Chapter Ninety-Three—Whose Great Ming
Thousands of suns rise at the same time!
Right in front of Zhu Di's eyes, the deep night sky and the swirling starlight were reduced to the background, and the protagonist only had Zhu Biao and the fireball slowly rising behind him, countless of them, each of which was a perfect sphere, the color of Tongtong, red evenly, red without a trace of flaw.
They are dense, fast and slow, separated from each other at the perfect distance, and the flames burn and jump on the surface of the sphere, radiating a vibrant light outward.
Zhu Di couldn't help but gaze on these fireballs, following them as they continued to rise, rise, and rise...... The light is like a plant that sprouts from the ground, stubbornly stretching its branches and buds towards the sky, and like a gentle wave of water on the surface, the undercurrent is surging and gently engulfing the whole world.
The fireballs rose into the air, becoming smaller and smaller, the gaps between those rays of light disappeared, they looked like a whole bright cloud, Zhu Di's head kept tilting back and he was about to lose sight of them.
"Smack!"
Zhu Biao snapped his fingers a second time.
All the fireballs exploded in an instant, and the translucent light curtain in the sky turned to zero, and after the blinding strong light was a sad parting, the fire tree Qihua, the glow discharged, and the embers that were raised seemed to be able to envelop the end of the world.
Zhu Di stood motionless, and the brocade guards behind him also maintained the same posture, everyone was reluctant to blink, and they all held their breath, afraid that a slightly heavier breath would also dispel this phantom rain of fire.
Until the last bit of golden-red embers fluttered in front of Zhu Biao, Zhu Di saw him reach out to pick it up, and the illusory light and shadow flickered in his palm once, twice...... is finally lonely, as if it has placed a wish before death, and finally passed away with a pair of eyes.
It was only then that Zhu Di felt that he had regained his ability to think, and he thought that he would always remember this scene: the deep night sky, the swirling starlight, and the rain of fire that destroyed the whole world...... They reminded him of the battlefield, remembered the battlefield, and for the first time realized that war was so merciful and tender, sad but eternal.
Zhu Biao turned his head and asked happily: "How is it, is my show qualified?" ”
Zhu Di: "......"
He nodded silently, full of affection, but he didn't know who to talk to.
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Xing Yiwei still didn't find the fourth prince in the end, but the dawn was fast, and the news in the palace spread only faster, and it didn't take long for Zhu Di to learn what the emperor had done, and he immediately understood why the emperor did that.
The emperor is not protecting the twenty-five princes, but openly abandoning him, the fourth prince.
The royal family did not cover up the scandal of the twenty-five princes' brothers, and everyone knew that the four princes were the victims, because the emperor was angry, and indirectly made the people aware of the favor of the four princes. This is a very simple and clear proportion: the more resentful the emperor, the more severe the punishment of the twenty-five princes, proving that the four princes have a higher status in the emperor's mind.
But now that the emperor regrets it, he is determined to keep the twenty-five princes in the court at any cost, so what are the four princes who are the victims? It's just an abandoned child who can be thrown into a corner at will after being used.
The message that the emperor wants to convey is so clear and clear that it doesn't take any smart people to receive it accurately, not to mention that the last thing that the Ming Dynasty lacks is smart people.
As everyone expected, there was another uproar around the case of the twenty-five princes, the Senate and the House of Representatives jointly launched an attack on the emperor, and the people were divided into two factions: the emperor's admirers firmly believed that there was a reason for the incident, the victim and the perpetrator were the emperor's own sons, and it was normal for family affairs not to make a big fuss; Another group of radicals rallied around Li Yindu in an upright and stern crusade against the emperor, angrily denouncing him for being selfish and domineering, wanting to be above the law, and strongly demanding that the rotten system of the imperial system be swept into the dustbin of history as soon as possible......
There was a lot of uproar outside, but it was rare to have peace in the court, and the officials changed their activity these days, and they couldn't be more honest anymore, according to the Jinyiwei report, even in private meetings, they could not help but mention the hottest topics of the moment. It's just that the four princes are quiet, and those speculators who are good at drilling camps have the most sensitive sense of smell, and the fishy smell of the limelight has not yet reached the end of the wind, and they are faster than the jackals who see the lion.
The attitude of the Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi has also become ambiguous, those Jinyi guards who have been subdued by Zhu Di have been transferred away one after another, and they have been transferred outside the capital, and the newcomers are on duty for eight hours a day, each person is only on one shift, and Zhu Di often doesn't even remember their names when he leaves.
The image of the fourth prince in the news is also changing subtly, he is no longer the resolute and resolute combat hero from the nineteenth district, he is more often a victim, but the twenty-fifth prince is only fourteen years old, and he can be harmed by a fourteen-year-old boy who is usually weak and incompetent, which in itself is a symbol of weakness and incompetence. There were even jokes with strong suggestiveness in variety shows, and Zhu Di knew that it was only a matter of time before they ridiculed them by name.
Zhu Di stayed in the Guoshu Academy these days, watching the emperor easily stir up the situation, take back the gifts, and strip away the advantages that Zhu Di once thought he once thought were one by one, the voices of the Senate and the House of Representatives could not affect him, and the wave of opposition from the people could not stop him from doing anything, because what he had in his hands was the real power: officials, troops, and princes stationed in various districts.
Is that too much? Zhu Di thought, things have come to this point, it doesn't matter whether the twenty-five princes are convicted or not, and even his own ambitions are not important, what matters is the authority of the emperor, those powers that should have been released to the two houses with the change of the system, those powers that most of the people think are no longer concentrated in the hands of a single person, after this battle, they should figure out the truth behind the so-called constitutional monarchy-
The emperor is still the emperor who founded the Ming Empire, and the Ming Dynasty is still the Ming of Emperor Zhu after all.