomplices among them, and most of them have planned treasonous things with him, but most of the nobles are on good terms with Hu Weiyong because he is the leader of the Huaixi noble group, not because they want to rebel with him."

After a pause, he continued: "Based on these two reasons, I am worried that getting to the bottom of the matter will involve too many connections and involve a large number of unrelated, even innocent nobles."

"Isn't it always better to fight rebellion than to indulge it?" Zhu Yuanzhang said noncommittally.

"Then you can't dig your own roots!" Zhu Zhen shook his head and said: "Everything always has pros and cons, and my father can't just look at the harm and ignore its role. Although the military leaders like the Huaixi Honorable Lord are lawless, they are It is the foundation of Ming Dynasty’s rule.”

"Without them, there would still be Xu Da, Tang He, Feng Sheng, Fu Youde...and you vassal kings who are in charge of the army. They would not be able to damage the foundation of the Ming Dynasty." Zhu Yuanzhang snorted.

"It can be hurt." Zhu Zhen shook his head decisively and said: "A mere dozen nobles have limited influence, but as my father said, it is always better to put down a rebellion than to indulge in it. Once suspicion begins, it will It will quickly spread to middle and lower-level officers!”

After a pause, Zhu Zhen said in a deep voice: "Due to historical reasons, almost all the middle and high-level officers of the Ming Dynasty were from Huaixi. These people are closely intertwined through hometown relationships, superiors and subordinates, and marriages. They pull up carrots and bring out the mud. A dozen nobles are enough to implicate most of the middle and high-level military officers.”

As he spoke, he looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and said, "This is what I mean by shaking the foundation!"