Since ancient times, countless people have been breaking their scalps and longing for the pinnacle of power, but they don't know that power is a poison, and the more power you have, the closer you are to 'death'.

This death does not refer to the death of the body, but to the loneliness of the soul.

It is a great torture for the soul of those in power to force away one loved one after another, and finally collapse and self-destruct in endless loneliness.

From the beginning of being an emperor, Zhu Yunwen was full of excitement and excitement, and pressure became his motivation, but now, he no longer wants to be the emperor, the pressure has not eased with the progress of the country, but has become more and more huge, so huge that he almost can't breathe, in this case, people need to talk.

But Zhu Yunwen looked around, but found that every 'relative' around him was forced by his own hands.

Although he didn't have much affection with the Lu family, the torment of conscience still made Zhu Yunwen sleepless for several nights in a row.

He couldn't understand the first emperor's act of imprisoning his biological mother and even killing his two children in front of his own mother, and he was even more resentful of Li Er's actions of killing his brother and imprisoning his father and King Zhao Huiwen starving his biological father to death.

But now, Zhu Yunwen feels the same way.

Even if the Lu family is not 'his' biological mother, the blood bond and the despair of the Lu family lying on the sick bed and dying make Zhu Yunwen resentful, how unfair this choice of fate is to him.

Lu's sick body did not survive the New Year, and in the midst of a mourning, the entire city of Nanjing was covered in white.

The emperor is going to keep the filial piety for thirty days.

And this filial piety, staying on top of history, may add endless ridicule.

People have been forced to die step by step by you, the emperor, for so many years, but after death, you wear linen and wear filial piety and pretend to be a filial son, isn't it too shameless?

There was a mourning in the palace, and there was a suffocating cloud outside the palace.

"The emperor is simply crazy, his father's reprimand before his death was completely forgotten, I Ming Dynasty established the country with filial piety, but he acted recklessly, regarded the "Emperor Ming Ancestral Teachings" as nothing, and wanted to go to Fengxian Palace, go to Taimiao, and sue him in front of the portrait of his father."

In the imposing Yanwang Mansion, Zhu Di was dressed in linen and white, and he was scolding.

"Isn't it just two temples, how much impact can it have if it is demolished or not, can it mess up the country, or can it destroy the foundation of the Ming Dynasty, for such a trivial matter, he has to act like this, what is he for, just for that bullshit's five-year plan?"

"Compared with the pressure of the First Five-Year Plan, my son is most worried about the emperor now."

Zhu Gaochi said this to Zhu Di, who had an angry face.

"Don't you think that Your Majesty is becoming more and more like Grandpa? And in some ways, it's even better than grandpa. The changes in the life of the first grandfather are now happening to His Majesty little by little, if he ...... day by day"

Zhu Di suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

Although Zhu Gaochi did not finish his words, Zhu Di had already understood the meaning.

Zhu Hongwu was cruel and cold-blooded in his later years, that is, after the death of Empress Xiaoci Gao, Zhu Hongwu, who was completely closed and withdrawn, became an extremely suspicious tyrant, it doesn't matter if the courtiers make mistakes or not, as long as Zhu Hongwu feels that you have made a mistake, no matter how high or low the quality is, up to the six Shangshu, the imperial history of the Imperial Procuratorate, and the Dali Temple, they are all directly questioned and beheaded without interrogation.

As a result, when Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne, three of the six Shangshu were empty, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple were all in charge.

In the face of local chaos, such as the Longxi rebellion in the 30th year of Hongwu, the Guizhou Tusi rebellion, and the Guangxi mountain rebellion, Taizu sent a strong army to suppress the border and kill them all.

The bloody killing became the last scene of Zhu Hongwu's later years.

The entire Ming Dynasty was completely shrouded in the threat of death.

And since Taizu moved forward, Li Er in his later years was a faint king, suspicious and cold-blooded, and he didn't stop killing.

Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty was also brutal and unreasonable.

Needless to say, the first emperor died of illness from his beloved Gongsun, and he didn't blink when he killed people, and every time he bleed.

The actions of these emperors all have one thing in common with the current Zhu Yunwen, that is, they all forced their relatives to death with their own hands, or watched their relatives die one after another.

Loneliness became a vicious catalyst for the emperor to begin to move towards brutality.

"Grandpa for my Ming Dynasty, Xinghulan Prison, the four major cases, the purpose of which is for the country. Now, for the smooth implementation of the First Five-Year Plan, he is also resolutely disobedient despite the dying of the Queen Mother's phoenix, which is also for the country.

Grandpa killed his siblings, causing himself to become a loner, as soon as grandma died, there is no one in the world to make grandpa nostalgic, and now he is forced to die of his biological mother, if he is the queen and other relatives die, I am afraid of Your Majesty, it is another grandfather. ”

Zhu Di's hands began to tremble slightly.

A sane emperor is already ruthless, so what will an emperor who is tormented by conscience and closed by loneliness look like in the future?

"After my son took up the post of Ministry of Rites, he suddenly felt that the burden on his shoulders was gone, which was due to the fact that when he was in the Ministry of Officials, there was no longer any endless redundant personnel, and every Ministry of Officials was like this, so how much pressure would be on the emperor of the whole country on his shoulders."

Zhu Gaochi sighed: "Father, even I understand the truth in this, and it is impossible for the emperor not to know it." I think that what the emperor did was not wrong, he not only killed the queen mother, but also killed himself, he was exchanging his future pain for the national fortune of my Ming Dynasty.

Like his grandfather, he dedicated everything he had to the country. ”

In the Ming Hall, there was silence.

Zhu Di raised his head and looked at the portraits of Taizu and Zhu Yunwen hanging above the main hall, and looked at him in a daze.

"The emperor once said, 'I will live up to the people without me.'" And he did, albeit in a dishonorable way. ”

After a long time, Zhu Di suddenly laughed: "The common people of the world should feel honored, they have caught up with two terrible emperors in a row, and lived a world of great rule that is difficult to find in decades of history, there are no powerful people who bend the law, there are no officials who dare to be blatantly corrupt, and there are no privileged factions who can ride on their heads to make a fortune."

In the whole world, even if it is your father and me, if you dare to kill a person in vain, I am afraid it will be the end of a corpse abandoned for three days.

No one is qualified to stop the progress of the country, just as His Majesty said at the May Day military parade after that movement, he will lead the Ming Dynasty all the way and will never stop for a moment. ”

"Therefore, everyone in the world regards His Majesty as a biological father and a grandfather. His Majesty made such a choice between his own child and his mother this time. From another standpoint, when my grandfather was alive, if I made a mistake and my grandfather wanted to kill me, you would also die for me, right? ”

Zhu Gaochi said: "So if one day, Your Majesty wants to move your father, and your father has no power to resist except to kill him, even if my father returns to Beiping, the soldiers and people of Beiping will also turn against my father." ”

"You're going to turn against me, too, will you?"

Zhu Di looked back and smiled, looking at Zhu Gaochi.

The latter also laughed, but said nothing.

"My father is like this, and I really hope that the successor will be like this in the future, if they can remember that the root of our old Zhu family is the people of this world, then I will be able to live for generations."