The courtiers present basically wanted to finalize the candidate for the prince as soon as possible, but before they could say more, Zhu Yuanzhang had already opened his mouth and ordered: "Order, the vassal kings of various places are not allowed to return to Beijing, and those who violate them will be degraded to commoners. The guards in various places cannot return to Beijing without a will, and violators will be punished for rebellion! From today, Li Jinglong, the governor of the Left Army, took over the defense of Yingtianfu, and Yingtianfu and the City Patrol Department must cooperate more, and the officials of the six departments must not slack off in performing their duties. As for the matter of establishing the reserve, let's wait until later!"

Now that the prince is dead, what he is most afraid of is that someone will take advantage of this matter, so Zhu Yuanzhang directly asked Li Jinglong to take over the defense of Yingtianfu, which can also be seen Zhu Yuanzhang's love and trust for Li Jinglong.

Zhu Yuanzhang has already said that he is dead, and these courtiers will naturally not touch their heads, although they have not been able to set up the people they support as the prince, but they have not also set up opponents, and the future will be long.

All the courtiers saluted Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand and said, "Is Zhang Zhen here?"

Zhang Yan immediately poked his head out of the corner and raised his hand, and he didn't forget to say, "Your Majesty, Weichen is here."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded towards Zhang Zhen and said, "Zhang Zhen stays, and the rest of the people will retreat."

The courtiers retreated, and Li Jinglong glanced deeply when he passed by Zhang Chen's side, and seemed to be a little dissatisfied with Zhang Rong's ability to leave alone.

However, the will was given by Zhu Yuanzhang, and Li Jinglong didn't have much to say, so he could only retreat.

And when Jiang Xuan passed by Zhang Yuan's side, he said in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "Be smart, don't say the wrong thing."

Zhang Lu waited for Jiang Zhen angrily, and thought in his heart, what? Do I look like I'm not in the right head?

Jiang Zhen walked out as if he hadn't seen it.

It wasn't until the courtiers were gone that Zhu Yuanzhang sighed and leaned his body on the backrest.

Zhang Yan looked at the wrinkles on Zhu Yuanzhang's face and the whiteness of his temples, and couldn't help but worry, "Your Majesty, please take care of your body."

Zhu Yuanzhang closed his eyes and raised his hand, and asked softly, "Zhang Lu, who do you think can be the prince?"

Does this need to be asked? This question is up to Zhang Yun to choose, of course he will choose Zhu Yunwen, who is closest to him.

He was about to speak, but suddenly thought of Jiang Zheng's reminder just now.

I'm just a small brocade guard, is I qualified to talk about the reserve? The answer is obvious.

Zhang Lu's brain has become extremely smart and transparent at this moment, he knows that he can't express any position on the matter of the prince, let alone make some small moves from it, and who can be the prince in this situation is not to see who has the huge power behind him, but only to rely on the words of the old man in front of him.

Without waiting for Zhang Lu's answer, Zhu Yuanzhang asked again, "Why don't you reply?"

Zhang Yan immediately lowered his head and arched his hand towards Zhu Yuanzhang, and said: "Establishing a prince is a matter of the world, I am a small hundred households, I really don't have much right to speak, and besides, Weichen is not a smart person, and you can't understand the quality of the princes, but it doesn't matter, isn't there still Your Majesty in this world, with Your Majesty's discernment, I will definitely choose the most correct person to become the prince."

Zhu Yuanzhang still didn't open his eyes, and he couldn't see any expression, but he also said softly: "You say that you are not smart, but I think you are much smarter than many courtiers, so let those courtiers who think they are smart fight, I want to see what waves these people can set off."

….

When Zhang Lu heard this, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his back, he didn't know if he had said that Zhu Yunwen could be the prince just now, what Zhu Yuanzhang would have done with it now.

Likely to be degraded? Or exile? Or just beheaded?

Zhang Lu didn't dare to think about it, he wanted to stay away from the whirlpool, but he was already in the middle of it, and the only thing he could do now was probably to follow the trend.

Zhu Yuanzhang finally opened his eyes, and at this moment, there was no pain in his eyes about losing his son, and only the essence of being an emperor remained.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the respectful Zhang Lu in front of him and was very satisfied, and began to say, "Zhang Rong, you remember, you only need to do one thing now."

Zhang Yan stood up, "Your Majesty Egg White commands."

I only heard Zhu Yuanzhang say: "Protect Yun Wei, no matter what, you must protect Yun Wei."

Although it was not explicitly stated, this also indicated a meaning, Zhu Yunwen will become the next prince.

Zhang Lu was glad that he had made the right bet.

He bowed forward and commanded, "Wei Chen will protect His Royal Highness the Emperor Sun is safe!"

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said softly, "Okay, let's go out, but there is wind and grass, you can enter the palace at any time."

Zhang Lu withdrew from the imperial study, and Zhu Yuanzhang also closed his eyes again.

……

In the James Mansion, Zhu Yunwen, who was dressed in filial piety, knelt on the mourning hall that had just been built, and his tears couldn't stop flowing at the moment, and all he could do was to silently burn paper money while wiping his tears.

Jia Yuntong, who was outside the mourning hall, sighed silently, turned his head to Sun Qiyue and said, "The prince is also a little pitiful, he is only so young and is gone."

Sun Qiyue glared at Jia Yuntong angrily, and said, "If you have anything to say, just say it!"

Jia Yuntong thought for a while, and then said, "To be honest, the prince was not thin on the two of us during his lifetime, should we help him?"

Sun Qiyue looked at Bai Fan, who was swaying in the wind, and asked, "Everyone is gone, how can we help?"

I only heard Jia Yuntong say, "The prince is gone, but doesn't he still have a son? We can help his son ascend to the throne, so that it will not be in vain for us to get acquainted with him, and it can be regarded as the righteousness of the monarch and the minister."

Sun Qiyue looked at Zhu Yunwen in the mourning hall, shook her head and said, "The prince has two sons, should we choose Zhu Yunxi or Zhu Yunwen?" Besides, do you think Zhu Yuanzhang can listen to the two of us?"

Jia Yuntong leaned against the big tree and changed his comfortable posture, and then said: "Just choose Zhu Yunxi, if he is the prince's concubine, let's help him become the prince, if Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't agree, let's just come hard!"

Sun Qiyue looked at Jia Yuntong with idiot-like eyes, and said, "Although our martial arts are okay, we can't get close to Zhu Yuanzhang's body when we touch them, I can feel that there are masters around him to protect him."

Jia Yuntong wanted to say something more, but he didn't think that a voice came from behind: "Father-in-law Jia, Grandma Sun, didn't I say that you two, even if you want to choose, you have to choose Yunxi, why do you want to choose Zhu Yunxi?"

As soon as these words came out, Jia Yuntong and Sun Qiyue were directly startled, and they turned around to see Zhang Qi walking out from behind the tree.

Jia Yuntong spat a mouthful of phlegm on the ground and said, "You kid want to scare us to death?"

Sun Qiyue's eyes were glowing with cold, and she asked, "Did you kid hear all of what we said just now?"

Night rivers and lakes.

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