Father can be an enemy to the country

Liu De is the rich man Liu who Zhu Yuanzhang still hates when he mentions it.

At that time, Zhu Chongba's whole family was a tenant of Rich Master Liu's family, and he himself started herding cattle for Rich Master Liu from the age of seven.

Rich Man Liu didn't regard his tenants as human beings at all, and he treated Lao Zhu's family in all sorts of ways. Zhu Yuanzhang had to herd cattle for him, so he didn't even have enough to eat and had to be beaten by him all day long. Although sometimes it is self-inflicted...

But it's okay to say that the most inhumane time for him was when Zhu Yuanzhang's family was destroyed.

Four members of Lao Zhu's family died in one month, but Zhu Yuanzhang and his second brother had no place to bury their relatives because not an inch of land belonged to Lao Zhu's family at that time.

Zhu Yuanzhang and his second brother had no choice but to go to Mr. Liu and beg him to show his kindness and ask him to give them some space to bury their relatives for the sake of his family's support for many years.

But Mr. Liu was famous for being mean and stingy, and he remained unmoved even when the Zhu Yuanzhang brothers had their heads smashed, and he did not relent in the end.

It was another wealthy man in the same village, Liu Jizu, who couldn't stand it any longer and gave him some of his own cemetery. Only then did Zhu Yuanzhang bury his parents...

Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang was not a patient temperament.

After burying his parents, he, together with Xu Da, Tang He, Zhou Dexing, and his second brother, slaughtered Liu De's cattle, stewed and roasted them for a full meal, and then fled with his second brother...

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Twenty-four years later, on the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Yuanzhang returned to his hometown to build the tombs of his parents and invited the surviving 20 or so families to have dinner.

But there was one person alive who did not go to the banquet, and that was Liu De.

Rich Man Liu never expected that the poor boy who herded his cattle would suddenly transform into His Highness the King of Wu who was about to ascend the throne as the emperor!

Thinking back to the time they spent together during the festival, he could change into eight pairs of underwear in one night, so how could he dare to go to the banquet? He ran to another county to hide overnight.

In the fourth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang came back, but he still hid.

But in the whole world, there is nothing but the royal land. Where can he hide?

Besides, good things don’t go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles. Everyone around him knew that he was the emperor's enemy, so they would naturally add insult to injury. Under the huge psychological pressure, the fat man who weighed more than 200 kilograms back then is now only a fraction of the weight... and looks much older than his actual age.

Therefore, when Zhu Yuanzhang saw this trembling old man, he really couldn't relate to the arrogant and fat rich man with a black heart.

This time, the former landlord and the son of the tenant finally met again, but their status had undergone earth-shaking changes. Liu De kowtowed vigorously, scolded himself for being blind and unscrupulous, and begged the emperor to be merciful and spare his life.

Everyone, including Li Shanchang, felt that Liu De was finished. Even if the emperor doesn't kill him, he will humiliate him severely and make his life worse than death, so that he can get out of his bad breath!

Isn’t that what getting ahead is all about?

However, what no one expected was...

Zhu Yuanzhang did not have a seizure. Instead, he personally pulled the trembling Liu De up from the ground. He sighed and said: "Oh, forget it, it was human nature for you not to help me at the time. How could you know at that time, Will this little cowherd like us become an emperor in the future?"

"The emperor is magnanimous and kind, and his kindness is like a sea..." Liu De was grateful and ashamed, crying like a dog. "The common people are so ashamed that they want to die."

"Hahaha, we are not imitating Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty." Zhu Yuanzhang laughed heartily, and his pride did not seem to be hypocritical. He said to Li Shanchang: "Han is a noble and open-minded man, and the world knows this. But he hated his sister-in-law and made Liu Xin the Marquis of Genjie. It really hurts his magnanimity."

"What the superior said is absolutely true. The superior's magnanimity is a hundred times more magnanimous than that of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty." Li Shanchang hurriedly flattered him.

The so-called "Gengjiehou" is a mocking title. It is said that when Liu Bang was in a mixed society, he often invited his friends to go to his eldest brother's house to have dinner. After a long time, his sister-in-law couldn't bear it anymore, so she deliberately knocked on the pot to show that the soup was gone.

In fact, his sister-in-law's behavior is completely understandable, and it can be said that she is very restrained, but Liu Bang, a social man, feels that he has been disrespected in front of his friends, and he has always been resentful.

