"Father, Hu Weiyong is obviously a liar, and Lord Liu Bowen is not crazy, why are you still helping Hu Weiyong to speak, this is killing a good person by mistake, why are you confused. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info" returned to the palace, and Zhu Biao was very dissatisfied with Zhu Yuanzhang's words.

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly: "Do you think I am blind and don't understand anything?" To tell you the truth, it is precisely because this is an excellent opportunity to get rid of Liu Bowen that I will condone Hu Weiyong to do this. ”

"Father, Lord Liu has made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty, why do you want to kill such a hero?" Zhu Biao was a little crazy, it was a pity that such an excellent person was killed like this.

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly and didn't say anything more, just turned around and said a few words to Li Xiaolin, Li Xiaolin nodded and went down, and after a while, he took a stick full of thorns and walked in.

"Zhu Biao, pick up this stick." Zhu Yuanzhang pointed to the stick on the ground and said to the prince.

Looking at this stick, Zhu Biao frowned: "Father, this is full of thorns, how can I pick it up?" Erchen can't do it. ”

"So you can see thorns on this stick, I thought you were blind." Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly with his nose, and ordered someone to remove the thorns and said, "You pick it up again and try it." ”

This time, almost all the thorns on the sticks were removed, except for a few more solid ones.

The prince grabbed the part that was free of thorns, and easily picked up the stick.

Zhu Yuanzhang stretched out his hand to take the stick and continued: "Now you understand, right? The state is like this stick, and these ministers are like thorns on this stick, some thorns are too prickly, some thorns are not prickly, some thorns are too strong, and some thorns are very loose. ”

"Therefore, Liu Bowen is definitely a solid thorn that pierces people, and Hu Weiyong is a loose thorn that does not pierce people, you now understand my intention to do this! It's all for your own good. ”

"Father, even if it is for the good of his son, he can't kill innocents indiscriminately." Although the crown prince Zhu Biao also understood his father's purpose, he still did not agree with Zhu Yuanzhang's method: "The son thinks that governing the world with benevolence and filial piety can still influence people." ”

"You little bunny." Zhu Yuanzhang angrily threw the stick at the prince: "Lao Tzu is working hard here to be a wicked person, let you be a good person, you are still not happy, what else do you want to do?" ”

Zhu Biao dodged the stick and quickly knelt on the ground without saying a word.

Li Xiaolin hurriedly persuaded: "Your Majesty, the crown prince has just come back, and his body is still very weak, so don't blame him anymore." ”

"Stand down, stand down, stand down." Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand angrily.

Zhu Biao kowtowed and stepped back.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the hall and was dumbfounded, how could he have such a son.

Here in the Octagonal Tower, Shen Cong had already learned of Liu Bowen's death, and he sighed with emotion in his heart, but he didn't know what to say, Liu Bowen was really a strange person, but he ended up in this fate.

"Boss, Lord Hu Weiyong asks to see." The sharp blade pushed open the door and said to Shen Cong.

Shen Cong's hand shook from reading the book, and his eyes froze: "Go and tell the Prime Minister that I am very busy and have no time to see him." By the way, I will bring him another sentence: you must be extremely cautious in doing things in the future, otherwise you will be blessed. ”

The blade nodded and left, looking at Shen Cong in the dark night and wondering: "Boss, Master Hu is here, why don't you see him?" ”

"Do you dare to see him? Isn't the trouble he made this time a headache? Anyway, I'm scared, so don't get too close to him when it's okay in the future. Shen Cong breathed a sigh of relief, maybe Daming is really about to enter the situation of imperial power here, so his center should not be focused on Hu Weiyong alone.

In the blink of an eye, it is the beginning of spring in the coming year, and it has been a few months since Liu Bowen's death, Hu Weiyong can be described as extremely beautiful during this time, with great power, there is a lot of traffic outside the door, and many people want to worship him, and a large number of rare treasures are pouring into Hu's mansion.

Hu Weiyong still had a conscience, and chose a large amount of treasures to send to Shen Cong, but they were all rejected by Shen Cong.

Hu Weiyong wondered for a while, but this wonder was quickly washed away by a large amount of treasure.

The weather is getting warmer and warmer, the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant for another year, Shen Cong stood in the octagonal tower and watched everything in Nanjing, it has been more than half a year since he returned to Nanjing, and he has experienced too much, and even sent Liu Bowen away with his own hands, all of which made Shen Cong feel that Nanjing was so cold.

But what's more gloomy yet? Just when Shen Cong was in a daze, the dark night ran in in a hurry.

"Boss, something is wrong, there is news from Vladivostok that the ship that went to the South Seas this year was seized by a group of pirates, and its whereabouts are unknown." As he spoke, he took out a letter from Vladivostok.

After opening the letter and reading it, Shen Cong's brows were tightly twisted together and he scolded: "Who TM ate the bear's heart and leopard's gall and dared to hijack the labor-management ship?" "This route has been going for so long, why did it suddenly go wrong.

"This, boss, do you think it could be hijacked by pirates!" Dark Night tried to speak out his analysis.

"Pirates?" Shen Cong stomped his steps, thinking carefully about the people who might hijack the ship.

This route starts from Vladivostok and goes south, and then divides at the Taiwan Strait, one wave goes to Japan, and one wave goes to the South Sea, so the other party should have hijacked the ship on the island near Taiwan.

Shen searched the history quickly from his brain, seriously looking for the power that might be active in this vicinity.

First of all, Shen Cong pointed the finger at the Japanese Kou, at this moment Japan was the era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties (mentioned above), many Japanese left overseas because of homelessness or the threat of war and began to rob merchant ships.

But the power of the Japanese should not be so strong, because Shen Congqing knows that although the Japanese are equivalent to the armed smuggling group on the southeast coast, their main force is the fishermen on the southeast coast, after all, the fishermen are very close to their hometowns, and the Japanese only account for one to two percent, and the ugly point is that they are just mercenaries, so this hijacking of the merchant ship was not hijacked by his own countrymen!

Shen Cong felt that this possibility was very high, after all, the Ming Dynasty now implemented a policy of striking out of the market and banning the sea, and the large-scale ban on the sea is equivalent to cutting off the way out for the coastal fishermen, and there is no essential difference between the fishermen losing their boats and the peasants losing their land, so the fishermen took risks and colluded with the Japanese, which caused the disaster of the Japanese in the early Ming Dynasty.

So who do these fishermen listen to? Thinking of this, Shen Cong quickly searched for a piece of historical information.

After the failure of Zhang Shicheng and others, their subordinates withdrew from the mainland and went overseas, so were these fishermen organized by them and colluded with the Japanese invaders?