So later, the princes and kings with the same surname were enfeoffed, except Liu Xin, the son of the elder sister-in-law, was not enfeoffed. Later, it was only after Liu Taigong's persuasion that he jokingly named Liu Xin the "Marquis of Genjie", which is the homophonic pronunciation of "Marquis of Genjie"...

Zhu Yuanzhang's intention was obvious, he was mocking Liu Bang for his small belly and chicken intestines, which was unbecoming of an emperor. And if you repay your enemies with kindness, you will definitely be in sharp contrast with him!

Now that he had chosen to forgive him, Zhu Yuanzhang did not hesitate to show greater gifts. He asked Liu De, how much land does the family have now?

Liu De replied with a grimace and said that his family had been defeated a long time ago and now only eight percent of the farmland was left. Moreover, he was old and sick and could no longer farm.

"Oh, what about your son?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked again: "He is the little fat man who knew how to eat."

"That year Zhang Shicheng fought and was eaten by the rebels." Liu De said with tears.

"Alas, they are all poor people in troubled times." Zhu Yuanzhang sighed and said: "We will give you thirty hectares of land. If your family has no one to plant it, it will be farmed out. You and the twenty households of old folks from the past will help us guard it. Ancestral graves."

Zhu Yuanzhang explained in a gentle voice: "We will appoint you as the mausoleum householder to help us take care of the sacrifices to our parents. We don't need you to pay. After the sacrifices, the pigs and sheep will be eaten by you. From now on, you will collect the rent and eat them." Wine and meat, let’s live a happy life.”

Liu De naturally burst into tears of gratitude and kept kowtowing.

~~

Xingfu Palace.

After Zhu Yuanzhang stayed, he washed his face, changed clothes, and entered his rest time.

Li Shanchang and others resigned, and Liu Ying guarded the palace gate.

The round-faced emperor, who had always been smiling, turned into a donkey face in an instant, and asked the prince in a deep voice: "Is there any news about the second sons?"

The prince had been here for more than ten days, and he was obviously very haggard. Hearing this, he lowered his head and hissed: "I have searched all over Fengyang Mansion, but there is still no trace."

"Alas..." Zhu Yuanzhang actually guessed the result, otherwise the boss would have announced the good news immediately.

"Father, they won't..." The prince choked and asked, but he couldn't say the following words.

"No, absolutely not!" Zhu Yuanzhang said categorically: "No news at this time is the best news. None of the five of them...well, only one is short-sighted. If it really comes to a life and death moment, it will definitely show Identity. If the other party knew that they were my sons, they would definitely not kill them, and they would have opened their mouths to us, the lion."

"There is no movement now, which means they haven't been exposed yet, so they are safe." After all, Boss Zhu has seen the most dangerous storms, and his thinking is still very clear.

"To put it bluntly, we are not afraid that their identities will be revealed. What we are afraid of is that they will suffer accidents for no apparent reason."

"That's good, that's good..." Zhu Biao relaxed a little.

"Biao'er, you are too tight." Zhu Yuanzhang reminded him with some worry: "In two years, we plan to let you handle national affairs. It's not good to be nervous so easily. It will break the strings."

"Yes, Dad." Zhu Biao nodded and said with a bitter smile: "The main thing is that this situation is too unusual."

"When you start to govern, you will know that for the emperor, ordinary situations will be handled by others. Whatever is pushed in front of you is extraordinary." Zhu Yuanzhang educated his son and then comforted him:

"We can't stay together in our hometown for a few days, and those people will definitely make some noise. Otherwise, after passing this village, there won't be this store."

"Dad, are you talking about the people who took away my brother?" Zhu Biao's expression brightened and he asked.

"Of course it's them." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and sneered: "They actually dare to preach in Yuanqiu. You can imagine their intentions. It's impossible not to have your father's idea!"

~~

At the same time, a little beggar in ragged clothes, unkempt hair, and wearing only a torn shoe, holding a broken bowl in one hand and a dog beating stick in the other, limped in Qiaotou Town, sixty miles away from Linhuai.

"Master and auntie, please be alright, I've been eating for three days..."

ps. Sorry, I finished writing it too late at night and I really didn’t have the energy to check it. I just couldn't get up in the morning and I just finished checking the first chapter. Wait a moment.